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up from £160m to £220m - according to figures released by the Football Association.", "Welsh Rugby Union chairman Gareth Davies says condensing the Six Nations would \"meddle with players' health\".", "Reigning Olympic and London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong is the latest high-profile Kenyan athlete to fail a drugs test.", "Britain's Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans both lose their singles matches on the first day of the Davis Cup quarter-final against France in Rouen.", "Watch live BBC Two coverage from the final day of The Masters.", "The tee times, groupings and schedule for the final round at the 2017 Masters at Augusta.", "England are held to a frustrating draw despite dominating against Italy at Vale Park.", "Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers \"couldn't be happier\" after signing a new contract with the Premiership champions until 2021.", "Ding Junhui dominates the second session of his World Championship quarter-final with Ronnie O'Sullivan to take a 10-6 lead.", "The prime minister says the record number of jobs is evidence of her strong leadership.", "Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez will not be sold to a Premier League rival, according to manager Arsene Wenger.", "IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua surprises his former coach, Sean Murphy, with a car to say thank you for introducing him to boxing.", "Serena Williams says Ilie Nastase's comments about her unborn child are \"racist\" and backs an International Tennis Federation investigation.", "Maria Sharapova's first opponent following her 15-month doping ban questions the decision to give the Russian wildcards on the WTA Tour.", "Official figures suggest that the number of children in poverty in Scotland has jumped to 260,000.", "Kelly Sotherton feels her career has \"more meaning\" after she is upgraded to a three-time Olympic medallist following retrospective drug tests.", "Key statistics on NHS performance are due to be published on the day of the general election.", "Abu Jaafar's job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money.", "Leader Tim Farron also accuses Jeremy Corbyn of being \"weak and dangerous\" on defence matters.", "Newcastle boss Rafael Benitez must be given money for new players before their Premier League return, says club legend Alan Shearer.", "Mihai Nistor was the last fighter to stop Anthony Joshua - but while Joshua earns millions, Nistor remains an amateur on a modest income. Why?", "Leader Tim Farron says the party is the only one opposing Theresa May's \"hard Brexit\".", "Researchers have so far named nearly five million victims, but now they are in a race against time.", "Former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury targets a July return on the Billy Joe Saunders-Avtandil Khurtsidze undercard.", "How the Turner Prize-winning artist has moved on from elephant dung to lyrical tapestry.", "Diego Costa scores twice as Premier League leaders Chelsea edge closer to the title with victory over Southampton.", "Britain's Kelly Sotherton is set to be upgraded to an Olympic bronze medal for the second time in five months after retrospective drug tests.", "Donald Trump gave out promises like candy during his campaign. It's time to visit the dentist.", "Super League leaders Castleford Tigers are drawn at home to St Helens in the sixth round of the Challenge Cup.", "Where do the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems have to fight hardest to win the general election?", "The issue of Brexit looms large over the general election - here's where the parties stand.", "Izzy Brown's strike is enough to give Huddersfield Town a narrow win at Wolves to secure a Championship play-off spot.", "But the EU should not count its chickens just yet, warns the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler.", "Liam Stewart - the son of Sir Rod Stewart and Rachel Hunter - scores his first international goal as Great Britain beat Estonia 5-1.", "England and Wales women have been drawn in the same group for European qualifying for the 2019 Women's World Cup.", "Women are breaking with tradition and helping rebuild Nepal after the earthquake two years ago.", "Labour has a clear Brexit plan but some in the party would prefer more robust opposition to the Tory position.", "Many people are unsure about what machine learning is, but the chances are they are using it every day.", "Rushed off your feet? Not enough hours in the day? Here are some apps to help you take control.", "Why do some runners experience \"jelly legs\" at the end of a marathon?", "Olympic gold medallist Dani King could cycle for Wales at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, having previously represented England.", "League One champions Sheffield United are set to re-sign striker Ched Evans from Chesterfield, reports BBC Radio Sheffield.", "Emmanuel Macron will be the youngest ever president of France at just 39. Who else has achieved at such a young age?", "UKIP searches for a new unique selling point after Theresa May steals a march on Brexit.", "The Labour Party are backing Brexit but setting out a very different approach to the Conservatives.", "Marco Fu edges past 2010 champion Neil Robertson 13-11 to reach his fourth World Championship quarter-final.", "As Bananarama's original line-up get back together, what other 80s bands would we like to see reunite?", "Theresa May knows it will be difficult but she is deadly serious about a potential reshaping of Britain at this election.", "Anthony Joshua says he is competing at a \"whole new level\" against former champion Wladimir Klitschko in Saturday's world title fight.", "It's when someone conceives and then gets pregnant again between two weeks and a month later.", "Italian cyclist Michele Scarponi dies aged 37 after being involved in a collision with a van during a training ride.", "The Sun said it had been contacted by Mr Barkley's lawyers, who made a formal complaint.", "Carrie Gracie looks at China's stance on the nuclear crisis and explains why its position should change, in its own interest.", "Unique farmers' protest shines a spotlight on a drought India forgot.", "Willian scores a stunning free-kick to put Chelsea 1-0 up against Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he will \"come back even stronger\" after suffering cruciate knee-ligament damage.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan compares himself to singer James Blunt after beating Shaun Murphy to progress at the World Championship.", "News of a snap poll means many late nights and cancelled weekends for some over the coming weeks.", "Romania captain Ilie Nastase is banned from the Fed Cup tie against Great Britain after an incident that leaves Johanna Konta in tears.", "To celebrate 40 years of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, we want you to pick your top three most memorable moments.", "Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan reaches the quarter-finals of the World Championship by beating Shaun Murphy 13-7.", "Nemanja Matic scores a stunning goal as Chelsea beat Tottenham in a thrilling semi-final at Wembley to reach the FA Cup final.", "The eight-week entertainment show didn't get off to the strongest start but after ending more positively does it just need a second chance?", "PM ends speculation over foreign aid budgets and the chancellor hints the Tories' pledge not to raise taxes may be dropped in their manifesto.", "Labour alleges that pupils in England's primary schools \"are packed like sardines\" in classrooms.", "Defending champions Saracens survive a first-half Munster examination to reach a third Champions Cup final in four years.", "Substitute Eden Hazard fires home for Chelsea to put them 3-2 up against Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "One FGM survivor explains her struggle to protect her daughters from the practice.", "Goalkeeper David Stockdale scores two own goals as Brighton lose at Norwich to miss out on sealing the Championship title.", "A total of 13 MPs voted against an early general election. We look at who they are and why they said no.", "Tottenham's Dele Alli volleys home against Chelsea after Christian Eriksen's stunning cross in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "A husband and wife, both architects, who witnessed their city's devastation are already thinking about how to restore it.", "Chelsea's Willian slots home a penalty after Tottenham's Son Heung-min slides in on Victor Moses in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Former England and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu is honoured before Tottenham's FA Cup semi-final with Chelsea at Wembley and at football matches around the country.", "Whether you consume music digitally or collect vinyl records, Brexit has the potential to affect you.", "British gymnast Ellie Downie claims vault silver and uneven bars bronze, while Courtney Tulloch wins rings silver at the European Championships.", "Nemnaja Matic strikes from distance to put Chelsea 4-2 up and seal thei victory over Tottenham in the 2017 FA Cup semi-finals.", "Aberdeen reach the Scottish Cup final for the first time in 17 years by beating holders Hibernian at Hampden.", "Chancellor hints Tory manifesto may drop pledge not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT.", "Great Britain head into their Fed Cup tie with Romania as underdogs as they look to return to World Group for first time in 24 years.", "Ellie Downie is the first Briton to win all-around gold at a major international championship - with victory at the European Championships.", "England manager Gareth Southgate says he is \"stunned\" by the death of former Aston Villa and Middlesbrough team-mate Ugo Ehiogu.", "The Oscar-winning writer of The Philanthropist was worried references to an attack on Parliament was in poor taste.", "Ugo Ehiogu, who has died at the age of 44, enjoyed a fine career and seemed destined for more success as a coach, writes Phil McNulty.", "British five-time Olympian Jo Pavey can secure qualification for the World Championships when she races in Sunday's London Marathon.", "What drives Donald Trump's son-in-law, and what advice does he give the president?", "India's Supreme Court has sent back an incomprehensible judgement to a High Court judge.", "Tim Farron says donors have been \"flocking\" to the party since the snap election was called.", "Harry Kane flicks a cross in to draw Tottenham level against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Why do so many algorithms seem to echo human bias?", "Favourite Judd Trump believes he is \"the best\" and can win the 40th World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.", "The Education Secretary wants to get children from 'ordinary working families' into grammar schools.", "Red Bull wunderkind Max Verstappen has ruffled F1's feathers and rewritten the rule book. Literally. Does he care? What do you think...", "Jenson Button will drive for McLaren at the Monaco Grand Prix while Fernando Alonso competes in the Indianapolis 500.", "Trade was one of the dominant themes in Donald Trump's election campaign, but what are his priorities?", "Ex-England captain Alastair Cook scores 39 not out for Essex in his first game since standing down as Test skipper.", "Tom Burridge travels to the conflict zone where tit-for-tat rows have hit communities on both sides.", "From John Cleese to Charlie Chaplin - when celebrities make a U-turn.", "Britain's Katie Archibald wins gold in the women's omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong.", "Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho blames \"sloppy\" attackers after Anderlecht fight back for a 1-1 draw in the Europa League.", "As \"quidditch\" enters the Oxford Dictionary, BBC News reveals the next Harry Potter words on the watchlist.", "Nicola Adams will be allowed to compete over three-minute rounds and wants changes to rules concerning glove size.", "Twenty years ago, Ronnie O'Sullivan made history with the fastest ever 147 - a record nobody has come close to breaking.", "Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel ends fastest in second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix, with Mercedes and Red Bull close behind.", "Lyon's Europa League quarter-final first-leg win over Besiktas is marred by crowd trouble that saw the kick-off delayed by 50 minutes.", "The US GBU-43/B bomb detonates in the air and is said to create a blast wave for a mile in every direction.", "Antonio Conte has made the kind of impact at Chelsea that MOTD pundit Chris Sutton expected Jose Mourinho to have at Manchester United.", "Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel sets the pace in first practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix with title rival Lewis Hamilton down in 10th.", "The health service came under intense strain this winter - even though the weather was mild and there wasn't much flu.", "Easter has been dubbed the \"second Christmas\" as wreaths, trees and crackers appear in shops.", "BBC football expert Mark Lawrenson takes on Newcastle fan Sting and his son Joe Sumner in this week's Premier League predictions.", "Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku are nominated for both the Professional Footballers' Association player of the year and young player awards.", "Bereaved parents criticise the NHS trust at the centre of an investigation into its maternity services.", "Man United are left ruing missed chances as Leander Dendoncker's late header salvages a draw for Anderlecht in the Europa League.", "Former England and Arsenal captain Tony Adams is appointed head coach of Granada until the end of the season.", "Chinese Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton believes 2017 could go down to the wire between Mercedes and Ferrari.", "Hampshire successfully chase 320 to complete a remarkable comeback win over Yorkshire at Headingley.", "Spain's Sergio Garcia ends his long wait for a first major title with a thrilling play-off win over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.", "Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel's burgeoning rivalry is proof we could have the most intense title battle for a decade, says Andrew Benson.", "Former Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri believes someone within the club was working against him, but does not think the players got him sacked.", "Spain's Sergio Garcia ends his long wait for a first major title with a thrilling play-off win over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.", "The Tottenham midfielder is enjoying a remarkable season – and his stats suggest he is on course to surpass the feats of some of the Premier League's greats.", "Dele Alli's form causes contention in the BBC studio and who do England need in midfield? It's Garth's team of the week.", "Liverpool forward Sadio Mane will undergo an operation on a knee injury on Tuesday and is expected to be out for two months.", "What does Moscow's reaction to the foreign secretary's no-show say about Anglo-Russian relations?", "The USA, Canada and Mexico say they will make a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup - the first after expansion from 32 to 48 teams.", "Everton midfielder Ross Barkley should be sold if he does not sign a new contract, says manager Ronald Koeman.", "Users say it boosts creativity and can have medicinal benefits, despite a lack of scientific research.", "Touring New Zealand with the Lions would be the pinnacle of Rhys Webb's career, but injury experience prompts caution over his hopes.", "This series has seen Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull find fame on social media.", "St Helens part company with head coach Keiron Cunningham after 24 years as a player and coach at the Super League club.", "One For Arthur's victory is one for Scotland, one for injured jockeys and one for 'two golf widows'.", "Reanne Evans says she was \"gutted\" to lose a marathon in the World Championship second qualifying round tie to Lee Walker.", "Karen Lynch was inspired to quit the corporate rat race and take over at bottled water firm Belu.", "Masters runner-up Justin Rose believes he will contend again at Augusta National after losing a play-off to Sergio Garcia.", "Crystal Palace boost their survival hopes to leave Arsenal struggling to maintain their run of top-four finishes under Arsene Wenger.", "Everton's Ross Barkley was the victim of an \"unprovoked attack\" in a bar, his lawyer says, as police investigate footage of the alleged incident.", "Sergio Garcia pays tribute to fellow Spaniards Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal after becoming a major champion by winning the Masters.", "Maple producers in the province are aggressively marketing the syrup abroad as a sugar alternative.", "After convincing himself throughout his career that he was only good enough for second, is Sergio Garcia's Masters win the perfect sporting story?", "The BBC's Lyse Doucet witnesses a quiet end to a once highly violent separatist campaign.", "Queuing, tea and talking about the weather. Are us Brits really that predictable? A few UK-based Europeans who we spoke to (before the referendum) seemed to think so. What's more, they wouldn't have it any other way. We'll say 'cheers' to that.", "As Neil Gorsuch is confirmed to the Supreme Court, here are six hot-button issues he could have a say on.", "Emilie Larter, 25, hopes to legally become Adam's mum and bring him from Uganda to the UK.", "Leicester make it six wins from six under Craig Shakespeare as Sunderland mark the two-month anniversary of their last goal with another defeat.", "If a Masters Green Jacket is to be finally his, Rory McIlroy must overcome the doubters - and Dustin Johnson, writes Iain Carter.", "Eighteen years after three young Albanian-Americans were tortured and killed, a family's fight for justice goes on.", "Former British and Irish Lions captain Brian O'Driscoll expects Wales flanker Sam Warburton to lead the squad against New Zealand.", "Pop singer Vanessa White invites us into the studio as she makes her new EP, Chapter 2.", "Sunderland boss David Moyes says he never feared for his job following his comments to a BBC reporter that she might \"get a slap\".", "What do the responses to the events of 22 March tell us about interfaith relations?", "Badminton England withdraws from a forthcoming international tournament in Australia after losing its Olympic funding.", "The mistake that cost Lexi Thompson a major was her own, and rules were properly followed - but the rules make golf look ridiculous, says Iain Carter.", "Sunderland give their support to manager David Moyes but describe his comments that a BBC reporter might \"get a slap\" as \"wholly inappropriate\".", "Saskia Nelson's knowledge of the online dating world led her to specialise in photos for dating profiles.", "Double gold medallist Nicola Adams wants to follow the legendary Muhammad Ali's route from Olympic glory to professional world titles.", "Manager Arsene Wenger says Arsenal's struggles this season prove finishing in the Premier League's top four is \"not as easy as it looks\".", "More than 1,900 athletes were sanctioned for doping in 2015 - a 14% rise from 2014 - new World Anti-Doping Agency figures show.", "Diesel-powered ferries are big polluters, so could electric engines be a cleaner option?", "From sailing to smartphones, accurate timekeeping has been essential to the world's economy.", "Television viewers affecting golf tournaments \"is not making the game look very good at all\", says Rickie Fowler after Lexi Thompson's costly penalty.", "It is a huge week in my life as I prepare to play for my country, Wales, for the 100th time on Wednesday.", "Donald Trump condemns Washington insiders, but some conservative critics say he's now the problem.", "Mike Ford leaves his role as Toulon's head coach, with former Leicester boss Richard Cockerill taking charge until the end of the season.", "Defending Masters champion Danny Willett says returning to the scene of his greatest triumph may not spark an instant upturn in form.", "Jeff De Young served in Afghanistan with a bomb-detection dog named Cena N641, a black Labrador. In the intense atmosphere of war they developed an unbreakable bond.", "Jack Straw argues that Spain won't let Gibraltar get in the way of an EU trade deal for the UK.", "The mood in Brussels is more bullish, so the EU may take its time before discussing a free-trade deal.", "Theresa May will push for trade on a visit to Saudi Arabia but humanitarian issues also figure.", "Poverty and distance mean that families can't always visit loved ones who are scheduled to be put to death.", "Sunderland boss David Moyes will be asked by the Football Association to explain himself after telling a BBC reporter she might \"get a slap\".", "England's Danny Willett begins the defence of his Masters title playing alongside American Matt Kuchar and Australian amateur Curtis Luck.", "BBC Sport delves into the Masters archive to relive five of the greatest shots ever played at Augusta.", "The BBC is given exclusive access to Iraqi army helicopter missions over IS-held Mosul.", "BBC football expert Mark Lawrenson takes on DJ, artist and drum and bass pioneer Goldie in this week's Premier League predictions.", "Putting parents at the centre of care for premature babies leads to better outcomes, doctors say.", "Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores an injury-time penalty but Manchester United draw at home again in the Premier League against Everton.", "Defending champion Heather Watson fights for two hours and 52 minutes to beat Nina Stojanovic at the Monterrey Open.", "Antonio Giovinazzi will race again for Sauber in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix as replacement for Pascal Wehrlein.", "Ding Junhui dominates the second session of his World Championship quarter-final with Ronnie O'Sullivan to take a 10-6 lead.", "The prime minister says the record number of jobs is evidence of her strong leadership.", "Working out what colour is going to be popular in future is crucial for industries across the world.", "Mark Selby twice hits tournament high breaks to crush Marco Fu 13-3 and reach the World Championship semi-finals with a session to spare.", "The French finance minister tells the BBC that euro-denominated financial services activity will need to move to the continent.", "Serena Williams says she revealed her pregnancy on social media by accident, after mistakenly uploading a photograph on Snapchat.", "A player as controversial and contradictory as Joey Barton was never going to leave the game quietly - Phil McNulty reflects on a career now seemingly at an end.", "Kelly Sotherton feels her career has \"more meaning\" after she is upgraded to a three-time Olympic medallist following retrospective drug tests.", "Bolivar goalkeeper Matias Dituro scores a spectacular goal from inside his own area against San Jose de Oruro in the Bolivian top flight.", "When email goes wrong... how it can irritate and annoy everyone in the office.", "Abu Jaafar's job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money.", "Two women who don't like politics paid a visit to Parliament, but did it convince them to vote?", "Celtic striker Moussa Dembele will miss the Scottish Cup final after picking up a hamstring injury at the weekend.", "Chelsea's Eden Hazard and Gary Cahill say Tottenham will feel the pressure after the Blues beat Southampton to edge closer to the title.", "Mihai Nistor was the last fighter to stop Anthony Joshua - but while Joshua earns millions, Nistor remains an amateur on a modest income. Why?", "Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is knocked out of the World Championship, beaten 13-10 by Ding Junhui in the quarter-finals.", "It comes after a Thai man broadcast the murder of his 11-month daughter on Facebook Live.", "Former world number one Maria Sharapova will find out on 16 May if she has been given a wildcard for the French Open.", "How the Turner Prize-winning artist has moved on from elephant dung to lyrical tapestry.", "Diego Costa scores twice as Premier League leaders Chelsea edge closer to the title with victory over Southampton.", "Reality Check looks at how much aspects of Labour's NHS proposals could cost.", "Wales defender Neil Taylor has been suspended for two matches for his leg-breaking tackle on Ireland's Seamus Coleman.", "The startling headlines that seemed plausible at first, but turned out to be wide of the mark", "Donald Trump gave out promises like candy during his campaign. It's time to visit the dentist.", "Burnley midfielder Joey Barton is banned from football for 18 months after admitting a Football Association charge in relation to betting.", "Izzy Brown's strike is enough to give Huddersfield Town a narrow win at Wolves to secure a Championship play-off spot.", "Sunderland manager David Moyes is charged by the Football Association after telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks she might \"get a slap\".", "A city-based eight-team T20 tournament to rival the IPL is given the go-ahead to start in 2020 by the England and Wales Cricket Board.", "Women are breaking with tradition and helping rebuild Nepal after the earthquake two years ago.", "Surrey and England all-rounder Zafar Ansari retires from cricket at the age of 25, saying he has \"other ambitions to fulfil\".", "Labour has a clear Brexit plan but some in the party would prefer more robust opposition to the Tory position.", "Weddings have got out of hand, says Country Life magazine, as it calls for a rethink.", "Johanna Konta puts a difficult week behind her to reach the second round of the Porsche Grand Prix with victory over Naomi Osaka.", "With the General Election looming and parliament winding down, was the final PMQs before June's poll also the last for the SNP's Angus Robertson.", "Sunderland are 12 points from safety with five games remaining and could be relegated from the Premier League on Saturday.", "Theresa May knows it will be difficult but she is deadly serious about a potential reshaping of Britain at this election.", "Going into his biggest sporting test, Anthony Joshua seems to possess everything the archetypal champion should, writes Tom Fordyce.", "Tottenham stay four points behind Premier League leaders Chelsea following a hard-fought victory at Crystal Palace.", "The follow-up to The Girl on the Train \"doesn't pass the second-book test\", according to reviewers.", "The US president has a range of options regarding the secretive state.", "As teacher unions meet for their conferences, parents and delegates express concern over school budgets.", "Thousands of people trying to solve an age-old question about joint pain and the weather.", "S-Town and Serial might be hits, but will listening to podcasts ever be more than a niche pursuit?", "After all the votes are counted, the controversial result is in. Here's the number.", "Victory and a draw will be enough for Birmingham City to maintain their Championship status, says new manager Harry Redknapp.", "Chief football writer Phil McNulty takes a look at the highs and lows of John Terry's 22-year Chelsea career.", "A profile of Conservative Party leader Theresa May, who has just called a general election.", "Nearly 20 years since they almost dropped out of the Football League, BBC Sport looks at how Brighton have been reborn.", "Remembering one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, on the German island of Heligoland.", "Toor Pekai Yousafzai opens up about how her life changed when her daughter was shot by the Taliban.", "Lock Joe Launchbury and centre Jonathan Joseph are set to lead a list of shock English exclusions from the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.", "Cristiano Ronaldo scores a hat-trick as Real Madrid beat Bayern Munich in a thrilling game to reach the Champions League semi-finals.", "After a giant military parade over the weekend, the message from Pyongyang is clear.", "Reaction to Prince Harry's interview about his mental health makes the front pages, alongside fighting talk from North Korea and the US.", "A business analyst in the US sifts through data and photos to identify running cheats.", "England captain Dylan Hartley is set to miss out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.", "Marco Fu recovers from 7-2 down to beat Luca Brecel 10-9 and earn a place in the World Championship second round at the Crucible.", "Five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is \"completely wrong\" to accuse snooker bosses of bullying, says Shaun Murphy.", "Silicon Valley's visionary-in-chief Elon Musk rides high on big promises and cultish support.", "Birmingham City appoint Harry Redknapp as their new manager following the resignation of Gianfranco Zola.", "As Prince Harry speaks about Princess Diana's death, our readers tell their stories of losing a parent.", "Meet female barber Sophie Collins who is challenging the male-dominated world of cut-throat shaving", "The BBC's correspondent Jonathan Beale witnesses fierce close-quarter fighting in the city.", "Just months after multiple concussions meant could not use her phone or feed her cat, Kelly Edwards is targeting European glory.", "Home security technology linked to smartphones is helping to keep people and property safe.", "Luke Robinson and Kevin Brown have had repeated concussions, but both tell Radio 5 live the game is getting to grips with the issue.", "Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty books his place at the 2017 World Championships with victory at the British Championships.", "Leicester's superb debut Champions League campaign comes to an end as Atletico Madrid claim a draw at the King Power Stadium.", "Arsenal keep alive their hopes of finishing in the top four of the Premier League with a narrow victory at second-bottom Middlesbrough.", "A doctor who administered a controversial treatment to Mo Farah is set to give evidence on Wednesday to MPs.", "Champions Celtic survive a brief second-half scare before cruising to a comfortable Scottish Premiership victory over Kilmarnock.", "Millions of pieces of human-made trash are orbiting the Earth. Some are tiny, but all pose a risk.", "Brighton beat QPR to return to the top of the Championship with their third win in the space of six days.", "Great Britain are out of the Davis Cup after a 3-0 quarter-final loss to France as Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot lose in the doubles.", "Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins a tight fight with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to take pole position for Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.", "Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton calls for a rethink of procedures in bad weather following a farcical day of practice at the Chinese Grand Prix.", "Chelsea maintain their seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League with an entertaining victory over spirited Bournemouth.", "Tottenham keep up the pressure on Chelsea with an impressive victory over Watford, their sixth consecutive Premier League win.", "The 14-1 shot One For Arthur, ridden by Derek Fox and trained by Lucinda Russell, wins the 2017 Grand National at Aintree.", "Chris Ashton scores his fifth try in three games as Saracens confirm a Premiership play-off spot by beating Harlequins at Wembley.", "Charley Hoffman's overnight advantage is wiped out as Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler and Thomas Pieters join him in the lead at the halfway stage at Augusta.", "From the waltz to twerking, nothing manages to appal parents more than a new move for the dancefloor", "Canadian writer Ken McGoogan thinks Canada should invite Scotland to become its 11th province.", "One For Arthur's victory is one for Scotland, one for injured jockeys and one for 'two golf widows'.", "A field of 40 horses headed by The Last Samuri is set to contest the 170th running of the Grand National on Saturday.", "Liverpool come from behind to beat Stoke City in a dramatic game and stay on course for a top-four Premier League finish.", "Sebastian Vettel is fastest in final practice in China as the Ferraris outshine their rivals Mercedes going into qualifying.", "Britain's Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans both lose their singles matches on the first day of the Davis Cup quarter-final against France in Rouen.", "Watch live BBC Two coverage from the final day of The Masters.", "The BBC speaks to the survivors of a brutal attack on cattle traders by a \"cow vigilante group\".", "The \"femtech\" market is booming, but are apps aimed at women effective and reliable?", "Sergio Garcia makes a monster 40 foot putt on the fifth hole to take him to five under par, one shot off the lead during his third round at the Augusta National", "A TV drama about corruption has become a hit in China, with some comparing it to House of Cards.", "England are held to a frustrating draw despite dominating against Italy at Vale Park.", "As Emma Watson wins the first gender-neutral MTV acting award, is it time to get rid of separate male and female award categories?", "Hamilton? Vettel? Or Giovinazzi? Choose your winner and overall top 10 race result for the Chinese Grand Prix.", "GB's double gold medallist Nicola Adams believes new trainer Virgil Hunter will play a key part in her success as a professional.", "England's Justin Rose climbs into a share of the lead with Sergio Garcia of Spain as the battle for the Masters intensifies on day three at Augusta.", "Tottenham produce a sensational late turnaround to beat a stubborn Swansea side and keep their title aspirations alive", "How does a company go from succeeding in its home country to a global brand?", "Jess Fishlock celebrates her 100th Wales cap in style as she scores with a stunning strike against Northern Ireland.", "Some Muslim women believe they must marry a new man before they can return to their first husband.", "English trio Ben Duckett, Chris Woakes and Toby Roland-Jones are named as three of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year.", "Pop singer Vanessa White invites us into the studio as she makes her new EP, Chapter 2.", "BBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris analyses the detail of the European Parliament vote.", "Jose Mourinho says Luke Shaw used \"his body with my brain\" during Manchester United's draw with Everton on Tuesday.", "Sunderland boss David Moyes says he never feared for his job following his comments to a BBC reporter that she might \"get a slap\".", "Who are the main contenders? Who are the British hopes? Why the Green Jacket? And everything you need to know about the Augusta National.", "Nick Skelton, who won Olympic gold for Great Britain in the individual show jumping at Rio 2016, announces his retirement.", "A new ruling has the potential to become a game-changer in legally enforcing environmental protection.", "Will a tougher line on immigration in the US mean deportation for many undocumented university students?", "Diesel-powered ferries are big polluters, so could electric engines be a cleaner option?", "The news that millions of us are physically inactive has led some to ask if employers hold the answers.", "What's the problem with the US-China trade relationship - and what can Trump do about it?", "Four home football associations hold talks over the possibility of a Great Britain women's team taking part in 2020 Tokyo Olympics.", "Donald Trump condemns Washington insiders, but some conservative critics say he's now the problem.", "How will the international community respond to the latest atrocity in Syria's intractable conflict?", "Rory McIlroy says he has tried to make Augusta National feel like his \"home golf course\" as he seeks a maiden Masters title.", "Ex-Manchester United defender Phil Neville says there is \"something fundamentally wrong\" to force boss Jose Mourinho to criticise Luke Shaw.", "Watch Miles Storey's astonishing goal-line miss in Aberdeen's victory against Inverness Caledonian Thistle.", "Putting parents at the centre of care for premature babies leads to better outcomes, doctors say.", "Defending Masters champion Danny Willett says returning to the scene of his greatest triumph may not spark an instant upturn in form.", "Former England test captain Alastair Cook says his successor Joe Root will take time to get used to England captaincy but will find his way.", "Jeff De Young served in Afghanistan with a bomb-detection dog named Cena N641, a black Labrador. In the intense atmosphere of war they developed an unbreakable bond.", "Eight England players could appear in the 10th edition of the Indian Premier League, which begins on Wednesday.", "Theresa May will push for trade on a visit to Saudi Arabia but humanitarian issues also figure.", "Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores an injury-time penalty but Manchester United draw at home again in the Premier League against Everton.", "Manchester United's Luke Shaw is being targeted by Jose Mourinho as a player who needs more development.", "Poverty and distance mean that families can't always visit loved ones who are scheduled to be put to death.", "Liverpool fined £100,000 and handed two-year ban on signing academy players for a rule breach.", "Robert Hannigan, the outgoing head of GCHQ, talks to the BBC about Russia, the attack at Westminster and President Trump.", "Chelsea maintain their seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League table as two Eden Hazard goals see off Manchester City.", "Defending champion Heather Watson fights for two hours and 52 minutes to beat Nina Stojanovic at the Monterrey Open.", "Dustin Johnson suffers a lower-back injury following a fall at his rental home before Thursday's opening round of the Masters in Augusta.", "The FA says Joey Barton's 18-month suspension from all football activities is \"the shortest possible\" ban it could have imposed.", "The WTA is \"sending out the wrong message to kids\" by allowing Maria Sharapova to resume her playing career, says 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard.", "Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes will not impose team orders as a matter of course, but are aware they may be necessary this year.", "From giving staff a week's paid leave to look after their new dog, to the firm that pays towards its employees' weddings.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan says he has no intention of retiring and does not care if he fails to win another World Championship.", "Marouane Fellaini is sent off for headbutting Sergio Aguero as a disappointing Manchester derby ends goalless at Etihad Stadium.", "The French finance minister tells the BBC that euro-denominated financial services activity will need to move to the continent.", "There's a shortage of women in the Faroe Islands. So men are increasingly seeking wives from Thailand and the Philippines.", "Crystal Palace boss Sam Allardyce hopes to have defender Mamadou Sakho back before the end of the season but admits the player's injury could turn out to be serious.", "The Tories crammed 16 mentions of their election slogan into Prime Minister's Questions - does the tactic work?", "The latest figures show crime appears to be rising on one measure, but are largely static on another.", "Going into his biggest sporting test, Anthony Joshua seems to possess everything the archetypal champion should, writes Tom Fordyce.", "Rachel Johnson reportedly had talks about standing as an election candidate for the anti-Brexit party.", "A player as controversial and contradictory as Joey Barton was never going to leave the game quietly - Phil McNulty reflects on a career now seemingly at an end.", "Molly Watt was born severely deaf but as a teenager discovered she was going blind too.", "The BBC's Auliya Atrafi finds out if a massive bomb dropped on Afghanistan had any effect on IS.", "Aerial images show large areas of acid-stained ground in a region pegged for massive investment.", "When email goes wrong... how it can irritate and annoy everyone in the office.", "Abu Jaafar's job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money.", "Anthony Joshua calls on Wladimir Klitschko to \"stand up to the power\" after he is branded just \"a puncher\" in the run up to their heavyweight bout.", "Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is knocked out of the World Championship, beaten 13-10 by Ding Junhui in the quarter-finals.", "It comes after a Thai man broadcast the murder of his 11-month daughter on Facebook Live.", "UKIP leader Paul Nuttall says he will stand at the general election without specifying in which seat.", "The startling headlines that seemed plausible at first, but turned out to be wide of the mark", "Mauda Kyitaragabirwe was abandoned on Uganda's 'Punishment Island' for getting pregnant out of wedlock. The BBC's Patience Atuhaire went to meet her.", "Masterchef viewers get heated on Twitter about the right way to say the spicy sausage.", "The ICC pass a revised financial model reversing a decision which effectively handed control of the sport to India, England and Australia.", "Former Newcastle winger Sylvain Marveaux is one of four people arrested in a tax fraud investigation by Revenue & Customs.", "How does the cost of the triple-lock compare with other ways of protecting pensions?", "The Tories will hope remarks draw attention to what they see as Labour's vulnerability on defence.", "Ding Junhui leads reigning champion Mark Selby 5-3 after an intriguing start to their World Championship semi-final.", "Weddings have got out of hand, says Country Life magazine, as it calls for a rethink.", "How significant are Boris Johnson's comments about possible UK military intervention in Syria?", "Sunderland are 12 points from safety with five games remaining and could be relegated from the Premier League on Saturday.", "Arsene Wenger says Christian Fuchs threw the ball at Alexis Sanchez \"on purpose\" and should have been booked during Wednesday's game.", "Tottenham stay four points behind Premier League leaders Chelsea following a hard-fought victory at Crystal Palace.", "The follow-up to The Girl on the Train \"doesn't pass the second-book test\", according to reviewers.", "Weighing up a facial filler, Brazilian butt-lift or one of the many other cosmetic procedures available? Here are five things you might want to consider beforehandWith thanks to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.", "Borussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra thanks people for messages of support after being injured in the bomb attack on the team bus.", "Overbooking flights is a common practice. Why did this incident turn violent?", "Lions captaincy contender Sam Warburton facing six-week lay-off after suffering a medial knee ligament injury against Ulster.", "Emma Jane Kirby finds voters ready for something different in the forthcoming presidential election.", "The MCC confirms that a series of law changes - including the introduction of sendings-off - will come into effect on 1 October.", "In some death penalty states, the law says volunteers with no connection to the crime must watch every execution.", "Families of people infected with HIV and hepatitis by NHS treatments still seek a public inquiry.", "Arsene Wenger says uncertainty over his future is not affecting his Arsenal players, but says their 3-0 defeat at Crystal Palace is \"a big worry\".", "Former Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri believes someone within the club was working against him, but does not think the players got him sacked.", "Philanthropy tech is on the rise, from gaming with a conscience to video ads earning cash for charities.", "Leicester keep Atletico Madrid within reach as they restrict the hosts to one goal in their Champions League quarter-final first leg.", "Borussia Dortmund's Champions League quarter-final with Monaco is postponed after the Dortmund team bus was damaged by an explosion.", "The US's lack of clarity on foreign policy could prove catastrophic, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus reports.", "After an 18-year wait for a first major, Sergio Garcia may have discovered the mental strength to add more, writes Iain Carter.", "Paulo Dybala scores twice as Juventus take charge of their Champions League quarter-final tie with Barcelona.", "The USA, Canada and Mexico say they will make a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup - the first after expansion from 32 to 48 teams.", "Former Wales and British and Irish Lions scrum-half Mike Phillips, a double Grand Slam winner, is to retire when Sale Sharks' season ends.", "British pair Heather Watson and Naomi Broady are knocked out in the first round of the Biel Bienne Open in Switzerland.", "Touring New Zealand with the Lions would be the pinnacle of Rhys Webb's career, but injury experience prompts caution over his hopes.", "How do Turks in the Netherlands feel about Turkey's controversial referendum on 16 April?", "Volunteers who have donned a woggle and neckerchief share the ups and downs of leading Scouting groups.", "Aboriginal Australian rules players write an open letter to the sport's fans calling for an end to racial abuse.", "BBC Panorama reveals that a classified report has connected the spy Stakeknife to at least 18 murders.", "Crystal Palace boost their survival hopes to leave Arsenal struggling to maintain their run of top-four finishes under Arsene Wenger.", "It appears a strange move, but Tony Adams' appointment as Granada manager makes sense, says Spanish football writer Andy West.", "After convincing himself throughout his career that he was only good enough for second, is Sergio Garcia's Masters win the perfect sporting story?", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "A robot sea snake that could one day \"explore the Titanic\" makes its debut at an ocean expo.", "The proposed 10-month Premiership rugby season \"fills players with dread\", says Leicester Tigers captain Tom Youngs.", "Favourite Judd Trump believes he is \"the best\" and can win the 40th World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre.", "Lewis Hamilton was \"genuinely happy\" to see Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas score his first pole at the Bahrain GP.", "Ex-England captain Alastair Cook scores 39 not out for Essex in his first game since standing down as Test skipper.", "Champion Mark Selby hammers Fergal O'Brien 10-2 on the opening day of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.", "Tottenham's impressive form in pursuit of Chelsea will make the Premier League leaders nervous, according to Blues legend Frank Lampard.", "The Royal Air Force is part of a coalition attacking so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.", "Under Donald Trump's new immigration order, even undocumented immigrants with similar circumstances can have opposite outcomes.", "Scotland's Ricky Burns fails to unify the super-lightweight division as IBF and IBO champion Julius Indongo takes Burns' WBA crown on points.", "Britain's Katie Archibald wins gold in the women's omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong.", "Columnist Kelvin MacKenzie is suspended by the Sun after he expressed \"wrong\" and \"unfunny\" views about the people of Liverpool and Everton midfielder Ross Barkley.", "A dazzling cake that's perfect for any celebration. The cake itself is easy to make, so you can put your efforts into the icing glaze. \r\n\r\nEquipment: You will need 2 loose-bottomed cake tins, 20cm/8in wide.", "Tottenham continue their pursuit of Premier League leaders Chelsea with a dominant victory over Bournemouth.", "Manchester City strengthen their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish as a slick second-half display sees off Southampton.", "Donald Trump has not only normalised American foreign policy, he has arguably made it more effective.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas took his first pole position, beating team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the Bahrain Grand Prix.", "New York City striker David Villa scores an incredible 50-yard lob to help his side to a 2-0 victory over Philadelphia Union in the MLS.", "As Donald Trump weighs his options on North Korea, its citizens are preparing to sing and dance to the glory of the country's ruling family.", "Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel ends fastest in second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix, with Mercedes and Red Bull close behind.", "Great Britain's Elinor Barker and Emily Nelson win silver in the inaugural women's World Championships madison.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan safely progresses to the second round of the World Championship by beating debutant Gary Wilson 10-7.", "Great Britain's 4x100m women's relay team will not compete at the IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas next week.", "How the UK is tackling the complicated task of dropping much-needed sacks of food into South Sudan.", "Following the results of the US presidential race, has fake news from the left seen a surge in popularity?", "Chelsea's N'Golo Kante is voted the PFA Player of the Year for 2016-17, with Tottenham's Dele Alli picking up the young player award.", "Alan Shearer says Chelsea FA Cup semi-final victory against Tottenham shows why they will go on and win the Premier League.", "Pep Guardiola must lift his players quickly to ensure they qualify for next season's Champions League, argues Jermaine Jenas,", "Raheem Sterling's goal for Manchester City is ruled out after the linesman says Leroy Sane's cross went out of play behind the goal before coming back in.", "Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he will \"come back even stronger\" after suffering cruciate knee-ligament damage.", "News of a snap poll means many late nights and cancelled weekends for some over the coming weeks.", "Nacho Monreal fires in from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's teasing cross to draw Arsenal level against Manchester City in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Romania captain Ilie Nastase is banned from the Fed Cup tie against Great Britain after an incident that leaves Johanna Konta in tears.", "Many different countries are trying to get a toehold in Somalia as it slowly emerges from chaos.", "The party could also undertake not to stand against pro-Brexit MPs, its leader Paul Nuttall says.", "The eight-week entertainment show didn't get off to the strongest start but after ending more positively does it just need a second chance?", "Labour alleges that pupils in England's primary schools \"are packed like sardines\" in classrooms.", "Alexis Sanchez pounces on a loose ball to put Arsenal 2-1 up in extra-time against Manchester City in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Defending champions Saracens survive a first-half Munster examination to reach a third Champions Cup final in four years.", "America is \"a beautiful but dangerous place,\" says Ray Davies, as he discusses his new album.", "One FGM survivor explains her struggle to protect her daughters from the practice.", "A total of 13 MPs voted against an early general election. We look at who they are and why they said no.", "Where do the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems have to fight hardest to win the general election?", "A husband and wife, both architects, who witnessed their city's devastation are already thinking about how to restore it.", "Guy Verhofstadt says the PM's decision to hold an election is \"political opportunism\".", "Celtic beat Rangers to set up a Scottish Cup final meeting with Aberdeen and the chance to complete a domestic treble.", "Whether you consume music digitally or collect vinyl records, Brexit has the potential to affect you.", "Nemnaja Matic strikes from distance to put Chelsea 4-2 up and seal thei victory over Tottenham in the 2017 FA Cup semi-finals.", "Sophie Walker accuses Philip Davies of misogyny but he calls her plans \"extreme political correctness\".", "Sergio Aguero races on to a Yaya Toure pass to lift it over Petr Cech and put Manchester City 1-0 up against Arsenal in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Great Britain are consigned back to the Europe/Africa Zone group after losing their Fed Cup World Group II play-off in Romania.", "British five-time Olympian Jo Pavey can secure qualification for the World Championships when she races in Sunday's London Marathon.", "Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova returns to action next week looking to boost her sponsor appeal.", "UKIP's manifesto will include plans to ban the burka, sparking strong reactions on both sides of the debate.", "Britain's David Weir wins a record seventh London Marathon men's wheelchair title, beating reigning champion Marcel Hug in a sprint finish.", "The threat from terrorism is always evolving, but some things are constant, writes Peter Taylor.", "Tottenham cut the gap on Premier League leaders Chelsea to seven points as they overcome a stubborn Burnley at Turf Moor.", "KGB political officers in the field had to spend up to a quarter of their time on \"active measures\".", "Those on benefits are about to be squeezed further, while many people in work will be better off.", "How a 119% tax on tea imports in the 1750s helped smuggling become a vital part of the UK economy.", "Chelsea's lead at the top of the Premier League is cut to seven points after they suffer a shock home defeat to Crystal Palace.", "BBC reporter Rick Faragher takes a look at superstitions after he is forced to break one when covering a story about an infestation of \"longtails\".", "Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho questions whether the game was evenly matched, despite BBC Sport's Conor McNamara insisting he was only asking the Red Devils' manager's opinion.", "A look at the men and women affected by President Trump's deportation strategy.", "Liverpool boost their prospects of a top-four place by beating Everton, whose hopes of a Champions League qualification spot are severely damaged.", "Kenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei breaks four world records as she storms to victory at the Prague Half Marathon.", "Roger Federer wins a three-hour contest against Nick Kyrgios to set up a final against Rafael Nadal at the Miami Open.", "Chris Smalling and Phil Jones have sustained \"long-term\" injuries, while Man Utd team-mate Juan Mata has had groin surgery.", "Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill labels Ronald Koeman a \"master of the blame game\" in their escalating row over James McCarthy.", "St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright says Danny Swanson and Richard Foster face severe punishments for brawling with each other.", "What does it say about a country when one of the three main election contenders is a satirist?", "Chelsea's surprise defeat by Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge makes the title race 'ore interesting', says Blues boss Antonio Conte.", "Tiger Woods will not play in this year's Masters at Augusta because he is \"not tournament ready\" and does not know when he will return.", "Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger repeats his desire to manage next season as \"retirement is dying\" for people of his age.", "When Rebecca Lowe set off solo from the UK for Iran by bicycle, friends thought she had taken leave of her senses.", "Masters champion Danny Willett and his caddie Jonathan Swift talk us through their sensational back nine at Augusta to win the 2016 title.", "Leinster put four tries past Premiership leaders Wasps at the Aviva Stadium to reach the European Champions Cup semi-final.", "William Warr is the third person in the history of the Boat Races to switch sides, and his ex-Cambridge team-mates won't talk to him.", "The fictional diarist has reached his half-century, but what is the secret behind his success?", "Defender Andrew Considine scores a hat-trick as Aberdeen hammer Dundee 7-0 to ensure Celtic must wait to be crowned champions.", "What calculations will come into play as the union reveals its negotiating stance with the UK?", "Britain's Johanna Konta will move to seventh in the rankings after claiming the biggest title of her career at the Miami Open.", "Chinese Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton believes 2017 could go down to the wire between Mercedes and Ferrari.", "Hampshire successfully chase 320 to complete a remarkable comeback win over Yorkshire at Headingley.", "Spain's Sergio Garcia ends his long wait for a first major title with a thrilling play-off win over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.", "Matt Kuchar shoots the first hole-in-one of the 2017 Masters on the 16th hole during the final round at Augusta.", "Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins a tight fight with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to take pole position for Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.", "Chelsea maintain their seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League with an entertaining victory over spirited Bournemouth.", "Two goals by Kenny Miller and one by substitute Joe Dodoo help Rangers cut the gap on second-place Aberdeen to nine points.", "Spain's Sergio Garcia ends his long wait for a first major title with a thrilling play-off win over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.", "Man City's Claudio Bravo is one of the world's top keepers when it comes to build-up play, manager Pep Guardiola said after beating Hull 3-1.", "The Tottenham midfielder is enjoying a remarkable season – and his stats suggest he is on course to surpass the feats of some of the Premier League's greats.", "2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen almost holes a brilliant bunker shot on the seventh green on the final day of the 2017 Masters.", "Great Britain's double gold medallist Nicola Adams marks her professional debut with a points victory over Virginia Carcamo.", "One For Arthur's victory is one for Scotland, one for injured jockeys and one for 'two golf widows'.", "Bottom club Sunderland's hopes of avoiding relegation suffer another setback as Manchester United ease to victory to climb to fifth in the table.", "Everton move within goal difference of Arsenal in sixth as Romelu Lukaku scores twice to check Leicester's recent renaissance.", "The Davis Cup dead rubber singles match between GB's Dan Evans and France's Julien Benneteau descends into farce when Nicolas Mahut and coach Yannick Noah join the action.", "Neymar is sent off for Barcelona who lose at Malaga and fail in their bid to go level on points with La Liga leaders Real Madrid.", "Final round pairing Jon Rahm and William McGirt hole superb back-to-back shots on the 13th on the final day at Augusta National.", "Hamilton? Vettel? Or Giovinazzi? Choose your winner and overall top 10 race result for the Chinese Grand Prix.", "Queuing, tea and talking about the weather. Are us Brits really that predictable? A few UK-based Europeans who we spoke to (before the referendum) seemed to think so. What's more, they wouldn't have it any other way. We'll say 'cheers' to that.", "Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton dominates the Chinese Grand Prix to take his first win of the year and share the championship lead.", "England's Justin Rose climbs into a share of the lead with Sergio Garcia of Spain as the battle for the Masters intensifies on day three at Augusta.", "What does history say about Theresa May's chances of wining a bigger majority?", "The doctor who gave Mo Farah a controversial supplement tells MPs that he failed to correctly document the treatment.", "Lions captain Sam Warburton is not the most vocal of leaders but when he speaks \"you can hear a pin drop\", says Paul O'Connell.", "The US president has a range of options regarding the secretive state.", "Adam Peaty wins the 50m breaststroke, his second gold, at the British Swimming Championships - nearly breaking his own world record.", "Thousands of people trying to solve an age-old question about joint pain and the weather.", "Andy Murray makes a winning return to the ATP Tour at the Monte Carlo Masters but Kyle Edmund loses to Rafael Nadal.", "World number two and 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams is pregnant and due in the autumn, her representative confirms.", "The teenager was airlifted to hospital following a high-speed crash at Donington Park in Leicestershire.", "Victory and a draw will be enough for Birmingham City to maintain their Championship status, says new manager Harry Redknapp.", "A profile of Conservative Party leader Theresa May, who has just called a general election.", "Remembering one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, on the German island of Heligoland.", "Veteran leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon emerges as a force in the French presidential election.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan hopes a \"sensible resolution\" can be reached over any outstanding issues with the snooker authorities.", "Cristiano Ronaldo scores a hat-trick as Real Madrid beat Bayern Munich in a thrilling game to reach the Champions League semi-finals.", "Wales' Sam Warburton will captain the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand, but England skipper Dylan Hartley misses out.", "Lions coach Warren Gatland says player nationalities did not influence the selection of his 41-man squad to tour New Zealand.", "After a giant military parade over the weekend, the message from Pyongyang is clear.", "Manager Craig Shakespeare challenges his Leicester players to reach the Champions League again after their loss to Atletico Madrid.", "Australia's government has mooted new anti-shark measures after a surfer died. What works? And is there a problem?", "Juventus reach the semi-finals of the Champions League after stopping Barcelona from scoring at the Nou Camp.", "Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho urges striker Anthony Martial to \"give me things that I like\" if he wants to feature in the first team.", "Children who fled bombs in Syria now have to overcome nationalist hostility and poverty in Greece.", "England captain Dylan Hartley is set to miss out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.", "Bournemouth confirm on-loan midfielder Jack Wilshere is out for the season with a fractured leg.", "Services cannot be put on a boat and shipped, yet they way they are traded globally is increasingly important.", "Brexit may dominate the coming election - but the polls show the NHS is high on the public's list of concerns.", "Born in the barrios of Los Angeles, MS-13 has risen to become one of the world's most feared gangs.", "Monaco see off Borussia Dortmund at the Stade Louis II to reach the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2004.", "One of the UK’s top businesswomen, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, reveals her efforts to tackle mental health issues.", "If you worry about germs on the train, in the office or at the gym, you might resort to covering your hands in gel to put your mind at rest. But could they be less effective than we think?", "Lyon and Besiktas both face bans from European competition if there is a repeat of the crowd trouble that marred their Europa League quarter-final first leg.", "The 31-year-old 2012 Olympic champion retired from athletics in October.", "The BBC's correspondent Jonathan Beale witnesses fierce close-quarter fighting in the city.", "Home security technology linked to smartphones is helping to keep people and property safe.", "Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty books his place at the 2017 World Championships with victory at the British Championships.", "Auliya Atrafi found worried residents and a complex conflict in the Afghan Taliban heartland.", "Tournament favourite Judd Trump is knocked out of the World Championship by world number 54 Rory McLeod in the first round.", "Leicester's superb debut Champions League campaign comes to an end as Atletico Madrid claim a draw at the King Power Stadium.", "About 90% of income tax is paid by the richest 50% of taxpayers.", "Premier League clubs make limited progress on improving access for disabled fans, campaigners have said.", "A look at the growing classic car market and the popularity of collecting previously unheralded makes.", "Tottenham produce a sensational late turnaround to beat a stubborn Swansea side and keep their title aspirations alive", "Poland fears an EU without Britain, but that doesn't mean Mrs May will get her way.", "Dustin Johnson withdraws from the 2017 Masters at Augusta National due to a back injury sustained in a fall on Wednesday.", "Some Muslim women believe they must marry a new man before they can return to their first husband.", "BBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris analyses the detail of the European Parliament vote.", "Leicestershire are deducted 16 County Championship points for repeated disciplinary offences.", "Who are the main contenders? Who are the British hopes? Why the Green Jacket? And everything you need to know about the Augusta National.", "The BBC's David Sillito looks at the relationship between current affairs and comedy.", "A new ruling has the potential to become a game-changer in legally enforcing environmental protection.", "Paying customers are a more reliable source of income for journalists than rich donors", "Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard signs a new deal at Old Trafford that could earn him £100,000 a week.", "Top female jockey Katie Walsh is passed fit for Saturday's Grand National despite injuring her arm in a fall at Aintree on Thursday.", "Wednesday's Premier League results left the title race unaltered - but the final scores were only half the story, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.", "When jockey Declan Murphy suffered a disastrous fall, his death was reported in the Racing Post. But 18 months later he raced again - and won.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says charging VAT on private school fees could fund free school meals in England.", "Whitehaven's Carl Forster, one of British sport's youngest professional head coaches, hopes to make his mark in the Challenge Cup.", "Ex-Manchester United defender Phil Neville says there is \"something fundamentally wrong\" to force boss Jose Mourinho to criticise Luke Shaw.", "Fernando Alonso has denies claims he could walk away from McLaren-Honda mid-season if the team's engine troubles continue.", "Chelsea maintain their seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League table as two Eden Hazard goals see off Manchester City.", "Welsh Rugby Union chairman Gareth Davies says condensing the Six Nations would \"meddle with players' health\".", "Former England test captain Alastair Cook says his successor Joe Root will take time to get used to England captaincy but will find his way.", "Reigning Olympic and London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong is the latest high-profile Kenyan athlete to fail a drugs test.", "American Charley Hoffman leads the 2017 Masters at Augusta National on seven under, with Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy in contention.", "Trump and Xi meet for the first time – what will they talk about?", "Women's number one Reanne Evans is two victories away from reaching the World Championship at the Crucible.", "Miguel Francis says he is more likely to fulfil his potential after switching allegiance from Antigua and Barbuda to Great Britain.", "Robert Hannigan, the outgoing head of GCHQ, talks to the BBC about Russia, the attack at Westminster and President Trump.", "Lizzie Kelly guides Tea For Two to victory in the Betway Bowl on day one of the Grand National meeting at Aintree.", "Dustin Johnson suffers a lower-back injury following a fall at his rental home before Thursday's opening round of the Masters in Augusta.", "Chelsea's N'Golo Kante is voted the PFA Player of the Year for 2016-17, with Tottenham's Dele Alli picking up the young player award.", "A city-based Twenty20 tournament could have \"far-reaching consequences\" for counties who play at non-Test match grounds, says Kent chief Jamie Clifford.", "Pep Guardiola must lift his players quickly to ensure they qualify for next season's Champions League, argues Jermaine Jenas,", "A profile of John Timpson, the boss of family-owned shoe repair firm Timpson, which has a very unusual recruitment policy.", "Maria Sharapova's first opponent following her 15-month doping ban questions the decision to give the Russian wildcards on the WTA Tour.", "For Sue Jenkins, whose 88-year-old mother needs round-the-clock care, life can be very difficult.", "Lionel Messi scores his 500th Barcelona goal to send them top of La Liga with a last-minute winner against Real Madrid.", "Official figures suggest that the number of children in poverty in Scotland has jumped to 260,000.", "News of a snap poll means many late nights and cancelled weekends for some over the coming weeks.", "Key statistics on NHS performance are due to be published on the day of the general election.", "Many different countries are trying to get a toehold in Somalia as it slowly emerges from chaos.", "Newcastle United secure an immediate return to the Premier League with a convincing home win over 10-man Preston.", "Dan Evans claims his first ATP Tour win on Clay at the Barcelona Open as fellow Briton Kyle Edmund also progresses to the second round.", "Leader Tim Farron says the party is the only one opposing Theresa May's \"hard Brexit\".", "Alexis Sanchez's extra-time winner sees Arsenal beat Manchester City at Wembley to reach a third FA Cup final in four seasons.", "The technology which underpins the internet's security has always been disputed.", "Watch five of the best shots from Mark Selby's 13-6 win over Xiao Guodong 13-6 to reach to reach the World Championship quarter-finals.", "Briton Anthony Joshua says \"Father Time has caught up with Wladimir Klitschko\" as the two prepare for Saturday's heavyweight world title bout.", "A new theory may explain the background to one of the most famous works of art ever produced.", "Researchers have so far named nearly five million victims, but now they are in a race against time.", "UKIP's proposed ban on full veils worn by some Muslim women has \"great public support\", it claims.", "America is \"a beautiful but dangerous place,\" says Ray Davies, as he discusses his new album.", "Britain's Kelly Sotherton is set to be upgraded to an Olympic bronze medal for the second time in five months after retrospective drug tests.", "Where do the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems have to fight hardest to win the general election?", "Survivors say the pain of bereavement can easily push people into mental illness without proper support.", "The issue of Brexit looms large over the general election - here's where the parties stand.", "But the EU should not count its chickens just yet, warns the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler.", "Celtic beat Rangers to set up a Scottish Cup final meeting with Aberdeen and the chance to complete a domestic treble.", "Sophie Walker accuses Philip Davies of misogyny but he calls her plans \"extreme political correctness\".", "Why do some runners experience \"jelly legs\" at the end of a marathon?", "League One champions Sheffield United are set to re-sign striker Ched Evans from Chesterfield, reports BBC Radio Sheffield.", "UKIP searches for a new unique selling point after Theresa May steals a march on Brexit.", "Law enforcement agencies around the world are concerned about an increase in fake celebrity social media accounts.", "Great Britain are consigned back to the Europe/Africa Zone group after losing their Fed Cup World Group II play-off in Romania.", "Marco Fu edges past 2010 champion Neil Robertson 13-11 to reach his fourth World Championship quarter-final.", "As Bananarama's original line-up get back together, what other 80s bands would we like to see reunite?", "UKIP's manifesto will include plans to ban the burka, sparking strong reactions on both sides of the debate.", "Arsene Wenger says Arsenal answered their critics with a \"strong and united\" performance as they reach a third FA Cup final in four years.", "Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova returns to action next week looking to boost her sponsor appeal.", "The Tories have said they want an 'absolute' cap on prices, rather than a 'relative' limit.", "With Emmanuel Macron installed as favourite to be French President - 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Why did this incident turn violent?", "Britain's Elinor Barker is pipped to gold as Rachele Barbieri wins the scratch race at the Track Cycling World Championships.", "City wants to host the event either in 2026 or in 2022, following Durban's recent withdrawal.", "Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba joins United Soccer League side Phoenix Rising as a player and co-owner.", "Why a photographer's series sets a garment of Afghanistan against scenes of everyday Australia.", "The jobs market is robust, but pay rises have largely stalled and for many are already in reverse.", "In some death penalty states, the law says volunteers with no connection to the crime must watch every execution.", "Families of people infected with HIV and hepatitis by NHS treatments still seek a public inquiry.", "McLaren's Fernando Alonso is given permission to miss this year's Monaco Grand Prix so he can race in the Indianapolis 500.", "England captain Dylan Hartley says British & Irish Lions selection for the summer tour of New Zealand would be a \"bonus\".", "Mark Cavendish is diagnosed with glandular fever, caused by the Epstein Barr virus, and faces an uncertain timescale for his recovery.", "Leicester keep Atletico Madrid within reach as they restrict the hosts to one goal in their Champions League quarter-final first leg.", "Philanthropy tech is on the rise, from gaming with a conscience to video ads earning cash for charities.", "Teenager Kylian Mbappe scores twice as Monaco edges the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie at Borussia Dortmund.", "The US's lack of clarity on foreign policy could prove catastrophic, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus reports.", "Vikas Pandey spends a day with a squad in Allahabad to see how the new initiative is being received.", "Paulo Dybala scores twice as Juventus take charge of their Champions League quarter-final tie with Barcelona.", "Harvard wants to change the words of its university song to make it more inclusive.", "Volunteers who have donned a woggle and neckerchief share the ups and downs of leading Scouting groups.", "It has not been a great week for Boris Johnson. Where does he stand at the end of it?", "Great Britain name a Fed Cup team of Johanna Konta, Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Jocelyn Rae for their tie against Romania.", "BBC Panorama reveals that a classified report has connected the spy Stakeknife to at least 18 murders.", "UK firms are rushing to take advantage of growing global demand for chocolate eggs.", "Driven by the pain of two final defeats, Atletico Madrid are fearsome Champions League opponents for Leicester, writes Andy West.", "Which talented youngsters impressed Garth Crooks? And who is the Premier League's \"most improved player\"? It's Garth's Team of the Week.", "Lewis Hamilton was \"genuinely happy\" to see Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas score his first pole at the Bahrain GP.", "Some of the 25,000 British people living in Belgium are applying for its nationality.", "Elinor Barker wins Britain's second gold medal of the Track Cycling World Championships with victory in the women's points race.", "Champion Mark Selby hammers Fergal O'Brien 10-2 on the opening day of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.", "Donald Trump is riding high in much of the Arab world's eyes. So what is behind this and will it last?", "Tottenham's impressive form in pursuit of Chelsea will make the Premier League leaders nervous, according to Blues legend Frank Lampard.", "An emotional Ronnie O'Sullivan attacks snooker's authorities for \"threatening\" language and says he will not be \"bullied\".", "Jose Mourinho did things differently when he masterminded Manchester United's win over Chelsea, says MOTD2 pundit Jermaine Jenas.", "Everton's Ross Barkley has been unfazed by a difficult week involving two major off-field incidents, says captain Phil Jagielka.", "Ajegunle, a Nigerian slum, has a reputation for crime but it's also produced some of Nigeria's top footballers.", "The Lib Dem manifesto argues for creative subjects alongside academic subjects.", "Scotland's Ricky Burns fails to unify the super-lightweight division as IBF and IBO champion Julius Indongo takes Burns' WBA crown on points.", "Bristol are relegated to the Championship with two games to go after a brave defeat by ruthless Premiership leaders Wasps.", "Check out this content on BBC Three.", "As British black comedy Withnail and I hits 30, star Richard E Grant looks back at its filming.", "In 1937, Jorge Amado published Captains of the Sands, a novel about a gang of orphans living in Salvador, Brazil. Eighty years on, little has changed.", "Ian Poulter moves within three shots of the lead at the RBC Heritage - after fending off the attentions of an alligator.", "Roberto Firmino scores a winner for the second weekend running as Liverpool beat West Brom to go third in the Premier League.", "Justin Rowlatt reports from Indian-administered Kashmir amid attempts to re-run disrupted ballots.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan safely progresses to the second round of the World Championship by beating debutant Gary Wilson 10-7.", "The Japanese conglomerate's future is in doubt after incurring billions in losses. So what's next?", "England head coach Eddie Jones names 15 uncapped players in his 31-man squad to tour Argentina in June.", "Marcus Rashford scores in extra time to send Manchester United through to the Europa League semi-finals at Anderlecht's expense.", "A total of 13 MPs voted against an early general election. We look at who they are and why they said no.", "Fox News faces a bigger problem than sexual harassment lawsuits: how to cover the man in the White House.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan takes a commanding 6-2 lead against Shaun Murphy in their second-round World Championship match.", "Judd Trump faces a fine from snooker bosses for refusing to fulfil his post-match media duties following his shock World Championship loss to Rory McLeod.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp rules out a £20m move for Manchester City's England goalkeeper Joe Hart.", "Jenson Button pledges £15,000 to a fundraising page to support British driver Billy Monger, who had both legs amputated after a crash.", "The Question Time presenter previously said 2015 would be his last election programme for the BBC.", "Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel says his side had \"felt not so good\" after their team bus was delayed in Monaco.", "Judy Ingels is defying the embargo by flying to Havana for treatment.", "World number one Andy Murray suffers a shock third-round defeat in the Monte Carlo Masters, beaten by Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas.", "Lions coach Warren Gatland says player nationalities did not influence the selection of his 41-man squad to tour New Zealand.", "Australia's government has mooted new anti-shark measures after a surfer died. What works? And is there a problem?", "Chelsea and Tottenham both have four players in the PFA Premier League team of the year, while the Football League and WSL teams are also revealed.", "Juventus reach the semi-finals of the Champions League after stopping Barcelona from scoring at the Nou Camp.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 UK General Election including news, analysis and results.", "Five-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan and 2005 champion Shaun Murphy clash over O'Sullivan's claims of \"bullying\" by the snooker authorities, ahead of their second-round match at the World Championship.", "Former champion Neil Robertson is made to wait before beating Noppon Saengkham in the first round of the World Championship.", "Shaun Murphy pulls off an exquisite \"exhibition\" trick shot during his second-round match against Ronnie O'Sullivan at the Crucible.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly Election including news, analysis and results.", "Born in the barrios of Los Angeles, MS-13 has risen to become one of the world's most feared gangs.", "Former England and Lions centre Jeremy Guscott says Warren Gatland got his selections right and the squad is good enough to beat New Zealand.", "One of the UK’s top businesswomen, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, reveals her efforts to tackle mental health issues.", "Brexit may dominate the coming election - but the polls show the NHS is high on the public's list of concerns.", "Ex-world number one Tiger Woods has another operation to treat ongoing pain in his back and leg that has kept him out since February.", "Serena Williams won the Australian Open while pregnant - BBC Sport asks what challenges the world's best female tennis player faced.", "If the PM's first campaign visit is anything to go by, \"long-term economic plan\" will be replaced by \"strong and stable\".", "Will the prime minister choose to retain Britain's commitment to spend 0.7% of GDP on international aid?", "How did the Brexit timetable affect the decision to call an early general election?", "The problem of \"hippos\" in the workplace - and why it is important that their decisions can be openly questioned.", "Auliya Atrafi found worried residents and a complex conflict in the Afghan Taliban heartland.", "Tournament favourite Judd Trump is knocked out of the World Championship by world number 54 Rory McLeod in the first round.", "Former England and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu is in hospital after collapsing at Tottenham's training centre on Thursday.", "About 90% of income tax is paid by the richest 50% of taxpayers.", "Premier League clubs make limited progress on improving access for disabled fans, campaigners have said.", "Celtic secure a sixth successive Scottish league title with Scott Sinclair scoring a hat-trick as Hearts are hammered at Tynecastle.", "Defending champions Saracens ease past Glasgow Warriors to set up a European Champions Cup semi-final tie against Munster.", "Welsh Olympian Ciara Horne says she needs psychological help before returning to road training.", "Those on benefits are about to be squeezed further, while many people in work will be better off.", "Celtic secure a sixth consecutive Scottish Premiership title with eight games to spare after thrashing Hearts 5-0 at Tynecastle.", "Some deny one of the US's worst mass shootings ever happened. 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Zelenograd near Moscow, had learned her times tables by the age of five.\n\nHer precocious talent, encouraged by a maths-mad family and a favourite female teacher who transformed every lesson into one giant problem-solving game, led to a degree in mathematical economics at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.\n\n\"My lecturer instilled in me the power of numbers and calculation, how it gives you the ability to predict things; in that sense the subject always felt magical,\" she says.\n\nNow Irina, 26, is a data scientist at Russian online lender, ID Finance, enjoying a lucrative career devising analytical models to determine loan eligibility.\n\nAnd this isn't an unusual story in Russia. But it is in many other countries around the world.\n\nSeveral studies confirm that all too often girls' early interest in Stem subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths - fizzles out and never recovers.\n\nSo relatively few women go on to choose engineering or technology as a career. Why?\n\nA new study from Microsoft sheds some light.\n\nBased on interviews with 11,500 girls and young women across Europe, it finds their interest in these subjects drops dramatically at 15, with gender stereotypes, few female role models, peer pressure and a lack of encouragement from parents and teachers largely to blame.\n\nIn Russia, it's not unusual for girls to be interested in science and technology\n\nAccording to Unesco, 29% of people in scientific research worldwide are women, compared with 41% in Russia. In the UK, about 4% of inventors are women, whereas the figure is 15% in Russia.\n\nRussian girls view Stem far more positively, with their interest starting earlier and lasting longer, says Julian Lambertin, managing director at KRC Research, the firm that oversaw the Microsoft interviews.\n\n\"Most of the girls we talked to from other countries had a slightly playful approach to Stem, whereas in Russia, even the very youngest were extremely focused on the fact that their future employment opportunities were more likely to be rooted in Stem subjects.\"\n\nThese girls cite parental encouragement and female role models as key, as well as female teachers who outnumber their male colleagues presiding over a curriculum viewed as gender neutral.\n\nWhen the Department for Education asked a cross-section of British teenagers for their views on maths and physics, five words summed up the subjects' image problem: male, equations, boring, formulaic, irrelevant.\n\nBut no such stigma exists in Russia, says Mr Lambertin.\n\n\"They've really gone beyond that,\" he says. \"People are expected to perform well in these subjects regardless of gender.\"\n\nAdvancement in science was a national priority in the Soviet era, says Alina Bezuglova\n\nAlina Bezuglova is head of the Russia chapter of Tech London Advocates, an organisation that connects Russian talent with job opportunities in the UK.\n\nShe regularly hosts women-only tech events in the UK, but not so in Russia. Why?\n\n\"You could say it's because we are neglecting the problem or that there is no problem at all, and I'm far more inclined to think the latter,\" she says.\n\n\"Compared to the rest of Europe, we just don't stress about 'women's issues'.\"\n\nAccording to Ms Bezuglova, Russian women's foothold in science and technology can in part be traced back to the Soviet era, when the advancement of science was made a national priority.\n\nAlong with the growth in specialist research institutes, technical education was made available to everyone and women were encouraged to pursue careers in this field.\n\n\"It never occurred to me at school that because I'm a girl I shouldn't be choosing Stem, and in the workplace I don't see much sexism, only that you're judged on your abilities,\" she says.\n\nBut could the national psyche also play a part?\n\nWith their characteristically forthright nature, do Russian women simply find it easier to speak up for themselves in male-dominated environments?\n\nEmeli Dral, assistant professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, thinks so.\n\nEmeli Dral thinks Russian women are \"more determined to prove ourselves\"\n\nShe recalls how it was precisely this spirit that spurred her on to success as one of only two girls in her advanced maths group at school.\n\n\"It actually made both of us even more competitive and more determined to prove ourselves and be better than the boys,\" she says.\n\n\"I think Russian women are pretty confident about being in a minority, mainly because of the support they have had from their parents from a young age.\n\n\"Mine never queried why I was interested in maths and engineering - it was considered to be very natural.\"\n\nOlga Reznikova, whose largely self-taught approach to Stem led to her current role as a senior software engineer, is a case in point.\n\nGrowing up in a small seaside town populated by miners and fishermen, her love of computers began when she was just four, but it was a struggle to turn her passion into a career.\n\nTurning to online tutorials, she mastered the basics of algorithm design, machine learning and programming and made money coding simple websites.\n\nBut wary of a future stuck in \"IT outsourcing sweatshops\", she headed to St Petersburg to study further and land a bigger role.\n\n\"For a while I was the only female programmer at my company,\" she says.\n\n\"I did encounter some issues with being taken seriously, but I stayed with it and am now earning a salary that's 30% higher than before.\"\n\nWhile Russia is doing something right, it's still not there yet in terms of gender parity.\n\n\"There is no doubt that Russia is firing up girls' imaginations,\" says Mr Lambertin.\n\n\"Bringing creativity to the classroom with hands-on, practical application, and stressing the relevance of these subjects by focusing on the workplace, could be the way forward for those countries where girls are currently very disengaged.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nOlympic gold medallist Dame Katherine Grainger has been named as the new chair of UK Sport.\n\nGreat Britain's most decorated female Olympian retired from rowing after winning a medal at a fifth Games last summer.\n\nThe 41-year-old will succeed Rod Carr as head of the funding agency for elite sport.\n\nGrainger was up against former Paralympic swimmer Marc Woods, who also competed at five Games.\n\n\"I am absolutely thrilled to be appointed as the next UK Sport chair,\" Grainger said.\n\n\"I am also very honoured to be joining the team at UK Sport and building on the success and commitment to excellence that I have witnessed and enjoyed as an athlete.\n\n\"I'm also acutely aware of the many challenging issues currently within sport and I hope to play a role in addressing them.\"\n\nCarr will step down from his position at the end of his term on 22 April, and Grainger will start on 1 July.\n\nThe appointment comes as recommendations aimed at improving athletes' welfare have been published as part of a major independent report into British sport.\n\nThey are the result of a year-long duty of care review, commissioned by the UK government and led by 11-time Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Grey-Thompson.\n\nSports Minister Tracey Crouch said: \"Dame Katherine is a peerless leader both on the water and off it.\n\n\"As one of our greatest ever Olympians, she has an outstanding understanding of high performance sport, and through her educational and charity work has a proven commitment to inclusion.\n\n\"I know she will be an inspiring chair of UK Sport. I would also like to thank outgoing chair Rod Carr for his superb work at the helm of UK Sport over the past four years.\"\n\nThe Scot took two years out after winning Olympic gold in London at her fourth attempt, studying for a PhD and working with the BBC on its coverage of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She returned to compete in Brazil, where she won her fourth silver medal.\n\n\"London was an incredible end point in my career but for personal reasons I wanted to come back and have another go,\" she told BBC Scotland in 2016.\n\n\"The (last) medal is sinking in and I understand that now but having the historical side on top takes a bit longer to get used to.\"\n\nAfter the announcement, Julian Knight MP, a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, tweeted: \"Hopefully she will start the process of cleaning out the Augean Stables at UK Sport and the sports they fund.\"\n\nWoods also tweeted, wishing Grainger well in the position: \"Whilst disappointed not to be selected as chair of UK Sport I wish Katherine Grainger all the best. I'll offer any support I can.\"\n\nDame Katherine Grainger will come into this job at a critical and challenging time for UK Sport.\n\nThe funding agency may have overseen unprecedented medal success but never before has its \"no-compromise\" approach been under such scrutiny, amid a spate of athlete welfare and anti-doping controversies and criticism from certain sports over its funding decisions.\n\nGrainger is a vastly decorated and inspirational Olympian, and while a surprise, her appointment will be welcomed by many athletes who want more consideration now given to duty of care.\n\nBut according to well-placed sources, she was unsure about applying for the role, and given her lack of sports administration experience, it will be interesting to see whether she can bring about the changes at UK Sport that some critics believe are now urgently required.", "Twenty years ago, Ronnie O'Sullivan made history with the fastest-ever 147 - a record nobody has come close to breaking.\n\nWatch the 2017 World Snooker Championship live across BBC Sport from Saturday, 15 April.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "A string of brutal murders in the US has thrown a national spotlight on MS-13, a street gang that was born in LA but has roots in El Salvador.\n\nThe latest was a mass murder on Monday on Long Island, where the bodies of four males, including three teenagers, were found mangled in the woods, according to police.\n\nPresident Trump tweeted to call the gang \"bad\". Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to \"devastate\" it. Both blamed Obama-era immigration policy for its rise.\n\nBut what is MS-13 and is Obama really to blame?\n\nThe gang began in the barrios of Los Angeles in LA during the 1980s, formed by immigrants who had fled El Salvador's long and brutal civil war. Other members came from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.\n\nThe MS stands for Mara Salvatrucha, said to be a combination of Mara, meaning gang, Salva, for Salvador, and trucha, which translates roughly into street smarts. The 13 represents the position of M in the alphabet.\n\nMS-13 established a reputation for extreme violence and for killing with machetes. It took root in neighbourhoods dominated by Mexican gangs, and later expanded to other parts of the country.\n\nAccording to the FBI, the gang has spread to 46 states.\n\nIn 2012, the US Treasury designated the gang a \"transnational criminal organisation\". It was the first street gang to receive the dubious honour, placing it alongside much larger international cartels like the Mexican Zetas, Japanese Yakuza and Italian Camorra.\n\nMS-13 has been accused of recruiting poor and at-risk teenagers. Joining is said to require being \"jumped in\" - subjected to a vicious 13-second beating - and \"getting wet\" - carrying out a crime, often a murder, for the gang.\n\nLeaving is potentially even more dangerous. Large chest tattoos brand members for life, and some factions are said to murder members who attempt to leave.\n\nA 2008 FBI threat assessment put the size of MS-13 between 6,000 and 10,000 members in the US, making it one of the largest criminal enterprises in the country.\n\nIt is now larger outside the country, according to the agency. An anti-gang crackdown in the late 1990s saw hundreds of early members shipped back to Central American countries, where they established offshoots. Estimates put the number of members in Central American countries at at least 60,000.\n\nThe gang's annual revenue is about $31.2m (£23.4m) according to information from a large-scale Salvadorean police operation obtained by the El Faro newspaper - mainly from from drugs and extortion.\n\nRecent high-profile cases linked to the gang include the murder of two female high-school students who were attacked with a machete and baseball bat as they walked through their neighbourhood in New York last month - a revenge attack over a minor dispute, according to police.\n\nFour alleged MS-13 members were charged with that crime. Another two alleged members were charged at the same time with the murder of a fellow gang member said to have violated gang protocol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe same month, two alleged members of the gang in Houston, Texas were charged with kidnapping three teenage girls, holding them hostage and raping them before shooting one dead on the side of the road.\n\nMiguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, laughed and waved at the cameras during their court appearance.\n\nMS-13's motto is \"kill, rape, control\", according to one FBI gang specialist who investigated the group.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Sessions have pointed the finger at former President Barack Obama over the spread of MS-13, alleging that his open-door immigration policies fuelled its growth.\n\nBut the gang formed and flourished in the US long before Mr Obama came to power. MS-13 was identified as a significant threat in the 1990s, and a special FBI taskforce was convened against the gang in 1994.\n\n\"The big surge was during Bush-Cheney when the drivers of illegal migration in Central America grew, when various crackdowns on crime filled prisons to bursting point, and when funding for rehabilitation programs declined,\" Fulton T Armstrong, a research fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, told fact-checking website Politifact.\n\n\"I have seen no evidence that the Obama administration can be blamed in any way for the existence or activities of the gang in the US,\" said Ioan Grillo, author of a book on US gang crime.\n\nThe Obama administration also prioritised the deportation of gang criminals, including MS-13 members, in an aggressive deportation program.", "Cuba has faced more than 50 years of US sanctions. Now, for the first time, a unique drug developed on the communist island is being tested in New York state. But some American cancer patients are already taking it - by defying the embargo and flying to Havana for treatment.\n\nJudy Ingels and her family are in Cuba for just six days. They have time to go sightseeing and try out the local cuisine. Judy, a keen photographer, enjoys capturing the colonial architecture of Old Havana.\n\nAnd while she is in the country, Ingels, 74, will have her first injections of Cimavax, a drug shown in Cuban trials to extend the lives of lung cancer patients by months, and sometimes years.\n\nBy travelling to Havana from her home in California, she is breaking the law.\n\nThe US embargo against Cuba has been in place for more than five decades, and though relations thawed under President Obama, seeking medical treatment in Cuba is still not allowed for US citizens.\n\n\"I'm not worried,\" Ingels says. \"For the first time I have real hope.\"\n\nShe has stage four lung cancer and was diagnosed in December 2015. \"My oncologist in the United States says I'm his best patient, but I have this deadly disease.\"\n\nHe does not know she is in Cuba. When she asked him about Cimavax, he had not heard of it.\n\n\"But we've done a lot of research - I've read good things,\" Ingels says. Since January, Cimavax has been tested on patients in Buffalo, New York state, but it isn't yet available in the US.\n\nIngels, her husband Bill and daughter Cindy are staying at the La Pradera International Health Centre, west of Havana. It treats mostly foreign, paying patients like Ingels, and with its pool complex, palm trees and open walkways, La Pradera feels more like a tropical hotel than a hospital.\n\nThis trip from their home in California, together with a supply of Cimavax to take back to the US, will cost the Ingels family more than $15,000 (£12,000).\n\nCimavax fights cancer by stimulating an immune response against a protein in the blood that triggers the growth of lung cancer. After an induction period, patients receive a monthly dose by injection.\n\nIt's a product of Cuba's biotechnology industry, nurtured by former President Fidel Castro since the early 1980s.\n\nIronically, Cuba's biotech innovations can partly be explained by the US embargo - something Castro continually railed against. It meant Cuba had to produce the drugs it could not access or afford. And medications like Cimavax - low-tech products that could be administered in a rural setting - were developed to fit the Cuban context.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cuban cancer drug CIMAvax is bringing hope to US patients in the first collaboration of its kind\n\nNow the industry employs around 22,000 scientists, technicians and engineers, and sells drugs in many parts of the world - but not in the US.\n\nAnd although the Cubans will not reveal the cost of producing Cimavax, it is cheaper than other treatments.\n\nFor Cuba's residents, all health care is free. One beneficiary is Lucrecia de Jesus Rubillo, 65, who lives on the fifth floor of a block of flats in the east of Havana\n\nLast September she was given two or three months to live. What began as pain in Lucrecia's leg, was diagnosed as stage-four lung cancer that had spread.\n\nShe had chemotherapy. \"That was really very hard,\" she says. \"It gave me nausea, and it hurt. But my kids asked me to fight, so I did.\"\n\nAfter radiotherapy, Lucrecia began Cimavax injections. Now she is strong enough to walk up the five flights of stairs to her home, and her persistent cough has diminished. She feels better, more hopeful, and is thinking about what to do next.\n\n\"Perhaps I'll go to Spain to visit my kid,\" she says. \"I feel happy, and I'm still dreaming of the future, but I also feel sadness. I've had a lot of friends who've died of cancer, and they never had the chance I'm having with these injections. I feel privileged.\"\n\nHer doctor is Elia Neninger, an oncologist at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in Havana. Neninger is one of the principal clinicians to trial Cimavax on patients since the 1990s.\n\n\"Lucrecia arrived incapacitated by her disease in a wheelchair,\" Neninger remembers. \"Now the tumour on her lung has disappeared, and the lesions on her liver aren't there either. With Cimavax, she's in a maintenance phase.\"\n\nIn Cuba, specialists like Neninger do not talk about curing cancer - they talk about controlling it and transforming it into a chronic disease. She has treated hundreds of patients with Cimavax.\n\n\"I never thought I'd work on something that would improve the lives of so many people,\" she says. \"I have stage-four lung cancer patients who are still alive 10 years after their diagnosis.\"\n\nBut mostly Cimavax is proven to extend life for months, not years. And it does not help everyone. In trials, around 20% of patients haven't responded, Neninger says, often because the disease is very advanced, or they have associated illnesses that make treatment more difficult.\n\nNonetheless, Dr Kelvin Lee is impressed. He is the Chair of Immunology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, where the American trials of Cimavax are taking place.\n\nIt is the first time a Cuban medication has been trialled in the US, and required special permission because the embargo prohibits most collaboration and trade.\n\nCancer immunotherapy is getting more expensive in the US, Lee says. A cheap vaccine that can be administered at primary care level is very attractive. And he thinks it is possible that Cimavax could be used to prevent lung cancer, too.\n\n\"If we could vaccinate the high-risk smokers to prevent them from developing lung cancer, that would have an enormous public health impact both in the United States and worldwide.\"\n\nThis has not been proven, however, and the initial US trials of Cimavax only began in January.\n\nThere is political uncertainty, too. On the campaign trail before his election, President Trump said he would reverse the thaw with Cuba that began under the Obama administration, unless there was change on the island, which is governed as a one-party state.\n\n\"Our demands will include religious and political freedom for the Cuban people, and the freeing of political prisoners,\" Trump said on the campaign trail in Miami.\n\nSo far, Cuba has not made it to the top of his in-tray. There is a large constituency of Americans who believe that Cuba does not deserve the kind of recognition and status the association with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute brings.\n\nBut Lee thinks political arguments against US-Cuba collaboration are misplaced.\n\n\"The gas we put in our cars, the iPhones we tweet from, the shoes we buy our kids - all come from countries that the United States has fundamental differences with regarding women's rights, freedom of speech, personal liberties. Yet that has never stopped us from working with them in areas that benefit the people in both countries.\"\n\nFor now Bill Ingels, Judy's husband, isn't worried about falling foul of US authorities.\n\n\"I told them I was coming for educational purposes,\" he says. \"And I am learning about cancer and medication! I'm basically a very honest person, but if I have to, I will lie.\"\n\nIngels will not know if the vaccine has made a difference until she has a scan in three months.\n\n\"We feel pretty positive, and we thought this would be a great experience and journey for my family to take together. It's the first time I've felt up since I was diagnosed.\"\n\nCindy Ingels, Judy's daughter, is a nurse - she will administer the Cimavax shots to her mother back home in California.\n\n\"Even if she remains stable - that it maintains the tumour size, and it doesn't worsen - we'd be happy with that,\" she says. \"If the tumour decreases from what it is now, that would really be a miracle.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAmerican Olympic champion Brianna Rollins has been banned for a year for missing three drugs tests in 2016 - one of which came while she was meeting former United States president Barack Obama at the White House.\n\nAnother saw Rollins, 25, miss a test to attend 'Brianna Rollins Day' in September in her hometown in Florida.\n\nRollins, who won 100m hurdles gold in Rio, is banned until 18 December.\n\nShe will therefore miss the World Championships in London in August.\n\n\"This is one of the most difficult times in my career, especially after having such a great 2016 season,\" Rollins said in a statement on Instagram.\n• None When BBC Sport tried the 'whereabouts' drugs testing system\n\nThe United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) says Rollins failed to properly file her whereabouts information for drug testers.\n\nUnder World Anti-Doping Agency rules, athletes cannot miss three tests in a 12-month period.\n\nRollins missed one in April 2016, as she was travelling, and two in September - one when she was visiting the White House and the other when she returned to Florida.\n\nUsada says her results from 27 September - the date of her third whereabouts failure - will be disqualified, meaning the world champion will be allowed to keep the Olympic medal she won in August.\n\n\"This is a difficult case because it involves the imposition of a serious penalty on a brilliant athlete who is not charged or suspected of using banned substances of any kind,\" Usada said in the ruling.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nHolders Real Madrid will face rivals Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League - a repeat of last year's final.\n\nZinedine Zidane's side could become the first club to retain the trophy in the Champions League era in the final on 3 June in Cardiff.\n\nFrench side Monaco take on Italian club Juventus in the other last-four tie.\n\nThe first legs will be played on 2 and 3 May, with the return legs taking place the following week.\n\nReal, aiming to win Europe's premier club competition for a 12th time, beat German champions Bayern Munich 6-3 on aggregate to reach the last four.\n\nAtletico, meanwhile, ended Premier League champions Leicester's fairytale run in Europe, edging the Foxes 2-1 over two legs.\n\nJuventus claimed an impressive 3-0 aggregate win over Barcelona while Monaco defeated Borussia Dortmund 6-3..", "How have Ferrari done it? That is the big question on many people's lips in Formula 1 this year.\n\nSebastian Vettel is leading the championship by seven points from Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton after two wins and a second place in the first three races. The German is giving every impression of being a serious title contender.\n\nWhat a difference from last year, when Ferrari went winless, Vettel had a fractious relationship with his bosses and the big question was about whether the most famous team in F1 were disappearing into one of their periodic declines.\n\nVettel started 2017 with a win in Australia, took a close second to Hamilton in the second race in China and won again in Bahrain last weekend.\n\nMercedes appear to have a faster car over one lap (in qualifying, for example), but the Ferrari is very strong in races, particularly on the very softest tyres, which the Mercedes is over-heating.\n\nHad the cards fallen differently, arguably either Vettel or Hamilton could have won any of the races. Which just underlines how close it is, and what massive progress Ferrari have made.\n\nWhat are Ferrari saying about it?\n\nFerrari have been cautious in all their public pronouncements so far this season - to the extent that there is something of a media blackout, with even the drivers' news conference appearances significantly cut back. Team boss Maurizio Arrivabene has said almost nothing of consequence at all.\n\nThe idea, it seems, is to establish themselves in the season with as little pressure as possible.\n\nWhen Vettel has spoken, he has not held back in his praise for the efforts Ferrari have made to turn their competitive position around.\n\n\"We did a massive stint over the winter,\" he said after his victory in Bahrain. \"Last year was a very good year for us. It wasn't good in terms of results, don't get me wrong, but I think for the team, getting together, a lot of things that had changed now seem to start clicking.\n\n\"It helps when straight from the box, in testing, we had a good feeling. We looked reasonably competitive.\n\n\"Australia obviously was a massive boost for all the team. The whole factory has really come alive so that's great and we need to just make sure we keep it going.\n\n\"I'm really enjoying it; the car has been a pleasure. Things start to click and hopefully that sort of success now in the first couple of races helps us to build up some sort of momentum that maybe these guys [Mercedes] had in the past and the last couple of years. So they will be the ones to beat.\"\n\nWhat has happened behind the scenes?\n\nHard work is one thing. But all F1 teams work hard. Ferrari were working hard last year - and in 2014, when they also failed to win a race.\n\nThe explanation for the turnaround is more complex than that, and it starts a year or so ago, in the first difficult months of Ferrari's 2016.\n\nFerrari were confident heading into last year that they had further closed the gap on Mercedes after a 2015 in which Vettel won three races. The team bosses told president Sergio Marchionne as much, and he came out before the season started and said he expected Ferrari to be absolutely competitive from the off.\n\nThe problems started when they were not. Marchionne is an uncompromising Italian-Canadian businessman with a reputation as a hard man with colourful language. His nickname is \"the jumpered assassin\". He was not happy, and he wanted to know why performance was not what had been promised.\n\nHe began a full investigation into how things worked at Ferrari's Maranello factory. He personally interviewed many staff, not just the bosses, wanted to know their thoughts on why Ferrari could not compete with the best British-based teams, and asked for an explanation about why they had a reputation for lack of imagination and innovation in F1 design.\n\nMarchionne decided the design department needed to be restructured, to free up some of the more creative minds and make a less top-down structure.\n\nHe identified, he has said, about 20 key \"high-potential individuals\" to promote and harness. Management was reorganised; the format of meetings, too.\n\nThe idea was to make design more flexible, to ensure all ideas were discussed and make the group more open to suggestions. And to encourage a greater sense of ownership and responsibility among a much wider array of people, to avoid the usual Ferrari problem of people keeping their heads down so they could not be blamed for failure.\n\nAt the same time, Ferrari undertook an analysis of their weaknesses and concluded three main issues - aerodynamics, especially on circuits that require efficiency, such as Barcelona and Silverstone; tyre management; and gearbox fragility.\n\nThat done, they had a redefined baseline focus for 2017.\n\nIs this really James Allison's car?\n\nThis restructure took place in the summer of last year. A major part of it was the departure of former technical director James Allison - fundamentally because of a disagreement with Marchionne on details of the restructure - and his replacement by former engine boss Mattia Binotto, who had a reputation as an excellent engineering manager.\n\nF1 cars are a long time in gestation. Even in a normal year, layout is being done in the spring of the previous season. When there has been a big regulation change, as there has been this season, design work starts much earlier. Most 2017 cars have been at least two years in the making.\n\nThe teams knew the fundamentals of the 2017 rules as long ago as the summer of 2015 but the regulations were not finally signed off until early March 2016. At the very least, the fundamental concept of this year's Ferrari - its wheelbase, dimensions, basic aerodynamic philosophy and so on - was done on Allison's watch.\n\nHe and former aerodynamic head Dirk de Beer left at the same time last July and are now ensconced at other teams - Allison as technical director of Ferrari's title rivals Mercedes; De Beer, who also worked with Allison at Lotus, at Williams.\n\nSo Allison, who is one of probably the top two most highly rated design leaders in F1, was at Ferrari for all but the final five or six months of the creation of this car. Clearly, his contribution to it was significant, even if he played down his influence when asked in Bahrain last weekend.\n\n\"I left Ferrari many months ago,\" Allison said, \"and joined Mercedes just some small number of weeks ago. And anything that Ferrari has done for this year's car is a credit to the people that work at Ferrari over these months and what they have delivered.\"\n\nFerrari have, though, made progress since Allison departed. The car features a number of innovative design interpretations, and it surely cannot be an accident that this has happened in the first season after they restructured the design department with the express intention of being less conservative.\n\nAs ever when a team makes a big relative step forward like this, the paddock is a hotbed of rumour as to what they might have done.\n\nPeople are talking about Ferrari having found a way to make the floor flex for aerodynamic advantage - in a similar way to that in which Red Bull were so successful in the early 2010s. Theoretically, this is not allowed, but everything flexes a bit, and there are load tests conducted by governing body the FIA. As long as a car passes these, it is legal.\n\nRivals also say that a significant chunk of Ferrari's pace has been down to major progress with the engine. Vettel confirmed this in Bahrain when he said: \"We did a very, very good job, especially on the engine side. I think there's been a very big step so it feels great, feels like a lot more power than last year.\"\n\nAgain, there are rumours, this time about fuel additives to make a bigger combustion bang and therefore more power. Again, the FIA does checks and everything has been found to be above board.\n\nThe unanswered question so far is whether Ferrari can keep up in the development race, a weakness so far this decade.\n\nWhat is good about Ferrari's car?\n\nFerrari's design innovation this year is most obvious around the front of the sidepods, the bodywork that sticks out either side of the cockpit and which house radiators and other ancillaries.\n\nThis area is unique - the sidepod air inlets are much higher and shallower than on other cars, and feature unusual airflow shapers at their front. The benefits are that the air has a cleaner route into the sidepods and there is more space under the inlets, through the cutaway section below, for the crucial downforce-defining airflow to the rear.\n\nThe result has been a car Vettel is actively enjoying driving, one that suits his driving style, unlike last year.\n\nVettel is a great driver, but he needs a car to behave in a certain way to be at his best. If a car won't do what he wants, he can get into a downward spiral, as happened last year and in 2014, his final season at Red Bull.\n\nVettel likes consistent and predictable rear grip on corner entry, so as to enable him to rotate the car early in the corner, get on the power early and therefore increase speed down the following straight.\n\nIt was a technique that worked to perfection in the Red Bulls he drove to four world titles, and it is working again this year. The downforce created by Ferrari's innovative design under new rules aimed at making the cars faster and more demanding has been crucial in creating this balance for Vettel.\n\nTeam-mate Kimi Raikkonen, meanwhile, is struggling, his pace affected by a lack of front-end grip, which has always been his biggest Achilles' heel, and which does not bother Vettel in the same way.\n\nWhat does it all mean?\n\nFerrari's strong start to the season led to the first sign that their ultra-cautious approach is starting to peel away and their self-confidence is growing. Following Vettel's victory in Bahrain, Ferrari put out a statement from Marchionne.\n\n\"It is, of course, hugely satisfying to be back on the top step of the podium with Seb,\" he said. \"More importantly, however, we are now completely confident that our victory in Melbourne wasn't just a one-off and that we will be at the forefront of this world championship until the last.\n\n\"We finally have a competitive car to count on and it is important to recognise the speed with which we implemented the developments demanded for each new race.\n\n\"All this is the fruit of superb work at the track and in Maranello, so my compliments not just to Seb for his achievements in Bahrain, but also to the whole team.\n\n\"That said, we are well aware we have a long road ahead and know that if we want to get to the most important finish-line of all, we cannot stint on our commitment and focus for a second.\"\n\nFerrari's performance is not just good for Ferrari, though; it is good for F1 as a whole.\n\nFor the new owners, ensconced only in January, it has given a superbly exciting championship battle to sell to the world.\n\nFerrari's success may, however, complicate negotiations over the teams' new contracts post-2020, which are already starting.\n\nFerrari's historic value means that under the current deal they are given 5% of F1's total revenues (which are about $1.5bn, so that's $75m) before the prize money is distributed - plus another $120m or so from the prize fund. Cutting that as part of a more equitable income distribution to the teams won't be easy when Ferrari's value as a stop on Mercedes' domination is so clear.\n\nBeyond the arcane finances of F1, though, most importantly it means that in an era of falling television figures and questions about F1's appeal to a younger generation, two of the greatest drivers in the world are fighting for the title while racing for two of the biggest names in the automotive industry.\n\nOn every level, that's good for everyone who has even a passing interest in the world's biggest annual televised sport.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu is in hospital after collapsing at Tottenham's training centre on Thursday.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who is Spurs' Under-23s coach, received medical treatment on site before being transferred to hospital by ambulance, the Premier League club confirmed.\n\n\"Everyone at the club sends their best wishes to Ugo and his family,\" Tottenham added in a statement.\n\nEhiogu has been at Spurs since 2014.\n\nHe made over 200 appearances for Aston Villa between 1991 and 2000 and then spent seven years at Middlesbrough.\n\nHe won the League Cup with Villa in 1996 and also with Middlesbrough in 2004.\n\nEhiogu, who was capped four times by England, also played for West Brom, Leeds, Rangers and Sheffield United before retiring in 2009.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nWelsh cyclist Geraint Thomas has won the Tour of the Alps, becoming the first British rider to do so.\n\nTeam Sky's Thomas claimed the title by seven seconds after finishing third in the fifth and final stage.\n\nFrance's Thibaut Pinot, who won Friday's stage, finished second overall with Domenico Pozzovivo of Italy third.\n\nThomas, who came into the final stage with a 13-second lead on Pinot overall, held on despite numerous attacks, winning his first stage race of 2017.\n\nThe Tour of the Alps was first contested in 1962, although it was known as the Giro del Trentino until being renamed for this year's event.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United will face Spanish side Celta Vigo in the semi-finals of the Europa League.\n\nThe Premier League side have won the European Cup three times but have never triumphed in the continent's secondary club competition.\n\nDutch side Ajax, winners in 1992, come up against French club Lyon in the other last-four tie.\n\nThe first legs will be played on 4 May with the second leg on 11 May, and the final in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 May.\n\nUnited manager Jose Mourinho won the competition with Porto in 2003 and comes up against La Liga club Celta, who have never won a major European competition.\n\nAjax, who beat Schalke 4-3 on aggregate to reach the last four, are also experienced European campaigners. They have won the Champions League/European Cup four times previously and the Europa League/Uefa Cup once, beating Torino in the 1992 final.\n\nIn the Champions League draw, holders Real Madrid play city rivals Atletico Madrid and French side Monaco take on Italian club Juventus.\n\nZinedine Zidane's side could become the first club to retain the trophy in the Champions League era in the final on 3 June in Cardiff.\n\nThe first legs of those ties will be played on 2 and 3 May, with the return legs taking place the following week.", "Shaun Murphy pulls off an exquisite \"exhibition\" trick shot during his second-round match against Ronnie O'Sullivan at the Crucible.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "As Fox News is forced to reassess its role in American political life, it might ask the question, is this White House about Trump or about the movement he stands for, call it Trumpism? There's a difference. It's the same question millions of voters who supported Donald Trump will soon want the answer to.\n\nFor the past couple of decades Fox News has dominated the American cable landscape by successfully combining a coherent conservative ideology with top quality television visuals. The political ideology is talked about a lot and was driven by one man, Roger Ailes who became founding CEO of the channel in 1996. His talent for TV is mentioned less often.\n\nThis piece is not about the sexual harassment allegations against Bill O'Reilly or Fox's role in putting women in overly sexual roles on air - that's the dark side of Roger Ailes' knack for producing seductive TV.\n\nWhen I praise Fox's visuals, I'm thinking of the graphics, the maps, the movement, the speed with which they get video up on air and the relentless determination to make sure the screen didn't look dull, even for a single moment.\n\nThe network was revolutionary. Yes, Fox could be lampooned for being too whiz-bang, but don't fool yourself, every other TV producer looked at what Mr Ailes was doing back in the 1990s and they were awestruck. They quickly followed suit as far as their own budgets allowed. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.\n\nNow Fox faces a different challenge, how to respond to the man in the White House, and the answer to that lies in the broader determination of what this presidency is really about.\n\nDonald Trump was elected to be a champion of the \"forgotten men and women\" of America. That was his populist promise. He would revive their economic fortunes and return power to the people.\n\nTo do so, he promised to be tough on the countries that had stolen those jobs - primarily China. It was a \"currency manipulator\", he railed, which \"raped\" America, didn't play fair and should be slapped with 40% tariffs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five Trump changes you may have missed\n\nIn the old steel mill towns of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and even Wisconsin, they nodded with relief. Finally here was someone who said what they had been thinking for years. It was time to get bearish on Beijing. That's a pretty good example of Trumpism.\n\nCandidate Trump ignored the wise old foreign policy hands who said that this strategy was unrealistic and that it would alienate China's co-operation on other issues, namely North Korea. With the arch-populist Steve Bannon whispering in his ear, Mr Trump continued to say what the people wanted to hear, he promised not to be afraid of anyone, not to compromise on their beliefs and always to put America first. The slogans won him the White House.\n\nThe Trump House in the former mining and steel town of Youngstown, Pennsylvania\n\nBut once he actually got into the Oval Office and sat behind that historic desk, two things happened to undermine that commitment. First, Mr Trump realised that the world was a lot more complicated than he'd taken time as a candidate to learn. The old hands were right, he did need China to help deal with Kim Jong-un and he wouldn't get that help if he slapped them with tariffs or started a currency war. Second, his approval ratings fell, dramatically.\n\nAlthough Mr Trump has seen a recent uptick in his poll numbers in the past couple of weeks, he is still at historic lows. This was embarrassing to a man who routinely spent a lot of time in his campaign speeches touting his impressive poll numbers. It was also embarrassing to his family.\n\nThe Trumps have built their brand on success. Failure was not a popular option in the family. Inside the White House, the president's daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared, realise that for Mr Trump to succeed, Trumpism may have to go. Or at least, be substantially sidelined. The two liberal, cosmopolitan New York Democrats had never been particularly wedded to the hellfire-and-brimstone vision of America that Steve Bannon described in the lines of Mr Trump's inaugural address. Neither of them are natural working-class populists.\n\nPosters outside the Fox News headquarters in New York City\n\nAs they both formally expanded their roles and their presence in their father's administration, a shift occurred away from protecting the ideology to protecting the man. The risk for Mr Trump is that these policy shifts - on China, the Export Import bank, the currency, Nato - risk disappointing his base.\n\nThe latest polls show Mr Trump scoring very badly on questions like \"shares my values\" or \"cares about people like me\". Many of these people really want Mr Trump to deliver on his campaign promises, not abandon them.\n\nThis is where Fox News comes in. Fox did well out of the Trump campaign. It was firmly in the president's camp and his frequent interviews with the network helped drive ratings which helped drive ad revenue. Throughout the Obama years, Fox was the insurgent network of opposition. Now it needs a new role.\n\nIt can be a mouthpiece of the Trump administration (though supporting the government doesn't make for the most gripping cable TV.) Or Fox can stick to its conservative roots and champion Trumpism, even when the man himself does not.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritish Olympic high jump silver medallist Germaine Mason has died aged 34 after a motorcycle crash in Jamaica.\n\nThe Jamaica-born athlete, who switched to represent Great Britain in 2006, won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.\n\nHe was a friend of sprinter Usain Bolt, who was on the scene soon after the crash at 04:20 local time on Thursday.\n\n\"Usain Bolt was part of the group that came by and he was very, very emotional, and still is,\" said Senior Superintendent Calvin Allen.\n\nSenior Supt Allen, commanding officer of the Jamaican police traffic and highway division, told the BBC: \"I understand they are very close friends.\"\n\nHe was unable to say whether Mason had been in Bolt's company that evening, or if the eight-time Olympic champion was in a following vehicle.\n\nMason won Britain's first athletics medal of the Beijing Games, finishing second behind Russian Andrey Silnov.\n\nBritish Olympic champions Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Denise Lewis and Linford Christie have all paid tribute, with Christie saying he would never be forgotten.\n\nSenior Supt Allen said the former high jumper had been travelling from the direction of the airport towards Kingston when the accident happened.\n\n\"Our information suggests he lost control of the motorcycle and fell to the ground and received serious injuries, mainly to his face, head and upper body,\" he said.\n\n\"The evidence suggests he was not wearing a protective helmet.\n\n\"It is a very mournful time in Jamaica. The entire country grieves for this standout athlete. It is very, very sad. We want to express our deepest condolences at the untimely death.\"\n\nJamaica prime minister Andrew Holness tweeted: \"Our sincere condolences to the entire sporting fraternity.\"\n\nMason claimed world indoor bronze for Jamaica in 2003 and recovered after suffering a career-threatening knee injury the following year.\n\nHe was eligible to represent Britain because his father David was born in London, and he switched allegiance two years before the Beijing Games.\n\nOn his Olympic debut, he managed 2.34m at his first attempt, with favourite Silnov the only athlete to clear 2.36m.\n\nBritish Athletics senior high jump coach Fuzz Caan, who worked closely with Mason at the time of his Olympic success, called him an \"outstanding athlete and a truly lovely man\".\n\n\"He had a wry sense of humour and was a pleasure to be around. He was a great ambassador of British high jumping. It is an honour for us to have him as part of our sporting history,\" he said.\n\nUK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos said staff were saddened to hear of Mason's death.\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies go to Germaine's friends, family and the athletics community at this difficult time,\" he said.\n\n'Definitely one of the jokers of the pack'\n\nRetired sprinter Jeanette Kwakye, who was part of the GB athletics team in Beijing along with Mason, said he was \"really, really fun, really, really cool and nice to be around\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Kwakye added: \"The one word that I would describe Germaine was fun.\n\n\"He was somebody that was so loveable, really caring and always fun.\"\n\nShe added: \"You never really saw Germaine with a sad look on his face. In fact, I think the picture that the media are using a lot is where he's kind of putting his hand to his ear, and I can tell you that was when he was jumping over the high jump bar in Beijing and getting the crowd to make loads and loads of noise.\n\n\"He wanted to make sure he could hear them, so he's definitely one of the jokers of the pack.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods faces a further six months on the sidelines after having another operation to try and cure pain in his back and leg.\n\nThe American 14-time major winner has had surgery three times in 19 months.\n\n\"I look forward to living without the pain I have been battling so long and to getting back to a normal life, playing with my kids and competing in professional golf,\" said Woods, 41.\n\nWoods is likely to miss this summer's US Open, Open Championship and US PGA.\n\n\"The surgery went well, and I'm optimistic this will relieve my back spasms and pain,\" said Woods, who will rest for several weeks before beginning his rehabilitation.\n\nThe former world number one returned to action in December 2016 after 15 months out following two back operations.\n\nHowever, he was forced to withdraw before the second round of February's Dubai Desert Classic after a back spasm.\n\nAnd he was unable to take part in this month's Masters, an event in which the four-time champion has only competed once since 2014.\n\nWoods won the last of his 14 major titles at the US Open in June 2008.\n\nA statement on his website said that patients \"typically return to full activity after six months\".\n\nThis is yet another massive blow to Tiger Woods' hopes of resurrecting his career. It is another lost season, another lengthy spell of rehab and another period in which the leading players stretch further clear of the former world number one.\n\nHis main objective is merely a pain-free life in which he is able to accomplish the domestic and family lifestyle most of us take for granted. Returning to the heights of the top of the sporting world seems further away than ever.\n\nIt feels as though he is moving ever closer to a painfully anti-climactic end to his career.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton goalkeeper David Stockdale scored two freakish own goals as the Seagulls lost at Norwich to miss out on securing the Championship title.\n\nBoth came from Alex Pritchard shots, the first smashing the bar and rebounding in off Stockdale's back.\n\nAlbion's Jamie Murphy had a penalty appeal waved away before Pritchard curled against the post, with the ball again hitting Stockdale and going in.\n\nThe Seagulls, who sealed promotion on Monday, were well short of their best.\n• None Relive Norwich's victory over Brighton as it happened\n\nChris Hughton's Brighton needed a win to become champions and came closest to scoring when Glenn Murray saw his header cleared off the line by Jonny Howson.\n\nThe ineffective Anthony Knockaert, recently named as the Championship's player of the year, was replaced just after the hour mark, though his side remain seven points clear of Newcastle, who have three games to play.\n\nEighth-placed Norwich, who cannot make the play-offs, remarkably did not register a single shot on target despite winning comfortably.\n\nThe Canaries could have gone ahead early on but Nelson Oliveira could not quite reach Howson's dangerous cross.\n\nBrighton must now wait until at least Monday to clinch the title, as Newcastle must avoid defeat against Preston to take the race into the penultimate round of fixtures.\n\n\"A few weeks ago we hadn't beaten a side above us all season - now we have beaten three of them and that is very pleasing.\n\n\"I thought we deserved to win, even though I have just been told that we didn't have a single shot on target, unless you count the ones against the woodwork.\n\n\"I thought we controlled the game for most of the time. I thought we passed the ball really well, especially in the first half, and also defended well, especially when they were putting balls into our box.\"\n\nBrighton & Hove Albion manager Chris Hughton on the two own goals:\n\n\"That's not something I have ever seen before. It happens to keepers from time to time, but not usually twice in one game.\n\n\"Obviously there is no blame attached to David at all - he was just trying to make the saves and the ball just came back off him.\n\n\"What I would say is that we were punished for allowing the player to get his shot away by not closing him down on the edge of the box.\n\n\"Norwich have got a lot of quality in their side and when that happens you are asking for trouble.\"\n• None Offside, Norwich City. Ryan Bennett tries a through ball, but Nélson Oliveira is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March tries a through ball, but Chuba Akpom is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Bruno.\n• None Substitution, Norwich City. Wes Hoolahan replaces Josh Murphy because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bruno.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Steven Naismith.\n• None Attempt saved. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) 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\nMarcus Rashford's extra-time goal sent Manchester United into the Europa League semi-final at the expense of Anderlecht on a night of tension at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Europa League has acquired huge significance for United and manager Jose Mourinho as it offers a potential route into the Champions League, away from the battle for top-four places in the Premier League - making this victory crucial.\n\nUnited took the lead on the night and in the tie when Henrikh Mkhitaryan drilled in a low finish in the 10th minute but Anderlecht restored parity when Sofiane Hanni scrambled home an equaliser after 32 minutes.\n\nMourinho's side were their own worst enemies with a shocking display of finishing as they missed chance after chance, their cause also undermined by injuries to defender Marcos Rojo in the first half and a serious-looking knee injury to top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the end of normal time.\n\nUnited were facing the prospect of a penalty shootout but Rashford, a scorer against Chelsea at the weekend, made the decisive contribution after 107 minutes with a brilliant turn and finish from Marouane Fellaini's knockdown.\n\nManchester United flirted with an exit from the Europa League here - and if they had gone out they would only have had themselves to blame.\n\nAs on so many occasions this season, United created multiple chances only to waste the opportunities and leave themselves hostages to fortune and the threatening counter-attacks of Anderlecht.\n\nRashford, Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba were all guilty of a succession of bad misses as the flaw that has undermined United all season reared its ugly head once more and kept Anderlecht in contention right until the final whistle in extra time.\n\nOn this occasion, at least, United rescued themselves with Rashford's goal but Mourinho will know his side must discover the killer touch from somewhere if they are to secure the Champions League place that must be the minimum requirement from this season.\n\nUnited can celebrate another step towards winning the Europa League and the Champions League place that comes with it - but this may yet prove to be expensive night for Mourinho as the season reaches its climax.\n\nThe biggest concern will surround Ibrahimovic, whose knee looked to give way as he challenged for a high ball in the final moments of normal time. He managed to get to his feet and wave away the waiting stretcher but was helped off as he limped down the tunnel at the Stretford End.\n\nIbrahimovic had actually had a nightmare before his injury but his influence this season has been huge and United will anxiously await the medical update.\n\nRashford has delivered against Chelsea and here against Anderlecht, offering the pace and movement which the 35-year-old Swede cannot, but the loss of Ibrahimovic would still be a setback of major significance after his 28 goals this season.\n\nAnd there will be almost equal concern about the injury to Rojo that saw the central defender taken off on a stretcher in the first half. He had received lengthy treatment previously before collapsing in a second challenge. United are already without injured central defenders Phil Jones and Chris Smalling, so they can ill-afford to lose Rojo.\n\nThis was a vital victory for Manchester United - but it may yet be victory at a heavy price.\n\nMourinho still on course\n\nWhen Mourinho was appointed United manager, it was with the express intention of bringing more trophies to Old Trafford - but also putting the club back in the Champions League.\n\nMourinho may be taking the scenic route and learning to love a competition he derided for so long, but with the fight for the top four in the Premier League so tight and with United facing tough trips to Manchester City and Arsenal in the run-in, the Europa League provides a welcome safety net.\n\nThe poor relation of European football's competitions has suddenly acquired crucial status at Old Trafford, as the celebrations at the conclusion of extra time proved.\n\nMkhitaryan among the goals again. The stats\n• None Jose Mourinho has won his past nine European home games as manager, including all six with Man Utd this season.\n• None Man Utd are unbeaten in their past 26 games in all competitions at Old Trafford (W17 D9); their longest unbeaten run since October 2011 (37 games).\n• None Anderlecht have never won in 18 previous away games against English sides (D2 L16), conceding in every contest.\n• None Henrikh Mkhitaryan has scored in five of his past six Europa League games.\n• None Mkhitaryan has scored in three successive appearances (all comps) for Man Utd for the second time this season.\n• None Only Genk (25) and Roma (24) have scored more goals in the Europa League this season than Anderlecht (23).\n\nManchester United switch their focus back to the Premier League as they travel to Burnley on Sunday (14:15 BST) before travelling to Manchester City on 27 April (20:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Kara (RSC Anderlecht) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ivan Obradovic.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Henrikh Mkhitaryan tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Uros Spajic (RSC Anderlecht) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.\n• None Attempt saved. Frank Acheampong (RSC Anderlecht) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kara with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 2, RSC Anderlecht 1. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marouane Fellaini with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Someday, what seems like Syria's forever war will end. Then the focus will shift to rebuilding a country shredded and scarred by conflict. A husband and wife, both architects, who witnessed their city's devastation are already thinking about how to restore it.\n\n\"It's not easy to rise from the ruins, it's not easy,\" reflects Marwa al-Sabouni.\n\nWe're standing in the cool dark depths of a hammam - a public bath dating back to Roman times in the old quarter of Homs. Its thick stone walls are now rough blotches of black and brown, dappled by shafts of light streaming through holes in a domed ceiling designed to draw light into this ancient warren.\n\nThe history within these walls is even darker.\n\n\"This was a major battleground,\" Sabouni explains as we walk through the hammam's main chamber, with what remains of a water fountain at its centre.\n\nThe debris of recent battles has been slowly cleared since two years of fierce clashes in the Old City area ended in 2014 when the government took back what had been a rebel-held enclave of Syria's third city.\n\n\"So many of us didn't even know this beautiful hammam, and so many other parts of our heritage, existed before the war,\" Sabouni says.\n\n\"It was neglected and then destroyed before we had to chance to know it.\"\n\nSabouni has taken me on a walk to illustrate some of the main ideas in her acclaimed book, The Battle for Home. An evocative memoir of her family's experience of living through a punishing war in their city, it's also an architect's vision of how to rebuild Syria to help mend its wounds and avoid errors of the past.\n\nOne of her biggest allies is fellow architect Ghassan Jansiz - who happens to be her husband. Their ideas about architecture brought them together as students.\n\nThey remained with their two young children in a city which saw some of the first protests and the most vicious fighting of the war.\n\nThis 2,000-year-old hammam is our first stop on Sabouni's itinerary as we set out to explore the souk, a sprawling market that was once the vibrant heart of the Old City.\n\nIts labyrinth of alleyways is still largely deserted with most shops shuttered, or shattered by the gunfire and explosions.\n\nSyria's destructive conflict has been fuelled by many faultlines. Sabouni says architecture is one of them.\n\n\"Of course, I'm not saying that architecture is the only reason for the war, but in a very real way it accelerated and perpetuated the conflict,\" she explains.\n\nHer book chronicles the rise, over the past century, of soulless tower blocks and urban sprawls that effectively created sectarian ghettos and eroded shared public spaces which had long shaped Syrian society. Sabouni sees the built environment as a crucible for the frictions that led to civil war.\n\nA meander through Homs's old market is also a journey further back in time, through thousands of years of Syrian history and successive empires that left their mark. In this rich story, Sabouni finds lessons for a more inspired and inclusive way of living.\n\n\"Certain architectural elements from different eras are all incorporated within the same structures and they don't cancel each other out,\" she explains as she leads me to what she calls a \"hidden house.\"\n\nA long dimly lit corridor leads into an exquisite courtyard with leafy fruit trees dotted with oranges. A sudden burst of bright colour surprises, as a small symbol of renewal.\n\n\"You see, this is what I talk about in the book,\" Sabouni exclaims.\n\n\"We had something very beautiful, very ancient and very harmonious interwoven in our lives, in our daily lives,\" she says, making her point that Syria's precious world heritage lies not only in famed sites such as the Roman ruins of Palmyra, but in its everyday social fabric.\n\n\"We vandalised a lot of it, and we mistreated a lot of it, so maybe we have the chance to start over now.\"\n\nIn another corner of the market, Jansiz shows me another hammam dating from the days of the Ottoman empire.\n\nIts vaulted ceilings with intricate patterns of holes creates a dance of circles of light on the stone walls and floor.\n\nBut it's a pattern of light caused by damage rather than design which provides a small example of how to build from the ruins. The market's metal roofs - punctured by bullets and shrapnel - inspired Jansiz's work on the first rebuilding project in the Old City funded by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).\n\nOn the day we visit, the project is a hive of activity. Workmen in blue overalls are putting the finishing touches on the new patterned screen now arching over the alleyway at one of the market's main entrances.\n\n\"Rebuilding is not just about stones,\" explains Jansiz, who was the lead architect on the first phase of the project.\n\n\"This market wasn't just a place to sell and buy stuff. It was also a social hub where people from all social and religious groups would spend time with each other.\"\n\nBoth Jansiz and Sabouni underline how the damage to Syria's social fabric is far deeper even than the endless ruins in pulverised neighbourhoods.\n\n\"All the workers you see around you are from Homs,\" Jansiz adds. \"They understand this city and understand its pain.\"\n\nThe long arcades of shuttered shops bear silent testimony to this aching sense of loss. Only about 30 out of nearly 5,000 have reopened.\n\nSome shopkeepers can't afford to rebuild, or await electricity and other services. Some sided with the rebels and were forced to flee, and are now unable or unwilling to return.\n\nWith still no end in sight to this war, major Western donors still resist putting money for reconstruction into areas now back in government hands.\n\n\"So far we're only focusing on limited rebuilding to provide some support and a bit of hope,\" UNDP Country Director Samuel Rizk tells me.\n\nBut the EU recently began to carefully raise the prospect of reconstruction funds, if and when a hesitant process of political talks with the opposition makes significant progress.\n\nAnd a Chinese delegation was in Damascus this week to discuss future investments in industries and infrastructure.\n\nThere are already hints of conflicts to come over contracts and concepts for a post-war Syria.\n\nEven the first phase of this small project to rebuild a roof in the Old City ended up being clouded by disagreements.\n\nSabouni believes Syrians must begin to imagine a different future.\n\n\"It may sound so sophisticated or a luxury to talk about architecture,\" she says. \"But if we don't think about it, I think we will miss the chance to rebuild it in the right way.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Website: Live streaming and text commentary service will be available on both Saturday and Sunday on the BBC Sport website\n\nIt's 24 years since Great Britain's women last contested a Fed Cup World Group tie, although that is very recent history to the residents of the Black Sea resort they find themselves in this weekend.\n\nConstanta is the oldest continually inhabited city in Romania. The sun will soon be beating down on the thousands of holidaymakers who flock here every summer, although these early British tourists have been treated to rain, strong winds, single digit temperatures - and even the occasional flurry of snow.\n\nThe outdoor clay court looked very sorry for itself on Thursday and Friday, as the players were forced under cover.\n\nFor the third time in six years, Britain are a play-off win away from the World Group. They were well beaten in Sweden in 2012, and then again in Argentina in 2013, and have once again travelled as underdogs.\n\nBut they have at least earned themselves the opportunity after successfully negotiating a week of Euro Africa Zone qualifying matches in the Estonian capital Tallinn in February. It is a week which does little for the exposure of the Fed Cup and ends most countries' involvement for the year before the daffodils have come into bloom.\n\n\"I think it's damaged the competition if I'm perfectly honest,\" GB's captain Anne Keothavong said told BBC Sport in Constanta.\n\n\"There's no momentum if you look at where we have been in recent years. We've been in a group where there have been 15 other nations and only two of those nations go through for a chance to even play for a World Group position.\n\n\"It's been notoriously tough and one we have struggled with, and even this year - with a top-10 player - we only just managed to do that in a deciding doubles match.\"\n\nJohanna Konta, partnered by Heather Watson, lost the first set and twice had to recover from a break of serve down in the decider to win that match with Croatia and set up this play-off tie.\n\nRomania boast a strong line-up. Simona Halep, who will open the tie against Watson at 10:00 BST on Saturday, can be horribly inconsistent but she is the world number five, the French Open runner-up of 2014, and a major star in her home city of Constanta.\n\nEvery other member of their team is a top-100 singles player, while Britain - after Watson's recent fall in the rankings - has just the one.\n\nBut that 'one' is some player.\n\nKonta is the world number seven and third in the annual points race after her victory in the Miami Open earlier this month. Halep finds herself at 44th in the same list and has lost both her matches to Konta, although this will be a first meeting on clay, which is very much the Romanian's favourite surface.\n\nHaving a player of that ability - who could well play two singles as well as the doubles this weekend - opens up exciting possibilities for the team. The 11 points Andy Murray contributed as Britain won the Davis Cup in 2015 may never be matched by another British player, but Keothavong recognises the contribution made by her number one.\n\n\"She brings a lot to the team,\" the captain agrees.\n\n\"Just the way she is, the way she operates and the level she demands from everyone is great, and hopefully it filters down to the other players and inspires the others to really step up.\"\n\nAnd Fed Cup can be a two way process. Konta described the week in Estonia as \"one of the most adrenalin driven weeks I've experienced in a while.\"\n\n\"I felt I took away a lot of really positive emotion, and a lot of new experiences,\" she continued.\n\n\"The adrenalin and the nerves you get during Fed Cup are unlike others you experience during the season, and I really really enjoyed that.\"\n\nBut will Konta - who plays world number 62 Sorana Cirstea in Saturday's singles after Romania made a late change from Irina-Camelia Begu - get to feel that on a regular basis, and will the competition become as relevant to British audiences as the Davis Cup has been in recent years?\n\nIf Britain lose this weekend, they will return to the 16-team Euro Africa Zone shoot-out in February 2018, but if they win they could start next year as one of the 16 teams which will contest the trophy.\n\nAs things stand, the winners will be promoted to World Group 2, but the International Tennis Federation wants to merge the two existing World Groups to form an elite 16 team top tier to mirror the Davis Cup.\n\nThe semi-finals and final would be played in one city, in one week, at the end of the season - but all of this is subject to the approval of the ITF's member nations at August's AGM in Ho Chi Minh City.\n\nOne other incentive this weekend is the possibility of a home tie next February. Since Monique Javer, Clare Wood and Amanda Grunfeld dispatched Turkey in Nottingham in May 1993, Britain have played every single Fed Cup tie on the road.\n\nArgentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Malta, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have many charms. But next year, there really would be no place like home.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nEllie Downie has become the first British gymnast to win all-around gold at a major international championship - with victory at the European Championships.\n\nThe 17-year-old was in second place going into the final apparatus but beat Hungary's Zsofia Kovacs to the title.\n\nBriton James Hall won all-around bronze in his first major senior competition.\n\nThe 21-year-old scored 84.664 to finish behind gold medallist Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine, and Russia's Arthur Dalaloyan.\n\n\"I'm speechless, so happy. It's just a massive thing and I don't think I'll realise how big for a while,\" Downie told BBC Sport.\n\n\"That was probably one of the hardest competitions I've done and when the score came through I was speechless.\"\n\nGB's Joe Fraser, 18, came fifth in his first senior year, scoring 82.982, while 16-year-old Alice Kinsella came 10th in the all-round event.\n\n\"To come to a European Championships, do my best gymnastics and come away third, I can't get my head around it,\" Hall said.\n\nHall has a world team silver medal to his name and was at the Olympic Games in Rio last summer.\n\nHowever, he was reserve in both competitions and did not compete.\n\nFind out how to get into gymnastics with our special guide.\n\n\"My first senior major and I've shown the world what I'm made of. I'm so happy. I can't believe it,\" he said.\n\nThe Kent gymnast qualified third best and improved his overall score in the final, with increased apparatus scores on floor, pommel, rings and parallel bars.\n\n\"In the training gym I was thinking 'just go through the same as qualifying and nothing is impossible',\" he said.\n\n\"I started hitting floor, hitting pommel, did my best rings and I thought nothing could stop me after that.\"", "England manager Gareth Southgate says he is \"stunned\" by the death of former team-mate Ugo Ehiogu.\n\nFormer England defender Ehiogu died at the age of 44 on Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest the previous day.\n\nSouthgate and Ehiogu formed a centre-back pairing for almost 10 years at Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, winning the League Cup together at both clubs.\n\n\"He was a gentle giant away from football, he was a colossus on the pitch,\" Southgate said.\n\nTottenham's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea on Saturday (17:15 BST) will see both teams wearing black armbands and a minute's applause before kick-off, with Villa's derby against Birmingham following suit on Sunday.\n\nEhiogu, who was Tottenham's Under-23s coach, was taken to hospital on Thursday after collapsing at the club's training ground, but a statement said he had died in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nCapped four times by England, Ehiogu made over 200 appearances for Villa between 1991 and 2000 and then spent seven years at Boro. The defender also played for West Brom, Leeds, Rangers and Sheffield United, before retiring in 2009.\n\n\"I'm stunned and deeply saddened by Ugo's passing and clearly my initial thoughts are with his wife Gemma, his children and his family.\n\n\"I know that football will be grieving because he was so highly respected by everybody he worked with and losing him at such a young age is difficult to come to terms with.\n\n\"Most importantly, he was a gentleman and he is one of those characters that people would find it difficult to have anything bad to say about him.\n\n\"I probably played more games with Ugo than anybody else in my career and while in many ways he was a gentle giant away from football, he was a colossus on the pitch. It felt like a true partnership with Ugo because we were prepared to put our bodies on the line for each other.\n\n\"We shared highs, lows and won a couple of trophies together with Villa and Boro and it's those memories that I will always cherish when I think of Ugo.\n\n\"He was one of the most professional people I played with in terms of how he applied himself to his job and it was great to see him progressing through the coaching pathway with that thirst for learning.\n\n\"I've spoken to several of our former team-mates today and there's just a sense of disbelief that we're having these conversations.\n\n\"Ugo was a credit to football, a credit to his family and he will be missed by everybody who was lucky enough to know him.\"", "Call the Midwife's Charlotte Ritchie is part of the cast for The Philanthropist\n\nThe Oscar-winning writer of West End play The Philanthropist contemplated rewriting his 1970 comedy in the wake of last month's Westminster attack.\n\nChristopher Hampton was concerned the play's references to a fictional attack on Parliament would be in poor taste.\n\nHe said: \"I said to Simon Callow, quite seriously, maybe we should change it.\"\n\nYet Callow, who directed the revival at London's Trafalgar Studios, said it was \"important\" the play be staged as originally seen.\n\nChristopher Hampton won an Oscar for the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons\n\n\"Christopher was perfectly willing to tone it down,\" said the actor and director after the play's opening night on Thursday.\n\n\"But I think it's very important there's this big shock in the play, that the characters then completely dismiss.\"\n\nLily Cole is also in the play...\n\n... along with Matt Berry and Simon Bird\n\nSet in Oxford in the early 1970s, The Philanthropist depicts a group of self-absorbed academics who have little interest in the wider world.\n\nThe play begins with news that a man armed with a machine-gun has killed the prime minister inside the House of Commons, along with a number of his front bench colleagues.\n\n\"The play is about how insulated and cocooned you can be in certain parts of life,\" said Hampton, who won an Academy Award for writing 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.\n\n\"Therefore, I wanted to have bizarre things going on in the outside world.\"\n\nSimon Bird, who plays lead character Philip, said it had been \"shocking and jarring\" for a real-life attack to occur \"just down the road\" from the play's West End home.\n\n\"The content of the play is bizarrely topical,\" said the star of Channel 4 sitcoms The Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner.\n\n\"It takes place in the backdrop of terrorist attacks and political turmoil, which makes it feel like it was written yesterday.\"\n\nFour pedestrians were killed last month after Khalid Masood drove his car along the pavement on Westminster Bridge.\n\nHe then entered the grounds of the Palace of Westminster and fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead.\n\nNicki Minaj's video was partly shot on the south side of the River Thames looking back at Westminster Bridge\n\nPop star Nicki Minaj faced criticism on social media this week for including shots of Westminster Bridge and the Palace of Westminster in the video for her song No Frauds.\n\nThe Trafalgar Studios, formerly known as the Whitehall Theatre, are located a short distance away from where the events of 22 March took place.\n\nLast seen in London in 2005, The Philanthropist has traditionally been staged with actors considerably older than the characters they are playing.\n\nThe late Alec McCowen played Philip in the original Royal Court production, while Matthew Broderick took the role when it was revived on Broadway in 2009.\n\n\"The characters are between 25 and 33, yet in the past they've always cast very skilled actors in their 40s,\" said Hampton.\n\n\"This production is different because the cast are the correct age. In a curious way, it feels much more like the play I wrote.\"\n\nBird's co-stars include Matt Berry from Channel 4's Toast of London, model turned actress Lily Cole and Call the Midwife cast member Charlotte Ritchie.\n\nIt was recently revealed that Call the Midwife is to have its first regular black character - a West Indian nurse whom Ritchie predicted would be \"a very good addition to the cast.\"\n\nThe Philanthropist runs at the Trafalgar Studios until 22 July.\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• None First black nurse for Call the Midwife\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ugo Ehiogu, who has died at the age of 44 after suffering a cardiac arrest, was not just a highly accomplished and successful defender who was forging a growing reputation as a coach - he was a hugely popular figure within the game.\n\nThe reaction to his death after collapsing at Tottenham's training centre, the club where he was an under-23s coach, is a reflection of the esteem in which Ehiogu was held.\n\nEhiogu was a powerful, imposing figure as a player and a well-rounded character away from the game, making a career in the music business while also shaping the future of the next generation at Spurs.\n\nHe was a player who should have won many more than his four England caps - but still enjoyed a fine career and seemed destined for more success in the next stage of his development as an important member of the Spurs backroom team before his death.\n\nRon Atkinson was one of Ehiogu's biggest champions and can regard the £40,000 it took to take the teenager from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa in August 1991 as one of his most astute moves in the market.\n\nEhiogu was raw but the potential was there and even through some uneasy early moments in his career, Atkinson dismissed the doubters and never wavered in his belief that the Homerton-born powerhouse - a product of the Senrab Football Club that could count the likes of John Terry, Sol Campbell and Jermain Defoe among its former players - would be a success.\n\nAnd his judgement, both in making the bargain deal and mapping out Ehiogu's future, was accurate.\n\nCurrent Villa manager Steve Bruce, who played against Ehiogu for Manchester United, said: \"Big Ron bought him and what a bargain. He was a great player.\"\n\nAtkinson recalled \"the nervous 18-year-old\" who arrived but who then became an integral component of a fine era at Villa Park.\n\nHe formed one half of a formidable central defensive partnership with Paul McGrath, whose brilliance and experience aided his development, and also played in the Villa rearguard alongside England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThe trio were part of the Villa team that won the League Cup at Wembley in March 1996 with a 3-0 victory over Leeds United, cementing his status with the Holte End, who regarded him as a reassuring and inspirational presence in the side throughout more than 200 appearances.\n\nAndy Townsend, who played in that League Cup-winning side, says: \"Like all younger players it wasn't easy for him at the start of his Villa career - but in the end you saw that nobody was going to get the better of him.\n\n\"He was a commanding and formidable in the air, a player that every team would like to have at the back.\"\n\nEhiogu was alongside Southgate when Villa lost the 2000 FA Cup final - the last played under Wembley's Twin Towers - 1-0 to Chelsea and the pair were to link up once again at Middlesbrough.\n\nThat showpiece was Ehiogu's last fling with Villa as he soon moved on to fresh pastures and a glorious, unexpected new chapter in his career.\n\nMiddlesbrough signed many outstanding players during Bryan Robson's reign as manager - and Ehiogu can take his place near the top of the list following his move from Villa to Teesside for a then club record fee of £8m in October 2000.\n\nBoro chairman Steve Gibson was prepared to bankroll the acquisition of high-profile, high-quality signings and Ehiogu fell perfectly into that category as the expenditure was rewarded with performances that ensured he will always be fondly remembered at the Riverside.\n\nHe did start to suffer with the knee problems that would undermine the latter days of his career but it was at Boro where his friendship with Southgate continued to blossom, first as team-mates when the latter made the same journey from Villa as Steve McClaren's first signing as manager in July 2001, and then when Southgate took over as manager.\n\nThe old defensive firm was soon back in action and providing the platform of solidity, experience and ability that culminated in both playing key roles as Boro won their first major trophy in 128 years with a 2-1 in over Bolton Wanderers at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in the 2004 Carling Cup final.\n\nIt was a Boro side laced with quality players, such as Gaizka Mendieta and Juninho. Mark Schwarzer was their outstanding keeper and he remembers the cool colleague who exuded authority, saying: \"He was always calm and reassuring. He was not too vocal but spoke when he needed to speak. He was a completely dedicated footballer.\"\n\nBoro entered the uncharted waters of European glory to reach the 2006 Uefa Cup final, but it was to provide a signal that Ehiogu's time at his peak was drawing to a close. They were thrashed 4-0 by Sevilla in Eindhoven and he was only an unused substitute.\n\nAs at Villa, Ehiogu will be associated with success at Boro and chairman Gibson delivered a warm tribute when he said: \"Ugo was one of the heroes at Cardiff when the club won its only ever major trophy, Ugo and Gareth Southgate were the rock on which Steve McClaren brought the club the best period in its history.\n\n\"He wasn't just a good footballer. He was a great man.\"\n\nEhiogu won only four England caps, a victim of injuries and the sheer quality of competition from the likes of John Terry, Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell - but he still played his part in a piece of history.\n\nHe was named as a substitute by Sven-Goran Eriksson - the side's first foreign manager - for his first game in charge against Spain at Villa Park on 28 February 2001, scoring after coming on.\n\nEhiogu also gave away a penalty but keeper Nigel Martyn saved Javi Moreno's spot-kick.\n\nEhiogu's struggle with knee problems meant his career came to a low-key close with loan spells at Leeds United, Rangers and Sheffield United, retiring in August 2009 after a trial with MK Dons.\n\nHe was still not prepared to go quietly, however, and revived memories of his glory days with a goal that ensured he will be remembered forever at Ibrox, a spectacular overhead kick that gave Rangers a 1-0 derby win against Celtic in March 2007.\n\nIt was voted 'goal of the season' by Rangers fans and the surprised goalscorer smiled as he said: \"I couldn't have written a better script. It was probably my best goal ever. A surreal moment.\"\n\nOnce again, the towering defender had made his presence and personality felt when it mattered.\n\nAs he moved into coaching at Spurs, initially working at the Premier League club's academy under Chris Ramsey and Tim Sherwood, Ehiogu's love of music started to play a greater role in his life.\n\nThe man who admitted he \"used to get psyched up to a bit of Bon Jovi before games\" helped set up Dirty Hit, a record label with the likes of The 1975, Ben Khan, Superfood and Fossil Collective on its books.\n\nIt was the mark of a personality who enjoyed life and pursued wider interests outside football. He said: \"My love of football is massive but my love of music is amazing. You have people eating out of your hands when you're singing.\"\n\nEhiogu was a musical mentor as well as a wise counsel and guide to the young players at Spurs.\n\nHe was a distinguished man as a player and coach in a career carried out with professionalism, dignity, respect and success.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu has died at the age of 44 after suffering a cardiac arrest at Tottenham's training centre on Thursday.\n\nA Spurs statement said Ehiogu died in hospital in the early hours of Friday.\n\nEhiogu, who was Spurs' Under-23s coach, was capped four times by England.\n\n\"Words cannot express the shock and sadness that we all feel at the club,\" said Tottenham's head of coaching and development John McDermott.\n\nEhiogu made over 200 appearances for Aston Villa between 1991 and 2000 and then spent seven years at Middlesbrough.\n\nHe won the League Cup with Villa in 1994 and 1996, and also with Boro in 2004.\n\nThe centre-back also played for West Brom, Leeds, Rangers and Sheffield United, before retiring in 2009. He began coaching at Tottenham in 2014.\n\nEhiogu was a co-founder of music label Dirty Hit, which has British indie band The 1975 on its books.\n\nHe married his wife, Gemma, in 2005. He had two children - son Obi Jackson and daughter Jodie.\n\nVilla will hold a minute's applause before their Championship match against Birmingham City on Sunday, with both sets of players to wear black armbands.\n\nThe same tribute will be paid before Spurs' FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, Spurs' reserve team game at Manchester United on Monday has been postponed.\n\nAnd all of the club's weekend academy matches have also been called off.\n\n\"I can't fathom he's no longer here,\" former Middlesbrough goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer, who won the League Cup with Ehiogu, told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nHe added: \"He was a tremendous person, a tremendous character, a dedicated footballer and dedicated to his family. He was a great guy to be around, so full of life and so enthusiastic.\n\n\"As a centre-back, I rate him right up there. He suffered from injuries throughout his career, but with more consistency he could have added to his England caps.\n\n\"He was very much a family man and it's such a shame to leave such a young family behind.\"\n\nFormer Aston Villa team-mate Andy Townsend told BBC Radio 5 live: \"He was a defender every team would like to have at the back. It's a life that is so tragically cut short and so sad.\n\n\"He was on the training field with the academy boys and would have stayed active. I saw him recently and he was a picture of health, which is why this come as such a huge shock.\"\n\n'One of our heroes'\n\nMiddlesbrough bought Ehiogu for a then club record fee of £8m in 2000 and he became a mainstay of the defence alongside Gareth Southgate as Steve McClaren's side won the League Cup.\n\n\"Ugo was one of our heroes at Cardiff when the club won its only ever major trophy,\" said Boro chairman Steve Gibson.\n\n\"Ugo and Gareth Southgate were the rock on which Steve McClaren brought the club its best period in its history. He wasn't just a good footballer, he was a great man.\"\n\nFormer Middlesbrough boss Bryan Robson, who signed Ehiogu, added: \"He was such a good, strong defender and a fitness fanatic, which is why it becomes a real shock.\n\n\"I know he was a good lad and a team man who would chat to everybody, so I always thought he could be a coach because he was good at dealing with young lads.\"\n\nAston Villa manager Steve Bruce, who played for Manchester United in the 1994 League Cup final, added: \"I had so much admiration for him as a fellow centre-half.\n\n\"He was uncompromising, quick and gave his all every single week - he was a great defender. All the football world will be saddened.\"\n\nFormer Villa boss Ron Atkinson, who brought Ehiogu to the club in 1991, said: \"It is a complete shock. He was a big physical specimen, a strong man. You realise that can happen to anyone.\n\n\"He was a defender that liked defending, he loved a full-blooded challenge.\n\n\"He didn't have the best of starts for Villa and made a couple of blunders against Norwich that cost us the result, and it took him a long time to live that down. But he showed character and developed into a centre-half who would have got a lot of England caps but for injury.\"\n\nSpurs manager Mauricio Pochettino added: \"Ugo was a lovely man and we had a very good relationship. It's a huge loss personally and for all the Tottenham family.\"\n\nClub chairman Daniel Levy said: \"This is an incredibly sad day for the club and a tragic loss of a talented member of our Spurs family. Ugo was an extremely popular and respected academy coach, a tremendous influence on our younger players, both in training and away from the pitch.\"\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke said he was \"a hugely popular figure across English football but particularly at Aston Villa and Middlesbrough. He was also close to many at Wembley and St George's Park through his England connections - both as a player and as a coach\".\n\nEx-Spurs midfielder Jermaine Jenas tweeted: \"Gutted is an understatement. An aspiring coach and all round top guy. My thoughts and prayers are with your family.\"\n\nFormer England women and Arsenal Ladies forward Kelly Smith on Twitter: \"RIP my friend Ugo Ehiogu, gone too soon. A wonderful, caring man.\"\n\nEx-Blackburn, Chelsea and Celtic striker Chris Sutton‏ posted: \"Really upsetting news about Ugo Ehiogu. Football has lost a great player and a great man. Thoughts go out to his family. RIP Ugo.\"\n\nEx-Aston Villa goalkeeper Mark Bosnich tweeted: \"RIP Ugo Ehiogu. Tremendous player and an even better man. Words can't do justice to how sad I am.\"\n\nFormer England defender Rio Ferdinand‏ tweeted: \"Can't believe the news that Ugo Ehiogu has passed away. Calm & warming vibe when in his company. My heart goes out to his family.\"\n\nEx-England defender Sol Campbell‏ described Ehiogu as \"one of my East London mates of old\" and \"a true defender\". \"My heart goes out to his family. I just can't believe it,\" he added.\n\nJamie Oborne, who co-founded Dirty Hit with Ehiogu in 2009, tweeted: \"Gutted to hear that my friend Ugo has tragically passed away. I will always treasure the memories of our chats about love, life, hopes and dreams. Feel very blessed to have had you in my life. Love to Gemma and the little man. Such a sad day.\"\n\n'A beast on the field, a gentle soul off it'\n\nHe was a very unassuming, gentle soul to deal with - very softly spoken. On the field he was an absolute beast, a colossus, an animal.\n\nGordon Cowans, a former midfielder at Aston Villa, and Ron Atkinson, his manager at the time, often tell the story of Ugo Ehiogu's first tackle at Villa.\n\nIn a pre-season game at Witney Town in Oxfordshire, he went into this tackle and Cowans, in the dugout with Atkinson, turned to him and said: \"Did you see that?\" He was such a strong defender, they knew they'd bought an absolute diamond for £40,000.\n\nAtkinson knew him at Sheffield Wednesday and when he moved to Villa in 1991, he went after Ugo.\n\nIn his first game - Norwich City at home - he had a shocker. They lost 3-2 and Atkinson joked with Ugo that he was the player of the month - but he took it well.\n\nFor the next nine years, he was a tremendous centre-back alongside Gareth Southgate - a mixture of elegance, technical ability and strong, aggressive defending from Ehiogu.\n\nEhiogu was from the school of hard knocks. When he was trying to make his way in the game, he wrote to about 10 top clubs looking for a chance but got nowhere - other than at West Brom, where Atkinson liked the look of him.\n\nSo Ugo's career was a triumph of perseverance as well as undoubted talent and ability to look after himself physically.\n\nHe was a role model to a lot of the young players he'd been coaching at Tottenham because he could say he didn't have a gilded passage, like so many in academies nowadays.\n\nEhiogu had to work for everything he got, as an international and a Premier League defender.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does Jared Kushner want to achieve with his new-found power?\n\nSome White House watchers have noted that weekends can be tricky for President Donald Trump.\n\nA number of crises have blown up on a Friday and not been sorted out until Sunday.\n\nObservers say it's because that's when President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner - an observant Orthodox Jewish man - is off duty, marking the Sabbath.\n\nMr Kushner, the husband of the first daughter, Ivanka, is a power in the land, the crown prince.\n\nBecause of his semi-public power struggle with Steve Bannon, he's seen as an enemy by the hard, nationalistic right.\n\nBut what drives him? What does he believe? And how could that change the world?\n\nThe provocative conservative commentator and early Trump supporter Ann Coulter - author of Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole - told me the suspicion was not personal.\n\n\"You can't hire your kids,\" she said.\n\n\"They can't be fired, they are more than first among equals.\n\n\"It's a Third World thing to get elected and bring in all of you family.\n\n\"It's what they do in banana republics.\"\n\nAnd this story is all about family, dynasty and destiny.\n\nPresident Trump has placed his family - including Jared Kushner (second right) - at the centre of his administration\n\n\"J-Vanka\" - their couple name - provides a soupcon of sophistication, implying smoothly groomed beautiful youths in a court that is more King Midas than Camelot.\n\nWhile Trump Sr starred in the downmarket tabloids, they have been a fixture of the glossy magazines.\n\nLast year, Elle Decor gushed about the couple's Upper East Side apartment, and its Lindsey Adelman light fixtures and candlesticks by Jeff Zimmermann.\n\nThe room in black and white - with just a hint of imperial purple - is cool, understated. So are they.\n\nIn the White House, amid the balding billionaires - and a leader who made vulgarity a virtue - their sleekness stands out.\n\nLizzie Widdicombe, an editor of the New Yorker's Talk of the town, watches them closely.\n\n\"They both have a noticeable level of polish,\" she says.\n\n\"It is often said that Ivanka softens the brash, abrasive image of her father and makes it palatable.\"\n\nI ask if Jared does the same thing politically.\n\n\"That's a great way of putting it,\" says Widdicombe.\n\n\"He has been the link to Wall Street, and Rupert Murdoch, who he's cultivated as a close personal friend, so he has emerged as a powerbroker.\"\n\nThe president and his son-in-law are both what's known as \"bridge and tunnel guys\" - President Trump from the outer borough of Queens, Mr Kushner from out-of-state New Jersey, each well versed in making a splash in the magic kingdom of Manhattan, turning grit to glitter using the glamour of gold.\n\nAnd there's a hint of resentment in both of them, sharpened by Mr Kushner's background.\n\nHe's not just a property billionaire. He's not just the son-in-law of a property billionaire. He is also the son of a property billionaire - a property billionaire who went to jail.\n\nJared Kushner stepped in to run his father, Charlie's, property business after he was sent to prison\n\nIt was ugly - a family feud that went nuclear. As the row spiralled, Jared's father, Charlie, was jailed for tax evasion and deception.\n\nJared's close friend Ken Kurson, editor of the New York Observer, told me the trauma had been the making of him.\n\n\"This is a guy who at 24-25 was made chief executive of a giant sprawling complex company,\" said Kurson.\n\n\"He not only handled that in an emergency, but grew the company.\n\n\"To step into a world of grizzled real estate guys, treat them with respect but also lead, was a truly astonishing feat.\"\n\nGabriel Sherman, who wrote an early profile of Mr Kushner for The New York Magazine, agrees with Ken Kurson's analysis.\n\n\"Without question, it is still the defining moment of his life,\" he told me.\n\n\"Growing up, the family always thought he would run for political office and become a major figure in America, but much further down the road.\n\n\"When Charlie went to prison, Jared was required to start that climb to power at much earlier age.\n\n\"That was traumatic, but he also seized his opportunity.\"\n\nJared Kushner (left) is said to have clashed with fellow Trump adviser Steve Bannon\n\nAccording to one profile, friends say Jared's father, Charlie, is mostly a charmer - but can also be volcanic and irascible when crossed.\n\n\"Charlie is a really aggressive, flamboyant, high-profile figure a lot like Trump,\" says Lizzie Widdicombe.\n\n\"Being the son or daughter of a person like that is a very specific experience. Jared is the Trump whisperer.\"\n\nBut what does he whisper?\n\nProbably a more pragmatic, more cautious, more mainstream Republican view than President Trump's own.\n\nOne of my sources said he'd reflect the views of his New York friends who \"hate Trump\".\n\nTo some on the hard right, he is the swamp President Trump promised to drain.\n\nAnn Coulter feels the will to power may outweigh any ideology.\n\n\"I think he wants to help his father-in-law,\" she says.\n\n\"It'll be embarrassing to be the son-in-law of a failed president.\n\n\"That's the good part of it - and it's very clear how his father-in-law can succeed or fail.\n\n\"If he keeps his promises, he'll be the first president we've had in a long time who didn't just break all his promises.\n\n\"He will not succeed unless he keeps his promises on immigration and trade.\"\n\nIn his old office, Mr Kushner kept a picture of President John F Kennedy addressing a crowd, from the front, and from the back.\n\nHe is still in the backroom, not in front of the crowds, portrayed by Saturday Night Live as a preppy mute.\n\nHe may not speak in public - but when he whispers, President Trump takes notice.\n\nWatch him closely to learn what the president will do next.\n\nListen in full to Mark Mardell's profile of Jared Kushner on BBC Radio 4's PM programme.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\n\"It is like he is being controlled by a 10-year-old on a PlayStation.\"\n\nThat's how David Luiz's defending was described by former England right-back Gary Neville in 2011.\n\nIt was a label that seemed to stick - unfairly, according to some - and was used by many fans to deride the Chelsea defender.\n\nFive and a half years later, perception about the 29-year-old centre-back - who rejoined the Blues in August after a two-season sojourn at French side Paris St-Germain - appears to have changed.\n\nCertainly it has among his peers, who selected the Brazil international in their Premier League 'all stars' after a successful first season back at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe stats: 'We're not seeing mistakes'\n\nLuiz's shock return to Chelsea was first mentioned early on deadline day on 31 August, gathering pace throughout the day, before the £34m deal was eventually confirmed in the final hour before the window closed.\n\nNot everyone was convinced by the signing, despite Luiz being part of a PSG side who won back-to-back trebles in France.\n\n\"He has been a liability for PSG more than anything else,\" French football journalist Julien Laurens told BBC Radio 5 live on deadline day.\n\n\"I can hardly remember four games where he was actually good. He had some shockers.\n\n\"He hasn't improved since leaving Chelsea. He's probably coming back a worse player than when he left.\"\n\nHowever, Luiz's fellow professionals believe he has returned a better player on the evidence of his 28 starts during Chelsea's title push.\n\nCompared with his first spell between January 2011 and May 2014, the Blues have certainly improved with him in their side.\n\nThey have a higher win percentage, have scored more goals and conceded fewer, and have gathered more points on average.\n\nThis season Luiz has helped Chelsea keep 12 clean sheets in the Premier League - only team-mates Thibaut Courtois and Cesar Azpilicueta, along with Tottenham trio Eric Dier, Hugo Lloris and Kyle Walker (13) contributing to more.\n\nAnd, while his first spell at Stamford Bridge was blighted by rash decisions and the odd mistake, he has cut these heart-in-mouth moments out of his game.\n\nThe Brazilian has not made a single error leading to an opposition goal this season, while he has only made two errors leading to shots - a tally which 71 other players have either equalled or made more errors than.\n\n\"The mistakes we saw - which were limited in the first place anyway - we are not seeing any of them now,\" BBC Sport analyst Pat Nevin said.\n\n\"In Britain we tend to pick out big mistakes - every centre-half makes mistakes. Everyone got on a roll with David Luiz because he is that different and special.\"\n\nThe critics cool: 'He looks more mature, he's not getting distracted'\n\nChelsea's pursuit of the title, which appeared almost a foregone conclusion for several weeks until their lead shrank to four points last weekend, has been built on solid defensive foundations - of which Luiz has been a key pillar.\n\nAnd that has led to many previous critics, including Gary Neville, to change their opinion in recent months.\n\n\"His decision-making has been far better in terms of not being as rash,\" the former Manchester United defender said.\n\n\"I have to say he looks more mature. He's not getting distracted by the sideshow stuff on the pitch like he did before. He looks to me to have a really good focus.\"\n\nLuiz's return did not initially go to plan, however. The Blues conceded five goals in his opening two games - defeats by Liverpool and Arsenal - although the Brazilian could not be made entirely culpable for those losses.\n\nThen came Antonio Conte's tactical masterstroke which changed the fortunes of both Chelsea and Luiz.\n\nSwitching to a three-man backline, with Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso operating as wing-backs, shored up the defence and brought Luiz plaudits from Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker. Eventually...\n\nChelsea deciding to end their search for John Terry's replacement with the re-signing of Luiz was also met with an element of doubt by the BBC's chief football writer Phil McNulty.\n\n\"While undoubtedly talented, he had proved himself something of a liability defensively for both his clubs and his country, Brazil. And, like many others, I have been surprised by the scale of his success at Stamford Bridge this season,\" he said.\n\n\"Conte has brought added concentration and discipline to Luiz's game, while also playing with a three-man defensive system that offers the Brazilian greater security and licence to play with the freedom he enjoys.\"\n\nLuiz's inclusion in this season's PFA team of the year was announced on Thursday, representing the first time he has been honoured by his fellow professionals in England.\n\nAfter joining Chelsea in January 2011, the former Benfica man clearly did not have enough time to force his way into the end-of-season gongs.\n\nIn his first full season, he helped the Blues win the Champions League and the FA Cup, although a poor league campaign - finishing sixth under Roberto di Matteo after he replaced the sacked Andre Villas-Boas in March - meant no Chelsea player was deemed good enough to make the league's best XI.\n\nTeam-mates Juan Mata and Eden Hazard made the cut in 2012-13 as Chelsea finished third under Rafa Benitez, but there was again no place for Luiz.\n\nThis season he is one of four Blues players chosen by their fellow professionals, with Luiz and centre-back partner Gary Cahill's inclusion down to their team's defensive strength.\n\nAs the news of Luiz's impending return to Stamford Bridge grew on transfer deadline day, it was met by some fans using #bbcfootball with scepticism and, to a degree, more derision.\n\nJosh Earl: The David Luiz deal is laughable, overrated, unreliable and an all round loose cannon, decent free-kick taker that's about it.\n\nRichard Larque: Have Chelsea forgotten how poor at defending David Luiz is? Great hair mind.\n\nShane Daly: David Luiz back to Chelsea. Both Manchester clubs are rolling on the floor laughing right now. A donkey at a thoroughbred race.\n\nJoe Wedgwood: Would 100% prefer Matt Miazga to the walking calamity that is David Luiz....Conte, have you gone potty?\n\nOf course, hindsight is a wonderful thing. But not everyone was convinced his return was going to be a disaster...\n\nJoe Borko: Koulibaly would have been a panic buy, not David Luiz. Luiz will be a great asset.\n\nD.Tee: David Luiz. One of my favourite players. Full of verve! Will make Chelsea stronger. No doubt.\n\nDarren Long: Great to have David Luiz back! Time to take our title back.\n\nAnd alongside Luiz winning over many of the pundits, he has also convinced BBC Sport readers of his worth.\n\nMore than 40% of users picked the Chelsea defender when they selected their own Premier League team of the year - only narrowly the second most popular centre-back after Spurs' Toby Alderweireld.\n\nThe pairing of Luiz and Alderweireld was selected in just under 50% of all teams picked.\n\nThe pundits: 'People are taking their blindfolds off'\n\nSo what has changed for Luiz? Very little, according to Nevin.\n\nThe former Chelsea winger believes it is not simply because of Italian manager Conte or his tactics. Nevin believes it is down to the 29-year-old growing in experience and maturity.\n\n\"I think the understanding of him is better and people are taking their blindfolds off slightly,\" said the former Scotland international. \"He's still the same player.\n\n\"It helps playing three at the back - but that would help anyone. With two people around him, his ability to read the game and pass becomes more obvious.\n\n\"Every centre-back you ever see does not peak until he is 27 or 28, they are very few centre-backs, and you look back through history, that were absolutely brilliant at 23 or 24.\n\n\"Yes, he's improving but he's on the same improvement curve as every other centre-back.\"\n\nChelsea v Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final is live on Saturday, 22 April on BBC One from 16:50 BST and on BBC Radio 5 live from 17:15 BST, along with live text commentary online.", "Did a High Court judge in Himachal Pradesh write his judgment with thesaurus in hand?\n\nThere are few professions that allow one to be as verbose as a judge. Sometimes, this freedom can result in powerful judgements that weave brilliant legal interpretation with sparkling prose.\n\nAt other times, legal judgements are so complicated that they make little sense to normal people.\n\nIn rare times, as happened recently in India, they even bewilder lawyers directly involved in the case.\n\nA bemused Supreme Court bench sent back a convoluted judgement from a high court judge in the state of Himachal Pradesh to be re-drafted because it was simply unintelligible.\n\n\"We will have to set it aside because one cannot understand this,\" MB Lokur and Deepak Gupta were quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying on 14 April.\n\nAnd what was so complicated about the judgement, which ruled in favour of a tenant locked in a years-long battle with a landlord?\n\n\"However, the learned counsel...cannot derive the fullest succour from the aforesaid acquiescence... given its sinew suffering partial dissipation from an imminent display occurring in the impugned pronouncement hereat wherewithin unravelments are held qua the rendition recorded by the learned Rent Controller...\"\n\n\"The summum bonum of the aforesaid discussion is that all the aforesaid material which existed before the learned Executing Court standing slighted besides their impact standing untenably undermined by him whereupon the ensuing sequel therefrom is of the learned Executing Court while pronouncing its impugned rendition overlooking the relevant and germane evidence besides its not appreciating its worth. Consequently, the order impugned suffers from a gross absurdity and perversity of misappreciation of material on record.\"\n\nThe lawyer representing the tenant, Aishwarya Bhati, reportedly joked in court that she needed to hire an English professor to understand the convoluted ruling.\n\nBut the UK-based Plain English Campaign (PEC) said it had seen similar language deployed in the past by judges, though the wording in this case was \"preposterously overblown\".\n\n\"There is simply no reason or excuse for it,\" the PEC's Lee Monks told the BBC. \"We've often heard the defence that these are 'legal terms' but that's very often a cop-out.\n\n\"The idea that something like '...fullest succour from the aforesaid acquiescence' is at all necessary is ridiculous.\"\n\nWhile that may be true, judges in the Indian sub-continent, and elsewhere, clearly enjoy the freedom they have to show off their verbal dexterity and cultural knowledge in judgements - though they usually make more sense.\n\nOn Thursday, a judgement from Pakistan's Supreme Court ruling that there was insufficient evidence of corruption to remove Nawaz Sharif from the role of prime minister began by mentioning Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather, before quoting 19th Century novelist Honore de Balzac, in the original French.\n\nBack in India, a 268-page Supreme Court judgement last year from Justice Dipak Misra was particularly verbose in dismissing a challenge to the constitutionality of the criminal offence of defamation brought by Subramanian Swamy, a politician.\n\nThe judge wrote, in a sentence described by the journalist and former law lecturer Tunku Varadarajan as \"among the worst sentences I've encountered in all my years of reading legal materials\":\n\n\"This batch of writ petitions preferred under Article 32 of the Constitution of India exposits cavil in its quintessential conceptuality and percipient discord between venerated and exalted right of freedom of speech and expression of an individual, exploring manifold and multilayered, limitless, unbounded and unfettered spectrums and the controls, restrictions and constrictions, under the assumed power of 'reasonableness' ingrained in the statutory provisions relating to criminal law to reviver and uphold one's reputation\"\"\n\nBut Indian judges, with few exceptions, \"love purple prose which they mistake to be or believe to be Shakespearean English\", says journalist Binoo K John, who wrote a book - Entry from Backside Only: Hazaar Fundaas of Indian English - about the peculiar use of English in India.\n\n\"So considering the long history of such prose, it is not all all embarrassing in India,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMeanwhile, at least one High Court judge in England has listened to calls to simplify the language used in judgements.\n\nJustice Peter Jackson published a simply-worded ruling last year in a family court case so it could be understood by the children affected by it.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEnglish top-flight club Notts County Ladies have folded, two days before their first match of the Spring Series.\n\nDue to face Arsenal on Sunday, Notts' players were told the Women's Super League One club cannot stay afloat 15 minutes before Friday's announcement.\n\nPreviously known as Lincoln Ladies before relocating in 2014, the squad included England's Carly Telford, Laura Bassett, Jade Moore and Jo Potter.\n\nNotts finished sixth in WSL 1 in 2016 after reaching the 2015 FA Cup final.\n\nIn March, a winding-up petition against the club was adjourned for a second time, giving Notts until 3 July to pay debts owed to HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nLocal businessman Alan Hardy purchased Notts County's men's and women's clubs in December, aiming to clear debts owed to HMRC by both outfits.\n\nA club statement said: \"Alan Hardy has reluctantly admitted defeat in his bid to save Notts County Ladies Football Club after facing a near-£1m bill to keep the club afloat this season.\n\n\"The Notts County chairman and owner had hoped to restructure six-figure HMRC debts inherited from Ray Trew and fund ongoing projected losses this season of half a million pounds.\n\n\"Despite weeks of negotiations with lawyers, HMRC and the Football Association, Hardy has now called time on his plans to save the Ladies set-up.\n\n\"The club has today been officially withdrawn from the Women's Super League and will play no matches in the Spring Series, including this Sunday's away fixture at Arsenal.\"\n\nReacting to the news, Notts and England goalkeeper Telford posted on Twitter: \"CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I HAVE JUST WITNESSED!!! NOTTS COUNTY LADIES NO LONGER EXISTS!!!\"\n\nFormer Arsenal winger Rachel Yankey, who had a spell on loan with Notts in 2016, posted: \"Totally gutted for the @Official_NCLFC players, staff and supporters. I hope the @PFA and @fa are doing everything they can to support them.\"\n\nAn FA spokesperson said: \"The FA is aware of the situation and is liaising with all involved parties.\n\n\"Our priority is the welfare of the players and we will work closely with them, the PFA and wider stakeholders to support them through this time.\"\n\nWith the WSL transfer window having closed, it is not yet clear if any of the Notts squad will be able to sign for another English top-flight club this season.\n\n\"I am devastated that we cannot continue the Ladies project but the numbers simply do not stack up,\" said Notts County chairman Hardy. \"Continuing would have been little short of financial suicide.\n\n\"When I took over the club, HMRC and other creditors had in excess of £350,000 of unpaid liabilities. Additionally, I was extremely concerned that to operate Notts County Ladies for the current season was going to cost us approximately £500,000 - a figure principally made up of player and coaching salaries.\n\n\"Our total projected incoming revenue from attendances and sponsorship was £28,000.\n\n\"It's a very sad day for me personally and supporters should rest assured I have left no stone unturned in my quest to save the club.\n\n\"However, having taken all factors into consideration, the only possible outcome is to discontinue our Ladies club.\n\n\"I would like to place on record my sincere thanks to the staff and players and we all wish them every success in finding new clubs.\"\n\nAll the noises from Alan Hardy had suggested that the tax bill would be paid and that Notts County Ladies would be able to continue, so this news comes out of the blue.\n\nHe had even spoken about creating an academy for girls from across the county.\n\nI was at Wembley for the Women's FA Cup final against Chelsea in 2015 when it seemed like the club was on the way up. Even now, four of the current squad are in the England set-up.\n\nThey've only been in existence - since moving from Lincoln - for three years and this is a loss for Nottingham as well as for women's football.", "Two weeks after the end of hostilities in Kosovo, three young Albanian-Americans who had joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were arrested by Yugoslav police, tortured and killed. Eighteen years later, the conflict has been largely forgotten, but the men's youngest brother continues a lonely fight for justice.\n\nTowards the end of June 1999, Ylli, Agron and Mehmet Bytyqi (pronounced Bootoochee) were escorting a Roma family out of Kosovo to the Serbian border. It was an act of kindness. The Bytyqi brothers - whose parents knew the family well - were guaranteeing their safety up to Kosovo's border with Serbia, since many ethnic Albanians viewed Roma with suspicion.\n\nBut near the village of Merdare, something went wrong. After straying over the unmarked border, the brothers were seized and jailed for two weeks for entering Yugoslavia without a visa.\n\nWhen they were released, a white car without licence plates, driven by men in plain clothes, was waiting at the jail in the town of Prokuplje. The three brothers were then driven to the base of a unit of special police in Petrovo Selo, near the Romanian border, and were not seen alive again.\n\nThis was when Fatos Bytyqi's search began.\n\nWhile his brothers were American citizens, born in Illinois, Fatos was born after his parents returned from the US to Prizren, in what was then Yugoslavia, in 1979. He was 19 when Ylli, Agron and Mehmet joined the Atlantic Brigade - a group of some 400 American citizens who left in April 1999 to join the fight for Kosovo's independence from Serbia.\n\nThe brothers arrived too late to do much fighting, as by mid-June a Nato bombing campaign had led to the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo, and their replacement by Nato peacekeepers. The three Bytyqi brothers were nonetheless members of the KLA. On the day they were arrested they were carrying KLA dogtags as well as New York driving licences, and one theory is that they may have been suspected of spying.\n\nIn the weeks after their disappearance, a human rights group in Belgrade succeeded in obtaining papers documenting the brothers' release from the prison. Later, Fatos visited Prokuplje with his mother, where he learned about the white car. But it took another two years for the brothers' fate to become clear.\n\nIn July 2001 their bodies were found at the top of a mass grave in Petrovo Selo along with other Kosovan Albanians. They had been blindfolded, their hands tied with wire behind their backs, and shot in the head. According to an FBI agent who spent six years investigating the case, their skin showed the marks of electric shocks, indicating torture.\n\nToday, the 37-year-old Fatos is the manager of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Hampton Bays, on Long Island, just outside New York city, where his brothers lived before the war. Two of them were painters, one a pizza-maker. A fourth brother, Ilir, stayed behind to continue earning money to support the family. Softly spoken, with a neat black goatee, Fatos leaves his shop behind roughly once a year to travel to Serbia, where he meets the prime minister, chief war crimes prosecutor, interior minister and other top officials, to urge them to step up efforts to find and prosecute his brothers' killers.\n\nInvestigations have been conducted both by Serbian war crimes investigators and by the FBI. But most of this work was done years ago and the world has since moved on. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is being wound down, Serbia is negotiating its membership of the European Union and the US institutions that once leaned on the Serbian authorities have eased off.\n\nOnly Fatos refuses to give up.\n\nInvariably the officials he meets in Belgrade urge him to remain patient, and promise that there will be progress soon.\n\n\"When they see me, it's not like they are really feeling bad. If they were they would have taken care of this a long time ago,\" he says.\n\n\"Sometimes the ministers don't let me finish my questions. They interrupt and say that I don't understand.\"\n\n\"To work on war crimes against your brothers you have to be beyond patient,\" says his brother, Ilir, who helps him research the case, but leaves most of the public relations to Fatos.\n\n\"Dealing with all these government people [in the US] and especially in Serbia, who just tell you what you want to hear - that can easily set you off.\"\n\nIt is clear that the perpetrators of the crime were among a limited number of people with access to the base of the special police unit at Petrovo Selo, where the Bytyqis were executed and buried.\n\nTo date, only two men have been tried - Sreten Popovic and Milos Stojanovic, who transferred the brothers in the white car from the jail in Prokuplje to Petrovo Selo. Charged with aiding and abetting a war crime, they were acquitted once in 2009 and again at a retrial in 2012, on the grounds that they played only a minor role, and that it could not have been a war crime because the war was over by the time the brothers were arrested.\n\nFatos Bytyqi is convinced that one man is the key to the case, retired general Goran Radosavljevic - nicknamed \"Guri\", meaning \"stone\" in Albanian - who was the commander of the Petrovo Selo base. He says he was away from the base at the time of the murders, though at least one of his former staff disputes this.\n\nRadosavljevic is a powerful man. He went on to head Serbia's special police forces, or gendarmerie as they were renamed. Later he set up a security firm, training foreign troops. Today he is a respected businessman and a member of the executive board of the Serbian Progressive Party - the party of President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.\n\nSerbian officials often attribute the paralysis of the Bytyqi case to the difficulty of getting witnesses to talk. Fatos Bytyqi notes bitterly that it will be hard to convince anyone to testify against a man who appears on television standing next to the prime minister.\n\nOn his most recent visit to Serbia, last autumn, the ever-patient Fatos shows signs of frustration.\n\n\"When the US diplomats meet Serbian officials they say, 'What's new on the Bytyqi case?'\" he says, interpreting this as a sign that they do not keep up the pressure when he is not there.\n\n\"They should be saying, 'You killed my three citizens!'\n\n\"They see the prime minister all the time, they should raise the case. I have to travel 10 hours to come here and plan how to make the embassy work closer with the Serbian interior ministry.\"\n\nUS diplomats declined to comment. But in 2014 the then deputy chief of mission, Gordon Duguid, pointed to a number of reasons why no-one had been indicted for the murders - the slow transition from strongman rule in Serbia to the rule of law, the continuing resistance to normalising relations with Kosovo, and the reluctance of some Serbs to come to terms with happened in the war.\n\nOn one evening in Belgrade, Fatos sits down in the office of the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) to watch a documentary about the case, broadcast on Serbian television to coincide with his visit. It's called Collective Amnesia.\n\nThe centre's 70-year-old founder Natasa Kandic, a flinty human rights campaigner and a longstanding supporter of Fatos, praises him for \"fighting against the silence\".\n\nBut what are the chances that he will ever be successful? Prime Minister Vucic said in 2015 that the case would be resolved \"sooner than you'd think\". Others argue that Serbia will have to tackle some big war crimes cases before closing its EU accession process.\n\nThe Bytyqis' pro-bono lawyer, Praveen Madhiraju, thinks another prosecution is likely, but that it is less likely to be a serious prosecution of a high-ranking figure.\n\nOut of 170 convictions achieved by the Serbian war crimes prosecutor's office in its 13 years of existence, all but six were of foot-soldiers following orders, points out the head of the legal programme at the HLC, Milica Kostic.\n\n\"A miracle needs to happen,\" she says. \"There is very little hope.\"\n\nBut Fatos Bytyqi nonetheless has hope that justice will be done. He puts his faith in God. At some point, he says, it will happen.\n\nAll photos by Marko Risovic. Work on this story was supported by the Center for Investigative Reporting.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American Lexi Thompson receives a four-stroke penalty while leading the final round of the first major of the season - and then loses the play-off to So Yeon Ryu - after a TV replay showed her incorrectly replacing a ball.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSam Warburton will be re-appointed British and Irish Lions captain for the tour of New Zealand, according to former Lions skipper Brian O'Driscoll.\n\nThe Wales flanker, 28, led the Lions in Australia in 2013 and is the favourite to resume the role this summer.\n\n\"[Lions head coach Warren] Gatland is a big fan, he knows what sort of captain he is. He's going to be the man.\"\n\nFormer Ireland captain O'Driscoll, who toured with the Lions four times, added: \"The experience of doing it once before, and how he is currently playing and the high esteem he is held in, I think they all feature heavily in him being another good selection.\n\n\"Seven [open-side flanker] is one of the more open positions, and I think Warburton will fit in brilliantly there.\"\n\nO'Driscoll feels Warburton is now best-placed to lead the touring party ahead of Wales captain in Alun Wyn Jones, who is currently sidelined with a shoulder injury.\n\n\"Sam is the kind of character that if he wasn't selected for the Tests he wouldn't throw the toys out of the cot,\" O'Driscoll said.\n\n\"You look at that, married with Alun Wyn being out for a couple of weeks now, I don't know if you can guarantee him a Test spot.\n\n\"I would have him in my Test team, but I don't know if Gats feels he can guarantee him a Test spot.\"\n\nO'Driscoll also feels the form of Irish provinces Leinster and Munster - who have reached the Champions Cup semi-finals - could see some of their players sneak into contention.\n\n\"No-one has mentioned [Munster second row] Donnacha Ryan as a possible bolter,\" he said. \"He could do a brilliant job for the Lions as a midweek player.\n\n\"I wouldn't be shocked to find him on the tour. He is the kind of guy you want in the trenches.\"\n\nO'Driscoll also believes Leinster flanker Sean O'Brien is in the frame.\n\n\"He was the seven four years ago when [the Lions] smashed Australia, and Warren Gatland will remember that and knows what he can deliver.\n\n\"He has given himself every opportunity.\"\n\nGatland will confirm his squad on 19 April with the first game of the tour on 3 June.", "When you are chasing the title and you lose at home, like Chelsea did on Saturday, then you want the chance to respond straight away and prove it was a blip.\n\nBlues boss Antonio Conte will want a reaction from his side when they play Manchester City on Wednesday and there is probably no better opposition for them to go out and show everyone that they are back on track.\n\nIt is a huge game for City as well, but not in terms of them catching the leaders - I would be amazed if Pep Guardiola's side won the title now.\n\nI don't think City's top-four place is in serious danger despite three successive draws but, because of how much they have spent and who their manager is, they simply have to qualify for next season's Champions League. They cannot really afford to lose.\n\nI don't see any twists in the title race\n\nDespite Saturday's defeat by Crystal Palace, I still think Chelsea will end up as champions. I don't see any twists in the title race.\n\nEvery top team has those days where, whatever you try, it doesn't work and you come up against a brick wall. Palace's defending was just brilliant and their whole team played to their maximum.\n\nThat result meant City could have cut Chelsea's lead at the top to nine points if they had beaten Arsenal on Sunday, and reduced it to six with a win at Stamford Bridge.\n\nCity could only draw at the Emirates but, even if they had won, I don't think it would have made any difference to their title chances.\n\nLike Tottenham, they would still have been left needing to win all their remaining games just to have any chance of overhauling Chelsea.\n\nI just don't see City doing that because defensively they are poor, and they give too many goals away.\n\nThe same old story for City\n\nCity's draw at the Emirates was basically their season in a nutshell.\n\nThey scored two good goals to go ahead twice, and should have had enough to see out the game, but conceded two goals from mistakes.\n\nArsenal's first goal came from one defender, Gael Clichy, being caught napping and, although their second equaliser came from a very good header by Shkodran Mustafi, it came from a corner and was definitely preventable.\n\nIt was a set-piece and City should not be vulnerable in that situation, but they are.\n\nAs impressive as they can be going forward, those problems at the back are the reason they will not win the Premier League this season.\n\nIt was a missed opportunity, because of Arsenal's poor form - they had lost four of their previous five league games - and also because of how open Arsene Wenger's side were, particularly in the first half.\n\nI was expecting the Gunners to sit in, try to keep it tight and just try to play themselves into the game.\n\nInstead they went out and were so open that City were ahead after five minutes, and were back in front two minutes after Arsenal made it 1-1.\n\nCity had the best opportunities to have won the game, especially in the first half, but if feels like I have been saying the same thing about them all season.\n\nWhat do City need in the summer?\n\nI know Guardiola often says in his interviews that they have dropped points because of missed chances but, in reality, he will know that defensively they have got to improve if they are going to win the Premier League next season.\n\nCity have got better in some areas as the season has gone on but no matter which formation or players Guardiola has tried at the back, I have not seen any overall improvement there.\n\nJohn Stones had a decent game again at the Emirates, and was probably the pick of the bunch from their back four, but he cannot do it all on his own.\n\nThey have been searching for answers at centre-half for a number of years and still are - I don't think it takes a genius to work out that Guardiola needs to buy a new one in the summer.\n\nHe needs a goalkeeper too, and some full-backs, so we are talking three defenders in total.\n\nI know Pablo Zabaleta and Bacary Sagna were injured for the Arsenal game, which is why he had to try Jesus Navas at right-back.\n\nBut the continuous change of personnel in City's defence tells us that he hasn't found the right answer yet.\n\nPep needs some silverware - and soon\n\nThere were huge expectations when Guardiola arrived at City because of what he achieved with Barcelona and Bayern Munich.\n\nHe is one of the best managers in the world and I am pretty sure he will win trophies at City too but, the longer he goes without winning anything, the more pressure there will be because of his reputation and the money that City have spent.\n\nLike Guardiola, this is Conte's first season in England, and the Chelsea boss looks set to start by winning the league.\n\nIt is a great achievement but not being in Europe has definitely helped Conte, and he has been fortunate with injuries too. Chelsea have played fewer games than all of their title rivals, and have not had to test the depth of their squad.\n\nGuardiola has not had that luxury, but I think he will still be desperately disappointed if he finishes his first season at City empty-handed, which is why the FA Cup has become very important for City now.\n\nCity will have to get past Arsenal to reach the final and I am expecting another very open game when they meet again at Wembley on 23 April.\n\nBased on what we have seen from them this season, both teams will probably score some goals and defend badly - and who wins will come down to whose forwards perform best on the day.", "Who knows what was going through Lexi Thompson's mind when she chose to mark and replace her ball on the 17th green last Saturday?\n\nWhatever it was, it resulted in what should have been a routine moment going horribly wrong. It ultimately cost her a major and her second ANA Inspiration title.\n\nIf Thompson's actions were not spotted by her playing partner, referees on the spot, or officials monitoring the TV feed then they have surely come through enough examination\n\nIt also led to another sorry rules mess that made golf look ridiculous. Add this one to the Dustin Johnson fiasco at the men's US Open last year and Anna Nordqvist's rules breach that ruined her chances at the women's equivalent championship a couple of weeks later.\n\nBut be in no doubt that in this latest controversy only one person made a mistake and that was Thompson. Unwittingly or otherwise, she did not put back her ball in the correct place.\n\nShe was less than an inch out but she got it wrong and might have given herself an advantage.\n\nThroughout the due process that followed, the LPGA rules officials acted in accordance with the rules as set out for tournament play.\n\nUnder current rules, officials have no choice but to investigate a possible rules breach if they are so alerted by a television viewer. And if the tournament is still going on, this applies even if that information comes in on a later day.\n\nSo Thompson was given a two-stroke penalty for incorrectly replacing her ball and two more shots for signing for the wrong score. A total of four shots were added to the tournament leader's card.\n\nShe only found this out as she moved from the 12th green to the 13th tee a day after the offence was committed.\n\nAnd this is where the game lets itself look ridiculous. This is where common sense goes out of the window and tournaments are ruined.\n\nForemost is the fact that golf is a self-policing sport. Golfers and their playing partners are supposed to ensure that the rules are followed and, in so doing, protect the rest of the field from cheats.\n\nThis is what occurs almost all of the time at every level of the sport.\n\nAt big events, referees are on hand. At many majors there is a rules official at every hole with every group.\n\nFurthermore, there should be an official watching the television footage. So why on earth do we need to rely on someone sitting at home - watching on delay, in this case - to make sure the rules are followed?\n• None Listen: Former Ryder Cup captain says LPGA 'should have ignored' complaint about Thompson\n• None Watch: The putting coach to the world's best\n\nIf Thompson's actions were not spotted by her playing partner, referees on the spot, or officials monitoring the TV feed then they have surely come through enough examination.\n\nYes, this may mean a mistake is made - but most sports are riddled with such errors. Why does golf have to be different?\n\nWe have all screamed at screens having witnessed what we consider sporting injustice, but we have no part in altering the course of action in other sports.\n\nBut golf allows for sofa-seated witnesses to influence outcomes and it does no-one any favours.\n\nIn this case Ryu So-yeon is celebrating her second major title but no one is talking about her performance. Instead the player who finished second is gaining all the attention and sympathy.\n\nUltimately it was Thompson's fault that she lost but no-one wants to see any sporting event decided in such a way.\n\nGolf's rules are under review. There are many good ideas under discussion for implementation in 2019.\n\nHere's another one they should adopt - make sure the referee's decision is final, because there should be no place for interference from anyone else.", "\"Does the world really need another wedding photographer?\"\n\nThat was the thought that ran through Saskia Nelson's mind when, having spontaneously resigned from her office job at a London Olympics legacy project, she was thinking of her next move.\n\nAn amateur photographer, she decided four years ago, aged 43, that she was going to go professional.\n\nBut she hadn't really worked out how, and so she used her three-month notice period to consider her options, one of which was to join the army of wedding snappers.\n\n\"But I thought, 'I'm not married, it's not my bag, I don't really know anything about it,'\" says Saskia.\n\nWhat she did know about, however, was online dating.\n\nHaving spent seven to eight years doing it, her friends considered her a connoisseur.\n\nSaskia and her team photograph up to 50 people per month\n\n\"I just took a very light-hearted approach to it, I saw it as a bit of an adventure, or a story to share with married friends - they love that sort of stuff,\" she says.\n\nBut one major bugbear for Saskia was the large number of bad and old - to the point of deceptive - profile photos.\n\n\"When you're over 40, ten years is a long time,\" she quips, adding that she's seen countless bad selfies and shots with an ex cropped out.\n\nSo knowing the importance of having a good profile image, she realised that there was a gap in the market to become an online dating photographer.\n\nSaskia couldn't find anyone at all who was specialising in it, so she was effectively creating a new genre of photography when she launched her business Hey Saturday in 2013.\n\nExplaining the name, she says: \"It's like saying hello to the most important day of the week in the dating world.\"\n\nSaskia's photo shoots are always outside, to get away from the \"studio portrait\" feel\n\nInitially available in London, Hey Saturday has over the past four years expanded across the UK, and is now about to launch in New York.\n\nSaskia and her team of seven photographers, all of whom are female, currently photograph up to 50 clients per month.\n\nSaskia says that from day one she realised the photographs couldn't look too formal.\n\n\"I know that I didn't want the photos to scream 'I needed professional help',\" she says. \"So they couldn't be in a studio, or too formal - people run a mile from that.\n\n\"So I developed this ethos of [it looking like] one of your best mates happens to be passionate about photography. You are just hanging out, and taking photos.\"\n\nThe company says it has an even split of male and female clients\n\nTo create that feel, Saskia says that being outside is key. And if rain is forecast the client has the option to reschedule - particularly useful for women worried about their hair apparently.\n\nBefore the shoot they are asked to fill in a short questionnaire about themselves and the website suggests they might want to bring a couple of different tops and t-shirts (there are always nearby loos to change in).\n\nAnd while Saskia found she initially had more female clients, she says it's now about 50-50, and increasingly she is getting younger people, no doubt more conscious of their online image.\n\nClients pay Saskia and her team for their time, not the number of photos\n\nShe says that most clients turn up in a rush, usually with no clear ideas of how they want the photographs to look. They then pay for half an hour, one hour or 90 minutes of actual photography.\n\nSaskia says that a large part of the job is making people feel comfortable, she says, as the clients can often feel vulnerable and a bit self-conscious.\n\n\"No-one ever comes to us saying, 'I really want to do this.' They come saying, 'this is the last thing I'll do, because I really want to meet someone,'\" says Saskia, who despite being a photographer, does not like being in front of the lens herself.\n\nHey Saturday has been helped by the fact that the online dating industry has exploded in recent years, fuelled by apps that people can use on their mobile phones.\n\nThere are now 10 million active online daters in the UK alone, according to industry group the Online Dating Association (ONA).\n\nClients can bring props and different outfits to the shoot\n\nAndrew McClelland, the ONA's chief executive, says that having help with your profile, be it your photo or text description, can be helpful.\n\n\"I'm the worst person to tell someone else about me,\" he says, \"but if there's somebody who can help me sell myself then why not?\n\n\"Of course there's the risk it might be more polished than I am, but the same is true in real life.\"\n\nIn the end, Mr McClelland says image counts. \"We are social animals and we get an awful lot of information from when we look at someone, although you might argue that is not always a good thing.\"\n\nIt was this photo in particular that caught the attention of Samantha Lovell's love interest\n\nThe 36-year-old teacher had hired a professional matchmaker who strongly advised her to get professional photos.\n\nSo, while visiting her sister in London, she booked a shoot.\n\nHer matchmaker showed the photos to one man, who really liked them, and Samantha arranged to meet him.\n\n\"We met up and hit it off immediately,\" she says.\n\n\"We were married in less than a year, and now I'm expecting a baby in the summer.\"\n\nSaskia has grown Hey Saturday by word of mouth and by following a marketing mantra known as \"know, like and trust\".\n\nTo do this, she writes blogs and articles for both news and dating websites, takes part in podcasts, and offers dating advice. The idea is that people will get to know, like and trust her, and therefore be more likely to make a booking with Hey Saturday.\n\nShooting acclaimed photographer Martin Parr for one of his projects brought Saskia recognition in the wider photographic community\n\nAs the company has expanded, Saskia says her biggest challenge has been finding photographers who she thinks fit the brand.\n\nSaskia, speaking to me at the launch of Metier, a project profiling women and their work, says: \"It's so critical that we get people who can make people laugh, can be light-hearted and joke around, because you want to get natural, relaxed and happy shots.\"\n\nSaskia says she is also notoriously bad with numbers - describing herself as suffering from \"dyscalculia\", or being dyslexic with numbers.\n\nLuckily she has a banker boyfriend to help with the accounts, who, you will be glad to know, she met through online dating.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nAmerican Lexi Thompson was left in tears after being handed a four-stroke penalty while leading the final round of the first major of the season - and then losing a play-off to Ryu So-yeon.\n\nShe incorrectly replaced a marked ball in Saturday's third round - a TV viewer spotted the offence and told officials.\n\nThompson was leading the ANA Inspiration by two shots when told of the penalty after her 12th hole.\n\nShe birdied the 18th to force a play-off which Ryu won at the first hole.\n\nThompson, 22, had missed a 20-foot eagle putt on the last that would have given her a sensational victory at Mission Hills in California.\n\nWhat did Thompson do?\n\nThompson appeared to put a marker at the side of her ball on the 17th green before lifting it and replacing in front of the marker prior to a putt of less than two feet.\n\nThe LPGA said she \"breached Rule 20-7c (Playing From Wrong Place), and received a two-stroke penalty. She incurred an additional two-stroke penalty under Rule 6-6d for returning an incorrect scorecard in round three.\"\n\nHer five-under-par third-round 67 was changed to a 71.\n\n\"Is this a joke?\" Thompson said after being informed by a rules official, before making birdies on three of the last six holes to force the play-off.\n\n\"It is unfortunate with what happened, I did not mean that at all, I had no idea that I did it,\" Thompson later told the Golf Channel.\n\n\"I had to regroup myself, my caddie helped me out tremendously, we have a great relationship. I tried to gather myself and I made a great putt at 13.\n\n\"But it's all to the fans, they helped me get through the rest of the round and I thank them a lot.\n\n\"I learned a lot about myself and how much I have in me. I wasn't expecting what happened today to happen and I will learn from it.\"\n\nSouth Korean Ryu was the beneficiary as she claimed a second major title after making a four in the play-off, but admitted her win did not feel right.\n\n\"I cannot believe the situation. I didn't even check the leaderboard, Lexi was playing so well. I didn't expect it,\" she said.\n\n\"It hurts me as well, it is a weird feeling but at the same time I am proud of myself.\"\n\nThe LPGA said in a statement: \"On Sunday afternoon, the LPGA received an email from a television viewer that Lexi Thompson did not properly replace her ball prior to putting out on the 17th hole during Saturday's third round of the ANA Inspiration.\n\n\"She was immediately notified of the breach by LPGA Rules Committee in between holes 12 and 13 of the final round.\"\n\nAnd LPGA Tour rules official Sue Witters, who had to break the news to a stunned Thompson, said she understood the outrage of fans but insisted no other option was available.\n\n\"What's my choice?\" she said. \"A violation in the rules and then it would be the opposite story: Oh, they knew, why didn't they do anything about it.\n\n\"I can't go to bed tonight knowing that I let a rule slide. You know, it's a hard thing to do, and it made me sick to be honest with you.\"\n\nHowever, Bernard Gallacher, former captain of the Europe Ryder Cup team, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme \"the LPGA had the power to dismiss that person (the TV viewer), they should have completely ignored it\".\n\nThompson was two shots clear of playing partner Suzann Pettersen on 16 under following the 12th hole - and was charging towards her second major championship.\n\nShe immediately dropped from 16 under to 12 under following the penalty ruling, but recovered from her tears on the 13th tee, to hole a 20ft birdie putt to move back into a share of the lead after Pettersen, bogeyed the hole.\n\nThompson continued to battle back and made birdie at the 15th to take a one-stroke lead with three-holes to play.\n\nBut she bogeyed the 16th as Ryu took the clubhouse lead at four under, with a birdie on 18 to card a bogey-free four-under-par 68.\n\nThompson arrived at the 18th hole one-stroke behind Ryu, needing eagle to win but her putt stopped inches from the hole and she tapped in for a 67.\n\nRyu then birdied the first play-off hole, the 18th, to complete her second major victory.\n\nNorway's Pettersen signed for a 70 to finish in a three-way tie for third with Australia's Minjee Lee and Inbee Park of South Korea, who both shot three-under 69s.\n\nAmerican Michelle Wie also carded a 69 to finish sixth on 11 under, while New Zealand's world number one Lydia Ko was tied 11th on seven under.\n\nEngland's Charley Hull closed with a level-par 72 for five under and compatriot Mel Reed's four-over 76 saw her finish on six over.\n\nGolf is no stranger to controversy surrounding its rules.\n\nAt the 2016 US Open, eventual winner Dustin Johnson was forced to play his last seven holes knowing he had to review a possible rules infringement after the round.\n\nStanding over his ball on the fifth green, Johnson made two practice putts. But as he prepared to address the ball to take his putt, it moved slightly.\n\nThe American was handed a one-shot penalty for making his ball move, despite being initially absolved of wrongdoing.\n\nBut unlike Thompson, he went on to claim his first major finishing three shots ahead of the field.\n\nAnd Johnson also fell foul of the rules in 2010 when he missed out on a US PGA Championship play-off as a result of a violation.\n\nLeading by one, Johnson was docked two shots for grounding his club in sand on the 18th hole. He thought it was wasteland but it was deemed to be a bunker.", "Now that California has had significant rain, can the state ever go back to \"normal\"?\n\nAt the height of California's multi-year drought, Rafael Surmay's well - the only source of water to his house - went dry. For two and a half years, Surmay, his wife, and his four children showered, cleaned, drank and cooked using a water tank and 10 gallons of bottled water per month. They depended on monthly deliveries to refill their water tank\n\n\"To manage the water was practically the main track of each day,\" he says.\"We disconnected the washer and had to go to the public laundry. For showering, every time I tell my boys, soap, close the shower [faucet], wash, close.\"\n\nOver the past several months, rainstorms have brought relief to parts of California, which has been suffering from drought since 2012. Some areas have had record rain, and snowpack across the Sierra Nevada is between 150-175% of normal.\n\nThough a small percentage of California is still in moderate to severe drought, California Governor Jerry Brown may declare an official end to the drought emergency in the near future.\n\nBut several years of widespread, deeply dry conditions have exacted a toll on the state that will take more than one wet season to fix. In some cases, the landscape may be forever altered.\n\nIn parts of San Joaquin Valley, where the Surmays live, the ground is sinking as fast as two feet a year, because of over-pumping of groundwater, according to a new study by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab.\n\nAs the drought continued, people dug deeper and deeper to extract water from the ground, and that's taken a toll. Groundwater aquifers in this area have layers of clay whose particles are like \"little plates,\" says Kathleen Jones, one of the paper's authors.\n\n\"They take up a lot of room, but whenever you over draw, they flatten, and they don't fluff back up.\"\n\nAnd as the ground sinks behind the water being pumped out, the aquifers don't hold as much water afterwards.\n\nAlan Haynes, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service says some of the shallower groundwater reserves will respond to the rainy season, but others may take much longer. Claudia Faunt, a US Geological Survey researcher, says even if all groundwater pumping stopped, it would take decades for aquifers in the Central Valley to fully recharge.\n\nThese deeper basins collected water over thousands of years, Hayes said. \"It's almost like fossilised water.\"\n\nAnd that means despite flooding in some parts of the state, the drought's effects still reverberate.\n\nDavid Lewis, another resident of the San Joaquin Valley whose well has gone dry, is moving instead of digging a deeper well. The lack of water has extended to his work at the cement plant - where its own well ran dry in early March.\n\nLast month, after years of planning and advocacy efforts from local non-profits, the Surmays' house and many of their neighbours were connected to the city of Porterville's water system.\n\nBut the infrastructure that now brings water to their house itself is at threat due to the subsidence. Ground shifts can affect roads, bridges, water pipes and aqueducts.\n\nThe Nasa study focused on land around California's vast water infrastructure, which brings water from the northern part of the state to the southern - across hundreds of miles.\n\n\"There is a huge mismatch between where and when the water falls and where and when people use it,\" Jones says. One of the results of the JPL study: as result of the sinking ground in one area of the aqueduct, water flow is hampered by 20%.\n\nThe governor has signed a new law requiring localities to manage groundwater more sustainably, but it does not go into effect immediately.\n\nThe California aqueduct moves fresh water across the state from Northern California into the irrigation networks of the central valley and into the southern California\n\n\"Subsidence has long plagued certain regions of California,\" William Croyle, a state water official, said in a press release. \"But the current rates jeopardise infrastructure serving millions of people. Groundwater pumping now puts at risk the very system that brings water to the San Joaquin Valley. The situation is untenable.\"\n\nThat flow downstate affects farming in California too. During the drought, farmers either let their fields fallow or began digging for groundwater themselves. While California farmers as a whole saw higher revenue at the height of the drought, success was uneven and driven by higher prices.\n\nIn 2015 alone, there were 2,500 new wells drilled by farmers in San Joaquin Valley..\n\nBut in some cases, it wasn't enough. \"I don't know a farmer that hasn't reduced [water consumption] by 25%,\" says Paul Wegner, president of the California Farm Bureau. Some didn't farm at all.\n\nIn southern California, thousands of acres of citrus were removed because of drought. Other farmers have shifted to less water-intensive crops like wine grapes or berries, or higher-value crops like walnuts and almonds.\n\nCalifornia may be in a better position now, but it remains at risk of another intense drought.\n\n\"In the past five years we weren't seeing these mid-winter storms,\" says Alan Haynes, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service.\n\nMuch of the rain depends on luck and how the weather breaks.\n\n\"You can lock into ridge of high pressure and it steers everything away, or there's a pattern where the storms can get in.\"\n\nClimate change has a part to play, but less so with the amount of precipitation and more an increase in average temperatures earlier in the year, says Paul Ullrich, a climate scientist and professor at University of California, Davis.\n\n\"That means over the summers, more water is evaporating from the ground,\" Ullrich says. Rising temperatures also limit the amount of snowpack in the high mountains over the winter, and melts it even earlier.\n\n\"No matter how much it snows during the rainy season, rising temperatures will continue to remove water from the state,\" says Ullrich.\n\nThat means any gains now are tenuous.\n\n\"If we have another dry season - you can easily get back into trouble again,\" Hayes says.\n\nAfter five years of living under the harsh realities of drought, he says, a lot of state residents won't change their water-conserving habits.\n\n\"That memory is going to be around for a while.\"", "It was one of the worst school shootings in American history, but some people insist that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened. They post YouTube videos and spread rumours online, and their false theories have been repeated by a media mogul conspiracy theorist who has been linked to Donald Trump. Now, after years of harassment, the families of the victims are fighting back online.\n\nLeonard Pozner clicks on a YouTube video showing his street and the outside of his home. The camera zooms in on his balcony, and his address and a route to his door flash up on the screen.\n\nThere's no narration on the video - but there doesn't need to be. The message is clear: \"We know where you live.\"\n\nBecause of videos like this one - there are dozens on YouTube, and more appear ever day - Pozner doesn't want to disclose the city where he now lives. He's had death threats and has moved several times in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lenny Pozner lost his son Noah in the Sandy Hook shootings, and then had to fight trolls who said it never happened\n\nLeonard Pozner has been targeted because he's fought back against trolls and conspiracy theorists who make sweeping and false allegations about the murder of his son.\n\n\"Noah was just a regular six-year-old child,\" says Leonard, who's also known as Lenny. \"I dropped him off that morning - it really was an ordinary day of getting the kids ready for school.\n\n\"Then an hour-and-a-half later it was just the worst nightmare. Worse than any nightmare I could have imagined.\"\n\nThe nightmare began on 14 December 2012 when a young man named Adam Lanza killed his mother and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School. In a matter of minutes, he shot dead 20 children and six adults, before taking his own life.\n\nEven in a country where mass shootings are common, Sandy Hook stood out. The pupils were so young, and there were so many of them. Hundreds were traumatised - and many still are - after witnessing the carnage and its aftermath.\n\nAnd yet despite extensive investigations and a report which determined that Lanza acted alone, conspiracy theorists have constructed a fake alternate reality in which the whole thing was an elaborate hoax, staged by the government to try to introduce strict gun control laws.\n\nThey seize on small inconsistencies between initial news reports from the chaotic scene and the facts. The more extreme among them have targeted the families of Sandy Hook victims. There have been at least two arrests linked to the hoax theories. On Wednesday, a warrant was issued for a Florida woman who is accused of harassing Lenny Pozner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sister of a Sandy Hook victim tells the BBC she is getting threats from conspiracy theorists\n\n\"We're a luckier family,\" says Hannah D'Avino, whose sister Rachel was a behavioural therapist at Sandy Hook Elementary School. \"I personally will get about like three death threats a year because we don't speak up that much.\"\n\nOn a sunny, late winter's day in New England, Hannah sits in the stately Newtown Public Library, down the road from where her sister was murdered. She recalls her sister's spirit, her profound positive influence on her life, and her work with autistic children.\n\nHer voice is subdued, but quivers with quiet determination.\n\n\"My sister was murdered 11 days before Christmas and I consider myself lucky because I don't have a stalker,\" she tells me. \"That's the situation I'm in right now.\"\n\nSome of the conspiracy theorists are regular visitors to this small hamlet in suburban Connecticut. In addition to the death threats and harassment directed at Lenny, Hannah and others, they've made videos of the school and local area and ask questions of locals and family members, and have posted the footage on YouTube.\n\nAnd their theories have been picked up by one of America's most popular conspiracy theorists, a man who has been linked with President Donald Trump.\n\nThe online storm has prompted Lenny to form a volunteer network to track and take down the conspiracy theory videos and websites.\n\nAnd other Sandy Hook residents are pleading with President Trump, asking him to speak out and help stop the madness.\n\nYou can hear this story on BBC Trending on the BBC World Service or on The Sandy Hook Deniers on BBC Radio 4, Sunday 2 April at 13:30\n\nAnd for more Trending stories, download our podcast\n\nWolfgang Halbig is one of the chief conspiracy theorists who denies the massacre happened\n\nWolfgang Halbig lives in a big yellow house in a sunny, lavishly landscaped gated community in Florida. He's a retired school administrator and safety advisor, and he says that when he first heard news of the Sandy Hook shootings, he was sitting in a chair in his living room, drinking coffee.\n\n\"My hairs stood up,\" he says. \"Because they're not protected in the elementary schools.\"\n\nHalbig donated money to the Sandy Hook families. But he soon became both obsessed with the tragedy - and, somehow, convinced that it never happened.\n\n\"I think 14 Dec 2012 is an event that was in planning for a long, long time,\" he tells me. \"I think it probably took them two, two-and-a-half years to write the scripts for all the participants that were invited to participate in that exercise - or drill as I will call it.\"\n\nHalbig has since devoted years of his life to \"exposing\" what he thinks is a government plot. He started a website. He's revealed personal information about the victims of his attacks, including names, addresses, legal documents and financial information. And he's personally travelled to Sandy Hook a number of times.\n\n\"I call it an illusion. The biggest government illusion that's ever been pulled off by [the US Department of] Homeland Security.\"\n\nIn his office, ghoulish blown-up pictures of the crime scene mingle with pictures of his family and his days as an American football player. His so-called evidence consists of a string of tiny details, small anomalies which are for the most part easily explained by the inchoate nature of a horrific breaking news event.\n\n\"I'll be honest with you,\" he says, \"if I'm wrong, I need to be institutionalised.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConspiracy theories are a perennial feature of American life. But now they can be picked up by extremists and spread virally through social media. And that process has been fuelled by America's deeply partisan political environment.\n\nHundreds of videos online are pushing false Sandy Hook narratives. Collectively, they have millions of views. Falsehoods are repeated by Twitter accounts and on Facebook.\n\nStill, the theories might have stayed quarantined in some of the darker corners of the internet, were they not picked up and amplified by one of America's most popular conspiracy theorists.\n\nAlex Jones is a talk show host and the founder of the multimedia portal Infowars. Regular listeners and readers are used to his rants on everything from 9/11 to attacks across Europe. And on several broadcasts he embraced the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists. Less than two years after the attacks, he welcomed Halbig on his programme and talked about an Infowars story headlined \"FBI says no one killed at Sandy Hook\".\n\n\"Internet sleuths immediately took to the web to stitch together clues indicating the shooting could be a carefully-scripted false flag event, similar to the 9/11 terror attacks, the central tenet being that the event would be used to galvanize future support for gun control legislation,\" the story stated.\n\nHe returned to the theme several months later on his radio show: \"I've had the investigators on, the state police have gone public, you name it - the whole thing is a giant hoax. And the problem is, how do you deal with a total hoax? How do you even convince the public something's a total hoax?\"\n\nLater he said: \"Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they had actors there clearly but I thought they killed some real kids, and it just shows how bold they are, that they clearly used actors.\"\n\nThe liberal think tank Media Matters for America has listed other instances of Jones accusing the parents of murdered children being actors or casting doubt on the Sandy Hook investigation. Matt Gertz of Media Matters says that online and on air, Jones has an audience of about 8 million.\n\n\"It's kind of remarkable, but believing that Sandy Hook was a hoax is actually fairly small ball for an Alex Jones conspiracy,\" Gertz says. \"He thinks that a set of global elites are planning to murder 80% of the world populace and enslave the rest of them. He has claimed that the federal government has a weather machine that they use to target tornado strikes on unfriendly populaces.\n\n\"He is sort of the nexus for what's really a distributed network of conspiracy theorists who are on Facebook or on Twitter or using sites like Reddit or 4Chan or 8Chan.\"\n\nJones (left) along with former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone (centre) and journalist Jonathan Alter at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio\n\nJones, who did not respond to repeated requests for an interview, has also been linked to President Trump. In late 2015, Trump appeared on Jones's radio programme. At the end of a half-hour interview, the candidate told the host: \"I just want to finish by saying your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down, you will be very very impressed I hope.\n\n\"And I think we'll be speaking a lot... a year into office, you'll be saying 'Wow, I remember that interview, he said he was going to do it, and he did a great job.' You'll be very proud of our country.\"\n\nFormer Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone regularly appears on Jones's show, and reportedly was the person who introduced the presidential candidate and the talk show host.\n\nTrump has retweeted Infowars reporters and stories (for example here and here) and stories of dubious provenance that first appeared on the site have regularly shown up in Trump speeches and tweets.\n\nTo take just one example: in November 2016, Trump tweeted: \"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.\"\n\nThe message repeated an allegation with scant basis in fact - a story that had appeared on Infowars earlier that month.\n\nTrump has not endorsed the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, nor has he spoken about Jones's claims that the massacre was a hoax. The White House did not respond to a number of requests for comment, including a series of questions about the relationship between the president and Jones.\n\nJones himself has tried to make the most of his connections to Trump. He claims the president called him shortly after winning the election and has spoken to him since, although the the New York Times reported that a Trump aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, \"played down the frequency of their contact\".\n\n\"It is surreal to talk about issues here on air and then word-for-word hear Trump say it two days later,\" Jones said on his radio show in August 2016. \"It is amazing.\"\n\nGertz, from Media Matters for America, says that there is evidence that Jones does talk with the president. But he cautions that both men have had a history of pushing conspiracy theories and presenting \"alternative facts\".\n\n\"So trying to nail down for sure what their relationship is, based on the statements that they say about each other, is pretty dicey,\" he says.\n\nLess than two weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Jones posted a video which he declared was his \"final statement\" on Sandy Hook. In it, he claimed he had been unfairly treated by the media.\n\n\"I've always said I'm not sure what really happened, but there's a lot of anomalies and there has been a cover-up of what did happen there,\" he said.\n\n\"There is some evidence that people died there,\" he said. \"I don't know what the truth is, all I know is the official story of Sandy Hook has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.\"\n\nHe then played a montage of news clips and material from his Sandy Hook programmes over the years, including footage of Wolfgang Halbig. He did not include his \"Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors\" quote. In signing off, he took another swipe at parents of murdered children who spoke to the media in the aftermath of the attacks.\n\n\"If children were lost in Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and every one of those parents and the people who say they're parents that I see on the news. The only problem is, I've seen a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before, and I know when I'm watching a movie and when I'm watching something real. Let's look into Sandy Hook.\"\n\nIn front of his computer screen in his undisclosed location, Lenny Pozner is taking on the conspiracy theorists. He flicks through a YouTube page and points out a new video.\n\n\"Look - this was just posted,\" he says. \"It's a hoaxer type video - it's insulting, it has images of people who were connected to the tragedy.\"\n\nThe thumbnail picture has a photo of his son Noah's headstone. There's text on the picture which reads: \"empty grave\". In the video, there's a picture of Lenny himself.\n\n\"Here's a photo of me taken two days after my child was killed and I'm being called a liar fraud and terrorist,\" he says. \"That's how they vilify people.\"\n\nLenny used to be a casual Infowars listener - he liked to listen to conspiracy theories as entertainment. That's how he initially found out that his son's murder was being denied by the conspiracy theorists.\n\nAt first he tried to engage with them through a Facebook group. But soon the mood among the hard-core hoaxers hardened.\n\n\"The only people that would come into the groups were trolls,\" he says. \"They were just coming in for their own amusement... after that I decided that the most important thing would be to start taking down content that's spreading this information,\" he says.\n\nEvery day, Lenny scrolls though reams of conspiracy minded content, complaining to social networks and attempting to get videos and posts taken down using network rules about copyright, decency and harassment. And he's created an organisation, the Honr Network, to help the fight against the hoaxers.\n\nAfter four years of pain, compounded by the harassers and the conspiracy mongers, people in Sandy Hook are tired - and some of them are asking the president to step in.\n\nI meet Eric Paradis, a local Democratic Party official, in a bar down the road from Sandy Hook. One of Paradis's daughters was at Sandy Hook Elementary on the day of the shooting - she survived.\n\nAlthough Alex Jones has not been involved in the harassment of the families, Paradis says the president could use his influence to push Jones and the conspiracy theorists to the fringes, and help stop the harassment of Sandy Hook victims.\n\n\"The town committee wanted to put a letter together asking the president to denounce these hoaxers and tell them look… these are real children who died,\" he says.\n\nHis letter is still under consideration by local officials. It reads:\n\n\"[Jones] continues to spread hate and lies towards our town, towards the people and organizations who came to help us through those darkest days. Jones repeatedly tells his listeners and viewers that he has your ears and your respect. He brags about how you called him after your victory in November. Emboldened by your victory, he continues to hurt the memories of those lost, the ability of those left behind to heal.\"\n\nThe letter goes on to ask Trump to \"intervene and stop Jones and others hoaxers like him\". Paradis says he and other Democrats tried to avoid making the letter about Trump's larger political agenda.\n\n\"I really do think he can help us put a stop to it, because he does have a unique position with these hoaxers,\" he says. \"If he can help us out then that's fantastic and a Democrat [like me] would be very grateful if he could.\"\n\nLenny Pozner continues to take action against the trolls. He's filed a lawsuit against Halbig, alleging invasion of privacy. Halbig is fighting the suit, which is just getting underway, and says that if he loses, he'll check himself into a mental institution.\n\nLenny turns back to his computer, where he spots more conspiracy theory videos. So will he ever stop trying to fight the hoaxers?\n\n\"I don't know,\" he says. \"I would like not to have to do this. I would like to just leave it alone and feel the memory of my child is sacred and other people are also treating it that way,\" he says, \"but as long as they're not - I feel I need to defend that memory.\"\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.\n\nRead more from Trending: The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children\n\nThousands of videos on YouTube look like versions of popular cartoons but contain disturbing and inappropriate content not suitable for children. READ MORE", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nMore than 1,900 athletes were sanctioned for doping in 2015, new World Anti-Doping Agency figures show.\n\nThe 1,929 punishments for failed drug tests were an increase of 14% on the previous year, when 1,693 doping offences were carried out.\n\nWada says increased focus on investigations, intelligence gathering and whistleblowing are behind the rise.\n\n\"Recent events have shown investigative work is becoming ever more important,\" said Wada president Sir Craig Reedie.\n\nHowever, he added that \"testing remains vital to detecting doping\".\n\nLast year's McLaren report, which found more than 1,000 Russians benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015, was commissioned by Wada following evidence from whistleblowers.\n\nThe report led to Russians being banned from international athletics competition as well as last summer's Paralympic Games in Rio.\n\nMeanwhile, the International Olympic Committee is retesting hundreds of doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games based on targeted intelligence. More than 100 athletes have already been sanctioned as part of the retesting programme.\n\nThe latest Wada figures, though, are based on 2015 data. Its 2015 Anti-Doping Rule Violations Report shows there were 2,522 \"adverse analytical findings\" from 229,412 samples, of which 1,929 led to action against athletes.\n\nThe number of samples taken was 5% up on the 217,762 taken in 2014.\n\nThe figures do not include more than 70,000 tests and 1,200 failed tests which were not processed through Wada's anti-doping administration system (Adams). Many professional sports in North America do not use the Adams system.\n\nThe figures also show Russian athletes had the most anti-doping rule violations in 2015, with 176. The sport with the most sanctions was bodybuilding, with 270.", "In 1845, a curious feature was added to the clock on St John's Church in Exeter: another minute hand, running 14 minutes faster than the original.\n\nThis was, as Trewman's Exeter Flying Post explained, \"a matter of great public convenience\", for it meant the clock exhibited, as well as the correct time at Exeter, \"railway time\".\n\nOur sense of time has always been defined by planetary motion. We talked of \"days\" and \"years\" long before we knew the Earth rotated on its axis and orbited the Sun.\n\nThe Moon's waxing and waning gave us the idea of a month. The Sun's passage across the sky gave us \"midday\" and \"high noon\". Exactly when the Sun reaches its highest point depends, of course, on where you are.\n\nSomeone in Exeter will see it 14 minutes after someone in London.\n\nNaturally people tended to set their clocks by their local celestial observations. That is fine if you co-ordinate only with locals. If we both live in Exeter and agree to meet at 19:00, it hardly matters that it is 19:14 in London, 200 miles away.\n\nBut as soon as a train connects Exeter and London - stopping at multiple other towns, all with their own time - we face a logistical nightmare.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nEarly British train timetables valiantly informed travellers that \"London time is about four minutes earlier than Reading time, seven and a half minutes before Cirencester\", and so on, but many passengers were understandably confused.\n\nMore seriously, so were drivers and signalling staff, increasing the risk of collisions.\n\nSo railways adopted \"railway time\", based on Greenwich Mean Time, set by the famous observatory.\n\nRailway companies such as GWR took accurate timekeeping extremely seriously\n\nSome municipal authorities quickly grasped the usefulness of standardised national time.\n\nOthers resented this metropolitan imposition, insisting that their time was - as the Flying Post put it, with charming parochialism - \"the correct time\".\n\nFor years, the dean of Exeter refused to adjust the clock on the city's cathedral.\n\nIn fact, there is no such thing as \"the correct time\".\n\nLike the value of money, it's a convention that derives its usefulness from widespread acceptance by others.\n\nBut there is such a thing as accurate timekeeping. That dates from 1656, and a Dutchman named Christiaan Huygens.\n\nThere were clocks before Huygens, of course.\n\nWater clocks appear in civilisations from ancient Egypt to medieval Persia. Others kept time from marks on candles. But even the most accurate devices might wander by 15 minutes a day. This didn't matter to a monk wanting to know when to pray.\n\nBut there was one increasingly important area of life where the inability to keep accurate time was of huge economic significance: sailing.\n\nBy observing the angle of the Sun, sailors could calculate their latitude - where they were from north to south. But their longitude - where they were from east to west - had to be guessed.\n\nMistakes could - and frequently did - lead to ships hitting land hundreds of miles away from where navigators thought they were, sometimes disastrously.\n\nHow could accurate timekeeping help? If you knew when it was midday at Greenwich Observatory - or any other reference point - you could observe the Sun, calculate the time difference, and work out the distance.\n\nHuygens's pendulum clock was 60 times more accurate than any previous device, but even 15 seconds a day soon mounts up on long sea voyages. Pendulums don't swing neatly on the deck of a lurching ship.\n\nHuygens's pendulum clock was 60 times more accurate than any previous device, but still lost time\n\nRulers of maritime nations were acutely aware of the longitude problem: the King of Spain offered a prize for solving it nearly a century before Huygens's work.\n\nFamously, it was a subsequent prize offered by the British government that led to a sufficiently accurate device being painstakingly refined, in the 1700s, by the Englishman John Harrison. It lost only a couple of seconds a day.\n\nSince the dean of Exeter's intransigence, the whole world has agreed on \"the correct time\" - coordinated universal time (UTC), as mediated by various global time zones.\n\nUsually, these zones maintain the convention of midday being vaguely near the Sun's highest point. But not always.\n\nSince Chairman Mao abolished China's five time zones and put everyone on Beijing time, residents of westerly Tibet and Xinjiang have heard their clocks strike 12 not long after sunrise.\n\nMeanwhile, since Huygens and Harrison, clocks have become much more accurate still. UTC is based on atomic clocks, which measure oscillations in the energy levels of electrons, and are accurate to within a second every hundred million years.\n\nDoes such accuracy have a point? We don't plan our morning commutes to the millisecond, and an accurate wristwatch has always been as much about prestige as practicality.\n\nFor over a century, before the hourly beeps of early radio broadcasts, members of the Belville family made a living in London by collecting the time from Greenwich every morning and selling it around the city, for a modest fee.\n\nTheir clients were mostly tradesfolk in the horology business, for whom aligning their wares with Greenwich was a matter of professional pride.\n\nBut there are places where milliseconds do matter. One is the stock market, where fortunes can be won by exploiting an arbitrage opportunity an instant before your competitors.\n\nSome financiers recently calculated it was worth spending $300m (£247m) drilling through mountains between Chicago and New York to lay fibre-optic cables in a slightly straighter line. That sped up communication between the two cities' exchanges by three milliseconds.\n\nThe accurate keeping of universally accepted time also underpins computing and communications networks. But perhaps the most significant impact of the atomic clock - as in the past with ships and trains - has been on travel.\n\nNobody now needs to navigate by the angle of the Sun. We have GPS.\n\nThe most basic of smartphones can locate you by picking up signals from a network of satellites: because we know where each of those satellites should be in the sky at any given moment, triangulating their signals can tell you where you are on Earth.\n\nThe technology has revolutionised everything from sailing to aviation, surveying to hiking. But it works only if those satellites agree on the time.\n\nGPS satellites typically house four atomic clocks, made from caesium or rubidium. Huygens and Harrison could only have dreamed of their precision, but it is still possible to misidentify your position by a couple of metres - a fuzziness amplified by interference as signals pass through the Earth's ionosphere.\n\nThat is why self-driving cars need sensors as well as GPS. On the road, a couple of metres makes the difference between lane discipline and dangerous driving.\n\nScientists have recently developed one, based on an element called ytterbium, that will not have lost more than a hundredth of a second by the time the Sun dies and swallows up the Earth, in about five billion years.\n\nHow might this extra accuracy transform the economy between now and then? Only time will tell.", "Find out who won the inaugural celebrity boat race between teams led by Olympic gold medallists Steve Redgrave and James Cracknell.\n\nREAD MORE: Oxford triumph in men's race after Cambridge women win", "Afghanistan has been labelled one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. One study suggested 87% of women in the country experience some form of domestic violence. Sodaba Haidare visited one place in the capital Kabul that offers hope to women escaping abuse.\n\nAryan's shift in the kitchen has come to an end. She removes her apron and hat. Glimpses of her personality are revealed - she's wearing a colourful tunic over her black jeans, and she he has a mole exactly between her eyebrows - as if someone planted it in the perfect position.\n\nShe places a glass of fresh lemon juice on the table sits down across from me. Aryan is strikingly beautiful and moves with confidence. Yet it's hard to believe we are the same age. She is 24 but has the look of a much older woman. It's because of the years of abuse she endured at the hands of her violent husband.\n\nShe was only 16 when her parents arranged her marriage to a man she'd never met. Soon after the wedding, her husband and mother-in-law started beating her. She stuck it out, hoping things would get better with time. But they got worse.\n\nBy the time she realised she was in an abusive relationship, she already had three children.\n\nOne day, when Aryan's husband left for work, she examined the fresh bruises he'd left on her face, then packed her bags and took her children to the police station.\n\nWomen who suffer domestic abuse are usually turned away by Afghan police or persuaded to go back to their husbands for their family's honour. But Aryan thought her injuries would make the police take her seriously. And they did.\n\nShe was sent to a women's shelter, where she and her children lived ever since, with other women who have also escaped domestic violence. She often dreams of a future where she has her own place, where she can live without the fear of her ex-husband coming near her or her children.\n\nThe path to this dream becoming reality lies in the heart of Kabul. And it begins in a traditionally decorated Afghan restaurant called Bost.\n\nHope is at the heart of its mission. The place is run by survivors of domestic violence and here, women are celebrated as strong, independent human beings, not just victims. Bost is a base for eight women, of all ages. Working empowers them to write a new chapter in their lives.\n\nIt's a long and often difficult process. Still, it helps that every corner of this restaurant pays homage to powerful women. The place screams female empowerment.\n\nEvery wall is hung with pictures of women with unique stories.\n\nThere is Queen Soraya, the wife of King Amanullah, who dressed in European fashion and believed women should shed the veil, and that a man should only have one wife. She was also the minister of education, who opened the country's first school for girls in the 1920s.\n\nThen there is the current first lady, Rula Ghani, a Christian-born Lebanese woman, who surprised Afghans by speaking out about women's rights.\n\nThere are also lesser-known faces, Afghan women who have been killed simply for doing their jobs. Lt Islam Bibi, for example - a young police officer who suffered death threats from her own brother and was then shot down by unknown gunmen on her way to work. Their stories are not forgotten.\n\nAnother wall pays homage to Afghanistan itself, with images of three different women in vibrant, traditional clothes. They symbolise each region of this fractured nation.\n\nThere's a small stage, decorated with a handmade Afghan rug. Here female performers sit and play the long-necked string instrument known as the Tambur - or even the guitar or violin. It's an unusual sight in Afghanistan's conservative society, where many believe music should be forbidden - never mind played by women.\n\nNow a divorcee, Aryan has adored the three months that she's spent here. It has changed her.\n\nShe is no longer the insecure and scared woman she once was, who had to raise her arms in self-defence, who would cower at the slightest aggressive word. But her husband has left her with a lasting hatred of men. She thinks all men are abusive - but little by little that's changing too.\n\nHere, every day she sees men come to the restaurant with their families - men who are kind and caring. And she sees something that she never experienced. Love.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Smugglers being chased by the Royal Navy. Virtually every seaside community in Britain saw its share of smuggling in the 18th Century\n\nA boat beaches in a lonely cove at night, the crew hurriedly unloading its cargo of tea to waiting men and pack horses while armed lookouts stand guard against a surprise swoop by the revenue men.\n\nIt may be a stereotypical image, but in the 18th Century, a cuppa was in such high demand that many Britons were willing to risk jail for the privilege.\n\nIn fact, this kind of smuggling was a vital part of Britain's economy for some 200 years.\n\nIt was a trade triggered by increasingly high tariffs or duties, taxes a merchant would have to pay to legally import tea.\n\nThe duties on importing tea reached a staggering 119% in the 1750s - which meant that if you could avoid paying the tax, the cost of your brew dropped by more than half.\n\nTea became hugely popular in Britain in the 1700s\n\nNot surprisingly many customers turned to the smugglers, who were willing to risk imprisonment or have their ships destroyed and goods seized if they were caught.\n\nWhen import taxes or tariffs are low, there's not much profit to be made from smuggling.\n\nConversely, when a government makes it expensive to legally import items it encourages smugglers who can undercut the official price.\n\nTea was one of the most important items illegally brought into Britain in the 18th Century - everybody wanted to drink it, but most could not afford it at the official price.\n\nTea chests in London in the 1950s - the nation's love affair with the drink has endured\n\nIn an age before income tax, tea duties accounted for 10% of government revenues, which was enough to pay for the Royal Navy, but as tariffs on it reached 119% it gave smugglers their chance.\n\n\"If you had high tariffs and goods people wanted, it gave smugglers a business opportunity,\" says Exeter University historian Helen Doe.\n\nMore than 3,000 tonnes of tea was smuggled into Britain a year by the late 1700s, with just 2,000 tonnes imported legally.\n\nIn some areas whole communities were dependent on smuggling, from landowners who might finance the operation down to the fishermen who might be crewing the boats.\n\nThere were three main types of smuggling, says Robert Blyth, senior curator at the National Maritime Museum in London.\n\nA romanticised view of the smuggling trade; in reality smugglers often used threats of violence against customs men\n\n\"There's small-scale smuggling, where you might row your boat out to meet a ship and take off some of its cargo to sell illegally, the ship's captain declaring the missing cargo as 'spoiled at sea' when it gets to port to officially unload the rest,\" he says.\n\n\"Then there are commercially organised groups bringing contraband into harbours across the UK in a sophisticated operation.\n\n\"Finally, you have simple theft and pilfering in major ports like London from ships that have already moored, but have not yet been checked by the revenue.\"\n\nIt wasn't just the British who were developing a taste for tea. The popularity of the drink in Sweden meant the country also played an important role in 18th Century smuggling into Britain.\n\nGothenburg was the base for the Swedish East India Company's operations\n\nSwedish East India Company merchants were able to buy the best quality Chinese tea because unlike other European countries they were prepared to pay in silver - rather than seeking to barter or trade.\n\nQuite a few were actually Scottish, political refugees who had fled to Sweden after the failure of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, and who thus saw little wrong in avoiding paying tax to Britain's Hanoverian government.\n\nSo popular was this trade that newspapers in Scotland and northern England openly carried adverts for this smuggled tea, called \"Gottenburgh Teas\".\n\nBuilding specialised docks with guarded warehouses helped cut down stealing of goods once ships had reached London\n\nFor many tea traders in Britain, buying smuggled tea made sense, says Derek Janes, a history researcher at Exeter University.\n\n\"Britain's own East India Company had a monopoly on tea imports, so if an Edinburgh merchant wanted to buy it you had to go to London, you had to pay to bring it back to Scotland - and you had to pay upfront.\n\n\"But if you bought it from the smugglers it would be half the price - with no tax to pay - they would deliver to your door and you would get up to four months credit. A much better service!\"\n\nOne of those involved in this trade was John Nisbet, who became rich enough to commission architect John Adams to design his harbourside mansion in Eyemouth in the Scottish borders, complete with hidden partitions for the smuggled tea.\n\nOften when the customs officials got a tip-off about his ship it was too late - the cargo had already been smuggled ashore. And if a smuggler did have his goods seized, he could sometimes negotiate a price to buy it back from the government.\n\n\"John Nisbet had a ship and cargo seized, but you can see the lawyer for the board of customs in Edinburgh say that the witnesses had disappeared, so the customs did a deal. He paid £250 to get it all back, which still left him in profit,\" says Mr Janes.\n\nBy 1784, the government realised high tariffs were creating more problems than they were worth and cut tea duties to just 12.5%, making tea affordable for most people. The change meant smugglers switched to bringing in spirits and wine instead.\n\nThe end of the Napoleonic wars saw the Royal Navy in undisputed command of the Channel, making it much harder for smugglers to avoid detection\n\nThe Napoleonic wars saw an upsurge in smuggling, but after 1815 with the Royal Navy in undisputed command of the sea, its days were numbered.\n\nUltimately, many smugglers failed. In the long run, the business did not generate enough cash to compensate for the risks of losing stock or ships to the customs. John Nisbet may have been able to afford a fine house but even he went bust eventually, the result of one too many cargo seizures.\n\nIn the end, it was economics that finally put an end to the smuggling era. Britain's adoption of a free trade policy in the 1840s reduced import duties significantly, making smuggling no longer viable.\n\nAnd thanks to that shift in policy, you can now sit back, relax and enjoy a nice cup of tea without any fears of going to prison.", "Coventry City have won the EFL Trophy, 30 years since they last won at Wembley when they lifted the FA Cup. But what's changed at the club in that time?", "An infestation of \"longtails\" caused a rather unusual problem for Rick Faragher\n\nRick Faragher is no pied piper - he is from the Isle of Man and people there are deeply superstitious about using the three-letter \"r\" word for vermin.\n\nBut the BBC News reporter had to face his fears when he was sent to cover a story in Belfast that made his blood run cold.\n\nI winced the moment I got the nod.\n\nI'd covered some difficult stories for the BBC but this was the most daunting in terms of subject matter.\n\nIt's not that I have an issue with the creatures themselves, it's just their name.\n\nFor the first 29 years of my life, I had never actually used the word.\n\nBut that was about to change in 2015. It was unavoidable. I had a professional obligation to utter the dreaded word - RAT.\n\nA rat by any other name - ringie, joey or roddan are acceptable in the Isle of Man\n\nLike any self-respecting Manxman - Isle of Man native - I had opted for other terms - \"longtail\" is the most common.\n\nOthers such as \"ringie\", \"joey\" or the native Gaelic word \"roddan\" are also acceptable.\n\nI was out of my homeland and out of my comfort zone. I honestly thought I could hear the creatures sniggering at my plight.\n\nBut I went out and I mumbled my way around the word with the owner of the infested house.\n\nThis was a disaster. I felt embarrassed already.\n\nEven people who move to the Isle of Man often dodge the term, whether through genuine fear of bad luck, or to avoid shock and outrage from the locals.\n\nSome say it began with fishermen who brought their superstitions back to shore.\n\nI knew there were three ways to stop a jinx if ever I was forced to say it: Whistle immediately afterwards; touch a piece of wood while saying it, or cross my fingers.\n\nThere's an ancient belief that killing a wren on St Stephen's Day is good luck for you... not such great luck for the wren\n\nThe interviews with the owner and environmental health officer were soon filmed and it was time for my piece to camera - almost three decades of superstition about to end.\n\nI fidgeted, cleared my throat, and slowly climbed the ladder to the attic.\n\nAfter a couple of seconds the time had come… \"Rats.\"\n\nRats: \"They fought the dogs and killed the cats and bit the babies in the cradles\"\n\nI said it without hesitation in an attempt to sound convincing.\n\nMy right hand squeezed the ladder. My left hand was out of shot, fingers firmly crossed.\n\nWe Manxmen are not alone.\n\nDr Andrew Sneddon, from Ulster University, said superstitious beliefs about rats were commonplace in Ireland in the early 20th Century.\n\n\"In County Galway, people believed that if you were plagued by rats you could get them to move on by getting an owl's quill and dipping it in raven's blood while saying 'rats be gone',\" he said.\n\nIn the Middle Ages, people believed fairies could \"blast\" cattle and humans\n\n\"In County Cavan, there were people who used charms to banish rats for you, and in County Laois, rats were believed to be a sign of an enemy or bad luck.\"\n\nIt seems it is not just rats that gave our ancestors sleepless nights.\n\n\"From the Medieval period onwards, Ireland, in common with the Highlands and islands of Scotland, and the Isle of Man, fairy belief is very strong in the sense that you try not to upset the fairies because they are dangerous,\" said Dr Sneddon.\n\n\"They can whisk away healthy children and leave sickly changelings in their wake. They can fairy blast or elf-shoot your cattle and make them ill, they can also blast humans.\n\n\"They can also abduct you and take you away to their land. This can also happen if you step into a fairy ring, either made of mushrooms or a Neolithic stone circle.\n\n\"In Ireland, as a precaution, traditionally you don't mention the name fairy, you say gentry or good people.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe IAAF says its has been hacked by the 'Fancy Bears' group and fears that athletes' therapeutic use exemption (TUE) data has been compromised.\n\nAthletics' world governing body was notified last month but it is unaware whether information was stolen.\n\nAthletes who have applied for a TUE were contacted on Monday.\n\nIAAF president Lord Coe said: \"Our first priority is to the athletes who have provided information they believed would be secure and confidential.\"\n\nHis statement added: \"They have our sincerest apologies and our total commitment to continue to do everything in our power to remedy the situation and work with the world's best organisations to create as safe an environment as we can.\"\n\nThe IAAF revealed that \"the presence of unauthorised remote access to the IAAF network by the attackers was noted on 21 February\".\n\nRussian group 'Fancy Bears' first hacked the World Anti-Doping agency (Wada) database on 13 September last year and began revealing athletes' confidential details and information regarding TUEs - which let athletes take prohibited substances if there is a medical need.\n\nUS Olympic stars were targeted in the first hack, before Mo Farah, Helen Glover and Justin Rose were among the British athletes who had their medical files made public by the hackers.\n\nSir Bradley Wiggins has also faced scrutiny following the leak of his medical records in September 2016.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nJohanna Konta will miss this week's clay-court season opener in Charleston because of a shoulder injury and illness.\n\nThe 25-year-old has revealed she was battling both during her run to victory in last week's Miami Open.\n\nNow seventh in the world, she would have been the highest-ranking player competing in this week's event.\n\n\"[Charleston] is a great tournament and I was really looking forward to taking part,\" said Konta.\n\n\"I was battling a slight shoulder injury and sickness during Miami which has taken hold since the end of the tournament.\"\n\nKonta beat Denmark's former world number one Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 on Sunday to become the first British woman to win the Miami Open.\n\nIt was her third WTA title and second of 2017.\n\nHer withdrawal means American world number 11 Madison Keys is now the highest-ranked player for Charleston.\n\nAustralia's Sam Stosur and American Venus Williams are also both taking part.\n\nKonta began the year ranked 10th and has risen to a career-high seventh, earning £1,350,140 in prize money She is now second behind Karolina Pliskova in the WTA Road to Singapore, which charts a player's progress during the calendar year Konta went into Miami at the top of the WTA standings for the percentage of service games won and service points won She joins Elena Svitolina and Karolina Pliskova as the only players to have won two WTA titles in 2017\n\nKonta has risen from outside the world's top 150 to inside the top 10 within two years.\n\nDespite her withdrawal from the event in Charleston, she has been backed to continue her rise by two former British players - Jo Durie and Annabel Croft.\n\nIt's an interesting top 10 at the moment because if you look at Serena Williams, who's not played for a while, Angelique Kerber at number one, who's having her problems, Garbine Muguruza, Agnieszka Radwanska, Simona Halep - they are struggling mentally.\n\nBut if you look at Jo, she's very strong, she believes in herself, she copes with the things that go wrong and she has totally changed that within the past two years.\n\nI think now she feels comfortable in that top-10 mix, looking for the top five.\n\nI think Wimbledon will be very interesting, she can do well there. Clay is going to be tricky for her because it's her least favourite surface. But at the moment I don't think any of those top players want to play her.\n\nI think what's so impressive about Johanna Konta is two years ago she was ranked 147 in the world, and all of us know how she's been putting in the hard yards on the practice court.\n\nOff the court she worked with a mental coach [Juan Coto] who has sadly passed away - he laid some great foundations for a lot of the improvements she's made mentally.\n\nAll the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle seem to be coming together and the calibre of the players she beat in Miami - Venus Williams, Simona Halep, Caroline Wozniacki - make it an amazing, amazing achievement.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger said Gunners fans were \"absolutely sensational\" during their 2-2 draw with Manchester City, despite further fan protests at Emirates Stadium.\n\nWenger, who is under pressure following one win in six matches and a slide down the Premier League table, has faced calls to resign from some fans.\n\n\"I must say, despite all that has happened on the fans front, our fans were fantastic today,\" said the Frenchman, whose side twice hit back to earn a draw against City.\n\n\"In very difficult moments our fans, at 1-0 down and 2-1 down, could have turned against us but I think they were absolutely sensational to get us through those difficult moments.\"\n\nGoals from Theo Walcott and Shkodran Mustafi cancelled out efforts from Leroy Sane and Sergio Aguero in a performance Wenger believed \"built confidence to help us to come back to our natural fluency.\"\n• None 'If Wenger goes now, Arsenal will fall apart'\n• None How Arsenal came from behind to claim point\n\nWenger, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has been offered a two-year extension and said on 18 March he will announce his future plans \"very soon\".\n\nFormer Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme that Wenger \"should declare his future for the good of the club.\"\n\nBut when pressed on his future following Sunday's draw, he said: \"I've shown great loyalty and always committed. I don't know how long I am here but I love the club and will do my best. I am clear in my mind, it will be soon, don't worry.\"\n\nArsenal are sixth in the Premier League table, seven points behind fourth-placed Manchester City.\n\nThe Gunners face West Ham at home on Wednesday and then travel to Crystal Palace the following Monday.", "Greeks have already learned it can take time for the EU to switch on the green light to talks\n\nSo how long is that famous piece of string? I certainly don't know.\n\nNor, I suspect, does the European Commission. Or the press. Or the UK government.\n\nSo, trying right now to answer the vexed question (for the UK) as to when exactly, during Brexit negotiations, the time will come to turn attention from divorce to that much anticipated new EU-UK trade deal is possibly rather futile.\n\nAs we know, the EU's draft guidelines for negotiations state that talk of the future will only begin in earnest when good progress has been made on Britain's exit deal.\n\nBut when, and based on what criteria?\n\nThe only thing we know for sure is that it is in the EU's gift to make that judgement. Not the UK's.\n\nFirst Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans told me point-blank there could be no agreement on the future \"if we're not very clear what the divorce settlement is going to look like\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Timmermans: \"It's going to be a very difficult job\"\n\nSo if the UK wishes to see through the process of making that free-trade deal, it will have to wait for Brussels to switch on the green light.\n\n\"Not dissimilar to the Greece conundrum,\" an EU diplomat commented to me this weekend.\n\nThe EU has told debt-laden Greece it will only countenance debt relief once Athens has made sufficient progress on restructuring and reform.\n\nAs with the EU conditions for UK trade talks, Greece finds itself staring at unquantifiable strands of EU string.\n\nThe mood in Brussels right now is cautiously bullish (an interesting state of being).\n\nOf course Brexit hurts. The EU has lost one of its influential members, a big contributor to the EU budget, a powerful economy, and one of only two serious military powers in Europe (France being the other).\n\nThe EU has indicated trade talks will not begin until key Brexit divorce negotiations are resolved\n\nBut as soon as Article 50 was triggered last week, the words of sadness and regret that poured out of Brussels following the UK's EU referendum vanished into the mists of Dover.\n\n\"Britain is now on the other side of the negotiating table,\" said European Council President Donald Tusk on Friday.\n\nAnd the rest of the EU is closing ranks. Just look at the current row over Gibraltar.\n\nWhen Britain was on the same side of the table as the EU, Brussels remained resolutely neutral.\n\nIt was a diplomatic coup for Spain to have it written into the draft EU guidelines that any Brexit deal could only apply to Gibraltar with a nod from Spain (which contests British sovereignty over the territory).\n\nThese are only draft guidelines; they carry no legal weight and they still need to be formalised at a summit of the 27 remaining EU member countries on 29 April.\n\nBut this was a clear Brussels message: we look after our own.\n\nA missive directed not only at Britain but, significantly and purposefully, at the remaining EU countries.\n\nAcross the Channel, Brexit is not just about the UK, but about safeguarding the European Union.\n\nSpain's foreign minister said he was \"surprised by the tone of comments coming out of Britain\" over Gibraltar\n\nIt's common knowledge that this is a fractious union, whose members fall out over funding, euro rules, migration and more.\n\nIt is also a common assumption, as Frans Timmermans put it, that each side in a negotiation seeks out the other's weak spots.\n\nThe UK - respected and feared in Brussels as a wily negotiating power - is expected to try to divide and rule in the EU during the Brexit process by promising individual countries custom-made sweetheart deals.\n\nSecurity against Russia for the Baltic States, peace of mind for Poland and Spain's citizens in the UK, an Irish border deal that doesn't harm the Good Friday Agreement and so on, in the hope those countries will champion the UK against any hardline attitude from Brussels.\n\nBut the EU needs to unite to survive and maintain credibility after the UK walks out of the door.\n\n\"However much we want and, to be honest, we ideally need a good future relationship with Britain, it has to be clear we're there for the EU 27 now,\" one high-level Brussels source told me.\n\nThe EU's draft Brexit guidelines were designed to be firm-sounding towards Britain - a warning for others who may want to leave the EU - but they had a plethora of priority pledges for those who stay: Ireland (land border), Spain (Gibraltar), all those countries with citizens living in Britain, nations with security fears and businesses with logistical concerns post-Brexit.\n\nEasy promises, of course, before negotiations begin but the EU, for the first time in many, many months, is feeling less beleaguered, less on the back foot; more confident.\n\nWhile an undeniably huge blow to the EU, Brexit has served to concentrate Europeans' minds on what membership means to them.\n\nOne of the pro-EU rallies held across Europe over the weekend was in Hamburg\n\nGermany's Süddeutsche newspaper on Monday had a front-page photo and article on the pro-EU demonstrations it says took place in 60 European cities this weekend, organised by the Pulse of Europe initiative.\n\nThe activists' aim: to stop the EU debate being dominated by the voices of Eurosceptic nationalists across the continent.\n\nBrussels was already buoyed by the success of unashamedly pro-EU parties in last month's elections in the Netherlands.\n\nIt has hopes, too, for French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and looks contentedly at the two pro-EU front runners in Germany's upcoming elections.\n\nNews on growth in the eurozone is comforting for Brussels, which prefers to overlook the fault lines in Greece and Italy when possible.\n\nAnd the latest EU feel-good factor comes from perhaps the most surprising source of all: the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. The man who, weeks ago, publicly prophesied that other EU countries would likely follow the UK's example and leave.\n\nYet, in an interview published in Monday's Financial Times, President Trump appears to have changed his mind. In fact he is quoted as saying he thinks the European Union is getting its act together.\n\nBut even the most ardent of Euro-enthusiasts admit maintaining EU unity during divisive Brexit talks will be tough. Never mind all the other challenges the bloc currently faces.\n\n\"We (in the EU) can't be naive,\" European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said to me just before last week's triggering of Article 50.\n\n\"This is no time for complacency.\"", "Mrs May has defended Britain's ties with the Saudi regime\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May flies into Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Britain's biggest trading partner in the Arab world.\n\nFor the British, the visit has a straightforward agenda; in a world overshadowed by the uncertainties of Brexit this trip is primarily about trade and investment - Saudi investment that is - into the UK.\n\nBritish goods and services exported to Saudi Arabia totalled £6.6bn ($8.25bn) in 2015.\n\nFor the Saudi rulers - one of the few remaining absolute monarchies in the world - it is also about something else.\n\nThe Saudis are feeling increasingly surrounded and threatened by their regional rival Iran and its proxy militias.\n\nWhen they look at the map of the region they see Iran effectively controlling five Middle Eastern capitals now: Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sana'a, and spreading its influence among the Shia populations in Bahrain and along Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast.\n\nSo the Saudis want to know that their defence alliance with the UK, as well as the US, is rock solid.\n\nBut left out of the picture are the human rights organisations and campaign groups that want Mrs May to use this visit to pressure the Saudis to both end their military campaign in neighbouring Yemen and to release three young prisoners held on death row.\n\nThe death toll is mounting from the war in Yemen, at least 7,700 civilians killed according to the UN, most by Saudi-led air strikes, and millions at risk of malnutrition or even starvation.\n\nMore than 60% of civilian deaths in Yemen are due to Saudi-led air strikes, the UN says\n\nIn Yemen, the Saudis and their allies the UAE are determined to reverse what they see as an Iranian-backed coup by minority Houthi rebels who have illegally taken over half the country, including the capital, and carried out numerous human rights abuses since seizing power in 2014.\n\nBut the Saudis have got themselves bogged down in an unwinnable war and paying the price are Yemen's civilians; schools, hospitals, markets and a funeral have all been hit by clumsy targeting from the air.\n\nThis has prompted calls for the UK and the US to stop supplying planes, weapons and intelligence to the Saudis, at the very time that the UK is seeking ever closer ties with the Gulf Arab states.\n\nMrs May has defended the UK's ties with the Saudis by pointing out that they have provided vital intelligence that has saved British lives.\n\nThis is true. In 2010 a Saudi human informant inside al-Qaeda in Yemen tipped off MI6 that a bomb was hidden in cargo on a plane heading for Britain.\n\nIt was. The printer ink toner cartridges, packed with PETN explosive, got as far as East Midlands Airport before the police finally discovered them after the agent gave them the serial numbers.\n\nCampaigners want the UK government to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and to call for the release of blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes for \"insulting Islam\"\n\nBut Saudi Arabia's human rights record still makes the country a controversial ally for the UK which purports to have an ethical foreign policy.\n\nCommenting on Mrs May's Saudi visit, human rights pressure group Reprieve said: \"As the prime minister makes ever greater overtures towards the Saudi government, the kingdom continues to carry out appalling abuses, including torture, forced 'confessions' and death sentences for juveniles.\n\n\"Theresa May's desire for closer relations with the Gulf must not cloud Britain's commitment to human rights.\"\n\nSo for Theresa May the coming two days will require something of a balancing act - pushing for much-needed trade, more investment and closer ties with Riyadh and yet at the same time expressing just enough concern at humanitarian issues to avoid excessive criticism at home.", "When Rebecca Lowe set off solo from the UK for Iran by bicycle, her friends thought she had taken leave of her senses. But although she had to endure gropers, extreme heat and heavy-handed police, most of the people she met were a long way removed from stereotypes.\n\nThe day I left London to embark on a 6,000-mile (10,000km), year-long cycle to Tehran, I was deeply unprepared.\n\nI wasn't fit. I had never used panniers. I had no sense of direction. It was six years since I had last ridden up a hill.\n\nBut for all my doubts, I was dedicated to the task at hand. My aims were simple: develop enviably shapely calves, survive and shed light on a region long misunderstood by the West.\n\nMostly, I wanted to show that the bulk of the Middle East is far from the volatile hub of violence and fanaticism people believe. And that a woman could cycle through it safely.\n\nNot everyone had faith in my ability to do so, however. \"We think you'll probably die,\" one friend told me before I left. \"We've put the odds at about 60:40.\"\n\nOthers were less optimistic.\n\nA man in the pub said I was a \"naive idiot who would end up decapitated in a ditch - at best\". A good friend sent me a copy of Rudyard Kipling's If, stressing the importance of keeping \"your head when all about you / Are losing theirs\".\n\nYet I remained tentatively confident. The region may be politically precarious, but the people I knew from experience to be warm and kind.\n\nCrime rates were low and terrorist strongholds isolated and avoidable. Even exposed on a bike, I felt my odds of staying alive weren't bad.\n\nI'd chosen a bicycle for its simplicity and slowness of pace, and its immersive, worm's-eye view. On a bike you don't just observe the world but are absorbed within it. You are seen as unthreatening and endearingly unhinged, and are welcomed into people's lives.\n\nI set off in July 2015. Over the next four months I inched my way with sluggish determination across Europe.\n\nAs summer bled into autumn, my stamina gradually grew - along with my thighs. By Bosnia they were formidable. By Bulgaria they had developed their own gravitational field.\n\nBut leaving Europe was nerve-wracking. I was now outside my comfort zone, in the relative unknown.\n\nIn front of me lay Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Oman, the UAE and Iran. Pre-warned about men, terrorists and traffic, I began the next leg of my journey with caution.\n\nI swiftly relaxed, however. A truck driver stopped just to hand me a satsuma. A cafe owner gave me his earmuffs. Dozens of others offered food, water, lifts and lodgings, and endless varieties of kebab.\n\nThroughout the Middle East, it was the same. Doors were forever flung wide to greet this strange, two-wheeled anomaly who was surely in need of help, and possibly psychiatric care.\n\nMy hosts varied widely: rich and poor, mullahs and atheists, Bedouin and businessmen, niqab-clad women and qabaa-robed men. Every person and community was different, but certain traits linked them all: kindness, curiosity and tolerance.\n\nIn Sudan, families fed me endless vats of ful (bean stew) and let me sleep in their modest mud-brick houses. One Nubian family gently restored me to health after I ran out of water in the Sahara and collapsed, vomiting and delirious, on their doorstep: the lowest point of the trip, and the only time I experienced true panic.\n\nIranian hospitality felt like a soft protective cloak, omnipresent and ever-reliable. So much wonderful, impractical food was given to me by passers-by - watermelons, bread, bags of cucumbers - that much had to be discarded.\n\nPersian culture pulsed with contradictions. On my first day, the police admonished me for removing my headscarf in blazing heat under a tree. Minutes later the officer's sister-in-law was serving me khoresh gheimeh (lamb and split pea stew) in her nearby bungalow.\n\nThe trip was not all blissfully trouble-free, of course.\n\nThere were the sex pests, for a start. In Jordan, Egypt and Iran, I was groped, ogled and propositioned with disappointing regularity.\n\nIn Egypt, one randy tuk-tuk driver got his comeuppance following a juicy bum squeeze by being beaten to a pulp by the police convoy on my tail - my horror at their brutality only outdone by my undisguised glee.\n\nIn Jordan, a truck driver who'd picked me up following a puncture repeatedly asked for kisses and grabbed my breasts. Fortunately his bravado ceased abruptly at the sight of my penknife wafting ominously close to his crotch.\n\nSuch incidents angered me intensely, and were often frightening and unsettling. Lechery is hardly a preserve of the Middle East, but there were areas where strains of patriarchy and entitlement ran deep.\n\nI realised quickly, however, that these men were not monsters. They were ignorant and often ill-educated. Not to mention severely sexually frustrated within a culture where physical intimacy is shameful and stigmatised.\n\nThey were more cowardly opportunists than malicious aggressors, and it was usually easy enough to send them scuttling cravenly on their way.\n\nThere were certain things no-one could help with, however. The traffic was obscene by Turkey and got progressively worse. The heat was obscene by Sudan - upwards of 40 C - and also got progressively worse.\n\nToilets were a serious concern. In the remote gold mining regions of northern Sudan, where few women ventured, there simply weren't any.\n\n\"Look around you,\" a man at one roadside shack told me, gesturing to the entirely exposed desert behind him. \"The Sahara is your toilet.\"\n\nThe most worrisome issue, however, was political. Across the region, repression was palpable, and foreign journalists clearly weren't welcome.\n\nDon't tell the authorities your profession, I was told, or others would pay the price too. I took this advice - yet it was hard to feel at ease.\n\nIn Egypt, ruled by a heavy-handed military regime, tourists were tightly controlled and protected. The police were suffocating in their oversight, escorting me 500 miles (800km) down the Nile and aggressively grilling everyone I met.\n\nIn Iran, I was given more freedom. Yet foreigners are not permitted to stay with locals without permission, and several of my hosts endured an intense grilling by police. Some of those aware of my profession declined any contact at all due to fear of repercussion.\n\nEverywhere I went, security and oppression continually curbed freedom and dissent.\n\nIn Turkey, pro-Kurdish human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi was killed by an unknown gunman a few days after we met. In Sudan, two students were killed in clashes with regime forces and supporters during my brief stay in Khartoum.\n\nIn Jordan and Lebanon, refugee camps were visibly struggling to cope with the growing numbers of Syrians fleeing war.\n\nThe enduring impression was a region in crisis, stretched hopelessly between tyranny and terror. Yet there was light along the way - and that light was the people.\n\n\"The world shouldn't judge us by our politics,\" a member of the Center for Civil Society and Democracy, a Syrian activist group I spent Christmas with, told me. \"We hate our politics. We should be judged by ourselves.\"\n\nAnd that, for me, is the nub of the matter.\n\nThe Middle East is a risky place, but the risks are primarily political. Beyond the pockets of conflict and terror highlighted daily in the media lies a broader reality: that of warm, compassionate communities living normal, everyday lives.\n\nSo is it safe for a woman to cycle alone across the Middle East? With the right precautions, yes.\n\nWould I let my daughter do it? Absolutely not in a month of Sundays - are you mad?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adrian Mole, the angst-ridden diarist created by the late Sue Townsend, reaches his 50th birthday on 2 April. His diaries, over eight volumes, made Townsend one of the best-selling British authors of recent decades. But what made the character so compelling?\n\nStephen Mangan played Mole in the 2001 TV adaption of Townsend's The Cappuccino Years and worked closely with the writer on bringing him to life on screen.\n\nNow aged 48, he began reading the Secret Diary as a teenager.\n\n\"Obviously when you read it as a 13 or 14-year-old you miss some of the nuances, but what's so clever about the books is that you get so many different perspectives,\" he says.\n\n\"It's written from the point of view of a 13-year-old boy, but it's also there's the story of [his separating] parents. It's a very clever trick, because through his lack of awareness you learn so much about marriage, parenting and life.\n\n\"A lot of the poignancy and depth of the book is revealed to you later when you're a little bit older.\"\n\nMole's waspish observations of the politics of the day are another feature of Townsend's books. He criticises Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands War and - in later editions - New Labour and Tony Blair.\n\n\"Sue was very engaged politically and socially tuned in to what was going on, and Adrian was her way in to discuss that,\" Mangan adds.\n\n\"She deals with big cultural phenomena through the books and with characters you love and sympathise with.\n\n\"We can be very entrenched in our attitudes, and with comedy, especially one based on a dweeby and nerdy loser like Adrian, bypasses this.\n\n\"We still read Jane Austen today, despite those books being a satire of the social scene at the time - if it's done with that amount of wit, warmth and intelligence it becomes universal.\"\n\nIn the early 1980s, while Mole was worrying about his spots and dreaming about his beloved Pandora, author Nina Stibbe was leaving their hometown of Leicester for London.\n\nThen a young nanny - and now a successful novelist in her own right - she instantly recognised the problems occupying Mole.\n\n\"I read it when it first came out and - although I was 19 not 13 and had just moved to London - it was interesting because it was like a vindication,\" she says.\n\n\"He was neurotic, he was anxious, but he didn't mind about it, he just got on with worrying, and it was the same stuff that I was worrying about.\n\n\"He was worrying about his family, his mother's drinking and promiscuity, and I think it was the first time there was a character doing this sort of thing in such a charming way.\"\n\nStibbe's collection of letters Love, Nina chronicles her time observing the London literary scene of the 1980s (she was employed as a nanny by Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, and frequent visitors to the houses included Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller).\n\n\"When the first diary came out I was living in London, I was a nanny, and I was around all these very accomplished writers and playwrights, and they were all loving [Mole],\" she adds.\n\n\"I think people can identify with him - the way he worries about things that might go wrong is something that affects us all, whether it's health or what's happening next year.\n\n\"I wrote about divorce once, and I thought about [Mole's parents] George and Pauline's marriage, because it's so interestingly done - my parents had lots of friends like that.\n\n\"It was all so real, and Sue was writing from experience. The main thing is that it's hilarious, that's the nub and the magic of it.\"\n\nLouise Moore grew up reading the Mole diaries - and years later wrote a fan letter to Townsend which led to a long-lasting friendship.\n\nWhen Townsend asked Moore to publish The Cappuccino Years, in which Mole has a brief stint as a celebrity chef before moving back to his native Leicestershire, she described it as \"like winning the Lottery\".\n\n\"I'd just left school [when I read the Secret Diary...] and I loved it,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the quintessential humour that I love.\n\nShe says Mole's \"everyman\" qualities kept fans on his side throughout his struggles with life.\n\n\"Sue was very clear that she didn't want Adrian to grow up and be unappealing,\" she adds.\n\n\"She knew him so well, she'd said that when she was writing other books she'd start to think about him, and he followed her through her life.\n\n\"He was her mouthpiece in a way. He's very ridiculous and naïve, but he also has a great wisdom and empathy for the human condition.\n\n\"He quietly triumphs in the face of almost constant adversity - he's one of the world's unsung, ordinary heroes.\"\n\nLeicester is the backdrop for much of the Mole books, but it's importance to the character - and Townsend - is often overlooked, says Dr Corinne Fowler, an associate professor at the University of Leicester.\n\n\"Sue was very connected to the region,\" she says.\n\n\"At her funeral one of the actors who was involved in the first production said she insisted she took the local actors with her when it transferred to London because of her commitment to the local arts scene.\n\n\"Apparently there were a few references to Leicester in the early manuscripts, but it seems the editor must have asked them to be removed. I think that tells you something about literary culture... anywhere outside London risked being seen as parochial if it includes the local references for a region. Later on I would imagine she had that authority to put those [references] in.\"\n\nMole's appeal has always been much wider, though, and to mark his half-century, three new radio plays featuring the character have been commissioned by the university's Centre for New Writing.\n\n\"[Townsend] would have had a field day with Brexit,\" adds Dr Fowler. \"She would have given a voice to the grievances of the Remainers and the political developments across the decade.\n\n\"But I think it's interesting how it transcends places. Much of it's a comment on Thatcher's Britain, about growing up in poverty in the UK, about so many national things pertinent to the UK.\n\n\"So it's incredible to have someone growing up in Sao Paulo, for example, and understanding and liking it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes will be asked by the Football Association to explain himself after telling a BBC reporter she might \"get a slap\".\n\nAfter his side's draw with Burnley on 18 March, Moyes was asked by Vicki Sparks if the presence of owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.\n\nHe said \"no\" but, after the interview, added Sparks \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and told her to be \"careful\" next time she visited.\n\n\"It was in the heat of the moment,\" added the 53-year-old Scot.\n\nBoth Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to the reporter, who did not make a complaint.\n\nThe FA will now write to Moyes to ask for his observations on the incident.\n\nSpeaking in a news conference on Monday, he said: \"I deeply regret the comments I made.\n\n\"That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology.\"\n\nThe BBC confirmed that Moyes and Sparks had spoken about the exchange and the issue had been resolved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Mr Moyes has apologised to our reporter and she has accepted his apology.\"\n\nHowever, shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan called on the FA to act.\n\n\"If you look at the fact that he wouldn't have said that to a male reporter, and I truly believe that, I think the comments and his behaviour and attitude was sexist,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"With the FA, part of what they have been criticised for in the past is not tackling sexism and other forms of discrimination, which needs to be stamped out across the sport.\n\n\"Fundamentally it's a male-dominated environment that women find it incredibly difficult to break into and comments like this do nothing to encourage women.\"\n\nFormer England striker and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker also condemned Moyes' behaviour.\n\n\"Moyes incident highlights a tendency for some managers to treat interviewers with utter disdain. Pressured job. Well rewarded. Inexcusable,\" he said.\n\nA statement from Women in Football said it was \"deeply disappointed and concerned\" but \"pleased that David Moyes has apologised\".\n\nIt added: \"No-one should be made to feel threatened in the workplace for simply doing their job.\n\n\"We hope that the football authorities will work with us to educate football managers and those working within the game to prevent this kind of behaviour.\"\n\nSunderland are bottom of the Premier League on 20 points, eight points from safety, going into a game at Leicester City.\n\nThe FA must now decide what action, if any, it will take following David Moyes' comments.\n\nHis swift apology to Vicki Sparks may help him mitigate any punishment if he is subsequently charged by the governing body.\n\nHowever Moyes' admission of wrongdoing and \"deep regret\" shows that he himself believes he's done something wrong.\n\nUnder such circumstances could The FA publicly justify simply warning him as to his future conduct? Would there be criticism of the message that sends from an organisation which prides itself on the values and high standards it tries to uphold in football?\n\nIt must now await Moyes' letter - and then decide how best to proceed.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nFour players are set to make their tournament debuts for England Women at Euro 2017 after being named in head coach Mark Sampson's 23-strong squad.\n\nThe quartet are Manchester City defender Demi Stokes, midfielder Isobel Christiansen and striker Nikita Parris plus Chelsea's Millie Bright.\n\nAlex Greenwood, Fran Kirby and Jo Potter are also in, despite currently being out with long-term injuries.\n\nSampson's squad includes 19 players from the 2015 World Cup, and there are no players aged under 23.\n\n\"An important part with any major tournament is you've got to be able to handle pressure. This team is experienced in doing that,\" said Sampson.\n\n\"We go into the tournament in a good place. The players are growing in belief that we can win the big games.\"\n\nChelsea striker Kirby has been out for much of the last year with a knee injury but has returned to training.\n\nHer team-mate and fellow forward Aluko was last season's top goal scorer in the Women's Super League but has again been overlooked.\n\nShe last played for England on 12 April last year against Bosnia & Herzegovina.\n\nStriker Daly plays for Houston Dash in the United States and scored on her England debut against Serbia last year but has not been picked.\n\nThe tournament, which starts on 16 July, will take place in the Netherlands and England's first match is against Scotland on 19 July.\n\nSampson has named his squad more than three months before Euro 2017 because he recently said form \"isn't a priority\" and \"we've worked with our player pool for three years now and are clear on the right players we want\".\n\nSome of England's players are currently representing their clubs in the FA Cup, with the one-off Women's Super League Spring Series kicking-off on 22 April.\n\nThat will serve as a transitional tournament due to the traditional WSL season being moved to a September start.\n\n'If you get complacent, you won't play'\n\nManchester City defender Lucy Bronze says she is sympathetic to those who have missed out with the Spring Series season still to come but has questioned how many big games there are to come which will emulate the Euros.\n\nShe also denies there will be complacency among the squad now they know their places are secure.\n\n\"If you get complacent between now and the Euros, you won't play. Even I couldn't tell you England's starting XI,\" she said.\n\n\"Mark likes to pick specific people for specific games and if you become complacent in the squad, you're knocking your chances of playing.\"\n\nFollowing the Euro 2017 opener against Scotland, England face Spain in Breda on 23 July and Portugal in Tilburg on 27 July.\n\nThe Lionesses - who finished third at the 2015 World Cup - were unbeaten in eight qualifying games but have won just one of five outings, including defeats by France and Germany at the SheBelieves Cup.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. IS militants were seen using human shields\n\nThe BBC has seen evidence that so-called Islamic State (IS) has been using children as human shields as they fight to keep control of the Iraqi city of Mosul. BBC Persian correspondent Nafiseh Kohnavard and producer Joe Inwood had exclusive access to helicopter missions of the Iraqi military and witnessed the battle from above.\n\nErij Military camp is a dusty compound just a few miles south of Mosul. The mangled and melted gas tanks that rise in the background hint at violent battles in the recent past. Giant attack helicopters sit on the tarmac, their sleek fronts give them an aggressive look, ready for action.\n\nThey never have to wait long.\n\nWithin minutes of our arrival, two young men in their flight suits run to their helicopter. The ground crew spring into action and within moments they are in the air. Their destination is west Mosul, the newest front in the battle against IS.\n\nWe spent more than a week living at the base, flying with the pilots who have helped in the battle against the militants who have ruled Mosul for two years.\n\nIt is not the first time that we have followed Iraq's helicopters as they battle IS: at Sinjar as they delivered aid to refugees trapped on the mountain; over the factory in Mishraq that doubled as a training camp for suicide bombers; last summer in the bloody fight for Falluja.\n\nThousands of residents are still trapped in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city\n\nBut, somehow, this time felt different. General Samir Hussain, the man in charge of the mission, confirmed our suspicions.\n\n\"Mosul is the toughest job we have ever had. There is no comparison with any other mission that you have witnessed.\"\n\nIt should not be surprising. For the first time, the pilots are operating above a city where tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped. And, unlike Falluja, the militants are encircled. They have no prospect of escape or chance of a military victory. And so they turn the people of Mosul into human shields.\n\nAs we sit having tea one morning, we see a familiar face. With his smiling eyes and toothy grin, Colonel Mohammed is a popular figure amongst the Iraqi army. He is also one of their most experienced pilots. We last saw him flying over Falluja.\n\nHe joins us for a green tea, and describes a scene he recently witnessed in old Mosul. The smile flickers from his face as he recalls it. An IS sniper had shot a woman in the street. She was being used as bait to lure federal police into his cross hairs. Col Mohammed was called in for air support.\n\nIS militants have been encircled in Mosul as the Iraqi army moves in to recapture the city\n\nIt is just one example of the suffering being inflicted on the people of Mosul by IS. But their pain has not only come from the ground. Civilian deaths at the hands of coalition air strikes have been a source of both controversy and embarrassment for the Iraqi government.\n\nCol Mohammed acknowledges that a potential danger is there. It was enough to make his wife and children beg him not to come. To this day they do not know he is here. \"They think I am training,\" he jokes.\n\nSo, when firing high-explosive missiles into the middle of a city, how can he be certain he will not hurt an innocent civilian? The answer may be the only one he can give: he puts his faith in God.\n\nBut it is not just faith guiding him. We witnessed pilots holding fire as often as not. The on-board camera picked up clear examples of IS fighters walking in the streets in the company of children. If the shot was not clear, it was not taken.\n\nThe Iraqi military has pushed the militants from several neighbourhoods of Mosul\n\nAs we land from another flight, the sound of gunfire still ringing in our ears, there is an unfamiliar helicopter on the tarmac. It is bigger than the others and unarmed. A group of people runs towards it carrying a stretcher. In the distance flashing lights pull into view. One casualty becomes three, amongst them a general.\n\nIt is a reminder that no matter how well the battle seems to be going, war is never without cost.\n\nWhen the Iraqi army fled Mosul two years ago, leaving it in the hands of IS, it was a source of national humiliation. Retaking it, therefore, is about more than territory and security, it is about restoring reputation and pride.\n\nBut it is also about showing the people of Mosul that the government in Baghdad is on their side. Every wayward missile, every stray bullet, every wounded or dead civilian undermines that work, handing a propaganda victory to IS even as they suffer military defeat.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nRugby union side Wasps have revealed they are interested in the possibility of setting up a Super League club in Coventry.\n\nBut they say they need to bring more rugby league events to the Ricoh Arena before considering whether to start a franchise.\n\n\"We're trying to grow awareness of the sport,\" Wasps chief executive David Armstrong told the BBC RL podcast.\n\n\"If that did work, then we would have a serious look at it.\"\n\nWasps moved into their Coventry base just over two years ago after spells ground-sharing with football clubs QPR and Wycombe Wanderers.\n\nThis season they expect to average over 17,000 for home matches.\n\nThey hosted rugby league for the first time with the Four Nations double-header last November - Australia v New Zealand and England v Scotland - which attracted over 21,000 spectators.\n\n\"We thought that was an outstanding success,\" said Armstrong. \"There was 8,000 or 9,000 fans from this region who purchased tickets and came along on the night. That was very encouraging for us.\"\n\n'We want to make sure we're ready for it'\n\nWakefield chairman Michael Carter recently told the BBC that brief discussions had taken place among Super League clubs about the possibility of relocation.\n\nAnd the RFL says it would consider any application to move a current Super League side into a new town or city. Coventry already has a semi-pro league side - the Bears - who play in League 1.\n\n\"I should think it will have its challenges with the fan-base,\" said Armstrong.\n\n\"So we're looking very carefully at how rugby league expands and how we can build our audience in the Midlands and around Coventry.\n\n\"I think that's a bit of a stretch at the moment. Before we got as far as that, we'd have to work hard on establishing our audience.\n\n\"It's a big venture and we'd want to make sure our fan-base and our audience is ready for it, rather than building it from scratch or on a little bit of hope.\"\n\nWasps missed out on hosting this year's Magic Weekend - on which every Super League fixture is played in one venue over one weekend - with Newcastle's St James' Park accommodating the event in May.\n\nBut Armstrong says they will push hard to host next year's event at the Ricoh.\n\n\"This year we submitted a bid and we discovered that all bar one club in Super League is closer to Coventry than Newcastle,\" he said.\n\n\"So we know we are not far away from the heartland, we know we've got a strong and interested audience, so our dipping the toe in the water will probably continue. We'll bid for it again for next year.\"\n• None Sign up for rugby league news notifications on the BBC Sport app", "With leaders Chelsea being toppled by Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge, is it any surprise that my Team of the Week is dominated by Eagles?\n\nBut it wasn't only a good weekend for Palace - Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool kept up the chase at the top, while Arsenal and Manchester City played out an entertaining draw.\n\nAt the bottom, Hull joined Palace in earning a big win.\n\nDo you agree with my team of the week or would you go for a different team? Why not pick your very own team of the week from the shortlist selected by BBC Sport journalists and share it with your friends?\n\nPick your Team of the Week Pick your XI from our list and share with your friends.\n\nThree first-half saves by Wayne Hennessey set the tone for an outstanding victory by Crystal Palace over Premier League leaders Chelsea. Prior to the arrival of Sam Allardyce, I've seen Palace capitulate having gone 1-0 down away from home. Not so anymore.\n\nI sat behind the dugout at Stamford Bridge and marvelled at the performance by the manager. I saw Allardyce tell Luka Milivojevic in no uncertain terms not to stick his foot where it didn't belong after a first-half tackle on Eden Hazard. The message being that with 11 men on the pitch Palace had a chance of winning this match and the manager wasn't prepared to countenance any self indulgence from any player who might undermine his plan.\n\nWith Milivojevic firmly back in his box it was left to Hennessey to continue performing in the second half as he did in the first, demonstrating superb goalkeeping with confidence and stature. It worked.\n\nThis player is fast becoming a favourite of mine. Fernandinho can play full-back or in midfield and wherever he plays these days, he's as safe as houses.\n\nThe difficulty the Brazilian has is he and the team are missing a fit Vincent Kompany. I have no doubt that if Kompany plays, Shkodran Mustafi doesn't win the header that produces the Arsenal equaliser and City go on to win.\n\nWhat is also clear to me is that City are getting better under Pep Guardiola and whilst there will be changes of personnel next season, Fernandinho will be part of Guardiola's future.\n\nAs for Arsenal, I was perplexed by the muted reaction of their players when Theo Walcott equalised. Muted celebration when you equalise in a game like this? Strange.\n\nYou would have got odds of 11-1 for Crystal Palace to win 2-1 away at Stamford Bridge. The bookies are notorious for giving nothing away, which gives you an indication of the enormity of their victory against Chelsea.\n\nThe man responsible for thwarting most of the advances from the league leaders, and has done so for Palace since his arrival on loan to the Eagles, has been Mamadou Sakho. He has been immense for Palace who, despite Chelsea's many chances, failed to take advantage of them largely due to the out of form Diego Costa.\n\nAllardyce must be congratulated for getting Sakho to Palace. Since his arrival the Eagles have not stopped soaring. If there was a tackle or header to be made he won it and at no stage did the defender look in the least bit fazed by the pressure posed by the Blues, who have an impeccable home record.\n\nThe big question for Allardyce and Palace is can they lure the Frenchman away from Liverpool (who still retain his contract) and get him to play for Palace on a permanent basis? If Liverpool were to get a top four place, and their chances seem to improve with every game, I can see Jurgen Klopp seriously thinking about retaining the services of the player to bolster his squad.\n\nWhat a wonderful finish by Eric Dier. He might have been a tad fortunate the way the ball fell for him in the Burnley penalty area, but there was nothing remotely lucky about the way the defender tucked it away.\n\nDier's progress for club and country has been meteoric, although this season we've seen the occasional glitch here and there, especially in the Champions League games at Wembley.\n\nNevertheless, the defender strikes me as a solid individual with leadership qualities, the sort of defender a manager can depend upon in a crisis.\n\nHis goal against Burnley will do his confidence a power of good. I've not seen Dier smile in an interview for a long time. It's always good to see a player with a smile on his face.\n\nHis touch with his right foot was measured, but the finish with his left was deadly. If you are going to open your Premier League account this was the way to do it.\n\nI didn't know an awful lot about Robertson before this game although I had seen him play before. However he looks like one of those cultured left-footers who has the ability to manipulate the ball in tight situations.\n\nI can't really commend Robertson's performance without talking about the efforts of Hull's manager Marco Silva. The response he has got from his players has been quite remarkable not to mention their level of performance since he took over from Mike Phelan. This victory over West Ham has given Hull a real chance of survival in the Premier League.\n\nAs for West Ham I am delighted that the club have finally released a statement supporting their manager and removing any speculation concerning Slaven Bilic's immediate future at the club.\n\nBilic has handled the difficult transition of moving to a new stadium brilliantly. He rid the club of the poisonous Dimitri Payet and almost certainly guaranteed the club another season in the best league in the world. I should think West Ham did have 100% in faith in Bilic. Now all they have to do is show it.\n\nWith no Harry Kane to look to for inspiration, Spurs gave the mantle to Dele Alli in the attempt to keep the pressure on Chelsea and it's working.\n\nHis performance against a Burnley side who have taken big scalps at Turf Moor this season epitomised a young lad who appears fearless on the ball.\n\nThe 20-year-old moves gracefully over the ground and his general awareness is outstanding. The way he found Son Heung-min for Tottenham's second goal was quite brilliant. The only feature I don't like about Alli's game is his obsession with making contact with his opponent in the opposition's penalty area and making out he's been impeded.\n\nPenalties should be awarded, not prized out of referees. If he wants to be a Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard, he must eradicate that from his game and promote the things that make people want to pay good money to see him. That way he can be anything he wants to be.\n\nThat was a world-class ball from Kevin de Bruyne for Leroy Sane to score Manchester City's opening goal against Arsenal. To hit a defence splitting 60-yard, first-time ball takes some doing.\n\nFor one hour, De Bruyne was the best player on the park. He hit the post with David Ospina beaten and he was instrumental in City's second goal.\n\nArsenal, meanwhile, should be concerned. They are fighting for a top-four position and an FA Cup final place and, for some inexplicable reason, their fans seemed to be subdued for long periods against City.\n\nThe Arsenal players showed real backbone to bounce back in this game on two occasions. There is still a lot to play for and the team deserves their wholehearted support regardless of what some fans might think of their manager.\n\nIt's great to see Philippe Coutinho back in sparkling form again. Regular readers will know that it has been N'Golo Kante, Eden Hazard and Coutinho who are my three Premier League stars competing for the player of the season award.\n\nHad it not been for his injury sustained earlier in the year, Coutinho might have canvassed enough votes to render himself the clear favourite to receive the prestigious award, as opposed to Kante or Hazard who have both had injury-free seasons.\n\nCoutinho's goal against Everton was simply superb in a Merseyside derby that snapped, crackled and popped. That said, Ronald Koeman's disapproval of the Liverpool bench's insistence that the referee must issue a card every time a foul is committed was justified.\n\nRoss Barkley made two poor challenges and was lucky to stay on the pitch but that was the decision of the referee. Please let us not descend to coaching staff trying to get players sent off. Referees don't tell them how to do their job.\n\nIf Leicester City's game against Stoke was anything to go by, then the Foxes really should have dispensed with the services of Claudio Ranieri much sooner. Central to this performance was Demarai Gray, who appears to be becoming a driving force behind Leicester revival.\n\nGray produced two glorious saves from Stoke keeper Lee Grant and was a constant menace throughout the game. The Potters were in similar battling mood as they were against Chelsea two weeks ago, when Phil Bardsley seemed determined to get a second yellow card regardless of the cost to his team or their future fixtures.\n\nSimilarly Ryan Shawcross's tackle on Gray reminded me of Manchester United's Nobby Stiles' tackle on Eusebio in the 1968 European Cup final at Wembley. Shawcross seemed so concerned about Gray's pace and willingness to run past players and, like Bardsley, took it upon himself to take the player out regardless of the consequences.\n\nFortunately, Shawcross only received a yellow card. It should have been a red just for the cheek of it!\n\nIt's been some time since I picked Christian Benteke in my Team of the Week, but it's good to see him back. The former Liverpool striker led the line for Crystal Palace beautifully against Chelsea and gave David Luiz and Gary Cahill a torrid time in every department.\n\nIf he wasn't challenging them in the air and putting them under pressure he was heading away corners in his own penalty area. However, it was his partnership with Wilfried Zaha that really excited me. These two boys were responsible for Chelsea's demise with great link play and two sensational goals.\n\nIt was Palace's second goal and the chip over an advancing Thibaut Courtois by Benteke that was pure genius. It wasn't just about the skill but the way the striker held his nerve and waited for Courtois to go to ground before he chipped him that was most impressive.\n\nA beaming Allardyce came into the press room and said \"I bet you weren't expecting that?\" He got that right as well.\n\nWhat a week Wilfred Zaha has had. He scored a sensational goal for Ivory Coast in midweek and continued in the same vein against Chelsea. It wasn't just Zaha's confidence on the ball that was so impressive - we know he can play - but his overall contribution to the collective team effort was outstanding.\n\nThere is a lot of talk about the Ivorian joining Spurs in the summer. An attractive move for the player I must admit. Who wouldn't want to add the possibility of playing Champions League football to his international career?\n\nHowever, may I suggest that Zaha, having had a disappointing period at Manchester United, takes a pause before considering White Hart Lane. Another season at Crystal Palace under the tutelage of Allardyce may be more beneficial to his overall development.\n\nSpurs have enough Fancy Dans in their line-up without adding to them. Palace, on the other hand, are in desperate need of flair and exuberance in an otherwise functional, but effective outfit. Still, if Zaha insists on a move to the Lane, who could blame him?", "The claim: Spain has more to lose in EU trade negotiations with the UK - because of its trade surplus with the UK.\n\nReality Check verdict: Spain sells more goods and services to the UK than it buys from the UK. It is also the top destination both for visits by UK residents and for UK nationals living abroad.\n\nA clause about Gibraltar in the EU document outlining the negotiating strategy for Brexit has raised the question of sovereignty over the territory.\n\nOver the weekend, former Home Secretary Lord Howard said the prime minister would defend Gibraltar the same way that Margaret Thatcher had protected the Falklands.\n\nBut on Monday, Jack Straw, the former home secretary and foreign secretary who held talks in the early 2000s with the Spanish government about sharing Gibraltar's sovereignty, said the idea of conflict with Spain over the territory was absurd.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that Spain was unlikely to let Gibraltar get in the way of a future EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"Spain has hugely more invested in their trade and relations with the UK,\" he said, adding that Spain exports more to the UK than it imports from the UK, which means it has a balance of trade surplus.\n\nThe most recent figures broken down by country are from 2015. In that year:\n\nBut the UK arguably has more to lose than Spain on the issue of nationals living in the other country, because there are many more British nationals living in Spain than there are Spanish nationals living in the UK.\n\nOf an estimated 900,000 British citizens who live in the EU, the largest number of them, by individual country, live in Spain: 308,805. Of those, 101,045 are aged 65 and over.\n\nAbout 132,000 Spanish nationals live in the UK.\n\nCorrection 4 April 2017: An earlier version of this story said that Jack Straw had organised Gibraltar's referendum in 2002. In fact, while he had said that he would hold a referendum over proposals for shared sovereignty, the referendum that took place in 2002 was organised locally to pre-empt his discussions with the Spanish government.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Roger Federer expects to take nearly two months off after winning the Miami Open with his only 2017 clay-court tournament being the French Open.\n\nThe 35-year-old beat Rafael Nadal in Miami on Sunday, to win his third title since January.\n\nFederer, who sat out the second half of 2016 to recover from a knee injury, says rest will help him prepare for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.\n\n\"When I am healthy and feeling good, I can produce tennis like this,\" he said.\n\n\"When I am not feeling this good there is no chance I will be in the finals competing with Rafa,\" the 18-time Grand Slam winner told ESPN on court after the win.\n\n\"That is why this break is coming in the clay-court season, focusing everything on the French, the grass and then the hard courts after that.\n\n\"I'm not 24 any more so things have changed in a big way and I probably won't play any clay-court event except the French.\"\n\nRafa to 'tear it into pieces'\n\nFederer has won the Roland Garros tournament once in 2009. If he sticks to his plan, he would sit out clay events such as the Monte Carlo Masters, Madrid Open, Rome Masters and Istanbul Open - the last clay tournament he won in 2015.\n\nThe break in Federer's season arrives during his best start to a campaign since 2006. Back then he won 33 of his first 34 matches of the year, compared to his current run of 19 wins and one defeat.\n\nVictory over Nadal sealed a third Miami Open title and added to wins at the Australian Open and Indian Wells this season.\n\n\"The dream continues,\" Federer said after the win. \"It's been a fabulous couple of weeks. What a start to the year, thank you to my team and all who have supported me, especially in my more difficult challenging times last year.\"\n\nIn his on-court interview, Federer backed Nadal, who has himself been hampered by injury, for clay success.\n\n\"I know everybody is working very hard on your team to get you back in shape, and keep going,\" said Federer. \"The clay courts are around, so I'm sure you are going to tear it into pieces over there.\"\n\nIt is 11 years since Roger Federer last completed the Indian Wells and Miami double, so add 'staggering stamina' to his rapidly increasing list of attributes for 2017.\n\nAt 35, though, Federer is also proving he is a realist and a pragmatist. Who is to say he would not have been able to piece together a very handy clay-court season to increase his chances of becoming world number one once more?\n\nBut Federer knows even he can't keep up this relentless success, on all surfaces, over an 11-month season. Thus this eight-week break from the tour to be followed by an appearance at the French Open where, even as a long shot for the title, he will remain the tournament's star turn.\n\nAnd in Federer's mind - with Wimbledon and the US Open still to come - it is at Roland Garros that the season really begins.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAntonio Giovinazzi will again race for Sauber in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix as the replacement for Pascal Wehrlein.\n\nItalian Giovinazzi replaced Wehrlein for the season-opener in Australia after the 22-year-old German withdrew because of a lack of fitness following a back injury.\n\nGiovinazzi, 23, finished 12th in Melbourne on his grand prix debut.\n\nWehrlein hopes to be fit for the third race of the championship in Bahrain or the following race in Russia.\n\n\"For me the most important is that I can train intensively to ensure a 100% performance from my side as soon as possible,\" said Wehrlein.\n\n\"I will then be well-prepared for my first complete grand prix weekend for Sauber.\"\n\nWehrlein, a Mercedes protege who was in the running to replace retired world champion Nico Rosberg at the factory team before losing out to Valtteri Bottas, injured his back in a crash at the Race of Champions in Miami in January.\n\nMercedes team boss Toto Wolff has backed Wehrlein to \"come back strong\".\n\n\"I feel for Pascal, because he has had all the bad luck,\" said Wolff.\n\n\"I'm impressed with the maturity he has shown to inform Sauber that he wouldn't be able to perform at the level required in Melbourne.\n\n\"That took courage and selflessness, which I know earned him a lot of credit within the team.\"", "Frank Meehan has retired to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland after years as a Cold War diplomat\n\nIf you ran into Frank Meehan strolling along the banks of the Clyde estuary near his home in Helensburgh, you wouldn't notice much that was remarkable about him. He looks like any other pensioner enjoying a peaceful retirement.\n\nBut, now in his 10th decade, Frank can look back on a life spent at the heart of some of the most dramatic moments in the 40-year nuclear stand-off between the Soviet Union and the West.\n\nFrank grew up in Clydebank, a town about eight miles west of Glasgow, famous for shipbuilding.\n\nBut he spent four decades as a US diplomat living, almost exclusively, behind the Iron Curtain in Communist Eastern Europe.\n\nFrank was born in the US but grew up in Clydebank\n\nAs a teenager he survived the Clydebank Blitz, an aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe during World War Two, which killed 500 and destroyed thousands of homes.\n\n\"There was a bad attack on the shipyards in March 1941,\" he told me.\n\n\"I was 17. We were in a shelter and the bombing started quite far away but you could hear them getting closer. The house next door got incendiary bombed and was destroyed.\n\n\"I worked clearing the rubble of houses that had been burned. I carried a bricklayer's hod. I was not much good at that. Maybe that's what made me think of the Foreign Service\".\n\nThe event that changed the course of his life was his call-up.\n\nFrank had been born, in 1924, in the United States, during a brief period when his Scottish parents were living there.\n\nThis made him a US citizen, and in 1945 he was drafted for military service. As a young GI he was posted to occupied Germany.\n\nFrank Meehan joined the US State Department as a diplomat after the war\n\nFrank had a degree from Glasgow University and was already a fluent German speaker.\n\nOn a whim, he applied to join the US State Department as a diplomat - and got in. He became fascinated by Russia.\n\n\"I think once you get the Russia bug you never lose it,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the unknown that lures you when you're young, you know?\n\n\"I just thought 'what is this world?'\n\n\"'Who are these people who had almost collapsed under German attack and then fought their way from Stalingrad to Berlin?' I wanted to understand.\"\n\nSo Frank learned Russian too - and it became a lifelong passion.\n\nHe was based at the Moscow embassy in 1960 when Soviet forces shot down a top secret US spy plane and captured its pilot Gary Powers.\n\nThe US officially denied the existence of the so-called U2 spy programme. But the Soviets now had the proof.\n\nPowers was put on trial and given a long prison sentence. The wreck of his plane was put on public display.\n\nFrank was despatched by the US ambassador to go and take a look.\n\n\"I was pretty tense,\" he said.\n\nThe remains of the U2 spy plane flown by American pilot Gary Powers, which was shot down over Soviet airspace\n\n\"I thought there might be some kind of manufactured incident. But I went to the head of the long line of people waiting to view it and the Russian guard looked at my pass and grinned and said, in Russian, 'Be my guest! It's your plane after all!'\"\n\nTwo years later, Frank was back in Berlin.\n\nMoscow had offered to swap Gary Powers for a Soviet agent called Rudolf Abel, who'd been caught spying in Brooklyn.\n\nGary Powers, accused of espionage over Russia in his U2 airplane, on trial in Moscow\n\nThey asked for the release of a young American student called Frederic Pryor as part of the deal.\n\nPryor had been studying in East Germany and had been arrested by the Communist regime there and accused of espionage. Pryor now became Frank's responsibility.\n\nThis is the incident that was dramatised by Steven Spielberg in the 2015 film Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance, as Abel.\n\n\"The swap [of Powers and Abel] was to take place on Glienicke Bridge,\" said Frank.\n\nFrederic Pryor would be handed over at Checkpoint Charlie in the centre of Berlin.\n\n\"There were tense moments obviously,\" Frank said.\n\n\"When I was walking over [into East Berlin], I didn't know how the kid, Frederic Pryor, would be.\n\nThe Glienicke bridge in Berlin after US pilot Gary Francis Powers was swapped for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in 1962\n\n\"He'd been in prison. I didn't know whether he'd be well, whether we'd get him out, whether I would be able to get out myself.\"\n\nFrank found Pryor sitting in a car with an East German intelligence agent called Wolfgang Vogel, whom Frank knew. The two would become lifelong friends.\n\nFrank recalls: \"Vogel said 'Frank we're not ready. Get in the car and wait'.\n\nAmerican tanks and troops at Checkpoint Charlie, a crossing point in the Berlin Wall\n\n\"He was waiting for word from the bridge that the Powers-Abel swap had taken place.\n\n\"We were in the car waiting. I was getting more and more nervous.\n\n\"The car was surrounded by a group of East German goons, security people.\n\n\"Eventually one of them came over to me and said 'It's OK'. And Vogel said 'Frank - you can go'.\"\n\nFrank walked Frederic Pryor the few dozen yards that separated east from west Berlin - and from captivity to freedom.\n\nHad he seen the film, Bridge of Spies?, I asked.\n\n\"Oh yes it's very good. As you'd expect.\"\n\nIs it accurate? A wry diplomatic smile. \"Oh yes. Mostly.\"\n\nFrank became US ambassador in Czechoslovakia and then, in 1980, in Poland.\n\nFriends and relatives of striking workers listen to the news given by Lech Walesa outside the gates of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk\n\nHis arrival in Warsaw coincided with the birth of Solidarity, the democracy movement that had emerged from protests and strikes by workers at the Gdansk shipyard.\n\nThe movement's leader, a shipyard electrician called Lech Walesa would become one of the great figures of 20th Century European history. In the early 80s he was a dinner guest at Frank Meehan's table.\n\nFrank said: \"Walesa was very smart. Politically very clever. Moderate, too, and careful.\n\n\"He had to deal with militants in his own movement and he had to try to control them so that they didn't push things too far too quickly. He was very good at that. I was impressed.\"\n\nLech Walesa, leader of the Polish trade union, Solidarity, on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in 1980\n\nLuck wasn't on Frank's side. He was on a working visit to Washington DC when, in the winter of 1981, the Polish Army declared martial law and seized power.\n\nFrank's bosses at the State Department wanted him back in Warsaw immediately. But the coup leaders had sealed the borders.\n\nHe laughs about it now but at the time it was no laughing matter.\n\n\"If there's going to be a revolution in Eastern Europe and you're the ambassador, you'd better be in the country,\" he said.\n\n\"I was told to get back in quickly.\n\n\"I flew to Berlin and travelled overland to the East German-Polish border. The embassy sent a van for me. Travelling back [after the coup] was sad. Everything had changed.\"\n\nPolish General Jaruzelski who declared martial law as Secretary of the Communist Party to crush the Solidarity movement\n\nWe look back now and see that moment as the beginning of the end for Communism in Europe. But it didn't seem so to those who, like Frank, lived through it.\n\nHe said: \"It's one of the great mysteries as I look back on it and on my own work.\n\n\"I still have difficulty understanding exactly what happened to the Russians - why they decided to pack in and leave Eastern Europe. It's to me an inexplicable decision\".\n\nBut it's a decision that still shapes our world.\n\nFrank Meehan is as engaged now with world affairs as he ever was. He has never shaken off his Russia bug.\n\nFrank met Pope John Paul II in his role as a US ambassador\n\n\"What strikes me about Russia today is the tremendous sense of loss they have - of power and position,\" he said.\n\n\"That explains Putin's hold over them. But Putin can't last forever. The more I look at Russia today the more I'm reminded of the last days of the Czars, Russia between 1900 and 1917.\"\n\nAnd I asked him about his unusual dual identity.\n\nDoes he feel Scottish or American?\n\n\"Oh no I'm an American. I love Scotland and I came back to retire here because it's what my wife wanted.\"\n\nHe told me: \"When we came here, we worked out that this was our 23rd home since we were married.\n\n\"When you've dragged your wife around Eastern Europe for all that time, you owe her something.\n\n\"But I miss America. I'd love to be in Washington now watching what's going on there up close.\"", "Manchester United did Chelsea's title rivals Tottenham a favour and kept up their own pursuit of the top four with a dominant win over the Premier League leaders.\n\nMeanwhile, Manchester City strengthened their claim for Champions League qualification with a sublime second-half performance at Southampton.\n\nNo wonder players from those two clubs dominate my team of the week.\n\nFor the second consecutive week I have picked Simon Mignolet in my team. The Belgium international made a save that won the match against West Brom and prompted manager Jurgen Klopp to hug his players in sheer relief at a result that got him out of jail.\n\nTo be perfectly honest, Liverpool should have won this game comfortably. They dominated most elements of the match and should have scored at least one more, especially when Ben Foster became obsessed with joining the Albion attack in the final minutes as if he was going to somehow provide the equaliser.\n\nNevertheless it has been Mignolet who has proved to be Klopp's most valuable asset in the past couple of games.\n\nWhere has Jesus Navas' form suddenly come from? In the same way Victor Moses has found a new role starring as a wing-back, Navas seems to be doing equally well, but as a genuine full-back. Navas' pace has neutralised raids down City's right side, and in attack the Spaniard seems to have found a confidence to deliver decisive balls into areas I had never seen in his game before.\n\nPep Guardiola finding this position for Navas, not to mention invest his faith and time in the player, has proved to be quite an innovation.\n\nIt has given the team options and, with the introduction of a fit Vincent Kompany, managed to revolutionise City's back four.\n\nHow good was it to see Vincent Kompany back and among the goals? I have seldom met a player who is more impressive than the Manchester City captain.\n\nWhen he scored his first goal for the club since his return from yet another injury, the delight of his team-mates and the travelling City fans was evident.\n\nHowever, it was his defensive performance that was most impressive. I said a few weeks ago that if Kompany had been playing in City's game at Arsenal this month, Shkodran Mustafi would never have scored the Gunners' equalising header from a corner - such is the Belgian's all-round aerial power and general inspiration.\n\nArsenal got away without feeling the effects of Kompany's influence but Southampton did not. In fact, the Saints were blown away by City's performance, which was led by the Belgian defender. Great captain, great leader, great performance.\n\nWhen a centre-back scores goals in three consecutive games you have to consider whether the defender is just going through a purple patch or has a genuine knack of scoring goals. I think with Phil Jagielka it's both.\n\nThe Everton defender is certainly going through a wonderful period of scoring goals and that is because he is good at it.\n\nHis goal in the win against Burnley was absolutely superb for two reasons. Firstly because, more often than not, he times his run to perfection and gets his head on the ball and, secondly, because of his desire.\n\nThe way Jagielka responded to the initial save by Burnley keeper Tom Heaton (goalline technology said it had gone in, by the way) was striker-like, while as a defender his ability to read situations at the back has stood him in good stead all his career. A top-class professional.\n\nIt's not often I start my comments by commending a referee but on this occasion I find myself compelled to congratulate Bobby Madley on a tremendous game at Old Trafford - and so should Marcos Rojo.\n\nThere is no doubt in my mind a less considerate official might have sent Rojo or Chelsea striker Diego Costa off. If either had received their marching orders for a little 'argy bargy' in the first half it would have destroyed what was a marvellous contest and first-class entertainment.\n\nI must say Rojo won the battle of the warriors and, actually, it was fantastic to watch him and Costa battle it out - under the watchful eye of referee Madley, who orchestrated the affair beautifully.\n\nThis kid is going to be special. It has been a long time since I've seen a young lad look so promising. He is quick, direct, loves to take players on and scores goals. If you're a player with a bright future it doesn't get better than that.\n\nIt took a wonderful save from Fraser Forster to stop the Germany international from opening his account but the Southampton keeper was only delaying the inevitable.\n\nThe football played by Manchester City for their second goal was complete and utter bliss. From the moment Kevin de Bruyne (the king of the assists) won the ball in midfield, Sane was off like a hare, racing 40 yards to support De Bruyne, who provided him with the opportunity to score.\n\nIt takes guts, desire and fitness for a player to get into that position and offer alternatives for the man on the ball. That is what Sane now offers a Guardiola team who look better every time I see them. Pep is getting this team right.\n\nIt is not often a player finds himself on the front and back pages at the same time, but that is what Ross Barkley has had to cope with these past few days. However, the way the youngster has coped with some of society's excesses has been more than admirable.\n\nProfessional footballers dealing with the occasional confrontation from a member of the public, or a crass comment from a journalist who should know better, has been an occupational hazard for years. However, none of that seems to affect Barkley.\n\nIn fact, if his performance against Burnley was anything to go by, it seemed to energise the England international. His clearance off the line from a Michael Keane header was brilliant defending.\n\nWhen his goal came - and it was his goal, and should not have been credited to Ben Mee for trying to do his job and block the shot - Barkley deserved it. Precisely why the experienced Mark Clattenburg had to caution the player for celebrating his goal with the fans, bearing in mind the week he's had, I don't know. It seemed grossly unfair.\n\nWas Clattenburg so blithely unaware of the sheer thrill his goal and performance would have meant to Barkley under the circumstances? Well, for what it's worth, Barkley has shown himself to be a real professional, in the true sense of the word.\n\nHe is the sort player who looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, but Ander Herrera is capable of making life very difficult for his opponent.\n\nWhen he was commissioned by manager Jose Mourinho to take care of Eden Hazard in the FA Cup tie at Stamford Bridge, it it ended very badly for Manchester United and in particular for Herrera, who was sent off. Not so at Old Trafford, where there were three massive points at stake.\n\nLuck plays a part in most football matches and it could be argued Herrera had a large slice of it with the suspected handball that took the pace off an attempted Chelsea pass, allowing the Spaniard to produce a world-class through ball for Marcus Rashford to score.\n\nHis deflected second-half goal, which gave keeper Asmir Begovic no chance, was the final body blow for Chelsea - there was no way back for the Blues after that.\n\nHowever, it was Herrera's dominance over Hazard that set the tone for United's victory. Not since Italy defender Claudio Gentile outwitted Brazil legend Zico at the 1982 World Cup have I seen a marker nullify a top-class player so completely.\n\nTottenham's win against Bournemouth was a walk in the park and it was Son Heung-min who led the Cherries by the nose. I must say the Lilywhites are playing some wonderful stuff at the moment but Bournemouth didn't help their cause one little bit.\n\nThere are a few players in the Tottenham set-up who have distinguished themselves this season but the most improved Premier League player in my opinion is Son. He was brilliant against Bournemouth and seldom lets Mauricio Pochettino down when called upon.\n\nAnother manager who had done a wonderful job is Bournemouth's Eddie Howe but he really must do something about his goals-against record. It doesn't help when your captain and arguably best defender cannot determine whether his team-mate had the last touch before letting the ball roll out for a corner. It was patently obvious the ball came off Harry Arter's boot. If Simon Francis thought he could kid referee Michael Oliver by letting the ball out of play then he made a big mistake.\n\nBut if that wasn't bad enough, Bournemouth had seven defenders marking five Tottenham attackers at the ensuing corner and the ease with which Mousa Dembele lost his markers to put Spurs in front was quite alarming.\n\nFrom the moment Arnautovic hit the underside of the bar with a thunderous shot I knew he was in the mood to wreak havoc against Hull City. And so he did in a 3-1 win.\n\nArnautovic could have had a hat-trick but that did not matter because it was good to see one of the most gifted players in the league actually fancying it.\n\nHe seemed to be involved in everything Stoke did and when Xherdan Shaqiri is also on fire, watching the Potters is an absolute delight.\n\nThe ball from Arnautovic to Jonathan Walters, who eventually provided the cross for Peter Crouch to score, was simply wonderful.\n\nI've seen lots of gifted players in the candy-red-and-white-striped shirt of Stoke over the years and Arnautovic must rank among the best of them. But sadly we just don't see enough of what he has to offer.\n\nThis lad absolutely ran Chelsea ragged. I have not seen a single player this season give David Luiz and the entire Chelsea defence such a run-around.\n\nI have spoken before about how Manchester United must think long and hard about replacing Zlatan Ibrahimovic but I think after their game against Chelsea they don't have to be so concerned.\n\nRumours are rife about Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann, and others, joining the ranks at Old Trafford, and that makes sense. But United have a special talent on their hands in Rashford, and they must handle him with care.\n\nTo see this young man look so comfortable on one of the biggest stages in the world was one thing, but to see the United centre-forward destroy a world-class centre-back was something entirely different.\n\nWhat is even better is that Rashford is English.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea captain John Terry will leave at the end of the season after more than two decades at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe defender, 36, is the Blues' most decorated player, having won four Premier Leagues, five FA Cups and three League Cups. He also has Champions League and Europa League medals.\n\nHe has made 713 appearances since his debut in 1998 - 578 of them as captain.\n\n\"I feel I still have plenty to offer but understand that opportunities here will be limited for me,\" Terry said.\n\nThe centre-back, who has scored 66 goals for the club he joined as a 14-year-old, has made just four Premier League starts this season.\n\nHe is the club's third highest all-time appearance maker, behind Ron Harris and Peter Bonetti, and holds the club record for appearances as captain.\n• None Analysis: Terry was leader and legend but also divisive\n\n'I will always be a Blue'\n\nTerry, who made his debut for Chelsea as a 17-year-old in a 1998 League Cup match, has gone on to score 40 Premier League goals over 19 years.\n\nHe has played almost all of his career at Chelsea, other than six loan appearances for Nottingham Forest in 2000.\n\n\"I will always be a Blue and am desperate to end my final season as a Chelsea player with more silverware,\" said Terry, whose team have a four-point lead at the top of the Premier League.\n\n\"I've always been conscious that I depart at the right time, in the right way, and I feel that the end of this season is the right time for the club and I.\"\n\nTerry is one of just five defenders to have won the PFA Player of the Year award.\n\nHe retired from international football in 2012 after winning 78 England caps and signed a one-year contract extension with the Blues in May 2016.\n\n\"I'm eager to carry on playing and so will be looking to continue with a new challenge,\" Terry added.\n\n\"Words cannot describe the love I have for our club and our amazing fans. You mean the world to me and I will never forget the incredible journey we've been on.\"\n\nChelsea director Marina Granovskaia said: \"He will always be held in the highest regard by everybody at Stamford Bridge and we look forward to welcoming him back in the future.\"\n\nTerry made his debut as a 17-year-old against Aston Villa in the League Cup in October 1998, and scored his first goal for the club in an FA Cup sixth-round tie against Gillingham in 2000.\n\nHowever, the following year Terry was one of four Chelsea players fined two weeks' wages by the club following their behaviour at a hotel in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States.\n\nHe was integral to the Blues claiming both the Premier League title and the FA Cup in 2009-10, making more than 50 appearances as Chelsea became just the seventh club to do the double.\n\nHowever, he was twice stripped of the England captaincy, before being banned for four matches and fined £220,000 for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.\n\nHe also missed the 2012 Champions League final, in which the Blues beat Bayern Munich on penalties, through suspension.\n\nTerry scored four goals in 35 league games as Chelsea claimed the Premier League in 2014-15, but has found his playing time limited under Antonio Conte.\n\n'He set standards for everyone'", "The NUT conference is being held in Cardiff\n\nThere is no more familiar cry from a teaching union conference than \"Stop Education Cuts Now\".\n\nSo often has it been heard from your typical tub-thumping delegate, that it has begun to sound a little like white noise.\n\nBut this year, as teacher delegates met in Manchester and Cardiff for their annual conferences, something had changed.\n\nAs more information has come to light about the state of school budgets, the message has resonated further.\n\nSo what was once only emblazoned on delegates' T-shirts, has become a topic of polite dinner table conversation in many family homes.\n\nAs Lewisham delegate Cleo Lewis put it with absolute clarity: \"I've had enough. It's just too much. Nothing is going to change by sitting around discussing.\"\n\nThe reality of significant cost pressures, in England's schools - ranging between 8% and 12%, depending on whom you believe - not to mention £3bn in efficiency savings, has penetrated parents' collective consciousness.\n\nThis is in part due to the NUT/ATL school cuts website and the attention the local press have given it, say the unions.\n\nWith web hits topping 400,000 and citations in more than 500 regional news stories, it has undoubtedly spread its message.\n\nThe interactive website provides an estimate of how much each school stands to lose as a result of budget shortfalls and the new schools funding formula.\n\nThen it converts the figures into possible equivalent losses in teachers and support staff.\n\nIt has prompted even the most measured of parents to burst into the playground and tell their friends: \"Apparently we're going to lose three teachers.\"\n\nAs a result parents, pushy and otherwise, have begun to mobilise alongside their children's teachers against what they see as unfair and unsustainable cuts.\n\nWhen quizzed by journalists on whether teachers would strike over the cuts, general secretary of the NUT, Kevin Courtney, appeared to suggest it would not be necessary.\n\n\"There's nothing unethical about striking against these cuts. There will be demands for that sort of action that come up in all sorts of places,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are seeing is huge numbers of parental meetings, with hundreds of parents. These are significant mobilisations of people.\"\n\nThe biggest, for as long as he could remember, he said.\n\nAnd crucially, they are people not normally given to manning the barricades with placards and copies of the Socialist Worker stuffed in back pockets.\n\nInstead, they are people from ordinary hard-working families, to coin a phrase.\n\nFamilies, who may be starting to resent padding-out suffering school budgets.\n\nTake the Fair Funding for All Schools founder Jo Yurky, who addressed the NUT conference in Cardiff this weekend.\n\nThe NUT has threatened strike action over funding cuts in England's schools\n\nThe mother-of-two, and former Parliamentary ombudsman, confided that she was terrified of addressing delegates.\n\n\"I find it all a bit uncomfortable, public speaking,\" she told journalists, just minutes after making a rousing speech to the union.\n\nHer self-consciousness took nothing away from her message. In fact, it only added to it.\n\nBut it was the content of her speech, and who she represents, that gives a new power to what the NUT and other teaching unions have been saying for some time.\n\nShe described how schools have been asking parents to set up direct debits to plug huge deficits, sometimes amounting to several hundred thousand pounds.\n\nThe claim rings true with parents who've had those begging letters home from head teachers explaining what difficult times their children's schools are facing.\n\nIt provides a mirror image of the message head teachers have been setting out in open letters to their local papers, MPs and the education secretary over the last few months.\n\nAs Ms Yurky puts it, when head teachers speak, parents listen.\n\nShe expresses extreme frustration at the Department for Education's unwillingness to admit there is a problem, through its reiteration that school funding is at its highest ever level.\n\nThe DfE, however, is keen to show it is listening too.\n\nIt says: \"We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, and we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in the most cost effective ways, so that every pound of the investment we make in education has the greatest impact.\"\n\nBut the parent campaigner goes on to say confidently; \"When parents speak politicians listen.\"\n\nIt is not clear yet whether Education Secretary Justine Greening will find some hidden resources in the education budget to alleviate the deepening cash problems ahead.\n\nOr whether she will turn to the chancellor and ask him for extra money ahead of the autumn statement.\n\nBut what the NUT, and other teaching unions, say is certain is that their message is being heard far beyond the packed conference hall.", "Around 9% of adults in the UK say they download podcasts\n\nS-Town, the gripping saga about life and death in Alabama, is the latest podcast to have notched up impressive listening figures. But podcasts on the whole still don't seem to be breaking through to the mainstream.\n\nHave you ever downloaded a podcast? And, if so, did you actually listen to it?\n\nPodcasts have long been seen as the future of radio, a great way to pass the time on a long commute or catch up on a radio show you've missed.\n\nThey've been growing in popularity since the early noughties, when Apple's iPod first hit the market (\"podcast\" is a cross between the words \"iPod\" and \"broadcast\").\n\nBut, 15 years on, they remain a relatively niche pursuit.\n\n\"I don't know whether podcasting is a mainstream proposition,\" says Matt Hill, co-founder of the British Podcast Awards.\n\n\"Its core strength at the moment is in narrowcasting. It creates audio content for niche groups of people, but it does so really effectively.\"\n\nPodcasts have been growing in popularity over the last decade or so\n\nAccording to Rajar, the body that monitors radio listening, 9% of adults in the UK say they download podcasts per week - around 4.7 million people.\n\nWhich is a fair few - but not much compared with the 90% (or 48.7 million adults) who listen to live radio every week.\n\nKate Chisholm, radio critic for The Spectator, says: \"Podcasting is arguably something for metropolitan people, maybe in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"I don't think it's something that particularly seeps out to the mainstream. On one level I would say that's changing, but then how many people who live on my street would be downloading podcasts? I'm not sure it would be very many.\n\n\"They'd listen to Classic FM or Radio 2... but a lot of people look at me blankly when I mention Serial.\"\n\nSerial, of course, is the biggest podcast success story to date - its makers say it has had more than 250 million downloads.\n\nThat certainly sounds like an impressive figure - albeit perhaps not as much as it might first seem.\n\nIt doesn't mean 250 million different people have downloaded Serial, but rather that its 26 episodes have been downloaded a total of 250 million times.\n\nPlus, the RAJAR figures show only about two thirds of downloaded podcasts are actually listened to.\n\n\"Serial made 2015 the year of the podcast,\" says Julia Furlan, podcast producer for BuzzFeed.\n\n\"Everybody was saying at that time that podcasting had finally made it, but it's still hard for a lot of people to find and download a podcast, hard to share it, it's still something we're figuring out as medium.\"\n\nBut, she says: \"Since Serial, you do see different names on the top 10 podcast chart, you see larger media companies and brands investing significant money in making new content.\n\n\"And I do think those are indicators that there is growth, that Serial did something really big.\"\n\nS-Town, released in March and made by the team behind Serial, is the latest podcast to hit the headlines.\n\nThe term \"podcast\" comes from \"iPod\" and \"broadcast\"\n\nThe documentary begins with a suspected murder in Woodstock, Alabama, and unfolds around its central character - an eccentric local named John B McLemore.\n\nIt was downloaded 16 million times in its first week - although again that number is spread across seven episodes, which were all made available at once.\n\nOther recent podcast success stories include Russell Brand's new show on Radio X - which marked his return to radio after an eight-year absence.\n\nThe high listening figures of the few breakthrough hits are what make podcasts a very attractive prospect to advertisers.\n\nHill says: \"Even though the audiences are quite small, those shows do very well with advertisers because those listeners are interested in one specific area - it's exactly who they want to market to.\n\n\"Podcasting is starting to educate advertisers that there is an upmarket audience that would be interested in intelligent speech programming and would be happy to hear advertising alongside it.\"\n\nRussell Brand's first podcast after his return to radio this month was hugely popular\n\nMany of these advertisers offer podcast listeners discount codes, because then they can monitor where their new customers are coming from.\n\nWhich means many podcasts are effectively working on commission - and only become financially viable if companies can see a demonstrable boost in customers.\n\nBut few podcasts become popular enough to attract advertisers at all. There are just so many of them around - with no quality control.\n\n\"I think podcasts are very different from mainstream broadcasting, it's like the difference between blogging and print,\" says Chisholm.\n\n\"Like blogs, the quality of podcasts is variable. There's a big difference between people who blog and people who actually get published.\"\n\nAdvertising is becoming more common on podcasts\n\nPart of the problem facing podcasts is that, in general, audio doesn't tend to go viral.\n\nHave a scroll down your Facebook feed, and the chances are there will be several videos of dogs, cats, babies, pranks, fails and Kermit the Frog memes.\n\n\"The internet is a place that you take in with your eyes, it's a visual medium,\" Furlan says.\n\n\"I also think that downloading a podcast is quite hard, people think, 'Oh, I'm subscribed to this, what does that mean? How long is a season?' All of these things are unhelpful for the industry at large.\"\n\nDesert Island Discs is one of the BBC's most popular podcasts\n\nWith such a slow rate of growth, podcasts may become the minidisc of the radio industry - sold as the future but eventually becoming redundant. Or they may just take time to become established.\n\n\"Every year the listening figures creep up, but they haven't done a Netflix and exploded, it's slow burn,\" Hill says.\n\n\"But the thing about a slow burn is it's not a flash in the pan - those are the things that stick around.\"\n\nFurlan goes further: \"I think absolutely podcasts will break through in the years to come.\n\n\"If you take into account how everybody has a smartphone now, smart cars are on their way, the more technology opens up, the more we are going to see podcasts in our daily lives.\"\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.", "Turkey has finished counting the votes in a crucial referendum - one which grants sweeping new powers to its controversial President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nAlthough opponents have questioned the result, the head of the country's electoral body says it is valid.\n\nHere's what the numbers say about the vote.\n\nThe overall result is a narrow victory for Mr Erdogan - one small enough to be disputed by his opponents. But turnout for the divisive vote was high - 85%.\n\nAnd while a 51% victory may not seem like much, Turkey's large population means the Yes vote's margin is actually 1,124,091 votes.\n\nTurnout was also very high - reported at 85% by the country's Anadolu news agency.\n\nOpponents have been questioning the inclusion of more than one million unstamped ballot papers as valid - and await the verdict of international observers.\n\nDuring the campaign, much was made of the impact Turks living abroad, especially in Germany, might have on this crucial vote - particularly after a diplomatic spat erupted over campaigning on foreign soil.\n\nIn the end, though, just under 50% of the estimated 1.4 million Turks who could vote from Germany did so - and those who did were firmly in favour of granting Mr Erdogan his new powers.\n\nSeveral other countries also voted Yes, including:\n\nMost countries which returned a No vote had a relatively small number of voters - though Switzerland's 50,374 Turks firmly voted against (61.92%).\n\nThe president of Germany's Turkish community expressed concern about the level of support for the Yes vote, saying they had to \"find ways of better reaching people who live in freedom in Germany and yet want autocracy for people in Turkey.\"\n\nThe vote may have been close, but the districts containing the country's three largest cities all voted against the president.\n\nIn Istanbul, the largest city, and the capital, Ankara, the vote was very close. But in Izmir, the third-largest city, the margin was a much higher 68.8% No.\n\nBut those results could not overpower Mr Erdogan's central Anatolian heartland. Many regions of the country's interior voted Yes, with the share often topping 70% in favour.\n\nAlong the Aegean and in southeast Anatolia - which is home to many Kurds - most districts voted the other way, with up to 70% voting No.\n\nAs the count progressed, Mr Erdogan's lead narrowed, but he retained enough - if only by a small percentage - to declare victory.", "John Terry will bring the curtain down on his Chelsea career and a golden Stamford Bridge era when he leaves the club after 22 years at the end of this season.\n\nChelsea and Terry announced the mutual decision in low-key fashion after a campaign in which the 36-year-old club captain has been reduced to the ranks, barely figuring as manager Antonio Conte has led them to the top of the Premier League table.\n\nTerry may have been marginalised by injuries, advancing years and the progress of others in the new Chelsea age - but he still stands as the symbol of the years of success stretching back to the appointment of Jose Mourinho in 2004 and the club's first title in 50 years, claimed in the manager's first season.\n\nSo, as Barking-born Terry prepares to say farewell to his beloved Stamford Bridge, how will a player and personality who has polarised opinion be remembered?\n• None Terry clearly cut out to be a manager - Nevin\n\nThe banner that is still draped from Stamford Bridge's Matthew Harding Stand finds few dissenters among Chelsea's fans as it is emblazoned with the message: \"JT. Captain. Leader. Legend.\"\n\nThose words are now part of Chelsea's vocabulary and were referenced in the club statement announcing his departure. They were a tribute throughout Terry's career and will be his epitaph when he has left.\n\nTerry may have been a divisive figure outside Stamford Bridge but inside he is regarded as the warrior who led Chelsea into battle, one of the most significant figures in the club's history and a towering player who can take his place among the greats.\n\nWhen Roman Abramovich arrived at Chelsea to change the face of the Premier League in 2003, it was Terry who remained firmly at the helm as a succession of managers - many hugely successful such as Mourinho and the double-winning Carlo Ancelotti - came and went. And in Mourinho's case went, came back and then went again.\n\nThe statistics - whether he found favour or not - are testament to his talent and undisputed evidence of what he has meant to Chelsea.\n\nTerry has made 713 appearances for Chelsea since his debut as a late substitute in a League Cup tie with Aston Villa on 28 October 1998. He is third in the all-time appearance list behind Ron Harris and Peter Bonetti, scoring 66 goals and captaining Chelsea a record 578 times.\n\nHe has had a silver-lined career which included four Premier League titles, five FA Cups and three League Cups - including that domestic \"Double\" under Ancelotti in 2010.\n\nTerry was also gifted the Champions League and Europe League in the roll of honour delivered with his abdication statement although he never played against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in 2012 and against Benfica in the Europa League final a year later, events which encompass the darker side of his career.\n\nTerry is worshipped by supporters who regard him as their representative on the pitch. He is man who plays as they would given the chance - and the fact that he was among the most outstanding central defenders of his generation only added to his lustre.\n\nHe was the manager's voice on the pitch and had a sure touch with fans off it, often rounding off his captain's programme notes with the rallying cry: \"Come On The Chels!\"\n\nTerry was the great organiser, leader and talisman as Chelsea battled for domestic supremacy with Manchester United and Arsenal and European glory alongside the superpowers at home and abroad.\n\nThis has been a low-profile farewell campaign, with Terry barely seen after an early-season injury and a shift in tactical emphasis from manager Conte to employing a three-man defensive system of David Luiz, Gary Cahill and Cesar Azpilicueta, flanked by Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso.\n\nTerry has only played five league games, with four starts, three FA Cup games and two EFL Cup games this season, last starting in the FA Cup at Wolves on 18 February - a grand total of 718 minutes.\n\nWhether he gets the chance of a grand farewell will depend on Chelsea's fortunes between now and the end of the season as they protect a slender four-point gap from Tottenham at the top of the Premier League table.\n\nIf the finale goes to Chelsea's plan, then the last game of the season, at home to Sunderland on Sunday, 21 May, is likely to be an occasion high on emotion.\n\nIt is certainly a cleaner, more dignified break than it threatened to be when he announced in January 2016 after an FA Cup fourth-round win at MK Dons that he had not been offered a new deal and it was \"not going to be a fairytale ending\" - an announcement which appeared to come as a surprise to Chelsea.\n\nFences were mended, a new one-year contract agreed, and while this may not be a fairytale, it is a parting that is amicable, mutual and leaves the door wide open for Terry's return to Stamford Bridge.\n\nThose outside the club often used words other than \"Captain. Leader. Legend\" to describe Terry but even those who never warmed to him would surely admit to a grudging respect for his ability, success, drive and longevity.\n\nThe words of his contemporaries provide the biggest tribute with Jamie Carragher - on opposing sides to Terry in numerous battles against Liverpool - calling him \"the best centre-back we've seen in the Premier League era\".\n\nEven as Terry sat on the bench during Chelsea's 2-0 loss to Manchester United on Sunday, Old Trafford was reminding him in colourful terms of arguably the lowest moment of a career that was a story of contrasts.\n\nFor all the glory, there was a thread of disappointment and controversy running throughout his time with Chelsea and England that led to him being a personality who split opinion.\n\nUnited's fans were gleefully recalling the moment that reduced Terry to tears after the Champions League loss on penalties to Sir Alex Ferguson's side in May 2008, when he stepped forward in the Moscow downpour to take what would have been the winning spot-kick, only to slip and hit the post in a moment that will haunt him forever as Chelsea went on to lose.\n\nTerry was even denied redemption when Chelsea finally claimed their holy grail by beating Bayern Munich in their own Allianz Arena four years later under interim manager Roberto di Matteo. Terry missed the final through suspension after he was sent off in the semi-final second leg in Barcelona. He put his kit on for the celebratory photographs but was not part of the winning team and gave the impression of someone with his nose pressed up against the window looking in on the glory.\n\nAnd when Chelsea beat Benfica in Amsterdam to win the 2013 Europa League, Terry was out injured. This trophy was won under another interim manager, Rafael Benitez, who had a fractious relationship with his captain.\n\nHe was also in the headlines off the field during his Chelsea career, most notably in September 2012 when he was banned for four games and fined £220,000 after a Football Association regulatory commission found him guilty of racially abusing then Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a game at Loftus Road on 23 October 2011.\n\nIt was an incident that had an impact on Terry's England career, which he ended with a self-imposed retirement after 78 caps. He had been cleared of abusing Ferdinand at Westminster Magistrates Court in July and felt the FA's decision to pursue a disciplinary hearing made his position \"untenable\".\n\nTerry had been stripped of the captaincy by the FA over the matter in the previous February, a decision which was the catalyst for the resignation of England manager Fabio Capello, who was critical of the move.\n\nThe Italian was a staunch admirer of Terry, even restoring him to the England captaincy 13 months after removing him from the role in February 2010 after allegations the defender had a relationship with the ex-girlfriend of former England and Chelsea team-mate Wayne Bridge - an allegation Terry denied.\n\nThere are gaps in the CV. There are controversies that will always be linked to his name. What is beyond dispute is his status as Chelsea's greatest and most successful captain.\n\nThe end of an era\n\nTerry's departure breaks the last link in the chain of Chelsea's great generation, the last member of the spine of the teams that brought the club such success since the Millennium.\n\nHe was the last of the big beasts from a Chelsea's dressing room almost over-crowded with huge characters, one which occasionally had to answer to accusations it wielded too much power, especially when managers such as Andre Villas-Boas and even the all-conquering Mourinho were sacked, twice in the latter's case.\n\nTerry was a pivotal figure surrounded by the likes of goalkeeper Petr Cech, full-back Ashley Cole, England colleague Frank Lampard and the great striker Didier Drogba, all Stamford Bridge giants.\n\nIt is now time for Chelsea's new breed to take the club forward without the player and personality who has been a pillar of their success.\n\nWhere next for Terry?\n\nClubs around the globe will have been alerted by Terry's declaration that he intends to continue his playing career.\n\nIt is hard, rather like Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher at Liverpool, to see Terry pulling on the shirt of a Premier League club other than Chelsea - but Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe has been interested in him before and may try again.\n\nWest Bromwich Albion manager Tony Pulis is another who will have noted Terry's decision with interest, although it remains to be seen whether the interest is reciprocated.\n\nThere are the more obvious potential destinations for Terry such as Major League Soccer in the United States, which was a stop-off before retirement for former Chelsea and England team-mate Lampard at New York City FC and Gerrard at LA Galaxy - where another ex-colleague Ashley Cole currently plays.\n\nDoes Terry, however, have the current status to make him attractive to an MLS team at his age and with barely a game to his name in 12 months?\n\nChina is an obvious and lucrative option. Terry has been linked with a move to Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, who are coached by former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari.\n\nChelsea to China is already a well-worn route with Ramires at Jiangsu Suning, Oscar at Shanghai SIPG and Jon Obi Mikel at Tianjin TEDA.\n\nAn opportunity in Qatar may also be offered - and Terry is unlikely to be short of options for his final move.", "I was not surprised to see Jose Mourinho get his tactics spot on for Manchester United's 2-0 win over Chelsea, but he did not do it the way I expected.\n\nMourinho has masterminded plenty of wins in big games down the years, but he usually does it with a defensive approach and by setting up with a team that, first and foremost, is very difficult to break down.\n\nOn Sunday, he flipped that model on its head. United played with two up front and with wing-backs who were high up the pitch - they were on the front foot and went at Chelsea from the start.\n\nIt meant United produced a brilliant attacking display as well as a convincing defensive one that was tactically aware of the different threats that Chelsea posed.\n\nMan Utd did not give Chelsea an inch of space\n\nMourinho asked Ander Herrera to man-mark Eden Hazard and he did it brilliantly, but United's game-plan went much further than that.\n\nThey did not give Chelsea an inch of space anywhere on the pitch and did not allow them to get into any type of rhythm.\n\nIt started from the front, where Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard never stopped pestering the Blues defence, and Paul Pogba, Marouane Fellaini and Herrera seemed to win every meaningful battle in midfield.\n\nWhen the ball did reach Blues striker Diego Costa, he always seemed to end up on the floor because Eric Bailly and Marcos Rojo put him under so much pressure.\n\nThe Blues are unable to adapt\n\nUnited started the game so well and at such a high tempo that it seemed to take the wind out of Chelsea's sails.\n\nI've played in games like that where I was surprised at the way the opposition were set up or they came at us quicker than expected but, usually, it takes about 15 minutes to figure it out.\n\nIn that time you think 'well, we are all over the place at the moment but let's hang in here and we will get our rhythm back'. Eventually you can take control of the situation, even if you do go a goal down.\n\nUnited just did not allow that to happen, because they were constantly in Chelsea's faces.\n\nStopping Hazard was only part of that. Yes, he slipped through the net a couple of times when United tried to man-mark him when they lost in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge in March.\n\nThis time he did not get any joy at all, but Chelsea's problems at Old Trafford this time were not just because Herrera did a much better job than Phil Jones managed in that match.\n\nWhen N'Golo Kante and Nemanja Matic play together in the Blues midfield, as they did against United, I think there is a genuine issue with their attacking play.\n\nDefenders know that if Kante and Matic are playing, the ball is not going over the top. Costa does not make the runs for starters, which tells you everything.\n\nThey are both phenomenal midfielders but they are not going to deliver that sort of pass - there is a reason why Chelsea look far more dangerous when Cesc Fabregas is in the team.\n\nFabregas came on in the last 10 minutes at Old Trafford, when Chelsea were crying out for him in the first half as they were very predictable in possession.\n\nWhen Chelsea tried to find Costa, their passes seemed to be too slow and too obvious. He kept having to come short, with Rojo or Bailly staying close to him and knowing exactly what he was going to do.\n\nThere was no variation in their play and, crucially, they did not get the basics right either, which is very unlike them.\n\nUnited seemed to win every knockdown, tackle, or second ball in midfield, all of which helped them keep all the momentum.\n\nThey ran out deserved winners and kept alive their hopes of a top-four finish.\n\nIn my eyes, Herrera's performance was so good it made him a Mourinho player for life.\n\nMourinho now knows that if he needs someone to do a man-marking job - something ugly - he has the type of player who is clever and disciplined enough, and also has the physicality to do it.\n\nThe United manager will also have a bit more trust in the ability of young players like Rashford and Lingard after seeing them perform so well in such a big game.\n\nTheir pace gave something United different up front compared to when Zlatan Ibrahimovic leads the line.\n\nIbrahimovic has been brilliant this season and I still think he will be the man Mourinho looks to for the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final against Anderlecht on Thursday.\n\nBut having to choose between him and Rashford, who looked so sharp, is a good problem for Mourinho to have at such a busy time of the season.\n\nChelsea still in pole position despite defeat\n\nChelsea's trip to Goodison Park is the most difficult of their six remaining fixtures - Everton are flying at home, where they have won seven league games in a row.\n\nGoing to West Brom will be tricky too, because I am pretty sure Baggies boss Tony Pulis will set up exactly the same way he did against Liverpool on Sunday.\n\nPulis basically played with six at the back - four centre-halves and wingers that drop in as full-backs, which is a nightmare to play against - Liverpool were quite lucky to get their winner.\n\nSo, the Blues could drop points at The Hawthorns too, but I think they will absolutely wipe the floor with the teams they play in their four home games.\n\nWhen you go through Tottenham's run-in, it is much harder, and they basically have to win all of their games to have a chance of winning the title.\n\nSpurs will have to do it the hard way if they are going to be champions, but they have got the quality and depth in their squad to do it.\n\nWith the way they are playing at home, they have given themselves a chance - now they need more slip-ups from Chelsea.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nBy Owen Phillips BBC Sport at the Crucible\n\nStuart Bingham moved into the second round of the World Championship with a 10-5 victory over fellow former Crucible winner Peter Ebdon.\n\nBingham, champion in 2015, was pegged back to 5-4 overnight as the 2002 winner took the final two frames of the opening session.\n\nBut the world number three quickly extended his lead to 8-4 and closed out victory after Ebdon got back to 8-5.\n\n\"It didn't feel like a 10-5 win,\" said Bingham.\n\n\"I'm over the moon to get through - he's a great player and a great competitor.\n\n\"My percentages weren't great and I will have to improve against Kyren Wilson in the next round.\"\n\nIn an all-China battle on table one, Ding Junhui - runner-up last year - was in majestic form on his way to a 7-2 lead over Zhou Yuelong.\n\nWorld number four Ding scored three centuries, including a 136 - the tournament's highest break so far, to take control going into Tuesday afternoon's concluding session.\n\nMonday's afternoon session sees England's Shaun Murphy resume with a 6-3 lead against Yan Bingtao of China, while four-time champion John Higgins of Scotland begins against English qualifier Martin Gould.\n\nHong Kong's Marco Fu, the world number eight, looks to overturn a 7-2 deficit against Belgian qualifier Luca Brecel when they play to a conclusion in the evening session.", "Lock Joe Launchbury and centre Jonathan Joseph are set to lead a list of shock English exclusions from the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.\n\nBoth men, who starred in England's Six Nations triumph, face being left out of Warren Gatland's squad, which will be named at 12:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nAbout 14 Englishmen are expected to be in the 37-39-man party, including prop Kyle Sinckler and centre Ben Te'o.\n\nBut England captain Dylan Hartley's chances are rated as 50-50.\n\nOther stalwarts of Eddie Jones' side, such as flankers James Haskell and Chris Robshaw, and fly-half George Ford, are also thought to be unlikely to force their way into Gatland's plans at this stage.\n\nDespite finishing fifth in the Six Nations, Wales are still set for a strong contingent of up to 11 players, with the likes of Alun Wyn Jones, prospective captain Sam Warburton, Taulupe Faletau, Rhys Webb, Jonathan Davies and George North among those highly likely to be included.\n\nConversely, winning three of their five matches in the Championship seems unlikely to have helped Scotland's representatives, with full-back Stuart Hogg the only selection certainty.\n\nThe coaches will meet for a final selection meeting on Tuesday, with Lions sources insisting nothing is yet set in stone.\n\nWasps forward Launchbury, 26, was short-listed for Six Nations player of the tournament, but faces fierce competition in the second row.\n\nJones and England's Maro Itoje are certainties to make the touring party, but Launchbury is believed to have slipped behind compatriots George Kruis and Courtney Lawes in the pecking order. Gatland is also understood to be keen on Ireland's Donnacha Ryan.\n\nRyan's fellow Irishman Iain Henderson also excelled when Ireland beat England in Dublin on the final weekend of the Six Nations.\n• None Robinson, Guscott, Bentley - six Lions wildcard picks to whet the appetite\n\nJoseph has been tipped by many pundits to start the Test series at outside centre, but Gatland's preference for size in midfield could see the likes of Te'o and Davies preferred.\n\nMeanwhile, despite captaining England to consecutive Six Nations titles, Hartley is struggling to force his way into the squad as one of the three hookers, with Ireland's Rory Best and Wales' Ken Owens vying for places along with England second-choice Jamie George.\n\nThe tour begins on 3 June and features a 10-game schedule, culminating in a three-Test series against the All Blacks.\n\nThe Lions will be looking for a second series win in New Zealand, with their only triumph to date a 2-1 victory in 1971.\n• Listen to a Lions squad announcement special on Radio 5 live from 19:00 BST on Wednesday\n\nGatland and his assistants are meeting on Tuesday and there is a chance things can change, but I do think it is a case of dotting the i's and crossing the t's.\n\nWhat I am hearing is there are some pretty high-profile players who will miss out. As well as Launchbury, who has really fallen victim to the fierce competition in the second row, and Joseph, I think England captain Hartley is odds-against making it. But if one of the selectors puts their neck on the line for him in that meeting then that can change.\n\nEvery time it looks like a big name is missing out, you look at the options coming in. There will be a lot of uproar and unrest in many quarters, nothing splits opinion like a Lions squad announcement. Scotland fans could be up in arms, as they may only have a maximum of four players in this trip and they finished higher than Wales in the Six Nations, who may have 11 players.\n\nThis year not as many players are inked in from the start, but up to 70 players have a strong case.\n\nThe Lions will play all five of New Zealand's Super Rugby sides, the Maori All Blacks, plus three Tests in Auckland and Wellington.\n\nFormer All Blacks coach Graham Henry has questioned the \"demanding\" schedule, saying it is potentially \"suicidal\".\n\n\"There is huge pressure on the Lions,\" Henry told ESPN. \"They are playing New Zealand Maori, they are playing the five franchised teams - and those five franchised teams have nothing to lose, no pressure on them at all, so they will fire everything at the Lions and take them on.\n\n\"Hopefully they [the Lions] have the ability to overcome that. But really when you tour, you need to ensure some momentum is created by results and you just wonder how they are going to go into the Test series with that itinerary.\"\n\nBBC rugby reporter Chris Jones and former England international Ugo Monye picked their Lions squad on 5 live's Rugby Union weekly. You can download the podcast here.", "Prince Harry is on the front page of the Daily Telegraph for the second day running following his revelations about his struggle to come to terms with the death of his mother.\n\nIt reports that ministers are examining plans to station NHS mental health workers in secondary schools full time in an effort to tackle what it calls a rising tide of depression and anxiety.\n\nAccording to the Telegraph, the idea is part of a green paper on young people and mental health to be published later this year. \"Pupils to learn Harry's lessons\", says the headline.\n\nThe Sun's former royal editor, Duncan Larcombe, writes that he witnessed Prince Harry's inner turmoil when the prince tried to have him ejected from a party in 2008.\n\nMr Larcombe says the confrontation took place shortly after the inquest into Princess Diana's death, and the prince calmed down after venting his feelings.\n\nThe Daily Mirror welcomes the younger royals' championing of mental health but adds: \"Imagine the impact if this influential group spoke out against cuts...\"\n\nDonald Trump provides the image of the day - appearing on a number of front pages alongside a wide-eyed Easter Bunny at a White House children's party.\n\nThe US President was joined by the Easter bunny at the 139th White House Easter Egg Roll\n\nThe Times focuses on the Turkish referendum, reporting that European diplomats are increasingly concerned that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will renege on the agreement to stem migration to the continent.\n\nThey are said to fear that Mr Erdogan will consolidate his new executive powers by picking political battles with the EU.\n\nThe Times cartoon depicts the Turkish leader as a sultan on a golden throne, declaring \"This is a great day for Turkish democracy... I hereby declare it illegal to say otherwise!\"\n\nAccording to The Guardian, the Turkish referendum is seen by some European leaders as marking the end of the country's long attempt to join the EU.\n\nThe paper comments that Turkey's turn to autocracy is now all but complete, and it calls on Europe to offer support to the country's democrats.\n\nIn his column in the Telegraph, former Foreign Secretary William Hague blames the EU's reluctance to admit Turkey for driving it towards autocracy. He argues that Britain should not turn its back on a vital ally now.\n\nThe Guardian carries a report from the base of so-called Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan where the Americans dropped the weapon known as the \"mother of all bombs\" last week.\n\nIt says that residents have begun returning to the village close to the blast site, two years after they fled the fighting.\n\nOn a tour of the area, Afghan commandos point to worn-out shoes that they say belonged to IS fighters killed in the explosion.\n\nThe Times reports that after 250 years, the quest to find a living specimen of a giant shipworm is over.\n\nOnly fossils of the mystery mollusc have been found before, but now a live one has been fished out of a muddy lagoon in the Philippines. It's no oil painting, though.\n\nThe Guardian describes it as \"three feet long and glistening black with a pink, fleshy appendage\", and looking like \"the entrails of an alien from a bad horror film\".\n\nBiologists are thrilled, however. One tells the Guardian: \"It might well be monstrous but that doesn't mean it isn't marvellous.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampionship leaders Brighton were promoted to the Premier League after they beat relegation-threatened Wigan, and Huddersfield then drew at Derby.\n\nBrighton had to wait on the result of the 17:00 BST kick-off at Pride Park, before their return to the top flight after 34 years was confirmed.\n\nGlenn Murray's crisp strike from the edge of the area put Albion ahead.\n\nSolly March slotted in a second after the break, before Nick Powell's header made it a nervy final five minutes.\n\nBrighton can now start preparing for life in the top division again following their relegation in 1982-83 and subsequent journey down and back up the leagues.\n\nA Huddersfield win would have meant the Seagulls needed one more point to mathematically guarantee promotion, but their goal difference was already far superior to the Terriers.\n\nBrighton need three more points to clinch the Championship title and will be crowned champions if they win at Norwich on Friday.\n\nWigan put up a spirited defensive display at the Amex Stadium, but offered little going forward until Powell's goal, and now face the prospect of an immediate return to League One.\n\nThey are five points from safety with three to play, including games against play-off chasing Reading and Leeds.\n\nWhy are the Seagulls soaring?\n\nBrighton missed out on automatic promotion on the final day last season, when a draw at Middlesbrough saw Boro go up with Burnley and Albion finish third on goal difference.\n\nThey then lost in the play-off semi-finals to Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nBut Chris Hughton's side have bounced back superbly this campaign, winning 28 of their 43 matches, including all five games in April so far and bettering last year's total of 89 points already.\n• Attacking threat - Murray (22), Anthony Knockaert (15), Sam Baldock (11) and Tomer Hemed (11) have scored 59 of their 73 goals this season.\n• Home form - The Seagulls have picked up the most Championship points at home with 54, and won 17 of their 22 games there.\n• Unbeaten run - Brighton did not lose in October, November and December, winning 11 of their 15 games during that spell.\n• Tight defence - They have conceded the fewest goals in the Championship (36) with 21 clean sheets.\n\nThey could have beaten Wigan by an even bigger margin, but Murray saw his header ruled out and the Championship's Player of the Year, Knockaert, had a goal chalked out for offside and a strike cleared off the line.\n\nBrighton's promotion party comes almost 20 years to the day since they were less than 30 minutes from dropping out of the Football League.\n\nTrailing Hereford 1-0 on the final day of the 1996-97 season and needing a draw to survive, substitute Robbie Reinelt popped up in the 62nd minute to score an equaliser, Brighton held on and Hereford went down instead.\n\nSteve Gritt, who had taken charge five months earlier with Brighton 11 points adrift at the bottom of the fourth tier, said afterwards: \"It's not something I really want to go through again.\" They never have.\n\nHowever, the club was still in turmoil off the pitch in 1997. They had to sell the Goldstone Ground to pay off some of their debts, spent two seasons 70 miles away at Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium, and then moved into the Withdean Stadium in 1999 - a council-owned athletics track on the suburbs of Brighton.\n\nChairman Tony Bloom's arrival eight years ago paved the way for their new permanent home and the success that followed, but it could have all been so different had they dropped into non-league.\n\nOf the 71 promoted teams to play in the Premier League, 31 have been immediately relegated. But Brighton fans may want to put a positive spin on it - more than half of them stay up. The average finishing position is 15th.\n\nOnly twice have all three promoted teams stayed up - 2001-02 and 2011-12 - and only once have they all gone down - 1997-98.\n\nIn recent years there has been an upturn in fortune for promoted sides. Since 2008-09, there has been only one season in which two of the three promoted clubs have gone straight back down (2014-15). In the five seasons prior to that, it happened four times (2003-04, 2004-05, 2006-07 and 2007-08).\n\nIn their current squad, excluding loan players, only six boast previous Premier League experience - Murray, Knockaert, David Stockdale, Steve Sidwell, Shane Duffy and Liam Rosenior.\n\nBut Hughton, who has won 63 of his 123 games in charge on the south coast, has managed in the top flight with Newcastle and Norwich.\n\nThey are also in for a bumper payday, with promotion to the Premier League worth an estimated £170m.\n\nBrighton manager Hughton told BBC Radio 5 live his players were up for the challenge of promotion straight away, despite the heartbreak of 2015-16:\n\n\"It had something to do with how the season ended last season, but I think it was more the fact that the players enjoyed being up that end of the table, competing, getting into the play-offs.\n\n\"I think it was a conscious decision that they wanted that again, and the signs were there early in the season.\n\n\"We recruited well early in the season, in the summer, but it was a real steely determination from the group of players that wanted to do it again.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Morsy.\n• None Offside, Wigan Athletic. Sam Morsy tries a through ball, but Dan Burn is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Chuba Akpom (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Murphy.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Perkins.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Hanson with a cross.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Tomer Hemed tries a through ball, but Anthony Knockaert is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Gaëtan Bong (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Jamie Murphy.\n• None Attempt blocked. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Murphy. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Boston Marathon runners start their 26.2 mile journey in 2016 - Derek Murphy is looking for cheaters among them\n\nFor months, a runner named Cindy posted motivational photos on Instagram and Facebook, chronicling the miles she put in to prepare for the New York Marathon.\n\nWhen the big day came, she posted about the gear, the energy gels, and the coconut waters that would sustain her through the 26.2 miles (42.1km)\n\nCindy ran the race of her life, finishing the New York Marathon in just 3 hours 17 minutes and 29 seconds - a lot faster than her pace in previous half-marathon finishes, which each took a little over two hours.\n\n\"Ran my heart out today and left everything on the course. All the training paid off and qualified for the Boston Marathon!\" she posted on Instagram, along with a post-race selfie and a photo with the finisher's medal.\n\nBut Cindy's incredible marathon time seemed just a little too incredible to a man sitting at his computer nearly 640 miles away.\n\nDerek Murphy, a former marathoner and business analyst who lives outside Cincinnati, has made a name for himself exposing marathon cheats on his blog, Marathon Investigation.\n\nDuring his racing days, he frequented online message boards about big races, which occasionally featured a high-profile cheating scandal.\n\n\"There was so much tension from those specific cases, I just wondered how many other people cheated,\" he said.\n\nMurphy is a former runner himself\n\nMurphy's investigative process has evolved since he first started looking at race results.\n\nHe has gone from looking at missed split times in public race results to peering into other clues like suspiciously fast race times, starting line and finish line photos, and bystander video footage recorded at races.\n\nWhen Murphy heard about Cindy's speedy personal record, he started scrolling through the New York race photos looking for evidence that she had honestly run her improbably fast race.\n\nHe didn't find any photos of the petite brunette running on the course. However, he did find a photo of a tall, athletically-built man running with Cindy's bib pinned to his shirt.\n\nAfter Murphy sent the photos and Cindy's former half-marathon times to the New York Marathon organisers and published a story on his blog, Cindy was disqualified.\n\nShe is one of about 30 runners identified by Murphy who sought entry into the 2017 Boston Marathon using fabricated times.\n\nAt least 15 of those runners were disqualified from showing up at the starting line in Hopkinton near Boston when the starting gun goes off on Monday.\n\nSome of the remaining 15 might get to run the race, but their results will be closely scrutinised. Murphy expects to identify many more people who cheated to get to Boston after the race is completed.\n\nOnly the fastest amateur and elite runners can earn a spot in the iconic Boston Marathon.\n\nMen under 35 need a finish better than three hours and five minutes in an earlier marathon to earn a spot. Women under 35 have 30 extra minutes.\n\nWhile around 30,000 people are fast enough to run the marathon each year, more than 4,500 qualified runners were turned away in 2016 because too many people registered for the race.\n\n\"The integrity of the sport is enormously important to us, and to the athletes who run in our races,\" said a spokesperson for the Boston Athletic Association in an email statement.\n\n\"When it comes to qualifying for Boston, we rely on the race organisers and timing systems they employ to produce accurate results, and we also rely on the honesty and integrity of 99.99% of competitors who compete fairly in pursuit of their personal records.\"\n\nMurphy said he thinks the actual number of cheaters is probably higher than the 0.01% cited by Marathon officials - which would be just three people - but he thinks it is still a small percentage.\n\nFinding those rare cheats can be tough.\n\n\"There's no governing body for marathons per se to look at results,\" Murphy said. \"Most of the time race timers and directors definitely do care, but there's a lack of resources.\"\n\nCheating in a marathon can come in many forms. Some cut a few miles out of their qualifying race. Others give their racing bib to someone a bit faster. In rare cases, people pay to have their results altered.\n\nMost races have methods in place to detect the most obvious examples of cheating. The race bibs have tracking devices that log a runner's split time at mats placed strategically throughout the course.\n\nSometimes missed mats and unbelievably quick splits will alert race officials to the foul play. But cheaters often slip across the finish line and into race results unnoticed by race timers. Some of these people claim amazing times - good enough to get into Boston.\n\nMr Murphy has caught cheats by looking at the distances displayed on GPS watches in finish line photos and by matching finish times with time stamps on video recordings of races.\n\nWhen a runner whose qualifying time places them in an early corral position at the Boston Marathon but finishes in the back of the pack, Mr Murphy marks their race result as a priority for investigation. Often, if someone's Boston time is much slower than their qualifying time they may have cheated in an earlier race.\n\nInstead of looking back at runners after the Boston Marathon happens as he has in the past, this year Murphy tried to find people who cheated to qualify before race day. He hopes that more honest runners with qualifying times near the cut-off will be able to run the race because of his analysis.\n\nNot everyone agrees with Mr Murphy's methods. On the Marathon Investigation Facebook page, sandwiched between encouraging comments, the occasional criticism pops up, taking the blog to task for going after amateur runners and giving them too much attention.\n\nCrews install the decal marking the finish line on Boylston Street\n\nWomen's Running magazine published a critical opinion piece arguing that novice runners who cheat should not make the news.\n\nMr Murphy isn't always in the business of getting people disqualified from races. Sometimes, he does just the opposite.\n\nLast year, Ryan Lee ran the London Marathon in just over four hours and 13 minutes, but after he finished a race official contacted him to tell him that he was disqualified for missing a timing mat. The race organisers thought he had cut the course.\n\nOne missed mat doesn't always mean someone cut a course - sometimes the mats don't cover the entire width of the course and a runner might accidentally run around it. But Mr Lee's time also seemed to be too fast - he appeared to catch up to runners who had started more than 15 minutes before him, very early in the race.\n\n\"It really was draining,\" Mr Lee said. \"I raised quite a bit of money for my chosen charity and I put 110% into the actual marathon. To be then called a cheat after that really does make you feel distraught.\"\n\nMr Lee and his mother, Elizabeth Lee, set out to try and prove that he had run the entire race. They tracked down photos of Mr Lee on different points on the course and sought out other runners who had seen him race. But finding sufficient evidence to convince the race director that Mr Lee was innocent was difficult.\n\n\"I thought I would never be able to prove that I never did cheat,\" Mr Lee said.\n\nMr Murphy heard about Mr Lee's case and began to look at the evidence - video footage of the race, photos, and Mr Lee's split times - and he noticed that Mr Lee appeared with runners who had a start time about 15 minutes before the London Marathon claimed he had started racing.\n\nCrucially, Mr Lee was photographed beside those other runners before race officials said he had crossed the starting line.\n\nMr Murphy used these photos to prove that Mr Lee had actually started the race much earlier, and ultimately run a race about 15 minutes slower than the London Marathon had recorded.\n\nDerek Murphy - with his own proof of finishing a marathon\n\nEven with the missed mat at the 10km mark, Mr Lee's results made sense if his start time had been recorded incorrectly. When the race was presented with all of the evidence, they reinstated Mr Lee's official race times.\n\nProving foul play on the race course often requires more than just number crunching. Mr Murphy said that Mr Lee's case is a great example of why he looks at more than just race times.\n\n\"I was able to vindicate somebody, but if I had just looked at the data, I would have thought he cheated,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\nMr Lee still runs, in part because his racing record was cleared. He is planning to run the 2017 London Marathon later this month.\n\n\"I would love the do the marathon in America and meet Derek to say thank you for all the help.\" Mr Lee said.\n\n\"Without the help, I would still be known as a cheat.\"", "Bristol have been relegated to the Championship with two games left to play after a brave defeat by ruthless Premiership leaders Wasps.\n\nJason Woodward's try put them ahead but Josh Bassett, Tommy Taylor and Joe Simpson scored as Wasps went in ahead.\n\nChristian Wade, Guy Thompson and Bassett went over for the visitors for a bonus point, which deflated Bristol.\n\nThe hosts rallied, Jack O'Connell and Nick Fenton-Wells touching down, but it could not stop them from going down.\n\nHaving finished top of the Championship in five seasons before finally winning promotion in the play-offs last year, Bristol will return to the second-tier at the first time of asking.\n\nAfter Worcester's win over Bath on Saturday, Mark Tainton's Bristol needed two points from the game to prolong their relegation battle, but they lacked a clinical streak.\n\nIt leaves them 12 points adrift at the bottom of the table, with a maximum of 10 points on offer from their final two matches.\n\nWasps were far from at their best, on the back foot for much of the game, but have restored their five-point lead at the top and need one win from their last two to secure a home semi-final in the play-offs.\n\nThe Premiership's top try-scorer Wade, on his 100th appearance for Dai Young's side, did his England hopes no harm with his 16th score of the campaign.\n\nBristol were promoted to the top tier on 25 May after winning their two-legged play-off final, with the Premiership season starting just 100 days later.\n\nDirector of rugby Andy Robinson, a former England head coach, was sacked in November after his side lost their first 10 games of the campaign.\n\nTainton took interim charge and Bristol finally got their first league win against Worcester on Boxing Day, following it up with victory at Sale and a losing bonus point at Northampton, but it was a false dawn.\n\nThe scrapping of the Championship play-offs, meaning the team that finishes top will gain automatic promotion, may give Bristol more time to plan ahead next season if they are successful.\n\n'Hopefully we can bounce back quickly'\n\nConnacht boss Pat Lam will have the task of bringing Bristol back into the Premiership, having signed a three-year deal in December to become head coach from June.\n\nTainton will remain at the helm for their final two matches at Saracens and at home to Newcastle, and remains optimistic about the future of the club.\n\n\"Obviously it's disappointing to get relegated, but we've put a plan in place whether we were going to stay in the Premiership or get relegated,\" he said.\n\n\"We have the infrastructure at Ashton Gate to be a Premiership team - we're not going to be next year, but hopefully the supporters will still watch us in that league.\n\n\"Bristol more than most know what a difficult league it (the Championship) is, but hopefully we can bounce back very quickly.\"\n\n\"It was a similar story to a lot of games - we've created an awful lot, we've been in the opposition 22 many times but we've just not executed and got across the line.\n\n\"We give Wasps an opportunity and they score tries, it's as simple as that - that's the difference in the level we need to get to.\n\n\"We were down and beaten in the second half but we played right until the very end of the game - I expect that from them in the next two games.\"\n\n\"Obviously there are still things to work on, especially our starts - I thought our first 10 minutes, again, we made far too many mistakes and gave ourselves a bit of a hill to climb.\n\n\"We just had enough to do it but we make it hard for us really - there's room to improve in every area, but I'm pretty pleased and felt we looked in control for most of the game.\n\n\"It's up to us to nail it (a top-two finish) ourselves - we're not relying on other people.\"\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nMarco Fu completed an astonishing comeback as he recovered from 7-2 down to beat Luca Brecel 10-9 and reach the second round of the World Championship.\n\nThe world number eight won six out of seven frames at the start of the second session to level at 8-8.\n\nAnd although Belgian qualifier Brecel scored a classy 78 in the 17th frame, Fu kept his nerve to win in a thrilling match at the Crucible in Sheffield.\n\nHe fended off Chinese teenager Yan Bingtao's comeback to earn a 10-8 first-round victory at the Crucible.\n\nThere were also wins for 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham and Northern Ireland's Mark Allen.\n\nWorld number five Murphy took the first frame against world number 63 Yan to extend his overnight lead to 7-3.\n\nThe 17-year-old qualifier then played with a style belying his age to fight back from 9-5 down against his increasingly flustered opponent.\n\nEnglishman Murphy, who won the title as a qualifier in 2005, took advantage of an outrageous fluked red in frame 18 to progress.\n\nYan would have become the youngest player to win a World Championship match at the Crucible if he had overcome Murphy. The record is held by seven-time champion Stephen Hendry, who was 18 when he beat Willie Thorne in the 1987 first round.\n\nMurphy, who faces Ronnie O'Sullivan in round two, was mightily relieved not to be on the wrong end of a piece of Crucible history.\n\n\"I played well but at 9-5 up he opened his shoulders and I was bang up against it at the end,\" the 34-year-old said.\n\n\"This place does funny things to you and I had a bit of Lady Luck. But I can't praise him enough. He has a bit of swagger about him.\"\n\nIn an all-China battle, Ding Junhui - runner-up to Mark Selby last year - was in majestic form on his way to a 7-2 lead over Zhou Yuelong.\n\nWorld number four Ding scored three centuries, including a 136 - the tournament's highest break so far - to take control going into Tuesday afternoon's concluding session.\n\nElsewhere, four-time champion John Higgins of Scotland was ruthless as he raced into a 5-0 lead before taking a 7-2 advantage over English qualifier Martin Gould.\n\nBingham earlier went through with an unconvincing 10-5 victory over another former Crucible winner Ebdon.\n\nThe world number three was pegged back to 5-4 overnight as the 2002 champion took the final two frames of the opening session.\n\nBut Bingham quickly extended his lead to 8-4 and closed out victory after Ebdon got back to 8-5.", "In the wake of Sebastian Vettel's victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix, Mercedes are facing a decision they hoped they would never have to make.\n\nThe manner of Vettel's win, the second in three races so far this season for the Ferrari man, could force them into picking a number one driver, and asking the other to play back-up to his title bid.\n\nThat is what eventually happened in Bahrain, when Mercedes finally - just before half-distance - grasped the nettle and ordered Valtteri Bottas to move over and let Lewis Hamilton by.\n\nBy then, it was too little too late. Vettel had a six-second lead and, despite a valiant charge by Hamilton after a late pit stop, the German won by about the same margin.\n\nAfterwards, the mood at Mercedes matched the night skies on the Arabian peninsula, and team boss Toto Wolff was already grappling with his conundrum.\n\nHow long before you have to choose one driver to back for the title, he was asked?\n\n\"We don't like that,\" he said. \"At all. It is not what we have done the past couple of years. But the situation is different now. So it needs a proper analysis what it means and where we are.\n\n\"We'd like to give each of them equal opportunity at the start of the race. We owe it to them. Then you see what we did in the race. We made the call. We made the call twice.\"\n\nJust as in Australia at the first race of the season, Vettel and Ferrari's victory was based on aggressive strategic thinking and good use of tyres.\n\nThe German, third on the grid, jumped Hamilton off the line - as he was always likely to do from the cleaner side of the grid - and slotted into second place behind Bottas.\n\nThe Finn had taken his first pole position on Saturday. He overhauled Hamilton after what Mercedes said was a rear-end snap in Turn 10 on Hamilton's final lap, but which Hamilton said after the race was largely because the DRS overtaking aid, which boosts straight-line speed, did not engage between Turns 10 and 11.\n\nBottas lacked pace in the race. Mercedes said that in the first stint he was hamstrung by high tyre pressures caused by a generator failure on the grid which prevented the team from bleeding out enough air. The result was a five-car queue, comprising Vettel, Hamilton and the two Red Bulls.\n\nWith Vettel stuck, but sensing he had a very quick race car, Ferrari took the initiative, pitting him early on lap 10. There was no point Mercedes following him in - they knew whoever they pitted would come out behind.\n\nA safety car three laps later gave Vettel what he said was \"a heart stop\" that he might lose a potential advantage gained in this way for the second week in succession, just as he had in China.\n\nBut a slow stop for Bottas, caused by problems with pit equipment, ensured Vettel retained the lead - and Hamilton delivered his own race another blow by driving too slowly on the way into the pits, trying to give the team time to service Bottas and also prevent Daniel Ricciardo from jumping him. It earned him a five-second penalty. Without it, the end of the race would have been much closer.\n\nWith Vettel now in the lead, and Hamilton stuck behind Bottas, who was still slow despite corrected tyre pressures, the Ferrari began to edge ahead - 1.2secs at the restart, then 1.6, 2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 2.9, 3.5, 4.1, 4.9 etc. Only when Vettel had an advantage of more than six seconds did Mercedes finally make the call for the drivers to swap positions.\n\nImmediately, Hamilton came back at Vettel, closing to within 4.3secs within five laps before the Ferrari made its second and final pit stop. Mercedes' only hope was to leave Hamilton as late as possible before his final stop. But 19 seconds in 15 laps was always going to be too big a margin to close down.\n\nWhat will Mercedes do?\n\nWolff said he didn't think Mercedes lacked race pace, but there was a suspicion within the team that Ferrari had the edge in Bahrain.\n\nEven so, they might have been able to fend them off without all the various things that went wrong, whether it be failed equipment or questionable decisions Mercedes will analyse in the coming days.\n\nArguing over what might have been is one thing, but there is a more fundamental point at play - which is the margins are too tight this season for mistakes to be made.\n\nOver the previous three years, Mercedes have been dominant enough to be able to allow their drivers to fight with minimal interference. Only in very rare cases - such as when Nico Rosberg's lack of pace in the wet was harming the team's chances of victory with Hamilton in Monaco last year - have they asked one driver to give way.\n\nThis year, it already looks as if they do not have that luxury. And while Wolff is not yet saying they will have to bite the bullet and back one driver - which surely will be Hamilton, given his seniority, greater experience and better start to the season - he is at least accepting it needs to be thought about.\n\nMercedes did not act sooner in Bahrain, Wolff said, because it was relatively early in a race so early in the season and was \"a tough call\". But he was, he added, going away to think about it.\n\n\"I don't want to pre-empt what the consequence will be or if there will be a consequence and what it will mean for the championship,\" Wolff said. \"It is a question Ferrari needs to ask themselves as well.\"\n\nMcLaren had a double PR coup in the week running up to the race, with the announcement on Wednesday that Fernando Alonso would race in the Indianapolis 500, followed by confirmation Jenson Button would replace him at the Monaco Grand Prix.\n\nIt did not take long for reality to burst back front of frame, though.\n\nAfter a dismal pre-season testing programme, engine partner Honda largely kept reliability under control in the first two races, albeit at the expense of performance, even if Alonso could finish neither despite strong drives into points positions.\n\nBut the inherent fragility of an engine that is said to be about 120bhp off the best was exposed in the heat of Bahrain, with Honda suffering through practice and qualifying no less than three failures of the MGU-H - the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbo.\n\nTwo of these afflicted Stoffel Vandoorne; one Alonso. But while Vandoorne's were in practice, Alonso's exploded on his first flying lap in second qualifying.\n\nUnsurprisingly, McLaren's Saturday evening news conference was a depressing place to be.\n\nAn unusually short six minutes of awkward questions and answers elicited little information other than that Honda does not know the cause of the MGU-H failures, although F1 boss Yusuke Hasegawa said it was \"possibly\" related to the circuit and conditions.\n\nAll three MGU-Hs are destroyed - and each driver has only four for the season before taking a grid penalty. It took a bit of digging afterwards to discover the failure on Alonso's car also trashed his internal combustion engine. Vandoorne suffered another MGU-H failure - the fourth of the weekend - before the race and could not start.\n\nBack in the McLaren news conference on Saturday, someone asked Alonso whether the driveability of the Honda engine was at least any good. It produced a withering response: \"I don't care too much about the driveability if I can't finish a race or a lap in qualifying now.\"\n\nThe news conference was brought to an end shortly after that.\n\nStraight afterwards, Hasegawa went to see Alonso. It was a mistake. Alonso directed him into an office and, still visible through the darkened windows, proceeded to have a largely one-sided, animated conversation.\n\nThe Spaniard was very obviously making his feelings clear, albeit in a more controlled fashion than might have been expected in the circumstances.\n\n\"I see you had a bit of a chat with Hasegawa-san,\" I said to him afterwards. \"Yes,\" Alonso replied. \"Always calm. You know me.\"\n\nCalm he may be on the outside, but the frustration of driving an uncompetitive car for the third consecutive season is burning inside.\n\nIt boiled over in the race, in which he battled for all he was worth for 11th place with Jolyon Palmer's Renault and Daniil Kvyat's Toro Rosso.\n\nAlonso said over the radio he had \"never raced an engine with less power\" - clearly a message for Honda. After observing that Esteban Ocon's Force India had made up 300 metres on him on one straight, he was asked by engineer Mark Temple for his thoughts on a change of strategy. His reply? \"Do what you want, man.\"\n\nThis was not Alonso saying he didn't care. Quite the opposite. He cares very much. As everyone knows, his rightful place is battling at the front. This unsatisfied rage to win is at least partly behind his decision to race at Indy.\n\nAlonso's McLaren contract runs out at the end of this season and racing director Eric Boullier effectively admitted in Bahrain that the Indy programme - and perhaps a future shot at Le Mans - is an attempt to make staying more attractive.\n\nAs for Alonso, he said that, much as he wants to win the so-called 'triple crown', further success in F1 is his main priority. He wants a competitive car next year.\n\nHow he will get one is unclear. The chances of him going to Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull are minimal, which leaves a choice of either staying at McLaren or moving to the fast-improving Renault team.\n\nMcLaren have explored the idea of switching to Mercedes customer engines, as BBC Sport revealed last month, but senior sources say the prospect of that happening have now evaporated.\n\nMcLaren's official position has always been they are committed to Honda; Honda's is it is \"100% committed to our future in Formula 1\".\n\nNew parts will be tried at this week's test in Bahrain. An engine with an upgrade - albeit a small one - is due at the Spanish Grand Prix next month.\n\nBut if they are going to convince Alonso to stay, Honda needs to find more than small improvements. And it needs to find them fast.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea's lead at the top of the Premier League now stands at only four points and the title race is wide open again after they were well beaten by a resurgent Manchester United at Old Trafford.\n\nUnited manager Jose Mourinho has suffered this season against the club where he was a three-time champion, losing 4-0 in the league at Chelsea and also going out of the FA Cup quarter-final at Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Portuguese was not to be denied this time as Marcus Rashford, paired with Jesse Lingard up front while a jaded Zlatan Ibrahimovic was rested, finished coolly after seven minutes and Ander Herrera - detailed to do a brilliant man-marking job on Eden Hazard - saw his shot deflected in off Kurt Zouma four minutes after the break.\n\nZouma was a late replacement for Marcos Alonso, who pulled out in the warm-up, but Chelsea can offer no excuses here as they were second best throughout. Tottenham now trail them by four points with six games to go and have the superior goal difference.\n• None Listen: Spurs fan on 606 - \"If we had Rashford we would win the league\"\n\nChelsea looked to be strolling to the title just a few weeks ago - but a sudden stumble, including the home defeat by struggling Crystal Palace, and an irresistible surge from Spurs have brought renewed edge to the run-in.\n\nConte will feel his side did not enjoy the best of luck here, with keeper Thibaut Courtois ruled out with a training injury, Alonso withdrawn after the warm-up and referee Bobby Madley missing what appeared to be a clear handball from Herrera as he intercepted Nemanja Matic's pass before sending Rashford clear for the opener.\n\nThe Blues are still in a strong position but they are now feeling the hot breath of Spurs on their neck after Pochettino's team made it seven successive league wins for the first time since 1967 with a 4-0 home win over Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nSo Spurs have momentum - but Chelsea still have a four-point lead, which counts for a lot with only six games left.\n\nThe Blues' run-in also looks a little kinder, with home games against Southampton, Middlesbrough, Watford and Sunderland - but a real test to come at Everton.\n\nThe pressure, however, is now applied and there may be twists left in this race. Spurs will feel renewed hope.\n\nMourinho's starting line-up raised eyebrows, with Ibrahimovic on the bench and Anthony Martial nowhere to be seen - but the end result, and the manner of United's victory, demonstrated just how brilliantly he had set up his team.\n\nWith Ibrahimovic out, the pace and movement of Rashford and Lingard offered the sort of threat that troubled Chelsea instantly. Rashford had missed one good chance before coolly directing a finish past Begovic early on.\n\nThe real masterstroke, however, was his decision to deploy Herrera as Hazard's shadow throughout. The Belgian, who Conte felt was a deliberate target for physical punishment in the recent FA Cup quarter-final, was totally snuffed out by Herrera, who covered his every move and forced him to the margins on a miserable afternoon for Chelsea.\n\nAnd, to make Mourinho's day complete, it was Herrera who escaped Hazard's attentions to find space in the area and send that deflected shot high into the net at the Stretford End for the home side's crucial second goal.\n\nThis was a bitterly disappointing display by Conte's side but it was only their fifth league defeat of the season.\n\nToo many of their big players failed to make an impact, with Hazard nullified and striker Diego Costa falling back into bad old ways, seemingly more intent on conducting a running battle with Marcos Rojo and Eric Bailly than pose a threat.\n\nChelsea will also feel they got the rough end of the refereeing decisions, but in the end United were dominant\n\nConte will be disappointed but his side are still title favourites, with that slender lead but also a favourable remaining programme.\n\nManchester United boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to Match of the Day: \"It was the same plan that was working with 11 players in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge. They are the best counter-attacking team in the country and we controlled them very well.\n\n\"I'm really happy with the boys. I'm happy - it's not because it's Chelsea, it's because we need these three points.\n\n\"I don't feel extra joy at beating Chelsea - we beat the leader. It doesn't matter if the leader is Chelsea or another - we beat them convincingly. Nobody can doubt our credit to win the game.\"\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte, speaking to Match of the Day: \"Manchester United deserved to win because they showed more desire, more motivation, more ambition to win this game.\n\n\"It is simple. The fault is mine, because this type of situation the fault is the coach. I wasn't able to transfer the right concentration, the right motivation.\n\n\"This league is not closed. Tottenham are on great form and playing with great enthusiasm, but we are playing a great season and we must try to reach this target.\n\n\"We started as underdogs and it won't be easy.\"\n• None Jose Mourinho has now recorded at least one league victory against all 34 Premier League clubs he has faced as a manager.\n• None Ander Herrera scored and provided an assist in the same Premier League game for the first time since October 2015 versus Everton.\n• None Rashford's goal was the earliest Chelsea had conceded in the Premier League since December 2013 (Skrtel, third minute for Liverpool).\n• None Chelsea have gone 10 Premier League games without keeping a clean sheet for the first time since December 1996 (13 games).\n• None Manchester United's Premier League unbeaten run now stands at 22 matches (W12 D10), the longest within a single season by a team since United themselves in 2010-11 (24).\n• None Before this defeat, Chelsea had gone nine Premier League games unbeaten against Manchester United (W4 D4), last losing to them in October 2012.\n• None Chelsea also failed to have a shot on target in a Premier League match for the first time since September 2007, which was also versus Manchester United at Old Trafford.\n\nUnited host Anderlecht in the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final on Thursday, with the tie currently at 1-1. They then return to Premier League action at Burnley next Sunday.\n\nChelsea's next game is against their title rivals Tottenham, not in the Premier League but the FA Cup semi-finals, next Saturday. Their next league game is the following Tuesday, at home to Southampton.\n• None Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Eden Hazard tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Young (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ander Herrera.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "If you worry about germs on the train, in the office or at the gym, you might resort to covering your hands in gel to put your mind at rest. But could they be less effective than we think?", "Tempers flare and controversy reigns in Dingwall as champions Celtic are held by Ross County. Commentary from Liam McLeod.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte said he took responsibility for failing to motivate his side in Sunday's defeat by Manchester United.\n\nThe Blues lost 2-0 at Old Trafford and are now just four points ahead of Tottenham at the top of the table, having led by 10 points in March.\n\n\"We didn't play a good game and United deserved to win the game,\" said Conte.\n\n\"They showed more desire, more ambition, more motivation. In this case the fault is of the coach.\"\n\nThe Italian added he had not been able to \"transfer the right concentration, desire, ambition to win this game\".\n• None Listen: Spurs fan on 606 - \"If we had Rashford we would win the league\"\n\nSpurs have put themselves into title contention with a run of seven successive league wins, while Chelsea have had two losses in their past four games.\n\nThe teams meet at Wembley on Saturday (17:15 BST) in the first of the weekend's FA Cup semi-finals.\n\n\"I have concern because we have to work together and find quickly the right ambition to win this title,\" said Conte.\n\n\"If someone thinks it's normal for Chelsea to win the title, we started as underdogs after 10th place last season.\n\n\"Tottenham is in good form and playing with enthusiasm. We must find the same.\"\n\nChelsea's preparation to face Jose Mourinho's side was disrupted when goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois injured his ankle during the week.\n\nThe Blues also lost full-back Marcos Alonso just minutes before kick-off because of illness.\n\nConte was asked about reports Belgium international Courtois was injured while playing basketball at a promotional event.\n\n\"After a defeat it is not right to go into this situation,\" said the Italian.\n\n\"Courtois had an injury during the middle of the week and for this reason he wasn't available but I think it is right to focus on the game and not to find excuses.\"\n\nAntonio Conte has not had to deal with defeat often in an outstanding first season as Chelsea manager - and none carrying the significance of the loss at Manchester United.\n\nChelsea's lead over Tottenham has been reduced to four points after this reverse so Conte's response to a setback that has thrown the Premier League title wide open was always going to be intriguing.\n\nConte's reaction was to deflect all criticism away from his players and take sole responsibility himself.\n\nTime will tell if Conte's approach was correct but it felt the right move. He was downcast but remained calm and his players will surely appreciate and respect his willingness to take sole responsibility by moving front and centre to shield them from the measured criticism that would have been deserved after this rare lapse.\n\nIf Conte was frustrated, he hid it well as he spoke of six cup finals awaiting Chelsea in the closing weeks while also underlining how far they have progressed from the struggles of last season and indeed the early weeks of this campaign.\n\nConte wisely felt his players have given him more than enough this season to allow him to shoulder the burden of the Old Trafford loss and perhaps put them even more in the mood to repay his faith in next Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham at Wembley, as well as Chelsea's next Premier League game at home to Southampton the following Tuesday.\n\nThe Italian has barely put a foot wrong since setting Chelsea on course for the top of the Premier League after a home loss to Liverpool and a 3-0 beating at Arsenal in September - and he showed plenty of confidence in a squad that still remains title favourites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRoberto Firmino scored a winner for the second weekend running as Liverpool beat West Brom to go third in the Premier League.\n\nThe Brazil striker headed in at the end of the first half after Lucas Leiva had glanced on James Milner's free-kick.\n\nMilner volleyed over after half-time, and Simon Mignolet saved with his legs from Matt Phillips at the other end.\n\nLate on, Alberto Moreno missed an empty goal from 40 yards after Albion keeper Ben Foster had gone up for a corner.\n\nDespite that miss, Jurgen Klopp's side secured a fifth win in seven games, sending West Brom to a third straight defeat.\n\nKlopp has spoken recently of the need for Liverpool to \"win ugly\" - having developed a habit of beating the Premier League's top teams and then slipping up against sides lower down.\n\nLiverpool's manager was particularly wary of the threat that West Brom might pose from set-pieces, an area in which his team have been vulnerable defensively this season.\n\nTo counter that danger, Klopp used the fierce winds that hit Merseyside last Wednesday to his advantage - getting his players to face a barrage of high crosses and long throws in training that day.\n\nThe manager's reasoning was that if his players could deal with the ball in the air as it swirled about in the wind, they would be able to handle anything West Brom threw at them.\n\nBy and large, the preparation worked - with Liverpool also making sure not to give away too many set-pieces - although there was one hairy moment in the first half when Nacer Chadli miskicked with the goal at his mercy after Liverpool had failed to defend a free-kick.\n\nWhat was particularly impressive about Liverpool, though, was their midfield domination, which restricted the home side to just a handful of efforts at goal.\n\nLucas, Georginio Wijnaldum and Emre Can were key to keeping West Brom at bay, and ensured a win that keeps Klopp's side well on course for next season's Champions League.\n\nBefore last weekend's trip to Stoke, Liverpool had not won a league game all season without Sadio Mane in the team.\n\nKlopp needed that statistic to change after a knee injury sustained against Everton on 1 April ended the Senegalese striker's season early.\n\nHe found inspiration in the Potteries as goals from Philippe Coutinho and Firmino sealed a 2-1 victory, and the two Brazil internationals were involved in Liverpool's best attacking moments at The Hawthorns.\n\nFirmino proved his value in terms of creating chances as well as getting the winner, providing a fine diagonal pass that Coutinho volleyed wide in the first half, and crossing for Milner to volley over when well placed in the second.\n\nLiverpool could have won by a greater margin with better finishing - with Moreno guilty of the most glaring miss.\n\nThe full-back, on as a substitute, burst away in the closing seconds after keeper Foster was caught upfield for a corner. Instead of running the ball into the net, Moreno elected to shoot from long range, and missed the target.\n\nWest Brom remain on course to finish eighth, and equal their highest final league placing since 1981, but their season is in danger of petering out.\n\nOf their past seven matches, Tony Pulis' side have lost five and failed to score in six, with a 3-1 win over Arsenal on 18 March providing their only win and goals during that run.\n\nAlbion under Pulis have made a habit of being well organised, and of digging out victories with a significantly smaller share of possession.\n\nBut they failed to cause Liverpool enough problems, managing just two shots on target all afternoon.\n\nHal Robson-Kanu hit the first tamely at Mignolet in the opening half, and the goalkeeper reacted well to save with his legs as Phillips ran clear with 10 minutes to go.\n\nEven when they won a series of set-pieces in the closing moments, they could not make Liverpool pay.\n\nMan of the match - Emre Can (Liverpool)\n• None Roberto Firmino has now surpassed his Premier League goal tally from last season (10 in 2015-16, 11 in 2016-17).\n• None Since the start of last season, Firmino has been directly involved in 34 Premier League goals (21 goals, 13 assists), more than any other Liverpool player.\n• None Liverpool have won 66 points from 33 games this season; six points more than they picked up in the whole of 2015-16.\n• None West Brom have failed to score in four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2003.\n• None Liverpool have scored in more league away games this season (14) than they did in 2015-16 (13).\n• None Lucas has provided two assists in a Premier League season for the first time since 2009-10.\n• None West Brom have lost three of their past four Premier League games at The Hawthorns, as many as they lost in their previous 14 combined.\n• None Liverpool kept only their second ;eague clean sheet in 2017, in what was their 14th game of this calendar year.\n\n'No set-pieces, no set-pieces, no set-pieces'\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"It was a big win against a good, tall team. We played really well from the first second.\n\n\"We needed to adapt to what West Brom wanted to do. In all our plans, it was 'no set-pieces, no set-pieces, no set-pieces'.\"\n\nOn Liverpool's Champions League qualification chances: \"It is the Premier League, Arsenal have three, four, five games in hand so we should not think about this. Today we could only get to 66 points, so it feels perfect.\n\n\"Next week we try at Anfield to get 69 points, and let's carry on. If we do what we have to do, we will be where we want to be.\"\n\nWest Brom manager Tony Pulis: \"We are disappointed. I thought we did enough to get a point.\n\n\"The goal really knocked us. It took us 20 minutes, in which time they had some good opportunities.\n\n\"Chadli had a great chance at the back post, Matty Phillips should have scored one-on-one, Hal should have scored one-on-one - it wasn't all set-pieces.\n\n\"The difference between the top teams is the quality they have up front. The players have been fantastic this year, we have an opportunity to play some of the young players now too.\"\n\nWest Brom are at home to Leicester next Saturday (15:00 BST); Liverpool host Crystal Palace a day later at 16:30.\n• None Attempt missed. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Matt Phillips tries a through ball, but Salomón Rondón is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Chris Brunt with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Salomón Rondón.\n• None Attempt missed. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Jake Livermore (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Darren Fletcher.\n• None Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nGianfranco Zola has resigned as Birmingham City manager following Monday's home defeat by fellow Championship strugglers Burton Albion.\n\nThe 50-year-old Italian was in charge for just four months, during which time the team won only twice in 24 games.\n\nTheir 2-0 loss to Burton left them 20th in the Championship table, just three points above the relegation places with three games remaining.\n\n\"I sacked myself. I decided to give in my resignation,\" said Zola.\n\n\"I am sorry because I came to Birmingham with huge expectations. Unfortunately, the results have not been good and I take full responsibility.\n\n\"It is not that I like quitting, but Birmingham deserves better. If I feel I cannot help the players, why stay? If I cannot help the team, it is better I leave and let someone else do that.\n\n\"I feel very bad and very sorry. We worked with a lot of meaning, but unfortunately it didn't produce the results. It is all very disappointing.\"\n\nThe swapping of Rowett for Zola\n\nWhen predecessor Gary Rowett was sacked in December, Blues were seventh and only out of the play-off places only on goal difference.\n\nClub director Panos Pavlakis explained their decision to dispense with Rowett, now in charge at Derby County, by saying that Zola's \"pedigree\" matched their ambition to \"move in a new direction\".\n\nBut the change of manager baffled many supporters - and results on the pitch have done nothing to win them over.\n\nChinese-owned Birmingham issued a statement on 10 April giving Zola their full backing following a 2-1 defeat by Rowett's Rams.\n\nBut the loss to Burton, another of Rowett's old clubs, leaves Blues without a win in nine games since beating local rivals Wolves at Molineux in February - and Blues have picked up just 16 points out of a possible 66 in Zola's time in charge.\n\nBlues' next game is at local rivals Aston Villa on Sunday (12:00 BST).\n\nIf 22nd-placed Blackburn, who are at Wolves, and 21st-placed Nottingham Forest, who are at home to Reading, were both to win their respective games on Saturday, Blues would start the game at Villa Park in the bottom three.\n\nIt is the second time former Chelsea and Italy striker Zola has resigned as manager of an English club, having quit Watford in 2013 after five successive home defeats. He also spent two years in charge of West Ham United.\n\n\"Gianfranco Zola's ill-fated tenure at St Andrew's arguably could have been cut short sooner than it was. By his own admission, he felt he could not help the players any more.\n\n\"In a dignified media conference after his resignation had been announced, Zola noted that he had felt pressure from the very outset, given the success the club had under his predecessor Gary Rowett.\n\n\"Results are king in football, and two wins in 22 league games was unacceptable. Zola may have lacked fortune while he was in charge at Blues, but not so much as to justify such a paltry return.\n\n\"The Easter performances against Rotherham and Burton were limp, listless and damning. Birmingham's flirtation with relegation is very real indeed.\"", "Claire Foy has won awards for her portrayal of the Queen in the Netflix drama The Crown\n\nNetflix has come a long way since it started as a mail-order DVD rental service. It has largely been responsible for dragging television into the online world and its dozens of original productions such as House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black have helped it win a huge global audience.\n\nLast year its programming became available in another 130 countries, bringing the total to more than 190.\n\nBut Netflix faces increasing competition from online rivals such as Amazon and Hulu, while television networks start to launch their own streaming services and make new shows available in binge-ready box sets.\n\nSky Atlantic, for example, has made all six episodes of the new drama Guerrilla - starring Idris Elba, Freida Pinto and Babou Ceesay - available to stream, meaning viewers will not have to wait a week for their next fix.\n\nFreida Pinto and Babou Ceesay in the Sky Atlantic drama Guerrilla\n\nGrowth of US subscriptions, which account for almost 60% of Netflix's revenue, has also slowed.\n\nAnalysts and investors will closely watch its subscriber growth when results for the most recent quarter are released later on Monday.\n\nThe company, whose shares have jumped almost 30% in the past 12 months to just over $140, is expected to report revenues of $2.5bn, with the subscriber total tantalisingly close to the 100 million mark.\n\nBut some question how long Netflix can continue adding customers at the same pace.\n\nHow will international expansion hold up?\n\nNetflix had more than 44 million international subscribers at the end of 2016, nearly 50% higher than the year before, as well as 49 million in the US.\n\nIt expects to add another 4 million to the international total this quarter.\n\nFormerly sceptical analysts are increasingly confident that the firm can deliver. A consumer survey conducted for Jefferies bank in Germany and India turned up the surprising finding that services such as Netflix and Amazon are more appealing than local streaming options, despite potential language barriers.\n\nThe survey also suggested that Netflix's pricing could hold up, even in a wider variety of markets.\n\nHowever, the company has warned that growth could be hurt if the dollar climbs much higher.\n\nWho is watching its shows?\n\nNetflix started making its own shows in 2013, with House of Cards one of its first big hits and Stranger Things more recently. The company plans to spend more on original content this year and reduce outlays on licensed material such as movies.\n\nAwards and critical acclaim for dramas such as The Crown have helped attract viewers. Yet analysts at Jefferies fear that cutting back on other content such as films could reduce Netflix's overall appeal.\n\nWill it be affected by the Hollywood writers dispute?\n\nNetflix casts a long shadow on the negotiations that started in March between the Writers Guild of America and production companies and studios over what writers are paid. The existing agreement expires on 1 May and a strike could be on the cards.\n\nOne of the main sticking points concerns residual payments for streamed shows and writers for some Netflix productions are covered by the agreement.\n\nThe growth of online television has also contributed to the rise of shorter series than on broadcast networks, which has meant lower fees for writers.\n\nNetflix stands to benefit from any disruption to major broadcasters. It also has flexibility to withstand a work stoppage, since it's not bound by the traditional TV calendar.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt looks like a barber's shop should. The scissors, the combs, the clippers and mirrors. Shelves of hair 'product' and jars of 'barbicide' disinfectant.\n\nThere's a theme going on too - it screams motorcycles. From the leather jacket hanging on the wall, to oil and tyre paraphernalia, and biking photos.\n\nIt's where men can come to relax. For a haircut, a beard trim, or even a full wet cut-throat razor shave.\n\nWelcome to the world of Sophie Collins: 'The Cut-throat Racer'\n\nShe is a 25-year-old former hairdresser, who has swapped tints, blue-rinses and shampoo-and-sets in a small rural village in north Wales for the male-dominated world of barbering.\n\nIt is four years since she set up shop in the quiet, picturesque Gwynedd village of Llanbedr - a place whose claims to fame are a campsite on the coast boasting it is the biggest in Europe, and an ex-Raf airfield that wants to become an international space port.\n\nBut this spring, it is Sophie making the headlines in the village, in north Wales - and beyond.\n\nShe has just been named the best cut-throat shaver in Wales - the first woman to take the title.\n\nIt also means she'll become the very first female barber to make it to the UK finals of the competition, held in May in a boxing ring in Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre.\n\n\"I've always wanted to do it - be a barber,\" said Sophie.\n\n\"I was inspired by an old friend. A gentleman I trained with, he actually taught me how to shave.\n\n\"I thought, you know, when I took on my own place, I wanted to be like the other barbers - show myself off, show the shop - enter competitions - not thinking I'd get as far as have.\n\nPerhaps she is being modest. She is no stranger to competing in traditionally male arenas.\n\nOutside of the barber shop, you are just as likely to find her donning racing leathers and taking her motorbike out on the track.\n\nShe is spending the Easter weekend in a track competition where she will be up against her own father, who passed on his passion for speed and bikes to her.\n\n\"He's faster than me though,\" she laughed.\n\nAt the race meets up and down the country, Sophie is also known to set-up her own mobile barber's shop, offering hardened bikers and race enthusiasts a trim or shave.\n\nIt is where she picked-up her nickname: The Cut-throat Racer.\n\nAnd now she hopes her success can be an inspiration to other women who want to get into the industry.\n\n\"It's actually making the women out there think: 'You know what - I've always wanted to do it'.\n\n\"Maybe seeing myself win something like that, maybe it will encourage them to actually do it themselves - and not have to worry about being a woman taking part in a competition alongside men.\n\n\"Yes - it is daunting - but you're just as good as them, and that's how I felt on the day.\"\n\nBut does the swaggering confidence translate back to the barber shop floor?\n\n\"When they come in and I get the razor out to shave their neck, they panic,\" confesses Sophie.\n\n\"They tend to have a gulp and grit their teeth, and I'm trying to tell them: '\"Relax - it's supposed to be relaxing for you.\n\nWith a smile and a sly wink, she adds: \"A lot of them do get nervous.\n\n\"A woman with a razor? No - really?\"\n\nYes really, a woman with a razor who is on a mission to become one of the best cut-throat shavers in Britain.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton said his Mercedes team need to improve if they are to beat Ferrari in their developing fight for the Formula 1 title.\n\nHamilton was beaten into second place in the Bahrain Grand Prix as Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel took his second win in three races this season.\n\nHe said: \"They are strong in race trim and we particularly struggle with the rear end. It's difficult to explain.\n\n\"They did a great job and we have to make improvements.\"\n\nHamilton is seven points behind Vettel after winning in China and securing two second places behind the German.\n\nThe three-time world champion added: \"It is all small, fine percentages that will make the difference between winning and coming second.\"\n\nHamilton apologised to Mercedes for damaging his chances by earning a five-second penalty for deliberately slowing Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo as they pitted for fresh tyres under a safety car early in the race.\n\nBut he said he was not sure whether it cost him victory in a race he lost by 6.6 seconds, and in which Vettel said he was measuring his pace once he was in front.\n\n\"Possibly I would have been in a better position,\" Hamilton said, \"but that's all ifs and buts.\"\n\nThe Englishman, 32, will get his next chance to overhaul Vettel at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi later this month.\n\n\"I feel pain in my heart (when I don't win) and people will be like 'hey, you finished second, you should be happy', but that's not why we exist,\" said Hamilton.\n\n\"If anyone ever thinks that a driver, or I, should feel happy with second, I don't know what to say. That's not why we exist.\"\n\nHe added: \"The disappointment is there and losing points for a team, when you could have won the race, is definitely painful, but I gave it everything I could.\n\n\"Ferrari did a great job, but we are going to push hard together - re-gather as a team - and come back fighting.\"\n\nVettel refused to be drawn into talk about a title challenge.\n\n\"I am not really looking at the championship,\" the four-time champion said.\n\n\"I am really enjoying the car. I was a bit down after qualifying because the gap to Mercedes was so big and we could have been a bit closer.\n\n\"But something inside me told me we had a good car and we can do well, so right from the first lap I felt the car was there and the Easter hunt was on.\n\n\"They were hiding some eggs but it looks as though we found them today.\"\n\nFerrari have bounced back this season from a winless 2016 to have arguably the fastest race car this season following a major change in regulations.\n\nBut they have missed out on pole position in all three races. In Bahrain, Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas gave Mercedes their first front-row lock-out of the season, with the Finn ahead on his first career pole position.\n\nWhen it was suggested to him Ferrari had an advantage over Mercedes at this stage of the season, Vettel said: \"Maybe at the moment but we still have lots of work ahead of us.\n\n\"The car is very good in the race but not quick enough to match them in qualifying.\n\n\"There is a lot of homework ahead of us but these kind of results certainly help. The people are very happy, they're passionate and full of energy to keep working harder.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nIt should have been a day he would never forget - playing for Wigan in the 2004 Challenge Cup final against the old enemy St Helens. Instead, after two knockout blows, Kevin Brown was wandering alone, dazed and confused, around the streets of Cardiff.\n\nIt was the greatest moment of his life - but, after a clash of heads, Luke Robinson - then at Huddersfield Giants - lost all memory that his wife had given birth only three days earlier.\n\nTwo isolated incidents for former half-back partners who tell this week's BBC Radio 5 live podcast they fear what the future could hold for them after repeated concussions in their careers.\n\nBut both insist the game is getting to grips with head injury protocol, making it much safer for players now beginning their careers.\n\nRobinson, who retired from playing 14 months ago, says he was knocked out at least 30 times playing rugby league.\n\nHe says: \"The dangers are incredible and it's worrying. My wife is extremely worried about me in the future.\n\n\"If you go on YouTube, you can see one concussion. I clash heads with James Graham. My wife had given birth on the Tuesday, I was playing the game on the Friday.\"\n\nFor the rest of the match, Robinson chased after team-mate Danny Brough, asking him if he was a dad.\n\n\"It was only when I got home and my wife was there with our first born, Leo, that it all came flooding back that I had a kid,\" he adds.\n\n\"In another game, I got a hit to the head. Five or six hours later I got home, I felt fine. But I rang for a taxi to go to my friend's birthday and I couldn't remember where I lived.\n\n\"I had to go to my study and get a bank statement out, and it was only then that I remembered.\"\n• None Concussion in sport: 'They said if I carried on, I might die'\n\nBrown, now 32 and playing for Warrington, missed the Easter fixtures after being concussed twice in three previous games.\n\nBut that protocol of being forced to sit out matches is only a recent development.\n\n\"In the 2004 Challenge Cup final, I played in the centre against St Helens. I don't remember the game,\" says Brown, who played on despite being knocked out twice.\n\n\"After the game, I had no idea what was going on. I missed the bus and I was walking round Cardiff with my tracksuit on.\n\n\"My team-mate Martin Aspinwall found me and took me back to the hotel because I was delirious and I didn't know where I was. But after those two concussions, I played again the week later. I only know I played a week later because I broke my leg at Wakefield.\n\n\"There was obviously nothing in place to protect you from getting a further head injury a week later, which they're saying now is the most dangerous.\"\n\nBoth players believe the protocols now in place will protect players.\n\n\"I was forever getting knocked out and telling the physio I was fine,\" says Robinson, 32.\n\n\"But now it's out of the players' hands. They're escorted down to the dressing rooms and a head test is done.\"\n\nBrown adds: \"Getting concussed isn't dangerous, it's getting concussed again while your brain is a little bit swollen that can really affect you.\n\n\"That's been take away a lot now with the cogsport tests and the protocol. You're not allowed to play on a six-day turnaround if you have had a concussion.\n\n\"Also, I've been knocked out six or seven times when I've passed the ball and been shoulder-charged. The game stopped that tackle and started banning people, so people stopped doing it.\n\n\"It's good that rugby league took the stance and is looking after the players.\"\n\nDespite his concerns about the future, Brown says he wouldn't have swapped his career in rugby league.\n\n\"The life I've had playing rugby has been unbelievable,\" he says. \"The opportunities it's given me, the enjoyment it's given me, far outweighs the negatives of the head knocks.\n\n\"Touch wood, I don't have any side-effects when it's finished.\"", "Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won a hectic and thrilling Bahrain Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton's hopes were hit by a penalty for gamesmanship.\n\nMercedes' Hamilton was penalised five seconds for driving slowly on pit entry to hold up Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.\n\nServing it at his second and final pit stop, Hamilton rejoined in third place.\n\nTeam-mate Valtteri Bottas was ordered to let Hamilton by so he could chase Vettel, but 12 seconds in nine laps was too big a task and he took second.\n\nVettel's win gives him a seven-point lead over Hamilton in the championship.\n\nIt was not completely clear who had the quickest car - Ferrari argued it was them; Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said Hamilton was the fastest. And the world champions may well feel this was a race that got away from them.\n\nBut the best race of the season, in which all three so far have been good, underlined one key fact - Ferrari are absolutely competitive and they and Mercedes are in a titanic struggle for the championship.\n\nHamilton and Vettel look like the men who will fight it - Bottas is not yet on Hamilton's level and Kimi Raikkonen was again relatively anonymous, a poor start leaving him a long way behind but recovering to take fourth place ahead of Ricciardo.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen may well have been in the fight, too, but crashed out after 11 laps with brake failure.\n\nIt turned on two key moments - an aggressive early pit stop by Ferrari for Vettel; and Hamilton's decision to slow on the way into the pits when the safety car was sent out following a collision between Williams driver Lance Stroll and Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz.\n\nBut other issues played a part, too - Hamilton should probably have taken pole but made a mistake at Turn 10 on his final qualifying lap, allowing Bottas to do so for the first time in his career.\n\nAnd Mercedes, in a very difficult position in only the third race of the year, waited until just short of half-distance to order the slower Bottas to let Hamilton by for the first time.\n\nThe combination of those two things left Hamilton with too much to do on a frustrating afternoon on which he and Mercedes were arguably the fastest combination but victory slipped through their fingers.\n\nThe race that kept everyone guessing\n\nHamilton's decision to slow in front of Ricciardo on the way into the pits on lap 13 was made because he was behind Bottas, who was also coming in, and he wanted to give himself time to have his tyres changed straight after his team-mate and not lose a place to the Australian.\n\nHe apologised to the team afterwards for his actions, which he said might have cost him victory.\n\nA slow pit stop for Bottas made matters even worse for Mercedes.\n\nFerrari's aggressive strategy was triggered when Bottas converted his first career pole, in his third race for Mercedes, into a first-lap lead but did not have the pace to get away from his pursuers.\n\nTeam boss Wolff said Bottas had too-high tyre pressures as a result of a problem on the grid.\n\nThe Finn found himself leading a five-car train, comprised of Vettel, Hamilton and the Red Bulls of Verstappen and Ricciardo.\n\nUnable to pass, but clearly being held up, Ferrari chose a very early first pit stop for Vettel on lap 10, switching onto a second set of the super-soft tyres. Verstappen followed him in a lap later but suffered brake failure at the last corner immediately afterwards.\n\nHamilton closed in on Bottas, only for the safety car to be introduced on lap 13 after the crash at the first corner.\n\nAll the remaining front runners pitted - Hamilton earning his penalty - and Bottas fitted the super-softs and Hamilton the more durable softs.\n\nAt the re-start four laps later, Vettel led Bottas and Hamilton and the Ferrari started to pull away, and as he built a lead of more than four seconds by lap 25, Mercedes finally ordered Bottas to let Hamilton through into second place.\n\nHamilton closed his deficit to Vettel from 6.3 seconds on lap 27 to 4.3 on 32, and the Ferrari pitted for the final time a lap later, rejoining 17 seconds behind on soft tyres Hamilton but immediately setting fastest laps.\n\nHamilton served his penalty at his final pit stop on lap 41, fitting another set of soft tyres and rejoining 18 seconds behind the leader, and now it was the Englishman's turn to set fastest laps.\n\nBottas moved out of the way into Turn 13 on lap 47, leaving Hamilton with 12 seconds to close in 10 laps. It was too much.\n\nA gripping race was enlivened by battles throughout the field, one of the most intense of which was between Renault's Jolyon Palmer, Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.\n\nThey swapped positions for many laps, racing furiously, but Alonso's frustration at battling with his down-on-power Honda engine grew throughout.\n\nHe said he had \"never raced with less power in my life\" and later, after losing out to Kvyat but finally moving clear of Palmer, he found Esteban Ocon's Mercedes-powered Force India coming up behind him and blasting past on the straight.\n\n\"He was, what, 300 metres behind us on the straight?\" Alonso said to his engineer Mark Temple. \"We're considering Plan B,\" Temple said. \"How are the tyres?\" Alonso replied: \"Do what you want, man.\"\n\nAlonso eventually retired with an engine problem, the latest in a series for Honda in a weekend in which they have lost four MGU-Hs, one of them on team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne's car before the race even started.\n\nWhat they said\n\nVettel: \"It was a really great day. It was the last half of the out lap when all the fireworks were going off I was like: 'I love what I do'.\n\n\"It was a great team effort today and I felt like we are quick. I tried to put Valtteri under pressure. But the early pit stop worked.\"\n\nHamilton: \"Congratulations to Seb. The pitlane was my fault and apologies to the team. I tried my hardest to catch up. We will push hard together, keep fighting.\n\n\"Losing points for the team is definitely painful but it is what it is. I am getting old!\"\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nDrivers have a two-week break before the Russian Grand Prix around the Olympic Park in Sochi on 28-30 April. Hamilton has won twice there. Vettel, on the other hand, crashed last year after being hit twice by Daniil Kvyat.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal kept alive their hopes of finishing in the top four of the Premier League with a narrow victory at second-bottom Middlesbrough.\n\nA dull opening was brought to life when Alexis Sanchez's superb free-kick gave Arsenal the lead just before the break.\n\nMiddlesbrough responded soon after the restart when Alvaro Negredo volleyed in Stewart Downing's pinpoint cross.\n\nHowever, Mesut Ozil secured the much-needed three points for Arsenal with a first-time strike at the near post.\n\nThe win - only Arsenal's third in their past nine league games - moves the Gunners up to sixth, seven points behind fourth-place Manchester City and with a game in hand.\n\nMiddlesbrough remain deep in relegation trouble, six points from safety.\n\nThe Gunners have not lost five successive away games in the league since 1984 and manager Arsene Wenger took significant measures to avoid that happening against Boro by playing a three-man defence for the first time since 1997.\n\nRob Holding, Laurent Koscielny and Gabriel were the centre-backs at the Riverside Stadium but struggled with the change in system as Middlesbrough looked lively in the early stages but lacked the quality in the final third to exploit the gaps in Arsenal's defence.\n\n\"Yes, it is the first time in 20 years. That shows you that even at my age, you can change,\" Wenger said after the game when explaining his tactical switch.\n\n\"I felt it added a bit more stability on the long balls. We faced a direct game and we have been punished a bit on that. It gave the opponents more of the ball but against Crystal Palace we had 70% possession but lost.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough have scored the fewest amount of Premier League goals at home all season - just 12 prior to Arsenal's visit - and with the quality of Sanchez and Ozil in attack the visitors were always capable of snatching a lead. That proved to be the case when they scored from only their second shot on target just before the break, Sanchez expertly steering a free-kick over a packed wall and into the far corner.\n\nArsenal's lack of experience playing 3-4-3 was evident early in the second half when Downing charged away down an exposed right flank on the counter before providing the perfect ball for Negredo to poke in his ninth of the season.\n\nThe game opened up after that but Ozil's goal midway through the second half ensured Arsenal escaped with the points. It was a welcome win for under-pressure Wenger but not quite the sign of a return to form. Holding, Koscielny and Gabriel failed to make a single tackle in the first 60 minutes and stronger sides than Middlesbrough will not be as forgiving.\n\nSanchez has cut a frustrated figure at times this season, with reports suggesting he is keen to leave the Gunners in the summer.\n\nHowever, his celebrations after Arsenal's goals on Monday did not look like those of an unhappy player.\n\nHe hugged and high-fived his team-mates and was seen smiling broadly at the final whistle, celebrating with the fans.\n\nIt is unlikely to be enough to convince Arsenal fans he will stay at the club, but it will no doubt have been pleasing for Wenger.\n\nIs there hope for Middlesbrough?\n\nMiddlesbrough are the only side in English league football not to have won a league game during 2017 and that awful run of form has put them perilously close to an immediate return to the Championship.\n\nPerformances have improved since Steve Agnew replaced Aitor Karanka on a caretaker basis last month and this display was perhaps their best so far under the Englishman.\n\nBut wins are needed and needed quickly. Five wins and a draw from their final six games would take them to 40 points - generally perceived as the minimum to avoid relegation - but with games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool still to come they need to significantly improve in the final third to have a chance of pulling off an unlikely escape.\n\nWhat they said\n\nMiddlesbrough caretaker boss Steve Agnew: \"We are bitterly disappointed with the result but the players gave everything they had. We couldn't ask more of them.\n\n\"We played on the front foot, put them under pressure. I felt we might get the second goal after Negredo scored.\n\n\"The ball just wouldn't drop in the box for us. We put them under tremendous pressure.\"\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger: \"We responded well. I think it was not perfect but the commitment and focus was there. At 1-1 we found a response and managed to win.\n\n\"It was a big test, Middlesbrough gave everything. It's one of their last chances to stay in the league.\n\n\"It [the top four] is mathematically still alive. We knew we needed to win. Now we have a little break with the FA Cup and then we come back again to the league.\n\n\"We have to win every game to have a chance to get in the top four, starting tonight. I think it will make the team a bit more serene.\"\n• None Arsenal picked up only their second win in their past nine away league games (D1 L6), though both victories came against teams currently in the relegation zone (Swansea were beaten 4-0 on 14 January).\n• None Alexis Sanchez has scored more away goals in the Premier League this season than any other player (13).\n• None Indeed, only Emmanuel Adebayor (14 in 2007-08) has scored more away goals in a single Premier League campaign for Arsenal than Sanchez this season.\n• None Middlesbrough are winless in 15 league games - their longest such run in the division.\n• None Only Thierry Henry (12) has scored more direct free-kick goals in the Premier League for Arsenal than Sanchez (five, level with Robin van Persie).\n• None Mesut Ozil has scored in two of his past three league games for Arsenal, the same number he'd scored in in his previous 16.\n• None Ozil also made four tackles, his joint-most in a Premier League game (last doing so against Man City in December 2015).\n• None Arsenal's opener was their 3,000th away goal in English league football (now 3,001) - the second side to reach that figure (Manchester United, 3226).\n\nMiddlesbrough continue their search for a first league win of the year on Saturday when they travel to Bournemouth (15:00 BST). Arsenal, meanwhile, now switch their focus to the FA Cup. They face Manchester City in the semi-final on Sunday (15:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Middlesbrough. Daniel Ayala tries a through ball, but Rudy Gestede is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam Clayton with a cross.\n• None Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez.\n• None Attempt saved. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rudy Gestede.\n• None Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nWorld Snooker chairman Barry Hearn says accusations directed at him by Ronnie O'Sullivan are \"unfounded\" and being taken \"very seriously\".\n\nThe five-time world champion, 41, reacted to a disciplinary letter he received in January by claiming the body used \"threatening\" language, and adding he would not be \"bullied\".\n\nHe was speaking after beating Gary Wilson 10-7 at the World Championship.\n\nThe WPBSA, the sport's governing body, says it will take no action.\n\nWhat did O'Sullivan say?\n\nIn an emotional post-match interview on Sunday, O'Sullivan told BBC Radio 5 live: \"I phoned Barry Hearn four weeks ago and told him I am done with you and your board.\n\n\"A friend told me to let the lawyers deal with it. I won't get involved anymore because I am not being bullied.\"\n\nO'Sullivan was warned about his behaviour in a letter from the WPBSA after he publicly criticised a referee and swore at a photographer during January's Masters.\n\nHe has since replied to questions from the media with one or two-word answers, has sung an Oasis song in reply, and on another occasion responded as a 'robot' in protest at his perceived mistreatment by the sport's authorities.\n\nIn a statement published on Monday, Hearn said the WPBSA was \"exclusively responsible for all disciplinary matters\" and he had \"no involvement whatsoever\".\n\nHearn, chairman of the commercial arm of the sport, said: \"I take any accusation of 'bullying and intimidation' by me or World Snooker very seriously.\n\n\"Unfounded accusations such as these are damaging to World Snooker's global reputation, as well as my own, and we will take whatever action is required to protect this reputation from such inaccurate comments.\"\n\nHe said he hoped all parties could \"move on\" and focus on the \"brilliant entertainment\" at the World Championship.\n\nWhat did the WPBSA say?\n\nWPBSA chairman Jason Ferguson told the BBC: \"In terms of bullying and intimidation - we don't accept that at all.\n\n\"I'm more than happy to sit down with Ronnie and discuss the issues.\"\n\nAfter beating Wilson, O'Sullivan will play Shaun Murphy or teenager Yan Bingtao in round two at the Crucible Theatre.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBorussia Dortmund felt \"completely ignored\" over the rescheduling of their Champions League game against Monaco, says manager Thomas Tuchel.\n\nDortmund lost 3-2 in the first leg of the quarter-final on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after an attack on their bus caused the match to be postponed.\n\n\"We were told by text message that Uefa was making this decision,\" said Tuchel.\n\n\"A decision made in Switzerland that concerns us directly. We will not forget it, it is a very bad feeling.\"\n\nFollowing Tuchel's comments, Uefa released a statement saying the decision to play the match at 17:45 BST on Wednesday was made in \"complete agreement with clubs and authorities\".\n• None Bartra 'doing much better' after bus attack\n\nEuropean football's governing body added: \"We were in touch with all parties today and never received any information which suggested that any of the teams did not want to play.\"\n\nThree explosions hit Dortmund's team bus as they travelled to their Westfalenstadion home on Tuesday, with the match rescheduled later that evening.\n\n\"Of course we have to keep it going, but we still want to be competitive,\" added Tuchel. \"We do not want to use the situation as an excuse.\n\n\"We wished we would have had more time to deal with what happened, but someone in Switzerland decided we must play.\"\n\nSpain defender Marc Bartra suffered a broken wrist and has subsequently had surgery, but no other players were hurt.\n\n\"Every player has the right to deal with it in his way. The team did not feel in the mood, in which you must be for such a game,\" said Tuchel.\n\n\"We let the players choose if they wanted to play. But this morning, we found that the training had done good, that it had made us think of something else.\"\n\nGerman police have described it as a targeted attack and detained a suspect with \"Islamist\" links.\n\n\"We were attacked as men and we tried to solve the problem on the ground,\" said Tuchel, who has been in charge of the Bundesliga side since 2015.\n\n\"Everyone has their own way of reacting to events. The players had the choice not to play, but no-one chose this option.\"\n\nDortmund were 2-0 and 3-1 down to French side Monaco, for whom 18-year-old forward Kylian Mbappe scored twice.\n\n\"The team has shown an incredible character,\" added Tuchel. \"We have won the second half, the spirit in the second half was great.\"\n\nMonaco boss Leonardo Jardim had some sympathy with Tuchel's view, but said the packed fixture calendar contributed to the hasty rescheduling.\n\n\"Maybe it should not be played today, but the calendar gave few options to be able to play the match,\" he said.\n\n\"We produced a good result but it's only half-time of the quarter-final.\"\n\n'I will never forget those faces'\n\nTurkey midfielder Nuri Sahin came on as a second-half substitute for Dortmund.\n\n\"It is hard to talk about it and hard to find the right words,\" he said. \"Last evening we felt how it is to be in this situation. I don't wish a feeling like this on anyone.\n\n\"I didn't realise what happened and when I got home my wife and son were waiting in front of the door. I felt how lucky we were.\"\n\nThe 28-year-old, who has previously had a loan spell with Liverpool, added: \"I know football is very important. We love football, we suffer with football and I know we earn a lot of money and have a privileged life - but we are human beings, there is so much more than football in this world.\n\n\"When I was on the bus last night, I can't forget the faces, I will never forget those faces. I was sitting next to Marcel Schmelzer and I will never forget his face. It was unbelievable.\"", "The great Scottish poet Robert Burns once wrote that \"the best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.\"\n\nOr, as they say in Canada, \"The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew\".\n\nPerhaps that explains how, in the midst of Brexit negotiations and as Scotland weighs a second referendum on independence, an obscure Canadian writer was able to capture people's imagination with his unconventional proposal: Scotland could quit the UK and join Canada instead.\n\nOn the surface, it sounds improbable. But as Ken McGoogan told the BBC, \"in an ideal world, this might work really well\".\n\nHis proposal has since been picked up by media outlets as far as China, and he says he's \"amazed and gobsmacked\" at the level of interest in an idea he initially described as a \"flight of fancy\".\n\nSome 1,500 readers wrote to the BBC from across the UK and North America to weigh in on whether Scotland should become Canada's 11th province. Some found it was the best idea since chips-and-gravy. Others thought it would be a total disaster, like when they added the letter \"e\" to whisky.\n\nHere's what both Scots and Canadians had to say about the possibility of joining forces.\n\n\"We don't want to be part of another country, we *are* a country... My dream is that we gain our independence and keep our sovereignty, no handing it over to the EU.\" - Scot Chegg, Ayr, Scotland\n\n\"I think leaving the UK is a bad idea to start with, but leaving the UK to join Canada is absurd.\" - Kyle Richardson, Scotland\n\nNo campaign supporters cheer after Scotland voted to stay in the UK - Scotland's leader has proposed a second referendum\n\n\"Canada should really be joining with Scotland, as we are the original Canadians and they're basically just a big Scotland anyway.\" - Rory Watt, Scotland\n\n\"Sorry, he's got this in reverse... Canada was part of Scotland 25 million years ago and its about time we re-united. Being Scottish lets us use all those uniquely Scottish phrases, wear kilts on a regular basis, and enjoy a quality of life not otherwise possible. We could even switch to driving on the correct side of the road!\" - Martyn Ridley, Canada\n\n\"I don't know how we'll be able to squeeze in 40-50 new MPs into our already crowded House of Commons. I do welcome the access to the home of my ancestors, and maybe more choices of whiskys.\" - Alex Milton, Winnipeg, Manitoba\n\n\"While I can't speak for all Canadians, myself and many, many others would happily welcome Scotland to join Canada as a full province. At the very least, we'd have Olympic curling all sewn up.\" - Kevan Dettelbach, Vancouver, British Columbia\n\n\"Joining Canada would be fantastic...They already have Nova Scotia, now they'd also have the original Scotia!\" - Colin Groundwater, West Lothian, Scotland\n\n\"At last someone has published what I have long thought. I think it makes good sense culturally, emotionally and economically. If they like, the English could ask to become part of the United States.\" - Alisdair Dale, Orpington, England\n\n\"If Scotland and Canada were to join, it would be the perfect matrimony... Not only are Canada and Scotland similar in geographical terms (both being cold and beautiful) but also the friendly people of Canada would be welcomed with open arms in Scotland.\" - Natalie Rosie, Dunfermline, Scotland\n\n\"To hear this idea put forward really makes a Scots descendent day dream about the possibilities! ...I'll gladly open my door and show them our famous Scottish-Canadian hospitality. Free of charge, naturally!\" - Jason MacGregor, Montreal, Canada\n\n\"At least someone would then listen to me playing the pipes! Besides, I actually like haggis and the Scottish hills. Some of my fondest memories occurred during visits to Scotland as a child to the farm my grandfather worked on.\" - John McCubbin, Toronto, Ontario\n\n\"Geographical boundaries don't matter so much these days. What the people of a nation value does, identity does, and Scotland, for a very long time has not had the same values as England. As a province of Canada, Scotland would be treated better than it is now.\" - B Whickham, Gloucester, England\n\n\"Canada and Scotland has so many deep and historic ties. We would be with our people, and peoples of a like mind, we would have the freedoms we require, yet still be part of a greater community, one that would not throw away or ignore our wishes.\" - Symon Kielg, Edinburgh, Scotland\n\nSome responses were edited for length.", "It's a rare piece of green space with the backdrop of Parliament and a commanding view of the Thames.\n\nVictoria Tower Gardens, London's smallest royal park, is a popular haunt for dog walkers, joggers, families - and also picnicking office workers, who use it to soak up the sun and get a breather from the hustle and bustle of city life.\n\nBut that could be about to change because this narrow strip of parkland is set to become home to a national Holocaust memorial with an underground learning centre.\n\nBy Holocaust Memorial Day 2021, organisers anticipate the £50m scheme will transform the park, which dates back to the 1870s and is fringed by trees and benches, into a tourist destination and education resource attracting more than a million visitors a year.\n\nA shortlist of 10 architects are currently competing in an international design competition launched by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation to create the new structure, with the winning team to be announced by the end of May.\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron said the new monument would \"show the importance Britain places on preserving the memory of the Holocaust\", claiming it would represent \"a permanent statement of our values as a nation\" and something that would be visited \"for generations to come\".\n\nBut not everyone is happy about the plan. Some local residents, MPs and peers say that while they are fully behind the creation of a Holocaust memorial - and in particular a learning centre - they believe the project will destroy the park.\n\nBarbara Weiss, the architect who refurbished the Russell Square headquarters of the Wiener Library - the oldest institution for the study of the Holocaust and genocide - questioned why it could not be placed with it. \"I'm not against the memorial, I just don't want any building in our park, not even a hospital or an art gallery.\"\n\nMs Weiss is a leading light in the Save Victoria Tower Gardens campaign. She says the park is \"absolutely unique, historic and gorgeous - to put something else there will totally change its character completely\".\n\n\"It doesn't make a lot of sense to build a learning centre underground in an area beside a river in a flood area.\n\n\"The organisers are talking about one million extra visitors there - that's a lot of extra security. We would have people with machine guns and bag checks, and I know people who work in Parliament don't want that. They go to the park to get away from that pressure of feeling constantly monitored.\"\n\nLucy Peck, a retired architectural historian who lives nearby, said: \"I'm not against a memorial at all, but there are bigger places in London that could take a project of this size much more easily. There's a superb Holocaust gallery less than a mile away at the Imperial War Museum, so why build another fairly similar thing here?\"\n\nThe Imperial War Museum, a 15 minute walk from Parliament, was one of three locations out of 50 in the running as a Holocaust memorial site - until January 2016 when Mr Cameron named Victoria Tower Gardens as the preferred option.\n\nLucy Donoughue, the IWM's assistant communications director, said the museum - which is spending £15m on renewing and expanding its renowned Holocaust Exhibition and already attracts a million visitors a year - was not deemed central enough.\n\n\"While we were disappointed by this decision, we still remain hugely supportive of the initiatives laid out by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation,\" she said.\n\nVeteran Conservative MP Sir Peter Bottomley, who has lived near Victoria Tower Gardens for more than 25 years, says he is unhappy two other sites - Potters Field on the south bank of the Thames between Tower Bridge and City Hall, and Millbank, next to Tate Britain - were ruled out.\n\n\"Somewhere, somehow some unnamed person in Number 10 decided to substitute these three with Victoria Tower Gardens,\" he said. \"You can't have a prominent memorial here - you've got to keep the garden. I would urge the government to pause, reopen the debate and rethink.\"\n\nThe park, which is listed Grade II and is partly inside a Unesco world heritage site, is no stranger to significant structures including August Rodin's bronze The Burghers of Calais, a statue of the Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and a fountain commemorating the abolition of slavery.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, which is chaired by Sir Peter Bazalgette, said its mission had been to find \"the most iconic location\" for a national memorial and learning centre - and Victoria Tower Gardens, next to Parliament \"fulfils that aim better than any of the almost 50 sites we examined\".\n\nShe declined to say specifically why other sites had not been chosen except that \"a lot of those were for commercial reasons\".\n\n\"With cross-party support, we have made a promise to survivors that in Victoria Tower Gardens we will create a fitting national memorial as a permanent site of remembrance and an education centre to act more broadly as a voice against hatred and prejudice in the modern world, while respecting and enhancing the existing green space,\" she said.\n\n\"There can be nowhere more meaningful for such a powerful statement of our national values than next to Parliament, at the heart of our democracy. We want Britain's Holocaust survivors to know that we will not break our promise.\"\n\nBut Jewish Conservative peer Lord Wasserman, one of David Cameron's closest political allies who lives quite near the gardens, says it is not the right location for such a symbolic and important project.\n\n\"In particular, I am concerned that this will lead to massive resentment on the part of those ordinary Londoners who will be seriously inconvenienced by the additional traffic (vehicular and pedestrian) which the museum will generate,\" he said. \"I'm also concerned about the the additional security risk associated with such a site.\"\n\nMaja Turcan, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, says while a learning centre is needed \"particularly at a time where anti-Semitism and hate crimes are increasing\" - she questions why it could not be placed somewhere like Manchester \"where there's a big Jewish community, but is also multi-ethnic and multi-cultural\".\n\nVictoria Park Gardens as it is now\n\nAviva Trup, who manages Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors Services - a centre which offers a programme of social, cultural and therapeutic events for Holocaust survivors in the UK - said \"legacy and education is of upmost importance to our members\".\n\nShe would not be drawn on whether Victoria Tower Gardens was the right place for the project, saying that \"the most important thing is that the memorial is built in a central London location and is easy to access\".\n\nThe UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation is currently running a public consultation exercise, with exhibitions across the UK featuring the proposed schemes until the end of April.\n\nThe winning design will be announced before the end of May by Sir Peter's jury, whose members include: London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid, TV presenters Loyd Grossman - also chair of the Royal Parks - and newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky.\n\nThe project should be open to the public by Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2021.", "Reality Check says: The government defines \"ordinary working families\" as those that are not eligible for pupil premium but have below average incomes. It believes that accounts for about one third of all pupils in England, but this calculation is a work in progress.\n\nEducation Secretary Justine Greening on Thursday kicked off a consultation on plans for grammar schools in England, saying that they must do more to help \"ordinary working families\" as the government pushes ahead with plans to allow more selective schools to open.\n\nThere is no official definition of an \"ordinary working family\" but Ms Greening said on the Today Programme: \"They don't perhaps qualify for free school meals - for pupil premium - but actually they are growing up in families that are below median incomes.\"\n\nThe household earning the median income is the one for which half of families have a higher income and half have lower.\n\nThe Pupil Premium is a pot of money set aside for children who are in care, eligible for free school meals or have had free school meals at any point in the last six years.\n\nPupils are eligible for free school meals if their family is on one of a range of benefits or has a household income of less than £16,190.\n\nSo, if earning above £16,190 puts you at the bottom end of the \"ordinary working families\" definition, how is the government defining the top end of the range?\n\nThe paper published on Wednesday included the first attempt by government statisticians to come up with figures that set out how many children from different income brackets go to grammar schools.\n\nIn the past, the only figures to help with this have been those covering how many children eligible for pupil premium go to particular schools, so expanding these statistics is an ambitious project.\n\nWhat the statisticians have done is to attempt to match individual pupils in schools with their families' income through looking at tax payments and tax credits details.\n\nThese figures have then been adjusted to take into account things like household size, because if there are two families with identical household incomes, one of which has one child and the other has four children, their standards of living will not be the same.\n\nTaking all these adjustments into account, the median household income comes out as £20,000. However, some families earning more than £20,000 in total will still fall within the definition of an ordinary working family.\n\nFor example, a single parent's income would be adjusted upwards, so it could be compared directly with the standard of living for a couple.\n\nFor a two-parent family with two children, the government considers median income to be £33,000.\n\nThe government says 35% of all pupils in England, which is 2.5 million children fall into its definition of coming from ordinary working families, because they fall below the median income but are not eligible for pupil premium.\n\nThe government is consulting on how to improve the methodology because, for example, the income figures do not currently include households' earnings from self-employment. They also plan to adjust for housing costs in different parts of England. The consultation closes on 30 June.\n\nThis new analysis has been welcomed as providing more detail, although there have been warnings from some education groups that the new work on ordinary working families will reduce the focus on the disadvantaged families who are eligible for pupil premium.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nBritain's Jenson Button looks set to replace Fernando Alonso at McLaren for the Monaco Grand Prix in May.\n\nAlonso will miss Monaco to race in the Indianapolis 500, with full support from McLaren and engine partner Honda.\n\nMcLaren executive director Zak Brown says two-time champion Alonso's replacement is \"not in place\".\n\nBut there is no other serious option than Button, 37, who is contracted to McLaren as a reserve driver and will race barring unexpected circumstances.\n\nThe 2009 world champion retired from Formula 1 at the end of last season and has spent the winter in California training for Ironman triathlons, his long-time passion.\n\nHe signed a contract with McLaren last autumn that committed him to replacing any race driver who was not able to take part in a grand prix this year.\n\nAs part of that contract, the team also has an option on signing him to race in 2018.\n• None Alonso to race at Indy 500 over Monaco\n• None Go ahead for grands prix on British roads\n\nButton tweeted a jokey reaction on Wednesday after the news of Alonso's Indy programme was announced, asking: \"Why do I have so many missed calls?\"\n\nMeanwhile, Brown told a Bahrain news conference, held to discuss Alonso's Indy programme, that \"conversations were ongoing\" over the Spaniard's replacement.\n\n\"We have a few different options, we will state who that is when we know,\" he said.\n\n\"Eric [Boullier], who runs the F1 team, is ultimately responsible for making the recommendation as to what driver should go in the car and I think he will be here at the weekend so I can save questions for him, he is working on it.\n\n\"I wouldn't want to share the conversations he has had with whom.\"\n\nButton's compatriot and former team-mate, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, said: \"I hope Jenson comes back and it will be great for the sport if Jenson comes in.\n\n\"Jenson is still one of the best drivers in the world and his calibre and experience make him the best choice.\"\n\nHamilton and Button drove together at McLaren between 2010 and 2012.\n\nAre any other drivers in contention?\n\nButton is the only serious alternative McLaren have. Alonso is one of the top three or four drivers in the world and they need an experienced replacement for a race where they have one of their best chances of the season to score decent points.\n\nThe McLaren chassis is quite strong, but the car is being let down by its Honda engine, which is said to be at least 100bhp down on the best in F1.\n\nMonaco is one of the tracks on the calendar where engine power is least important in determining lap time. Alonso finished fifth there last year, when Honda also had a power deficit.\n\nOn top of that, there are very few available drivers with the required level of skill and expertise.\n\nMexican Esteban Gutierrez and Brazil's Felipe Nasr both raced last year and are potentially free, but are non-starters for a team such as McLaren needing to find a replacement for a two-time champion.\n\nAnd Button's deal was struck with exactly this sort of situation in mind.", "Coverage: Practice, qualifying and race on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra (second practice online only). Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nMax Verstappen does not lack for confidence. Just starting his third season in Formula 1, with one win under his belt, the 19-year-old Red Bull driver has no doubts about his ability.\n\nCould he beat Lewis Hamilton in the same car, he is asked towards the end of a BBC Sport interview before the Bahrain Grand Prix?\n\n\"Probably I will sound really arrogant, but for sure,\" the Dutchman says.\n\nLike all Verstappen's statements, it is not said in an arrogant fashion. He is not an arrogant man. It is a statement of facts as he sees them, founded on a cast-iron self-belief forged by a lightning rise to the top in which he has already proved to have a rare and spectacular talent.\n\nThat ability was on show once again at the Chinese Grand Prix last weekend.\n\nFrom 16th on the grid to seventh on the first lap in slippery, damp conditions; second by lap 12, having passed Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari and his Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in typically improvisational style; passed by Sebastian Vettel's quicker Ferrari later in the race, but holding on for a podium after fending off heavy pressure from Ricciardo.\n\nFor all its wonder, it was the sort of drive that has come to be expected of Verstappen. It was after all just three races previously, in Brazil at the end of last year, that Verstappen produced an even more eye-opening performance, dancing through the rain in Brazil in a manner that brought comparisons with Ayrton Senna.\n\nWhere does Verstappen's talent come from?\n\nVerstappen seems to find grip and pace simply not accessible to most other drivers. How does he do it?\n\n\"It's always a bit difficult to answer to be honest,\" Verstappen says. \"Just feeling, instinct, knowing where you have to go. You just feel your way into it.\"\n\nIt's not just instinct, though. Verstappen started karting at a very young age, and had a pretty decent tutor - his dad, the former F1 driver Jos Verstappen. He also has racing genes from his mother, the former champion karter Sophie Kumpen.\n\nJos would take little Max out for kart races, limited to five laps at a time because that was when the race was shaped, he said.\n\nIt is better to win a few races and crash in a few than always be second or third\n\n\"For sure that helped me a lot,\" Verstappen says now. \"My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box.\n\n\"Some people say: 'Feel your way into it, build it up.' No, my dad would say: 'Straight away you have to be there.' And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.\"\n\nThere is nature with the nurture, though. Experience alone cannot explain Verstappen's almost supernatural feel for the limit when braking, the basis for many of his best overtaking moves.\n\nCan Verstappen himself explain it?\n\n\"To be honest, I can't,\" he says. \"I don't know. It is just something natural, I guess, to feel your way and control it. I have been practising a lot in the wet and trying not to lock up and stuff but I think it is also a bit natural, when you feel it is starting to lock.\"\n\nVerstappen's performances since he burst onto the F1 scene as a 17-year-old with the Red Bull junior team two years ago have earned him widespread acclaim and a huge fanbase. But while he is clearly an exceptional talent, he says he does not see himself in that way.\n\n\"No, I don't think about things like that,\" he says. \"You also very quickly get an arrogant thing about you when say things like that and I don't want to.\n\n\"Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that. I just want to do the best I can every time.\"\n\nControversy as part of the package\n\nAlong with the golden talent, there is a darker side to Verstappen.\n\nHis defensive driving tactics angered several more established stars, especially Vettel, last year and there were hard words spoken in a few drivers' briefings. A rule was even created specifically to try to prevent Verstappen doing what is known as 'moving under braking' - although it has been removed again this year to give race stewards more freedom.\n\nVerstappen says he was not bothered by the criticism.\n\n\"No, everyone can have their own opinion,\" he says. \"But it is very clear they [F1's bosses] wanted the racing back. Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position. That's what I was doing. I am happy that there is a bit more freedom to it.\"\n\nOfficials were concerned enough, though, for F1 race director Charlie Whiting to have a word with Verstappen and warn him that he was right on the edge of acceptability.\n\n\"They basically said they had never seen it before,\" Verstappen says. \"It was all a bit new to them. But I never got a penalty for it. So I never really thought I was doing anything wrong. It was definitely on the limit and hard but that's how racing should be, I think.\"\n\nMore from F1 on the BBC:\n\nFor all his clearly exceptional ability, the fact remains that Verstappen was out-scored in terms of points and out-qualified more often than not by team-mate Ricciardo last year.\n\nVerstappen says he feels no great need to correct the record this year. But there is a hint of a touched nerve in his answer when he points out that the margins were small, and he suffered a number of reliability problems that Ricciardo did not.\n\nPressed on the fact he must surely want to beat his team-mate, the only man who has the same equipment and therefore the only one with whom he can be directly compared, he adds: \"Well, of course it's a positive, but it is not always [about] being ahead [at the end of the season]. It is also stand-out results.\n\n\"I prefer to win a few races and crash in a few than always be second or third and be ahead in the championship. That is my approach to racing when you are not fighting for the title.\"\n\nIt is an answer that will remind F1 aficionados of the late Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve, who remains a legend for the feats he achieved apparently defying physics, in much the way Verstappen has done.\n\nOn a more mundane level is the question of the relationship between Verstappen and Ricciardo. Two bulls in one field is normally a recipe for disaster in F1 - think Alain Prost and Senna, or Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso - but Verstappen insists the relationship is sustainable.\n\n\"For the moment, there are no issues at all,\" he says. \"As long as you have a lot of respect for each other, then it should work out.\"\n\nVerstappen says the relationship with Ricciardo is \"actually very good\", but does concede: \"Of course on track we try to beat each other. That is very normal. There is always a bit of a distance. That's the way it should be. You cannot be best buddies every single minute of the day in racing.\n\n\"Off track, in the meetings here we work really well together, and on track we try to beat each other. But it is good for the team because we push each other forward as well and that's pushes the car forward.\"\n\nRight now, that's exactly what Red Bull need. They have started the season in a kind of no-man's land - not as quick as pace-setters Mercedes and Ferrari but miles ahead of everyone else.\n\nThe mixed conditions of China brought them into play close to the front, but that is going to be the exception rather than the norm until the car can be improved.\n\nRed Bull say they are confident chassis improvements along with engine upgrades due over the next few races can bring them closer, but Verstappen is not getting his hopes up.\n\n\"I am going to take the approach of just wait and see when the parts come to the car,\" he says. \"I am a realistic person. I don't like to be dreaming and hoping half a second here and 0.6secs here.\"\n\nAt his age, Verstappen has time on his hands. And his long-term ambition is clear. Not just one world title, but \"as many as I can get\".\n\nAs soon as he has said it, though, the realism is back: \"But it is not always in your hands. You need to be in the right team at the right time and hope they keep up as well.\n\n\"As long as you try to be the best you can, the fittest you are, that's also already a great achievement.\n\n\"At the end of my career if I didn't win a championship but I was still very competitive and was always up there and tried to extract the best out of myself, I can be happy with that as well.\"\n\nAnd he does admit that his ambition is to be the main man in F1.\n\n\"Of course that's the target. But it is really involved with how good the car is - I am 100% sure that if I had the same car as Lewis and Seb for sure I would be challenging them really hard.\n\n\"You have to believe in yourself. With the results I have had, or in the wet, or even in the dry, some races with a car that is not as good, to be able to be that close or reality fight for it, I am 100% sure if I had the same car, I can do it.\"", "Declan McKenna signed his record deal amid the mud at Glastonbury\n\nSeventeen-year-old Declan McKenna has emerged as a fresh and intelligent voice in indie-pop, unafraid to tackle the big topics.\n\nHis breakthrough single Brazil addressed how construction work for the 2014 World Cup destroyed dozens of local communities.\n\nLast year's Paracetamol was inspired by the story of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen in Ohio, who committed suicide after being sent for Christian conversion therapy.\n\n\"I just didn't realise that stuff like that was still going on,\" says the singer, who grew up in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"Recently, we've had the bathroom bill and all these sorts of things. I wanted to write something against that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMcKenna got his big break when he won Glastonbury's Emerging Talent Competition in 2015, and signed his record deal at the festival later that year, knee-deep in mud.\n\nSince then, he's released a series of singles tackling religion (Bethlehem), xenophobia in the media (Isombard), and being part of a voiceless generation (The Kids Don't Wanna Come Home).\n\nCrucially, they're all fizzing alt-pop concoctions that never patronise or preach - they simply get on with the business of being top-notch indie anthems.\n\nHe's just announced his debut album, What Do You Think About The Car, which will be released on 21 July - and was overseen by producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Foals).\n\nAhead of the release, McKenna sat down to discuss his inspirations, being patronised by the press and his penchant for dungarees.\n\nWhy is your album called What Do You Think About The Car?\n\nIt's from a home video when I was four years old. We'd just got a new car and I was stood in front of my grandma's house. On the video, my sister goes, \"Dec! What do you think about the car?\" And I go, \"I think it's really good, and now I'm going to sing my new album!\"\n\nThat was my first reference to making an album - and we've sampled it on the record.\n\nSo you've been planning this ever since?\n\nYeah! I mean, at the end of the video, I start singing a Busted song. I don't think I knew what album meant, but it's just a really funny, cute thing about my roots and where it's all come from. It just made sense.\n\nWhat were your early songs like?\n\nNot very good! There was about two albums' worth of demos online before I released Brazil - which I took down soon after. I was trying to be Sufjan Stevens but on the most basic music software you can get. I was trying very hard. They're... erm, interesting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhat prompted you to send Brazil in to Glastonbury's Emerging Talent competition?\n\nI'd been entering competitions forever. It just so happened that this was the one that got picked up - which was awesome because obviously Glastonbury is an enormous festival.\n\nHow did you find playing there?\n\nI was pretty young, I was 16, so it was just unreal. I played the shows and got signed to Columbia Records there as well.\n\nYeah, the guys at Columbia said, \"Let's sign at Glastonbury,\" because it was more exciting than doing it in an office or whatever. And then we just went out and had a bit of a party.\n\nSo you have a legally-binding contract that's completely covered in mud...\n\nWell, it was raining at the time! I think they kept it in in some foil or something, and then it was taken out for 10 seconds, like, \"Sign this! Sign this!\" And then it was done.\n\nA lot of your singles deal with serious topics. What led you down that path?\n\nI think, primarily, just not having much to write about! I was in school, I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't have anything going on, really, except exams.\n\nSo that's what pushed me to write about stuff that doesn't necessarily impact me directly, but which I think needs to be talked about.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Declan McKenna performs Isombard on the BBC Introducing Stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2016\n\nI read a lot of articles where the journalist seemed surprised someone your age would write about such serious subjects. That's quite condescending.\n\nYeah, I think so. A lot of the stuff I'm talking about is politically engaged, but I'm not by any means the most articulate or intelligent young person I know. There's nothing exceptional in talking about these things. I just do it and I put it in pop songs.\n\nKids Don't Wanna Come Home is an interesting song. You're both cynical about the state of the world and optimistic for it's future.\n\nYeah, 100%. It's about wanting to be part of a powerful and intelligent young generation - who stand up against these negative things we're shown incessantly on our phones. There's a lot of confusing information out there - but I'd like to be hopeful in a world that's often thought to be in despair.\n\nWere you too young to vote in the referendum?\n\nWhat did you think of the result?\n\nMy friends and I were, to a fair extent, ticked off.\n\nI wouldn't have voted in favour of Brexit if I was able to vote. Now I'm 18, I feel just as informed now to make a decision as I was a couple of months ago.\n\nJust on a personal level, as a touring musician, it's going to be a pain in the arse.\n\nThe teenager has been playing guitar since he was nine years old\n\nMusically, who's the gold standard? Who would you like to emulate?\n\nI mean, you have to try and make the best music you can, and you're not going to do that by emulating something you don't believe is the best. And I think David Bowie's music, in a lot of senses, is the peak of music.\n\nObviously, I don't think I am as good as him but I'd like to be. I'd like to be able to make something as good as Hunky Dory or Young Americans.\n\nWhich Bowie album are you on the level of right now?\n\nProbably none of them. Maybe Earthling if I'm lucky. I don't think it's my favourite Bowie album by a long stretch but it's still there, it still deserves a place in my heart.\n\nFinally, I have to ask about the dungarees. You've been rocking them for a while now...\n\nI just like a good pair of dungarees. It's comfortable, it's versatile, it looks good with anything. I'm a fan.\n\nAnd there's a handy pocket at the front for snacks.\n\nI've got loads of pockets. Pockets galore - that's my nickname on the street.\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 European Football\n\nLeicester boss Craig Shakespeare said the referee \"guessed\" over the penalty decision that led to their defeat at Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.\n\nJonas Eriksson awarded a spot-kick for a foul on Antoine Griezmann, with replays showing the offence took place outside the box.\n\nGriezmann scored the penalty to give Atletico a 1-0 victory in Spain.\n\n\"It is a really disappointing decision by the referee,\" said Shakespeare.\n\n\"It's a key moment in the game. He has to get that one right, he can't guess on those things. It's a definite free-kick but it's out of the box.\n\n\"It's the key decisions you want correct.\"\n\n'It has ruined our game plan'\n\nGoalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel was equally adamant that the decision was the incorrect one.\n\n\"It was plain and obvious to see. It has ruined our gameplan,\" he told BT Sport.\n\n\"It is a decision that is tough to take when it is so clear and obvious. We should have had something from this but we have to accept it.\n\n\"We made a challenge outside of the box. They might have scored from that free-kick but obviously there is a much better chance of scoring from the penalty - but it was never a penalty.\"\n\nFormer Manchester United, Everton and England defender Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 live:\n\n\"It was an outstanding result. Craig Shakespeare would have taken that before tonight.\n\n\"Leicester have defended really well and limited Atletico Madrid to shots from distance. It was just a horrendous penalty decision that has cost them the game.\n\n\"We have no monitor and no television replays and I knew straight away that Marc Albrighton's challenge was outside the box. We must be about 80 yards away from the incident. The referee was right on top of it. It was a diabolical decision.\n\n\"I didn't expect that sort of defensive concentration from them. I feared the worst after their 4-2 defeat by Everton on Sunday. I keep thinking that the Leicester fairytale can't continue, but the fans here believe.\n\n\"What I will say, however, is that Atletico might prefer playing Leicester at the King Power where they will be forced to come out and attack.\"\n\n'The tie is still alive'\n\nThe Foxes, who are the last English side left in the competition, were on the back foot for most of the match in Spain and failed to register a shot on target.\n\nHowever, they remain firmly in the tie going into the second leg, which takes place at the King Power Stadium on 18 April.\n\n\"I think 1-0, we would have taken that before the game,\" said Shakespeare, who took over as boss of the Premier League champions in February following the sacking of Claudio Ranieri. \"We came to try and get the away goal but we have seen what a top team Atletico Madrid are.\n\n\"The message is that mentally and physically we have been in a game and have given a good account of ourselves.\n\n\"We have got a good record at the King Power and the tie is still alive.\"", "Charlie Chan says both of his careers are about people\n\nWhy settle for just the day job?\n\nCharlie Chan is a breast cancer and melanoma surgeon. He is also a rock star photographer.\n\n\"My patients always come first so I work full-time as a surgeon and photography is my night job,\" he says. \"I decided to become a surgeon at the age of 12 and concentrated on that.\"\n\nBut photography had been a passion of his since he was 15, and so he started smuggling his Leica camera into gigs.\n\nHe got his first press pass from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and started music photography work 10 years ago.\n\nHis subjects include musicians Jamie Cullum, Gregory Porter and Wilko Johnson, who was encouraged by Mr Chan to seek a second opinion after he had received a terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2013.\n\nMr Chan arranged for Johnson to see surgeon Emmanuel Huguet, who later operated to remove the tumour and save his life.\n\nCharlie Chan with musician Wilko Johnson (c) and Emmanuel Huguet, the surgeon who performed Johnson's life-saving operation\n\nYou would think that being a surgeon would be more than enough career-wise for most people, so why pursue another profession?\n\nMr Chan says he uses similar skills in both professions. When shooting in black and white, he sees \"light and composition which helps my day job, when performing a breast reconstruction, as you appreciate light and form in the same way\".\n\nFor Mr Chan, both careers are about people. He wants his photos to tell a story and for the \"viewer to be there in the moment\", while he says a rewarding and wonderful part about being a surgeon is being able to share good news with his patients who are \"very brave in the face of adversity\".\n\nJamie Cullum and Gregory Porter have been snapped by Mr Chan\n\nMr Chan is not alone in his \"dual career\". While some people take more than one job out of financial necessity, many people are doing so out of choice and for the challenge.\n\nProfessional networking website LinkedIn has seen a growing trend in the registering of \"multiple\", \"dual\" and \"portfolio\" career descriptions.\n\nJust look at George Osborne: MP for Tatton, adviser at BlackRock Investment Institute, and soon-to-be editor of the London Evening Standard.\n\nRupert Toovey has been working as an auctioneer for his entire adult life\n\nRupert Toovey founded Toovey's auctioneers in 1995. Fifteen years later he was ordained as a deacon.\n\nThe Reverend Rupert Toovey says his secular work is as vocational as his work as a deacon, with each supporting the other. From his late teens, his faith and auctioneering work went hand in hand.\n\n\"To serve and listen to people has been a constant thread,\" he says. \"Each role is simultaneously rewarding and vocational.\"\n\nOn visits to people's homes to view antiques, Mr Toovey says: \"The objects reflect the patchwork of their lives and it is a privilege to be invited to share these precious moments with them.\n\n\"As with the priestly work, I accompany people in profound moments of change in their lives in a particularly personal and private way.\"\n\nThe Reverend Rupert Toovey finds parallels between his religious and auctioneering work\n\nHe says his life has \"a wholeness that fits together in a most unexpected way\".\n\nThe majority of people Mr Toovey attends to, baptises and marries, are people he has met through the network of his business life, including the Lord Mayor of Westminster.\n\n\"Modern society too often compartmentalises life. I am at once a father, priest, auctioneer, employer, [and] friend,\" he says.\n\nFormer Chancellor George Osborne has lots of lucrative lines of work\n\nProfessional careers adviser Rachel Brushfield says some people look for more than one career because they \"want a better work-life balance, more meaning and purpose\".\n\nThe ability to be \"as dynamic as the workplace\" and the autonomy of designing your own \"stimulating future-proof career\" are motivating factors for her clients.\n\nIn 2007, New York Times columnist Marci Alboher popularised the term \"slash careers\" - as in surgeon/photographer - citing creative fulfilment and diverse skillsets as benefits for employers and employees.\n\nBut people taking second jobs has been a trend for decades.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, the number of people with second jobs has stayed roughly between 1.1 million and 1.3 million since 1993.\n\nOfficial statistics no longer break out earnings figures. However, looking back, in autumn 2001, men with a second job earned more on average in their main job than those with only one.\n\nLawyer Duncan McNair: \"They aren't jobs, they are component parts of my heart and soul\"\n\nOne high earner with several jobs is Duncan McNair, a commercial lawyer, author and elephant campaigner.\n\nHe founded the charity Save the Asian Elephants in 2015 and has always written creatively.\n\nTaking cases before the European Court of Human Rights, chairing a review of the RSPCA's welfare scheme, and writing satire, all use his advocacy skills, stretching them further than legal practice alone.\n\nMr McNair finds his skills \"built around the law to be hugely useful in campaigning\" for elephants.\n\nWhile working at Cubism Law and undertaking extensive pro-bono work, Mr McNair donates proceeds from his satirical book series, The Morello Letters, to Save The Asian Elephants.\n\n\"The practice takes the majority of time and the rest is filled drafting articles, speeches and writing the final third of the latest Morello book,\" he says.\n\n\"Ideas for the letters come to me while waiting for buses, as sparks of the imagination, explaining my fanatical relationship with post-it notes.\"\n\nThe Morello world offers a \"nirvana of humans and animals living in humorous harmony\", with a rich source of characters he often finds in the legal profession.\n\n\"I'm incredibly lucky to be able to advocate for these causes and to have a various workload. They aren't jobs, they are component parts of my heart and soul.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba has joined United Soccer League side Phoenix Rising as a player and co-owner.\n\nDrogba, 39, has not played since leaving Major League Soccer club Montreal Impact in November.\n\nHe will start out as a player but has also joined Phoenix's \"MLS expansion franchise ownership group\".\n\n\"To own a team and be a player at the same time is unusual but it's going to be very exciting,\" Drogba said.\n\n\"It's a good transition because I want to carry on playing but I'm almost 40 and it's important for me to prepare for my later career.\"\n\nPhoenix have just started their fourth season in the Western Conference of USL, which forms part of the second tier of the American league system.\n\nThe Arizona club hope to become one of four planned expansion teams in MLS over the next three years.\n\n\"I had offers from China, from England - in both the Premier League and even the Championship - but they were only as a player,\" Drogba told The Premier League Show.\n\n\"This was the right offer because it was important for me to think about playing, because I enjoy it, but also to get to the next stage of my career.\"\n\nDrogba scored 157 goals in 341 appearances during his first spell at Chelsea from 2004 to 2012, winning three Premier League titles and the Champions League.\n\nFollowing moves to Shanghai Shenhua in China and Turkish side Galatasaray, Drogba returned to the Blues for the 2014-15 season, scoring seven goals in 40 appearances, helping Jose Mourinho's side to the title, before 18 months with Montreal.\n\nHe joins former Chelsea team-mate Shaun Wright-Phillips at Phoenix, who have one win and two defeats from three games this season.\n\n\"I'm still a player but it's important to respect the decision of the manager,\" added Drogba, who is Ivory Coast's record goalscorer.\n\n\"When we're on the pitch, he's going to be the one who decides and when we go to board meetings, it's a different thing.\"\n\nWatch the full interview with Didier Drogba in The Premier League show on BBC Two on Thursday, 13 April (22:00 BST) .", "When Tony Abbott, as Australian prime minister in 2014, appeared to support a ban on the burka being worn in Parliament House, award-winning photographer Fabian Muir had one response. He trekked 1,600km (1,000 miles) across his homeland, camera in hand.\n\nMuir's resulting series pitted a cobalt-coloured garment of Afghanistan, alternatively spelled burqa, against Australia's most forbidding, and beautiful, terrains.\n\nBlue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country features a lone figure standing against swirling skies on a ridge of yellow sand; reflected in clear water; and walking amongst a forest of dead trees.\n\nNow Muir has made a follow up sequence - Urban Burqa.\n\nRather than pictured in the outback, a woman in blue stands, contrastingly, against the white of milk bottles in a supermarket. Other images include the figure outside a fluorescent McDonald's sign and in a concrete basement covered in graffiti.\n\nThe series is a critique of the rising far right and Islamophobia, Muir says.\n\nMuir says his series deals with \"confrontation and adaptation\"\n\n\"Tragically, [anti-immigrant sentiment] has only become more magnified since 2014,\" says Muir, pointing out that 49% of Australians in a 2016 poll supported a ban on Muslims entering the country.\n\n\"The refugee crisis… is always such an easy target for politicians. There's always going to be a percentage of the population who swallows that because it seems like an easy solution to problems.\"\n\nIn Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country, Muir wanted to show how the burka complemented - and even enhanced - the landscapes: \"It hinted or suggested a potential symbiosis of this country and immigrants, that runs counter to the narrative making the headlines at that time.\"\n\nUrban Burqa, by contrast, touches more on a cultural clash. \"It's still about simulation but there's also a sense of confrontation and adaptation, hence this darker, edgier feel to it,\" he says.\n\nBorn in a household of Australian creatives - Muir's mother was a director at Opera Australia, his father a director at the Australian Broadcasting Corp - Muir turned to photography after completing a law degree at Sydney University. He has since lived in Estonia, Lithuania, France, Spain and Germany.\n\nMuir, who is in his 40s, credits his success to a lack of formal training.\n\nThe subject is photographed against the Aboriginal flag\n\n\"I personally think it's unnecessary and potentially dangerous for an aspiring photographer [to attend photography school],\" he says. \"Especially if they're young. They're going to potentially lack the fortitude to resist their teacher's vision.\"\n\nMuir taught himself, learning on film. \"The trial and error was quite expensive,\" he laughs. \"Each shot cost me a dollar!\"\n\nStill, he appreciates the ability to pursue his own ideas \"untrammelled and unburdened by someone else's vision\".\n\nLast year Muir completed his series Intimate Perspectives on North Korea, selected as a finalist in the Magnum Photography Awards.\n\n\"It's a time capsule,\" says Muir of the nation, which he visited five times over the course of two years.\n\nShepherded around by guides, he was only allowed to walk unaided - and unwatched - on a handful of occasions.\n\nOne of Muir's photos from North Korea\n\nThe photographer was first inspired to travel to North Korea after coming across Tomas van Houtryve's 2009 photo essay The Land of No Smiles.\n\nHe says Houtryve's images are powerful but bleak. \"His descriptions are very acid, of children fleeing at the sight of him,\" he says. \"What I saw was very different.\"\n\n\"The bleakness is part of the narrative,\" continues Muir. \"But it's not the sole element. Almost more interesting was my experience of street level North Korea. They're really very warm and have a sense of humour, and enjoy very normal things.\"\n\nIn order to document this, Muir took photographs of picnics in the park, kids in a playground, and bathers at a beach resort. One of his most hard-hitting images is of young children in an orphanage sitting beneath portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.\n\nIt works because of \"the structural composition, which says something about North Korean society - this strict structure of children lined up under the presence of the leadership there,\" he says.\n\n\"For me it also raises questions: these infants, where are they going to be in the future? It asks questions about the future, it illustrates the present, and it also says something about the past.\"\n\nMuir says his series ends on a hopeful note\n\nKey was showing that there was more to the story than \"unthinking robotic people and their hatred for America and Japan\".\n\nThis hit home in 2015. \"Out of nowhere I sensed this figure cannon balling towards me and arms were thrown around me. It was this guide I had on previous visits - he was in his sixties, quite eccentric and has fantastic sense of humour,\" Muir says.\n\n\"He was almost in tears to see me again. It was absolutely genuine - no one put him up to that.\"\n\nWith regards to Urban Burqa, Muir believes it ends on a hopeful note.\n\nThe last image shows a woman in a burka standing in a bright blue skate park. The shadow from a skater in a T-shirt and shorts skirts the crown of her covered head, his hand almost touching her.\n\n\"For me it's a nice closing image, it's optimistic - because of the reaching out,\" he says. \"[But] there's a sense that there are a lot of barriers that have to be overcome.\"", "Income growth - or lack of it - has been one of the defining economic and political issues of the last decade.\n\nAverage weekly earnings are still £26 below where they were at their peak in 2008.\n\nEmployment levels are strong - which is economic good news.\n\nBut if people in work feel worse off year on year, then Number 10 knows it has a major issue to fix.\n\nThe reasons for Britain's wage stagnation problem are multiple.\n\nThe recession following the financial crisis raised the spectre of unemployment, meaning that holding on to your job became more important than asking for a pay rise.\n\nAs growth, demand and investment dried up following the banking collapse, inflation in western economies evaporated and in some sectors - such as food - price deflation became the norm.\n\nThe cost of living - the usual fuel for wage demands - stopped rising.\n\nThen there is Britain's productivity problem, which will not return to its long-term growth rate of 2% until 2020.\n\nProductivity measures the amount of value (outputs) created in the economy per unit of input - such as labour hours worked, materials used or capital investment spent.\n\nIts increase is directly related to income: if productivity rises, wealth is created more rapidly than costs rise, and increased profit and wage rises are the result.\n\nIf productivity is poor - and the UK lags far behind America, France and Germany on this measure - that wealth is harder to come by.\n\nAs Philip Hammond put it at the time of the Autumn Statement last November: \"It takes a German worker four days to produce what we make in five, which means, in turn, that too many British workers work longer hours for lower pay than their counterparts.\"\n\nBy the time a British worker has earned £1, a German worked has earned £1.35.\n\nWhen inflation is low or non-existent, stagnant real income growth is less of an issue for the people affected.\n\nBut over the past six months, inflation has risen markedly, from 1% in September to 2.3% last month.\n\nSome of that is down to the fall in the value of sterling, but global inflationary pressures are also rising as more solid growth returns, as I've written before.\n\nToday's figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that earnings growth is travelling in the opposite direction - down to 2.2% last month from 2.3% in February.\n\nAnd that, of course, is an average figure.\n\nFor some areas of employment - such as public sector workers - the picture is far grimmer.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says that more than a third of the workforce are already in sectors where pay is falling in real terms.\n\n\"Britain's brief pay recovery has come to an end,\" said Stephen Clarke, economic analyst at the think-tank.\n\n\"Forty per cent of the workforce are experiencing shrinking pay packets according to the latest figures, in sectors ranging from finance to the public sector. Many more will join them in the coming months as inflation continues to rise, with pay across the economy as a whole set to have fallen in the first three months of 2017.\"\n\nInflation is expected to jump again when the April figures are published next month - price rises associated with the later Easter holiday this year (increased air fares for example) will feed through as will plans by the major energy companies to raise prices.\n\nAt the same time, wage increases are set to continue slowing. It is likely that next month, falling real incomes will be back with us for the first time since September 2014.\n\nAs I have said before, Britain's income squeeze is one of the most difficult political and economic issues facing the government.\n\nMany will argue that an economy that works for everyone would not be expected to be one where people are worse off at the end of the year than they were at the beginning.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley says it would be a \"bonus\" to be selected for the British & Irish Lions tour of New Zealand this summer.\n\nHartley, 31, led Eddie Jones' side to the Six Nations championship last month and will finish the Premiership season with club side Northampton.\n\n\"I'm not building myself up for possibly what would be a setback in my eyes,\" Hartley told BBC Sport.\n\n\"So I'm taking it as it comes. I'm happy where I am at the moment. If it comes it is a bonus. If not then I have got other things to play for and other things to look forward to.\n\n\"For anyone selected I'm sure it's a great honour and I have been previously selected, so, yes, it is a great honour, but to tour I'm sure is a great experience.\"\n\n'It's my job to play well'\n\nThe immediate focus for the New Zealand-born hooker is guiding Saints at least to a European Champions Cup position in the Premiership.\n\nNorthampton are seventh in the table but level on points with Harlequins, in sixth, after losing their last two games.\n\nAnd Hartley said he would not allow Gatland's imminent announcement to impact on his performance level.\n\n\"It's an uncontrollable,\" he added. \"The selectors have got a pretty difficult job.\n\n\"What I can control is what I do this weekend against Saracens, every other player is thinking that as well.\n\n\"[Representative rugby] is the bonus of playing well off the back of club rugby or for your international side. It's not my job to worry about selection, it's my job to play well.\"\n\nHartley need only look back to 2013 to recall how much of an honour it was to be selected for a Lions tour, but also to remember the frustration of missing out.\n\nHis Premiership final sending off for Northampton that year, made doubly painful by a defeat by East Midlands rivals Leicester at Twickenham, culminated in an 11-week ban which ruled him out of the tour to Australia.\n\nHowever, he dismissed any talk of additional motivation ahead of the 2017 squad announcement.\n\n\"What motivates me is embracing what I'm doing at this stage of my life,\" added Hartley.\n\n\"Playing professional sport for a living is a great thing to say and do, the opportunity I've got for my family to provide and set ourselves up.\n\n\"I still enjoy it, I love the environment, whether it's the Saints dressing room or England. When you enjoy your work it's not work.\n\n\"Set-backs always refocus me but, ultimately, because I missed out on the Lions in 2013 doesn't motivate me to get up in the morning.\"\n\nGet all the latest rugby union news by adding alerts in the BBC Sport app.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester City kept Atletico Madrid within reach as they restricted the dominant Spaniards to a single goal in their Champions League quarter-final first leg.\n\nKoke had already hit the visitors' post in the first half when the referee judged Marc Albrighton's foul on Antoine Griezmann had been inside the penalty area.\n\nReplays showed contact was made outside the box but Griezmann duly stepped up to send Kasper Schmeichel the wrong way.\n\nFernando Torres slipped as the goal beckoned in the second half but, that chance apart, Atletico struggled to carve out clear-cut openings against a stubborn Leicester defence.\n\nRobert Huth - who will be banned for the second leg after being booked - saw a shot blocked and Shinji Okazaki narrowly failed to make contact with a low cross in the best of Leicester's rare raids forward.\n• None Relive the action at the Vicente Calderon\n\nDespite giving up 68% of possession and failing to register a shot on target, Leicester will take heart from their previous encounter with La Liga opposition.\n\nThey were similarly dominated by Sevilla in the first leg of their last-16 tie, but turned round the visitors' 2-1 lead on a tumultuous night at the King Power Stadium.\n\nHaving reached the final in two of the last three years, however, Atletico are a team of greater pedigree and expectations than their compatriots.\n\nWith the meanest defence in La Liga and Griezmann poised to counter, Atletico are also ideally suited to withstand whatever atmosphere the Foxes fans whip up next Tuesday.\n\nThe technical quality of Atletico's players was matched by a shrewd tactical plan from manager Diego Simeone that sought out the space Leicester tried to deny them.\n\nGriezmann - reputedly a summer target for Manchester United - popped up between the lines, with midfield anchorman Wilfred Ndidi and the two centre-backs uncertain who was best placed to pick him up.\n\nIt was the France international's more obvious quality that earned Atletico the opener as his searing pace spread panic in the Leicester defence and Albrighton bundled him over.\n\nReferee Jonas Eriksson pointed to the spot despite Leicester's protests and Schmeichel could not produce a third penalty save after his two in the tie against Sevilla.\n\nAlmost as important might be the yellow card that Huth received in attempting to contain Griezmann.\n\nThe German will be suspended for the second leg and, with captain Wes Morgan not yet back from injury, boss Craig Shakespeare will have to make do and mend in the centre of defence on the biggest night in the club's history.\n\nWhile the Leicester fans high in the Vicente Calderon weighed up whether they were satisfied with the way the tie was poised at its halfway point, some might have taken time to reflect on the heights the team have scaled in just a few short years.\n\nEight years ago almost to the day - 11 April 2009 - their team travelled to the less illustrious surroundings of Hereford's Edgar Street ground in League One.\n\nMidfielder Andy King, who played that day in Hereford and came on in the second half in Madrid, is the only Foxes player who connects the two wildly contrasting eras.\n\nFormer Manchester United, Everton and England defender Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 live:\n\nIt was an outstanding result. Craig Shakespeare would have taken that before tonight .\n\nLeicester have defended really well and limited Atletico Madrid to shots from distance. It was just a horrendous penalty decision that has cost them the game.\n\nWe have no monitor and no television replays and I knew straight away that Marc Albrighton's challenge was outside the box. We must be about 80 yards away from the incident. The referee was right on top of it. It was a diabolical decision.\n\nI didn't expect that sort of defensive concentration from them. I feared the worst after their 4-2 defeat by Everton on Sunday. I keep thinking that the Leicester fairytale can't continue, but the fans here believe.\n\nWhat I will say however, is that Atletico might prefer playing Leicester at the King Power where they will be forced to come out and attack.\n• None Atletico Madrid have won 17 of their 22 Champions League home games under Diego Simeone, with the Spanish club unbeaten in the knockout stages.\n• None Leicester have lost on each of their three European trips to Madrid, with Atletico still unbeaten at home against English sides (winning six, drawing five).\n• None The Madrid club have progressed in six of their last eight European cup ties against English opposition.\n• None Atletico Madrid have also kept a clean sheet in 16 of their last 18 Champions League games at the Calderón.\n• None Antoine Griezmann has been directly involved in 10 goals in his last nine Champions League appearances at the Calderon (eight goals, two assists).\n• None Attempt blocked. Koke (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.\n• None Attempt missed. Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Filipe Luis. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nDefending champion Mark Selby will face Fergal O'Brien in the first round of the World Championship at the Crucible.\n\nSelby, 33, lifted the trophy for the second time last year with victory over China's Ding Junhui, who comes up against fellow countryman Zhou Yuelong.\n\nSelby begins his campaign on Saturday, 15 April at 10:00 BST.\n\nO'Brien came through qualifying with a final-frame win over David Gilbert, which included the longest frame played in professional snooker history - two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds.\n\n\"It was dragging on with so much safety being played,\" O'Brien, 45, told BBC Sport. \"We were on the yellow for about half an hour and there were not many chances to pot it.\n\n\"There was so much at stake and we were fearful of making a mistake.\n\n\"It is a great occasion to play the defending champion on the opening morning. I need to rest up and relax until then and get some practice in.\"\n\nWorld Snooker chairman Barry Hearn described 2005 champion Murphy's tie against China's Yan as his \"pick of the opening round\".\n\nYan - who won the snooker World Cup with partner Zhou in 2015 - will become the first player born in the 2000s to compete at the Crucible, which is hosting the tournament for the 40th year.\n\nMeanwhile, Anthony McGill faces Stephen Maguire in an all-Scottish tie and 2010 champion Neil Robertson plays Thailand's Noppon Saengkham, who at 72 is the lowest ranked player in the tournament.\n\nRyan Day, the only Welshman in the draw, is up against another Chinese player in Xiao Guodong.", "\n• None Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Line the base of two 20cm/8in loose-bottomed cake tins with baking paper and grease the sides with baking spread.\n• None Sieve the cocoa powder into a large mixing bowl. Add the water and stir until you have a smooth paste. Add the remaining ingredients. Whisk together using an electric hand whisk until light and fluffy. Spoon into the two tins and level the tops.\n• None Bake for 20–25 minutes, until well risen and coming away from the sides of the tins. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.\n• None To make the icing, put the gelatine leaves in a shallow bowl of cold water for 5 minutes until soft.\n• None Put the sugar, cocoa powder, cream and 125ml/4fl oz water into a saucepan over a medium heat. Stir until melted, then bring up to the boil and stir until smooth. Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate. Leave to cool for 5 minutes.\n• None Squeeze any liquid from the gelatine leaves and stir into the chocolate mixture until dissolved. Pour through a sieve into a bowl and leave to cool and thicken in the fridge for about an hour, until it reaches the consistency of thick mayonnaise.\n• None Slice each cake in half horizonatally. Put one cake half on a wire rack and smooth a layer of whipped cream on top. Continue this process so you have four layers of cake and three layers of cream. Press the cakes down between each layer so the cream comes right to the edges and the cakes are level at the sides. Smooth around the edges with a palette knife so the excess cream very lightly covers the sides and gives a smooth edge.\n• None Gently warm the apricot jam and brush lightly over the cake, covering the sides and top. Chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.\n• None Put about 100ml/3½fl oz of the icing in a heatproof bowl and gently melt over a pan of simmering water. Dip half of each strawberry in the melted icing. Put on baking paper to set.\n• None Once the cake has finished cooling in the fridge, transfer to a wire cooling rack placed on a large baking tray to catch any excess glaze as you pour it over the cake. Pour the remaining icing over the cake and smooth over the top and sides. Be very careful doing this, you want a smooth shiny icing. Leave for an hour or so to set. Arrange the glazed strawberries around the bottom edge of the cake.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDouble Olympic champion Nicola Adams will contest three-minute rounds in her next fight, a contrast to the standard two minutes in women's boxing.\n\nAdams won on her professional debut on Saturday but was frustrated to fight over four two-minute rounds.\n\n\"Every time I felt I was getting close to a stoppage the bell would go for the end of the round,\" said Adams, 34.\n\nOn Tuesday, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said the organisation \"will never allow three-minute rounds\".\n\nSulaiman said some boxing jurisdictions had taken \"steps backwards\" in allowing longer rounds in the women's sport. He said the organisation would \"limit the dehydration and the fatigue elements to lower as much as possible the risk of a tragedy\".\n\nFlyweight Adams' next bout in Leeds on 13 May is on the undercard of Josh Warrington's WBC International featherweight title fight with Kiko Martinez.\n\nAs Adams' fight is not for a WBC title, the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) have allowed for the extension of the bout to four three-minute rounds.\n\nIreland's London 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor has also called for the move and Adams' management believe it will be the first time a women's bout has featured the same length of rounds as their male counterparts in the UK.\n\n\"Female boxing has come a long way since Jane Couch MBE made the sport possible here in the UK in 1998,\" said Adams.\n\n\"However, there is still a way to go until both male and female boxers can campaign under the same competition rules.\"\n\nAdams is now intent on winning the right for women to wear lighter gloves.\n\nThe BBBofC's rules specify women must use 10oz gloves, a factor Adams' management believe is even more limiting than round length as gloves become heavier with perspiration as a fight progresses.\n\n\"It's great that the BBBofC has supported this first change and hopefully changes to glove sizes will come next,\" said Adams.\n\nIn the men's game, fighters competing from flyweight to welterweight are allowed to wear 8oz gloves.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live boxing pundit Steve Bunce said a move to 8oz gloves would allow Adams to show her power, adding the current 10oz rule was \"not good for business\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nGreat Britain's Chris Latham won a bronze medal in the men's scratch race at the Track World Championships.\n\nThe 23-year-old earned GB's second medal of the Hong Kong championships following Elinor Barker's silver medal in the women's scratch on Wednesday.\n\nLatham emerged from the pack to take bronze as he chased down Adrian Teklinski of Poland, who won gold, and Lucass Liss of Germany, who got silver.\n\nIn the men's team pursuit, GB were beaten to the bronze medal by Italy.\n\n\"I am really happy to come away with a medal, finally,\" Latham told the BBC.\n\n\"I wasn't sure that Teklinski was going to hold on there.\n\n\"I was in a decent position most of the time. I followed the Irish rider Felix English and I had a good lead out.\"\n• None The madison, keirin and other mysteries\n\nElsewhere Britain's sole rider in the men's keirin, Joe Truman, was outclassed in his semi-final, having tried to take the race out with two laps to go.\n\nAnd in the women's team pursuit, GB finished fifth in the heats and failed to make the bronze-medal ride.\n\n\"Latham had a fantastic final charge. He timed his effort well there.\n\n\"We hardly saw him in the race, he monitored things but that's why. He was waiting for that final sprint. And what a ride that was for him.\n\n\"But with three laps to go, I would not have said that Teklinski would make it, but he found something from somewhere to just hang on there.\n\n\"More than 2km out, he effectively started to sprint. It will take him some time to recover from that.\"\n\n\"I don't think that would be expected. It's the kind of event you can never be super-confident of winning or winning a medal in.\n\n\"But if you ride sensibly, which he did, he positioned himself very well and didn't waste any energy in the first part of the race.\n\n\"He marked the danger men and clearly had the legs for the sprint at the end. That's fantastic, a really great result for him and the team.\"\n\n'Such a good place to be in'\n\nTeam pursuit Olympic gold medallist Elinor Barker came into the quartet of Emily Nelson, Manon Lloyd and Ellie Dickinson.\n\nThe young squad were unable to compete for a medal but Barker remained positive about their progress.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It's the first Worlds for all of these girls and it's made it a lot more exciting.\n\n\"The level is so high already physically and technically. We have so much scope for improvement. It's such a good place to be in.\n\n\"Four years until Tokyo and we've just come fifth at the Worlds.\"\n\nDouble Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell Shand said on BBC TV: \"Coming into the competition, I don't think anyone expected them to medal.\n\n\"Until Elinor Barker joined the team today, we had four brand new riders. With an average age of 19, they've all got bright futures ahead of them.\"\n\n'Not what we expect from a medallist'\n\nEarlier in the day, Olympic bronze medallist Katy Marchant was eliminated from the women's sprint in the first round.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who claimed bronze behind Kristina Vogel of Germany and fellow Briton Becky James at Rio 2016, was the only female sprinter to travel to Hong Kong.\n\nThe former heptathlete qualified in 16th place but was ousted by 17th-fastest Lin Junhong of China earlier on Thursday.\n\nMarchant is scheduled to compete in two more events - Saturday's 500m time-trial and Sunday's keirin.\n\n\"I'm really disappointed. I feel like I'm just missing a little bit of zing, which is something that coming off Rio is to be expected,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't get the roar when I got the number on my back today - maybe the fact it's not an Olympic Games or something in the back of my mind telling me that I'm not feeling great.\n\n\"I know to get knocked out in the first round is not what we expect from a medallist, but the preparation coming into this competition is about the process leading on to Tokyo.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWest Ham winger Michail Antonio has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a \"significant injury\", manager Slaven Bilic says.\n\nThe 27-year-old was injured in the Hammers' 1-0 win over Swansea at London Stadium last weekend.\n\n\"It's a significant injury and he's out for the season,\" Bilic confirmed.\n\nAntonio, who has scored nine goals for the Hammers this season, was called up by England for the first time in August.\n\n\"It is a big blow. We know what he has been giving. He is one of our best players,\" Bilic added.\n\nHe was again called up for England's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania last month but pulled out of the squad with a hamstring injury and has yet to make his international debut.\n\nHe joined West Ham from Nottingham Forest in 2015 and signed a new four-year deal with the club last summer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere is, to use Boris Johnson's own lingo, a \"whinge-o-rama\" raging among the foreign secretary's political opponents and in parts of the press about his performance in the current Syria crisis.\n\nHe faces a number of charges. First, he pulled out of a long-planned trip to Moscow after the US missile strike on a Syrian airfield. It was agreed the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should go instead.\n\nNext, Team Boris briefed journalists that the foreign secretary wanted to get the G7 to agree new sanctions against Russia at its meeting in the Italian city of Lucca. But Mr Johnson entirely failed to persuade other countries to agree.\n\nItalian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said there was no consensus new sanctions would help and argued they could push Russia into a corner.\n\nMr Johnson's own view of the Syrian conflict seems to have swerved around like a shopping trolley since he became the UK's chief diplomat in July.\n\nGiving evidence to a House of Lords committee at the start of 2017, he signalled a shift in UK policy towards Syria. Mr Johnson said the \"mantra\" of calling for President Assad to go had not worked and the military space had been left open to Russia to fill.\n\nThe Foreign Secretary told peers President Assad should be allowed to run for election as part of a \"democratic resolution\" of the civil war.\n\nNow, however, Mr Johnson believes the Syrian leader has to go.\n\nHow much of this is fair? And what might the episode say about Boris Johnson's standing in Theresa May's government?\n\nFirst, the UK was a bystander to the Trump administration's missile strike on Syria. The government was given a courtesy call to say it was coming but the UK was not asked to be involved.\n\nMr Johnson's trip to Moscow (which would have been the first by a British foreign secretary to Russia for five years) was long planned and quickly binned. I understand Mrs May told Mr Johnson it was his call whether he wanted to go or not. After speaking to Rex Tillerson, Mr Johnson and his US opposite number agreed it was best for one man to deliver a single message to Moscow.\n\nMr Johnson then spent a weekend hitting the phones to other G7 countries trying to get a united position agreed ahead of the meeting in Lucca. In its final communique, the G7 did agree to state the Assad regime had to end.\n\nBut further sanctions - an idea endorsed by Number 10 - got nowhere. It was clearly a snub to Mr Johnson although government sources insist sanctions have not been taken off the table.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, said other countries were \"less forward-leaning\" than the UK on the issue.\n\nDiplomacy is tough. But it may have been unwise for the Foreign Office to suggest sanctions were an ambition when key G7 nations clearly didn't agree.\n\nAt the weekend, I was told by Team Boris that he was very relaxed about the sniping and criticism being lobbed his way in recent days. And Mr Johnson has provoked quite a lot since he became foreign secretary, largely because of his use of decidedly undiplomatic language.\n\nHe was taken to task by a Swedish MEP in February for calling Brexit a \"liberation\". A month before that, Mr Johnson warned the French president not to respond to Brexit by administering \"punishment beatings\" in the manner of a World War Two film.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt, who speaks for the European Parliament on Brexit, branded the remarks \"abhorrent and deeply unhelpful\". It was several days after President Trump's election that Boris Johnson said it was time for Mr Trump's critics to get over their \"whinge-o-rama\" - a comment I know left some officials in Brussels agog.\n\nMr Johnson is always keen to speak with the swashbuckling pluck of the newspaper columnist he once was. His many fans in the Tory party might love it. But even Mrs May has hinted at exasperation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May jokes about Boris Johnson the FFS\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference last autumn, the prime minister said: \"Do we have a plan for Brexit? We do. Are we ready for the effort it will take to see it through? We are. Can Boris Johnson stay on message for a full four days? Just about.\"\n\nIt was a joke. But not many prime ministers joke about their foreign secretary's erraticism. Then in December, Mrs May described Boris Johnson as an FFS - saying that in this case it stood for being a Fine Foreign Secretary (and not the punchy abbreviation for a term of exasperation).\n\nWhen Mrs May was home secretary and Mr Johnson was London mayor they had a prickly relationship. She then beat him to the job he craved.\n\nHer appointment of the Brexit campaign's most prominent champion to the job of foreign secretary stunned Westminster and it remains one of the most intriguing political relationships within the government.\n\nWhile happy to clip his wings publicly from time to time, Theresa May also needs Boris Johnson on board as she embarks on Brexit.\n\nA force so effective in persuading Britain to vote to leave the EU is not a politician the prime minister wants sniping from outside the cabinet as the negotiating trade-offs begin.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nClashes in the stands that forced some supporters on to the pitch delayed Lyon's Europa League quarter-final first-leg win over Besiktas.\n\nTrouble prompted police involvement outside the ground before violence behind one goal as players warmed up.\n\n\"Projectiles and fireworks launched from the stands require fans to take refuge on the pitch,\" Lyon tweeted.\n\nThe game kicked off 45 minutes late with Lyon scoring twice in the closing 10 minutes to win 2-1.\n\nAuthorities had categorised the fixture 'high risk', with about 500 police reportedly stationed at Parc Olympique Lyonnais - more than double the usual amount.\n\nBoth teams left the field as fans spilled on to the playing surface before kick-off, with Lyon president Jean Michel Aulas going into the crowd in an effort to calm supporters.\n\nWhen the French and Turkish sides eventually emerged, both sets of players clapped supporters all round the stadium, before going through brief warm-up drills ahead of a 20:50 BST kick-off.\n\nBefore Beskitas' fixture against Greek side Olympiakos in the previous round, both clubs worked with Uefa and took the decision to ban away fans in a bid to avoid crowd trouble.\n\nIt is the third incident at a Uefa competition this week, following Tuesday's bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund's team bus and Wednesday's clashes between Leicester City supporters and police in Madrid.\n\nWhen the match got under way, former Liverpool striker Ryan Babel put Besiktas ahead but moments after Corentin Tolisso's equaliser on 83 minutes, Jeremy Morel robbed Spanish goalkeeper Fabri in the area to tap into an empty net.\n• None Attempt missed. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Tousart (Lyon) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Lyon 2, Besiktas 1. Jérémy Morel (Lyon) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Lyon 1, Besiktas 1. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.\n• None Tolgay Arslan (Besiktas) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Maxwel Cornet (Lyon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nabil Fekir.\n• None Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The US military has just dropped its largest conventional (that is non-nuclear) bomb for the first time in combat, on Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar.\n\nThe GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) - or, in military speak, Mother of All Bombs - was launched on Thursday.\n\nThe target was said to be a network of tunnels operated by the so-called Islamic State in Achin district.\n\nAs a non-nuclear weapon, use of the MOAB does not necessarily require approval by the US president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch 2003 footage of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) being tested\n\nIt is a huge weapon - a 30ft (9m), 21,600lb (9,800kg), GPS-guided munition that is dropped from the cargo doors of an MC-130 transport plane and detonates shortly before it hits the ground.\n\nThe MOAB falls from the aircraft on a pallet, which is then tugged aside by a parachute allowing the weapon to glide down, stabilised and directed by four grid-like fins.\n\nIts principal effect is a massive blast wave - said to stretch for a mile in every direction - created by 18,000lb of TNT.\n\nThe bomb's thin aluminium casing was designed specifically to maximise the blast radius.\n\nThe MOAB is prepared for testing at the Eglin Air Force Base, Florida\n\nThe bomb is designed to damage underground facilities and tunnels.\n\nThe weapon was developed for use in the Iraq war - at a reported cost of $16m (£13m) each - and was first tested in 2003, but never used in action - until now.\n\nAnd yet, the MOAB is not the US military's heaviest non-nuclear bomb.\n\nThat distinction belongs to the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, a bunker-buster which weighs a colossal 30,000lb.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. North Korea 'must be well aware' of what else is in the US armoury\n\nRussia has developed its own massive conventional bomb, nicknamed the Father Of All Bombs. The FOAB is a kind of fuel-air bomb, technically known as a thermobaric weapon.\n\nThermobaric bombs generally detonate in two stages: a small blast creates a cloud of explosive material which is then ignited, generating a devastating pressure wave.\n\nA significant part of the effect of weapons like the MOAB is said to be psychological - to instil terror by the massive force of the blast.\n\nIts development followed the use of similar weapons including the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter, a 15,000lb bomb designed in part to flatten a section of forest to carve out a helicopter landing pad.\n\nThe MOAB was developed by the Alabama-based aeronautics company Dynetics.\n\nThe 21,600lb (9,800kg) bomb has never been used in combat before", "There's nothing but air in the middle of most chocolate eggs\n\nCracking open a large chocolate egg to find nothing in the middle is one of life's perennial disappointments.\n\nYet for some chocolate firms the fact that most Easter eggs are hollow is more than just disappointing, it's problematic.\n\n\"It sounds ridiculous, but there is a lot of air in Easter eggs relative to their value in weight,\" says Helen Pattinson, co-founder of boutique British chocolate chain Montezuma's.\n\nThe oval shape of eggs and the boxes required to keep them intact means that, compared to the amount of space they take up in a shipping container, it is impossible for Montezuma's to charge the end customer enough to make a decent profit.\n\nForeign sales account for about a fifth of the company's overall sales and for this financial year, ending in May, it expects exports to hit the £1m mark for the first time.\n\nDespite the strong demand from abroad, the firm is yet to send its chocolate eggs overseas.\n\n\"The economics just haven't added up so far,\" says Mrs Pattinson, who co-founded the firm in 2000 with her husband Simon.\n\nMore than three-quarters of Montezuma's chocolate exports go to the US, but it is yet to send any eggs\n\nThe company has six shops in the South East of England and sells directly to customers in the US and Europe via its website, and further afield via export arrangements. So far most of its overseas customers have come via a partnership deal with a large US retailer.\n\nDespite the more established reputation of Swiss and Belgian chocolatiers, Mrs Pattinson says she is seeing a growing demand for British-made chocolate.\n\n\"The most contemporary artisan foodies are beginning to realise Britain is a fantastic producer of chocolate,\" she says.\n\nLast year, the UK exported a whopping £245m worth of chocolate, up by almost a quarter on 2015.\n\nExports of unfilled chocolates and chocolate products, which include Easter eggs, totalled just over £30m, up 3% on 2015. While the vast majority of these went to EU countries, the biggest growth was in exports to non-EU countries which increased by almost a fifth, according to the Department for International Trade.\n\nAn \"element of snob value\" is helping British chocolate egg exports in some markets, says Sean Ramsden\n\nIt is a trend that hasn't escaped the notice of Sean Ramsden, chief executive of Ramsden International.\n\nThe family firm specialises in exporting British food overseas and Mr Ramsden says Easter is its busiest period after Christmas.\n\nThe awkward shape of chocolate eggs isn't a problem for the company because it supplies a much wider range of products, enabling it to mix Easter eggs with other food orders.\n\n\"Easter eggs are a popular UK product and they're very exportable. They [Easter eggs] are not as advanced in other countries,\" he says.\n\nWhen the Grimsby-based firm first started exporting in 1970, business was largely driven by expats. Marmite, brown sauce and baked beans were the items most in demand in the company's markets in Spain, Portugal, France, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong.\n\nNow it delivers to 130 countries and turnover last year was £50m. Mr Ramsden says the company's growth reflects demand from a growing global middle class.\n\n\"The food becomes premium by virtue of being imported. There is an element of snob value in certain markets,\" he says.\n\nHong Kong-based Sharan Gill always buys imported eggs for her daughters Eysha and Elyna\n\nParticularly in Asia, he says, customers are keen to have \"something a little bit different or a bit more exclusive\" such as a foreign brand.\n\nBut he says many of its customers also have an international outlook, with second homes in the UK, for example, and a genuine affection for British food.\n\nSharan Gill, who lives in Hong Kong, says she always buys imported chocolate eggs for her children at Easter.\n\n\"It's a tradition amongst my friends too, both Western and Asian. I spend between 100 to 150 Hong Kong dollars (£10-£15; $13-$19) on chocolates for the annual Easter egg hunt, which my kids thoroughly enjoy.\n\n\"Easter seems to be a growing trend, partly because clubs and restaurants promote it extensively.\n\n\"Plus Hong Kong has a large expat community, a large proportion of which consists of Westerners, for whom Easter is an established tradition. It is also celebrated by the predominantly Catholic Filipino community who form a large part of the domestic helper workforce,\" she says.\n\nGood Housekeeping magazine included Easter crackers on its Easter dinner table photo shoot for the first time this year\n\nThe fervour surrounding the Christian festival has reached such fever pitch that the home and lifestyle gurus at Good Housekeeping magazine recently declared the occasion \"a second Christmas\".\n\nIt is not just small firms benefiting from the growing sense of occasion. Marks and Spencer says it exports a number of its popular eggs to its 468 shops overseas, with them selling particularly well in Hong Kong, Western Europe and the Czech Republic.\n\n\"We're seeing double-digit growth on sales of our Easter eggs internationally - with people buying into both our large 'giftable' eggs as well as impulse purchasing small bags of chocolate foiled eggs and bigger bags of eggs for Easter egg hunts - an event which is increasing in popularity,\" says a spokeswoman.\n\nPeople really like the licensed character eggs and Star Wars' R2D2 is currently the best seller internationally, she adds.\n\nMarks and Spencer's R2D2 egg is its most popular internationally\n\nWhile market research firm Mintel doesn't track British chocolate exports, its figures show people around the world are eating more chocolate eggs.\n\n\"In Brazil, for example, the trade association ABICAB reported that 95 million chocolate Easter eggs were sold in 2016, a 19% increase over 2015. In that country, Easter eggs make up a major percentage of annual chocolate revenues,\" says global food and drink analyst Marcia Mogelonsky.\n\n\"In Ireland, consumers spent more than 40m euros (£34m; $42m) on Easter eggs in 2016, while the UK Easter egg market was valued at £220m.\"\n\nIt is a market that Montezuma's Mrs Pattinson is obviously keen to exploit.\n\n\"It's about putting our new product development heads on to find ones that don't have so much air inside,\" she laughs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Borussia Dortmund midfielder Nuri Sahin gives an emotional interview about the bomb that damaged the team bus and injured some of those on board before their Uefa Champions League tie against Monaco on Tuesday.", "There was a time when Easter meant a Sunday roast, strange homemade bonnets, a visit to Church and lots of chocolate. But with shops now offering trees, wreaths and crackers, is it becoming spring's answer to Christmas?\n\nThe dinner table for Good Housekeeping's Easter photo shoot was light, bright, and traditional.\n\nBut look closely, and there's something unusual on the plates: sky blue Easter crackers.\n\nCarolyn Bailey is homes and garden editor for the magazine. She said more people were buying decorations for Easter than ever before.\n\n\"Easter is becoming like a second Christmas,\" she said.\n\nRetailers have hopped on the trend. A number of supermarkets - including Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose - are stocking Easter crackers this year.\n\nPoundland have also got in on the action, offering everything from bunny banners to carrot-shaped fairy lights.\n\nMeanwhile Tesco, M&S and John Lewis are selling egg-speckled wreaths.\n\nEggs are no longer just made of chocolate, but are painted and covered in beads, sparkles or pom-poms.\n\nAnd where do you hang these egg-cellent trinkets? On an Easter tree of course.\n\nVarying arrays of twigs - often painted white - are laden with colourful eggs and bunnies.\n\nThere are more than 16,000 posts for #Eastertree on Instagram and thousands more on Pinterest.\n\nAnd if your garden doesn't have much in the way of Instagram-able branches, a number of High Street stores are selling the skeletal trees ready for decorating.\n\nDecorated eggs are not a new phenomenon. House of Fabergé set the standard back in 1842.\n\nEggs themselves have been associated with the Christian tradition for even longer. They symbolise both new life and the empty tomb.\n\nCanon Sarah Rowland Jones is from the Church in Wales.\n\n\"In many ways Easter is the more important Christian festival,\" she says. \"People should be given cause to remember what it's all about.\n\n\"If making more of Easter makes people look beyond the caricature of Christianity - at what is at the heart of what more than two billion people around the world practise - then it's a good thing.\"\n\nEaster continues to be the second-biggest retail event in the UK after Christmas.\n\nMarket researcher, Mintel, estimated Easter to be worth £550 million to UK retailers in 2016.\n\nCraft giant, Hobbycraft has seen sales of its Easter range soar almost 44% compared to last year.\n\nIncluded in the range is a faux grass bunny which has completely sold out. Meanwhile, fillable egg characters are up 93% compared to 2016.\n\nThese green bunnies - for the home or outside - are sold out\n\nAnna Protherough, a seasonal buyer for the retailer, said: \"More and more, people are looking for reasons to celebrate and because of this, seasonal events such as Halloween and Easter are becoming bigger and bigger.\"\n\nHobbycraft says \"decorating the home for Easter is bigger than ever before\" and that homeowners are inspired by crafters like American businesswoman Martha Stewart.\n\nMs Stewart's online project tutorials currently include \"cosmic painted eggs\" and \"How to fold a napkin into a bunny\".\n\nBut if all this has got you hopping mad, Amazon has just the slogan t-shirt for you: \"I don't carrot all.\"\n• None Why this Easter egg is so difficult to sell overseas", "A life spent in the full glare of the spotlight is tough on the memory, especially when you're dredging your brain for inspiration to create new masterpieces on a regular basis. It's small wonder that pop stars can have a few dizzy moments from time to time, and sometimes for quite some time...\n\n[LISTEN] Jess Glynne on forgetting the words to your own song\n\nI was very pleasantly surprised that Cold Water came out and was a No.1, 'cause I didn't remember writing it Ed Sheeran has written so many hits, some are bound to be more memorable for him than others. But he's only had one chart-topper behind his own back. For example, one of his unused demos was a sweet, slow tune that he put aside and promptly forgot. It ended up in Diplo's hands, and the next thing Ed knew, there's a huge hit track by Major Lazer called Cold Water, Justin Bieber is singing it, and it's got his name in the credits. He explained his confusion to MTV: \"I didn't know that track existed, like I kept getting emails from Diplo being just like, 'Oh I've found your track Cold Water, can I do something with it?' And I'm like, 'What are you talking about, mate? I don't have a track called Cold Water!' And then he'd be like, 'Yeah, we've got Justin Bieber on the song, do you mind if we release it?' And I'm like, 'Mate, I don't know what you're talking about!' \"It came out, but the the song I did was really, really slow... They sped it up... and made it a thing. I was very pleasantly surprised that that came out and was a No.1, 'cause I didn't remember writing it.\" I was very pleasantly surprised that Cold Water came out and was a No.1, 'cause I didn't remember writing it\n\n3. That their microphone is still on\n\nWireless headset microphones are a marvellous invention for singers who also dance. They allow a full range of bodily expression without worrying about holding something up to your mouth or tripping over the cable. However, it's vital to remember whether you are onstage or backstage when using a headset microphone, and this is something Britney Spears apparently did not do in 2001, when the following comment was heard through the PA system: \"Don't tell me that they're just letting the audience just f****** stand out there like that. Oh my God! This is retarded.\" Her record company maintains that it was someone else's voice that was heard.\n\n[LISTEN] David Bowie talks about moving to Berlin in 1976\n\nI know it was in LA because I've read it was According to Nicholas Pegg's book The Complete David Bowie, the art-funk masterpiece Station to Station was recorded during a period of artistic upheaval, with Bowie considering multiple projects at the same time, during sessions at Los Angeles's Cherokee Studios. Bowie was filming The Man Who Fell to Earth, was affiliated with the movie's soundtrack, and had started writing a fictitious autobiography called The Return of the Thin White Duke, based on the extremities of his rock star existence. This character became Bowie's new musical persona, which he called \"an emotionless Aryan superman\". However, all he could recall of that frenzied burst of creativity, even after moving to Berlin and getting his head together, was the location, and even that wasn't even a first-hand account. He ruefully noted: \"I know it was in LA because I've read it was.\" I know it was in LA because I've read it was\n\nI never paid much attention to birthdays, but it's great to finally know how old I really am! It is perfectly understandable that Doris Day would, in the fine tradition of showbusiness, have had something of a mysterious age. \"The story I have heard the most is that at one point Doris was up for a role when quite young and her age may have been miswritten on the audition form,\" her spokesman said in response to a recent story, reported by the Guardian, that Day was two years older than she thought. On what she imagined was her 93rd birthday, it transpired she was 95 and she naturally took the news in good spirit. \"I've always said that age is just a number,\" she said. \"I have never paid much attention to birthdays, but it's great to finally know how old I really am!\" That other stars have 'forgotten' their age tells us much about the industries they work in. \"I think if I'd said I was 27, I wouldn't have got signed - one hundred per cent,\" Paloma Faith told the Mirror after it was revealed that she had sliced four years off her age at the outset of her career. I never paid much attention to birthdays, but it's great to finally know how old I really am!\n\nOn a similar note, the writer and publisher John Blake recently wrote an article in The Spectator in which he reveals that he has the 75,000-word manuscript of Mick Jagger's autobiography, written in the 1980s. It's a book that should not exist, the legend being that it was abandoned due to Mick's inability to recall in sufficient detail the amazing things he has done and seen. But given the success of Keith Richards's book Life, any publisher worth their salt would want to put it out forthwith. Blake describes the arrival of the hitherto unsuspected manuscript as \"the rock 'n' roll equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls\", and goes on to say: \"So far as I have been able to ascertain, a publisher rejected the manuscript because it was light on sex and drugs. In the early 1980s, when it was written, shock and awe was a vital part of any successful autobiography. Read now, however, it is a little masterpiece - a perfectly preserved time capsule written when the Stones had produced all their greatest music, but still burned with the passion and fire of youth and idealism.\" However, the fact that he'd written it at all had since slipped from Mick's mind. Once reminded, he eventually decided that he didn't want it published.\n\nI often get asked: 'Is it true you snorted a line of ants?' Knowing me, there's a very good possibility. But do I remember it? No way Rock autobiography is a remarkably lucrative business, and what most publishers really want is the inside story from a legendary figure that has done remarkable things. They want to know what it feels like to shout, \"Hello Wembley!\" and have thousands of people roar a welcome back, and they especially want to know about crazy, debauched rock 'n' roll behaviour, and why it seemed like such a good idea at the time. Ozzy Osbourne would appear to be a perfect candidate, having had a long and distinguished career and done a great many strange things along the way. The only problem is that his memory is so poor he can't remember whether he really did them or not. He told the Independent while compiling his memoirs: \"I often get asked: 'Is it true you snorted a line of ants?' Knowing me, there's a very good possibility. But do I remember it? No way.\" He also claims to have entirely forgotten the 1990s. I often get asked: 'Is it true you snorted a line of ants?' Knowing me, there's a very good possibility. But do I remember it? No way\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\nBut the one thing all performers really, really need to remember is where they are in relation to the lip of the stage; otherwise, as everyone from Olly Murs to U2 will readily admit, there's more at stake than your dignity. Don't go near, The Edge.", "As warmer weather and the Easter holidays arrive, the NHS in England is reflecting on what looks like the busiest, some would say the worst, winter on record.\n\nOfficial figures reveal the stresses and strains being felt during February after torrid times over the previous two months.\n\nFebruary's A&E waiting time performance was slightly better than December's and January's, with 87.6% of patients treated or assessed within four hours.\n\nBut it was still one of the worst monthly figures since records began more than a decade earlier, and it came after a fall in the number of people coming in to A&E units.\n\nOnce patients got through A&E there could still be long waits.\n\nAdding up the number of patients between December and February, who waited more than four hours for a bed after a decision to admit, there was a total of 196,000, which was a 45% increase on the same period the previous year.\n\nDelayed transfers of patients who were medically fit to leave continued to cause problems for hospitals.\n\nThere was a 17% increase in the number of beds not available to other patients in the year to February.\n\nNHS England said that in effect around 1,100 beds had been taken out of normal usage compared with February 2016.\n\nMore than 36% of delays were linked to problems with social care services, the highest since the data was first collected in 2010.\n\nWith some hospitals reporting that at times over the winter every bed was occupied, it is clear that the service was running flat out and very close to capacity.\n\nThis in turn affected routine surgery, with bed shortages causing delays to procedures where an overnight stay was required.\n\nHardly surprisingly there was a big jump, of nearly 40%, in the number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for routine treatment.\n\nThis might sound like \"same old, same old\" and the story of the NHS being under pressure is hardly new.\n\nWhatever the dire warnings, hospitals muddled through.\n\nBut it is worth noting that the system came under such strain despite intense contingency planning, and demands by NHS chiefs that non-urgent procedures be cancelled for several weeks to clear the decks for emergency admissions.\n\nWhat must be worrying for NHS leaders is that hospitals were full at times, and waiting times were rising, even in a mild winter and with no above-average flu or norovirus cases.\n\nA sense of relief must be tempered by concern that the health service may not be so lucky next year.\n\nThe system runs on very fine margins and it would not take much to seriously rock it.\n\nHospitals and local health commissioners are working hard in most areas to manage patient flows into A&E departments and to treat more people in their local communities.\n\nThere is a hope that extra investment in social care in England will facilitate the quicker discharge of patients.\n\nBut two things are clear as summer approaches.\n\nFirstly, the traditional easing of pressure after winter does not happen any more as patient demand rises relentlessly month by month.\n\nSecondly, it won't be long before hospital managements have to start planning for next winter, aware that they won't be lucky every time.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nIreland's Fergal O'Brien won the longest frame in professional snooker history to take the final place at the World Championship in Sheffield.\n\nHe beat David Gilbert 10-9 with the deciding frame lasting two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds - 44 seconds longer than the men's marathon world record in athletics.\n\nPeter Ebdon also narrowly qualified but two-time winner Mark Williams is out.\n\nThe championship starts on 15 April with the draw on Thursday at 10:00 BST.\n\nThe frame between O'Brien and England's Gilbert comfortably beat the previous pro record of one hour, 40 minutes and 24 seconds, set by Alan McManus and Barry Pinches at the 2015 Ruhr Open.\n\n\"Obviously in an ideal world you win a bit quicker than that,\" O'Brien said.\n\n\"The balls went scrappy in the colours and I was so tired, double-checking everything and I'm so, so relieved.\"\n\nElsewhere in qualifying, former world champion Ebdon beat Michael Holt 10-9 on the final black to qualify for his 24th World Championship.\n\nWales' Williams, champion in 2000 and 2003, trailed his English opponent 6-3 going into the final session and was eventually beaten 10-7.\n\nGraeme Dott, the 2006 world champion, recovered from 4-0 down to beat Jamie Jones of Wales 10-8, while fellow Scot Stephen Maguire defeated China's Li Hang 10-5.\n• None See the qualifying draw and results in full", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Kane and Romelu Lukaku have been nominated for both the Professional Footballers' Association player of the year and young player awards.\n\nThey join Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez, Eden Hazard and N'Golo Kante on the shortlist for the main prize.\n\nMichael Keane, Leroy Sane and Jordan Pickford are up for the young player of the year award, alongside 2016 winner Dele Alli.\n\nThe winners, voted for by PFA members, will be announced on 23 April.\n\nTo be eligible for the young player of the year award, players must be 23 or under at the beginning of the season.\n\nAt 24, Burnley defender Keane is the oldest player nominated, followed by 23-year-old forwards Kane and Lukaku, of Tottenham and Everton, and Sunderland goalkeeper Pickford. Spurs midfielder Alli and Manchester City winger Sane are both 21.\n\nWomen's Super League champions Manchester City have three players on the shortlist for the women's award, with the City trio of Lucy Bronze, Jane Ross and Jill Scott joined by Karen Carney, Ellen White and Caroline Weir.\n\nCity also provide a trio of nominees for the women's young player of the year prize - Nikita Parris, Georgia Stanway and Keira Walsh - with Weir, Millie Bright and Jess Carter completing the nominations.\n\nLeicester City's Riyad Mahrez won the 2016 player of the year award, while Manchester City forward Izzy Christiansen won the women's award.\n\nSunderland striker Beth Mead, 20, was named women's young player of the year.\n\nPick your Team of the Year Pick your Team of the Year from our list and share with your friends.", "An NHS trust at the centre of an investigation into its maternity services has been accused of failing to properly investigate the deaths of at least two babies.\n\nJack Burn and Sophiya Hotchkiss died within six months of each other.\n\nBoth families say their concerns were dismissed by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust.\n\nThe trust said it investigates all deaths, and takes appropriate action where necessary.\n\nBut a third family was told that their daughter's death had been unavoidable, even though an inquest later found it could have been prevented.\n\nAt least seven avoidable deaths occurred at the trust between September 2014 and May 2016, with some families raising concerns about other deaths.\n\nBBC News revealed on Wednesday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review of deaths and other maternity errors at the trust.\n\nStephanie Prowse, and her partner, rushed to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in September 2014 because she was feeling unwell.\n\nShe was 31 weeks pregnant with her third child.\n\nBut the family said they were left in a side room for 40 minutes before staff checked her.\n\nA heart rate monitor showed that the baby, Sophiya, had a weak heart beat, and though she was delivered by emergency caesarean she died after 32 hours.\n\n\"If they had checked her heartbeat when I first arrived, I believe she would have had a heartbeat when she was born and so she wouldn't have been born sleeping,\" Stephanie told BBC News.\n\n\"If they had got her out, I truly believe it would have been a whole different story. I'd have a three-year-old running around.\"\n\nThe family asked the trust to look into the circumstances surrounding Sophiya's death but say they have never received a response.\n\nFor its part, the trust told the BBC that an internal examination of the incident had indeed taken place though the family had not been involved.\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends that families are always invited to participate in such investigations.\n\nThose concerns have been echoed by the family of Jack Burn.\n\nHe was born in March 2015 but died within hours, of hypoxia and Group B Strep.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hayley Matthews, mother of Jack Burn: \"He would have been OK\"\n\nHis mother, Hayley Matthews, says that throughout her 36-hour-long labour at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, she was refused a caesarean section several times.\n\nInstead, she says, she was forced to have a natural birth during which her son's shoulder was trapped.\n\nBy the time Jack was born, he was blue and limp and died shortly afterwards.\n\n\"They just expected me to push,\" said Hayley.\n\n\"I asked for a caesarean, they said 'no you'll be fine, you can do it'.\"\n\nMs Matthews says the death was never properly examined.\n\nIn response, the trust told the BBC that it did investigate the death but admitted it had not included the family in its inquiry.\n\nAfter we highlighted her case, the local coroner is now considering opening an inquest into Jack Burn's death.\n\nThe family of Pippa Griffiths were initially dismissed by the trust too.\n\nTheir daughter died last April, around 30 hours after being born at home after contracting the Group B Strep infection.\n\nHer parents, Colin and Kayleigh, had called the trust in the middle of the night to say their daughter was vomiting brown mucus.\n\nNo action was taken, no advice was given, and hours later Pippa died.\n\nThe trust visited the family to say that nothing could have prevented their daughter's death.\n\nHer parents refused to believe this and forced the trust to fully and properly investigate the death.\n\nLast week, the coroner ruled that Pippa's death was in fact avoidable, and that the trust had failed to provide the family with the information that could have saved her life.\n\n\"Why would they not raise that (the death) as a serious incident?\" asks Kayleigh.\n\n\"They knew what had happened, and they weren't going to do an investigation.\n\n\"That's when I said that's not good enough there will be an investigation and we will be involved,\" Kayleigh adds.\n\nCommenting on Pippa's death, the trust said: \"We are truly sorry that we were unable to provide the appropriate care that would have prevented Pippa's death.\"\n\n\"We have apologised to Pippa's parents.\n\n\"We have carried out specific actions to address the issues this tragic case has highlighted to ensure we learn from these devastating events,\" it added.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton beat QPR to return to the top of the Championship with their third win in the space of six days.\n\nGlenn Murray's 21st goal of the season broke the deadlock in the second half after he and Tomer Hemed saw first-half finishes disallowed for offside.\n\nSebastien Pocognoli doubled the Seagulls' lead soon after with a spectacular free-kick.\n\nMatt Smith's header from a corner pulled one back for QPR but Brighton held on to go two points clear.\n• None Brighton's win at QPR as it happened\n\nVictory for Brighton - their fifth in their past six games - stretched their advantage over third-placed Huddersfield to 12 points with five games remaining.\n\nThe Terriers, who still have seven games to play, are in action at Nottingham Forest on Saturday, while second-placed Newcastle travel to Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nBrighton's first win at Loftus Road in almost 60 years came after a dour first half of few chances.\n\nBut, approaching the hour mark, Murray broke the Rangers' offside trap to latch on to Hemed's neat through ball and finish past Alex Smithies.\n\nLeft-back Pocognoli, whose last goal was in 2011, then executed a pinpoint free-kick with his left foot which flew in off the crossbar for an unstoppable second.\n\nQPR striker Smith flicked in a header at the near post to make it a nervous last 15 minutes for the visitors.\n\nDavid Stockdale had parried an earlier effort by Smith from close range and the Brighton goalkeeper had to be alert to prevent his team-mate Steve Sidwell accidentally diverting a Ryan Manning cross into his own net.\n\n\"If the league are looking at us wondering if we had a go, then boy oh boy did we have a go. We were absolutely terrific.\n\n\"I'm in total admiration. We did everyone else in the league proud by giving everything.\"\n\n\"It's a big win and at this moment every win feels like the biggest one.\n\n\"I thought we deserved it, we rode our luck near the end but over the 90 minutes I felt we were the better side.\n\n\"It became an old-fashioned game at the end, when you are 2-0 down you are going to go direct. They were difficult to handle but we showed great character and determination.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.\n• None Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Massimo Luongo.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. David Stockdale tries a through ball, but Glenn Murray is caught offside.\n• None Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Massimo Luongo tries a through ball, but Matt Smith is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Bruno tries a through ball, but Glenn Murray is caught offside.\n• None Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Glenn Murray with a headed pass.\n• None Sébastien Pocognoli (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "World number one Dustin Johnson is out of the Masters at Augusta National after suffering a back injury in a fall at his rental home on Wednesday.\n\nThe American, 32, looked set to take part after warming up on the range but he then withdrew on the first tee.\n\nThe US Open champion fell on the stairs and hurt his lower back on Wednesday.\n\n\"I'm playing the best golf of my life and to have a freak accident happen yesterday afternoon, it sucks really bad,\" said Johnson.\n• None Townsend: Johnson could have done 'long-term damage to his swing'\n\n\"I have been worked on all morning and obviously I can take some swings, but I can't swing full, I can't make my normal swing and I didn't think there was any chance I could compete.\"\n\nThe 15-time PGA Tour winner added: \"I was wearing socks and slipped and went down the three stairs. The left side of my lower back took the brunt of it and my left elbow is bruised as well.\"\n\nJohnson's caddie was placing the ball on his tee for him on the range, while coach Butch Harmon said pain hindered Johnson's rest overnight.\n\nShortly before his withdrawal, he progressed from hitting wedge shots on the range to fuller swings and his involvement looked likely as he made his way to the first tee for a scheduled 19:03 BST start alongside playing partners Bubba Watson and Jimmy Walker.\n\nJohnson was a popular pick to win the first major of the year as a result of the fine form he has shown in 2017. He has won the past three tournaments in which he has competed - February's Genesis Open, and both the WGC Mexico Championship and WGC Dell Match Play in March.\n\nAs well as winning last year's US Open by four shots, he finished ninth at the Open Championship and tied fourth at the Masters.\n\nJohnson took until the very last second to make what must have been an agonising decision to pull out. He was standing on the first tee before making the toughest call of his career. It is a severe blow for the player who has dominated golf this season.\n\nHe arrived here off the back of three big victories and was a justifiable favourite. All that has been lost through his freak fall at his rental home and the damage done to his back.", "Everton striker Romelu Lukaku could have a big decision to make in the summer.\n\nHe is a fantastic athlete who scores lots of goals but he is still learning the game and, under the right coach and around better players, he is going to get better - the question is, where?\n\nEverton are an ambitious club and a fantastic platform for Lukaku to continue his development but if a Champions League side come in for him and tell him he is going to be first choice, there is not much of an argument for him stay.\n\nThat is a big 'if' because he comes with a £60m price tag, but there is already plenty of speculation about Lukaku's next move.\n\nThe obvious club to splash out and throw the 23-year-old Belgian straight in the team would be his former side, Chelsea, if they were to sell Diego Costa.\n\nLukaku has already said he will not sign a new contract at Everton and, if he does get an offer from Chelsea at the end of the season, then it would be a no-brainer - he has to do it.\n\nHe would be Chelsea's main striker, playing in the Champions League and challenging for the title in a team which will give him lots of chances, which is exactly where he wants to be.\n\nWhat he doesn't want is to be stuck on the bench somewhere. For example, if Zlatan Ibrahimovic signs for another year at Manchester United and they come in for Lukaku, then he would be thinking: why would I go there now when I won't be playing every week?\n\nWhichever club you name, if Lukaku joins them for next season and plays 45 games, scores 25 goals and wins a trophy, then he will have made the right choice. If he doesn't, then the argument will be that he should have stayed at Everton for another year, where he will definitely play and his stock could rise even higher.\n\nIt is a case of seeing who wants him, having that conversation with them about what his role would be and making a decision. As a player it is hard to know what the right choice is sometimes, but it is not a bad situation for him to be in, really.\n\n'He can work on his touch but goalscoring is a gift'\n\nLukaku is the Premier League's leading scorer with 21 goals but his hold-up play still gets criticised when people question how good he is.\n\nI actually think his touch is OK - yes it could be better, but there are not many top-flight strikers who are brilliant at link-up play. Costa can also be a bit sloppy at times, and Tottenham's Harry Kane is probably the best at it.\n\nIn any case, it is something that Lukaku can work on, along with his awareness. He will have to - the bigger the team you play for, the more packed defences you face and the less space you have to operate in.\n\nBut he is still young - he turns 24 next month - and those are the parts of your game that you can improve.\n\nIt is not just something that comes with age either. That development comes with playing with better players, who give you better quality balls from closer range.\n\nHis main asset as a striker, though, is his ability to score goals - with his right foot, left foot and his head.\n\nThat is a gift, and he does it so well that I really don't think the other parts of his game are a weakness, or would be a worry for any club buying him.\n\nA flat-track bully? So are most strikers\n\nAnother claim I hear about Lukaku is that he does not perform against the big teams, and it is true that most of his goals this season have come against lesser sides.\n\nBut that is true for most Premier League strikers, and there is a logical reason why.\n\nWhen Everton play the top teams they do not have as much possession or create as many chances, and Lukaku is up against better defenders too.\n\nHe scored against Tottenham last month, but he is not going to go White Hart Lane and cause Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld as many problems as he does when he faces Sunderland's defence at the Stadium of Light, playing two centre-halves who are low on confidence and with Everton seeing loads of the ball.\n\nThe time when questions come is when you are a striker playing in a top team and you are not scoring against the other top teams.\n\nBut it is hard to judge Lukaku like that because he has not played against many big teams while being on an equal footing.\n\nThat is the opportunity a move to, say, Chelsea would provide him with - the step-up to play for a team that is going to give you more chances in every game, whoever the opposition.\n\nThere is nothing wrong with having that ambition. In fact, it is completely normal.\n\n'I didn't see a Lukaku who wasn't trying for his team'\n\nLukaku's refusal to sign a new Everton contract has been well publicised, and it means that when he plays people are looking for evidence that he is not happy, or does not care.\n\nI don't think that is the case, and I don't agree with the claims he did not try hard enough in Tuesday's draw with Manchester United.\n\nThe on-pitch argument that Lukaku had with Ashley Williams seemed to start with Williams asking him to chase the ball more - my understanding from watching it was that he wanted Lukaku to get across the pitch when a couple of clearances went on the opposite side to where he was standing.\n\nWhat I would say in Lukaku's defence was that he was very isolated and he could not really win, especially because many of the balls up to him were generally pretty poor - there is only so much pressing you can do when you are outnumbered.\n\nI certainly didn't see a Lukaku who wasn't trying for his team.\n\nYes, he lost the ball too easily sometimes, and of course that means you are going to get a volley off the players behind you, because they want a rest. \"Get hold of it, man\" is the kind of thing they would be shouting.\n\nBut in terms of his work ethic and his running, then it looked to me like he was giving the same physical output as I've seen from him in games where he has played well and scored.\n\n'I had lots of rows but a handshake and a hug, and everything is fine'\n\nLukaku's fall-out with Williams at Old Trafford was a mountain out of a mole-hill as far as I am concerned, because that sort of thing happens all the time.\n\nYes, Lukaku shushing him was a little bit condescending, but I have been shushed before and I have probably shushed people myself. It is not the end of the world.\n\nIt does not mean there is a serious rift between the pair of them. Quite the opposite, probably.\n\nAs a player, I had loads of rows with my team-mates during games and you quickly forget about it. When you have calmed down you have a handshake and a hug and everything is fine.\n\nI remember one with Steven Gerrard when I was at Liverpool in a game against Leeds. He was my room-mate at the time and we were best buddies, but I had messed up in midfield and lost the ball after dwelling on it, and he had a right good go at me.\n\nIt was along the lines of \"sort yourself out and get yourself going quickly\" but not in those exact words, and I responded, very defensively, along similar lines without registering that he was actually right.\n\nEven though the way I acted was poor, the volley he gave me actually did get me going, and I realised that after the game.\n\nI apologised for coming back at him the way I did, and told him he was right but he just said don't worry, it is done with now - and that was that.\n\nThat is the way it should be, and I would be shocked if Williams and Lukaku had not sorted things out in the dressing room after the match or, at the very latest, in training the next day.\n\nIt didn't really matter who was right, and who was wrong, but I actually saw Lukaku's reaction as a positive. He cares, and wants to do well for the team.\n\nThat sort of passion is part of the game and it would be more of a worry for Everton - or any prospective buyers - if he didn't show any.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app\n\nLewis Hamilton has called for a rethink of Formula 1's procedures in bad weather following a farcical day of practice at the Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nCars ran for just 15 minutes of three hours' scheduled practice because the medical helicopter could not operate.\n\nHamilton, who crossed the track to sign caps for fans in the grandstands, wrote on Twitter: \"So sorry for all you watching on TV or at the track.\n\n\"We must find a solution to deal with the weather issue.\"\n\nThe three-time champion has proposed running practice on Saturday in Shanghai and switching qualifying to Sunday morning before the race in the afternoon.\n\nAnd the Mercedes driver added that the problems could become an opportunity for F1's new owners, an American media conglomerate which bought the sport in January and removed long-time boss Bernie Ecclestone as chief executive.\n\n\"Seriously, though, this could actually be a blessing in disguise. A chance for new bosses to be proactive and creative,\" he wrote.\n\nOf the two remaining days of the meeting, Saturday is forecast to have the best weather, with rain due overnight before Sunday.\n\nThe idea of moving the race to Saturday was discussed briefly by teams with Charlie Whiting, the F1 director of governing body the FIA, after second practice but was quickly dismissed.\n\nInsiders said the weather forecast for Sunday \"looks significantly better\" than Friday's.\n\nThe issue on Friday was that the medical helicopter could not land at the designated hospital, which is more than 30 miles away from the Shanghai International Circuit.\n\nConditions at the track were poor, with low cloud, smog and mist, but helicopters could fly in its vicinity.\n\nIt is a fundamental safety requirement in F1 that the medical helicopter must be able to operate before cars are allowed to take to the track.\n\nFour-time champion Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who is leading the championship after winning the first race of the season in Australia two weeks ago, said: \"It was boring. It was a shame, especially of the people who came to watch. But what can we do?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLeicestershire have been deducted 16 County Championship points for repeated disciplinary offences.\n\nBowler Charlie Shreck was found guilty of \"using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting and/or making an obscene gesture\" in a pre-season match against Loughborough MCCU in March.\n\nThe county's fifth offence in 12 months triggered the automatic punishment.\n\nCaptain Mark Cosgrove, in charge for each of the indiscretions, has been banned for one Championship match.\n\nThe punishment means that Leicestershire, who finished seventh in Division Two in 2016, will begin the season on minus 16 points.\n\nTheir campaign begins on Friday at home to Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe club have also been fined £5,000 and given a further eight-point penalty suspended for 12 months.\n\nFast bowler Shreck, 39, has been given a two-match suspension by the county.\n\nCosgrove pleaded guilty to the charges and is set to serve his suspension in a fortnight's time, in the Championship match against Glamorgan which starts on 21 April.\n\n\"We've got to get better and be more disciplined - 16 points is a big deal to us. It's a game,\" Cosgrove told BBC Radio Leicester.\n\n\"Hopefully we can get some positive points on the board. This hurts the boys. We need to learn and get better.\n\n\"Charlie is very disappointed and very apologetic. He overstepped the mark. He knows he did the wrong thing.\n\n\"We've just got to take it and move on and get busy into the season.\"\n\nIn August 2015, Leicestershire were deducted 16 points and given a suspended fine for similar breaches.\n\nIn a statement from the cricket discipline commission on Friday, it was \"noted that actions taken by the club since the previous disciplinary panel hearing have not been effective\".\n\nDurham begin their Division Two campaign on minus 48 points, the England and Wales Cricket Board having imposed the penalty because of the county's financial problems.\n\nMeanwhile, Leicestershire opener Harry Dearden has signed a one-year contract extension, Aadil Ali has agreed a new deal until 2019 and academy batsman Sam Evans has signed a three-year deal - his first professional contract.\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball BBC local radio commentary of every match in Division One and Division Two, plus live text coverage of every round of fixtures on the BBC Sport website.", "Friday 31 March saw the Ballet Final of BBC Young Dancer 2017 on BBC Four, and while we might not think of ballet as being a controversial dance form, it's caused its fair share of scandals - not least when Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography combined with Igor Stravinsky's score to cause a near-riot at the premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris, 1913. The truth is that there's barely been a moment in history when a new dance hasn't appalled parents, dramatically widened the generation gap and shocked newspaper editors. Here are seven crazes that caused a genuine fuss, beginning with...\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary defines twerk as a \"dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.\" As an example of how the word is used, it suggests: \"Just wait till they catch their daughters twerking to this song.\" Well, quite! The word itself is thought to come from New Orleans bounce music culture (its use in songs has been traced back to 1993), and became a well-known dance in hop hop videos towards the end of the 2000s. After Miley Cyrus twerked with Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV VMA Awards, it went viral, causing outrage and not just because of the sexual nature of the dance. She was accused, including by the Guardian, of cultural appropriation. There was a near-frenzy of interest in what twerking was. As the Guardian also reported, the search term \"what is twerking?\" shot to the top of one of Google's annual Zeitgeist lists in 2013, and researchers managed to trace the word's origins back to 1820. And then Planet Earth II filmmakers found out that bears have been twerking away - sort of - in the woods, possibly for centuries.\n\nAnother consequence of twerkgate was that it caused much discussion about other dance scandals of yore, particularly the controversy surrounding the Charleston, a 1920s jazz age dance named after the city in South Carolina where it originated. In a BBC News article titled, What do twerking and the Charleston have in common?, choreographer Jreena Green says, \"Twerking [is] nothing new, it's from the Charleston,\" and likened the freewheeling moves of 'flappers' - female hipsters of the time, essentially - to those of twerkers today. And it wasn't just in the US that the Charleston became a sensation. It made it to our shores in 1925, and as historian Lucy Worsley says, \"It took the dance floor by storm. It allowed women to break free from a man's embrace and dance on their own.\"\n\n[LISTEN] BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service: Whatever Happened to the Watlz?\n\nIt's fascinating that the Charleston could cause outrage by separating the sexes on the dancefloor, because nearly every dance craze that caused contention before the jazz age did so by bringing young folk close enough together to terrify older members of society. In the above episode of Radio 3's The Listening Service, presenter Tom Service explains how the waltz caused a scandal in the early 19th century because of \"the shameless physical closeness of the dancing couples\". And it had been preceded by even more racy renaissance-era dances like the volta, which Service suggests would \"make any of today's waltzers blush since it required the swain - the bloke - to physically lift his lady into the air and then turn her about. The technique involved lifting her up with one of his hands on her busk... and turning her using the torsion of his thigh between her buttocks\". Do the volta today, in other words, and you'd likely be thrown out of every nightclub in the land. Dances that followed it, like the minuet, were tamer and easier, as indeed the waltz is - with one main difference. As dance historian Darren Royston explains: \"It was two people face-to-face. Earlier court dances, such as the minuet, were really done with dancers side-by-side... It was a 'turning' dance, and this is where the scandal of the waltz is made - not necessarily because you can face your partner, but because no one else can really see what's going on.\"\n\n[WATCH] BBC Archive - Doing the twist in the 1960s\n\nYou can't mention a turning dance without remembering the twist, the worldwide dance craze spawned from Chubby Checker's 1960 cover of the Hank Ballard and The Midnighters song The Twist. A year later a spin-off film, Twist Around the Clock, was released starring TV host Clay Cole, who sings the title track in the above clip of cool kids doing the dance. The twist is all in the hips, and that's what made it controversial. It was considered sexually provocative, vulgar and, as BBC iWonder reported in 2014, \"Medical concerns were raised. An orthopaedic surgeon reported a rise in knee injuries and the Society of New Jersey Chiropractors said it could cause 'strains in the lumbar and sacroiliac areas'.\" Other famous 60s dances like jerk, the pony, the mashed potato and the funky chicken were all inspired by the twist.\n\nMoshing to punk band Fear at the Country Club, Reseda, California, 1982\n\nLike the Charleston, the twist is performed without a partner but in a group, and the same applies to moshing - a combination of punk pogo dancing, heavy metal headbanging and slamdancing. And, as all rock fans know, although moshing seems to be an incitement to chaos, mosh pits are usually organised affairs with sets of rules to ensure people don't get hurt. Moshing endures, but it became a fad in the early-80s punk scene in the US before spreading to other forms of rock and also into raves. And although moshing is regarded by many as harmless fun, on occasion it can be overtly violent and dangerous. To protect their fans, Washington DC punk band Fugazi took a stand against moshing at their gigs in the 1980s and a small number of people have died as a consequence of being crushed or fighting in mosh pits, including at two Smashing Pumpkins' shows (in 1996 and 2007) and at a Korn performance in 2006.\n\nBBC Radio 4 - Rave: The Beat Goes On\n\nFor those who didn't want to rock in the 1980s and 1990s, there was raving - not necessarily a specific dance style, although all ravers (and Bob the Builder fans) will remember Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard Box, but a movement that caused a scandal largely because of its close association with illegal drugs and trespassing. The above documentary is about Spiral Tribe, the free-party sound system that was established in 1990 by a group of young people who thought they'd found an entire new way of living, powered by music, dancing, love, and, yes, drugs. No dance fad in the UK managed to get caught up in politics more than rave and, as the Guardian reported in 2010, one rave in particular - the Castlemorton Common festival in 1992 - \"set in train the moral panic that led to the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act\". Dancing was forced back indoors again, discotheque-style; superclubs like Cream in Liverpool and Fabric in London emerged; and the rave sound, acid house, splintered into an incalculable number of new styles.\n\nWe'll finish with the lambada, a Brazilian dance that can be traced back to the 1930s when it caused almost as much outrage as the tango had 50 years earlier. The issue, as BBC iWonder reported, was how close it brought dancers together, \"with hips pressed together as they performed a series of spinning steps\". Allegedly, the Brazilian president of the time, Getulio Varga, was horrified by the dance's \"immorality\" and banned it, but the lambada got its revenge when it became a craze again in 1989 after French-Brazilian pop group Kaoma had a hit with a song named after it. Naturally, the BBC brought in an expert to teach the steps (see above).", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nFormula 1 was forced to call off second practice at the Chinese Grand Prix because poor visibility prevented the medical helicopter operating.\n\nLow cloud, rain and smog in Shanghai meant the helicopter was unable to land at the designated hospital.\n\nSafety requirements dictate cars cannot run if the helicopter cannot fly.\n\nThe conditions also affected first practice, in which Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fastest during 10 minutes of running on a damp track.\n\nThe Dutchman, who was 1.5 seconds quicker than anyone else, said: \"The car felt pretty good. Difficult to say [where we are] because Mercedes and Ferrari haven't run so we don't know their pace.\n\n\"But from our side it felt good and from the driver's side if the feeling is OK the speed is normally pretty good.\"\n\nValtteri Bottas was the only driver of the top two teams to set a lap time all day. The Finn was ninth quickest.\n\nTeam-mate Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen managed only a total of five laps between them.\n\nAs the clock ticked down, Hamilton did his best to entertain the crowd by crossing the track opposite the pits and walking in front of the main grandstand, filming for his social media accounts and signing caps which he then threw to the fans.\n\nThe forecast is better for Saturday, with dry weather predicted and occasional sunshine, and temperatures of 20C.\n\nHowever, rain is due to return for race day on Sunday, with heavy downpours predicted overnight on Saturday and then fading through the morning, and temperatures of only 13-15C.\n\nIf conditions on Sunday are similar to those on Friday, the race would have to be delayed until organisers could guarantee a suitable medical evacuation method.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool forward Sadio Mane will have an operation on a knee injury on Tuesday and will miss the rest of the season.\n\nHe damaged cartilage in his left knee in a collision with Leighton Baines in a 3-1 home win over Everton.\n\nManager Jurgen Klopp had said Mane, 25, needed surgery, leaving it \"pretty much impossible for him to play again this season\".\n\nLiverpool are third in the Premier League and have six games left.\n\nThe injury is expected to rule him out for two months.\n\nMane joined the club for £34m from Southampton last summer and has started all but six of Liverpool's league games this campaign.\n\nOf those, one was won, three were drawn and two were lost.\n\nKlopp, speaking before Saturday's win at Stoke, also said Adam Lallana was \"much better but is not in training\" as the midfielder continues his recovery from a thigh injury suffered on England duty in March.\n\nCaptain Jordan Henderson, who has been out since February, is \"in a good way, but I don't know when he can be part of training again\", the German added.", "US outsider Charley Hoffman sinks nine birdies in a seven-under-par 65 to take a four-shot lead after day one of the 2017 Masters at Augusta National.\n\nREAD MORE: Hoffman leads Masters by four shots\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy says allegations of bullying \"are not experiences I recognise from my time at British Cycling\".\n\nOver the past year, several athletes have made claims of discrimination, which British Cycling denies.\n\nScottish ex-track cyclist Hoy, 41, said \"every one of the riders has the right for their grievances to be heard\".\n\nBut he added he felt the subject had become \"sensationalised\" through \"very public mudslinging and media coverage\".\n\nThe most recent athlete to come forward was ex-rider Wendy Houvenaghel, who said a \"medal at any cost\" approach created a \"culture of fear\" at British Cycling.\n• None British Cycling \"would never sacrifice medals for welfare\"\n\nJess Varnish first spoke about her experience within British Cycling after she was dropped from the elite programme last April.\n\nShe claimed former technical director Shane Sutton used sexist language towards her, and the Australian, who quit in the wake of the allegations, was found to have used the word \"bitches\" when describing female riders.\n\n\"It feels terrible to think that anyone has ever experienced bullying or discrimination during their time with British Cycling,\" Hoy said.\n\n\"As an elite athlete, I trained to win. Training was at times brutal - it has to be when you want to represent your country and to be the world's best.\n\n\"I believe all of this contributed to help bring out the best in me when it counted. I would not have achieved what I did without them and will be forever grateful for what they did.\"\n\n'Some may argue it's too little, too late'\n\nAn investigation into the culture at British Cycling was launched last year after ex-riders complained about their treatment.\n\nA report on its findings is imminent, but after a draft version was leaked in March, British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning apologised for \"failings\" and said the governing body would be making changes to be more caring to riders.\n\nThat includes a 39-point action plan to \"systematically address the cultural and behavioural shortcomings\". On Thursday, Michael Chivers was appointed as new 'people director'.\n\nOn BBC Radio 5 live on Friday, Chivers was asked whether athlete welfare would ever be prioritised over medal success.\n\nHe said: \"The culture is high performance and challenge. Our athletes do not want to finish second.\n\n\"If we can create a high-support environment... we can actually be more successful going forward. But no, we can never sacrifice the success. This makes Britain proud.\"\n\nHoy added: \"Every organisation has a responsibility to stamp out bullying and discrimination.\n\n\"From what I read and understand through various conversations, British Cycling recognise they've fallen short in a number of areas.\n\n\"Some may argue it's too little too late, but even for those who did feel let down by British Cycling in the past, it's encouraging to know that it is now engaging with those riders.\n\n\"I don't doubt for one second that every single person involved in this process has the interests of our sport at heart.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nFirst practice at the Chinese Grand Prix was badly disrupted by poor visibility that prevented all but a few minutes of on-track running.\n\nThe conditions made it impossible for the medical helicopter to operate, a prerequisite of cars being able to run.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen set the quickest time in the 10-minutes of running on a damp track.\n\nThe session was stopped twice when nothing could land at the hospital and when the local airport was closed.\n\nPractice started on time on a damp track under smoggy, grey, misty skies but was red-flagged after just five minutes.\n\nThere was a 45-minute delay before the cars were sent out again, only for the session to be stopped again after less than 15 minutes.\n\nIn that time, both Haas drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen spun at Turn 10 and were able to continue, before Renault's Nico Hulkenberg spun into the gravel at Turn Two.\n\nA virtual safety car period was started to recover the Renault but the session was stopped before that could even be completed.\n\nVerstappen set a best time of one minute 50.491 seconds, 1.5secs quicker than Felipe Massa's Williams in second place. The Brazilian was 0.5secs quicker than team-mate Lance Stroll in third.\n\nOnly 14 drivers set a time and championship leaders Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes were not among them.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nThe Malaysian Grand Prix will be the country's last after 19 years on the Formula 1 calendar.\n\nThe decision, announced by F1 commercial boss Sean Bratches, comes after the country's government questioned the value of the race.\n\nThe American said that the F1 calendar would have 21 races in 2018, despite the loss of the south-east Asian event.\n\nThe French Grand Prix returns after a 10-year absence and Germany is back on after dropping off in 2017.\n\nMalaysia was in the vanguard of the new races that came to define Bernie Ecclestone's final years in charge of the sport.\n\nA state-of-the-art facility was built and the race funded with government money as the country sought to make a name for itself on the global stage.\n\nSimilar events followed the same pattern in Bahrain, China, Abu Dhabi, Russia and Azerbaijan.\n\nMalaysia had struggled in recent years to attract a significant crowd, its appeal damaged by the more glamorous night-time event on a street track in Singapore, which made its debut in 2008.\n\nIt was confirmed in November that the race would end after the 2018 staging, but that decision has now been brought forward.\n\nThe country's prime minister, Najib Razak, said: \"The Cabinet has agreed to end the contract after considering lowering returns to the country compared to the cost of hosting the championships.\"", "One of British sport's youngest professional head coaches is hoping to make his mark in rugby league's oldest cup competition.\n\nAt 24, Carl Forster has only been playing as a professional for seven years, but he was given the job as head coach when Whitehaven were relegated to England's third tier in 2016.\n\nAnd now he is hoping to draw on the fountain of youth when his League 1 side aim to cause an upset against Championship team Halifax in the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.\n\nThe tie, to be played at Whitehaven's Recreation Ground, has been chosen to be streamed live on the BBC Sport website on Sunday, 23 April (15:00 BST).\n\nIt is part of a commitment by BBC Get Inspired to, in the early rounds, put the focus on clubs who do not often get the chance to share the limelight with some of the game's giants.\n\n\"We can't wait for this tie,\" said former Salford and St Helens prop Forster. \"It'll be a real chance to see how far we have come in the last few months.\"\n\nWhitehaven turned heads when they appointed Forster as player-coach after last season's relegation campaign.\n\nHe is one of the youngest players in his own squad.\n\nBut the Cumbrian side have a strong start in 2017, beating Oxford in round four and South Wales in the league, while they also pushed high-flying Toronto Wolfpack close in their most recent league outing.\n\nForster continued: \"My age has created a bit of publicity. There are a lot of people talking about it. But for me it's not an issue. Nobody within our group talks about it.\n\n\"The job has been good. It's come with its struggles, especially in pre-season. But as soon as the competitive games have started, it's been going well.\"\n\nNow Forster's aim is to add to the collection of magical Challenge Cup memories that began with the 2002 final when he was just nine years old.\n\n\"My first memory was, as a St Helens fan, watching us in the final at Murrayfield when we got beaten by Wigan,\" he said.\n\n\"Then I was at the first game back at the new Wembley in 2007 when James Roby scored the first try there.\n\n\"Later I was in a St Helens squad that had a good cup run, playing in the early rounds. But now I'm just concentrating on doing a good job here.\"", "The amount paid by English clubs to agents has risen by 38% in a year - up from £160m to £220m.\n\nThe Premier League paid £174m to agents, up from £130m, with Manchester City being the biggest spenders (£26.3m) ahead of Chelsea (£25.1m) and Manchester United (£19m).\n\nEngland's second tier, the Championship, spent £42.4m on agents, an increase of 62%.\n\nThe Football Association figures cover from February 2016 to January 2017.\n\nThey come two years after the last full-year results (2014-15).\n• None How much did your club spend on agents?\n\nPremier League teams spent a record £1.38bn on transfers in the 2016-17 season - a 43% increase on transfer spending from the 2014-15 season.\n\nIn both League One and League Two the total spending on agents and intermediaries decreased from the 2014-15 figures.\n\nLeague One sides spent £3,098,508, down from £3,167,964, while League Two teams spent £821,450, down from £1,007,920.\n\nLiverpool led the Premier League in agents' fees when the last full-year results were published for the period 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015, but the Reds' spending has decreased from £14.3m to £13.8 for the 2016-17 period.\n\nManchester City now top the Premier League list with £26.3m, up from £12.4m, followed by Chelsea, who have also more than doubled their spending on agents' fees, up from £12m to £25.1m.\n\nManchester United (£19m) and Arsenal (£10.2m) complete the top five, while Tottenham's outlay has risen from £6m to £7.2m.\n\nYet despite being considered part of the Premier League's 'big six' clubs, Spurs trail behind West Ham (£9.5m) and Bournemouth (£7.4m) in agents' fees paid for 2016-17.\n\nI was very fortunate. I met a good agent quite early on in my career after some bad experiences. He took care of negotiations, which is standard, made sure I was pitching myself at the right amount of money to be earning weekly, monthly, annually.\n\nOn top of that he helped me with financial advice, he helped me with marketing, exit strategies when I finished football, and also just day-to-day things. He was always preaching to do your best and try to look after yourself.\n\nThe influence that agents have got now in the game is unbelievable. You look at some of the biggest clubs in the UK and Europe, and there are certain super agents who, for me, have too much power.\n\nIn relation to deals, I think the money should be capped in some way. If you're doing a deal for a player moving for £1m, why would there be another £1m going missing to agents' fees? It's unacceptable, for me, that kind of money going out of the game, when that could be easily used for grassroots football.\n\nAgents have a bad reputation because nobody really understands what an agent does and that includes, probably, the FA. It's not deserved. More MPs have committed illegal acts than agents. I think it's unjust, a very unjust one.\n\nPeople get confused when they hear of an agent. They think it's somebody that does transfers, runs around from one club to another trying to sell players. They are more traders and brokers. There are very few of those agents and very few that really matter.\n\nHowever, what we are as an agency and what other reputable companies are, are people who look after players. We don't look after clubs. We don't look after anybody else, we look after the player. And by that, we make sure their life is properly run, any problems are taken care of and their life is made very easy so that all they can do is concentrate on playing football.\n\nWe get paid for what we're worth. If we do a good job for our player then we get paid. If we do a bad job, we don't. There are plenty of agents who don't earn a living. You've got to be good at what you do and then you get paid rightly.\n\nFootball clubs, especially top clubs, are getting more and more income, so what happens? Players get bigger and bigger wages, and agents therefore get bigger and bigger fees. It's a product of the marketplace we're in, so I'm not surprised.\n\nI wish it were less, but we're in a marketplace that is highly competitive. We've never been able to get any traction and get an agreement to say we'll all dock pay more than X, whether it's 5%, 10% or whatever the figure could be. There seems a reluctance to go down that route. There's no other way we could perhaps rein in what agents get.\n\nThere are good agents, less good agents and they can earn huge amounts of money. That sometimes can attract the wrong sort of person because the prize is so high. It's one of those facts of life. We wish it was different, but we seem incapable of controlling it. All clubs do their best, obviously we don't want to pay any more than we have to. But it's a tough market. They play the field, which they're entitled to, and it's not easy.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCondensing the Six Nations Championship by a week would \"meddle with players' health\", says Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) chairman Gareth Davies.\n\nPlans by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) would remove one of the two weeks when games are not played to create space for a new global international season.\n\nIf agreed, a six-week tournament would start after the 2019 World Cup.\n\n\"To squeeze it into a shorter period is potentially damaging,\" Davies told BBC Radio Wales Sport.\n\n\"Yes they are professional and very well paid but the nature of rugby being such a physical game, I think we are meddling with players' health.\"\n\nLast week Scottish Rugby Union chief Mark Dodson told BBC Sport that reducing the tournament from seven weeks to six would be a threat to player safety.\n\nThe plans for a condensed tournament will be discussed at April's Six Nations review meeting where Ian Ritchie, chief executive of England's RFU, will be lobbying for its implementation.\n\nHowever, speaking to the BBC earlier this week England fly-half George Ford voiced concerns over a shorter Six Nations, saying it was \"important\" to have rest weekends.\n\n\"If we are looking at the intensity at which these guys play at international level these days, and the way they train in between, it's not just the playing of course,\" Davies added.\n\n\"It's the fact you're condensing the training into a far shorter period and I just can't see any argument for shortening it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Davies welcomed the news that an independent review will take place into Wales' controversial 20-18 defeat by France in the Six Nations - a game which lasted for 100 minutes.\n\nFrance brought Rabah Slimani back on for fellow prop forward Uini Atonio in the 81st minute against Wales.\n\nWayne Barnes allowed Slimani to return to the field after France's team doctor said Atonio needed a head injury assessment.\n\nSlimani's reappearance, which is to be investigated further, coincided with a series of scrums on the Wales line and France finally won in the 100th minute.\n\n\"There were some people who thought this could possibly be brushed under the carpet. To be fair to the executives at the Six Nations and the people who have led on the inquiry, they have come to the conclusion that it should go to a totally independent inquiry to really get to the bottom of what has happened,\" Davies added.\n\n\"Obviously the result of that can't be changed, we understand that but it is important because once we start manipulating the rules as it were, that is a dangerous road to go down.\n\n\"Rugby does pride itself on its level of integrity and honesty and I think this was obviously something that has threatened that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nReigning Olympic and London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong is the latest Kenyan athlete to fail a drugs test.\n\nThe 32-year-old tested positive for banned substance EPO in an out of competition test carried out by athletics' governing body the IAAF.\n\nSumgong - the first Kenyan woman to win Olympic marathon gold - was due to defend her London title on 23 April.\n\nKenya was last year declared in breach of anti-doping rules, and athletes underwent special testing for Rio 2016.\n\nThe East African country was deemed \"non-compliant\" by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but was reinstated before last summer's Games.\n\nBetween 2011 and 2016, more than 40 Kenyan track-and-field athletes failed doping tests.\n\nAmong those sanctioned was female marathon runner Rita Jeptoo, 36, who was banned for four years following a positive test for performance-enhancing drug EPO in 2014.\n\nSumgong is provisionally suspended, and she will face sanctions if her B-sample also tests positive.\n\nEunice Kirwa of Bahrain took silver behind Sumgong in Rio, with Ethiopia's world champion Mare Dibaba claiming bronze and another Ethiopian, Tirfi Tsegaye, fourth.\n\n\"We can confirm that an anti-doping rule violation case concerning Jemima Sumgong (Kenya) has commenced this week,\" the IAAF said in a statement.\n\n\"The athlete tested positive for EPO (Erythropoietin) following a no-notice test conducted in Kenya.\n\n\"This was part of an enhanced IAAF out-of-competition testing programme dedicated to elite marathon runners which is supported by the Abbott World Marathon Majors group.\"\n\nLondon Marathon organisers said they were \"extremely disappointed\" by Sumgong's positive test, adding: \"We are determined to make marathon running a safe haven from doping.\"\n\nIn 2015, the Sunday Times claimed the London Marathon had been won seven times in 12 years by athletes who had recorded suspicious blood scores.\n\nThat followed details of 12,000 blood test results from 5,000 athletes published by the newspaper, in partnership with German broadcaster ARD.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWatch live coverage of Saturday's doubles from 13:10 BST on BBC One, with extra coverage on BBC Red Button and online, connected TVs, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nGreat Britain's Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans lost their singles matches on the first day of the Davis Cup quarter-final against France in Rouen.\n\nEvans, ranked three places above Edmund at 44, also lost in three sets - 6-2 6-3 6-3 to world number 68 Jeremy Chardy.\n\nJamie Murray and Dom Inglot will play Nicolas Mahut and Julien Benneteau in Saturday's doubles, before the reverse singles on Sunday.\n\nBritain, without injured world number one Andy Murray, failed to win a set on the opening day of a Davis Cup tie for the first time since 2008 against Argentina.\n\nIn front of a raucous crowd, Edmund battled hard for the first two sets against Pouille, the highest-ranked player in the tie.\n\nAnd the Briton had a good opportunity to level the scores when he was 5-2 up in the second-set tie-break - but could not take advantage as the Frenchman's backhand proved too strong.\n\n\"It was competitive. It's obviously annoying - you want to be taking one of them (set points),\" Edmund, 22, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It just felt like I came off the match and said: 'You gave it your best effort, it just wasn't good enough today.'\n\n\"There were some points I could have made better choices and better execution, but when it counted I just didn't get it done.\"\n\nGreat Britain captain Leon Smith said: \"We probably needed the win from Kyle to get us started this weekend - and we will now have to do it the extremely difficult way.\"\n\nThe visitors must now win the remaining three ties to progress to the semi-finals - where they would face Serbia or Spain in September.\n\n\"There's no hiding. We need more players, and we need different sorts of players that we can call in if Andy's not playing,\" Smith added.\n\n\"If Kyle can't play because he has an injury - if that happened this week, we were going to have to pull in someone ranked about 240 in the world.\n\n\"So, as much as there's lots of good things happening, there's still that conversation about strength in depth.\"\n\nWith Great Britain already 1-0 down, 26-year-old Evans - whose record on clay was a talking point in the build-up to tie - was tasked with turning things around.\n\nHowever, he was completely outplayed by late call-up Chardy, who only replaced Giles Simon in the France team on Wednesday.\n\nThe 30-year-old had made just three previous Davis Cup appearances, and none for six years - but Evans' lack of match practice on the clay, having not played on the surface for two years, told.\n\nThe Briton's forehand, so dominant on the hard court, was completely nullified as he struggled to adjust to the bounce of the ball on the unfamiliar surface.\n\n\"Dan fights with everything he's got,\" said Smith. \"He loves playing for his country, but he needs more time on the clay. Jeremy Chardy was too good for him today.\"\n\n\"I was really happy. For me it's an amazing moment. Last year was really difficult so I'm just enjoying it,\" said Chardy.\n\n\"It was a surprise for me to come into the team but I was practising really well.\n\n\"This tie is not over. The doubles will be a difficult match and we will stay focused for Sunday just in case.\"\n\nAn unlikely, but not implausible, route to the semi-finals hinged on Kyle Edmund winning the opening singles against Lucas Pouille.\n\nHe had opportunities in both of the first two sets and should have levelled the match by closing out the second set tie-break from 5-2 up - but Pouille simply played better when the chips were down.\n\nDan Evans was playing only his third tour level match on clay, and it showed as he was outclassed by Jeremy Chardy.\n\nEven if Britain can win Saturday's doubles, back-to-back victories in Sunday's singles seem very far fetched indeed.\n\nIt was a masterclass from Jeremy Chardy.\n\nEvans is used to the faster courts where he has the pace. Here on clay, his shots just sit up and Chardy had plenty of time.\n\nChardy's level never dropped at all from the moment he came out on the court. He was aggressive and there was no lapse in concentration. I thought he played a tremendous match.\n\nIt was a brave decision by [France captain] Yannick Noah. He knew something about Chardy - he liked his attitude, his confidence, his game.\n\nIt was difficult to see how Dan could hurt him, even if they'd been out there all day.\n\nIn Belgrade, world number two Novak Djokovic helped Serbia to a 2-0 lead in their last-eight tie against Spain.\n\nDjokovic, who missed the Miami Masters because of an elbow injury, beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-3 6-4 6-2.\n\nFive-time winners Spain are without Rafael Nadal for the tie after the 14-time Grand Slam champion opted to prepare for the clay court season.\n\nSerbia's Viktor Troicki then saw off Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3 6-4 6-3 as the teams head into Saturday's doubles.\n\nElsewhere, Australia lead USA 2-0 in their quarter-final in Brisbane.\n\nJordan Thompson, ranked 79 in the world, pulled off a huge shock beating world number 15 Jack Sock 6-3 3-6 7-6 6-4.\n\nNick Kyrgios then gave Australia a 2-0 lead with a 7-5 7-6 7-6 victory over John Isner.\n\nAnd in Charleroi, Belgium lead Italy 2-0 following Steve Darcis' 6-7 6-1 6-1 7-6 victory over Paolo Lorenzi and David Goffin's victory in straight sets over Andreas Seppi.", "Watch live BBC Two coverage from the final day of The Masters.\n\nThis is a live BBC Two stream, due to start at 1830 BST.", "Coverage: Watch live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and sport app.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland were held to a 1-1 draw by Italy at Vale Park in a game marred by a serious injury.\n\nAfter a goalless first half in which the Lionesses dominated, striker Jodie Taylor's fine first-time lob gave England a deserved lead.\n\nStriker Toni Duggan could have won it, but drilled wide for the hosts in their first match since Mark Sampson named his squad for Euro 2017.\n\nThe result was harsh on England, after one of their best displays in the past 12 months, but visiting keeper Katja Schroffenegger denied Taylor superbly in each half.\n\nLeft-back Alex Greenwood also wasted a great chance to win the game in stoppage time when she headed wastefully wide.\n\nFor Italy, who are also preparing for this summer's tournament in the Netherlands, the match was soured by a serious injury to playmaker Alice Parisi, who was taken to hospital with a suspected broken leg after an unfortunate collision with England's Millie Bright.\n\nThe Azzurri, ranked 19th in the world - 15 places below England - improved going forward in the second half after the introduction of substitute Melania Gabbiadini - sister of Southampton forward Manola - but rarely threatened Siobhan Chamberlain's goal aside from Cernoia's fierce equaliser.\n\nOne win in six\n\nThe draw left England with just one win from their six games in 2017 so far, although those fixtures have included meetings with the world's top three sides.\n\nIn front of 7,181 fans, Sampson's side created enough chances to beat Italy by a big margin, but despite having 23 efforts, they were wasteful in front of goal.\n\nThe England boss was accused on Monday of \"sending out a dangerous message\" through not picking players based on form, by out-of-favour Chelsea striker Eniola Aluko.\n\nAluko - who has 100 England caps - was the top scorer in Women's Super League One in 2016 but was one of a number of forwards who were arguably unfortunate to miss out on Sampson's Euros squad.\n\nEngland carved out several openings, although Taylor broke the deadlock from one of the most difficult, lobbing the keeper with a first-time effort from 25 yards to net her seventh international goal.\n\nThe 30-year-old Arsenal forward would have had a hat-trick but for Schroffenegger's reflexes.\n\nArsenal midfielder Jordan Nobbs was at the heart of almost everything that England did well, putting in a fine display and demonstrating her pace, vision and industrious energy down the hosts' right.\n\nWith England's squad for the Euros not including any players under the age of 23, it was one of the younger members - 24-year-old Nobbs - who entertained the home crowd at Vale Park.\n\nItaly took their moment - What they said\n\nEngland women boss Mark Sampson: \"It was a big pitch. It was a good opportunity for us to show our physical fitness tonight. We only made three subs because we wanted to replicate the European Championships.\n\n\"We didn't expect so many people - we expected a low crowd - so to see that many people was a huge boost to this group of players.\"\n\nEngland captain Steph Houghton: \"We did everything but put the ball in the back of the net to get that winning goal.\n\n\"But it is about the performance. It is very positive when we are creating those chances. Going to the Euros, potentially teams are going to bank up and not give us much space.\n\n\"When we play these sorts of teams, it is important for us to know they are always going to have 'a moment'. Italy took their moment.\n\n\"Our quality and our athleticism did shine above Italy as a team.\"\n\nEngland host Austria at Milton Keynes Dons' Stadium MK on Monday, 10 April, before the WSL 1 Spring Series then takes centre-stage until 3 June.\n\nSampson's side then face Switzerland in Biel on 10 June, before their opening match of the tournament against Group D opponents Scotland in Utrecht on 19 July.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jill Scott (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross.\n• None Substitution, England. Nikita Parris replaces Toni Duggan because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Daniela Stracchi (Italy Women) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Greenwood (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross.\n• None Offside, Italy Women. Lisa Boattin tries a through ball, but Daniela Sabatino is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucy Bronze (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Toni Duggan (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Fara Williams (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jill Scott.\n• None Attempt missed. Karen Carney (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Greenwood with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jodie Taylor (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Karen Carney.\n• None Attempt missed. Aurora Galli (Italy Women) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Sara Gama. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic manager Brendan Rodgers has signed a new four-year deal with the Scottish Premiership champions.\n\nRodgers, 44, has guided Celtic to the league title and the League Cup in his debut season since succeeding Ronny Deila.\n\nThe former Liverpool, Swansea City, Reading and Watford boss had signed a 12-month rolling contract last May.\n\n\"It just felt right,\" said Rodgers. \"I couldn't be happier. I'm in the best place I could possibly be.\"\n\n'It's the beginning of the journey'\n\nThe Northern Irishman, whose deal will run until 2021, is chasing a potential domestic treble with Celtic facing Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-final later this month.\n\nRodgers thanked the club's board for their commitment since appointing him in the summer.\n\n\"Professionally and personally I'm in a good place,\" he added. \"A few years ago I might have been in a rush. But I have learnt to cherish what you have.\n\n\"It's the beginning of the journey, but there's a lot more to achieve.\"\n\nCeltic chief executive Peter Lawwell described Rodgers as \"one of the best coaches in Europe\".\n\nLawwell added: \"Brendan has made a huge impact at Celtic already.\n\n\"He's an outstanding manager and we believe he is one of the best coaches in Europe, if not world football. We're delighted that he has committed his future to Celtic.\"\n\nCeltic are unbeaten domestically this season, having dropped points in the league against Rangers, Partick Thistle and Inverness CT.\n\nRodgers left Anfield after more than three years in charge.\n\nThe appointment of Brendan Rodgers last year was viewed as something of a footballing coup for Celtic. A big name with a big reputation.\n\nAfter almost 12 months in charge, the title and League Cup have been secured, Celtic remain favourites for the Scottish Cup and with just seven game to go, they could finish the season unbeaten. It's safe to say he has lived up to his billing.\n\nWith each passing success though, there have been questions about how long he'll hang around in the Scottish game. This contract extension doesn't necessarily mean he will stay in Glasgow until 2021 but it's evidence of real ambition from the club and an indication from the manager that when he said recently he's never been happier, he meant it.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nWorld number four Ding Junhui dominated the second session of his World Championship quarter-final with Ronnie O'Sullivan to take a 10-6 lead.\n\nHaving shared eight frames in the opening session, the pair began Tuesday evening by winning a frame each.\n\nBut breaks of 64, 65, 120, 59 and 56 ensured China's Ding took complete control of the 25-frame match.\n\nHowever, a typically rapid 104 break stopped the rot for five-time winner O'Sullivan and gave him hope.\n\nIt was another two hours of gripping entertainment that maintained the trend of a break of at least 50 in every frame.\n\nIn the other game to resume on Tuesday evening, Scotland's John Higgins stormed into an 11-5 lead against 25-year-old Kyren Wilson.\n\nThe afternoon session saw reigning champion Mark Selby build a 6-2 lead over Hong Kong's Marco Fu, while Barry Hawkins is 5-3 ahead against Scottish qualifier Stephen Maguire.\n\nDing, 30, has not beaten world number 12 O'Sullivan in a ranking event since his 9-6 victory in the Northern Ireland Trophy in 2006.\n\nThere is a strong possibility of that run coming to an end at the Crucible after his stunning display on Tuesday evening, which began with a frame-winning 63 clearance in the ninth.\n\nO'Sullivan came from behind to win the next but was unable to repeat the feat in frame 11 as Ding seized control.\n\nStorming into a 7-5 lead before the interval, he resumed with a 120 break and went on to stretch his lead to 10-5 with a 58 in frame 15.\n\nO'Sullivan, though, produced a defiant rapid-fire 104 in the final frame to give himself a chance of matching Stephen Hendry's record of playing in 12 World Championship semi-finals.\n\nWorld number 14 Wilson had levelled from 2-0 down in the morning, helped by a 92 break, but damaged his cue tip and, after a brief stoppage for repairs, saw four-time Crucible champion Higgins open up a 5-3 lead with breaks of 62 and 59.\n\nThe Scot began the evening with a 129 and, after the next two were shared, added breaks of 74 and 135 either side of the interval to lead 9-4.\n\nWilson responded well with a 97 but Higgins won the last two to leave himself two frames from victory at 11-5.\n\nWorld number eight Fu has got used to doing things the hard way at this year's tournament, having fought back from 7-2 down to beat Luca Brecel and recovered from 4-1 behind to see off Neil Robertson.\n\nThere seemed little chance of a comeback when he trailed world number one Selby 5-0, the Leicester man finding some of his best form to compile breaks of 80, 72 and 94.\n\nFu went more than an hour without potting a ball before taking a scrappy sixth frame and making it 5-2 with a stylish break of 60.\n\nBut Selby got Fu in a fuddle on the final red and went on to take a four-frame advantage at 6-2. They resume on Wednesday.", "The claim: There is a record number of jobs in the UK.\n\nReality Check verdict: The number of jobs in the UK is indeed at a record level as are the numbers of people employed and the proportion of those aged between 16 and 64 who are in work.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has been speaking to a Conservative rally in south Wales.\n\nShe claimed that the evidence for her strong leadership could be seen, among other things, in the \"record number of jobs\".\n\nThe latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that between December 2016 and February 2017 there were 31.84 million people in work.\n\nThe figure is actually a touch below the one for November to January, but the difference is well within the margin of error.\n\nThe November to January figure was indeed a record number, but with a growing population the employment rate is probably more relevant.\n\nThe employment rate for those aged between 16 and 64 was 74.6% in the latest figures, which is also the highest since comparable records began, in 1971.\n\nThat picture was not uniform across the UK though, with Wales, where the prime minister was speaking, having a 73% employment rate between December and February.\n\nOnly north-east of England, the West Midlands and Northern Ireland have lower rates.\n\nWhile those are the figures everyone usually reports, they are not, strictly speaking, the same as there being a record number of jobs, because one employed person can have more than one job.\n\nThe ONS also releases figures for workforce jobs, which are collected from businesses rather than workers.\n\nThat suggests there were 34.62 million jobs in December 2016, the highest since comparable records began in 1958.\n\nThe number of people working part-time has risen considerably since 2010, although it has been relatively stable for the past couple of years.\n\nThe vast majority (85%) of UK workers are employees rather than being self-employed, but since 2008, 40% of the overall increase in the workforce has been down to a growth in the number of people who are self-employed.\n\nSome of this shift will be down to people working in the so-called \"gig economy\" - that is, people in fairly insecure work such as driving cabs or delivering takeaways.\n\nBecause these changes have been so recent and rapid, there is no breakdown in the official statistics, which means we can't say how much of the increase in self-employment is down to insecure working and how much to entrepreneurship.\n\nThink tank the New Economics Foundation published research in December, which suggested that in London the gig economy had grown by almost three-quarters since 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal forward Alexis Sanchez will not be sold to a Premier League rival, according to manager Arsene Wenger.\n\nThe 28-year-old Chile international, who scored Sunday's FA Cup semi-final winner against Manchester City, has a year left on his Gunners contract but is yet to sign a new deal.\n\n\"I don't think you would sell him to any Premier League club, that is for sure,\" said Frenchman Wenger.\n\n\"But as I have said, I think he will stay and sign a contract.\"\n\nWenger has yet to confirm his own future at the north London club, but says he is working on transfer targets for next season.\n\nThe 67-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season and has been offered a new two-year deal.\n\n\"I work until the last day of the season for the present and future,\" he added.\n\n\"Transfer targets are the future of the club and are very important.\"\n\nHe added: \"That (my future) is secondary, what is important is the future of the club.\"\n\nWenger said in February that he would decide on a new deal in March or April and later revealed \"I know what I will do\" and \"you will soon know\".\n\nHowever, no announcement has yet been made as Arsenal, sixth in the league, challenge to finish in the top four to secure a Champions League berth - during Wenger's 21 years as manager, Arsenal have not finished outside the top four in the Premier League.\n\nWhen asked about if there was an update on his future, when he would reveal his decision or whether events in the rest of the season would have an influence, Wenger said: \"It's a triple no.\"", "IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua surprises his former coach, Sean Murphy, with a car to say thank you for introducing him to boxing.\n\nWatch more in Anthony Joshua: The Road to Klitschko on BBC One, the BBC Sport website & mobile app from 22:45 BST on Tuesday, 25 April.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSerena Williams says Ilie Nastase's recent comments about her unborn child are \"racist\" and has given her backing to a full investigation.\n\nNastase, a former world number one, was heard speculating whether Williams' child would be \"chocolate with milk?\"\n\n\"It disappoints me to know we live in a society where people like Ilie Nastase can make such racist comments,\" Williams said in a statement.\n\nWilliams, 35, is due to give birth to her first child in the autumn.\n\n\"I have said it once and I'll say it again, this world has come so far but yet we have so much further to go,\" Williams added. \"Yes, we have broken down so many barriers - however there are a plethora more to go.\n\n\"This or anything else will not stop me from pouring love, light and positivity into everything that I do. I will continue to take a lead and stand up for what's right.\"\n\nThe International Tennis Federation (ITF) has launched an investigation into the comments made by 70-year-old Nastase, Romania's Fed Cup captain, at a news conference before their tie with Great Britain in Constanta last week.\n\n\"I humbly thank the ITF for any consideration given to all the facts in this case. They will have my full support,\" added Williams, who announced her engagement to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in December.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam champion also included passages from the poem Still I Rise by American civil rights activist Maya Angelou in her statement.\n\n\"I am not afraid like you. You see, I am no coward. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? You may shoot me with your words… you may try to kill me with your hatefulness, but still like the air, I rise.\"\n\nWilliams, who won her record-breaking Grand Slam at the Australian Open while eight weeks pregnant, thanked her unborn child as she regained the world number one ranking on Monday.\n\n\"You gave me the strength I didn't know I had. You taught me the true meaning of serenity and peace. I can't wait to meet you,\" Williams said in a separate statement.\n\n\"I can't wait for you to join the players box next year. But most importantly, I am so happy to share being number one in the world with you.\"\n\nWilliams captioned the statement on Instagram \"from the world's oldest number one to the world's youngest number one.\"\n\nWARNING: Some people may find the language below offensive\n\nNastase's comments about Williams were followed by a foul-mouthed outburst during Romania's Fed Cup win over Great Britain.\n\nNastase swore at the umpire before abusing Johanna Konta and GB captain Anne Keothavong - calling them both \"a bitch\" multiple times - leaving Konta reduced to tears.\n\nBefore the tie began, he also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media.\n\nWilliams referenced the incidents in Romania in her statement, saying Nastase had made \"sexist comments against my peers\".\n\nNastase was banned from the tie and later handed a provisional suspension by the ITF.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live commentary from 17:30 BST on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, BBC Sport website and mobile app.\n\nMaria Sharapova's first opponent following her 15-month doping ban has questioned the decision to give the Russian wildcards on the WTA Tour.\n\nSharapova plays Italy's Roberta Vinci in the first round of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart on Wednesday.\n\nThe 30-year-old's wildcard entry has already been called \"disrespectful\" by ex-world number one Caroline Wozniacki.\n\n\"I don't agree about the wildcard here and about the wildcard in Rome and the other tournaments,\" said Vinci, 34.\n\nSharapova was given a two-year ban last year, backdated to 26 January 2016, after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the Australian Open.\n\nHer suspension was reduced to 15 months in October, following her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nSharapova will also receive wildcards for upcoming tournaments in Madrid and Rome.\n\nWorld number 36 Vinci added: \"She made her mistakes for sure, but she paid and I think she can return to play - but without any wildcards.\"\n\nAgnieszka Radwanska of Poland, who could meet Sharapova in the second round in Stuttgart, has also been among those to question the treatment of the former world number one, saying she should not be invited to Grand Slams.\n\nThose views were met with a scathing response by Sharapova's agent Max Eisenbud, who labelled Radwanska, 28, and 26-year-old Wozniacki of Denmark \"journeyman\" rivals who wanted to prevent the Russian playing at next month's French Open because it is their \"last chance to win a Slam\".\n\nSharapova, twice a winner at the French Open, is unranked and will require a wildcard to compete at Roland Garros when the tournament starts next month, with France's tennis federation yet to announce its decision.", "The claim: 260,000 children in Scotland are living in poverty, 40,000 up on last year.\n\nReality Check verdict: The best available figures suggest he is right to say there has been a jump in child poverty in Scotland to 260,000 after several years of little change.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Aviemore on Monday.\n\nHe highlighted the increase in relative child poverty in Scotland, saying that 260,000 children are living in relative poverty, which is up 40,000 on last year.\n\nThe figures come from a Scottish Government publication, which calculates relative poverty as living in households with incomes below 60% of the median income for the UK, after housing costs have been paid.\n\nThe median income is the one for which half of UK households have a higher income and half have a lower one.\n\nThe most recent figure is for the financial year 2015-16, and suggests that 260,000 children were living in relative poverty after housing costs, which is 26% of children in Scotland. That's up from 220,000 or 22% in 2014-15.\n\nThe figures in this report come from the Family Resources Survey, which collects information about 2,700 households in Scotland.\n\nThat's a large survey, but it still has a margin of error, so when it suggests that 260,000 children are living in poverty it means that the statisticians are 95% confident that the actual figure is somewhere between 190,000 and 320,000. That means that even though 40,000 is an unusually large increase, it is well within the margin of error and so the change is not statistically significant.\n\nThe Scottish Government proposed a Child Poverty Bill last year. The bill will set ambitious targets for reducing child poverty by 2030.\n\nThe report itself warns against placing too much emphasis on a single year's figures. \"More data will be required to judge whether these changes are indicative of a longer term trend,\" it says.\n\nNonetheless, these are official figures and they are the best figures available, suggesting there may have been a jump after several years of little change.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKelly Sotherton feels her career has \"more meaning\" after she was upgraded to a three-time Olympic medallist following retrospective drug tests.\n\nSotherton, who won heptathlon bronze in 2004, has been given third for the same event in Beijing 2008 after Tatyana Chernova tested positive for a steroid.\n\nIn November, the Briton was moved up to bronze in the 2008 4x400m relay after Belarus and Russia's disqualifications.\n\n\"Until now I felt my career could have been better,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I left Beijing in tears because I thought I had failed. But I am a lot happier now because I feel my career has more meaning to it and I am worthy.\n\n\"I would swap all three medals for a gold, obviously, but to win three Olympic medals, regardless of what colour they are, is an achievement and I feel very happy about that.\"\n\n'It isn't just about me'\n\nSotherton, 40, retired five years ago after failing to recover from a back problem in time to qualify for the heptathlon at London 2012.\n\nShe initially finished fifth in the heptathlon in Beijing but climbed to third after the previously announced doping ban of Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska was followed by that of Russia's Chernova.\n\nAfter finding out she was to become a three-time Olympic medallist, Sotherton posted an emotional video on social media showing her reaction.\n\n\"I am happy but obviously at the same time disappointed to have missed nine years as a three-time Olympic medallist,\" she said. \"You feel all of the emotions in a space of a minute.\n\n\"All of my friends and family saw my emotions so they have been emotional when they have messaged me.\n\n\"It isn't just about me, it is about the people who support me and were around me at the time. They are happy because they feel like they have won that bronze as well.\"\n\n'Massive steps made but still more to do'\n\nMore than 100 athletes have had positive results in re-tests conducted by the IOC of samples taken during the London 2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympics.\n\nSotherton's compatriot, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, belatedly won the 2011 World heptathlon title last year when Chernova was similarly stripped of gold for doping.\n\nThe 31-year-old, who retired last year and is due to receive her gold medal from Daegu in a special ceremony at the World Championships in London in August, said: \"We have made massive steps to becoming a cleaner sport in the past year but there's a lot that needs to be done.\n\n\"It's not something that's going to happen in a short amount of time.\n\n\"Hopefully we have a fantastic World Championships and we don't have this case of three, four or five years down the line where people are having medals stripped off them.\n\n\"I hope as we continue with our sport over the next few years it just gets better and better.\"", "On general election polling day, broadcasters are obliged to refrain from coverage of campaigning and stick to uncontroversial accounts of politicians voting or the weather.\n\nBut there could be an important news story that day relating to one of the main issues of the campaign - the state of the health service.\n\nThursday 8 June is the day announced by NHS England for the publication of its monthly statistics.\n\nThese cover a raft of data, including waiting times for accident & emergency and the number of people waiting longer than they should for cancer treatment and routine surgery.\n\nIn the absence of campaign coverage before the close of polls at 22:00 BST, the NHS figures published that day for the month of April may generate a certain amount of broadcast and online media interest.\n\nGiven trends revealed in previous months, it's likely that waiting lists will be longer than a year earlier although there may have been improvement on previous months.\n\nNHS England updated its publications calendar only last week after the prime minister's announcement of the general election on 8 June.\n\nThe monthly performance statistics are usually published on the Thursday of the first full week of a month so the choice of date is logical.\n\nThe date chosen for the previous month's statistics is 11 May and the data then may fuel exchanges between the parties at the height of the campaign.\n\nThis data publication issue has not occurred before because in previous campaigns NHS England was not putting out such a wide range of statistics on a single day each month.\n\nThe current system only started in the summer of 2015.\n\nAs things stand and if the chosen date is not altered, voters could head to the polling stations with the performance of the NHS one of the main news stories of the day.\n\nSo are any other important health announcements due during the campaign?\n\nWhitehall's traditional \"purdah\" during an election period has begun.\n\nThis obliges government departments and other public sector organisations to refrain from new policy announcements.\n\nThe idea is to stop a government rushing out initiatives close to polling day.\n\nUsually purdah takes effect when parliament is dissolved but this time it has been imposed more than a week before that.\n\nThere have been claims, denied by government sources, that closing down the official news machine early is part of Downing Street's attempt to tightly control the agenda.\n\nPre-announced official statistics, like the NHS England performance figures, are not affected by purdah.\n\nIt is the same for economic data announcements like unemployment and inflation which go ahead as usual.\n\nThere is, however, uncertainty around one other key health service publication - the quarterly financial figures from hospitals and other trusts in England.\n\nThe regulator NHS Improvement would normally publish in late May the total deficits for trusts for the three months ending in March.\n\nThese are especially important as they cover the final quarter of the financial year and so give the full year total.\n\nThe state of NHS finances is a political hot potato and these figures are sure to generate more heated debate. But will they be published during the campaign?\n\nUnlike pre-announced official statistics, the precise date for the NHS Improvement financial data is not confirmed until close to the chosen publication date.\n\nI am told there is a debate at a high level of the NHS over whether they should be released, as would be expected, a couple of weeks before polling day in June.\n\nThere is a delicate balance to be struck between the public's right to see normally published information from autonomous NHS bodies and the need to take on board the sensitivities of a campaign.\n\nSome delicate decisions have to be made.", "There's a glint of pride in Abu Jaafar's eyes as he explains what he does for a living.\n\nHe used to work as a security guard in a pub but then he met a group which trades in organs. His job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money, and the influx of refugees from Syria to Lebanon has created many opportunities.\n\n\"I do exploit people,\" he says, though he points out that many could easily have died at home in Syria, and that giving up an organ is nothing by comparison to the horrors they have already experienced.\n\n\"I'm exploiting them,\" he says, \"and they're benefitting.\"\n\nHis base is a small coffee shop in one of the crowded suburbs of southern Beirut, a dilapidated building covered by a plastic tarpaulin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know what I'm doing is illegal, but I'm helping people, that's how I see it.\"\n\nAt the back, a room behind a rusty partition is stuffed with old furniture and has budgerigars singing in cages in each corner.\n\nFrom here he has arranged the sale of organs from about 30 refugees in the last three years, he says.\n\n\"They usually ask for kidneys, yet I can still find and facilitate other organs\", he says.\n\n\"They once asked for an eye, and I was able to acquire a client willing to sell his eye.\n\n\"I took a picture of the eye and sent it to the guys by Whatsapp for confirmation. I then delivered the client.\"\n\nThe narrow streets in which he operates are crammed with refugees. Around one in four people in Lebanon today have fled the conflict across the border in Syria.\n\nMost aren't allowed to work under Lebanese law, and many families barely get by.\n\nAmong the most desperate are Palestinians who were already considered refugees in Syria, and so are not eligible to be re-registered by the UN refugee agency when they arrive in Lebanon. They live in overcrowded camps and receive very little aid.\n\nAlmost as vulnerable are those who arrived from Syria after May 2015, when the Lebanese government asked the UN to stop registering new refugees.\n\n\"Those who are not registered as refugees are struggling,\" Abu Jaafar says. \"What can they do? They are desperate and they have no other means to survive but to sell their organs.\"\n\nSome refugees beg on the streets - particularly children. Young boys shine shoes, dodge between cars in traffic jams to sell chewing gum or tissues through the windows, or end up exploited as child labour. Others turn to prostitution.\n\nBut selling an organ is one way to make money quickly.\n\nOnce Abu Jaafar has found a willing candidate he drives them, blindfolded, to a hidden location on a designated day.\n\nSometimes the doctors operate in rented houses, transformed into temporary clinics, where the donors undergo basic blood tests before surgery.\n\n\"Once the operation is done I bring them back,\" he says.\n\n\"I keep looking after them for almost a week until they remove the stitches. The moment they lose the stitches we don't care what happens to them any longer.\n\n\"I don't really care if the client dies, I got what I wanted. It's not my problem what happens next as long as the client got paid.\"\n\nHis most recent client was a 17-year-old boy who left Syria after his father and brothers were killed there.\n\nHe's been in Lebanon for three years with no work and mounting debt, struggling to support his mother and five sisters.\n\nSo, through Abu Jaafar, he agreed to sell his right kidney for $8,000 (£6,250).\n\nTwo days later, clearly in pain despite taking tablets, he was alternately lying down and sitting up on a tattered sofa, trying to get comfortable.\n\nHis face was covered in a sheen of sweat and blood had seeped through his bandages.\n\nAbu Jaafar won't reveal how much he made from the deal. He says he doesn't know what happens to the organs after they have been removed, but he thinks they're exported.\n\nAcross the Middle East there's a shortage of organs for transplant, because of cultural and religious objections to organ donation. Most families prefer immediate burial.\n\nBut Abu Jaafar claims there are at least seven other brokers like him operating across Lebanon.\n\n\"Business is booming,\" he says. \"It's growing and not decreasing. It definitely boomed after the Syrian migration to Lebanon.\"\n\nHe knows what he does is against the law but doesn't fear the authorities. In fact he is brazen about it. His phone number is spray-painted on the walls near his home.\n\nIn his neighbourhood, he is both respected and feared. As he walks around people stop to joke and argue with him.\n\nHe has a handgun tucked under his leg as we talk.\n\n\"I know that what I am doing is illegal but I am helping people\", he says.\n\n\"That's how I perceive it. The client is using the money to seek a better life for himself and his family.\n\n\"He's able to buy a car and work as a taxi driver or even travel to another country.\n\n\"I am helping those people and I don't care about the law.\"\n\nIn fact, he says, it's the law that lets many refugees down by restricting access to work and aid.\n\n\"I am not forcing anyone to undertake the operation,\" he says. \"I am only facilitating based on someone's request.\"\n\nHe lights a cigarette and raises an eyebrow.\n\n\"How much for your eye?\" he asks.\n\nAbu Jaafar is not his real name - he would only agree to talk to the BBC on condition of anonymity.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The Liberal Democrats would \"maintain a credible nuclear deterrent\" if they won power, leader Tim Farron says.\n\n\"Our nuclear deterrent keeps us at the top table in this post-Brexit world,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Farron also advocated replacing the current system of continuous-at-sea deterrence with more irregular patrolling patterns.\n\nAnd he accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of being \"weak and dangerous\" on defence matters.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Corbyn - a long-standing opponent of nuclear weapons - said \"all aspects\" of defence would be reviewed if he won power in the snap election on 8 June.\n\n\"I have made clear there would be no first use of it and that any use of nuclear weapons would be a disaster for the world,\" he told Andrew Marr on BBC One.\n\nHis party, however, issued a statement later the same day clarifying that Labour as a whole was in favour of renewing the existing Trident nuclear weapons system.\n\nMPs overwhelmingly voted earlier this year to build four new submarines to carry missiles armed with nuclear warheads. They are intended to replace the existing Vanguard fleet from the early 2030s at an estimated cost of £31bn.\n\nMr Farron was expected to make his comments in a speech to supporters in Portsmouth, but the Lib Dems said the visit had to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.\n\nThe pre-released text of his speech said: \"If you say that you would never press the button, as Jeremy Corbyn seems to have suggested, that makes a mockery of having a deterrent or indeed sound defences.\"\n\nHe added that the Liberal Democrats are committed to Nato, the European Union and the United Nations.\n\nEach Vanguard submarine can carry up to eight Trident missiles\n\n\"We believe that our safety and security as a country is best achieved through co-operating with the UK's allies,\" he said.\n\n\"That is why we are committed to maintaining a credible nuclear deterrent, because there is nothing to gain from walking away from the table and turning our back on those who rely on our protection.\"\n\nSwitching from a continuous at-sea deterrent to irregular patrols \"would maintain the ability to surge to more frequent armed patrols, or drop down to a low-readiness posture if the security situation allows\", he argued.\n\nMr Farron also said the party's long-term goal will \"always be a nuclear-free world\", and it would use the UK's position to lead international efforts towards multilateral disarmament.\n\nThe Lib Dems have faced division on the issue in the past, with some activists calling for Trident to be axed, saying it is expensive and unnecessary.\n\nA commitment to replacing Trident was a Conservative manifesto pledge in the last general election in 2015.\n\nAnd shortly before becoming prime minister, Theresa May said it would be \"sheer madness\" to give up the UK's nuclear weapons because of the threat posed by other countries including Russia.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNewcastle manager Rafael Benitez must be given money to improve the team before their Premier League return next season, says club legend Alan Shearer.\n\nBenitez spent over £50m last summer after relegation, but Shearer says there is a risk of losing the Spaniard if he is not backed financially.\n\n\"I would think giving him transfer funds would be key to keeping hold of him,\" said the Magpies' record scorer.\n\nNewcastle secured promotion with a 4-1 home win over Preston on Monday.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live, former England captain Shearer added: \"He's a huge figure at the club. He loves the place and the passion of fans - and it's hugely important Newcastle keep hold of him.\n\n\"I'm sure he will demand the team has to be improved and will demand a few quid to do that.\n\n\"You can't stand still. You can't be loyal and give all the players that have got the team promoted a chance. You've got to go out and buy new players.\n\n\"People realise the team needs improving to get to where they want to be and that's got to be the top half of the Premier League.\n\n\"Now it's about where Newcastle want to be - do they want to get up to the Premier League and be in the bottom three or four fighting against relegation, or do they want to have a go at it? I'm pretty sure I know what Rafa will want to do.\"\n\nFormer Newcastle winger Chris Waddle echoed Shearer's view and believes Benitez will be in demand.\n\n\"The fans love Rafa - obviously - but I think Rafa will have a lot of tasty offers on the table from around Europe,\" Waddled told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"If he doesn't get the reassurances he needs to strengthen his team - and I mean strengthen it - he's probably going to be looking elsewhere.\n\n\"I know fans will not want to hear that but he'll not want to be in a relegation battle next year.\"\n• None Listen: Newcastle can't be loyal to the players who won promotion - Shearer\n• None How Newcastle won promotion - relive the action as it happened\n\nNow is the time to buy and build - Stone\n\nBenitez was appointed by Newcastle in March 2016 but could not save them from relegation to the Championship.\n\nHe had a break clause in his contract allowing him to leave if the Magpies went down, but instead the former Liverpool and Chelsea boss opted to sign a new three-year deal.\n\nOne of the most expensive squads in Championship history was assembled last summer, mainly using funds generated from the sales of Moussa Sissoko, Georginio Wijnaldum, Andros Townsend and other high-profile departures.\n\nMonday's victory over North End secured an immediate return to the top flight with two games to spare and ex-Newcastle keeper Steve Harper hopes the Magpies hierarchy give Benitez £60m to strengthen.\n\n\"He generated a £30m profit last year and you'd like to think they might give him double that,\" Harper told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Matt Ritchie and Jonjo Shelvey have had excellent seasons but I think every single Newcastle fan would want to see another five or six definite starting line-up Premier League players arrive so, when they go back, they're set up to compete.\n\nNobody will know that better than Rafa Benitez. He's united the fans again with his honesty and his integrity.\n\n\"He knows his stock is high. He's in a very strong position so he can ask the serious questions now and, hopefully, they do back him.\"\n\nAgainst Preston, Christian Atsu put the Magpies 2-1 up at half-time after Jordan Hugill had cancelled out an Ayoze Perez opener.\n\nOn a tense evening at St James' Park, Newcastle nerves were settled when Preston's Paul Gallagher was sent off for handling on the line and Ritchie scored the resulting penalty.\n\nPerez got his second from close range to send Newcastle up with Brighton.\n\nFormer Newcastle coach Steve Stone also believes the squad needs strengthening again at the end of the season.\n\n\"They still need an awful lot of new players before next season,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Fans realise they're not going to win the Premier League next season and they will struggle to get into the top 10. They need to get a foothold in the Premier League first, otherwise they will become a yo-yo club.\n\n\"It's been a long time since Newcastle were battling at the top of the Premier League. They finished fifth under Alan Pardew the season I was there (2011-12), but they haven't been up there on a consistent basis since Bobby Robson left (in 2004).\n\n\"Now is the time to buy and build, and make sure club doesn't have to play in this division ever again.\"\n\nFormer Nottingham Forest and England midfielder Stone added: \"The fans absolutely adore Rafa Benitez and they have from the start. They chanted his name throughout the game.\n\n\"But he knows now that he needs money and it will be interesting to see if they give him the money he deserves.\n\n\"Everywhere Rafa goes, he gets a massive reception. Newcastle were lucky to get him - they needed him more than he needed Newcastle.\n\n\"Since getting here he has realised what it's all about and he's bought into it.\"", "Mihai Nistor was the last - and only - fighter to stop world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. But while Joshua now earns millions, Nistor survives in his Bucharest apartment, still an amateur on a modest income. Why has he spurned boxing's riches?\n\nHe sits alone on a park bench, surrounded by an endless sprawl of discoloured communist-era apartment blocks.\n\nAs the midday commuter traffic bustles around him in this crowded suburb of the Romanian capital, Mihai Nistor is barely recognised by passers-by.\n\nIt's just six years since Nistor stopped Anthony Joshua with a flurry of hard punches to the head in the third round of their fight at the European Amateur Championships in 2011 in Turkey, but since then their careers have taken starkly different paths.\n\nThis weekend Joshua will step into the ring at London's Wembley Stadium to defend his IBF world heavyweight title in a unification fight against Wladimir Klitschko.\n\nIt will be one of the biggest fights in British boxing's history, with 90,000 tickets expected to be sold, and both boxers will earn millions of pounds for a maximum 36 minutes of ring time.\n\nNistor, 26, will watch the fight from his couch in the modest Bucharest apartment he shares with his younger rugby player brother. He still boxes as an amateur and his salary of £1,200 ($1,500) per month is funded by the Romanian army.\n\nBut Nistor, from one of Europe's poorest and most corrupt countries, insists he doesn't dwell on the gulf between his income and Joshua's.\n\n\"I don't do this sport for money,\" he says. \"I do it for pleasure, because you don't win if you are motivated by money,\" he adds.\n\nListen to Radio 5 live commentary from 21:00 BST and follow text updates on the BBC Sport website as Anthony Joshua takes on Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF and WBA heavyweight titles on Saturday 29 April\n\nWhat also gives him pleasure are his memories of beating Joshua. \"It was a special day,\" he recalls.\n\n\"My trainer said: 'Don't worry, Joshua is big but he'll go down quickly if you punch him correctly.' I didn't know who he was or what he was going to become… He was a good boxer, he was moving all the time and he had a strong punch.\"\n\n\"I beat him in 2011 and in 2012 he was an Olympic champion,\" Nistor adds, grinning.\n\nDespite Nistor's technical knockout win in Turkey, where he won a bronze medal, he failed to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics - \"poor judges\" were to blame, he says. His old foe Joshua, on the other hand, went on to qualify and won the biggest prize in their sport - an Olympic gold.\n\nNistor during his defeat to Iashaish of Jordan in the 2016 Olympics\n\nAn Olympic boxing medal can lead amateurs to lucrative professional contracts. Indeed, not long after his spectacular London Olympics win, Joshua ditched his amateur vest and five years later, the 27-year-old is now a global superstar and a multi-millionaire.\n\nHowever, Nistor continues fighting amongst the amateurs, surviving on his modest income. Until recently, only amateurs could box at the Olympics and he carries an undying dream of winning a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — despite his failed attempt to bring home a medal from Rio last year.\n\n\"I don't know what the judges were looking at,\" Nistor says, reflecting on his disappointing loss in Rio, where he was the only boxer to represent Romania.\n\n\"I lost the first round because of the emotion, but the second and third I won clearly,\" he adds.\n\nSpending time with Nistor, he gives the impression of a boxer unsure of how to advance.\n\nHe keeps training, thinking about the big time, but he can't move past a marker, the Olympics, that many fighters - win or lose - would be only too glad to use as a stepping stone to launch a profitable professional career.\n\nNistor started boxing at 16 years old, and many considered it too late for him to achieve anything meaningful in the sport. However, just three months after first lacing up his gloves, he won a national heavyweight amateur title.\n\n\"I am not too talented,\" Nistor admits. \"But I love combat and I like to work… Hard work, hard work, hard work.\" He repeats it like a mantra he's grown only too familiar with during his gruelling six-day-a-week training regime.\n\n\"If you don't have much talent but you work really hard, hard work will beat talent - every time,\" he adds.\n\nEven now, Nistor's boxing style could be a tricky one for any current professional heavyweight boxer. Although Nistor is short for his division at just 6ft tall, he has an aggressive, relentless style and power in both hands.\n\nSome parts of the Romanian media have nicknamed Nistor the \"Tyson of Romania\". With his thick-set frame and looping heavy punches - like the ones that stopped Joshua six years ago - the likeness is fitting.\n\n\"I am like Tyson because I have the power and movement,\" says Nistor, strolling along a congested Bucharest street, as car horns endlessly sound and locals scramble to get their lunch, paying him no attention.\n\nNistor is well aware that by delaying his move from the amateur to the professional code he risks missing out on some prime fighting years, but his desire to strike Olympic gold keeps on persisting.\n\nIt doesn't help, either, that he wants to remain in his home country. Nistor would probably have to move abroad to a country with a more developed boxing scene than Romania if he were ever to reach his full potential as a professional fighter.\n\nEven now, Nistor has to regularly venture abroad to get quality sparring partners.\n\n\"It would be to America as that's where people make it in boxing, and people there love the boxers,\" Nistor says, matter-of-factly.\n\nBeyond his vague indifference to follow in the footsteps of Joshua, Nistor has another strong reason to delay turning professional.\n\n\"Romania has only ever had one Olympic gold-medal boxer - Nicolae Linca at the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games,\" Nistor says.\n\n\"He's my hero. I'm delaying turning professional because I want to win a gold medal in Tokyo,\" Nistor adds.\n\nHowever, unlike Nistor, Linca never had the chance to cash in financially on his boxing abilities, because he fought during a period when Romania was a communist dictatorship.\n\nAfter boxing, Linca's life was blighted by Parkinson's Disease and he died in poverty in 2006.\n\nNistor says that the disparity in wealth and status between him and Joshua is of little concern to him, and that he's happy with his close-knit family life, his long-term girlfriend and to have \"beaten a man who won an Olympic gold medal\".\n\nEven still, Nistor believes that he could repeat his win against Joshua if the two were to fight again. \"I see many imperfections in Joshua… He leaves himself too visible [to take punches],\" says Nistor.\n\n\"I would study him for a month and create tactics with my coach,\" he adds.\n\nThe worry for Nistor, as he gets ready to watch his old rival fighting under the bright lights of worldwide stardom, is that he might never get his own shot at the big league.\n\nPhotos by Stephen McGrath except where otherwise stated\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Lib Dem membership has passed the 100,000 mark following a surge of new joiners since Theresa May announced a snap general election.\n\nThe party said it has signed up 12,500 new members since last week - and is expected to reach its highest total in its history \"within days\".\n\nLeader Tim Farron said Lib Dems are the only party opposing Mrs May's \"hard Brexit agenda\".\n\nHe insisted the party would not enter a coalition with the Tories or Labour.\n\nThe biggest membership number the Lib Dems have had since their formation was 101,768 members in 1994.\n\nThe recent flurry of interest means more than 50,000 members have joined since last year's European referendum - and more than 67,500 since the party's electoral low point, at the 2015 general election.\n\nMr Farron, who pledged to build the membership to 100,000 when he became leader in 2015, said reaching the goal \"tells us that there's an appetite for change in British politics and Liberal Democrats are the vehicle for that change\".\n\nHe said: \"People want a strong opposition to Theresa May's hard Brexit agenda and the Liberal Democrats are the only party challenging them up and down the country.\"\n\nIn an appeal to would-be supporters, he said: \"This election is your chance to change the direction of our country. If you want to stop a disastrous hard Brexit, if you want to keep Britain in the single market, if you want a strong opposition to fight for an open, tolerant and united Britain - this is your chance.\"\n\nThe Lib Dem leader also repeated his insistence that there are \"no circumstances whatsoever\" that the party will go in to a coalition with the Conservatives or Labour after the 8 June election, given the current approaches of those two parties.\n\nHe also dismissed an informal arrangement to offer his party's support on budget measures and other key votes to help a minority Tory or Labour administration.\n\nOn Sunday he told ITV's Peston on Sunday: \"What Britain needs in this election is clarity and a contest. Theresa May has called this election because she believes it'll be a coronation.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are determined to make it a contest with a clear alternative position, and I don't want people thinking a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a proxy for anything else.\"", "Two-thirds of European Jewry was murdered by the Nazis\n\nGiselle Cycowicz (born Friedman) remembers her father, Wolf, as a warm, kind and religious man. \"He was a scholar,\" she says, \"he always had a book open, studying Talmud [compendium of Jewish law], but he was also a businessman and he looked after his family.\"\n\nBefore the war, the Friedmans lived a happy, comfortable life in Khust, a Czechoslovak town with a large Jewish population on the fringes of Hungary. All that changed after 1939, when pro-Nazi Hungarian troops, and later Nazi Germany, invaded, and all the town's Jews were deported to Auschwitz.\n\nGiselle last saw her father, \"strong and healthy\", hours after the family arrived at the Birkenau section of the death camp. Wolf had been selected for a workforce but a fellow prisoner under orders would not let her go to him.\n\n\"That would have been my chance to maybe kiss him the last time,\" Giselle, now 89, says, her voice cracking with emotion.\n\nGiselle, her mother and a sister survived, somehow, five months in \"the hell\" of Auschwitz. She later learned that in October 1944 \"a skeletal man\" had passed by the women's camp and relayed a message to anyone alive in there from Khust.\n\n\"Tell them just now 200 men were brought back from the coal mine. Tell them that tomorrow we won't be here anymore.\" The man was Wolf Friedman. He was gassed the next day.\n\nAt Auschwitz-Birkenau, some 900,000 Jews were murdered on arrival\n\nSix million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices during World War Two. In many cases entire towns' Jewish populations were wiped out, with no survivors to bear witness - part of the Nazis' plan for the total annihilation of European Jewry.\n\nSince 1954, Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem (\"A Memorial and a Name\"), has been working to recover the names of all the victims, and to date has managed to identify some 4.7 million.\n\n\"Every name is very important to us,\" says Dr Alexander Avram, director of Yad Vashem's Hall of Names and the Central Database of Shoah [Holocaust] Victims' Names.\n\n\"Every new name we can add to our database is a victory against the Nazis, against the intent of the Nazis to wipe out the Jewish people. Every new name is a small victory against oblivion.\"\n\nIn Western Europe, the Nazis kept records of victims, such as this Frankfurt to Theresienstadt deportation list\n\nThe institution, a sprawling complex of buildings, trees and gardens on the western slopes of Mount Herzl, gathers details about the victims in two ways: through information from those with knowledge of the deceased, and archive sources, ranging from Nazi deportation lists to Jewish school yearbooks.\n\nToday Giselle has come to dedicate her father's name, nearly 73 years after he was killed, a small piece in a vast jigsaw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I never got the chance to kiss my father goodbye\"\n\nShe is helped by trained staff through the process of recording Wolf's details on a Page of Testimony, a one-page form for documenting biographical information about the deceased, such as where they lived before the War, their occupation and the members of their family, and, if available, a photograph.\n\n\"Only two-thirds of the way down do we ask where they were during the war and what happened to them,\" Cynthia Wroclawski, deputy director of Yad Vashem's Archives Division, points out.\n\n\"We're interested in seeing a person as a person and who they were before they became a victim.\"\n\nDetails about the lives of millions of victims are held in Yad Vashem's Hall of Names\n\nIt is, the institution says, a kind of paper tombstone. So far Yad Vashem has collected 2.7m Pages of Testimony.\n\nEach is stored in black boxes, each containing 300 pages - 9,000 boxes in all. They are kept in climate-controlled conditions on shelves surrounding a central installation, a 30ft-high conical lined with the faces of men, women and children who were murdered, rising up towards the sky.\n\nHere in the Hall of Names groups of visitors pass through in quiet contemplation. There is space on the shelves for 11,000 more boxes - or 6m names in all.\n\nWith the last survivors dying out, Yad Vashem is facing a race against time to prevent more than a million unidentified victims disappearing without a trace.\n\nThis is apparent in the decreasing number of Pages of Testimony it receives - down from at least 2,000 per month five years ago to about 1,600 per month currently.\n\nThe memorial is trying to raise awareness, including among Holocaust survivors who have not yet come forward. For decades, for many of them the experience was still too painful to talk about.\n\n\"It's quite a common occurrence, not only in Holocaust survivors but survivors of prolonged and extreme trauma in childhood,\" says Dr Martin Auerbach, Clinical Director at Amcha, a support service in Jerusalem for Holocaust survivors.\n\nThere are spaces on the shelves for a possible six million Pages of Testimony\n\nThat began to change, he says, after about 30 or 40 years, when many survivors started talking about what happened, not with their children but with their inquisitive grandchildren. Dr Auerbach sees the Names Recovery Project as a valuable part of the healing process.\n\n\"Filling out this page of information saying this was my father, mother, grandfather, nephews and nieces - you cannot bury your relatives who perished but you can remember them in a way that will commemorate them forever, so this is very important and also therapeutic for many survivors.\"\n\nWhile Yad Vashem has made great strides in identifying victims from Western and Central Europe - about 95% have now been named - far fewer names have been uncovered in Nazi-occupied areas of Eastern Europe, where about 4.5m Jews were murdered.\n\nThis is because while there was an organised, official process of arrest and deportation further west, in the east whole communities were marched off and massacred without any such formalities.\n\nOnly about half the victims of the Babi Yar massacre have so far been named\n\nAn estimated 1.5m Jews alone were shot to death by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) in what has become known as the Holocaust by Bullets, after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.\n\nIn Babi Yar, in Ukraine, for instance, of the 33,000 Jews from Kiev and its surroundings who were slaughtered in a ravine in September 1941 in the largest massacre of its kind, about half are yet to be identified.\n\nOthers not murdered by the Einsatzgruppen died, without a trace, from starvation or exhaustion in ghettos and labour camps, or were killed in nearby extermination camps, where they had been herded without any kind of processing.\n\nYad Vashem is working with Jewish organisations in those countries to try to reach remaining survivors in the former Soviet Union, where the Holocaust was not officially commemorated, and who may have little awareness of the memorial's existence.\n\nIt is a massive and often complex task. The memorial holds some 205m Holocaust-related documents, which are examined meticulously in the search for names.\n\n\"There is a lot of documentation where there are names that are very scattered,\" says Dr Avram. \"Names mentioned in a letter here or a report there. This can be very labour intensive. Sometimes you have to go through thousands and thousands of pages just to retrieve a few dozen names.\"\n\nThe difficulty is compounded by the fact that sources can be in 30-40 different languages, most are handwritten and can be in different scripts, such as Latin, Hebrew and Cyrillic. \"Our staff not only need to be linguists but they need to know calligraphy,\" says Dr Avram, himself a language expert.\n\nPages remembering victims have been filled in more than 20 languages - such was the scale of the Nazis' reach\n\nOne of the biggest gaps is with children, of whom some 1.5 million were murdered in the Holocaust. Only about half have been identified.\n\n\"It's one of the saddest things,\" says Dr Avram. \"We have reports where parents are named with say three or four children, unnamed. They were little children and people just don't remember.\"\n\nThe aim is to turn them from anonymous statistics into human beings again, like seven-year-old Edward-Edik Tonkonogi, from Satanov in Ukraine. His childish innocence and sweetness of character come across in a letter he wrote in 1941 to his parents who were travelling with a Russian theatre troupe:\n\nEdik was murdered after the Nazis entered the town that same year. His name was later memorialised in a Page of Testimony by a relative.\n\nAs time moves on, the task of finding missing names is getting harder in some respects but easier in others. The availability of source material is greater than ever and advances in technology mean it can be a less arduous task to gather information and manipulate the data.\n\nHowever, the fewer the names left to uncover, the more activity it takes to find them.\n\nThe digital age also means there are more tools at researchers' disposal than ever before. The department searching for names recently took to social media, including Facebook, in a push to reach untapped survivors. The campaign generated many new Pages of Testimony.\n\n\"When you're talking about social media you have the younger generation now understanding that those names are not in our database and trying to find out the information from their family members,\" says Sara Berkowitz, manager of the Names Recovery Project.\n\nThere is another significant, sometimes life-changing, outcome of the growth of the names database, which has been available online since 2004. It has led to emotional reunions of survivors who had lived their lives not knowing there was anyone else from their family left alive.\n\nLast year two sets of families belonging to two sisters, each of whom thought the other had perished in the Holocaust, were united after a chance discovery through the Pages of Testimony. It transpired the sisters had lived out their lives just 25 minutes away from each other in northern Israel, but passed away without ever being aware.\n\nIn 2015 a pair of half-siblings who did not know the other was alive were reunited as a result of searching the database, while in 2006 a brother and sister, one living in Canada and the other in Israel, were reunited 65 years after becoming separated in their hometown in Romania.\n\nThe project has also brought to light other, unfortunate findings. Argentinean-born Claudia de Levie, whose parents fled Germany in the 1930s, believed she had lost four or five relatives in the Holocaust. A search of the database to help with her daughter's homework revealed in fact 180 family members had been killed.\n\nClaudia de Levie lost many family members in the Holocaust, but found new living relatives\n\nFurther research however revealed through a signature on a Page of Testimony the existence of cousins of her husband, living in Hamburg. The families now speak to each other each week on Skype.\n\nIronically, a chief architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, lived as a fugitive in the same neighbourhood as Claudia when she was a child in Argentina, as she would later learn.\n\nThe importance of the mission to recover victims' names received global recognition in 2013 when the United Nations cultural agency, Unesco, included the collection in its Memory of the World register.\n\nThe agency lauded it as \"unprecedented in human history\", pointing out that the project had given rise to similar efforts in other places of genocide, such as Rwanda and Cambodia.\n\nManual searches of thousands of documents might yield just a few names\n\nDespite the millions of names recorded so far, there is still a long way to go if all six million are ever to be recovered, but those behind the project remain determined.\n\n\"I personally would like that we do reach that goal, that at least among those who perished there won't be a person who remains unknown. It's our moral imperative,\" says Sara Berkowitz.\n\n\"Until I sit in the office and days will pass by and I won't have work to do, I'll know that we've more or less raked the universe to try to get to every name and there is no more there.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nFormer heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is targeting a July return to boxing.\n\nThe 28-year-old said in a post on social media he was aiming to return on the Billy Joe Saunders-Avtandil Khurtsidze undercard.\n\nFury, who has not fought since he beat Wladmir Klitschko in November 2015, had his licence revoked in October as he dealt with mental health problems.\n\nHe initially wanted to return in May but the British Boxing Board of Control told the BBC he was still suspended.\n\nFury posted that he was travelling to Marbella to train for the Saunders-Khurtsdize bout, which is scheduled for 8 July.\n\nHe vacated his WBO and WBA world heavyweight titles a day before his licence was suspended, saying he was unable to defend them because of his health.\n\nThe BBBofC said at the time that Fury's licence was suspended \"pending further investigation into anti-doping and medical issues\".\n\nHe would have to appear before the board to be given permission to fight.\n• 29 November 2015: Beats Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko to become the WBA, IBF and WBO champion\n• 8 December 2015: Stripped of his IBF title for failing to fight the mandatory challenger\n• 24 June 2016: Postpones July's rematch with Klitschko after injuring an ankle in training\n• 4 August 2016: UK's anti-doping body confirms it charged Fury with a doping offence on 24 June\n• 23 September 2016: Postpones rematch for a second time because he is \"medically unfit\"\n• 3 October: Appears to retire from boxing, tweeting: \"I'm the greatest, and I'm also retired.\" Three hours later he reverses the decision, tweeting he is \"here to stay\"\n• 5 October 2016: Reveals he has been taking cocaine to help him deal with depression\n• 10 October 2016: Given extended deadline to convince the WBO not to strip him of his world heavyweight title\n• 6 March 2017: Suggests he could make a comeback on 13 May\n• 25 April: Says he wants to fight on Billy Joe Saunders-Avtandil Khurtsize undercard", "Chris Ofili's tapestry took three years to create\n\nI know some folk think Chris Ofili has gone off the boil since his Turner Prize-winning heyday, when he was considered one of Charles Saatchi's gang of Young British Artists.\n\nBack then, Ofili incorporated elephant dung and cut-outs from porn mags in his paintings, which upset Mayor Giuliani considerably (and the current President who called Ofili's painting, Holy Virgin Mary, \"absolutely gross\") when Saatchi took his Sensation show to NYC in 1999.\n\nNowadays, the Mancunian artist lives and works in Trinidad and produces lyrical paintings full of myth and mysticism, infused with the spirits of Henri Matisse and William Blake. El Greco-like elongations have taken the place of porn, the turquoise of the Caribbean Sea now as present as was once elephant dung.\n\nI like his new work. I don't think he's lost form, just moved on. The core of what he does is the same, which is to mix pop culture and art history. From a technical point of view it seems to me that his sensitivity to colour has developed, and his line is more assured. The effect of moving from a modern metropolis to a rural island culture has clearly had a big impact on how he perceives and represents the world.\n\nAll of which can be seen in his latest work, a large-scale tapestry called The Caged Bird's Song (a riff on Maya Angelou's book, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings) currently hanging at the National Gallery in London, before taking up permanent residence at the Clothworkers' Company - the London Livery Company that commissioned it.\n\nIt is arranged as a triptych, with the two side panels featuring standing figures pulling back curtains to reveal a mythical world. The male figure on the right holds a cage in which a songbird is perched, while the woman on the left has a sprig of black berries clasped between her fingers drooping in anticipation of being eaten by the bird.\n\nThe central panel has two lovers sitting by a rock in front of the sea. The man plays his guitar, while the woman drinks a green potion funnelling down from a tree above her head. If she looked up she would spot a man with a bow tie (based on the footballer Mario Balotelli) hiding in the branches, pouring the elixir she is knocking back.\n\nThe tapestry was hand-woven by Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, whose weavers have done a magnificent job in transposing Ofili's small watercolour painting into an enormous woollen wall-hanging. Had it been a single weaver working on the project and not four or five, it would have taken sixteen years to complete (it took just over three years).\n\nThe detail is remarkable, as is the weavers' ability to capture the fluidity of a watercolour painting in wool. For the viewer, the tapestry is a celebration of nature and love. But it is also a very real celebration of a craft skill that is sadly dying out in the UK.\n\nAccording to Peter Langley of The Clothworkers' Company, there are only two professional hand-weaving tapestry studios left in the UK. It'd be great if this artwork were the catalyst for a weaving renaissance.\n\nChris Ofili - Weaving Magic runs at the National Gallery in London from 26 April to 28 August 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea restored their lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points with a convincing win over Southampton at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAntonio Conte's side had seen their advantage cut by Tottenham after the Blues' loss at Manchester United - but this was an emphatic response to follow on from Saturday's FA Cup semi-final win against their London rivals.\n\nEden Hazard and Diego Costa were both back in the starting line-up after Wembley and were key figures, the Belgian putting Chelsea ahead with a low shot after five minutes.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Oriol Romeu bundled in an equaliser for Saints before Gary Cahill headed the title pace-setters back in front right on half-time, a moment that effectively decided the destination of the points.\n\nCosta confirmed Chelsea's supremacy with a header early in the second half before scoring his second with a low shot late on.\n\nRyan Bertrand, another former Chelsea man, was on target in the dying seconds - but the victory was secured for Conte's men and now Spurs must respond at in-form Crystal Palace on Wednesday (20:00 BST kick-off).\n\nConte gets Hazard and Costa calls spot on\n\nConte manoeuvred his resources to perfection in the victory against Spurs at Wembley - and did it again here as Hazard and Costa made decisive contributions to a vital Chelsea win.\n\nConte raised eyebrows when he left his two most dangerous attackers out of his starting line-up on Saturday but used them as game-changers to great effect, deploying them as substitutes after an hour and Hazard then scoring the goal that swung the match in favour of his side.\n\nHazard and Costa were back from the start against Southampton and illustrated why they have been such integral components of Chelsea's rise to the top of the table this season.\n\nThe pair combined in the fifth minute for Hazard to score and Spain striker Costa was simply too strong for Bertrand when he arrived on the end of Cesc Fabregas' cross to score the third goal early in the second half.\n\nAnd they were at it again soon afterwards - a neat exchange with Pedro leading to Costa getting his second and Chelsea's fourth with a powerful low drive in the closing moments.\n\nConte has put the Blues right back on track after their loss at Manchester United with wins in the FA Cup semi-final and here at Stamford Bridge - and his shrewd use of two of his most vital assets has helped him achieve it with a superb piece of management.\n\nSouthampton - and of course Tottenham - would have been hoping anxiety and pressure might just have played a part in a shock result at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAnd for a spell those factors came into play as the Saints recovered from Chelsea's perfect start to equalise through Romeu and then exert a measure of control.\n\nHowever, the hosts kept their nerve to run out comfortable winners and avoid the sort of slip-up that would have played into the hands of Spurs.\n\nStamford Bridge ended the game in celebratory mood and the feeling that Chelsea's equilibrium had been restored after those recent slips at home to Crystal Palace and away to Manchester United.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side will have felt the door had opened when Chelsea lost at Old Trafford and the gap at the top of the table was reduced to only four points. Suddenly the pressure was on Conte and his players.\n\nThe tables have now been turned and it will be Spurs and their manager who will be feeling the heat and the need to win when they travel to in-form Crystal Palace on Wednesday.\n\nSpurs have reeled off seven straight league wins - their best sequence since 1967 - but all the self-belief built up during that run will be required to face Sam Allardyce's rejuvenated side, who have beaten Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool in recent weeks.\n\nThey will not only have to respond to the Blues' win that restored their seven-point lead, but also to the disappointment of losing the FA Cup semi-final to their London rivals at Wembley on Saturday.\n\nThese are defining moments in the Premier League season - with a huge weekend ahead as Chelsea travel to Everton and Spurs face Arsenal in the north London derby on Sunday.\n• None Costa's first strike was his 50th in the Premier League in his 85th game - only seven strikers have reached the milestone faster.\n• None Hazard has scored 15 league goals this season - his best return in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Since their return to the top-flight in 2012-13, Southampton have scored more away Premier League goals at Stamford Bridge than any other side (nine).\n• None Fabregas' assist for Costa's goal was his 103rd in the Premier League - second only to Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs (162).\n• None Cahill has scored 26 Premier League goals - excluding penalties - the second most of any defender in the competition (after team-mate John Terry with 40).\n• None Saints conceded four goals in a Premier League away game for the first time since 5 April 2014, when they lost 4-1 at eventual champions Manchester City.\n• None The Blues have now failed to keep a clean sheet in their past 11 Premier League games.\n\nThe Blues are at Goodison Park to face Everton on Sunday (14:05 BST) and the Saints will be at home to struggling Hull on Saturday (15:00 BST).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 4, Southampton 2. Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 4, Southampton 1. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.\n• None Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt blocked. Steven Davis (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's Kelly Sotherton is set to be upgraded to an Olympic bronze medal for the second time in five months after retrospective drug tests.\n\nRussian Tatyana Chernova has been stripped of the heptathlon bronze she won at Beijing in 2008 after testing positive for a steroid.\n\nSotherton won heptathlon bronze in 2004 and had already been moved to third in the Beijing 4x400m relay after Belarus and Russia's disqualification.\n\nShe was fifth in the 2008 heptathlon.\n\nHowever, the 40-year-old has now climbed to third after the previously announced doping ban of Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska and now Chernova.\n\nSotherton retired five years ago after failing to recover from a back problem in time to qualify for the heptathlon at London 2012.\n\nAfter finding out she was to become a three-time Olympic medallist, Sotherton posted an emotional video on social media showing her reaction.\n\n\"Yes I had tears. Happy ones this time,\" she said.\n\nSotherton's compatriot, Jessica Ennis-Hill, belatedly won the 2011 World heptathlon title last year when Chernova was similarly stripped of gold for doping.\n\nFormer UK Athletics performance director Dave Collins, who oversaw the 2008 Games, said that British athletes receiving their medals was an \"essential step for the sport\".\n\nCollins' contract was not renewed after Britain fell one short of their medal target in Beijing.\n\n\"It's great to see but clearly it's a disappointment they didn't get their day in the sun,\" he said.\n\n\"It's great to see the teams getting recognition late, because it's better late than never. But by gosh, it would have been a lot better at the time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: First 100 days in 100 of his own words\n\nDetermining a presidency's success by inspecting its \"first hundred days\" is a bit of an artificial construct. If humans were born with 12 fingers, then perhaps we'd be evaluating presidents based on their first 144 days instead. If the Earth rotated a bit more slowly, then presidents would have more time to notch accomplishments.\n\nThen again, 100 days is plenty of time to get a rough handle on the shape and thrust of a presidency - and to evaluate what kind of progress a leader has made toward fulfilling campaign promises.\n\nThe first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency have been anything but boring or slow, but how much of it was sound and fury and how much entailed real action?\n\nHere's a quick review of some of the peaks and valleys.\n\nLet's start with the wall - not the president's only promise, but certainly one of his oldest, most high-profile ones. Candidate Trump constantly spoke of the great wall that he plans to build along the US-Mexico border at his campaign rallies, and the crowd roared in agreement when he said Mexico would pay for the project.\n\nContrast that certainty with this tweet, which the president wrote over the weekend.\n\n\"Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall,\" he tweeted.\n\nIt's a case of Trump promises meeting political realities, in 140 characters or less. Campaign rhetoric is easy; turning talk into action in Washington is much more complicated.\n\nThe administration has pledged to reshuffle some moneys to begin wall construction, but it is increasingly clear that Congress will need to find billions of dollars to make the wall a reality. That sets up a showdown between the president and legislators, with many Republicans - particularly those representing areas along the US-Mexico border - not keen on opening up the federal purse for Mr Trump's pet project.\n\nMr Trump promised to choose a Supreme Court justice to fill the empty seat on the bench from a list he released during the presidential campaign - and, by tapping Neil Gorsuch, he did.\n\n\"I've always heard that the most important thing that a president of the United States does is appoint people - hopefully great people like this appointment - to the United States Supreme Court,\" Mr Trump said at Mr Gorsuch's White House swearing-in ceremony. \"And I can say this is a great honour. And I got it done in the first 100 days. That's even nice. You think that's easy?\"\n\nThat kind of depends how one defines \"easy\". Mr Gorsuch's confirmation hearing was bruising, no doubt. Facing united Democratic opposition, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell broke with longstanding precedent to allow a simple majority vote for Supreme Court confirmations. Once that was done, however, it was simply a matter of the Republican majority in the Senate imposing its will.\n\nWhile Mr Trump may have only had to put a name on a piece of paper and rely on Senate Republicans to do the heavy lifting, he did tick a major item of his presidential to-do list. He satisfied a Republican base that stuck with him through a tumultuous campaign on the understanding that they'd get just such a reliable conservative on the court.\n\nThey may continue to stand by this president in the hope there will be more nominees like Mr Gorsuch to come.\n\n\"Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.\"\n\nIt's way too early for political epitaphs, but if the Trump presidency collapses under the weight of disorganisation and broken promises, this February quote from the president - made as it became increasingly clear his own party couldn't even agree on healthcare reform - will make a fitting inscription for a tombstone.\n\nAt one point during the presidential campaign, Mr Trump promised that the Democratic healthcare reform legislation - Obamacare, as it has become known - would be repealed on his first day in office.\n\nThen, after the first Republican legislative effort crashed and burned in late March - 64 days into his presidency - Mr Trump backtracked on his timeline.\n\n\"I never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days,\" he said. \"I have a long time. But I want to have a great healthcare bill and plan, and we will. It will happen. And it won't be in the very distant future.\"\n\nSince then there's been speculation that a new deal could be in the works - but such rumours have evaporated upon closer scrutiny.\n\nThere's no telling what the future may bring, but the reality at this point is that healthcare reform was Mr Trump's first major legislative push - the de facto focus of his first 100 days in office - and it has done nothing but expose the Republican Party as fractured body incapable of advancing a coherent agenda.\n\nPromise kept? Uh, no. Definitely not.\n\nMr Trump may have a bit of a mixed record when it comes to fulfilling his promises on immigration, but it's not for a lack of trying. His administration has taken two shots at curtailing the US refugee programme and preventing citizens of a handful of majority Muslim nations from entering the US, but those executive actions have been stymied by a handful of court judges (one, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it, residing on an \"island in the Pacific\").\n\nMr Trump has also stepped up immigration enforcement across the US, threatened \"sanctuary cities\" that don't co-operate fully with federal immigration officials, ordered a review of immigration programmes, including H-1B visas given to high-skilled immigrants, and announced a hiring spree on border patrol agents and immigration court judges.\n\nImmigration arrests were up 32.6% in the first month and a half of the Trump presidency, according to the Washington Post, with a larger share coming from those without a prior criminal record. Meanwhile, border apprehensions have dropped.\n\nThroughout the campaign the president talked tough on immigration - even though the number of undocumented migrants entering the US had been declining over recent years. Given that the law grants the president sweeping authority over immigration policy, Mr Trump is clearly following his words with actions.\n\nPromise kept? Yes - despite the effort of \"so-called judges\" on the mainland and in Hawaii.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Trump's foreign policy vision was a collection of sometimes contradictory, often controversial proposals.\n\nThe candidate spoke of getting tough on the so-called Islamic State, Iran and China, reaffirming an alliance with Israel and mending relations with Russia. He entertained the notion of lifting restrictions on the use of torture on detainees and giving the US military more authority to act, including by targeting the families of suspected militants.\n\nAbove all else, he promised to put American priorities first and downplayed support for US allies and international alliances that he deemed too burdensome.\n\nAs president, the contradictions may have changed in nature but the controversy lingers.\n\nHe pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as promised and has begun a review process for the North American Free Trade Agreement.\n\nTorture remains off the table, thanks to the influence of Defence Secretary James Mattis. Mr Trump has occasionally told foreign leaders - Germany's Angela Merkel and Italy's Paolo Gentiloni, for instance - of his expectations that they increase their military spending. On the other hand, he has recently acknowledged the value of Nato membership.\n\nWhen it comes to China, however, he's taken a softer line. He's backed away from his promise to label the nation a \"currency manipulator\" or impose steep import tariffs, instead seeking the nation's help in dealing with North Korea.\n\nThen there's Mr Trump's missile strike on Syrian forces following that government's use of chemical weapons on its own people. It's the kind of move that candidate Trump may have dismissed as ineffective - and, in fact, reality TV star Trump had condemned in no uncertain terms in 2013, when Barack Obama proposed his own Syrian intervention.\n\nPromise kept? Yes, no, maybe. Take your pick.\n\nOn 22 October, just a few weeks before election day, Candidate Trump gave a speech in Pennsylvania announcing a \"100 Day Plan to Make America Great Again\" - a contract, he said, with the American voter.\n\nIncluded in the accompanying document was an outline of a series of official-sounding pieces of legislation he would \"work with Congress to introduce\" and \"fight for\" in his first 100 days. They included the Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act, the End the Offshoring Act, the Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act, the Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act, and the American Energy and Infrastructure Act.\n\nAside from the aforementioned Obamacare repeal effort, which is currently a smoking crater somewhere on the floor of the House of Representatives, the rest of these pieces of legislation remain in the realm of unicorns and fairies. Mr Trump has said details of a tax plan are coming as soon as this week, but - as we saw with healthcare - a detailed plan creates a juicy target for opponents of all political stripes.\n\nThe president signed a raft of executive actions - rolling back Obama-era regulations, authorising the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and instituting a federal hiring freeze (which has since been lifted) - but in the vast scheme of things those are low-hanging fruit for a new president.\n\nThe White House has also boasted that Mr Trump has signed more laws at this point than any president since Harry Truman - but that list includes measures naming Veterans' medical clinics, making appointment to museum boards and creating a memorial to the 1991 Gulf War. Many of the remaining laws rolled back Obama-era regulations, most of which had yet to go into effect.\n\nLegislation that can last beyond any one president is a heavier lift, and Mr Trump has yet to show he has any real muscle.\n\nMr Trump is far from a traditional president, so perhaps it's unfair to evaluate the first few months of his presidency in traditional ways, such as by tallying up his policy accomplishments and failures. His voters largely didn't back his candidacy based on specific promises - on the wall, on healthcare, on taxes - but because of his attitude and his promise to shake up the political system.\n\nIf the performance metric is how much the Trump presidency has disrupted politics as usual, Mr Trump has posted a clear victory.\n\nHe continues to dominate the national conversation with his controversial tweets and off-the cuff statements, and his actions have defied traditional political norms and standards, whether it's his apparent steadfast refusal to fill lower-level political appointments or observe precedents on open-government practices. He's lectured foreign leaders, browbeat major companies and taken a poleaxe to disfavoured media (while still giving them choice interviews when it serves his purposes, of course).\n\nMr Trump campaigned on draining the swamp, and he's taken some executive actions to limit administration officials from becoming lobbyists after they leave government service. On the other hand, his promises to avoid conflicts of interest over his wide-ranging business empire have proven vague and unenforceable and he's stocked his administration with the kind of financial insiders and Wall Street bigwigs he regularly railed against on the campaign trail.\n\nSo far, however, his dedicated supporters - the ones who powered him to a narrow electoral victory if not a popular vote plurality - seem pleased as punch. According to a recent poll, 96% of Mr Trump's voters in November stand by their support of the man. They've apparently seen enough action to convince them that the president is doing what he said he'd do, even if it hasn't yet translated into legislative accomplishments.\n\nIf the economy is humming and unemployment stays low, they'll probably remain in his corner for the long haul. For them, the apparent chaos in the nation's capital is a feature, not a bug.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nSuper League leaders Castleford Tigers will host St Helens in the sixth round of the Challenge Cup.\n\nHolders Hull FC entertain Catalans Dragons while Warrington Wolves, last year's losing finalists, are at home to local rivals Widnes Vikings.\n\nLeague One side Barrow Raiders, the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, travel to Leeds Rhinos, who are second in Super League.\n\nElsewhere, Hull KR travel to Salford Red Devils in a rerun of the Million Pound Game, which Salford won 19-18 to maintain their Super League status and relegate Rovers.\n\nSecond-tier Dewsbury Rams face a local derby against Wakefield Trinity, while Featherstone meet Halifax in the only all-Championship tie.\n\nAll sixth-round ties will be played over the weekend of 13-14 May.\n\nSign up for rugby league news notifications on the BBC Sport app", "Note: Battleground seats are defined as those where the winning party had a majority of less than 10%\n\nThere are 650 constituencies in the United Kingdom. But the election campaign over the coming weeks will be concentrated in the marginal battleground seats - the ones with small majorities that are most likely to change hands.\n\nThere's no official definition of a marginal seat but people often look at constituencies where the majority - the gap between the first and second placed parties - is under 10%.\n\nFor politicians it's obviously a good idea to focus on these battleground seats. There's not much point in spending lots of time and money in constituencies that they already hold comfortably, or where they're so far behind they have no realistic chance of winning.\n\nThere are exceptions to this. In 2015 the SNP surge in Scotland was so powerful that apparently \"safe\" seats fell. And the collapse of the Lib Dems saw them lose some seats they'd held with sizeable majorities.\n\nSuch large swings are rare though. And even in 2015 the Conservative/Labour fight took place almost exclusively in the battleground seats.\n\nEighteen seats changed hands between the two biggest parties. Only one of those, Ilford North, had a majority above 10%.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content.\n\nSeats the Conservatives will be gunning for include Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East, Birmingham Edgbaston and Wirral West.\n\nRecent elections have seen poor returns for the Conservatives in the north-east of England but it's a part of the country that voted strongly for Brexit and Prime Minister Theresa May hopes her focus on the issue will help them gain seats.\n\nLabour-held Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East is a good example. Its voters backed Brexit and there's a considerable pool of almost 7,000 voters who went for UKIP last time.\n\nThat's one group the Conservatives will target. If they trust Theresa May to deliver Brexit, the Conservatives will argue, why vote UKIP? Picking up a decent chunk of them would be enough to overturn Labour's majority of 2,268.\n\nOther pro-Brexit Conservative targets in the north of England and the Midlands include Halifax, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Derbyshire North East and Walsall North. In all of them there's a sizeable number of people who voted UKIP in 2015 and a small Labour majority.\n\nBirmingham Edgbaston is a different sort of target. Its voters were fairly evenly split on Brexit. But it's a relatively prosperous part of the city which used to be a Conservative stronghold.\n\nAn increase in the number of ethnic minority voters helped Labour last time round but it's always remained in the Conservatives' sights. With Gisela Stuart standing down after 20 years as the MP, they'll see an opportunity.\n\nWirral West is one of 10 seats lost by the Conservatives to Labour in 2015 - Esther McVey was ousted as the MP after just one term.\n\nWith their current lead in the opinion polls, they'll be highly optimistic they can take it back - along with other seats lost in 2015 such as City of Chester, Dewsbury and Lancaster and Fleetwood.\n\nLabour start the election as the clear underdogs compared to the Conservatives. But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hopes to win over voters during the campaign.\n\nGower, in South Wales, has the smallest majority of any seat in the country - a mere 27 votes. If just 14 voters switched from the Conservatives, Labour would take it so they will be campaigning for every vote. Before 2015 they'd held it for more than 100 years and it had been considered a Labour heartland seat.\n\nOther losses from 2015 they'll want to reverse include Morley and Outwood, former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls's old seat, and Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.\n\nIn recent years London has been Labour's strongest region. They made seven gains here in 2015 and Sadiq Khan went on to win the 2016 mayoral election comfortably.\n\nCroydon Central was a seat they narrowly missed out on last time but they reduced the Conservative majority to just 165 votes. In a sign of their intentions, Jeremy Corbyn went to the constituency on the very afternoon that MPs voted to allow the early election.\n\nHendon and Harrow East are other London targets\n\nLabour lost 40 Scottish seats to the SNP in 2015. In many cases the swing was so massive that they now look beyond reach.\n\nBut they'll be looking for any signs of the beginning of a fight back. RenfrewshireEast, which used to be Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy's seat, is their top target. Next down the list is Edinburgh North and Leith.\n\nThe Lib Dems are starting from a low base. They lost 49 seats in 2015, holding on to just eight, and are looking for a recovery this time.\n\nAs the most pro-EU of the national parties, the Lib Dems will particularly target seats like Conservative-held Twickenham in London, which voted heavily for Remain in last year's referendum and where Sir Vince Cable is returning to refight his old seat.\n\nThe December 2016 by-election in neighbouring Richmond Park, where they overturned Conservative Zac Goldsmith's 23,000 majority, showed their strategy could work.\n\nOther pro-Remain constituencies in their sights include Kingston and Surbiton and, outside of London, Bath and Cambridge - the latter held by Labour.\n\nDunbartonshire East also voted for Remain but here they must challenge the SNP, another strongly pro-EU party. Nevertheless, the Lib Dems will think they have a chance.\n\nJo Swinson was ousted there in 2015 when the SNP's vote surged by 30%. She's standing again and won't need much of that back to recapture the seat.\n\nThe pro-EU message probably won't go down so well in Yeovil, which backed Leave in the referendum. But it's a constituency that the Lib Dems held for more than 30 years before it went Conservative in 2015 - Paddy Ashdown used to be the MP - and the broader south-west region used to be a stronghold for the party.\n\nOther targets here include Thornbury and Yate, on the outskirts of Bristol, and St Ives in Cornwall - a county where the Lib Dems used to dominate.\n\nWith the SNP already holding 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland it's clearly impossible for them to make significant gains. But they'll be gunning for Labour's only Scottish constituency, Edinburgh South, and they're not far behind in Lib Dem-held Orkney and Shetland.\n\nPlaid Cymru are just 229 votes behind Labour in Ynys Mon (Anglesey). But there could also be an intriguing battle in Rhondda if party leader Leanne Wood decides to stand, even though mathematically it's a lot further down the target list. She achieved a tremendous 24% swing there in the Welsh Assembly election last year, so a gain is not out of the question.\n\nUKIP's results in 2015 demonstrated again how parties can suffer under the first-past-the-post electoral system.\n\nThey received 3.9 million votes but won just one seat, Clacton, and even there the victor was Douglas Carswell, who had defected from the Conservatives.\n\nThe problem UKIP have is that their vote is very evenly distributed compared to the other main parties - in fact, so much so that they're not even a close second in many places.\n\nFormer leader Nigel Farage fell 3,000 votes short in Thanet South last time. They're also close in Hartlepool where the Labour MP is standing down so that may be their best chance.\n\nThe Green Party are also badly served by first past the post. The only seat where they start in second place within 10% of the winner is Labour-held Bristol West. The Lib Dems are also a significant presence in that constituency and even the fourth-placed Conservatives got nearly 10,000 votes in 2015 so there a lot of possible outcomes.\n\nIt may be only two years since the last general election. But in Northern Ireland it's less than two months since voters last went to the polls. The Assembly election held on 2 March saw gains for Sinn Fein and losses for the main unionist parties (UUP and DUP). It would be wrong to assume the general election will automatically follow the same pattern but it will certainly have an impact on the campaign.\n\nSinn Fein will be eager to recapture Fermanagh and South Tyrone - reversing the loss they suffered in 2015. The swing they achieved in March would be enough to get them over the line.\n\nBelfast South is a rare three-way marginal. Both the DUP and the Alliance Party (APNI) are within 10% of the incumbent SDLP. In fact Sinn Fein is less than 11% behind as well so there are lots of possible outcomes. Perhaps the most important factor, here and elsewhere, will be whether all the parties stand. In 2015 the DUP and UUP agreed to co-operate by standing aside for each other in four constituencies. That certainly helped and the UUP have already announced they'll do the same again. Previously the SDLP have refused to enter any deal with Sinn Fein but they are thinking of doing so this time as part of a broader anti-Brexit alliance. That could change the complexion of a number of battleground seats.\n\nThe contest in South Antrim is different. It has an overwhelming majority of unionist voters. The question is whether they'll back the UUP or DUP. The seat has switched between the two parties four times this century. It wouldn't take much of a shift for it to switch again.", "Brexit is a major issue at the UK general election - here's what we know about where the main parties across the UK stand.\n\nIn short: Prime Minister Theresa May was against Brexit before the EU referendum but now says there can be no turning back and that \"Brexit means Brexit\". The reason she gave for calling a general election was to strengthen her hand in negotiations with the EU.\n\nHow the party sees Brexit: The Conservatives' priorities were set out in a 12 point plan published in January and the letter formally invoking Brexit in March.\n\nWhat we don't know: The Conservatives have not said how they will control migration from the EU after Brexit. They have also not committed to the size of any separation payment they would accept, beyond saying the UK would meet its international obligations.\n\nThey have not specified which matters returning from Brussels will be handed to devolved administrations and which will be kept at Westminster.\n\nNegotiating style: Mrs May has talked tough towards the EU in recent weeks, claiming some key figures were trying to interfere in the general election and promising to be a \"bloody difficult woman\" during negotiations.\n\nWhere the MPs stand: More Tory MPs backed Remain than Leave in last year's referendum - but they now strongly support the UK leaving - in February, only one voted against the government beginning Brexit by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.\n\nAll but one Tory MPs supported Theresa May in invoking Brexit\n\nRisks and rewards: Theresa May would use an election victory to say the country is uniting around her approach to Brexit, and has moved on from the divisions of the referendum campaign. But her uncompromising approach to leaving could upset some of the 48% who wanted to stay in, with the Lib Dems hoping to capitalise in areas - like London's Richmond Park in last year's by-election - that backed Remain.\n\nIn short: The Labour Party campaigned against Brexit in the referendum but now says the result must be honoured, and is aiming for a \"close new relationship with the EU\" with workers' rights protected.\n\nHow the party sees Brexit: Labour has set out several demands and tests it says Brexit must meet:\n\nWhat we don't know: Like the Conservatives, Labour has yet to spell out how it will manage migration after Brexit, and has not been drawn on the size of \"divorce bill\" it would be willing to pay.\n\nNegotiating style: Jeremy Corbyn says he is aiming for \"sensible and serious negotiations\" and will not be \"threatening Europe\".\n\nWhere the MPs stand: The vast majority of Labour MPs backed Remain ahead of the referendum - but most followed party orders to allow Article 50 to be invoked in February's vote.\n\nRisks and rewards: Labour is hoping its acceptance of the result will fend off attacks from the Tories and UKIP in Leave-backing areas - including Stoke Central where it won February's by-election. But there are divisions among MPs on the best way forward, and Labour faces the challenge of having to appeal to both sides of a polarising debate.\n\nThe Lib Dems hope a pro-EU stance will help them repeat their Richmond Park success\n\nIn short: The Liberal Democrats are strongly pro-EU, and have promised to stop what they call a \"disastrous hard Brexit\".\n\nHow they see Brexit: Central to the Lib Dems' offer is another referendum - this time on the terms of the final Brexit deal - in which the party would campaign to stay in the EU.\n\nThe Lib Dems also say they will fight with \"every fibre of their being\" to protect existing aspects of EU membership, such as the single market, customs union and the free movement of people.\n\nThey would guarantee EU citizens' rights and remain in Europe-wide schemes like Erasmus.\n\nWhere the MPs stand: All of the Lib Dem MPs backed staying in the EU, and seven out of nine opposed triggering Article 50, with two abstaining.\n\nRisks and rewards: The Lib Dems are hoping their pro-EU pitch will help them gather voters in pro-Remain areas, as when they captured Richmond Park in London in December's by-election. But according to estimates based on the referendum results, two of their sitting MPs represent areas that backed Leave last June - which might make the party's second referendum policy a tough sell on the doorstep.\n\nIn short: SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to have a special status after Brexit and for a second independence referendum to take place before the UK leaves.\n\nHow they see Brexit: The SNP's manifesto says it will demand a place for the Scottish government at the Brexit negotiating table.\n\nIt says it will fight to keep Scotland in the EU single market. The SNP says it will also press the UK government to guarantee the status of NHS workers from mainland Europe, and oppose any attempt to treat the fishing industry as a \"bargaining chip\".\n\nOnce negotiations are complete, and before the UK has left, the SNP wants a referendum on Scottish independence to take place.\n\nWhere the MPs stand: The SNP's 54 MPs voted en masse against triggering Article 50 and are expected to maintain their vocal opposition to Brexit in the next Parliament.\n\nRisks and rewards: The SNP will hope to harness Scotland's support for remaining in the EU (it voted Remain by 62% to 38%). But a significant minority of its supporters are thought to have backed Leave - while the Tories are said to be targeting the Moray seat of SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson, where Remain only narrowly saw off the Leave campaign in the EU referendum.\n\nUKIP says it will ensure the government does not \"backslide\" on Brexit\n\nIn short: UKIP has long campaigned to leave the EU - and having finished on the winning side in the referendum, is now styling itself as the \"guard dog of Brexit\".\n\nHow they see Brexit: The party has set six \"key tests\" for Brexit: Supremacy of Parliament, full control of migration, a \"maritime exclusive economic zone\" around the UK's coastline, a seat on the World Trade Organisation, no \"divorce\" payment to the EU and for Brexit to be \"done and dusted\" by the end of 2019.\n\nGreen Party of England and Wales joint leader Caroline Lucas has called for a second EU referendum on the Brexit deal reached with Brussels, and the Greens have promised \"full opposition\" to what they call \"extreme Brexit\".\n\nPlaid Cymru, which campaigned to stay in the EU, says it accepts that the people of Wales voted to leave, but says single market membership should be preserved to protect Welsh jobs.\n\nThe DUP campaigned in favour of leaving the EU - and, in its manifesto for this year's Assembly elections, said it wanted to see a \"positive\" relationship with the rest of Europe, involving \"mutual access to our markets to pursue common interests\".\n\nHaving campaigned to stay in the EU, the SDLP's MPs have opposed the invoking of Article 50, saying it is being done \"against the will of people in Northern Ireland\", where most people voted to Remain in the EU.\n\nBefore the referendum, the Ulster Unionist party said that on balance, it was better for Northern Ireland to stay in the EU - although not all its members agreed. It says it would honour the referendum result, and wants \"unfettered\" access to the single market and no hard border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nSinn Fein has accused the Conservative government of \"seeking to impose Brexit on Ireland\". It wants Northern Ireland to have a \"designated special status\" inside the EU.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIzzy Brown's strike was enough to give Huddersfield Town a narrow victory at Wolves and secure the Terriers a Championship play-off spot.\n\nBrown curled home in the first half, his fifth Terriers goal, as David Wagner's side moved eight points clear of seventh with two games to play.\n\nWolves came close when Dave Edwards hit the post as the hosts were frustrated.\n\nTerriers sub Collin Quaner missed a number of chances to extend his side's lead, but the Yorkshire side held on.\n\nAt one stage of the season Huddersfield had looked to be automatic promotion contenders but a run of two wins in seven games allowed Newcastle to take advantage and beat Preston on Monday to secure their Premier League place next season.\n\nHowever, the Terriers had the chance to be the first Championship side this season to seal a play-off place with victory in the West Midlands.\n\nChelsea loanee Brown's low strike past keeper Harry Burgoyne, a late replacement for Andy Lonergan, was the high point of a drab first half.\n\nVisiting keeper Danny Ward did have to deny Edwards in the first half, and had to be at his best to keep out Andreas Weimann's effort before Edwards could only fire the rebound against the woodwork.\n\nWagner's side had the opportunity to increase their advantage, but Quaner was wasteful. He fired wide from six yards, shot straight at youngster Burgoyne and took too long to decide when well-placed to allow a defender to block his strike.\n\nBut Town's 25th win of the season - the 22nd with a single-goal margin - is enough to take them up to third place and put them in pole position for a home second leg in the play-offs.\n\nHuddersfield head coach David Wagner: \"You cannot imagine how big this achievement is. The journey marches on into the play-offs.\n\n\"I'm happy for the chairman and everyone at this football club. We've all worked so hard to make this happen.\n\n\"We will now make the right decisions in the next two games to keep everybody fresh for the play-offs. Today we celebrate.\n\n\"We got together at the end to show our unbelievable togetherness for the fans. I'm very happen for them.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Bunn.\n• None Attempt saved. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nahki Wells.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Michael Hefele.\n• None Attempt blocked. Silvio (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Graham.\n• None Attempt missed. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Christopher Schindler with a headed pass following a set piece situation.\n• None Silvio (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The relief in Brussels is palpable. It believes it is (almost) back from the brink.\n\nA passionate Europhile, Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign is as much blue and yellow as it is the \"tricolour\" of France.\n\nThe EU, he believes, should to be at the heart of French politics, with more integration in finance, defence and migration.\n\nHe wants to breathe life into the now-spluttering Franco-German motor; to take a lead role with Germany to - in his eyes - Make Europe Great Again.\n\nAngela Merkel and the European Commission's Jean-Claude Juncker can hardly conceal their delight. Both were quick to get on the phone to congratulate Mr Macron on his strong showing in Sunday's vote.\n\nBy this autumn fervent Eurocrats hope to look back fondly to a string of electoral defeats for populist Eurosceptics in Austria, the Netherlands, France, and then Germany.\n\nBut they shouldn't count their chickens.\n\nEuroscepticism is widespread in France, whether or not Marine Le Pen becomes president.\n\nIn the post-industrial north-east of France, with its hopelessly high unemployment, and in the resentful south-east with its struggling small businesses, globalisation and the EU are seen as joint public enemy number one.\n\nThe nostalgic nationalism peddled by Ms Le Pen is a source of comfort and hope.\n\n\"In the name of the people\" is her campaign slogan. Woman of the people is her image.\n\nShe was the only presidential candidate amongst 11 to hold their Sunday night election party outside Paris, basing herself in the troubled town of Hénin-Beaumont where she first made a political name for herself as a local councillor.\n\nSharpening her political claws against Emmanuel Macron, she is now keen to portray him as an arrogant elite-educated former banker, best friend of Brussels and the French bourgeoisie.\n\nAnd if Ms Le Pen beats the odds and garners France's top political job, that would spell the end of the European project as we know it.\n\nShe wants France out of the euro - which so many French blame for high prices and uncompetitiveness.\n\nAnd she dreams of the EU's demise, favouring a looser union of European nations over what she calls Brussels-domination.\n\nThe two will now go head-to-head in the second round\n\nPost-Brexit Britain would then be high up on her list of preferred European partners.\n\nBut before that could happen, current Brexit negotiations and future trade talks would be left hanging as the EU slowly imploded.\n\nThere would be chaos across EU countries which would affect Britain too.\n\nA President Macron, when it comes to Brexit, would likely play hardball.\n\nHe would help to keep the EU united in negotiations, making it harder for the UK to pick off individual countries, attempting to pressure or entice them to make a sweeter Brexit deal.\n\nBut EU passion aside, Mr Macron is not wedded to ideology. He is a newcomer to politics who claims to be neither right- nor left-wing.\n\nDuring his meeting with Theresa May in February he said post-Brexit economic, defence and security co-operation with Britain must remain close.\n\nAs a former (if not long-standing) Minister of the Economy in France, he is unlikely to turn up his nose at a good trade deal with the UK.", "Liam Stewart - the son of music legend Sir Rod Stewart and former model Rachel Hunter - scores his first international goal as Great Britain beat Estonia 5-1 at the ice hockey World Championship Division 1 Group B in Belfast.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland women have been drawn in the same qualifying group as Wales for the 2019 Women's World Cup.\n\nNorthern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are also together, in a group featuring Norway and the Netherlands, while Scotland will face fellow Euro 2017 qualifiers Switzerland.\n\nEngland and Wales are joined in Group 1 by Russia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kazakhstan.\n\nThe finals will be held in France in June 2019, with 24 teams taking part.\n\nThe seven European qualifying group winners will all progress automatically, while the four best runners-up will face a two-round play-off to fill the eighth European spot at the World Cup.\n\nEngland last faced Wales in 2014, during qualifying for the 2015 World Cup, in which Mark Sampson's side went on to finish third.\n\nThe Lionesses - ranked fourth in the Fifa world rankings - were seeded in Pot A for the 2019 qualifying draw, with Scotland in Pot B, Wales and the Republic of Ireland in Pot C and Northern Ireland in the lowest, Pot E.\n\nScotland, who will join England at this summer's European Championships in the Netherlands, will also face Poland, Belarus and Albania in their group, with Switzerland the top-seeded team.\n\nQualifiers will take place between 11 September 2017 and 4 September 2018.", "Nepal needs women like Sanumaya to help rebuild\n\nReconstruction in Nepal has been slow since a devastating earthquake two years ago. But in some rural areas women are breaking with tradition and picking up tools to speed things up.\n\nSanumaya Kumal does everything from carrying sand and bricks, to digging foundations.\n\nIn a badly affected district north-west of Kathmandu, she and other women are helping rebuild houses damaged by the quake.\n\nWomen have traditionally been limited to household chores but with many men working abroad, Nepal faces a lack of manpower at a crucial time - hence Sanumaya's move into construction.\n\n\"I am very happy with my job. I can do everything that a male mason can do,\" says Sanumaya, who used to work on a farm.\n\nHer other tasks include building walls, roof-fitting and plastering.\n\nSanumaya says she's just as good at the work as the men\n\nAccording to official estimates, nearly 1,500 young Nepalis travel to the Gulf and the Middle East every day in search of jobs.\n\nOfficials say this has created a labour shortage locally and is even holding up reconstruction and essential work on schools and health centres.\n\nBut in the areas worst hit by the 25 April 2015 earthquake, women are gradually taking up prominent roles in reconstruction.\n\nMore than $4bn has been pledged in post-quake aid but progress in one of the world's poorest countries has been painfully slow.\n\nThe disaster killed nearly 9,000 people and damaged a million houses.\n\nRural women can earn a good wage building - and they say it's safe\n\nVarious national and international organisations have been helping the women gain the skills they need to build.\n\nAnd the women say they are earning a decent living, as well as being happy that they are taking part in important national work.\n\nSanumaya was one of eight women the BBC found working at the building site in the town of Bidur in Nuwakot district.\n\nHer fellow construction worker Srijana Kumal says she likes the work because the pay is attractive.\n\n\"Women are facing a lot of problems when they go abroad for work,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Almost all the houses in the villages are damaged. We have a lot of work to do here and the working conditions are very safe.\"\n\nSanumaya and her friends are making about 1,200 Nepalese rupees ($11.50; £9) for a day's work in their new roles, a decent sum compared with other manual jobs in rural Nepal.\n\nMany of Nepal's men are working abroad, or don't have the right building skills\n\nThe Post Disaster Recovery Framework states that Nepal needs nearly 60,000 skilled building workers to complete the reconstruction of houses within five years.\n\nHowever, officials say that as well as the manpower shortage, many existing construction workers do not know how to build houses to earthquake-resistant specifications.\n\nThere are no reliable figures on how many women are currently involved in reconstruction in Nepal.\n\nBut the United Nations and other donor agencies who are providing training to construction workers say they have given high priority to enrolling women on their courses.\n\nAnd Sanumaya and her colleagues have no shortage of work.\n\n\"With the reconstruction going on, I am busy almost every day,\" she says.", "If in years to come, students are asked an essay question - Is Nuance an Effective Weapon In Politics? - they might cite Labour's position on Brexit in 2017 in their answer.\n\nAs things stand, with the party trailing in the polls, it would appear that if it is a weapon at all, it's been decommissioned.\n\nOn the surface, Labour has a difficult task. It has to attract - or at least not repel - those Labour voters that backed Leave in last year's EU referendum, as well as those who backed Remain.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats - starting from a low base - need only to attract a small percentage of the 48% who voted Remain to improve their representation in Parliament.\n\nSo campaigning to reverse the result of the referendum - by having a second one - carries little political risk for them.\n\nThe Conservatives can pretty much go hammer and tongs for the UKIP vote by saying they can deliver on Brexit - and achieve sympathetic headlines from some of the tabloids as a bonus.\n\nLabour has a trickier balancing act to perform but some in the party's ranks wonder if their frontbench isn't making the issue more difficult for itself than it need be.\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer set out Labour's position to an audience of successful business people, professionals, lobbyists and one or two trade unionists today, the vast majority of whom were Remainers.\n\nTim Farron has nothing to lose by promising second referendum\n\nSir Keir tried to emphasise the differences between Labour and the Conservatives - Labour would prioritise trade with the EU; it might stay in the customs union; it would give EU citizens a unilateral guarantee that they could stay on in Britain; and, symbolically, it would ditch the Great Repeal Bill and emphasise the continuation of EU rights post-Brexit.\n\nBut some in the audience were privately worried that the differences with the Conservatives were too subtle.\n\nGeneral election campaigns are painted in primary colours, not in shades of grey.\n\nSir Keir ruled out a second referendum because he said Labour had to \"genuinely\" accept the referendum result but also, for practical reasons, he felt there would have to be transitional arrangements at the end of the two-year Article 50 process so the final nature of any deal might not be apparent for six years.\n\nNow when Sir Keir was introduced, his audience of achievers were informed that he had a \"brain the size of China\".\n\nBut some who heard him speak - while not doubting the Asiatic extent of the former Director of Public Prosecutions' legal mind - privately wondered whether his political nous was more in the Luxembourg or Monaco range.\n\nBecause while a second referendum might not turn out to be practical, signalling a willingness to hold one might rally Remain votes to Labour and create a far less subtle divide between his party and the Conservatives.\n\nAnd while many in the audience like and sympathised with him - so much so that one of them confided that he had refrained from asking a difficult question - they were keen for more clarity.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary told them that he would put jobs and the economy first.\n\nSir Keir Starmer left some in his audience wanting more\n\nHe said immigration shouldn't be the \"over-arching\" concern in negotiations. But he also insisted that free movement would end when Britain left the EU.\n\nHe was asked by Sir Roger Lyons - a former union leader - what was wrong with the \"Norway model\" - a country outside the EU which has traded free movement for single market access.\n\nThat would indeed involve putting the economy before control of immigration.\n\nSir Keir said that what works for Norway wouldn't necessarily work for the UK. He preferred a bespoke deal.\n\nHe then made clear that migration was a key concern after all: \"We must listen to what people tell us about immigration.\"\n\nIt was only in an interview with the BBC's John Pienaar that he indicated that negotiations to achieve a good trade deal with the EU might involve discussion of free movement of labour (not of all people, as at present).\n\nIn other words, the freedom of EU citizens to move to take up offers of work.\n\nBut this wasn't said loudly and proudly in the speech itself.\n\nSo not only some in the audience but former - and even two current frontbenchers - have been questioning privately whether the party's message should be more robustly opposed to Mrs May's apparent Brexit strategy, and should be more explicit about a route back to the EU if negotiations go badly.\n\nSome of them have read an analysis by polling expert Professor John Curtice, which concluded: \"Most of those who voted Labour in 2015 - including those living in Labour seats in the North and the Midlands - backed Remain.\n\n\"The party is thus at greater risk of losing votes to the pro-Remain Liberal Democrats than to pro-Brexit UKIP.\"\n\nBut for now the strategy, if not all the detail, is clear - the desire to appeal to Leave voters on immigration and jobs, and to Remainers in vying to enjoy a close partnership with the EU and as many of the benefits of the single market as possible.\n\nThat requires a nuanced message. So that essay question will be definitively answered in this election.\n\nBut with Labour's campaign messages emphasising public services, the NHS, and the economy - and their determination not to allow this to be a \"Brexit election\" - I suspect the party's strategists already know the answer.", "Voice recognition allows virtual personal assistants to carry out commands\n\nMany people are unsure about exactly what machine learning is. But the reality is that it is already part of everyday life.\n\nA form of artificial intelligence, it allows computers to learn from examples rather than having to follow step-by-step instructions.\n\nThe Royal Society believes it will have an increasing impact on people's lives and is calling for more research, to ensure the UK makes the most of opportunities.\n\nMachine learning is already powering systems from the seemingly mundane to the life-changing. Here are just a few examples.\n\nUsing spoken commands to ask your phone to carry out a search, or make a call, relies on technology supported by machine learning.\n\nVirtual personal assistants - the likes of Siri, Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant - are able to follow instructions because of voice recognition.\n\nThey process natural human speech, match it to the desired command and respond in an increasingly natural way.\n\nThe assistants learn over a number of conversations and in many different ways.\n\nThey might ask for specific information - for example how to pronounce your name, or whose voice is whose in a household.\n\nData from large numbers of conversations by all users is also sampled, to help them recognise words with different pronunciations or how to create natural discussion.\n\nMany of us are familiar with shopping recommendations - think of the supermarket that reminds you to add cheese to your online shop, or the way Amazon suggests books it thinks you might like.\n\nMachine learning allows Amazon to make recommendations to individual shoppers\n\nMachine learning is the technology that helps deliver these suggestions, via so-called recommender systems.\n\nBy analysing data about what customers have bought before, and any preferences they have expressed, recommender systems can pick up on patterns in purchasing history. They use this to make predictions about the products you might like.\n\nSimilar systems are used to recommend films or TV shows on streaming services like Netflix.\n\nRecommender systems use machine learning to analyse viewing habits and pick out patterns in who watches - and enjoys - which shows.\n\nBy understanding which users like which films - and what shows you have watched or awarded high ratings - recommender systems can identify your tastes.\n\nThey are also used to suggest music on streaming services, like Spotify, and articles to read on Facebook.\n\nMachine learning can also be used to distinguish between different categories of objects or items.\n\nThis makes it useful when sorting out the emails you want to see from those you don't.\n\nSpam detection systems use a sample of emails to work out what is junk - learning to detect the presence of specific words, the names of certain senders, or other characteristics.\n\nOnce deployed, the system uses this learning to direct emails to the right folder. It continues to learn as users flag emails, or move them between folders.\n\nEver wondered how Facebook knows who is in your photos and can automatically label your pictures?\n\nThe image recognition systems that Facebook - and other social media - uses to automatically tag photos is based on machine learning.\n\nWhen users upload images and tag their friends and family, these image recognition systems can spot pictures that are repeated and assigns these to categories - or people.\n\nBy analysing large amounts of data and looking for patterns, activity which might not otherwise be visible to human analysts can be identified.\n\nOne common application of this ability is in the fight against debit and credit card fraud.\n\nMachine learning systems can be trained to recognise typical spending patterns and which characteristics of a transaction - location, amount, or timing - make it more or less likely to be fraudulent.\n\nWhen a transaction seems out of the ordinary, an alarm can be raised - and a message sent to the user.\n\nDoctors are just starting to consider machine learning to make better diagnoses, for example to spot cancer and eye disease.\n\nPatients at eye hospitals often have photographs taken of their retinas - this can reveal problems\n\nLearning from images that have been labelled by doctors, computers can analyse new pictures of a patient's retina, a skin spot, or an image of cells taken under a microscope.\n\nIn doing so, they look for visual clues that indicate the presence of medical conditions.\n\nThis type of image recognition system is increasingly important in healthcare diagnostics.\n\nMachine learning is also powering scientists' ability to make new discoveries.\n\nIn particle physics it has allowed them to find patterns in immense data sets generated from the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.\n\nIt was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs Boson, for example, and is now being used to search for \"new physics\" that no-one has yet imagined.\n\nSimilar ideas are being used to search for new medicines, for example by looking for new small molecules and antibodies to fight diseases.\n\nThe focus will be on making systems that perform specific tasks well which could therefore be thought of as helpers.\n\nSelf-driving cars will use machine learning to help avoid accidents\n\nIn schools they could track student performance and develop personal learning plans.\n\nThey could help us reduce energy usage by making better use of resources and improve care for the elderly by finding more time for meaningful human contact.\n\nIn the area of transport, machine learning will power autonomous vehicles.\n\nMany industries could turn to algorithms to increase productivity. Financial services could become increasingly automated and law firms may use machine learning to carry out basic research.\n\nRoutine tasks will be done faster, challenging business models that rely on charging hourly rates.\n\nOver the next 10 years machine learning technologies will increasingly be part of our lives, transforming the way we work and live.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nDr Sabine Hauert is a member of the Royal Society's machine learning working group. Dr Hauert is also co-founder and president of Robohub.org and assistant professor in robotics at the University of Bristol. Follow her @sabinehauert.\n\nThe Royal Society describes itself as the UK's independent scientific academy. More details about its work and its funding can be found here.", "Busy tech entrepreneur and mum Colleen Wong likes any apps that can save her time\n\nWith two children under the age of four and a tech start-up to run, Colleen Wong has her hands full.\n\nShe is happy to use any technology that can help her manage her hectic lifestyle, including family activity planning app Hoop and food-sharing service Olio.\n\n\"I will embrace any tech that offers practical benefits and can save me time,\" says Ms Wong.\n\nA finalist in the Women Who Tech European Start-up Challenge, she runs her child tracker firm, TechSixtyFour, from her home in Teddington, Middlesex.\n\nShe is typical of a new breed of hi-tech mums and dads around the world using lunchtime \"life hacks\" to juggle work and family commitments.\n\nSo what useful apps that could help you take back control of your life?\n\nFed up of washing and ironing? Try a laundry app such as FlyCleaners in New York, or Laundrapp, available in UK cities such as London, Glasgow and Harrogate.\n\nThe FlyCleaners app is free to use and offers an overnight service for when you need clean clothes fast.\n\nJust pick a slot and hand your washing over to a FlyCleaners representative as little as 20 minutes later.\n\nWashing and pressing one shirt in Chelsea, Manhattan costs $2.99 (£2.34), and deliveries are free when you spend more than $30 (£23).\n\nWith Laundrapp, booking the 48-hour service is also free, while prices depend on your location and the load.\n\nGetting five shirts washed and pressed in south London, for example, costs £11.\n\nOrganising who does what around the house can be a chore in itself, but with US firm FamilyTech's apps Mothershp and Choremonster, you can set jobs for each member of the family from your office.\n\nThe Choremonster app enables parents to give rewards to kids who help around the home\n\nFamilyTech co-founder Chris Bergman says: \"With Mothershp, parents set chores and rewards. Their child then logs into Choremonster, where they can earn rewards such as 'screen time', and unlock monsters, for completing those chores.\"\n\nBoth apps are free to use and are available worldwide in eight languages.\n\nWherever you live, you can use your lunch hour to plan evening meals using a home cooking app such as BigOven.\n\nFeatures on the free app, which is available around the world, include a grocery list organiser and more than 350,000 recipes.\n\nIf you want access to money-saving tips and nutrition tools, you can also sign up for the \"Pro\" version costing $19.99 a year or $1.99 a month.\n\nOnce you've planned your meal, you could order the ingredients from independent retailers using a locally focused app such as Epicery. It launched a one-hour delivery service in Paris last year.\n\nDeliveries cost from €2.90 (£2.46) up to €6.90 (£5.89) if you order produce from three or more of its 250 members, which include local butchers, fishmongers and off-licences.\n\n\"Our aim is to expand into several other French and European cities soon,\" says Elsa Hermal at Epicery.\n\nThen if you have food left over, why not \"freecycle\" it, rather than throw it away, using a UK-based app like Olio? It enables families and local business owners to redistribute food and other household items that would otherwise go to waste.\n\nThe free app is a hit with Ms Wong, 40.\n\n\"Food waste drives me mad, so I love Olio,\" she says.\n\nFree 360-degree virtual reality (VR) tours are the new way to plan your next holiday from your desk.\n\nAll you need is your smartphone and the website of a VR specialist such as Ascape VR or YouVisit and you can escape into another world on your lunch break (with or without a VR headset).\n\nValeriy Kondruk, chief executive of Ascape VR, says: \"Working in an office, you spend 90% of your time reading and writing.\n\n\"Taking a virtual trip is a great way to switch off and really get personal with a destination.\"\n\nWith online marketplace TaskRabbit you can tackle all those odd jobs you never seem to have enough time to do, from clearing the loft to fixing that leaky tap. Simply choose a \"tasker\" based on experience, reputation and hourly rate.\n\nOnce the job is done, pay securely via the app, which is currently available in 23 cities across the US, as well as in London.\n\nElsewhere, ServisHero is one of the most popular apps for Singapore residents in need of a handyman.\n\nIts users describe what needs doing, wait for the quotes to roll in, and then pick a \"hero\" to do the job.\n\nYou can find fun family activities in minutes with free apps such as the UK's Hoop and Yuggler in the US.\n\nHoop users can set filters to find nearby events that suit their children, and can share those they find interesting with their friends.\n\nYou can plan family activities using apps like Hoop and Yuggler\n\n\"I use Hoop to do last-minute planning on where to take the kids,\" Ms Wong says.\n\nYuggler, which is only currently available on iOS devices, offers similar features in US cities including San Francisco and Philadelphia. It is planning to expand into 22 more cities soon.\n\nApps such as DocTap and iCliniq offer a way for busy professionals to get medical advice without taking time off.\n\nICliniq users can set up a video consultation with one of its 2,000 or so doctors in countries including the US, India and Germany.\n\nAnd with London-based DocTap, you can pay £24 for 15-minute face-to-face GP appointments at clinics and pharmacies around the UK capital.\n\nDocTap user Jamie Ritchie says: \"It was pretty much impossible to fit an appointment with my local doctor around work.\n\n\"With DocTap, I got an appointment at lunchtime, and was back in the office within half an hour.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Rees helped David Wyeth up The Mall to the finish line of the London Marathon\n\nIt's been hailed as the defining image of this year's London Marathon: runner Matthew Rees stopping to help fellow competitor David Wyeth after he almost collapsed just metres from the finish line. But why do some runners' legs turn to jelly?\n\nWith the end in sight, David Wyeth's legs began to buckle. Staggering along The Mall, head dropping, it looked like he would not complete the race.\n\nBut - in a show of comradeship that has quickly gone viral - fellow runner Matthew Rees stopped, pulled Mr Wyeth up and they completed the 26.2 mile challenge together.\n\n\"I saw David and his legs had completely collapsed beneath him,\" the Swansea Harriers runner told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"I went over and he said 'I've got to finish' and I said 'you will' and I helped him up.\"\n\nHis struggle is reminiscent of an exhausted Jonny Brownlee, who was helped over the finish line by brother Alistair in the Triathlon World Series in Mexico last year.\n\nJonny required treatment but later tweeted he was OK, with a photo of himself lying in a hospital bed on a drip.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonny Brownlee helped over finish line by brother Alistair in Mexico\n\nAt the time, Alistair said: \"I wish the flippin' idiot had paced it right and crossed the finish line first.\n\n\"You have to race the conditions. I was comfortable in third. I raced the conditions, I took the water on, made myself cool and I was alright.\"\n\nLondon Marathon Coach Martin Yelling says it is like runners have \"run out of petrol\".\n\n\"At the end of a marathon runners usually have given so much physically that their energy levels are completely depleted - the term is hitting the wall,\" he says.\n\n\"What that means is your body is struggling to find enough physical energy to move forward, the body is trying to tell you to stop.\"\n\nHe says there is a clear wrestle between physical exhaustion and \"incredible mental strength\" in runners who have hit the wall.\n\n\"For every-day runners it is about learning to understand how your body responds.\n\n\"We would call it listening to your body.\"\n\nTraining for a marathon, pacing yourself and the correct fuel and hydration is important in avoiding the wall and the so-called \"jelly legs\", he says.\n\nOther runners were helped by others as they collapsed before the London Marathon finish line\n\nTim Navin-Jones, from running club London City Runners, is one runner who can sympathise, having \"hit the wall\" himself during the New York Marathon.\n\n\"Your mind is telling you to keep going and your body is getting to the point where it says 'no',\" he says.\n\n\"Your legs really do turn to jelly - it is horrific.\n\n\"It is like being a really horrible version of drunk. It is sheer exhaustion.\"\n\nMr Navin-Jones, who has run five marathons among other distances, says it is difficult to know how to pace a marathon for those who have not done it before.\n\nA common mistake is runners starting a race too fast, he says.\n\nEmma Ross, head of physiology at the English Institute of Sport, says runners \"hit the wall\" in a marathon when they run out of carbohydrate to use as a fuel for running.\n\n\"So what you want to try and do is keep your carbohydrate stores topped up during the race to prevent you from predominantly having to use fat as a fuel,\" she says.\n\n\"When we use fat as a fuel, we have to go slower because as a process of burning energy it is a more complex and a slower system, so we can only support slower exercise.\"\n\nShe also warns that dehydration causes a decrease in blood volume, which makes the heart work harder, so it is important for runners to keep hydrated.\n\nRunner Gary McKee completed 100 marathons in 100 days for MacMillan Cancer Support, finishing on Sunday at the London Marathon.\n\nGary McKee completed 100 marathons in 100 days for MacMillan Cancer Support, raising more than £67,000\n\nThe 47-year-old, from Cleator Moor in Cumbria, says he managed to not hit the wall as he paced himself carefully during his challenge.\n\nHe says runners have to recognise when their body is telling them to stop.\n\n\"It is down to hydration. You will come to a point when you are tired.\n\n\"Have you overexerted yourself? Have you had enough calories? Enough carbs?\n\n\"The more you train, the higher your fitness levels become, so you can sustain it (running) for longer.\n\n\"If you understand what your body wants, just give it what it wants.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nOlympic gold medallist Dani King could cycle for Wales at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, having previously represented England.\n\nKing, who won team pursuit gold with GB at London 2012 and is a three-time world champion in the discipline, has focused on the road since 2014.\n\nSouthampton-born King, 26, represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games but is now based in Wales and meets the qualification criteria.\n\n\"It is a possibility,\" King said.\n\n\"It's still being decided at the moment.\"\n\nKing trains in Cardiff and is engaged to Welshman and former rider Matt Rowe, brother of Team Sky cyclist Luke Rowe.\n\n\"I think my major target would be the road, but I'd like to think I could go well in the bunch races on the back of road training and specific track training as well,\" King said.\n\n\"At the moment I'm focusing on the road, but I do miss racing on the track.\"\n\nKing was left out of British Cycling's plans for Rio 2016 having won gold four years earlier with Laura Kenny and Joanna Rowsell-Shand.\n\nThe four-rider, four-kilometres team pursuit - one rider and one kilometre was added to the women's event in late 2014 - is part of the Commonwealth Games programme.\n\nWales could potentially have a a strong team with 2016 Olympic champion Elinor Barker, world medallist Ciara Horne, Manon Lloyd and Amy Roberts also in contention.\n\n\"It's whether it would fit with my specific target and also whether I'd be good enough to slip into a team pursuit line-up,\" King added.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeague One champions Sheffield United are set to re-sign striker Ched Evans from Chesterfield.\n\nBBC Radio Sheffield reports the clubs have agreed a fee of about £500,000.\n\nEvans, 28, last played for the Blades in 2012 before he was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in 2011 and sentenced to five years in prison.\n\nThat conviction was quashed and, following a re-trial last October, Evans was found not guilty.\n\nWales international Evans joined Chesterfield last summer and has scored seven goals in 29 appearances for the relegated League One side this season.\n\nHe scored 42 goals in 103 league appearances in his first spell at Bramall Lane.\n\nEvans joined Sheffield United from Manchester City for £3m in 2009, but struggled in his first two seasons with the club, scoring only 13 goals in 74 games.\n\nHis form improved dramatically in his final season with the Blades, as he found the net 35 times in 42 appearances, before being jailed six days after his final game - a 3-1 win over Leyton Orient.\n\nAfter his release in October 2014, having served two and a half years of his prison sentence, the Blades revoked an initial offer to allow him to use their training facilities after 170,000 people signed an online petition against the move.\n\nUnited's main shirt sponsor threatened to end their association with the club if they re-signed Evans, three club patrons resigned, while Olympic heptathlon champion Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill wanted her name removed from a stand named after her if the striker was offered a contract.\n\nHe then nearly joined League One side Oldham Athletic in January 2015 before the club pulled out of the deal following threats to their staff and pressure from sponsors.\n\nChesterfield offered him a return to professional football in June 2016, two months after his conviction was quashed, saying \"a great deal of thought\" had gone into the signing.\n\nEvans scored in his first professional game in over four years with the equaliser in a 1-1 draw against Oxford on the opening day of this season in August.\n\nHe scored six more times before the turn of the year, but has failed to score in his past 11 appearances and has not featured since 4 March.\n\nThe Blades clearly believe they can get the best out of Ched Evans. He played his best football at Bramall Lane and Chris Wilder is known for his man-management skills.\n\nFans will be torn on this one. Some will back the signing and remember the days, albeit five years ago, that Evans was a prolific goalscorer. Others will see it as an unnecessary distraction.\n\nUnited have already won the League One title and this story will now dominate the headlines before their coronation as champions on Sunday.", "He's young and he looks it. And at 39, Emmanuel Macron has won the final round of the French presidential election to become the country's youngest president - ever.\n\nBut he's not the youngest young achiever, by a long way. From ancient warriors to high-tech wizards, here's a random selection to rival Mr Macron.\n\nThe clue's in the name. At just 24, William Pitt the Younger became British prime minister in 1783. He stayed in the post almost continuously until his death in 1806.\n\nKey events during his premiership: defeating the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805; the introduction of income tax; the Act of Union with Ireland.\n\nComing back to the present day, Mr Macron will not be the only world leader under 40. This group includes Macedonian Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev, 38, and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, 36. Not forgetting the ever prominent Kim Jong-un, 33, leader of North Korea. The last two have, of course, inherited the role.\n\nAnd if you happen to be strolling through the European microstate of San Marino - location, north-eastern Italy - you might come across 28-year-old Vanessa d'Ambrosio, one its two leaders, or captains regent.\n\nThe US tech entrepreneur was 19 when he launched Facebook with four other Harvard students in 2004. With more than 1.8 billion users and market capitalisation of around $400bn (£312bn), it is widely seen as the world's most successful social networking site.\n\nOne of the greatest military commanders of all time, Alexander the Great inherited the Macedonian throne in 336 BC aged 20. After conquering the huge Persian empire, still in his 20s, he went on to rule over an empire spanning three continents. Biggest single victory: the Battle of Gaugamela, in present-day Iraq.\n\nSean Connery played Alexander in a BBC adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play, Adventure Story, in 1961\n\nIn sport there are many firsts and youngests, but Romanian Nadia Comaneci caught the imagination more than most at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Aged just 14, she was the first gymnast in Olympic history to score a perfect 10.0 - on the uneven bars.\n\nThe gold medallist, who began in the discipline at the age of six, went on to score six more 10.0s.\n\nComaneci retired in 1981, later defecting to the United States from then Communist Romania. In 1997, gymnastics' world governing body raised the minimum age for senior competition to 16.\n\nHere's Comaneci again, four decades later at a Golden Globes after-party in California in January:\n\nFor those of us who have failed to reach pinnacles of achievement at an early age, there is hope however.\n\nHere are a couple of late bloomers, who took time to reach their full potential.\n\nThe founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken opened his first franchise in Utah in 1952. Harland Sanders was 62. His early career included tyre salesman, motel manager and ferry operator. KFC now has outlets in more than 100 countries.\n\nA statue of Harland Sanders, on the left, and business partner Pete Harman was erected in 2004 at the site in Salt Lake City of the first KFC outlet.\n\nThe Edinburgh-born author of The Wind in the Willows worked for the Bank of England from the age of 20 but was already known in literary circles and went on to publish essays and stories about children.\n\nThe Wind in the Willows, a mystical adventure starring animals Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad, was not published until 1908 when Grahame was 49.", "What do you do when the central policy on which your party was formed and has long campaigned becomes the domain of a political rival? If you're UKIP, get radical.\n\nTheresa May has framed this election in terms of Brexit. The Conservatives are the party which will deliver on the referendum result, she has said, while other parties - namely Labour and the Lib Dems - want to frustrate the process.\n\nIn doing so she's stolen a march on UKIP; the party which for so long was the sole advocate of leaving the EU.\n\nIt hasn't abandoned Brexit. It has said it will continue to \"hold the government's feet to the fire\" and push for the kind of EU exit it wants, adamant there's still a role to play.\n\nBut UKIP needs a new unique selling point.\n\nCue a plethora of policies designed to appeal to the party's core voters; a moratorium on new Islamic schools in the state system, Sharia courts outlawed and a ban on face coverings in public places.\n\nFormer UKIP leader Nigel Farage is not standing this time\n\nThis is a return to right-wing territory in which UKIP has dabbled before. A step away from the libertarian values the party has said in the past that it stands for.\n\nIt's an extension of the party's popular stance on controlled immigration; limit the number of people who come to the UK and ensure those who do fully integrate into society.\n\nUKIP has long appealed to a certain emotion among parts of the electorate, portraying itself as the true protector of British values, proud to stand up for a way of life it claims is at risk of erosion from political correctness.\n\nIts integration agenda was quickly labelled by some as offensive, even Islamophobic, but for UKIP these policies are true patriotism, a defence of the realm and its values from what it calls \"crude multiculturalism\".\n\nUKIP still sees itself as the party prepared to say things other politicians won't, unafraid to risk offence to create debate. It takes credit for forcing other parties to talk frankly about immigration; now they hope to do the same with integration and in doing so ensure their relevance beyond Brexit and appeal to their traditional supporters.\n\nThe Tories have stomped on UKIP turf, so the party's trying to break new ground.\n\nIf it's more radical as a consequence? So be it. The question is whether it will be enough.", "Dividing lines. Now, where have we heard that before?\n\nGordon Brown loved them. George Osborne relished them. In an era that had been dominated by centre ground politics where everyone fought over the middle, those lines were important to answer voters' claims that \"they're all the same\".\n\nToday, Labour is spelling out \"dividing lines\" for a different reason.\n\nFor months the party has agonised over its position on Brexit. Wrangling with four seemingly incompatible truths - millions of their voters in traditional Labour areas wanted Brexit; the vast majority of the party's MPs wanted to stay, in line with its official position; the leader was Remain but not exactly in love with the idea, but an important constituency of Labour voters at the New Labour end of things were ardent Remainers.\n\nIn the end, Labour concluded it had to back the government's triggering of Article 50 with a few notable exceptions. And now it has officially backed Brexit. How, on this issue, can they show they are different to the Tories?\n\nEnter Sir Keir Starmer's speech this morning, interestingly, well ahead of the party's manifesto.\n\nHe'll promise Labour would guarantee rights for EU nationals who live in the UK, sources say a '9am, day one' action for a Labour government.\n\nHe'll say Labour would scrap the Tories' Brexit plan and in its place put forward legislation that would more fulsomely and explicitly protect all rights currently enshrined in European legislation. He'll say the idea of walking away with no deal must not be an option, and give Parliament a say on the final deal as well as regular formal updates.\n\nIt is very different to the Tory plan and there has been a very active campaign to protect EU citizens who live in the UK.\n\nAnd a second referendum will not be in the party's manifesto. Labour will hope not to get bogged down in arguments over that.\n\nPrivately senior figures say it's not possible to see how you get to a second vote, logistically or politically.\n\nBut on the fairly understandable basis that in 2017 politics it is foolish to rule absolutely anything out, they can't or won't say explicitly say that under no circumstances could there ever be a second vote, or under no circumstances could we ever stay in.\n\nA senior source told me they would never argue to stay in the EU as it is, but IF there were significant reforms that situation could hypothetically change. It is a massive IF, even worth putting in capital letters in bold!\n\nFor some of their voters, particularly in London, that's the kind of approach they crave.\n\nBut claims from their critics that Labour could potentially seek to stay in the EU is a dividing line the party hardly needs.\n• None Brexit triggered: What happens now?", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nFu lost the first two frames of the final session to trail 10-8, but breaks of 78 and 115 pulled him level.\n\nRobertson took an error-strewn 21st frame on the black, but Fu remained the calmer player and took the next three.\n\nThe world number eight from Hong Kong plays Mark Selby in the last eight, the defending champion having earlier beaten Xiao Guodong 13-6.\n\nBarry Hawkins, runner-up in 2013, won by the same scoreline, securing his place in the quarter-finals with victory over Scotland's Graeme Dott.\n\nRobertson screamed in delight and hit the table in celebration after clinching what seemed to be a pivotal frame to go 11-10 ahead.\n\nBut Fu dug in to get over the line and continue a consistent season, that has seen him secure the third ranking title of his career, reach two semi-finals, as well as make the last four at the Masters.\n\nTwo-time Crucible semi-finalist Fu told BBC Sport: \"It was very tough. I had so many chances and missed so many chances.\n\n\"It was one of those matches that neither of us deserved to win. For fighting spirit I was a 10 out of 10, but for snooker it was four out of 10.\"\n\nRobertson described his performance as \"garbage\".\n\n\"I played awful snooker,\" said the Australian. \"It wasn't good to watch. I was awful in my first match too.\"\n\nWorld number one Selby, who led 10-6 overnight, rattled off breaks of 101, 73 and 60 to see off his Chinese foe.\n\nThe 33-year-old from Leicester told BBC Sport: \"To win the first frame and get settled - and to do it with a century - was great.\n\n\"I played a really solid game. I didn't make too many mistakes and put him under pressure. And when he made mistakes I capitalised.\n\n\"I won a couple of key frames from 40 or 50 points behind and made a couple of good clearances on Sunday afternoon. That was probably the turning point. To come out at 4-4 and keep that four-frame lead was vital.\"\n\n'Hawk' flies into last eight\n\nHawkins was also a 13-6 winner, beating former champion Dott to secure his place in the last eight.\n\nLike Selby, world number seven Hawkins was in no mood to hang around, quickly taking the first frame, wrapping up the second with a superb break of 98, before getting over the line in a scrappy third frame.\n\nThe Kent-based left-hander, who will play Stephen Maguire in the quarter-finals, said: \"I'm glad it's over. You want to finish off as quick as you can because it's a long tournament.\n\n\"Over the years I have had some unbelievably gruelling matches and it takes it out of you. I wasn't in top form but I played pretty solid. I kept him pretty cold and away from the table.\"", "Children of the 1980s, rejoice - the original Bananarama line-up is back together at last. Which got us thinking - lots of 80s bands have reformed over recent years but which ones are we still wishing would reunite?\n\nFrankie says relax - still the best slogan T-shirt ever\n\nLiverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, fronted by Holly Johnson, are still best remembered for their debut single Relax, which was famously banned by the BBC in 1984 due to its sexual lyrics but topped the UK singles chart for five consecutive weeks.\n\nThe band went on to become only the second act in the history of the UK charts (after Gerry and the Pacemakers) to reach number one with their first three singles when Two Tribes and The Power of Love also hit the top spot.\n\nBut their glory was short-lived. Their second album, Liverpool, released in 1986, failed to live up to expectations and a backstage bust-up between Johnson and bassist Mark O'Toole at their final gig at Wembley Arena sounded the death knell.\n\nWhile various reincarnations of the band have since reformed, we're still waiting for the original line-up to hit us \"with those laser beams.\"\n\nThe Smiths - we are never, ever, ever, getting back together\n\nNever gonna happen. Yes, we know. But just imagine! Johnny Marr and Steven Morrissey formed the band in 1982 with bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce.\n\nThey went on to release 17 singles and four studio albums, becoming one of the most influential bands of the 1980s.\n\nHits included This Charming Man, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, How Soon is Now?, Big Mouth Strikes Again, Panic and Girlfriend in a Coma.\n\nBut the dream combo of Marr's melodies and Morrissey's musings was broken with the band's acrimonious split in 1987.\n\nIn Marr's autobiography Set The Boy Free, he revealed that the official version of him walking out on the band wasn't the full story.\n\nThe tipping point, says Marr, was when Morrissey didn't turn up for the video shoot of the single Shoplifters Of The World Unite, and ordered him to sack their latest manager.\n\nWhatever the truth, Marr also wrote that he and Morrissey discussed the possibility of a reunion back in 2008. We're still waiting.\n\nBen Vol-au-vent Parrot, as Smash Hits liked to call him\n\nRing a bell? We've been wondering whatever happened to the beautiful beret-wearing Ben with the exotic-sounding surname Volpeliere-Pierrot (although Smash Hits preferred to call him Ben Vol-au-vent Parrot), not to mention Julian, Nick and Migi.\n\nThe band enjoyed 80s success with soulful pop hits including Down to Earth, Ordinary Day, Name and Number and Misfit.\n\nThey split after a last hurrah with a cover of Johnny Bristol's Hang On In There Baby in 1992. While Ben has joined some 80s tours singing solo the band have never reunited as a four-piece.\n\nIt's 30 years this year since Misfit and Ordinary Day entered the charts, so perhaps now would be a good time to hit the road again?\n\nIt wasn't a real 80s band without the obligatory sax\n\nIt's well documented that Paul Weller would only reform The Jam if his children were \"destitute\".\n\nBut what about his later band, Style Council, which he formed with Mick Talbot, formerly of The Merton Parkas and Dexy's Midnight Runners?\n\nThe Style Council had hits such as Walls Come Tumbling Down!, Shout to the Top, You're the Best Thing and Long, Hot Summer.\n\nThe band broke up in 1989. Weller has since said they didn't get the credit they deserved.\n\n\"I thought we were quite misunderstood and misrepresented. Yet, at the end of the day, we made some good records and I wrote some good songs around that time, songs I still stand by, and I think that will last as well.\"\n\nThe Housemartins - \"the fourth best band in Hull\"?\n\nFormed in Hull in the 1980s, The Housemartins line-up changed frequently over the years but most of us will remember its most famous members, Paul Heaton and Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim.\n\nCaravan of Love and Happy Hour were probably their best known hits and Heaton and Cook went on to further success with The Beautiful South and Beats International/Fatboy Slim.\n\nIn 2009, Mojo magazine got The Housemartins' original members together for a photo-shoot and interview but they said they would not be reforming.\n\nSo it looks like we won't be hearing from \"the fourth best band in Hull\" - as The Housemartins often described themselves - anytime soon.\n\nDon't Leave Me This Way Jimmy!\n\nWhile Bronski Beat continued following the departure of vocalist Jimmy Somerville in 1985, they are still best remembered for the hits they had with him at the helm, including Why?, Smalltown Boy and It Ain't Necessarily So.\n\nSomerville, of course, went on to form The Communards with Richard Coles, who is now a Church of England priest and Radio 4 presenter.\n\nBut will we see either of these bands back together?\n\nLarry Steinbachek, former keyboardist with Bronski Beat, sadly died at the age of 56 in January.\n\nAnd the Communards? Coles and Somerville fell out, not least because Coles lied when he told Somerville he had HIV.\n\nThe two are back in touch now but with Coles' commitments to the Church, a reunion seems unlikely.\n\nThe Thompson triplets - sorry, Twins, in their most recognised form\n\nYep, it's our wildcard entry - the band that was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in The Adventures of Tintin.\n\nThe band had various line-up changes over the years but they were best known as the mid-80s trio consisting of Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway.\n\nTheir hits included Hold Me Now, Doctor! Doctor! and You Take Me Up but Leeway left the band in 1986 and Bailey and Currie could never replicate their earlier success (although they did have a dance hit in 1991 called Come Inside).\n\nThe pair had two children together and moved to New Zealand. While they did briefly reunite with Leeway on a Channel 4 show in 2001, they have so far resisted the urge to go down the nostalgia road and reform.\n\nIn 2014, Bailey began performing the band's hits as The Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey and continues to tour in 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour voters in Porthcawl weigh up their options\n\nShe hardly cuts the jib of a radical. But despite warnings against complacency from the prime minister's own lips today, be in no doubt - the Tories are deadly serious about a potential reshaping of Britain at this election.\n\nAny day on the trail is precious campaigning time. Leaders only tend to turn up where they think they are in the game. So a Welsh visit, Theresa May's fifth in three months, is revealing.\n\nIt shows the Conservatives are not just contemplating a bigger majority by scooping up traditional Tory-Labour marginal seats in England.\n\nBut even if you ignore the polls, senior sources indicate they could possibly return to levels of support not seen in Wales for more than 30 years.\n\nAnd privately they expect gains in Scotland too. Theresa May hopes to make her claim there are no Tory no-go areas come true. The European referendum has redrawn the map. She wants to colour it blue.\n\nFor that to happen here in Wales, that means overturning decades of support for Labour in many areas. Are voters ready to do that in high enough numbers? It's of course far too early to tell.\n\nDon't forget the Tories already improved their share of the vote significantly in 2015, winning 11 seats.\n\nBut on the Porthcawl seafront in Bridgend, the backyard of the Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones, we met plenty of voters who are certainly ready to consider it.\n\nThe Edwards, father and son, told me they'd both been Labour voters all their lives. But could they switch? Mark told me his 85-year-old father had already done so. He said \"she is wonderful, best we've had,\" when he started talking about Theresa May.\n\nMr Edwards senior told me he had been 'life-long Labour' but that Jeremy Corbyn was \"30 or 40 years out of date - he wants to introduce a gimmick, communism\".\n\nHe was plainly angry about what's happened to the Labour party in recent years, saying it had been led by \"conmen\". Mr Edwards parting shot was \"bye, bye Mr Corbyn\".\n\nLabour has held Bridgend for the past 30 years\n\nAnother voter, Brian Holley presented his own dilemma, that could be shared by many voters in Wales, where overall, the vote was to leave the EU. Brian told me he'd voted to Leave but his local Labour MP had backed Remain.\n\nThat was reason for him to be, as he expressed it, \"on the border\" between sticking with Labour and voting Tory for the first time.\n\nSharing a morning cuppa with him was Eira Linehan, who said for the \"first time ever\" she was considering voting Tory because while she agreed with Jeremy Corbyn's ideas, they wouldn't work in the \"real world\".\n\nThey said \"we're all Labour\" in their constituency, but they are likely to vote Tory because of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, even though, \"my father will be spinning in his grave\".\n\nConversations about voting intentions seven weeks out are absolutely no substitute for the final poll of course. And we are only at the early stages of this campaign. It's worth noting too there were warnings of Labour taking heavy fire in the Welsh Assembly elections last year.\n\nIn the end, they remained the largest party, and Carwyn Jones kept his job as First Minister, albeit with the help of Plaid Cymru.\n\nYet even the Welsh Labour leader was plain to the BBC today that Jeremy Corbyn still has to \"prove himself\", warning there is a \"mountain to climb\".\n\nIn remarks that could become very significant after the election, Mr Jones was clear \"Jeremy is leading the campaign and Jeremy will take credit or responsibility\". He also called for a manifesto that has the \"widest buy-in possible from people\".\n\nBut 'wide buy-in'? Support that Labour can truly bank on? Not a bit of it.\n\nYet, as Theresa May left the community centre where she had talked to activists tonight, a small, but determined crowd had been waiting in the rain, if only for the chance to shout at her car as her convoy left at speed.\n\nAs she swept away, the PM won't be in any doubt that winning Wales or any traditionally Labour territories won't be easy.\n\nAnd in the volatile world of 2017 politics, there is nowhere where she can be guaranteed of a universally warm welcome.", "Coverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app from 21:00 BST.\n\nAnthony Joshua says he will be competing at a \"whole new level\" when he takes on Wladimir Klitschko in Saturday's world title bout.\n\nThe two heavyweights fight for the IBF title and vacant WBA belt in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley.\n\nJoshua, 27, says his 13 weeks of preparation have been \"tougher times than I have had in any walk of life\".\n\nKlitschko, 41, lost his heavyweight title to Tyson Fury in November 2015 - his first defeat in 11 years.\n\nIn an interview at his Sheffield training camp before the biggest fight of his career, Joshua spoke about his motivation, being a \"man of the people\", the state of British boxing, and his family.\n\nJoshua, unbeaten in 18 fights since turning professional in 2013, said he is not worried about his safety in the ring because of the intensity of his training before the fight.\n\n\"I've been pushed to places I've never been pushed before,\" said the Briton.\n\n\"I think I take more punishment in the gym than I do in the fights. Sometimes I try things and it doesn't work and I've broken my ribs, my hand, dislocated shoulders in the gym but we get it right for the fight.\n\n\"One of the main things is his mindset at the minute. He claims he is obsessed and I ask 'What is he obsessed about?' I look at myself in the mirror and it is about beating me.\n\n\"I've lived simple. I've been training under the dark light so I can shine under the bright lights on April 29.\"\n\nJoshua had numerous incidents with the police as a youth, including being arrested for ABH, drug possession and being electronically tagged. He has previously stated that he would have been in jail were it not for boxing.\n\nBut Joshua said: \"I've had tougher times in the gym than I have had in any walk of life at the minute.\n\n\"I put myself through it and it is important to because I don't want to be star of the gym and then when I get to the fight it's like: 'I've never faced this type of warrior before.'\"\n• None Watch Joshua: The Road to Klitschko on iPlayer\n• None Listen to 5 live Boxing with Costello and Bunce - Joshua v Klitschko preview\n• None 'Father Time has caught up with Klitschko'\n\nAsked if this is the defining fight of his career, Joshua replied: \"It is one of them. If this was towards the end of my career, I would say: 'This is the defining fight that's going to write the history books.'\n\n\"But I've still got so many more years. I'm confident. I'm learning about myself, so this fight is, for me, one fight that I've got to take in my stride round by round and when I take that attitude the victory comes and we move on and there are so many other big fights in the UK.\"\n\nJoshua does not believe Klitschko has underestimated him, saying: \"He's coming game, he's coming ready, and the body does what the mind tells it. His mind seems to be in the right place so I'm in for a tough fight.\"\n\n\"I may not express myself flashing what I've done and telling everyone I'm the greatest,\" he said.\n\n\"Where we grew up, everyone was about making money, but low key, understated - you probably didn't want to get your house burgled!\n\n\"Who I am when I was 17 is who I am today, so not much has changed.\n\n\"You've got to add a bit of flavour. It's needed now and again, but it's got to be real because I don't take boxing as an act. This is way of expressing myself and being true to myself and there are kids watching so you've got to be mindful.\n\n\"If I was to be that type of person - loud and trashing tables - after a fight, I would still continue to be that way. What I notice about fighters is they act a certain way and once the fight has started they are hugging each other and are quiet.\n\n\"I'm just trying to be myself on camera, in the ring, outside of the ring and off camera.\"\n\nAsked about being very accessible, Joshua says: \"It's part of boxing. It is good to lock yourself away but I'm a man of the people, it's no bother. As long as it doesn't make me late for training, I've no problem speaking to 100 people.\n\n\"I'm in the same flat that I've been in since 2011 - it's been a long time. I think I'll be one of those guys who will learn the piano, the violin, bungee jump and do all the things I didn't do when I was fighting.\n\n\"When I'm not fighting, I try to take a holiday and experience things, but when I'm fighting the simple life has worked and I don't try and change it.\"\n\n\"I was on the complete opposite end of healthy living before boxing, it's got me strong,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm a superhero to my little cousins. It's what it does for my family and my surname Joshua.\n\n\"People are proud to wear that name and I'm representing my family. It is nice to have kids supporting you. It's reaching out to a wider audience.\n\n\"I'm just a normal person. You have your good days, your bad days, you have road rage, everyone goes through it.\n\n\"You've just got to live by the job you do and if that's what comes with it I'd rather choose winning over anything.\"\n• None Wladimir Klitschko: Anthony Joshua will be 'facing Mount Everest' for heavyweight title\n• None Quiz: Which heavyweight champion are you?\n\nJoshua on the state of British boxing\n\nJoshua, who turned professional after winning gold at London 2012, said: \"When I first turned professional, no-one would touch me sponsorship-wise and no-one was really backing boxing.\n\n\"I say look at the characters of the sport, look at the individuals, get behind the gloves.\"\n\nHe praised fellow Brits Tyson Fury, who won the heavyweight title with a win over Klitschko in November 2015, Dillian Whyte, the WBC International heavyweight title holder, former British and Commonwealth heavyweight title holder David Price and Dereck Chisora, who challenged for the WBC heavyweight title in 2012.\n\n\"As I've been in the game, Fury won, Dillian, myself, Chisora the likes of Price, up-and-coming heavyweights and lighter weights - it's definitely brought more attention.\"\n\nAsked if he was worried about his mum watching his fights, Joshua answers: \"No, no, no, definitely not. Because she's proud, she's happy and I look after her so I think that's the main thing.\n\n\"I've got a son and I definitely wouldn't want him to fight because of those reasons, his health, it's tough.\n\n\"I did it quietly. When I first started fighting, I didn't tell my family. It was just about me and what I wanted to do.\n\n\"My mum has always seen the positive light of fighting rather than the health issues and I've always been on the road to winning and glory.\n\n\"She's had a few tough times and a few scares when I've lost as an amateur, but we bounce back, and for all the good times she's forgot about the bad times we've had.\"\n\nGet all the latest boxing news leading up to the Joshua-Klitschko fight, sent straight to your device with notifications in the BBC Sport app. Find out more here.", "We're as confused as these guys...\n\nA British woman's revealed she fell pregnant with twins, then conceived while carrying them and gave birth to triplets.\n\nIt's called superfoetation - when someone conceives then conceives again between two weeks and a month later.\n\nIt's extremely rare in humans. This is only the sixth time it's happened in 100 years.\n\nFertility expert Professor Simon Fishel says: \"It ought not to happen, but it does.\"\n\n\"The first case was reported in 1865 and there have been odd ones every now and again over the decade.\"\n\nMost of us assume that once a woman becomes pregnant then that's it, but not according to the man who delivered the first IVF baby in 1978.\n\n\"Evolution is designed, especially in women, that they don't release another egg,\" he says.\n\n\"If they ever did then it shouldn't be fertilised because the sperm shouldn't be able to get through.\n\n\"Even if that happens the lining of the womb would be unable to accept another embryo as changes have taken place while the foetus is growing in there.\"\n\nIt is remarkable for superfoetation to occur, but there's not always a happy ending.\n\n\"There have been cases where the other foetus has died in the womb as one could stop growing and have to be delivered early,\" says the professor.\n\nOne of the questions raised is how the foetuses will cope in the womb and whether they will end up competing at feeding time.\n\n\"It depends on the quality of the placenta, that is the most important thing for nutrition and development of the growing baby,\" Prof Fishel adds.\n\n\"If the placenta develops normally then it's fine but if the placenta fuses then that can cause problem. In the superfoetation situation we've seen here, it's worked fine.\"\n\nIt's claimed it's more prevalent in animals such as rodents, rabbits, horses and sheep.\n\nAlthough rare in humans these miracle births do happen and sometimes can be even more extreme.\n\n\"There was a case in Rome some time ago where they estimated it was about three to four months difference,\" says Prof Fishel.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nItalian cyclist Michele Scarponi has died aged 37 after being involved in a collision with a van during a training ride.\n\nA statement from his Astana team said the crash happened close to Scarponi's home in Filottrano.\n\nScarponi won the 2011 Giro d'Italia after Alberto Contador was stripped of the title and claimed victory in stage one of the Tour of the Alps on Monday.\n\n\"This is a tragedy too big to be written,\" said the Astana statement.\n\nThe statement described Scarponi as a \"great champion\" and a \"special guy\", adding: \"The Astana Pro Team clings to the Michele family in this incredibly painful moment of sorrow and mourning.\"\n\nScarponi leaves behind a wife and two children.\n\nAfter finishing fourth in the Tour of the Alps behind British winner Geraint Thomas on Friday, Scarponi returned home by car with his masseur before heading out for a ride on Saturday.\n\n\"Devastated to hear the news about Scarponi. Can't believe it. My thoughts with all his friends, family and team,\" Thomas posted on Twitter.\n\n\"Terrible news to wake up to. One of the smiliest, happiest guys in the peleton. Rest in peace,\" said British cyclist Alex Dowsett.\n\nSpanish rider Contador said: \"Paralysed and speechless with the news about Scarponi. Great person and always with a contagious smile. Rest in peace, friend.\"\n\nAstana team-mate and compatriot Fabio Aru said: \"Endless tragedy. There are no words. Rest in peace, my friend.\"\n\nSpecialist climber Scarponi turned professional in 2002 with the Acqua & Sapone-Cantina Tollo team, finishing 18th in his debut Giro d'Italia.\n\nIn 2007 he was banned for 18 months after being implicated in Operation Puerto - a major Spanish doping scandal involving some of the world's top cyclists at the time.\n\nScarponi admitted his involvement in the scandal but denied doping, having been charged with using or attempting to use banned substances and possession of those substances.\n\nReturning in November 2008, he won the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race in 2009 before initially finishing second in the 2011 Giro d'Italia.\n\nHe was later awarded his first Grand Tour title after original winner Contador was stripped of his title by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2012 after a positive test for clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France.\n\nScarponi was suspended for three months in 2012 by his then team Lampre for visiting doctor Michele Ferrari - who is banned for life by the US Anti-Doping Agency for his role in Lance Armstrong's doping programme.\n\nFollowing fourth-placed finishes at the Giro d'Italia in 2012 and 2013, Scarponi joined Astana in 2014, primarily riding Grand Tours as a domestique and helping team-mate Vincenzo Nibali to victory in the 2014 Tour de France and 2016 Giro d'Italia.", "The Sun has printed an apology to Everton and England footballer Ross Barkley over an article in which its former editor Kelvin MacKenzie compared him to a gorilla.\n\nThe newspaper said it had been unaware of Mr Barkley's heritage and there was \"never any slur intended\".\n\nThe 23-year-old footballer's grandfather was born in Nigeria.\n\nThe Sun said it had been contacted by Mr Barkley's lawyers, who had made a formal complaint about the piece.\n\nIn the article, published on 14 April, Mr MacKenzie said looking at Mr Barkley's eyes had given him a \"similar feeling when seeing a gorilla at the zoo\".\n\nHis eyes made him \"certain not only are the lights not on, there is definitely nobody at home\", he wrote.\n\nAlongside the article, was an image of a gorilla next to a picture of the midfielder.\n\nThe columnist is currently suspended by the newspaper.\n\nThe Sun's apology, printed on page five of the paper, said that as soon as Mr Barkley's background was drawn to its attention, the article was removed from its website.\n\nThe apology did not extend to other elements of the article, in which Mr MacKenzie suggested that the only people in Liverpool who could earn as much as footballers were drug dealers.\n\nKelvin McKenzie has said it is \"beyond parody\" to call his article racist\n\nOn Friday, Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson said Mr McKenzie would be facing questions from the police about the article.\n\nMr Anderson described it as a \"racial slur... and something we won't tolerate\".\n\nA spokesman for Merseyside Police said its investigation was ongoing and officers would be speaking to relevant witnesses.\n\nMr MacKenzie was approached for a comment but is on holiday, although previously he has said it is \"beyond parody\" to describe his column as racist.\n\nThe Sun, which has previously apologised for the \"wrong\" and \"unfunny\" views of Mr MacKenzie expressed in the column, has said he will be \"fully investigated\" on his return.\n\n\"On April 14 we published a piece in the Kelvin MacKenzie column about footballer Ross Barkley which made unfavourable comparisons between Mr Barkley and a gorilla.\n\n\"At the time of publication, the newspaper was unaware of Mr Barkley's heritage and there was never any slur intended.\n\n\"As soon as his background was drawn to our attention, the article was removed from online.\n\n\"We have been contacted by lawyers on behalf of Ross Barkley, who has made a formal complaint about the piece.\n\n\"The Sun has apologised for the offence caused by the piece.\n\n\"We would like to take this opportunity to apologise personally to Ross Barkley.\"", "Mr Kim needs reining in - but will China take the lead internationally on the issue?\n\n\"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.\"\n\nThe quotation is attributed to Albert Einstein but after a torrid few days on the Korean peninsula, it's one for Chinese leaders to ponder.\n\nChina is simply in the wrong place on North Korea. It is allowing Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions to undermine Chinese national interest.\n\nThere are complex reasons for this including history, habit and political culture. But among Chinese foreign policy experts and even on social media, unease is beginning to spread.\n\nNorth Korea's nuclear programme has already driven South Korea to agree to the deployment of an American anti-missile system, locking Seoul deeper into a defensive triangle with Japan and the United States.\n\nRelations between Beijing and Seoul are at their worst in a quarter of a century and many South Koreans have been alienated by unofficial Chinese sanctions against the whole spectrum of South Korean interests from supermarkets to boy bands.\n\nThis is good for North Korea but for no-one else. It is nonsensical for China to punish South Korea for trying to defend itself against a nuclear threat which even Beijing describes as real and urgent.\n\nAnd if North Korea continues its drive for nuclear weapons, there may be a worse arms race to come. A nuclear-armed Japan would hardly be in China's national interest.\n\nBut despite this catalogue of warning signals and failures, China seems trapped in an unfinished history marked by binary choice: a nuclear-armed North Korea or a reunified Korea with American troops on China's border. Between these choices, it finds a nuclear-armed North Korea preferable.\n\nBut if it thinks hard enough, perhaps there is an alternative.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has offered China an incentive if it helps resolve the North Korean crisis\n\nIn fact, this is a moment of decision for China. President Xi has talked of an Asia led by Asians. Showing flexibility and resolve on fixing Korea in the interests of the region and the world would demonstrate a readiness to lead.\n\nAlmost everyone, even China's most suspicious neighbours, would be grateful. President Trump has already promised that American gratitude would take material form in a favourable trade deal.\n\nSo China could use the current crisis on the Korean peninsula to engage its neighbours and cement a key area of partnership with the US. Or it could duck the challenge and let the US lead. A choice put starkly in a tweet from President Trump: \"I have great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea. If they are unable to do so, the US, with its allies, will.\"\n\nOf course, China's view on what constitutes \"dealing with North Korea\" does not coincide with Mr Trump's. But there will be no dealing with North Korea worth the name that does not require a fundamental shift in how Beijing sees the region and its relationships within it.\n\nChina is after all an ideologically insecure one-party state. A profound aversion to liberal internationalism has tied it to a rigid position on non-interference in the internal affairs of another state. A position which now constrains it in managing the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nWhat's more, in Beijing's worldview, the United States is its long-term rival in Asia and the US system of alliances is a barely concealed strategy of containment.\n\nFor decades, China's security planners have war-gamed scenarios of brinkmanship and conflict with the US as enemy in a zero-sum game. There are no established scenarios in which the US presents as a partner in managing a rogue state masquerading as a Chinese ally.\n\nChina shares a land border with North Korea and fears the regime's collapse\n\nChina and North Korea signed a mutual aid treaty in 1961. The treaty says if either ally comes under armed attack, the other should provide immediate assistance, including military support. But it also says both should safeguard peace and security.\n\nSome Chinese experts now argue that Beijing is not obliged to defend North Korea on the grounds that its nuclear weapons breach the mutual defence pact. But in general, China's security policy for the Korean peninsula seems frozen in time.\n\nDespite establishing diplomatic relations with Seoul 25 years ago, and despite the burgeoning economic relationship with South Korea which followed, the security logic has not changed.\n\nAnd now that China's only formal ally is threatening a nuclear war which would bring incalculable horror to the entire region including China's own citizens, Beijing's position looks a quarter century out of date.\n\nIf it wants to claim leadership in Asia, it could say loudly that Pyongyang's threats are completely intolerable and must not stand. After all, what loyalty does it owe a regime which shows only contempt for Chinese diplomacy and Chinese national interest?\n\nRather than dragging its feet on economic sanctions and turning a half-blind eye to Chinese companies which supply high-tech components to North Korea's arms programme, Beijing could choose to lead the sanctions charge.\n\nRather than repeating tired rhetoric urging all parties to refrain from provoking and threatening each other, it could suspend oil exports and foreign currency dealings.\n\nRather than staging an unnecessary set piece forum on President Xi's \"one belt, one road\" slogan next month, it could host an emergency conference for Asia on dealing with North Korea.\n\nThat Beijing will not lead on North Korea is China's tragedy and Asia's tragedy.", "Chinnagodangy Palanisamy says he will be forced to eat mice if the farm crisis doesn't end\n\nLast week, Chinnagodangy Palanisamy, 65, held a live mouse between his teeth to draw the government's attention to the plight of farmers in his native state of Tamil Nadu.\n\n\"I and my fellow farmers were trying to convey the message that we will be forced to eat mice if things don't improve,\" he told me, sitting in a makeshift tent near Delhi's Jantar Mantar observatory, one of the areas of the Indian capital where protests are permitted.\n\nThe tatty tent and the street outside have been home to Mr Palanisamy and his 100-odd fellow farmers for some 40 days now. They hail from drought-affected districts of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, one of India's most developed states.\n\nIt appears to be a drought that India forgot, so Mr Palanisamy and his spirited co-protesters mounted a unique, eye-catching protest to put pressure on the government to act.\n\nThey are demanding ample drought relief funds, pensions for elderly farmers, a waiver on the repayment of crop and farm loans, better prices for their crops and the interlinking of rivers to irrigate their lands.\n\nWearing traditional sarong-like garments and turbans, these farmers have brandished human skulls that they claim belong to dead farmers.\n\nThey have held live mice in their mouths, shaved half their heads, worn women's traditional saris, slashed their hands and oozed \"protest blood\", rolled bare-bodied on boiling hot macadam, and conducted mock funerals.\n\nThe protesters said these skulls belonged to farmers who took their lives\n\nMore than 100 farmers from Tamil Nadu have protested in Delhi for some 40 days\n\nThe protesters have also eaten food off the road, and stripped near the prime minister's office in the heart of the city after they were reportedly refused a meeting.\n\nFire-fighters rescued a protester who tied a noose around his neck and tried to hang himself from a tree at the venue. Many of them have been taken to the hospital and treated for acute dehydration.\n\nSome complain that the famously inward-looking Delhi media have painted their protest as an exotic freak show, often missing the pain and desperation driving it.\n\nOne commentator wrote that the protest had taken on a \"farcical proportion where the performance seems to have become the point of it, and the protest itself is lost\".\n\nIn Tamil Nadu, where more than 40% of the people make a living from farming, lack of water due to poor rainfall, low crop prices, and dwindling access to formal credit has created what is possibly the state's worst agrarian crisis in decades.\n\nThe jury is out on whether this protest will fetch results. India, after all, has seen many abortive uprisings. But this Delhi protest shines the spotlight on how drought, debt and dysfunctional policies continue to blight India's farmers: agriculture growth has shrunk to a worrying 1.2%, and tens of thousands of farmers are struggling with debt and little income.\n\nThere was a time not so long ago, recounts Mr Palanisamy, when his 4.5-acre farm in Tiruchirappalli would yield abundant rice, sugarcane, pulses and cotton. There was also a bountiful crop of fruit from his mango and coconut trees.\n\nCrippled by a debilitating drought brought on by years of poor rainfall, Mr Palanisamy's farm is now largely barren.\n\nTwo of his sons, who helped their father farm, have been forced to take up small jobs to keep the home fires burning. There's no money to pay his five workers. Loans worth 6,00,000 rupees ($9,287; £7,247) have piled up, and he's already pawned a lot of family gold as collateral.\n\nTamil Nadu has been in a grip of drought for more than two years\n\n\"This is the worst farm crisis I have seen in my lifetime,\" says Mr Palanisamy, a second generation farmer, whose lean and sinewy frame belies his age. \"I have never lived through such a crisis.\"\n\nMany haven't. Fifty-eight debt-stricken farmers have taken their lives in drought-affected districts in Tamil Nadu since October, according to officials. A local farmers association insists the number of farm-related suicides and death of farmers is more than 250.\n\nOne of them is Mr Palanisamy's own brother-in-law who fell ill, refused treatment, and \"wasted himself to death\" in November. He was crushed under loans that he had taken out to buy a tractor and a bore well to irrigate his five-acre farm.\n\nLed by a charismatic sixty-something farmer-lawyer, the protesters at Jantar Mantar have unwavering spirit. Most of them, like Mr Palanisamy, took a train ride to Delhi in March and found the weather \"rather cold\". At night, many of them slept fitfully in the open, enduring mosquito bites.\n\nThe farmers tell stories of their denuded villages where lack of water has left their trees bare and the landscape barren. They swap stories of mounting crop loans taken from banks and money lenders. They rave and rant in their dog-eared diaries. On some days, the mercury soars to 45C (113F)\n\nSome of them complain that the media is more interested in the spectacle than the problem. They are men and women of dignity who have fought hard all their lives against all odds.\n\nThe fire brigade rescued this protester who tried to take his own life\n\nMr Palanisamy, for example, belongs to a hunter-gatherer tribe, among the most underprivileged people in India. He studied until high school, picked up a certificate as a recognised farm teacher, and was employed at an anganwadi - a government sponsored mother and child-care centre - until his retirement even as he tilled his farm.\n\nHis three sons have been equally hardworking - two of them have earned degrees in engineering - and have helped their father in the farm. His brother-in-law, who took his life, used the money he earned from farming to send his only daughter to a nursing school.\n\nThey are symbols of the hard-fought social mobility of India's poorest, and also examples of how a long-drawn farm crisis can return them to a precarious existence.\n\nThe farmers say they won't budge until the government agrees to their demands\n\nWhen dusk falls, and the noise recedes, Mr Palanisamy sometimes takes out his diary and scribbles furiously. He said he recently wrote some verse, remembering the hard times back home. It is a haunting elegy for farming in India:", "Willian scores a stunning free-kick to put Chelsea 1-0 up against Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he will \"come back even stronger\" after suffering cruciate knee-ligament damage.\n\nThe 35-year-old was injured in the final minute of normal time during last week's Europa League quarter-final second-leg win over Anderlecht.\n\nIbrahimovic is United's top scorer this season, with 28 goals but it is unclear when he will be fit to play again.\n\n\"I will be out for a while,\" he wrote but added \"giving up is not an option.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram, the Swede added: \"I will go through this like everything else and come back even stronger. So far I played with one leg so it shouldn't be any problem.\n\n\"One thing is for sure, I decide when it's time to stop and nothing else.\"\n\nSpeaking before Sunday's 2-0 win at Burnley, United manager Jose Mourinho said on Sky Sports: \"I know (how long he will be out for), but it is for the medical department to be more specific and they prefer to wait a couple more days because the players want to see other specialists and to have an extra opinion and we have to respect that. But they are important injuries.\"\n\nAsked whether Ibrahimovic would play again, the Portuguese replied: \"I don't care about it in this moment, I just want the player to recover the best he can.\"\n\nIbrahimovic joined the club on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain last summer but is yet to agree an extension to his one-year United deal.\n\nMarcos Rojo also suffered cruciate knee-ligament damage in the same game.\n\nThe defender was replaced on 23 minutes after colliding with a visiting player.\n\nMourinho said he also knew how long Rojo would be out for, adding: \"Marcos was in the best moment of his career, playing very well for us and finally getting a position as a central defender in the national team. It's really sad.\"\n\nRojo's injury leaves United manager Jose Mourinho short of options at centre-back with England internationals Phil Jones and Chris Smalling already on the sidelines.\n\nEric Bailly and Daley Blind are United's only fit senior centre-backs ahead of the Manchester derby at Etihad Stadium on Thursday.\n\nUnited midfielder Juan Mata says the loss of both players has tarnished recent good results.\n\n\"These situations just happen in football, that's for sure, although they're never easy to take,\" he said.\n\n\"Now it's time to be patient and strong to face the recovery period and I'm sure both of them will do their best.\"\n\nMata, 28, is currently recovering from groin surgery and is hopeful of returning before the end of the season.\n\n\"The truth is I'm feeling much better now and I hope to be back with the team soon, to try to help in the last spell of the season,\" he added.", "Ronnie O'Sullivan described himself as being \"a bit like James Blunt\" after progressing to the World Championship quarter-finals in Sheffield.\n\nThe five-time champion saw off fellow Englishman Shaun Murphy 13-7 to reach the last eight for the 18th time.\n\nAnd the 41-year-old said afterwards: \"I look at myself as a band or a singer nowadays.\n\n\"But I have not had the greatest of seasons and not written a great album this year.\"\n\nO'Sullivan, who last won the world title in 2013, suggested the slog of tournament play week in week out appealed less than occasional high-profile 'guest' appearances.\n\n\"If you want to write great albums every year, then you need to do well on the snooker circuit. I don't see that I need to write a great album anymore, I just need to be a supporting act,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't mind the other players writing good albums, if I can be invited along for half an hour - 'here he is, he is still alive, can still perform' but then I'm happy to fade back into the security of life.\n\n\"Maybe I'm a bit like James Blunt. He seems a pretty cool dude.\"\n\nO'Sullivan will next face Ding Junhui, who took the last two frames for a 13-12 win over fellow Chinese Liang Wenbo.\n\nIt was a good-humoured showing, and a change of tone for the former world number one, who has had an inconsistent season, marked by a fractious relationship with the sport's authorities.\n\nMy main aim now is to travel, play exhibitions, do my punditry work and work with people outside the industry\n\nHe has been beaten in three finals - by Judd Trump, John Higgins and Mark Selby - and has also played in a number of exhibition matches, written a book and done TV punditry work for Eurosport.\n\nBut on the way to winning a record seventh Masters title in January, he lost control by swearing at a photographer and criticising a referee.\n\nSince the tournament at Alexandra Palace in London, he had refused to engage with the media - answering questions with one-word answers, mimicking a robot, and on one occasion responding by singing an Oasis song - in protest at what he has this week alleged were \"bullying and intimidation\" by the snooker authorities.\n\nHe made that claim in an emotional news conference after his first-round win over Gary Wilson but displayed a lighter touch on Saturday after his comfortable win over another former champion in Murphy.\n\n\"I am not confident enough of writing brilliant albums every year so I choose to play the tournaments, have some fun and do my best,\" he said.\n\n\"My main aim now is to travel, play exhibitions, do my punditry work and work with people outside the industry - it is fun. I can be like a band who do a world tour - they pitch up, they play and it is all very nice for them because there is no pressure. I enjoy being in that position more.\n\n\"I have a responsibility to play at a certain level but you cannot do it all.\"\n\n'I am not driven by records'\n\nA triumph at the Crucible Theatre this year - in the 40th anniversary of the event's first staging here in 1977 - would bring O'Sullivan a sixth world title, taking him level with Steve Davis and one behind Stephen Hendry.\n\nIt would also be his 29th ranking title win, taking him second on the all-time list behind Hendry, who has won 36.\n\nO'Sullivan added: \"If I was to win it, it would be a great feeling but I have had that five times before. It is nice for a few days, a week or so but then you think, 'is it worth putting 365 days of blood, sweat and tears to hopefully win the world title for that feeling?'\n\n\"It is just a game, a few balls and I get the same feeling at the club - it is just a game for me. I have never been driven by records or titles or being the greatest player on the planet.\"", "When Theresa May announced on Tuesday she was seeking an early general election, scores of people saw their weekends and half-term holidays vanish in a giant puff of electioneering, manifesto-writing and the mammoth admin task of staging a nationwide ballot.\n\nBy anyone's estimations, the general election of 2015 was an immense piece of administration.\n\nForty-five million ballot papers were printed to reflect 650 separate candidate lists for the election. Forty-three thousand polling stations were staffed for 15 hours by 120,000 people. And the total cost of it came to £98,845,157.\n\nBut all that was organised with five years' notice - the duration between the previous election and the date of the 2015 poll.\n\nThe time frame for the 2017 ballot, which takes place on 8 June, is little more than seven weeks.\n\nOne Conservative member of staff told the BBC she was completely taken aback. \"I have friends who work for ministers and even they didn't see it coming until the Cabinet meeting took place.\"\n\nThe clock is already ticking, and there is much work to be done. A Labour aide working for an MP described the past week as \"very stressful\".\n\n\"In my own time after work I've been contributing to campaign materials and arranging to uproot myself from London so I can go back to the constituency.\"\n\nWhile general elections are about putting MPs in Parliament, it falls to councils to organise the nitty-gritty of voting and counting.\n\nVenues for polling stations and counting centres will need to be earmarked and reserved for 8 June. And that needs to happen before polling cards can be sent out.\n\nSome of the 120,000 people employed to conduct the 2015 election\n\nThis work is carried out by local authorities' electoral services divisions and overseen by returning officers.\n\nJohn Turner, chief executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators, predicts this election will be particularly onerous for two reasons - the compressed time scale, and the fact local elections are already taking place in many areas in less than two weeks.\n\n\"Many polling stations aren't publicly owned,\" said Mr Turner. \"They're church halls or community centres, and a lot rests on returning officers' ability to persuade the owners to move things around and make the space available.\"\n\nAs for staffing, electoral services departments maintain databases of temporary workers. But \"in this case some of them may already have made other plans or booked holidays\".\n\n\"Although returning officers are helped by permanent teams, this varies a lot. In some district councils it will only be two or three people and colleagues from other departments will have to pitch in.\n\nPolling stations have to be organised\n\n\"It's going to be an intense time for many of us, working 12-hour days.\"\n\nMr Turner is confident, however, that it will all come together in time, noting: \"We're a bit like the duck paddling away beneath the water but serene on the surface.\"\n\nThere's equally little hope of sleep for those in charge of political policy making. They will be working around the clock on putting together manifestos.\n\nIt's a particularly stressful time for the party in government, says Nick Pearce, head of the No 10 policy unit under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. As well as existing government duties, staff will be working \"flat-out\" to get the document finalised.\n\n\"A minister, usually from the Cabinet Office, takes overall responsibility, working with political staff from different departments to draft sections and liaise with the prime minister and her chief of staff,\" he explained.\n\nMinisters, lobbyists and Treasury staff also get heavily involved, trying to place pet projects and ensure big-ticket items are properly costed.\n\n\"There's huge pressure not to get anything wrong,\" said Mr Pearce. \"But working quickly like this there is certainly potential for that to happen.\"\n\nAnd what of getting the message out?\n\nSeven weeks is \"a very, very tight time frame\" for organising a marketing and advertising strategy, said Rachel Hamburger, an advertising executive and former Lib Dem campaigner.\n\n\"I'd be very surprised if we saw any nationwide broadcast campaigns comparable to famous ones of the past such as the Blair 'devil eyes',\" she said.\n\n\"With a long run-up, parties could be expected to run focus groups, market research and analysis of what is most important to their campaign before deploying adverts.\n\nThis time, she believes. parties will \"concentrate resources on individual seats and simple messages\".\n\nElsewhere in the media, broadcasters are preparing for election night. The BBC is reassigning hundreds of researchers, producers, camera crews and local reporters to put together its results programme.\n\nParties, meanwhile, have to deal with the small matter of ensuring there are candidates in place in 650 constituencies for people to elect.\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have both altered their normal selection procedures to speed things up, while all 54 of the SNP's existing MPs are expected to stand again.\n\nThe other parties are in varying states of readiness.\n\nThe Lib Dems say they have about 100 candidates still to pick. UKIP and Plaid Cymru will adopt the bulk of their candidates next week, while Greens' selection is under way with local electoral alliances under consideration.\n\nNone of Northern Ireland's parties are thought to have selected candidates, as talks continue about restoring devolved government.\n\nMost candidates will not have had a chance to allocate resources. It has already led some to take the unusual step of appealing for online donations.\n\nRegional party offices will provide MPs and activists with support, but the prevailing mood could be described as one of apprehensiveness.\n\nWhen asked to sum up how things were going, a fretful Conservative source said: \"Everything is basically on fire.\"\n\nA Labour campaigner replied with a series of distressed crying and screaming emojis.\n\nHowever, on a purely technical point, it's worth noting the 50-day gap between announcement and polling day is actually the longest since 1983.\n\nWhat's different this time is the lack of preamble, and thus preparation.\n\nAs the BBC's former head of political research David Cowling put it: \"Everyone was lulled into a false sense of security by assurances... and we're now completely stunned.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRomania captain Ilie Nastase was banned from the Fed Cup tie against Britain after an incident that left Johanna Konta in tears and her match suspended.\n\nIn Konta's match against Sorana Cirstea, Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nThe world number seven lost her serve in the next game and was visibly upset before play was halted for 25 minutes.\n\nThe world governing body said it was looking into \"this matter as well as previous comments made by Mr Nastase during the week\".\n\nNastase - a former world number one - had caused controversy in the build-up to the tie after being heard making a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn child.\n\nWhile Romanian player Simona Halep was answering a question in English about Williams' pregnancy on Friday, the 70-year-old turned to one of his other team members and added in Romanian: \"Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?\"\n\nHe also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media.\n\nBefore play had even started on Saturday, Nastase insulted a British journalist over their reporting of Friday's events, calling the Press Association's tennis correspondent \"stupid\".\n\nAnd as he was finally escorted away from the venue by a group of security guards, he abused the reporter again, calling her \"ugly\".\n\nWARNING: Some people may find the language below offensive\n\nThe incident that led to him being dismissed on Saturday happened when Cirstea was 2-1 up in the second set of the World Group II play-off tie in Constanta.\n\nAfter Konta and Keothavong had complained of calling out from the crowd at 1-1, Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul and abusive language.\n\nNastase called both Konta and Keothavong \"a bitch\" multiple times, as well as swearing at them.\n\nHe was sent off the court by referee Andreas Egli and, after initially taking a seat in the stands, was then escorted back to the locker room.\n\nKonta went 3-1 down after her serve was broken in the next game and was in tears before the umpire suspended play.\n\nRomania player Halep spoke to the crowd during the suspension to try to calm the situation.\n\nWhen play resumed in a subdued atmosphere, Konta won five games in a row to win the match 6-2 6-3, levelling the tie at 1-1.\n\nThe ITF explained Nastase was asked to leave \"for unsportsmanlike conduct, having already received two official warnings\".\n\nA statement added: \"Mr Nastase was also removed from the grounds due to his serious misconduct. His accreditation was removed and he will play no further part in the tie.\"\n\n\"It was not something anyone should experience,\" Konta told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It did upset me quite a lot and that was shown. I am not one to cry on court. It was slightly embarrassing but it affected me more than I would have liked.\n\n\"I know that Fed Cups can be quite emotional and can sometimes take an unexpected turn but it wasn't something I was prepared for.\n\n\"Obviously, it left me slightly unnerved but the best I could do was to make it as much about the tennis as possible. I felt I did that and am looking forward to that again tomorrow.\"\n\nKeothavong said she had \"expected a patriotic crowd\", but did not expect \"abusive language to be used\".\n\n\"It's unacceptable. No-one deserves to be spoken to in that way,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We've come here to play tennis. The referee made the right call to suspend the match, and during the break I was just trying to keep Johanna calm.\n\n\"All of the players - from both teams - handled the situation incredibly well. It's happened, it's done and there is a lot to play for tomorrow.\"\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association said it was \"deeply shocked\" by Saturday's events.\n\n\"There is no place in sport for that type of behaviour, it's not acceptable and the integrity of the sport must always be paramount,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We will be submitting an official complaint to the ITF after this tie and expect a full investigation into the actions by the Romanian captain.\"\n\n'Maybe next time I will cry'\n\n\"Someone crying cannot stop a match,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"From a tennis point of view, Johanna deserved the win - she is a better player than me - but the behaviour of the British team was exaggerated.\n\n\"Why did we stop? Only because Johanna cried? I have never cried on the court because someone told me something. You have to toughen up.\n\n\"OK, at 2-1 you take our captain out, that was the right decision, but then at 3-1 I break you and now you cry. I am not saying it was fake, but it was not logical.\n\n\"Next time I'm in trouble I will cry, maybe I can go off the court. As Romanians we get double insulted because of our nation but it's OK, we are tough. Tougher than British people apparently.\"\n\nBefore play started on Saturday, Nastase went into the media centre to seek out British journalists over their reporting of the comments he made about Williams at Friday's news conference.\n\nPress Association Sport reported that their tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks was the only member of the British media present in the room at the time and that he said to her: \"Why did you write that? You're stupid, you're stupid.\"\n\nPA Sport has sent details of Nastase's remarks to the International Tennis Federation.\n\n\"He repeatedly called me stupid, asked me why what he said was racist,\" said Crooks.\n\n\"I explained we simply reported what he said and that it was unnecessary to make such a comment about colour. He said the English were out to get him and called me stupid a few more times.\n\n\"Fortunately he was across the other side of the room from me and there were other journalists around so it was unpleasant rather than threatening.\n\n\"But it is certainly not the behaviour you would expect of someone in his position and wholly unnecessary, especially given he did not dispute the accuracy of what was reported.\"\n\nAnd when Nastase was escorted from the venue on Saturday he confronted Crooks again, calling her \"ugly\" as he was being led away by security.\n\nWhen asked about the comments made about Williams and to Keothavong on Friday, he told told BBC Sport: \"That's Nastase. He was all the time with a lot of jokes. That's why everybody likes him.\n\n\"He didn't make any mistakes. It was not racist, you cannot take it seriously. I'm sure it was just a joke,\" Cosac added.\n\n\"What I know is that he is a very good friend with Yannick Noah and he played many tournaments together with Arthur Ashe [Noah and Ashe are the only black men to win Grand Slam singles titles] - I'm sure he didn't say something wrong.\"\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Romania took the lead when Halep won 26 of the last 33 points on her way to comfortably beating Heather Watson 6-4 6-1.\n\nWorld number five Halep increased her intensity at 4-4 and broke Watson to love before serving out to take the opening set for the hosts.\n\nWatson, ranked 113, struggled to cope with her rival as she lost her serve twice to love in the second set.\n\nThis was a very decorated player, but an increasingly isolated man, losing his cool on a spectacular scale.\n\nNastase appears to have no concept of why I, and my three British colleagues here in Constanta, felt his slurs and actions of Friday needed highlighting.\n\nHaving targeted one of the journalists in the morning, he turned his ire on his opposite number and her star player when battle was joined on the court.\n\nITF president Dave Haggerty says Nastase's conduct is \"unacceptable\". They have issued more than one stern statement this weekend, but will be judged on their deeds, rather than their words.\n\nIf the ITF do not act, then the Romanian Federation clearly will not either. Their president cannot understand why we do not appreciate Nastase's sense of humour.\n\nWhy can't we see that his captain is more than entitled to make derogatory comments about Serena Williams - because many of his best friends are black?", "What is the most memorable moment in the World Snooker Championship's 40-year history at the Crucible Theatre?\n\nThe sport's showpiece event was first held at the iconic Sheffield venue in 1977, and to mark the 40th anniversary of the move, the BBC is broadcasting a special documentary.\n\nHost Steve Davis chats to snooker greats Dennis Taylor, who beat him in the famous black-ball final of 1985, Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White as well as Crucible superfans Stephen Fry, Gary Lineker, Johnny Vegas and Richard Osman - plus Lauren Higgins, daughter of two-time world champion Alex Higgins.\n\nTo tie in with the programme we have selected 10 famous moments from the past 40 years and want you to pick your top three from the shortlist below.\n\nTo celebrate 40 years of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, we want you to pick your top three most memorable moments.\n\nCliff Thorburn's first world title win against Alex Higgins saw drama taking place both on and off the table. The Canadian had fallen 5-1 and 9-5 behind, before producing a fightback to eventually triumph 18-16.\n\nHowever, the BBC were inundated with complaints after switching their coverage to broadcast live footage of the SAS storming the Iranian Embassy in London to end a six-day siege.\n\nAlex Higgins defeated Willie Thorne and Jimmy White en route to another final, coming up against six-time winner Ray Reardon. A superb 135 break gave him an 18-15 victory over the Welshman, but what followed was pure emotion.\n\nAs the Northern Irishman was handed the trophy and winners' cheque, the tears flowed, but the rest of the nation soon followed as Higgins mouthed \"my baby, my baby\" with 18-month old blonde-haired daughter Lauren and wife Lynn delivering a loving embrace in the arena.\n\nOnly one previous televised 147 break had been made in the sport's history before Thorburn - helped by a fluked opening red - pocketed all the balls up until the pink. \"Good luck, mate,\" whispered Jack Karnehm in the BBC commentary box, before Thorburn sunk the final black. He dropped to his knees and held the cue aloft in the air as the crowd erupted.\n\nWidely regarded as the best match in the championship's history, the 1985 final attracted 18.5 million viewers. Overwhelming favourite Steve Davis - aiming to become the first player in the modern game to win three consecutive world titles - looked to be on his way to a comfortable win after taking an 8-0 lead, before Taylor began an astonishing comeback.\n\nIn the deciding 35th frame, which lasted 68 minutes, Northern Irishman Taylor potted brown, blue and pink, taking the final frame to the final black, which Davis overcut from a blind pot. Taylor knocked it in and produced his famous, finger-wagging, cue waving celebration.\n\nThe following year Davis reached another final, coming up against Yorkshireman Joe Johnson, who had never won a tournament in seven years as a professional. A 150-1 outsider at the start of the tournament, Johnson's nerveless showing allowed him to complete a comfortable 18-12 victory - one of the sport's most unexpected triumphs.\n\nScot Stephen Hendry went into the final with a fractured left arm, which gave Jimmy White hope, having lost in the previous four finals and five times in total. At 37-24 up in the decider, White inexplicably missed a black off the spot, allowing Hendry to capitalise and claim his fourth world title… all against the same opponent.\n\n\"He's beginning to annoy me,\" White said afterwards. 'The Whirlwind' failed to reach another final.\n\nIt would take Ronnie O'Sullivan another four years to claim his first world title, but 20 years ago, 'The Rocket' whizzed round the table to stroke in the quickest 147 in history in the first round against Mick Price.\n\nTimed at a staggering five minutes and 20 seconds, the Englishman averaged nine seconds a shot, earning him £147,000 for the maximum and £18,000 for the highest break.\n\nThe phrase \"snooker from the gods\" was coined by BBC commentator Clive Everton during Hendry's 1999 semi-final win over O'Sullivan, which contained 22 breaks over 50, including four centuries apiece. Hendry had lost the 1997 final to Ken Doherty and gone out in the first round the following year, with question marks raised about his ability to win another world crown.\n\nHe silenced the doubters by beating Welshman Mark Williams 18-11 in the final for his seventh and last title, surpassing six-time winner Davis in the process.\n\nO'Sullivan had played just one match - in September - when he appeared at the tournament in April, but despite the lack of competitive action, produced some glorious snooker to collect his fifth world title by beating Barry Hawkins 18-12 in May's final.\n\nO'Sullivan compiled a record six centuries in the contest, as well as beating Hendry's record of 127 Crucible tons.\n\nStuart 'Ballrun' Bingham's name seemed to be on the trophy when the underdog beat former champions Graeme Dott and Ronnie O'Sullivan, before edging past Judd Trump in the semi-finals.\n\nHe still had a job to do against another former champion Shaun Murphy, but the 50-1 shot emerged victorious 18-15 to become the oldest first-time winner at the Crucible, claim the £300,000 prize money and move up to second in the world rankings.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nO'Sullivan led 10-6 overnight and breaks of 111, 67 and 55 on Saturday put him through to the last eight at the Crucible for the 18th time.\n\nA century and three 70-plus breaks in Friday's opening session had put him 6-2 up - a lead he did not relinquish.\n\nO'Sullivan will next face Ding Junhui, who took the last two frames for a 13-12 win over fellow Chinese Liang Wenbo.\n\nLast year's runner-up Ding had led 6-2 and 9-6, but English Open champion Liang composed himself superbly in the final session with breaks of 98 and 61 to go one frame from victory.\n\nHowever, Ding's stunning 132 and 70 saw him progress.\n\nDing said: \"It is quite hard because I played one of my best friends. I told him there are no winners or losers, we just play a good game.\"\n\nFour-time champion John Higgins came from behind to beat Northern Irishman Mark Allen 13-9.\n\nThe Scot was 5-2 behind at one stage, with Allen compiling three centuries, but Higgins showed his experience and nous to punish his opponent's mistakes, and goes on to face Kyren Wilson in the last eight.\n\nDefending champion Mark Selby leads China's Xiao Guodong 6-2 after the first session. The pair resume on Sunday at 14:30 BST.\n• None 'I feel a bit like James Blunt. He seems a cool dude' - Ronnie on responsibility and fun\n\nIn an extraordinary news conference following his first-round win over Gary Wilson, O'Sullivan had accused snooker authorities of \"bullying and intimidation\".\n\nAn already tasty encounter had further intrigue added to it by fellow Englishman and world number five Murphy, who dismissed his opponent's claims.\n\nIt seemed to fire O'Sullivan up, who looked focused and determined to produce a delightful performance in the first session, from which 2005 champion Murphy was unable to recover.\n\n\"I have practised for this tournament - given it six to seven weeks - but it does not necessarily mean you are going to play well. I have put my work in and hope to get stronger each match,\" said O'Sullivan.\n\n\"I don't pay attention to what anybody says. I come here, get into my own cocoon, and do what I have to do. It is a long slog - hard mentally, especially for me - but you just have to try your best.\"\n\nAfter defeat on Saturday, Murphy said: \"Any match against Ronnie is a test of your skills and you have to play at your absolute best to win. I did not.\n\n\"Ronnie played really, really well in the whole match and if he plays with that level of focus he will go on to win the title.\n\n\"I don't subscribe to the 'not being bothered' stuff. He certainly looks like he is trying.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nEden Hazard came off the bench to make the decisive contribution as Chelsea won an FA Cup semi-final classic against Tottenham at Wembley.\n\nHazard had been rested, along with Diego Costa, as Chelsea manager Antonio Conte shuffled his pack against a Spurs side high on confidence after closing to within four points of their London rivals in the Premier League title race.\n\nBut the Belgian emerged as substitute to help settle an enthralling encounter.\n\nWillian, in for Hazard, gave Chelsea the lead with a fine free-kick after five minutes but Harry Kane levelled for Spurs with an instinctive stooping header. Willian put Conte's side back in front from the penalty spot just before the break - Son Heung-min penalised for a foul on Victor Moses.\n\nSpurs seemed to have the momentum after Dele Alli converted Christian Eriksen's brilliant pass seven minutes after half-time - before Hazard was introduced as Chelsea's trump card, along with Costa, on the hour.\n\nHazard drove powerfully past Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris after 75 minutes and Nemanja Matic set up an appearance alongside Arsenal or Manchester City in the FA Cup final with a spectacular drive five minutes later.\n• None Pochettino 'not worried' about title challenge after defeat\n\nConte raised eyebrows with a team selection that saw Belgian outcast Michy Batshuayi given a rare outing on this huge occasion.\n\nIt led to suggestions Conte was prioritising the Premier League title race with Spurs after last weekend's jaded performance in a 2-0 defeat at Manchester United.\n\nThe winner takes the spoils, though, and Conte has every right to accept the plaudits as Chelsea won a magnificent game of football to reach the final.\n\nConte used Hazard and Costa at a crucial juncture - on the hour, with Spurs building a head of attacking steam and looking the more assertive side - after Alli had equalised for the second time.\n\nHazard, a scourge of Spurs having scored the goal that effectively ended their title chances last season, was involved in what turned out to be the defining moment 15 minutes after coming on, hitting a low drive that gave Chelsea a lead they would not surrender.\n\nIt was also an illustration that the strength of Chelsea's squad runs deeper than Tottenham's as they were able not only to bring on Hazard and Costa but also Cesc Fabregas to change the face of the game.\n\nSpurs counterpart Mauricio Pochettino did not enjoy such success with his tactical tweaks, especially the decision to play Son as a left wing-back.\n\nThe South Korean never settled to his task or looked like reproducing the attacking threat that has been such a feature of Spurs' recent outstanding run of form - and his decision to go to ground provided an open invitation for referee Martin Atkinson to award a 43rd-minute penalty for his challenge on Moses.\n\nConte and Chelsea were the winners of this battle.\n\nIf Spurs do make Wembley their home next season while a new stadium is built at White Hart Lane, they must somehow find a way of lifting the curse that has afflicted them on recent visits here.\n\nSince beating Chelsea 2-1 to left the League Cup in 2008, they have played at Wembley nine times - winning once, losing six times and drawing once before today.\n\nThis was their third FA Cup semi-final loss in that time, following a 2-0 loss to Portsmouth in the 2010 FA Cup semi-final and a 5-1 loss to Chelsea two years later. They also lost League Cup finals to Manchester United in 2009 and Chelsea in 2015.\n\nThe Champions League also proved an unhappy home this season as they went out at the group phase after staging their games at Wembley.\n\nAs the Spurs players trooped off, they must have wondered what they have to do to win here because - for large parts - this was an excellent performance in a match of the highest quality.\n\nSpurs looked to have the game in their hands at 2-2 but could not provide the sure touch in front of goal that has served them so well in recent times, despite dominating possession.\n\nThis failing was underlined by Chelsea's ability to ruthlessly punish every Spurs flaw, from Lloris not quite covering Willian's free-kick to Son's injudicious dive to concede the penalty.\n\nSpurs are developing into a side with outstanding talent in all parts of the pitch but they were brought down by Chelsea's streetwise, experienced approach and Conte's clever use of his greater resources.\n\nSpurs must have felt the door to a Premier League title triumph was ajar after their seventh successive home win against Bournemouth last weekend reduced Chelsea's lead to four points before they lost at Old Trafford.\n\nChelsea were hit hard by that loss and suddenly questions were being asked about a team that looked to be making serene progress towards the finishing line, as Spurs suddenly appeared on their shoulders.\n\nThis, however, was an emphatic response of resilience and brilliance from Conte's side as they reasserted themselves over their closest rivals with a win they will hope has enough psychological impact to give them that extra push towards a title that has looked theirs for so long.\n\n'As a coach, you must take a strong decision'\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: \"I feel proud. We were fantastic in the way we played and in our philosophy. They had five shots and scored four goals and we score only two. The penalty for me was a soft penalty or was not a penalty.\n\n\"Only now we can look forward. We are four points behind them and we will try to win our next game. I am not worried. The team is strong; we are focused. We were competing today with one of the best teams in Europe. Did we deserve more? Sure, but that is football.\n\n\"Now we will try to be calm, watch the game again and try to improve. We are in a process of trying to improve. If we cannot win the FA Cup this season we will try again next season.\"\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte: \"I am proud for this achievement. It is great for the players for me. This is my first season in England and it is great to fight for the title and reach the final of the FA Cup, a great competition.\n\n\"During the season there is a moment as a coach you must take a strong decision. You have to take a risk. If you win the plan worked, if you don't the responsibility is on you. I think today our plan worked very well.\"\n\nChelsea goalscorer Nemanja Matic: \"It was a nice goal! But first of all I want to say I am very happy for the team, that we're going to play in the final.\n\n\"It's great when you have a chance to play in this stadium. For our supporters, you can see this is something special. To have a chance to win this trophy is significant for us as players.\n\n\"This result gives us more confidence of course - it's always good to win. Now we have to recover quickly for the next game on Tuesday.\"\n\nLucky number seven for Chelsea - the stats\n• None Chelsea have reached their seventh FA Cup final of the 21st century, more than any other side in that time (Arsenal could equal it on Sunday).\n• None Tottenham have now lost their past seven FA Cup semi-finals in a row, the longest ever such run in the competition.\n• None Eden Hazard has scored five goals against Tottenham in his Chelsea career, more than he has against any other side.\n• None Christian Eriksen's two assists mean he has provided more than any other player in all competitions among Europe's big five leagues this season (20).\n• None Including penalty shootouts, Chelsea have won 10 fixtures at the new Wembley Stadium, second only to Manchester United (11).\n• None Meanwhile, Tottenham have suffered seven defeats at the ground (including shootouts), more than any other side.\n• None Harry Kane has scored 21 goals in his last 24 London derby matches in all competitions for Spurs.\n• None Dele Alli has 20 goals in all competitions this season, double his tally from last season.\n\nBoth teams turn their attention back to the Premier League title race in midweek.\n\nChelsea host Southampton at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday (19:45 BST), while Tottenham visit Crystal Palace on Wednesday (20:00 BST).\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 4, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dermot O'Leary and Davina McCall were among the hosts\n\nITV's The Nightly Show didn't get off to the strongest start - but its fortunes improved over its eight-week run.\n\nThe first series of the new entertainment show drew to a close on Friday after 40 episodes.\n\nIt was broadcast every weeknight in the 10pm slot normally occupied by the news, and saw a different celebrity take over presenting duties each week.\n\nThe show struggled at the beginning - viewing figures quickly dropped after the first episode hosted by David Walliams and critics weren't too keen on it either.\n\nBut things improved as the series progressed, with the show gradually building an online audience and some presenters proving particularly popular with viewers.\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"ITV is doing better than any other terrestrial channel this year in terms of year-on-year performance, we've had a really strong start to the year.\n\n\"We're in a strong position to try some new things and experiment, it is imperative we try new things, which have the potential to enhance our entertainment offering.\"\n\nLet's take look back over The Nightly Show's first season.\n\nDavid Walliams was the first of The Nightly Show's guest presenters\n\nDavid Walliams was on hosting duties for The Nightly Show's first week - and helped the series start strongly with an average of 2.9 million live viewers tuning in for its opening episode.\n\nBut his performance received negative reviews from critics and the audience dropped to 1.2 million by Friday's programme.\n\n\"I think David Walliams just isn't a natural presenter, and it really came across,\" says Frances Taylor, TV critic for the Radio Times.\n\n\"He's a great actor and comedian but we'd never seen him at the helm of a programme, and if you're going to have revolving hosts you've got to have someone strong to kick it off.\n\n\"If you don't, viewers will lose interest, and once they've gone, it's difficult to get them back.\"\n\nDermot O'Leary was one of the most popular presenters with viewers\n\nWalliams put the viewing figures and poor reviews down to people being annoyed about the News at Ten being moved back by half an hour in the schedules.\n\nAfter his stint, John Bishop, Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary, Gordon Ramsay, Bradley Walsh and Jason Manford all had a turn.\n\nSome presenters were more popular with viewers and critics - particularly O'Leary, who was booked for a second week later in the run.\n\nRamsay proved a successful booking too, and he helped the show build a stronger online following, partly due to the star guests he drew to the show.\n\nSeveral of Gordon Ramsay's segments went viral, such as musician John Legend's comic take on Ramsay's sweary language\n\nUK chat show hosts such as Graham Norton, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross regularly attract high-profile guests, but their shows only air once a week.\n\nWhen you've got five nights of shows to fill, talent booking is a greater challenge, especially outside the US, says author, lecturer and television executive Lyndsay Duthie.\n\n\"In the US, you've got A-list guests night after night because there's a bigger talent pool to draw from,\" she says.\n\n\"James Corden has Madonna and Michelle Obama taking part in Carpool Karaoke, which makes it not only entertaining, you can't believe the talent they've got on there.\"\n\nThe Nightly Show struggled a little on this front - but it did manage to attract some big names as it went on, particularly the week Ramsay was in charge.\n\n\"The stuff Gordon Ramsay did with John Legend has got such global appeal because they're such big stars in America,\" says Frances Taylor.\n\nIn one segment, which was a hit, Legend was seen at a piano, singing some of the foul-mouthed chef's most famous TV insults.\n\n\"If you've got names like that then people all round the world will recognise them, and that means that it probably will go viral, and that's the whole point of shows like this,\" Taylor adds.\n\n\"Bradley Walsh interviewing Louise Redknapp didn't have quite the same worldwide appeal.\"\n\nThe Oscars mix-up occurred the evening before The Nightly Show launched\n\nOne of the benefits of producing a show which is recorded on the same day it's broadcast is the writers' ability to put in jokes about the day's news events.\n\nTaylor says: \"A show like this lives and dies by the writing, and The Nightly Show was billed as a topical programme, but there was hardly any topicality in it.\"\n\n\"The Oscars gaffe, which happened the day before their first show, was such a gift as a topic, but David Walliams could only come up with a couple of poor envelope swapping gags.\"\n\nShe compares it to the pastiche The Late Late Show did in the US, where Corden dressed up as Emma Stone and sang a parody song about the Oscars mix-up, which Taylor says was a stronger treatment.\n\n\"If The Nightly Show comes back it needs to play on the topicality. The fact this is filmed a couple of hours before transmission, they're not maximising that opportunity.\"\n\nBut Duthie says: \"In the US you have teams and teams of people writing the opening monologues, which is a luxury that most British shows don't have.\"\n\nJason Manford hosted the show in its penultimate week\n\nITV pushed the News at Ten back by half an hour to make room for The Nightly Show as part of the broadcaster's initiative to try out what it calls \"Five Nights of New\" schedule.\n\nBut, says Duthie, where The Nightly Show was concerned, it may have suffered due to its chosen timeslot. The most successful chat shows in the US start much later in the evening.\n\n\"In the UK we're much more conservative,\" she says. \"By 10:30pm, peak time is over. But if a show is on later, you're catching people coming home from the pub late at night, and a lot of younger viewers.\"\n\nShe adds that part of the problem facing any new nightly entertainment show is the difference in audience expectation between the UK and the US.\n\n\"We've gotten so used to watching light-hearted entertainment shows on Friday and Saturdays that a lot of British viewers aren't used to upbeat, happy content on a Monday evening,\" Duthie says.\n\n\"Also, perhaps the networks wouldn't pay for original programming at 11:30pm in the UK - budgets are usually spent by about 10:30.\"\n\nBut she praised ITV for being willing to try something new in the first place: \"As much as I love the News at Ten, it wasn't performing very well for ITV, so commercially it was a good decision to look at that 10 o'clock slot.\"\n\nITV pushed its evening news bulletin, fronted by Tom Bradby, back in the schedule\n\nITV's director of TV Kevin Lygo told Broadcast: \"In terms of The Nightly Show, this eight-week run is about extending the 10pm hour, extending the primetime feel of ITV, and seeing how that looks and feels during this period and how viewers respond to something other than repeats, alongside the News.\n\n\"The intention was to make that hour feel a bit fresh and different with some stunt scheduling and I think we've done that.\n\n\"After the run has finished we'll obviously look at the shows and all the data and discuss what next.\n\n\"The broader point is - TV is a risk business, you need to try new things, and launch them with confidence and visibility to give them the best chance of success.\n\n\"And you've got keep doing that, and we will.\"\n\nJohn Bishop and Bradley Walsh presented The Nightly Show during its run\n\nUS chat show hosts - from Ellen DeGeneres to Jimmy Fallon - now depend heavily on building a strong online following to match their viewing figures.\n\nThe Nightly Show had mixed fortunes on this front, with some segments not attracting many views, but others going viral worldwide.\n\nAt the time of writing, a compilation of Ramsay's best pranks during his week on the show has attracted 3.4 million views.\n\nFay Ripley giving parenting tips to John Bishop, in contrast, has had just a couple of hundred.\n\nBut while social media success can give a show a huge boost, it can also cause the problem of shows being judged too quickly.\n\nFleabag's strong online following helped it build an audience\n\n\"Now you get such a snap decision with everything,\" says Taylor. \"If something isn't immediately funny, you see people all over Twitter saying 'this is rubbish'.\n\n\"Social media can be great because you can build an audience for a show and make it an underground hit, like Fleabag.\n\n\"But conversely, when you've got something high profile that people don't enjoy, the knives are out.\n\n\"To some extent, all publicity is good publicity, but if a show can't breathe, it will put people off. Once that dies down, more people are likely to come to it naturally.\"\n\nThe ITV spokesman said the show's online clip performance had been \"impressive, amassing more than 40 million views in total for its online content across various platforms, and more than 50,000 subscribers and followers\".\n\nEllen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon's US shows have a strong online presence\n\n\"The figures reflected the viral nature of the content. The John Legend/Gordon Ramsay sketch accrued more than 16.5 million views on Facebook. It was shared more than 310,000 times.\n\n\"The Gordon Ramsay Blender clip accrued over 4.3 million views on Facebook. It also trended at number one worldwide on YouTube for three days as well as accruing over 3.5 million views on YouTube.\"\n\nThe clip saw Ramsay pretend to cut his hand in a food blender, to the horror of the audience and guest Frank Skinner.\n\n\"It was the most talked about video on the Internet for the weekend of 1-2 April,\" ITV said.\n\nAs for The Nightly Show's future, ITV will now take some time to examine how the first series performed in more detail, before deciding whether to commission another.\n\nITV said: \"We don't normally make decisions on recommissions until after a series has ended.\"\n\nWhether it comes back in its current form or returns with a few tweaks, we could well be seeing much more of The Nightly Show in the future.\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.", "Theresa May has ruled out cuts to the UK foreign aid budget if she wins the election but doubts have been cast on other existing Conservative pledges.\n\nThe prime minister said the commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on aid \"will remain\" although it must be spent \"in the most effective way\".\n\nIt follows speculation she was ready to drop it from the Tory manifesto.\n\nBut she declined to guarantee existing spending on state pensions which ensures a minimum 2.5% annual increase.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Philip Hammond has hinted that a pledge in the 2015 Conservative manifesto not to raise income tax, VAT or National Insurance before 2020 could be abandoned.\n\nThe 0.7% aid commitment was adopted by David Cameron when he became prime minister in 2010 and later enshrined in law.\n\nThe UK has met the international target - which originates in United Nations aspirations from the 1970s - every year since 2013. There has been talk it might be among a number of high-profile policies championed by Mrs May's predecessor that she might drop to ease pressure on the public finances.\n\nBut asked about its future at an election campaign event in Berkshire, Mrs May said: \"Let's be clear, the 0.7% commitment remains and will remain.\n\n\"What we need to do though is look at how that money is spent and make sure that we are able to spend that money in the most effective way.\"\n\nFormer chancellor George Osborne welcomed Mrs May's pledge, tweeting that it was the \"morally right\" thing to do and would maintain the UK's global \"influence\".\n\nLeading aid organisations, including Unicef and Save The Children, expressed delight at the development, which comes 24 hours after Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates warned that ending the commitment would cost lives.\n\nBut the Taxpayers Alliance campaign group said it was disappointed that the \"arbitrary and meaningless\" target was not being dispensed with.\n\nForeign aid has been ringfenced from public spending cuts over the past seven years and has been one of the few areas to see a large increase in budgets.\n\nIn 2015, the last year for which figures are available, the UK spent £12.1bn on overseas development assistance. This was projected to rise to £13.3bn in 2016.\n\nThis has proved unpopular with some Tory MPs at a time of austerity in domestic public services and amid media reports about waste in certain aid projects.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Chris Mason said a senior Conservative source, familiar with the aid budget, refused to be drawn as to whether this amounted to an acceptance of how aid spending is currently defined, or could potentially include a broadening of what would count as aid spending in future.\n\nThe triple lock is one of the government's most expensive policy commitments\n\nAsked about another of the Conservatives' 2015 election manifesto commitments - the so-called \"triple lock\" on the state pension which guarantees an annual rise of at least 2.5% - Mrs May declined to confirm it would stay in force.\n\n\"What I would say to pensioners, is just look what the Conservatives in government have done,\" she said.\n\n\"Pensioners today, £1,250 a year better off as a result of action that has been taken. We were very clear about the need to support people in their old age and that's exactly what we've done\".\n\nThe triple lock - which pegs the state pension to annual increases in prices or earnings, whichever is higher, or a minimum of 2.5% - was introduced by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government in 2010.\n\nA review carried out by the former CBI boss John Cridland earlier this year recommended it be ended. He warned that if it remained in place, an extra 1% of GDP - equivalent to £19.5bn in current prices - would probably have to be spent on pensions by 2036-37.\n\nLabour, which has vowed to retain the lock and other pensioner benefits such as the winter fuel allowance if elected, said its opponents were \"abandoning older people\".\n\nSpeaking in Washington DC, Mr Hammond also cast doubt on David Cameron's 2015 pledge not to raise income tax, VAT or National Insurance before 2020.\n\nHe told the BBC that while no final decision had been taken, the government needed \"flexibility\" on taxes.\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Kamal Ahmed said it was the clearest hint yet that Mr Hammond - who was forced to backtrack on his proposed Budget rise in NI contributions for the self-employed - would like to see the promise significantly amended if not ditched altogether.", "The claim: Speaking in Swindon, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Half a million children are now being taught in super-size classes of over 36.\"\n\nReality Check verdict: This is incorrect. Actually about 42,000 pupils are in classes of 36 or more - about 1% of children. Mr Corbyn appears to be confusing statistics. It is right, as the earlier Labour press release said, to say about half a million pupils in state-funded primary schools in England are in classes of between 31 and 35.\n\nLabour claims that pupils in England's primary schools \"are packed like sardines\" in classrooms.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said in a speech in Swindon on Friday: \"Half a million children are now being taught in super-size classes of over 36.\"\n\nThis is at odds with what his party's press release said, which was that half a million children in state-funded primary schools are in classes between 31 and 35 pupils. That's about 12% of primary school pupils.\n\nThat figure is confirmed by government figures from the school census (see tables 6a and 6b), which also says that about 42,000 pupils are in classes of 36 pupils or more, which is about 1% of primary school pupils.\n\nGovernment rules say no infant school child should be taught in a class size greater than 30 - that's children in Key Stage 1 who are aged five to seven.\n\nThat rule can be waived in exceptional circumstances - usually if twins or siblings are admitted to the school, or a child in care has to be given a place.\n\nThe official school census for 2016 shows that more than half of Key Stage 1 classes with one teacher have either 29 or 30 pupils in them. Of the infant classes with more than 30 pupils, roughly 95% have 31 or 32 pupils. Classes with more than 32 children in them are uncommon.\n\nRules on classes sizes do not apply to children in Key Stage 2, which is ages seven to 11.\n\nBetween 2006 and 2016, the average Key Stage 1 class grew from 25.6 to 27.4 but at Key Stage 2, where there is no cap on numbers, it has remained stable at around 27 pupils in a class on average.\n\nWhile numbers of pupils in oversized classes has increased, the number of primary school aged children has increased by about half a million over that period.\n\nSince 2010, the proportion of children in classes of 31 to 35 pupils has risen from 10.6% to 11.9%.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nDefending champions Saracens survived a first-half examination from Munster before taking control to reach a third Champions Cup final in four years.\n\nMunster dominated the first half but somehow trailed 6-3 at the break, Tyler Bleyendaal landing one penalty to two from Owen Farrell.\n\nA converted Mako Vunipola try saw Saracens start to pull away.\n\nAnd, with Farrell landing his shots at goal for a 100% record, a Chris Wyles try saw them home with some ease.\n\nSaracens will face the winner of Sunday's Clermont Auvergne v Leinster match in the final in Edinburgh on Saturday, 13 May.\n\nThe scoreline might suggest it was yet another ruthless performance from Saracens, who did the English and European double last year, but for the first 40 minutes it looked as though it might be two-time former winners Munster heading to Murrayfield.\n\nTheir run to the last four has been hugely emotional, with head coach Anthony Foley dying the night before they were due to face Racing 92 in their opening match in this season's European Champions Cup.\n\nDetermined to honour the memory of a true Munster man, they had rekindled memories of their European reign a decade ago and their passionate supporters filled nine-tenths of the 51,300 seats in the Aviva Stadium.\n\nRoared on by their fans they had two-thirds of the territory and three-quarters of the possession in the opening half, but superb defence from Saracens kept them at bay and ensured that the romantics hoping for a Munster victory were denied by the pragmatists from north London.\n\nSaracens are renowned for the ruthless efficiency of their game, content to kick for territory before launching attacks, and happy to use their 'Wolfpack' defence to not only keep the opposition at bay but drive them back behind the gainline.\n\nAnd it was their defence that kept them in it during an opening 40 minutes that saw them pinned inside their own half by the accurate boots of Munster half-backs Duncan Williams and Bleyendaal.\n\nIndiscipline prevented Saracens from building any momentum of their own.\n\nBut no matter how hard Munster pressed they could not break down the Londoners' defensive wall, and so obdurate were they that, despite being under the cosh for long periods, the champions turned round three points to the good.\n\nAfter the restart it was the most workmanlike part of the game that saw them wrest the upper hand, with their front row increasingly dominant in the scrums as tight-head Vincent Koch turned on the power.\n\nA trickle of penalties enabled England sharp-shooter Farrell to edge them further into the lead and after cutting out the silly penalties of the first half they assumed total control.\n\nThey were still far from perfect and added two more bad misses to one in the first half, when Richard Wigglesworth had dropped the ball with a clear run to the line.\n\nFirst Alex Goode passed behind Chris Ashton with a try begging, before George Kruis showed his rugby intelligence to pick and drive from a ruck, only to drop the ball as he reached to score.\n\nBut England prop Vunipola rumbled over to give them a 10-point lead and with their big carriers - brother Billy prominent among them - now smashing over the gainline, the momentum had swung entirely.\n\nReplacement Wyles latched on to a Farrell grubber kick to put them out of sight and although Lions tourist Stander scored a late consolation, it was long since clear that it was the businesslike Londoners who were headed to the final.\n\n'Our togetherness shone through' - what the managers said\n\n\"I thought our defence was extraordinary. We soaked up a lot of pressure and coped with their attack really well.\n\n\"The game started exactly as they would have wanted. We couldn't really escape our half in the first half but our defence remained good.\n\n\"It was a brilliant occasion. Munster's supporters are as good as any in the world. In the face of that, the fight and the togetherness we had to show, to win the game was brilliant.\"\n\n\"We played against a team that were better than us. That's a reality.\n\n\"Even though there were stages that were close and we had a few opportunities, I thought the scoreboard was a true reflection of the game.\"\n\nReplacements: Saili for Taute (55), Sweetnam for Earls (63), Keatley for Bleyendaal (71), Cronin for Kilcoyne (56), Marshall for N Scannell (60), Archer for J Ryan (63), D. O'Callaghan for P O'Mahony (52), Deysel for O'Donnell (50).\n\nReplacements: Lozowski for Bosch (74), Wyles for Maitland (62), Spencer for Wigglesworth (71), Lamositele for M Vunipola (71), Brits for George (50), du Plessis for Koch (71), Hamilton for Itoje (74), S Burger for Wray (55).\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Substitute Eden Hazard fires home for Chelsea to put them 3-2 up against Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "FGM is illegal in the UK but campaigners warn children are still taken abroad to have it done\n\nA case of female genital mutilation was discovered every three days, on average, by maternity staff in Wales last year, according to new figures. One victim - an asylum seeker mother-of-three living in Swansea - describes her struggle to protect her two daughters from the practice. Names have been withheld to protect her children.\n\nI was cut when I was two days old. I didn't know anything about it until years later my mum told me I had it done.\n\nFor me, growing up in Benin City in Nigeria, it was normal. Everyone had it done. The eldest of five daughters I was aware of my younger sisters having it done when I was growing up.\n\nBut I would just go off to play when the cutter came, I didn't really realise what was going on.\n\nIt wasn't until the cutter came to see my youngest sister I realised what was happening. By then she was seven and I was 12, so I was a bit more aware.\n\nMy mother told my sister in the weeks before: \"Someone is coming to cut you, like I cut your sisters, my mum cut me and my great-grandmother cut her. It is nothing.\"\n\nThen I asked her about it. She said it was a man who cut me, I bled for an hour and nearly died. After that they didn't cut my sisters until they were a bit older as they were scared they would die.\n\nEven though I knew this, I couldn't tell my sister because if she didn't have it done or tried to run away people would have told her she was unclean, the community would have despised her and she would have been told she didn't belong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat day, the cutter had already been to see other girls. The cutter lay a small mat down in the back yard of our house and had pieces of broken bottles, razor blades to do the cutting. They were not clean, they had blood on them already.\n\nShe had a big lady with her, she forced my sister onto the ground and sat on her chest to hold her still. My sister could hardly breathe and couldn't move her arms or legs. The cutter was behind the lady and got to work.\n\nMy sister was fighting, she was screaming, but there was nothing she could do. I was screaming \"stop this\".\n\nBy the end there was blood everywhere and my sister was unconscious. She had cried so much she didn't have anything left to give.\n\nThey said to give her water and tried to clean her up. That was all she had to make her feel better - water.\n\nI just thought it was something that had to happen or you wouldn't be accepted by the community. I didn't know any different.\n\nMy mum told you: \"If you don't do it your husband in future will not like you, will not respect you, will not appreciate that you are a proper woman. You will be cast out by the community\".\n\nThey want the man to enjoy sex with you, it is all for the man, but why go through pain for just the man to enjoy sex with you when you don't enjoy it? It does not make sense to me.\n\nWhen I came to England in 2007 I started to realise it was not necessarily the natural thing I had been brought up to believe. When I had my first boyfriend it was painful both during sex and after sex, I couldn't understand it. But I had no-one to talk to about it. I just assumed it was normal.\n\nWhen I fell pregnant they told me I couldn't give birth naturally, so I had to have a Caesarean with both my girls and my little boy.\n\nMy daughter will soon turn seven - the age when my sister had it done - and I am so scared that someone will try to do it to her.\n\nFor links to organisations offering support on FGM visit BBC Action Line\n\nI'm so happy my girls weren't born in Nigeria - if they had been my mum would have quietly come to my house, even if I said no, when I was at the market she would have come and had them cut.\n\nI'm no longer in touch with family back in Nigeria, and thank god for that at the moment because of the risk of FGM. I'm just trying to bring my girls up, to teach them about my country and gradually teach them about FGM. But how do you explain FGM to a seven-year-old child?\n\nI'm afraid to take them back to Nigeria to visit, I would really love to, but how safe is it? Even though it is banned there now it is still a way of life, because their foremothers have been doing it for a long time they continue to do it.\n\nIf I saw my mum, my sister or my grandmother there would be a very-massive risk for my girls.\n\nCampaigners believe young girls are targeted for FGM in the summer holidays - when there is time for them to recover\n\nNo way will I let someone do that to my girls, no way. They are happy, they are free, they are so blessed.\n\nBut even though we are in Wales now I'm so worried about someone seeing them and thinking they must have it done, and taking an opportunity to do it.\n\nI know people might think \"why would they cut my daughters if they don't know them?\" but they are from a community that practises it. They might think this is a young girl, she needs to have it done.\n\nI can never leave them anywhere, I can never leave them with anyone.\n\nSurvivors like me need to talk about being cut so that people know about it, so we are empowered to protect our children from it. If everyone keeps quiet, how are we going to stop it?\n\nI want my daughters to know I stood up to speak against it, that is what I think my mum should have done for me and I want to do it for them.\n\nJust as generations have been doing it, maybe my generation will be the one that stops it.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton goalkeeper David Stockdale scored two freakish own goals as the Seagulls lost at Norwich to miss out on securing the Championship title.\n\nBoth came from Alex Pritchard shots, the first smashing the bar and rebounding in off Stockdale's back.\n\nAlbion's Jamie Murphy had a penalty appeal waved away before Pritchard curled against the post, with the ball again hitting Stockdale and going in.\n\nThe Seagulls, who sealed promotion on Monday, were well short of their best.\n• None Relive Norwich's victory over Brighton as it happened\n\nChris Hughton's Brighton needed a win to become champions and came closest to scoring when Glenn Murray saw his header cleared off the line by Jonny Howson.\n\nThe ineffective Anthony Knockaert, recently named as the Championship's player of the year, was replaced just after the hour mark, though his side remain seven points clear of Newcastle, who have three games to play.\n\nEighth-placed Norwich, who cannot make the play-offs, remarkably did not register a single shot on target despite winning comfortably.\n\nThe Canaries could have gone ahead early on but Nelson Oliveira could not quite reach Howson's dangerous cross.\n\nBrighton must now wait until at least Monday to clinch the title, as Newcastle must avoid defeat against Preston to take the race into the penultimate round of fixtures.\n\n\"A few weeks ago we hadn't beaten a side above us all season - now we have beaten three of them and that is very pleasing.\n\n\"I thought we deserved to win, even though I have just been told that we didn't have a single shot on target, unless you count the ones against the woodwork.\n\n\"I thought we controlled the game for most of the time. I thought we passed the ball really well, especially in the first half, and also defended well, especially when they were putting balls into our box.\"\n\nBrighton & Hove Albion manager Chris Hughton on the two own goals:\n\n\"That's not something I have ever seen before. It happens to keepers from time to time, but not usually twice in one game.\n\n\"Obviously there is no blame attached to David at all - he was just trying to make the saves and the ball just came back off him.\n\n\"What I would say is that we were punished for allowing the player to get his shot away by not closing him down on the edge of the box.\n\n\"Norwich have got a lot of quality in their side and when that happens you are asking for trouble.\"\n• None Offside, Norwich City. Ryan Bennett tries a through ball, but Nélson Oliveira is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March tries a through ball, but Chuba Akpom is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Bruno.\n• None Substitution, Norwich City. Wes Hoolahan replaces Josh Murphy because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mitchell Dijks (Norwich City) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bruno.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Steven Naismith.\n• None Attempt saved. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Parliament voted for an early general election on Wednesday, with 522 MPs in favour. However, 13 voted no. But who are the 13 and why are they against the poll?\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1987\n\nWhat positions has he held? Parliamentary commissioner for administration (June 1987 - March 1997), Health Committee member (October 2005 - November 2007), Public Administration Committee member (July 1997 - May 2001).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Campbell is 73 and has been treated for stomach cancer. However, he is on the road to recovery after an operation and chemotherapy. He announced earlier on Wednesday he would stand again for election as it would be the party's national executive committee who would choose his replacement rather than the local party - not something he was keen on.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 1984\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow secretary of state for international development (January 1989 - January 1992), shadow secretary of state for Wales (July 1992 - November 1992), shadow minister for culture, media and sport (November 1992 - January 1993), chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party (May 2005 - December 2006).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The Welsh MP said the only reason the prime minister called the election was a \"cut and run tactic\" because of how difficult Brexit negotiations will be. As a former MEP, she said members of the European Parliament were \"not going to roll over with a handshake and a smile, they are going to talk tough and be tough\". Ms Clwyd added: \"Nobody is ready for this general election. I do think this is an irrelevance considering what is happening in the world at the moment.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2001\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Member of multiple committees, including the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (July 2015 - present), the Privacy and Injunctions Committee (July 2011 - March 2012) and the Consolidation Bills Committee (December 2010 - March 2015).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Farrelly has one of the smallest majorities in the UK, with only 650, so it may be understandable why he was not keen for an election. But he told a local newspaper reporter for the Stoke Sentinel that he voted against it because he believes it will be \"bad for the country\" and the unity of the UK.\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1997 (the seat changed from Poplar and Canning Town to Poplar and Limehouse in 2010)\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Minister of state for environment, food and rural affairs (June 2009 - May 2010), shadow minister for environment, food and rural affairs (May 2010 - October 2010), shadow minister for transport (October 2010 - August 2013).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Fitzpatrick was planning to retire in 2020, but he will be standing for re-election. He said he voted no because he thought the prime minister was \"taking advantage of a lead in the opinion polls for purely party political advantage, not in the national interest.\" He added that Mrs May's \"misleading [of] the public... ought to have been objected to and opposed.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Shadow secretary of state for defence (June 2016 - Oct 2016) and shadow secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (October 2016 - February 2017).\n\nWhy did he vote no? It may be for personal reasons as he is due to get married on 6 May. He told the Daily Telegraph: \"Theresa May kind of has thrown a clanger into my life. We've had to cancel the honeymoon and we don't even know if we're getting married now, so I don't know. It's a bit of a disaster personally.\" But he has also said it was down to the way the government had gone about turning over the Fixed Term Parliament Act. \"At this critical time, it isn't the time for Theresa May to simply call an election when it is convenient,\" he said. \"Had a motion of no confidence in the government been on the table I would have voted for it.\"\n\nWhen did she win her seat? 1997\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow minister for the equalities office (October 2010 - April 2011) and shadow minister for equalities (April 2011 - October 2011).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The former Labour minister has announced she is not going to stand for re-election, saying she is \"bored by political squabbles over personalities\". Of the election she said: \"I can't believe that spending eight weeks of a time-limited negotiation period campaigning in an election rather than talking to our EU partners will strengthen her hand in negotiations with anyone outside her own Conservative Party.\"\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2014\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow minister for communities and local government (September 2015 - June 2016) and shadow minister for foreign and Commonwealth affairs (October 2016 - present).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The Greater Manchester MP said she voted against the election because of \"voter fatigue\". She told Buzzfeed that after a by-election that saw her become an MP, the 2015 general election, the referendum, and the mayoral race in 2017, there was the potential for low turnout. Ms McInnes added: \"I haven't met anyone who welcomes it, people just go 'oh no, not again'.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1970\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Member of the National Executive Committee (July 1979 - July 1992, July 1994 - July 1998, July 1999 - May 2010), vice-chair of the Labour Party (July 1987 - July 1988) and Party Chair (July 1988 - July 1989).\n\nWhy did he vote no? No official word from Mr Skinner, but during PMQs he asked for a guarantee that those Tory MPs under investigation for election expenses would not stand. For him, failure to do that would make the whole campaign \"the most squalid in my life time\". Perhaps not a surprise he voted against it then.\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1997\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Parliamentary secretary at the cabinet office (November 1999 - June 2001) and Lord Commissioner at the Treasury (June 2001 - May 2002).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Stringer condemned his own party for not opposing the snap election and \"falling into Theresa May's trap\" to boost the Tories. He added: \"The opinion polls might be a few points out but they're not telling a complete lie. We have got to spend the next seven weeks getting our policy issues over, they appear to be popular with the public when tested. But I wasn't going to vote to support Theresa May's cynical move to try and increase the Conservatives' majority.\"\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2001\n\nWhat positions has she held? Shadow spokesperson for trade and industry, home affairs, women and culture, media and sport (May 2001 - May 2005, when she was an Ulster Unionist MP).\n\nWhy did she vote no? There has not been a public statement on her reasons.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? SNP Westminster spokeswoman for disabilities (May 2015 - November 2015).\n\nWhy did she vote no? It was an eventful day for Ms McGarry, who confirmed she was pregnant after she fainted in the Houses of Parliament. An ambulance was called, but just as a precaution. The politician, who lost the SNP whip and now sits as an independent after allegations of fraud were made against her, hasn't explained why she voted as she did.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? SNP Westminster group leader for business, innovation and skills (May 2015 - October 2015).\n\nWhy did she vote no? She is currently sitting as an independent after withdrawing the SNP whip last year. Ms Thomson took to Twitter to say she voted against the early election, unlike many of her SNP colleagues. She said: \"This is a time for leadership from the opposition, not abstention.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2005\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Leader from 2011 to 2015.\n\nWhy did he vote no? He said Theresa May's call for an election was a \"cynical exercise\" aimed at \"gathering up muscle to confront Europe and go for a hard Brexit\".", "Tottenham's Dele Alli volleys home against Chelsea after Christian Eriksen's stunning cross in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Someday, what seems like Syria's forever war will end. Then the focus will shift to rebuilding a country shredded and scarred by conflict. A husband and wife, both architects, who witnessed their city's devastation are already thinking about how to restore it.\n\n\"It's not easy to rise from the ruins, it's not easy,\" reflects Marwa al-Sabouni.\n\nWe're standing in the cool dark depths of a hammam - a public bath dating back to Roman times in the old quarter of Homs. Its thick stone walls are now rough blotches of black and brown, dappled by shafts of light streaming through holes in a domed ceiling designed to draw light into this ancient warren.\n\nThe history within these walls is even darker.\n\n\"This was a major battleground,\" Sabouni explains as we walk through the hammam's main chamber, with what remains of a water fountain at its centre.\n\nThe debris of recent battles has been slowly cleared since two years of fierce clashes in the Old City area ended in 2014 when the government took back what had been a rebel-held enclave of Syria's third city.\n\n\"So many of us didn't even know this beautiful hammam, and so many other parts of our heritage, existed before the war,\" Sabouni says.\n\n\"It was neglected and then destroyed before we had to chance to know it.\"\n\nSabouni has taken me on a walk to illustrate some of the main ideas in her acclaimed book, The Battle for Home. An evocative memoir of her family's experience of living through a punishing war in their city, it's also an architect's vision of how to rebuild Syria to help mend its wounds and avoid errors of the past.\n\nOne of her biggest allies is fellow architect Ghassan Jansiz - who happens to be her husband. Their ideas about architecture brought them together as students.\n\nThey remained with their two young children in a city which saw some of the first protests and the most vicious fighting of the war.\n\nThis 2,000-year-old hammam is our first stop on Sabouni's itinerary as we set out to explore the souk, a sprawling market that was once the vibrant heart of the Old City.\n\nIts labyrinth of alleyways is still largely deserted with most shops shuttered, or shattered by the gunfire and explosions.\n\nSyria's destructive conflict has been fuelled by many faultlines. Sabouni says architecture is one of them.\n\n\"Of course, I'm not saying that architecture is the only reason for the war, but in a very real way it accelerated and perpetuated the conflict,\" she explains.\n\nHer book chronicles the rise, over the past century, of soulless tower blocks and urban sprawls that effectively created sectarian ghettos and eroded shared public spaces which had long shaped Syrian society. Sabouni sees the built environment as a crucible for the frictions that led to civil war.\n\nA meander through Homs's old market is also a journey further back in time, through thousands of years of Syrian history and successive empires that left their mark. In this rich story, Sabouni finds lessons for a more inspired and inclusive way of living.\n\n\"Certain architectural elements from different eras are all incorporated within the same structures and they don't cancel each other out,\" she explains as she leads me to what she calls a \"hidden house.\"\n\nA long dimly lit corridor leads into an exquisite courtyard with leafy fruit trees dotted with oranges. A sudden burst of bright colour surprises, as a small symbol of renewal.\n\n\"You see, this is what I talk about in the book,\" Sabouni exclaims.\n\n\"We had something very beautiful, very ancient and very harmonious interwoven in our lives, in our daily lives,\" she says, making her point that Syria's precious world heritage lies not only in famed sites such as the Roman ruins of Palmyra, but in its everyday social fabric.\n\n\"We vandalised a lot of it, and we mistreated a lot of it, so maybe we have the chance to start over now.\"\n\nIn another corner of the market, Jansiz shows me another hammam dating from the days of the Ottoman empire.\n\nIts vaulted ceilings with intricate patterns of holes creates a dance of circles of light on the stone walls and floor.\n\nBut it's a pattern of light caused by damage rather than design which provides a small example of how to build from the ruins. The market's metal roofs - punctured by bullets and shrapnel - inspired Jansiz's work on the first rebuilding project in the Old City funded by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).\n\nOn the day we visit, the project is a hive of activity. Workmen in blue overalls are putting the finishing touches on the new patterned screen now arching over the alleyway at one of the market's main entrances.\n\n\"Rebuilding is not just about stones,\" explains Jansiz, who was the lead architect on the first phase of the project.\n\n\"This market wasn't just a place to sell and buy stuff. It was also a social hub where people from all social and religious groups would spend time with each other.\"\n\nBoth Jansiz and Sabouni underline how the damage to Syria's social fabric is far deeper even than the endless ruins in pulverised neighbourhoods.\n\n\"All the workers you see around you are from Homs,\" Jansiz adds. \"They understand this city and understand its pain.\"\n\nThe long arcades of shuttered shops bear silent testimony to this aching sense of loss. Only about 30 out of nearly 5,000 have reopened.\n\nSome shopkeepers can't afford to rebuild, or await electricity and other services. Some sided with the rebels and were forced to flee, and are now unable or unwilling to return.\n\nWith still no end in sight to this war, major Western donors still resist putting money for reconstruction into areas now back in government hands.\n\n\"So far we're only focusing on limited rebuilding to provide some support and a bit of hope,\" UNDP Country Director Samuel Rizk tells me.\n\nBut the EU recently began to carefully raise the prospect of reconstruction funds, if and when a hesitant process of political talks with the opposition makes significant progress.\n\nAnd a Chinese delegation was in Damascus this week to discuss future investments in industries and infrastructure.\n\nThere are already hints of conflicts to come over contracts and concepts for a post-war Syria.\n\nEven the first phase of this small project to rebuild a roof in the Old City ended up being clouded by disagreements.\n\nSabouni believes Syrians must begin to imagine a different future.\n\n\"It may sound so sophisticated or a luxury to talk about architecture,\" she says. \"But if we don't think about it, I think we will miss the chance to rebuild it in the right way.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Chelsea's Willian slots home a penalty after Tottenham's Son Heung-min slides in on Victor Moses in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu was honoured before Tottenham's FA Cup semi-final with Chelsea at Wembley and at football matches around the country. Ehiogu died at the age of 44 on Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest at Spurs' training centre on Thursday. The same tributes will be held before Villa's derby against Birmingham on Sunday. England boss Gareth Southgate, who played alongside Ehiogu at Villa and Middlesbrough was at Wembley alongside Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn A giant screen outside Wembley Stadium before Saturday's FA Cup semi-final bears a picture of Ehiogu. who was capped four times by England Images of Ehiogu were shown around Wembley as fans paid tribute Aston Villa have put an image of Ehiogu on a billboard outside Villa Park. He made over 200 appearances for the club between 1991 and 2000, winning the League Cup twice. The players from Middlesbrough, one of Ehiogu's former clubs, joined opponents Bournemouth and supporters for a minute's applause before kick-off in their game at the Vitality Stadium Benik Afobe kissed his black armband after scoring in that match for Bournemouth A minute's applause was held before Norwich's Championship game against Brighton at Carrow Road on Friday Norwich and Brighton players wore black armbands and other sides are set to do the same over the weekend", "Whether you consume music digitally or collect vinyl records, Brexit has the potential to affect you.\n\nThe UK music industry, like its counterparts in other countries, has had a tough time adapting to the technological shake-ups of recent years.\n\nBut now it also has to plan for the changes that will be ushered in by the UK's decision to leave the European Union.\n\nObviously there is still huge uncertainty about what the country's future relationship with the EU will be like, since its expected departure in the spring of 2019 is still subject to lengthy negotiations.\n\nHowever, it is already possible to identify areas of the music business that may feel the effects.\n\nWith the industry's annual Record Store Day falling this year on Saturday, 22 April, record shops are enjoying a boom in sales of old-fashioned vinyl releases.\n\nThe format was widely expected to die a slow death with the advent of the CD, but in recent times, vinyl records have managed to outsell downloads.\n\nHowever, when Record Store Day 2020 rolls around, there is a risk that those singles and albums could cost significantly more.\n\nWill these records cost more post-Brexit?\n\nIf the UK does not manage to conclude a favourable trade deal with the EU, then tariffs may be applied on goods coming into the UK.\n\nThere are now only a couple of vinyl pressing plants left on British soil, so the majority of records sold in the UK are manufactured in factories based in other EU countries. The same goes for CDs.\n\nIf tariffs on goods return, record labels will face increased costs, which they will have to pass on to consumers.\n\nSo why buy music on physical formats anyway? This is the 21st Century, so go for streaming or downloads.\n\nWell, even there, Brexit is likely to have consequences.\n\nThe pound has fallen in value in the wake of last June's referendum outcome. The leading music streaming services, from Sweden's Spotify to US-based Apple Music, are all multinational firms whose pricing policies are decided elsewhere.\n\nApple has already increased the price of its apps this year, in a move widely attributed to the Brexit vote. Apple Music subscriptions could follow suit if the pound falls any further.\n\nIn other ways, however, Brexit will have no effect at all. Many politicians and business leaders have called for the UK to preserve its access to the European single market, but in digital terms, things are more complicated.\n\nThe vast majority of Spotify's catalogue is available all over the world\n\nWhile goods are covered by the single market in Europe, the market for services is still very much a work in progress.\n\nAnd when it comes to the distribution of digital products, including music and e-books, consumers will still find that borders get in the way.\n\nIf you have an account with Amazon UK, you can buy a CD from Amazon's French website, but it won't allow you to buy the same music on download.\n\nThat said, streaming services are more unified. Spotify, for instance, makes practically all its catalogue accessible everywhere in the world, with some minor variations in local-language music.\n\nBut although Brussels has failed to create a digital single market for music consumers, it has done a lot for music producers.\n\nPeople who make music can make money from it in various ways. As well as selling digital or physical copies of it, they are also paid royalties every time it is played in public.\n\nThere are two kinds of these:\n\nMechanical royalties date back to the days of piano rolls\n\nAnd although there is no EU single market for digital music purchases, there is now a thriving single market for licensing music and collecting royalties on it.\n\nIn the UK, the main royalty collection society is PRS for Music. Its chief executive, Robert Ashcroft, says that the European Commission made a big difference with its Collective Rights Management Directive, which came into force in the UK in April last year.\n\nAs a result, it is now much easier to license music in many territories at once, rather than having to authorise it country by country, as was formerly the case.\n\nPRS, for example, works in a joint venture with its counterparts in Sweden and Germany, STIM and GEMA, to operate a pan-European online music rights licensing service.\n\nThis means that songwriters and music publishing companies can get paid more quickly and accurately.\n\n\"We have already been licensing our rights on a pan-European basis,\" says Mr Ashcroft. \"Brexit won't stop that and it's not in our business interest to stop it either.\"\n\nThe UK's law on music copyright has changed in recent years because of Brussels.\n\nIn November 2013, UK copyright protection on sound recordings increased from 50 years to 70 years, in line with an EU directive approved in 2011.\n\nHowever, recordings that had already slipped into the public domain, such as the Beatles' first single, stayed there.\n\nThe Beatles' earliest recordings are now out of copyright\n\nAnd there is a \"use it or lose it\" provision for hitherto unreleased recordings from 50 years ago. If record companies have ageing tracks in the vaults that they have never issued, then they have no comeback if other people get hold of them and release them.\n\nWill all this change when the UK \"takes back control\"? PRS's Mr Ashcroft thinks not.\n\n\"I expect it to continue unless and until someone presents an argument that it's damaging to the economy,\" he says.\n\nOne area where Brexit could have a negative impact is on touring musicians. There are fears that music groups might have to scale back European tours after Brexit and fewer European acts could travel to the UK.\n\n\"We have a very healthy business in royalties that are earned when our members' works are performed overseas,\" says PRS's Mr Ashcroft. \"If there were obstacles to British bands touring, that would be a potential challenge.\"\n\nAt the same time, however, he is concerned about Brexit's potential impact on his own organisation's staffing levels. \"Eleven per cent of our employees come from countries other than the UK. We operate daily in 13 languages. We need the prime minister to give assurances that the people resident and working here can stay.\"\n\nOn that basis, he feels that the UK's music business is well integrated with the rest of Europe and hopes it will stay that way, despite Brexit: \"We are so international that we think our business transcends that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nBritain's Ellie Downie followed up her all-around gold medal with a silver in the vault and a bronze in the uneven bars at the European Championships.\n\nCourtney Tulloch, 21, won Britain's first major international rings medal with silver at the event in Romania.\n\nEllie's older sister Becky Downie, 25, was unable to defend her uneven bars title as she fell during her routine and is out of Sunday's beam final.\n\nHaving got his hands on one major medal, rings specialist Tulloch was already turning his attention to the World Championships in Montreal, Canada, in October.\n\n\"I felt really confident out there - I don't look at anyone else and fear them,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"[Petrounias] did an amazing routine but I know I can catch him - I've got skills to add to my routine so I know I can beat him and I can't wait to go to the World Championships and we can have another battle.\n\n\"Great Britain isn't really known for the rings but I want to keep improving that and hopefully some younger gymnasts can follow in my footsteps and we can become a great nation on rings.\"\n\nTulloch's silver adds to an impressive championships for a largely inexperienced British men's team, which contains none of the competitors from the Rio Olympics, following James Hall's all-around bronze on Friday.\n\nHe scored 15.066 to move into second with only one athlete remaining and held on to silver place as Turkey's Ibrahim Colak could only finish fifth, with Ukraine's Igor Radivilov claiming bronze.\n\nEllie Downie became the first British gymnast to win all-around gold at a major international championship on Friday and claimed her third medals in as many finals, with bronze in the bars.\n\nShe ended tied for third alongside Eli Seitz after sister Becky, the last gymnast to go, abandoned her routine after falling and hurting her right elbow. Belgium's Nina Derwael won gold and Russia's Elena Eremina took the silver.\n\n\"I mainly just felt gutted for her - she worked so hard and the won I bronze is for her and me,\" Ellie told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The bars bronze was just so unexpected and if Becky had gone through her routine I'm sure she would've knocked me into fourth.\"\n\nBritain's Claudia Fragapane will take Becky Downie's place in the beam final, while Ellie will compete in both the beam and floor finals on Sunday.\n\nA statement from British Gymnastics said Becky Downie will be assessed by their medical team when she returns to the UK.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Downie produced two solid vaults to lead with an average of 14.350, only to be pipped by the final competitor, Coline Devillard of France, with Hungary's Boglarka Devai in third.\n\n\"I was really happy with the vault - I was in first until the last girl and she full deserved it,\" Downie added.\n\n\"Her vaults were definitely tidier than mine so I was happy to let her have that title.\"", "Nemnaja Matic strikes from distance to put Chelsea 4-2 up and seal thei victory over Tottenham in the 2017 FA Cup semi-finals.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAberdeen reached the Scottish Cup final for the first time in 17 years with victory over holders Hibernian.\n\nAdam Rooney pounced on a defensive mix-up to put the Dons ahead 12 seconds after kick-off, and Ryan Christie's free-kick doubled their lead.\n\nSubstitute Grant Holt headed Hibs back into the game before half-time and the striker set up Dylan McGeouch to level.\n\nBut Jonny Hayes' shot deflected off Darren McGregor and beat Ofir Marciano for Aberdeen's winner.\n\nManager Derek McInnes, who won the League Cup with the Dons in 2014, now has a cup final against either Celtic or Rangers on 27 May to prepare for, with the Glasgow sides meeting on Sunday.\n\nAberdeen, who are second in the Premiership, will attempt to end a 27-year wait to win the Scottish Cup.\n\nTheir opening to the match was as perfect as it was calamitous for Hibs.\n\nA McGregor mistake allowed in Rooney, who wasted no time in storming into the penalty area to slot home. The Aberdeen fans could barely believe it. It was a moment to make everyone of a Hibs persuasion sick to the stomach.\n\nAberdeen looked much the more assured side in the early stages. Hibs, in contrast, looked ill at ease as they struggled to find any sort of foothold.\n\nHibs looked groggier still as they went 2-0 down. Christie lined up a free-kick wide on the right on the edge of the box and the Hibs defence prepared for a cross.\n\nInstead the on-loan Celtic player went straight for goal, whipping the ball in at pace and beating Marciano at his near post. It was a superb strike from Christie - selected ahead of Niall McGinn - but it was a goal the Hibs goalkeeper and defensive wall simply should not have conceded.\n\nHaving seen his side fail to get any traction, Hibs manager Neil Lennon realised something had to change tactically. A visibly disappointed Fraser Fyvie was brought off, replaced by the burly presence of striker Holt as Hibs changed tack.\n\nIt paid immediate dividends. Martin Boyle went on a great run and his cross to the back post was perfect for Holt to steer a header home with his first touch and give Hibs a vital lifeline.\n\nThe 36-year-old's introduction completely changed the dynamic. Suddenly the cup holders were winning the ball in the air and disrupting Aberdeen's flow as the match became a much more even affair.\n\nHibs drew level with a moment of real quality, with Holt again involved. McGeouch swept forward and played the ball to the feet of Holt, who flicked it back to the midfielder and McGeouch kept his composure to fire low past Joe Lewis.\n\nIt was a huge blow for Aberdeen who had earlier gone close through Shay Logan and switched to a back three, with Anthony O'Connor replacing Christie.\n\nSuddenly the game of chess became more complex, McInnes now the manager with the dilemma and Lennon in charge of the side with the wind in their sails.\n\nMcGinn came on in place of Mark Reynolds, the Dons shuffling the pack again as the match moved towards its final quarter.\n\nIn the end, a stroke of luck gave Aberdeen the edge. Hayes did well to make space for a shot from long range, and the ball appeared to pose no real threat to Marciano's goal until it took a deflection off the unfortunate McGregor and trundled into the net.\n\nHibs had one last roll of the dice as they tried to hold on to the cup. Keeper Marciano came up for a stoppage-time corner and headed towards goal, but his counterpart Lewis held on to ensure Aberdeen progressed to the final.\n• None Attempt saved. Ofir Marciano (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Grant Holt (Hibernian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The chancellor has given a major hint that he is no fan of the 2015 Tory manifesto pledge not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT.\n\nAfter the embarrassing U-turn on the attempt to raise taxes for the self-employed, Philip Hammond told me the government needed \"flexibility\" on taxes.\n\nThe manifesto is not yet final, so no irreversible decisions have been taken.\n\nThe chancellor said he didn't come into politics to \"increase taxes\".\n\nBut it is the clearest hint yet that Mr Hammond would like to see the 2015 manifesto promise on taxes significantly amended if not abandoned all together.\n\n\"We do need flexibility to manage the system and we do need to make sure that Theresa May and her government have a clear mandate to execute our plan,\" he told me.\n\n\"All chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how they manage the economy and how they manage the overall tax burden down [rather] than having to have their hands constrained.\n\n\"But what we put in the manifesto will be decided in the next few days and we will publish that.\"", "Website: Live streaming and text commentary service will be available on both Saturday and Sunday on the BBC Sport website\n\nIt's 24 years since Great Britain's women last contested a Fed Cup World Group tie, although that is very recent history to the residents of the Black Sea resort they find themselves in this weekend.\n\nConstanta is the oldest continually inhabited city in Romania. The sun will soon be beating down on the thousands of holidaymakers who flock here every summer, although these early British tourists have been treated to rain, strong winds, single digit temperatures - and even the occasional flurry of snow.\n\nThe outdoor clay court looked very sorry for itself on Thursday and Friday, as the players were forced under cover.\n\nFor the third time in six years, Britain are a play-off win away from the World Group. They were well beaten in Sweden in 2012, and then again in Argentina in 2013, and have once again travelled as underdogs.\n\nBut they have at least earned themselves the opportunity after successfully negotiating a week of Euro Africa Zone qualifying matches in the Estonian capital Tallinn in February. It is a week which does little for the exposure of the Fed Cup and ends most countries' involvement for the year before the daffodils have come into bloom.\n\n\"I think it's damaged the competition if I'm perfectly honest,\" GB's captain Anne Keothavong said told BBC Sport in Constanta.\n\n\"There's no momentum if you look at where we have been in recent years. We've been in a group where there have been 15 other nations and only two of those nations go through for a chance to even play for a World Group position.\n\n\"It's been notoriously tough and one we have struggled with, and even this year - with a top-10 player - we only just managed to do that in a deciding doubles match.\"\n\nJohanna Konta, partnered by Heather Watson, lost the first set and twice had to recover from a break of serve down in the decider to win that match with Croatia and set up this play-off tie.\n\nRomania boast a strong line-up. Simona Halep, who will open the tie against Watson at 10:00 BST on Saturday, can be horribly inconsistent but she is the world number five, the French Open runner-up of 2014, and a major star in her home city of Constanta.\n\nEvery other member of their team is a top-100 singles player, while Britain - after Watson's recent fall in the rankings - has just the one.\n\nBut that 'one' is some player.\n\nKonta is the world number seven and third in the annual points race after her victory in the Miami Open earlier this month. Halep finds herself at 44th in the same list and has lost both her matches to Konta, although this will be a first meeting on clay, which is very much the Romanian's favourite surface.\n\nHaving a player of that ability - who could well play two singles as well as the doubles this weekend - opens up exciting possibilities for the team. The 11 points Andy Murray contributed as Britain won the Davis Cup in 2015 may never be matched by another British player, but Keothavong recognises the contribution made by her number one.\n\n\"She brings a lot to the team,\" the captain agrees.\n\n\"Just the way she is, the way she operates and the level she demands from everyone is great, and hopefully it filters down to the other players and inspires the others to really step up.\"\n\nAnd Fed Cup can be a two way process. Konta described the week in Estonia as \"one of the most adrenalin driven weeks I've experienced in a while.\"\n\n\"I felt I took away a lot of really positive emotion, and a lot of new experiences,\" she continued.\n\n\"The adrenalin and the nerves you get during Fed Cup are unlike others you experience during the season, and I really really enjoyed that.\"\n\nBut will Konta - who plays world number 62 Sorana Cirstea in Saturday's singles after Romania made a late change from Irina-Camelia Begu - get to feel that on a regular basis, and will the competition become as relevant to British audiences as the Davis Cup has been in recent years?\n\nIf Britain lose this weekend, they will return to the 16-team Euro Africa Zone shoot-out in February 2018, but if they win they could start next year as one of the 16 teams which will contest the trophy.\n\nAs things stand, the winners will be promoted to World Group 2, but the International Tennis Federation wants to merge the two existing World Groups to form an elite 16 team top tier to mirror the Davis Cup.\n\nThe semi-finals and final would be played in one city, in one week, at the end of the season - but all of this is subject to the approval of the ITF's member nations at August's AGM in Ho Chi Minh City.\n\nOne other incentive this weekend is the possibility of a home tie next February. Since Monique Javer, Clare Wood and Amanda Grunfeld dispatched Turkey in Nottingham in May 1993, Britain have played every single Fed Cup tie on the road.\n\nArgentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Malta, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and Turkey have many charms. But next year, there really would be no place like home.", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nEllie Downie has become the first British gymnast to win all-around gold at a major international championship - with victory at the European Championships.\n\nThe 17-year-old was in second place going into the final apparatus but beat Hungary's Zsofia Kovacs to the title.\n\nBriton James Hall won all-around bronze in his first major senior competition.\n\nThe 21-year-old scored 84.664 to finish behind gold medallist Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine, and Russia's Arthur Dalaloyan.\n\n\"I'm speechless, so happy. It's just a massive thing and I don't think I'll realise how big for a while,\" Downie told BBC Sport.\n\n\"That was probably one of the hardest competitions I've done and when the score came through I was speechless.\"\n\nGB's Joe Fraser, 18, came fifth in his first senior year, scoring 82.982, while 16-year-old Alice Kinsella came 10th in the all-round event.\n\n\"To come to a European Championships, do my best gymnastics and come away third, I can't get my head around it,\" Hall said.\n\nHall has a world team silver medal to his name and was at the Olympic Games in Rio last summer.\n\nHowever, he was reserve in both competitions and did not compete.\n\nFind out how to get into gymnastics with our special guide.\n\n\"My first senior major and I've shown the world what I'm made of. I'm so happy. I can't believe it,\" he said.\n\nThe Kent gymnast qualified third best and improved his overall score in the final, with increased apparatus scores on floor, pommel, rings and parallel bars.\n\n\"In the training gym I was thinking 'just go through the same as qualifying and nothing is impossible',\" he said.\n\n\"I started hitting floor, hitting pommel, did my best rings and I thought nothing could stop me after that.\"", "England manager Gareth Southgate says he is \"stunned\" by the death of former team-mate Ugo Ehiogu.\n\nFormer England defender Ehiogu died at the age of 44 on Friday after suffering a cardiac arrest the previous day.\n\nSouthgate and Ehiogu formed a centre-back pairing for almost 10 years at Aston Villa and Middlesbrough, winning the League Cup together at both clubs.\n\n\"He was a gentle giant away from football, he was a colossus on the pitch,\" Southgate said.\n\nTottenham's FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea on Saturday (17:15 BST) will see both teams wearing black armbands and a minute's applause before kick-off, with Villa's derby against Birmingham following suit on Sunday.\n\nEhiogu, who was Tottenham's Under-23s coach, was taken to hospital on Thursday after collapsing at the club's training ground, but a statement said he had died in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nCapped four times by England, Ehiogu made over 200 appearances for Villa between 1991 and 2000 and then spent seven years at Boro. The defender also played for West Brom, Leeds, Rangers and Sheffield United, before retiring in 2009.\n\n\"I'm stunned and deeply saddened by Ugo's passing and clearly my initial thoughts are with his wife Gemma, his children and his family.\n\n\"I know that football will be grieving because he was so highly respected by everybody he worked with and losing him at such a young age is difficult to come to terms with.\n\n\"Most importantly, he was a gentleman and he is one of those characters that people would find it difficult to have anything bad to say about him.\n\n\"I probably played more games with Ugo than anybody else in my career and while in many ways he was a gentle giant away from football, he was a colossus on the pitch. It felt like a true partnership with Ugo because we were prepared to put our bodies on the line for each other.\n\n\"We shared highs, lows and won a couple of trophies together with Villa and Boro and it's those memories that I will always cherish when I think of Ugo.\n\n\"He was one of the most professional people I played with in terms of how he applied himself to his job and it was great to see him progressing through the coaching pathway with that thirst for learning.\n\n\"I've spoken to several of our former team-mates today and there's just a sense of disbelief that we're having these conversations.\n\n\"Ugo was a credit to football, a credit to his family and he will be missed by everybody who was lucky enough to know him.\"", "Call the Midwife's Charlotte Ritchie is part of the cast for The Philanthropist\n\nThe Oscar-winning writer of West End play The Philanthropist contemplated rewriting his 1970 comedy in the wake of last month's Westminster attack.\n\nChristopher Hampton was concerned the play's references to a fictional attack on Parliament would be in poor taste.\n\nHe said: \"I said to Simon Callow, quite seriously, maybe we should change it.\"\n\nYet Callow, who directed the revival at London's Trafalgar Studios, said it was \"important\" the play be staged as originally seen.\n\nChristopher Hampton won an Oscar for the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons\n\n\"Christopher was perfectly willing to tone it down,\" said the actor and director after the play's opening night on Thursday.\n\n\"But I think it's very important there's this big shock in the play, that the characters then completely dismiss.\"\n\nLily Cole is also in the play...\n\n... along with Matt Berry and Simon Bird\n\nSet in Oxford in the early 1970s, The Philanthropist depicts a group of self-absorbed academics who have little interest in the wider world.\n\nThe play begins with news that a man armed with a machine-gun has killed the prime minister inside the House of Commons, along with a number of his front bench colleagues.\n\n\"The play is about how insulated and cocooned you can be in certain parts of life,\" said Hampton, who won an Academy Award for writing 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.\n\n\"Therefore, I wanted to have bizarre things going on in the outside world.\"\n\nSimon Bird, who plays lead character Philip, said it had been \"shocking and jarring\" for a real-life attack to occur \"just down the road\" from the play's West End home.\n\n\"The content of the play is bizarrely topical,\" said the star of Channel 4 sitcoms The Inbetweeners and Friday Night Dinner.\n\n\"It takes place in the backdrop of terrorist attacks and political turmoil, which makes it feel like it was written yesterday.\"\n\nFour pedestrians were killed last month after Khalid Masood drove his car along the pavement on Westminster Bridge.\n\nHe then entered the grounds of the Palace of Westminster and fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead.\n\nNicki Minaj's video was partly shot on the south side of the River Thames looking back at Westminster Bridge\n\nPop star Nicki Minaj faced criticism on social media this week for including shots of Westminster Bridge and the Palace of Westminster in the video for her song No Frauds.\n\nThe Trafalgar Studios, formerly known as the Whitehall Theatre, are located a short distance away from where the events of 22 March took place.\n\nLast seen in London in 2005, The Philanthropist has traditionally been staged with actors considerably older than the characters they are playing.\n\nThe late Alec McCowen played Philip in the original Royal Court production, while Matthew Broderick took the role when it was revived on Broadway in 2009.\n\n\"The characters are between 25 and 33, yet in the past they've always cast very skilled actors in their 40s,\" said Hampton.\n\n\"This production is different because the cast are the correct age. In a curious way, it feels much more like the play I wrote.\"\n\nBird's co-stars include Matt Berry from Channel 4's Toast of London, model turned actress Lily Cole and Call the Midwife cast member Charlotte Ritchie.\n\nIt was recently revealed that Call the Midwife is to have its first regular black character - a West Indian nurse whom Ritchie predicted would be \"a very good addition to the cast.\"\n\nThe Philanthropist runs at the Trafalgar Studios until 22 July.\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• None First black nurse for Call the Midwife\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ugo Ehiogu, who has died at the age of 44 after suffering a cardiac arrest, was not just a highly accomplished and successful defender who was forging a growing reputation as a coach - he was a hugely popular figure within the game.\n\nThe reaction to his death after collapsing at Tottenham's training centre, the club where he was an under-23s coach, is a reflection of the esteem in which Ehiogu was held.\n\nEhiogu was a powerful, imposing figure as a player and a well-rounded character away from the game, making a career in the music business while also shaping the future of the next generation at Spurs.\n\nHe was a player who should have won many more than his four England caps - but still enjoyed a fine career and seemed destined for more success in the next stage of his development as an important member of the Spurs backroom team before his death.\n\nRon Atkinson was one of Ehiogu's biggest champions and can regard the £40,000 it took to take the teenager from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa in August 1991 as one of his most astute moves in the market.\n\nEhiogu was raw but the potential was there and even through some uneasy early moments in his career, Atkinson dismissed the doubters and never wavered in his belief that the Homerton-born powerhouse - a product of the Senrab Football Club that could count the likes of John Terry, Sol Campbell and Jermain Defoe among its former players - would be a success.\n\nAnd his judgement, both in making the bargain deal and mapping out Ehiogu's future, was accurate.\n\nCurrent Villa manager Steve Bruce, who played against Ehiogu for Manchester United, said: \"Big Ron bought him and what a bargain. He was a great player.\"\n\nAtkinson recalled \"the nervous 18-year-old\" who arrived but who then became an integral component of a fine era at Villa Park.\n\nHe formed one half of a formidable central defensive partnership with Paul McGrath, whose brilliance and experience aided his development, and also played in the Villa rearguard alongside England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThe trio were part of the Villa team that won the League Cup at Wembley in March 1996 with a 3-0 victory over Leeds United, cementing his status with the Holte End, who regarded him as a reassuring and inspirational presence in the side throughout more than 200 appearances.\n\nAndy Townsend, who played in that League Cup-winning side, says: \"Like all younger players it wasn't easy for him at the start of his Villa career - but in the end you saw that nobody was going to get the better of him.\n\n\"He was a commanding and formidable in the air, a player that every team would like to have at the back.\"\n\nEhiogu was alongside Southgate when Villa lost the 2000 FA Cup final - the last played under Wembley's Twin Towers - 1-0 to Chelsea and the pair were to link up once again at Middlesbrough.\n\nThat showpiece was Ehiogu's last fling with Villa as he soon moved on to fresh pastures and a glorious, unexpected new chapter in his career.\n\nMiddlesbrough signed many outstanding players during Bryan Robson's reign as manager - and Ehiogu can take his place near the top of the list following his move from Villa to Teesside for a then club record fee of £8m in October 2000.\n\nBoro chairman Steve Gibson was prepared to bankroll the acquisition of high-profile, high-quality signings and Ehiogu fell perfectly into that category as the expenditure was rewarded with performances that ensured he will always be fondly remembered at the Riverside.\n\nHe did start to suffer with the knee problems that would undermine the latter days of his career but it was at Boro where his friendship with Southgate continued to blossom, first as team-mates when the latter made the same journey from Villa as Steve McClaren's first signing as manager in July 2001, and then when Southgate took over as manager.\n\nThe old defensive firm was soon back in action and providing the platform of solidity, experience and ability that culminated in both playing key roles as Boro won their first major trophy in 128 years with a 2-1 in over Bolton Wanderers at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in the 2004 Carling Cup final.\n\nIt was a Boro side laced with quality players, such as Gaizka Mendieta and Juninho. Mark Schwarzer was their outstanding keeper and he remembers the cool colleague who exuded authority, saying: \"He was always calm and reassuring. He was not too vocal but spoke when he needed to speak. He was a completely dedicated footballer.\"\n\nBoro entered the uncharted waters of European glory to reach the 2006 Uefa Cup final, but it was to provide a signal that Ehiogu's time at his peak was drawing to a close. They were thrashed 4-0 by Sevilla in Eindhoven and he was only an unused substitute.\n\nAs at Villa, Ehiogu will be associated with success at Boro and chairman Gibson delivered a warm tribute when he said: \"Ugo was one of the heroes at Cardiff when the club won its only ever major trophy, Ugo and Gareth Southgate were the rock on which Steve McClaren brought the club the best period in its history.\n\n\"He wasn't just a good footballer. He was a great man.\"\n\nEhiogu won only four England caps, a victim of injuries and the sheer quality of competition from the likes of John Terry, Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell - but he still played his part in a piece of history.\n\nHe was named as a substitute by Sven-Goran Eriksson - the side's first foreign manager - for his first game in charge against Spain at Villa Park on 28 February 2001, scoring after coming on.\n\nEhiogu also gave away a penalty but keeper Nigel Martyn saved Javi Moreno's spot-kick.\n\nEhiogu's struggle with knee problems meant his career came to a low-key close with loan spells at Leeds United, Rangers and Sheffield United, retiring in August 2009 after a trial with MK Dons.\n\nHe was still not prepared to go quietly, however, and revived memories of his glory days with a goal that ensured he will be remembered forever at Ibrox, a spectacular overhead kick that gave Rangers a 1-0 derby win against Celtic in March 2007.\n\nIt was voted 'goal of the season' by Rangers fans and the surprised goalscorer smiled as he said: \"I couldn't have written a better script. It was probably my best goal ever. A surreal moment.\"\n\nOnce again, the towering defender had made his presence and personality felt when it mattered.\n\nAs he moved into coaching at Spurs, initially working at the Premier League club's academy under Chris Ramsey and Tim Sherwood, Ehiogu's love of music started to play a greater role in his life.\n\nThe man who admitted he \"used to get psyched up to a bit of Bon Jovi before games\" helped set up Dirty Hit, a record label with the likes of The 1975, Ben Khan, Superfood and Fossil Collective on its books.\n\nIt was the mark of a personality who enjoyed life and pursued wider interests outside football. He said: \"My love of football is massive but my love of music is amazing. You have people eating out of your hands when you're singing.\"\n\nEhiogu was a musical mentor as well as a wise counsel and guide to the young players at Spurs.\n\nHe was a distinguished man as a player and coach in a career carried out with professionalism, dignity, respect and success.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nWatch: Live on BBC Two and BBC One with extra coverage of the elite races and the finish line on Red Button, online, Connected TVs and app Follow: Text updates and the best of social media on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritish five-time Olympian Jo Pavey is aiming to secure qualification for the 2017 World Championships when she races in Sunday's London Marathon.\n\nPavey needs to finish as one of the top two British women and run a time of two hours and 36 minutes or better.\n\nShe will be at the Worlds in August to receive a bronze medal after her 2007 fourth place was upgraded when Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse failed a doping test.\n\n\"I've trained as hard as I could,\" said the 43-year-old.\n\n\"I've had a bit more illness than I would have liked but any busy parent can relate to that and I've kept training consistently.\"\n\nPavey will race her first marathon in six years on Sunday. She is up against fellow Britons Alyson Dixon, Louise Damen, Charlotte Purdue and Susan Partridge as they also compete to qualify for the World Championships, which are being held in London from 5-13 August.\n\nWith Callum Hawkins already selected, Tsegai Tewelde goes up against 10 other male runners in a bid to make the British team for the summer's event.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain's six-time Paralympic champion David Weir says Sunday's race \"could be\" his last.\n\nEthiopian great Kenenisa Bekele, who is the 5,000m and 10,000m track world record holder, headlines the men's elite race.\n\nThe women's elite line-up also includes Kenyan Florence Kiplagat, who won last year's Chicago Marathon, compatriot and Tokyo Marathon champion Helah Kiprop, and Olympic 5,000m champion and fellow Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot, who will make her marathon debut aged 33.\n\n'There are still people cheating the system'\n\nDrugs cheats like 2016 London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong are \"ruining the sport\", says European 10,000m champion Pavey.\n\nOlympic gold medallist Sumgong, 32, tested positive for banned substance EPO in an out-of-competition test.\n\n\"It is a shame you have got a winner like Sumgong testing positive,\" Pavey told BBC Sport. \"We're glad that she's been caught, that's one good thing to say.\n\n\"You want to believe in a good performance, you want to be looking at athletes winning Olympics and big events and admire their performance.\n\n\"There is still a lot more work to do to make sure others are going through the same anti-doping methods as we are in the UK - I had people on my doorstep a couple of days ago and that is what you want to see around the world.\n\n\"People like her are ruining the sport because every time you see a good performance, you're wondering is that for real or not.\"\n\n'I am not getting slower'\n\nBritain's Weir, 37, will be competing in the race for the 18th year in a row, on the back of winning the Paris Marathon men's wheelchair race earlier in April in one hour 29 minutes, 25 seconds.\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"I am just happy to be in good shape to compete. I don't put that pressure on my shoulders [to get the seventh title].\n\n\"I wait until the morning to see how I feel - I am in pretty good shape and I am happy with my performance over the past couple of weeks.\n\n\"I feel I am not getting any slower - to do that time on that course in Paris, a very rough, hard course. It just gave me a lot of confidence to perform mentally and physically in London.\n\nAsked if it will be his last race, Weir replied: \"It could be. But I have enjoyed the training and enjoyed just concentrating on the road, not thinking about being back on the track after the marathon.\"\n\nIn January, the six-time Paralympic champion said he will never wear a Great Britain vest again after an unsuccessful Paralympic Games in Rio last year.\n\nEthiopian great Kenenisa Bekele, who won last year's Berlin Marathon in the second-quickest time ever, heads the men's elite field along with Kenya's Stanley Biwott.\n\n\"Times are very important,\" Bekele said. \"On the track I don't see anyone out there looking like they can reach my marks at the moment. In the marathon, running two hours, 10 minutes and winning would not give you full happiness. Winning in two hours, four minutes would be a different feeling.\n\n\"But it is really challenging. It is almost 10,000 metres pace so it is difficult. I had to learn how to run differently from the track, a different foot strike. Every race, every course is different and I am learning with every one.\"\n\nBBC commentator Brendan Foster is set to commentate on his last London Marathon - an event he has covered since its inception in 1981.\n\nThe 69-year-old, who will retire after the World Championships in London in August, said: \"I'm looking forward to it.\n\n\"It's the 37th time I've done it, you'd think I'd be used to it by now. I've done every single one but it's as good as ever.\n\n\"The whole city comes alive and is awash with people and colour. It will be exciting at the front end, as it always is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does Jared Kushner want to achieve with his new-found power?\n\nSome White House watchers have noted that weekends can be tricky for President Donald Trump.\n\nA number of crises have blown up on a Friday and not been sorted out until Sunday.\n\nObservers say it's because that's when President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner - an observant Orthodox Jewish man - is off duty, marking the Sabbath.\n\nMr Kushner, the husband of the first daughter, Ivanka, is a power in the land, the crown prince.\n\nBecause of his semi-public power struggle with Steve Bannon, he's seen as an enemy by the hard, nationalistic right.\n\nBut what drives him? What does he believe? And how could that change the world?\n\nThe provocative conservative commentator and early Trump supporter Ann Coulter - author of Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole - told me the suspicion was not personal.\n\n\"You can't hire your kids,\" she said.\n\n\"They can't be fired, they are more than first among equals.\n\n\"It's a Third World thing to get elected and bring in all of you family.\n\n\"It's what they do in banana republics.\"\n\nAnd this story is all about family, dynasty and destiny.\n\nPresident Trump has placed his family - including Jared Kushner (second right) - at the centre of his administration\n\n\"J-Vanka\" - their couple name - provides a soupcon of sophistication, implying smoothly groomed beautiful youths in a court that is more King Midas than Camelot.\n\nWhile Trump Sr starred in the downmarket tabloids, they have been a fixture of the glossy magazines.\n\nLast year, Elle Decor gushed about the couple's Upper East Side apartment, and its Lindsey Adelman light fixtures and candlesticks by Jeff Zimmermann.\n\nThe room in black and white - with just a hint of imperial purple - is cool, understated. So are they.\n\nIn the White House, amid the balding billionaires - and a leader who made vulgarity a virtue - their sleekness stands out.\n\nLizzie Widdicombe, an editor of the New Yorker's Talk of the town, watches them closely.\n\n\"They both have a noticeable level of polish,\" she says.\n\n\"It is often said that Ivanka softens the brash, abrasive image of her father and makes it palatable.\"\n\nI ask if Jared does the same thing politically.\n\n\"That's a great way of putting it,\" says Widdicombe.\n\n\"He has been the link to Wall Street, and Rupert Murdoch, who he's cultivated as a close personal friend, so he has emerged as a powerbroker.\"\n\nThe president and his son-in-law are both what's known as \"bridge and tunnel guys\" - President Trump from the outer borough of Queens, Mr Kushner from out-of-state New Jersey, each well versed in making a splash in the magic kingdom of Manhattan, turning grit to glitter using the glamour of gold.\n\nAnd there's a hint of resentment in both of them, sharpened by Mr Kushner's background.\n\nHe's not just a property billionaire. He's not just the son-in-law of a property billionaire. He is also the son of a property billionaire - a property billionaire who went to jail.\n\nJared Kushner stepped in to run his father, Charlie's, property business after he was sent to prison\n\nIt was ugly - a family feud that went nuclear. As the row spiralled, Jared's father, Charlie, was jailed for tax evasion and deception.\n\nJared's close friend Ken Kurson, editor of the New York Observer, told me the trauma had been the making of him.\n\n\"This is a guy who at 24-25 was made chief executive of a giant sprawling complex company,\" said Kurson.\n\n\"He not only handled that in an emergency, but grew the company.\n\n\"To step into a world of grizzled real estate guys, treat them with respect but also lead, was a truly astonishing feat.\"\n\nGabriel Sherman, who wrote an early profile of Mr Kushner for The New York Magazine, agrees with Ken Kurson's analysis.\n\n\"Without question, it is still the defining moment of his life,\" he told me.\n\n\"Growing up, the family always thought he would run for political office and become a major figure in America, but much further down the road.\n\n\"When Charlie went to prison, Jared was required to start that climb to power at much earlier age.\n\n\"That was traumatic, but he also seized his opportunity.\"\n\nJared Kushner (left) is said to have clashed with fellow Trump adviser Steve Bannon\n\nAccording to one profile, friends say Jared's father, Charlie, is mostly a charmer - but can also be volcanic and irascible when crossed.\n\n\"Charlie is a really aggressive, flamboyant, high-profile figure a lot like Trump,\" says Lizzie Widdicombe.\n\n\"Being the son or daughter of a person like that is a very specific experience. Jared is the Trump whisperer.\"\n\nBut what does he whisper?\n\nProbably a more pragmatic, more cautious, more mainstream Republican view than President Trump's own.\n\nOne of my sources said he'd reflect the views of his New York friends who \"hate Trump\".\n\nTo some on the hard right, he is the swamp President Trump promised to drain.\n\nAnn Coulter feels the will to power may outweigh any ideology.\n\n\"I think he wants to help his father-in-law,\" she says.\n\n\"It'll be embarrassing to be the son-in-law of a failed president.\n\n\"That's the good part of it - and it's very clear how his father-in-law can succeed or fail.\n\n\"If he keeps his promises, he'll be the first president we've had in a long time who didn't just break all his promises.\n\n\"He will not succeed unless he keeps his promises on immigration and trade.\"\n\nIn his old office, Mr Kushner kept a picture of President John F Kennedy addressing a crowd, from the front, and from the back.\n\nHe is still in the backroom, not in front of the crowds, portrayed by Saturday Night Live as a preppy mute.\n\nHe may not speak in public - but when he whispers, President Trump takes notice.\n\nWatch him closely to learn what the president will do next.\n\nListen in full to Mark Mardell's profile of Jared Kushner on BBC Radio 4's PM programme.", "Did a High Court judge in Himachal Pradesh write his judgment with thesaurus in hand?\n\nThere are few professions that allow one to be as verbose as a judge. Sometimes, this freedom can result in powerful judgements that weave brilliant legal interpretation with sparkling prose.\n\nAt other times, legal judgements are so complicated that they make little sense to normal people.\n\nIn rare times, as happened recently in India, they even bewilder lawyers directly involved in the case.\n\nA bemused Supreme Court bench sent back a convoluted judgement from a high court judge in the state of Himachal Pradesh to be re-drafted because it was simply unintelligible.\n\n\"We will have to set it aside because one cannot understand this,\" MB Lokur and Deepak Gupta were quoted by the Hindustan Times as saying on 14 April.\n\nAnd what was so complicated about the judgement, which ruled in favour of a tenant locked in a years-long battle with a landlord?\n\n\"However, the learned counsel...cannot derive the fullest succour from the aforesaid acquiescence... given its sinew suffering partial dissipation from an imminent display occurring in the impugned pronouncement hereat wherewithin unravelments are held qua the rendition recorded by the learned Rent Controller...\"\n\n\"The summum bonum of the aforesaid discussion is that all the aforesaid material which existed before the learned Executing Court standing slighted besides their impact standing untenably undermined by him whereupon the ensuing sequel therefrom is of the learned Executing Court while pronouncing its impugned rendition overlooking the relevant and germane evidence besides its not appreciating its worth. Consequently, the order impugned suffers from a gross absurdity and perversity of misappreciation of material on record.\"\n\nThe lawyer representing the tenant, Aishwarya Bhati, reportedly joked in court that she needed to hire an English professor to understand the convoluted ruling.\n\nBut the UK-based Plain English Campaign (PEC) said it had seen similar language deployed in the past by judges, though the wording in this case was \"preposterously overblown\".\n\n\"There is simply no reason or excuse for it,\" the PEC's Lee Monks told the BBC. \"We've often heard the defence that these are 'legal terms' but that's very often a cop-out.\n\n\"The idea that something like '...fullest succour from the aforesaid acquiescence' is at all necessary is ridiculous.\"\n\nWhile that may be true, judges in the Indian sub-continent, and elsewhere, clearly enjoy the freedom they have to show off their verbal dexterity and cultural knowledge in judgements - though they usually make more sense.\n\nOn Thursday, a judgement from Pakistan's Supreme Court ruling that there was insufficient evidence of corruption to remove Nawaz Sharif from the role of prime minister began by mentioning Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather, before quoting 19th Century novelist Honore de Balzac, in the original French.\n\nBack in India, a 268-page Supreme Court judgement last year from Justice Dipak Misra was particularly verbose in dismissing a challenge to the constitutionality of the criminal offence of defamation brought by Subramanian Swamy, a politician.\n\nThe judge wrote, in a sentence described by the journalist and former law lecturer Tunku Varadarajan as \"among the worst sentences I've encountered in all my years of reading legal materials\":\n\n\"This batch of writ petitions preferred under Article 32 of the Constitution of India exposits cavil in its quintessential conceptuality and percipient discord between venerated and exalted right of freedom of speech and expression of an individual, exploring manifold and multilayered, limitless, unbounded and unfettered spectrums and the controls, restrictions and constrictions, under the assumed power of 'reasonableness' ingrained in the statutory provisions relating to criminal law to reviver and uphold one's reputation\"\"\n\nBut Indian judges, with few exceptions, \"love purple prose which they mistake to be or believe to be Shakespearean English\", says journalist Binoo K John, who wrote a book - Entry from Backside Only: Hazaar Fundaas of Indian English - about the peculiar use of English in India.\n\n\"So considering the long history of such prose, it is not all all embarrassing in India,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMeanwhile, at least one High Court judge in England has listened to calls to simplify the language used in judgements.\n\nJustice Peter Jackson published a simply-worded ruling last year in a family court case so it could be understood by the children affected by it.", "The Lib Dems believe their opposition to Brexit gives them a distinctive message\n\nThe Liberal Democrats claim to have raised more than twice as much as Labour from individual donors since a snap election was called.\n\nAll parties have made cash appeals to supporters after Theresa May's surprise decision to hold an election on 8 June.\n\nThe Lib Dems say they raised £500,000 in 48 hours.\n\nA similar Labour fund-raising drive is reported to have raised £200,000. Labour has yet to comment on the figure, reported by the FT.\n\nThe Conservatives have been contacted for details of their fundraising efforts.\n\nLib Dem leader Tim Farron claimed activists and donors were \"flocking\" to his party on the back of its anti-Brexit message.\n\nThe party, who are arguing for another referendum on the final Brexit deal, say they have seen their membership jump to 95,000, attracting 8,000 new members since Tuesday alone.\n\nThe Lib Dems also raised £1.972m in donations in the final quarter of 2016 - more than Labour over the period.\n\nLabour saw a massive increase in membership - to more than 500,000 - after Jeremy Corbyn's election in 2015, although a report leaked to The Guardian suggested 26,000 had left since last summer.\n\nSpeaking in Swindon on Friday, Mr Corbyn said Labour had signed up a further 2,500 members since the election was called.\n\nThe Lib Dems have traditionally struggled to match the Conservatives or Labour in terms of big donations and tend to spend far less on advertising at general elections than the two bigger parties.\n\nThey launched an emergency fund-raising drive on Wednesday after Parliament approved Mrs May's surprise decision to seek a snap general election.\n\nThe party is attempting to recover from their 2015 electoral wipe out, which saw them lose nearly 50 Commons seats.\n\nOpinion polls suggest they are unlikely to get the 57 seats they won in 2010, let alone the 62 seats they won in 2005 when Charles Kennedy was leader.\n\nLib Dem strategists point to their success in November's Richmond Park by-election, where Sarah Olney overturned a 23,000 Tory majority, as proof they can win back constituencies which voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU.\n\nBut critics say they could be vulnerable in existing and target seats which voted Leave in the EU referendum.\n\nMr Farron has said only his party stood in the way of the Conservatives substantially increasing their majority.\n\nSome senior Lib Dems, including former leader Lord Ashdown, have backed co-operation with other \"progressive\" parties to keep Conservatives from winning certain seats, while the Greens have backed local electoral pacts in some seats.\n\nBut the Conservatives have accused the Lib Dems of being determined to defy the will of the people and overturn Brexit.\n\nThey have also warned of a \"coalition of chaos\" with Labour and the SNP, prompting the Lib Dems to distance themselves from talk of working with Labour in the event of a hung Parliament.", "Harry Kane flicks a cross in to draw Tottenham level against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Only white babies appear in a search for \"babies\" on Microsoft search engine Bing...\n\nThere is growing concern that many of the algorithms that make decisions about our lives - from what we see on the internet to how likely we are to become victims or instigators of crime - are trained on data sets that do not include a diverse range of people.\n\nThe result can be that the decision-making becomes inherently biased, albeit accidentally.\n\nTry searching online for an image of \"hands\" or \"babies\" using any of the big search engines and you are likely to find largely white results.\n\nIn 2015, graphic designer Johanna Burai created the World White Web project after searching for an image of human hands and finding exclusively white hands in the top image results on Google.\n\nHer website offers \"alternative\" hand pictures that can be used by content creators online to redress the balance and thus be picked up by the search engine.\n\nGoogle says its image search results are \"a reflection of content from across the web, including the frequency with which types of images appear and the way they're described online\" and are not connected to its \"values\".\n\nMs Burai, who no longer maintains her website, believes things have improved.\n\n\"I think it's getting better... people see the problem,\" she said.\n\n\"When I started the project people were shocked. Now there's much more awareness.\"\n\n...and white hands appear if you type \"hands\" into Google.\n\nThe Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) was launched by Joy Buolamwini, a postgraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in November 2016.\n\nShe was trying to use facial recognition software for a project but it could not process her face - Ms Buolamwini has dark skin.\n\n\"I found that wearing a white mask, because I have very dark skin, made it easier for the system to work,\" she says.\n\n\"It was the reduction of a face to a model that a computer could more easily read.\"\n\nIt was not the first time she had encountered the problem.\n\nFive years earlier, she had had to ask a lighter-skinned room-mate to help her.\n\n\"I had mixed feelings. I was frustrated because this was a problem I'd seen five years earlier was still persisting,\" she said.\n\n\"And I was amused that the white mask worked so well.\"\n\nJoy Buolamwini found her computer system recognised the white mask, but not her face.\n\nMs Buolamwini describes the reaction to the AJL as \"immense and intense\".\n\nThis ranges from teachers wanting to show her work to their students, and researchers wanting her to check their own algorithms for signs of bias, to people reporting their own experiences.\n\nAnd there seem to be quite a few.\n\nOne researcher wanted to check that an algorithm being built to identify skin melanomas (skin cancer) would work on dark skin.\n\n\"I'm now starting to think, are we testing to make sure these systems work on older people who aren't as well represented in the tech space?\" Ms Buolamwini says.\n\n\"Are we also looking to make sure these systems work on people who might be overweight, because of some of the people who have reported it? It is definitely hitting a chord.\"\n\nMs Buolamwini thinks the situation has arisen partly because of the well-documented lack of diversity within the tech industry itself.\n\nEvery year the tech giants release diversity reports and they make for grim reading.\n\nYou get the picture. But what has that got to do with algorithms?\n\n\"If you test your system on people who look like you and it works fine then you're never going to know that there's a problem,\" Joy Buolamwini argues.\n\nOf the 44 winners of a beauty contest last year judged by algorithms, and based on some 6,000 uploaded selfies from 100 different countries, only one was non-white and a handful were Asian.\n\nAlex Zhavoronkov, Beauty.AI's chief science officer, told the Guardian the result was flawed because the data set used to train the AI (artifical intelligence) had not been diverse enough.\n\n\"If you have not that many people of colour within the data set, then you might actually have biased results,\" he said at the time.\n\nOn a more serious note, AI software used in the US to predict which convicted criminals might reoffend, was found to be more likely to incorrectly identify black offenders as high risk and white offenders as low risk, according to a study by the website Propublica (the software firm disputed these findings).\n\nSuresh Venkatasubramanian, an associate professor at the University of Utah school of computing, says creators of AI need to act now while the problem is still visible.\n\n\"The worst that can happen is that things will change and we won't realise it,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"In other words the concern has been that the bias, or skew, in decision-making will shift from things we recognise as human prejudice to things we no longer recognise and therefore cannot detect - because we will take the decision-making for granted.\"\n\nHe is however optimistic about tech's progress.\n\n\"To say all algorithms have racist manifestations doesn't make sense to me,\" he says.\n\n\"Not because it's impossible but because that's not how it's actually working.\n\n\"In the last three to four years what's picked up is the discussion around the problems and possible solutions,\" he adds.\n\nHe offers a number of these:\n\nMs Buolamwini says she is hopeful that the situation will improve if people are more aware of the potential problems.\n\n\"Any technology that we create is going to reflect both our aspirations and our limitations,\" she says.\n\n\"If we are limited when it comes to being inclusive that's going to be reflected in the robots we develop or the tech that's incorporated within the robots.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nTrump is extremely confident of winning his first World Championship this year Favourite Judd Trump says he believes he is \"the best\" in the world and can win the 40th World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre. Trump, 27, has been the form player this season, reaching five ranking title finals and winning two - the European Masters and Players Championship. \"I honestly believe I can play to a standard which is very rare nowadays,\" Trump told BBC Sport. The event starts on Saturday at 10:00 BST and runs until 1 May. Defending champion Mark Selby opens play against Ireland's Fergal O'Brien in Saturday's morning session, before five-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan plays Crucible debutant Gary Wilson in the afternoon session at 14:30. Bristol-born Trump, who begins against qualifier Rory McLeod on Tuesday, was runner-up to John Higgins in 2011, but has only reached two semi-finals since. However, he feels the consistency he has shown this season - taking his career ranking victories to seven - puts him among the players to beat in Sheffield. \"Being the favourite is a help,\" said Trump. \"When people tip you, a lot put themselves under pressure but I use it as an advantage. \"The public are seeing something from me which they have not seen before, and I think I can win it. It is about keeping your foot on the gas. \"I have been too inconsistent here in the past but I am at an age where there are no more excuses, I am getting towards the peak of my career and now is the time to really step up and win a lot of titles.\" The World Championship will be played at the iconic Sheffield venue until 2027 at least after a new 10-year agreement was struck. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn signed the deal on Friday during the broadcast of 40 Years of the Crucible on the BBC Red Button. Defending champion Selby won the title for a second time by beating Ding Junhui in last year's final. The Leicester man won the most recent ranking event - the China Open - but is aware that no player has won the World Championship in the same year. \"The hoodoo needs to be broken at some point. Hopefully this year might be the case,\" Selby told BBC Sport. \"To win it again and be on three just on your own would be very, very special. This year is as hard as it has been to pick a winner with so many players on form. \"It is Judd Trump's best chance to win it this year.\" Selby plays his first match on the opening morning against O'Brien, who claimed the longest frame in professional snooker history in his final qualifier which lasted two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said last week that China will become the sport's superpower within the next decade. This year's tournament in Sheffield sees five Chinese players competing - last year's finalist Ding, Liang Wenbo and Xiao Guodong as well as teenage debutants Zhou Yeulong, 19, and 17-year-old Yan Bingtao. Yan becomes the first player born after 2000 to appear at the main stages of the tournament and the second youngest ever to do so. But the youthful duo are no strangers to success after their two-man team won the 2015 World Cup in their home country. Englishmen Wilson and David Grace (both 31), plus Thailand's Noppon Saengkham, 24, will also appear at the Crucible for the first time. Wilson faces a tough draw against five-time champion O'Sullivan, Grace plays Kyren Wilson and Saengkham faces 2010 champion Neil Robertson of Australia. Best shots of the 2016 World Championship Will the centuries record be beaten? The stats…\n• None For the first time, the World Championship will be broadcast live on World Snooker's Facebook page across 40 countries in North America, South America and Asia.\n• None The total prize money is £1.75m, with the winner picking up £375,000.\n• None Eighty-six centuries were made in both 2015 and 2016 - a record. All the top 16 players were at the Crucible on the eve of the tournament and were asked by BBC Sport to describe the iconic venue in three words or fewer...", "Reality Check says: The government defines \"ordinary working families\" as those that are not eligible for pupil premium but have below average incomes. It believes that accounts for about one third of all pupils in England, but this calculation is a work in progress.\n\nEducation Secretary Justine Greening on Thursday kicked off a consultation on plans for grammar schools in England, saying that they must do more to help \"ordinary working families\" as the government pushes ahead with plans to allow more selective schools to open.\n\nThere is no official definition of an \"ordinary working family\" but Ms Greening said on the Today Programme: \"They don't perhaps qualify for free school meals - for pupil premium - but actually they are growing up in families that are below median incomes.\"\n\nThe household earning the median income is the one for which half of families have a higher income and half have lower.\n\nThe Pupil Premium is a pot of money set aside for children who are in care, eligible for free school meals or have had free school meals at any point in the last six years.\n\nPupils are eligible for free school meals if their family is on one of a range of benefits or has a household income of less than £16,190.\n\nSo, if earning above £16,190 puts you at the bottom end of the \"ordinary working families\" definition, how is the government defining the top end of the range?\n\nThe paper published on Wednesday included the first attempt by government statisticians to come up with figures that set out how many children from different income brackets go to grammar schools.\n\nIn the past, the only figures to help with this have been those covering how many children eligible for pupil premium go to particular schools, so expanding these statistics is an ambitious project.\n\nWhat the statisticians have done is to attempt to match individual pupils in schools with their families' income through looking at tax payments and tax credits details.\n\nThese figures have then been adjusted to take into account things like household size, because if there are two families with identical household incomes, one of which has one child and the other has four children, their standards of living will not be the same.\n\nTaking all these adjustments into account, the median household income comes out as £20,000. However, some families earning more than £20,000 in total will still fall within the definition of an ordinary working family.\n\nFor example, a single parent's income would be adjusted upwards, so it could be compared directly with the standard of living for a couple.\n\nFor a two-parent family with two children, the government considers median income to be £33,000.\n\nThe government says 35% of all pupils in England, which is 2.5 million children fall into its definition of coming from ordinary working families, because they fall below the median income but are not eligible for pupil premium.\n\nThe government is consulting on how to improve the methodology because, for example, the income figures do not currently include households' earnings from self-employment. They also plan to adjust for housing costs in different parts of England. The consultation closes on 30 June.\n\nThis new analysis has been welcomed as providing more detail, although there have been warnings from some education groups that the new work on ordinary working families will reduce the focus on the disadvantaged families who are eligible for pupil premium.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Practice, qualifying and race on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra (second practice online only). Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nMax Verstappen does not lack for confidence. Just starting his third season in Formula 1, with one win under his belt, the 19-year-old Red Bull driver has no doubts about his ability.\n\nCould he beat Lewis Hamilton in the same car, he is asked towards the end of a BBC Sport interview before the Bahrain Grand Prix?\n\n\"Probably I will sound really arrogant, but for sure,\" the Dutchman says.\n\nLike all Verstappen's statements, it is not said in an arrogant fashion. He is not an arrogant man. It is a statement of facts as he sees them, founded on a cast-iron self-belief forged by a lightning rise to the top in which he has already proved to have a rare and spectacular talent.\n\nThat ability was on show once again at the Chinese Grand Prix last weekend.\n\nFrom 16th on the grid to seventh on the first lap in slippery, damp conditions; second by lap 12, having passed Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari and his Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in typically improvisational style; passed by Sebastian Vettel's quicker Ferrari later in the race, but holding on for a podium after fending off heavy pressure from Ricciardo.\n\nFor all its wonder, it was the sort of drive that has come to be expected of Verstappen. It was after all just three races previously, in Brazil at the end of last year, that Verstappen produced an even more eye-opening performance, dancing through the rain in Brazil in a manner that brought comparisons with Ayrton Senna.\n\nWhere does Verstappen's talent come from?\n\nVerstappen seems to find grip and pace simply not accessible to most other drivers. How does he do it?\n\n\"It's always a bit difficult to answer to be honest,\" Verstappen says. \"Just feeling, instinct, knowing where you have to go. You just feel your way into it.\"\n\nIt's not just instinct, though. Verstappen started karting at a very young age, and had a pretty decent tutor - his dad, the former F1 driver Jos Verstappen. He also has racing genes from his mother, the former champion karter Sophie Kumpen.\n\nJos would take little Max out for kart races, limited to five laps at a time because that was when the race was shaped, he said.\n\nIt is better to win a few races and crash in a few than always be second or third\n\n\"For sure that helped me a lot,\" Verstappen says now. \"My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box.\n\n\"Some people say: 'Feel your way into it, build it up.' No, my dad would say: 'Straight away you have to be there.' And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.\"\n\nThere is nature with the nurture, though. Experience alone cannot explain Verstappen's almost supernatural feel for the limit when braking, the basis for many of his best overtaking moves.\n\nCan Verstappen himself explain it?\n\n\"To be honest, I can't,\" he says. \"I don't know. It is just something natural, I guess, to feel your way and control it. I have been practising a lot in the wet and trying not to lock up and stuff but I think it is also a bit natural, when you feel it is starting to lock.\"\n\nVerstappen's performances since he burst onto the F1 scene as a 17-year-old with the Red Bull junior team two years ago have earned him widespread acclaim and a huge fanbase. But while he is clearly an exceptional talent, he says he does not see himself in that way.\n\n\"No, I don't think about things like that,\" he says. \"You also very quickly get an arrogant thing about you when say things like that and I don't want to.\n\n\"Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that. I just want to do the best I can every time.\"\n\nControversy as part of the package\n\nAlong with the golden talent, there is a darker side to Verstappen.\n\nHis defensive driving tactics angered several more established stars, especially Vettel, last year and there were hard words spoken in a few drivers' briefings. A rule was even created specifically to try to prevent Verstappen doing what is known as 'moving under braking' - although it has been removed again this year to give race stewards more freedom.\n\nVerstappen says he was not bothered by the criticism.\n\n\"No, everyone can have their own opinion,\" he says. \"But it is very clear they [F1's bosses] wanted the racing back. Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position. That's what I was doing. I am happy that there is a bit more freedom to it.\"\n\nOfficials were concerned enough, though, for F1 race director Charlie Whiting to have a word with Verstappen and warn him that he was right on the edge of acceptability.\n\n\"They basically said they had never seen it before,\" Verstappen says. \"It was all a bit new to them. But I never got a penalty for it. So I never really thought I was doing anything wrong. It was definitely on the limit and hard but that's how racing should be, I think.\"\n\nMore from F1 on the BBC:\n\nFor all his clearly exceptional ability, the fact remains that Verstappen was out-scored in terms of points and out-qualified more often than not by team-mate Ricciardo last year.\n\nVerstappen says he feels no great need to correct the record this year. But there is a hint of a touched nerve in his answer when he points out that the margins were small, and he suffered a number of reliability problems that Ricciardo did not.\n\nPressed on the fact he must surely want to beat his team-mate, the only man who has the same equipment and therefore the only one with whom he can be directly compared, he adds: \"Well, of course it's a positive, but it is not always [about] being ahead [at the end of the season]. It is also stand-out results.\n\n\"I prefer to win a few races and crash in a few than always be second or third and be ahead in the championship. That is my approach to racing when you are not fighting for the title.\"\n\nIt is an answer that will remind F1 aficionados of the late Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve, who remains a legend for the feats he achieved apparently defying physics, in much the way Verstappen has done.\n\nOn a more mundane level is the question of the relationship between Verstappen and Ricciardo. Two bulls in one field is normally a recipe for disaster in F1 - think Alain Prost and Senna, or Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso - but Verstappen insists the relationship is sustainable.\n\n\"For the moment, there are no issues at all,\" he says. \"As long as you have a lot of respect for each other, then it should work out.\"\n\nVerstappen says the relationship with Ricciardo is \"actually very good\", but does concede: \"Of course on track we try to beat each other. That is very normal. There is always a bit of a distance. That's the way it should be. You cannot be best buddies every single minute of the day in racing.\n\n\"Off track, in the meetings here we work really well together, and on track we try to beat each other. But it is good for the team because we push each other forward as well and that's pushes the car forward.\"\n\nRight now, that's exactly what Red Bull need. They have started the season in a kind of no-man's land - not as quick as pace-setters Mercedes and Ferrari but miles ahead of everyone else.\n\nThe mixed conditions of China brought them into play close to the front, but that is going to be the exception rather than the norm until the car can be improved.\n\nRed Bull say they are confident chassis improvements along with engine upgrades due over the next few races can bring them closer, but Verstappen is not getting his hopes up.\n\n\"I am going to take the approach of just wait and see when the parts come to the car,\" he says. \"I am a realistic person. I don't like to be dreaming and hoping half a second here and 0.6secs here.\"\n\nAt his age, Verstappen has time on his hands. And his long-term ambition is clear. Not just one world title, but \"as many as I can get\".\n\nAs soon as he has said it, though, the realism is back: \"But it is not always in your hands. You need to be in the right team at the right time and hope they keep up as well.\n\n\"As long as you try to be the best you can, the fittest you are, that's also already a great achievement.\n\n\"At the end of my career if I didn't win a championship but I was still very competitive and was always up there and tried to extract the best out of myself, I can be happy with that as well.\"\n\nAnd he does admit that his ambition is to be the main man in F1.\n\n\"Of course that's the target. But it is really involved with how good the car is - I am 100% sure that if I had the same car as Lewis and Seb for sure I would be challenging them really hard.\n\n\"You have to believe in yourself. With the results I have had, or in the wet, or even in the dry, some races with a car that is not as good, to be able to be that close or reality fight for it, I am 100% sure if I had the same car, I can do it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nBritish former world champion Jenson Button will replace Fernando Alonso at McLaren for the Monaco Grand Prix.\n\nAlonso will miss the race on 28 May to compete in the Indianapolis 500, with the full support of both McLaren and the team's engine partner Honda.\n\n\"I'm thrilled to be making a one-off return,\" said Button, 37, who retired from F1 at the end of last season.\n\n\"I couldn't think of a better place to make that return than my adopted home grand prix - Monaco.\"\n\nThe 2009 world champion has spent the winter in California training for Ironman triathlons, his long-time passion.\n\nHe will learn a lot very quickly but with the amount of talent he has I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls it off\n\nHe signed a contract with McLaren last autumn that committed him to replacing any race driver not able to take part in a grand prix this year.\n\nAs part of that contract, the team also has an option to sign him to race in 2018.\n\nButton described Monaco as a \"tricky street circuit\" but said the McLaren may be \"more suited\" to the venue than the \"faster circuits\" Alonso and team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne have driven on so far this season.\n\n\"I've won the race before, in 2009, and it's one of my all-time favourite racetracks,\" he added.\n\nMcLaren will be credited with any points won by Button. Both the team and Alonso have yet to win a point this season and are unlikely to be in the shake-up for either title.\n\nAlonso said: \"To be honest, if we were fighting for a world championship, we cannot afford to lose a 25-points possibility. Yet we are not in that position, unfortunately.\"\n• None Alonso to race at Indy 500 over Monaco\n• None Go ahead for grands prix on British roads\n\nMcLaren racing director Eric Boullier believes Button is fit enough to cope with rigours of racing in Monaco.\n\n\"Jenson spent 17 years in F1. He drove these levels of downforce before and, having gone through the differences in technicalities of driving this year's car and last year's car, we agreed that it would be better to spend a couple of days in the simulator than to test in Bahrain on a different circuit in completely different conditions from Monaco.\n\n\"He is fit and ready.\"\n\n'He loves Monaco, he's a tremendous driver and he'll do well'\n\nNigel Mansell, another British former world champion, believes Button will do well at Monaco.\n\nMansell, 63, was the F1 champion when he won the IndyCar series in 1994.\n\n\"Jenson is a great world champion and a class act,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live. \"He's probably fitter and more hungry now than he has been for many years.\n\n\"He loves Monaco, he's a tremendous driver, and he'll do exceedingly well.\"\n\nMansell said the key to succeeding at Monaco was being \"incredibly fit and patient\", and that Button might \"surprise McLaren and himself\".\n\nHe added: \"They are in safe hands with Jenson. He knows the team and they know him very well. The last thing they need is a rookie doing one race, causing problems and crashing the car.\"\n\nMansell has no doubt Alonso has the talent to succeed in IndyCars and says he is joining \"a great team\".\n\nThe Spaniard, 35, will race for the Honda-powered Andretti team on 28 May, and the car will be branded a McLaren.\n\nHe said he had long held an ambition to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.\n\n\"The switch for Alonso will be learning the Indy circuit,\" said Mansell.\n\n\"You have to have the car carefully balanced because if it has any oversteer then it's an accident waiting to happen.\n\n\"He will find racing over Indianapolis over 500 miles is fascinating. He will learn a lot very quickly but with the amount of talent he has I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls it off.\"\n\nMansell described his time in the United States as a \"wild-west experience\".\n\n\"It's incredible to go across to America and experience that,\" he said. \"It will be fascinating as a racing fan to watch everything unfold next month.\n\n\"It's so exciting for racing fans. I think the crossover is wonderful.\"", "Trade was one of the dominant themes in Donald Trump's election campaign.\n\nHe often focused on particular US trade partners. Mexico and China were most frequently in his sights.\n\nAnd one of his first actions as president was to withdraw the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade deal, agreed by his predecessor but which had not come into force.\n\nSo what are President Trump's priorities for trade? What does he hope to achieve?\n\nHe often focuses on trade imbalances: the US deficit in trade with the rest of the world and bilateral deficits too.\n\nHere are some figures. Last year the US had a deficit of half a trillion dollars in trade in goods and services with the rest of the world. For China, the bilateral deficit was close to $350bn (£280bn). For Japan, Germany and Mexico, the figures were in the range of $60-70bn.\n\nPresident Trump considers these figures to be evidence that the US has done badly, that it has been treated unfairly.\n\nMexico, he has said, is \"killing us on jobs and trade\".\n\nHe has expressed similar views on China: \"We are like the piggy bank that's being robbed.\"\n\nHis trade adviser Peter Navarro told the Financial Times that Germany uses a grossly undervalued euro to exploit its trade partners, essentially arguing that the exchange rate gives Germany a competitive advantage that's unfair.\n\nMr Trump has also criticised Japan for barriers to American car exports and for manipulating its currency to gain a competitive advantage.\n\nHe wants to see a reversal of the decline in manufacturing employment that the US has experienced. (The number of jobs in manufacturing dropped sharply in the 2000s, though the share of total employment has been falling for decades.)\n\nSo where do those concerns lead President Trump's trade agenda?\n\nHis bilateral discussions have got off to a somewhat gentler start than his campaign language might have led us to expect.\n\nHe held a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping last weekend.\n\nMr Trump said \"tremendous progress\" had been made in talks with Mr Xi\n\nThey agreed a 100-day programme of talks. The US expects China to offer better access to its market, including for beef and services companies. Mr Trump's campaign language about possibly imposing large tariffs on imports from China, as much as 45%, was not on display this time.\n\nOne China critic in the US, Gordon Chang, asked: \"Did Trump just roll over on China trade?\"\n\nAnd just days after meeting President Xi, Mr Trump said his administration would not label China a currency manipulator, rowing back on a campaign promise.\n\nChina's critics have a wide-ranging list of allegations about unfair practices - subsidies to Chinese industries, dumping underpriced goods, and the theft of patents and copyright.\n\nWith Mexico, President Trump wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), a deal that dramatically reduced barriers to commerce between the US, Mexico and also Canada.\n\nMost goods are traded free of tariffs (taxes applied only to traded goods).\n\nHe has said that Nafta was the worst trade deal the US has ever done, that it kills American jobs. How would he like to change it? He has threatened a number of carmakers with \"border taxes\" (that is tariffs) if they expand production in Mexico for export to the US market.\n\nDonald Trump is not popular in Mexico\n\nThat would be inconsistent with Nafta as it currently stands and it's hard to see how it would comply with any amendments to Nafta that the Mexican government would be willing to accept. It's also almost certain that such action would be incompatible with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.\n\nBut there are signs that the administration's approach may in the event be softer. There is a draft letter from the administration to Congress setting out objectives for a renegotiation. National Public Radio described the proposed changes as \"tweaks\".\n\nThere is quite a long list of areas proposed for revision, including a right to re-impose tariffs (probably temporarily) in response to a surge in imports and an effort to remove barriers to US exports to the other two countries.\n\nThere is also a call to look at what are called \"rules of origin\", which specify how much of a product's value has to be added in the Nafta area to qualify for tariff-free treatment. A higher threshold could make it harder to use components made in China, for example.\n\nBut what is clear is that this is about revising rather than scrapping Nafta.\n\nIt's also unclear exactly what Mr Trump would do about disputes in trade with other countries.\n\nOptions include making more aggressive use of the WTO's rules for disputes. There is its judicial dispute settlement system, and there are actions that countries can take unilaterally against subsidised or dumped imports (sold abroad more cheaply than in the producer's home market), provided they do it in a way that is set out in WTO rules.\n\nWhat worries many trade experts is that the Trump administration might be ready to bypass WTO rules and impose new barriers to imports regardless of the organisation's rules. It would be a very serious, possibly fatal blow for the credibility of the agency if the world's largest economy were not to take it and its rules seriously.\n\nFederal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at the recent G20 meeting; the G20 dropped an anti-protectionist commitment after opposition from the US\n\nThe WTO is at the heart of a system of international trade relations, based on rules that started to take shape soon after World War Two. Although the WTO itself wasn't established until 1995, much of the rulebook that it now manages goes back to the late 1940s.\n\nThere is a lot of anxiety among trade officials about just how the global trade system might unravel if the WTO were seriously undermined. The concern is that there could be widespread new restrictions arising and their view - shared by the great majority of economists - is that increased trade protectionism would be bad for living standards around the world.\n\nIt certainly caused a lot of anxiety when a recent meeting of finance ministers from the G20 leading economies dropped from its communique a remark that had previously been routinely included about avoiding trade protectionism, something that was done at the insistence of the US delegation.\n\nSo we certainly have some new questions about what role the US will take in shaping the future of the global trading system.\n\nPresident Trump's most strident campaign comments haven't yet been fully reflected in the actions of his administration, with the exception perhaps of the withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But it is still very early days.\n• None What is the World Trade Organization?", "Last updated on .From the section Counties\n\nEx-England captain Alastair Cook hit an unbeaten 39 for Essex against Somerset in his first Championship appearance since standing down as Test skipper.\n\nCook took two slip catches in the first session as the visitors bowled Somerset out for 209 in Taunton.\n\nIn bowler-friendly conditions Peter Trego (48) top scored as the home side struggled to deny Essex's bowlers.\n\nAlthough Nick Browne was bowled cheaply by Craig Overton, Cook held out under heavy cloud cover as Essex closed 60-2.\n\nCook returned to the hosts' line-up after being sidelined for their first match against Lancashire with a hip injury, and the England opener took two low catches at first slip as Marcus Trescothick and new Somerset captain Tom Abell were both dismissed by Ravi Bopara.\n\nDean Elgar (34) and James Hildreth (36) shared a 54-run third-wicket partnership, before the former was stumped off spinner Ashar Zaidi.\n\nTrego's lone resistance was ended as he top-edged Simon Harmer to Zaidi but the hosts managed to pick up a solitary batting bonus point as they edged past 200.\n\nAfter a short delay due to bad light and surviving a tight lbw call, Cook sent Jamie Overton for three consecutive fours as he eased into the match.\n\nRoelof van der Merwe ensured Somerset ended on a high, as he bowled Tom Westley for 10 with the final ball of the day.\n\n\"I think it's probably slightly swung in their favour.\n\n\"It's the old cricketing cliché: you can only see how good a pitch is when both sides have batted on it and Alastair Cook is a phenomenal player and he's making life look relatively easy out there and I don't think any of us did.\n\n\"It's a sporting wicket. There's certainly something there for the bowler, but you get rewarded for quality batting.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer two brightly-patterned, tattered shopping bags weigh heavily in her hands.\n\nThe Russian-backed \"republic\" where the 78-year-old lives is at war with Ukraine and is not marked on most world maps.\n\nShe is travelling west into Ukraine proper to visit her sick husband, who no longer lives with her on the separatist side.\n\nShe is proud, almost defiant, and will not accept our offer of a lift.\n\nNearby, Anatoliy stands waiting for a bus going the other way, back to the separatist side.\n\nSvetlana trudges from separatist territory to visit her sick husband\n\nHe has just collected his Ukrainian pension.\n\nHe lives in a place where Russian and separatist flags fly above government buildings and Russian roubles buy you mainly Russian goods.\n\nThe Kremlin recently said that separatist IDs could be used to travel east over the border into Russia.\n\nA Ukrainian soldier checks a woman's passport as she waits to enter the separatist-controlled east\n\nDespite close financial and military ties with the two so-called separatist republics, Moscow has still not officially recognised them or taken the land as its own.\n\nMore from Tom Burridge in Ukraine\n\nAnd despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary, the Kremlin still denies it has armed, and fought alongside, the separatist armies.\n\nThe conflict is entering its fourth year and Anatoliy says life under the separatists \"couldn't be worse\".\n\nOthers complain there are no jobs for the young, that basic goods are expensive and that shooting and shelling never stops.\n\nAnatoliy does not like \"what Putin has done\" to eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"Ukraine used to be whole and undivided. Why the hell did he come here?\" he asks.\n\nBut one woman does not like what she hears and interrupts. She blames Ukraine for \"creating this concentration camp\".\n\nThe separatist-held east is more cut off from the rest of Ukraine than ever before.\n\nAnd the crossing point now at least feels like a border.\n\nWith the right paperwork, people can move back and forth past a network of military checkpoints on either side.\n\nNow, though, the Ukrainian government has blocked the movement of all commercial goods across the frontline.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm so sick of this war' - Ukraine woman tells of loss\n\nIt did so because the separatists seized Ukrainian-owned businesses in the territory they control.\n\nThe separatists were themselves responding to an initial blockade of rail lines by former Ukrainian soldiers, who said trade with Ukraine across the frontline was funding the separatist armies.\n\nThe war had already greatly damaged eastern Ukraine's coal and steel plants.\n\nNow this valuable industrial network has been sliced in two, causing unquantifiable economic pain on either side.\n\nThe Avdiikva coke plant is among the biggest in Europe and helps fuel Ukraine's steel industry\n\nDespite the risks so close to the frontline, keeping the plant running is vital for Ukraine\n\nFor Ukraine analyst Michael Bociurkiw it is a \"set of very bad developments\" that makes the chances of eastern Ukraine being incorporated back into the rest of the country less likely.\n\n\"It's another nail in the coffin for Minsk.\"\n\nHe means the peace agreement, signed by Russia and Ukraine in the Belarusian capital Minsk in early 2015.\n\nMr Bociurkiw worked extensively in eastern Ukraine for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).\n\nThe OSCE is responsible for monitoring the conflict, in order to pressure both sides into obeying the still elusive ceasefire.\n\nFor him, the war could be resolved in one phone call between Moscow and Washington. \"But unless there is political will, I don't think we are going to see peace any time soon.\"\n\nUkrainian ex-soldiers began a blockade to stop goods going to and from the separatists\n\nRepeated attempts to implement a lasting ceasefire have failed. And that means more loss of life.\n\n\"What are we losing our parents for?\" asks Nadia, 22.\n\nHer mother, Katya, was killed in the town of Avdiivka by a mortar round or shell as she walked home.\n\n\"Why are people dying?\" she says as tears run slowly down her cheeks.\n\n\"Make them stop all of this. Make them sign treaties in Minsk or whatever,\" she says, appealing to those with power on either side of the conflict.\n\n\"Do anything so that this is over soon.\"", "In 2015, John Cleese said there was \"no way\" he'd ever work at the BBC again. Now he has changed his mind after announcing he will make a new BBC sitcom that will reunite him with his Clockwise co-star Alison Steadman.\n\nCleese isn't the first celebrity to go back on his very public word. From Charlie Simpson's Busted to Bond star Sean Connery, it's wise to never say never again.\n\nThere are some bands that will never get back together. Abba. The Jam. The Smiths. Then there are those that \"will never get back together\". Like The Stone Roses. And Busted.\n\nThe group that had eight top 10 hits in the 2000s, and sent many a teenage girl all aflutter, split in 2005 when frontman Charlie Simpson left.\n\nSimpson told BBC Newsbeat \"not in a million years\" would they reform. But some 999,990 years before that date, Simpson announced they were getting back together after all.\n\nSpeaking at the time of their reunion in November 2015, Simpson said: \"I reckon I said it 20 more times than that, privately and publicly, and I meant it every single time.\n\n\"But as I say, I have changed my mind, and that has been down to the circumstances changing. I never thought we would get to a point where we were in a studio writing music we all got behind creatively and that was a huge shock to me.\"\n\nThe band played UK arenas in 2016 with the aptly named Pigs Can Fly Tour.\n\nGervais returned to the Globes not once, not twice, but three times\n\nWhen Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globe awards in 2010, offending half of Hollywood in the process, he told the relieved A-list audience: \"It's OK folks, I won't be doing this again.\"\n\nBut he returned the following year, and again in 2012, before announcing very publicly he would not be back.\n\nOn his blog after the 2012 ceremony, the acerbic comic wrote: \"I've told my agent to never let me be persuaded to do it again though. It's like a parachute jump. You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realise you didn't die and it was quite an amazing thing to do.\"\n\nFour years later, he headed back. Employing a good old British turn of phrase, Gervais tweeted: \"It's a good job I'm drunk. Otherwise the thought of hosting The Golden Globes again would seem like a real pain in the arse.\"\n\nWhoopi Goldberg was one of several Hollywood stars who threatened to quit the US\n\nWhat do Whoopi Goldberg, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer, Chloe Sevigny and Ne-Yo have in common?\n\nThey all should be living in Canada or Europe after vowing to leave the US if Donald Trump was elected President. But they're not.\n\nSome hastily tweeted U-turns when Trump was elected, others went quiet and hoped nobody would remember.\n\nGoldberg said \"I'm not leaving the country I was born and raised in,\" while Schumer used social media to declare her pledge to move to Spain was merely a \"joke\".\n\nCyrus released an emotional video the morning after Trump's win saying she \"accepted\" the new president.\n\nSamuel L Jackson, who had been succinct in his intentions, also backed out. \"If that mother... becomes president, I'm moving my black ass to South Africa,\" he said.\n\nIn the early 1950s, Charlie Chaplin reportedly said he had \"no further use for America\" and \"wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President\".\n\nAfter a series of political controversies, personal scandals and falling audiences, he decided to hold the world premiere of Limelight in London, where the film was set, rather than the US, where he had settled.\n\nBoarding the RMS Queen Elizabeth in New York in 1952, he received word that his re-entry permit had been revoked and he would have to be interviewed about his political views and moral behaviour if he wanted to return.\n\nHe said: \"I have been the object of lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups who, by their influence and by the aid of America's yellow press, have created an unhealthy atmosphere in which liberal-minded individuals can be singled out and persecuted.\"\n\nBy 1972, feelings had softened on both sides and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences offered Chaplin an honorary Oscar.\n\nChaplin was given a 12-minute standing ovation, the longest in the Academy's history, as he accepted his award for \"the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century\".\n\nDaniel Craig (left) and Sean Connery are regularly voted the best Bonds\n\nDaniel Craig famously said he would \"rather slash my wrists\" than reprise his role as 007 fifth time.\n\nBut The Sun reported last week he was \"ready to do a final Bond\".\n\nIt isn't confirmed, but the newspaper said film producer Barbara Broccoli had almost persuaded him to get back on board one last time.\n\nCraig is regarded as one of the best Bonds of all time - and it seems the best Bonds are also the most fickle.\n\nIn 1983, Sean Connery returned to the role for the seventh and last time in Never Say Never Again, with the title being more than a subtle nod to Connery's reported remarks that he would \"never again\" play Bond.\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 Cycling\n\nBritain's Katie Archibald won gold in the women's omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong.\n\nThe 23-year-old Scot held off Australia's Amy Cure in the points race for her first individual world title.\n\nBritain now have three medals following a silver for Elinor Barker and bronze for Chris Latham in the scratch races.\n\nWorld Championship debutant Ryan Owens reached the quarter-finals of the men's sprint as fellow Briton and Olympic champion Callum Skinner crashed out.\n• None The omnium explained and other mysteries\n\nArchibald won Olympic gold alongside Barker, Laura Kenny and Joanna Rowsell Shand in the team pursuit at Rio 2016 and was world team pursuit champion in 2014.\n\nBut with defending world and Olympic omnium champion Kenny pregnant with her first child, Archibald was handed an individual spot and seized her opportunity.\n\n\"I feel really privileged to pull it off,\" she said. \"It was an unbelievably grippy race, I really thought I'd lost it in the middle point but I pulled it out of the bag.\n\n\"It feels very strange, I'm used to having my girls, my team-mates, around me it's odd to celebrate by yourself but I'm looking forward to catching up with them at the hotel.\"\n\nEuropean champion Archibald won the first two events - the scratch race and the newly-added tempo race - and led by eight points at the halfway stage.\n\nShe finished fifth in elimination race as rival Cure took maximum points, meaning the two were level going into the final event.\n\nArchibald edged two points clear before the final sprint of the points race, and put in a fantastic push down the final straight to secure victory.\n\nIt was her first individual success on a world stage and she has had to overcome multiple setbacks on her road to individual glory.\n\nAt the end of 2015, a motorbike accident forced her to withdraw from the 2016 World Championships in London and she was heavily criticised by ex-British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton.\n\nIn November last year, she fractured her wrist as she partnered Manon Lloyd to victory in the inaugural women's madison at the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow.\n\nA wonderful performance. I thought she was completely spent in the closing stages; I genuinely didn't think that she had another sprint in her. But she just found something from somewhere to take the sprint from her rivals.\n\nShe knew she only had one effort, Cure went too early but nobody could manage the speed of Archibald's final dash.\n\nSome of the big names are out of the British team but it's giving the younger riders a chance to shine and hopefully cement a place in the team come Tokyo 2020.\n\n'I can't be too disappointed'\n\nEarlier, Owens eased into Saturday's quarter-finals of the men's sprint. The 21-year-old, who travelled to Rio 2016 as a reserve, beat Hugo Barrette of Canada.\n\nThe 24-year-old Scot, who also won Olympic gold in the team sprint alongside Kenny and Phil Hindes in Rio, was beaten by Max Niederleg of Germany.\n\n\"The field were three or fourth tenths ahead of my pace and it makes it difficult when you come up against the second seed,\" Skinner told BBC TV.\n\n\"It's just a reflection of where we are. I can't be too disappointed.\"\n\nIn the men's individual pursuit, Matt Bostock and Andy Tennant finished 13th and 14th while, in the men's points race, Mark Stewart came seventh.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho blamed his side's \"sloppy\" attackers after Anderlecht grabbed a late equaliser in the teams' Europa League quarter-final first leg.\n\nUnited led 1-0 in Belgium until the 86th minute, when the hosts equalised with their first effort on target.\n\n\"If I was a Manchester United defender, I would be very upset with the attacking players,\" Mourinho said.\n\n\"They did the serious work. The people who had to kill the game didn't.\"\n• None MOTD analysis: How Conte has taken Mourinho's mantle\n\nHenrikh Mkhitaryan tapped in for United in the 36th minute, but it was the only successful effort of their 16 shots at goal.\n\nThe visitors' attack lags well behind the rest of their top-four rivals in the Premier League, having scored only 46 goals. Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal have all managed more than 60.\n\nZlatan Ibrahimovic is the team's top-scorer with 28 goals in all competitions, with Mkhitaryan and Juan Mata the only others in double figures.\n\n\"It is the same problem,\" added Mourinho. \"We had control, we had chances, but we do not score enough goals.\n\n\"In my poor English, I cannot find a better word than sloppy. You have to play more seriously.\n\n\"Put the performance of two or three of our attacking players together and you squeeze not much juice out of it. Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Anthony Martial - they were very similar.\"\n\nHow the newspapers saw it\n\nYour reaction - by text on 81111\n\nPhil, Cardiff: Last half an hour the whole United attack just walking around with no desire to break with pace and kill the game off. The fact that they seem to be happy with a 1-0 at Anderlecht says how far United have fallen. And they paid the price with poor finishing as usual this season.\n\nDarragh, Belfast: Same old United this season we go one up and take the foot off the pedal, never look like we're gonna blow a team away! Not great for confidence with Chelsea on Sunday.\n\nChris Perez: You can spend as much money on a squad as possible but without time they will play as separate pieces of the jigsaw. Jose will make United great again.", "Quidditch is the second word invented by the Harry Potter author to join the English language\n\nQuidditch - the game played by Harry Potter - is now magically appearing in the Oxford Dictionaries, joining that other Potter term \"muggle\". But what other words dreamed up by author JK Rowling are on the cusp of gaining official recognition?\n\nPotterhead... Wrock... Bellatrix... three terms that muggles may not understand. And if you need to be told what a muggle is in the first place, then you can at least consult a dictionary on that one.\n\nThe BBC has learned that another small list of words associated with the Harry Potter book series is on the Oxford University Press watchlist, which decides on the words likely to gain inclusion in its dictionaries.\n\nPotterhead refers to a fan of Harry Potter, while Wrock [short for Wizard Rock] is a genre of Harry Potter-related music.\n\nBellatrix is the name of a character in the series, which Rowling named after a star in the Orion constellation.\n\nRowling's word \"muggle\" made its debut in 1997's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\n\nThe Oxford University Press has a vast database of some three billion words ready for editors to consider for publication in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and the website Oxford Dictionaries.\n\nThe OED is a historical dictionary which records all the core words and meanings in English over more than 1,000 years, while the latter tracks \"current\" English and includes modern meanings of words.\n\nMost words have to be in circulation for 10 years before they will be considered for the OED, but in the meantime many enter the Oxford Dictionaries website after careful consideration.\n\nRowling's word \"muggle\" - which made its debut in 1997's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - was an exception to the rule.\n\nMuggle leapt into the Oxford English Dictionary in less than half the usual time, appearing in 2002 as \"a person who lacks a particular skill or skills, or who is regarded as inferior in some way\".\n\nCharlotte Buxton, an associate editor at Oxford Dictionaries, explained that some words are fast-tracked if they \"cross into our world\" quickly and are widely used.\n\nShe said: \"It's fairly unusual for a made-up word to get in. They have to move beyond the book - quidditch is now a real sport, not just a made-up game.\n\n\"It is really significant as it shows that Harry Potter has had such a huge impact.\"\n\nMs Buxton said she thought \"Horcrux\" - an object which contains a wizard's evil - might be next on Oxford Dictionaries' radar.\n\nShe added: \"Harry Potter could be ripe for a project.\"\n\nOther realms which have crossed into ours include The Simpsons animated comedy show\n\nPrevious Oxford University Press projects include last year's focus on Roald Dahl as a celebration of the centenary of his birth.\n\nAlmost 8,000 real words - and invented ones - were included in a special Roald Dahl dictionary, which took five years to compile.\n\nOf these words, several do have a place in the OED, including golden ticket, oompa loompa and human bean.\n\nMs Buxton said it has been children's authors, such as Dahl, who have tended to coin the most new words over the last century because they are the most playful and creative.\n\n\"In particular, authors who create their own language - such as [Lord of the Rings author] JRR Tolkien. He created a complete world with its own language.\n\n\"Writers who do that - like JK Rowling - really make their mark.\" she said.\n\nOther realms which have crossed into ours are the fantasy fiction of Twilight, and the animated comedy show The Simpsons.\n\nThe Simpsons lays claim to three words in Oxford Dictionaries: Jeebus, cromulent and embiggen. It is also credited for popularising the word \"meh\" - which has been added to the OED.\n\n\"Children's books are read by children and by adults to their children, which leads to words being used within the family and beyond,\" Ms Buxton said. This gives the words better staying power.\n\nMeanwhile, realist authors, such as the Victorian author Charles Dickens, tend not to create as many new words as they are concerned with reflecting the real world, she said.\n\nIt is William Shakespeare who is famously credited for having the biggest influence on the English language - providing the first evidence of more than 1,600 words, from \"admired\" to \"watch-dog\" and \"night owl\".\n\nBut Ms Buxton says it is hard to know how many words Shakespeare invented and how many he simply recorded.\n\nWhat we do know is that not all of them stood the test of time: has anyone met a \"flirt-gill\" recently?\n\nSuperman: A translation of the German Übermensch used by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to denote the concept of an \"ideal superior man of the future\".\n\nBlatant: Invented by Edmund Spenser in his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1596), where he wrote of a \"blatant beast\".\n\nRobot: Coined by the Czech author Karel Capek, robot made its first appearance in a 1920 sci-fi play called R.U.R, short for Rossum's Universal Robots.\n\nCyberspace: Invented by William Gibson for a 1981 science fiction short story called Burning Chrome, which was published in Omni magazine in 1982.\n\nSerendipity: Coined by Horace Walpole in a letter he wrote to Horace Mann in 1754, after the title of the fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, the heroes of which 'were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of'.\n\nEucatastrophe: Coined by JRR Tolkien in a 1944 letter to describe \"a sudden and favourable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending\".\n\nDoublethink: In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four he created a language called Newspeak which included the word doublethink - which refers to the acceptance of contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time.\n\nBlurb: Coined in 1907 by the American humourist Gelett Burgess, \"blurb\" was first found on a comic book jacket embellished with a drawing of a young lady whom Burgess dubbed \"Miss Belinda Blurb\".\n\nChortle: Introduced by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass, published in 1871, the word is probably a blend of chuckle and snort.\n\nCloud cuckoo land: In his comedy Birds, the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes named the city built by the birds to separate the gods from mankind - it was translated into English in 1824 as \"cloud cuckoo land\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDouble Olympic champion Nicola Adams will contest three-minute rounds in her next fight, a contrast to the standard two minutes in women's boxing.\n\nAdams won on her professional debut on Saturday but was frustrated to fight over four two-minute rounds.\n\n\"Every time I felt I was getting close to a stoppage the bell would go for the end of the round,\" said Adams, 34.\n\nOn Tuesday, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said the organisation \"will never allow three-minute rounds\".\n\nSulaiman said some boxing jurisdictions had taken \"steps backwards\" in allowing longer rounds in the women's sport. He said the organisation would \"limit the dehydration and the fatigue elements to lower as much as possible the risk of a tragedy\".\n\nFlyweight Adams' next bout in Leeds on 13 May is on the undercard of Josh Warrington's WBC International featherweight title fight with Kiko Martinez.\n\nAs Adams' fight is not for a WBC title, the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) have allowed for the extension of the bout to four three-minute rounds.\n\nIreland's London 2012 Olympic champion Katie Taylor has also called for the move and Adams' management believe it will be the first time a women's bout has featured the same length of rounds as their male counterparts in the UK.\n\n\"Female boxing has come a long way since Jane Couch MBE made the sport possible here in the UK in 1998,\" said Adams.\n\n\"However, there is still a way to go until both male and female boxers can campaign under the same competition rules.\"\n\nAdams is now intent on winning the right for women to wear lighter gloves.\n\nThe BBBofC's rules specify women must use 10oz gloves, a factor Adams' management believe is even more limiting than round length as gloves become heavier with perspiration as a fight progresses.\n\n\"It's great that the BBBofC has supported this first change and hopefully changes to glove sizes will come next,\" said Adams.\n\nIn the men's game, fighters competing from flyweight to welterweight are allowed to wear 8oz gloves.\n\nBBC Radio 5 live boxing pundit Steve Bunce said a move to 8oz gloves would allow Adams to show her power, adding the current 10oz rule was \"not good for business\".", "Twenty years ago, Ronnie O'Sullivan made history with the fastest-ever 147 - a record nobody has come close to breaking.\n\nWatch the 2017 World Snooker Championship live across BBC Sport from Saturday, 15 April.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice, qualifying and race on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra (second practice online only). Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel was fastest in second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix with the Mercedes and Red Bull teams close behind.\n\nThe German was only 0.041 seconds quicker than Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas.\n\nRed Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was third with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes behind him.\n\nWe have hopefully closed that gap a little bit\n\nVettel's session was interrupted when his car shut down out on the track as he began his race-simulation run.\n\nBut after managing to crawl back to the pits, Ferrari fixed the car and he was able to complete his work.\n\nThe four-time world champion said: \"It was not the best day for us, we still need to improve the car. The car feels good. On one lap it was OK. Long run we might be quite a bit behind, but I am sure we can improve for tomorrow.\"\n• None Relive all the action from the second practice session\n\nIt was the second technical problem for Ferrari, after Raikkonen broke down with a turbo overheating problem in the first session. The Finn needed a new internal combustion engine to be fitted as well ahead of the second session.\n\nHamilton's true pace was not seen - he had a messy session and set his lap when his tyres were older than his rivals'.\n\nHamilton aborted his first lap, was blocked by Renault's Nico Hulkenberg on the next and finally nailed a time on his third attempt, when the edge would have gone from the rubber.\n\nHe and Vettel are tied on points at the top of the championship after a win and a second place apiece in the first two races of the season in Australia and China.\n\nThe pattern of the season so far in qualifying has been Hamilton on pole by a small margin, with Vettel and Bottas second and third separated by thousandths of a second.\n\nConditions are very different in Bahrain compared to Melbourne and Shanghai and Hamilton is concerned that Ferrari will be faster in the desert as a result of what he expects to be their lighter demands on the tyres.\n\nOn the race-simulation runs, Hamilton appeared to have a small advantage over the other drivers on the super-soft tyres and the soft tyres - other than two very quick laps by Raikkonen on the softs right at the end of the session.\n\nBut Hamilton said he had been told Ferrari were quicker than Mercedes in race pace.\n\n\"I didn't get to finish my lap. I would hope I would be in amongst [the top three if I had],\" he said.\n\n\"Ferrari's race pace is a couple of tenths faster than ours. We have to work out how we are going to close that gap.\n\n\"The car did not feel spectacular on the long run. There are some things we have to work on just with the tyres. But it could all be different on Sunday.\"\n\nThe stage seems set for a very close race between Mercedes and Ferrari, with Red Bull much closer on raw pace in the dry than they have been so far this season.\n\nRed Bull team boss Christian Horner told BBC Sport the team had made some changes to the car and it had been \"a positive day\", especially for Ricciardo.\n\n\"We have hopefully closed that gap a little bit. Hopefully we can build on that through the weekend,\" he added.\n\nBehind the big three, Hulkenberg was an impressive sixth fastest for Renault, ahead of Felipe Massa's Williams.\n\nHulkenberg's team-mate, Englishman Jolyon Palmer, was a second off the German in 13th place, just ahead of the McLaren of Fernando Alonso.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was only eighth fastest but on his qualifying simulation his floor was damaged by a small wing that had come off Bottas' Mercedes. The Dutchman looked relatively competitive on his race runs.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nClashes in the stands that forced some supporters on to the pitch delayed Lyon's Europa League quarter-final first-leg win over Besiktas.\n\nTrouble prompted police involvement outside the ground before violence behind one goal as players warmed up.\n\n\"Projectiles and fireworks launched from the stands require fans to take refuge on the pitch,\" Lyon tweeted.\n\nThe game kicked off 45 minutes late with Lyon scoring twice in the closing 10 minutes to win 2-1.\n\nAuthorities had categorised the fixture 'high risk', with about 500 police reportedly stationed at Parc Olympique Lyonnais - more than double the usual amount.\n\nBoth teams left the field as fans spilled on to the playing surface before kick-off, with Lyon president Jean Michel Aulas going into the crowd in an effort to calm supporters.\n\nWhen the French and Turkish sides eventually emerged, both sets of players clapped supporters all round the stadium, before going through brief warm-up drills ahead of a 20:50 BST kick-off.\n\nBefore Beskitas' fixture against Greek side Olympiakos in the previous round, both clubs worked with Uefa and took the decision to ban away fans in a bid to avoid crowd trouble.\n\nIt is the third incident at a Uefa competition this week, following Tuesday's bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund's team bus and Wednesday's clashes between Leicester City supporters and police in Madrid.\n\nWhen the match got under way, former Liverpool striker Ryan Babel put Besiktas ahead but moments after Corentin Tolisso's equaliser on 83 minutes, Jeremy Morel robbed Spanish goalkeeper Fabri in the area to tap into an empty net.\n• None Attempt missed. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Tousart (Lyon) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Mathieu Valbuena with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Lyon 2, Besiktas 1. Jérémy Morel (Lyon) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Lyon 1, Besiktas 1. Corentin Tolisso (Lyon) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.\n• None Tolgay Arslan (Besiktas) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Maxwel Cornet (Lyon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nabil Fekir.\n• None Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The US military has just dropped its largest conventional (that is non-nuclear) bomb for the first time in combat, on Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar.\n\nThe GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) - or, in military speak, Mother of All Bombs - was launched on Thursday.\n\nThe target was said to be a network of tunnels operated by the so-called Islamic State in Achin district.\n\nAs a non-nuclear weapon, use of the MOAB does not necessarily require approval by the US president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch 2003 footage of the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) being tested\n\nIt is a huge weapon - a 30ft (9m), 21,600lb (9,800kg), GPS-guided munition that is dropped from the cargo doors of an MC-130 transport plane and detonates shortly before it hits the ground.\n\nThe MOAB falls from the aircraft on a pallet, which is then tugged aside by a parachute allowing the weapon to glide down, stabilised and directed by four grid-like fins.\n\nIts principal effect is a massive blast wave - said to stretch for a mile in every direction - created by 18,000lb of TNT.\n\nThe bomb's thin aluminium casing was designed specifically to maximise the blast radius.\n\nThe MOAB is prepared for testing at the Eglin Air Force Base, Florida\n\nThe bomb is designed to damage underground facilities and tunnels.\n\nThe weapon was developed for use in the Iraq war - at a reported cost of $16m (£13m) each - and was first tested in 2003, but never used in action - until now.\n\nAnd yet, the MOAB is not the US military's heaviest non-nuclear bomb.\n\nThat distinction belongs to the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, a bunker-buster which weighs a colossal 30,000lb.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. North Korea 'must be well aware' of what else is in the US armoury\n\nRussia has developed its own massive conventional bomb, nicknamed the Father Of All Bombs. The FOAB is a kind of fuel-air bomb, technically known as a thermobaric weapon.\n\nThermobaric bombs generally detonate in two stages: a small blast creates a cloud of explosive material which is then ignited, generating a devastating pressure wave.\n\nA significant part of the effect of weapons like the MOAB is said to be psychological - to instil terror by the massive force of the blast.\n\nIts development followed the use of similar weapons including the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter, a 15,000lb bomb designed in part to flatten a section of forest to carve out a helicopter landing pad.\n\nThe MOAB was developed by the Alabama-based aeronautics company Dynetics.\n\nThe 21,600lb (9,800kg) bomb has never been used in combat before", "You can see highlights of Manchester United v Chelsea on Match of the Day 2 at 22:30 GMT on Sunday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n\nThere is pride, as well as points, at stake at Old Trafford on Sunday because Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will not take it well if Antonio Conte beats him in his own backyard.\n\nConte has not just won both their previous meetings this season, his Chelsea side are 18 points above United and closing in on the Premier League title.\n\nI did not expect the gap between the two teams to be so big but nobody could have foreseen how well Conte would do in what is a highly competitive league - I certainly didn't.\n\nIf you are looking for a comparison, you could say his impact in his first season in the Premier League has been Mourinho-esque - the same as when Jose first came to England in 2004 and blew everyone away.\n\n'It's unacceptable for Mourinho to miss out on the top four'\n\nIn many ways, Conte is the new Mourinho - he has only been in England for eight months but has already taken over his mantle.\n\nBy that, I mean the way Conte has been the outstanding manager this season with his results and how he has implemented his style of play to build a team that is exciting to watch and a threat going forward.\n\nJust as with Mourinho, you would not exactly say that everyone loves him, but most people admire the job he has done at Chelsea, and his enthusiasm and charisma too.\n\nMourinho may see a bit of himself in Conte and I would understand if he is a bit envious of the success the Italian has had. He has stolen his thunder with what is essentially Mourinho's team, and got so much more out of the group of players he was left with after Mourinho's second spell at the club.\n\nI was one of those who thought Mourinho would quickly transform United in a similar way, but they simply have not made the same transition since he took charge.\n\nYes, there are signs of improvement from the Louis van Gaal era but I still think United will finish outside the top four, which is pretty unacceptable when you consider how much money they have spent.\n\nIf they do not qualify for the Champions League by winning the Europa League, then you cannot get away from the fact that this season will be a distinctly disappointing one.\n\nI am not suggesting Mourinho is going to get the sack in that scenario - or that he should do - but, for United and for him, is winning the League Cup and finishing fifth or sixth really enough?\n\n'United's biggest problem is their lack of goals'\n\nMourinho has already clashed with Conte on the touchline this season, and he will be absolutely desperate to beat him this time.\n\nI don't think United can play an open game against Chelsea on Sunday because, if they try to go toe to toe with them, the way Conte's team counter-attack will really cause them problems.\n\nSo I am expecting a cagey affair. If you asked me to pick a winner I would go with the Blues but I just have a feeling Zlatan Ibrahimovic will play a big part in the outcome.\n\nI would not put it past him to do something special to decide the game - but even if United do come out on top at Old Trafford, they face a huge task to break into the top four now.\n\nLooking at their remaining fixtures, they will need to go on an unbelievable run in some difficult games. At the same time, they have to hope Liverpool or Manchester City slip up because the top two seem to be too far clear now.\n\nYou cannot rule United out of winning all of those games, simply because of who they are and the quality they have in their team.\n\nBut, on this season's form, I just cannot see it.\n\nUnited are unbeaten for 21 league games, going back to their 4-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge in October, but it is their inability to score goals that has been the determining factor in where they are in the table, because they have not beaten a lot of teams you would expect them to run riot against.\n\nThey have scored one more than Bournemouth and have the lowest total in the top six by a significant amount. I don't think anyone imagined them struggling so badly in front of goal.\n\nVan Gaal, Mourinho's predecessor at Old Trafford, was criticised heavily for his brand of football - but his United team scored more goals in his first season, and so did David Moyes' side.\n\nUnited's trademark style is 'attack, attack, attack' but apart from Ibrahimovic they have been blunt when they have come forward.\n\nIbrahimovic has had a fantastic season and bailed them out on countless occasions but it feels like they rely solely on him to score, and that has been their biggest problem.\n\nJose Mourinho vs Louis van Gaal and David Moyes at Man Utd after 30 PL games\n\n'Mourinho has become painful to watch'\n\nMourinho is right when he says his other attacking players need to be more consistent, but to publicly criticise the likes of Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford is a risky tactic.\n\nWe have seen something similar with his treatment of Luke Shaw, and now there are rumours he has had a bust-up with David de Gea too.\n\nI can understand what he is saying about Shaw being in the last-chance saloon but, for whatever reason, there is not complete harmony in the United camp at the moment.\n\nThat is the other big difference between what Conte has achieved at Chelsea, and the way he has done it - because it appears there is total harmony there, with everyone pulling in the same direction.\n\nWhatever he is talking about, Mourinho's whole demeanour as a manager seems to have changed - he used to be witty and charming when he spoke to the media, but now he is painful to watch.\n\nAll of that sort of behaviour seems to be an attempt to deflect attention from some of the issues affecting his team.\n\nFor example, when he spoke to the BBC's Conor McNamara after United drew at home to West Brom, his emphasis was on pulling Conor up for his question, rather than concentrating on the matter in hand - which is why his team are not doing well enough in the final third of the pitch.\n\n'United fans have been patient, but will it last?'\n\nThe buck has to stop with Mourinho at some point - he will know himself that he has to do better, and he has a lot of work to do.\n\nThis is his first season at United and, in his defence, you could argue this is not his team yet.\n\nBut that argument does not really work when you think about how quickly Conte has made a difference at Chelsea, and how far United are behind them.\n\nUnited have already invested heavily in their team in the past three years - Mourinho has spent about £150m, and Van Gaal about another £250m in his time in charge, which is an astonishing amount to lay out and still be outside the top four.\n\nTo change that, it looks like they will have to do the same again this summer, but how much more money will they throw at it, and where does the spending stop?\n\nThe United fans have been exceptionally patient with Mourinho so far but I am not sure if that will last going into next season if they miss out on the Champions League again.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice, qualifying and race on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra (second practice online only). Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel set the pace in first practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix as title rival Lewis Hamilton was down in 10th for Mercedes.\n\nVettel, who shares the championship lead with Hamilton, was 0.4 seconds quicker than Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.\n\nHamilton was 1.9secs back in 10th, but his time was set earlier in the session and is unlikely to be representative.\n\nFerrari's Kimi Raikkonen stopped on the track with an engine problem.\n\nSmoke poured from the back of the Finn's car as he pulled off after Turn 13, with Ferrari saying the problem was \"overheating in the turbo area\".\n• None Relive all the action from the first practice session\n\nHamilton was 0.366secs quicker than team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who has vowed to make amends for the spin behind the safety car in China last weekend that left him sixth as Hamilton won.\n\nBoth Mercedes drivers set their fastest times in the hottest part of the day, whereas Vettel's came nearly half an hour later.\n\nFirst practice in Bahrain is typically not reflective of the rest of the weekend as it is held in the heat of the early afternoon, whereas qualifying and race start at twilight and track temperatures drop dramatically after dark.\n\nIt was an uneventful session, and only a harmless spin by Williams driver Felipe Massa punctuated the testing.\n\nFerrari were not the only team to suffer an engine problem - McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne also stopped out on track when his engine cut out.\n\nThe Belgian had just completed his fastest lap of the session, 2.3secs off Vettel's pace.\n\nTeam-mate Fernando Alonso, who it was announced on Wednesday would miss the Monaco Grand Prix to race in the Indianapolis 500, was eighth fastest, 1.675secs behind Vettel, setting his time shortly after Vandoorne's problem.\n\nRicciardo's team-mate Max Verstappen was third fastest, 0.469secs behind the Australian, ahead of Force India's Sergio Perez, Massa and team-mate Lance Stroll, and Perez's team-mate Esteban Ocon.", "As warmer weather and the Easter holidays arrive, the NHS in England is reflecting on what looks like the busiest, some would say the worst, winter on record.\n\nOfficial figures reveal the stresses and strains being felt during February after torrid times over the previous two months.\n\nFebruary's A&E waiting time performance was slightly better than December's and January's, with 87.6% of patients treated or assessed within four hours.\n\nBut it was still one of the worst monthly figures since records began more than a decade earlier, and it came after a fall in the number of people coming in to A&E units.\n\nOnce patients got through A&E there could still be long waits.\n\nAdding up the number of patients between December and February, who waited more than four hours for a bed after a decision to admit, there was a total of 196,000, which was a 45% increase on the same period the previous year.\n\nDelayed transfers of patients who were medically fit to leave continued to cause problems for hospitals.\n\nThere was a 17% increase in the number of beds not available to other patients in the year to February.\n\nNHS England said that in effect around 1,100 beds had been taken out of normal usage compared with February 2016.\n\nMore than 36% of delays were linked to problems with social care services, the highest since the data was first collected in 2010.\n\nWith some hospitals reporting that at times over the winter every bed was occupied, it is clear that the service was running flat out and very close to capacity.\n\nThis in turn affected routine surgery, with bed shortages causing delays to procedures where an overnight stay was required.\n\nHardly surprisingly there was a big jump, of nearly 40%, in the number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for routine treatment.\n\nThis might sound like \"same old, same old\" and the story of the NHS being under pressure is hardly new.\n\nWhatever the dire warnings, hospitals muddled through.\n\nBut it is worth noting that the system came under such strain despite intense contingency planning, and demands by NHS chiefs that non-urgent procedures be cancelled for several weeks to clear the decks for emergency admissions.\n\nWhat must be worrying for NHS leaders is that hospitals were full at times, and waiting times were rising, even in a mild winter and with no above-average flu or norovirus cases.\n\nA sense of relief must be tempered by concern that the health service may not be so lucky next year.\n\nThe system runs on very fine margins and it would not take much to seriously rock it.\n\nHospitals and local health commissioners are working hard in most areas to manage patient flows into A&E departments and to treat more people in their local communities.\n\nThere is a hope that extra investment in social care in England will facilitate the quicker discharge of patients.\n\nBut two things are clear as summer approaches.\n\nFirstly, the traditional easing of pressure after winter does not happen any more as patient demand rises relentlessly month by month.\n\nSecondly, it won't be long before hospital managements have to start planning for next winter, aware that they won't be lucky every time.", "There was a time when Easter meant a Sunday roast, strange homemade bonnets, a visit to Church and lots of chocolate. But with shops now offering trees, wreaths and crackers, is it becoming spring's answer to Christmas?\n\nThe dinner table for Good Housekeeping's Easter photo shoot was light, bright, and traditional.\n\nBut look closely, and there's something unusual on the plates: sky blue Easter crackers.\n\nCarolyn Bailey is homes and garden editor for the magazine. She said more people were buying decorations for Easter than ever before.\n\n\"Easter is becoming like a second Christmas,\" she said.\n\nRetailers have hopped on the trend. A number of supermarkets - including Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose - are stocking Easter crackers this year.\n\nPoundland have also got in on the action, offering everything from bunny banners to carrot-shaped fairy lights.\n\nMeanwhile Tesco, M&S and John Lewis are selling egg-speckled wreaths.\n\nEggs are no longer just made of chocolate, but are painted and covered in beads, sparkles or pom-poms.\n\nAnd where do you hang these egg-cellent trinkets? On an Easter tree of course.\n\nVarying arrays of twigs - often painted white - are laden with colourful eggs and bunnies.\n\nThere are more than 16,000 posts for #Eastertree on Instagram and thousands more on Pinterest.\n\nAnd if your garden doesn't have much in the way of Instagram-able branches, a number of High Street stores are selling the skeletal trees ready for decorating.\n\nDecorated eggs are not a new phenomenon. House of Fabergé set the standard back in 1842.\n\nEggs themselves have been associated with the Christian tradition for even longer. They symbolise both new life and the empty tomb.\n\nCanon Sarah Rowland Jones is from the Church in Wales.\n\n\"In many ways Easter is the more important Christian festival,\" she says. \"People should be given cause to remember what it's all about.\n\n\"If making more of Easter makes people look beyond the caricature of Christianity - at what is at the heart of what more than two billion people around the world practise - then it's a good thing.\"\n\nEaster continues to be the second-biggest retail event in the UK after Christmas.\n\nMarket researcher, Mintel, estimated Easter to be worth £550 million to UK retailers in 2016.\n\nCraft giant, Hobbycraft has seen sales of its Easter range soar almost 44% compared to last year.\n\nIncluded in the range is a faux grass bunny which has completely sold out. Meanwhile, fillable egg characters are up 93% compared to 2016.\n\nThese green bunnies - for the home or outside - are sold out\n\nAnna Protherough, a seasonal buyer for the retailer, said: \"More and more, people are looking for reasons to celebrate and because of this, seasonal events such as Halloween and Easter are becoming bigger and bigger.\"\n\nHobbycraft says \"decorating the home for Easter is bigger than ever before\" and that homeowners are inspired by crafters like American businesswoman Martha Stewart.\n\nMs Stewart's online project tutorials currently include \"cosmic painted eggs\" and \"How to fold a napkin into a bunny\".\n\nBut if all this has got you hopping mad, Amazon has just the slogan t-shirt for you: \"I don't carrot all.\"\n• None Why this Easter egg is so difficult to sell overseas", "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 opponents for this weekend's Premier League fixtures are Sting and his son Joe Sumner, who are both Newcastle fans.\n\n\"Football played a big part in my life growing up in Wallsend,\" Sting told BBC Sport. \"The last trophy we won was the Fairs Cup in 1969 and I went to a lot of our home games during that run.\n\n\"Bobby Moncur was the captain and he was my hero - he still is.\n\n\"My favourite players are from that era - people like Jim Iley, all those old people. Footballers always seemed much older than me, but now they seem like my children. It's strange, it is just an age thing.\n\n\"Winning the Fairs Cup is still the best moment I've had as a Newcastle fan - it was fantastic, but we need to win another trophy.\"\n\nJoe also grew up as a Toon fanatic, although is not a Geordie like his dad.\n\n\"I grew up in north London, so it was a strange kind of cultural mix where all my friends were either Tottenham or Arsenal supporters,\" he said.\n\n\"Most of them were Spurs fans so despite supporting Newcastle, who nobody else I knew cared about, I have sort of developed that Tottenham-style dislike of Arsenal - it is them I cannot stand losing to.\"\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 BST unless otherwise stated.\n\nSting was impressed to hear United fans have used one of his songs for their chant about Henrikh Mkhitaryan.\n\nUnited fans sing \"Whoa Mkhitaryan, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, he's our midfield Armenian\" to the tune of Englishman in New York.\n\n\"I am very happy about that,\" Sting said. \"I like to see songs repossessed and refitted for different purposes. It is pretty good too.\n\n\"As a songwriter I think it is extraordinary the way those chants go around a massive group of people, and suddenly they are all singing the same thing.\"\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 time?\n\nFrom last week's Premier League games, Lawro got five correct results, with no perfect scores, from 10 matches for a total of 50 points.\n\nHe was beaten by singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald, who got seven correct results with no perfect scores, for a tally of 70 points.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nHarry Kane and Romelu Lukaku have been nominated for both the Professional Footballers' Association player of the year and young player awards.\n\nThey join Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez, Eden Hazard and N'Golo Kante on the shortlist for the main prize.\n\nMichael Keane, Leroy Sane and Jordan Pickford are up for the young player of the year award, alongside 2016 winner Dele Alli.\n\nThe winners, voted for by PFA members, will be announced on 23 April.\n\nTo be eligible for the young player of the year award, players must be 23 or under at the beginning of the season.\n\nAt 24, Burnley defender Keane is the oldest player nominated, followed by 23-year-old forwards Kane and Lukaku, of Tottenham and Everton, and Sunderland goalkeeper Pickford. Spurs midfielder Alli and Manchester City winger Sane are both 21.\n\nWomen's Super League champions Manchester City have three players on the shortlist for the women's award, with the City trio of Lucy Bronze, Jane Ross and Jill Scott joined by Karen Carney, Ellen White and Caroline Weir.\n\nCity also provide a trio of nominees for the women's young player of the year prize - Nikita Parris, Georgia Stanway and Keira Walsh - with Weir, Millie Bright and Jess Carter completing the nominations.\n\nLeicester City's Riyad Mahrez won the 2016 player of the year award, while Manchester City forward Izzy Christiansen won the women's award.\n\nSunderland striker Beth Mead, 20, was named women's young player of the year.\n\nPick your Team of the Year Pick your Team of the Year from our list and share with your friends.", "An NHS trust at the centre of an investigation into its maternity services has been accused of failing to properly investigate the deaths of at least two babies.\n\nJack Burn and Sophiya Hotchkiss died within six months of each other.\n\nBoth families say their concerns were dismissed by the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust.\n\nThe trust said it investigates all deaths, and takes appropriate action where necessary.\n\nBut a third family was told that their daughter's death had been unavoidable, even though an inquest later found it could have been prevented.\n\nAt least seven avoidable deaths occurred at the trust between September 2014 and May 2016, with some families raising concerns about other deaths.\n\nBBC News revealed on Wednesday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review of deaths and other maternity errors at the trust.\n\nStephanie Prowse, and her partner, rushed to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in September 2014 because she was feeling unwell.\n\nShe was 31 weeks pregnant with her third child.\n\nBut the family said they were left in a side room for 40 minutes before staff checked her.\n\nA heart rate monitor showed that the baby, Sophiya, had a weak heart beat, and though she was delivered by emergency caesarean she died after 32 hours.\n\n\"If they had checked her heartbeat when I first arrived, I believe she would have had a heartbeat when she was born and so she wouldn't have been born sleeping,\" Stephanie told BBC News.\n\n\"If they had got her out, I truly believe it would have been a whole different story. I'd have a three-year-old running around.\"\n\nThe family asked the trust to look into the circumstances surrounding Sophiya's death but say they have never received a response.\n\nFor its part, the trust told the BBC that an internal examination of the incident had indeed taken place though the family had not been involved.\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends that families are always invited to participate in such investigations.\n\nThose concerns have been echoed by the family of Jack Burn.\n\nHe was born in March 2015 but died within hours, of hypoxia and Group B Strep.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hayley Matthews, mother of Jack Burn: \"He would have been OK\"\n\nHis mother, Hayley Matthews, says that throughout her 36-hour-long labour at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, she was refused a caesarean section several times.\n\nInstead, she says, she was forced to have a natural birth during which her son's shoulder was trapped.\n\nBy the time Jack was born, he was blue and limp and died shortly afterwards.\n\n\"They just expected me to push,\" said Hayley.\n\n\"I asked for a caesarean, they said 'no you'll be fine, you can do it'.\"\n\nMs Matthews says the death was never properly examined.\n\nIn response, the trust told the BBC that it did investigate the death but admitted it had not included the family in its inquiry.\n\nAfter we highlighted her case, the local coroner is now considering opening an inquest into Jack Burn's death.\n\nThe family of Pippa Griffiths were initially dismissed by the trust too.\n\nTheir daughter died last April, around 30 hours after being born at home after contracting the Group B Strep infection.\n\nHer parents, Colin and Kayleigh, had called the trust in the middle of the night to say their daughter was vomiting brown mucus.\n\nNo action was taken, no advice was given, and hours later Pippa died.\n\nThe trust visited the family to say that nothing could have prevented their daughter's death.\n\nHer parents refused to believe this and forced the trust to fully and properly investigate the death.\n\nLast week, the coroner ruled that Pippa's death was in fact avoidable, and that the trust had failed to provide the family with the information that could have saved her life.\n\n\"Why would they not raise that (the death) as a serious incident?\" asks Kayleigh.\n\n\"They knew what had happened, and they weren't going to do an investigation.\n\n\"That's when I said that's not good enough there will be an investigation and we will be involved,\" Kayleigh adds.\n\nCommenting on Pippa's death, the trust said: \"We are truly sorry that we were unable to provide the appropriate care that would have prevented Pippa's death.\"\n\n\"We have apologised to Pippa's parents.\n\n\"We have carried out specific actions to address the issues this tragic case has highlighted to ensure we learn from these devastating events,\" it added.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManchester United were left to rue missed chances as Anderlecht salvaged a late draw to change the complexion of their Europa League quarter-final tie.\n\nLeander Dendoncker got in front of Matteo Darmian to head an equaliser with the Belgian side's first effort on goal four minutes from time.\n\nUntil that moment United had subdued the hosts, and deservedly led when Henrikh Mkhitaryan tapped in from a tight angle after Marcus Rashford's shot was spilled in the first half.\n\nBut the Armenian side-footed wide when well placed after the break and Paul Pogba fired into the shins of goalkeeper Ruben to leave Jose Mourinho's side vulnerable to the sucker punch landed by 21-year-old Dendoncker.\n• None 'I have no better word than sloppy' - Mourinho blames his attack\n\nUnited's Europa League odyssey this term has taken in disappointing evenings away to Feyenoord, Fenerbahce and Rostov, and Mourinho's frustration in Brussels will centre on a decent performance undermined by lax finishing and a late defensive lapse.\n\nSince his last foray into second-tier European competition in 2003, the Portuguese has become accustomed to the bright lights of the Champions League, winning it twice and disparaging predecessor Rafael Benitez's Europa League success after taking over at Chelsea in 2013.\n\nBut United's position in the Premier League - four points off the top four with games running out - has forced him to revise his attitude.\n\nFor most of the match, his team seemed focused on the task. Just five games away from booking a return to the Champions League - Uefa's sweetener for winning the competition - they looked solid in defence and slick in attack.\n\nFor their part, Anderlecht's enterprising young team offered little, deprived of possession and restricted to efforts from distance - but all that changed with Dendoncker's late goal.\n\nUnited will still fancy their chances of finishing the job at Old Trafford next week, but with more dangerous opponents elsewhere in the draw - notably Lyon and Schalke - similar mistakes could easily derail their progress to May's final.\n\nMourinho claimed that his attackers let down their defensive colleagues in his post-match interview, but it seemed harsh to burden Rashford with a share of the blame after one of his brightest performances of the season.\n\nThe 19-year-old - whose goal return was recently questioned by Mourinho - was heavily involved before being replaced by Marouane Fellaini in the 75th minute.\n\nHe roamed dangerously from the left, tormenting full-back Dennis Appiah and threatening with a dipping shot from distance before creating the opener as Ruben failed to grasp his sweetly struck shot\n\nHis industry in the opposite direction also caught the eye as he diligently tracked Anderlecht's runners.\n\nIt was the sort of all-around performance that Mourinho usually demands of his attacking players but, publicly at least, the boss seemed nonplussed.\n• None Of players who have scored at least two goals, only Zlatan Ibrahimovic (134) has a better minutes-per-goal rate than Mkhitaryan (212) for Manchester United in all competitions this season.\n• None The Red Devils are unbeaten in their last four European away games (W2 D2), after losing each of the five before that.\n• None Leander Dendoncker scored with Anderlecht's only shot on target of the game.\n• None Paul Pogba attempted 127 passes in the game, the fourth-highest total by a player in a Europa League game this season. He is also second with 130 against Zorya Luhansk on 29 September.\n\nManchester United play Premier League leaders Chelsea on Sunday before the second leg at Old Trafford next Thursday. Anderlecht play KV Oostende on Sunday in the Belgian top flight.\n• None Timothy Fosu-Mensah (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. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Goal! RSC Anderlecht 1, Manchester United 1. Leander Dendoncker (RSC Anderlecht) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ivan Obradovic with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Zlatan Ibrahimovic tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Sofiane Hanni (RSC Anderlecht) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Alexandru Chipciu. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer England and Arsenal captain Tony Adams has been appointed head coach of Granada until the end of the season.\n\nAdams replaces Lucas Alcaraz, who was sacked on Monday after a 3-1 home defeat by Valencia that leaves them 19th in La Liga.\n\nThe 50-year-old had been working at the Spanish club since November and is vice president of the company owned by Granada's club president.\n\nHis first game will be at home to Celta Vigo on Sunday.\n\nAdams left Azerbaijan side Gabala in 2011 and previously managed Wycombe Wanderers and Portsmouth.\n\nHe has worked alongside Granada's president John Jiang in his role as vice president of the Chinese businessman's DDMC company and has been sporting director for Chinese Super League club Chongqing Dangdai Lifan.\n\nAdams played 669 times for Arsenal between 1983 and 2002, spending 14 years as captain, and won 66 England caps.\n\n\"It would make much more sense for Adams' new role to be a temporary one, buying some time while the club makes longer-term plans for next season and beyond.\n\n\"Certainly, Adams being named permanent manager would not fit very well with the 'Spanish structure' he spoke about in his interview last month.\n\n\"And until today, everything Adams had said about his role at Granada suggested that he was happy to take a backroom director's role rather than holding ambitions to become first-team manager, and that remains the most likely scenario beyond the current season.\n\n\"But considering his strong relationship with the club's owner, of course he could end up getting the job on a permanent basis.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton believes the 2017 Formula 1 season could be \"the most exciting\" of his career.\n\nThe Mercedes driver is tied on points with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel after his victory in the Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton predicted the initiative would swing back and forth between the two teams throughout the season.\n\n\"It is close,\" he said. \"I am down for it. I am looking forward to the fight with Sebastian and the other guys are going to be in amongst it.\"\n\nHamilton's win in Shanghai means he and Vettel have a victory and a second place apiece after the first two races.\n\nHamilton gained the advantage in China through early strategy calls in a chaotic opening few laps but the race eventually distilled to a battle between him and Vettel in the closing laps, the two cars separated by about eight seconds.\n\nHamilton said: \"We are both pushing. It's great, last 20 laps, exchanging times, he was closing the gap a little bit, but I managed to stay ahead.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old won two of his three titles in last-race showdowns, beating Ferrari's Felipe Massa in 2008 only when he passed a car on the last corner of the final lap of the last race.\n\nHamilton also tied on points with then-McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso in 2007, the pair finishing one point behind champion Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari.\n\nBut Hamilton said he believed this year's battle could be the toughest he has yet had.\n\n\"It is going to be one of the closest ones - if not the closest - I have ever experienced,\" he said.\n• None Listen: Vettel out of position at the start\n\nVettel told his team over the radio on the slowing-down lap the he believed they again had the fastest car, two weeks after winning in Australia by pressuring Mercedes into an early pit stop.\n\nThe four-time champion said: \"It felt like we were the quickest, man. We couldn't prove that, but next time we will.\"\n\nBut the German, whose team failed to win a race in 2016, played down talk of a season-long fight between Ferrari and Mercedes.\n\n\"It would be great news for us,\" Vettel said. \"They are the ones to beat, they have a very strong team, doing very well the last three years being flawless and smashing a lot of records.\n\n\"So for us it is really good news we had another race where we were really close and were able to put some pressure on.\n\n\"It is just race two. I really enjoyed it and at this point I don't care about the rest of the year.\"", "Hampshire chased a target of 320 on day three to complete a remarkable County Championship win at Yorkshire.\n\nResuming on 10-0, the away side began well, Michael Carberry (41), Jimmy Adams (72) and James Vince (44) all contributing to take them to 176-3.\n\nFurther runs from Rilee Rossouw (47) and Liam Dawson (37) edged them closer to their target.\n\nTim Bresnan (3-73) struck to give hope, but Lewis McManus (30 not out) and Gareth Berg (33 not out) saw them home.\n\nHaving collapsed to 75-8 in the first innings, a target of 320 - the largest total of the match - appeared a difficult ask, but Hampshire's openers made the most of some fortune to give their side a strong start.\n\nAdams was dropped by Adam Lyth at second slip on 11, while Peter Handscomb was guilty of spilling Carberry in the gully when the opener had scored just six runs.\n\nCarberry was eventually caught at long leg by Steven Patterson off Ben Coad's bowling and Adams was trapped lbw by Azeem Rafiq's first ball before Vince became Coad's second victim, offering a low return catch.\n\nBresnan had Sean Ervine caught behind, and while Rossouw and Dawson put on a partnership of 57, both were dismissed by the Yorkshire seamer - Rossouw caught by Andrew Hodd and Dawson by a diving Bresnan.\n\nHampshire rallied with a crucial stand of 58 between 22-year-old McManus and Berg, whose six off Coad assured victory for former Yorkshire and England all-rounder Craig White's side against his old club.\n\nIt is a fine start to the 2017 campaign for Hampshire, who finished eighth last season and only avoided relegation from Division One due to Durham's demotion for financial troubles.\n\n\"It was a good game of cricket for the neutral, wasn't it? But it's disappointing to be on the wrong end of it because I felt we had opportunities to win.\n\n\"We could have put the game to bed on Saturday afternoon. I didn't think it was a 180-odd all out pitch. We could have applied ourselves a little bit better.\n\n\"If we'd have got 220-250 and they'd have been chasing 400, it's a different game. Also, a couple of catches went down, and it's a different game at 20-2. But fair play to Hampshire, it was a good chase. Not many teams come here and chase over 300 in the fourth innings.\"\n\n\"That was a great win. You don't win many games being 58-5 in the first innings. To claw it back and come out of that situation with a victory is pretty special, so I'm proud of the lads.\n\n\"Every win's special, but this one perhaps a little more so. Everyone was so determined. It wasn't an easy pitch. There was a little bit in it. So the way the boys worked hard and got stuck in was outstanding.\n\n\"We've had a great start, but we know in two weeks when Yorkshire come down to Hampshire, they will be like wounded animals. They will come at us hard. So we need to prepare ourselves for that.\"", "Spain's Sergio Garcia ends his long wait for a first major title with a thrilling play-off win over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Two races down, a win and a second place apiece for Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, and the prospect of the most exciting championship fight for many years. Formula 1 has been waiting for this for a long time - arguably too long.\n\nThe last three years of Mercedes domination led to existential questions about the state of the sport, and at least in part to the decision to change the rules to produce faster, more demanding cars this year.\n\nThat move now looks to have been one of great foresight. Mercedes find themselves locked in a battle with a Ferrari team whose car appears to be at least as fast, and Hamilton faces a fight with a rival who he truly respects as being close to an equal.\n\nThe three-time British world champion's excitement at this is palpable.\n\nHe was talking after victory in China about the \"hugely respectful competitiveness\" between himself and Vettel of Germany - of this being the \"most exciting\" season of his career.\n\nHe also said this championship fight could be \"one of the closest ones, if not the closest, I have ever experienced\".\n\nThat is really saying something considering he lost out by a single point to Kimi Raikkonen in 2007 - a year he scored exactly the same number of points as his McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso - and that he won the 2008 title on the last corner of the last lap of the last race.\n\nTo put what appears to be in store in 2017 in perspective, it is almost 10 years since F1 was in a similarly enviable position of having two world-class drivers, in apparently equal cars, provided by two different teams facing off for the title.\n\nIn 2014 and 2016, Hamilton's rivalry with former Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg went down to the wire - but in both cases it was because Rosberg had the better of the reliability. When all things were equal, Hamilton beat the German two races to every one.\n\nIn 2012, Alonso and Vettel took it to the final race for Ferrari and Red Bull. But that was the Spaniard performing heroics in a car that was not really up to the job. Fights on the track between the two were rare as a result.\n\nProbably 2010 was the most recent equivalent to what F1 has in 2017 - when Vettel and Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber, Alonso in a Ferrari, and Hamilton and Jenson Button in McLarens fought a five-way battle for much of the season. Alonso, Webber and Vettel were all still realistic contenders at the final race - and even Hamilton still had a mathematical chance.\n\nBefore then, the breathless McLaren v Ferrari battles of 2007 and 2008 were the closest to what appears to be developing in 2017.\n\nPotentially, then, this is a year for the ages in the making. Two men, seven world titles between them, racing for two of the most iconic names in motorsport history, their cars evenly matched on pace, but with enough differences to guarantee competitive swings through the season.\n\nHow do Mercedes and Ferrari match up?\n\nAfter only two races, it is a little early to be making definitive judgements on the respective qualities of the two frontrunning cars - but some patterns are emerging.\n\nIn qualifying, the Mercedes appears to have a small edge - at least in Hamilton's hands. In the races, there is little to choose between the two cars.\n\nThe change to faster, more demanding cars this season has allowed Ferrari to close the performance gap on Mercedes, helped by a big step forward by the engine department in Maranello, too.\n\nIn the race in China, once Vettel had worked his way up into clear air behind Hamilton - thanks in part to a quite outstanding outside pass of Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo at Turn Five - the two were exchanging lap times, albeit seven or eight seconds apart.\n\nHamilton said: \"It is very, very close and there were times when Sebastian put laps in and it was hard to even match the time. The last 10 or 12 laps he was doing a 1:35.6 and I was doing a 35.8 and it was very hard to get to where he was. Then there was other times in the race when I was quicker.\"\n\nThe pattern was the same in Australia two weeks ago. Vettel was quicker on the softer tyres in the opening stint, and Ferrari pressured Mercedes into an early stop that cost Hamilton the race. Then there appeared to be nothing between them on the harder tyres in the second stint.\n• None Listen: Vettel out of position at the start\n• None We've got to keep pushing - Hamilton\n\nThe cars have varying strengths and weaknesses. The Mercedes is slightly over the minimum weight limit, a problem that affects performance and which the team are trying to address as a matter of urgency, while the Ferrari has no such problem.\n\nAnd they have different design philosophies.\n\nHamilton said: \"Our car is longer so it's probably more stable in the higher-speed corners. Theirs is shorter, more nimble.\"\n\nThis could mean the Ferrari has the advantage in slower, more technical places, the Mercedes at high-speed tracks.\n\nIn theory, it should also mean the Mercedes is kinder to its tyres. But that was not the case in Australia, and would be a turnaround from the general trend in recent years, when the Ferrari has had more gentle tyre usage - sometimes to their detriment, in qualifying especially, but sometimes to their advantage, such as in Vettel's victory in Malaysia in 2015.\n\nAll in all, though, as long as Ferrari can keep pace in the development war - another weakness of recent years - the advantage should ebb and flow through the season.\n\nThe last 20-odd laps we were just pounding around as fast as we can, exchanging lap times... that's what racing is all about\n\nAnd what of Bahrain this coming weekend? At least 20C hotter than the 12C in China, it is a race where Ferrari have been very competitive in the past two seasons, even when overall they have not been.\n\n\"Being that it's often a warmer race, Ferrari is very good in hotter conditions,\" Hamilton said. \"These were quite good conditions for me today with our car. When it steps up in temperature… so far in the first race it's been shown as not the greatest for us just yet, so we're just learning on the tyres.\n\n\"Hopefully it will be better... It will definitely be better than it was in Melbourne. I think they will be very, very quick in the next race but there's a lot of straights there as well and we've obviously got, I think, still the strongest power unit on the grid - so that will come into play.\"\n\nThe sport as a whole\n\nDrivers pushing hard throughout, 'real' overtaking moves where the much-maligned DRS overtaking aid helps but is not overly decisive, battles that last many laps. That is a description of what aficionados might call a 'proper' grand prix, something that has been lost in recent years.\n\n\"The last 20-odd laps we were just pounding around as fast as we can, exchanging lap times and I think that's what racing is all about,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"Perhaps in the future there will be times when we won't have a safety car and there won't be that six-second gap, it'll be right on the tail either way. I'm excited for that.\"\n\nIn this, another aspect of the changes for 2017 has played a crucial role. The decision to force Pirelli to design tyres on which drivers can push hard throughout, rather than having to nurse them to stop them overheating, has transformed the racing.\n\nNot only are drivers pretty much flat out through the race, but cars can race close together for many laps at a time, and drivers can still have enough grip left to make passing moves happen.\n\nThis was especially clear in the multi-car train of Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, Kimi Raikkonen and Vettel in the opening stages of the race.\n\nOvertaking might be a little harder than last year, but after the premature complaints following Australia, China proved it is possible. And as Vettel said: \"Overtaking was difficult. But it should be. It should not just be flying or sailing past.\"\n\nThis revived 'hardcore' aspect to F1 is almost certainly a factor in Fernando Alonso producing two unexpectedly strong races in the uncompetitive McLaren-Honda.\n\nA fortnight after holding off two faster cars for most of the race in Australia, Alonso was again in outstanding form in China.\n\nHe vaulted from 13th to eighth on the first lap - a feat put in the shade only by Verstappen's brilliant charge from 16th to seventh - but even more impressively was on course for seventh or eighth until his driveshaft failed at half distance. In a car with a power deficit of at least 100bhp, on a track with the longest straight in F1.\n\nThe pity is that a driver of Alonso's calibre is having to \"drive like an animal\", as he put it, to qualify 13th and race for seventh. But at least in F1 2017, driving like that brings rewards, as it should at the sport's highest echelon.\n\nAll in all, China was Formula 1 as it is meant to be, and has not been for some time. And already this is looking like a season to savour.\n• None 'We've got to keep pushing' - Hamilton\n• None 'Oh, and off has gone Giovinazzi!'", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri believes that someone within the club was working against him, but does not think the players got him sacked.\n\nThe Italian led the Foxes to the Premier League title last season but was dismissed in February.\n\n\"I can't believe my players killed me. No, no, no,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"Maybe it was someone behind me. I had a little problem the year before and we won the title. Maybe this year, when we lose, these people push a little more.\"\n\nWhen Ranieri was sacked, Leicester were one point above the Premier League relegation zone.\n\nAssistant manager Craig Shakespeare was placed in charge and presided over five successive league victories and a Champions League last-16 win against Sevilla.\n\n\"I listen to a lot of stories,\" added 65-year-old Ranieri, who refused to identify who he was referring to.\n\n\"I don't want to say who it is. I am a loyal man. What I had to say, I said face to face,\" he told the broadcaster's Monday Night Football show.\n• None Ranieri and more in the latest Football Daily podcast\n\nIn the aftermath of Ranieri's exit, some reports suggested players had been instrumental in his dismissal, with striker Jamie Vardy and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel among those to publicly deny the squad were involved.\n\nRanieri's final game in charge was a 2-1 defeat at Sevilla, with the Foxes winning the return leg under Shakespeare 2-0 to earn a Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid.\n\n\"I thought the Sevilla match was a turning point,\" said the former Chelsea manager. \"Everyone was fighting together, Jamie Vardy scored a goal.\n\n\"But I found out on the way home that I would be sacked. It was a shock for me and for a lot of other people.\"\n\nRanieri's dismissal sparked a wave of support from fellow managers, pundits and supporters, with former Leicester and England striker Gary Lineker saying he \"shed a tear\".\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho wore Ranieri's initials on his shirt and said the Leicester players were \"selfish\".\n\nThe Italian said he received support from all across the world.\n\n\"It was amazing,\" he said. \"When we won the title I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.\n\n\"In case I don't have the time to reply to all of them, I want to thank all the fans.\n\n\"I have won trophies around Europe, but never the title. Three times I was runner-up. Leicester and the fans will be in my heart for all of my life.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nSpain's Sergio Garcia won his first major title at his 74th attempt with a thrilling play-off victory over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.\n\nBoth players finished on nine under par after 72 holes at Augusta, setting up a sudden-death play-off on the 18th.\n\nGarcia, 37, holed a birdie putt for victory after his European Ryder Cup team-mate could only manage a bogey.\n\nCharl Schwartzel was third on six under with England's Paul Casey and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy in the top 10.\n\nJordan Spieth, one of the pre-tournament favourites, and fellow American Rickie Fowler both fell away badly on the final day.\n\nSpieth, champion in 2015, signed for a three-over-par 75, while playing partner Fowler carded a 76 to finish tied in 11th on one under.\n\nGarcia finally won one of golf's four majors - the Open Championship, the US Open and the US PGA Championship are the other three - after 22 previous top-10 finishes.\n\nHe became the third Spaniard to win the Masters - after Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal - on what would have been the 60th birthday of Ballesteros, who died in 2011.\n\n\"To join Seve and Jose - my two idols - is amazing,\" said Garcia.\n• None I will have many more chances - Rose\n• None Relive all the drama of Garcia's win at Augusta\n\nShot one: Rose teed off first on the 18th, pushing his drive right into the trees, only for his ball to bounce back towards play and reappear in the pine needles.\n\nGarcia thumped his drive almost 300 yards down the fairway.\n\nShot two: Rose could only punch his way out of trouble onto the fairway, while Garcia landed his approach on the green, 12 feet from the hole.\n\nShot three: The Englishman responded by hitting his ball about 15 foot to the right of the hole - on a similar line to his putt in regulation play about 15 minutes earlier.\n\nRose missed his par putt to the left of the hole, leaving Garcia two shots for victory and the Spaniard rolled in his first attempt, with his ball circling the cup before dropping in.\n\nGarcia dropped to his knees in celebration, and Rose instantly walked over to congratulate him as they shared a warm embrace on the green.\n\nGarcia and Rose, who started playing against each other as teenagers and have become firm friends since, went out as Sunday's final pairing after sharing the overnight lead on six under.\n\nRose has long craved a follow-up victory to his 2013 US Open win, in order to go down in history as a multiple major champion. For Garcia, the stakes were even higher.\n\nNot only was the Spaniard aiming to win his first major, he was also trying to prove that he had the mental resilience to triumph.\n\nWhat followed was an intense battle filled with drama and tension.\n\nGarcia started strongly with birdies on the first and third, opening up a three-shot lead on Rose after he bogeyed the fifth.\n\nBut the Englishman replied with three straight birdies to rejoin his playing partner on eight under at the turn.\n\nGarcia bogeyed the 10th to give Rose the outright lead, then appeared to lose his composure when he pulled his tee shot into the trees on the par-five 13th. He was forced to take a one-shot penalty because of an unplayable lie, but scrambled well to save par.\n\nThis sparked his revival, A remarkable eagle on the par-five 15th - his first in 452 holes at Augusta - followed by a Rose birdie, meant the pair were tied on nine under with three to play.\n\nGarcia pushed a short birdie putt right on the par-three 16th after Rose had holed his to open a one-shot lead, only for the Englishman to bogey the 17th.\n\nBoth players missed birdie putts on the last, Garcia from four feet, setting up the first Masters play-off between two European players, which Garcia nicked in fading light.\n\n\"It has been such a long time coming,\" said the world number 11, who will rise into the top 10 on Monday.\n\n\"I knew I was playing well. I felt the calmest I ever felt in a major.\"\n\nWhile Garcia was being presented with the Green Jacket in the Augusta clubhouse, Rose was left rueing another near miss.\n\nThe Olympic champion has not claimed a major since winning the 2013 US Open, but lifted himself into contention for a first Masters title with five birdies in the final seven holes on Saturday.\n\nBut Rose, who also finished second behind Spieth in 2015, had to settle for a fifth top-10 finish at Augusta National.\n\n\"It is disappointing to come so close,\" said the world number 14. \"I felt in control until the end.\n\n\"But I'm really happy for Sergio. I'd love to be wearing the Green Jacket but if it wasn't me then I'm glad it is him.\"\n\nWorld number two McIlroy's ambition of becoming only the sixth man to win all four majors must wait for at least another year.\n\nThe 27-year-old, who has already won the Open, US Open and two US PGA Championship titles, battled back from three over par after eight holes on Thursday to finish three under after a closing 69.\n\n\"It wasn't quite good enough. I felt like I had an opportunity on Saturday to shoot something in the mid-60s which would have got me closer to the lead and I didn't quite do that,\" said McIlroy.\n\n\"I gave a decent account of myself and will come back next year and try again.\"\n\nCasey, 39, carded four birdies in a bogey-free front nine to move into contention at four under, but could not improve that score as he shot 68 to earn his fourth top-10 finish at Augusta.\n\nSouth Africa's Schwartzel, the 2011 champion, holed five birdies in the final 10 holes to finish with a 68, while American Matt Kuchar aced the 16th - the only hole-in-one of the week - on his way to the day's joint best round of 67.\n\nHe finished tied fourth on five under with Belgian Thomas Pieters, who impressed on his Masters debut.\n\nTwo-time major winner Spieth was hoping to banish memories of last year's spectacular final-day collapse at the 12th by winning his second Masters.\n\nBut the 23-year-old American, who was already three over for the day and well down the leaderboard, saw his challenge completely disappear on the iconic par-three when he again knocked his tee-shot into the water guarding the green.\n\nIt is the first time in his four Masters appearance the 2015 champion has not finished in the top two.\n\nSpieth's playing partner Fowler started one shot off the lead as he targeted his first major, only to rack up seven bogeys in a disappointing round.\n\nFellow American Fred Couples, the 57-year-old who won the Masters in 1992, ended up tied 18th at one over.\n\n\"It was an electrifying final day. It was a duel of the highest quality, top sportsmanship and both Sergio and Justin take great credit.\n\n\"I think the golfing world thinks 'well, Justin has a major, it is time for Sergio to win one'.\n\n\"He thoroughly deserves it, he has been a champion golfer and in the top 20 of the world for virtually 20 years.\"\n\n'Who writes these scripts?' - reaction to Garcia's win\n\nFind out how to get into golf with our special guide.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIs Dele Alli among England's greats? How good was that Manchester City team goal? Is Philippe Coutinho now Brazil's greatest export?\n\nWe try to answer those questions and take a look at some of the other interesting stats from the weekend.\n\nCould Alli be 'The Greatest'?\n\nThe stat: Dele Alli (40) has been involved in as many Premier League goals before turning 21 as Frank Lampard (15), Steven Gerrard (13) and David Beckham (12) combined.\n\nHe floats across the pitch like a butterfly and stings like a bee, as Watford discovered during Saturday's 4-0 defeat at White Hart Lane.\n\nAlli's stunning opener for Spurs, scored three days before his 21st birthday, further underlined the precocious talent of the youngster who, it is worth remembering, was scoring for MK Dons against Leyton Orient less than two years ago.\n\nThat is now an incredible 19 goals in all club competitions for the attacking midfielder this season, following on from the 10 he managed in his debut season for Spurs. He has now also scored more league goals (16) this season than any other under-21 player in Europe's top five leagues.\n\nSo what transfer fee would you attach to him now? £50m? £60m?\n\nFind out how to get into football with our special guide.\n\nWell, you could conceivably multiply that by two because the attacking midfielder has had a hand in as many Premier League goals before turning 21 as fellow Englishmen Frank Lampard (15), Steven Gerrard (13) and David Beckham (12) combined.\n\nBut wait, this is what former Premier League midfielder Robbie Savage had to say about Alli on BBC Radio 5 live's 606:\n\n\"What is world class? I think to be world class you have to affect big games, do it on a regular basis and win games on your own. To say he is world class now is a huge statement. Name me big games he's affected, particularly in Europe and the Champions League. Potentially yes, but is he now?\"\n\nWill the table below change Robbie's thinking?\n\nThe best team goal this season?\n\nManchester City coach Pep Guardiola must have had Barcelona flashbacks as he watched Sergio Aguero's goal during the 3-1 win over Hull on Saturday.\n\nAll 11 players touched the ball in the build-up, including keeper Claudio Bravo three times, as City put 21 passes together before the Argentine tapped in.\n\nPainfully for Guardiola, the fact Raheem Sterling's cross was parried into Aguero's path by Eldin Jakupovic means the official statisticians class this one as having zero passes in the build-up.\n\nIt was a stunning goal but, even if this had gone down as a 21-pass move, it still would not have featured in the top-five longest build-ups of the season.\n\nPass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass etc etc etc GOAL!\n\nWhat this does suggest, however, is that if you want to score a great team goal, Hull are the team to do it against.\n\nBravo - will he ever save a shot?\n\nOpposition players scanning Manchester City's team-sheet before kick-off might be inclined to first check who is in goal.\n\n\"Brilliant. Claudio Bravo,\" could be how they react. After all, the 33-year-old Chile player has let in all the past seven shots on target on his goal.\n\nHe also has the worst save percentage in the Premier League season so far - stopping only 54.39% of the efforts he has faced. Crystal Palace's Steve Mandanda (58.54%, but has only played nine league games) and Swansea's Lukasz Fabianski (58.64%) have the second and third worst records.\n\nCoutinho - the Premier League's best Brazilian ever?\n\nHe showed his potential at Inter Milan, but it is at Liverpool where Coutinho has blossomed.\n\nThe 24-year-old midfielder's well-taken equaliser in the Reds 2-1 win at Stoke on Saturday was his 30th in the Premier League, which saw him overtake former Middlesbrough forward Juninho as the highest scoring Brazilian in the competition's history. Parabéns!\n\nIncidentally, former Arsenal defensive midfielder Gilberto Silva has played the most games (170) and has the best win percentage - an impressive 61.8%. Coutinho's is currently at 53.8%.\n\nJust how boring are Middlesbrough?\n\nYes, some would say we are kicking a team while they are down - down, not relegated Boro fans - but this BBC weekly statistics piece takes no prisoners.\n\nMiddlesbrough - you are definitely not in the running for the Premier League 'Entertainers' award.\n\nThe Teesside club have been involved in SEVEN goalless draws in the Premier League this season - three more than any other side.\n\nAnd their Riverside Stadium has also seen fewer goals than any other Premier League ground this season (29 - 12 scored and 17 conceded).\n\nSign up for the 2017 FA People's Cup and take your chance to win tickets to the FA Cup final and achieve national five-a-side glory.\n\nBut they do not hold the unwanted honour of the most 0-0s in a season - that goes to Sunderland (2014-15), Sheffield United (1993-94) and Leeds United (1996-97) who took part in a mind-numbing NINE goalless draws.\n\nAnd the fewest goals at a ground was when Manchester City's City of Manchester stadium witnessed a paltry 26 in 19 games during the 2006-07 season. Manager Stuart Pearce was sacked at the end of that campaign.\n\nBournemouth's Norwegian forward Joshua King is proving to be a thorn in the sides of the Premier League elite.\n\nIn fact, the 25-year-old's strike against Chelsea in Saturday's 3-1 defeat means he has now scored eight goals against teams currently in the top 10 - the most of any player featuring in a team outside the top half.\n\nAnd only Everton's Romelu Lukaku (13) and Tottenham's Harry Kane (11) have scored more Premier League goals in 2017 than King, who has 10 - level with Spurs' Alli.\n\nSunderland have now failed to score in seven successive Premier League games - the joint-second worst run in Premier League history.\n\nCrystal Palace hold the record of nine games (1994-95), with Derby (2007-08) and Ipswich (1994-95) also going seven games without scoring.\n\nAll three of those teams were relegated during those seasons.", "Chelsea beat Bournemouth 3-1 to stay seven points clear at the top of the Premier League, while Tottenham remain second after a 4-0 win at home to Watford.\n\nLiverpool stay third with a 2-1 win at Stoke City, Manchester City remain fourth following a 3-1 victory over Hull City, and Manchester United climb up to fifth as they beat bottom club Sunderland 3-0.\n\nElsewhere, there are wins for Southampton away to West Brom, West Ham against Swansea and Everton at home to Leicester, while Middlesbrough v Burnley ended goalless.\n\nDo you agree with my team of the week or would you go for a different team? Why not pick your own team of the week from the shortlist selected by BBC Sport journalists and share it with your friends?\n\nPick your Team of the Week Pick your XI from our list and share with your friends.\n\nHe's taken a fair amount of stick during his time at Liverpool but the hug from Jurgen Klopp at the end of the match seems to suggest goalkeeper Simon Mignolet was not just in good form but had done something quite special. It was the save from Saido Berahino that did it - costing Stoke a point while keeping Liverpool on course for a Champions League spot.\n\nMoments before, Mignolet also made a point-blank save from Charlie Adam when he and Berahino practically apologised to each other for taking the strike. However, in my view, Klopp has failed to address the most obvious issue facing Liverpool since the start of the season - that is their back four.\n\nMignolet has recovered his season with some sparkling performances since being dropped earlier in the campaign. Yet if the German manager had got his back four right it's difficult to see how Chelsea could be 12 points clear of the Reds with six games left to play. Hugging Mignolet in sheer relief that his keeper has kept him in with a massive shout of Champions League football next season is a bit of a cop out for me. Liverpool should have been challenging for the title.\n\nMatthew Lowton's headed clearance off the line from Stewart Downing's free-kick was absolutely sensational. For the full-back to recognise that keeper Tom Heaton was vulnerable and Downing was about to put the free-kick over the wall and into the top right-hand corner was intuitive genius.\n\nLowton left the wall having spotted the danger. But if that wasn't enough he almost immediately afterwards cleared off the line again - this time from Daniel Ayala's header. These two clearances were not just brilliant but game-changers. I've seen defenders panic in those positions and head the ball into the roof of their own net or get their feet in a tangle at the crucial moment.\n\nLowton was as steady as a rock and kept his eye on the ball - clearing his lines and the danger. It's these moments in games that define seasons for teams like Burnley. This was a fixture that produced no goals but, in the final analysis, Burnley didn't care. They have begged, borrowed and stolen points this season and Lowton - like their entire back five - did a superb job.\n\nWest Ham boss Slaven Bilic was manic throughout this affair and understandably so. The Hammers had lost five games on the bounce and rumours were rife that West Ham's directors had a contingency in place - whatever that meant - had Bilic suffered a sixth consecutive defeat.\n\nThere was so much riding on this result and Bilic did well to put his faith in an old head with a lot of experience. James Collins was that man and he did everything that needed to be done. He was magnificent in the air and needed to be, particularly when Fernando Llorente came on in the second half for Swansea.\n\nThe Spanish centre-forward raised the stakes for the Hammers and it forced Collins to put his body on the line on a number of occasions.\n\nSwansea, on the other hand, seemed like a team who were suffering from stage fright and paralysed by fear. It would appear their 3-1 drubbing at home to Spurs in midweek had a far bigger impact on the team's confidence than they realised.\n\nWhat a wonderful ball from David Luiz to Victor Moses. It resulted in Diego Costa's superb turn and Chelsea's fortuitous opening goal. I'm not in the least bit surprised by Luiz's ability to knock a 40-yard pass. This is a defender with so much ability he can do that and much more.\n\nHowever, as the season draws to a close and Chelsea put a date in the diary for a trip to the Premier League engravers, I would like to commend manager Antonio Conte and technical director Michael Emenalo for having the foresight and courage to bring Luiz back to Stamford Bridge.\n\nThe Brazil international is unrecognisable from the irrational player we saw during his first period at the club. Since his return, he has played some glorious football and been a unifying figure in a new era at the Bridge.\n\nIf Chelsea are serious about winning the Champions League next season they must do whatever it takes to keep Luiz. There aren't many great centre-backs out there, and those who do exist are with the biggest clubs in Europe. With a couple of strong additions to their squad, Chelsea could be serious Champions League candidates.\n\nI didn't know who was going to take Chelsea's free-kick - David Luiz, Victor Moses or Marcos Alonso. In the end it was Alonso who bent it past Artur Boruc with extraordinary accuracy.\n\nThe harsh truth for Bournemouth, and the rest of the Premier League, is any one of those players could have planted the free-kick past Boruc, such is the quality and confidence that exists in the Chelsea ranks at the moment. The truth is I couldn't leave Alonso out of my team of the week having scored a goal like that.\n\nAlonso has done this sort of thing before, of course, and I have no doubt he will do it again before Chelsea lift the Premier League trophy. Which they will.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho didn't feel great on the morning of the match and arrived in the Potteries by car feeling OK before deciding to declare himself fit for the game against Stoke City. That was the beginning of the end for the Potters. From the moment Coutinho came on the pitch at the start of the second half, I knew it was a game-changer.\n\nThe Brazilian had already warned Lee Grant he was on the prowl, having forced the Stoke keeper to produce a fantastic save just after he arrived on the pitch. It was at that moment you knew whatever symptoms Coutinho had before the game had well and truly passed. However, it was his one-touch finish on the edge of the box that I thought was so impressive.\n\nCoutinho hung around waiting for something to happen - anything that might give him an opportunity to pounce. When it came he was equal to it. All credit to Coutinho for getting to Stoke. The easy option would have been not to play and no-one would have blamed him. Instead he put himself on the line for his team-mates and his manager. I hope Jurgen Klopp remembers that in the future when Coutinho is having a bad time.\n\nI saw Fabian Delph play against Chelsea in midweek and, considering it was his first start of the season, he looked in great shape and played like it. All credit to him. Delph has been plagued with injuries and had such little first-team game time, yet still has the presence of mind and the right attitude to keep himself in such tip-top condition.\n\nHe ran out of steam at Stamford Bridge, but not so against Hull. For Delph to retain the level of fitness at this stage of the season, and go on to have such an impact on Manchester City's victory over Hull, is a credit to his professionalism.\n\nThere will be those who will argue that professional players should keep themselves in the best shape ever - after all, it's their job. Those cynics have no idea of the mental discipline required to keep yourself at the top of your game in mind and health when you have no fixture to look forward to.\n\nAt the end of the game against Hull you could see how delighted Manchester City's backroom staff were for him. They have also played a part in the recovery. Hopefully Delph can now start to think of playing for his country again. Heaven knows we could do with him.\n\nWhat a goal by Roberto Firmino. The ball from Georginio Wijnaldum was wonderful but the finish even better. It's one thing your team-mate delivering the pass of the match. It's something entirely different having received the ball at your feet and having the technical ability to put it into the back of the net. Firmino finished the move so emphatically. If the referee had decided to blow the full-time whistle there and then, no neutral observer would have complained - the quality of the finish was worthy of winning any match.\n\nHowever, watching the goal in real time does not do the execution of the finish justice. The replay clearly identifies how Firmino takes a look at the ball as it arrives over his shoulder, watches it bounce in front of him, then takes a look at where Grant is positioned before deciding to hit the ball on the volley. Grant, who is slightly off his line in case Firmino decides to take him on, almost dares his opponent to take the volley due to the degree of technical difficulty required to execute the skill.\n\nAll this being played out, of course, in a couple of seconds. So imagine Grant, when the Brazilian calls his bluff and goes for the volley and smashes it into the back of the net, having left the Stoke keeper clutching fresh air. That's why the finish was so good and we all said 'wow'.\n\nThe moment Dele Alli bent his super shot around the well-beaten Heurelho Gomes in the Watford goal, former Spurs midfielder Jermaine Jenas said: \"He's the player of the season for me.\"\n\nJermaine, preparing for Football Focus in the BBC green room, instigated a frightful debate prior to the programme around who deserved to win the PFA Player of the Year. Dion Dublin, Dan Walker, Martin Keown and myself immediately engaged in the argument with differing opinions but generally agreed the prize would probably go to either to Eden Hazard or N'Golo Kante.\n\nJermaine seemed incredulous that none of us had mentioned Alli and said that he wanted more flair from his midfield players which suggested Kante came up short in that department as far as he was concerned. A fair point and a perfectly reasonable assertion under the circumstances.\n\nIt did seem odd at the time bearing in mind Alli was having a terrific game against Watford and Spurs were second in the table largely due to Alli's contribution this season. That said, I don't think Alli will win the PFA Player of the Year even though Jermaine put together a very credible case.\n\nThere have been some notable performances this week, from strikers in particular, who would have, under normal circumstances, made my team of the week. However, this wasn't a normal week. Romelu Lukaku and Son Heung-min scored twice for Everton and Tottenham respectively, but it was Zlatan Ibrahimovic who impressed me the most.\n\nPlaying up front on your own is always a task but it never seems to bother the Manchester United striker. Against a Sunderland side sporting 11 men at the time, the Swede produced a goal out of nothing. He set up Marcus Rashford's goal and you can see how his team-mates respond to his presence.\n\nI don't think it's a coincidence that Luke Shaw has timed his return to the team with Ibrahimovic's return. The lad has been put under immense pressure by United boss Jose Mourinho and, if the game against Sunderland is anything to go by, he has stood up to Mourinho's bully-boy tactics very well. I'm not sure Mourinho would get away with such a public condemnation of an employee in any other form of employment.\n\nNevertheless, this was a very important victory for United and keeps them in the hunt for a fourth-place finish. I would have liked to have seen the outcome of this game against Sunderland with a referee who recognises the difference between a tackle that looks dangerous and one that actually is dangerous. Sebastian Larsson's tackle on Ander Herrera neither looked dangerous nor was dangerous. So why the player received an automatic red card from referee Craig Pawson is a total mystery to me.\n\nIf David Luiz's presence at Chelsea is central to any future Champions League campaign, then Eden Hazard is imperative. Real Madrid will know all about Hazard's potential but will most certainly have noted his form this season. This is without doubt his best season in the Premier League. His performance against Bournemouth was wonderful to watch.\n\nI haven't seen a player for sometime enjoy his football as much as Hazard is at the moment. He is playing with such freedom and confidence that makes me think that an audacious offer from Madrid is almost certain. There are not many players who can resist playing at the Bernabeu Stadium on a regular basis.\n\nSo it is crucial that Chelsea boss Antonio Conte removes the rumours circulating the game about his possible return to Italy and starts focusing on the Champions League with Chelsea next season. That must be the next stage in Chelsea's development.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool forward Sadio Mane will have an operation on a knee injury on Tuesday and will miss the rest of the season.\n\nHe damaged cartilage in his left knee in a collision with Leighton Baines in a 3-1 home win over Everton.\n\nManager Jurgen Klopp had said Mane, 25, needed surgery, leaving it \"pretty much impossible for him to play again this season\".\n\nLiverpool are third in the Premier League and have six games left.\n\nThe injury is expected to rule him out for two months.\n\nMane joined the club for £34m from Southampton last summer and has started all but six of Liverpool's league games this campaign.\n\nOf those, one was won, three were drawn and two were lost.\n\nKlopp, speaking before Saturday's win at Stoke, also said Adam Lallana was \"much better but is not in training\" as the midfielder continues his recovery from a thigh injury suffered on England duty in March.\n\nCaptain Jordan Henderson, who has been out since February, is \"in a good way, but I don't know when he can be part of training again\", the German added.", "The Russian embassy in London called Mr Johnson's cancellation deplorable and absurd\n\nThe Russians have reacted with a mixture of contempt and fury to the cancellation of the foreign secretary's trip to Moscow.\n\nIt suggests they do, perhaps surprisingly, care quite a lot about it.\n\nIn a series of tweets, the Russian embassy in London mocked the foreign secretary, calling his decision \"deplorable\" and \"absurd\" and linking to an image of the Charge of the Light Brigade and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.\n\nThat was the year that a minor war between Britain and Russia, provoked by a Russian alliance with France, came to an end, when Napoleon invaded Russia. The US was on the French side. The message is a little hard to decode, beyond poking fun at Boris.\n\nThe Kremlin is less mischievous, and more straightforward.\n\nIt \"doubts in the presence of added value in speaking to the UK, which does not have its own position on the majority of present-day issues, nor does it have real influence on the course of international affairs, as it remains 'in the shadow' of its strategic partners. We do not feel that we need dialogue with London any more than it does.\"\n\nOne of the Russian embassy's tweets referred to the Charge of the Light Brigade\n\nThis has both the whiff of wounded pride and the smell of an unpalatable truth. Both interpretations have something in them, but disguise a more profound method in their mockery.\n\nRussia's intervention in Syria had many fathers, but no doubt part of President Putin's purpose was to establish that modern Russia, just as much as the old Soviet Union, matters on the world stage - a force to be reckoned with, on a par with China and the US.\n\nSo a snub from Britain, definitely lower down the league table of powerful nations, stings a little bit. It is also easy to take a tilt at the UK and Boris Johnson.\n\nWe do, in military, intelligence and diplomatic terms, in that old cliche, punch above our weight. We matter more, in those terms, than Sweden or Brazil, Spain or Italy. But the weight of our history makes many of us think we matter more than we do.\n\nWe have lost an empire and don't particularly like finding ourselves in a subordinate role, perhaps not always as important as France and Germany. Absurdly, our media and politicians sometimes like to pretend we are almost on a par with the United States, nearly equal partners rather than occasionally useful allies.\n\nThe Russians are deeply aware of how much power they have lost. We in Britain simply pretend it's not the case. So the Kremlin prodding a finger in this wound makes us shiver a little bit.\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to visit Moscow on 12 April\n\nI have no idea whether US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked tentatively and politely that Boris should call off his visit, virtually ordered it, or whether the proposal came from the Foreign Office. But there's no doubt we are doing what the Americans want, and waiting for them to explain what they want to happen next.\n\nThis is what the Russians really hate. Like the Chinese, they would rather have one-on-one, bilateral relations, with other smaller nations. It is why they would love to see the European Union collapse, and support parties which wish to see that too. They don't like other countries acting against them in concord, matching their mass.\n\nIf they don't like the EU, they feel even more strongly about European nations acting together with the US. Bundle in the G7 nations of Japan and Canada, and you have something that amounts to '\"the West\" - the Soviet Union's old adversary.\n\nThough the faces may change, the G7 group remains, to some, the face of \"the West\"\n\nIf they had hoped the US would turn inward, not even leading from behind, but wandering off in a disinterested daze, then recent developments seem to suggest they won't get their wish.\n\nSo Boris Johnson's cancelled trip to Moscow makes diplomatic sense and shows a due sense of proportion about our nation's power. But it is still not great for the man himself. Hanging over all this is the feeling that he's not to be trusted, that he'd somehow make a mess of it all.\n\nThe Russians keep using the term \"clown\" and hinting that he is out of his depth. Some in the Foreign Office seem to agree. So do opposition politicians.\n\nIt may be desperately unfair, based on the fact he makes a few broad jokes in a world where many others have carefully crafted pokers inserted somewhere about their person.\n\nBut Boris has become a politician it is easy not to take seriously, a doddle to ridicule. President Trump's example suggests that's not entirely a bad place to be, but at the moment it has made it easier for people at home and abroad to deride an entirely standard diplomatic response.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe United States, Canada and Mexico have announced they will make a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup.\n\nIt will be the first tournament after the expansion from 32 teams to 48 and, if successful, would be the first time a World Cup has been shared by three hosts.\n\nThe proposal would be for the USA to host 60 matches, with 10 games each in Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe decision on who will host the event will be made in 2020.\n\nThat is three years later than originally scheduled because of corruption allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.\n\nThe USA staged the 1994 World Cup, which had the highest average attendance in the tournament's history, while Mexico was the first nation to host the event twice, in 1970 and 1986. Canada hosted the 2015 women's World Cup.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has promised to build a border wall between the USA and Mexico but Sunil Gulati, president of the US Soccer Federation, said Trump is \"supportive\" of the bid and had \"encouraged\" it.\n\n\"The United States, Mexico and Canada have individually demonstrated their exceptional abilities to host world-class events,\" added Gulati.\n\n\"When our nations come together as one - as we will for 2026 - there is no question the United States, Mexico and Canada will deliver an experience that will celebrate the game and serve players, supporters and partners alike.\"\n\nEuropean and Asian countries cannot bid for the 2026 World Cup due to world governing body Fifa's rotation policy, which means the previous two host confederations - Europe in 2018 and Asia in 2022 - are excluded.\n\nThe new-look tournament will begin with an initial round of 16 three-team groups, with 32 qualifiers going through to the knockout stage.\n\nFifa's executive committee is no longer responsible for the final say on which country is awarded a World Cup.\n\nInstead, it will establish a shortlist before the 209 member nations of Fifa cast a vote for their preferred choice.\n\nThe 2026 tournament will be the first to be decided under the new system.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEverton midfielder Ross Barkley should be sold if he does not sign a new contract, says manager Ronald Koeman.\n\nThe 23-year-old England international, who set up the first of Romelu Lukaku's two goals in Sunday's 4-2 victory over Leicester, has a year left on his deal.\n\n\"We offer him a new contract, and there are two possibilities,\" said Koeman.\n\n\"One, he signs that contract. If he doesn't sign that contract then we need to sell the player. It's simple, it's not so difficult in my opinion.\"\n\nBarkley, who was born in Liverpool and came through the Everton academy, has scored five goals and provided eight assists this season.\n\nTeam-mate Lukaku, the Premier League's top scorer with 23 goals, last month turned down a new five-year deal thought to be worth about £140,000 a week.\n\nThe Belgian, whose contract expires in 2019, recently stated his desire to play in the Champions League next season.\n\nThe Toffees are seventh in the table - seven points shy of a Champions League spot.\n\n\"We try to keep the best players,\" said Koeman. \"We spoke a lot about Ross and Rom because they are really important.\n\n\"Most of the time the quality of the players can be the difference between Everton and the opponent, and they played really well.\n\n\"We know Rom is a great finisher but Ross played really good football between the lines.\n\n\"I think he should have scored one but it is what you like to see - your best players performing like they showed, because they were outstanding. The whole team was outstanding.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simpa says microdosing helps to alleviate his mental health problems\n\nThere is a small community of people in the UK who \"microdose\" - or take small amounts of psychedelic drugs as part of their daily lives. They say it boosts creativity and can have medicinal benefits, despite a lack of scientific research.\n\nOn a table in his house in Durham, Simpa shows me a tab of LSD he has cut into about 10 pieces.\n\nThe whole thing would be enough for a trip he says, but today he's taking just a tiny dose of it.\n\nOn the days he does this, Simpa says it's just part of his morning routine.\n\n\"I take it with a cup of tea, my toast and my vitamins,\" he tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nIn another part of the UK, \"Dylan\" - whose name we have changed - is going through a similar ritual with some magic mushrooms, weighing out a tiny dose and eating it with his cup of tea.\n\nSome people use microdosing simply to \"improve their day\", others to enhance their creativity and some use it in a therapeutic manner - arguing it helps with their mental health problems.\n\nBoth LSD and magic mushrooms, the drugs most commonly used to microdose, are illegal Class A drugs carrying a maximum sentence of seven years in prison for possession.\n\nA small number of people we spoke to had tried it with MDMA, also a Class A drug.\n\nDylan says the law is not much of a deterrent for him. He argues he is \"not hurting anyone or creating a trail of devastation by doing this\".\n\nHe has a very ordinary, respectable job. The fact that he goes to work having taken illegal drugs is not something his colleagues know, although his friends do.\n\nHe says the microdoses make him better at his job; more able to concentrate.\n\n\"It just gives you that very kind of calm and relaxed sense of being centred,\" he says.\n\nSimpa takes LSD with a cup of tea and vitamins in the morning\n\nSimpa is one of the people using microdosing for therapeutic purposes.\n\nAt 28, he is living with quite severe mental health problems - \"depression and anxiety as a result of childhood trauma, that led to borderline personality disorder and PTSD\".\n\nHe says the prescription medication he has been given results in more side-effects than benefits.\n\n\"I've found that these substances, psychedelics, give me the benefits without any of those drawbacks. Me using these substances means I've been able to view my trauma so that it's just an experience, a memory like any other.\"\n\nSuch individual experiences are, of course, anecdotal. There is no scientific proof behind claims of the medicinal benefits of microdosing.\n\nJames Rucker, a psychiatrist, is one of a number of people carrying out scientific experiments into the potential medical applications of psychedelic drugs.\n\nHe was recently involved in a trial at Imperial College London looking at the use of magic mushrooms in clinical depression. It did not, however, look at microdosing\n\nJames Rucker says a lack of research means scientists do not know what the long-term risks of microdosing might be\n\n\"Microdosing at a medical level, we know absolutely nothing about,\" he explains.\n\n\"The only way that we can sort out whether or not it works is by doing a blinded, placebo-controlled randomised trial.\"\n\nHe says the dangers of people self-medicating like this are currently completely unknown, and that is where the problem lies.\n\n\"The definition of a microdose is that you don't notice the subjective effect, but that doesn't mean it's not having any effect on you‬.\n\n\"We don't know what the risks in the long term might be.\n\n\"There was some concern before 1970 - when the drugs were being used clinically - that in people who were liable to develop schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, the drugs might actually uncover those problems in some people.\n\n\"Some studies showed that that might be a risk, some studies showed that it wasn't. So again, it's another area where we don't know.\"\n\nThose who microdose, however, argue its benefits go beyond alleviating mental health issues.\n\nIn Silicon Valley in the US, home to thousands of start-up businesses and some of the world's largest technology companies, some entrepreneurs have claimed it makes them more creative.\n\nDr James Fadiman, who has been researching psychedelics since the 1960s, runs a website on microdosing where he asks people to report back to him about their experiences.\n\nHe says more than 900 people have responded so far.\n\n\"The most consistent result is people saying, 'My life seems to be working better.' [They are] more effective, their sleeping habits improve, their eating habits improve, they feel better in social situations.\"\n\n\"Anna\", who lives in the UK, says she has tried microdosing in the past, both with LSD and more recently with magic mushrooms picked from the hills near where she lives with her two children.\n\nShe says the experience wasn't very dramatic, but on the days she microdosed she felt more productive.\n\n\"It's just like having a slightly better quality of life.\n\n\"Anna\" used to microdose with both LSD and magic mushrooms\n\n\"I would have quite an ordinary day - I just felt quite happy, calm and grounded and I would sleep better.\"\n\nThere is, however, a further danger to microdosing - the risk of taking too much.\n\nPsychedelics are very powerful drugs and Dylan admitted accidentally tripping at work when he took too big a microdose.\n\nJames Rucker says he knows he cannot stop people using drugs recreationally. \"That's something we have to work with,\" he says.\n\nHe argues it is all the more reason to conduct research into the effects of these drugs.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.\n• None 'I've been taking ketamine for my depression'", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCoverage: Scrum V Live on BBC Two Wales, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live scores online\n\nWales scrum-half Rhys Webb says being selected for the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand would be the pinnacle of his career.\n\nBut he is philosophical about the prospect after missing the 2015 Rugby World Cup through injury.\n\nWebb is a leading contender to be named in the Lions squad on 19 April and said: \"If it happens, it happens, and it would be a dream come true.\n\n\"But I know what it's like to miss out on these big competitions.\"\n\nWebb suffered a serious ankle injury in September 2015, a matter of weeks before the start of the World Cup, and played no part in Wales reaching the quarter-finals.\n\nAnd the 28-year-old says such experiences are helping him stay focused on helping his region the Ospreys in the Pro12.\n\n\"The Lions is obviously the best of the best, but I've missed out on the World Cup and I know what it's like,\" Webb told 5 Live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast.\n\n\"Don't get me wrong, as the time is getting closer, the more motivational videos from past Lions are popping up on Twitter, and I would love to bits to be a part of it.\n\n\"But we've got to win the league first.\n\n\"It would be the pinnacle of my career, but we've got the Blues on Saturday, and that is the final game ahead of the announcement next week.\"\n\nOspreys are third in the Pro12 table - seven points adrift of second-placed Munster - and face Cardiff Blues this weekend as part of Welsh rugby's Judgment Day double-header at the Principality Stadium.\n\n\"We've had three disappointing results - Treviso, the [Challenge Cup] quarter-final [against Stade Francais], and Leinster on the weekend - so we are on a bit of a tricky losing streak,\" Webb added.\n\n\"But we are in total control of where we are in the league, the boys have a had a great season so far.\n\n\"It's about trying to stay positive and get that momentum now this weekend, in a full Principality Stadium against our local rivals the Blues.\"", "Seagull (left) and Monkman have been the stars of the Jeremy Paxman-fronted current series\n\nUniversity Challenge is, quite simply, the most fiendishly difficult quiz show on TV.\n\nMost of us can just about get a few questions right on Eggheads or The Chase - but few of us would have a chance against Jeremy Paxman.\n\nWith many of its viewers totally flummoxed by the questions - perhaps it's not surprising that the BBC Two quiz show tends to go viral for other reasons.\n\nNamely, the quirks of its contestants.\n\nEric Monkman and Bobby Seagull have been the breakout stars of the current series (more on them in a minute), but they're far from the first to find fame on the show.\n\nThe invention of social media has given the programme a new lease of life and helped many contestants develop their own cult following.\n\nGail Trimble (second right) became a viewer favourite in 2009\n\n\"University Challenge works extremely well for this YouTube generation,\" says Tom Eames, senior TV reporter at Digital Spy.\n\n\"One funny moment or question can be so easily shared on Twitter now - it's the same when something rude happens on Countdown or someone makes a fool of themselves on Pointless.\"\n\nEames thinks another reason the show has found a new audience is how much more fashionable it has become to be super-smart.\n\n\"In the last few years, everyone loves calling themselves a geek or a nerd, even though in the real world they might not be,\" he says.\n\n\"Shows like The Big Bang Theory have recently flourished. So when someone genuinely seems to have some geeky superpowers like Monkman, we like to big them up.\"\n\nAhead of this season's final on Monday evening, let's take a look back at a few of University Challenge's viral sensations:\n\nMonkman and Seagull finally came head-to-head at the semi-final\n\nThe current series saw two contestants - both captains of rival teams from Cambridge University - find social media fame.\n\nAs a show which normally features a lot of upper class English voices, Seagull's east London accent caught the attention of viewers, as did his wonderful surname.\n\nMonkman, meanwhile, inspired a legion of online fans who identified themselves with the hashtag #monkmania.\n\nHis facial expressions and tendency to deliver answers with an upward inflection won him a place in the hearts of many viewers.\n\nHe and Seagull each went viral in their own right before they finally faced each other on screen in the semi-final, where Monkman narrowly edged victory.\n\nMonkman and Seagull have become friends since appearing on the show\n\n\"I would say Monkman is in the all time top five [contestants],\" The Independent's James Rampton told the BBC.\n\n\"There's a tendency in our culture to be very homogeneous, everyone must be cool, be good looking. But Monkman, I hope he wouldn't mind me saying, is a bit of a geek.\"\n\nMonkman and Seagull, it later transpired, were friends off-air and caught the train down to London together when they appeared on The One Show last month.\n\nAt this point we'd usually demand they be given their own TV show - but we're pretty sure we'd never understand anything they were saying.\n\nGail Trimble went viral in 2009 after her appearance on the show\n\nOne of the most memorable University Challenge contestants of recent years was Gail Trimble, of Corpus Christi, Oxford.\n\nShe answered around two thirds of the questions on her own, winning more points than all three of her teammates combined.\n\nHer performances quickly caught the attention of viewers, with many suggesting she was the smartest-ever contestant.\n\nShe was particularly popular with a certain genre of men's magazines, who at one point asked whether she would ever consider a career change.\n\n\"My brother received a Facebook message from Nuts, saying 'Can we have your sister's email address, we want her to do a tasteful shoot,'\" Trimble told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"So he sent them a reply saying 'Seriously mate, would you send your sister's contact details to Nuts?'\"\n\nThe name might not ring a bell - but Ralph Morley was the bravest contestant of them all: the man who spoke back to Jeremy Paxman.\n\nHere's how the glorious exchange went:\n\nPaxman: \"During the 20th Century, who held the position of prime minister of the United Kingdom for the...\"\n\nPaxman: [Looking shocked] \"How did you know I was going to ask for the longest period of time?\"\n\nMorley: \"Well what else was it going to be?\"\n\nPaxman: \"Okay well let's see if you get these bonuses right. They're on French land borders, you smart arses.\"\n\nIn 2015, Oscar Powell of Peterhouse, Cambridge took the concept of facial expressions to a whole new level.\n\nThe geological sciences student, who looks a little bit like Michael Gove, had one of the most animated human faces in the history of human faces.\n\nIf he was struggling to answer a question, his jaw would drop, his face would scrunch up or his tongue would poke out as he tried to arrive at the answer.\n\nAfter huge reaction on social media, Powell tweeted: \"Yes, I know I'm odd.\" But his fanbase continued to revel in his performances and declare their love for him.\n\nEames says: \"It used to be rare for normal people to become famous off the back of a TV show, but the line between celebrity and non-celebrity is so blurred now.\n\n\"Ten years ago, someone could appear on the programme but be forgotten again the next day, but that's not the case anymore.\n\n\"As a result, people who appear on shows like this fall under the celebrity bracket, so there's a potential for them to become fair game to viewers.\"\n\nStephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and David Starkey all appeared on University Challenge\n\nLong before they were famous, some of Britain's most distinguished brains made their first TV appearances on University Challenge.\n\nDownton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, historian David Starkey, and general national treasure Stephen Fry are among the quiz show's alumni.\n\nActress Miriam Margolyes even claims her appearance on the programme in 1963 marked the first time anybody had ever said the f-word on TV.\n\nIn 2011, she told Graham Norton: \"I got a question wrong, and I [swore], and they bleeped me out so you saw my face [saying the word], but nothing actually came out.\"\n\nHad Twitter been around in the 1960s, we're pretty sure that would've gone viral.\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 Rugby League\n\nSt Helens have parted company with head coach Keiron Cunningham with the club seventh in Super League.\n\nHe has spent 24 years at the club as a player and on the coaching staff, and has a statue outside their home ground.\n\nCunningham, 40, played 496 times for Saints during his career and had been in charge for more than two years.\n\n\"It is both upsetting and disappointing for us all that it has ended at this point in time,\" St Helens chairman Eamonn McManus said.\n\nSaints will be led by assistants Sean Long and Jamahl Lolesi, as well as under-19s coach Derek Traynor, on an interim basis until a new head coach is appointed.\n\n\"The commitment that he has shown to the club throughout, and in every capacity, has been without equal,\" McManus said.\n\n\"Keiron nevertheless understands the position and, as a mark of the man that he is, wishes only well and good to the club, its players and everyone associated with it.\"\n\nCunningham was assistant to Nathan Brown when Saints last won the Super League title in October 2014 and succeeded the Australian later that month.\n\nThe former Great Britain hooker, who signed a contract extension in January 2016, was in charge for 76 games and his tenure included two Super League semi-final appearances and one Challenge Cup semi-final.\n\nSt Helens have won only three of their eight Super League matches this season and are seven points behind leaders Castleford.\n\nMcManus' programme notes before Friday's home game with Huddersfield left no doubt about the pressure on Cunningham.\n\nSaints were 14-0 ahead at half-time but produced, according to Cunningham, a \"really weak\" second-half display to draw 14-14.\n\nBefore that match, McManus wrote: \"Given the quality and depth of the squad that we have, we should realistically be aiming for the top of the league and therefore we need to start stringing games together.\n\n\"Because of the unexpected losses already against Leigh, Wakefield and Salford, the room for further slips-ups is now very limited and the block of four games against Huddersfield, Wigan, Castleford and Widnes will go a long way to giving us a good indication of how our overall season is likely to unfold.\n\n\"Silverware must be our objective in 2017.\"\n\nKeiron Cunningham the player will forever remain the ultimate idol at St Helens.\n\nBut Keiron Cunningham the coach never quite connected with the Saints fans.\n\nThe team's style of rugby under his stewardship was deemed dour by supporters who remember the often electrifying performances of the teams that he played in.\n\nThe growing disquiet amongst those fans began last year when Saints went out of the Challenge Cup early with a whimper and only a late surge took them into the top four after a mediocre season.\n\nThis year, defeats to Wakefield, Leigh and Salford and the most recent draw with Huddersfield have been rated calamitous by those connected with the club.\n\nIt will be interesting to see if Cunningham comes back into the game and, if so, where. And also where Saints find their replacement, with no obvious candidate standing out at the moment.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nOne For Arthur. One for Scotland, one for a jockey back from injury and two golf 'widows' on the weekend of the Masters.\n\nIn the great tradition of the famous race, the 170th edition of the Grand National at Aintree delivered a story with many strands.\n\nThe 14-1 winner One For Arthur, thought to be named after the famous Irish brewer Arthur Guinness, held off the challenge of Cause Of Causes to triumph, with Saint Are third and favourite Blaklion fourth.\n\nIt was only a second Scottish-trained winner of the National, with Lucinda Russell the fourth woman to saddle the victor.\n\nJockey Derek Fox was having his first ride in the marathon contest over 30 fences and four-and-a-quarter miles, and just his sixth since breaking his left wrist and right collarbone in a fall last month.\n\nOwners Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson bought the horse and gave their syndicate a cheeky name as their partners were often away playing golf.\n\nThe feel-good story was capped with all 40 runners returning safely for the fifth year running.\n• None Where did your horse finish?\n\nRussell wore a wide grin as she received widespread congratulations and declared: \"He's done us proud and he's done Scotland proud.\"\n\nAfter a 38-year wait since Rubstic's triumph, she had helped deliver another victory for her homeland and a third in nine years for female trainers.\n\n\"It means everything, of course it does,\" said the 50-year-old, who is based at Kinross, Tayside, north of Edinburgh, and follows Jenny Pitman, Venetia Williams and Sue Smith as National winners.\n\nRussell is assisted by her partner Peter Scudamore, the eight-time champion jockey who missed out on National success as a rider - coming closest to winning from 12 rides when third on Corbiere in 1985.\n\n\"I don't like the word 'small' but we are not one of the more fashionable places and, from about Christmas-time, I felt confident things were going well,\" he said.\n\nScudamore advised Fox to steer clear of taking an inside track so he could avoid trouble and the race plan worked to perfection.\n\nFox did not sit on a horse for three-and-a-half weeks after being injured in a fall at Carlisle on 9 March.\n\nFollowing intensive rehabilitation at the Injured Jockeys Fund's Jack Berry House in Malton, North Yorkshire, he returned to action three days before the National.\n\n\"Winning is the best feeling I've ever had, and probably ever will have. He's such a brave horse,\" said the 24-year-old Irish rider.\n\n\"For the first two weeks after I was injured I was very hot and cold. I was very low some days and thought I wouldn't make it.\"\n\nHis jubilant mother Jackie, from Sligo, watched from the winner's enclosure and said he had always been destined for this moment.\n\n\"At every parent teacher evening I went to, they were giving out, but I knew he was going to be a jockey,\" she said.\n\nShe said Derek had dressed as a cowboy riding a pony called Reggie in a St Patrick's Day parade when he was four years old.\n\n\"Aged nine, he went to riding school. The instructor said: 'You'll never make it as a showjumper, but I can see you going over the fences at Aintree',\" added his mother.\n\nWith their partners spending weekends on the golf course, friends Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson wanted to get their own sporting interest.\n\n\"We had a lot of gin and decided to get a horse together. We went to Cheltenham sales and got One For Arthur,\" said Belinda.\n\nAfter forking out £60,000 for the horse in December 2013, the pair registered their ownership as 'The Two Golf Widows\".\n\nTheir silks contain a Scottish flag and the purchase has paid off - with the owners earning about £500,000 in prize money from the £1m contest.\n\nDeborah, close to tears, said: \"We always hoped he'd be a National horse in the making.\n\n\"Our dream was to get him here but to actually win, well I'm lost for words.\n\n\"The syndicate name is slightly tongue-in-cheek as my partner Colin is on the golf course every single weekend. There's probably two weekends when he's not.\"\n\nThis, perhaps not surprisingly, was one of those two weekends.\n\n\"They are both here today, of course,\" she said. \"They weren't going to miss out.\"\n\nFraser, the husband of Belinda, confirmed: \"This is miles better than golfing.\"\n\nWhat's in a name? - the horse\n\nTwo false starts in warm sunshine led to 31 of the 40 jockeys, including Fox, being referred to the British Horseracing Authority for approaching the starting tape before the flag was raised.\n\nFox went on to give One For Arthur an impeccable ride, sending his mount to the front approaching the last and winning by four-and-a-half lengths.\n\nRussell had been unsure he would appreciate the drying ground, but there was no stopping the Irish-bred gelding, who was following up his win in the Classic Chase at Warwick.\n\nSo where does the name One For Arthur come from?\n\n\"We're not totally sure. We think he was named after Arthur Guinness,\" said the trainer.\n\n\"His name is still on the Guinness cans and people say I'll have 'One For Arthur' or one for the road.\"\n\nVictory in the world's most famous steeplechase was one for the almanac. One brewed in Ireland and toasted in Scotland.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nReanne Evans said she was \"gutted\" to lose a marathon World Championship second qualifying round tie to Lee Walker.\n\nThe 11-time women's world champion fought back from 6-1 down to 9-6 before Welshman Walker sealed it.\n\n\"I was in control of most of the frames,\" Evans told BBC Sport. \"I think I should have won every frame in the second session.\n\n\"It was 3-3 and it should have been 6-0 easily.\"\n• None See the qualifying draw and results in full\n\nEvans, bidding to become the first woman to reach the main draw, was five behind when the match resumed on Monday, but only six shared frames were possible until the afternoon session was timed out.\n\nWhen the pair returned in the evening, Evans clawed two more back only for Walker to move within one round of the main draw at the Crucible.\n\n\"I think if I'd have pulled one more back I'd have been the favourite,\" added Evans, who beat Robin Hill in the first qualifying round.\n\n\"The buzz off winning that was immense and I couldn't wait to play again. Maybe if it was a day later I'd have been more on the ball. I still felt really good out there.\"\n\nEvans will not be eligible to qualify for the 2018 World Championship because the 2017 women's event was won by Hong Kong's Ng On Yee.\n\n\"Being in this environment make you want to play,\" said Evans. \"Hopefully I'll get to play in them a lot more. At least I know I can compete, even if I'm not playing at my best.\"\n\nFormer world champion Peter Ebdon is also through to the final qualifying round after a 10-9 win over Jack Lisowski.\n\nAnother former champion, Mark Williams, scraped through by the same scoreline against Liam Highfield.\n\nHowever, 1997 winner Ken Doherty was beaten 10-4 by Ben Woollaston and will lose his tour card for next season.\n\nThe 2017 World Championship takes place at the Crucible from 15 April until 1 May with world number one Mark Selby looking to retain his title.", "It was the double blow of the death of a best friend and a health problem that made Karen Lynch decide to quit the corporate rat race.\n\n\"Losing my close friend made me realise life is too short,\" says Karen, now the boss of bottled water business Belu. \"I wanted to do something more personal.\"\n\nSo in 2008, then aged 38, Karen resigned from her senior role at banking group Barclays.\n\nAlso learning to live with type 1 diabetes, she and her husband travelled around the Caribbean, Vietnam and Thailand for six months.\n\nUpon returning to the UK Karen applied for and got a job as marketing director at Belu, the UK's first carbon-neutral bottled water firm and a social enterprise that gives all its profits to charity.\n\nUnfortunately, at the time it wasn't actually making any money. Set up in London in 2004, by 2008 it was saddled with debts of £1.9m.\n\nKaren realised that Belu needed a major shake-up if it was going to be a success, and after knocking up a business plan outlining her vision, eight months later she was promoted to chief executive.\n\nHer plan was to pivot the business away from targeting the supermarkets and their low margins, to instead focus on supplying the more lucrative hotels, restaurants and offices.\n\nBelu gives its profits to the charity WaterAid\n\nBelu had been founded by filmmaker Reed Paget, who stepped down from the top job for Karen to replace him.\n\n\"Clearly it wouldn't have been the easiest time for either of us, but we did lunch and cleared the air. And Reed wanted nothing more than to see Belu become successful in a sustainable way,\" says Karen.\n\n\"When I joined Belu it was in debt and it wasn't sustainable. We could have wound up completely - it was time to move on. So we kept the name, but everything changed.\"\n\nHer business plan was so successful that sales have since soared, with annual revenues of £5.9m in 2015. And since 2011 Belu has donated more than £1.5m to WaterAid, the global charity that aims to give more people in the developing world access to safe drinking water and good sanitation.\n\nKaren decided to move Belu away from supermarkets to restaurants and hotels\n\nKaren says that hotels and restaurants were keen to come on board because they welcomed Belu's commitment to environmental best practice, which she decided to strengthen and promote as much as possible.\n\nIn addition to being carbon neutral, and donating to WaterAid, the company's bottles are made from recycled glass and plastic.\n\n\"It was important to demonstrate we're doing this properly. First and foremost about our social and environmental mission, and secondly through building sustainability by giving our profits to WaterAid,\" says Karen.\n\nShe adds that Belu forms relationships with restaurateurs who \"buy into our mission\", and whose customers are pleased to see the Belu name because they understand and appreciate the work it does.\n\nKaren says that this is better than \"fighting for [supermarket] shelf space, and having to fund promotions to move goods from the shelves\".\n\nWaterAid works to prevent people from having to drink unclean water\n\nWhile Belu continues to grow, Karen had to deal with another health scare in 2016.\n\n\"Last year was the year from hell. I had breast cancer - thankfully I didn't have chemo, and I kept my hair,\" she says. \"I was exhausted and knackered over the summer, but my team really stepped up.\"\n\nThe cancer was successfully removed, and she says her work was a welcome distraction. \"I clearly needed a few days at home, but when your job is your passion and purpose it keeps you going.\"\n\nShe adds that when she was really exhausted during that difficult time, she would remember that life was still worse for a \"six-year-old walking eight hours a day to collect water\". This made her realise that having to deal with her bad news was \"no big deal\".\n\nBelu's partnership with WaterAid also aims to provide safe sanitation\n\nTo help limit Belu's carbon footprint, Karen encourages her 34-strong workforce to work from home when possible, to remove the need to commute. She herself lives in rural Warwickshire, and usually goes into the office in London only two or three days a week.\n\n\"The rule is not to go into the office when you can work at home.\"\n\nRyan Doherty, an industry analyst at research group IbisWorld, says that Belu has \"garnered a reputation as one of the leading eco-friendly brands among bottled water producers\".\n\nHe adds: \"Its targeting of the hospitality sector and its innovative approach to reducing the environmental impact of its products has driven demand from clients eager to improve their image through corporate sustainability.\"\n\nWhen not leading Belu, which bottles in water in Shropshire, Karen spares the time to help young start-ups who also want to achieve positive social change.\n\nShe recently took part in a panel discussion for the Chivas Venture, a competition for aspiring social entrepreneurs organised by whisky brand Chivas Regal.\n\n\"I love this part of my job,\" says Karen, who is married with two children. \"It reminds me that I'm not a complete disaster, and reminds me of the progress we have made.\"\n\nShe adds that she is keen to educate people about the reality of running a not-for-profit business.\n\n\"Launching and running a social enterprise is a wonderful, aspirational thing to do. It's using your skills to do something amazing, but in reality it's harder than you think.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Masters runner-up Justin Rose believes he will have \"many more chances\" to win at Augusta National in the wake of his play-off defeat by Sergio Garcia.\n\nRose, 36, held a two-shot lead with five holes to go but lost when Garcia birdied the first extra hole on Sunday.\n\nHe had a one-shot lead on the 17th but made bogey and both parred the last.\n\n\"I feel it is a tournament I can still do well in, said Rose. \"It's a course you can get to know and be competitive here for a long, long time.\"\n\nRose, who has finished tied second, 10th and second in his last three Masters, was referring to 57-year-old American Fred Couples, winner of the Green Jacket in 1992, who has had six top-20 finishes in his last seven appearances.\n\n\"I see myself having many more chances to come,\" the world number 14 told BBC Sport.\n\n'An unhappy month to come'\n\nRose claimed his only major win at the US Open in 2013 but was in the clubhouse at Merion as contender Phil Mickelson finished his round.\n\nAt Augusta, where he has now finished in the top 10 on five occasions, he was alongside Garcia in the final pairing as the pair wrestled to land the first major of the season.\n\nRose fought back after Garcia had taken a three-shot lead early on and appeared to have control with five to play, only for the Spaniard to follow birdie on 14 with what was his first eagle at Augusta in 452 holes, ending a wait dating back to 2011.\n\nBoth men missed putts for birdie when at nine under par on 18 before Garcia landed his first major in the play-off.\n\n\"I felt in control all day,\" added Rose. \"Sometimes the rub of the green is for you and sometimes it isn't. I hit a really good putt on 18 in regulation and thought it was going in.\n\n\"I am really happy for Sergio. I would love to be wearing the Green Jacket but if it wasn't me I am glad it is him.\n\n\"We have been friends for a long time and playing golf against each other since we were 14 years old. We will get up and he will be happy for a month and then golf will take over, I will be unhappy for a month and golf will take over for me.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCrystal Palace continued their recent revival to boost their Premier League survival hopes and leave Arsenal struggling to maintain their run of top-four finishes under Arsene Wenger.\n\nPalace led through Andros Townsend's close-range finish, doubling their lead when Yohan Cabaye's shot looped in.\n\nLuka Milivojevic clinched victory with a firm, low penalty as Palace moved six points clear of the relegation zone.\n\nSixth-placed Arsenal did not manage a shot on target in a poor second half.\n\nSome travelling Gunners fans again called for manager Wenger, who has led Arsenal to top-four finishes in each of his previous 20 seasons at the helm, to leave the club.\n\nThe Frenchman's side are seven points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City with eight games remaining.\n• None Follow all the post-match reaction from Selhurst Park\n\nThe manner of Arsenal's performance - disorganised, devoid of attacking ideas and lacking fight - will increase the scrutiny on Wenger yet again.\n\nThe 67-year-old has already faced protests from some supporters urging him to leave, with more calls clearly audible - along with the barracking of his players in the latter stages - at Selhurst Park.\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season and the club has offered him a new two-year deal, although he is still to announce whether he intends to carry on.\n\nArsenal had 72% possession against Palace but that mattered for little as the hosts broke quickly on the counter-attack, exploiting space down the flanks and taking their chances clinically.\n\nThe Gunners looked defensively vulnerable whenever Palace went forward, lacking leadership without injured captain Laurent Koscielny.\n\nAnd when the visitors did attack, Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey was only required to make saves from Mohamed Elneny and Alexis Sanchez.\n\nAfter the break, Hennessey did not even face a shot on target as Arsenal suffered a fourth straight away defeat for the first time under Wenger.\n\n\"Palace wanted it more. You could sense that from the kick-off,\" Theo Walcott, Arsenal's stand-in captain, said.\n\nWhile Wenger has never led Arsenal to a finish outside the top four, opposite number Sam Allardyce has a proud record of not being relegated from the top flight.\n\nOn this evidence, Allardyce looks much likelier to maintain his achievement than his long-time adversary.\n\nThe former England manager, who has previously kept up Bolton, Blackburn and Sunderland, took a while to improve Palace's fortunes after replacing Alan Pardew in December, but the Eagles are starting to reap the rewards of his methods when it matters.\n\nPalace had too much pace, power and passion for a lifeless Gunners side.\n\nAlthough Arsenal dominated possession in the first half, Palace had the better chances and deservedly led when Townsend drilled in Wilfried Zaha's cross from the right.\n\nPalace leaked goals under Pardew, but have discovered defensive resilience under Allardyce - leading to four clean sheets in their past six league games.\n\nThat run has coincided with the arrival of centre-back Mamadou Sakho, the loan signing from Liverpool who again led their backline with a determined and disciplined performance.\n\nIt laid the platform for Palace to go on and secure victory after the break.\n\nCabaye clipped Zaha's pass into the top corner before Gunners keeper Emiliano Martinez clumsily brought down Townsend, allowing Milivojevic to confidently tuck in his first Palace goal.\n\n\"Tactically the players were aware of what had to happen to beat Arsenal,\" said Allardyce.\n\n\"Arsenal have been weak defensively - they leave the centre-backs exposed.\"\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nCrystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Tactically the players were aware of how to beat Arsenal. The first thing was to defend and frustrate them, keep them playing sideways, then use the space behind the full-backs. Arsenal have been weak defensively, they leave the centre-backs exposed.\n\n\"We won a lot of possession off them and created lots of chances. Cabaye's goal, what a finish - and that was down to us pressing them. It wasn't a shock for me because we played Chelsea and won that game. The result might be a shock, but we did that again and did it better.\n\n\"We all know Arsenal are going through their worst spell for years, but the only way to take advantage is by playing well. Everything worked perfectly for us today.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We lost too many duels and we paid for that. There is no obvious reason why. We prepared well. It's difficult to explain just after the game.\n\n\"I don't think my players didn't want it, but we lost duels in decisive moments and that's how games are decided at this level.\n\n\"I understand our fans are disappointed and we all are deeply tonight. It's very worrying and disappointing the way we lost the game. Palace were sharp, they beat Chelsea the other day, and that shows they have quality.\n\n\"We are in a difficult position. The game doesn't help.\"\n• None Arsene Wenger has suffered four consecutive away Premier League defeats for the first time as Arsenal manager.\n• None This is Arsenal's worst away Premier League run since April 1995 (also four defeats in a row) when they were managed by Stewart Houston.\n• None Wenger lost for the first time against Palace in 12 top-flight matches.\n• None Arsenal conceded three goals in four consecutive away league games for the first time since September 1929.\n• None In the past eight Premier League games, only Sunderland (six) have lost more games than Arsenal (five).\n• None Wilfried Zaha has had a hand in five goals in his past five Premier League games (two goals, three assists).\n• None Zaha now has nine Premier League assists for the season, matching the record held by Wayne Routledge in 2004-05.\n• None Sam Allardyce has won three consecutive home Premier League games for the first time since he was West Ham boss in December 2014.\n\nCrystal Palace will look to earn the one win Allardyce believes they need to be assured of safety when they host Leicester on Saturday. Arsenal travel to Middlesbrough next Monday in a game with significant implications at both ends of the table.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jeffrey Schlupp.\n• None Offside, Crystal Palace. Joel Ward tries a through ball, but James McArthur is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Andros Townsend with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mamadou Sakho (Crystal Palace) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEverton midfielder Ross Barkley was the victim of an \"unprovoked attack\" in a Liverpool bar, his lawyer has said.\n\nCCTV footage circulating on social media shows the 23-year-old England player being hit in the face by a man.\n\nBarkley was not seriously injured in the incident, which came hours after he played the full match for the Toffees in their win over Leicester on Sunday.\n\nEverton have not commented and no complaint has been made to police, who are viewing the footage.\n\n\"Ross was the victim of an unprovoked attack by a stranger who approached him on Sunday evening,\" said Matt Himsworth, managing director of Himsworths Legal.\n\nBarkley, who trained as normal with his team-mates on Monday, has played 22 times for England and was part of Gareth Southgate's most recent Three Lions squad.\n\nThe Liverpool-born player joined Everton as an 11-year-old and has made 173 first-team appearances.\n\nAfter Sunday's match, manager Ronald Koeman said Barkley should be sold if he does not sign a new contract.", "Sergio Garcia said it was \"amazing\" to join his Spanish idols Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal as a Masters champion by winning at Augusta.\n\nGarcia beat England's Justin Rose in a play-off on Sunday to finally end a run of 73 majors without a victory.\n\nThe Spaniard won on what would have been the 60th birthday of compatriot Ballesteros, the 1980 and 1983 winner of the Green Jacket, who died in 2011.\n\n\"It has been such a long time coming. I am so happy,\" said Garcia, 37.\n\n\"To do it on Seve's 60th birthday and to join him and Olazabal, my two idols in golf, it's something amazing.\n\n\"Jose sent me a text on Wednesday telling me how much he believed in me and what I needed to do, believe in myself, be calm and not let things get to me as I had in the past.\"\n\nFrom 'not good enough' to a champion\n\nFive years ago, Garcia claimed he was not good enough to win a major after shooting a three-over-par 75 at the 2012 Masters to drop out of contention.\n\nPrior to Sunday's victory he was on the longest run of majors without a win of any active player - the closest he had previously come was a tie for second at the Open (in 2007 and 2014) and the US PGA Championship in 1999 and 2008.\n\nHe revealed he had identified the Masters as his most likely chance of a major after he tied for 38th and was the leading amateur in 1999, the year Olazabal won for the second time.\n\nAnd he finally made the breakthrough by winning the first hole of a sudden-death play-off after he and Rose had tied at nine under after 72 holes.\n\n\"I felt like this course was probably going to give me one major,\" he said. \"That thought changed over the years as I started feeling uncomfortable on the course but I came to peace with it and accepted it.\"\n\nOn Sunday's performance, the world number 11 added: \"I knew I was playing well. I felt the calmest I ever felt in a major.\n\n\"Even after a couple of bogeys I was still positive that there were a lot of holes I could get to. I am so happy.\"\n\nGarcia and European Ryder Cup team-mate Rose produced a thrilling final day at the Augusta National.\n\nStarting the final round level with Rose on six under par, the Spaniard moved three ahead after five holes but trailed by two after 13 before missing a four-foot putt to win it on the last.\n\nHowever, he kept his nerve in the play-off, winning with a birdie to Rose's bogey.\n\n\"We are both trying to win but we are all people,\" added Garcia. \"We have to represent our game.\n\n\"We are good friends so we were very respectful of each other. We were cheering each other on. We wanted to beat the other guy, not the other lose it.\"", "Martin Picard looks at a test batch of his maple syrup at his sugar shack\n\nMaple syrup isn't just for pancakes anymore, thanks to a group of maple syrup producers in Quebec who are trying to turn a cottage industry into a global empire.\n\nMontreal chef Martin Picard says maple syrup runs through the veins of Quebecers like the sap that flows from the trees each spring in sugar bushes across the countryside.\n\nIn an annual communal gastronomic ritual, Quebecers flock to sugar shacks - casual restaurants where maple syrup is also produced - to fill their plates with pea soup, meat pie, baked beans and crispy pork rinds, all served with ample amounts of maple syrup.\n\n\"When we taste the maple syrup we taste all our souvenirs (memories)\" says Picard, who opened a sugar shack nine years ago. It remains one of the toughest reservations to get in the region and was voted one of the top 100 restaurants in Canada.\n\nSap being turned into syrup at the Au Pied de Cochon Sugar Shack\n\nHe says people who have never tasted the golden syrup might be surprised by its unique flavour, which can have hints of toffee and spice, herbs and flowers.\n\n\"But this is the best sugar in the world,\" says Picard.\n\nThe idea that maple syrup could indeed be seen as the world's best sugar is the driving ambition of the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.\n\nThe Federation and its efforts have helped turn a provincial cottage industry into big business.\n\nPrior to the 1930s, maple syrup was made mostly in the United States, says Michael Farrell, director of Cornell University's maple syrup research centre. It used to be that every farm in the US northeast and Canada would tap their own sugar maples and produce syrup - some to sell, some to keep.\n\nWidespread industrialisation in New England and the rise of cheap white sugar meant that maple production in the US fell into decline. Meanwhile in Canada, production stayed relatively stable, in part because of local governmental support of the industry, Mr Farrell said.\n\nBut things really took off in the 1990s, about the same time that the Federation got the go-ahead from the Quebec government to start selling their syrup together.\n\nThe decision by Quebec producers to work collectively, and later to establish the global maple reserve, gave them more market power, said Federation spokeswoman Caroline Cyr.\n\n\"Since that time they were able to develop new market, to make an industry of maple syrup,\" she says.\n\n\"Before that, it was something they did on the side.\"\n\nQuebec's maple reserve contains thousands of barrels like this one\n\nBy the end of the millennium, Canada would be the reigning king of maple syrup, producing about 80% of the world's supply. Over the next two decades, Canadian maple syrup production would triple, largely due to the increasing demand worldwide spurred by the Federation's intense marketing efforts.\n\nAbout 85-90% of all maple syrup produced in Canada comes from Quebec, or about 70% of the world's supply, depending on the year.\n\nThe Federation controls nearly every aspect of maple production in the province, assigning quotas to the province's 13,500 farmers and selling the syrup to licensed wholesalers.\n\nIt is a fine-tuned machine, with the Federation backed by provincial legislation.\n\nHaving a lock on the industry in Quebec has allowed the Federation to establish the strategic maple reserve that contains upwards of 78 million pounds of syrup at a time and allows them to prevent production-based annual price fluctuations.\n\nThe Federation also sets prices and quotas for the product that all commercial Quebec sugar bush owners must follow.\n\nAngele Grenier has been fighting the Federation for years to freely sell her syrup\n\nIts executive director Simon Trepanier says control over supply is important given that maple production can swing massively from year-to-year, from \"swimming in a big pool of syrup\" to barely meeting market demand.\n\nBy establishing prices, the Federation helped boost production not only in Quebec, but in the rest of Canada and the US as well, Farrell says.\n\nMaple became a more reliable crop, and that encouraged farmers all over to invest in equipment.\n\nNot all Quebec producers support the Federation. Some, like maple producer Angele Grenier, see it as a bureaucratic cartel.\n\nGrenier is involved in a long-running legal battle with the Federation over whether she can independently sell her syrup to other provinces.\n\nLast year was the Quebec maple industry's biggest year on record, producing more than 11.2m gallons of maple syrup worth more than C$435m (US$327m/£262m) total.\n\nA large portion of that was shipped abroad in 2016, to places like the UK, Germany, and Japan.\n\nUK-based marketing firm Liquid is helping push maple in Britain with \"We Love Maple\", a multi-pronged campaign geared towards getting the product in kitchens across the country.\n\nThe firm's research suggested that older Britons knew little about the product while younger demographics saw it as \"something big fat Americans put over pancakes at breakfast\", says Elisabeth Lewis-Jones, Liquid's chief executive.\n\nThey decided to rebrand it instead as a healthy and versatile alternative to white sugar. It is natural and, unlike honey, vegan.\n\nIt contains minerals like manganese and zinc, unlike trendier sugar alternatives like agave. The campaign began sponsoring two women's soccer teams as part of their health and wellness pitch.\n\nThe maple campaign has also been courting the country's top chefs, and the Federation is the first foreign organisation to be named an associate member of the Royal Academy of Culinary Art.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It becomes illegal syrup': Battling the maple syndicate\n\nExports to the UK jumped 36% in 2015.\n\n\"We've been really surprised at how the British public has embraced maple,\" says Lewis-Jones.\n\nQuebec is now ramping up production, adding five million taps in the next two years to meet the growing appetite for the syrup worldwide.\n\nThe Federation has been spending about C$5m (US$3.7m/£3m) a year promoting maple in the UK, India, Japan, and the US.\n\nAnd they are preparing for it to continue growing in global popularity. The Federation wants Quebec to study how much maple could be produced in the province if the trees were tapped to capacity.\n\nThey believe production could be doubled.", "\"I'm not good enough. I don't have the thing I need to have. I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.\"\n\nSport is supposed to be all about unbreakable self-belief and unshakeable mental fortitude. Vulnerabilities are tucked away for dark private moments with family and coaches, or alone with nothing for company but demons and deep regret.\n\nIn public you are always good enough. You are there because you have that thing. Admitting you are weak is the biggest weakness of all.\n\nWhen Sergio Garcia made those comments at Augusta, five years ago after 13 seasons of not-quites and might-have-beens, it both subverted the protocol and confirmed what lots of people feared anyway: the kid who began as El Nino was destined to play out his career as El Nearly-Man, a beautiful ball-striker but imperfect with his putter, indomitable in Ryder Cup but fragile in the final-day shootouts in strokeplay, loved for those flaws and the anguish they brought him as much as others were admired for cold-eyed closing out of the biggest moments.\n\nSeventy-three appearances at majors. Four times a runner-up. Twelve top fives, 22 top tens, a habitual bridesmaid who could be relied upon to drop the bouquet every time it was thrown his way.\n\nYou play every shot with Garcia when you're watching him, his hopes and doubts and fears running across his face and through his body language. Which is why, when he birdied the first hole of his final round on Sunday to go a shot clear of Justin Rose at the top of the Masters leaderboard, and then rolled in an eight-foot birdie on the fourth to go two clear, it felt less like a march towards victory than a man climbing a ladder he will shortly fall off.\n\nGoing into Sunday, Garcia was a cumulative 35 over par on Augusta National's back nine in his 18 previous appearances. Rose was an aggregate 11 under.\n\nAs they went to the turn, there were those watching at home wondering if they should turn off their televisions, go to bed and just live the rest of their lives pretending Garcia had won. It would be easier that way. Inevitably, the Spaniard then bogeyed the 10th, stuck his tee shot on the 11th behind a pine tree and then went deep into the azalea bushes on the 13th.\n\nDifferent day, customary script. Rose all control and precision, no emotion visible behind sunglasses and cap and dark clothing; Garcia with a desperation in his eyes, face pale from sunblock, grimacing and twitching and going down in flames.\n\nTwo shots down, out to 10-1 with the bookies, playing for second or third place once again.\n\nWhen Garcia first came close at a major, there was joy in his eventual defeat. While he lost the 1999 US PGA Championship to Tiger Woods, his shot from behind a tree on the 16th and the chase he gave it - dashing down the fairway, jumping high to see if it had somehow made the green - spoke of certain promise and special talent as much as it did his compatriot and mentor Seve Ballesteros.\n\nAs the teenager became a man, the exuberance and expectations fell away. At Hoylake in 2006, he began the final round of The Open in the final pairing with Woods a shot back only to finish seven behind, Woods relentless in red, Garcia's pastel lemon outfit as faded as his form. The following year at Carnoustie it was worse by a margin: in the lead after all of the first three rounds, three shots clear of second going into the final day, three bogeys in four holes throwing that away, missing an eight-foot putt on the 18th for the win, losing the subsequent four-hole playoff with Padraig Harrington by a single painful stroke.\n\nAnd so it went on. The US PGA Championship, 2008, sticking his second shot on the 16th on the final Sunday into the water to hand Harrington another golden moment, joint runner-up at Hoylake in 2014 as Rory McIlroy turned his own youthful promise into record-breaking success.\n\nOver those years Garcia went from youngest swinger in town towards comfortable middle age: hair shorter and thinner, irons still pristine, putter still cold as often as hot. So much to his game, that thing, that undefinable difference, still never there.\n\nUntil Sunday. From the drop-zone on the 13th he scrambled an unlikely par. At the 14th his approach brought a birdie; another outrageous iron on the 15th led to a first eagle for the Spaniard at Augusta in 452 holes.\n\nOn the par-three 16th, his US rivals Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler falling away and forgotten up ahead, he struck his tee shot to six feet. Rose, alone alongside him at nine under, fired his own over the fringes of the green to eight.\n\nRose's putt curled to the cup and then, almost with a sigh, dropped in. Garcia's fell apologetically off the club-face and dribbled wide, a two-second study in doubt and trepidation. Not good enough. Playing for second or third.\n\nOn the 18th, a more bountiful chance still: Rose back level after wobbling on the penultimate green, his own birdie putt ghosting past the lip, Garcia with a straight four-footer to end it all.\n\nStarted right, stayed right. The thing, condensed into a single shot, one putt that could haunt a man for a lifetime ahead.\n\nSport isn't fair. There is no karmic rebalancing to reward the unlucky or the pleasant. You looked at Garcia, eyes clenched shut, behind him a spectator with his arms outstretched and palms turned upwards in disbelief, and you thought you saw a man stuck in his own cruel destiny, desperate for victory but almost scared to seize it, not embracing that defining moment but wanting it all over as soon as possible.\n\nAnd you were wrong. For this time, on this day, Garcia would be the one to stay strong. Rose into the pine straw with his tee shot on the first sudden-death play-off hole, Garcia crushing his drive, firing his approach to eight feet.\n\nTwo putts for the title, only one needed. A near-perfect sporting story, and the perfect Sergio way to win it - leading, collapsing, coming back, blowing it, rallying, a nerveless putt.\n\nThe week before Garcia's first Open as a professional, 18 years ago at Carnoustie, I was sent to the east coast of Scotland to interview him for a now-defunct magazine called Total Sport. He was 19, considered to be part Tiger, part Seve, the hottest talent in town, a story every journalist wanted to write.\n\nI drove a day to get there and arrived an hour early for our 7.30am rendezvous. When there was no sign of him at 8am, I sent the first text. At 8.30am I phoned. At 9am I tried both again.\n\nAt 10am I had hope, at 11am some anger, at midday an intense hunger and thirst. Staying until 3pm made little sense, but I did it anyway. I may as well have done. Carnoustie on a Sunday offers limited alternative entertainment.\n\nThat eight-hour wait in a cold marquee came, over the next decade, to define how I thought of Garcia: enough talent to drive the length of a country to witness, a habitual inability to deliver on a promise, enough charm to leave your opinion of his character unaltered.\n\n1999 to 2017 seems a long time to wait for anyone. But at last Garcia has delivered.", "Eta still exists even though it has now closed an important chapter of its history\n\nIn the final days before the Basque separatist group Eta gave up its guns, mediators spoke of \"jitters\" over whether this long-awaited moment would go according to plan.\n\nAnd as we drove into San Sebastian, in the heart of Spain's Basque region, we were halted by road blocks and stern faced police in black uniforms, guns pressed against their chests.\n\nFor a moment it felt like days of old when this picturesque town was an epicentre of Eta's bloody campaign for independence.\n\nBut then cyclists sped past, in a blaze of bright colours, in the warm spring sunshine.\n\nIt was the Tour of the Basque Country.\n\nThe traffic jam also held up one of the mediators' Eta contacts for more than a hour. Decades ago, when Spanish and French security forces were locked in a brutal confrontation with Eta fighters, his delay would have been a cause for concern.\n\nIrish Methodist preacher Harold Good has played a key role in the peace process\n\nPressure from within Basque society had been instrumental in sketching a new future for a region where there's still a strong yearning for independence\n\nBut on Saturday morning, just after sunrise, a dark chapter came to an end in a short simple ceremony in Bayonne City Hall in south-west France.\n\nAs the world confronts a new wave of extreme Islamist violence, the last insurgency in the heart of Europe has effectively ended. Eta's move was largely symbolic since much of its arsenal is obsolete. But symbolism matters in a conflict which has left a deep wound, particularly in Spanish society.\n\nI and two other journalists were allowed to sit in on the ceremony.\n\nIn a statement handed to me through an intermediary two days before, the \"Basque Socialist Revolutionary Organisation for National Liberation\" announced their \"Disarmament Day\".\n\nLike so much about this moment, it was a study in contrasts.\n\nShafts of sunlight streamed through the heavy drapes drawn across long windows in an elegant high ceilinged room.\n\nHistory was made around a small square table which brought together international mediators who had worked toward this day for many years, along with members of an association called \"Artisans of Peace\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Very significant\" quantities of explosive materials have been handed over by Eta to the authorities\n\nAnger and antagonism over a half a century of Eta car bombings and assassinations haven't gone away\n\nPressure from within Basque society had been instrumental in sketching a new future for a region where there is still a strong yearning for independence.\n\nBut anger and antagonism over a half a century of Eta car bombings and assassinations haven't gone away either. The Spanish and French governments still refuse to negotiate with a proscribed terrorist group.\n\nEta tried for years to open a secret channel. Sources say that in the past year there were high-level contacts with senior French officials. Spain blocked them on at least three occasions.\n\nSo unlike in Northern Ireland and Colombia, where governments played a role, Eta's disarmament came about through a unique collaboration between international organisations and an array of civil society actors ranging from churches to trade unions.\n\nEta had warned in their statement, with palpable bitterness, that \"enemies of peace\" could attack their event.\n\nBut, on the day, Spanish authorities \"looked the other way\", and the French \"actively looked the other way\", in the words of one of the international organisers. French forces discreetly secured Bayonne City Hall on a quiet Saturday morning.\n\nIt fell to French Basque environmentalist, Txetx Etcheverry, dressed in casual attire, to hand over a black dossier bulging with blue files.\n\nEta's announcement was followed by a mass demonstration in favour of peace\n\nThis was Eta's inventory with details of their remaining weaponry including locations of their last arms dumps which are all in France.\n\nThe file then rested for a moment in the hands of two leading men of the cloth: Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Bologna and The Reverend Harold Good from Northern Ireland who had also witnessed the IRA's weapons decommissioning more than a decade ago.\n\nFrom where I sat, I could see there was text and photographs about what was later described as \"very significant\" quantities of explosive materials - nearly three tons worth - and about 120 guns.\n\nThe white bearded Reverend Good, who's been visiting this region since 2005, later told me it was a \"wonderful day\".\n\nAnd then, the documents were passed to Ram Manikkalingam, a mediator who decided the occasion merited a suit and tie, who heads the Amsterdam-based Dialogue Advisory Group.\n\n\"There were many moments when we doubted this would happen,\" he admitted when we sat down in the same room after he had deposited Eta's file in the French prosecutor's office in City hall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There were steps forward, and steps backward,\" recalls Mr Manikkalingam who, as chair of the International Verification Commission, has also been monitoring Eta's unilateral ceasefire declared in 2011.\n\nIt has taken since then to convince Eta fighters to give up their weaponry without getting anything in return. Tracking down what's left also took time in a highly secretive organisation with a myriad of small cells.\n\nAnd not everyone is on board. Sources estimate Eta dissidents include about 100 hardline fighters, including prisoners and their family members and gunmen still underground.\n\n\"This worried us constantly,\" admits Mr Manikkalingam. \"As we know from the Northern Ireland experience, one of the worst bomb attacks took place after the Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nSources say lessons were drawn from IRA history to try to ensure bomb makers are under control, and any signs of dissatisfaction are addressed.\n\nAnd Eta still exists. Hence, the only reaction from Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his governing People's Party (PP) was to call on \"terrorists\" to \"dissolve... and disappear\" but not before apologising to its many victims.\n\n\"As a long-time observer - and I never thought I would say this - I have to say that the PP's hardline, 'no talks, this is a law-and-order matter' has worked,\" remarked journalist and historian Giles Tremlett who also sat in on the handover ceremony. \"Eta has been defeated.\"\n\nBut the mood was still buoyant at a packed \"Peace Rally\" in the Old Town of Bayonne. A video on a big screen showed Eta's arms dumps being guarded by volunteers before French police arrived to carry away their contents.\n\n\"There are issues which need to be addressed on the road to peace,\" explained Gorku Elejabarrieta of the pro-independence Basque party Sortu, who was still beaming after attending a rally he said gathered people from all parts of society.\n\n\"Every victim has to be acknowledged, including more than 300 Eta prisoners,\" he said, \"But we must work on this together.\"\n\nThe day before, I met his party leader, Arnaldo Otegi, who once headed Eta's political wing. It had earned him the nickname \"Gerry Adams\", in another nod to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The armed conflict should have ended earlier,\" he conceded. \"Our society wanted us to take this step earlier and we should have listened.\n\n\"Everyone needs to understand it is not easy to convince militants, after many years of armed struggle, to take this step,\" added the prominent politician who played a key role behind the scenes. \"The past finished late but we want a different future.\"\n\nAs \"Disarmament Day\" drew to a close, a video of the handover ceremony was made available. But all the audio was removed. An armed group which first emerged with a very big bang closed this chapter without even a whisper.", "What do Europeans really think about British culture?\n\nQueuing, tea and talking about the weather. Are us Brits really that predictable? A few UK-based Europeans who we spoke to (before the referendum) seemed to think so. What's more, they wouldn't have it any other way. We'll say 'cheers' to that.", "Mr Gorsuch will be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice on Monday\n\nNeil Gorsuch has been confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, following a bitter and partisan battle over his nomination by President Trump.\n\nThe conservative judge could be required early on to weigh in on several hot-button issues due before the court, including religious freedoms, gun rights and Mr Trump's travel ban.\n\nOther cases which deadlocked between the eight current justices may be reheard now that there is a ninth justice in place to break the tie on America's highest court.\n\nHere are some of the key cases he may have a hand in deciding in the coming weeks and months.\n\nOne of the first cases Justice Gorsuch will hear, with oral arguments due to begin next week, concerns separation of church and state.\n\nA school run by Trinity Lutheran Church in Missouri sought to take part in a state programme that resurfaces playgrounds with rubber from recycled tires.\n\nBut the Missouri Department of Natural Resources denied the request, arguing that the state constitution prohibited funding of religious organisations.\n\nRepresenting the church, the Alliance Defending Freedom said the denial infringed the church's First Amendment rights.\n\nThe case was accepted by the court in January last year but delayed a hearing for 15 months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Supreme Court is due to decide this week whether to accept the case of a baker in Colorado who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, on religious grounds.\n\nThe lower courts found that the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop had violated Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA), and the decision was upheld by the Colorado Court of Appeals.\n\nThe case has been under consideration for acceptance by the Supreme Court since January, suggesting that Judge Gorsuch could tip the balance either way.\n\nHe has previously found in favour of religious freedoms in the workplace, including in two of his most well-known cases.\n\nIn Burwell v Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor v Burwell, Judge Gorsuch ruled that a requirement for employers to cover contraception under their health insurance plans infringed their religious freedoms.\n\nThis takes up a lower court ruling that said the second amendment alone did not grant California gun owners the right to carry a concealed weapon in public places. The ruling granted counties the right to apply additional tests before granting a permit, including whether the applicant showed \"good cause\" to require it.\n\nThe argument essentially boils down to whether the existing right to gun ownership for self defence at home extends to carrying a concealed weapon in public places.\n\n\"Any prohibition or restriction a state may choose to impose on concealed carry - including a requirement of 'good cause,' however defined - is necessarily allowed by the [Second] Amendment,\" said the lower court ruling.\n\nThe ruling led to variation across counties, with some sheriff's offices denying nearly all concealed carry applications. The restrictions are being challenged by a group of Second Amendment campaigners.\n\nPresident Trump's controversial executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries is probably heading to the Supreme Court later this year.\n\nJustice Gorsuch repeatedly declined to comment on the issue during his confirmation hearings, but a Supreme Court case would provide a public test of his independence from Mr Trump, who nominated him for the court.\n\nThe order is due to go before the Fourth Circuit and Ninth Circuit court in May.\n\nAnother immigration issue which could make its way to the court at some point is Mr Trump's attempt to strip federal funding from so-called \"sanctuary cities\" - cities that refuse to comply with federal orders to detain immigrants.\n\nThis is the case of a 15-year-old unarmed Mexican boy who was on the Mexican side of the border when he was shot dead in 2010 by a US border patrol agent, in disputed circumstances. Sergio Hernandez's family want to sue the agent for infringing the boy's constitutional rights.\n\nThe Supreme Court has already heard oral arguments in the case but the justices did not reach any conclusion. That opens the way for the case to be reheard with Justice Gorsuch on the bench.\n\nIn July, judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a North Carolina voting overhaul that they said targeted African Americans \"with almost surgical precision\".\n\nThe case went to the Supreme Court in August but split the justices 4/4 over whether to prevent the overhaul coming into effect before November's general election.\n\nWith the case due to go before the court again, Judge Gorsuch could swing the result either way.", "When Emilie Larter held a five-day-old orphan in her arms, it set her on a journey to becoming a mum.\n\nThe 25-year-old was volunteering for a children's charity in Uganda when staff received news that a woman had died - leaving behind seven children.\n\nThe youngest was a baby boy who didn't even have a name.\n\nWith no-one to take care of him, he was given over to staff at the charity.\n\nEmilie, from Leigh Sinton, Worcestershire, became the baby's sole carer and had sleepless nights looking after the boy, who became known as Adam.\n\nNow, she is fundraising to help cover the costs of formally adopting the youngster and bringing him back to live in the UK.\n\nShe has received more than £15,000 in donations, with the majority being raised since her story was shared online on Sunday.\n\nEmilie held Adam for the first time when he was just five days old\n\nShe says the response has been \"amazing\" and it takes her on the next step to finally becoming Adam's mum.\n\nEmilie told BBC News: \"I've raised far more than I ever thought I would.\n\n\"I thought I'd be pestering family and friends, so it's insane but amazing at the same time.\n\n\"I'm so grateful. I've been getting messages from people in China, Australia and Germany.\n\n\"People have been telling me how inspiring I am and how it's lovely to read something nice.\n\n\"But this is just my life.\"\n\nEmilie became the sole carer for Adam after his biological mum died\n\nEmilie's journey started in September 2014 when the charity she was volunteering for in Uganda received a call about a newborn boy in need.\n\nThey arrived at the burial of a woman who had died because of excessive bleeding after birth. Her children included baby Adam.\n\n\"He had not received any breast milk or formula and there was no one able to care for him. His mum left this world before even giving him a name,\" said Emilie.\n\n\"We took him in and I became the little one's sole carer. The sleepless nights were down to me, but they were no bother. I felt privileged to do it.\n\n\"I didn't do much but never a day went by where I was bored. I could sit and watch him for hours.\"\n\nOver the next two years, Emily visited Adam as often as she could while working in a teaching job in the UK.\n\nBut the short visits were not enough and she moved back to Uganda in August 2016 after finding work at an international school.\n\nNow Adam, who is two-and-a-half, lives with her full time while she tries to adopt him.\n\nEmilie said: \"I feel like his mum already. We had such a strong bond every time I was coming out but especially now since he's been living with me.\n\nEmilie has been living with Adam full time since August\n\nEmilie has to foster Adam until August before she can apply to the Ugandan courts to legally become his parent.\n\nShe will then need to get permission from the UK to bring the little boy back to Britain.\n\nShe is hopeful that they will be living together in the UK by the end of the year.\n\nEmilie said she had planned to fund the adoption herself until she lost her job in December, prompting her to set up a Go Fund Me crowdfunding page to pay for the process.\n\nHer parents help support her living costs and she has taken another teaching position to cover Adam's school fees.\n\nEmilie admits becoming a mum at the age of 25 had not been on her agenda, but she doesn't regret the path she has taken.\n\n\"It was not in my plan, but for the last two-and-a-half years Uganda is all I've thought about. I'm either talking about it or thinking about it.\n\n\"I imagined I wouldn't have kids for another 10 years but I don't regret it.\n\n\"It will be amazing to bring Adam home.\"\n\nEmilie has raised more than £15,000 to help adopt Adam\n\nWhile Emilie has received overwhelming support for her decision, some online comments have questioned why she wants to remove Adam from his home country.\n\n\"I've been coming back to Uganda for him and I want to continue to do that,\" she said.\n\n\"I've done my best to keep him in touch with the village he came from so he can see his neighbours.\n\n\"I do my best. But a mother's love is one of the most important things and he's never going to have that here.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester made it six wins from six under boss Craig Shakespeare as seemingly doomed Sunderland marked the two-month anniversary of their last goal with another defeat.\n\nThe Foxes looked below their recent best for the first hour, but Shakespeare's decision to bring on Marc Albrighton and Islam Slimani was the game-changing moment.\n\nSeven minutes after coming on, Albrighton's left-wing cross was headed home by Algeria striker Slimani.\n\nAlbrighton then ran from halfway before crossing to Jamie Vardy, who took a touch before firing an unstoppable effort into the top corner.\n\nSunderland - in the first game since boss David Moyes' comments that a BBC reporter might \"get a slap\" were made public - are increasingly looking destined for the Championship.\n\nWithout a victory or a goal since 4 February, the Black Cats are eight points adrift of Premier League safety with only eight games left.\n\nTheir best chance came 96 seconds before Vardy's goal when Victor Anichebe's deflected shot hit the post, with Jermain Defoe smashing the rebound into the side of the net.\n• None Relive the game and follow reaction here\n\nLeicester are a team reborn under Claudio Ranieri's replacement Shakespeare, who became the first British manager to win his first four Premier League games at the weekend. He has extended that record to five.\n\nWhile beating Sunderland is not as eye-catching as his opening victory over Liverpool, or the win over Sevilla in the Champions League, it took them into the top half of the table and nine points above the relegation zone.\n\nThe hosts were below par in the first half - think Ranieri's side of earlier this season rather than the Italian's title winners of last year. But after the break, more specifically after Shakespeare's changes, they took control.\n\nAlbrighton, returning from an illness, had a hand in both goals - his cross setting up Slimani's first Leicester goal of 2017.\n\nVardy's goal was his fifth in five Premier League games under Shakespeare. He took 22 matches to score that many under Ranieri this campaign.\n\nIn the end it was a comfortable win for the Foxes, who could have won by more after dominating the final 30 minutes of the match.\n\nThey became only the second team in Premier League history to lose five consecutive games and then win their next five, following on from Tottenham in October-December 2004.\n\nShakespeare is enjoying the golden touch at Leicester, while Moyes' team look doomed.\n\nThe latest defeat came on the back of criticism for his comments to a BBC reporter after being unhappy with her line of questioning. After the interview last month he told Vicki Sparks she \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and told her to be \"careful\" next time.\n\nHe apologised and the club have stood by him. After the Foxes game he said \"the matter's finished\".\n\nHis problems at the moment are both on and off the field.\n\nMoyes' men were not awful in the first half, matching Leicester for the most part. But a series of weak headers and long-range shots were all they really offered, Anichebe's second-half chance aside.\n\nBut it is a sixth game in a row without a goal, with only one point during that time.\n\nThey now need at least three wins, realistically a few more than that, from their final eight games to stay up. With five victories from their opening 30 league matches, those odds look slim.\n\nThere were positives from the game - Lee Cattermole made his first appearance since September following a hip injury. But he was shown a yellow card for a trip on Demarai Gray. Anichebe also returned from injury, with his first outing since January.\n\nThe story of their season can perhaps best be summed up by this - Anichebe remains their joint-second top scorer this season with defender Patrick van Aanholt [now at Crystal Palace] on three goals. He is 11 behind Defoe, who never really looked like scoring at Leicester despite a few half chances.\n\nFormer Republic of Ireland defender Mark Lawrenson on BBC Radio 5 live: \"Sunderland are doomed, I'm afraid to say.\n\n\"It's been a strange year for them and that's come on the back of a few strange years.\n\n\"They have had lots of different managers and therefore lots of different backroom staff and then lots of different players. Maybe losing Sam Allardyce to the England job in the summer didn't help - it could be a different story now if that hadn't happened.\n\n\"But nowhere along the line has there been any clear plan.\n\n\"But sometimes it's not the worst thing in the world to go down to the Championship. Newcastle have proved you can go down and make yourself stronger.\n\n\"They will be a big club in the Championship - it's a dog-eat-dog league and you've got to have some guts to come straight back up but it's possible.\"\n\nFormer Black Cats defender Gary Bennett, now a BBC Newcastle pundit: \"The fans are obviously not happy with the results, especially tonight. The supporters were excellent, as they have been all season.\n\n\"I could not hear any particular support or criticism of David Moyes tonight from the fans.\"\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes: \"I'm really disappointed we didn't get something out of the game. We played really well for 60 minutes. If we'd been in front, nobody could have complained.\n\n\"At Everton we were 1-0 down and hit the bar - like today. Small margins are important. We just didn't get it today. It's desperate now.\n\n\"I felt we had to win one of these past two games. The boys have given a good go of it. We have maybe lacked a bit of quality.\n\n\"We'll keep going again - it's still in our hands to stay up.\"\n\nLeicester boss Craig Shakespeare: \"We weren't at our best tonight but the most important thing was the win.\n\n\"We know we can play better than that. We're trying to put as many points on the board as we can.\n\n\"There's been no talk of it [next week's Champions League quarter-final first leg with Atletico Madrid]. We haven't wanted to talk about it.\n\n\"Islam Slimani has had to be patient. Over the past few weeks he hasn't played much. He showed what he's capable of tonight.\"\n\nShakespeare joins illustrious company - the stats you need to know\n• None Craig Shakespeare is the third Premier League manager to win his first five Premier League matches, following Carlo Ancelotti in 2009 and Pep Guardiola in 2016, who both won their first six.\n• None Sunderland have failed to score in six consecutive top-flight matches for the first time since October 1981 [a run of eight].\n• None The Black Cats have 20 points from 30 Premier League games this season - all 10 previous sides with this tally or fewer have been relegated at the end of the season.\n• None Six of Islam Slimani's seven goals for Leicester in all competitions have been headers, including five of his six in the Premier League. Only West Ham's Michail Antonio (6) has scored more headers in the Premier League this season.\n• None Vardy has hit four Premier League goals against the Black Cats, only scoring more against Liverpool (5).\n• None Marc Albrighton has four Premier League assists in 2017, second only to Ross Barkley (5) among English players.\n\nLeicester City go to Everton in the Premier League on Sunday (16:00 BST), with Sunderland hosting Manchester United earlier that day (13:30).\n• None Attempt missed. Andy King (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Islam Slimani following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Islam Slimani (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Islam Slimani.\n• None Attempt missed. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Billy Jones.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Islam Slimani.\n• None Attempt saved. Andy King (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Fuchs.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Daniel Drinkwater tries a through ball, but Riyad Mahrez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Didier Ndong (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Darron Gibson following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Coverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nWhenever Rory McIlroy's status as the world's most naturally gifted golfer is questioned, there is usually a swift reaction to remind us of his immense talent.\n\nThe ingredients are there for something similar to happen at this week's Masters but the challenge is formidable with so many big names demonstrating top form so far this year.\n\nIn 2011, McIlroy won the US Open by eight strokes in his first major since blowing that season's Masters.\n\nA year later, he suffered a string of missed cuts before winning his second major at the US PGA Championship.\n\nAnd in 2014 he had slipped out of the world's top 10 before embarking on a run that brought him the BMW PGA title at Wentworth and a high summer stretch that yielded the Open, Bridgestone Invitational and PGA crowns in consecutive weeks.\n\nNow he heads into the Masters having suffered an injury-blighted start to 2017 while Dustin Johnson has surged to the top of the world rankings.\n\nNo longer is McIlroy unanimously regarded as golf's biggest talent. Johnson shows no weakness; he is powerful, long and straight and supplements those qualities with unerring deftness on and around the greens.\n\nHaving lifted his first major title at last year's US Open, the tall American appears unflappable and is playing with a maturity that many thought was beyond him.\n\nIn short, he looks the perfect golfer and having won his last three tournaments, the strongest events of the year to date, Johnson is the undisputed favourite for victory here at Augusta.\n\nBut this is the sort of scenario that inspires the best in McIlroy, especially as he seeks the title he craves more than any other. A Masters Green Jacket would complete his set of major prizes.\n\nHe says he would not be able to feel proper fulfilment if he never wins one. It is a lot of self-imposed pressure and explains ruinous nine-hole spells that have peppered and scarred so many of his Augusta attempts.\n\nAnd McIlroy accepts that each year that passes without landing the Masters makes the next attempt more difficult. He is only 27 but there is a raging impatience.\n\nMany observers have long held the belief that he is destined to win multiple Green Jackets. But the same was said of the likes of Ernie Els and Greg Norman, and both are still waiting.\n\nNorman was fourth on his debut in 1981, runner-up three times and third on three occasions.\n\nListening to him speaking to BBC World Television recently, it was clear that he likes the Northern Irishman's chances of becoming only the sixth player to complete the career grand slam.\n\n\"I'm a bit of a McIlroy fan. I like his moxie on the golf course - I like his style,\" said the 62-year-old Australian.\n\nAnd Norman is not concerned that McIlroy's season to date has been heavily disrupted by the fractured rib he suffered at the start of the year.\n\nAfter finishing second at the South African Open he did not return to action until coming seventh at last month's WGC Mexico Championship. Norman believes that was a tellingly impressive comeback because it was at altitude which makes distance control difficult.\n\nI do see one little glaring fault that happens under pressure with him\n\n\"To step away from the game as long as he did, to step back into the game and compete the way he did tells me he's got really good control of his golf swing,\" Norman said.\n\nMcIlroy followed up with a fourth place at the Arnold Palmer Invitational before playing only two matches of the group stages of the WGC Matchplay, a tournament that yielded Johnson's third straight win of the year.\n\nAnd while Norman agrees the big hitter from South Carolina is the front-runner at the 2017 Masters, he also suggests Johnson might prove vulnerable on Augusta's slick greens.\n\n\"I do see one little glaring fault that happens under pressure with him,\" Norman said. \"His putting stroke is excellent but at times it does have a tendency of breaking down just a little bit.\"\n\nThe two-time Open winner refused to go into detail but revealed that he tries to help Johnson through the world number one's friendship with his son Gregory.\n\n\"What pains me is when I see something on TV and I go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so glaringly obvious why he's missing those short putts',\" Norman revealed.\n\n\"So I'll text my son and I'll say 'next time you talk to DJ, just tell him to do this and give him that one piece of information'. If he does it, he does it - I don't know.\"\n\nBut there is no doubting Norman's admiration for the overall Johnson package. \"I'm really, really impressed with him,\" he said.\n\n\"A combination of power, finesse, calmness beyond calm. Nothing seems to faze him.\n\n\"He has been consistent for over a decade now, he's won a golf tournament every year for over a decade.\"\n\nTo date, though, none of those have included the Masters where he has been sixth and fourth in the past two years.\n\nJohnson's preferred ball flight is a left-to-right fade whereas the popular belief is that players are better shaping it in the opposite direction at Augusta. \"Because he can power the ball, he can play the Masters left to right rather than right to left,\" Norman said.\n\n\"Jack Nicklaus used to play left to right and he'd got more Green Jackets than anyone else.\"\n\nSix-time winner Nicklaus is the ultimate Masters golfer but Jordan Spieth may, one day, prove a rival for that tag. The 2015 champion has played the event three times and has yet to finish outside the top two.\n\nStill only 23, he has banked $3.472m (£2.79m) from the Masters alone, although you would guess he would have traded most of that for a \"mulligan\" on the 12th tee last year.\n\nDumping two balls into Rae's Creek on the shortest hole on the course led to a quadruple-bogey seven that put paid to what had been a five-stroke advantage on the front nine of his final round.\n\nBritain's Danny Willett then seized the moment to claim his first major title.\n\nMore golf from the BBC:\n• None Watch: 'When Danny Won The Masters' on BBC iPlayer\n• None Listen: 'McIlroy was right to play round with Trump'\n• None 'If you designed the perfect golfer, it would be Dustin Johnson'\n\nSpieth returned to Augusta last December, played the hole twice and birdied it on each occasion - the second time from tap-in range. But the ghosts will take longer to be exorcised.\n\n\"It's not as if it's going to be the last year he gets questions about it,\" McIlroy said.\n\n\"I still get questioned about the back nine at Augusta in 2011,\" added McIlroy who came home in 43 in a round of 80 that ruined his four-stroke 54-hole lead.\n\nHe is a far more experienced figure these days and spearheads a formidable UK contingent that includes 11 Englishmen, Scotland's Russell Knox and veteran former champions Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam.\n\nFew, if any, crave it more than McIlroy and in a year when, so far, his leading contemporaries Johnson, Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler and Hideki Matsuyama have made all the noise, this might be the moment when the story becomes Rory.", "Two weeks after the end of hostilities in Kosovo, three young Albanian-Americans who had joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were arrested by Yugoslav police, tortured and killed. Eighteen years later, the conflict has been largely forgotten, but the men's youngest brother continues a lonely fight for justice.\n\nTowards the end of June 1999, Ylli, Agron and Mehmet Bytyqi (pronounced Bootoochee) were escorting a Roma family out of Kosovo to the Serbian border. It was an act of kindness. The Bytyqi brothers - whose parents knew the family well - were guaranteeing their safety up to Kosovo's border with Serbia, since many ethnic Albanians viewed Roma with suspicion.\n\nBut near the village of Merdare, something went wrong. After straying over the unmarked border, the brothers were seized and jailed for two weeks for entering Yugoslavia without a visa.\n\nWhen they were released, a white car without licence plates, driven by men in plain clothes, was waiting at the jail in the town of Prokuplje. The three brothers were then driven to the base of a unit of special police in Petrovo Selo, near the Romanian border, and were not seen alive again.\n\nThis was when Fatos Bytyqi's search began.\n\nWhile his brothers were American citizens, born in Illinois, Fatos was born after his parents returned from the US to Prizren, in what was then Yugoslavia, in 1979. He was 19 when Ylli, Agron and Mehmet joined the Atlantic Brigade - a group of some 400 American citizens who left in April 1999 to join the fight for Kosovo's independence from Serbia.\n\nThe brothers arrived too late to do much fighting, as by mid-June a Nato bombing campaign had led to the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo, and their replacement by Nato peacekeepers. The three Bytyqi brothers were nonetheless members of the KLA. On the day they were arrested they were carrying KLA dogtags as well as New York driving licences, and one theory is that they may have been suspected of spying.\n\nIn the weeks after their disappearance, a human rights group in Belgrade succeeded in obtaining papers documenting the brothers' release from the prison. Later, Fatos visited Prokuplje with his mother, where he learned about the white car. But it took another two years for the brothers' fate to become clear.\n\nIn July 2001 their bodies were found at the top of a mass grave in Petrovo Selo along with other Kosovan Albanians. They had been blindfolded, their hands tied with wire behind their backs, and shot in the head. According to an FBI agent who spent six years investigating the case, their skin showed the marks of electric shocks, indicating torture.\n\nToday, the 37-year-old Fatos is the manager of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Hampton Bays, on Long Island, just outside New York city, where his brothers lived before the war. Two of them were painters, one a pizza-maker. A fourth brother, Ilir, stayed behind to continue earning money to support the family. Softly spoken, with a neat black goatee, Fatos leaves his shop behind roughly once a year to travel to Serbia, where he meets the prime minister, chief war crimes prosecutor, interior minister and other top officials, to urge them to step up efforts to find and prosecute his brothers' killers.\n\nInvestigations have been conducted both by Serbian war crimes investigators and by the FBI. But most of this work was done years ago and the world has since moved on. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is being wound down, Serbia is negotiating its membership of the European Union and the US institutions that once leaned on the Serbian authorities have eased off.\n\nOnly Fatos refuses to give up.\n\nInvariably the officials he meets in Belgrade urge him to remain patient, and promise that there will be progress soon.\n\n\"When they see me, it's not like they are really feeling bad. If they were they would have taken care of this a long time ago,\" he says.\n\n\"Sometimes the ministers don't let me finish my questions. They interrupt and say that I don't understand.\"\n\n\"To work on war crimes against your brothers you have to be beyond patient,\" says his brother, Ilir, who helps him research the case, but leaves most of the public relations to Fatos.\n\n\"Dealing with all these government people [in the US] and especially in Serbia, who just tell you what you want to hear - that can easily set you off.\"\n\nIt is clear that the perpetrators of the crime were among a limited number of people with access to the base of the special police unit at Petrovo Selo, where the Bytyqis were executed and buried.\n\nTo date, only two men have been tried - Sreten Popovic and Milos Stojanovic, who transferred the brothers in the white car from the jail in Prokuplje to Petrovo Selo. Charged with aiding and abetting a war crime, they were acquitted once in 2009 and again at a retrial in 2012, on the grounds that they played only a minor role, and that it could not have been a war crime because the war was over by the time the brothers were arrested.\n\nFatos Bytyqi is convinced that one man is the key to the case, retired general Goran Radosavljevic - nicknamed \"Guri\", meaning \"stone\" in Albanian - who was the commander of the Petrovo Selo base. He says he was away from the base at the time of the murders, though at least one of his former staff disputes this.\n\nRadosavljevic is a powerful man. He went on to head Serbia's special police forces, or gendarmerie as they were renamed. Later he set up a security firm, training foreign troops. Today he is a respected businessman and a member of the executive board of the Serbian Progressive Party - the party of President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.\n\nSerbian officials often attribute the paralysis of the Bytyqi case to the difficulty of getting witnesses to talk. Fatos Bytyqi notes bitterly that it will be hard to convince anyone to testify against a man who appears on television standing next to the prime minister.\n\nOn his most recent visit to Serbia, last autumn, the ever-patient Fatos shows signs of frustration.\n\n\"When the US diplomats meet Serbian officials they say, 'What's new on the Bytyqi case?'\" he says, interpreting this as a sign that they do not keep up the pressure when he is not there.\n\n\"They should be saying, 'You killed my three citizens!'\n\n\"They see the prime minister all the time, they should raise the case. I have to travel 10 hours to come here and plan how to make the embassy work closer with the Serbian interior ministry.\"\n\nUS diplomats declined to comment. But in 2014 the then deputy chief of mission, Gordon Duguid, pointed to a number of reasons why no-one had been indicted for the murders - the slow transition from strongman rule in Serbia to the rule of law, the continuing resistance to normalising relations with Kosovo, and the reluctance of some Serbs to come to terms with happened in the war.\n\nOn one evening in Belgrade, Fatos sits down in the office of the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) to watch a documentary about the case, broadcast on Serbian television to coincide with his visit. It's called Collective Amnesia.\n\nThe centre's 70-year-old founder Natasa Kandic, a flinty human rights campaigner and a longstanding supporter of Fatos, praises him for \"fighting against the silence\".\n\nBut what are the chances that he will ever be successful? Prime Minister Vucic said in 2015 that the case would be resolved \"sooner than you'd think\". Others argue that Serbia will have to tackle some big war crimes cases before closing its EU accession process.\n\nThe Bytyqis' pro-bono lawyer, Praveen Madhiraju, thinks another prosecution is likely, but that it is less likely to be a serious prosecution of a high-ranking figure.\n\nOut of 170 convictions achieved by the Serbian war crimes prosecutor's office in its 13 years of existence, all but six were of foot-soldiers following orders, points out the head of the legal programme at the HLC, Milica Kostic.\n\n\"A miracle needs to happen,\" she says. \"There is very little hope.\"\n\nBut Fatos Bytyqi nonetheless has hope that justice will be done. He puts his faith in God. At some point, he says, it will happen.\n\nAll photos by Marko Risovic. Work on this story was supported by the Center for Investigative Reporting.\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 Rugby Union\n\nSam Warburton will be re-appointed British and Irish Lions captain for the tour of New Zealand, according to former Lions skipper Brian O'Driscoll.\n\nThe Wales flanker, 28, led the Lions in Australia in 2013 and is the favourite to resume the role this summer.\n\n\"[Lions head coach Warren] Gatland is a big fan, he knows what sort of captain he is. He's going to be the man.\"\n\nFormer Ireland captain O'Driscoll, who toured with the Lions four times, added: \"The experience of doing it once before, and how he is currently playing and the high esteem he is held in, I think they all feature heavily in him being another good selection.\n\n\"Seven [open-side flanker] is one of the more open positions, and I think Warburton will fit in brilliantly there.\"\n\nO'Driscoll feels Warburton is now best-placed to lead the touring party ahead of Wales captain in Alun Wyn Jones, who is currently sidelined with a shoulder injury.\n\n\"Sam is the kind of character that if he wasn't selected for the Tests he wouldn't throw the toys out of the cot,\" O'Driscoll said.\n\n\"You look at that, married with Alun Wyn being out for a couple of weeks now, I don't know if you can guarantee him a Test spot.\n\n\"I would have him in my Test team, but I don't know if Gats feels he can guarantee him a Test spot.\"\n\nO'Driscoll also feels the form of Irish provinces Leinster and Munster - who have reached the Champions Cup semi-finals - could see some of their players sneak into contention.\n\n\"No-one has mentioned [Munster second row] Donnacha Ryan as a possible bolter,\" he said. \"He could do a brilliant job for the Lions as a midweek player.\n\n\"I wouldn't be shocked to find him on the tour. He is the kind of guy you want in the trenches.\"\n\nO'Driscoll also believes Leinster flanker Sean O'Brien is in the frame.\n\n\"He was the seven four years ago when [the Lions] smashed Australia, and Warren Gatland will remember that and knows what he can deliver.\n\n\"He has given himself every opportunity.\"\n\nGatland will confirm his squad on 19 April with the first game of the tour on 3 June.", "She made her name as the youngest member of girl band The Saturdays - but Vanessa White has ditched the squeaky clean pop of All Fired Up and What About Us for an altogether more intriguing foray into sultry and infectious R&B.\n\nIt's two o'clock on a crisp November day and Vanessa White saunters up to the gates of Ealing Studios in west London.\n\nThe film studio has played host to Shaun of the Dead, Bridget Jones and the entire \"downstairs\" set of Downton Abbey - but she's not here to film a cameo (\"Can you imagine?\" she giggles).\n\nInstead, the 27-year-old climbs the fire escape of a dilapidated high-rise building, enters a propped-open door and navigates the corridors to a small back room that's been converted into a recording studio.\n\nLike all such facilities, it's painted black and littered with empty liquor bottles. The walls are haphazardly decorated with polaroids of previous occupants - including US hitmakers The Chainsmokers - and, in the corner, there's a tiny figurine of Ariel from The Little Mermaid.\n\nInside, Vanessa's producer SwiftKnight is ready and waiting, sorting through various tracks he's hoping she might choose for her forthcoming EP.\n\nBut first, the singer has a confession: \"I've got a sore throat and I'm a bit hung over.\"\n\nIt doesn't seem to matter. If anything, the consensus is that a husky voice is better for the material - a sultry and sumptuous serving of downtempo R&B; all heavy breathing and soaring harmonies.\n\nStaving off the hangover with a \"nourishing\" lunch box, Vanessa explains her musical state of mind to the team.\n\n\"Everything I'm doing now is so dark,\" she says, cueing up a song on her phone. \"Not like I-want-to-kill-myself dark, but it's quite angry.\"\n\nOne of the tracks - tentatively called Trust - is seething with vitriol.\n\n\"I won't stroke your ego,\" she spits. \"I'm onto you, I'm onto you. Don't underestimate my intelligence.\"\n\nThe song was inspired by encounters with \"snaky people\" in the music industry, she explains: Specifically, a toxic situation that developed around her and ended up \"with the lawyers\" last year.\n\nShe can't discuss the details, but says her solo career was significantly delayed as a result. The EP she's working on today was originally due last summer.\n\n\"There were certain songs I loved that I couldn't use any more,\" she explains. \"So I've basically had to start again, which is why it's taken this long.\n\n\"The silver lining is it's given me something to write about. I'm in a much better position now, mentally.\n\n\"I used to get so scared of going in the studio with people I didn't know but now, you could put me anywhere and I'd be fine.\"\n\nVanessa certainly takes charge in the studio. Having brought the producers up to speed, she sits cross-legged on a sofa as they scroll through a few skeleton songs, looking for \"an uptempo track with a dark heart\".\n\nOne by one, Vanessa dismisses them. \"That's too light,\" she says of one. \"I'm not instantly drawn to it,\" is her verdict on the next.\n\nAfter half a dozen tracks are waved off, engineer Day Decosta brings up a simple loop built around a gooey, pulsing bass groove.\n\nVanessa instantly sits up, alert. \"Oh, I like this.\"\n\nShe starts ad-libbing vocal riffs over the top, trading ideas with co-writer Celetia Martin, a former vocalist for Groove Armada whose credits include Skepta, Conor Maynard and, yes, The Saturdays.\n\nWithin minutes, she heads to the vocal booth. \"I don't really know what I'm doing right now,\" she laughs. \"I'm just going to sing loads of random nonsense.\"\n\nSlowly, painstakingly, the song takes shape. Some of the improvisations stick and are pieced together into a coherent melody. Every so often, Vanessa emerges from the booth to kneel on the floor with Celetia, and the pair go back and forth over lyrics and harmonies.\n\nWhen inspiration dries up, they scroll through Instagram, gossip about TV box sets, and goof off doing the Mannequin Challenge for Vanessa's Instagram page.\n\nConversation eventually turns to the singer's upcoming holiday, a \"juice retreat\" in Portugal, where solid food is forbidden for an entire week.\n\nIt sounds awful (although photos from the journey suggest otherwise) - but it's apparently the standard sort of torture female pop stars endure before the promotional round of video and photo shoots begin.\n\n\"It sounds worse than what it was,\" laughs the singer when we catch up four months later.\n\n\"Honestly, if you were hungry it wasn't like they starved you. They added more to the smoothies or they'd give you a piece of fruit. It was actually fine.\n\n\"I feel like I need another one now, that's the problem!\"\n\nIn any case, the 27-year-old counts dressing up and being photographed as a perk of her job... although it wasn't always that way.\n\n\"When I was in The Sats, it actually got a bit boring having to be made up every single day,\" she says. \"I stopped appreciating it.\n\n\"Now I can come to the studio looking like this and it's fine. Dressing up has become more of a treat again.\"\n\nBack at Ealing Studios, work continues late into the night - long after the BBC has left the building, having contributed precisely zero to the writing process.\n\nThe song is ultimately destined for the scrapheap, but Trust (completely overhauled and re-titled Trust Me) makes it onto Vanessa's Chapter Two EP, which was released last Friday.\n\nAs she predicted, it set the tone for a collection of brooding neo-soul that's surprisingly candid about anger, lust and sexuality. Fans of The Saturdays' chirrupy chart fodder are in for quite a surprise.\n\n\"I guess people are going to question it,\" she admits of her new direction. \"But I feel pop is not very me at the moment.\n\n\"It took a bit of time to find a sound that was completely right for me. Now I feel like I've really nailed it, and it's obvious it's coming from me. Once people believe that, you're half-way there.\"\n\nBorn in 1989, the star was just 17 when The Saturdays formed\n\nCertainly, the sophisticated harmonies and complex ad-libs reflect the US singers she grew up idolising - Janet, Alliyah, Brandy and Mariah - without sounding like a cheap, plastic counterfeit.\n\n\"We've had a problem with that in the UK in the past,\" she acknowledges. \"I don't know why we haven't really got the sounds right before - but this is what I listened to for years and years, so I guess that's where it's come from.\"\n\nThe EP has been well-reviewed on the sort of music sites that would have given The Saturdays a wide berth. But it's hard to see where the music fits in the current charts, crammed full of Ed Sheeran's acoustic pop and The Chainsmokers' emo EDM.\n\n\"To be honest with you, I'm not even thinking about that,\" says the singer. \"With everything that's happened this year, including the label stuff, I've ended up doing this on my own - and at this point I'm preferring it, to be honest.\n\n\"I feel like I have to run with this. I'm not going to be hard on myself and expect it to be [huge] at this point.\n\n\"Whatever happens will happen.\"\n\nVanessa White's Chapter Two EP is out now on Salute the Sun 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 Football\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes says that he never felt his job was in danger following his comments to a BBC reporter that she might \"get a slap\".\n\nMoyes has apologised for what he said to Vicki Sparks after an interview following a draw with Burnley in March.\n\nSunderland are standing by the Scot, who has been asked to give his observations on the incident by the FA.\n\n\"It's really good to have the support and I'm really grateful to them,\" Moyes told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nWhen asked if he had thought his position was under threat following the comments, he said: \"No. I felt I had made my apology, there had been no complaint from Vicki Sparks, and because of that, everything was fine.\"\n\nHe also said it was his idea to offer an apology, adding: \"As I said at the time, I regret my words.\"\n\nIn his post-match news conference following Tuesday's 2-0 loss at Leicester, he admitted that he had been \"surprised, in many ways\" by the reaction to his comments.\n\n\"The world of football is a great business now,\" he added. \"It employs an incredible amount of people now, be it through the media or on the training grounds, and for that reason it is a big talking point.\"\n\nIn the interview in question, Moyes was asked by Sparks if the presence of owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.\n\nHe said it had not but, after the interview, added Sparks \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and told her to be \"careful\" next time she visited.\n\nBoth Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to the reporter, who did not make a complaint.\n\nMoyes revealed on Monday that the club knew about the incident soon after it occurred.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, the club said: \"The exchange between the manager and a BBC reporter was wholly unacceptable and such actions are not condoned or excused in any way.\n\n\"David recognised this immediately, proactively bringing the matter to the attention of the CEO and apologising to the reporter.\n\n\"The club also spoke with both a senior figure at the BBC and the reporter personally, expressing its profound regret over what had occurred.\n\n\"The matter was treated with the utmost seriousness from the outset and the swift and decisive action taken by the club and the manager at the time ensured that it was resolved to the satisfaction of the reporter and the BBC, which was the priority.\n\n\"With both the BBC and the reporter agreeing that appropriate action had been taken at the time, the club continues to fully support David in his role as manager of Sunderland AFC.\"\n• None Listen - \"doubly difficult for women to be accepted in world of sport reporting\"\n\nHis comments have been criticised by shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan and Women in Football, with the latter saying it was \"deeply disappointed and concerned\" but \"pleased that David Moyes has apologised\".\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke said: \"It was regrettable, it was distasteful and I think it showed a complete lack of respect. And we in the game stand for respect.\n\n\"But I don't think it undermines football's desire to be inclusive and respectful. Every now and again, we will have to remind people of the high standards we need to observe in football.\"\n\nWhen asked if it was sexist, Clarke said: \"It could have been interpreted as such.\n\n\"I think it's doubly bad to use such a term to a woman because there is a lot of violence against women in society and terms like that aren't just disrespectful, I think they are bad examples.\n\n\"I regret that it happened and I'm sure that David Moyes regrets that it happened.\"\n\nThe chief executive of Domestic violence charity Women's Aid, Polly Neate, said: \"We cannot be complacent about remarks like these from influential men.\n\n\"We urge the FA to act swiftly and take this opportunity to send out a clear and strong message to the footballing community that there is no place for sexism and misogyny in modern football.\"\n\nSpeaking in a news conference on Monday, Moyes said: \"I deeply regret the comments I made.\n\n\"That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology.\"\n\nThe BBC confirmed that Moyes and Sparks had spoken about the exchange and the issue had been resolved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Mr Moyes has apologised to our reporter and she has accepted his apology.\"\n\nSunderland are bottom of the Premier League on 20 points, eight points from safety.", "Following the recent attack in Westminster, the temptation to increase tensions between Christianity and Islam was rejected almost immediately.\n\nIt began with a vigil outside Westminster Abbey, only two days after Khalid Masood's murderous attack that took the lives of four people, including PC Keith Palmer, and injured more than 35 others.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the Chief Rabbi and two British imams gathered on Westminster's North Green, embodying interfaith unity in the shadow of a horrifying attack.\n\n\"We are each drawn from the historic Abrahamic faiths,\" said Archbishop Justin Welby, \"faiths that teach the primacy of love and compassion over antagonism. We have come together to push for a more peaceful future.\"\n\nIt was an immediate effort to reject the narrative that Khalid Masood was an agent of Islam at war with the Christian West.\n\nWomen, many of them Muslim, gathered on Westminster Bridge to show solidarity with the victims of the London attack\n\nTwo days later, a line of almost 100 Muslim women held hands on Westminster Bridge, bowing their covered heads in silence as Big Ben struck 16:00 BST on the first Sunday following the attack. Again, the message they sought to convey was one of unity, as opposed to enmity, between religious traditions.\n\nBut last Saturday, around 300 people gathered under a different banner. Members of Britain First and the English Defence League congregated on Victoria Embankment for what they described as a \"march against terrorism\". Paul Golding, the leader of Britain First, began by reciting the Lord's Prayer.\n\nThe attempt to categorise acts of terror as representative of the Islamic faith has gained much less traction here in the United Kingdom than it has in the United States, where it became one of Donald Trump's signature themes throughout his presidential campaign. He repeatedly castigated former President Barack Obama for his refusal to use the phrase \"radical Islamic terrorism\".\n\nBut President Obama, from the outset of his presidency, sought to calm tensions with Islam. His first overseas visit in 2009 was to Cairo University, where he offered a fresh hand of friendship.\n\nThe far-right English Defence League held a \"London march against terrorism \" in response to the attack\n\n\"I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world,\" he explained, \"one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition.\n\n\"Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.\"\n\nThis Wednesday, both the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches in Britain will continue to press the case for engagement, as opposed to antagonism.\n\nAt 12:00 BST, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend what is billed as a Service of Hope at Westminster Abbey, which will bring together representatives of all those who were touched by the events of 22 March.\n\nThe Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, looking ahead to the service, said: \"The random and vicious attack on Londoners and visitors to these shores has bewildered and disturbed people of every background and belief. And we shall commit ourselves afresh to working together to bring hope.\"\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols is to take British imams to meet Pope Francis in Rome\n\nThe Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, will embark upon a more adventurous pilgrimage. He will take four British imams to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican, also on Wednesday. The BBC has been invited to travel with the cardinal's party.\n\n\"Pope Francis is committed to engagement,\" the cardinal says. \"When he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, he repeatedly visited mosques and engaged with the Muslim community. And his willingness to welcome our British imams is a further sign that he regards interfaith dialogue as being of the utmost importance.\"\n\nTo further emphasise this commitment, it has just been announced that Pope Francis will travel to Egypt later this month. In a statement, the Vatican said the Pope had accepted an invitation from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Roman Catholic bishops, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque.\n\nNone of these meetings is intended to deny the profound theological differences that exist between these faiths, especially where it concerns the uniqueness and divinity of Christ.\n\nBut by continuing the dialogue, these faith leaders are sending a clear message to the communities they serve: that faith without works is dead and that dialogue must always trump conflict.", "Last updated on .From the section Badminton\n\nIn February, Badminton was among seven Olympic sports to lose funding despite Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis winning doubles bronze at Rio 2016.\n\n\"We are working through an unprecedented financial situation as a consequence of the recent funding decisions,\" Badminton England performance director Jon Austin said.\n\nThe Sudirman Cup starts on 21 May.\n\nThe event in Gold Coast, Australia, is seen as an unofficial test event for English players ahead of next year's Commonwealth Games to be held in the same city.\n\nEngland finished ninth in the last edition of the World Mixed Team Championships, which take place every two years.\n\n\"We have had to consider the investments we make very carefully,\" Austin added.\n\n\"The pressures we are facing right now, both through the people resource and financial investment needed, means we are regrettably not in a position to commit to the Sudirman Cup this year.\"\n\nBadminton England received around £5.5m between London 2012 and 2016 and was left \"staggered\" when it had its funding pulled, despite beating a Rio Games performance target set by elite sport funding body UK Sport.", "Who knows what was going through Lexi Thompson's mind when she chose to mark and replace her ball on the 17th green last Saturday?\n\nWhatever it was, it resulted in what should have been a routine moment going horribly wrong. It ultimately cost her a major and her second ANA Inspiration title.\n\nIf Thompson's actions were not spotted by her playing partner, referees on the spot, or officials monitoring the TV feed then they have surely come through enough examination\n\nIt also led to another sorry rules mess that made golf look ridiculous. Add this one to the Dustin Johnson fiasco at the men's US Open last year and Anna Nordqvist's rules breach that ruined her chances at the women's equivalent championship a couple of weeks later.\n\nBut be in no doubt that in this latest controversy only one person made a mistake and that was Thompson. Unwittingly or otherwise, she did not put back her ball in the correct place.\n\nShe was less than an inch out but she got it wrong and might have given herself an advantage.\n\nThroughout the due process that followed, the LPGA rules officials acted in accordance with the rules as set out for tournament play.\n\nUnder current rules, officials have no choice but to investigate a possible rules breach if they are so alerted by a television viewer. And if the tournament is still going on, this applies even if that information comes in on a later day.\n\nSo Thompson was given a two-stroke penalty for incorrectly replacing her ball and two more shots for signing for the wrong score. A total of four shots were added to the tournament leader's card.\n\nShe only found this out as she moved from the 12th green to the 13th tee a day after the offence was committed.\n\nAnd this is where the game lets itself look ridiculous. This is where common sense goes out of the window and tournaments are ruined.\n\nForemost is the fact that golf is a self-policing sport. Golfers and their playing partners are supposed to ensure that the rules are followed and, in so doing, protect the rest of the field from cheats.\n\nThis is what occurs almost all of the time at every level of the sport.\n\nAt big events, referees are on hand. At many majors there is a rules official at every hole with every group.\n\nFurthermore, there should be an official watching the television footage. So why on earth do we need to rely on someone sitting at home - watching on delay, in this case - to make sure the rules are followed?\n• None Listen: Former Ryder Cup captain says LPGA 'should have ignored' complaint about Thompson\n• None Watch: The putting coach to the world's best\n\nIf Thompson's actions were not spotted by her playing partner, referees on the spot, or officials monitoring the TV feed then they have surely come through enough examination.\n\nYes, this may mean a mistake is made - but most sports are riddled with such errors. Why does golf have to be different?\n\nWe have all screamed at screens having witnessed what we consider sporting injustice, but we have no part in altering the course of action in other sports.\n\nBut golf allows for sofa-seated witnesses to influence outcomes and it does no-one any favours.\n\nIn this case Ryu So-yeon is celebrating her second major title but no one is talking about her performance. Instead the player who finished second is gaining all the attention and sympathy.\n\nUltimately it was Thompson's fault that she lost but no-one wants to see any sporting event decided in such a way.\n\nGolf's rules are under review. There are many good ideas under discussion for implementation in 2019.\n\nHere's another one they should adopt - make sure the referee's decision is final, because there should be no place for interference from anyone else.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland have given their support to boss David Moyes but say his comments that a BBC reporter might \"get a slap\" were \"wholly inappropriate\".\n\nMoyes has apologised for what he said to Vicki Sparks after an interview following a draw with Burnley in March.\n\nThe Scot has also revealed that the club knew about the incident soon after it occurred.\n\n\"Such actions are not condoned or excused in any way,\" said Sunderland in a statement.\n\n\"The exchange between the manager and a BBC reporter was wholly unacceptable.\n\n\"David recognised this immediately, proactively bringing the matter to the attention of the CEO and apologising to the reporter.\n\n\"The club also spoke with both a senior figure at the BBC and the reporter personally, expressing its profound regret over what had occurred.\n\n\"The matter was treated with the utmost seriousness from the outset and the swift and decisive action taken by the club and the manager at the time ensured that it was resolved to the satisfaction of the reporter and the BBC, which was the priority.\n\n\"With both the BBC and the reporter agreeing that appropriate action had been taken at the time, the club continues to fully support David in his role as manager of Sunderland AFC.\"\n• None Listen - \"doubly difficult for women to be accepted in world of sport reporting\"\n\nIn the interview in question, Moyes was asked by Sparks if the presence of owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.\n\nHe said \"no\" but, after the interview, added Sparks \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and told her to be \"careful\" next time she visited.\n\nBoth Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to the reporter, who did not make a complaint.\n\nThe Football Association has written to Moyes to ask for his observations on the incident.\n\nHis comments have been criticised by shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan and Women in Football.\n\nDomestic violence charity Women's Aid has also been critical and urged the FA to act.\n\nChief executive Polly Neate said: \"We cannot be complacent about remarks like these from influential men.\n\n\"We urge the FA to act swiftly and take this opportunity to send out a clear and strong message to the footballing community that there is no place for sexism and misogyny in modern football.\"\n\nSpeaking in a news conference on Monday, Moyes said: \"I deeply regret the comments I made.\n\n\"That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology.\"\n\nThe BBC confirmed that Moyes and Sparks had spoken about the exchange and the issue had been resolved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Mr Moyes has apologised to our reporter and she has accepted his apology.\"\n\nSunderland are bottom of the Premier League on 20 points, eight points from safety, going into a game at Leicester City.", "\"Does the world really need another wedding photographer?\"\n\nThat was the thought that ran through Saskia Nelson's mind when, having spontaneously resigned from her office job at a London Olympics legacy project, she was thinking of her next move.\n\nAn amateur photographer, she decided four years ago, aged 43, that she was going to go professional.\n\nBut she hadn't really worked out how, and so she used her three-month notice period to consider her options, one of which was to join the army of wedding snappers.\n\n\"But I thought, 'I'm not married, it's not my bag, I don't really know anything about it,'\" says Saskia.\n\nWhat she did know about, however, was online dating.\n\nHaving spent seven to eight years doing it, her friends considered her a connoisseur.\n\nSaskia and her team photograph up to 50 people per month\n\n\"I just took a very light-hearted approach to it, I saw it as a bit of an adventure, or a story to share with married friends - they love that sort of stuff,\" she says.\n\nBut one major bugbear for Saskia was the large number of bad and old - to the point of deceptive - profile photos.\n\n\"When you're over 40, ten years is a long time,\" she quips, adding that she's seen countless bad selfies and shots with an ex cropped out.\n\nSo knowing the importance of having a good profile image, she realised that there was a gap in the market to become an online dating photographer.\n\nSaskia couldn't find anyone at all who was specialising in it, so she was effectively creating a new genre of photography when she launched her business Hey Saturday in 2013.\n\nExplaining the name, she says: \"It's like saying hello to the most important day of the week in the dating world.\"\n\nSaskia's photo shoots are always outside, to get away from the \"studio portrait\" feel\n\nInitially available in London, Hey Saturday has over the past four years expanded across the UK, and is now about to launch in New York.\n\nSaskia and her team of seven photographers, all of whom are female, currently photograph up to 50 clients per month.\n\nSaskia says that from day one she realised the photographs couldn't look too formal.\n\n\"I know that I didn't want the photos to scream 'I needed professional help',\" she says. \"So they couldn't be in a studio, or too formal - people run a mile from that.\n\n\"So I developed this ethos of [it looking like] one of your best mates happens to be passionate about photography. You are just hanging out, and taking photos.\"\n\nThe company says it has an even split of male and female clients\n\nTo create that feel, Saskia says that being outside is key. And if rain is forecast the client has the option to reschedule - particularly useful for women worried about their hair apparently.\n\nBefore the shoot they are asked to fill in a short questionnaire about themselves and the website suggests they might want to bring a couple of different tops and t-shirts (there are always nearby loos to change in).\n\nAnd while Saskia found she initially had more female clients, she says it's now about 50-50, and increasingly she is getting younger people, no doubt more conscious of their online image.\n\nClients pay Saskia and her team for their time, not the number of photos\n\nShe says that most clients turn up in a rush, usually with no clear ideas of how they want the photographs to look. They then pay for half an hour, one hour or 90 minutes of actual photography.\n\nSaskia says that a large part of the job is making people feel comfortable, she says, as the clients can often feel vulnerable and a bit self-conscious.\n\n\"No-one ever comes to us saying, 'I really want to do this.' They come saying, 'this is the last thing I'll do, because I really want to meet someone,'\" says Saskia, who despite being a photographer, does not like being in front of the lens herself.\n\nHey Saturday has been helped by the fact that the online dating industry has exploded in recent years, fuelled by apps that people can use on their mobile phones.\n\nThere are now 10 million active online daters in the UK alone, according to industry group the Online Dating Association (ONA).\n\nClients can bring props and different outfits to the shoot\n\nAndrew McClelland, the ONA's chief executive, says that having help with your profile, be it your photo or text description, can be helpful.\n\n\"I'm the worst person to tell someone else about me,\" he says, \"but if there's somebody who can help me sell myself then why not?\n\n\"Of course there's the risk it might be more polished than I am, but the same is true in real life.\"\n\nIn the end, Mr McClelland says image counts. \"We are social animals and we get an awful lot of information from when we look at someone, although you might argue that is not always a good thing.\"\n\nIt was this photo in particular that caught the attention of Samantha Lovell's love interest\n\nThe 36-year-old teacher had hired a professional matchmaker who strongly advised her to get professional photos.\n\nSo, while visiting her sister in London, she booked a shoot.\n\nHer matchmaker showed the photos to one man, who really liked them, and Samantha arranged to meet him.\n\n\"We met up and hit it off immediately,\" she says.\n\n\"We were married in less than a year, and now I'm expecting a baby in the summer.\"\n\nSaskia has grown Hey Saturday by word of mouth and by following a marketing mantra known as \"know, like and trust\".\n\nTo do this, she writes blogs and articles for both news and dating websites, takes part in podcasts, and offers dating advice. The idea is that people will get to know, like and trust her, and therefore be more likely to make a booking with Hey Saturday.\n\nShooting acclaimed photographer Martin Parr for one of his projects brought Saskia recognition in the wider photographic community\n\nAs the company has expanded, Saskia says her biggest challenge has been finding photographers who she thinks fit the brand.\n\nSaskia, speaking to me at the launch of Metier, a project profiling women and their work, says: \"It's so critical that we get people who can make people laugh, can be light-hearted and joke around, because you want to get natural, relaxed and happy shots.\"\n\nSaskia says she is also notoriously bad with numbers - describing herself as suffering from \"dyscalculia\", or being dyslexic with numbers.\n\nLuckily she has a banker boyfriend to help with the accounts, who, you will be glad to know, she met through online dating.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDouble gold medallist Nicola Adams wants to emulate Muhammad Ali's route from Olympic glory to world titles as she prepares to make her professional debut in Manchester on Saturday.\n\nAli, who died in June, won gold at Rome 1960 before becoming a three-time heavyweight champion in the paid ranks.\n\n\"I had to think a lot about the triple but I wanted to follow in the footsteps of my hero,\" Adams told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAdams, who has been training alongside the likes of American world champion Andre Ward and fellow British Olympian Amir Khan in the United States with Virgil Hunter, aims to target belts in multiple weight divisions before retirement.\n\n\"I'm going after the title holders. I can hopefully become a multi-weight world champion,\" she said.\n\n\"I've got a maximum of four years I reckon because I've got other interests as well.\n\n\"That feels like it would be a nice time to gracefully disappear from the sport.\"\n\nAdams has suggested she might revive her acting career after boxing. She appeared as an extra in Coronation Street and Emmerdale before her Olympic success and had a cameo as herself on BBC's Waterloo Road in 2013.\n\nAli's own daughter Laila had a successful boxing career, retiring unbeaten in 2007 after winning 24 fights and multiple world titles.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his side's struggles this season prove finishing in the Premier League's top four is \"not as easy as it looks\".\n\nThe Frenchman has led the Gunners to a top-four spot and Champions League qualification for the past 20 seasons.\n\nBut with 10 games left, they are currently in sixth place, seven points off the league's leading quartet.\n\n\"It [finishing in the top four] is a good challenge but I think it is perfectly possible,\" said Wenger.\n\n\"I have done it for 20 years and it looked always like nothing. Suddenly, it becomes important so I'm quite pleased people realise that it is not as easy as it looks.\"\n\nIn 2012, Wenger compared finishing in the top four to winning a trophy and that view was recently echoed by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.\n\n\"If you listen to Guardiola, he said the other day that to finish in the top four in England is a trophy because it is so difficult,\" he added.\n\nWenger's contract at Arsenal expires at the end of the season and speaking before Wednesday's game with West Ham, he was again asked if he would extend his stay.\n\nHe has been offered a new two-year deal and reiterated he would make his decision public \"soon\".\n\nTalks about extending forward Alexis Sanchez's contract beyond June 2018 are on hold until the summer and, despite the Chile international being linked with Chelsea, Wenger played down concerns over the 28-year-old's future.\n\n\"I don't see what all the debate is about,\" said Wenger. \"We are professional football people. Our job is to perform as long as we are somewhere.\n\n\"I don't understand this kind of anxiety one and a half years before the end of contracts. It is denying what the professional guy is about.\"\n\nThe Gunners will be without centre-back Laurent Koscielny on Wednesday, and Wenger fears the France international could face a lengthy absence.\n\nKoscielny was substituted at half-time during Sunday's 2-2 draw with Manchester City and will have a scan on an Achilles injury.\n\n\"It is certainly serious,\" said Wenger.\n\n\"If he has ruptured a few fibres of his tendon it could be a few weeks. If it is just an inflammation he could be available next week against Crystal Palace.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nMore than 1,900 athletes were sanctioned for doping in 2015, new World Anti-Doping Agency figures show.\n\nThe 1,929 punishments for failed drug tests were an increase of 14% on the previous year, when 1,693 doping offences were carried out.\n\nWada says increased focus on investigations, intelligence gathering and whistleblowing are behind the rise.\n\n\"Recent events have shown investigative work is becoming ever more important,\" said Wada president Sir Craig Reedie.\n\nHowever, he added that \"testing remains vital to detecting doping\".\n\nLast year's McLaren report, which found more than 1,000 Russians benefited from a state-sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015, was commissioned by Wada following evidence from whistleblowers.\n\nThe report led to Russians being banned from international athletics competition as well as last summer's Paralympic Games in Rio.\n\nMeanwhile, the International Olympic Committee is retesting hundreds of doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games based on targeted intelligence. More than 100 athletes have already been sanctioned as part of the retesting programme.\n\nThe latest Wada figures, though, are based on 2015 data. Its 2015 Anti-Doping Rule Violations Report shows there were 2,522 \"adverse analytical findings\" from 229,412 samples, of which 1,929 led to action against athletes.\n\nThe number of samples taken was 5% up on the 217,762 taken in 2014.\n\nThe figures do not include more than 70,000 tests and 1,200 failed tests which were not processed through Wada's anti-doping administration system (Adams). Many professional sports in North America do not use the Adams system.\n\nThe figures also show Russian athletes had the most anti-doping rule violations in 2015, with 176. The sport with the most sanctions was bodybuilding, with 270.", "It might be slow, but the romance of commuting by ferry is not lost on Trond Bonesmo as he boards MF Norangsfjord for the crossing from Magerholm to Sykkylven.\n\n\"It's a welcome break, and the view isn't too bad either,\" he says as he looks across the sea towards the Sunnmoere Alps' snow-covered peaks.\n\n\"A bridge across the fjord would obviously make the crossing faster, but Storfjorden is two or three kilometres wide and 700 metres deep, which makes it very expensive to build one,\" says Mr Bonesmo, IT and operations manager for a consumer goods company.\n\nMany Norwegian fjords present similar difficulties to bridge builders, so instead the country's coastal population relies on ferries that link their often remote communities.\n\nEach year, some 20 million cars, vans and trucks cross the country's many fjords on roughly 130 ferry routes.\n\nMost of Norway's ferries run on diesel, spewing out noxious fumes and CO2.\n\nBut this is about to change.\n\nBuilding bridges across Norway's mountain-flanked fjords would be difficult and costly\n\nFollowing two years of trials of the world's first electric car ferry, named Ampere, ferry operators are busy making the transition from diesel to comply with new government requirements for all new ferry licensees to deliver zero- or low-emission alternatives.\n\n\"We continue the work with low-emission ferries because we believe it will benefit the climate, Norwegian industry and Norwegian jobs,\" Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in a speech in April 2016, in which she vowed to help fund required quayside infrastructure.\n\nFerry company Fjord1, which operates the MF Norangsfjord, has ordered three fully electric ferries that are scheduled to enter active service on some of its routes in January 2018.\n\nMulti Maritime, which designed the ferries, welcomes the growth in demand.\n\n\"Several years of investment in sustainable technologies have resulted in us having more than 10 fully electric and plug-in hybrid ferries under construction by several yards,\" says Gjermund Johannessen, managing director.\n\nMulti Maritime has designed three electric ferries for Fjord1\n\nIn addition to new-builds, the marine division of Siemens, which developed the technology for Ampere, believes 84 ferries are ripe for conversion to electric power. And 43 ferries on longer routes would benefit from conversion to hybrids that use diesel engines to charge their batteries.\n\nIf this were done, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions would be cut by 8,000 tonnes per year and CO2 emissions by 300,000 tonnes per year, equivalent to the annual emissions from 150,000 cars, according to a report penned jointly by Siemens and the environmental campaign group, Bellona.\n\nLong-distance ferries are not well suited to electrification, but about 70% of Norway's ferries cover relatively short crossings, so switching to electric power would pay for itself in a few years, according to the report.\n\nEach ferry would save about a million litres of diesel per year, helping to reduce energy costs by 60% or more, says Odd Moen, head of sales at Siemens' marine division.\n\n\"The electricity to power Ampere, with its 360 passengers and 120 cars, across a six kilometre-wide fjord costs about 50 kroner (£4.65; $5.80),\" he says.\n\n\"In Norway, that won't even pay for a cup of coffee and a waffle.\"\n\nNorway's older ferries are also being converted from diesel to electric\n\nAmpere's electric powertrain, which was designed by Fjellstrand shipyard using Siemens technology, includes an 800kWh battery pack weighing in at a hefty 11 tonnes, which powers two electric motors, one either side of the vessel.\n\nThe batteries are fully charged overnight, but as each of the 34 daily 20-minute crossings of the Sognefjorden requires 150kWh, the battery must be topped up during loading and unloading as well.\n\nDuring initial trials, the fast charging placed excessive strain on the local grid, designed as it was to service a relatively small population.\n\nTo lighten the load, high-capacity batteries were put on constant charge on either side of the fjord, ready to transfer the electricity quickly to the ferry's batteries whilst docked.\n\nThe charging added an extra burden to the Ampere crew's busy schedules. But this challenge is being dealt with by the latest electric ferry designs, which incorporate fully automatic charging systems.\n\nEmissions from diesel-powered ferries have always been a problem.\n\n\"When they're docked, their engines are idling - that's when you see those black fumes coming out of their chimneys - and then they're accelerating hard away from land, so their engines are never operating with maximum efficiency,\" explains Mr Moen.\n\nFerry pollution is an issue for most busy city ports; Hong Kong is no exception\n\nMr Moen says he has registered much interest in the technology from overseas, and urges other governments to require and support a switch from diesel to electric ferries where appropriate.\n\nIndeed, emissions from ferries is a problem not just in Norway, but in coastal communities and cities all over the world.\n\nThis is why Scotland has been moving to lower-carbon hybrid ferries - combining diesel and lithium-ion batteries - with three ferries now in operation.\n\nIn Hong Kong, the Environmental Protection Department has long been waging a war on emissions from ferries that are responsible for much of Victoria Harbour's poor air quality.\n\nSimilarly, in New Zealand a single ferry visit to Wellington used to pollute the air as much as all Wellington's cars did in a month, according to National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research figures.\n\nBack in rural Sykkylven, where the air is relatively fresh, NOx emissions pose less of a problem than in a congested city.\n\nBut CO2 emissions from ferries should be curbed nevertheless to help combat climate change, Mr Bonesmo says, as he steers his electric car off the ferry.\n\nBy 2020, an all-electric solution will have replaced the current diesel-electric ferry on the Magerholm-Sykkylven crossing.\n\n\"And then my entire commute will be emissions free,\" Mr Bonesmo grins.\n\nFollow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter and Facebook", "In 1845, a curious feature was added to the clock on St John's Church in Exeter: another minute hand, running 14 minutes faster than the original.\n\nThis was, as Trewman's Exeter Flying Post explained, \"a matter of great public convenience\", for it meant the clock exhibited, as well as the correct time at Exeter, \"railway time\".\n\nOur sense of time has always been defined by planetary motion. We talked of \"days\" and \"years\" long before we knew the Earth rotated on its axis and orbited the Sun.\n\nThe Moon's waxing and waning gave us the idea of a month. The Sun's passage across the sky gave us \"midday\" and \"high noon\". Exactly when the Sun reaches its highest point depends, of course, on where you are.\n\nSomeone in Exeter will see it 14 minutes after someone in London.\n\nNaturally people tended to set their clocks by their local celestial observations. That is fine if you co-ordinate only with locals. If we both live in Exeter and agree to meet at 19:00, it hardly matters that it is 19:14 in London, 200 miles away.\n\nBut as soon as a train connects Exeter and London - stopping at multiple other towns, all with their own time - we face a logistical nightmare.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nEarly British train timetables valiantly informed travellers that \"London time is about four minutes earlier than Reading time, seven and a half minutes before Cirencester\", and so on, but many passengers were understandably confused.\n\nMore seriously, so were drivers and signalling staff, increasing the risk of collisions.\n\nSo railways adopted \"railway time\", based on Greenwich Mean Time, set by the famous observatory.\n\nRailway companies such as GWR took accurate timekeeping extremely seriously\n\nSome municipal authorities quickly grasped the usefulness of standardised national time.\n\nOthers resented this metropolitan imposition, insisting that their time was - as the Flying Post put it, with charming parochialism - \"the correct time\".\n\nFor years, the dean of Exeter refused to adjust the clock on the city's cathedral.\n\nIn fact, there is no such thing as \"the correct time\".\n\nLike the value of money, it's a convention that derives its usefulness from widespread acceptance by others.\n\nBut there is such a thing as accurate timekeeping. That dates from 1656, and a Dutchman named Christiaan Huygens.\n\nThere were clocks before Huygens, of course.\n\nWater clocks appear in civilisations from ancient Egypt to medieval Persia. Others kept time from marks on candles. But even the most accurate devices might wander by 15 minutes a day. This didn't matter to a monk wanting to know when to pray.\n\nBut there was one increasingly important area of life where the inability to keep accurate time was of huge economic significance: sailing.\n\nBy observing the angle of the Sun, sailors could calculate their latitude - where they were from north to south. But their longitude - where they were from east to west - had to be guessed.\n\nMistakes could - and frequently did - lead to ships hitting land hundreds of miles away from where navigators thought they were, sometimes disastrously.\n\nHow could accurate timekeeping help? If you knew when it was midday at Greenwich Observatory - or any other reference point - you could observe the Sun, calculate the time difference, and work out the distance.\n\nHuygens's pendulum clock was 60 times more accurate than any previous device, but even 15 seconds a day soon mounts up on long sea voyages. Pendulums don't swing neatly on the deck of a lurching ship.\n\nHuygens's pendulum clock was 60 times more accurate than any previous device, but still lost time\n\nRulers of maritime nations were acutely aware of the longitude problem: the King of Spain offered a prize for solving it nearly a century before Huygens's work.\n\nFamously, it was a subsequent prize offered by the British government that led to a sufficiently accurate device being painstakingly refined, in the 1700s, by the Englishman John Harrison. It lost only a couple of seconds a day.\n\nSince the dean of Exeter's intransigence, the whole world has agreed on \"the correct time\" - coordinated universal time (UTC), as mediated by various global time zones.\n\nUsually, these zones maintain the convention of midday being vaguely near the Sun's highest point. But not always.\n\nSince Chairman Mao abolished China's five time zones and put everyone on Beijing time, residents of westerly Tibet and Xinjiang have heard their clocks strike 12 not long after sunrise.\n\nMeanwhile, since Huygens and Harrison, clocks have become much more accurate still. UTC is based on atomic clocks, which measure oscillations in the energy levels of electrons, and are accurate to within a second every hundred million years.\n\nDoes such accuracy have a point? We don't plan our morning commutes to the millisecond, and an accurate wristwatch has always been as much about prestige as practicality.\n\nFor over a century, before the hourly beeps of early radio broadcasts, members of the Belville family made a living in London by collecting the time from Greenwich every morning and selling it around the city, for a modest fee.\n\nTheir clients were mostly tradesfolk in the horology business, for whom aligning their wares with Greenwich was a matter of professional pride.\n\nBut there are places where milliseconds do matter. One is the stock market, where fortunes can be won by exploiting an arbitrage opportunity an instant before your competitors.\n\nSome financiers recently calculated it was worth spending $300m (£247m) drilling through mountains between Chicago and New York to lay fibre-optic cables in a slightly straighter line. That sped up communication between the two cities' exchanges by three milliseconds.\n\nThe accurate keeping of universally accepted time also underpins computing and communications networks. But perhaps the most significant impact of the atomic clock - as in the past with ships and trains - has been on travel.\n\nNobody now needs to navigate by the angle of the Sun. We have GPS.\n\nThe most basic of smartphones can locate you by picking up signals from a network of satellites: because we know where each of those satellites should be in the sky at any given moment, triangulating their signals can tell you where you are on Earth.\n\nThe technology has revolutionised everything from sailing to aviation, surveying to hiking. But it works only if those satellites agree on the time.\n\nGPS satellites typically house four atomic clocks, made from caesium or rubidium. Huygens and Harrison could only have dreamed of their precision, but it is still possible to misidentify your position by a couple of metres - a fuzziness amplified by interference as signals pass through the Earth's ionosphere.\n\nThat is why self-driving cars need sensors as well as GPS. On the road, a couple of metres makes the difference between lane discipline and dangerous driving.\n\nScientists have recently developed one, based on an element called ytterbium, that will not have lost more than a hundredth of a second by the time the Sun dies and swallows up the Earth, in about five billion years.\n\nHow might this extra accuracy transform the economy between now and then? Only time will tell.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nRickie Fowler says television viewers affecting golf tournaments \"is not making the game look very good at all\".\n\nAmerican Lexi Thompson, 22, was leading the ANA Inspiration on Sunday when she received a four-shot penalty after a TV viewer spotted an infringement and emailed officials.\n\nThompson ultimately lost the year's first women's major in a play-off.\n\n\"There's no question it should be ended,\" Fowler said of spectators being able to alert officials of breaches.\n\n\"I don't think you could find one player that would say otherwise.\"\n\nSpeaking in the build-up to this week's Masters in Augusta, the former world number four said he had sympathy for Thompson and that things need to change.\n\n\"There shouldn't be any outside contact, whether it's email or phone calls, whatsoever,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no other sport where people can call or email in or contact officials. These decisions are left up to officials. There are not people sitting at home dictating this, or in this case, having a large effect on the outcome of a major.\n\n\"I feel bad for Lexi. The way she handled it, the way she fought, was impressive.\"\n\nThompson, meanwhile, has issued a new statement saying professional golfers should accept the decision of officials \"no matter how painful it is\".\n\nThompson was leading by two shots in Sunday's final round when she was penalised for incorrectly replacing a marked ball in Saturday's third round.\n\nThe offence had been spotted by a viewer who emailed organisers. Thompson was penalised two strokes for putting the ball back in a different place and two for signing for an incorrect score.\n\nHer five-under-par third-round 67 was therefore changed to a 71 which led to a play-off between Thompson and eventual winner Ryu So-yeon.\n\n\"What happened was not intentional at all - I would never do that purposely and I hope everyone knows that,\" Thompson said.\n\n\"The LPGA rules officials made a judgment call at the moment, and we as professional golfers must accept it, no matter how painful it is.\"\n\nShe added she did not want anything to detract from Ryu's victory, and also praised the fans who cheered her around the course after learning of her penalty.\n\n\"Hearing all the fans cheer me on after every shot, going to every tee, truly brought tears to my eyes every time.\"\n\nTelevision scrutiny 'not fair' on best players\n\n\"It's not a fair system,\" was four-time major winner Laura Davies' verdict on the incident.\n\n\"Not everyone's shots are under scrutiny, just the leaders, so it's not a fair system,\" the Briton told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Golf has long since been the game of honour and there's no way in a million years Lexi has done that on purpose,\" Davies added.\n\n\"You could call her clumsy at worst but golfers rule themselves to a certain extent and that's the way it's always been.\"\n\n\"If Lexi was first out on Sunday morning and no cameras were on her, nobody would have seen it,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't understand how they can allow people to call in. I just find that absurd. Now you're telling me that you basically have two million rules officials.\n\n\"I don't think it should happen because you're only showing the people out there who are in contention. Every shot Tiger Woods plays the camera is on him. It's not the same playing field.\"\n\nFormer world number one Woods, who was penalised two shots for an incorrect drop during the 2013 Masters, earlier wrote on Twitter: \"Viewers at home should not be officials wearing stripes.\"\n\nWe have all screamed at screens having witnessed what we consider sporting injustice, but we have no part in altering the course of action in other sports.\n\nBut golf allows for sofa-seated witnesses to influence outcomes and it does no-one any favours.\n\nIn this case Ryu So-yeon is celebrating her second major title but no one is talking about her performance. Instead the player who finished second is gaining all the attention and sympathy.\n\nUltimately it was Thompson's fault that she lost but no-one wants to see any sporting event decided in such a way.\n\nGolf's rules are under review. There are many good ideas under discussion for implementation in 2019.\n\nHere's another one they should adopt - make sure the referee's decision is final, because there should be no place for interference from anyone else.\n• None 'Thompson's TV penalty shows rules need changing' - read more from Iain Carter", "It is a huge week in my life as I prepare to play for my country, Wales, for the 100th time on Wednesday.\n\nNo footballer has represented Wales 100 times and it is a very proud moment to have reached the milestone.\n\nI have just flown in. I've come to Wales via Seattle, where I have been in pre-season preparation, and before that I was in Melbourne, which is where I last flew into Wales from, for the Cyprus Cup.\n\nI am pretty exhausted from the travel and not entirely sure what time zone I am in, but now all the focus is on Wales.\n\nI think when it comes on Wednesday it is going to be a little bit emotional and maybe a bit overwhelming too. I think that is when the emotion is going to kick in. I am pretty excited already.\n\nMy family are going to be at the game against Northern Ireland and it is huge for me that they will be there.\n\nThey have been with me for my whole career and are the reason I am where I am and that I am who I am, so if they didn't turn up, there would be questions asked! They deserve this moment as much, or more, than I do.\n\nI never even thought about the possibility of getting to 100 caps, since my first game, I've always just wanted to play for Wales.\n\nEven when I got to 50 caps, I thought another 50 was miles away.\n\nI remember my first game was against Switzerland away in 2006. We won 3-2 and scored a free-kick from a training ground routine, which any footballer will tell you is one of the best feelings in the world, when that comes off. That was my first cap.\n\nTo have reached the milestone of 100 now is amazing. I am extremely proud. Football is full of opinions, so it feels nice to become a statistic.\n\nThe landscape of women's football, in Wales and globally, has changed dramatically in the time I have taken to make it to 100 caps. It is like a different sport now to what it was then.\n\nWomen's football has really jumped levels in the last five years, which is great to see. Ten years ago there was nothing, you literally had to pay to play.\n\nI was extremely lucky because I was seven when I went to my first women's football club.\n\nThe Cardiff City Ladies team, if it wasn't for them and the coaches dedication, I would never have got anywhere. There was nothing for women in football back then.\n\nThey enabled a seven-year old to achieve their dream and I'll live it by playing for Wales for the 100th time.\n\nI have told Jayne Ludlow, the national team manager, that I am 100% committed to this campaign, I can't say I will play past that, but for this campaign, I believe in what we are doing and I would really love to play in a major tournament. That is the dream.\n\nWe don't want to be that maybe team anymore. We want to be the team that makes it.\n\nI was disappointed when I landed in Wales and caught up with the news to hear the story about David Moyes and what he said to a female BBC reporter.\n\nIt is extremely patronising and I can't imagine David Moyes speaking like that if it was to a male reporter.\n\nI don't think he would go to that tone or that way of speaking.\n\nAnd I think this is something that male managers have to get used to. When a male manager is speaking to a female reporter, the way he speaks maybe has to be different, but it certainly does not have to be patronising.", "Donald Trump campaigned for president as the ultimate outsider, promising to unseat a corrupt and atrophied Washington establishment. Now, after two months in office, has he become the establishment? Are Trump and his team the insiders now?\n\nOne thing the recent collapse of healthcare reform efforts in the House of Representatives has revealed is just how quickly attitudes and alliances can shift in Washington, DC.\n\nLast year Mr Trump and members of the House Freedom Caucus, a collection of 30 or so libertarian-leaning fiscal conservatives in Congress, were singing from the same anti-government hymnal.\n\nNow, however, Mr Trump is the government - and he teamed up with congressional leadership to back a healthcare bill that conservative hard-liners believe didn't go far enough in undoing the 2009 Democratic-designed system.\n\nThe effort's failure set off back-and-forth sniping between Mr Trump and the Freedom Caucus that morphed into a classic insider-outsider faceoff, with Mr Trump cast as the new voice of the powers that be.\n\nCongressman Justin Amash said the White House has become part of the hated status quo - the \"Trumpstablishment\", he called it in a Saturday tweet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat line drew the ire of Mr Trump's director of social media, Dan Scavino Jr, who tweeted that Mr Amash was a \"big liability\" and encouraged Michigan voters to unseat him in next year's Republican primary. (The tweet has since been criticised as a possible violation of a federal law preventing executive branch officials from attempting to influence election campaigns.)\n\nIf Mr Trump's conservative critics are trying to make the case that the president has become the establishment he campaigned against, their arguments have been buttressed by the financial disclosure documents released by the White House on Friday evening, which revealed exactly how well-heeled and connected many of the top White House staff are. According to the Washington Post, 27 members of Mr Trump's team have combined assets exceeding $2.3bn (£1.84bn).\n\nPresidential daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner - both unpaid presidential advisers - are worth roughly $740m.\n\nSenior White House strategist Steve Bannon earned as much as $2.3 million in 2017. Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive who is one of Mr Trump's top economics advisers, has a net worth approaching $611m.\n\nThe New York Times points out that many in the inner circle of the putatively anti-establishment Mr Trump drew significant sums from the network of big-money political donors, think tanks and associated political action committees that populate the Washington insider firmament.\n\n\"The figures reveal the extent to which private political work has bolstered the financial fortunes of Trump aides, who have made millions of dollars from Republican and other conservative causes in recent years,\" the paper reported.\n\nAlready there are signs that conservative true-believers - some of whom were never fully sold on Mr Trump to begin with - are questioning Mr Trump's anti-establishment bona fides.\n\n\"That's the dirty little secret,\" writes conservative columnist Ben Shapiro. \"Trump isn't anti-establishment; he's pro-establishment so long as he's the establishment.\"\n\nEven conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, an early Trump supporter, is having some doubts.\n\nDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump railed against the Washington establishment\n\n\"I think it is really, really unhelpful to Donald Trump's ultimate agenda to slam the very people who are going to be propping up his border wall, all the things he wants to do on immigration, on trade,\" she said on Fox News.\"I don't know where he thinks he's going to get his friends on those issues.\"\n\nPerhaps of greatest concern to Mr Trump is that the failure to enact promised healthcare reform, along with his recent feud with members of his own party, have been accompanied by a softening of his core support in recent polls.\n\nIn a Rasmussen survey, the number of Americans who \"strongly approve\" of the president has dropped from 44% at shortly after his inauguration to 28% today. While the Republican base is largely sticking with Mr Trump so far, they may be starting to have some doubts.\n\nFor much of 2016 Donald Trump was the barbarian at the gate, threatening to rain fire on the comfortable Washington power elite. Even in his January inaugural address, he condemned an establishment that \"protected itself\" at the cost of average Americans.\n\n\"Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land,\" he said.\n\nNow, however, Mr Trump and his team of formerly angry outsiders meet in the Oval Office. They fly on Air Force One. They host events in the White House rose garden. They issue tweets warning apostates of harsh political consequences.\n\nThey walk the halls of power and call the shots.\n\nIt doesn't get any more \"insider\" than that.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEx-Bath boss Mike Ford has left his role as Toulon's head coach, with former Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill replacing him until the end of the season.\n\nFormer England defence coach Ford, 51, only joined the French club in October.\n\nHe brought Cockerill in to work with him after the latter was sacked by Leicester in January.\n\nThe ex-England hooker will take charge until the end of the season before leaving to become Edinburgh boss.\n\nIt was announced last month that Ford would be leaving the post at the end of the season, to be replaced by Fabien Galthie.\n\nBut after the three-time European champions were knocked out of the Champions Cup in the quarter-finals by Clermont on Sunday, Toulon have decided to bring forward his departure.\n\nCockerill will be assisted by forwards coach Marc Dal Maso.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nDefending Masters champion Danny Willett says returning to the scene of his greatest triumph may not spark an instant upturn in form.\n\nThe Englishman, 29, won his first major after a shock win at Augusta, aided by American Jordan Spieth's collapse.\n\nWillett rose to a career-high ninth in the world, but has dropped to 17th after failing to win an event since.\n\n\"You do have a spring in your step coming back as champion,\" he said. \"But you can't change your game like that.\"\n• None 'Everything was shaking' - Willett relives his Masters win\n• None Masters quiz: Match the winner with the dinner\n\nWillett became the first Briton to win the Green Jacket in 20 years when he shot a five-under-par 67 as 2015 champion Spieth crumbled during a thrilling final round.\n\nHowever, he has struggled to regularly match his form at Augusta since.\n\nThe Yorkshireman finished third in the PGA Championship and second in the Italian Open following his Masters triumph, but suffered a dip in form ahead of his Ryder Cup debut in October.\n\nHe failed to win a single point as Europe lost 17-11 at Hazeltine, while also being distracted by questions over his brother Peter's controversial comments about American fans.\n\nWillett has only claimed one top-10 finish so far in 2017, blowing a three-shot 54-hole lead to finish fifth at the Maybank Championship in February.\n\n\"The pressure has been more from myself. It's not a nice feeling to not hit good golf shots when you know what you can do,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the last 12 months has made me a little more impatient.\n\n\"I think achieving what I achieved last year and performing under the pressure that I did on Sunday, if you don't do that every time you get a bit annoyed.\n\n\"That's where the game jumps up and bites you. It's not that easy.\"\n\n'If the Yorkshire puddings go flat we won't be happy'\n\nOne of Willett's roles in his return to Augusta as defending champion is choosing the menu for the annual Masters champions' dinner on Tuesday.\n\nThirty-four former winners will start with cottage pie before tucking into roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and apple crumble.\n\n\"There's been a lot of thought gone into it about how we can embrace British culture and hopefully they enjoy a little taste of Yorkshire,\" said Willett, who was born in Sheffield.\n\nAsked if Augusta's chef was confident of making Yorkshire puddings, he responded: \"He'd best be, otherwise I'll be in the kitchen making sure his oil is hot enough!\n\n\"If they go a bit flat, we're not going to be happy. I'm sure that he's been practising.\"", "Jeff De Young served in Afghanistan with a bomb-detection dog named Cena N641, a black Labrador. In the intense atmosphere of war the two developed an unbreakable bond. This is the story of how Cena helped Jeff survive not only war, but also life after war.\n\nThe day I turned 18 I started Marine Corps boot camp, and 15 months later I went to Afghanistan. It was 2009 and I was absolutely terrified.\n\nThey paired us with the dogs based on our personalities. Cena was a slightly goofy, quiet dog, and I was a slightly goofy, quiet kid, so it made sense for us to be with each other.\n\nTogether we were known as Kid and Chicken. Chicken was one of those nicknames that you don't remember where it came from, it just kinda stuck. And although I was 19 by this stage, I looked like I was about 12, I didn't even have any facial hair. As a joke, the Marines mailed a permission slip home for my mom to sign because I looked so young they didn't believe that I was allowed to be over there.\n\nI would operate Cena using hand and arm commands and a whistle. I'd be in front of the patrol and Cena would be further ahead again, so if either of us walked on an improvised explosive device, although we would have been hurt, the rest of the patrol would be safe. I'd never been faced with a situation like that before and it felt like a crash course in adulthood, responsibility, and survival.\n\nCena had been a champion bird dog. When waterfowl falls from the sky there is no scent trail to follow like there would be with a rabbit or a deer, so the dog has to investigate the area and find the scent on the wind, it's amazing.\n\nDogs' noses are so much more powerful than ours. We smell cookies, but they smell the flour, the nutmeg, the butter, the eggs, the milk - they can dissect everything and they can detect smells that we don't even know exist.\n\nHe'd been trained to detect more than 300 different types of explosives and if he smelled something interesting on patrol he would lie down and notify me, and then I'd call in an explosives technician.\n\nWe had to trust each other - we would have a dozen, two dozen marines behind us and any mistake could have been fatal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Jeff describes how Cena supported him during his darkest hours serving in Afghanistan\n\nThe battle of Marjah was a turning point in my life. We approached the town before the sun came up, no-one was talking, no-one was joking. It was very tense. You could hear the rounds snap overhead, and then when the round went past you, you heard a zing almost like a whistle.\n\nI was so worried about getting Cena to safety, I even had to lie on top of him to protect him from gunfire. Another time I carried him through a freezing cold, flooded river on my shoulders like a hunter would a deer.\n\nIt got so cold in the fighting holes that even Cena's body heat didn't help, so one day I offered an Afghan soldier the entire contents of my wallet for his scratchy, olive, drab wool army blanket. I had $100 (£80) in my wallet. I was either going to burn the money or get the blanket, that's how cold I was. I still have that blanket.\n\nThe first week inside Marjah I lost a couple of very good friends. One of them was a former room-mate I'd trained with, Lance Corporal Alejandro Yazzie. He was 23, a Navajo, and an all-round good guy. His grandfather had been a wind talker [code talker] in World War Two. When I found out it was Yazzie I was devastated. I held on to Cena and cried into him.\n\nYazzie was the first of seven friends I lost in Afghanistan. I carried a flag inside my helmet and whenever a friend would pass away I'd add their name to it.\n\nEventually I just couldn't cope any more. I grabbed my military rifle and went to the latrine area. I remember sitting there trying to prepare my mind and make peace, and then Cena peeked around the corner. His ears went up like in the cartoons and he opened his mouth like he was smiling. His tail started spinning so hard that his whole body was rocking back and forth like he was excited by a piece of bacon.\n\nI started laughing, and I laughed so much that I just broke down crying. I realised then that I couldn't leave Cena because I didn't know if his next handler would love him the way I did. He really was the only person in my life that I had a deep relationship with at that time. I left the latrine, put my rifle back and focused on work.\n\nIt's really hard to explain what it's like, psychologically, coming back from war. Even the drive home was strange. New music was out, new cars were on the roads, there were new stores. It felt like when you leave the cinema to get popcorn and then miss the best part of the film.\n\nI got married three days after returning and I was so busy doing all this happy stuff, it was like a Band-Aid over Afghanistan. But I wasn't really taking care of myself and dealing with what had happened over there.\n\nA couple of weeks after coming home the post-traumatic stress (PTSD) and separation anxiety from being away from Cena really hit me. I'd always understood that I wouldn't have him forever but I'd had no idea how being apart from him would affect me. I felt like a stranger at home and I didn't feel comfortable unless I was with my battalion members or other veterans. I had nightmares and spent many nights crying in the bedroom corner or talking out loud to my fallen friends.\n\nOver the next four years Cena was always on my mind, but as time went on it became hard to keep up hope that we would be together again.\n\nThen one day, when I was in college, I got a call. The woman on the phone said: \"Mr De Young? My name is Mrs Godfrey, would you like to adopt your bomb dog?\" Without even thinking I said, \"Heck, yes!\" That was 24 April 2014, one day shy of four years since Cena and I had been separated.\n\nIt was just a turmoil of emotions on the car ride there. When Cena came down the aisle I very awkwardly - like a guy crossing a high school dance floor - ran up, kneeled down and started hugging him. He leaned into me like, \"Hey man, what's up?\" and started licking my face.\n\nAside from my children being born and the day I was married, that was the happiest day of my life. It was like all of my Christmases rolled into one.\n\nI'd been married for four years by the time I got Cena back. Unfortunately, my inability to recognise that I had issues as a result of being in Afghanistan ultimately led to my divorce. Cena was helping me with healing and support but the damage to my relationship was already done. On 5 June 2015 I ended my marriage.\n\nI have three daughters, they are six, five and two-and-a-half. Cena took to them instantly, and they love him back - they try to paint his nails and put bows on him. Before getting Cena back, the sound of a child crying would trigger a panic attack in me, as a result of an incident in Afghanistan, and it was tough knowing that I couldn't help my kids because my brain couldn't process that memory.\n\nWith Cena, if my daughters cried I would sit on the couch, put my forehead to his, scratch his ears and just breathe. Gradually, Cena would only need to be beside me and I could cope.\n\nBy the time my third daughter was born I was able to do a lot of the diaper changes and bottle feeding even if she was crying, and to finally be able to help my daughter felt like being released from jail, it was freedom.\n\nI'm a military ambassador for the American Humane Association now and I travel around the country raising awareness about how important it is to reunite service dogs with their handlers, and how the dogs can be a vital form of treatment for veterans with PTSD. My work is most definitely therapy for me, too. The military teaches us how to put the uniform on, but it doesn't teach us how to take it off, metaphorically speaking. I've lost count of how many friends I've lost now, who've taken their lives - four just last year alone.\n\nI couldn't even think about talking about what I saw in Afghanistan four or five years ago, but slowly, by opening up to other veterans, by putting myself out there and airing everything that happened it's becoming so much easier.\n\nI've recently found out that I have a heart condition called tachycardia. The doctors say it was probably triggered by an explosion or something that happened in Afghanistan. When I'm stressed my heart rate goes up to 200 beats per minute, high enough for a heart attack, so I'm having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) fitted in my chest. I'm still mentally processing the idea that soon I'm going to have an electronic box in my chest to keep my heart in check.\n\nCena is in OK health, although his front wrist bothers him and his hips are pretty bad. He'd been back to Afghanistan, and I tracked down two of his other handlers through Facebook. I keep them up to date with how he is doing and I hope to get them to come to Michigan to see him - it's been years since they've seen Cena too.\n\nCena was retired after his third deployment because of a hip injury and there's no doubt in my mind that he has PTSD. I think he has memories of things that he saw that he doesn't like. He has nightmares, he'll whimper, he'll run around in his sleep and his teeth will snarl. But he's always by my side - we go to the gym together, we go to college together - my college even wants to get him his own cap and gown for when I graduate.\n\nCena's nine-and-a-half now. Dogs tend to live to 11 or 12, so I've started making peace with the fact that he may pass away soon. I've been preparing my mind for that.\n\nJeff De Young was interviewed by Sarah McDermott and Rose de Larrabeiti.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The claim: Spain has more to lose in EU trade negotiations with the UK - because of its trade surplus with the UK.\n\nReality Check verdict: Spain sells more goods and services to the UK than it buys from the UK. It is also the top destination both for visits by UK residents and for UK nationals living abroad.\n\nA clause about Gibraltar in the EU document outlining the negotiating strategy for Brexit has raised the question of sovereignty over the territory.\n\nOver the weekend, former Home Secretary Lord Howard said the prime minister would defend Gibraltar the same way that Margaret Thatcher had protected the Falklands.\n\nBut on Monday, Jack Straw, the former home secretary and foreign secretary who held talks in the early 2000s with the Spanish government about sharing Gibraltar's sovereignty, said the idea of conflict with Spain over the territory was absurd.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that Spain was unlikely to let Gibraltar get in the way of a future EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"Spain has hugely more invested in their trade and relations with the UK,\" he said, adding that Spain exports more to the UK than it imports from the UK, which means it has a balance of trade surplus.\n\nThe most recent figures broken down by country are from 2015. In that year:\n\nBut the UK arguably has more to lose than Spain on the issue of nationals living in the other country, because there are many more British nationals living in Spain than there are Spanish nationals living in the UK.\n\nOf an estimated 900,000 British citizens who live in the EU, the largest number of them, by individual country, live in Spain: 308,805. Of those, 101,045 are aged 65 and over.\n\nAbout 132,000 Spanish nationals live in the UK.\n\nCorrection 4 April 2017: An earlier version of this story said that Jack Straw had organised Gibraltar's referendum in 2002. In fact, while he had said that he would hold a referendum over proposals for shared sovereignty, the referendum that took place in 2002 was organised locally to pre-empt his discussions with the Spanish government.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Greeks have already learned it can take time for the EU to switch on the green light to talks\n\nSo how long is that famous piece of string? I certainly don't know.\n\nNor, I suspect, does the European Commission. Or the press. Or the UK government.\n\nSo, trying right now to answer the vexed question (for the UK) as to when exactly, during Brexit negotiations, the time will come to turn attention from divorce to that much anticipated new EU-UK trade deal is possibly rather futile.\n\nAs we know, the EU's draft guidelines for negotiations state that talk of the future will only begin in earnest when good progress has been made on Britain's exit deal.\n\nBut when, and based on what criteria?\n\nThe only thing we know for sure is that it is in the EU's gift to make that judgement. Not the UK's.\n\nFirst Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans told me point-blank there could be no agreement on the future \"if we're not very clear what the divorce settlement is going to look like\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Timmermans: \"It's going to be a very difficult job\"\n\nSo if the UK wishes to see through the process of making that free-trade deal, it will have to wait for Brussels to switch on the green light.\n\n\"Not dissimilar to the Greece conundrum,\" an EU diplomat commented to me this weekend.\n\nThe EU has told debt-laden Greece it will only countenance debt relief once Athens has made sufficient progress on restructuring and reform.\n\nAs with the EU conditions for UK trade talks, Greece finds itself staring at unquantifiable strands of EU string.\n\nThe mood in Brussels right now is cautiously bullish (an interesting state of being).\n\nOf course Brexit hurts. The EU has lost one of its influential members, a big contributor to the EU budget, a powerful economy, and one of only two serious military powers in Europe (France being the other).\n\nThe EU has indicated trade talks will not begin until key Brexit divorce negotiations are resolved\n\nBut as soon as Article 50 was triggered last week, the words of sadness and regret that poured out of Brussels following the UK's EU referendum vanished into the mists of Dover.\n\n\"Britain is now on the other side of the negotiating table,\" said European Council President Donald Tusk on Friday.\n\nAnd the rest of the EU is closing ranks. Just look at the current row over Gibraltar.\n\nWhen Britain was on the same side of the table as the EU, Brussels remained resolutely neutral.\n\nIt was a diplomatic coup for Spain to have it written into the draft EU guidelines that any Brexit deal could only apply to Gibraltar with a nod from Spain (which contests British sovereignty over the territory).\n\nThese are only draft guidelines; they carry no legal weight and they still need to be formalised at a summit of the 27 remaining EU member countries on 29 April.\n\nBut this was a clear Brussels message: we look after our own.\n\nA missive directed not only at Britain but, significantly and purposefully, at the remaining EU countries.\n\nAcross the Channel, Brexit is not just about the UK, but about safeguarding the European Union.\n\nSpain's foreign minister said he was \"surprised by the tone of comments coming out of Britain\" over Gibraltar\n\nIt's common knowledge that this is a fractious union, whose members fall out over funding, euro rules, migration and more.\n\nIt is also a common assumption, as Frans Timmermans put it, that each side in a negotiation seeks out the other's weak spots.\n\nThe UK - respected and feared in Brussels as a wily negotiating power - is expected to try to divide and rule in the EU during the Brexit process by promising individual countries custom-made sweetheart deals.\n\nSecurity against Russia for the Baltic States, peace of mind for Poland and Spain's citizens in the UK, an Irish border deal that doesn't harm the Good Friday Agreement and so on, in the hope those countries will champion the UK against any hardline attitude from Brussels.\n\nBut the EU needs to unite to survive and maintain credibility after the UK walks out of the door.\n\n\"However much we want and, to be honest, we ideally need a good future relationship with Britain, it has to be clear we're there for the EU 27 now,\" one high-level Brussels source told me.\n\nThe EU's draft Brexit guidelines were designed to be firm-sounding towards Britain - a warning for others who may want to leave the EU - but they had a plethora of priority pledges for those who stay: Ireland (land border), Spain (Gibraltar), all those countries with citizens living in Britain, nations with security fears and businesses with logistical concerns post-Brexit.\n\nEasy promises, of course, before negotiations begin but the EU, for the first time in many, many months, is feeling less beleaguered, less on the back foot; more confident.\n\nWhile an undeniably huge blow to the EU, Brexit has served to concentrate Europeans' minds on what membership means to them.\n\nOne of the pro-EU rallies held across Europe over the weekend was in Hamburg\n\nGermany's Süddeutsche newspaper on Monday had a front-page photo and article on the pro-EU demonstrations it says took place in 60 European cities this weekend, organised by the Pulse of Europe initiative.\n\nThe activists' aim: to stop the EU debate being dominated by the voices of Eurosceptic nationalists across the continent.\n\nBrussels was already buoyed by the success of unashamedly pro-EU parties in last month's elections in the Netherlands.\n\nIt has hopes, too, for French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and looks contentedly at the two pro-EU front runners in Germany's upcoming elections.\n\nNews on growth in the eurozone is comforting for Brussels, which prefers to overlook the fault lines in Greece and Italy when possible.\n\nAnd the latest EU feel-good factor comes from perhaps the most surprising source of all: the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. The man who, weeks ago, publicly prophesied that other EU countries would likely follow the UK's example and leave.\n\nYet, in an interview published in Monday's Financial Times, President Trump appears to have changed his mind. In fact he is quoted as saying he thinks the European Union is getting its act together.\n\nBut even the most ardent of Euro-enthusiasts admit maintaining EU unity during divisive Brexit talks will be tough. Never mind all the other challenges the bloc currently faces.\n\n\"We (in the EU) can't be naive,\" European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said to me just before last week's triggering of Article 50.\n\n\"This is no time for complacency.\"", "Mrs May has defended Britain's ties with the Saudi regime\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May flies into Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Britain's biggest trading partner in the Arab world.\n\nFor the British, the visit has a straightforward agenda; in a world overshadowed by the uncertainties of Brexit this trip is primarily about trade and investment - Saudi investment that is - into the UK.\n\nBritish goods and services exported to Saudi Arabia totalled £6.6bn ($8.25bn) in 2015.\n\nFor the Saudi rulers - one of the few remaining absolute monarchies in the world - it is also about something else.\n\nThe Saudis are feeling increasingly surrounded and threatened by their regional rival Iran and its proxy militias.\n\nWhen they look at the map of the region they see Iran effectively controlling five Middle Eastern capitals now: Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sana'a, and spreading its influence among the Shia populations in Bahrain and along Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast.\n\nSo the Saudis want to know that their defence alliance with the UK, as well as the US, is rock solid.\n\nBut left out of the picture are the human rights organisations and campaign groups that want Mrs May to use this visit to pressure the Saudis to both end their military campaign in neighbouring Yemen and to release three young prisoners held on death row.\n\nThe death toll is mounting from the war in Yemen, at least 7,700 civilians killed according to the UN, most by Saudi-led air strikes, and millions at risk of malnutrition or even starvation.\n\nMore than 60% of civilian deaths in Yemen are due to Saudi-led air strikes, the UN says\n\nIn Yemen, the Saudis and their allies the UAE are determined to reverse what they see as an Iranian-backed coup by minority Houthi rebels who have illegally taken over half the country, including the capital, and carried out numerous human rights abuses since seizing power in 2014.\n\nBut the Saudis have got themselves bogged down in an unwinnable war and paying the price are Yemen's civilians; schools, hospitals, markets and a funeral have all been hit by clumsy targeting from the air.\n\nThis has prompted calls for the UK and the US to stop supplying planes, weapons and intelligence to the Saudis, at the very time that the UK is seeking ever closer ties with the Gulf Arab states.\n\nMrs May has defended the UK's ties with the Saudis by pointing out that they have provided vital intelligence that has saved British lives.\n\nThis is true. In 2010 a Saudi human informant inside al-Qaeda in Yemen tipped off MI6 that a bomb was hidden in cargo on a plane heading for Britain.\n\nIt was. The printer ink toner cartridges, packed with PETN explosive, got as far as East Midlands Airport before the police finally discovered them after the agent gave them the serial numbers.\n\nCampaigners want the UK government to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and to call for the release of blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes for \"insulting Islam\"\n\nBut Saudi Arabia's human rights record still makes the country a controversial ally for the UK which purports to have an ethical foreign policy.\n\nCommenting on Mrs May's Saudi visit, human rights pressure group Reprieve said: \"As the prime minister makes ever greater overtures towards the Saudi government, the kingdom continues to carry out appalling abuses, including torture, forced 'confessions' and death sentences for juveniles.\n\n\"Theresa May's desire for closer relations with the Gulf must not cloud Britain's commitment to human rights.\"\n\nSo for Theresa May the coming two days will require something of a balancing act - pushing for much-needed trade, more investment and closer ties with Riyadh and yet at the same time expressing just enough concern at humanitarian issues to avoid excessive criticism at home.", "Marilyn Shankle-Grant on a recent visit with her son, Paul Storey\n\nFor the families of men facing the death penalty, money can be a barrier to seeing a loved one before the end.\n\nMarilyn Shankle-Grant's son, Paul Storey, has been fighting his death sentence for almost 10 years. All his legal efforts so far have fallen short, and in autumn, a judge set his execution date for 12 April, 2017.\n\nStorey was convicted in the 2006 shooting death of 28-year-old Jonas Cherry during an armed robbery. Storey's accomplice - the gunman - pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Storey went forward with a jury trial and received the death penalty in 2008.\n\nSince he was sent to death row, Shankle-Grant has been able to see her son about once a month, making the four-hour drive from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to the state prison in Livingston, Texas.\n\nBut recently things have got more difficult for the 57-year-old hospitality worker. The stress and depression over her son's impending execution was affecting her work performance, and she lost a job she had held for 30 years.\n\nShe tried to pick up temporary work, and even started her own business, Marilyn's Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes, baking flat, buttery rounds from her grandmother's recipe, wrapping them up in cellophane and selling them at local events.\n\nBut even that small income stream has dried up - she stopped making tea cakes not long after her son's execution date was announced.\n\n\"When I do them, I do it with lots of love,\" she explains. \"Right now that's just not in me.\"\n\nThe situation has become dire - her Forth Worth home entered foreclosure this week. She needs $8,000 (about £6,400) to save it.\n\nThe prison in Livingston, Texas, where Paul Storey and other death row inmates are held\n\nHer financial difficulty - not to mention her broken car - have made the trips to Livingston a real financial strain, at the same time that the approaching execution date makes them more important than ever. She estimates each trip costs roughly $350.\n\nWith just six weeks left to visit before her son is executed, Shankle-Grant posted a weary status to her Facebook page, lamenting the short amount of time she has left with her son and the financial struggle she faces just to see him.\n\nIt caught the eye of Abraham J Bonowitz, co-director of Death Penalty Action, an anti-death penalty charity. He had met Shankle-Grant many times over the years at death penalty abolition events.\n\nBonowitz reached out to Shankle-Grant to ask her permission to set up an online fundraiser on her behalf. He created a page on the crowdfunding site You Caring, which included a note from Shankle-Grant.\n\n\"My love and devotion to my son are not matched by the resources needed to make the trip as often as I am allowed to visit him,\" she wrote. \"With a heavy heart I turn to my fellow human light to ask you to help me help my son face the darkness as his destruction approaches.\"\n\nThe donations began streaming in. One anonymous donor contributed $1,000.\n\n\"My father was executed in Texas 13 years ago, and while the situation is still painful, I'm thankful for our last few visits, and I know he was as well,\" wrote one contributor.\n\n\"Nobody's going to be able to take away the pain that Marilyn has, but we can take away some of the anxiety,\" says Bonowitz, who is considering making these fundraisers a permanent part of his work.\n\nSo far, he has raised nearly $6,000. The money allows Shankle-Grant to rent a car each weekend, stay for two nights in a nearby hotel, as well as pay for meals and gas.\n\nThanks to the funds, Shankle-Grant has been able to visit her son every weekend since. She says she is incredibly grateful for the help.\n\n\"None of this would be able to be happening if it weren't for that You Caring page,\" she says. \"I'm able to talk to him. When he's down and out and depressed, we can talk about it and talk him through it. It gives me comfort, too.\"\n\nAbraham Bonowitz at an anti-death penalty rally he hosts in front of the US Supreme Court each year\n\nShankle-Grant's situation illustrates the hidden impact on the families of the condemned, who often come from low-income backgrounds and can live far away from the prison in which their loved one is housed. After 30 years of death penalty abolition work, Bonowitz has seen the situation many times before. Often a church or a non-profit will step in to help defray the cost of visiting a family member before an execution.\n\n\"None of these families have any money,\" he says. \"Marilyn never did anything wrong and yet she is made to suffer. It's her son's fault, yes, but that doesn't mean the love for her child stops.\"\n\nThe success of the fundraiser caught the attention of advocates in Arkansas, which is poised to execute eight inmates over the course of 10 days, due to the fact that the state's supply of an execution drug called midazolam is about to expire.\n\nDeborah Robinson, a freelance journalist who is writing a book about the eight men, says she has heard from three of them, asking for help so that their families can see them before the execution dates in late April.\n\n\"I have a 21-year-old daughter whom I haven't seen in 17 years, along with a 3-year-old granddaughter,\" wrote inmate Kenneth Williams, who is scheduled to die on 27 April, in a message to Robinson.\n\n\"The financial costs have prevented her from coming. If I am going to be executed, I would love to see her before I go one last time and to see my grandchild for the first time.\"\n\nLynn Scott with her brother Jack Jones, Jr, who has been in prison since 1995\n\nLynn Scott, the sister of death row inmate Jack Jones, Jr, lives in North Carolina. She runs her own business as a wedding planner, but she and her husband lost nearly everything after the 2008 recession - their house, their 401k, they sold off most of their possessions. After Scott's husband suffered a massive heart attack in 2015, they found themselves financially devastated.\n\n\"We live paycheck to paycheck,\" she says.\n\nArkansas is scheduled to execute her brother on 24 April. With airfare, hotel, car rental and meals - plus cremation and burial expenses - she expects that she will need about $5,000.\n\n\"It's very difficult,\" says Scott. \"What I want people to know is - whatever the inmates did, we didn't do that. I didn't do that to those people, but I'm still losing someone.\"\n\nModelling a crowdfunding page after the one in Texas, Robinson is now raising funds for all three Arkansas families to help defray some of those costs.\n\nShankle-Grant and Storey on a visit in 2014\n\nIf Shankle-Grant's You Caring page raises more money than she can use to see her son, she says she wants the excess funds to go to the families in Arkansas.\n\nHer son, Storey, still has a lawyer fighting for a stay of execution, in part based on the fact that his victim's parents are opposed to the death penalty and do not want him to be executed. Glenn and Judy Cherry have written letters to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and other state officials asking for mercy.\n\nShankle-Grant still holds out hope that her son's execution will be halted, and the portion of the fundraiser money that is designated for her son's burial can be sent to the other families. She is asking supporters to write letters to the Texas Department of Corrections, asking that Storey's life be spared.\n\nIn the meantime, because of a court hearing Storey has been moved to a county jail that allows him to use the phone for the first time in years (phone calls are not allowed for death row inmates in his prison). Shankle-Grant says he has been able to talk to his elderly grandparents, who can't travel to see him, and thanks to the fundraiser, she was easily able to pay the hefty $300 phone bill. She is also able to talk to him, sometimes as often as four times a day.\n\nIt's a small comfort as the execution date creeps closer and closer.\n\n\"He'll hang up and call back, hang up and call back,\" she says. \"I don't know after [nine] days if I'm ever going to hear his voice again. For me, it's very important.\"\n\nIf an inmate's family does not make other arrangements - which can cost thousands - they are buried in this prison cemetery in Huntsville, Texas", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes will be asked by the Football Association to explain himself after telling a BBC reporter she might \"get a slap\".\n\nAfter his side's draw with Burnley on 18 March, Moyes was asked by Vicki Sparks if the presence of owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.\n\nHe said \"no\" but, after the interview, added Sparks \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and told her to be \"careful\" next time she visited.\n\n\"It was in the heat of the moment,\" added the 53-year-old Scot.\n\nBoth Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to the reporter, who did not make a complaint.\n\nThe FA will now write to Moyes to ask for his observations on the incident.\n\nSpeaking in a news conference on Monday, he said: \"I deeply regret the comments I made.\n\n\"That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology.\"\n\nThe BBC confirmed that Moyes and Sparks had spoken about the exchange and the issue had been resolved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Mr Moyes has apologised to our reporter and she has accepted his apology.\"\n\nHowever, shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan called on the FA to act.\n\n\"If you look at the fact that he wouldn't have said that to a male reporter, and I truly believe that, I think the comments and his behaviour and attitude was sexist,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"With the FA, part of what they have been criticised for in the past is not tackling sexism and other forms of discrimination, which needs to be stamped out across the sport.\n\n\"Fundamentally it's a male-dominated environment that women find it incredibly difficult to break into and comments like this do nothing to encourage women.\"\n\nFormer England striker and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker also condemned Moyes' behaviour.\n\n\"Moyes incident highlights a tendency for some managers to treat interviewers with utter disdain. Pressured job. Well rewarded. Inexcusable,\" he said.\n\nA statement from Women in Football said it was \"deeply disappointed and concerned\" but \"pleased that David Moyes has apologised\".\n\nIt added: \"No-one should be made to feel threatened in the workplace for simply doing their job.\n\n\"We hope that the football authorities will work with us to educate football managers and those working within the game to prevent this kind of behaviour.\"\n\nSunderland are bottom of the Premier League on 20 points, eight points from safety, going into a game at Leicester City.\n\nThe FA must now decide what action, if any, it will take following David Moyes' comments.\n\nHis swift apology to Vicki Sparks may help him mitigate any punishment if he is subsequently charged by the governing body.\n\nHowever Moyes' admission of wrongdoing and \"deep regret\" shows that he himself believes he's done something wrong.\n\nUnder such circumstances could The FA publicly justify simply warning him as to his future conduct? Would there be criticism of the message that sends from an organisation which prides itself on the values and high standards it tries to uphold in football?\n\nIt must now await Moyes' letter - and then decide how best to proceed.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nEngland's Danny Willett will begin the defence of his Masters title playing alongside American Matt Kuchar and Australian amateur Curtis Luck.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who won his first major at Augusta National last year, will tee off at 17:24 BST.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson is in the final trio with two-time winner Bubba Watson and Jimmy Walker at 19:03.\n\nAmerican Jordan Spieth, winner in 2015 and runner-up in 2014 and 2016, starts his fourth Masters campaign at 15:34. The 23-year-old is playing with Germany's Martin Kaymer and England's Matthew Fitzpatrick.\n\nThree-time winner Phil Mickelson, 46, is in the following trio at 15:45.\n\nAmerican record six-time winner Jack Nicklaus, 77, and South Africa's Gary Player, 81, who has three Green Jackets, will be the honorary starters. The pair have hit the opening tee shots of the tournament for several years in the company of four-time winner Arnold Palmer, who died in September 2016 at the age of 87.\n\nGeorgia native Russell Henley, who only qualified by winning the Houston Open on Sunday, is in the first pairing, out at 13:00.\n\nEngland's Justin Rose, who has had four top-10 finishes in the past 10 years, will play with Australia's world number three Jason Day and American Brandt Snedeker. They tee off at 15:56 and are last out in Friday's round two at 19:03.\n\nSpain's Sergio Garcia and England's Lee Westwood are in the same trio as Ireland's Shane Lowry.\n\nA record 11 Englishmen are in the field of 94 players, which also includes two Scots - Russell Knox and 1988 champion Sandy Lyle - while 1991 winner Ian Woosnam is the only Welshman.", "BBC Sport delves into the Masters archive to relive five of the greatest shots ever played at Augusta.\n\nWatch coverage of the 2017 Masters live on BBC TV, Red Button, Connected TVs and online from Saturday. Listen live on Radio 5 live or 5 live sports extra and follow on the BBC Sport website from Thursday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. IS militants were seen using human shields\n\nThe BBC has seen evidence that so-called Islamic State (IS) has been using children as human shields as they fight to keep control of the Iraqi city of Mosul. BBC Persian correspondent Nafiseh Kohnavard and producer Joe Inwood had exclusive access to helicopter missions of the Iraqi military and witnessed the battle from above.\n\nErij Military camp is a dusty compound just a few miles south of Mosul. The mangled and melted gas tanks that rise in the background hint at violent battles in the recent past. Giant attack helicopters sit on the tarmac, their sleek fronts give them an aggressive look, ready for action.\n\nThey never have to wait long.\n\nWithin minutes of our arrival, two young men in their flight suits run to their helicopter. The ground crew spring into action and within moments they are in the air. Their destination is west Mosul, the newest front in the battle against IS.\n\nWe spent more than a week living at the base, flying with the pilots who have helped in the battle against the militants who have ruled Mosul for two years.\n\nIt is not the first time that we have followed Iraq's helicopters as they battle IS: at Sinjar as they delivered aid to refugees trapped on the mountain; over the factory in Mishraq that doubled as a training camp for suicide bombers; last summer in the bloody fight for Falluja.\n\nThousands of residents are still trapped in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city\n\nBut, somehow, this time felt different. General Samir Hussain, the man in charge of the mission, confirmed our suspicions.\n\n\"Mosul is the toughest job we have ever had. There is no comparison with any other mission that you have witnessed.\"\n\nIt should not be surprising. For the first time, the pilots are operating above a city where tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped. And, unlike Falluja, the militants are encircled. They have no prospect of escape or chance of a military victory. And so they turn the people of Mosul into human shields.\n\nAs we sit having tea one morning, we see a familiar face. With his smiling eyes and toothy grin, Colonel Mohammed is a popular figure amongst the Iraqi army. He is also one of their most experienced pilots. We last saw him flying over Falluja.\n\nHe joins us for a green tea, and describes a scene he recently witnessed in old Mosul. The smile flickers from his face as he recalls it. An IS sniper had shot a woman in the street. She was being used as bait to lure federal police into his cross hairs. Col Mohammed was called in for air support.\n\nIS militants have been encircled in Mosul as the Iraqi army moves in to recapture the city\n\nIt is just one example of the suffering being inflicted on the people of Mosul by IS. But their pain has not only come from the ground. Civilian deaths at the hands of coalition air strikes have been a source of both controversy and embarrassment for the Iraqi government.\n\nCol Mohammed acknowledges that a potential danger is there. It was enough to make his wife and children beg him not to come. To this day they do not know he is here. \"They think I am training,\" he jokes.\n\nSo, when firing high-explosive missiles into the middle of a city, how can he be certain he will not hurt an innocent civilian? The answer may be the only one he can give: he puts his faith in God.\n\nBut it is not just faith guiding him. We witnessed pilots holding fire as often as not. The on-board camera picked up clear examples of IS fighters walking in the streets in the company of children. If the shot was not clear, it was not taken.\n\nThe Iraqi military has pushed the militants from several neighbourhoods of Mosul\n\nAs we land from another flight, the sound of gunfire still ringing in our ears, there is an unfamiliar helicopter on the tarmac. It is bigger than the others and unarmed. A group of people runs towards it carrying a stretcher. In the distance flashing lights pull into view. One casualty becomes three, amongst them a general.\n\nIt is a reminder that no matter how well the battle seems to be going, war is never without cost.\n\nWhen the Iraqi army fled Mosul two years ago, leaving it in the hands of IS, it was a source of national humiliation. Retaking it, therefore, is about more than territory and security, it is about restoring reputation and pride.\n\nBut it is also about showing the people of Mosul that the government in Baghdad is on their side. Every wayward missile, every stray bullet, every wounded or dead civilian undermines that work, handing a propaganda victory to IS even as they suffer military defeat.", "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 the midweek Premier League fixtures is DJ, artist and drum and bass pioneer Goldie.\n\nGoldie is a Manchester United fan who follows Jose Mourinho's side from his home in Thailand, and has seen a lot of the rest of the Premier League too.\n\n\"I never thought I would say this but, as well as United, I will sit and watch any good games I get on the TV,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I watch more other teams than I have ever done before because I just miss a bit of footy.\"\n\nGoldie feels Mourinho is the right manager to bring success back to Old Trafford but is unsure whether they will make the top four this season.\n\n\"We have been dropping points in silly games and we are relying on one of the teams above us imploding,\" he explained.\n\n\"Tottenham have been that team in past seasons but, looking at the top four now, I am not sure who will slip up this time.\n\n\"It is going to take time for Jose to get it right, but I think he will.\"\n\nGoldie, who used to go clubbing with Dwight Yorke when the striker was at United, is less impressed with Paul Pogba, who returned to Old Trafford for a world record £89m fee last summer, four years after leaving to join Juventus for a nominal amount.\n\nHe added: \"Seriously, why did Fergie [Sir Alex Ferguson] get rid of Pogba? I think we are seeing why. He did not see anything special.\n\n\"I am sorry but for the money we spent on him, we could have reinforced the entire midfield. He has not done anything for us this season and for me he is in the same bracket as Diego and Juan Sebastian Veron - disappointing.\n\n\"It is all right saying that he has sold a lot of shirts but come on, you have got to do more than that, mate.\"\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\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 time?\n\nLast weekend, Lawro got six correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 matches for a total of 90 points.\n\nHe beat comedian and actor Omid Djalili, who got one correct result with no perfect scores, for a tally of 10 points that leaves him bottom of the guest leaderboard.", "Anna says she would have been in hospital for longer if it wasn't for the system\n\nOn a hospital ward in Leeds, parents of premature babies are encouraged to help care for their newborns - from taking temperatures to the delicate task of inserting feeding tubes. So how does the approach benefit families?\n\n\"It is just nice to feel like a mum, rather than just somebody watching,\" Anna Cox tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme, as she takes the temperature of her baby.\n\nLola was born at just 23 weeks. She had a twin brother who sadly did not survive and she was given little hope of survival.\n\n\"During labour, one of the neo-natal consultants came to see us and painted a really bad picture that she could have all sorts of problems,\" Anna says.\n\nLola was cared for at St James's University Hospital in Leeds -the first in the UK to implement a family integrated care system.\n\nIt put parents - not nurses - in charge of everything other than the most complicated medical treatments for their premature babies while they were in hospital.\n\n\"One of the jobs we have to do is take her temperature, maybe every three or four hours,\" Anna says.\n\n\"It is a pretty simple procedure really.\"\n\nHowever, parents also perform more complicated tasks, including inserting a tube into their baby's nose to allow them to feed.\n\n\"There are certain things they [nurses] obviously watch over you quite a bit to begin with because it needs to be done right,\" she says.\n\n\"They do like to make sure you know what you're doing, they wouldn't just leave you to it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lola was born at just 23 weeks\n\nKatie Crossley's daughter, Molly, was born eight weeks early and had breathing difficulties.\n\n\"While I'm here, I pretty much do everything that a normal mum would do,\" she says. \"Everything, from feeding to medicine, cleaning, bathing.\"\n\nShe has also been taught how to insert a tube up Molly's nose and into her stomach allowing her to be fed.\n\n\"Being around it and watching it has made me more confident when I've come to actually doing it,\" she says.\n\nIn the past, caring for premature babies usually meant keeping parents at arm's length.\n\nAs recently as 20 years ago, the closest parents of premature babies could get to their newborns was looking at them through a glass window.\n\nIt meant the bond between parent and child was harder to establish and breastfeeding rates were often lower.\n\nBut the idea of putting parents in charge of neonatal care is not a new one.\n\nIn the 1970s in Tallinn, Estonia - then part of the Soviet Union - the head of the local hospital faced a problem. The hospital had too many premature babies to look after and not enough nurses.\n\nHowever, they soon noticed the system was helping babies.\n\nUnder his system, mothers had more regular \"skin to skin\" contact with premature babies. It resulted in better breastfeeding rates and shorter hospital stays.\n\nIt took 30 years for other hospitals to copy the system, but now the system has been introduced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and now Leeds.\n\nKatie Crossley says she is now confident inserting a tube to feed her baby\n\nDr Liz McKechnie, consultant neonatologist at St James's, says the family integrated care scheme aims to put the parent at \"the very centre of the team caring for the baby\".\n\n\"It is not rocket science, it is such a straightforward thing to do, to allow parents to look after their babies,\" she says.\n\nShe is adamant the move was not down to cost-cutting and that nursing levels on the unit have not dropped.\n\n\"In the past, care has been very much the nurse leading it, so they're saying 'right, it's feed time, it's bath time'. Whereas now, it is very much the parents who are leading that.\n\n\"They are feeding the baby when the baby needs feeding, rather than when the clock says it is feed time - and that's much better for the baby.\"\n\nShe says the new system was a \"major cultural change\" and caused anxiety among nurses on the neonatal unit when it was introduced 18 months ago.\n\nNurses on the ward say training parents to care for their babies takes as long - if not longer - than doing the procedures themselves.\n\nBut they say families are getting home sooner, the long-term development of babies is improving and breastfeeding rates have increased.\n\nThe system is about to be trialled in the intensive care unit in St James's sister hospital.\n\nParents are encouraged to take the temperature of their babies\n\nAs for Lola, she was allowed home just before she was 14 weeks old.\n\n\"Without the family integrated care we would've been in a lot longer,\" says her mother, Anna. \"Lola is still on oxygen and [otherwise] they wouldn't have allowed us to come home with that.\n\n\"I feel really confident in everything they taught us.\"\n\nDr McKechnie adds: \"The fact is that families are going home more confident and more able to care for their babies, and that means a lot.\n\n\"Nobody wants to stop it, it is definitely here to stay, everybody can see the benefits of it.\"\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\nZlatan Ibrahimovic rescued an injury-time draw for Manchester United against Everton as Jose Mourinho's side once again failed to win in the league at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Swede's 94th-minute penalty was awarded after Luke Shaw's goal-bound shot was handled on the line by visiting defender Ashley Williams, who was given a red card.\n\nThe point means United extend their unbeaten run to 20 games, but have now drawn nine times at home in the league and 12 overall, while opponents Everton missed the chance to leapfrog them in the table.\n\nEverton's opener came through Phil Jagielka's clever, flicked finish from close range when he had his back to goal.\n\nIn response to going behind, Ander Herrera struck the crossbar after Joel Robles parried Daley Blind's free-kick and the United midfielder also forced Toffees goalkeeper Robles into a full-stretch save.\n\nPaul Pogba came on for the second half and headed against the bar from Ashley Young's free-kick, while Ibrahimovic had a goal disallowed for offside in a disjointed United performance.\n\nRelive the draw from Old Trafford\n\nUnited were staring at defeat for the first time since their 4-0 drubbing against Chelsea in October before Ibrahimovic's coolly taken penalty which sent Robles the wrong way.\n\nThe striker said before kick-off that he and the club are \"still in talks\" about signing a new deal for next season and they are indebted to the Swede for his 27 goals this term, many of which have been on important occasions.\n\nIt was a huge let-off for the hosts, who had 61.5% possession and 18 shots, but only three on target, showing their obvious weakness in front of goal.\n\nMuch of United's play was in front of the Everton backline - often sideways and ponderous - without displaying any real strategy to breakdown the opposition.\n\nPrevious boss Louis van Gaal's slow style of play was criticised by the supporters, but United's last two performances have been a throwback to those days.\n\nIn fact, after 29 games in his first season, Van Gaal claimed 56 points and were fourth in the league, while Mourinho has two fewer points and are a place further back.\n\nIn an attempt to get back into the contest, world record signing Pogba replaced left-back Daley Blind at half time.\n\nA reshuffle to the side meant Herrera dropped to Blind's previous position, allowing Pogba to take up his role in the middle of the park.\n\nBut less than five minutes later, Herrera swapped positions with Young to go to the right-back spot.\n\nAll this took place with full-backs Matteo Darmian and Luke Shaw - whose commitment has been questioned by the manager - sitting on the bench.\n\nShaw did come on just after the hour mark but only after an injury to Young, while Henrikh Mkhitaryan - dropped as Mourinho was \"not happy\" with his performance in the previous match against West Brom - replaced Michael Carrick.\n\nThe confusion from his players and the muddled changes from boss Mourinho showed the apparent mistrust he holds towards his squad as they struggle to find cohesion and incisiveness.\n\nA busy April for United has started with two draws, with five further league and two Europa League games to play.\n\nFrom Manchester United, it was a dog's dinner of a performance. They had no idea who was playing where and they played that way. They have gone away with one point but should have had none.\n\nUnited were absolutely all over the place. I cannot see what they were trying to achieve here. They had no shape about them at all.\n\nWhere was Marouane Fellaini even playing? One second he is trying to go forward and the next he is running back - at times he is just chasing the ball like a six-year-old in the playground.\n\nHaving collected 1-0 victories in his two previous visits to Old Trafford with Southampton, Dutchman Ronald Koeman was looking to make it a hat-trick by becoming the first manager in Premier League history to win three consecutive away games at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Everton boss was one minute away from doing so.\n\nThe Dutchman would have set a record which even Sir Alex Ferguson, Louis van Gaal and Mourinho failed to do in their opening three home games as United manager.\n\nKoeman's side took the lead as centre-back Jagielka nipped in ahead of the hesitant Marcos Rojo and from there on, the Blues defended deep and resolutely but ultimately came away with just a point.\n\nEverton's robustness was typified by the assured 20-year-old Mason Holgate, who made four interceptions and regained possession nine times, which was more than any other team-mate.\n\nThe impressive Ashley Williams patrolled the defence and completed 11 clearances for his team, but it was his late error which led to the equaliser.\n\nA flash point in the second half saw Kevin Mirallas petulantly refuse a handshake from his manager when substituted on 67 minutes.\n\nCommenting on the incident, Koeman said: \"I can understand players are a bit disappointed if you sub them but the way he reacted was not a team in my opinion and I will speak with him about that.\"\n\n'Result is hard to take'\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho told BBC Sport: \"We scored two legal goals but I tell you with a smile on my face because I am not upset with the linesman. A really difficult decision for him, only video assistant replay could help this.\n\n\"After pressure, after pressure, after pressure the goal finally arrived and at least you don't have the feeling of defeat.\n\n\"The players gave everything. The performance from a football point of view was not good but I am very pleased with the effort.\"\n\nEverton boss Ronald Koeman told BBC Sport: \"It was a difficult game, we controlled it well at 1-0 up, we had chances on the counter in the second half but not always was the last ball a good one.\n\n\"It was really disappointing you don't get the win. The penalty was the right decision but it was really hard to take.\n\n\"Manchester United were attacking, taking risks, for that we had to kill the game. I was really confident to keep the clean sheet tonight.\"\n\nUnited continue their difficult month with a trip to bottom side Sunderland on Sunday (kick-off 13:30 BST), while Everton host Leicester on the same day (kick-off 16:00 BST).\n\nNo more second half comebacks - the stats\n• None Manchester United's Premier League unbeaten run now stands at 20 games, but they've drawn half of those (won 10, drawn 10).\n• None Ashley Williams became the first Everton player to be sent off in the Premier League against Manchester United since David Weir in October 2002.\n• None Phil Jagielka has scored his first Premier League goal since May 2015, 703 days ago against Aston Villa.\n• None Defender Jagielka is the 17th scorer for Everton this season in the Premier League - they have had more different scorers than any other club.\n• None The Red Devils have drawn 12 league games this season, their most in a campaign since the 1998-99 season (13).\n• None United have won just one of the 11 Premier League games they have been trailing at half-time at Old Trafford since Alex Ferguson left the club (drawn three, lost seven).\n• None United have won just six of their 16 league games at home this season (37.5% win percentage), their worst home win % in a campaign since 1973-74 (33.3%).\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Everton 1. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Ashley Williams (Everton) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Luke Shaw (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.\n• None Tom Davies (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left 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 Tennis\n\nDefending champion Heather Watson beat Serbia's Nina Stojanovic in three sets to reach the second round of the Monterrey Open in Mexico.\n\nWatson, 24, fought for two hours and 52 minutes to register a 6-2 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 victory over the world number 126.\n\nThe British number three smashed her racquet in frustration after squandering two match points in the second set tie-break.\n\nShe will face Russian sixth seed Ekaterina Makarova in the second round.\n\nWatson, currently ranked 125th in the world, led the second set 5-2 before Stojanovic hit back to force a deciding set.\n\nShe is joined in the second round by compatriot Naomi Broady, who beat Catherine Bellis on Monday.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAntonio Giovinazzi will again race for Sauber in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix as the replacement for Pascal Wehrlein.\n\nItalian Giovinazzi replaced Wehrlein for the season-opener in Australia after the 22-year-old German withdrew because of a lack of fitness following a back injury.\n\nGiovinazzi, 23, finished 12th in Melbourne on his grand prix debut.\n\nWehrlein hopes to be fit for the third race of the championship in Bahrain or the following race in Russia.\n\n\"For me the most important is that I can train intensively to ensure a 100% performance from my side as soon as possible,\" said Wehrlein.\n\n\"I will then be well-prepared for my first complete grand prix weekend for Sauber.\"\n\nWehrlein, a Mercedes protege who was in the running to replace retired world champion Nico Rosberg at the factory team before losing out to Valtteri Bottas, injured his back in a crash at the Race of Champions in Miami in January.\n\nMercedes team boss Toto Wolff has backed Wehrlein to \"come back strong\".\n\n\"I feel for Pascal, because he has had all the bad luck,\" said Wolff.\n\n\"I'm impressed with the maturity he has shown to inform Sauber that he wouldn't be able to perform at the level required in Melbourne.\n\n\"That took courage and selflessness, which I know earned him a lot of credit within the team.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nWorld number four Ding Junhui dominated the second session of his World Championship quarter-final with Ronnie O'Sullivan to take a 10-6 lead.\n\nHaving shared eight frames in the opening session, the pair began Tuesday evening by winning a frame each.\n\nBut breaks of 64, 65, 120, 59 and 56 ensured China's Ding took complete control of the 25-frame match.\n\nHowever, a typically rapid 104 break stopped the rot for five-time winner O'Sullivan and gave him hope.\n\nIt was another two hours of gripping entertainment that maintained the trend of a break of at least 50 in every frame.\n\nIn the other game to resume on Tuesday evening, Scotland's John Higgins stormed into an 11-5 lead against 25-year-old Kyren Wilson.\n\nThe afternoon session saw reigning champion Mark Selby build a 6-2 lead over Hong Kong's Marco Fu, while Barry Hawkins is 5-3 ahead against Scottish qualifier Stephen Maguire.\n\nDing, 30, has not beaten world number 12 O'Sullivan in a ranking event since his 9-6 victory in the Northern Ireland Trophy in 2006.\n\nThere is a strong possibility of that run coming to an end at the Crucible after his stunning display on Tuesday evening, which began with a frame-winning 63 clearance in the ninth.\n\nO'Sullivan came from behind to win the next but was unable to repeat the feat in frame 11 as Ding seized control.\n\nStorming into a 7-5 lead before the interval, he resumed with a 120 break and went on to stretch his lead to 10-5 with a 58 in frame 15.\n\nO'Sullivan, though, produced a defiant rapid-fire 104 in the final frame to give himself a chance of matching Stephen Hendry's record of playing in 12 World Championship semi-finals.\n\nWorld number 14 Wilson had levelled from 2-0 down in the morning, helped by a 92 break, but damaged his cue tip and, after a brief stoppage for repairs, saw four-time Crucible champion Higgins open up a 5-3 lead with breaks of 62 and 59.\n\nThe Scot began the evening with a 129 and, after the next two were shared, added breaks of 74 and 135 either side of the interval to lead 9-4.\n\nWilson responded well with a 97 but Higgins won the last two to leave himself two frames from victory at 11-5.\n\nWorld number eight Fu has got used to doing things the hard way at this year's tournament, having fought back from 7-2 down to beat Luca Brecel and recovered from 4-1 behind to see off Neil Robertson.\n\nThere seemed little chance of a comeback when he trailed world number one Selby 5-0, the Leicester man finding some of his best form to compile breaks of 80, 72 and 94.\n\nFu went more than an hour without potting a ball before taking a scrappy sixth frame and making it 5-2 with a stylish break of 60.\n\nBut Selby got Fu in a fuddle on the final red and went on to take a four-frame advantage at 6-2. They resume on Wednesday.", "The claim: There is a record number of jobs in the UK.\n\nReality Check verdict: The number of jobs in the UK is indeed at a record level as are the numbers of people employed and the proportion of those aged between 16 and 64 who are in work.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has been speaking to a Conservative rally in south Wales.\n\nShe claimed that the evidence for her strong leadership could be seen, among other things, in the \"record number of jobs\".\n\nThe latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that between December 2016 and February 2017 there were 31.84 million people in work.\n\nThe figure is actually a touch below the one for November to January, but the difference is well within the margin of error.\n\nThe November to January figure was indeed a record number, but with a growing population the employment rate is probably more relevant.\n\nThe employment rate for those aged between 16 and 64 was 74.6% in the latest figures, which is also the highest since comparable records began, in 1971.\n\nThat picture was not uniform across the UK though, with Wales, where the prime minister was speaking, having a 73% employment rate between December and February.\n\nOnly north-east of England, the West Midlands and Northern Ireland have lower rates.\n\nWhile those are the figures everyone usually reports, they are not, strictly speaking, the same as there being a record number of jobs, because one employed person can have more than one job.\n\nThe ONS also releases figures for workforce jobs, which are collected from businesses rather than workers.\n\nThat suggests there were 34.62 million jobs in December 2016, the highest since comparable records began in 1958.\n\nThe number of people working part-time has risen considerably since 2010, although it has been relatively stable for the past couple of years.\n\nThe vast majority (85%) of UK workers are employees rather than being self-employed, but since 2008, 40% of the overall increase in the workforce has been down to a growth in the number of people who are self-employed.\n\nSome of this shift will be down to people working in the so-called \"gig economy\" - that is, people in fairly insecure work such as driving cabs or delivering takeaways.\n\nBecause these changes have been so recent and rapid, there is no breakdown in the official statistics, which means we can't say how much of the increase in self-employment is down to insecure working and how much to entrepreneurship.\n\nThink tank the New Economics Foundation published research in December, which suggested that in London the gig economy had grown by almost three-quarters since 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As director of colour at WGSN Jane Monnington Boddy's remit is to know what colours will be in demand in the future\n\nKorean retailers don't mind you taking lots of photos in their shops, says Jane Monnington Boddy.\n\nFor Mrs Monnington Boddy that's a good thing. Before her trip to Asia last month she bought a new iPhone 7 with the biggest memory available.\n\nIt wasn't so she could take loads of holiday snaps, but so that she could record the kind of things people on the other side of the world were buying, wearing, watching and doing.\n\nMrs Monnington Boddy works at WGSN, a London-based company that offers information on current and future trends in fashion, interior design and lifestyle. \"Know what's next\" is its tagline.\n\nAs director of colour Mrs Monnington Boddy's specific remit is to know precisely what colours will be in demand in the future.\n\nIn her week-long work trip she attended Seoul Fashion Week, Hong Kong's Art Basel art fair, as well as several other exhibitions.\n\nAll the time she was carefully gathering information: taking photos, recording videos and taking lots and lots of notes.\n\nIt is these kind of regular trips and her industry experience that help the 45-year-old to work out the next big colours.\n\n\"I think about where colour has been, what's popular and take that into consideration when I think about where it will go in the future,\" she says.\n\nPink has become hugely popular for both men and women\n\nTwice a year she takes part in the company's trend summit days where team members from across the world, including Brazil, the US and China, get together to share information.\n\n\"At the end of it you feel like your head's going to explode,\" she says. But it is these gatherings that form the basis of the firm's six-monthly predictions on the key upcoming trends.\n\nCurrently she is working on the firm's colour forecasts for spring/summer 2019. These will be announced in June, giving firms enough time to fire up their production lines.\n\nOne trend she's followed closely is that of pink. Once seen as a hue just for small girls, it has now become popular for both men and women.\n\n\"It takes a long time to become a colour that hits the masses and makes retailers a lot of money,\" she says.\n\nWhile working out what colour is going to be popular in future may seem like a niche pursuit, it's actually big business.\n\nEvery industry around the world uses colour. Manufacturers of cars, vacuum cleaners, phones, toothbrushes, coffee machines and other household goods all have to choose a colour range for their products.\n\nGetting it right can help boost sales. Apple iPhones, KitchenAid mixers, Beats headphones, Kate Spade and The Cambridge Satchel Company have all used colour to make themselves stand out from competitors.\n\nSome companies have even trademarked the branding colour they use, protecting themselves from would be copycat rivals in the same industry.\n\nManufacturing firm 3M's canary yellow post-it notes and Tiffany's egg blue box colour, for example, have all been trademarked.\n\n\"Every colour conveys its own message and meaning,\" says Pantone's Laurie Pressman\n\n\"To sell something you have to first get someone's attention. Colour helps to clarify a product's identity,\" says Laurie Pressman, vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, which provides colour consulting services for brands and products, as well as trend forecasts.\n\nPopular colours often reflect what's happening culturally and socially, she says.\n\nThe growth of the sharing economy, in which people rent beds, cars and other assets directly from one another, means lighter colours such as pale blues could come into fashion.\n\n\"Sharing means lightness, you don't want to be bogged down so you're not looking at a heavy palette.\"\n\nColours such as brown, which a couple of decades ago was linked to the earth and dirt but is now associated with coffee and chocolate, reflects the growth of those industries, she says.\n\nPantone chose \"greenery\" as its 2017 colour of the year\n\nPantone is best known for its colour standards which provide a unique identifying number for each shade.\n\nThese numbers mean firms can clearly communicate the precise shade of the particular colour they want to their suppliers.\n\nPantone also provides formulations for manufacturers to make sure the correct shade can be reproduced consistently in different materials.\n\n\"Making sure the colours are easily achievable is critically important,\" says Ms Pressman.\n\nWhat the colour is called also matters. \"Peasoup\" was almost chosen as the firm's 2017 colour of the year instead of \"greenery\", but Ms Pressman said it wouldn't have created the right feeling.\n\n\"Every colour conveys its own message and meaning,\" she says.\n\nBut can colour really make you feel something?\n\nHow a colour makes you feel can differ according to what country you're from\n\nRecent research found that ice hockey teams wearing darker-coloured tops were more likely to be penalised for aggressive fouls. One possible conclusion is that referees had an unconscious bias against darker colours, linking them to the idea of a \"black sheep\" and bad behaviour.\n\nAnother study found wearing the colour red could increase the probability of winning sporting contests.\n\nBut it's hard to find any large-scale scientific studies proving a direct link between colour and behaviour. This is because perceptions of colour are subjective, differing according to your own personal experiences and culture.\n\nIn China, red is a happy or lucky colour, but in the UK it's typically linked to anger or power.\n\nYet anecdotally at least certain colours are associated with particular feelings. Looking at a bright colour such as yellow can make us feel more cheerful, even if it's fleetingly, while blue is often seen as a calming, reassuring colour.\n\nGrey became popular in the aftermath of the financial crisis\n\nMark Woodman, a product consultant and a former president of US-based colour forecasting trade body Color Marketing Group (CMG), says the money firms invest in getting the right colour for their products prove it is important.\n\nHe has consulted on colour for paint manufacturers, a medical office equipment company, a porcelain manufacturer and even a company that makes the springy shred material used in gift bags and boxes.\n\n\"Colours have to connect with the zeitgeist of the times and that is what we work so hard at discerning,\" he says.\n\nHe points out how the \"vast movement of grey\" began to emerge after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nSimilarly during the 2012 US presidential election, undecided and neutral states began to be identified as purple by the media - a blend of the Democratic blue and Republican red colours. The result was that the colour became more popular.\n\n\"Colours have to make sense to the living environment,\" he says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nMark Selby twice hit tournament high breaks to crush Marco Fu 13-3 and reach the World Championship semi-finals with a session to spare.\n\nResuming with a 6-2 advantage, Selby hit back-to-back tons of 139 and 132 in winning five frames in a row.\n\nWorld number eight Fu stopped the rot but reigning champion Selby scored a breathtaking 143 to go 12-6 ahead.\n\nAnd he took the session's final frame to book a last-four meeting with either Ronnie O'Sullivan or Ding Junhui.\n\nFour-time champion John Higgins wrapped up a 13-6 win over world number 14 Kyren Wilson to reach his first Crucible semi-final since 2011.\n\nWorld number one Selby had said he was yet to find his form at this year's tournament, but was at his majestic best as he destroyed the Hong Kong man.\n\nHe said he played \"more or less faultless snooker\" in a repeat of one of last year's Crucible semi-finals.\n\n\"From start to finish there were only one or two balls I missed that I should have got,\" said the Leicester man.\n\n\"I was confident and focused and I think it showed. I didn't really give much of a chance. If you do finish with a session to spare it's great to have that extra rest.\"\n\nSelby's five-frame burst to stretch his lead to 11-2 saw two breaks of 50-plus to go with the two tons.\n\nBut, after Fu took his only frame of the day, there was better to come, with a ridiculous clearance of 143 featuring increasingly outlandish pots as he began to lose control of the cueball in the 80s.\n\n\"It was a good break because I was never in position,\" he said. \"I kept potting silly balls from nowhere. It was a freaky break.\n\n\"If I carry on playing like that I will have a chance in the tournament. To carry on playing like that will be difficult but I know my game is there.\"\n\nSelby finished off with an effortless 65, his tenth break of more than 50 in the match.\n\nHiggins has eyes on number five\n\nScotland's Higgins, 41, led Wilson 11-5 after dominating the first session from the moment 25-year-old Wilson damaged his cue tip with the scores level at 3-3.\n\nHe was at his unflappable best in building his lead and claimed two of three error-strewn frames on the resumption to seal victory.\n\nHiggins, who will play 2013 runner-up Hawkins or Maguire in the last four, remains on course for a fifth Crucible title.\n\nHis calm demeanour and shot selection stood out on the opening day and he got over the line following a scrappy morning's play which saw Wilson continue his all-out attacking strategy.\n\n\"Kyren was desperately unlucky to split his tip at 3-3,\" said the world number six. \"That is a big moment during the game.\n\n\"He was going for a lot and I was just trying to stay calm. He loves to go for his shots and you can't blame him. But when they are not going in it can be difficult.\n\n\"I can't wait to play in the one-table set-up. I am buzzing to get back to that. I believe I can win it again.\"", "One of the most important sectors at the heart of the Brexit negotiations will be financial services.\n\nAs Mark Carney said, London is \"effectively, the investment banker for Europe\" and the City is the financial capital of the European Union.\n\nNearly 80% of foreign exchange trading and 30% of all bank lending in the EU flows through the UK.\n\nHow much that will change after Britain leaves the European Union is a matter of increasingly tense debate.\n\nIn the UK, very senior figures within the financial services sector argue that it is \"nonsensical\" to argue that after Brexit, large amounts of euro-denominated trading should move on to the continent.\n\nThey point out that significant amounts of dollar-trading are executed through London - and neither the EU nor the UK has a single-market agreement with the US.\n\nMany on the continent of Europe see it differently, saying that financial oversight will only be possible if euro-trading valued in trillions of pounds a year is put under the direct jurisdiction of European Union-based regulators.\n\nThe biggest sector seen at risk is euro-denominated clearing, the billions of pounds worth of derivatives products traded every day to insure companies, for example, against interest rate changes, currency fluctuations and inflation risk.\n\nMichel Sapin, the French finance minister, told the BBC that it was a question of control.\n\n\"I believe that there is an issue of sovereignty and security of European monetary markets and therefore the majority of the clearing houses cannot remain in London,\" he told me.\n\n\"There will be movement, there will be a displacement and actually many of the financial institutions are already preparing themselves towards that.\"\n\nMany believe that if the trading moves, jobs will move as well.\n\n\"I don't see how it could be a good thing for the City,\" Mr Sapin said.\n\n\"The City will remain a large financial centre, will remain important for Europe as well as for the rest of the world.\n\n\"But the security of the monetary system is something that's of vital importance for any given country or any given groupings of countries - such as the case of the eurozone countries.\"\n\nHundreds of billions of pounds of trades will be at stake.\n\nAt the moment, the two sides - the UK and the EU - appear a long way apart.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSerena Williams says she revealed her pregnancy by accident, after mistakenly uploading a photograph on Snapchat.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam winner posted a picture on the social media app, posing in a mirror with the message: \"20 weeks\", before deleting it, with her publicist later confirming the news.\n\nWilliams, 35, said she took photographs every week to track the pregnancy.\n\n\"I was just saving them [for myself]\" she said. \"I've been so good about it, but this was the one time it slipped.\"\n• None How can you win a Grand Slam when you're pregnant?\n\nThe world number one, who is due to give birth in the autumn, said she discovered she was pregnant just two days before the Australian Open in January.\n\nThe American went on to beat sister Venus in the final and win her an Open-era record 23rd Grand Slam singles title.\n\n\"It wasn't very easy,\" she said. \"You hear all these stories about people when they're pregnant - they get sick, they get really tired, really stressed out.\n\n\"I had to really take all that energy and put it in a paper bag, so to say, and throw it away.\n\n\"Pregnant or not, no-one knew and I was supposed to win that tournament. Every time I play, I'm expected to win. If I don't win, it's actually much bigger news.\"\n\nWilliams, who is taking maternity leave for the rest of the 2017 season, said there was no change to her plan to return to the tour as a mother next year.\n\n\"I definitely plan on coming back. I'm not done yet,\" said Williams, who credited 36-year-old sister Venus for inspiration.\n\n\"If she's still playing, I know I can play. This [motherhood] is just a new part of my life. My baby's going to be in the stands and hopefully cheering for me.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Williams called Ilie Nastase's comments about her unborn child \"racist\".\n\nNastase, a former world number one and two-time Grand Slam winner, was heard speculating whether Williams' child would be \"chocolate with milk?\" at a news conference before Romania's Fed Cup tie with Great Britain last week.", "Joey Barton was never destined to leave football by going quietly into the sunset - so it should come as no surprise that one of the game's most complex, contradictory and divisive personalities has effectively been forced into retirement by an 18-month Football Association suspension for betting offences.\n\nThe 34-year-old has travelled a troubled and tempestuous road since emerging as a talented youngster at Manchester City, earning one England cap and a career full of headlines while also playing for Newcastle United, Queen's Park Rangers, Marseille, Rangers and Burnley.\n\nThe headline on Barton's personal website reads: \"Footballer. Question Time Guest. Philosophy Student. Future Coach. Fluent French Speaker. What Has Become Of Me?\"\n\nMany will wonder what will be become of Barton after his ban, £30,000 fine and warning about his future conduct after accepting he placed 1,260 bets on matches between 26 March 2006 and 13 May 2016.\n\nWhat is certain is that it is highly unlikely football has heard the last of an outspoken controversialist who mixes intelligence with a self-destructive streak that has too often disguised a player of genuine talent.\n\nBarton comes from the same Huyton area of Merseyside that produced former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard - a tough, uncompromising part of the world that shapes characters.\n\nHe survived rejection by his beloved Everton to emerge at Manchester City, where his ability after making his debut against Bolton Wanderers on 5 April 2003 made him stand out.\n\nBarton's constant courting of controversy, however, often overshadowed what he offered the team. It was a strand that has run through his career.\n\nHe picked up his first red card in an FA Cup fourth-round tie at Tottenham in 2004 and later demonstrated his rebellious streak by storming away from the stadium after being dropped by then City manager Kevin Keegan for a game against Southampton.\n\nThe more serious problems came off the field when he was fined six weeks' wages, with two weeks suspended, for stubbing a cigar out in the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy at City's Christmas party. Tandy later sued Barton and won £65,000 in damages.\n\nBarton was also fined eight weeks' wages after being found guilty of gross misconduct following a confrontation with a teenage Everton fan at the team hotel in Bangkok on a pre-season tour in summer 2005.\n\nIn May 2007 he was suspended by City after a training ground altercation left team-mate Ousmane Dabo needing hospital treatment. He was charged with assault, receiving a four-month suspended jail sentence on 1 July 2008 as well as being ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and pay £3,000 in compensation to Dabo. He was also banned for 12 matches, six suspended, by the FA and fined £25,000.\n\nBarton made his one England appearance while at City, a 12-minute appearance as a substitute against Spain in February 2007. He was linked with a recall in 2011 but then-manager Fabio Capello wrote him off, saying: \"He is a good but dangerous player because you could end up 10 v 11.\"\n\nIt was the old, old story. The talent was obvious. The temperament too risky.\n\nBarton joined Newcastle United in June 2007 for £5.8m but was arrested on 27 December 2007 after an incident in Liverpool city centre. He was charged with common assault and affray, and subsequently jailed for six months on 20 May 2008 after admitting the charges.\n\nHe served 77 days of his prison term and also continued to suffer on-field disciplinary problems, drawing heavy criticism from then-Newcastle manager Alan Shearer after being sent off for a late challenge on Liverpool's Xabi Alonso in May 2009 as the Magpies fought for their Premier League life.\n\nBarton was suspended by the club and the misery was compounded by Newcastle's subsequent relegation.\n\nHe stayed with Newcastle but his career on Tyneside concluded amid acrimony in August 2011 after contract talks broke down and Barton aired his frustrations on social media, tweeting: \"Somewhere in those high echelons of NUFC they have decided I am persona non grata.\"\n\nBarton then joined QPR but an unfulfilling spell - which included a sending-off at former club City on the day the hosts won the Premier League so dramatically in 2012 - ended with a loan move to Marseille in France.\n\nQPR were relegated in his absence, but even far afield Barton could not escape controversy, receiving a two-match suspended ban for likening Paris St-Germain defender Thiago Silva to an \"overweight ladyboy\" on Twitter.\n\nBarton's first spell at Burnley was an unqualified success as they won promotion to the Premier League and he was included in the 2016 PFA Championship team of the year, but a short stint in Scotland at Rangers turned into a nightmare.\n\nHe was suspended for three weeks following a training-ground row with team-mate Andy Halliday after a 5-1 loss at Celtic and his contract was terminated in November.\n\nNow, after his latest collision with authority, it is hard to see him back on the field again.\n\nBarton's reputation is as contrary as it is controversial - listen to interviews and an eloquent, thoughtful character can be detected amid the outspoken statements that have attracted such adverse publicity.\n\nThere were those at Manchester City, in particular, eager to highlight this other side of Barton. They spoke about an individual with very obvious personal issues who also had a softer side, as well as a bright and intelligent manner at odds with the public perception of an unsavoury, ill-disciplined individual.\n\nBarton's reputation as a midfield enforcer on the field often obscured the natural gifts that saw him represent his country and command much interest when he came on the transfer market.\n\nThe man regarded as too dangerous to play for England reported from Rio during the 2014 World Cup, penning an article for his website on 'Social Media, Protest, And The Pacification Of The Favelas'.\n\nEven to those of us who do not know him personally, it is clear there is much more to Barton than meets the public eye.\n\nHe was invited to appear on the BBC's flagship political programme Question Time in May 2014, although he admitted first-night nerves led to him being accused of sexism when he likened choosing a political party to making a choice \"between four really ugly girls\".\n\nIt was a sign of his status as someone with something to say that he was asked to be a panellist and an indication that Barton was always keen to operate on a broader front than simply football.\n\nBarton was a guest of the Oxford Union in March 2014, where he was invited to debate philosophy, football and social media at the university. His appearance was later described as \"inspirational\" by students.\n\nAnd he can be a character who, for all the lurid publicity, draws loyalty and affection - as demonstrated by Burnley manager Sean Dyche's willingness to take him back into the fold at Turf Moor.\n\nDyche prides himself on a tight-knit, trouble free, well-disciplined dressing room, so it was testimony to his high regard for Barton that he welcomed him back this season despite the player leaving Turf Moor for that ill-fated spell at Rangers following promotion back into the Premier League.\n\nOnly last week Barton displayed his enthusiasm for engaging in community work on the club's behalf, spending time with patients at the local Pendleside Hospice.\n\nBarton, for all the noise surrounding him, was seen as a leader and a mature, experienced voice at Burnley during their promotion season. It was a far cry from undergoing anger management in 2005 and also completing a programme of behavioural management at the Sporting Chance clinic, set up to help troubled sportsmen and women.\n\nIf Barton the man is a mass of contradictions, the same could be said of some of his opinions.\n\nBarton was embarrassed earlier this season when he dived theatrically after a clash with Matt Rhead at Turf Moor as Burnley slumped out of the FA Cup to non-league Lincoln City.\n\nHe soon found himself reminded of his own former stance on the subject via a tweet from February 2013 that had stated: \"Players who roll around when nobody touches them should be subsequently banned. I hate cheats. Authorities should address it.\"\n\nBritish boxer Carl Frampton tweeted that Barton should have been \"embarrassed and ashamed\".\n\nBarton is also prepared to fly in the face of conventional wisdom, often at the risk of ridicule, as when he recently questioned the current praise of Chelsea's Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year N'Golo Kante.\n\nHe said of a player on course for a second successive title with Chelsea after Leicester's triumph last season, and enjoying successes Barton could only dream about: \"At the moment, in England, people only swear by N'Golo Kante. It's the fashion.\n\n\"For pundits he's the best midfield player in the world. Oh, he's very good but I played against him three weeks ago and that's not the case. He's a fantastic destroyer in a phenomenal team but not a creator.\"\n\nSo what has become of Joey Barton?\n\nBarton has divided opinion throughout his career - and he was at it again in what was effectively his retirement statement when he said: \"If the FA is serious about tackling gambling, I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry.\"\n\nHe was referring to the links between betting chain Ladbrokes and the FA Cup.\n\nIt was a view that, yet again, polarised feelings. Was Barton making a valid point or simply trying to absolve himself from blame for breaking clear FA rules?\n\nIf this is the end of Barton's career, it is one that will be remembered with distaste by many and yet he creates interest to such an extent that he has 3.25 million followers on Twitter. He has achieved notoriety, but also plenty of interest, with his opinions on sport, politics and society and the occasional dabble in homespun philosophy.\n\nHe is prepared to lay bare his own shortcomings with gambling in his most recent statement and yet is regarded by his many detractors as someone simply excusing himself for more wrongdoing.\n\nFor all his faults - and his timeline of trouble hints at many - Barton is an intelligent, but clearly flawed man.\n\nWill there yet be more chapters in Barton's contrary, controversial, eventful story?", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKelly Sotherton feels her career has \"more meaning\" after she was upgraded to a three-time Olympic medallist following retrospective drug tests.\n\nSotherton, who won heptathlon bronze in 2004, has been given third for the same event in Beijing 2008 after Tatyana Chernova tested positive for a steroid.\n\nIn November, the Briton was moved up to bronze in the 2008 4x400m relay after Belarus and Russia's disqualifications.\n\n\"Until now I felt my career could have been better,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I left Beijing in tears because I thought I had failed. But I am a lot happier now because I feel my career has more meaning to it and I am worthy.\n\n\"I would swap all three medals for a gold, obviously, but to win three Olympic medals, regardless of what colour they are, is an achievement and I feel very happy about that.\"\n\n'It isn't just about me'\n\nSotherton, 40, retired five years ago after failing to recover from a back problem in time to qualify for the heptathlon at London 2012.\n\nShe initially finished fifth in the heptathlon in Beijing but climbed to third after the previously announced doping ban of Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska was followed by that of Russia's Chernova.\n\nAfter finding out she was to become a three-time Olympic medallist, Sotherton posted an emotional video on social media showing her reaction.\n\n\"I am happy but obviously at the same time disappointed to have missed nine years as a three-time Olympic medallist,\" she said. \"You feel all of the emotions in a space of a minute.\n\n\"All of my friends and family saw my emotions so they have been emotional when they have messaged me.\n\n\"It isn't just about me, it is about the people who support me and were around me at the time. They are happy because they feel like they have won that bronze as well.\"\n\n'Massive steps made but still more to do'\n\nMore than 100 athletes have had positive results in re-tests conducted by the IOC of samples taken during the London 2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympics.\n\nSotherton's compatriot, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, belatedly won the 2011 World heptathlon title last year when Chernova was similarly stripped of gold for doping.\n\nThe 31-year-old, who retired last year and is due to receive her gold medal from Daegu in a special ceremony at the World Championships in London in August, said: \"We have made massive steps to becoming a cleaner sport in the past year but there's a lot that needs to be done.\n\n\"It's not something that's going to happen in a short amount of time.\n\n\"Hopefully we have a fantastic World Championships and we don't have this case of three, four or five years down the line where people are having medals stripped off them.\n\n\"I hope as we continue with our sport over the next few years it just gets better and better.\"", "Bolivar goalkeeper Matias Dituro scores a spectacular goal from inside his own area against San Jose de Oruro in the Bolivian top flight.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Stop before you copy your boss into that email.\n\nIt's not going to make you look good - it's going to make everyone else in the office distrust you.\n\nThat's the finding of research into the pernicious \"cc effect\", carried out by a professor of management studies at Cambridge University's Judge Business School.\n\nDavid De Cremer has looked into the emotional undergrowth of office email traffic.\n\nWhen people keep copying in a manager, it doesn't create \"transparency\", says Prof De Cremer, but feeds a \"culture of fear\".\n\nBut what about the other unspoken evils of office email clogging up your inbox?\n\nIf I keep emailing they'll know I'm still here at work\n\nWhere are you sending that email?\n\nWhat makes you think I'm an attention seeker?", "There's a glint of pride in Abu Jaafar's eyes as he explains what he does for a living.\n\nHe used to work as a security guard in a pub but then he met a group which trades in organs. His job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money, and the influx of refugees from Syria to Lebanon has created many opportunities.\n\n\"I do exploit people,\" he says, though he points out that many could easily have died at home in Syria, and that giving up an organ is nothing by comparison to the horrors they have already experienced.\n\n\"I'm exploiting them,\" he says, \"and they're benefitting.\"\n\nHis base is a small coffee shop in one of the crowded suburbs of southern Beirut, a dilapidated building covered by a plastic tarpaulin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know what I'm doing is illegal, but I'm helping people, that's how I see it.\"\n\nAt the back, a room behind a rusty partition is stuffed with old furniture and has budgerigars singing in cages in each corner.\n\nFrom here he has arranged the sale of organs from about 30 refugees in the last three years, he says.\n\n\"They usually ask for kidneys, yet I can still find and facilitate other organs\", he says.\n\n\"They once asked for an eye, and I was able to acquire a client willing to sell his eye.\n\n\"I took a picture of the eye and sent it to the guys by Whatsapp for confirmation. I then delivered the client.\"\n\nThe narrow streets in which he operates are crammed with refugees. Around one in four people in Lebanon today have fled the conflict across the border in Syria.\n\nMost aren't allowed to work under Lebanese law, and many families barely get by.\n\nAmong the most desperate are Palestinians who were already considered refugees in Syria, and so are not eligible to be re-registered by the UN refugee agency when they arrive in Lebanon. They live in overcrowded camps and receive very little aid.\n\nAlmost as vulnerable are those who arrived from Syria after May 2015, when the Lebanese government asked the UN to stop registering new refugees.\n\n\"Those who are not registered as refugees are struggling,\" Abu Jaafar says. \"What can they do? They are desperate and they have no other means to survive but to sell their organs.\"\n\nSome refugees beg on the streets - particularly children. Young boys shine shoes, dodge between cars in traffic jams to sell chewing gum or tissues through the windows, or end up exploited as child labour. Others turn to prostitution.\n\nBut selling an organ is one way to make money quickly.\n\nOnce Abu Jaafar has found a willing candidate he drives them, blindfolded, to a hidden location on a designated day.\n\nSometimes the doctors operate in rented houses, transformed into temporary clinics, where the donors undergo basic blood tests before surgery.\n\n\"Once the operation is done I bring them back,\" he says.\n\n\"I keep looking after them for almost a week until they remove the stitches. The moment they lose the stitches we don't care what happens to them any longer.\n\n\"I don't really care if the client dies, I got what I wanted. It's not my problem what happens next as long as the client got paid.\"\n\nHis most recent client was a 17-year-old boy who left Syria after his father and brothers were killed there.\n\nHe's been in Lebanon for three years with no work and mounting debt, struggling to support his mother and five sisters.\n\nSo, through Abu Jaafar, he agreed to sell his right kidney for $8,000 (£6,250).\n\nTwo days later, clearly in pain despite taking tablets, he was alternately lying down and sitting up on a tattered sofa, trying to get comfortable.\n\nHis face was covered in a sheen of sweat and blood had seeped through his bandages.\n\nAbu Jaafar won't reveal how much he made from the deal. He says he doesn't know what happens to the organs after they have been removed, but he thinks they're exported.\n\nAcross the Middle East there's a shortage of organs for transplant, because of cultural and religious objections to organ donation. Most families prefer immediate burial.\n\nBut Abu Jaafar claims there are at least seven other brokers like him operating across Lebanon.\n\n\"Business is booming,\" he says. \"It's growing and not decreasing. It definitely boomed after the Syrian migration to Lebanon.\"\n\nHe knows what he does is against the law but doesn't fear the authorities. In fact he is brazen about it. His phone number is spray-painted on the walls near his home.\n\nIn his neighbourhood, he is both respected and feared. As he walks around people stop to joke and argue with him.\n\nHe has a handgun tucked under his leg as we talk.\n\n\"I know that what I am doing is illegal but I am helping people\", he says.\n\n\"That's how I perceive it. The client is using the money to seek a better life for himself and his family.\n\n\"He's able to buy a car and work as a taxi driver or even travel to another country.\n\n\"I am helping those people and I don't care about the law.\"\n\nIn fact, he says, it's the law that lets many refugees down by restricting access to work and aid.\n\n\"I am not forcing anyone to undertake the operation,\" he says. \"I am only facilitating based on someone's request.\"\n\nHe lights a cigarette and raises an eyebrow.\n\n\"How much for your eye?\" he asks.\n\nAbu Jaafar is not his real name - he would only agree to talk to the BBC on condition of anonymity.\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. Can you convince people to vote in one day?\n\nWith a general election weeks away, figures suggest voter apathy remains unchanged. Two women who don't like politics paid a visit to Parliament, but did it convince them to vote?\n\n\"I feel like politicians make decisions for people they don't know anything about,\" says LaTifah Atkinson, a 26-year-old woman from north London.\n\nShe is a university graduate who runs her own business. She has never voted.\n\n\"I currently don't vote because I don't understand what I'm voting for,\" she says.\n\nFellow businesswoman, Chiara Stone, a 36-year-old mother of two, is also disaffected by politics.\n\nShe says MPs are not worth what they earn.\n\n\"I don't think we feel Parliament does represent us because we don't understand how it works,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone. A third of people eligible to vote didn't cast a vote in the last general election.\n\nAccording to new parliamentary research, two-thirds of people aged 18 to 34 feel they know little or nothing about Parliament.\n\nBeyond the act of voting, the British public are \"no more politically engaged this year than last\" - despite last year's EU referendum - it suggests.\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme took LaTifah and Chiara to Parliament for a day. It turned out to be the day Theresa May sought to call a general election.\n\nIain Duncan Smith said the Commons can be a \"bear pit\"\n\nFirst stop was the House of Commons, for a tour with veteran Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith and a seat to watch that day's debate.\n\nBoth women said the infighting, the hustle and bustle, and even the way MPs addressed each other left them confused and alienated.\n\n\"You don't really have much faith in them when they are in the House of Commons having a debate and they look bored,\" she added.\n\n\"How am I supposed to be interested if you look obviously bored and you're scrolling through your Twitter feed in the debate?\"\n\n\"I think it is in Parliament's interests to get more people voting,\" Chiara added.\n\n\"And I think if you want to get more people voting then you need to make it accessible for them in this modern age.\n\n\"I think the problem is that so much of it is steeped in so much tradition and history, which is quite British, but then you also have to move with the times.\"\n\nAfter that, the pair were able to sit down with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"Do you feel Parliament represents you?\" he asked.\n\n\"I suppose no, we don't really think it represents us,\" Chiara said.\n\nHe told LaTifah: \"You've had a housing issue, that's a political decision. It's a political decision to build council housing, or not. It's a political decision to regulate rents, or not.\n\nMr Corbyn has been an MP for 34 years. But for new MPs, joining the Commons can be just as overwhelming as visiting on a day trip.\n\nThe SNP's Hannah Bardell - one of Westminster's newest MPs who joined the Commons in 2015 - says even new MPs can be left in a daze by the workings of Parliament.\n\n\"It was quite intimidating and quite emotional. I spent a lot of time getting lost,\" she says of her first few days.\n\n\"This place is designed to intimidate you and I think a lot of us just thought, 'No, we're not going to be intimidated, we're here to do a job and do our best.'\"\n\nThe SNP's Hannah Bardell is one of Parliament's newest MPs\n\nThe final stop was a trip to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to hear business leaders give evidence about the impact of Brexit.\n\n\"We've had sessions talking about the film industry, to people in television and today we were talking to people in the fashion industry,\" Tory MP Damian Collins, who chairs the committee, says.\n\n\"We can hold inquiries or hold hearings on any issue that is related to the work of that government department. What we try to do is look at the issues and then decide as a group what is the right thing to do.\"\n\n\"It was better than I thought it would be,\" LaTifah says, with Big Ben looming behind her.\n\n\"I do know who I would vote for and being here today, I can say that I would confidently vote for the first time in 26 years.\"\n\n\"It was massively different to how I thought it would be. I've come away now feeling that I have a good grasp of how politics works. But it is complex,\" Chiara added.\n\nBut she says she is still baffled by the behaviour of MPs in the Commons.\n\n\"It is just really hard to follow, all the language and the traditions they use, it didn't really make much sense.\"\n\nThey both said they have a great appreciation of what the role of an MP entails.\n\n\"But I also feel that it is a two-way street,\" LaTifah says.\n\n\"It is not just about the politicians and what happens in Parliament, it is about the public and the people doing their part as well.\n\n\"If we don't challenge MPs, they can't make changes on our behalf.\"\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\nCeltic striker Moussa Dembele will miss the Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen on 27 May through injury.\n\nThe 20-year-old suffered a hamstring problem in the first half of Sunday's semi-final win over Rangers.\n\nThe France U21 international is expected to be sidelined for up to six weeks during his recovery.\n\nDembele, replaced by Leigh Griffiths after 34 minutes at Hampden, has scored 32 goals in 49 appearances in his debut campaign since joining from Fulham.\n\nGriffiths, who scored 40 last season but has been a regular on the substitutes' bench this season, has 14 goals in 36 appearances.\n\nCeltic are seeking a domestic treble, having retained the Scottish Premiership title and beaten Aberdeen, who are second top in the league, in the League Cup final.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham will be feeling the heat after Chelsea beat Southampton 4-2 to edge closer to the Premier League title, say Blues goalscorers Eden Hazard and Gary Cahill.\n\nThe win put Antonio Conte's team seven points ahead of second-placed Spurs, who are at Crystal Palace on Wednesday.\n\n\"It's always good to play before and put pressure on them,\" said Hazard.\n\nCahill called the win a \"massive step\", adding: \"It's the first time for a long time we've played before Tottenham.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Chelsea took a fifth-minute lead when Belgium winger Hazard beat keeper Fraser Forster with a low strike, before Oriol Romeu equalised for the Saints from close range.\n\nEngland centre-back Cahill, who missed Chelsea's 4-2 win over Spurs in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final, headed his side back in front just before half-time.\n\nSpain striker Diego Costa put the result beyond doubt with two goals after the break - taking his Chelsea career league tally to 51 - before former Blues defender Ryan Bertrand scored Southampton's second in stoppage time.\n\nConte, whose side had been beaten twice in their past four league games, said: \"We passed a big step - a big psychological step - after the defeat against Manchester United.\n\n\"We lost three points, then we had to prepare a semi-final against Tottenham, then another tough game here. Mentally we have had a really important test.\n\n\"Our answer was very good. We must be pleased.\"\n\nConte turned and applauded all four sides of Stamford Bridge as the clock ticked down on a vital night in the Premier League title race.\n\nThe pressure valve had been released after the moments of uncertainty in the past 10 days as Conte and Chelsea's players re-asserted their position at the top of the table with a comfortable win.\n\nChelsea's superiority - and nerve - had been questioned after a timid loss at Manchester United came so soon after a shock home defeat by Crystal Palace - but normal service was eventually restored here and they have that important seven-point advantage once more.\n\nThe mood around Stamford Bridge was not exactly triumphant, but the feelgood factor is back after the FA Cup semi-final win over Spurs and what was ultimately a comfortable dispatch of Southampton.\n\nChelsea have responded to being backed into a corner, not just by Jose Mourinho's Manchester United, but also by an excellent Spurs side for the first hour of that pulsating Wembley semi-final.\n\nAnd much of the credit must go to Conte, who was also questioned after he was tactically outmanoeuvred by Mourinho when the Portuguese's decision to man mark Eden Hazard with Ander Herrera was a match-winning masterstroke at Old Trafford.\n\nHe rested Hazard and Diego Costa from his starting line-up at Wembley, used them when required to win that game and then started them here - with both pivotal to a win that pushes Chelsea closer to the title.\n\nConte has shown a sure touch from the moment he reverted to his true tactical instincts and his favoured three-man defensive system following a home loss to Liverpool and a chastening 3-0 defeat at Arsenal in September.\n\nSo it should come as no surprise that he has responded so well, and so calmly, to a couple of unexpected setbacks to restore balance at Chelsea and ease any anxiety among their supporters.\n\nConte can now sit back and relax on Wednesday night as Spurs take their turn in the spotlight by tackling a currently very formidable Crystal Palace side in the hostile environment of Selhurst Park.", "Mihai Nistor was the last - and only - fighter to stop world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. But while Joshua now earns millions, Nistor survives in his Bucharest apartment, still an amateur on a modest income. Why has he spurned boxing's riches?\n\nHe sits alone on a park bench, surrounded by an endless sprawl of discoloured communist-era apartment blocks.\n\nAs the midday commuter traffic bustles around him in this crowded suburb of the Romanian capital, Mihai Nistor is barely recognised by passers-by.\n\nIt's just six years since Nistor stopped Anthony Joshua with a flurry of hard punches to the head in the third round of their fight at the European Amateur Championships in 2011 in Turkey, but since then their careers have taken starkly different paths.\n\nThis weekend Joshua will step into the ring at London's Wembley Stadium to defend his IBF world heavyweight title in a unification fight against Wladimir Klitschko.\n\nIt will be one of the biggest fights in British boxing's history, with 90,000 tickets expected to be sold, and both boxers will earn millions of pounds for a maximum 36 minutes of ring time.\n\nNistor, 26, will watch the fight from his couch in the modest Bucharest apartment he shares with his younger rugby player brother. He still boxes as an amateur and his salary of £1,200 ($1,500) per month is funded by the Romanian army.\n\nBut Nistor, from one of Europe's poorest and most corrupt countries, insists he doesn't dwell on the gulf between his income and Joshua's.\n\n\"I don't do this sport for money,\" he says. \"I do it for pleasure, because you don't win if you are motivated by money,\" he adds.\n\nListen to Radio 5 live commentary from 21:00 BST and follow text updates on the BBC Sport website as Anthony Joshua takes on Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF and WBA heavyweight titles on Saturday 29 April\n\nWhat also gives him pleasure are his memories of beating Joshua. \"It was a special day,\" he recalls.\n\n\"My trainer said: 'Don't worry, Joshua is big but he'll go down quickly if you punch him correctly.' I didn't know who he was or what he was going to become… He was a good boxer, he was moving all the time and he had a strong punch.\"\n\n\"I beat him in 2011 and in 2012 he was an Olympic champion,\" Nistor adds, grinning.\n\nDespite Nistor's technical knockout win in Turkey, where he won a bronze medal, he failed to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics - \"poor judges\" were to blame, he says. His old foe Joshua, on the other hand, went on to qualify and won the biggest prize in their sport - an Olympic gold.\n\nNistor during his defeat to Iashaish of Jordan in the 2016 Olympics\n\nAn Olympic boxing medal can lead amateurs to lucrative professional contracts. Indeed, not long after his spectacular London Olympics win, Joshua ditched his amateur vest and five years later, the 27-year-old is now a global superstar and a multi-millionaire.\n\nHowever, Nistor continues fighting amongst the amateurs, surviving on his modest income. Until recently, only amateurs could box at the Olympics and he carries an undying dream of winning a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — despite his failed attempt to bring home a medal from Rio last year.\n\n\"I don't know what the judges were looking at,\" Nistor says, reflecting on his disappointing loss in Rio, where he was the only boxer to represent Romania.\n\n\"I lost the first round because of the emotion, but the second and third I won clearly,\" he adds.\n\nSpending time with Nistor, he gives the impression of a boxer unsure of how to advance.\n\nHe keeps training, thinking about the big time, but he can't move past a marker, the Olympics, that many fighters - win or lose - would be only too glad to use as a stepping stone to launch a profitable professional career.\n\nNistor started boxing at 16 years old, and many considered it too late for him to achieve anything meaningful in the sport. However, just three months after first lacing up his gloves, he won a national heavyweight amateur title.\n\n\"I am not too talented,\" Nistor admits. \"But I love combat and I like to work… Hard work, hard work, hard work.\" He repeats it like a mantra he's grown only too familiar with during his gruelling six-day-a-week training regime.\n\n\"If you don't have much talent but you work really hard, hard work will beat talent - every time,\" he adds.\n\nEven now, Nistor's boxing style could be a tricky one for any current professional heavyweight boxer. Although Nistor is short for his division at just 6ft tall, he has an aggressive, relentless style and power in both hands.\n\nSome parts of the Romanian media have nicknamed Nistor the \"Tyson of Romania\". With his thick-set frame and looping heavy punches - like the ones that stopped Joshua six years ago - the likeness is fitting.\n\n\"I am like Tyson because I have the power and movement,\" says Nistor, strolling along a congested Bucharest street, as car horns endlessly sound and locals scramble to get their lunch, paying him no attention.\n\nNistor is well aware that by delaying his move from the amateur to the professional code he risks missing out on some prime fighting years, but his desire to strike Olympic gold keeps on persisting.\n\nIt doesn't help, either, that he wants to remain in his home country. Nistor would probably have to move abroad to a country with a more developed boxing scene than Romania if he were ever to reach his full potential as a professional fighter.\n\nEven now, Nistor has to regularly venture abroad to get quality sparring partners.\n\n\"It would be to America as that's where people make it in boxing, and people there love the boxers,\" Nistor says, matter-of-factly.\n\nBeyond his vague indifference to follow in the footsteps of Joshua, Nistor has another strong reason to delay turning professional.\n\n\"Romania has only ever had one Olympic gold-medal boxer - Nicolae Linca at the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games,\" Nistor says.\n\n\"He's my hero. I'm delaying turning professional because I want to win a gold medal in Tokyo,\" Nistor adds.\n\nHowever, unlike Nistor, Linca never had the chance to cash in financially on his boxing abilities, because he fought during a period when Romania was a communist dictatorship.\n\nAfter boxing, Linca's life was blighted by Parkinson's Disease and he died in poverty in 2006.\n\nNistor says that the disparity in wealth and status between him and Joshua is of little concern to him, and that he's happy with his close-knit family life, his long-term girlfriend and to have \"beaten a man who won an Olympic gold medal\".\n\nEven still, Nistor believes that he could repeat his win against Joshua if the two were to fight again. \"I see many imperfections in Joshua… He leaves himself too visible [to take punches],\" says Nistor.\n\n\"I would study him for a month and create tactics with my coach,\" he adds.\n\nThe worry for Nistor, as he gets ready to watch his old rival fighting under the bright lights of worldwide stardom, is that he might never get his own shot at the big league.\n\nPhotos by Stephen McGrath except where otherwise stated\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has been knocked out of the World Championship, losing 13-10 to China's Ding Junhui in the quarter-finals.\n\nO'Sullivan's tournament had been overshadowed by his claims that he had been bullied by snooker bosses.\n\nBut he seemed unaffected by the controversy as he scored a tournament-high break of 146 to win three from four frames and get back to 11-9, having trailed 10-6.\n\nThe pair then shared the next two frames and Ding held his nerve, scoring a classy 117 to earn a semi-final place against Mark Selby.\n\nSelby was in sensational form to thrash Marco Fu 13-3.\n\nThe reigning champion scored 139 and 143 but it was no surprise the latter mark was beaten by O'Sullivan in a match that featured five centuries and 18 breaks of more than 50. Only one of the 23 frames did not include a half-century.\n\nO'Sullivan, 41, who hugged his equally emotional opponent at the end, said: \"It was a fantastic match and I am really pleased to be involved. I really enjoyed it. I would rather lose a good match than win an awful one.\n\n\"Ding is a special lad, a beautiful guy. He is all good; he doesn't have a bad bone in his body.\n\n\"He wants to win this title so bad. He is in a great place and I wish him all the best.\"\n\nIn the same way boxers collapse into each other's arms at the end and say, 'you are a great player'. That moment was very similar, regardless of whether it was a physical contest or not, it was the same mentality.\n\nFor all of the times when Ronnie O'Sullivan throws teddies out of the pram, players appreciate other great players. From Ding Junhui's perspective, getting to the final last year was a massive stepping stone. This is another part of the jigsaw puzzle and unlocks the World Championship a little further for him.\n\nDing has always been clinical in among the balls and he looks very strong in that department, but beating Liang Wenbo from behind, showing heart and determination, and now beating O'Sullivan, he has answered a lot of questions at the Crucible that he has not answered before.\n\nIt is a bit like a video game for Ding, he has beaten the boss but now has to go to the next level to face a bigger boss - Mark Selby.\n\nFacing the world champion will be a bigger hurdle mentally and we cannot say how it will pan out. Selby has looked astonishing so far, if Ding beats him, then he has to play someone great in the final. He is only halfway through in sessions played.\n\nDing, last season's runner-up, is looking to become the first Asian player to lift the world title, and said he \"played great\".\n\n\"I kept my form from the first frame to the last frame and I put him under pressure,\" Ding said.\n\n\"I do not have a good record against him but every time I had a chance I did well. He was not in his best form but he is still good enough.\n\n\"Ronnie said I looked a different player and I looked stronger. I thank him. To beat him you have to work hard. I am more confident.\"\n\nA spirited O'Sullivan comeback before the mid-session break kept alive hopes of him claiming a sixth World Championship title.\n\nThe Englishman had won a crucial final frame on Tuesday with a blistering century inside four minutes and, after taking scrappy opener, a rapid break of 97 made it three in a row to cut the gap to 10-8.\n\nBut Ding, who has often been accused of crumbling under pressure, responded with a fine 69.\n\nO'Sullivan was in full flow, turning down the chance of a maximum by going for a pink rather than a slightly trickier black during a magnificent 146.\n\nOnly Mark Allen and Graeme Dott have ever managed a 146 at the Crucible but neither did so in the seven minutes and 32 seconds it took O'Sullivan to clear up and reduce the gap to two frames.\n\nBut Ding, 30, kept his opponent at bay in the closing stages with breaks of 87, 63 and 117 to win two of the final three frames and get over the line.\n\nBarry Hawkins beat Stephen Maguire 13-9 to reach the last four, having made breaks of 126, 98 and 86 in the match. The 2013 finalist faces four-time champion John Higgins next.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "Jiranuch Trirat next to a picture of her daughter\n\nAn incident as shocking as a man murdering his 11-month-old daughter live on Facebook before killing himself was bound to provoke heated debate.\n\nThe 21-year-old man broadcast himself hanging his daughter from a half-finished building on the island of Phuket in Thailand, reportedly after ending a turbulent and sometimes violent relationship with his wife.\n\nThe man's Facebook page has received dozens of comments from Thai people outraged by the death of the little girl. Some men who have also had failed relationships have posted how they got through their problems and rebuilt bonds with their children.\n\nThais are accustomed to seeing violent scenes on their television news bulletins, which would be deemed unacceptable in many Western countries.\n\nPrevious shocking incidents, like appalling car accidents caused by negligent driving, have led to brief national debates, but have quickly dropped from public consciousness. But there have been some reflective responses to this incident, with a number of people urging people not to share the video.\n\nMs Trirat and her husband had a sometimes violent relationship, reports said\n\nThe long period of time the video remained viewable on Facebook - 24 hours - is one area the social media giant may be able to address.\n\nThai police were aware of the video almost immediately after the crime took place. It is not clear yet when the Thai authorities alerted Facebook.\n\nThe police now say that in future they will discuss inappropriate online content with social media companies like Facebook, YouTube or Instagram, and how to take it down quickly. But the challenge of stopping offensive and disturbing content on a medium, which is used by so many people, including two-thirds of the Thai population, is a difficult one.\n\nThe Thai military government does operate a range of censorship regimes, and blocks many thousands of websites, especially those carrying content deemed critical of the monarchy.\n\nOn the day this awful incident occurred, the Ministry of Digital Information and Economy demanded that local internet service providers (ISPs) do even more to block anti-monarchy content, and the government is believed to be trying to implement a single digital gateway which will allow it to wall Thailand off from such content.\n\nBut until now it has been wary of tampering with Facebook. A clumsy attempt to block Facebook shortly after the military had seized power in 2014 provoked a huge public outcry, and the social media giant remained unavailable for only 30 minutes.\n\nFacebook is hugely popular with Thai people and businesses\n\nAside from the general popularity of Facebook for social communication, it is also used by large numbers of Thai businesses to promote their products and services.\n\nUntil now there has been little public debate over the negative sides of social media, for example hate speech, trolling and fake news, which have aggravated Thailand's bitter political polarisation. There is no law against hate speech.\n\nSo Thai society is less prepared to address issues like those thrown up by this murder-suicide.\n\nA more fruitful area for discussion coming out of this incident might instead be the issue of domestic violence in Thailand, and the high level of suicides related to it.\n\nThe Thai Department of Mental Health reports that there are around 350 suicides a month here, a figure it says it is working to reduce.\n\nFour times as many men than women are victims of suicide, and the highest number of those male suicides are related to relationship problems, and reactions to being criticised or insulted, or loss of face.\n\nThe department says alcohol consumption also plays a big role in encouraging these men to kill themselves, and that it is very common for them to assault others, usually family members, before they do.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Maria Sharapova will find out on 16 May if she has been given a wildcard for the French Open.\n\nThe 30-year-old Russian's 15-month ban for using meldonium ends on Wednesday when she plays in the first round of the Stuttgart Open as a wildcard entry.\n\nFrench federation president Bernard Giudicelli said he would call Sharapova before the decision is made public on Facebook at 18:00 BST.\n\nSharapova is a two-time winner at Roland Garros, which starts on 28 May.\n\nGiudicelli, who said he will discuss Sharapova's wildcard with French Open tournament director Guy Forget on 15 May, added: \"The tournament is bigger than the players.\"\n\nThe five-time Grand Slam champion practised on Wednesday morning for the first time since her ban, before her match against Italy's Roberta Vinci.\n\nVinci has questioned the decision to give the Russian wildcards, but it has been defended by WTA chief Steve Simon, who said it is in keeping with how former dopers are treated in other sports.\n\nIn addition to Stuttgart, Sharapova has been granted wildcards by the organisers of the events in Madrid and Rome.\n\nShe does not have a world ranking after her points expired during her suspension and would need to reach the final in Stuttgart to be eligible for French Open qualifying.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that Sharapova is likely to be given a wildcard into qualifying at Roland Garros rather than the tournament's main draw.\n\nMeanwhile, the prize money for the French Open has been increased by 12% to 36 millions euros (£30.5m).\n\nThe winners will win 2.1 million euros each, a 100,000-euro increase from 2016, with first-round losers earning 35,000 euros.", "Chris Ofili's tapestry took three years to create\n\nI know some folk think Chris Ofili has gone off the boil since his Turner Prize-winning heyday, when he was considered one of Charles Saatchi's gang of Young British Artists.\n\nBack then, Ofili incorporated elephant dung and cut-outs from porn mags in his paintings, which upset Mayor Giuliani considerably (and the current President who called Ofili's painting, Holy Virgin Mary, \"absolutely gross\") when Saatchi took his Sensation show to NYC in 1999.\n\nNowadays, the Mancunian artist lives and works in Trinidad and produces lyrical paintings full of myth and mysticism, infused with the spirits of Henri Matisse and William Blake. El Greco-like elongations have taken the place of porn, the turquoise of the Caribbean Sea now as present as was once elephant dung.\n\nI like his new work. I don't think he's lost form, just moved on. The core of what he does is the same, which is to mix pop culture and art history. From a technical point of view it seems to me that his sensitivity to colour has developed, and his line is more assured. The effect of moving from a modern metropolis to a rural island culture has clearly had a big impact on how he perceives and represents the world.\n\nAll of which can be seen in his latest work, a large-scale tapestry called The Caged Bird's Song (a riff on Maya Angelou's book, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings) currently hanging at the National Gallery in London, before taking up permanent residence at the Clothworkers' Company - the London Livery Company that commissioned it.\n\nIt is arranged as a triptych, with the two side panels featuring standing figures pulling back curtains to reveal a mythical world. The male figure on the right holds a cage in which a songbird is perched, while the woman on the left has a sprig of black berries clasped between her fingers drooping in anticipation of being eaten by the bird.\n\nThe central panel has two lovers sitting by a rock in front of the sea. The man plays his guitar, while the woman drinks a green potion funnelling down from a tree above her head. If she looked up she would spot a man with a bow tie (based on the footballer Mario Balotelli) hiding in the branches, pouring the elixir she is knocking back.\n\nThe tapestry was hand-woven by Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, whose weavers have done a magnificent job in transposing Ofili's small watercolour painting into an enormous woollen wall-hanging. Had it been a single weaver working on the project and not four or five, it would have taken sixteen years to complete (it took just over three years).\n\nThe detail is remarkable, as is the weavers' ability to capture the fluidity of a watercolour painting in wool. For the viewer, the tapestry is a celebration of nature and love. But it is also a very real celebration of a craft skill that is sadly dying out in the UK.\n\nAccording to Peter Langley of The Clothworkers' Company, there are only two professional hand-weaving tapestry studios left in the UK. It'd be great if this artwork were the catalyst for a weaving renaissance.\n\nChris Ofili - Weaving Magic runs at the National Gallery in London from 26 April to 28 August 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea restored their lead at the top of the Premier League to seven points with a convincing win over Southampton at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAntonio Conte's side had seen their advantage cut by Tottenham after the Blues' loss at Manchester United - but this was an emphatic response to follow on from Saturday's FA Cup semi-final win against their London rivals.\n\nEden Hazard and Diego Costa were both back in the starting line-up after Wembley and were key figures, the Belgian putting Chelsea ahead with a low shot after five minutes.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Oriol Romeu bundled in an equaliser for Saints before Gary Cahill headed the title pace-setters back in front right on half-time, a moment that effectively decided the destination of the points.\n\nCosta confirmed Chelsea's supremacy with a header early in the second half before scoring his second with a low shot late on.\n\nRyan Bertrand, another former Chelsea man, was on target in the dying seconds - but the victory was secured for Conte's men and now Spurs must respond at in-form Crystal Palace on Wednesday (20:00 BST kick-off).\n\nConte gets Hazard and Costa calls spot on\n\nConte manoeuvred his resources to perfection in the victory against Spurs at Wembley - and did it again here as Hazard and Costa made decisive contributions to a vital Chelsea win.\n\nConte raised eyebrows when he left his two most dangerous attackers out of his starting line-up on Saturday but used them as game-changers to great effect, deploying them as substitutes after an hour and Hazard then scoring the goal that swung the match in favour of his side.\n\nHazard and Costa were back from the start against Southampton and illustrated why they have been such integral components of Chelsea's rise to the top of the table this season.\n\nThe pair combined in the fifth minute for Hazard to score and Spain striker Costa was simply too strong for Bertrand when he arrived on the end of Cesc Fabregas' cross to score the third goal early in the second half.\n\nAnd they were at it again soon afterwards - a neat exchange with Pedro leading to Costa getting his second and Chelsea's fourth with a powerful low drive in the closing moments.\n\nConte has put the Blues right back on track after their loss at Manchester United with wins in the FA Cup semi-final and here at Stamford Bridge - and his shrewd use of two of his most vital assets has helped him achieve it with a superb piece of management.\n\nSouthampton - and of course Tottenham - would have been hoping anxiety and pressure might just have played a part in a shock result at Stamford Bridge.\n\nAnd for a spell those factors came into play as the Saints recovered from Chelsea's perfect start to equalise through Romeu and then exert a measure of control.\n\nHowever, the hosts kept their nerve to run out comfortable winners and avoid the sort of slip-up that would have played into the hands of Spurs.\n\nStamford Bridge ended the game in celebratory mood and the feeling that Chelsea's equilibrium had been restored after those recent slips at home to Crystal Palace and away to Manchester United.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side will have felt the door had opened when Chelsea lost at Old Trafford and the gap at the top of the table was reduced to only four points. Suddenly the pressure was on Conte and his players.\n\nThe tables have now been turned and it will be Spurs and their manager who will be feeling the heat and the need to win when they travel to in-form Crystal Palace on Wednesday.\n\nSpurs have reeled off seven straight league wins - their best sequence since 1967 - but all the self-belief built up during that run will be required to face Sam Allardyce's rejuvenated side, who have beaten Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool in recent weeks.\n\nThey will not only have to respond to the Blues' win that restored their seven-point lead, but also to the disappointment of losing the FA Cup semi-final to their London rivals at Wembley on Saturday.\n\nThese are defining moments in the Premier League season - with a huge weekend ahead as Chelsea travel to Everton and Spurs face Arsenal in the north London derby on Sunday.\n• None Costa's first strike was his 50th in the Premier League in his 85th game - only seven strikers have reached the milestone faster.\n• None Hazard has scored 15 league goals this season - his best return in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Since their return to the top-flight in 2012-13, Southampton have scored more away Premier League goals at Stamford Bridge than any other side (nine).\n• None Fabregas' assist for Costa's goal was his 103rd in the Premier League - second only to Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs (162).\n• None Cahill has scored 26 Premier League goals - excluding penalties - the second most of any defender in the competition (after team-mate John Terry with 40).\n• None Saints conceded four goals in a Premier League away game for the first time since 5 April 2014, when they lost 4-1 at eventual champions Manchester City.\n• None The Blues have now failed to keep a clean sheet in their past 11 Premier League games.\n\nThe Blues are at Goodison Park to face Everton on Sunday (14:05 BST) and the Saints will be at home to struggling Hull on Saturday (15:00 BST).\n• None Goal! Chelsea 4, Southampton 2. Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 4, Southampton 1. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté.\n• None Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Eden Hazard.\n• None Attempt blocked. Steven Davis (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Labour has begun setting out its plan for the NHS in England if the party wins in June.\n\nThis includes a pay increase for staff, putting into law the mandatory minimum number of staff per patient and funding training for health professionals.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Labour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said the money for these pledges would be raised by increasing corporation tax.\n\nHow much will need to be raised has not yet been confirmed.\n\nCorporation tax - the tax on companies' profits - has been cut from 28% in 2010 to 19%, and is due to come down to 17% by 2020.\n\nLabour used official figures to calculate that between 2016-17 and 2021-22, cuts to corporation tax would amount to £64bn less in the public purse.\n\nWe are talking about the NHS in England only since health is a devolved matter and the other nations' administrations generally set their own policies.\n\nFor example, although the recommendations of pay review bodies are UK-wide, nations get to choose whether to accept them.\n\nIt is unlikely that the precise figures behind Labour's policies will be available until the party's manifesto is published, next month.\n\nEven then, we probably will not know exactly by how much pay will be increased and what level the minimum staffing will be set at, so it's difficult to say exactly how much this all going to cost.\n\nHowever, we can estimate how much various elements of the pledge might cost.\n\nLabour said it would increase pay to a \"sustainable level\" and lift the pay cap currently in force that means NHS staff pay has not increased by more than 1% a year for the past six years, although many staff also get incremental pay-rises to reflect progression within their roles.\n\nWe don't know exactly what a \"sustainable increase\" will be.\n\nMr Ashworth said the decision would be taken by an independent pay review body.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, has estimated that every 1% pay rise would cost £500m a year.\n\nLabour's own estimates put it at £350m, but this excludes doctors.\n\nWhen the government cut funding for health students by replacing grants with loans, it calculated this would save the Treasury £800m, so we can reasonably say reversing this cut would cost the same amount.\n\nLabour also set out plans to introduce mandatory minimum staffing levels.\n\nSir Robert Francis' report into the failings at the Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust published in February 2013 found low levels of staffing were linked to poor care and recommended minimum safe staffing levels should be drawn up.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee, a cross-party group of MPs responsible for overseeing government expenditure, estimated last year that the NHS was short-staffed by about 50,000. Employing this number of extra people could cost about £2-3bn depending on how many of them were nurses, doctors or in other roles.\n\nThe NHS spends about £40bn a year on front-line staff.\n\nAnother 50,000 staff would be about a 6% increase to the total number of NHS staff caring for patients, amounting to an extra £2.4bn on the pay bill.\n\nThis is a very rough estimate.\n\nMr Ashworth also pointed out that hiring more staff and raising their pay would help reduce the NHS's dependency on agency workers who cost the health service more than salaried employees.\n\nIn 2015, agency nurses cost, on average, an estimated £39 per hour, compared with £27 per hour for NHS staff bank nurses.\n\nHowever, this is not the only way Labour has promised to spend the extra money from raising corporation tax.\n\nSince Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the party, in 2015, Labour has pledged to raise corporation tax to fund:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nWales defender Neil Taylor has been suspended for two matches for his leg-breaking tackle on the Republic of Ireland captain Seamus Coleman.\n\nTaylor, 28, was sent off for the tackle during Wales' goalless World Cup qualifier in Dublin in March.\n\nHe will be banned for Wales' next two qualifiers against Serbia in June and Austria in September.\n\nEverton full-back Coleman is expected to face a long lay-off having had surgery on his fibula and tibia.\n\nThe 28-year-old's club manager, Ronald Koeman, and captain, Phil Jagielka, visited him at his home in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe Republic are second in Group D, level on points with leaders Serbia and four ahead of Wales in third.", "Spoofs and tall tales are a staple of internet music discourse. Every now and then something appears online which may seem remarkable, and could well be true, but turns out to have been created as a prank to fool unsuspecting fans. It's a world away from the definition of fake news as is applied to current affairs in 2017, although as we'll see, there certainly have been fake music news stories that overlapped with international politics.\n\nTwitter: Daddy Lieb It's for the children 3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\nIn 2014, there was a kerfuffle around a news story taken from Twitter, in which it appeared that doting new father Dan Lieberman had named his twin boys Ghostface and Raekwon after his favourite rappers in Wu-Tang Clan. He even provided a picture as proof, which was then Instagrammed by the real Raekwon with the caption \"This is live, family named their twins Raekwon & ghostface!!! #wu4thebabies\" However, it later emerged that the form in question is not a binding legal document, and had been created by Dan as a joke. He posted on his Facebook page: \"I got the best Father's Day gift I could get yesterday, but this is a close second.\"\n\nDerek Erdman is the receptionist at Sub Pop records, first musical home of Nirvana, and one day while bored at work, he decided to place a fake advert on Craigslist, using photos he found online, in which he posed as a former flatmate of Kurt Cobain's (and former member of a pretend grunge band called Gruntruck) with some of his possessions to offload. These included a Swatch phone, a video game called Kingman and a pair of skis, with the quote: \"He owed us rent and said he would get the box when he came back and gave us money but he never came back, then when he was famous he never really talked to any of us again.\" The reaction was quick and feverish, with fans rushing to grab some unheard of Nirvana memorabilia. In a since-deleted interview with the music site Revolt, Derek was asked if, seriously, anyone really wanted Kurt's skis, to which he replied, \"THEY WANT THEM BAD. They also want that video game. I've gotten a lot of replies from 'serious collectors' and people who will pay for shipping. Have you ever shipped skis? That sounds like it would be really difficult. Not too many people wrote about the Swatch phone, which was surprising.\"\n\nRadiohead's working method is often to sit on songs until they've found the right way to perform them, which can mean that some can be overlooked or simply left behind. So it's not really that big of a surprise for fans to uncover a 'lost' song of this sort and post it online. And indeed, that's what happened, in a music forum. The song, uploaded and shared with feverish intensity, was supposedly entitled Putting Ketchup in the Fridge and sounds exactly like an outtake from The Bends, with Thom Yorke's quavery voice in full effect. The only problem is, it's not Thom Yorke's voice, but that of a Toronto singer-songwriter called Christopher Stopa. And the song is actually called Sit Still. It was released in 2001 to very little fanfare. Speaking to The Vancouver Observer, Christopher said: \"I tried to push that song for 10 years, but if people are listening to it now, and like the song, it's an indication that I believed in it. There are lots of great songs on the internet. People who listened to my song weren't just looking for a great song, they were specifically looking for a song by Radiohead.\"\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\n4. Drake and Rihanna are making an album\n\n[LISTEN] Radio 1 Breakfast Show: is this the end of Drake and Rihanna?\n\nAlthough this may seem to be the most feasible of the stories listed here, the rumour that Drake and Rihanna were creating something together has a backstory that is just as plausible, and therefore just as suspect. In August 2016, fans were delighted to discover that a website had been registered with the URL drakeandrihanna.com, and a countdown clock. Surprise album releases being what they are, this did not seem beyond the realms of possibility, but TMZ discovered that the site was actually set up by web celeb Joanne the Scammer (played by Branden Miller). It was an act of revenge, after Joanne had been turned down for a selfie with Drake at the VMA awards. Branden created the site as a prank, then when fans started to take it seriously, he issued a video explaining that it wasn't real, and why he did it.\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\nMarshall Mathers has been the subject of two internet news hoaxes that claim that he has died in violent circumstances. The first is that he died in a car crash in the early 2000s and has been replaced by a near-identical replica - a yarn that has taken on similar characteristics to the conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney died in 1966, and will probably keep on popping up from time to time, whenever the (possibly not) real Slim Shady has a record out. But in 2013, a Facebook post was widely shared, with a grisly photo that purported to show him being attacked by a man with a knife. The link in the post then opened up a series of spam windows, but diligent journalists did check that all was well before exposing the hoax. A representative from the Eminem camp told E! News: \"He remains unstabbed.\"\n\n6. Cher is alive and well\n\nTwitter is very good at spreading breaking news and sharing emotional reactions, so the death of a beloved pop star is one of those moments in which the social media site is the perfect place to be. However, it's always a good idea to be sure of your facts before rushing to put fingertip to screen, as Kim Kardashian West found out in 2012. A tweet claiming to have re-tweeted a headline from CNN announced that Cher had died, and before long \"RIP Cher\" had become a worldwide trending topic, with news organisations scrambling to ascertain if this was true or not. Caught up in the moment, Kim tweeted \"Did I juist hear Cher has passed away? Is this real? OMG,\" and then: \"I hope this is a Twitter joke and not true. I don't see it on the news anywhere. I'm praying it's not true…\" It wasn't true, and she later tweeted: \"Can't believe people would make up a sick joke like Cher died. These people need to get a life! Thanks Twitter for clearing that up.\"\n\nIn July 2016, a report on a website called Kypo 6 flew across social media, claiming that Justin Bieber had told reporters that he was leaving Los Angeles and moving out to San Marcos, Texas. It quoted him as saying: \"I'm just tired of the LA lifestyle and I feel like, at this point in my life, I'd rather just live in a place full of real, genuine people.\" Howerver, it was very similar to a story on a site called The Clancy Report, suggesting that Justin had fallen in love with Roanoke, a city in North Texas. And some digging by Texan local news site Chron reveals that this exact quote has also been attributed to Justin Timberlake, Eminem and Nicolas Cage, to illustrate false news stories about Hollywood stars moving to less celebrated locations, such as El Paso, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Naperville, Illinois.\n\nThe most recent fake music news story to be passed around as truth concerned Lars Ulrich, motormouth drummer in Metallica. On Easter Sunday a story was posted on the metal news website The Metal Den claiming that Lars had announced his retirement from music, effective immediately, just as the band were about to head out on a world tour. He was quoted as saying, \"As we get older, there are phases of life that we enter into, and being a musician just isn't fun anymore,\" and suggested he'd be devoting his attention to other fields of creative endeavour. However, while several news outlets ran the story, it wasn't true, as was later confirmed by Metallica's management, to the site MetalTalk.\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\nThe Britpop band Menswe@r never sold a great many records, but they were very heavily featured in the music press of the time and their presence at the party cast a long shadow. So when their former guitarist Chris Gentry posted a picture of himself holding a platinum disc on Twitter claiming that their debut album Nuisance had finally sold more that 300,000 copies, there was an air of surprise, but not total shock. However, it turned out that all he had done is buy the disc on eBay and then insert the band's artwork. BBC 6 Music presenter and former Menswe@r drummer Matt Everitt told NME: \"My annual royalty cheques (approximately £83) would suggest something is amiss here. However, I'm currently expecting our long-delayed Led Zeppelin style reunion at the O2 and 15 CD/DVD/Blu-ray boxset retrospective of our lengthy and critically acclaimed career to become a reality, just in time for Christmas.\" The satirical news site Holy Moly ran a story that the band's singer Johnny Dean had been so taken in that he immediately started contacting his representatives to find out where his share of the money had gone. Chris Gentry has since deleted his Twitter account.\n\n[LISTEN] Elton John was not the first victim of a celebrity prank call\n\nIn 2015, a Russian phone prankster named Vladimir Krasnov, or \"Vovan\", rang Elton John claiming to be President Putin and wishing to discuss gay rights. Sir Elton, a critic of the Russian premier's \"isolating and prejudiced\" views, took the call and had what he felt was a decent stab at an opening debate on a subject close to his heart. Sadly, it was all a hoax, with parts of the recorded conversation ending up on Russian state TV. Krasnov told BBC News: \"It turned out that Elton John was really expecting that call, so he really believed he was talking to the people we said we were. He said, 'Thank you, you have made my day. This day and this conversation were the most wonderful of my life.'\" Had things been left at that, this would just be an audacious prank played on a pop star. But then something unexpected happened - the fake news became real. Both Elton John and Russian government sources have confirmed that an actual phone call took place shortly afterwards, with Elton telling the Today Programme: \"[Putin] was very affable, he was very apologetic, he was very sincere. As soon as I can get a date in my diary that coincides with him, then I will be going... to Moscow and I will meet him.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: First 100 days in 100 of his own words\n\nDetermining a presidency's success by inspecting its \"first hundred days\" is a bit of an artificial construct. If humans were born with 12 fingers, then perhaps we'd be evaluating presidents based on their first 144 days instead. If the Earth rotated a bit more slowly, then presidents would have more time to notch accomplishments.\n\nThen again, 100 days is plenty of time to get a rough handle on the shape and thrust of a presidency - and to evaluate what kind of progress a leader has made toward fulfilling campaign promises.\n\nThe first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency have been anything but boring or slow, but how much of it was sound and fury and how much entailed real action?\n\nHere's a quick review of some of the peaks and valleys.\n\nLet's start with the wall - not the president's only promise, but certainly one of his oldest, most high-profile ones. Candidate Trump constantly spoke of the great wall that he plans to build along the US-Mexico border at his campaign rallies, and the crowd roared in agreement when he said Mexico would pay for the project.\n\nContrast that certainty with this tweet, which the president wrote over the weekend.\n\n\"Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall,\" he tweeted.\n\nIt's a case of Trump promises meeting political realities, in 140 characters or less. Campaign rhetoric is easy; turning talk into action in Washington is much more complicated.\n\nThe administration has pledged to reshuffle some moneys to begin wall construction, but it is increasingly clear that Congress will need to find billions of dollars to make the wall a reality. That sets up a showdown between the president and legislators, with many Republicans - particularly those representing areas along the US-Mexico border - not keen on opening up the federal purse for Mr Trump's pet project.\n\nMr Trump promised to choose a Supreme Court justice to fill the empty seat on the bench from a list he released during the presidential campaign - and, by tapping Neil Gorsuch, he did.\n\n\"I've always heard that the most important thing that a president of the United States does is appoint people - hopefully great people like this appointment - to the United States Supreme Court,\" Mr Trump said at Mr Gorsuch's White House swearing-in ceremony. \"And I can say this is a great honour. And I got it done in the first 100 days. That's even nice. You think that's easy?\"\n\nThat kind of depends how one defines \"easy\". Mr Gorsuch's confirmation hearing was bruising, no doubt. Facing united Democratic opposition, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell broke with longstanding precedent to allow a simple majority vote for Supreme Court confirmations. Once that was done, however, it was simply a matter of the Republican majority in the Senate imposing its will.\n\nWhile Mr Trump may have only had to put a name on a piece of paper and rely on Senate Republicans to do the heavy lifting, he did tick a major item of his presidential to-do list. He satisfied a Republican base that stuck with him through a tumultuous campaign on the understanding that they'd get just such a reliable conservative on the court.\n\nThey may continue to stand by this president in the hope there will be more nominees like Mr Gorsuch to come.\n\n\"Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.\"\n\nIt's way too early for political epitaphs, but if the Trump presidency collapses under the weight of disorganisation and broken promises, this February quote from the president - made as it became increasingly clear his own party couldn't even agree on healthcare reform - will make a fitting inscription for a tombstone.\n\nAt one point during the presidential campaign, Mr Trump promised that the Democratic healthcare reform legislation - Obamacare, as it has become known - would be repealed on his first day in office.\n\nThen, after the first Republican legislative effort crashed and burned in late March - 64 days into his presidency - Mr Trump backtracked on his timeline.\n\n\"I never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days,\" he said. \"I have a long time. But I want to have a great healthcare bill and plan, and we will. It will happen. And it won't be in the very distant future.\"\n\nSince then there's been speculation that a new deal could be in the works - but such rumours have evaporated upon closer scrutiny.\n\nThere's no telling what the future may bring, but the reality at this point is that healthcare reform was Mr Trump's first major legislative push - the de facto focus of his first 100 days in office - and it has done nothing but expose the Republican Party as fractured body incapable of advancing a coherent agenda.\n\nPromise kept? Uh, no. Definitely not.\n\nMr Trump may have a bit of a mixed record when it comes to fulfilling his promises on immigration, but it's not for a lack of trying. His administration has taken two shots at curtailing the US refugee programme and preventing citizens of a handful of majority Muslim nations from entering the US, but those executive actions have been stymied by a handful of court judges (one, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it, residing on an \"island in the Pacific\").\n\nMr Trump has also stepped up immigration enforcement across the US, threatened \"sanctuary cities\" that don't co-operate fully with federal immigration officials, ordered a review of immigration programmes, including H-1B visas given to high-skilled immigrants, and announced a hiring spree on border patrol agents and immigration court judges.\n\nImmigration arrests were up 32.6% in the first month and a half of the Trump presidency, according to the Washington Post, with a larger share coming from those without a prior criminal record. Meanwhile, border apprehensions have dropped.\n\nThroughout the campaign the president talked tough on immigration - even though the number of undocumented migrants entering the US had been declining over recent years. Given that the law grants the president sweeping authority over immigration policy, Mr Trump is clearly following his words with actions.\n\nPromise kept? Yes - despite the effort of \"so-called judges\" on the mainland and in Hawaii.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Trump's foreign policy vision was a collection of sometimes contradictory, often controversial proposals.\n\nThe candidate spoke of getting tough on the so-called Islamic State, Iran and China, reaffirming an alliance with Israel and mending relations with Russia. He entertained the notion of lifting restrictions on the use of torture on detainees and giving the US military more authority to act, including by targeting the families of suspected militants.\n\nAbove all else, he promised to put American priorities first and downplayed support for US allies and international alliances that he deemed too burdensome.\n\nAs president, the contradictions may have changed in nature but the controversy lingers.\n\nHe pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as promised and has begun a review process for the North American Free Trade Agreement.\n\nTorture remains off the table, thanks to the influence of Defence Secretary James Mattis. Mr Trump has occasionally told foreign leaders - Germany's Angela Merkel and Italy's Paolo Gentiloni, for instance - of his expectations that they increase their military spending. On the other hand, he has recently acknowledged the value of Nato membership.\n\nWhen it comes to China, however, he's taken a softer line. He's backed away from his promise to label the nation a \"currency manipulator\" or impose steep import tariffs, instead seeking the nation's help in dealing with North Korea.\n\nThen there's Mr Trump's missile strike on Syrian forces following that government's use of chemical weapons on its own people. It's the kind of move that candidate Trump may have dismissed as ineffective - and, in fact, reality TV star Trump had condemned in no uncertain terms in 2013, when Barack Obama proposed his own Syrian intervention.\n\nPromise kept? Yes, no, maybe. Take your pick.\n\nOn 22 October, just a few weeks before election day, Candidate Trump gave a speech in Pennsylvania announcing a \"100 Day Plan to Make America Great Again\" - a contract, he said, with the American voter.\n\nIncluded in the accompanying document was an outline of a series of official-sounding pieces of legislation he would \"work with Congress to introduce\" and \"fight for\" in his first 100 days. They included the Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act, the End the Offshoring Act, the Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act, the Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act, and the American Energy and Infrastructure Act.\n\nAside from the aforementioned Obamacare repeal effort, which is currently a smoking crater somewhere on the floor of the House of Representatives, the rest of these pieces of legislation remain in the realm of unicorns and fairies. Mr Trump has said details of a tax plan are coming as soon as this week, but - as we saw with healthcare - a detailed plan creates a juicy target for opponents of all political stripes.\n\nThe president signed a raft of executive actions - rolling back Obama-era regulations, authorising the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and instituting a federal hiring freeze (which has since been lifted) - but in the vast scheme of things those are low-hanging fruit for a new president.\n\nThe White House has also boasted that Mr Trump has signed more laws at this point than any president since Harry Truman - but that list includes measures naming Veterans' medical clinics, making appointment to museum boards and creating a memorial to the 1991 Gulf War. Many of the remaining laws rolled back Obama-era regulations, most of which had yet to go into effect.\n\nLegislation that can last beyond any one president is a heavier lift, and Mr Trump has yet to show he has any real muscle.\n\nMr Trump is far from a traditional president, so perhaps it's unfair to evaluate the first few months of his presidency in traditional ways, such as by tallying up his policy accomplishments and failures. His voters largely didn't back his candidacy based on specific promises - on the wall, on healthcare, on taxes - but because of his attitude and his promise to shake up the political system.\n\nIf the performance metric is how much the Trump presidency has disrupted politics as usual, Mr Trump has posted a clear victory.\n\nHe continues to dominate the national conversation with his controversial tweets and off-the cuff statements, and his actions have defied traditional political norms and standards, whether it's his apparent steadfast refusal to fill lower-level political appointments or observe precedents on open-government practices. He's lectured foreign leaders, browbeat major companies and taken a poleaxe to disfavoured media (while still giving them choice interviews when it serves his purposes, of course).\n\nMr Trump campaigned on draining the swamp, and he's taken some executive actions to limit administration officials from becoming lobbyists after they leave government service. On the other hand, his promises to avoid conflicts of interest over his wide-ranging business empire have proven vague and unenforceable and he's stocked his administration with the kind of financial insiders and Wall Street bigwigs he regularly railed against on the campaign trail.\n\nSo far, however, his dedicated supporters - the ones who powered him to a narrow electoral victory if not a popular vote plurality - seem pleased as punch. According to a recent poll, 96% of Mr Trump's voters in November stand by their support of the man. They've apparently seen enough action to convince them that the president is doing what he said he'd do, even if it hasn't yet translated into legislative accomplishments.\n\nIf the economy is humming and unemployment stays low, they'll probably remain in his corner for the long haul. For them, the apparent chaos in the nation's capital is a feature, not a bug.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBurnley midfielder Joey Barton has been banned from football for 18 months after admitting a Football Association charge in relation to betting.\n\nThe 34-year-old has been fined £30,000 and warned about his future conduct after being charged with breaking FA rules for placing 1,260 bets on matches between 26 March 2006 and 13 May 2016.\n\nBarton said he is addicted to gambling.\n\nHe plans to appeal against the length of the suspension, calling it \"excessive\".\n\n\"I have fought addiction to gambling and provided the FA with a medical report about my problem - I'm disappointed it wasn't taken into proper consideration,\" he said.\n\nThe midfielder bet on some matches in which he played but he stressed in a statement on his website that \"this is not match fixing\" and that at \"no point in any of this is my integrity in question\".\n\nHe added: \"I accept that I broke the rules governing professional footballers, but I do feel the penalty is heavier than it might be for other less controversial players.\n\n\"The decision effectively forces me into an early retirement.\"\n\nLater on Wednesday, Barton tweeted: \"Thanks for the many messages of support. I have breached FA rules. I have been honest with the reasons. Many agree the punishment is OTT.\"\n\nThe PFA echoed those sentiments, saying that \"sanctions for breaches must always be proportionate\".\n\nIn a statement, they added: \"We hope sufficient weight is given to the sanctions handed down in other cases of a similar nature.\"\n\nBarton also called on the FA to do more to tackle the culture of gambling in football.\n\nHe added: \"If the FA is truly serious about tackling the culture of gambling in football, it needs to look at its own dependence on the gambling companies, their role in football and in sports broadcasting, rather than just blaming the players who place a bet.\"\n\nPlayers in England's top eight tiers are banned from betting on football but Ladbrokes is an FA partner and 10 Premier League clubs have betting firms as shirt sponsors.\n\nThe former Manchester City and Newcastle player rejoined Burnley in January, having left Scottish Premiership side Rangers in November.\n\nIn the same month, he was given a one-match ban for breaking Scottish Football Association rules on gambling.\n\nBarton admitted the Scottish FA charge of placing 44 bets between 1 July and 15 September 2016, while he was a player at Ibrox.\n\n'I bet on my own team to lose'\n\nBarton said that since 2004, on an account with Betfair, he placed \"over 15,000 bets across a whole range of sports\" - of which 1,260 were on football - staking an average of £150 per bet.\n\nBetween 2004 and 2011 Barton said that he also placed several bets on his own team to lose matches but added he was not involved in the match-day squad in any of those instances.\n\n\"I had no more ability to influence the outcome than had I been betting on darts, snooker, or a cricket match in the West Indies,\" said Barton.\n\n\"On some of those occasions, my placing of the bet on my own team to lose was an expression of my anger and frustration at not being picked or being unable to play.\n\n\"I have never placed a bet against my own team when in a position to influence the game, and I am pleased that in all of the interviews with the FA, and at the hearing, my integrity on that point has never been in question.\"\n\nBarton's bets on matches he started include a £3 stake on himself to be first goalscorer for Manchester City against Fulham in a Premier League game in April 2006. Then City team-mate Richard Dunne scored the first goal in a 2-1 defeat.\n• None 24 May 2016: Joins Rangers from Burnley on a two-year deal\n• None 19 September 2016: Banned for six weeks for a training ground altercation\n• None 20 September 2016: Investigated by Scottish FA over breach of betting rules\n• None 10 November 2016: Barton and Rangers agree to terminate his contract\n• None 17 November 2016 : Given a one-match suspension for breaking Scottish FA rules on gambling\n• None that he placed 1,260 bets on matches over the past 10 years\n\nWhy did it take 10 years to come to light?\n\nIt is understood that the FA was only made aware of the bets by the betting company in December 2016, which led to its investigation.\n\nThe high number of bets has resulted in a detailed and complex investigation and the timing of the charge was not related to Barton rejoining Burnley.\n\nHe was expected to have been charged even if he had remained a free agent.\n\nBarton began his career at Manchester City in 2001, joined Newcastle six years later and then signed for QPR in 2011. He had a loan spell with Marseille in France for 12 months, before joining Burnley for the first time in August 2015.\n\nWhat are the rules on betting?\n\nThe FA brought in new rules in 2014 banning players and staff at clubs down to as far as the eighth tier of the English men's football pyramid - as well as at clubs in the Women's Super League - from betting on any football match or competition anywhere in the world.\n\nPlayers and staff are also prohibited from betting on football-related matters, such as player transfers, the employment of managers or team selection.\n\nThat outright ban on football-related betting applies to all involved in the game from Premier League level down to - and including - the Northern Premier, Southern and Isthmian Leagues.\n\nPreviously, participants were prohibited from betting on a match or competition in which they were involved or which they could influence.\n\nBarton was charged with offences allegedly committed under both the new and old rules.\n\nHis Rangers contract was terminated following a training ground row which led to a falling-out with manager Mark Warburton and he played only eight games for the club.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIzzy Brown's strike was enough to give Huddersfield Town a narrow victory at Wolves and secure the Terriers a Championship play-off spot.\n\nBrown curled home in the first half, his fifth Terriers goal, as David Wagner's side moved eight points clear of seventh with two games to play.\n\nWolves came close when Dave Edwards hit the post as the hosts were frustrated.\n\nTerriers sub Collin Quaner missed a number of chances to extend his side's lead, but the Yorkshire side held on.\n\nAt one stage of the season Huddersfield had looked to be automatic promotion contenders but a run of two wins in seven games allowed Newcastle to take advantage and beat Preston on Monday to secure their Premier League place next season.\n\nHowever, the Terriers had the chance to be the first Championship side this season to seal a play-off place with victory in the West Midlands.\n\nChelsea loanee Brown's low strike past keeper Harry Burgoyne, a late replacement for Andy Lonergan, was the high point of a drab first half.\n\nVisiting keeper Danny Ward did have to deny Edwards in the first half, and had to be at his best to keep out Andreas Weimann's effort before Edwards could only fire the rebound against the woodwork.\n\nWagner's side had the opportunity to increase their advantage, but Quaner was wasteful. He fired wide from six yards, shot straight at youngster Burgoyne and took too long to decide when well-placed to allow a defender to block his strike.\n\nBut Town's 25th win of the season - the 22nd with a single-goal margin - is enough to take them up to third place and put them in pole position for a home second leg in the play-offs.\n\nHuddersfield head coach David Wagner: \"You cannot imagine how big this achievement is. The journey marches on into the play-offs.\n\n\"I'm happy for the chairman and everyone at this football club. We've all worked so hard to make this happen.\n\n\"We will now make the right decisions in the next two games to keep everybody fresh for the play-offs. Today we celebrate.\n\n\"We got together at the end to show our unbelievable togetherness for the fans. I'm very happen for them.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Bunn.\n• None Attempt saved. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nahki Wells.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Michael Hefele.\n• None Attempt blocked. Silvio (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Graham.\n• None Attempt missed. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Christopher Schindler with a headed pass following a set piece situation.\n• None Silvio (Wolverhampton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland manager David Moyes has been charged by the Football Association after telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks she might \"get a slap\".\n\nMoyes was caught on camera making the remarks after his team's draw against Burnley in the Premier League in March.\n\nThe 54-year-old has expressed \"deep regret\" for his response.\n\nIt came after an interview in which he was asked by Sparks if the presence of Sunderland's owner Ellis Short put extra pressure on him.\n\nHe said \"no\" but, after the interview, added that Sparks \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and that she should be \"careful\" next time she visited.\n\nAn FA statement said it is alleged his remarks were \"improper and/or threatening and/or brought the game into disrepute\", contrary to Rule E3(1).\n\nThe Scot has until 18:00 BST on Wednesday, 3 May to reply to the charge.\n\nSunderland are bottom of the Premier League, 12 points from safety, with six games remaining.\n\nFormer Everton and Manchester United boss Moyes has been in charge of the Black Cats since last July.\n\nSpeaking on 3 April, Moyes said: \"I deeply regret the comments I made. That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology.\"\n\nThe BBC confirmed that Moyes and Sparks had spoken about the exchange and the issue had been resolved.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Mr Moyes has apologised to our reporter and she has accepted his apology.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nA new city-based eight-team Twenty20 tournament has been given the go-ahead to start in 2020.\n\nThe proposals were approved by 38 of the 41 England and Wales Cricket Board members, with 15 first-class counties in support of the competition.\n\nEssex and Middlesex were the only two counties to vote against the proposals, while Kent abstained from voting.\n\n\"I passionately believe that the game has chosen the right path,\" ECB chairman Colin Graves said.\n\nThe ECB needed 31 members to vote in favour of the tournament which will be played alongside the existing T20 Blast.\n\nIt is not yet known which cities will have sides and where the matches will be played.\n\n\"Each of our members will benefit and, critically, so will the whole game,\" Graves added. \"We can now move on with building an exciting new competition for a new audience to complement our existing competitions.\n\n\"Our clear ambition is that this new competition will sit alongside the IPL and Big Bash League as one of the world's major cricket tournaments.\"\n\nHow will it work?\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• None Counties guaranteed at least £1.3m each per year\n\nThe ECB has said the competition will give cricket the chance to be part of \"mainstream conversation\" and believes the tournament can make the sport \"relevant to a whole new audience\".\n\nHowever, Essex are concerned it will \"exclude\" certain areas of the country, while Middlesex feel they will not benefit financially from Lord's being a likely base for one of the teams.\n\nBut Graves said they would make sure it benefited all counties and it marked \"an exciting new era\" for cricket in England and Wales.\n\n\"The ECB executive and T20 development team will now continue to work with the game as we build the new competition, ensure it is positioned distinctively from our existing competitions and realise its full potential,\" he added.\n\n\"All decisions - including the creation and base of each team - will be made within the game, guided by our shared strategy and built on best practice, research and insight.\n\n\"The benefits it will bring can deliver a sustainable future for all 18 first-class counties and an exciting future for the game in England and Wales.\"", "Nepal needs women like Sanumaya to help rebuild\n\nReconstruction in Nepal has been slow since a devastating earthquake two years ago. But in some rural areas women are breaking with tradition and picking up tools to speed things up.\n\nSanumaya Kumal does everything from carrying sand and bricks, to digging foundations.\n\nIn a badly affected district north-west of Kathmandu, she and other women are helping rebuild houses damaged by the quake.\n\nWomen have traditionally been limited to household chores but with many men working abroad, Nepal faces a lack of manpower at a crucial time - hence Sanumaya's move into construction.\n\n\"I am very happy with my job. I can do everything that a male mason can do,\" says Sanumaya, who used to work on a farm.\n\nHer other tasks include building walls, roof-fitting and plastering.\n\nSanumaya says she's just as good at the work as the men\n\nAccording to official estimates, nearly 1,500 young Nepalis travel to the Gulf and the Middle East every day in search of jobs.\n\nOfficials say this has created a labour shortage locally and is even holding up reconstruction and essential work on schools and health centres.\n\nBut in the areas worst hit by the 25 April 2015 earthquake, women are gradually taking up prominent roles in reconstruction.\n\nMore than $4bn has been pledged in post-quake aid but progress in one of the world's poorest countries has been painfully slow.\n\nThe disaster killed nearly 9,000 people and damaged a million houses.\n\nRural women can earn a good wage building - and they say it's safe\n\nVarious national and international organisations have been helping the women gain the skills they need to build.\n\nAnd the women say they are earning a decent living, as well as being happy that they are taking part in important national work.\n\nSanumaya was one of eight women the BBC found working at the building site in the town of Bidur in Nuwakot district.\n\nHer fellow construction worker Srijana Kumal says she likes the work because the pay is attractive.\n\n\"Women are facing a lot of problems when they go abroad for work,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Almost all the houses in the villages are damaged. We have a lot of work to do here and the working conditions are very safe.\"\n\nSanumaya and her friends are making about 1,200 Nepalese rupees ($11.50; £9) for a day's work in their new roles, a decent sum compared with other manual jobs in rural Nepal.\n\nMany of Nepal's men are working abroad, or don't have the right building skills\n\nThe Post Disaster Recovery Framework states that Nepal needs nearly 60,000 skilled building workers to complete the reconstruction of houses within five years.\n\nHowever, officials say that as well as the manpower shortage, many existing construction workers do not know how to build houses to earthquake-resistant specifications.\n\nThere are no reliable figures on how many women are currently involved in reconstruction in Nepal.\n\nBut the United Nations and other donor agencies who are providing training to construction workers say they have given high priority to enrolling women on their courses.\n\nAnd Sanumaya and her colleagues have no shortage of work.\n\n\"With the reconstruction going on, I am busy almost every day,\" she says.", "Surrey and England all-rounder Zafar Ansari has retired from cricket at the age of 25, saying he has \"other ambitions that I want to fulfil\".\n\nAnsari made his Test debut for England in October, against Bangladesh, before playing two Tests against India.\n\n\"After seven years as a professional cricketer and almost two decades in total playing, I have decided to bring my cricket career to an end,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"While the timing may come as a surprise, I have always maintained that cricket was just one part of my life and that I have other ambitions that I want to fulfil.\n\n\"With that in mind, I am now exploring another career, potentially in law, and to achieve this I have to begin the process now.\"\n\nAnsari, who has a double first in politics, philosophy and sociology from Cambridge University and a Master's degree in history from Royal Holloway, has been at Surrey since the age of eight.\n\nHe made his England debut in a one-day international against Ireland in 2015 before being called up to England's Test squad to play Bangladesh and India in 2016 - a tour he has said came too early for him.\n\nThe all-rounder played just one of Surrey's three County Championship matches this season following injury, scoring three runs and failing to take a wicket in a draw with Lancashire.\n\nSurrey's director of cricket, Alec Stewart, told BBC Sport: \"It is a surprise because it has come a month into the season but it is not a surprise that he has retired at an early age.\n\n\"He has told me on numerous occasions that cricket is a part of his life, not his whole life. He is a highly-intelligent individual, he has played cricket for Surrey and England and now he wants to have a different type of career.\n\n\"It is a brave decision, a tough one and one he has thought through and discussed with family, friends and people he respects. He examined it thoroughly and considered the upsides and downsides. He has decided now is the time and I completely respect that.\"", "If in years to come, students are asked an essay question - Is Nuance an Effective Weapon In Politics? - they might cite Labour's position on Brexit in 2017 in their answer.\n\nAs things stand, with the party trailing in the polls, it would appear that if it is a weapon at all, it's been decommissioned.\n\nOn the surface, Labour has a difficult task. It has to attract - or at least not repel - those Labour voters that backed Leave in last year's EU referendum, as well as those who backed Remain.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats - starting from a low base - need only to attract a small percentage of the 48% who voted Remain to improve their representation in Parliament.\n\nSo campaigning to reverse the result of the referendum - by having a second one - carries little political risk for them.\n\nThe Conservatives can pretty much go hammer and tongs for the UKIP vote by saying they can deliver on Brexit - and achieve sympathetic headlines from some of the tabloids as a bonus.\n\nLabour has a trickier balancing act to perform but some in the party's ranks wonder if their frontbench isn't making the issue more difficult for itself than it need be.\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer set out Labour's position to an audience of successful business people, professionals, lobbyists and one or two trade unionists today, the vast majority of whom were Remainers.\n\nTim Farron has nothing to lose by promising second referendum\n\nSir Keir tried to emphasise the differences between Labour and the Conservatives - Labour would prioritise trade with the EU; it might stay in the customs union; it would give EU citizens a unilateral guarantee that they could stay on in Britain; and, symbolically, it would ditch the Great Repeal Bill and emphasise the continuation of EU rights post-Brexit.\n\nBut some in the audience were privately worried that the differences with the Conservatives were too subtle.\n\nGeneral election campaigns are painted in primary colours, not in shades of grey.\n\nSir Keir ruled out a second referendum because he said Labour had to \"genuinely\" accept the referendum result but also, for practical reasons, he felt there would have to be transitional arrangements at the end of the two-year Article 50 process so the final nature of any deal might not be apparent for six years.\n\nNow when Sir Keir was introduced, his audience of achievers were informed that he had a \"brain the size of China\".\n\nBut some who heard him speak - while not doubting the Asiatic extent of the former Director of Public Prosecutions' legal mind - privately wondered whether his political nous was more in the Luxembourg or Monaco range.\n\nBecause while a second referendum might not turn out to be practical, signalling a willingness to hold one might rally Remain votes to Labour and create a far less subtle divide between his party and the Conservatives.\n\nAnd while many in the audience like and sympathised with him - so much so that one of them confided that he had refrained from asking a difficult question - they were keen for more clarity.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary told them that he would put jobs and the economy first.\n\nSir Keir Starmer left some in his audience wanting more\n\nHe said immigration shouldn't be the \"over-arching\" concern in negotiations. But he also insisted that free movement would end when Britain left the EU.\n\nHe was asked by Sir Roger Lyons - a former union leader - what was wrong with the \"Norway model\" - a country outside the EU which has traded free movement for single market access.\n\nThat would indeed involve putting the economy before control of immigration.\n\nSir Keir said that what works for Norway wouldn't necessarily work for the UK. He preferred a bespoke deal.\n\nHe then made clear that migration was a key concern after all: \"We must listen to what people tell us about immigration.\"\n\nIt was only in an interview with the BBC's John Pienaar that he indicated that negotiations to achieve a good trade deal with the EU might involve discussion of free movement of labour (not of all people, as at present).\n\nIn other words, the freedom of EU citizens to move to take up offers of work.\n\nBut this wasn't said loudly and proudly in the speech itself.\n\nSo not only some in the audience but former - and even two current frontbenchers - have been questioning privately whether the party's message should be more robustly opposed to Mrs May's apparent Brexit strategy, and should be more explicit about a route back to the EU if negotiations go badly.\n\nSome of them have read an analysis by polling expert Professor John Curtice, which concluded: \"Most of those who voted Labour in 2015 - including those living in Labour seats in the North and the Midlands - backed Remain.\n\n\"The party is thus at greater risk of losing votes to the pro-Remain Liberal Democrats than to pro-Brexit UKIP.\"\n\nBut for now the strategy, if not all the detail, is clear - the desire to appeal to Leave voters on immigration and jobs, and to Remainers in vying to enjoy a close partnership with the EU and as many of the benefits of the single market as possible.\n\nThat requires a nuanced message. So that essay question will be definitively answered in this election.\n\nBut with Labour's campaign messages emphasising public services, the NHS, and the economy - and their determination not to allow this to be a \"Brexit election\" - I suspect the party's strategists already know the answer.", "Three or four dress changes, a bevy of bridesmaids, photos taken by drone and its own #weddinghashtag.\n\nThe modern wedding has begun to take on the look of a vulgar \"arms race\", a lifestyle magazine has warned.\n\nCountry Life has urged people to rein it in a bit - saying weddings, and their constant cataloguing on visual social media, may put couples under pressure to spend big.\n\nThey also place guests under duress to pay for the hen-do; the stag weekend; the day itself; a present or honeymoon contribution; and a new outfit.\n\n\"The whole thing has got rather out of hand,\" editor Mark Hedges observes.\n\nFigures from the close of the 2016 wedding season put the average cost of the UK wedding at £27,000 and that rises to £38,000 in London.\n\nWebsite Bridebook looked at 20,000 UK weddings and found 4% of those held in the south-east of England cost more than £100,000.\n\nConsidering the latest figures from the ONS show there were 247,372 marriages between opposite sex couples in England and Wales in 2014, and 4,850 same sex couples tied the knot, it is certainly big business.\n\nThere were also 111,169 divorces in the same year, and while the average UK annual income stands at around £27,195, the costs are substantial to most, and unrealistic for many.\n\nThe magazine's Rosie Paterson believes there is a trend for \"very elaborate showy weddings\" that detract from the real purpose of the day.\n\nShe says: \"I've seen a few friends go through the planning process, and not necessarily enjoying it. This is our gentle plea for restraints for weddings to come back to what they are really about - the wedding itself.\"\n\nWeddings abroad from Mexico to Vietnam, stag dos in Europe or Las Vegas, wedding styling or themes poached from celebrity wedding culture or reality shows like Don't Tell the Bride. They all feed the fire, she says.\n\nWhen weddings are then posted on Instagram or Pinterest, with their own hashtag, she adds, it may be an outlet for creativity, but: \"You're suddenly looking at how everyone else is doing it. There's the ooh and aah of a giant party, but you are not, in fact, looking at the commitment. \"\n\nMark Hedges adds: \"Everyone sees what everyone else has done and feels they have to do better.\n\n\"They don't need to do better, they just need to get married and have a very special, sometimes simple, day. It should be fun, it should be delightful.\"\n\nThen there's the \"nightmare\" of the three-day extravaganza, says Hedges, culminating in that \"sorry, sorry day afterwards, when everyone's probably got slightly sore heads, wondering why they can't go home\".\n\nBut is advice from a middle-to-upper-class lifestyle magazine on how to keep it real a bit rich?\n\nPeople have always been competitive. Bridezilla is no new phenomenon.\n\nIdealised images, in a vast range of wedding magazines, have been around for years.\n\nFor nuptials organiser George Watts, known as the Wedding Fairy it's all relative and based on what individuals want to achieve with, as he puts it, \"their big day\".\n\n\"Some people might want to host their wedding in a two-star Michelin restaurant, some might want the local country pub. At the end of the day, it's the couple's choice,\" he says.\n\nHe is currently planning a client's six-figure celebration, \"£100,000 plus, it's a huge wedding\". And he says there are more choices available than there were 20 years ago.\n\n\"I deal with so many couples, particularly brides, who have dreamt of their wedding day all their life. They've saved for it all their life, their family have. So why not put on a big day exactly how they want to?\" he asks.\n\n\"Instead of just the standard cake, flowers and dress there's so many more elements that people can bring into their day to make it their own, make it memorable.\"\n\nPerhaps, as the 2017 summer wedding season looms, it is all to plan for.\n\nTake the last letter in today's Telegraph, from one Wendy May of Hereford, which ponders: \"Sir - My son and his family are attending a wedding next weekend. The best man is a dog.\n\n\"Is this a common occurrence, or a new fad?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nJohanna Konta put a difficult week behind her to reach the second round of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart with victory over Japan's Naomi Osaka.\n\nKonta, who left the court in tears after being verbally abused by Romania captain Ilie Nastase in a Fed Cup tie last week, won 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-1.\n\nThe British number one found it tough but Osaka's challenge faded in set three as she struggled with an injury.\n\nKonta will face Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova in round two.\n\nThe 25-year-old told BT Sport: \"I think obviously you could tell she [Osaka] was struggling, I hope everything is OK with her and she recovers quickly.\n\n\"It was just important for me to stay on my own game. Even though I lost the second set I didn't feel like I did much wrong.\"\n\nKonta had not dropped a set in two previous meetings with 19-year-old Osaka but clay is her weakest surface.\n\nThe world number seven struggled for consistency in the opening two sets but the key moment came when she saved two break points in the third game of the third set before then breaking Osaka's serve in the next.\n\nAndy Murray is through to the third round of the Barcelona Open after Australia's Bernard Tomic withdrew before the match with an injured back.\n\nMurray, 29, will play the winner between Spanish pair Albert Montanes and Feliciano Lopez in the last 16.\n\nThe world number one accepted a late wildcard for Barcelona after his third-round defeat by Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas in Monte Carlo on Thursday.\n\nFellow Briton Dan Evans faces Austria's Dominic Thiem in the third round.\n\nBoth Evans and Murray will play their matches on Thursday.\n\nElsewhere, Britain's Aljaz Bedene beat the Netherlands' world number 46 Robin Haase 6-4 6-4 in the second round of the Hungarian Open in Budapest.\n\nIt was the 14th win in a row for Bedene, ranked 68th in the world, who will play either Ivo Karlovic or Damir Dzumhur in the next round.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP's Angus Robertson clashed with Theresa May at the final PMQs before the election\n\nAngus Robertson has become perhaps the most high-profile SNP MP. He leads the third biggest group in parliament and gets to quiz the prime minister weekly.\n\nHis questioning at PMQs has won him plaudits from commentators at Westminster.\n\nBut the Conservatives are hoping he could be one of the biggest scalps on 8 June. Senior Tories tell me Moray - the constituency Mr Robertson has held since 2001 and his party since 1987 - is one of their top targets in Scotland.\n\nPolls suggest the Tories are on the up in Scotland. Although some are playing down the idea of the party winning as many as 12 seats - as one poll indicated - they are happy to entertain the idea they could take Moray. That's despite Mr Robertson winning by more than 9,000 votes last time.\n\nSo, why is this a Tory target?\n\nWell it's the area of Scotland which came closest to backing leave in the EU referendum (every counting area in Scotland voted remain, but in Moray the remain vote was 50.1% remain, by 49.9% leave). The Tories hope they can win over those leave voters with their Brexit plans.\n\nThey'll be hoping too that their vocal opposition to a another independence referendum (which will be key to their Scottish campaign) appeals to the 57.5% of Moray voters who voted No in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe party also had an encouraging result here in the equivalent Holyrood seat. Last year (pre-EU referendum) at the Scottish Parliament elections, the Conservatives cut the SNP majority from almost 11,000 to under 3,000.\n\nThe Tories have picked MSP Douglas Ross to contest the seat.\n\nAre the SNP worried? If so, they're not admitting it for now. They point out they've held the seat for 30 years and have no intention of letting that change.\n\nThey also point out Mr Ross hasn't quit his Holyrood list seat yet, unlike his colleague John Lamont who has said he'll leave Holyrood to contest Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk. If Mr Ross was confident, the SNP suggest, he would follow suit.\n\nAnd as for Mr Robertson himself, he was quick to respond to this piece on social media.\n\nUsing his twitter feed he said: \"Don't mind disappointing the Tories, but I look forward to defeating their candidate for the third time in a row.\"\n\nNevertheless, expect the Tories to put a lot of time, money and effort into campaigning here, especially with local fishermen and those in the agricultural sector.\n\nExpect the SNP to put a lot into it too. It's a campaign and result we'll be watching closely.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland were left on the brink of relegation from the Premier League after losing the Tees-Wear derby to fellow strugglers Middlesbrough, who registered a first victory of 2017.\n\nMarten de Roon's goal early in a drab contest was the 59th Sunderland have conceded this season and left the Black Cats 12 points adrift of safety with five games remaining.\n\nSunderland face Bournemouth on Saturday and could be relegated if they fail to win and other results go against them.\n\nThe Black Cats are bottom of the league, having spent 236 days in the relegation zone, and have taken just two points from the last 27 available.\n\nSecond-bottom Middlesbrough cannot be relegated this weekend but they face a tough run-in against Manchester City, Chelsea, Southampton and Liverpool.\n\nHow could Sunderland go down?\n\nSunderland will be relegated at the weekend if:\n• None They lose to Bournemouth and Hull avoid defeat at Southampton\n• None They lose to Bournemouth and Swansea - who play on Sunday - beat Manchester United\n• None They draw with Bournemouth and Hull win at Southampton\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes, who was charged by the FA prior to the game after telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks she might \"get a slap\", said before kick-off he thought his side could still keep their Premier League status.\n\nHowever, the on-field body language and frantic decision-making betrayed a side low on confidence.\n\nThe Black Cats started strongly, but once De Roon scored they lacked intensity, losing possession too easily to leave Moyes frustrated on the sidelines.\n\nThe defence that allowed an unmarked De Roon to ghost in and score was culpable again minutes later as Stewart Downing ran through on goal but Jordan Pickford - one of Sunderland's few bright spots this season - made the stop.\n\nSunderland looked slightly better going forward, with record signing Didier Ndong lashing a shot at Brad Guzan before Billy Jones headed the rebound over. However, in a tepid game where both sides struggled for rhythm, the Black Cats could not keep the pressure on for long.\n\nThe boos the Sunderland players walked off to at half-time were amplified come the end of the match, with fans chanting \"you're not fit to wear the shirt\".\n\nBoro tough it out for rare win\n\nMiddlesbrough have struggled at home this season and prior to this match had scored just 13 goals at the Riverside - the lowest of any top-flight team.\n\nThey have also played out seven goalless draws, underlining their lack of threat in the final third.\n\nSo it was perhaps no surprise they needed to profit from their opponents' carelessness to score the only goal of the game, with the unmarked De Roon sneaking in between Jones and John O'Shea before sliding the ball through Pickford's legs.\n\nBoro looked vulnerable after going in front, with Sunderland given too much space inside the area, leading to a number of scrambled clearances.\n\nThe hosts held on, though, to end manager Steve Agnew's winless streak since taking over from the sacked Aitor Karanka in March.\n\nThe result also meant Boro striker Rudy Gestede, brought on as a late substitute, finally ended a Premier League-record run of 43 games without a win.\n• None Middlesbrough have completed a league double over the Black Cats for the first time since the 2002/03 season.\n• None Marten de Roon has scored twice in his last four Premier League appearances, as many as in his previous 26 combined.\n• None De Roon's goal was Middlesbrough's first shot of the match.\n• None It was Middlesbrough's first Premier League goal inside the opening 10 minutes at the Riverside since a Tuncay Sanli strike in the third minute against Hull in April 2009.\n• None Although they were beaten, Sunderland had more shots than an opponent in an away Premier League game for the first time since April 2016 against Stoke.\n• None Sunderland have now failed to score in 17 Premier League games this season, more than any other side.\n\n'While there's a chance, we will keep going'\n\nSunderland manager David Moyes: \"I've never been in this position before so it's new to me. It's something I'm not enjoying.\n\n\"We didn't get a good result but I thought we played well. It was a poor goal that we gave away but I can't fault the players or their efforts. We tried to build play up, make opportunities, but I wasn't disappointed with the performance.\n\n\"While there's a chance, we'll keep going. Good performances lead to results, that's the way it goes. I think we've had a couple of pretty good performances in the last few games.\n\n\"We know our position, we're not daft, we know exactly where we are. We have to try and pick up every win.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough manager Steve Agnew: \"It feels great. Everybody is absolutely delighted with the three points. We had to defend for long spells but we got the goal early. I'm so proud of the players.\n\n\"Clean sheets are obviously something you build on. I think it was important, the early goal. It gave everybody a lift and a confidence to see the game through.\n\n\"The players are all happy. I think all we do now is we remain focused for the game on Sunday against Manchester City. We'll certainly gain some confidence and belief going into games.\"\n\nSunderland host Bournemouth on Saturday (15:00 BST) while Middlesbrough face Manchester City at home on Sunday (14:05 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Adam Forshaw.\n• None Fabio Borini (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Sunderland. Adnan Januzaj tries a through ball, but Jermain Defoe is caught offside. 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. Labour voters in Porthcawl weigh up their options\n\nShe hardly cuts the jib of a radical. But despite warnings against complacency from the prime minister's own lips today, be in no doubt - the Tories are deadly serious about a potential reshaping of Britain at this election.\n\nAny day on the trail is precious campaigning time. Leaders only tend to turn up where they think they are in the game. So a Welsh visit, Theresa May's fifth in three months, is revealing.\n\nIt shows the Conservatives are not just contemplating a bigger majority by scooping up traditional Tory-Labour marginal seats in England.\n\nBut even if you ignore the polls, senior sources indicate they could possibly return to levels of support not seen in Wales for more than 30 years.\n\nAnd privately they expect gains in Scotland too. Theresa May hopes to make her claim there are no Tory no-go areas come true. The European referendum has redrawn the map. She wants to colour it blue.\n\nFor that to happen here in Wales, that means overturning decades of support for Labour in many areas. Are voters ready to do that in high enough numbers? It's of course far too early to tell.\n\nDon't forget the Tories already improved their share of the vote significantly in 2015, winning 11 seats.\n\nBut on the Porthcawl seafront in Bridgend, the backyard of the Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones, we met plenty of voters who are certainly ready to consider it.\n\nThe Edwards, father and son, told me they'd both been Labour voters all their lives. But could they switch? Mark told me his 85-year-old father had already done so. He said \"she is wonderful, best we've had,\" when he started talking about Theresa May.\n\nMr Edwards senior told me he had been 'life-long Labour' but that Jeremy Corbyn was \"30 or 40 years out of date - he wants to introduce a gimmick, communism\".\n\nHe was plainly angry about what's happened to the Labour party in recent years, saying it had been led by \"conmen\". Mr Edwards parting shot was \"bye, bye Mr Corbyn\".\n\nLabour has held Bridgend for the past 30 years\n\nAnother voter, Brian Holley presented his own dilemma, that could be shared by many voters in Wales, where overall, the vote was to leave the EU. Brian told me he'd voted to Leave but his local Labour MP had backed Remain.\n\nThat was reason for him to be, as he expressed it, \"on the border\" between sticking with Labour and voting Tory for the first time.\n\nSharing a morning cuppa with him was Eira Linehan, who said for the \"first time ever\" she was considering voting Tory because while she agreed with Jeremy Corbyn's ideas, they wouldn't work in the \"real world\".\n\nThey said \"we're all Labour\" in their constituency, but they are likely to vote Tory because of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, even though, \"my father will be spinning in his grave\".\n\nConversations about voting intentions seven weeks out are absolutely no substitute for the final poll of course. And we are only at the early stages of this campaign. It's worth noting too there were warnings of Labour taking heavy fire in the Welsh Assembly elections last year.\n\nIn the end, they remained the largest party, and Carwyn Jones kept his job as First Minister, albeit with the help of Plaid Cymru.\n\nYet even the Welsh Labour leader was plain to the BBC today that Jeremy Corbyn still has to \"prove himself\", warning there is a \"mountain to climb\".\n\nIn remarks that could become very significant after the election, Mr Jones was clear \"Jeremy is leading the campaign and Jeremy will take credit or responsibility\". He also called for a manifesto that has the \"widest buy-in possible from people\".\n\nBut 'wide buy-in'? Support that Labour can truly bank on? Not a bit of it.\n\nYet, as Theresa May left the community centre where she had talked to activists tonight, a small, but determined crowd had been waiting in the rain, if only for the chance to shout at her car as her convoy left at speed.\n\nAs she swept away, the PM won't be in any doubt that winning Wales or any traditionally Labour territories won't be easy.\n\nAnd in the volatile world of 2017 politics, there is nowhere where she can be guaranteed of a universally warm welcome.", "Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live from 21:00 BST and text updates on the BBC Sport website and app from 20:00 BST.\n\nA crowd of 90,000 around the ring at Wembley, a million more on pay-per-view at home, an opponent who has been in more world title fights than he has professional bouts.\n\nLittle about Saturday's heavyweight showdown with Wladimir Klitschko should leave Anthony Joshua as unnaturally calm as he appears to be. But the kid from Watford turned IBF world champion stands in a sweet eddy in his division's turbulent waters - the past all promise, the future more auspicious still.\n\nHeavyweight boxing is so often about hope and hype above authenticity, delusion rather than cold reality.\n\nPunters come back not because so many title fights prove unforgettable, but for the promise that the next really will be - repeat experiences of disappointing champions, meaningless titles and badly made matches pushed away by the beguiling possibility of what might yet lie ahead.\n\nJoshua - 18 fights and less than a cumulative two ring hours into a professional career that followed hard on a late start and rapid progression - goes to Wembley defined by the same heady mix of promise and possibility: that at 27 he has too much speed and power for the 41-year-old Klitschko, that his rapid improvement will continue at the same steep pace, that he could yet prove the perfect heavyweight at an imperfect time for the most captivating class of all.\n\nFor the Joshua of today - hours before the biggest test of his sporting life - appears to have everything the archetypal champion should possess.\n• None Ali? Lewis? Klitschko? Which heavyweight great are you?\n\nThere is his physique: big without being bulky, powerful but explosive, a little reminiscent of Ken Norton through his mid-70s trilogy with Muhammad Ali.\n\nThere is the back story: just the right amount of jeopardy, on remand in Reading prison and later caught in possession of eight ounces of cannabis, before a classical conversion to boxing via a dedicated cousin and grassroots coach, winning the last home gold medal of Great Britain's historic haul on the very last day of the 2012 Olympics.\n\nThere is the unpretentiousness of a man who still lives much of the time with his mother, Yeta, in Golders Green, north London. He has prepared for Saturday night with a three-month training camp at the same unglamorous English Institute of Sport in Sheffield that was both home to fellow Olympic champion Dame Jess Ennis-Hill and where he trained under coach Rob McCracken in the build-up to those London Games.\n\nThere is enough easy charisma to attract both boxing acolytes and cynics, enough charm to stop for every selfie without making it look like a conscious exercise in personal marketing, sufficient understanding of where he has come from to recently gift that first coach at the Finchley & District Amateur Boxing Club, Sean Murphy, a brand new BMW with personalised plates.\n\nAnd there are the knockouts. Eighteen in 18 pro fights, 13 of them inside the first three rounds.\n\nPeople don't pay big money for heavyweight fights to see them go the distance. Nobody turned up to watch Mike Tyson look technically neat for 12 rounds. Lots have decried Klitschko for his sensible strategies.\n\nThey go to see it end as quickly as possible, the sudden termination worth more than a drawn-out dance. It is the only sport where punters are more satisfied the less they see.\n\nAs Joshua said when bumping into a beaming Jose Mourinho backstage at the O2 arena a year ago after taking the IBF heavyweight title from Charles Martin with a second-round knockout: \"People want to see blood, uh?\"\n\nThat was the first fight Mourinho had ever been to - another illustration of Joshua's rare draw, with the Manchester United manager's star-struck grin one more. Joshua looked as relaxed as if he was shaking hands with a steward, his composure as unbroken as it had been in the ring.\n\nAll possibilities, all promises. All pointers to a special future and a place amongst the elite.\n\nAnd yet so little of it can be guaranteed this early in his entry into a brutal business, not when the challenges will keep coming in different shapes and guises both on Saturday and beyond.\n• None 'Father Time has caught up with Klitschko'\n\nThere is no obvious nastiness about Joshua, his behaviour in the build-up to this fight is in contrast to that of fellow Britons David Haye and Tyson Fury in their own battles with Klitschko. In traditional boxing parlance that is a flaw rather than a strength. Villains sell tickets. Bad guys get paid to be bad.\n\nWhen you've sold 90,000 tickets on the appeal of your other attributes that may be less of a worry than it would be for other fighters.\n\nBut there are still great unknowns amid the allure. How might a man who didn't box until after his 18th birthday fare against an opponent who has been fighting in front of stadium sellouts for decades? How will a kid who was seven years old when Klitschko made his professional debut cope with an atmosphere that British boxing has never seen before?\n\nKlitschko is now 41 years old. He was soundly beaten by Fury and hasn't fought in the 16 months since. But he has held all three world titles and lost only four out of 68 professional fights.\n\nWhen Joshua last felt real pressure - in his grudge match against Dillian Whyte - the composure sometimes slipped. In his rush to finish it, he was almost finished himself.\n\n\"There is a chance that Josh could be completely out of his depth,\" says his promoter Eddie Hearn, before adding: \"And there is a chance he could be the fighter we believe he is, and he goes out there and dismantles Klitschko. No-one really knows - and that's the beauty of the fight.\"\n\nCan Joshua handle the unexpected explosive punch? Maybe very few heavyweights can. Ask Lennox Lewis about that night in Carnival City Casino and the impact of Hasim Rahman's right hand.\n\nMaybe the rumours of Joshua being dropped in sparring are just that, or that he is not a gym fighter, or that he needs the challenge of a big fight to bring out his best. Maybe it doesn't matter that only twice in his professional career has he gone beyond the third round.\n\n\"Professional fighters - we're not gods, we're not superheroes,\" he has said. \"We are just human and we make mistakes.\"\n\nAt this moment, Joshua has both a burgeoning aura of invincibility and the character outside the ring to match it. He is also at his tipping point between relative fame inside sport and a leap - should he triumph at Wembley - into the wider public consciousness.\n\n\"If it's all fake, people will soon figure it out,\" he has said. \"Just be yourself.\"\n\nThe one-time bricklayer believes it. He also admitted recently that he is aiming to become boxing's first billionaire. Both that and the extravagance of his recent escapades on holiday in Dubai pointed to a possible contradiction between the two positions. Few intend to change when they pass through that tipping point - but when the world around you changes, you tend to adjust to it.\n\nIt is all part of the fascination with Joshua, all part of that same magic blend of prospect and probability.\n\nNothing has been lost, everything is still possible. Boxing still feels fresh to him, its fascination bright, his love of its nuances and enthusiasm for its punishing routines undimmed.\n\nAnd so we wait, hoping again, drawn in once more by rich promise and real talent - and, of course, a little hype.\n\nGet all the latest boxing news leading up to the Joshua-Klitschko fight, sent straight to your device with notifications in the BBC Sport app. Find out more here.", "Tottenham kept up the pressure on Premier League leaders Chelsea as Christian Eriksen's superb long-range strike secured a hard-fought victory at Crystal Palace.\n\nSpurs had struggled to break down a disciplined Palace side for much of the game and it looked like they would have to settle for a point.\n\nBut Eriksen fired into the bottom corner from 30 yards late on to keep Spurs within four points of Chelsea with five games remaining.\n\nPalace, who lost influential defender Mamadou Sakho to injury in the second half, rarely threatened as they concentrated on frustrating the visitors.\n\nThe win means Tottenham move on to 74 points, surpassing their previous best ever Premier League total of 72 - set in 2012-13 - when they finished fifth.\n\nIf they beat rivals Arsenal on Sunday it will ensure they finish above the Gunners in the table for the first time since the 1994-95 season.\n\nPalace, meanwhile, remain 12th - seven points above the relegation zone.\n\nTottenham needed victory to not just stay in touch with Chelsea but also put behind them the FA Cup semi-final defeat to the Blues on Saturday.\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino had been adamant that the 4-2 loss at Wembley would not hurt his players mentally in the title pursuit but that assessment initially looked incorrect as they struggled against a well-drilled Palace.\n\nEriksen, so often the centre of everything good Tottenham did against Chelsea, was kept quiet while Dele Alli and Harry Kane struggled to provide a spark in attack as the visitors finished the first half with just one shot on target.\n\nPochettino brought on Son Heung-min and Moussa Sissoko for the second half and changed to a back four in an effort to find a breakthrough. As time went on it looked more and more likely that victory would elude them but to their credit they stayed patient before a moment of magic from Eriksen finally unlocked the Palace defence.\n\nThe forward took full advantage of a moment when he was afforded a rare bit of space, shooting from distance beyond the reach of Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey.\n\nIt was not a classic performance by a Tottenham side that has scored at least three goals in each of their last three Premier League games but it was one that showed they have the ability to dig in and grind out a result - a side of their game that could prove crucial in the title run in.\n\nShould Spurs have been down to 10 men?\n\nIt could have been a different game if Tottenham lost Victor Wanyama to a second booking in the first half.\n\nAfter picking up an early yellow card for a bad foul, the midfielder slid in late on Andros Townsend. Referee Jon Moss took Wanyama to one side, but let him off with a warning.\n\nPochettino opted to withdraw Wanyama at half time, but Palace boss Sam Allardyce felt he should never have had the option to do that in the first place.\n\n\"Jon Moss should have sent him off,\" said Allardyce. \"The second challenge was probably more of a booking than the first one.\n\n\"It is disappointing for us, it is a mistake but at the end of the day we lost a game and we can only think about ourselves right now.\"\n\nSakho has been a key player in Palace's upturn in form, with every performance since the defender's January arrival on loan from Liverpool serving only to enhance his transfer value.\n\nAgainst Tottenham he was once again excellent, keeping the attacking talent of Kane, Alli and Eriksen quiet throughout the first half.\n\nOne moment in particular stood out when, under pressure from Kane, he coolly chested the ball down inside his own area before calmly clearing, prompting home fans to chant \"sign him up, sign him up\".\n\nBut they must now face up to the possibility of Sakho being absent from the Palace backline after he suffered what looked like a bad injury early in the second half, falling awkwardly following a challenge.\n\nAllardyce's side are unlikely to go down thanks to an incredible run of just two defeats in their last nine Premier League games but Palace fans will be hopeful of seeing Sakho in a Palace shirt again this season.\n\nWhat they said\n\nCrystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: \"Outstanding team effort by the players, who have had less time to recover against an exceptionally good side.\n\n\"Our application was outstanding and we gave Tottenham a hell of a game in the first half, nip and tuck, but of course it would happen that we would tire given the lack of recovery time compared to Tottenham.\"\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: \"It was unbelievable. Very good performance. I think second half we played much better than in the first half. It was difficult in the first half for us to move the ball and find the space but we changed the shape at half time and it was more fluid, we started to find the space and started to push Palace deeper and deeper.\n\n\"It was good to get the three points and be alive in the race for the title. The challenge is to keep going. It is always better to win but it is true [the Arsenal game] is a big derby, perhaps the last at White Hart Lane and I think it will be an exciting game.\"\n\nEight in a row for Spurs - the stats\n• None Spurs have won eight consecutive league games for the first time since October 1960 (13 in a row).\n• None Crystal Palace have lost four successive league games against Spurs in the top-flight for the first time since September 1971 (five in a row).\n• None Christian Eriksen has had a hand in 16 goals in his last 12 games in all competitions for Tottenham (5 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Since his debut in September 2013, Christian Eriksen has scored more Premier League goals from outside the box than any other player (14).\n• None Spurs became the third Premier League side to score 100+ goals in all competitions this season after Man City (105) and Arsenal (106).\n• None Mousa Dembele became the fourth Belgian player to reach 200 appearances in the Premier League alongside Vincent Kompany, Marouane Fellaini and Simon Mignolet.\n• None Crystal Palace have lost seven of their last eight Premier League London derbies on home soil (W1).\n\nIt's the big one for Tottenham on Sunday as they host fierce rivals Arsenal in the Premier League (16:30 BST). Crystal Palace, meanwhile, are at home to Burnley in Saturday's evening kick-off (17:30 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andros Townsend with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies with a headed pass following a corner.\n• None Luka Milivojevic (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Girl on the Train was Paula Hawkins's first novel under her own name\n\nThe only problem with writing a debut novel that sells 20 million copies and spawns a Hollywood film is - your follow-up has a lot to live up to.\n\nPaula Hawkins' 2015 debut The Girl on the Train was a publishing phenomenon, and the first reviews for her new book Into The Water are in.\n\nAnd most critics are not impressed.\n\nReviewing it for The Guardian, crime author Val McDermid predicted Hawkins' sales would be \"massive\" but \"her readers' enjoyment may be less so\".\n\nMcDermid was puzzled by the 11 narrative voices used in Into The Water, which is released in the UK next week.\n\nShe wrote: \"These characters are so similar in tone and register - even when some are in first person and others in third - that they are almost impossible to tell apart, which ends up being both monotonous and confusing.\"\n\nShe added: \"Hawkins had a mountain to climb after the success of The Girl on the Train and no doubt the sales of her second thriller will be massive. I suspect her readers' enjoyment may be less so.\"\n\nSlate's Laura Miller declared that Into the Water \"isn't an impressive book\".\n\nShe wrote: \"Its tone is uniformly lugubrious and maudlin, and Hawkins' characters seldom rise to the level of two dimensions, let alone three.\"\n\nBut Miller pointed out: \"None of this will necessarily prevent Into the Water from triumphing at the cash register. The book surely will become a best-seller, if only on the strength of residual name recognition for The Girl on the Train.\"\n\nJanet Maslin wasn't much more enthusiastic in The New York Times.\n\n\"If The Girl on the Train seemed overplotted and confusing to some readers, it is a model of clarity next to this latest effort.\n\n\"Her goal may be to build suspense, but all she achieves is confusion. Into the Water is jam-packed with minor characters and stories that go nowhere.\"\n\nShe asks: \"What happened to the Paula Hawkins who structured The Girl on the Train so ingeniously?\"\n\nHowever, The New Statesman's Leo Robson defended the book, writing: \"Most of the time, the novel is plausible and grimly gripping.\n\n\"Into the Water follows its predecessor in applying laser scrutiny to a small patch, but there are signs of growth and greater ambition.\"\n\nHe described Hawkins's writing as \"addictive\", adding that the novel \"is on a par with The Girl on a Train\".\n\nThe film adaptation of The Girl on the Train was released last September\n\nThe Evening Standard's David Sexton wrote: \"Unfortunately, Into the Water turns out to be hard work.\"\n\n\"There's a ridiculous multiplication of narrators from the start, some first-person, others third, so that on first reading it is almost impossible to keep track of who's who and what relation they have to one another... several of the stories never really cohere.\"\n\nMarcel Berlins in The Times said: \"This novel has its intriguing attributes.\n\n\"It does not follow the usual samey fashionable pattern of 'domestic noir' and psychological thrillers. For that Hawkins ought to be commended, even if the result is not a full success.\n\n\"She is let down by her overambitious structure and a lack of sufficient tension. Hawkins does not quite pass the second-book test.\"\n\nOf course, reviews of any kind are unlikely to deter the millions who enjoyed The Girl on the Train.\n\nAfter all, critics didn't much like the film adaptation of her previous book, starring Emily Blunt, but that didn't stop it being a box office success.\n\nThe Girl on the Train was Hawkins' first book under her own name, but she had previously written a string of chick-lit novels under the pen name Amy Silver.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The world has been consumed by the fear of war in Korea over the past week - everywhere, it seems, except Korea. The BBC's correspondent in the South Korean capital says there is a disconnect between the hyped-up atmosphere and the reality on the ground.\n\nI get emails from people in Europe asking me whether nuclear war is about to start - and then I look out of the window, in Seoul, and see a market where people amble gently between the stalls, sampling street food.\n\nAround the world, headlines scream \"danger\" - but at what would be the epicentre of any war, there's not the slightest sign of fear.\n\nWhile tension mounts far away, street dancers in Seoul accost passers-by with pamphlets advertising a concert.\n\nWho's right? The headline writers or the putative war victims? Has the world suddenly got much more dangerous?\n\nIn one way, it obviously has.\n\nNorth Korea is closer to possessing effective nuclear warheads and missiles, simply because it's had longer to sort out the problems.\n\nNorth Korea tests missiles every one or two weeks to learn from their mistakes.\n\nSpeaking at the DMZ, US Vice-President Mike Pence said the \"era of strategic patience is over\"\n\nBut the expert view is that North Korea does not have the capability to strike the United States.\n\nIt is making progress, but it isn't there yet. A day after the fearsome display of missiles in Pyongyang, North Korea launched a dud - another one.\n\nThe other new element is President Trump himself. He's been sending different messages, which require a little analysis.\n\nUnder President Obama, the policy was called \"strategic patience\" - squeeze North Korea with sanctions, persuade others to do the same, particularly China, and sit it out.\n\nAt the demilitarized zone (DMZ) this week, Vice-President Mike Pence said the \"era of strategic patience is over\".\n\nBut is it? Or does it continue under another name?\n\nThe military option - an attack on North Korean nuclear installations - was considered by previous presidents and ruled out because half the population of South Korea lives in the greater Seoul area, which is within easy range of North Korean artillery. That remains true.\n\nDecapitation - the assassination of Kim Jong-un - has also not happened for a variety of reasons: success couldn't be guaranteed, and it isn't clear what orders the military might have to retaliate against South Korea if the north's \"supreme leader\" were attacked. That hasn't changed.\n\nKim Jong-Un has defied international pressure to abandon his nuclear weapons programme\n\nWhether the policy really has changed depends on whether President Trump has a different attitude to risk and the potential cost of war, perhaps a war that would suck in China.\n\nThe United States had information the regime was about to move fuel rods from its reactor at Yongbyon, to the north of Pyongyang, to a reprocessing centre (the first step in making a nuclear bomb).\n\nPlans were made to send fighters and cruise missiles to attack, but the order was never given.\n\nBut it was a plan that scared the North Koreans and enabled a deal to be done.\n\nThe US provided fuel to a fuel-starved economy, and North Korea agreed to freeze its programme (though it then cheated and the deal fell apart in 2002).\n\nToday, Mr Perry believes the opportunity for what he calls \"creative diplomacy\" is there, particularly because China may be more helpful than it was during the Clinton presidency.\n\nNorth Korea has to believe that the United States might attack and that, on this reasoning, makes President Trump's unpredictability an asset.\n\nThe recent parade in Pyongyang featured what appeared to be a new class of land-based ballistic missile\n\nIn recent days, the administration has downplayed the idea of attacking North Korea.\n\nNational security adviser Lt Gen HR McMaster said on Sunday: \"All our options are on the table.\"\n\nBut, crucially, he added: \"It's time for us to undertake all actions we can, short of a military option, to try to resolve this peacefully.\"\n\nThere is a pessimistic view and an optimistic view.\n\nThe bleak view is that President Trump is way out of his depth and acts impulsively.\n\nOn this reading, we are in great danger.\n\nSir Max Hastings, the author of an acclaimed history of the Korean War, has written: \"As ever with this president, it is impossible to judge whether he means what he says, or even understands the significance of his words.\"\n\nHe cited a scenario that in his view echoed the way the world stumbled into war in 1914, through the \"dysfunctional personality\" of a leader.\n\nThe nightmare scenario now would be: \"The United States delivers an ultimatum to North Korea, insisting it renounces its nuclear weapons.\n\n\"The half-crazed regime in the capital, Pyongyang, refuses.\n\n\"US aircraft and missiles strike at Kim Jong-Un's nuclear facilities.\n\n\"North Korea's neighbour and ally, China, responds by hitting carriers of the US Seventh Fleet in the Pacific.\n\nBut there is a more peaceful scenario, suggested by some experts in South Korea.\n\nProf John Delury, of Yonsei University, in Seoul, says: \"The smart play for Mr Trump would be to return to those five wise words he said about Mr Kim on the campaign trail, 'I would speak to him.'\n\n\"The United States should swiftly negotiate a bilateral deal that freezes Mr Kim's nuclear and missile programme.\"\n\nUnder this scenario, money - a lot of money - would be given to North Korea in order to improve its economy.\n\nThere would probably have to be a guarantee that the regime wouldn't be toppled.\n\nIn this case, Kim Jong-un would have to be ready to negotiate (a huge if) and some trust would have to be put in him not to cheat and not to keep demanding more (another big if).\n\nWhich way will Trump jump?", "The NUT conference is being held in Cardiff\n\nThere is no more familiar cry from a teaching union conference than \"Stop Education Cuts Now\".\n\nSo often has it been heard from your typical tub-thumping delegate, that it has begun to sound a little like white noise.\n\nBut this year, as teacher delegates met in Manchester and Cardiff for their annual conferences, something had changed.\n\nAs more information has come to light about the state of school budgets, the message has resonated further.\n\nSo what was once only emblazoned on delegates' T-shirts, has become a topic of polite dinner table conversation in many family homes.\n\nAs Lewisham delegate Cleo Lewis put it with absolute clarity: \"I've had enough. It's just too much. Nothing is going to change by sitting around discussing.\"\n\nThe reality of significant cost pressures, in England's schools - ranging between 8% and 12%, depending on whom you believe - not to mention £3bn in efficiency savings, has penetrated parents' collective consciousness.\n\nThis is in part due to the NUT/ATL school cuts website and the attention the local press have given it, say the unions.\n\nWith web hits topping 400,000 and citations in more than 500 regional news stories, it has undoubtedly spread its message.\n\nThe interactive website provides an estimate of how much each school stands to lose as a result of budget shortfalls and the new schools funding formula.\n\nThen it converts the figures into possible equivalent losses in teachers and support staff.\n\nIt has prompted even the most measured of parents to burst into the playground and tell their friends: \"Apparently we're going to lose three teachers.\"\n\nAs a result parents, pushy and otherwise, have begun to mobilise alongside their children's teachers against what they see as unfair and unsustainable cuts.\n\nWhen quizzed by journalists on whether teachers would strike over the cuts, general secretary of the NUT, Kevin Courtney, appeared to suggest it would not be necessary.\n\n\"There's nothing unethical about striking against these cuts. There will be demands for that sort of action that come up in all sorts of places,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are seeing is huge numbers of parental meetings, with hundreds of parents. These are significant mobilisations of people.\"\n\nThe biggest, for as long as he could remember, he said.\n\nAnd crucially, they are people not normally given to manning the barricades with placards and copies of the Socialist Worker stuffed in back pockets.\n\nInstead, they are people from ordinary hard-working families, to coin a phrase.\n\nFamilies, who may be starting to resent padding-out suffering school budgets.\n\nTake the Fair Funding for All Schools founder Jo Yurky, who addressed the NUT conference in Cardiff this weekend.\n\nThe NUT has threatened strike action over funding cuts in England's schools\n\nThe mother-of-two, and former Parliamentary ombudsman, confided that she was terrified of addressing delegates.\n\n\"I find it all a bit uncomfortable, public speaking,\" she told journalists, just minutes after making a rousing speech to the union.\n\nHer self-consciousness took nothing away from her message. In fact, it only added to it.\n\nBut it was the content of her speech, and who she represents, that gives a new power to what the NUT and other teaching unions have been saying for some time.\n\nShe described how schools have been asking parents to set up direct debits to plug huge deficits, sometimes amounting to several hundred thousand pounds.\n\nThe claim rings true with parents who've had those begging letters home from head teachers explaining what difficult times their children's schools are facing.\n\nIt provides a mirror image of the message head teachers have been setting out in open letters to their local papers, MPs and the education secretary over the last few months.\n\nAs Ms Yurky puts it, when head teachers speak, parents listen.\n\nShe expresses extreme frustration at the Department for Education's unwillingness to admit there is a problem, through its reiteration that school funding is at its highest ever level.\n\nThe DfE, however, is keen to show it is listening too.\n\nIt says: \"We recognise that schools are facing cost pressures, and we will continue to provide support to help them use their funding in the most cost effective ways, so that every pound of the investment we make in education has the greatest impact.\"\n\nBut the parent campaigner goes on to say confidently; \"When parents speak politicians listen.\"\n\nIt is not clear yet whether Education Secretary Justine Greening will find some hidden resources in the education budget to alleviate the deepening cash problems ahead.\n\nOr whether she will turn to the chancellor and ask him for extra money ahead of the autumn statement.\n\nBut what the NUT, and other teaching unions, say is certain is that their message is being heard far beyond the packed conference hall.", "For more than two thousand years people have believed that joint pain could be triggered by bad weather, but the link has never been proven.\n\nNow, by harnessing the power of thousands of volunteers, doctors hope to unravel the mystery. And the new technique could offer countless solutions to a whole host of ailments.\n\n\"I'm always in pain, 24/7,\" says Becky Mason, sitting at home on her sofa in Alsager near Manchester.\n\nLike millions of people around the world she suffers from pains in her muscles and stiffness in her joints.\n\n\"I know, if it's going to be a very damp cold day, it's likely that my pain is going to be worse.\"\n\nShe has discussed it with her GP and has always wondered if there really is a link between her pain and the weather.\n\nBecky isn't alone. The link between joint pain and bad weather has long been suspected by patients and medical professionals alike and the theory dates back at least to Roman times and possible earlier.\n\n\"Is it an old wives tale? Am I imagining it?\" she asks.\n\nIt's a question she finally hopes to answer, not by visiting a hospital or undergoing tests, but simply by using her smartphone.\n\nEach day she enters information about how she feels into an app on her phone, the phone's GPS pinpoints her location, pulls the latest weather information from the internet, and fires a package of data to a team of researchers.\n\nOn its own Becky's data is of limited interest, but she isn't acting alone. More than 13,000 volunteers have signed up for the same study, sending vast quantities of information into a database - more than four million data points so far.\n\nVolunteers using the 'Cloudy with a chance of pain app', developed by data capture firm umotif\n\nThe app, called \"Cloudy with a Chance of Pain\" is part of a research project being run by Will Dixon. He is a consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital and has spent years researching joint pain.\n\n\"At almost every clinic I run, one or more patients will tell me that their joint pains are better or worse because of the weather\" he says, but until now he has never had the means of collecting enough data to find a conclusive answer.\n\nWhich is perhaps a good point to explain Will Dixon's other job title - Professor of Digital Epidemiology.\n\nTraditional epidemiologists study health and disease in particular populations. Usually it means collecting data in person - asking patients to visit you, or heading out into the field. 'Shoe leather epidemiology', it is sometimes called.\n\nBut digital epidemiology allows patients to send detailed information over the internet - which means they can do it more regularly, and of course you can get many more people to take part, thousands more; numbers that would be unthinkable using the old methods.\n\nBy combing through that data, Professor Dixon hopes it will be possible to find correlations and clues that would have been hidden to doctors just a decade ago. His team will analyse the data over the coming year, and hope to find a definitive answer to the question.\n\nWorld Hacks is a new BBC team looking at global problems.\n\nWe meet the people fixing the world.\n\nThe technique isn't just limited to arthritis research.\n\nAnother study underway in the US has recruited more than 20,000 participants using an app that asks them to say \"ahhhhhhh\" into their phone.\n\nNamed mPower, and built using technology developed by British academic Max Little, the project hopes to find out more about the onset and progression of Parkinson's disease. If the \"ahhhhhhh\" sound is smooth and unbroken, it has likely come from a healthy patient. But if it breaks and wavers, it could suggest that the patient may have Parkinson's.\n\nBy monitoring the precise pattern and pitch of the noise, it may even be possible to determine how advanced the disease has become, or how strongly its symptoms are being felt at a given moment. Using that information, it could allow patients to take much more specific doses of a drug to help manage the disease. The software is even being used in a clinical trial for a new drug.\n\nAnd again, it is the accumulation of vast amounts of data, volunteered by thousands of participants, that is making the study possible.\n\nAnother app, soon to be launched, will allow users to photograph their plate of food, and use artificial intelligence to work out what's on the plate. The technology could help people determine the nutritional content of their meal, and allow public health bodies to track how well any particular population is eating.\n\nIt is being developed by Marcel Salathe, also a Professor of Digital Epidemiology and founder of what is likely the world's first lab dedicated to the field of study.\n\nMarcel Salathe is a professor of digital epidemiology at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne\n\nHe thinks the discipline could have particular benefits in parts of the world where basic medical infrastructure is lacking, but lots of people have smart-phones. Digital epidemiology could become the reporting network through which sickness outbreaks are initially detected, he says.\n\nBut vast amounts of data don't come without their own unique set of difficulties, he warns.\n\n\"The data can be extremely noisy,\" he explains. \"Dealing with very large data sets and finding a needle in the haystack is very challenging from a technical perspective.\"\n\nPerhaps the most interesting part of this new technique is the motivation of the people donating their data.\n\n'Cloudy with a Chance of Pain' may never reap rewards for Becky herself, yet she seems quite happy to spend her time putting her data into a smartphone app and then sending this off to a remote location.\n\n\"When you're in pain all the time, it's easy to get low,\" she says \"I'm at home and I can't work which makes me feel useless. But [with this app] I can still be helpful, and that's so powerful in my tiny little world, it helps me in a massive way.\"\n\nListen to BBC World Hacks on the World Service or listen back on the iPlayer.\n• None Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms'", "Around 9% of adults in the UK say they download podcasts\n\nS-Town, the gripping saga about life and death in Alabama, is the latest podcast to have notched up impressive listening figures. But podcasts on the whole still don't seem to be breaking through to the mainstream.\n\nHave you ever downloaded a podcast? And, if so, did you actually listen to it?\n\nPodcasts have long been seen as the future of radio, a great way to pass the time on a long commute or catch up on a radio show you've missed.\n\nThey've been growing in popularity since the early noughties, when Apple's iPod first hit the market (\"podcast\" is a cross between the words \"iPod\" and \"broadcast\").\n\nBut, 15 years on, they remain a relatively niche pursuit.\n\n\"I don't know whether podcasting is a mainstream proposition,\" says Matt Hill, co-founder of the British Podcast Awards.\n\n\"Its core strength at the moment is in narrowcasting. It creates audio content for niche groups of people, but it does so really effectively.\"\n\nPodcasts have been growing in popularity over the last decade or so\n\nAccording to Rajar, the body that monitors radio listening, 9% of adults in the UK say they download podcasts per week - around 4.7 million people.\n\nWhich is a fair few - but not much compared with the 90% (or 48.7 million adults) who listen to live radio every week.\n\nKate Chisholm, radio critic for The Spectator, says: \"Podcasting is arguably something for metropolitan people, maybe in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"I don't think it's something that particularly seeps out to the mainstream. On one level I would say that's changing, but then how many people who live on my street would be downloading podcasts? I'm not sure it would be very many.\n\n\"They'd listen to Classic FM or Radio 2... but a lot of people look at me blankly when I mention Serial.\"\n\nSerial, of course, is the biggest podcast success story to date - its makers say it has had more than 250 million downloads.\n\nThat certainly sounds like an impressive figure - albeit perhaps not as much as it might first seem.\n\nIt doesn't mean 250 million different people have downloaded Serial, but rather that its 26 episodes have been downloaded a total of 250 million times.\n\nPlus, the RAJAR figures show only about two thirds of downloaded podcasts are actually listened to.\n\n\"Serial made 2015 the year of the podcast,\" says Julia Furlan, podcast producer for BuzzFeed.\n\n\"Everybody was saying at that time that podcasting had finally made it, but it's still hard for a lot of people to find and download a podcast, hard to share it, it's still something we're figuring out as medium.\"\n\nBut, she says: \"Since Serial, you do see different names on the top 10 podcast chart, you see larger media companies and brands investing significant money in making new content.\n\n\"And I do think those are indicators that there is growth, that Serial did something really big.\"\n\nS-Town, released in March and made by the team behind Serial, is the latest podcast to hit the headlines.\n\nThe term \"podcast\" comes from \"iPod\" and \"broadcast\"\n\nThe documentary begins with a suspected murder in Woodstock, Alabama, and unfolds around its central character - an eccentric local named John B McLemore.\n\nIt was downloaded 16 million times in its first week - although again that number is spread across seven episodes, which were all made available at once.\n\nOther recent podcast success stories include Russell Brand's new show on Radio X - which marked his return to radio after an eight-year absence.\n\nThe high listening figures of the few breakthrough hits are what make podcasts a very attractive prospect to advertisers.\n\nHill says: \"Even though the audiences are quite small, those shows do very well with advertisers because those listeners are interested in one specific area - it's exactly who they want to market to.\n\n\"Podcasting is starting to educate advertisers that there is an upmarket audience that would be interested in intelligent speech programming and would be happy to hear advertising alongside it.\"\n\nRussell Brand's first podcast after his return to radio this month was hugely popular\n\nMany of these advertisers offer podcast listeners discount codes, because then they can monitor where their new customers are coming from.\n\nWhich means many podcasts are effectively working on commission - and only become financially viable if companies can see a demonstrable boost in customers.\n\nBut few podcasts become popular enough to attract advertisers at all. There are just so many of them around - with no quality control.\n\n\"I think podcasts are very different from mainstream broadcasting, it's like the difference between blogging and print,\" says Chisholm.\n\n\"Like blogs, the quality of podcasts is variable. There's a big difference between people who blog and people who actually get published.\"\n\nAdvertising is becoming more common on podcasts\n\nPart of the problem facing podcasts is that, in general, audio doesn't tend to go viral.\n\nHave a scroll down your Facebook feed, and the chances are there will be several videos of dogs, cats, babies, pranks, fails and Kermit the Frog memes.\n\n\"The internet is a place that you take in with your eyes, it's a visual medium,\" Furlan says.\n\n\"I also think that downloading a podcast is quite hard, people think, 'Oh, I'm subscribed to this, what does that mean? How long is a season?' All of these things are unhelpful for the industry at large.\"\n\nDesert Island Discs is one of the BBC's most popular podcasts\n\nWith such a slow rate of growth, podcasts may become the minidisc of the radio industry - sold as the future but eventually becoming redundant. Or they may just take time to become established.\n\n\"Every year the listening figures creep up, but they haven't done a Netflix and exploded, it's slow burn,\" Hill says.\n\n\"But the thing about a slow burn is it's not a flash in the pan - those are the things that stick around.\"\n\nFurlan goes further: \"I think absolutely podcasts will break through in the years to come.\n\n\"If you take into account how everybody has a smartphone now, smart cars are on their way, the more technology opens up, the more we are going to see podcasts in our daily lives.\"\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.", "Turkey has finished counting the votes in a crucial referendum - one which grants sweeping new powers to its controversial President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nAlthough opponents have questioned the result, the head of the country's electoral body says it is valid.\n\nHere's what the numbers say about the vote.\n\nThe overall result is a narrow victory for Mr Erdogan - one small enough to be disputed by his opponents. But turnout for the divisive vote was high - 85%.\n\nAnd while a 51% victory may not seem like much, Turkey's large population means the Yes vote's margin is actually 1,124,091 votes.\n\nTurnout was also very high - reported at 85% by the country's Anadolu news agency.\n\nOpponents have been questioning the inclusion of more than one million unstamped ballot papers as valid - and await the verdict of international observers.\n\nDuring the campaign, much was made of the impact Turks living abroad, especially in Germany, might have on this crucial vote - particularly after a diplomatic spat erupted over campaigning on foreign soil.\n\nIn the end, though, just under 50% of the estimated 1.4 million Turks who could vote from Germany did so - and those who did were firmly in favour of granting Mr Erdogan his new powers.\n\nSeveral other countries also voted Yes, including:\n\nMost countries which returned a No vote had a relatively small number of voters - though Switzerland's 50,374 Turks firmly voted against (61.92%).\n\nThe president of Germany's Turkish community expressed concern about the level of support for the Yes vote, saying they had to \"find ways of better reaching people who live in freedom in Germany and yet want autocracy for people in Turkey.\"\n\nThe vote may have been close, but the districts containing the country's three largest cities all voted against the president.\n\nIn Istanbul, the largest city, and the capital, Ankara, the vote was very close. But in Izmir, the third-largest city, the margin was a much higher 68.8% No.\n\nBut those results could not overpower Mr Erdogan's central Anatolian heartland. Many regions of the country's interior voted Yes, with the share often topping 70% in favour.\n\nAlong the Aegean and in southeast Anatolia - which is home to many Kurds - most districts voted the other way, with up to 70% voting No.\n\nAs the count progressed, Mr Erdogan's lead narrowed, but he retained enough - if only by a small percentage - to declare victory.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFour points will be enough for Birmingham City to maintain their Championship status, says new manager Harry Redknapp.\n\nThe 70-year-old was appointed on Tuesday, with Blues 20th and three points above the relegation zone.\n\nTheir final three matches are trips to Aston Villa and Bristol City plus a home match against play-off hopefuls Huddersfield Town.\n\n\"We need a win and a point,\" Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Gary [Rowett, former manager] did well when he was here with the same sort of group. He got the best out of them.\n\n\"Four points would do it. Easier said than done, but we will give it our best.\"\n\nRedknapp, appointed 16 hours after Gianfranco Zola resigned on Monday, has secured four points from his first three games in charge three times in his career.\n\nShould Blackburn and Nottingham Forest both win on Saturday, Birmingham would slip into the bottom three before Redknapp's first match in charge, which is a trip to local rivals Villa on Sunday.\n\n'The players have obviously not performed'\n\nBlues, who were seventh in December when Rowett was sacked, went on to win just two of their 24 matches during Zola's four-month tenure.\n\nRedknapp has not held a permanent managerial position since leaving Queens Park Rangers in 2015, but has had stints as interim manager at Jordan and adviser to Derby County last season.\n\n\"The players have put in the club in the position they're in - you can blame who you like, they've obviously not performed,\" said the ex-Portsmouth, West Ham and Tottenham boss.\n\n\"They've got to take responsibility. They're the only ones who can get us out of it. You can only do so much from the touchline.\"\n\nRedknapp, who will be assisted by former Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill and ex-Bournemouth boss Paul Groves, has only been appointed until the end of the season.\n\n\"If I can keep them up, next year would be something I'd really fancy,\" he added.\n\nFirst team coaches Pierluigi Casiraghi and Gabriele Cioffi, fitness coach Andrea Caronti and video analyst Sebastiano Porcu, all part of Zola's backroom team, have followed the Italian out of St Andrew's while goalkeeper coach Kevin Hitchcock will retain his role at the club.", "John Terry will bring the curtain down on his Chelsea career and a golden Stamford Bridge era when he leaves the club after 22 years at the end of this season.\n\nChelsea and Terry announced the mutual decision in low-key fashion after a campaign in which the 36-year-old club captain has been reduced to the ranks, barely figuring as manager Antonio Conte has led them to the top of the Premier League table.\n\nTerry may have been marginalised by injuries, advancing years and the progress of others in the new Chelsea age - but he still stands as the symbol of the years of success stretching back to the appointment of Jose Mourinho in 2004 and the club's first title in 50 years, claimed in the manager's first season.\n\nSo, as Barking-born Terry prepares to say farewell to his beloved Stamford Bridge, how will a player and personality who has polarised opinion be remembered?\n• None Terry clearly cut out to be a manager - Nevin\n\nThe banner that is still draped from Stamford Bridge's Matthew Harding Stand finds few dissenters among Chelsea's fans as it is emblazoned with the message: \"JT. Captain. Leader. Legend.\"\n\nThose words are now part of Chelsea's vocabulary and were referenced in the club statement announcing his departure. They were a tribute throughout Terry's career and will be his epitaph when he has left.\n\nTerry may have been a divisive figure outside Stamford Bridge but inside he is regarded as the warrior who led Chelsea into battle, one of the most significant figures in the club's history and a towering player who can take his place among the greats.\n\nWhen Roman Abramovich arrived at Chelsea to change the face of the Premier League in 2003, it was Terry who remained firmly at the helm as a succession of managers - many hugely successful such as Mourinho and the double-winning Carlo Ancelotti - came and went. And in Mourinho's case went, came back and then went again.\n\nThe statistics - whether he found favour or not - are testament to his talent and undisputed evidence of what he has meant to Chelsea.\n\nTerry has made 713 appearances for Chelsea since his debut as a late substitute in a League Cup tie with Aston Villa on 28 October 1998. He is third in the all-time appearance list behind Ron Harris and Peter Bonetti, scoring 66 goals and captaining Chelsea a record 578 times.\n\nHe has had a silver-lined career which included four Premier League titles, five FA Cups and three League Cups - including that domestic \"Double\" under Ancelotti in 2010.\n\nTerry was also gifted the Champions League and Europe League in the roll of honour delivered with his abdication statement although he never played against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in 2012 and against Benfica in the Europa League final a year later, events which encompass the darker side of his career.\n\nTerry is worshipped by supporters who regard him as their representative on the pitch. He is man who plays as they would given the chance - and the fact that he was among the most outstanding central defenders of his generation only added to his lustre.\n\nHe was the manager's voice on the pitch and had a sure touch with fans off it, often rounding off his captain's programme notes with the rallying cry: \"Come On The Chels!\"\n\nTerry was the great organiser, leader and talisman as Chelsea battled for domestic supremacy with Manchester United and Arsenal and European glory alongside the superpowers at home and abroad.\n\nThis has been a low-profile farewell campaign, with Terry barely seen after an early-season injury and a shift in tactical emphasis from manager Conte to employing a three-man defensive system of David Luiz, Gary Cahill and Cesar Azpilicueta, flanked by Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso.\n\nTerry has only played five league games, with four starts, three FA Cup games and two EFL Cup games this season, last starting in the FA Cup at Wolves on 18 February - a grand total of 718 minutes.\n\nWhether he gets the chance of a grand farewell will depend on Chelsea's fortunes between now and the end of the season as they protect a slender four-point gap from Tottenham at the top of the Premier League table.\n\nIf the finale goes to Chelsea's plan, then the last game of the season, at home to Sunderland on Sunday, 21 May, is likely to be an occasion high on emotion.\n\nIt is certainly a cleaner, more dignified break than it threatened to be when he announced in January 2016 after an FA Cup fourth-round win at MK Dons that he had not been offered a new deal and it was \"not going to be a fairytale ending\" - an announcement which appeared to come as a surprise to Chelsea.\n\nFences were mended, a new one-year contract agreed, and while this may not be a fairytale, it is a parting that is amicable, mutual and leaves the door wide open for Terry's return to Stamford Bridge.\n\nThose outside the club often used words other than \"Captain. Leader. Legend\" to describe Terry but even those who never warmed to him would surely admit to a grudging respect for his ability, success, drive and longevity.\n\nThe words of his contemporaries provide the biggest tribute with Jamie Carragher - on opposing sides to Terry in numerous battles against Liverpool - calling him \"the best centre-back we've seen in the Premier League era\".\n\nEven as Terry sat on the bench during Chelsea's 2-0 loss to Manchester United on Sunday, Old Trafford was reminding him in colourful terms of arguably the lowest moment of a career that was a story of contrasts.\n\nFor all the glory, there was a thread of disappointment and controversy running throughout his time with Chelsea and England that led to him being a personality who split opinion.\n\nUnited's fans were gleefully recalling the moment that reduced Terry to tears after the Champions League loss on penalties to Sir Alex Ferguson's side in May 2008, when he stepped forward in the Moscow downpour to take what would have been the winning spot-kick, only to slip and hit the post in a moment that will haunt him forever as Chelsea went on to lose.\n\nTerry was even denied redemption when Chelsea finally claimed their holy grail by beating Bayern Munich in their own Allianz Arena four years later under interim manager Roberto di Matteo. Terry missed the final through suspension after he was sent off in the semi-final second leg in Barcelona. He put his kit on for the celebratory photographs but was not part of the winning team and gave the impression of someone with his nose pressed up against the window looking in on the glory.\n\nAnd when Chelsea beat Benfica in Amsterdam to win the 2013 Europa League, Terry was out injured. This trophy was won under another interim manager, Rafael Benitez, who had a fractious relationship with his captain.\n\nHe was also in the headlines off the field during his Chelsea career, most notably in September 2012 when he was banned for four games and fined £220,000 after a Football Association regulatory commission found him guilty of racially abusing then Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand during a game at Loftus Road on 23 October 2011.\n\nIt was an incident that had an impact on Terry's England career, which he ended with a self-imposed retirement after 78 caps. He had been cleared of abusing Ferdinand at Westminster Magistrates Court in July and felt the FA's decision to pursue a disciplinary hearing made his position \"untenable\".\n\nTerry had been stripped of the captaincy by the FA over the matter in the previous February, a decision which was the catalyst for the resignation of England manager Fabio Capello, who was critical of the move.\n\nThe Italian was a staunch admirer of Terry, even restoring him to the England captaincy 13 months after removing him from the role in February 2010 after allegations the defender had a relationship with the ex-girlfriend of former England and Chelsea team-mate Wayne Bridge - an allegation Terry denied.\n\nThere are gaps in the CV. There are controversies that will always be linked to his name. What is beyond dispute is his status as Chelsea's greatest and most successful captain.\n\nThe end of an era\n\nTerry's departure breaks the last link in the chain of Chelsea's great generation, the last member of the spine of the teams that brought the club such success since the Millennium.\n\nHe was the last of the big beasts from a Chelsea's dressing room almost over-crowded with huge characters, one which occasionally had to answer to accusations it wielded too much power, especially when managers such as Andre Villas-Boas and even the all-conquering Mourinho were sacked, twice in the latter's case.\n\nTerry was a pivotal figure surrounded by the likes of goalkeeper Petr Cech, full-back Ashley Cole, England colleague Frank Lampard and the great striker Didier Drogba, all Stamford Bridge giants.\n\nIt is now time for Chelsea's new breed to take the club forward without the player and personality who has been a pillar of their success.\n\nWhere next for Terry?\n\nClubs around the globe will have been alerted by Terry's declaration that he intends to continue his playing career.\n\nIt is hard, rather like Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher at Liverpool, to see Terry pulling on the shirt of a Premier League club other than Chelsea - but Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe has been interested in him before and may try again.\n\nWest Bromwich Albion manager Tony Pulis is another who will have noted Terry's decision with interest, although it remains to be seen whether the interest is reciprocated.\n\nThere are the more obvious potential destinations for Terry such as Major League Soccer in the United States, which was a stop-off before retirement for former Chelsea and England team-mate Lampard at New York City FC and Gerrard at LA Galaxy - where another ex-colleague Ashley Cole currently plays.\n\nDoes Terry, however, have the current status to make him attractive to an MLS team at his age and with barely a game to his name in 12 months?\n\nChina is an obvious and lucrative option. Terry has been linked with a move to Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao, who are coached by former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari.\n\nChelsea to China is already a well-worn route with Ramires at Jiangsu Suning, Oscar at Shanghai SIPG and Jon Obi Mikel at Tianjin TEDA.\n\nAn opportunity in Qatar may also be offered - and Terry is unlikely to be short of options for his final move.", "A look at the life and times of the UK's Prime Minister, Theresa May, who has decided to call a general election for 8 June.\n\nTheresa May is Britain's second female prime minister but, unlike her predecessor Margaret Thatcher, she came to power without an election.\n\nShe took over as leader of the governing Conservative Party last July following the resignation of David Cameron, who had gambled everything on Britain voting to stay in the European Union.\n\nLike Mr Cameron, Mrs May had been against Brexit but she cleverly managed to keep the Eurosceptics in her party on side during the referendum campaign by keeping a low profile.\n\nShe reaped her reward by emerging as the unchallenged successor to Mr Cameron - portraying herself as a steady, reliable pair of hands who would deliver the will of the people and take Britain out of the EU in as orderly a fashion as possible.\n\nThe plan was for there to be no election until 2020, but as the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg explains, the political logic for going to the country earlier became inescapable.\n\nWith a commanding lead in the opinion polls, the bigger gamble might well have been to wait another three years and risk Brexit negotiations turning sour or the opposition Labour Party recovering ground.\n\nTheresa May, back row, right, in the 1999 shadow cabinet\n\nThe 60-year-old former home secretary has a reputation for a steady, unshowy approach to politics, although she was known in her early days at Westminster for her exotic taste in footwear and a fondness for high fashion (she named a lifetime subscription to Vogue as the luxury item she would take to a desert island).\n\nShe battled her way through the Westminster boy's club as one of a handful of women on the Conservative benches - she would later be joined by more female colleagues thanks, in part, to her own efforts as party chairman to get women candidates into winnable seats.\n\nShe developed a reputation as a tough, critics would say inflexible, operator, who was not afraid of delivering unpalatable home truths.\n\nSome in the Conservative Party have never forgiven her for a 2002 conference speech in which she told members that \"you know what some people call us - the nasty party\".\n\nHer lectures to Police Federation conferences as home secretary about the need for reform and to tackle corruption added to this steely reputation.\n\nShe was always ambitious but her rise through the ranks was steady, rather than meteoric.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: We need proven leadership to negotiate the best deal\n\nThe daughter of a Church of England vicar, Hubert, who died from injuries sustained in a car crash when she was only 25, Theresa May's middle class background has more in keeping with the last female occupant of Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher, than her immediate predecessor.\n\nTheresa May married her husband Philip in 1980\n\nBorn in Sussex but raised largely in Oxfordshire, Mrs May - both of whose grandmothers are reported to have been in domestic service - attended a state primary, an independent convent school and then a grammar school in the village of Wheatley, which became the Wheatley Park Comprehensive School during her time there.\n\nThe young Theresa Brasier, as she was then, threw herself into village life, taking part in a pantomime that was produced by her father and working in the bakery on Saturdays to earn pocket money.\n\nFriends recall a tall, fashion-conscious young woman who from an early age spoke of her ambition to be the first woman prime minister.\n\nThe young Theresa Brasier at a function in the village hall\n\nLike Margaret Thatcher, she went to Oxford University to study and, like so many others of her generation, found that her personal and political lives soon became closely intertwined.\n\nIn 1976, in her third year, she met her husband Philip, who was president of the Oxford Union, a well-known breeding ground for future political leaders.\n\nThe story has it that they were introduced at a Conservative Association disco by the subsequent Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. They married in 1980.\n\nHer university friend Pat Frankland, speaking in 2011 on a BBC Radio 4 profile of the then home secretary, said: \"I cannot remember a time when she did not have political ambitions.\n\n\"I well remember, at the time, that she did want to become the first woman prime minister and she was quite irritated when Margaret Thatcher got there first.\"\n\nTheresa May is seen here as a child with her parents Hubert and Zaidee\n\nThere are no tales of drunken student revelry, but Pat Frankland and other friends say May was not the austere figure she would later come to be seen as, saying she had a sense of fun and a full social life.\n\nAfter graduating with a degree in Geography, May went to work in the City, initially starting work at the Bank of England and later rising to become head of the European Affairs Unit of the Association for Payment Clearing Services.\n\nBut it was already clear that she saw her future in politics. She was elected as a local councillor in Merton, south London, and served her ward for a decade, rising to become deputy leader. However, she was soon setting her sights even higher.\n\nMrs May, who has become a confidante as well as role model for aspiring female MPs - told prospective candidates before the 2015 election that \"there is always a seat out there with your name on it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at Theresa May's journey to the top job\n\nIn her case - like that of Margaret Thatcher - it took a bit of time for her to find hers. She first dipped her toe in the water in 1992, where she stood in the safe Labour seat of North West Durham, coming a distant second to Hilary Armstrong, who went on to become Labour's chief whip in the Blair government. Her fellow candidates in that contest also included a very youthful Tim Farron, who is now Lib Dem leader.\n\nTwo years later, she stood in Barking, east London, in a by-election where - with the Conservative government at the height of its unpopularity - she got fewer than 2,000 votes and saw her vote share dip more than 20%. But her luck was about to change.\n\nThe Conservatives' electoral fortunes may have hit a nadir in 1997, when Tony Blair came to power in a Labour landslide, but there was a silver lining for the party and for the aspiring politician when she won the seat of Maidenhead in Berkshire. It's a seat she has held ever since.\n\nMrs May first stood for Parliament in 1992 in North West Durham\n\nTheresa May has described her husband Philip as her rock\n\nTheresa May bumps into rock star Alice Cooper outside a BBC studio in 2010\n\nAn early advocate of Conservative \"modernisation\" in the wilderness years that followed, Mrs May quickly joined the shadow cabinet in 1999 under William Hague as shadow education secretary and in 2002 she became the party's first female chairman under Iain Duncan Smith.\n\nShe then held a range of senior posts under Michael Howard but was conspicuously not part of the \"Notting Hill set\" which grabbed control of the party after its third successive defeat in 2005 and laid David Cameron and George Osborne's path to power.\n\nThis was perhaps reflected in the fact that she was initially given the rather underwhelming job of shadow leader of the House of Commons. But she gradually raised her standing and by 2009 had become shadow work and pensions secretary.\n\nNevertheless, her promotion to the job of home secretary when the Conservatives joined with the Lib Dems to form the first coalition government in 70 years was still something of a surprise - given that Chris Grayling had been shadowing the brief in opposition.\n\nWhile the Home Office turned out to be the political graveyard of many a secretary of state in previous decades, Mrs May refused to let this happen - mastering her brief with what was said to be a microscopic attention to detail and no little willingness to enter into battles with fellow ministers when she thought it necessary.\n\nTheresa May initially fell down the pecking order under David Cameron but worked her way back up\n\nWhile some in Downing Street worried that the Home Office was becoming her own personal fiefdom, she engendered loyalty among her ministers and was regarded as \"unmovable\" as her tough-talking style met with public approval even when the department's record did not always seem so strong.\n\nIn his memoir of his time in office, former Lib Dem minister David Laws says: \"She would frequently clash with George Osborne over immigration. She rarely got on anything but badly with Michael Gove. She and Cameron seemed to view each other with mutual suspicion.\n\n\"I first met her in 2010. I was sitting in my Treasury office, overlooking St James's Park, me in one armchair and the home secretary in the other, with no officials present. She looked nervous.\n\n\"I felt she was surprised to find herself as home secretary. Frankly, I didn't expect her to last more than a couple of years.\"\n\nDespite her liberal instincts in some policy areas, she frequently clashed with the then deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, particularly over her plan to increase internet surveillance to combat terrorism, dubbed the \"Snooper's Charter\" by the Lib Dems.\n\nAfter one \"difficult\" meeting with Mr Clegg, he reportedly told David Laws: \"You know, I've grown to rather like Theresa May... 'She's a bit of an Ice Maiden and has no small talk whatsoever - none. I have quite difficult meetings with her. Cameron once said, 'She's exactly like that with me too!'\n\n\"She is instinctively secretive and very rigid, but you can be tough with her and she'll go away and think it all through again.\"\n\nMrs May has confronted what she sees as vested interests in the police\n\nThe new prime minister is a self-declared feminist\n\nOn the plus side crime levels fell, the UK avoided a mass terrorist attack and in 2013, she successfully deported radical cleric Abu Qatada - something she lists as one of her proudest achievements, along with preventing the extradition to America of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.\n\nShe was not afraid to take on vested interests, stunning the annual conference of the Police Federation in 2014 by telling them corruption problems were not just limited to \"a few bad apples\" and threatening to end the federation's automatic right to enrol officers as its members.\n\nHowever, the Passport Office suffered a near meltdown while she faced constant criticism over the government's failure to meet its promise to get net migration down to below 100,000 a year.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, who went up against her in the Commons as shadow home secretary, told The Guardian: \"I respect her style - it is steady and serious. She is authoritative in parliament - superficial attacks on her bounce off.\n\n\"The flip side is that she is not fleet of foot when crises build, she digs in her heels (remember the Passport Agency crisis in 2014 when the backlog caused hundreds to miss their holidays, and the Border Force crisis in 2011 when border checks were axed).\n\n\"And she hides when things go wrong. No interviews, no quotes, nothing to reassure people or to remind people she even exists. It's helped her survive as home secretary - but if you are prime minister, eventually the buck has to stop.\"\n\nThere was a bitter public row with cabinet colleague Michael Gove over the best way to combat Islamist extremism, which ended with Mr Gove having to apologise to the prime minister and Mrs May having to sack a long-serving special adviser - a turf war which is said to have led to a diminution in her admiration for the prime minister.\n\nFormer Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke also had run-ins with her and was recorded on camera ahead of an interview last week saying that Mrs May was good at her job but a \"bloody difficult woman\" - before adding as an aside, a bit like Mrs Thatcher. A reference to be Conservative leader can hardly come better than that.\n\nMrs May has never been one of the most clubbable of politicians and is someone who prefers not having to tour the tea rooms of the House of Commons - where tittle-tattle is freely exchanged.\n\nShe has rarely opened up about her private life although she revealed in 2013 that she had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and would require insulin injections twice a day for the rest of her life - something she says she had come to terms with and which would not affect her career.\n\nMrs May's taste in footwear has kept photographers interested for more than a decade\n\nGenerally thought to be in the mainstream of Conservative thinking on most economic and law and order issues, she has also challenged convention by attacking police stop and search powers and calling for a probe into the application of Sharia Law in British communities.\n\nShe also expressed a personal desire to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights but later said she would not pursue this as PM due to a lack of parliamentary support - an example of what many believe will be pragmatism in office.\n\nHer social attitudes are slightly harder to pin down. She backed same sex marriage. She expressed a personal view in 2012 that the legal limit on abortion should be lowered from 24 to 20 weeks. Along with most Conservative MPs she voted against an outright ban on foxhunting.\n\nWhat is undisputable is that at 59, Mrs May was the oldest leader to enter Downing Street since James Callaghan in 1976 and is the first prime minister since Ted Heath who does not have children.\n\nMrs May has worked closely with David Cameron and will now succeed him\n\nMrs May has been the most senior female Cabinet minister for the past six years\n\nOne of Westminster's shrewdest as well as toughest operators, Mrs May's decision to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU but to do so in an understated way and to frame her argument in relatively narrow security terms reaped dividends after the divisive campaign.\n\nDuring what turned out to be a short-lived leadership campaign, Mrs May played strongly on her weight of experience, judgement and reliability in a time of crisis.\n\nThe first months of Mrs May's time in Downing Street have been dominated by the process of divorcing the UK from the EU - but there have been signs that she won't be content with the \"safe pair of hands\" tag that is often attached to her.\n\nBrexit, she has said, won't be allowed purely to define her time in office and she has promised a radical programme of social reform, underpinned by values of One Nation Toryism, to promote social mobility and opportunity for the more disadvantaged in society.\n\nPolicies such as new grammar schools or more selection have been put forward - but with a slender parliamentary majority of 17 her government had little breathing room on bringing forward tightly contested legislation.\n\nSo, despite promising not to hold a general election before she had to, in 2020, she has now decided to seek a mandate for her own particular brand of Conservatism to, as she put it, to \"guarantee certainty and security for the years ahead\".", "The story of a team rising from the bottom tier of England's Football League to the top is an increasingly familiar one, with Hull, Swansea and Bournemouth among the most recent examples.\n\nBut few of those tales have been more remarkable than that of Brighton & Hove Albion, whose promotion to the top flight was confirmed with victory over Wigan on Monday.\n\nBBC Sport speaks to pundits, players and manager Chris Hughton about the Premier League newcomers who, just 20 years ago, were battling to stay in the Football League.\n\nIt took until the very last day of the 1996-97 season before Brighton could breathe easy, as a 1-1 draw with Hereford secured their league status.\n\nDespite the result, Brighton's former owners went ahead with the sale of their old Goldstone Ground, leaving the club to share Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium for two seasons.\n\nThe club then moved back to Brighton, playing at the Withdean Stadium - a site not originally built for football - before finally switching to their current Amex Stadium home in 2011 under the ownership of Tony Bloom.\n\n\"What happened on Monday is just the sensational fulfilment of so many people's dreams,\" said BBC pundit Mark Clemmit.\n\n\"The one name I keep thinking about is Dick Knight, who sort of galvanised everybody in 1997, because don't forget not only did they nearly go out of the league, but they lost their stadium then as well.\n\n\"The owners at the time kind of pulled it from under the club, and have never ever been forgiven by the supporters.\n\n\"It was Dick Knight who picked it up by the bootstraps, plus several others that accompanied him - but he was the majority shareholder.\"\n\nBrighton had looked destined to complete their journey from bottom to top 12 months ago, but a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough on the final day of the regular season meant they missed out on goal difference.\n\nFurther disappointment was to follow, as their hopes of reaching the Premier League were dashed with a 3-1 aggregate loss to Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off semi-finals.\n\nIt was not an unfamiliar feeling for Seagulls fans, who had suffered defeat at the same stage in both 2013 and 2014.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud of the way they've bounced back - but there are no surprises,\" Hughton, 58, told BBC Sussex. \"We've got a group of lads that are capable of doing it, but being capable of doing it and doing it are two different things.\n\n\"They've been good all season. They've bounced back, they've shown a really good determination and a real desire to want to win as many games as possible.\"\n\nBrighton captain Bruno added: \"It's been five years now for me and it's been hard because we were really close to getting promoted for three seasons.\n\n\"Last season was tough for us and we were really close - but this season we've been outstanding.\"\n\nHughton is no stranger to the Premier League, having guided Newcastle to Championship promotion in 2010, then led Norwich to an 11th-place finish in the top flight in the 2012-13 season.\n\nThe former Republic of Ireland defender has turned Brighton into one of the defensively strongest sides in the Championship since taking over in December 2014, keeping 47 clean sheets in 111 league games in charge.\n\n\"When you look at where Chris has been, he's done really well everywhere he's gone,\" said former Republic team-mate pundit Mark Lawrenson, now a BBC pundit.\n\n\"Because he's quiet, people sort of assume that he's a nice bloke and that people can ride roughshod over him - but you can't.\n\n\"There's a real steely determination in there and I think as he's gone from job to job he's embraced the way football's changed.\"\n\nHughton's success comes despite only taking his first managerial role in 2009, when he replaced Alan Shearer as Newcastle boss.\n\n\"I think a lot of people, for a long time, had him marked down as an assistant or a coach,\" added Clemmit.\n\n\"He's already won one title with Newcastle United, he's got another team promoted, and then in his other two full seasons in the Championship he took Birmingham to the play-offs and he took Brighton to the play-offs.\n\n\"Even during the celebrations yesterday, you could see he was containing it. He was modest enough not to get involved in the players' celebrations, one eye on getting the title over the line.\n\n\"There'd be some justice as well in that, wouldn't there? Norwich, one of the teams that dismissed him, that didn't see the merits of letting him have a proper long-term go, is where he could secure the title on Friday.\"\n\nThe bond Hughton has helped to create at Brighton this year has been tested by adversity off the field.\n\nIn November, French winger Anthony Knockaert's father died, prompting at least 10 of his team-mates and Hughton to travel to France to offer support at the funeral.\n\nThe 25-year-old has responded in sterling fashion on the field, contributing 15 goals on his way to being crowned Championship Player of the Year.\n\n\"It has been the best thing I have seen in football, to come all the way from England to the funeral,\" he said in December.\n\n\"It means a lot for me and my family and I will never forget it.\"\n\nBrighton have also dealt with the absence of defender Connor Goldson, who had heart surgery after routine cardiac screening discovered a defect in December.\n\n\"Obviously there have been things the whole season that have brought us even closer together, but we're a close group anyway no matter what happens,\" the 24-year-old told BBC Sussex.\n\n\"That's why we're always here for each other. Obviously things happen in life, and what happened with Anthony's dad was a sad moment for him.\n\n\"With me this year, obviously I wasn't needed, but we all pulled together, we're all a team.\n\n\"We're all a team of friends and that's what gets us to where we are.\"\n\n'They're a club that will push on'\n\nWhile securing the Championship title with victory at Carrow Road on Friday is the immediate aim, Hughton and Bloom can now start preparing for life in the top tier.\n\nWhile some teams might look to splash the cash in pursuit of Premier League survival, Hughton appears to favour a more cautious approach.\n\n\"The only way to do it is to recruit sensibly, to not put the club in a position where you're going well above your means,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"There is a huge gap between what you need to pay for players in the Championship and the fees that are demanded for Premier League players.\n\n\"What we've got to do is to try to make sure that we get that balance right.\"\n\nNow, only four months from starting their Premier League campaign, 20 years on from being on the brink of disaster, where do the club go from here?\n\n\"The great thing for them is that because of the new training ground, and because of the actual ground, they are ready and set up for the Premier League,\" said Lawrenson, a former Brighton player.\n\n\"So if they can just survive, in inverted commas, that first season in the Premier League, I do think they're a club that will push on from there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heligoland: When Britain blew up an island\n\nBrexit may have triggered a political earthquake in Europe, but 70 years ago the UK sent real shockwaves across the seas with the largest non-nuclear explosion of that era.\n\nAs one of the four victorious allied powers after World War Two, Britain was governing a large area of occupied Germany.\n\nThe British sector included the tiny island of Heligoland, which had long been a source of diplomatic tension between the two countries.\n\nSo, when in 1947 the British needed a safe place to dispose of thousands of tonnes of unexploded ammunition, Heligoland must have seemed an obvious choice.\n\nThe code-name for the plan combined the British flair for understatement with the military taste for the literal-minded; it was to be called Operation Big Bang.\n\nThe Heligoland Big Bang was the largest non-nuclear detonation to date\n\nHeligoland had been a German naval fortress, and historian Jan Rüger, author of Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea, says Operation Big Bang was designed by the British to make a big point.\n\n\"They're very clear that there's a symbolic side to this [operation] and that is the German tradition of militarism,\" he explains.\n\n\"There's a sense that Prussian militarism and its threat to Britain has to end and that's very much how Operation Big Bang is received in Britain.\"\n\nThe operation was carefully stage-managed - the old black and white pictures even include a close-up of a Royal Navy officer's finger triggering the blast. Aerial footage shows the entire horizon erupting in a huge grey curtain of mud, sand and rock.\n\nFor the Royal Navy and the British Army of Occupation it was mission accomplished.\n\nHeligoland was evacuated during World War Two\n\nFor the people of Heligoland it felt very different.\n\nEurope in 1946 and 1947 was in chaos, with millions of displaced and dispossessed families drifting between camps or sheltering in ruined buildings.\n\nThe island had been evacuated during the war and many Heligolanders were living in exile in the coastal city of Cuxhaven about 60km (37 miles) to the south.\n\nOlaf Ohlsen, who was 11 years old in 1947, gathered with the rest of the exiled population on the cliffs to listen for the sound of the explosion.\n\nFew people in history can have lived through such a moment, standing at the edge of sea knowing that they would hear but not see an explosion that they knew would destroy their homes.\n\nHeligolander Olaf Ohlsen was 11 years old when the detonation took place\n\nOlaf says everyone knew that the explosion would be shattering.\n\n\"Even in Hamburg, which is more than 150 km (93 miles) from the island,\" he told me, \"a schoolteacher kept a document which said the British had warned everyone to leave doors and windows open to help the buildings withstand the blast.\"\n\nOlaf's father was among the pessimists who believed that Britain's real intention was to blow up the island behind a literal smokescreen created by the destruction of the captured ammunition.\n\nHe still recalls the first time his father brought news of what had happened after the blast, shouting with excitement: \"Heligoland is still here, it's still here.\"\n\nIn the middle of the 20th Century Heligoland still mattered to its people, fiercely independent speakers of a Friesian dialect who are neither British nor German.\n\nHeligoland was a German military base in both world wars\n\nBut it had lost the strategic importance that made it a crucial bone of contention between the great powers of Europe a hundred years earlier.\n\nBritain occupied Heligoland in the Napoleonic period as part of its complex manoeuvrings to deny the French leader the support of the navies of Scandinavia as he took over huge parts of Europe.\n\nThus the British found themselves with a handy naval base that guarded the entrance to the port of Hamburg and allowed it to slip secret agents freely into Napoleonic Europe. By the time they gifted it to the Kaiser in 1890, though, its usefulness appeared to be at an end.\n\nDetlev Rickmers, a local hotel owner whose family have been Heligolanders for 500 years, says that even though it's more than a century since the link was broken, a sense of Britishness ran through the population for a long time after 1890.\n\n\"Of course there was a British governor, there was a sense of being British,\" he says. \"There were connections to Britain. My grandfather told me that he always remembered the excitement of the days when the salesman would call from Huntley and Palmer.\"\n\nIn the wake of the Big Bang, of course, things are very different.\n\n70 years on, the crater from the explosion is still a feature of the island\n\nThe British bombing operation acted as a kind of catalyst for a new form of post-war German nationalism. There were campaigns for the island to be returned to German sovereignty and for a rebuilding programme to allow the Heligolanders to go home.\n\nHistorian Jan Rüger says that perhaps for the last time Operation Big Bang had made Heligoland part of a larger historical argument.\n\n\"As always in history there's a paradoxical side to these events,\" he says. \"In this case it lies in the way that all over Germany this is seen as a moment that victimises the Germans and allows them to see themselves as victims after a war in which the rest of Europe has been the victim of German aggression.\"\n\nThe British bombing left Heligoland's landscape pock-marked and cratered. But the island endured: a stubborn lump of rock in the North Sea.\n\nAnd while most visitors are drawn these days by the lure of duty-free shopping, Heligoland has a fascinating story to tell to anyone who'll listen.", "Malala Yousafzai's mother Toor Pekai Yousafzai is rarely in the public eye\n\nOver the past five years, Malala Yousafzai has become one of the world's most famous young women - the schoolgirl shot in Pakistan who built a new life in Birmingham after surgery, then campaigned for education for all girls, won the Nobel Peace Prize and inspired the world with her life story.\n\nNow her mother, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, has spoken to the BBC for the first time to explain how her own life has changed in the past five years.\n\n\"It was very hard when I left everyone behind,\" says Toor Pekai. \"We didn't expect to live in a foreign country.\n\n\"When other people leave their country they accept everything that comes their way and they're ready for it, but we couldn't prepare.\n\n\"We had to suddenly leave Pakistan. The attack changed everything. We had to focus on Malala's life.\"\n\nVery few readers will recognise Toor Pekai from her picture. Whenever Malala attends a high-profile function to promote her cause, she is invariably accompanied by her father Ziauddin, who has often been interviewed about his daughter's many successes.\n\nMeanwhile, Malala's mother has played her own low-profile, but important, role at home with the rest of the family in Birmingham.\n\nToor Pekai explains: \"When Malala was being treated in hospital we were very busy looking after her. Then she wrote a book and we were busy with that too, so that's why I wasn't in the public eye.\n\n\"But now I'm trying to help other people get an education, so from now on I want to be more involved in these kinds of things. But if these interviews were in my own language it would be easier!\"\n\nAnd it is clear that Toor Pekai has her own compelling story to tell about the events that brought Malala across the world. She still gets visibly upset as she remembers watching Malala fighting for her life in hospital.\n\nHer hands twist together and she cries but her smile comes back quickly when she thinks about her daughter's life now, the success she has already had and what the future holds. Every year of Malala's life is a bonus for Toor Pekai.\n\n\"Last year I wrote in her birthday card 'you are my four year old daughter' because I now keep count of the years since the attack. It's like she is reborn from that point.\"\n\nMalala is a high-profile figure around the world, but just a teenage daughter at home\n\nToor Pekai's life is now rooted here in the UK, looking after Malala and her two sons. Despite Malala winning a Nobel Peace Prize and mixing with world leaders she still has to tell her to clean her room and look after herself.\n\nIn fact, when she describes her day-to-day relationship with her daughter, it sounds like just any other mother dealing with a millennial teenager.\n\n\"She doesn't eat very well and doesn't drink enough water. She doesn't go to sleep on time and studies until midnight. We tell her to eat fruit and do her prayers, and she tells her brothers, but she doesn't.\"\n\nAlthough Toor Pekai did not get an education herself in Pakistan, she now attends English classes in Birmingham and has built a network of friends through that.\n\n\"Some of them are from Swat and I knew them from back there already. Recently another friend of mine came from Peshawar.\n\n\"There aren't any people from Pakistan in my English class but there are people from Iraq, Iran and one from Afghanistan. We have parties and I cook rice, chicken and fish, and they like my food.\"\n\nLearning English in the UK has given the 45-year-old some independence.\n\n\"At first I struggled to understand when people spoke to me in English, and I even had difficulty with words like 'yes' and 'no' but I'm improving and want to keep going. It makes life easier with travelling and going to the doctors.\"\n\nMalala, who is now 19, is due to go to university in the autumn to study politics, philosophy and economics. There is a solid offer on the table.\n\n\"We're very happy for her. On the day she got her offer we cried but every moment of her life makes us happy,\" she said.\n\nBut tears come again at the prospect of her baby flying the nest.\n\n\"I'm worried about what she'll eat and how she'll cook for herself. It's difficult but I have to accept it. I'll miss her a lot and home will be empty without her. Malala is not just my daughter but my friend as well.\"\n\nYou can hear the full interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour from 10:00 BST on Tuesday", "Lock Joe Launchbury and centre Jonathan Joseph are set to lead a list of shock English exclusions from the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.\n\nBoth men, who starred in England's Six Nations triumph, face being left out of Warren Gatland's squad, which will be named at 12:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nAbout 14 Englishmen are expected to be in the 37-39-man party, including prop Kyle Sinckler and centre Ben Te'o.\n\nBut England captain Dylan Hartley's chances are rated as 50-50.\n\nOther stalwarts of Eddie Jones' side, such as flankers James Haskell and Chris Robshaw, and fly-half George Ford, are also thought to be unlikely to force their way into Gatland's plans at this stage.\n\nDespite finishing fifth in the Six Nations, Wales are still set for a strong contingent of up to 11 players, with the likes of Alun Wyn Jones, prospective captain Sam Warburton, Taulupe Faletau, Rhys Webb, Jonathan Davies and George North among those highly likely to be included.\n\nConversely, winning three of their five matches in the Championship seems unlikely to have helped Scotland's representatives, with full-back Stuart Hogg the only selection certainty.\n\nThe coaches will meet for a final selection meeting on Tuesday, with Lions sources insisting nothing is yet set in stone.\n\nWasps forward Launchbury, 26, was short-listed for Six Nations player of the tournament, but faces fierce competition in the second row.\n\nJones and England's Maro Itoje are certainties to make the touring party, but Launchbury is believed to have slipped behind compatriots George Kruis and Courtney Lawes in the pecking order. Gatland is also understood to be keen on Ireland's Donnacha Ryan.\n\nRyan's fellow Irishman Iain Henderson also excelled when Ireland beat England in Dublin on the final weekend of the Six Nations.\n• None Robinson, Guscott, Bentley - six Lions wildcard picks to whet the appetite\n\nJoseph has been tipped by many pundits to start the Test series at outside centre, but Gatland's preference for size in midfield could see the likes of Te'o and Davies preferred.\n\nMeanwhile, despite captaining England to consecutive Six Nations titles, Hartley is struggling to force his way into the squad as one of the three hookers, with Ireland's Rory Best and Wales' Ken Owens vying for places along with England second-choice Jamie George.\n\nThe tour begins on 3 June and features a 10-game schedule, culminating in a three-Test series against the All Blacks.\n\nThe Lions will be looking for a second series win in New Zealand, with their only triumph to date a 2-1 victory in 1971.\n• Listen to a Lions squad announcement special on Radio 5 live from 19:00 BST on Wednesday\n\nGatland and his assistants are meeting on Tuesday and there is a chance things can change, but I do think it is a case of dotting the i's and crossing the t's.\n\nWhat I am hearing is there are some pretty high-profile players who will miss out. As well as Launchbury, who has really fallen victim to the fierce competition in the second row, and Joseph, I think England captain Hartley is odds-against making it. But if one of the selectors puts their neck on the line for him in that meeting then that can change.\n\nEvery time it looks like a big name is missing out, you look at the options coming in. There will be a lot of uproar and unrest in many quarters, nothing splits opinion like a Lions squad announcement. Scotland fans could be up in arms, as they may only have a maximum of four players in this trip and they finished higher than Wales in the Six Nations, who may have 11 players.\n\nThis year not as many players are inked in from the start, but up to 70 players have a strong case.\n\nThe Lions will play all five of New Zealand's Super Rugby sides, the Maori All Blacks, plus three Tests in Auckland and Wellington.\n\nFormer All Blacks coach Graham Henry has questioned the \"demanding\" schedule, saying it is potentially \"suicidal\".\n\n\"There is huge pressure on the Lions,\" Henry told ESPN. \"They are playing New Zealand Maori, they are playing the five franchised teams - and those five franchised teams have nothing to lose, no pressure on them at all, so they will fire everything at the Lions and take them on.\n\n\"Hopefully they [the Lions] have the ability to overcome that. But really when you tour, you need to ensure some momentum is created by results and you just wonder how they are going to go into the Test series with that itinerary.\"\n\nBBC rugby reporter Chris Jones and former England international Ugo Monye picked their Lions squad on 5 live's Rugby Union weekly. You can download the podcast here.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick to take his Champions League tally to 100 goals as holders Real Madrid controversially overcame Bayern Munich in extra time to reach the semi-finals.\n\nBayern Munich midfielder Arturo Vidal's harsh 84th-minute dismissal was the first pivotal moment of a thrilling game, and Ronaldo was clearly standing in an offside position to score Madrid's second in extra time.\n\nNeeding at least two goals to progress, Bayern had led when Robert Lewandowski confidently drilled in a penalty.\n\nMadrid struggled to find rhythm at a nervy Bernabeu before Ronaldo headed in Casemiro's precise cross.\n\nBayern responded just 36 seconds later as Sergio Ramos' own goal forced extra time, but then crumbled after Ronaldo fired in Madrid's second.\n\nThe Portugal captain tapped in the third - his 100th Champions League goal - after Marcelo's marauding run, with Marco Asensio sealing victory by shooting into the bottom corner.\n\nMadrid will discover their semi-final opponents when the draw is made on Friday.\n\nNeighbours Atletico progressed after edging past Leicester City, while the other two ties - Barcelona against Juventus, and Monaco against Borussia Dortmund - conclude on Wednesday.\n• None Referee was not up to task - Ancelotti\n\nAnticipation was high when two of Europe's biggest and most successful clubs were drawn together - and an enthralling tie did not disappoint.\n\nHowever, it was somewhat tinged by Madrid benefiting from two debatable decisions by Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai and his officials.\n\nChile midfielder Vidal, already booked for an early foul on the edge of the Bayern area, was shown a second yellow card for what appeared to be a clean sliding tackle on Madrid substitute Asensio.\n\nAnd then Ronaldo was standing at least a yard offside when he met Ramos' pass and spun to fire Madrid 4-3 ahead on aggregate.\n\n\"In a quarter-final you have to put a better referee, or it is the moment to introduce video refereeing, which is what Uefa are trying, because there are too many errors,\" Bayern manager Carlo Ancelotti said.\n\nNothing separated the two teams over 180 engaging minutes in Munich and Madrid, only for the German champions to finally run out of steam as they battled a numerical disadvantage.\n\nBayern also played the final 30 minutes at the Allianz Arena last week with 10 men after Javi Martinez's dismissal.\n\nAncelotti's side remained resolute in the first period of extra time - until the tiring visitors unravelled after Ronaldo put the Spanish league leaders ahead.\n\nHistory-seeking Madrid get the rub of the green\n\nMadrid are aiming to become the first club to retain the Champions League and moved a step closer by eventually seeing off Bayern.\n\nFor long periods, Madrid were edgy defensively and uncertain going forward - with Ronaldo guilty of wasting a number of chances in normal time.\n\nBayern knew they would have to become only the third side to overturn a first-leg home defeat in a Champions League tie to reach their sixth successive semi-final.\n\nFewer places are harder to achieve that than the home of the 11-time European champions.\n\nAlthough only one away team had managed to leave the Bernabeu with victory in Madrid's previous 33 home matches in all competitions, Bayern looked confident and organised as they quietened the home crowd.\n\nBayern top scorer Lewandowski, who missed the first leg with a shoulder injury, fired them ahead with a coolly taken penalty before Ramos' bizarre own goal - the ball ricocheting off his right foot and spinning inside the near post - forced extra time.\n\nBut Madrid eventually wrestled control of the tie thanks to their numerical advantage and the decisions of the officials.\n\nSheer relief greeted the final two Madrid goals as their jubilant players wildly celebrated reaching a record seventh successive semi-final in Europe's premier club competition.\n\n\"I don't get involved if decisions are right or wrong,\" said Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane.\n\n\"Everyone has their own opinions, some might say it was not a second yellow card for Vidal, some might say it is.\n\n\"Cristiano's goal might have been offside but it doesn't change anything.\"\n\n'Ronaldo is always there for us' - post-match reaction\n\nOn some home supporters whistling at Cristiano Ronaldo during the game: \"Cristiano has shown that in the key moments he is there, he makes the difference. When he has to be, he is there.\n\n\"It is unique and we are happy for him and for the team.\n\n\"Maybe after today they do not whistle anymore, but this is Madrid and that things happen from time to time, and he knows it. He has to be calm.\n\n\"The public will always thank Cristiano for everything he has done.\"\n• None Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick made him the first player to reach 100 Champions League goals\n• None On the same night, Real's neighbours Atletico reached the same tally as a club\n• None Madrid have qualified for the Champions League semi-finals for the seventh consecutive season - the longest streak in competition history\n• None Bayern lost both legs of a Champions League knockout tie for the first time since April 2014, which was also against Real Madrid in a 5-0 semi-final aggregate defeat\n• None Ronaldo has scored nine times against Bayern in the Champions League - only Barcelona's Lionel Messi has scored as many against a single opponent (against Arsenal)\n• None Lewandowski has netted six goals against Real Madrid in the Champions League, the most of any opposition player\n• None The Poland striker converted his sixth penalty in the Champions League, maintaining his 100% record from the spot in the competition (excl. shootouts)\n• None Arturo Vidal's red card was the 19th shown to a Bayern Munich player in the Champions League - only Juventus (22) have had more in the competition\n• None The average age of Bayern's starting line-up in this game was 30 years and 116 days, making it their oldest in Champions League history\n\nBoth teams go back to domestic league action hoping to move a step closer to their respective titles.\n\nMadrid have the small matter of El Clasico to focus on. Zidane's team can move six points clear at the top of La Liga by beating arch-rivals Barcelona.\n\nThe sides meet on Sunday at the Bernabeu (19:45 BST), with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nBundesliga leaders Bayern, who are eight points clear with five games left, will hope to bounce back from this defeat when they host Mainz on Saturday.\n• None Attempt missed. Casemiro (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marcelo.\n• None Attempt missed. Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Arjen Robben with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 4, FC Bayern München 2. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 3, FC Bayern München 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo.\n• None Attempt missed. Casemiro (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 2, FC Bayern München 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergio Ramos.\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside. 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. The BBC’s John Sudworth asks North Korea’s vice-foreign minister what message he has for Donald Trump\n\nTwo days ago, I stood on the edge of Kim Il-sung Square in the centre of Pyongyang and watched, with a mixture of awe and unease, as North Korea's giant military parade passed by.\n\nBack in that same location today, the vast space of the square was almost empty except for a few government workers on foot and the odd car - which pretty much sums up the traffic situation, or lack of it, in this isolated, sanction-hit city.\n\nMy government minders ushered me up the steps of the foreign ministry and I soon found myself sitting face to face with Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol.\n\nWere some of the weapons on display in the parade, as many analysts have speculated, new intercontinental ballistic missiles? I asked him.\n\n\"The respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in his historic new year address this year said that we are at the final stage of preparations to launch an ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile),\" he replied.\n\n\"I'm no military expert,\" he went on, \"but I hope that there was an ICBM among the missiles shown at the parade.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Sudworth, in Pyongyang, explains what may happen next\n\nNorth Korea needs such weapons, he said, \"in order to protect our government and system from threat and provocation from the United States\".\n\nAnd in a direct riposte to US President Donald Trump and his assertion that North Korea will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, Mr Han added this.\n\n\"According to our own schedule we'll be conducting more tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.\"\n\nNorth Korea has long been seen to use provocation and brinkmanship to raise tension for its own strategic advantage.\n\nIt is then able to win diplomatic and economic concessions through negotiations to defuse the crisis, only later to go on to renege on its disarmament commitments.\n\nAs the cycle begins again, at each stage, it moves a step closer to its goal of becoming a fully-fledged nuclear power.\n\nBut while the current state of technological advancement of North Korea's weapons programme matters deeply to the outside world, in particular its near neighbours, the hostile rhetoric is rarely something to take at face value.\n\nRead between the lines and, mostly, it is always conditional, peppered with ifs and buts, as it was today.\n\n\"If the US goes on with their reckless option of using military means then that would mean from that very day, an all out war,\" Mr Han told me.\n\nThe interview does though give a hint of the new worrying unpredictability at play.\n\nDonald Trump's recent ordering of the airstrike on a Syrian airbase has clearly rattled Pyongyang and the threat now is not simply of retaliation to an attack, but even, Mr Han suggests, to the planning of one.\n\n\"If the USA encroaches upon our sovereignty then it will provoke our immediate counter reaction and if it is planning a military attack against us, we will react with a nuclear pre-emptive strike by our own style and method.\"\n\nExperts say an all-out war is very unlikely\n\nHowever, despite the posturing on both sides, the risks, most observers agree, are still limited.\n\nFor the US and its allies, war carries incalculable risks and although Washington insists that all options are on the table, it now appears to be signalling that diplomacy and toughened sanctions are the most likely way forward.\n\nIt is as yet unclear how, having failed before, those things will force this most totalitarian of states to give up its nuclear weapons.\n\nAs Vice-Foreign Minister Han made clear to me, North Korea has learned the lessons from recent history, in particular the US-led attempts at regime change in Iraq and Libya.\n\n\"If the balance of power is not there, then the outbreak of war is imminent and unavoidable.\"\n\n\"If one side has nukes and the other side doesn't, and they're on bad terms, war will inevitably break out,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the lesson shown by the reality of the countries in the Middle East, including Libya and Syria where people are suffering from great misfortune.\"\n\nThe vice-foreign minister said North Korean people are guaranteed their human rights\n\nWithin the city limits of Pyongyang, foreign journalists get to see very little of ordinary life on these carefully choreographed and highly controlled media tours.\n\nEven further beyond reach, good evidence shows, lie the vast political prisons in which all dissent and opposition to the system, however mild, is crushed.\n\nRather than building nuclear weapons, I ask Mr Han, wouldn't North Korea be better improving life for its own people, perhaps starting with abolishing those gulags?\n\n\"We do not tolerate any others criticising our style of socialism and we believe in the choice we have made,\" Mr Han replies.\n\n\"The masses are the centre of our state and their security and human rights are guaranteed.\"\n\n\"As for the so called political prison camps you have just mentioned,\" he went on, \"it is something that our enemies have fabricated and it has been disseminated by their followers in order to demonise our country\".\n\nMilitarised and isolated, North Korea has the right to follow its own path and, Mr Han apparently believes, no one will be able to stop it.\n\nSo far, he has been proven right.", "Prince Harry is on the front page of the Daily Telegraph for the second day running following his revelations about his struggle to come to terms with the death of his mother.\n\nIt reports that ministers are examining plans to station NHS mental health workers in secondary schools full time in an effort to tackle what it calls a rising tide of depression and anxiety.\n\nAccording to the Telegraph, the idea is part of a green paper on young people and mental health to be published later this year. \"Pupils to learn Harry's lessons\", says the headline.\n\nThe Sun's former royal editor, Duncan Larcombe, writes that he witnessed Prince Harry's inner turmoil when the prince tried to have him ejected from a party in 2008.\n\nMr Larcombe says the confrontation took place shortly after the inquest into Princess Diana's death, and the prince calmed down after venting his feelings.\n\nThe Daily Mirror welcomes the younger royals' championing of mental health but adds: \"Imagine the impact if this influential group spoke out against cuts...\"\n\nDonald Trump provides the image of the day - appearing on a number of front pages alongside a wide-eyed Easter Bunny at a White House children's party.\n\nThe US President was joined by the Easter bunny at the 139th White House Easter Egg Roll\n\nThe Times focuses on the Turkish referendum, reporting that European diplomats are increasingly concerned that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will renege on the agreement to stem migration to the continent.\n\nThey are said to fear that Mr Erdogan will consolidate his new executive powers by picking political battles with the EU.\n\nThe Times cartoon depicts the Turkish leader as a sultan on a golden throne, declaring \"This is a great day for Turkish democracy... I hereby declare it illegal to say otherwise!\"\n\nAccording to The Guardian, the Turkish referendum is seen by some European leaders as marking the end of the country's long attempt to join the EU.\n\nThe paper comments that Turkey's turn to autocracy is now all but complete, and it calls on Europe to offer support to the country's democrats.\n\nIn his column in the Telegraph, former Foreign Secretary William Hague blames the EU's reluctance to admit Turkey for driving it towards autocracy. He argues that Britain should not turn its back on a vital ally now.\n\nThe Guardian carries a report from the base of so-called Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan where the Americans dropped the weapon known as the \"mother of all bombs\" last week.\n\nIt says that residents have begun returning to the village close to the blast site, two years after they fled the fighting.\n\nOn a tour of the area, Afghan commandos point to worn-out shoes that they say belonged to IS fighters killed in the explosion.\n\nThe Times reports that after 250 years, the quest to find a living specimen of a giant shipworm is over.\n\nOnly fossils of the mystery mollusc have been found before, but now a live one has been fished out of a muddy lagoon in the Philippines. It's no oil painting, though.\n\nThe Guardian describes it as \"three feet long and glistening black with a pink, fleshy appendage\", and looking like \"the entrails of an alien from a bad horror film\".\n\nBiologists are thrilled, however. One tells the Guardian: \"It might well be monstrous but that doesn't mean it isn't marvellous.\"", "Boston Marathon runners start their 26.2 mile journey in 2016 - Derek Murphy is looking for cheaters among them\n\nFor months, a runner named Cindy posted motivational photos on Instagram and Facebook, chronicling the miles she put in to prepare for the New York Marathon.\n\nWhen the big day came, she posted about the gear, the energy gels, and the coconut waters that would sustain her through the 26.2 miles (42.1km)\n\nCindy ran the race of her life, finishing the New York Marathon in just 3 hours 17 minutes and 29 seconds - a lot faster than her pace in previous half-marathon finishes, which each took a little over two hours.\n\n\"Ran my heart out today and left everything on the course. All the training paid off and qualified for the Boston Marathon!\" she posted on Instagram, along with a post-race selfie and a photo with the finisher's medal.\n\nBut Cindy's incredible marathon time seemed just a little too incredible to a man sitting at his computer nearly 640 miles away.\n\nDerek Murphy, a former marathoner and business analyst who lives outside Cincinnati, has made a name for himself exposing marathon cheats on his blog, Marathon Investigation.\n\nDuring his racing days, he frequented online message boards about big races, which occasionally featured a high-profile cheating scandal.\n\n\"There was so much tension from those specific cases, I just wondered how many other people cheated,\" he said.\n\nMurphy is a former runner himself\n\nMurphy's investigative process has evolved since he first started looking at race results.\n\nHe has gone from looking at missed split times in public race results to peering into other clues like suspiciously fast race times, starting line and finish line photos, and bystander video footage recorded at races.\n\nWhen Murphy heard about Cindy's speedy personal record, he started scrolling through the New York race photos looking for evidence that she had honestly run her improbably fast race.\n\nHe didn't find any photos of the petite brunette running on the course. However, he did find a photo of a tall, athletically-built man running with Cindy's bib pinned to his shirt.\n\nAfter Murphy sent the photos and Cindy's former half-marathon times to the New York Marathon organisers and published a story on his blog, Cindy was disqualified.\n\nShe is one of about 30 runners identified by Murphy who sought entry into the 2017 Boston Marathon using fabricated times.\n\nAt least 15 of those runners were disqualified from showing up at the starting line in Hopkinton near Boston when the starting gun goes off on Monday.\n\nSome of the remaining 15 might get to run the race, but their results will be closely scrutinised. Murphy expects to identify many more people who cheated to get to Boston after the race is completed.\n\nOnly the fastest amateur and elite runners can earn a spot in the iconic Boston Marathon.\n\nMen under 35 need a finish better than three hours and five minutes in an earlier marathon to earn a spot. Women under 35 have 30 extra minutes.\n\nWhile around 30,000 people are fast enough to run the marathon each year, more than 4,500 qualified runners were turned away in 2016 because too many people registered for the race.\n\n\"The integrity of the sport is enormously important to us, and to the athletes who run in our races,\" said a spokesperson for the Boston Athletic Association in an email statement.\n\n\"When it comes to qualifying for Boston, we rely on the race organisers and timing systems they employ to produce accurate results, and we also rely on the honesty and integrity of 99.99% of competitors who compete fairly in pursuit of their personal records.\"\n\nMurphy said he thinks the actual number of cheaters is probably higher than the 0.01% cited by Marathon officials - which would be just three people - but he thinks it is still a small percentage.\n\nFinding those rare cheats can be tough.\n\n\"There's no governing body for marathons per se to look at results,\" Murphy said. \"Most of the time race timers and directors definitely do care, but there's a lack of resources.\"\n\nCheating in a marathon can come in many forms. Some cut a few miles out of their qualifying race. Others give their racing bib to someone a bit faster. In rare cases, people pay to have their results altered.\n\nMost races have methods in place to detect the most obvious examples of cheating. The race bibs have tracking devices that log a runner's split time at mats placed strategically throughout the course.\n\nSometimes missed mats and unbelievably quick splits will alert race officials to the foul play. But cheaters often slip across the finish line and into race results unnoticed by race timers. Some of these people claim amazing times - good enough to get into Boston.\n\nMr Murphy has caught cheats by looking at the distances displayed on GPS watches in finish line photos and by matching finish times with time stamps on video recordings of races.\n\nWhen a runner whose qualifying time places them in an early corral position at the Boston Marathon but finishes in the back of the pack, Mr Murphy marks their race result as a priority for investigation. Often, if someone's Boston time is much slower than their qualifying time they may have cheated in an earlier race.\n\nInstead of looking back at runners after the Boston Marathon happens as he has in the past, this year Murphy tried to find people who cheated to qualify before race day. He hopes that more honest runners with qualifying times near the cut-off will be able to run the race because of his analysis.\n\nNot everyone agrees with Mr Murphy's methods. On the Marathon Investigation Facebook page, sandwiched between encouraging comments, the occasional criticism pops up, taking the blog to task for going after amateur runners and giving them too much attention.\n\nCrews install the decal marking the finish line on Boylston Street\n\nWomen's Running magazine published a critical opinion piece arguing that novice runners who cheat should not make the news.\n\nMr Murphy isn't always in the business of getting people disqualified from races. Sometimes, he does just the opposite.\n\nLast year, Ryan Lee ran the London Marathon in just over four hours and 13 minutes, but after he finished a race official contacted him to tell him that he was disqualified for missing a timing mat. The race organisers thought he had cut the course.\n\nOne missed mat doesn't always mean someone cut a course - sometimes the mats don't cover the entire width of the course and a runner might accidentally run around it. But Mr Lee's time also seemed to be too fast - he appeared to catch up to runners who had started more than 15 minutes before him, very early in the race.\n\n\"It really was draining,\" Mr Lee said. \"I raised quite a bit of money for my chosen charity and I put 110% into the actual marathon. To be then called a cheat after that really does make you feel distraught.\"\n\nMr Lee and his mother, Elizabeth Lee, set out to try and prove that he had run the entire race. They tracked down photos of Mr Lee on different points on the course and sought out other runners who had seen him race. But finding sufficient evidence to convince the race director that Mr Lee was innocent was difficult.\n\n\"I thought I would never be able to prove that I never did cheat,\" Mr Lee said.\n\nMr Murphy heard about Mr Lee's case and began to look at the evidence - video footage of the race, photos, and Mr Lee's split times - and he noticed that Mr Lee appeared with runners who had a start time about 15 minutes before the London Marathon claimed he had started racing.\n\nCrucially, Mr Lee was photographed beside those other runners before race officials said he had crossed the starting line.\n\nMr Murphy used these photos to prove that Mr Lee had actually started the race much earlier, and ultimately run a race about 15 minutes slower than the London Marathon had recorded.\n\nDerek Murphy - with his own proof of finishing a marathon\n\nEven with the missed mat at the 10km mark, Mr Lee's results made sense if his start time had been recorded incorrectly. When the race was presented with all of the evidence, they reinstated Mr Lee's official race times.\n\nProving foul play on the race course often requires more than just number crunching. Mr Murphy said that Mr Lee's case is a great example of why he looks at more than just race times.\n\n\"I was able to vindicate somebody, but if I had just looked at the data, I would have thought he cheated,\" Mr Murphy said.\n\nMr Lee still runs, in part because his racing record was cleared. He is planning to run the 2017 London Marathon later this month.\n\n\"I would love the do the marathon in America and meet Derek to say thank you for all the help.\" Mr Lee said.\n\n\"Without the help, I would still be known as a cheat.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\non BBC Radio 5 live and online from 19:00 BST on Wednesday\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley is set to miss out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.\n\nDespite leading England to back-to-back Six Nations titles, Hartley is expected to be overlooked for one of the three hooker spots for this summer.\n\nWales' Sam Warburton is set to be confirmed as Lions captain for the second time, while Welsh centre Jamie Roberts is set to be a shock inclusion.\n\nLions coach Warren Gatland will name his squad at 12:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nGatland and his coaches met for a final selection meeting on Tuesday, and about 40 players are now expected to be named.\n\nIf his omission is confirmed, Hartley will become the third England captain in succession to miss out on Lions selection, after Steve Borthwick in 2009 and Chris Robshaw in 2013.\n\nThe 31-year-old was picked for the tour of Australia four years ago, but was suspended before the series after swearing at an official.\n\nHartley's compatriot Jamie George, Ireland's Rory Best, and Wales' Ken Owens are expected to fill the three hooker berths.\n\nDespite finishing fifth in the Six Nations, Wales are understood to have more than 10 players in the squad, with hard-running centre Roberts, 30, a surprise late addition having started on the bench in all five matches in this year's Six Nations.\n\nHowever, Scotland's representation is likely to be limited to full-back Stuart Hogg, and one of Tommy Seymour or Sean Maitland on the wing.\n\nNorthampton hooker Hartley, whose chances were rated at 50-50 on Monday, would become the latest in a list of shock English exclusions.\n\nFellow Six Nations winners Joe Launchbury, James Haskell, George Ford, Jonathan Joseph and Mike Brown are also in danger of missing out.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nMarco Fu completed an astonishing comeback as he recovered from 7-2 down to beat Luca Brecel 10-9 and reach the second round of the World Championship.\n\nThe world number eight won six out of seven frames at the start of the second session to level at 8-8.\n\nAnd although Belgian qualifier Brecel scored a classy 78 in the 17th frame, Fu kept his nerve to win in a thrilling match at the Crucible in Sheffield.\n\nHe fended off Chinese teenager Yan Bingtao's comeback to earn a 10-8 first-round victory at the Crucible.\n\nThere were also wins for 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham and Northern Ireland's Mark Allen.\n\nWorld number five Murphy took the first frame against world number 63 Yan to extend his overnight lead to 7-3.\n\nThe 17-year-old qualifier then played with a style belying his age to fight back from 9-5 down against his increasingly flustered opponent.\n\nEnglishman Murphy, who won the title as a qualifier in 2005, took advantage of an outrageous fluked red in frame 18 to progress.\n\nYan would have become the youngest player to win a World Championship match at the Crucible if he had overcome Murphy. The record is held by seven-time champion Stephen Hendry, who was 18 when he beat Willie Thorne in the 1987 first round.\n\nMurphy, who faces Ronnie O'Sullivan in round two, was mightily relieved not to be on the wrong end of a piece of Crucible history.\n\n\"I played well but at 9-5 up he opened his shoulders and I was bang up against it at the end,\" the 34-year-old said.\n\n\"This place does funny things to you and I had a bit of Lady Luck. But I can't praise him enough. He has a bit of swagger about him.\"\n\nIn an all-China battle, Ding Junhui - runner-up to Mark Selby last year - was in majestic form on his way to a 7-2 lead over Zhou Yuelong.\n\nWorld number four Ding scored three centuries, including a 136 - the tournament's highest break so far - to take control going into Tuesday afternoon's concluding session.\n\nElsewhere, four-time champion John Higgins of Scotland was ruthless as he raced into a 5-0 lead before taking a 7-2 advantage over English qualifier Martin Gould.\n\nBingham earlier went through with an unconvincing 10-5 victory over another former Crucible winner Ebdon.\n\nThe world number three was pegged back to 5-4 overnight as the 2002 champion took the final two frames of the opening session.\n\nBut Bingham quickly extended his lead to 8-4 and closed out victory after Ebdon got back to 8-5.", "Five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is \"completely wrong\" to accuse snooker bosses of bullying, says world number five Shaun Murphy.\n\nO'Sullivan made the claims against World Snooker on Sunday, accusing the body of using \"threatening language\".\n\nMurphy, who will face O'Sullivan in the World Championship second round on Thursday, said he cannot live in a \"world without consequences\".\n\nFour-time world champion John Higgins said he felt sympathy for O'Sullivan.\n\nThe Scot, who beat Martin Gould on Tuesday to reach the second round at the Crucible, told BBC Radio 5 live: \"If I am led to believe what I have heard about how he was reprimanded, it is out of order.\"\n\nO'Sullivan, 41, publicly criticised a referee and swore at a photographer after his Masters win in January, which led to World Snooker referring his comments to snooker's governing body, the WPBSA.\n\nThe WPBSA took no action but O'Sullivan was sent a letter by the organisation about his behaviour and warned he could face further sanctions, including a fine.\n\n\"To claim he has been bullied is, in my opinion, quite inaccurate,\" said Murphy.\n\n\"The players' contract is clear for all to see. He can say whatever he wants. No-one has muffled him. But you can't live in a world where there are no consequences; no-one lives in that world.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier on Monday, World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said O'Sullivan's allegations were \"unfounded\".\n\n\"Ronnie can say whatever he wants about whatever he wants, but he can't get away with everything he says and he isn't right about everything he says either,\" Murphy said.\n\n\"In my own personal opinion, I think he is completely wrong.\"\n\nMurphy, the 2005 champion, survived a fine comeback from 17-year-old Chinese qualifier Yan Bingtao to win 10-8 and set up a mouth-watering match with O'Sullivan\n\nThe Englishman said he was \"sure\" the off-table controversy would be a distraction for his opponent.\n\n\"It's very hard to talk about lawyers and threatening the chairman and being embroiled in all of that - and focus on the snooker,\" he added.\n\n\"I certainly couldn't do it. I don't know how he does it, but he seems to like it; he always seems to do it. He seems to court it, like he enjoys it - so let him carry on with it with it.\"\n\nHiggins said Hearn was doing \"great things\" with snooker but added some things in the players' contracts were \"a bit over the top\".\n\nThe 41-year-old said: \"Ronnie does not normally come in here and be that passionate about something. I think he has a case. There are a few things in these players' contracts that lawyers would laugh at.\n\n\"We sign the contracts at the beginning of the year... it would need the top 16 or 32 players to say something. But we will never get that.\n\n\"Some players think it is OK or don't want to rock the boat. Why would we? It's a great product and Barry Hearn is doing great things but there are some points in it that are a bit over the top.\n\n\"I have a degree of sympathy for him [O'Sullivan]. He has a lot to take on his shoulders because he is the biggest name.\"\n\nRead more: Higgins beats Gould to reach round two", "Much of Tesla's value can be attributed to the fanatical support of Elon Musk\n\nSome of my finest swearing takes place while driving, or rather crawling, along the 880 - a congested, polluted, almost-always-jammed monstrosity of a freeway that slithers past Tesla’s car-making plant in Fremont, California.\n\nEach time I’m unfortunate enough to find myself on this stretch, I’m struck by the symbolism: a road thick with fumes, overlooked by a factory working overtime to change that.\n\nFrom that vantage point it’s pretty hard not to root for Elon Musk’s company, or at the very least his vision for a cleaner, more sustainable energy industry.\n\n“Can you name any other car company, in the history of mankind, that has gotten to where Tesla has in 10 years?” asks Bob, a Tesla fan I meet after he pulled into the factory to charge his beloved car.\n\nI can’t, of course. Tesla's rise has been astronomical, bordering on absurd. Earlier this month, Tesla (albeit briefly) became the most valuable car company in the US, overtaking both Ford and General Motors. Two companies that, as well as being around for decades before Mr Musk was even born, sell vastly more cars than Tesla - and make far more money doing it.\n\nBut that doesn't matter to investors, who have been falling over themselves to buy up Tesla’s stock, pushing it to a valuation of around $50bn - more than double what it should be, according to some.\n\n“The market’s giving them credit now for something they may or may not become,” said Brian Johnson, an automotive analyst at investment bank Barclays Capital.\n\nTesla Motors wasn’t founded by Elon Musk, but it for sure wouldn’t have survived without him.\n\nHe doesn’t do many interviews, and declined to speak to me for this article. But that’s OK - because much like this country’s current president, Mr Musk does much of his thinking aloud, on Twitter. He uses it to speak directly to his fans, bypassing the necessity of using the press to get his message out. Often, I’m told, without warning his long-suffering communications team in advance.\n\n“Stormy weather in Shortville…” was one such tweet sent, gleefully, on 4 April as Tesla’s stock was riding high.\n\nHe was having a risky dig at all those investors who sold off Tesla stock at the high price on the assumption they could buy it back again when the price dropped - skimming off the profit.\n\nIt’s a tweet that might come back to bite him, predicted Mr Johnson, who draws parallels with that iconic scene in the Matrix, where lead character Neo is given a choice of a red pill - and discover reality - or a blue pill, meaning blissful ignorance of the truth.\n\nTesla is not currently capable of making cars quickly enough to handle demand\n\n“Investors are very happy to take the blue pill right now,” Mr Johnson said.\n\n“Especially when the stock has been going up like it has.\n\n\"A red pill view would lead you to a more conservative view of the valuation and not wanting to chase this rally too far.”\n\nHe believes blue-pillers see Tesla’s headstart in battery manufacture, autonomy and other energy-related side projects as giving the company an unbeatable, perhaps even monopolistic advantage. But it’s far from certain.\n\n\"Tesla may be one of the finalists,” Mr Johnson said. \"But not the only one. You’re not talking about an industry structure that becomes iPhone-like.\n\nJust over a year ago, I stood and watched as Mr Musk took to a stage in Los Angeles and unveiled the Model 3, his most important product yet. His loyal fans whooped and hollered.\n\nUnlike the cars that came before it, the Model 3 was meant for people with slightly more modest incomes - $35,000, minus the incentives offered to people buying green vehicles.\n\nAs well as cars, Tesla now has plans to produce an electric articulated lorry\n\nThat night, he invited pre-orders - and he got them by the hundreds of thousands. Problem is, he doesn’t yet have a factory capable of building them quickly enough.\n\nLast year Tesla made 80,000 cars. General Motors made 10 million. Mr Musk has invested massively in streamlining and innovating the Tesla production line in Fremont, but it’s a huge task.\n\n“We have to see the proof that they can make the car, that it comes in at the price they promised, and that they can make a lot of them,” said Ashlee Vance, a Silicon Valley-based journalist and author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.\n\n“Tesla has not done a good job of making lots of cars,” he added.\n\n\"If they are not able to get the Model 3 out quickly and then keep the factory coming along it becomes this huge cost sink for Tesla.”\n\nMr Musk is used to people telling him his ambitions are too great, or that his promises are recklessly optimistic.\n\nBut over the years, since his fortune-making days as co-founder of PayPal, Mr Musk has developed an incredible ability to deflect missed targets with even bigger ones.\n\nAs investors wait on Tesla to deliver on those Model 3s, for example, Mr Musk is busy tweeting about his planned September unveiling of a electric powered articulated lorry. And a pick-up truck.\n\nHis Gigafactory - the largest factory floor in the world - is just getting operational, and already he is talking about building two or three more. Or perhaps even 100.\n\nWhat Mr Musk has created is a sense of excitement that has followers locked in admiration, and investors gripped by FOMO - the Fear Of Missing Out. What if Tesla becomes the next Apple, the next Amazon. What if it’s even bigger than that?\n\nWhatever your assessment of the valuation, there’s no questioning that the Cult of Elon is stronger than ever - and it adds billions to Tesla’s value.\n\n“This is almost all about the personality,” added Mr Vance. \"If you put almost any other executive in charge of this company there’s no way it has the same glow around it.\n\n\"Now that he’s hit his stride, more people have become believers in this guy. It’s almost impossible to separate the personality from the company.”\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBirmingham City have appointed Harry Redknapp as their new manager.\n\nThe ex-West Ham, Tottenham and QPR boss succeeds Gianfranco Zola, who resigned on Monday after a 2-0 defeat by fellow Championship strugglers Burton Albion.\n\nBlues are 20th in the table, three points above the relegation zone with three games left, and travel to local rivals Aston Villa on Sunday.\n\n\"Birmingham are a proper football club but they are in a precarious position,\" Redknapp, 70, told Talksport.\n\nRedknapp's appointment was announced just 16 hours after Zola's departure, and he says he will initially take charge until the end of the season.\n\nHe took charge of Jordan for two World Cup qualifiers last year, and worked as an adviser to Derby County last season, but has not managed in England since leaving QPR in February 2015.\n\nAn FA Cup winner with Portsmouth in 2008, he led Tottenham to the Champions League quarter-finals during a four-year spell at White Hart Lane.\n\nIn 2016, he was made a director at Wimborne Town and a football consultant for Australian side Central Coast Mariners.\n\n'I'm not going to turn them into Real Madrid'\n\nRedknapp will be assisted by former Bristol City boss Steve Cotterill, who previously worked with him at QPR.\n\n\"I got a phone call last night at 7pm from the people at Birmingham,\" he said.\n\n\"I drove to London and had a 10-15-minute meeting with them and said: 'I'll come and do it.'\n\n\"My wife said to me 'are you mad or what?' but I get fed up sitting around doing nothing.\"\n\nBlues could be in the relegation zone by the time Redknapp takes charge of his first match, at Villa Park.\n\nShould Blackburn and Nottingham Forest both win on Saturday, Birmingham would slip into the bottom three.\n\nAfter facing Villa, Blues host promotion-chasing Huddersfield Town before visiting Bristol City on the final day of the regular season.\n\n\"It's a real challenge,\" said Redknapp. \"I'll live up there until the end of the season, and if I keep them up I'll sit down and talk about next season.\n\n\"It's not really a risk. They have won two out 22. I haven't got a magic wand. I'm not going to turn them into Real Madrid. We need a win.\"\n\nWhen Gary Rowett was sacked in December, Blues were seventh in the table, outside the play-off places only on goal difference, but two wins in 24 matches during Zola's four-month tenure have plunged them into trouble.\n\nSpeaking when Zola was appointed, director Panos Pavlakis said the Italian's \"pedigree\" matched their ambition to \"move in a new direction\".\n\nBut, after Monday's defeat by Burton, Zola said: \"I sacked myself.\n\n\"I am sorry because I came to Birmingham with huge expectations. It is not that I like quitting, but Birmingham deserves better.\"\n\nFirst team coaches Pierluigi Casiraghi and Gabriele Cioffi, fitness coach Andrea Caronti and video analyst Sebastiano Porcu, all part of Zola's backroom team, have followed the Italian out of St Andrew's, but goalkeeper coach Kevin Hitchcock retains his role at the club.\n\nRedknapp's appointment marks the return of one of football's most colourful characters. Here are some of his memorable off-field moments:\n\n'I'm no wheeler dealer': Despite his reputation for being busy in the transfer market and giving interviews through his car window on deadline day, Redknapp reacted furiously when called a \"wheeler dealer\" in a 2010 interview.\n\nDrenched by Spurs squad: Soaked by his players with an ice bucket during a live TV interview as they celebrated qualifying for the Champions League.\n\nFury at Bent miss: After Darren Bent headed wide from six yards as Spurs drew 1-1 with Portsmouth, he said: \"My missus could have scored that one.\"\n\nHit in training: Launched a foul-mouthed tirade after being hit by a ball while speaking to a reporter at Portsmouth's training ground.\n\nBrought a fan on to play: Sent a supporter on to replace Lee Chapman in a pre-season friendly for West Ham against Oxford City.\n\nSticks up for Frank Lampard: Under criticism at a West Ham fans' forum for picking Lampard, his nephew, Redknapp predicted: \"He will go right to the very top.\" The midfielder went on to win 106 England caps and 11 major trophies with Chelsea.", "Prince Harry has revealed he sought counselling after coming close to a \"complete breakdown\" while struggling to deal with the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nHis revelation has led others to share their experiences of how they coped with losing a parent at a young age.\n\nHere they tell their stories.\n\nKathryn Watson, 33, from Newcastle, lost her mum, Heather, to lymphoma cancer when she was 19.\n\nKathryn (right) struggled with anger after her mum, Heather (left), died from cancer\n\n\"My mum was ill for about 18 months and it was really quite sudden. She went from being an outgoing person to simply not being there.\n\n\"I dealt with her death badly. I went straight into doing the logistical stuff and, because of my age, there was a lot of pressure from people for it not to affect my life.\n\n\"I found I lost quite a few friends because they didn't know how to cope with me. I was so busy trying to be 'normal', you don't know how to talk to people.\n\n\"When I read Prince Harry's story I thought that's exactly how I felt. You just keep going and everybody else forgets about it.\n\n\"Over the years I completely ignored my mum's death. Life gets back to normal and no-one talks about it.\n\nKathryn says counselling helped her deal with the grief of losing her mum\n\n\"What really spoke to me was Prince Harry talking about his anger. I felt that a lot. I turned to the gym and exercise and running.\n\n\"What also really touched me was that the age at which we dealt with it was the same.\n\n\"When I got to 28 and 29 I thought 'I can't keep going on with this'. It's the realisation it's not going to fade.\n\n\"Now, I'm able to open up and work through my grief. I think it is a maturity thing.\n\n\"Counselling has brought me to a good place. It's about finding the right counsellor for you - it's so important.\n\n\"I feel relieved and a lot calmer. I still have bad days but I now know if I'm going into one it will pass and I know who to contact and who to talk to.\n\n\"It doesn't seem so overwhelming or daunting now.\"\n\nAndy Savage, 37, from Nantwich, Cheshire, was 12 when his mum, Diane, died from a blood clot in her lung.\n\nAndy, pictured with his mum, Diane, says he is not the person he would have been if she had stayed alive\n\n\"It was completely out of the blue. I was 12 at the time, my younger brother was nine and my sister was six. They were taken into care, our family was split up.\n\n\"We had been the typical little family back then. My dad couldn't cope afterwards, his grief was as big as ours.\n\n\"You lose several things when you lose your mum. You lose someone very close to you but you also lose the person who takes care of you. There's a mixture of emotions.\n\n\"I can't think of anything that decimates someone's life more as a kid than taking their mum away from them.\n\n\"There was a lot of anger for me personally. It messes up your life in a lot of different ways. I dropped out of school, didn't really get an education and didn't look after myself too well.\n\nAndy, pictured with step-daughter Emily, says that, like Prince Harry, he had a chaotic period after losing his mum\n\n\"It's only looking back now, that I realise it was linked to my mum's death. I know I'm not the person I would've been if she had stayed alive.\n\n\"Like Prince Harry, I had that chaotic period. I went off the rails in my late teens because I didn't have any guidance, I did what I wanted to do. I burnt myself out quite quickly.\n\n\"I think it's vital you find something in life that's your passion, whether it's sport or a hobby - something to give your life meaning.\n\n\"I was lucky that social services were there and they provided counselling sessions. For me it was massively beneficial, but not everyone's a talker.\n\n\"As Harry said, venting at someone, letting it all out has got to be a good thing. It helps you make sense of what's happened.\"\n\nSusan Steel, 55, from Hull, lost her dad, Gerry, who suffered from hypercholesterolemia, at the age of 12.\n\nSusan's dad Gerry - pictured with her at the beach in 1963 - died at the family home after a long illness\n\n\"My dad had been unwell for quite some time. On the day he died he'd come out of hospital and I remember coming out of school and seeing him in the passenger seat.\n\n\"For the first time I thought that's not my dad. He was shrivelling away.\n\n\"That evening my mum was in the kitchen and me and my sister were watching the 9 O'Clock news with my dad.\n\n\"We heard a clatter and the table turned over and we turned around and his eyes were rolling. I charged out screaming, I knew what had happened. I never saw him again.\n\n\"Now I can't really remember him. I think a lot of it you block out.\n\n\"I saw a child psychiatrist at the time because I wouldn't go to school. I had separation anxiety from my mum. I didn't understand it at the time.\n\n\"I couldn't concentrate at school and I didn't do very well in my A-levels. I couldn't eat either and lost loads of weight.\n\nSusan, pictured with her husband Martin, sought counselling for panic attacks in her adult life\n\n\"It did affect everything but I didn't really realise at the time it might be related to losing my dad.\n\n\"I avoided relationships and when I met my husband I started to have panic attacks and that's when I started to see a counsellor. That's when I understood it.\n\n\"I had a mistrust of men, I feared my husband would leave me.\n\n\"I had a really good GP who recognised it was connected to my dad and sent me to a counsellor.\n\n\"You do bottle it up. You don't go there. Counselling is not an easy option, it's very painful.\n\n\"But I remember coming home and I would feel really free. It really did help, without a shadow of a doubt.\"\n\nNational charity Cruse Bereavement Care offers advice and support on dealing with the death of a loved one. For more information visit www.cruse.org.uk.\n\nA new website has also been set up to signpost the bereaved to available support. Visit www.ataloss.org for more information.\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.\n\nIt looks like a barber's shop should. The scissors, the combs, the clippers and mirrors. Shelves of hair 'product' and jars of 'barbicide' disinfectant.\n\nThere's a theme going on too - it screams motorcycles. From the leather jacket hanging on the wall, to oil and tyre paraphernalia, and biking photos.\n\nIt's where men can come to relax. For a haircut, a beard trim, or even a full wet cut-throat razor shave.\n\nWelcome to the world of Sophie Collins: 'The Cut-throat Racer'\n\nShe is a 25-year-old former hairdresser, who has swapped tints, blue-rinses and shampoo-and-sets in a small rural village in north Wales for the male-dominated world of barbering.\n\nIt is four years since she set up shop in the quiet, picturesque Gwynedd village of Llanbedr - a place whose claims to fame are a campsite on the coast boasting it is the biggest in Europe, and an ex-Raf airfield that wants to become an international space port.\n\nBut this spring, it is Sophie making the headlines in the village, in north Wales - and beyond.\n\nShe has just been named the best cut-throat shaver in Wales - the first woman to take the title.\n\nIt also means she'll become the very first female barber to make it to the UK finals of the competition, held in May in a boxing ring in Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre.\n\n\"I've always wanted to do it - be a barber,\" said Sophie.\n\n\"I was inspired by an old friend. A gentleman I trained with, he actually taught me how to shave.\n\n\"I thought, you know, when I took on my own place, I wanted to be like the other barbers - show myself off, show the shop - enter competitions - not thinking I'd get as far as have.\n\nPerhaps she is being modest. She is no stranger to competing in traditionally male arenas.\n\nOutside of the barber shop, you are just as likely to find her donning racing leathers and taking her motorbike out on the track.\n\nShe is spending the Easter weekend in a track competition where she will be up against her own father, who passed on his passion for speed and bikes to her.\n\n\"He's faster than me though,\" she laughed.\n\nAt the race meets up and down the country, Sophie is also known to set-up her own mobile barber's shop, offering hardened bikers and race enthusiasts a trim or shave.\n\nIt is where she picked-up her nickname: The Cut-throat Racer.\n\nAnd now she hopes her success can be an inspiration to other women who want to get into the industry.\n\n\"It's actually making the women out there think: 'You know what - I've always wanted to do it'.\n\n\"Maybe seeing myself win something like that, maybe it will encourage them to actually do it themselves - and not have to worry about being a woman taking part in a competition alongside men.\n\n\"Yes - it is daunting - but you're just as good as them, and that's how I felt on the day.\"\n\nBut does the swaggering confidence translate back to the barber shop floor?\n\n\"When they come in and I get the razor out to shave their neck, they panic,\" confesses Sophie.\n\n\"They tend to have a gulp and grit their teeth, and I'm trying to tell them: '\"Relax - it's supposed to be relaxing for you.\n\nWith a smile and a sly wink, she adds: \"A lot of them do get nervous.\n\n\"A woman with a razor? No - really?\"\n\nYes really, a woman with a razor who is on a mission to become one of the best cut-throat shavers in Britain.", "The US-led coalition appears confident that fighters of the so-called Islamic State (IS) will be defeated in Mosul. But the battle for Iraq's second largest city has already been going on for six months and the Iraqi forces have only just reached the edges of the old city.\n\nOptimism has been tempered by the slow progress of what has become a brutal fight for every street. In the words of the US coalition spokesman Col John Dorrian \"the fight's been very, very slow and very, very hard… its gut-busting\".\n\nWe joined the Iraqi forces about to launch yet another assault to take more territory. Over the past few weeks, the initial advance has slowed to a crawl with the front lines relatively static. They want to break the deadlock. This is the story of just one battle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Beale and cameraman Barnaby Mitchell are embedded with Iraqi troops\n\nThey mass under the cover of darkness. The same Iraq units who've been fighting here for months. The troops both battle hardened and battle weary. It's supposed to be a surprise dawn attack. But IS will be lying in wait. As we move forward on foot we soon come under fire.\n\nWe follow one of the Iraqi commanders, Maj Mohammed, as he sets up a makeshift headquarters in an abandoned house that's already seen heavy fighting. There's IS graffiti on the walls.\n\nAs his troops advance there is a sudden, panicked call on the radio. It's his first casualties. They've walked into a booby-trapped building: several men have been injured and they're calling for help.\n\nThe battle to drive IS fighters out of Mosul has been going on for six months\n\nThere's no let-up in the fighting as dawn breaks amid the heavy thud of machine guns firing on both sides.\n\nWe hear coalition aircraft overhead. Then a whoosh and a thud, followed by an explosion. One of the IS heavy machine guns has been silenced by a coalition airstrike.\n\nThere are several more over the next few hours - uncomfortably close. An Iraqi soldier smiles and points as a bomb travels at speed towards another IS-held building nearby.\n\nIn the distance we can now see the black flag of IS flying. And nearer, the buildings and the holes in the wall from where they're firing.\n\nThere's another whoosh, thud and boom and then a plume of smoke from an air strike. We're told to stay inside because the Iraqi forces have heard a small IS drone. They're often armed with grenades.\n\nFive hours later, the battle is still raging over the same few streets. An Iraqi armoured bulldozer tries to clear a path through the wrecked cars and rubble to help the advance. But the driver is targeted by an IS rocket-propelled grenade. There's a frantic effort to free him from the cabin. His comrades eventually succeed but he's lost limbs and is bleeding profusely.\n\nThe Iraqi forces have to contend with booby traps and air attacks from IS drones\n\nNo-one can question the bravery of the Iraqi forces, but you can see the losses and the expectations of victory weighing heavily on their shoulders.\n\nWe ask to leave when IS begin to mortar the Iraqi positions. The impact sends brick and concrete flying through the air. The building we are taking shelter in shudders and then there's a cloud of debris. Someone shouts \"Gas!\" but thankfully it's not.\n\nWe leave in the same Humvee we first arrived in. The seats are now stained in blood from ferrying the wounded. By the end of the day, the Iraqi forces have taken a few more streets.\n\nBut this is unforgiving, urban warfare and for the Iraqi forces there is still a mountain to climb.", "Last updated on .From the section Judo\n\nCoverage: Reports and reaction on the BBC Sport website\n\nForgoing a social life, giving up alcohol, and brutally battering your body - success does not come without sacrifice.\n\nBut how many athletes would actually dice with death in the pursuit of perfection and to achieve the ultimate dream of Olympic gold?\n\nFor British judoka Kelly Edwards, who had multiple concussions in the eight months before Rio 2016, the advice from neurological specialists was clear.\n\n\"They said if I carried on, I might die - it was that serious,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Even then I was insisting - 'but it's the Olympics' - it was everything I'd thought about for four years and never considered not being there.\"\n\nWhat should have been a reality check was briefly considered 'just another challenge' before Edwards reluctantly accepted a break - meaning she would miss Rio - was not only recommended but required.\n\n\"It was devastating to miss the Olympics, but if I'd carried on and tried to get there then in the worst-case scenario, I may not be here now, or be unable to continue with a 'normal' life,\" said the 26-year-old.\n\n'It felt like my head was full of cotton wool'\n\nEdwards' struggle to accept the decision was in part down to her passion for judo, but also the confusion around exactly how the problem had arisen.\n\nShe took a minor hit to the head at an event in Mongolia in July 2015, and another in Uzbekistan three months later.\n\nDismissing her \"slow and sluggish\" behaviour as jet-lag, she went on to compete in Portugal later in October - before her headaches worsened.\n\n\"It was strange because I didn't feel like I had taken any big knocks,\" she said.\n\n\"It was only when my team started looking back at video footage that we realised where the concussions may have happened.\"\n\nShe improved after resting, before an awkward landing in a competition at the end of 2015 saw the problems return.\n\n\"It felt like my head was full of cotton wool,\" she said.\n\nThe \"fogginess\" in her mind cleared during a six-week break over Christmas, and in late January last year she was back hunting for an Olympic place.\n• None Concussion in sport - the rugby player who couldn't remember his child being born\n\n'I could not even feed my cat'\n\nThe 2014 Commonwealth silver medallist came through a competition in Cuba unscathed, but a 'minor' knock at the prestigious Paris Grand Slam in February 2016 prompted the symptoms to return - with a vengeance.\n\n\"The hit felt like nothing, but the impact was so debilitating,\" she said.\n\nEdwards was immediately managed using the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool, also known as Scat 3. It includes six elements, with athletes only allowed to progress to the next phase once symptoms have ceased.\n\nShe was initially ordered to rest completely and not use technology.\n\n\"It impacted every part of my life,\" she said. \"I couldn't make my own meals, and when I'd lean over to feed my cat I was getting dizzy and falling over.\n\n\"I was sleeping for 16-17 hours a day and was still tired. Technology was a complete no-go - I couldn't look at my iPad, computer screen or TV for weeks.\"\n\nI was angry, at times really, really scared... I couldn't get my head around why it was happening\n\nDespite the precautions, her condition did not improve, and in the second phase of her recovery even going for walks and using her mobile were ruled out.\n\nShe said: \"I didn't think sending a few texts to friends and family was a problem, but I was showing no improvement and had to try something different.\"\n\nIn those few hours she was awake, Edwards felt in a 'dream-like' state, where nothing was real.\n\n\"I didn't feel in control of the situation - I was angry, at times really, really scared, and I couldn't get my head around why it was happening,\" she said.\n\n\"It wasn't like a knee or shoulder problem where you're told: 'It'll be four-six weeks of recovery and this is the plan.' It was this invisible injury.\"\n\nDespite an increase in media coverage and heightened concerns about the long-term impact of repeated concussions on the brain - driven by research into dead American footballers and boxers - very little is known about the mechanics of the condition.\n\nIn the UK, rugby union is leading the way with a new Pitch-Side Concussion Assessment (PSCA) system which aims to detect concussions early and prevent players from returning to action too soon.\n\nHowever, forms of diagnosis and treatment are still very much in their infancy.\n\n\"The brain is so complex and I think that's why there's not a lot of information out there,\" said Edwards.\n\n\"I didn't get a lot of answers about why I suffered repeated concussions and was hearing lots of 'we don't know' which I found bizarre and really frustrating.\n\n\"Hopefully what I've been through will in some way help others.\"\n\nEdwards' condition had improved considerably by the time the Rio Olympics began - in April she had resumed running drills, and by July she had returned to full contact work.\n\nBut that made watching from home all the more difficult.\n\n\"Four years earlier, I'd been in London and had the whole arena chanting my name as I came out to compete,\" she said.\n\n\"It was really hard not being part of an amazing Games for Team GB.\"\n\nSeeing team-mate Sally Conway claim bronze helped reignite the desire to win medals again, and piece by piece she rebuilt her career.\n\n\"I was struggling doing forward and backward rolls, handstands and cartwheels - all things that used to be so easy,\" said Edwards, who as a child did gymnastics training five times a week.\n\n\"When I started doing judo again, if I got thrown or hit on the head I would stop and check I was OK as I was really nervous.\"\n\nHer confidence grew, though, and she embarked on a run of career-best form, winning medals in all six events at the end of 2016 including first Grand Slam and Grand Prix honours.\n\n\"I'm a fighter, I'm a warrior, and if you can overcome the challenges then you'll be stronger than you were before,\" she said.\n\n\"The experience and how bad it was has given me a new lease of life and my mindset is totally different.\"\n\nThis week, Edwards will look to prove just how far she has come by challenging for a medal at the European Championships in Poland - her first major international since the 2015 World Championships.\n\nFurther concussions are possible, and there are no guarantees serious symptoms will not emerge again in the future.\n\nDr Keith Barrow, British Judo's chief medical officer, said it was unclear whether Edwards had had three or four concussions.\n\nHe added: \"It was hard to tell her she had to stop pushing for the Olympics as she's an honest athlete who had worked so hard to get to Rio, but we had a duty of care.\n\n\"Concussions have been linked to mental illness and dementia so we had to think about her life outside of sport as well.\"\n\nDespite the risks, Edwards is not ready to give up on her dreams.\n\n\"There's so much I still want - like being Olympic, world and European champion - but to simplify, it's about being the best I can possibly be,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope taking that break has put any long-term risk of [brain] damage at bay, but what fuels my life is judo and in sport there is always risk.\n\n\"Some people may find that hard to understand,\" she said with a smile. \"Us athletes are a crazy bunch!\"", "Lisbonne and Hawaii were saved from a house fire thanks to home security tech\n\nChristophe Deschamps was watching a basketball game with his wife and three children when he received an alert on his smartphone.\n\nThe home security system told him something was wrong, so he quickly accessed the video feed on his phone.\n\n\"I could see smoke,\" he says. Their home, in the Wallonia region of southern Belgium, was on fire.\n\nThe family's thoughts immediately turned to their two Bernese Mountain dogs - Lisbonne and Hawaii - locked in the garage. A terrible family tragedy was threatening to unfold.\n\nThe video images now showed the smoke getting thicker and brightness coming from flames off-camera.\n\nThe fire alarm had already alerted the firefighters, so the Deschamps family rushed home as quickly as they could.\n\n\"It was more important for us to save the dogs than the house,\" says Christophe. \"My wife was crying and panicking, thinking the dogs could die.\"\n\nThe security camera recorded the progress of the fire in the Deschamps' home\n\nFortunately, Lisbonne and Hawaii were saved with just 20cm of air left to breathe above the floor of the smoke-filled garage. But the fire damage to the house took six months to repair.\n\nThe dogs' lucky escape was due to the indoor security camera Christophe had installed.\n\nThe smart camera, made by Netatmo, sends alerts when it hears an alarm - whether smoke, carbon monoxide or security - and automatically starts recording.\n\nIt is also one of the first smart home cameras featuring face recognition technology capable of distinguishing between people it knows and strangers.\n\nParents working late can receive alerts when their kids arrive home, for example, and will receive an \"unknown face seen\" alert if someone breaks in.\n\nThe French company says evidence collected by its smart cameras has led to the successful prosecution of burglars.\n\nThe connected home security market is expanding fast, with companies such as Withings, Nest, D-Link, Netgear, Philips, Panasonic - not to mention the tech behemoths Apple, Amazon and Samsung - all offering an expanding array of internet-connected smart gadgets, from thermostats to motion-sensitive cameras with infrared and audio capability.\n\n\"We put the connected home security market at 95.4 million unit sales in 2016,\" says Francesco Radicati, a technology specialist at consultancy Ovum.\n\n\"Service providers, such as Qivicon, AT&T Digital Life, and Vivint Smart Home, are selling device multi-packs including multiple sensors, and these are proving very popular.\n\n\"We estimate the market will grow to 744 million devices sold in 2021.\"\n\nInnovations are coming on to the market thick and fast.\n\nFor example, connected light bulb firm LIFX has produced a version that can beam infrared light outdoors, enabling a compatible security camera, such as the Nest Cam Outdoor, to see better in the dark.\n\nThe key innovation, however, has been the integration of the smartphone into such connected networks, giving users remote control wherever they have an internet connection.\n\nBut aren't all these security cameras intrusive and even a little voyeuristic?\n\nNetatmo has addressed this issue by making its Welcome camera programmable, so you can disable recording for individuals you specify. And most camera systems can be disabled remotely.\n\nIt isn't just our homes that technology is helping keep safe.\n\nCars are also a common target for thieves. This is why Matej Persolja, 33, founded CarLock, a company based in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and San Francisco in the US.\n\nCarLock's system plugs into a vehicle's onboard diagnostics port and sends an alarm to your phone if your vehicle is moved, the engine starts, it detects unusual vibration, or if the gadget is disconnected.\n\nMr Persolja started the business after thinking his car had been stolen. It turned out his car had only been moved to make way for construction work taking place in the area.\n\n\"Before I learned that, I was almost certain my car had been stolen and I still remember that awful feeling,\" he says.\n\nThe CarLock system enables owners to track the location of their car if it has been stolen and also acts like a telematics box recording driving behaviour and the general health of the engine.\n\nAnd there are a growing number of remote control apps for cars on the market.\n\nViper's SmartStart app - currently only available in the US and Canada - enables you to start your car, lock and unlock it, and track its movements remotely using your smartphone.\n\nRemote starting is useful for de-icing your car in the mornings while you get ready for work and have breakfast. Even if someone sees the car running and a thief smashes a window to steal it, the physical key is still needed to drive the car off.\n\nYou can also keep an eye on your kids' driving habits and receive an alert if they take the car beyond a geographical point that you specify.\n\nFord is even integrating Amazon's Alexa voice-activated software into its cars, enabling drivers to remotely start their cars with a voice command and personal identification number.\n\nOf course, the elephant in the room with all these connected security products is the risk of being hacked. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre recently demonstrated how a connected doll could be hacked and used to open remote control door locks.\n\nAnd poorly secured security cameras have been hijacked to carry out web attacks.\n\nHow to protect your smart home and all its internet-connected devices will be the subject of a future Technology of Business feature.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nIt should have been a day he would never forget - playing for Wigan in the 2004 Challenge Cup final against the old enemy St Helens. Instead, after two knockout blows, Kevin Brown was wandering alone, dazed and confused, around the streets of Cardiff.\n\nIt was the greatest moment of his life - but, after a clash of heads, Luke Robinson - then at Huddersfield Giants - lost all memory that his wife had given birth only three days earlier.\n\nTwo isolated incidents for former half-back partners who tell this week's BBC Radio 5 live podcast they fear what the future could hold for them after repeated concussions in their careers.\n\nBut both insist the game is getting to grips with head injury protocol, making it much safer for players now beginning their careers.\n\nRobinson, who retired from playing 14 months ago, says he was knocked out at least 30 times playing rugby league.\n\nHe says: \"The dangers are incredible and it's worrying. My wife is extremely worried about me in the future.\n\n\"If you go on YouTube, you can see one concussion. I clash heads with James Graham. My wife had given birth on the Tuesday, I was playing the game on the Friday.\"\n\nFor the rest of the match, Robinson chased after team-mate Danny Brough, asking him if he was a dad.\n\n\"It was only when I got home and my wife was there with our first born, Leo, that it all came flooding back that I had a kid,\" he adds.\n\n\"In another game, I got a hit to the head. Five or six hours later I got home, I felt fine. But I rang for a taxi to go to my friend's birthday and I couldn't remember where I lived.\n\n\"I had to go to my study and get a bank statement out, and it was only then that I remembered.\"\n• None Concussion in sport: 'They said if I carried on, I might die'\n\nBrown, now 32 and playing for Warrington, missed the Easter fixtures after being concussed twice in three previous games.\n\nBut that protocol of being forced to sit out matches is only a recent development.\n\n\"In the 2004 Challenge Cup final, I played in the centre against St Helens. I don't remember the game,\" says Brown, who played on despite being knocked out twice.\n\n\"After the game, I had no idea what was going on. I missed the bus and I was walking round Cardiff with my tracksuit on.\n\n\"My team-mate Martin Aspinwall found me and took me back to the hotel because I was delirious and I didn't know where I was. But after those two concussions, I played again the week later. I only know I played a week later because I broke my leg at Wakefield.\n\n\"There was obviously nothing in place to protect you from getting a further head injury a week later, which they're saying now is the most dangerous.\"\n\nBoth players believe the protocols now in place will protect players.\n\n\"I was forever getting knocked out and telling the physio I was fine,\" says Robinson, 32.\n\n\"But now it's out of the players' hands. They're escorted down to the dressing rooms and a head test is done.\"\n\nBrown adds: \"Getting concussed isn't dangerous, it's getting concussed again while your brain is a little bit swollen that can really affect you.\n\n\"That's been take away a lot now with the cogsport tests and the protocol. You're not allowed to play on a six-day turnaround if you have had a concussion.\n\n\"Also, I've been knocked out six or seven times when I've passed the ball and been shoulder-charged. The game stopped that tackle and started banning people, so people stopped doing it.\n\n\"It's good that rugby league took the stance and is looking after the players.\"\n\nDespite his concerns about the future, Brown says he wouldn't have swapped his career in rugby league.\n\n\"The life I've had playing rugby has been unbelievable,\" he says. \"The opportunities it's given me, the enjoyment it's given me, far outweighs the negatives of the head knocks.\n\n\"Touch wood, I don't have any side-effects when it's finished.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nCoverage: Watch live on the BBC Sport website, Connected TVs and app. Race highlights and reports on the BBC Sport website.\n\nOlympic champion Adam Peaty booked his place at the 2017 World Championships with victory at the British Championships in Sheffield.\n\nPeaty, 22, who became Britain's first male Olympic swimming champion for 28 years in Rio, took the British 100m breaststroke title in 57.79 seconds.\n\n\"This is what I race for, to win and I'm pleased with that time,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\nPeaty gave away his British gold medal to a young fan in the crowd.\n\n\"Hopefully that lad will look at the medal and it will make him think, 'If I train harder, I can be out there too' and then he'll be here competing one day,\" said the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth champion.\n\nRoss Murdoch should also be at the Budapest World Championships in July after finishing second in one minute flat.\n\nIn addition to Peaty and Murdoch, Rio Olympians James Guy and Stephen Milne (400m freestyle), Hannah Miley and Aimee Willmott (400m individual medley) all recorded times which will put them in contention for selection for the Worlds.\n\nPeaty says he now wants to chase \"legendary\" status and lower the world record of 57.13 he set at the Rio Olympics.\n\n\"Me and my coach [Mel Marshall] have set this target, it's called 'project 56' and that's the aim, to keep going quicker and winning every race.\"\n\nFind out how to get into swimming with our fully inclusive guide.\n\nGuy - who missed out on individual honours at Rio 2016, but won two silver medals as part of the men's relay teams - took the men's 400m freestyle title.\n\nFellow Olympians Chris Walker-Hebborn (50m backstroke) and Hannah Miley (400m individual medley) retained their respective crowns, while 17-year-old Imogen Clark claimed her first GB title with victory in the 50m breaststroke in a British record of 30.21 secs.\n\nDefending 200m freestyle champion Jazz Carlin was a surprise third in an event won by Ellie Faulkner in a personal best time of one minute 57.88 secs.\n\nWelsh swimmer Carlin - who won Rio Olympic silver medals in the 400m and 800m freestyle events - will return for the 800m competition on Wednesday.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLeicester City's Champions League adventure ended in disappointment at the quarter-final stage despite a spirited second-leg display against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThe Foxes dominated for much of the game at the King Power Stadium, creating numerous chances throughout, but were left with too much to do after Saul Niguez's 26th-minute header added to Atletico's one-goal advantage from the first leg in Madrid.\n\nNeeding three second half goals, Leicester responded with splendid defiance and equalised on the night when Jamie Vardy scored at the far post just after the hour.\n\nThey kept battling until the end as Atletico survived several scrambles, but the La Liga superpower held on and the Premier League's interest in the tournament ended.\n\nThe Foxes go down fighting\n\nLeicester City have gained huge credit and credibility in making their way to the last eight of the Champions League as England's last surviving representatives.\n\nAnd even in defeat over two legs to this battle-hardened Atletico Madrid side - twice losing finalists in recent seasons - the Foxes can be proud of another monumental effort that just came up short.\n\nCraig Shakespeare's side were second best as Atletico looked a cut above for the first 45 minutes to lead through Niguez's header, which left Leicester needing those three goals against a miserly defence.\n\nThe hosts could have been forgiven for throwing in the towel but instead came out fighting, invigorated by Shakespeare's positive half-time changes. He sent on Ben Chilwell and Leonardo Ulloa for Shinji Okazaki and defender Yohan Benalouane, flooding Vardy with greater support.\n\nVardy's goal was no more than they deserved and for a time they had Atletico rocking, giving the King Power Stadium belief that another miracle was on the cards. They almost added a second in goalmouth scrambles, especially when Stefan Savic blocked Vardy's goal-bound shot.\n\nIn the final reckoning, the lack of an away goal and a controversial first-leg penalty scored by Antoine Griezmann left them with a hurdle that was just too tough to surmount.\n\nThere was disappointment inside the King Power Stadium at the final whistle but it was masked by a fully deserved standing ovation for Leicester's players.\n\nWhen last season's Premier League champions started their Champions League journey, many believed reaching the knockout phase would represent success - so once again they defied the odds.\n\nAtletico Madrid are a side built in the image and likeness of their manager Diego Simeone - talented, uncompromising and streetwise.\n\nAnd in the end it was that combination of qualities that made it just too tough for Leicester City to take their journey a step further into the last four.\n\nAtletico showed their quality in the first half to score that crucial away goal, then demonstrated the resilience that has taken them to two Champions League finals in 2014 and 2016 [both lost to arch-rivals Real Madrid].\n\nIt needed a mixture of defiance and desperation but in the end it was enough to send them into another Champions League semi-final.\n\nThe King Power rises to the occasion\n\nThis may be the last Champions League night at the King Power for some time - and if it is, Leicester City made sure it left plenty to remember them by.\n\nThe pre-match ceremonials were raucous and spectacular, with pyrotechnics, dry ice and fireworks whipping the home fans into a noisy frenzy.\n\nAtletico were unmoved by the atmosphere early on but certainly felt its force as they were penned back in the second period.\n\nThe King Power has proved to be the perfect environment for Leicester City's Champions League adventure - and so it proved once more here.\n\nLeicester manager Craig Shakespeare, speaking to BT Sport: \"In the first half we played really well but the goal changes the game plan - we knew we had to score three - so I had to make the change.\n\n\"There's no discredit to lose to a team of that calibre.\n\n\"In terms of effort, commitment, application - as a group we were tremendous.\n\n\"The momentum was with us when Jamie [Vardy] scored but it just wasn't to be.\n\n\"I think the whole club, the supporters, owners and players, can be immensely proud of what they've achieved.\n\n\"I've just said to the players 'you should want more of this'.\"\n\nAtletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone: \"I'm full of emotion and pride at the performance of my team.\n\n\"I also have to say, what a great performance from our opponents. It was almost a pleasure to compete against them.\"\n• None Only Edinson Cavani (four) and Robert Lewandowski (four) have scored more away goals than Saul Niguez (three) in the Champions League this season.\n• None Saul's goal was the 100th Atletico Madrid had scored in the Champions League, in their 68th match in the competition.\n• None Filipe Luis has provided back-to-back assists in all competitions for Atletico for the first time since October 2013.\n• None Jamie Vardy is the first English player to score in a Champions League quarter-final since Frank Lampard in 2012.\n• None Both of Vardy's Champions League goals have come in the knockout stage of the competition.\n• None The Foxes had 16 shots in the second half of this match, while Atletico had two.\n• None Leicester exit the Champions League unbeaten at home in their first campaign (W4 D1).\n\nLeicester return to Premier League action with an away game at Arsenal on Wednesday, 26 April, followed three days later with another away game at West Brom.\n\nAtletico Madrid are also away from home in their next match - a trip to Espanyol in La Liga on Saturday (19:45 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing misses to the left. Assisted by Stefan Savic following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Chilwell.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Chilwell (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Koke.\n• None Attempt blocked. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wilfred Ndidi.\n• None Substitution, Leicester City. Daniel Amartey replaces Wes Morgan because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Wes Morgan (Leicester City) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) header from the centre of 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 Football\n\nArsenal kept alive their hopes of finishing in the top four of the Premier League with a narrow victory at second-bottom Middlesbrough.\n\nA dull opening was brought to life when Alexis Sanchez's superb free-kick gave Arsenal the lead just before the break.\n\nMiddlesbrough responded soon after the restart when Alvaro Negredo volleyed in Stewart Downing's pinpoint cross.\n\nHowever, Mesut Ozil secured the much-needed three points for Arsenal with a first-time strike at the near post.\n\nThe win - only Arsenal's third in their past nine league games - moves the Gunners up to sixth, seven points behind fourth-place Manchester City and with a game in hand.\n\nMiddlesbrough remain deep in relegation trouble, six points from safety.\n\nThe Gunners have not lost five successive away games in the league since 1984 and manager Arsene Wenger took significant measures to avoid that happening against Boro by playing a three-man defence for the first time since 1997.\n\nRob Holding, Laurent Koscielny and Gabriel were the centre-backs at the Riverside Stadium but struggled with the change in system as Middlesbrough looked lively in the early stages but lacked the quality in the final third to exploit the gaps in Arsenal's defence.\n\n\"Yes, it is the first time in 20 years. That shows you that even at my age, you can change,\" Wenger said after the game when explaining his tactical switch.\n\n\"I felt it added a bit more stability on the long balls. We faced a direct game and we have been punished a bit on that. It gave the opponents more of the ball but against Crystal Palace we had 70% possession but lost.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough have scored the fewest amount of Premier League goals at home all season - just 12 prior to Arsenal's visit - and with the quality of Sanchez and Ozil in attack the visitors were always capable of snatching a lead. That proved to be the case when they scored from only their second shot on target just before the break, Sanchez expertly steering a free-kick over a packed wall and into the far corner.\n\nArsenal's lack of experience playing 3-4-3 was evident early in the second half when Downing charged away down an exposed right flank on the counter before providing the perfect ball for Negredo to poke in his ninth of the season.\n\nThe game opened up after that but Ozil's goal midway through the second half ensured Arsenal escaped with the points. It was a welcome win for under-pressure Wenger but not quite the sign of a return to form. Holding, Koscielny and Gabriel failed to make a single tackle in the first 60 minutes and stronger sides than Middlesbrough will not be as forgiving.\n\nSanchez has cut a frustrated figure at times this season, with reports suggesting he is keen to leave the Gunners in the summer.\n\nHowever, his celebrations after Arsenal's goals on Monday did not look like those of an unhappy player.\n\nHe hugged and high-fived his team-mates and was seen smiling broadly at the final whistle, celebrating with the fans.\n\nIt is unlikely to be enough to convince Arsenal fans he will stay at the club, but it will no doubt have been pleasing for Wenger.\n\nIs there hope for Middlesbrough?\n\nMiddlesbrough are the only side in English league football not to have won a league game during 2017 and that awful run of form has put them perilously close to an immediate return to the Championship.\n\nPerformances have improved since Steve Agnew replaced Aitor Karanka on a caretaker basis last month and this display was perhaps their best so far under the Englishman.\n\nBut wins are needed and needed quickly. Five wins and a draw from their final six games would take them to 40 points - generally perceived as the minimum to avoid relegation - but with games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool still to come they need to significantly improve in the final third to have a chance of pulling off an unlikely escape.\n\nWhat they said\n\nMiddlesbrough caretaker boss Steve Agnew: \"We are bitterly disappointed with the result but the players gave everything they had. We couldn't ask more of them.\n\n\"We played on the front foot, put them under pressure. I felt we might get the second goal after Negredo scored.\n\n\"The ball just wouldn't drop in the box for us. We put them under tremendous pressure.\"\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger: \"We responded well. I think it was not perfect but the commitment and focus was there. At 1-1 we found a response and managed to win.\n\n\"It was a big test, Middlesbrough gave everything. It's one of their last chances to stay in the league.\n\n\"It [the top four] is mathematically still alive. We knew we needed to win. Now we have a little break with the FA Cup and then we come back again to the league.\n\n\"We have to win every game to have a chance to get in the top four, starting tonight. I think it will make the team a bit more serene.\"\n• None Arsenal picked up only their second win in their past nine away league games (D1 L6), though both victories came against teams currently in the relegation zone (Swansea were beaten 4-0 on 14 January).\n• None Alexis Sanchez has scored more away goals in the Premier League this season than any other player (13).\n• None Indeed, only Emmanuel Adebayor (14 in 2007-08) has scored more away goals in a single Premier League campaign for Arsenal than Sanchez this season.\n• None Middlesbrough are winless in 15 league games - their longest such run in the division.\n• None Only Thierry Henry (12) has scored more direct free-kick goals in the Premier League for Arsenal than Sanchez (five, level with Robin van Persie).\n• None Mesut Ozil has scored in two of his past three league games for Arsenal, the same number he'd scored in in his previous 16.\n• None Ozil also made four tackles, his joint-most in a Premier League game (last doing so against Man City in December 2015).\n• None Arsenal's opener was their 3,000th away goal in English league football (now 3,001) - the second side to reach that figure (Manchester United, 3226).\n\nMiddlesbrough continue their search for a first league win of the year on Saturday when they travel to Bournemouth (15:00 BST). Arsenal, meanwhile, now switch their focus to the FA Cup. They face Manchester City in the semi-final on Sunday (15:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Ramsey.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Offside, Middlesbrough. Daniel Ayala tries a through ball, but Rudy Gestede is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam Clayton with a cross.\n• None Rudy Gestede (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Alexis Sánchez.\n• None Attempt saved. Álvaro Negredo (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rudy Gestede.\n• None Adama Traoré (Middlesbrough) 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\nThe doctor who treated Mo Farah with a controversial infusion is set to give evidence to MPs on Wednesday.\n\nThe infusion of the legal supplement L-carnitine, given to Farah before the 2014 London Marathon, is being looked at by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) to determine whether rules were broken.\n\nDr Robin Chakraverty carried out the treatment on the instruction of Farah's American coach Alberto Salazar.\n\nHe will appear before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee at 14:30 BST.\n\nChakraverty, formerly chief medical medical officer for UK Athletics (UKA), now works with the England men's football team.\n\nMPs are also expected to hear from UKA head of endurance Barry Fudge as part of their ongoing investigation into doping in sport.\n\nFudge has worked closely with Farah and Dr John Rogers, a former medic for the British athletics team who reportedly raised concerns about Salazar's methods.\n\nRogers and UKA chairman Ed Warner, plus UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholls, are also due before the committee.\n\nSalazar has been under investigation by Usada and UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) since 2015, following claims of doping and unethical practices made in a BBC Panorama programme.\n\nIn March 2017, the BBC reported that UKA staff may not have properly recorded the infusion of L-carnitine - a naturally occurring amino acid often prescribed as a supplement for heart and muscle disorders.\n\nThe BBC understands that staff failed to centrally log key data into the UKA system, and investigators have therefore been unable to establish beyond doubt what the infusion levels were.\n\nA spokesperson for Farah said his infusion was \"well below\" the 50 millilitre limit permitted under the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) code.\n\nAn interim Usada report centres on claims a number of athletes at Salazar's Nike Oregon Project were given infusions of L-carnitine - some of which were \"almost certainly\" more than 50ml and therefore doping violations.\n\nSalazar and Farah, Olympic champion in both the 5,000m and 10,000m in 2012 and 2016, have strongly denied breaking any rules.\n\nFarah was given the infusion during preparations before his full London Marathon debut in 2014, in which he finished eighth.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChampions Celtic survived a brief second-half scare before cruising to a comfortable victory over Kilmarnock.\n\nStuart Armstrong gave the hosts the lead with a 25-yard drive that flew in through a crowd of players.\n\nJordan Jones drew Killie level against the run of play after the break but Scott Sinclair soon made it 2-1.\n\nJames Forrest nodded home the third to confirm Celtic's win and put an end to Killie's hopes of securing a top-six finish this season.\n\nWith Partick Thistle beating Motherwell 1-0 at Firhill, they cannot be caught in the race for a top-six berth.\n\nLee McCulloch's side gave the champions a guard of honour as they took to the field and the interim boss showed Celtic further respect by deploying a five-man defence.\n\nGary Dicker, Iain Wilson and Scott Boyd filled the central roles with Luke Hendrie and Greg Taylor occupying the full-back berths. The formation restricted Celtic early on but the problem for Killie was that every one of their clearances dropped to players in green and white.\n\nChances eventually came for the hosts, with Sinclair firing wide from Forrest's cross before Callum McGregor's deflected effort was tipped over by keeper Freddie Woodman.\n\nThe breakthrough arrived midway through the first half and it was the player of the month for March who did the damage. Armstrong decided to try his luck from distance and his shot appeared to take a slight touch as it flew past Woodman for the midfielder's 14th goal of the season.\n\nLast ditch tackles from Wilson and Boyd denied McGregor and Armstrong before Kieran Tierney sent a left foot volley wide of the target as the home side were unable to increase their lead before the interval.\n\nAt times it was like a training game for Celtic as they maximised possession and Killie sat back and hoped to hit them on the break.\n\nThe tactic paid off, though, as the Rugby Park men squared it against the run of play. Conor Sammon played in Jones and his effort from 16 yards took a deflection to beat Craig Gordon.\n\nThat goal spurred Celtic into action and from a free kick delivered by Armstrong, Dedryck Boyata's headed knockdown was turned across the face of goal by McGregor for Sinclair to net with a close range tap in.\n\nMoussa Dembele made an immediate impact as a substitute, contributing to Celtic's third goal. His deflected shot came back off the Killie keeper's left hand post and winger Forrest headed the rebound into the net from two yards out.\n\nThe result extends Celtic's unbeaten domestic run to 39 games as Killie experienced their first defeat away from home in their last seven games.\n\nCeltic manager Brendan Rodgers: \"I thought it was an outstanding team performance. We played our shape very very well, the quality of the movement, the speed. It was difficult in the beginning because Lee (McCulloch) obviously set his team out very tight in their organisation in a real low position and that's always difficult to break down.\n\n\"But we showed quality and great patience and I must say big applause as well to the crowd because they're now seeing what we're trying to do - they're not getting frustrated, they're understanding at times they're going to have to be patient.\n\n\"Our only mistake was for the goal which was the counter attack but every other element we showed a lovely charisma in the game today. We got three goals and with a bit more luck we could have had another one or two.\"\n\nInterim Kilmarnock boss Lee McCulloch: \"I thought first half we were too deep, stood off the game too much and allowed Celtic a little bit too much respect. Second half we changed the system and decided to go a little bit higher up the pitch.\n\n\"I'm delighted with the way the boys played and the character and concentration they showed for most of the game.\n\n\"We get back in the game and gather a little bit of momentum then we just switch off for a set play as we have done a couple of times this season - that's the most disappointing part of the day.\n\n\"Did we deserve to win then game - absolutely not. But I'm proud of the way the boys showed character and passed the ball, especially in the second half at times and maybe on another day we could have stolen a point.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Moussa Dembele (Celtic) header from very close range misses to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Jordan Jones (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Celtic 3, Kilmarnock 1. James Forrest (Celtic) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A visualisation of the satellites and other debris around earth\n\nMillions of pieces of human-made trash are now orbiting the Earth. Some are tiny, others are large enough to be seen with a telescope, but all pose a risk to space craft and satellites.\n\nAnd according to experts the threat is growing as space becomes more and more crowded.\n\nSome 23,000 pieces of space junk are large enough to be tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network. But most objects are under 10cm (4in) in diameter and can't be monitored. Even something the size of a paper clip can cause catastrophic damage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch space debris grow from 1950s to now\n\n\"At the moment we're not tracking stuff that small,\" says Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation, a Washington based organisation dedicated to the sustainable use of space.\n\n\"And that's important because something as small as a centimetre can cause problems if it runs into a satellite.\"\n\nCollisions are rare, but half of all near-misses today are caused by debris from just two incidents. In 2007, China destroyed one of its own satellites with a ballistic missile. In 2009 an American commercial communications satellite collided with a defunct Russian weather satellite.\n\nAs recently as 2015, the debris from that collision forced the crew of the International Space Station to evacuate to the Soyuz capsule. No-one was harmed, but the debris will likely remain in the Earth's orbit for hundreds, if not thousands of years.\n\nScientists are experimenting with ways to clean up space. So far, there is no space vacuum cleaner. And debris have a nasty habit of creating more debris that get exponentially smaller and harder to spot.\n\nMore than 7,000 satellites have been put into space but only 1,500 are currently functioning. And within the next decade the number could increase to 18,000 with the planned launch of mega-constellations - large groups of satellites aimed at improving global internet coverage.\n\n\"That's going to amplify the problems we have with tracking objects, predicting close approaches and preventing collisions,\" says Weeden. \"The problem is going to become much, much harder in the next several years.\"\n\nEverything travels at the same speed relative to its altitude in space. That's not a problem if everything moves in the same direction, says Weeden, but objects often follow different orbits and can cross paths - a situation known as a conjunction.\n\n\"Think of it like all the cars on a highway are doing a hundred miles an hour. If the car next to you is doing that speed you don't really notice it. But if the car coming at you is doing that speed - you'll collide at 200 miles an hour.\"\n\nAn impact crater in a window of the International Space Station from debris\n\nLauri Newman is NASA's traffic cop at Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland. She is responsible for using military data to decide whether the space agency's unmanned craft such as satellites need to be moved to prevent a collision with debris.\n\n\"Satellites can protect themselves from things that are smaller than a centimetre by putting up extra shielding,\" she says. \"But the things between one and 10cm - if you can't track it there's nothing you can do.\"\n\nSatellite technology is essential to almost every modern convenience - from communications to GPS navigation and downloading movies on demand. It's also vital to national security.\n\n\"It affects everything,\" says Lt Col Jeremy Raley a program manager at Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. \"So I need to be able to see everything (in space) all the time and know what it is when I see it.\"\n\nThat's why Darpa is leading military efforts to find better ways of tracking space debris. In October last year it delivered a massive 90-ton telescope to the US Air Force at White Sands, New Mexico.\n\nThe Space Surveillance Telescope is designed to penetrate Geosynchronous orbit (GEO) which is becoming increasingly important. Communications and television satellites in GEO can remain in a fixed position above the Earth, offering uninterrupted service.\n\n\"The telescope is a big deal because it can see more objects and smaller objects. And rather than having to take time to look at an object and then look at something else, it can keep track of things on a more persistent basis,\" says Lt Col Raley.\n\nBut that level of scrutiny costs money and also raises the question of whether the US should share its data to improve space safety overall.\n\nThat was one of the issues discussed at a recent symposium in Washington organised by the Universities Space Research Association and the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. Experts discussed who should manage space, who should be responsible for debris and whether there should be an agreed set of international guidelines for the sustainable use of space.\n\n\"There's a classic public policy, economic question here,\" says Weeden. \"It's like pollution. It might not be worth it for you to pick up your garbage and avoid polluting the river, but there are costs to society if you don't. How do you get people to be responsible when the costs may not be borne by them?\"\n\nNo single nation or entity is responsible for space although in 1959 the UN set up a Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).\n\n\"There are currently 85 countries that are members of this committee and they range from space powers such as the US, Russia and China to countries like Costa Rica that don't even have a satellite in orbit but are an end user of satellite functions,\" says Weeden. \"Getting all of those countries to agree on this stuff is a really difficult challenge.\"\n\nBut with more nations and commercial organisations operating in Earth's orbit and many looking beyond, such issues are becoming increasingly urgent.\n\nDo nothing is no longer an option.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBrighton beat QPR to return to the top of the Championship with their third win in the space of six days.\n\nGlenn Murray's 21st goal of the season broke the deadlock in the second half after he and Tomer Hemed saw first-half finishes disallowed for offside.\n\nSebastien Pocognoli doubled the Seagulls' lead soon after with a spectacular free-kick.\n\nMatt Smith's header from a corner pulled one back for QPR but Brighton held on to go two points clear.\n• None Brighton's win at QPR as it happened\n\nVictory for Brighton - their fifth in their past six games - stretched their advantage over third-placed Huddersfield to 12 points with five games remaining.\n\nThe Terriers, who still have seven games to play, are in action at Nottingham Forest on Saturday, while second-placed Newcastle travel to Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nBrighton's first win at Loftus Road in almost 60 years came after a dour first half of few chances.\n\nBut, approaching the hour mark, Murray broke the Rangers' offside trap to latch on to Hemed's neat through ball and finish past Alex Smithies.\n\nLeft-back Pocognoli, whose last goal was in 2011, then executed a pinpoint free-kick with his left foot which flew in off the crossbar for an unstoppable second.\n\nQPR striker Smith flicked in a header at the near post to make it a nervous last 15 minutes for the visitors.\n\nDavid Stockdale had parried an earlier effort by Smith from close range and the Brighton goalkeeper had to be alert to prevent his team-mate Steve Sidwell accidentally diverting a Ryan Manning cross into his own net.\n\n\"If the league are looking at us wondering if we had a go, then boy oh boy did we have a go. We were absolutely terrific.\n\n\"I'm in total admiration. We did everyone else in the league proud by giving everything.\"\n\n\"It's a big win and at this moment every win feels like the biggest one.\n\n\"I thought we deserved it, we rode our luck near the end but over the 90 minutes I felt we were the better side.\n\n\"It became an old-fashioned game at the end, when you are 2-0 down you are going to go direct. They were difficult to handle but we showed great character and determination.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left.\n• None Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Idrissa Sylla (Queens Park Rangers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Massimo Luongo.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. David Stockdale tries a through ball, but Glenn Murray is caught offside.\n• None Steve Sidwell (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Offside, Queens Park Rangers. Massimo Luongo tries a through ball, but Matt Smith is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Bruno tries a through ball, but Glenn Murray is caught offside.\n• None Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt blocked. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Glenn Murray with a headed pass.\n• None Sébastien Pocognoli (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nGreat Britain are out of the Davis Cup after a 3-0 quarter-final defeat by France, as Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot lost in the doubles.\n\nMurray and Inglot were beaten 7-6 (9-7) 5-7 7-5 7-5 by Nicolas Mahut and Julien Benneteau on day two in Rouen.\n\nOn Friday, Kyle Edmund lost the first singles match 7-5 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 to world number 17 Lucas Pouille.\n\nAnd Dan Evans was also beaten in three sets in his singles match - 6-2 6-3 6-3 by world number 68 Jeremy Chardy.\n\nIt is the first time GB have failed to make the semi-finals in three years.\n\n\"It was a good match, it was an exciting match, a lot of good tennis, we just didn't get it done when it mattered,\" said Jamie Murray.\n\n\"Obviously it was a really close match all the way through.\n\n\"We probably did enough to win the first set, we won the second set and then we were up a break in the third set, so realistically we could potentially have won the first three sets.\"\n\nWith GB trailing 2-0 after the first day, Murray and Inglot knew they had to win the doubles rubber to keep the tie alive.\n\nBritain had only lost two previous Davis Cup doubles matches under Leon Smith but his team got off to a bad start, losing the first-set tie-break.\n\nMurray and Inglot recovered to level the match at 1-1 and earn GB their first - and only - set of the weekend.\n\nBut Mahut and Benneteau, buoyed by a raucous home crowd, were relentless and sealed an inspired victory for France in four sets.\n\nThe pair, who are not regular playing partners, first won major silverware together back in 1999 in the US Open juniors and were victorious at the ATP Tour event in Marseille in February.\n\nFrance will now face Serbia - who beat Spain 3-0 in Belgrade with the help of world number two Novak Djokovic - in the semi-finals in September.\n\n\"We are a great nation, who have not won this competition since 2001. There is great expectation around the team and we are a good group,\" Mahut told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It was the first time I have played at home. Hopefully we can play the semi-final at home and ultimately we want to bring back the trophy to France.\"\n• None Extra reading: 90 years of the BBC at Wimbledon\n\nBritain, without injured world number one Andy Murray, failed to win a set on the opening day of a Davis Cup tie for the first time since 2008 against Argentina.\n\nKyle Edmund battled hard against Lucas Pouille - the highest-ranked player in the tie - in the first of the singles on Friday but the Frenchman's backhand proved too strong.\n\nWith Great Britain already 1-0 down, 26-year-old Evans - whose indifferent record on clay was a talking point in the build-up to tie - was tasked with turning things around.\n\nHowever, he was completely outplayed by late call-up Jeremy Chardy.\n\nThe 30-year-old had made just three previous Davis Cup appearances, and none for six years - but Evans' lack of match practice on the clay, having not played on the surface for two years, told.\n\nAnd Jamie Murray, who finished 2016 as the number one-ranked doubles player along with partner Bruno Soares, was unable to bring GB back into the tie on Saturday.\n\nFrance fielded their third- and ninth-highest-ranked singles players, but were still comfortably able to see off a British team lacking Andy Murray.\n\nThere were fleeting opportunities for the visitors: for Kyle Edmund in the opening singles, and for Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot in the doubles when they went a break up in the third set.\n\nBut France have astonishing strength in depth and the fact they have not won the Davis Cup since 2001 is one of the most painful subjects in French sport.\n\nLeon Smith's team are assured of a place in the 2018 World Group. And despite this weekend's gloom, the next three seasons should present them with a reasonable chance of repeating that historic triumph of 2015.\n\nGreat Britain had their chances. It was a fantastic doubles match but the French team played best on the big points,\n\nNicolas Mahut in particular was absolutely magnificent today.\n\nHe had that air about him that he was going to win the match at whatever cost.\n\nJamie Murray was superb throughout today and hardly missed a volley. He was the best player on the court for long periods of the match.\n\nGB played against a world-class team today and they could have won the match.\n\nIn Belgrade, world number two Novak Djokovic helped Serbia to victory in their last-eight tie against Spain.\n\nDjokovic, who missed the Miami Masters because of an elbow injury, beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas in Friday's singles before Viktor Troicki saw off Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3 6-4 6-3.\n\nTroicki then teamed up with Nenad Zimonjic in Saturday's doubles as they finally overcame Carenno Busta and Marc Lopez in a five-set thriller to reach the semi-finals.\n\nElsewhere Italy kept their semi-final hopes alive with victory in the doubles over Belgium in Charleroi.\n\nItaly now trail 2-1 going into Sunday's reverse singles.\n\nUSA also turned the momentum in their quarter-final clash with Australia in Brisbane.\n\nSteve Johnson and Jack Sock beat Sam Groth and John Peers in the doubles to keep their tie alive going into the third day.", "Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won a tight fight with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to take pole position for Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton beat Vettel by 0.186 seconds for his second pole in two races, while the German edged the second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas by 0.001secs.\n\nFerrari's Kimi Raikkonen made it the same top four on the grid as at the season-opening race in Australia.\n\nRed Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fifth but 1.355secs off the pace.\n\nThe Australian's team-mate Max Verstappen was 19th after an engine problem.\n• None Sunday's race is live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live at 07:00 BST\n\nMercedes and Ferrari going toe to toe\n\nChina has underlined the impression created at the Australian Grand Prix that Mercedes and Ferrari are incredibly closely matched at the start of a season where huge regulation change has produced faster and more demanding cars.\n\nAnd as in Melbourne, it was Briton Hamilton who made the difference, pulling out the stops when it mattered in the final qualifying session as it appeared Ferrari might have the edge.\n\nVettel was fastest in final practice and in the first part of qualifying, and Raikkonen of Finland topped the second session.\n\nBut 32-year-old Hamilton produced the first lap under one minute 32 seconds all weekend at the start of the top 10 shootout, beating Vettel by 0.184secs despite a slide at Turn 11.\n\nHamilton and Vettel both lowered their times by a little over 0.2secs on their final runs and the Mercedes man kept the advantage.\n\nIt was Hamilton's sixth pole in a row - dating back to last year's US Grand Prix - and his sixth in China, where his record of four wins is better than any other driver.\n\nHowever, he will surely know he has his work cut out to beat Ferrari in the race after Vettel's impressive victory in Australia two weeks ago.\n\nThe race could well be wet, with overnight rain predicted and cooler temperatures than qualifying, which was dry and bright.\n\nGoverning body the FIA has taken steps to ensure the cars can run after farcical scenes on Friday, when practice was badly disrupted because the medical helicopter could not operate.\n\nA wet race would be a complete unknown for the drivers - not only did they get hardly any running on Friday but they have not driven these new cars in the wet before this weekend, and Pirelli has designed new wet tyres for this season after complaints the previous ones were not effective enough.\n\nProof the cars are harder to drive this year\n\nThe first session of qualifying ended with a heavy crash for Sauber driver Antonio Giovinazzi.\n\nThe Italian lost control coming out of the last corner in the closing minutes of the session, dashing the hopes of Force India's Esteban Ocon, Haas' Romain Grosjean and Renault's Jolyon Palmer of improving and getting into the second session.\n\nGiovinazzi, ironically, qualified 15th - fast enough to get into Q2, but was unable to take part because of the damage to his car.\n\nHe was on a lap that was on target to beat team-mate Marcus Ericsson, but even so ended up less than 0.1secs behind the Swede.\n\nAfter qualifying Englishman Palmer and Grosjean of Switzerland were each handed five-place grid penalties by race stewards for not slowing sufficiently under the waved yellows for the crash.\n\nPalmer's team-mate Nico Hulkenberg was an impressive seventh, and just 0.5secs behind the Red Bull, which uses the same engine, underlining the progress Renault have made over the winter. The German was just pipped for sixth by Williams' Brazilian driver Felipe Massa.\n\n'A very perfect lap' - what they said\n\n\"The Ferrari looked so fast and we knew it was going to be close, and we knew we had to pull out all the stops and I managed to do a very, very perfect lap,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"It started off not as good as the first lap, maybe because of tyre temperature, but it got better and better. It felt strong.\n\n\"Coming into the last corner knowing I was up a couple of tenths is always nervous because you want to gain some - but you don't want to lose everything you've gained.\n\n\"It's exciting for me because we're really fighting with the guys and that is what racing is all about. It pushes you to raise the bar every time you go out, which I love.\"\n\nVettel said: \"It was a nice session. I enjoyed it a lot. I was very happy with the lap I had. Last corner I lost a little bit, maybe chickened on to the brakes a bit too soon - but we just had enough margin to make it on to the front row.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app\n\nLewis Hamilton has called for a rethink of Formula 1's procedures in bad weather following a farcical day of practice at the Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nCars ran for just 15 minutes of three hours' scheduled practice because the medical helicopter could not operate.\n\nHamilton, who crossed the track to sign caps for fans in the grandstands, wrote on Twitter: \"So sorry for all you watching on TV or at the track.\n\n\"We must find a solution to deal with the weather issue.\"\n\nThe three-time champion has proposed running practice on Saturday in Shanghai and switching qualifying to Sunday morning before the race in the afternoon.\n\nAnd the Mercedes driver added that the problems could become an opportunity for F1's new owners, an American media conglomerate which bought the sport in January and removed long-time boss Bernie Ecclestone as chief executive.\n\n\"Seriously, though, this could actually be a blessing in disguise. A chance for new bosses to be proactive and creative,\" he wrote.\n\nOf the two remaining days of the meeting, Saturday is forecast to have the best weather, with rain due overnight before Sunday.\n\nThe idea of moving the race to Saturday was discussed briefly by teams with Charlie Whiting, the F1 director of governing body the FIA, after second practice but was quickly dismissed.\n\nInsiders said the weather forecast for Sunday \"looks significantly better\" than Friday's.\n\nThe issue on Friday was that the medical helicopter could not land at the designated hospital, which is more than 30 miles away from the Shanghai International Circuit.\n\nConditions at the track were poor, with low cloud, smog and mist, but helicopters could fly in its vicinity.\n\nIt is a fundamental safety requirement in F1 that the medical helicopter must be able to operate before cars are allowed to take to the track.\n\nFour-time champion Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who is leading the championship after winning the first race of the season in Australia two weeks ago, said: \"It was boring. It was a shame, especially of the people who came to watch. But what can we do?\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea maintained their seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League with an entertaining victory over spirited Bournemouth.\n\nPressured by Tottenham's earlier thrashing of Watford, the visitors looked to be cruising after two goals in three first-half minutes.\n\nBut Bournemouth, who had already hit the post, got back into the contest through Joshua King's long-range deflected effort.\n\nThe Cherries continued to press after half-time, only for Chelsea to gradually regain control and secure the points through Marcos Alonso's impeccable free-kick.\n\nThe Blues next travel to Manchester United, their sternest of seven league fixtures between now and the end of the season.\n\nIf they return from Old Trafford with their seven-point advantage still intact, they will be a huge step closer to a sixth title and fifth in the Premier League era.\n\nA week ago, Chelsea's seemingly unstoppable march to glory was disrupted by a shock home defeat by Crystal Palace, giving hope to second-placed Tottenham.\n\nHowever, they got back on track by beating Manchester City and seemed unaffected by Spurs' earlier victory in producing an emphatic start in the south-coast sun.\n\nIf the Chelsea first goal was bizarre - Diego Costa's scuffed shot went in off the head of grounded home defender Adam Smith - the second was sublime.\n\nN'Golo Kante, excellent in both winning the ball and moving the visitors forward, found the equally impressive Eden Hazard with a precision long pass, allowing the galloping Belgian to round home keeper Artur Boruc.\n\nThe away side were pegged back either side of half-time, but gradually reasserted themselves as the second period progressed and Alonso's curling, dipping free-kick killed the contest.\n\nAt the beginning of March, Bournemouth were winless in eight league games, only five points above the relegation zone and being dragged into a fight for survival.\n\nHowever, some whole-hearted displays, including coming from behind to earn a point at Liverpool in midweek, meant this was their first defeat in six.\n\nIt could have been different with a change of fortune, too.\n\nThere was a huge slice of luck involved in Chelsea's first and Benik Afobe was unfortunate to hit the woodwork when arriving late to meet Charlie Daniels' cross.\n\nWith Afobe, King and Ryan Fraser all lively, the Cherries were willing to test Chelsea through the middle and got their reward when King lashed in his 13th of the season from outside the box, via a touch off David Luiz - even if Chelsea complained of a Smith handball in the build-up.\n\nUltimately, though, coming from two behind was too much to ask for the home side and it was Boruc who was the much busier keeper in the second period.\n\nIf there is one, incredibly slight, concern for Chelsea in the run-in, it may be the form of Costa, who has now gone five domestic games without a goal.\n\nThe Spain international's afternoon was one of frustration, mis-kicks and miscues, albeit plenty of endeavour to create goalscoring opportunities.\n\nHis attempt for Chelsea's first was a comical slice, only saved from going well wide by the intervention of Smith.\n\nBut that was not the only time that Costa struggled in front of goal, with the man who has netted 18 times this season often lacking sharpness when presented with an opportunity.\n\nStill, that is no comfort for the chasing pack, who probably already have too much to do.\n\n'Chelsea were too strong' - what they said\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe: \"I thought it was a tight game and we were well in it. It doesn't help going 2-0 down and it took a worldie free-kick to win the game.\n\n\"I have to compliment Chelsea, they're an outstanding team and their system works very well for them. But I compliment my boys as well because they played very well. In the end Chelsea were too strong.\n\n\"I'm not feeling anything other than we need to win some more games. What we've historically done is always try to win and that's the same aim no matter how many points you have and how many games are left.\"\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte: \"It's normal to have a pressure. We started the game very well with great attention and focus. Then we conceded the goal and we lost a bit of confidence. In the second half we managed the game and scored another goal, then the free-kick from Marcos Alonso.\n\n\"When you have this type of opponent, Tottenham, who is in good form and wants to catch you, it is important to have a good answer. This is a good answer. There are seven games to go and in England it is not easy, there is a lot of pressure.\"\n• None Eden Hazard has scored four times in his last three Premier League appearances against Bournemouth.\n• None Hazard's haul of 14 Premier League goals this season is his joint-best-ever return in a season in the competition (also 14 in 13-14 and 14-15).\n• None N'Golo Kante has provided his first ever Premier League assist for Chelsea in what is his 30th appearance.\n• None Joshua King has scored 10 goals in his last 11 Premier League appearances, after netting just three in the 20 before that this season.\n• None Indeed, only Romelu Lukaku (11) and Harry Kane (11) have scored more Premier League goals in 2017 than Josh King (10 - level with Dele Alli).\n• None Marcos Alonso has netted five PL goals this season. Among defenders, only James Milner (7) and Gareth McAuley (6) have more.\n\nBournemouth complete a back-to-back double of the Premier League's top two with a trip to Tottenham Hotspur at 12:30 next Saturday, while Chelsea are reunited with former manager Jose Mourinho against Manchester United at 16:00 on Sunday, 16 April.\n• None Max Gradel (Bournemouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt saved. Victor Moses (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Arter (Bournemouth) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lys Mousset.\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Smith (Bournemouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Joshua King (Bournemouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jack Wilshere.\n• None Pedro (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham kept up the pressure on leaders Chelsea with an impressive home victory over Watford, their sixth consecutive Premier League win.\n\nWatford had started brightly, but Dele Alli's sumptuous strike - curled into the top corner after Son Heung-min's pass - signalled their quick decline.\n\nWithin just 11 more minutes they were three behind as Eric Dier smashed in from Son's deflected cross, before the South Korea forward added a third just before the break, firing in a rasping drive following Christian Eriksen's pass.\n\nAfter half-time it was much the same story, with Watford only threatening in isolated moments, and Son further confirmed Spurs' dominance by meeting Kieran Trippier's perfect cross with a lovely half-volley at the far post.\n\nHarry Kane, returning as a second-half substitute, struck the bar with an injury-time free-kick - the last kick of the game - and Son might have sealed his hat-trick from his earlier pass.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side remain seven points adrift of Chelsea, who beat Bournemouth 3-1 later on Saturday.\n\nBut they are 14 points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal, who have two games in hand and play at Crystal Palace on Monday (20:00). Spurs have not finished above their north London rivals since 1995.\n\nIt was Vincent Janssen who led the line in Kane's absence from the starting line-up - and the Netherlands international missed another easy chance for the game's opening goal.\n\nTrippier - one of the standout performers, his delivery was brilliant throughout - crossed low from the right flank, taking out goalkeeper and defence, but Janssen could only awkwardly divert the ball onto the bar via the top of his thigh with the goal at his mercy.\n\nHis only goal in 23 Premier League games, since a £17m summer arrival from AZ Alkmaar, remains a penalty against Leicester in October - and he was once again overshadowed by the dynamic and far more clinical Son.\n\nSon's second goal was particularly admirable, diverting another superb Trippier ball into the back of the net with a deftly controlled finish.\n\nBut the pick of the bunch was undoubtedly Alli's. The England midfielder's excellent season continued with a 13th goal from his past 15 league games. You will struggle to see a better one this weekend.\n\nHornets have an off day\n\nWatford beat Arsenal 2-1 away in late January, but this performance was a world away.\n\nThey might claim mitigating circumstances - it was something of a makeshift defence with Miguel Britos suspended and Younes Kaboul and Sebastian Prodl both injured - but once their positive start had faded, Spurs picked them off with ease.\n\nWalter Mazzarri's side had moved up to 10th in the league with two wins in a row, easing pressure on their manager, but the Italian will still be concerned by the possibility of a slide down the table in their remaining seven games.\n\nMazzarri has said he wants to stay, but the fate of Quique Sanchez Flores, who was fired at the end of last season with the club in 13th, will surely be at the forefront of his mind.\n\nThe race for the title\n\nTottenham, whose last league title came in 1961, need Chelsea to drop points if they are to overtake the Blues at the top of the league.\n\nBut even if they do not, a second-placed finish - which would be their highest in the Premier League - is looking likely.\n\n*Chelsea also play Watford at home in a match to be rescheduled **Spurs also play away to Leicester in a match to be rescheduled\n• None Tottenham have won 11 Premier League home games in a row, their best winning streak at White Hart Lane since 1987 (14)\n• None Watford have won just once in their past 11 away league games (D2 L8)\n• None Dele Alli has been directly involved in 14 goals in 13 Premier League games for Tottenham in 2017 (10 goals, 4 assists)\n• None Alli (40) has had a hand in as many Premier League goals before turning 21 as Frank Lampard (15), Steven Gerrard (13) & David Beckham (12) combined\n• None Son Heung-min has had a hand in five goals in his last three Premier League games (4 goals, 1 assist), after none in the five before that\n\n\"I would use the word sensational for Son. Every time he had the ball, other than his miss from that Harry Kane pass, he's been really, really good. A top class player and he got a big bear hug from his manager.\"\n\nWhat they said\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: \"Many things impressed me, we played really well. It is a massive result for us. We will keep pushing and keep believing.\n\n\"The team deserve full credit because the energy was fantastic. It was 4-0 but we deserved more goals. The players spoke for me on the pitch and I am very proud of that performance.\n\n\"We're second and the gap now is four but Chelsea have one game more to play. We will try to be there if Chelsea fail.\"\n\nWatford manager Walter Mazzarri: \"We started really well and were playing at the same level as Tottenham, who are a phenomenal side. But it was really difficult after the three goals, that cut our legs.\n\n\"We had players who were tired from playing many games, it was a pity. But taking everything into consideration we are happy, and we have to look forward.\n\n\"We now have seven finals to play, and we are looking forward to building on this next year.\"\n\nTottenham play Bournemouth at home in the Premier League next Saturday, when Watford host relegation-threatened Swansea City.\n• None Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the right side of the box. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None M'Baye Niang (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by José Holebas with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nOne For Arthur became only the second Scottish-trained winner of the Grand National after a four-and-a-half-length victory at Aintree.\n\nThe 14-1 shot, ridden by Derek Fox and trained by Lucinda Russell, charged clear to finish ahead of Cause Of Causes (16-1) and Saint Are (25-1).\n\nJockey Fox only returned to riding this week having broken a wrist and a collarbone in March.\n\nThe 8-1 favourite Blaklion, who led for much of the contest, was fourth.\n\nGas Line Boy - a 50-1 outsider - was fifth with Becher Chase and Grand National Trial winner Vieux Lion Rouge (12-1) sixth.\n• None 'One For Arthur's National win a triumph to treasure'\n\nThe win was just the second by a Scottish-trained horse since Rubstic's victory in 1979.\n\nIn sunny conditions in Liverpool, 19 of the 40 horses finished the race, with Aintree reporting afterwards that all runners came back safely.\n\nFox, who broke his wrist and dislocated a collarbone just over a month ago, told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It's the best feeling I've ever had. He's just such a brave horse. It's a sign of a true racehorse to win the Grand National. It's unbelievable.\n\n\"I was injured on 9 March, I got a heavy fall on the novice chase and that was four weeks ago on Thursday.\n\n\"This is the best feeling I have ever had or probably ever will have and I want to take most of it in. I don't often get a chance to ride a horse as good as that.\"\n\nRussell, whose partner and assistant is former champion jockey Peter Scudamore, is the fourth woman to train a Grand National winner after Jenny Pitman, Venetia Williams and Sue Smith.\n\n\"He's amazing,\" she said. \"He's improved every time. I kept thinking barring accidents, he would win the National and he has.\n\n\"Together [Peter and I] we have had good and bad times but the horses are all back in form now.\n\n\"He's done us proud, he's done Scotland proud and he's done everyone at the yard proud.\"\n\nThe winning owners are Deborah Thomson and Belinda McClung, who go under the name 'The Two Golf Widows'.\n\nThomson said: \"I just can't believe it. It's been an absolutely amazing day. Arthur just cruised that race, Derek rode so well and I'm just a bit lost for words really.\n\nMcClung added: \"I thought this morning, it's baking hot so there's no pressure now, he's not going to win on that ground but I have to say he's just shown his class today.\n\n\"He's amazing and he got a great ride.\"\n\nAintree stewards referred 31 of the 40 Grand National jockeys, including winner Fox, to the British Horseracing Authority after it took three attempts to get the race started.\n\nRunners and riders were twice called back after some set off before the starter was happy an orderly line had formed.\n\nNine jockeys were exonerated, but the starter reported the rest to the stewards, saying they approached the tape before the flag was raised.\n\nThe BHA will consider whether to take further action.\n\nAfter the false starts, the race eventually got under way but began with exits at the first fence for Vicente (16-1) and Cocktails At Dawn (33-1).\n\nDefinitly Red (10-1), who was an impressive winner at Doncaster last month for Brian Ellison, was pulled up at the Canal Turn, with jockey Danny Cook revealing that an awkward landing sent his saddle slipping round and the pair out of the race.\n\nThe ending was equally eventful as a collision coming over the last saw Blaklion overtaken before One For Arthur showed greater speed to hold off the valiant Cause Of Causes.\n\nJamie Codd, rider of the Gordon Elliott-trained Cause Of Causes, said: \"He's a fantastic little horse. I thought I had half a chance at the back of the last, but the winner has won quite well on the day.\n\n\"My horse has galloped all the way to the line. He's an incredible little horse. I'm disappointed I didn't win, but he's run a great race.\"\n\nThe cheers may have been loudest for this emphatic winner around Lucinda Russell's base near Kinross, but they will echo across jump racing's north of England and Scottish circuit.\n\nJumping in the north is regularly - and correctly - portrayed as the poor relation to its cousins in the south. The bigger investors tend to stay away.\n\nHowever, three Grand National runners - also Definitly Red and Highland Lodge - boded well, and One For Arthur, who's done a majority of his racing at places like Kelso, Carlisle and Ayr, has been invaluable to show it can be done perfectly well north of the Trent as well; will those biggest investors take notice?\n\nMeanwhile, talk will turn to Aintree 2018 and a possible repeat; he'll have more weight, but as an eight-year-old can he be expected to improve again?", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nChris Ashton scored his fifth try in three games as Saracens confirmed a Premiership play-off spot by beating London rivals Harlequins at Wembley.\n\nQuins' Nick Evans opened the scoring with the first of four penalties, but Ashton's try and Schalk Brits' score put Sarries 17-9 up at the break.\n\nMichael Rhodes and Alex Goode tries ensured victory in front of a crowd of 71,324 at the home of English football.\n\nJames Horwill's try in response was of little consequence in a costly defeat.\n\nDefeat for Quins means they remain five points adrift of the play-off spots in sixth, with fourth-placed Leicester and Bath equal on points after 19 games following the West Country side's victory over Tigers at Twickenham in the early kick-off.\n\nGoode's try to secure a bonus-point win for Sarries means there is just one top-four place still available after second-placed Exeter beat Bristol on Saturday.\n\nIn a game which took the combined attendances for the two showpiece fixtures in London on Saturday to more than 130,000, the boot of England international Owen Farrell was instrumental, as he kicked 20 points to grind down a Quins side that dominated possession at times.\n\nEvans' penalties kept Harlequins in the hunt, with his fourth one reducing the arrears to eight points after 49 minutes.\n\nBut, two Farrell penalties in three minutes and Rhodes' dashing finish down the left, after Maro Itoje managed to steal the ball from a line-out with eight minutes remaining, put the result beyond doubt.\n\nSaracens director of rugby Mark McCall: \"This was a hugely pleasing performance because we're going big game after big game after big game.\n\n\"Sunday's game against Glasgow was big for us, so to show the qualities that we did was superb, although not everything we did was perfect.\n\n\"The first seven months of the season are about getting into strong positions in the competition we're interested in and now there are a lot of things to be excited about.\"\n\nHarlequins boss John Kingston: \"Once Saracens get ahead on the scoreboard it becomes very difficult and they're very good at taking advantages of your mistakes. They deserved it.\n\n\"They're difficult to break down and they take the laws to the limit, but they're an incredibly physical side and we ran into a brick wall. They're a great side at the moment.\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCharley Hoffman's overnight advantage was wiped out as Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler and Thomas Pieters pegged him back for a four-way tie at the halfway stage of the Masters at Augusta.\n\nAmerican Hoffman, 40, carded a three-over 75 to drop to four under overall, before Spain's Garcia, 37, shot a 69.\n\nRory McIlroy (73) is one over as he seeks a career Grand Slam but defending champion Danny Willett missed the cut.\n\nEnglishman Willett ended one over the cut line on seven over after shooting 78 in blustery winds that made conditions tricky at the Georgia course, although most players did find scoring easier than on the opening day.\n\nOnly two players - Hoffman and compatriot William McGirt - shot under 70 on Thursday, but seven men managed the same feat in the second round - including Garcia, Fowler and Pieters.\n\n\"I felt like I played great, I felt like I hit the ball better than the first day,\" said Garcia, the world number 11.\n\n\"The course is still very difficult, and I made a couple of stupid mistakes but I can be happy because of the way the course is playing,\" he added.\n• None How day two unfolded at Augusta\n• None How to follow the Masters on the BBC\n\nGarcia has been one of the game's leading players since bursting onto the European Tour scene as a teenager, consistently hovering in and around the world's top 10 and challenging for leading honours.\n\nBut his failure to win one of the four majors, after several near misses in 22 top-10 finishes, is a blemish on an otherwise stellar career.\n\nTwo impressive rounds at a blustery Augusta have left him well-placed to shake off the unwanted tag of being one of golf's most famous 'nearly men'.\n\nGarcia made a flying start to his second round with birdies on the first three holes before dropping his first shot of the tournament on the fourth.\n\nThen came total confusion after a mistake on the Masters scoring system.\n\nGarcia scored a bogey on the par-four 10th, but it was changed on the scoring system to a triple-bogey seven - dropping him down the leaderboard.\n\nThe mistake was eventually rectified by tournament officials about an hour later, moving him back into tied second and two behind Hoffman.\n\nTwo more birdies at the 15th and 17th wiped out Hoffman's lead, although the Ryder Cup stalwart missed a six-foot birdie putt on the last to take the outright clubhouse lead.\n\n\"I've shown myself many times that I can contend and I truly feel I can not only win one major, but more than one,\" said Garcia.\n\nOn the scorecard mix-up, he added: \"I saw it on the leaderboard on the 13th but the main thing was I knew where I stood.\"\n\nHoffman, 40, caused a shock when he shot a stunning seven-under 65 to lead on Thursday but, unsurprisingly, the Californian was unable to replicate this remarkable feat.\n\nHis round was ruined by five bogeys in six holes around the turn, although he recovered to birdie the 13th and stay in the hunt.\n\n\"Any time this place firms up, it plays its hardest just because it's hard to control your golf ball,\" said Hoffman, who has only previously claimed one top-25 finish at a major.\n\nBelgium's Pieters - considered one of the rising stars on the European Tour - moved into contention with another impressive showing on his Augusta debut.\n\nThe 25-year-old began the day level and, after bogeying the first, stormed back with three birdies and an eagle on the 15th.\n\nFowler, two groups behind Pieters, set the tone by holing his bunker shot for an eagle on the par-five second and adding a birdie on the next. He rolled in three more birdies to record the day's lowest round.\n\nTwo-time major winner Jordan Spieth birdied three of his last six holes to finish level par alongside two other former Masters champions, Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson.\n\nIn three appearances at the Masters, American Spieth has finished second, first, tied for second.\n\nWorld number two McIlroy, 27, is aiming to become only the sixth man to win all four majors - at his third time of trying at Augusta.\n\nMcIlroy, who has three consecutive top-10 finishes in Georgia, is seeking a first Masters title following victories at the US Open and the Open Championship and two US PGA Championship titles.\n\nHe shot a scrappy level-par 72 on Thursday and followed up with a similarly-scruffy round on Friday.\n\nHe struggled to find rhythm in a card littered with five bogeys, salvaging four birdies to keep him within touching distance.\n\nHowever, McIlroy felt aggrieved to walk off the 18th with a bogey after his approach shot hit the flagstick and bounced off the green.\n\n\"The shot at the last looked like a tap-in birdie and I made five. I got two bad breaks with hitting the pin and the wind then caught me out on the putt as well,\" he said.\n\n\"It was another day where you had to battle, make a lot of pars and pick off the odd birdie here and there.\n\n\"I feel I can put a 31 or 32 together a couple of times over the weekend and get closer to the leaders.\n\n\"Hopefully these are the toughest conditions we have played in and hopefully I can go a lot lower over the weekend.\"\n\nEngland's Danny Willett became the first Briton to win the Masters in 20 years when he claimed his first major 12 months ago - this time there was no cause to celebrate ending another barren run.\n\nThe Yorkshireman, 29, is the first defending champion to miss the cut since Canada's Mike Weir in 2004.\n\nWillett began the day at one over par, but his second round got off to a shocking start when he recorded a quadruple-bogey eight on the first.\n\nTwo more bogeys arrived at the fourth and 11th holes, in addition to a solitary birdie at the 10th, leaving him perilously close to missing the projected cut of six over.\n\nAnd a bogey on the 18th pushed him to seven over par.\n\n\"We've had two fabulous years and then you have a little bit of a downturn and it feels like the world is coming to an end,\" Willett said.\n\n\"Playing Augusta at the weekend would be nice with the good weather coming in, but we had that in our own hands and unfortunately we let that slip.\"\n\nOther big names who missed the cut include reigning Open champion Henrik Stenson, plus former Masters winners Bubba Watson and Zach Johnson.\n\nSeven other Britons - Chris Wood, Tommy Fleetwood, Russell Knox, Ian Woosnam, Tyrrell Hatton, Sandy Lyle and amateur Scott Gregory, plus Ireland's Shane Lowry - also failed to make the weekend.\n\nTwelve months after Bernhard Langer rolled back the years at Augusta, another veteran former champion is dreaming of a fairytale finish.\n\nFred Couples, who won the Masters in 1992, is three shots behind the leading group after shooting a two-under-par 70.\n\nThe 57-year-old former world number one is now ranked 1,893, but showed that experience counts for everything at Augusta.\n\nThe American carded six birdies during a round punctured by a double bogey and two bogeys, and almost holed his approach on the 18th but walked off with a tap-in birdie.\n\nFind out how to get into golf with our special guide.\n\n\"I feel like I can play the course well but in conditions like this I feel I have a better chance than if it was sunny and less windy,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be hard for me to shoot a 68 like some of the better players. In bad weather I feel I could battle.\n\n\"The only real disappointment was my second on 17 which led to a bad bogey.\"\n\nAnother former winner, 58-year-old Larry Mize, became the oldest player to make the cut at six over par on the 30th anniversary of his 1987 victory.", "Friday 31 March saw the Ballet Final of BBC Young Dancer 2017 on BBC Four, and while we might not think of ballet as being a controversial dance form, it's caused its fair share of scandals - not least when Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography combined with Igor Stravinsky's score to cause a near-riot at the premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris, 1913. The truth is that there's barely been a moment in history when a new dance hasn't appalled parents, dramatically widened the generation gap and shocked newspaper editors. Here are seven crazes that caused a genuine fuss, beginning with...\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary defines twerk as a \"dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.\" As an example of how the word is used, it suggests: \"Just wait till they catch their daughters twerking to this song.\" Well, quite! The word itself is thought to come from New Orleans bounce music culture (its use in songs has been traced back to 1993), and became a well-known dance in hop hop videos towards the end of the 2000s. After Miley Cyrus twerked with Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV VMA Awards, it went viral, causing outrage and not just because of the sexual nature of the dance. She was accused, including by the Guardian, of cultural appropriation. There was a near-frenzy of interest in what twerking was. As the Guardian also reported, the search term \"what is twerking?\" shot to the top of one of Google's annual Zeitgeist lists in 2013, and researchers managed to trace the word's origins back to 1820. And then Planet Earth II filmmakers found out that bears have been twerking away - sort of - in the woods, possibly for centuries.\n\nAnother consequence of twerkgate was that it caused much discussion about other dance scandals of yore, particularly the controversy surrounding the Charleston, a 1920s jazz age dance named after the city in South Carolina where it originated. In a BBC News article titled, What do twerking and the Charleston have in common?, choreographer Jreena Green says, \"Twerking [is] nothing new, it's from the Charleston,\" and likened the freewheeling moves of 'flappers' - female hipsters of the time, essentially - to those of twerkers today. And it wasn't just in the US that the Charleston became a sensation. It made it to our shores in 1925, and as historian Lucy Worsley says, \"It took the dance floor by storm. It allowed women to break free from a man's embrace and dance on their own.\"\n\n[LISTEN] BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service: Whatever Happened to the Watlz?\n\nIt's fascinating that the Charleston could cause outrage by separating the sexes on the dancefloor, because nearly every dance craze that caused contention before the jazz age did so by bringing young folk close enough together to terrify older members of society. In the above episode of Radio 3's The Listening Service, presenter Tom Service explains how the waltz caused a scandal in the early 19th century because of \"the shameless physical closeness of the dancing couples\". And it had been preceded by even more racy renaissance-era dances like the volta, which Service suggests would \"make any of today's waltzers blush since it required the swain - the bloke - to physically lift his lady into the air and then turn her about. The technique involved lifting her up with one of his hands on her busk... and turning her using the torsion of his thigh between her buttocks\". Do the volta today, in other words, and you'd likely be thrown out of every nightclub in the land. Dances that followed it, like the minuet, were tamer and easier, as indeed the waltz is - with one main difference. As dance historian Darren Royston explains: \"It was two people face-to-face. Earlier court dances, such as the minuet, were really done with dancers side-by-side... It was a 'turning' dance, and this is where the scandal of the waltz is made - not necessarily because you can face your partner, but because no one else can really see what's going on.\"\n\n[WATCH] BBC Archive - Doing the twist in the 1960s\n\nYou can't mention a turning dance without remembering the twist, the worldwide dance craze spawned from Chubby Checker's 1960 cover of the Hank Ballard and The Midnighters song The Twist. A year later a spin-off film, Twist Around the Clock, was released starring TV host Clay Cole, who sings the title track in the above clip of cool kids doing the dance. The twist is all in the hips, and that's what made it controversial. It was considered sexually provocative, vulgar and, as BBC iWonder reported in 2014, \"Medical concerns were raised. An orthopaedic surgeon reported a rise in knee injuries and the Society of New Jersey Chiropractors said it could cause 'strains in the lumbar and sacroiliac areas'.\" Other famous 60s dances like jerk, the pony, the mashed potato and the funky chicken were all inspired by the twist.\n\nMoshing to punk band Fear at the Country Club, Reseda, California, 1982\n\nLike the Charleston, the twist is performed without a partner but in a group, and the same applies to moshing - a combination of punk pogo dancing, heavy metal headbanging and slamdancing. And, as all rock fans know, although moshing seems to be an incitement to chaos, mosh pits are usually organised affairs with sets of rules to ensure people don't get hurt. Moshing endures, but it became a fad in the early-80s punk scene in the US before spreading to other forms of rock and also into raves. And although moshing is regarded by many as harmless fun, on occasion it can be overtly violent and dangerous. To protect their fans, Washington DC punk band Fugazi took a stand against moshing at their gigs in the 1980s and a small number of people have died as a consequence of being crushed or fighting in mosh pits, including at two Smashing Pumpkins' shows (in 1996 and 2007) and at a Korn performance in 2006.\n\nBBC Radio 4 - Rave: The Beat Goes On\n\nFor those who didn't want to rock in the 1980s and 1990s, there was raving - not necessarily a specific dance style, although all ravers (and Bob the Builder fans) will remember Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard Box, but a movement that caused a scandal largely because of its close association with illegal drugs and trespassing. The above documentary is about Spiral Tribe, the free-party sound system that was established in 1990 by a group of young people who thought they'd found an entire new way of living, powered by music, dancing, love, and, yes, drugs. No dance fad in the UK managed to get caught up in politics more than rave and, as the Guardian reported in 2010, one rave in particular - the Castlemorton Common festival in 1992 - \"set in train the moral panic that led to the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act\". Dancing was forced back indoors again, discotheque-style; superclubs like Cream in Liverpool and Fabric in London emerged; and the rave sound, acid house, splintered into an incalculable number of new styles.\n\nWe'll finish with the lambada, a Brazilian dance that can be traced back to the 1930s when it caused almost as much outrage as the tango had 50 years earlier. The issue, as BBC iWonder reported, was how close it brought dancers together, \"with hips pressed together as they performed a series of spinning steps\". Allegedly, the Brazilian president of the time, Getulio Varga, was horrified by the dance's \"immorality\" and banned it, but the lambada got its revenge when it became a craze again in 1989 after French-Brazilian pop group Kaoma had a hit with a song named after it. Naturally, the BBC brought in an expert to teach the steps (see above).", "As Scotland pushes for a second referendum on independence, one man is asking the previously unthinkable - if you're going to quit the UK, why not join Canada?\n\n\"I think it would be terrific for both Scotland and Canada,\" he says.\n\nMcGoogan first laid out his proposal in an opinion piece published in Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail, where he argued that advancements in telecommunication technology and transatlantic travel have rendered pesky things like geographical boundaries \"irrelevant\".\n\nBesides, he points out, Scotland is closer to Newfoundland than Hawaii is to California.\n\nLast week, the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of asking the UK government to allow a legally-binding referendum on independence.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said the vote should wait until after Brexit.\n\nIt's not clear what Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon makes of the idea\n\nMr McGoogan says he sympathises with the angst that many Scots are feeling over Britain's decision to leave the EU.\n\n\"The Scots aren't happy right now, and I don't think they're being treated especially well.\"\n\nMr McGoogan says that if Scotland were to join Canada, it would enjoy a lot more independence and hold a lot more power than it currently does with Great Britain.\n\nScotland would be Canada's third largest province, with 5.3 million people, which would give it significant political sway. Add to that the millions of Canadians who, like Mr McGoogan, have Scottish ancestry, and you'd have a national-ethnic bloc about 10m strong, he reasons.\n\nMore importantly, Canadian provinces are in charge of more aspects of governance than Scotland has been afforded as part of the UK.\n\nCanadian provinces are in charge of their own courts, health-care, systems and educational institutions. Some provinces also have their own immigration programmes, a fact that has already piqued the interest of a number of British and Scottish MPs.\n\nBrexit \"would never happen in Canada,\" Mr McGoogan argues, without the permission of all the provinces.\n\nBut the arrangement wouldn't only benefit Scotland, he argues. By making Scotland Canada's 11th province, Canada would gain a foothold in Europe. Far from abandoning any future Scottish bid for the EU, Mr McGoogan argues that Scotland could apply to join with Canada.\n\nMr McGoogan's ideas may shock some, and would certainly require years of back-and-forth negotiations with both Scotland and the UK, he readily admits.\n\n\"This is a flight of fancy,\" he said. \"In an ideal world, this might work really well.\"\n\nAs the author of How the Scots Invented Canada and Celtic Lightning, Mr McGoogan has made a career of understanding the historic ties that bind Scotland and Canada.\n\nScotland had a \"major, major hand\" in creating the political culture in Canada, he says, as well as its educational and banking institutions.\n\nMore than half of Canada's prime ministers have claimed Scottish heritage, as did many other prominent figures such as Simon Fraser and James McGill.\n\n\"The Scots have left their fingerprints all over this country,\" he says.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nOne For Arthur. One for Scotland, one for a jockey back from injury and two golf 'widows' on the weekend of the Masters.\n\nIn the great tradition of the famous race, the 170th edition of the Grand National at Aintree delivered a story with many strands.\n\nThe 14-1 winner One For Arthur, thought to be named after the famous Irish brewer Arthur Guinness, held off the challenge of Cause Of Causes to triumph, with Saint Are third and favourite Blaklion fourth.\n\nIt was only a second Scottish-trained winner of the National, with Lucinda Russell the fourth woman to saddle the victor.\n\nJockey Derek Fox was having his first ride in the marathon contest over 30 fences and four-and-a-quarter miles, and just his sixth since breaking his left wrist and right collarbone in a fall last month.\n\nOwners Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson bought the horse and gave their syndicate a cheeky name as their partners were often away playing golf.\n\nThe feel-good story was capped with all 40 runners returning safely for the fifth year running.\n• None Where did your horse finish?\n\nRussell wore a wide grin as she received widespread congratulations and declared: \"He's done us proud and he's done Scotland proud.\"\n\nAfter a 38-year wait since Rubstic's triumph, she had helped deliver another victory for her homeland and a third in nine years for female trainers.\n\n\"It means everything, of course it does,\" said the 50-year-old, who is based at Kinross, Tayside, north of Edinburgh, and follows Jenny Pitman, Venetia Williams and Sue Smith as National winners.\n\nRussell is assisted by her partner Peter Scudamore, the eight-time champion jockey who missed out on National success as a rider - coming closest to winning from 12 rides when third on Corbiere in 1985.\n\n\"I don't like the word 'small' but we are not one of the more fashionable places and, from about Christmas-time, I felt confident things were going well,\" he said.\n\nScudamore advised Fox to steer clear of taking an inside track so he could avoid trouble and the race plan worked to perfection.\n\nFox did not sit on a horse for three-and-a-half weeks after being injured in a fall at Carlisle on 9 March.\n\nFollowing intensive rehabilitation at the Injured Jockeys Fund's Jack Berry House in Malton, North Yorkshire, he returned to action three days before the National.\n\n\"Winning is the best feeling I've ever had, and probably ever will have. He's such a brave horse,\" said the 24-year-old Irish rider.\n\n\"For the first two weeks after I was injured I was very hot and cold. I was very low some days and thought I wouldn't make it.\"\n\nHis jubilant mother Jackie, from Sligo, watched from the winner's enclosure and said he had always been destined for this moment.\n\n\"At every parent teacher evening I went to, they were giving out, but I knew he was going to be a jockey,\" she said.\n\nShe said Derek had dressed as a cowboy riding a pony called Reggie in a St Patrick's Day parade when he was four years old.\n\n\"Aged nine, he went to riding school. The instructor said: 'You'll never make it as a showjumper, but I can see you going over the fences at Aintree',\" added his mother.\n\nWith their partners spending weekends on the golf course, friends Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson wanted to get their own sporting interest.\n\n\"We had a lot of gin and decided to get a horse together. We went to Cheltenham sales and got One For Arthur,\" said Belinda.\n\nAfter forking out £60,000 for the horse in December 2013, the pair registered their ownership as 'The Two Golf Widows\".\n\nTheir silks contain a Scottish flag and the purchase has paid off - with the owners earning about £500,000 in prize money from the £1m contest.\n\nDeborah, close to tears, said: \"We always hoped he'd be a National horse in the making.\n\n\"Our dream was to get him here but to actually win, well I'm lost for words.\n\n\"The syndicate name is slightly tongue-in-cheek as my partner Colin is on the golf course every single weekend. There's probably two weekends when he's not.\"\n\nThis, perhaps not surprisingly, was one of those two weekends.\n\n\"They are both here today, of course,\" she said. \"They weren't going to miss out.\"\n\nFraser, the husband of Belinda, confirmed: \"This is miles better than golfing.\"\n\nWhat's in a name? - the horse\n\nTwo false starts in warm sunshine led to 31 of the 40 jockeys, including Fox, being referred to the British Horseracing Authority for approaching the starting tape before the flag was raised.\n\nFox went on to give One For Arthur an impeccable ride, sending his mount to the front approaching the last and winning by four-and-a-half lengths.\n\nRussell had been unsure he would appreciate the drying ground, but there was no stopping the Irish-bred gelding, who was following up his win in the Classic Chase at Warwick.\n\nSo where does the name One For Arthur come from?\n\n\"We're not totally sure. We think he was named after Arthur Guinness,\" said the trainer.\n\n\"His name is still on the Guinness cans and people say I'll have 'One For Arthur' or one for the road.\"\n\nVictory in the world's most famous steeplechase was one for the almanac. One brewed in Ireland and toasted in Scotland.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Build-up and live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live from 13:00, with text updates and pinstickers' guide on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nA field of 40 horses headed by The Last Samuri is set to contest the 170th running of the Grand National on Saturday.\n\nLast year's runner-up will bid to become the first top weight to triumph since Red Rum in 1974.\n\nA sell-out crowd of 70,000 is expected at Aintree Racecourse on Merseyside.\n\nVieux Lion Rouge and Definitly Red are among the favourites with bookmakers expecting up to £300m to be wagered on the race.\n\nTravel for racegoers was expected to be disrupted as workers at three rail companies carried out a a 24-hour strike on the day of the Grand National.\n\nThe official going at the track is described as Good, Good to Soft in places and a dry, sunny day is forecast with temperatures reaching 16C.\n\nJockey Liam Treadwell will miss the big race after a fall at Aintree on Friday, although Katie Walsh has been passed fit to ride Wonderful Charm despite an arm injury.\n\nTreadwell, who won the National in 2009 on 100-1 shot Mon Mome, will be replaced on 40-1 chance Tenor Nivernais by Aidan Coleman.\n\nWho are the favourites?\n\nVieux Lion Rouge, which translates from French to Old Red Lion, is a leading fancy after winning the Becher Chase over the National fences in December and February's Grand National Trial at Haydock.\n\nSeventh in the National last year, he is one of four runners trained by David Pipe, and is about a 10-1 chance along with Definitly Red, an impressive winner at Doncaster last month for Brian Ellison.\n\nThe National is a handicap chase, with each runner allotted a different weight to carry by the official handicapper Phil Smith.\n\nWith 11st 10lb, The Last Samuri will be carrying more than a stone more than last year.\n\nOther contenders near the top of the betting include the JP McManus-owned pair More Of That and Cause Of Causes, Haydock runner-up Blaklion, and the Scottish-trained One For Arthur.\n\nHowever, the National has a habit of throwing up surprise results, as evidenced by recent years.\n\nThe past five winners have started at odds of 33-1, 25-1, 25-1, 66-1 and 33-1.\n\nIrish trainer Mouse Morris scored an emotional victory last year with the now-retired Rule The World - 10 months after the death of his son Christopher.\n\nMorris, who runs Irish National winners Rogue Angel and Thunder and Roses this time, said: \"We're going there with no pressure as the likelihood of winning it two years in a row is probably non-existent.\"\n\n14-1 Cause Of Causes, More Of That, Blaklion, One For Arthur\n\nCoverage of the National, over 30 fences and more than four and a quarter miles, is said to be followed by 600 million people worldwide.\n\nThe marathon test see runners negotiate iconic obstacles such as Becher's Brook and The Chair.\n\nTerminally ill five-year-old boy Bradley Lowery is to be given honorary 41st place in the National racecard.\n\nThe race is again due to start at 17:15 BST, having been put back an hour by organisers last year in an effort to further increase the audience.\n\nArmed police have been in attendance at the course during the three-day meeting which started on Thursday.\n\nThis year's race comes in the wake of the Westminster terror attack and marks the 20th anniversary of the National being delayed by an IRA bomb scare.\n\nKatie Walsh will seek to become the first female jockey to win the National after overcoming a late injury scare.\n\nWalsh was initially reported to be ruled out with a broken arm following a fall in the Foxhunters' Chase over the big fences on Thursday, but escaped with bruising.\n\n\"I feel fine, a bit sore but I'm 100%,\" said 32-year-old Walsh, who will ride 33-1 chance Wonderful Charm, with opponents including brother Ruby on Pleasant Company.\n\n\"There is only one Grand National and to get the opportunity to ride in the race again is brilliant.\"\n\nWonderful Charm is one of five runners for Paul Nicholls - along with Cheltenham Gold Cup fifth Saphir Du Rheu, Scottish National winner Vicente, Le Mercurey and Just A Par.\n\nKnown as a unique challenge for horse and rider, the race draws criticism from opponents, including animal welfare groups.\n\nOfficials believe amendments to the fences, and other alterations, introduced four years ago have helped improve safety.\n\nThe course spent £1.5m on changes after two horses were fatally injured in each of the Grand Nationals of 2011 and 2012.\n\nSince then there have been no fatalities in the National itself, although in the same period there have been six in the four other races staged over the track during the year.\n\nPleasant Company is my selection to win for trainer Willie Mullins and jockey Ruby Walsh. The team triumphed with Hedgehunter in 2005 and Walsh was also successful on Papillon, trained by his father Ted, five years earlier.\n\nPleasant Company put in a most encouraging performance to win at Fairyhouse. He'll keep out of trouble, before - hopefully - gradually picking off rivals and arriving late on the scene.\n\nThe Jonjo O'Neill-trained More Of That was a champion over hurdles, and a respectable sixth in this season's Cheltenham Gold Cup, giving the impression he's coming to the boil.\n\nScotland's One For Arthur is another gradually building his reputation, while Lord Windermere - who's not won since the 2014 Cheltenham Gold Cup - had top weight two years ago, but much less this time, and will have his favoured drier ground conditions. I can see him going well at big odds.\n\nCornelius' 1-2-3-4: 1 Pleasant Company 2 More Of That 3 One For Arthur 4 Lord Windermere\n\nWhat's it like to ride in the National?\n\n\"It's still a great test of skill. You need some luck and your horse to take to the fences.\n\n\"There's 40 runners, when most races wouldn't be near half that size, so you're hoping for a clear passage.\n\n\"It's wide open this year. Definitly Red is likely to be popular on Merseyside with supporters of Liverpool FC.\n\n\"I like Blaklion. The better ground will suit him, his jockey's in red-hot form and his trainer has won the race twice before.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool came from behind to beat Stoke City and stay on course for a top-four finish thanks to goals by substitutes Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino.\n\nUnmarked Jon Walters headed the hosts into the lead after meeting Xherdan Shaqiri's cross, as the Reds failed to register a first-half effort on target.\n\nCoutinho levelled with a first-time shot before Firmino smashed the bouncing ball beyond keeper Lee Grant after Georginio Wijnaldum's pass.\n\nLiverpool remain third in the Premier League table.\n• None Relive the action between Stoke and Liverpool\n\nMuch has been made of Liverpool's inability to beat teams in the bottom half of the table and for 45 minutes it looked like they were heading for defeat against a team that started the day 12th.\n\nKlopp started with 17-year-old Ben Woodburn and 18-year-old Trent Alexander-Arnold, while opting to keep Coutinho, who was ill during Wednesday's 2-2 draw with Bournemouth, and Firmino on the bench.\n\nIt looked like his plan to give youth a chance had backfired as Walters was left totally unmarked to bury Shaqiri's inch-perfect cross past Simon Mignolet.\n\nIt was only after the introduction of Brazilian duo Coutinho and Firmino at the start of the second half - in place of Woodburn and Alexander-Arnold - that Liverpool played like a team chasing a Champions League spot.\n\nDejan Lovren headed against the bar before Coutinho swept home the equaliser from 12 yards out.\n\nLiverpool fans were still celebrating when Firmino lashed a dipping shot over Grant from 22 yards, a sublime goal worthy of winning any match.\n\nMignolet still had to produce a fine save to deny Saido Berahino, but Liverpool hung on to move nine points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal, although the Reds have played three games more.\n\nStoke slipped to 13th in the table after a fourth successive league defeat.\n\nThey were the better team in the first half but Mark Hughes' side remain without a win against a team currently in the top six - eight defeats in 11 games.\n\nAt 1-0 they wasted a great chance to double the lead when Charlie Adam was denied at close range by Mignolet after a terrible mistake by Wijnaldum.\n\nHad that gone it, it could have been a different story.\n\nThe Potters still need another four points to reach 40 with six fixtures left, including a home match against Arsenal.\n\nThey ought do it with games to spare - but they need to escape this losing run before it causes serious damage.\n\n'I couldn't feel any better' - what the managers said\n\nStoke City boss Mark Hughes: \"We needed to take our chances and capitalise when we were on top. I was happy, we were good value at 1-0 and restricted them to very little.\n\n\"Second half they brought their big hitters on, which made an impact, but it took a mistake from us.\n\n\"It was a long ball down the middle and we should have dealt with it. When those are the things that are happening you think maybe it's not your day.\"\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"Philippe Coutinho lost three kilos in the past three days, which some people wish - but for a professional footballer it's not too cool.\n\n\"Simon Mignolet saved our life. Job done, feels good. Nice weather, 63 points and I couldn't feel any better.\n\n\"Now we have a long week. No team in the world wins only the very, very good games. You need to win games like this.\"\n• None Liverpool have won more points from losing positions than any other Premier League team this season (18).\n• None There were just 126 seconds between Liverpool's first and second goals.\n• None Walters has scored seven times against Liverpool in the Premier League, more than he has against any other side.\n• None Wijnaldum has provided six Premier League assists this season, one more than he registered for Newcastle in 2015-16.\n• None Klopp's side won their first away Premier League game of 2017.\n\nStoke can end a four-match losing run at home to Hull City on Saturday, 15 April (15:00 BST), while Liverpool are away at West Brom the following day (13:30).\n• None Offside, Stoke City. Marko Arnautovic tries a through ball, but Ramadan Sobhi is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Philippe Coutinho.\n• None Offside, Stoke City. Erik Pieters tries a through ball, but Ramadan Sobhi is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Stoke City. Ramadan Sobhi replaces Charlie Adam because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Saido Berahino (Stoke City) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic with a cross.\n• None Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Stoke City 1, Liverpool 2. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.\n• None Attempt missed. Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is high and wide to the left.\n• None Goal! Stoke City 1, Liverpool 1. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel Sturridge. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nSebastian Vettel led a Ferrari one-two in final practice at the Chinese Grand Prix as Mercedes appeared to struggle to keep up.\n\nVettel and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen were separated by just 0.053 seconds, with Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas in third, 0.371secs adrift.\n\nLewis Hamilton was fourth, 0.172secs behind his Mercedes team-mate, but made a mistake on his fastest lap.\n\nHamilton ran wide at the hairpin, losing a few tenths of a second.\n\nHowever, Hamilton was also 0.3secs slower than Vettel in the middle sector of the lap, where most of the demanding corners on the Shanghai International Circuit are situated.\n\nWilliams driver Felipe Massa was fifth, a second behind Hamilton, just ahead of the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo. The Red Bulls were 1.6secs off the pace.\n\nJolyon Palmer was an encouraging ninth fastest for Renault, two places clear of his team-mate Nico Hulkenberg.\n\nIt was a dispiriting session for McLaren-Honda, with two-time champion Fernando Alonso only 17th fastest as the team battle with the poor performance, reliability and fuel consumption of the Honda engine.\n\nThere was no repeat of the damp weather on Friday that had prevented any meaningful running because the medical helicopter could not operate.\n\nThe session took place in dry weather and almost-sunshine in perpetually smog-grey Shanghai.\n\nHowever, further rain is predicted overnight ahead of the race on Sunday.\n\nEven if it remains damp and cloudy at the time of the race, governing body the FIA has taken action to avoid the problems of Friday, when three hours of practice sessions were reduced to only about 15 minutes of running.\n\nIf the medical helicopter cannot fly, organisers have arranged for a police escort so, in the event of a driver being hospitalised, he can be transported quickly by road to the main hospital which is more than 30km away.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWatch live coverage of Saturday's doubles from 13:10 BST on BBC One, with extra coverage on BBC Red Button and online, connected TVs, the BBC Sport website and app\n\nGreat Britain's Kyle Edmund and Dan Evans lost their singles matches on the first day of the Davis Cup quarter-final against France in Rouen.\n\nEvans, ranked three places above Edmund at 44, also lost in three sets - 6-2 6-3 6-3 to world number 68 Jeremy Chardy.\n\nJamie Murray and Dom Inglot will play Nicolas Mahut and Julien Benneteau in Saturday's doubles, before the reverse singles on Sunday.\n\nBritain, without injured world number one Andy Murray, failed to win a set on the opening day of a Davis Cup tie for the first time since 2008 against Argentina.\n\nIn front of a raucous crowd, Edmund battled hard for the first two sets against Pouille, the highest-ranked player in the tie.\n\nAnd the Briton had a good opportunity to level the scores when he was 5-2 up in the second-set tie-break - but could not take advantage as the Frenchman's backhand proved too strong.\n\n\"It was competitive. It's obviously annoying - you want to be taking one of them (set points),\" Edmund, 22, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It just felt like I came off the match and said: 'You gave it your best effort, it just wasn't good enough today.'\n\n\"There were some points I could have made better choices and better execution, but when it counted I just didn't get it done.\"\n\nGreat Britain captain Leon Smith said: \"We probably needed the win from Kyle to get us started this weekend - and we will now have to do it the extremely difficult way.\"\n\nThe visitors must now win the remaining three ties to progress to the semi-finals - where they would face Serbia or Spain in September.\n\n\"There's no hiding. We need more players, and we need different sorts of players that we can call in if Andy's not playing,\" Smith added.\n\n\"If Kyle can't play because he has an injury - if that happened this week, we were going to have to pull in someone ranked about 240 in the world.\n\n\"So, as much as there's lots of good things happening, there's still that conversation about strength in depth.\"\n\nWith Great Britain already 1-0 down, 26-year-old Evans - whose record on clay was a talking point in the build-up to tie - was tasked with turning things around.\n\nHowever, he was completely outplayed by late call-up Chardy, who only replaced Giles Simon in the France team on Wednesday.\n\nThe 30-year-old had made just three previous Davis Cup appearances, and none for six years - but Evans' lack of match practice on the clay, having not played on the surface for two years, told.\n\nThe Briton's forehand, so dominant on the hard court, was completely nullified as he struggled to adjust to the bounce of the ball on the unfamiliar surface.\n\n\"Dan fights with everything he's got,\" said Smith. \"He loves playing for his country, but he needs more time on the clay. Jeremy Chardy was too good for him today.\"\n\n\"I was really happy. For me it's an amazing moment. Last year was really difficult so I'm just enjoying it,\" said Chardy.\n\n\"It was a surprise for me to come into the team but I was practising really well.\n\n\"This tie is not over. The doubles will be a difficult match and we will stay focused for Sunday just in case.\"\n\nAn unlikely, but not implausible, route to the semi-finals hinged on Kyle Edmund winning the opening singles against Lucas Pouille.\n\nHe had opportunities in both of the first two sets and should have levelled the match by closing out the second set tie-break from 5-2 up - but Pouille simply played better when the chips were down.\n\nDan Evans was playing only his third tour level match on clay, and it showed as he was outclassed by Jeremy Chardy.\n\nEven if Britain can win Saturday's doubles, back-to-back victories in Sunday's singles seem very far fetched indeed.\n\nIt was a masterclass from Jeremy Chardy.\n\nEvans is used to the faster courts where he has the pace. Here on clay, his shots just sit up and Chardy had plenty of time.\n\nChardy's level never dropped at all from the moment he came out on the court. He was aggressive and there was no lapse in concentration. I thought he played a tremendous match.\n\nIt was a brave decision by [France captain] Yannick Noah. He knew something about Chardy - he liked his attitude, his confidence, his game.\n\nIt was difficult to see how Dan could hurt him, even if they'd been out there all day.\n\nIn Belgrade, world number two Novak Djokovic helped Serbia to a 2-0 lead in their last-eight tie against Spain.\n\nDjokovic, who missed the Miami Masters because of an elbow injury, beat Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-3 6-4 6-2.\n\nFive-time winners Spain are without Rafael Nadal for the tie after the 14-time Grand Slam champion opted to prepare for the clay court season.\n\nSerbia's Viktor Troicki then saw off Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3 6-4 6-3 as the teams head into Saturday's doubles.\n\nElsewhere, Australia lead USA 2-0 in their quarter-final in Brisbane.\n\nJordan Thompson, ranked 79 in the world, pulled off a huge shock beating world number 15 Jack Sock 6-3 3-6 7-6 6-4.\n\nNick Kyrgios then gave Australia a 2-0 lead with a 7-5 7-6 7-6 victory over John Isner.\n\nAnd in Charleroi, Belgium lead Italy 2-0 following Steve Darcis' 6-7 6-1 6-1 7-6 victory over Paolo Lorenzi and David Goffin's victory in straight sets over Andreas Seppi.", "Watch live BBC Two coverage from the final day of The Masters.\n\nThis is a live BBC Two stream, due to start at 1830 BST.", "Cows are considered sacred by the country's majority Hindu population\n\nAn Indian Muslim died of his injuries after a group of men transporting cattle were attacked by members of a suspected cow protection vigilante group. BBC Hindi's Nitin Srivastava travelled to the victim's village in the northern Indian state of Haryana.\n\nVillagers jostle to get a glimpse of the injured young boy who has just returned from the hospital.\n\nAzmat, who only uses one name, is lying on a cot inside a small courtyard. He has a fractured rib, multiple clots in the left eye and several lacerations on his arms and stomach. But by all accounts, he is lucky to be alive.\n\nAzmat, along with four others, was attacked by suspected cow protection vigilantes as they were transporting cattle they had purchased from Jaipur in the northern state of Rajasthan back to their dairy farm in neighbouring Haryana.\n\n\"Despite having legal documents we were pulled out on the streets, beaten by sticks and the crowd was shouting for us to be burned alive. If the police had not come and rescued us, all of us would have been dead,\" he told BBC Hindi.\n\nAzmat has multiple clots in the left eye and several lacerations on his arms and stomach\n\nThe cow is considered sacred by India's Hindu majority, and killing cows is illegal in many states. Last month, the state of Gujarat passed a law making the slaughter of cows punishable with life imprisonment.\n\nIn 2015 a Muslim man was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh after reports that he had beef in his fridge. Since then, there have been regular reports of cow protection vigilante groups attacking people transporting cattle across the country.\n\nIn this case, the men say that the cows they had bought were not for slaughter, and were for dairy purposes instead.\n\nAll five men were rushed to a nearby hospital, but one man, Pehlu Khan, did not survive. He succumbed to his injuries three days later in hospital.\n\nAt his home, we met his family who had just returned from his funeral.\n\n\"As buffalos on sale in Jaipur were beyond our budget my father advised us to buy five cows and four calves. Ramadan is near and he thought this would enhance milk production as it is our only source of income. Who knew he had made the biggest mistake of his life,\" a sobbing Irshad Khan, Pehlu Khan's 20-year old son, said.\n\nHe was also helping transport the animals when the attack took place.\n\n\"Who will return our father to us? I couldn't meet him after the attack and could only see his dead body. My mother and grandmother haven't eaten for the last four days. Who will compensate for their loss?\" he asked angrily.\n\nMany states have banned the slaughter of cows and bulls\n\nPolice have arrested three men on the basis of a mobile phone recording of the incident that has gone viral on Indian social media.\n\n\"No one will be spared and we are in process of identifying the attackers,\" Ramesh Chand, a senior police official, told BBC Hindi.\n\nHowever, they have also registered a case against the survivors of the attack for \"illegally transporting cows\".\n\n\"We had all the documents and there was nothing to hide. Police can verify the sale from the government facility,\" said Irshad Khan.\n\nVigilante groups who portray themselves as protectors of cows have been active in several states. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year criticised the vigilantes, saying such people made him \"angry\". But this has not stopped attacks against cattle traders.\n\nMeanwhile almost 80 miles (128km) from the village, where the men were attacked, not many were willing to speak about what happened.\n\nSome said they were \"unaware\" of the incident, while others said they wanted \"the police to investigate\".\n\nBut amid considerable tension in the area after the deadly attack, some fear more incidents cannot be ruled out.", "Kathy Beaumont and her partner Chris decided fertility apps weren't for them\n\nWhen Kathy Beaumont started trying for a baby two years ago, she turned to the many fertility apps on the market to discover when would be the best time of the month to conceive.\n\nShe took her temperature every day and logged it in an app called Fertility Friend, but soon found herself succumbing to a fertility-obsessed frenzy.\n\n\"I constantly analysed the analytics section of the app to see how my month looked and whether there was a temperature spike that indicated I was ovulating,\" says Kathy, 32, a freelance travel copywriter.\n\n\"I based when we actively tried for a baby solely on when the app and ovulation kits told me I was ovulating.\"\n\nBut after six months of \"trying\", Kathy still hadn't fallen pregnant.\n\n\"Some months I think we must have missed the window of opportunity entirely,\" she explains, \"either because I'd built up to it so much that the pressure made me too stressed to conceive, or because the app wasn't accurate.\"\n\nShe decided to quit using the apps \"for the sake of my sanity\" and became pregnant the following month.\n\n\"They definitely serve a purpose,\" she concedes, \"but they aren't the be-all and end-all.\"\n\nBut for some women, they are.\n\nSara Flyckt says she tried the Natural Cycles app after the pill turned her into \"a nasty person\"\n\nLondoner Sara Flyckt, 35, started using an app called Natural Cycles four years ago after hearing about it in a Swedish podcast.\n\nIt analyses the body's temperature to determine whether or not the user is fertile and needs to use contraception.\n\n\"I was on the pill before and the hormones made me into quite a nasty person, so when I heard about this natural option it felt like a no-brainer to try it,\" says Swedish-born Ms Flyckt.\n\nAnd, after initially using it as a contraceptive, last year she used it to plan a pregnancy.\n\n\"It certainly helped me find my fertile days. It's very easy to use, and it's especially helpful as both my partner and I worked full time within hospitality and sometimes we wouldn't see each other for a few days.\n\n\"With this app you know when to try and make time to see each other.\"\n\nTechnology targeted at women - or femtech as it's been coined - covers everything from birth control and period tracker apps to sex toys and breast pumps.\n\nAnd the market has been booming in recent years.\n\n\"We're seeing really significant growth in funding to femtech start-ups,\" says Zoe Leavitt, tech analyst at CB Insights.\n\n\"The number of deals shot up from 20 in 2014, to 40 in 2015, and in 2016 deals and dollars set a record high, with $540.5m (£433m) across 52 deals.\n\n\"Overall, we've tracked $1.26bn in investment since 2009 across 173 deals.\"\n\nBut there are concerns that some women might become enslaved to such apps.\n\nLea von Bidder is co-founder of Ava, a firm that has developed a wearable bracelet and app for tracking a woman's fertile window in real time.\n\n\"When it comes to fertility tracking, the current options require women to make it almost a part-time job to track their fertility,\" she says.\n\nClue co-founder Ida Tin says her app has attracted more than five million users\n\n\"They have to pee on sticks multiple times per day, wake up early to take their temperature at exactly the same time each morning, or examine their cervical mucus every time they go to the bathroom.\n\n\"By creating a bracelet that is only worn at night and does away with all this work, we firmly believe we are helping women to be less stressed and neurotic about fertility tracking.\"\n\nMany of the apps in this space aren't just targeted at those trying for a baby.\n\nIda Tin, co-founder of Berlin-based start-up Clue, describes the firm's menstrual cycle tracker as being \"empowering for women\".\n\nShe adds: \"For some, it's the first time they've really been able to get insight into their bodies. People use these apps because they want to understand their body better.\n\n\"The app is helpful whether you're trying for a baby or want to know when your next period is.\"\n\nMany women seem to agree - Clue has about five million active users globally.\n\nThe Natural Cycles fertility app has been shown to be as effective as some other contraceptives\n\nBut the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) advises users to treat fertility apps with a degree of caution.\n\n\"There are probably many examples of new tech companies and technologies in the fertility space that bring the promise of benefits to patients and users, but they must be properly assessed before they are used in a healthcare setting,\" says Alexia Tonnel, director of evidence resources at Nice.\n\n\"Where possible, users should look for an independent review of the claimed benefits.\"\n\nSome sexual health charities, organisations and experts have also expressed concerns over the efficacy of such apps.\n\nBut for millions of women worldwide, they have proved essential as a contraceptive, an aid to pregnancy, and as a way of understanding more about their monthly cycles.\n\nGemma Moore turned to ClearBlue when she was trying for her second child.\n\n\"I used the ClearBlue Fertility Monitor to measure my hormone levels and find out the four days I was most likely to conceive.\n\n\"By knowing what was going on with my hormones and realising I ovulate far later than the average woman, I was able to pinpoint when I was most likely to conceive.\"\n\nIn the second month she got pregnant and gave birth to her son, Oscar, last September.\n\nAs for the future, it's expected that the femtech sector will continue to thrive.\n\n\"We are not only seeing successful innovation in women's health, but also in areas such as personal hygiene, baby care and breast pumps,\" says Lea von Bidder from Ava.\n\n\"This is critical as most of those companies are just catching up with the technological and innovative changes we are already used to in all other aspects of our lives.\"\n\nFollow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter and Facebook", "Sergio Garcia makes a monster 40-foot putt on the fifth hole to take him to five under par, one shot off the lead during his third round at the Augusta National.\n\nWATCH MORE: 'Is it something remarkable?' Couples goes so close\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Weibo/In the Name of the People The TV show stars Chinese heart-throb Lu Yi (second from left)\n\nA dashing detective bursts into a secret villa and uncovers huge stacks of cash stuffed in fridges, closets and beds. Meanwhile, the villa's owner - a government official - crawls on the floor and begs for his life.\n\nThis is the dramatic opening scene in China's latest hit TV show, In the Name of the People, which made its high-profile debut last month.\n\nThe series, about China's anti-corruption campaign, has gripped millions of viewers across the country. Some have compared it to the American political drama House of Cards, which has a huge Chinese following.\n\nIn The Name of the People chronicles the internal power struggle of the Chinese Communist Party in the fictional city of Jingzhou, featuring stories about Chinese politics that are often talked about but never seen on mainstream television.\n\nIn the show, local government leaders try to sabotage a top justice's arrest order; laid-off workers hold violent protests against a corrupt deal between the government and a corporation; and fake police drive bulldozers into forced eviction sites.\n\nViewers have been lapping it up. \"This TV drama feels so real. It really cheers people up,\" one viewer wrote on social media network Weibo.\n\n\"I shed tears after watching this drama. This is the tumour of corruption that has been harming the people,\" said another Weibo commenter.\n\nWeibo / In the Name of the People The show, which features a sprawling cast, chronicles the power struggle in a fictional Chinese city government\n\nWhat makes In The Name of the People remarkable is not just how frankly it depicts the ugly side of Chinese politics, but that it also has the blessing of the country's powerful top prosecutors' office.\n\nMore than a decade ago, anti-corruption dramas suddenly disappeared from Chinese primetime television. Authorities in 2004 had decided to restrict the production of such dramas as too many were of poor quality.\n\nBut when Chinese President Xi Jinping took power in 2012 and launched a sweeping campaign against graft, anti-corruption got back in vogue.\n\nChinese state media has extensively covered crackdowns on corrupt officials, and TV networks have rolled out documentaries showing officials confessing on camera and sobbing with remorse - even China's anti-corruption agency did a show about corruption within its ranks.\n\nIn The Name of The People is thus the latest piece of propaganda aimed at portraying the government's victory in its anti-corruption campaign.\n\nAt least it does a decent job in entertaining viewers, building suspense and intrigue. In one episode an investigator gets hit by a truck just as he is about to brief Beijing on key evidence, while in another the deputy mayor flees the country with the help of a mysterious government mole.\n\nWeibo / In the Name of the People\n\nThe tall and handsome chief investigator and hero of the show. He is played by Chinese heartthrob Lu Yi, whom netizens have criticised for his awkward acting, particularly in scenes with his screen wife. \"Are they a model couple or a fake couple?\" complained one Weibo commenter.\n\nWeibo / In the Name of the People\n\nThe crafty and calculating public security chief and villain of the show, played by veteran actor Xu Yajun. He appears decent but turns out to be a sycophant, always thinking about his next move to advance his political career.\n\nWeibo / In the Name of the People\n\nThe blunt party chief obsessed with GDP growth and rising political star who likes to chastise his subordinates. Actor Wu Gang rose to fame with this role - viewers now regularly make online memes featuring his character.\n\nThe show's screenwriter, Zhou Meisen, is a seasoned writer of anti-corruption fiction and no stranger to censorship by the Chinese government.\n\nHe declined to speak to the BBC, saying he \"received instruction not to speak to any foreign media\".\n\nBut in interviews with Chinese media, he expressed surprise that officials approved all 55 episodes of his show - the review team reportedly even called the series \"earth-shattering\".\n\n\"For a long time, many people thought that if we kept our eyes closed, there wouldn't be any corruption,\" Mr Zhou said. \"Many government officials in charge of culture have become security hawks blocking the public from seeing artistic works on anti-corruption.\"\n\nHe said he aimed to show that corrupt officials were not all \"monsters\" and were real people - but at the end of the day, the good people always win.\n\nHe made sure that Hou Liangping - the hero of In The Name Of the People - did not come from a privileged background with a lot of political connections, so that the character would be more \"idealised\".\n\n\"We all badly need heroes, upright law-enforcing heroes like Hou Liangping.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland were held to a 1-1 draw by Italy at Vale Park in a game marred by a serious injury.\n\nAfter a goalless first half in which the Lionesses dominated, striker Jodie Taylor's fine first-time lob gave England a deserved lead.\n\nStriker Toni Duggan could have won it, but drilled wide for the hosts in their first match since Mark Sampson named his squad for Euro 2017.\n\nThe result was harsh on England, after one of their best displays in the past 12 months, but visiting keeper Katja Schroffenegger denied Taylor superbly in each half.\n\nLeft-back Alex Greenwood also wasted a great chance to win the game in stoppage time when she headed wastefully wide.\n\nFor Italy, who are also preparing for this summer's tournament in the Netherlands, the match was soured by a serious injury to playmaker Alice Parisi, who was taken to hospital with a suspected broken leg after an unfortunate collision with England's Millie Bright.\n\nThe Azzurri, ranked 19th in the world - 15 places below England - improved going forward in the second half after the introduction of substitute Melania Gabbiadini - sister of Southampton forward Manola - but rarely threatened Siobhan Chamberlain's goal aside from Cernoia's fierce equaliser.\n\nOne win in six\n\nThe draw left England with just one win from their six games in 2017 so far, although those fixtures have included meetings with the world's top three sides.\n\nIn front of 7,181 fans, Sampson's side created enough chances to beat Italy by a big margin, but despite having 23 efforts, they were wasteful in front of goal.\n\nThe England boss was accused on Monday of \"sending out a dangerous message\" through not picking players based on form, by out-of-favour Chelsea striker Eniola Aluko.\n\nAluko - who has 100 England caps - was the top scorer in Women's Super League One in 2016 but was one of a number of forwards who were arguably unfortunate to miss out on Sampson's Euros squad.\n\nEngland carved out several openings, although Taylor broke the deadlock from one of the most difficult, lobbing the keeper with a first-time effort from 25 yards to net her seventh international goal.\n\nThe 30-year-old Arsenal forward would have had a hat-trick but for Schroffenegger's reflexes.\n\nArsenal midfielder Jordan Nobbs was at the heart of almost everything that England did well, putting in a fine display and demonstrating her pace, vision and industrious energy down the hosts' right.\n\nWith England's squad for the Euros not including any players under the age of 23, it was one of the younger members - 24-year-old Nobbs - who entertained the home crowd at Vale Park.\n\nItaly took their moment - What they said\n\nEngland women boss Mark Sampson: \"It was a big pitch. It was a good opportunity for us to show our physical fitness tonight. We only made three subs because we wanted to replicate the European Championships.\n\n\"We didn't expect so many people - we expected a low crowd - so to see that many people was a huge boost to this group of players.\"\n\nEngland captain Steph Houghton: \"We did everything but put the ball in the back of the net to get that winning goal.\n\n\"But it is about the performance. It is very positive when we are creating those chances. Going to the Euros, potentially teams are going to bank up and not give us much space.\n\n\"When we play these sorts of teams, it is important for us to know they are always going to have 'a moment'. Italy took their moment.\n\n\"Our quality and our athleticism did shine above Italy as a team.\"\n\nEngland host Austria at Milton Keynes Dons' Stadium MK on Monday, 10 April, before the WSL 1 Spring Series then takes centre-stage until 3 June.\n\nSampson's side then face Switzerland in Biel on 10 June, before their opening match of the tournament against Group D opponents Scotland in Utrecht on 19 July.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jill Scott (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross.\n• None Substitution, England. Nikita Parris replaces Toni Duggan because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Daniela Stracchi (Italy Women) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Greenwood (England) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Karen Carney with a cross.\n• None Offside, Italy Women. Lisa Boattin tries a through ball, but Daniela Sabatino is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucy Bronze (England) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Toni Duggan (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Fara Williams (England) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jill Scott.\n• None Attempt missed. Karen Carney (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Greenwood with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jodie Taylor (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Karen Carney.\n• None Attempt missed. Aurora Galli (Italy Women) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Sara Gama. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Watson said winning the prize was \"very meaningful\"\n\nEmma Watson has won the MTV Movie and TV award for best big-screen actor - the first gender-neutral prize the ceremony has given out.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, the actress said winning the prize for her role in Beauty and the Beast was \"very meaningful\".\n\n\"To me, it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes, and that doesn't need to be separated into two different categories.\"\n\nMTV announced the change to the categories earlier this year after Billions star Asia Kate Dillon raised the issue with the Emmys.\n\nWhen organisers asked the female-born star how they wanted to be considered, it proved a struggle because the performer identifies as gender non-binary.\n\nWhat to go for - best actor or best actress?\n\nThe dilemma opened up a dialogue with Emmy organisers after Dillon wrote a letter to the Academy.\n\nThe star asked: \"I'd like to know if in your eyes 'actor' and 'actress' denote anatomy or identity and why it is necessary to denote either in the first place?\"\n\nThe Emmys explained that \"anyone can submit under either category for any reason. The Academy supports anyone's choice to do that, and the Academy is not going to do any sort of check\", Dillon told Variety.\n\n\"I found them to be 100% supportive,\" Dillon says of the Academy. \"I really couldn't have been happier.\"\n\nThe performer chose to enter the best supporting actor category in the end, explaining \"actor\" is generally regarded as a non-gendered word.\n\nBut is it time to drop the gender tag altogether?\n\nWhile most of the big hitters including the Oscars and Baftas still have best actor and best actress categories, there are some organisations that are pushing the envelope.\n\nThe National Television Awards (NTAs) first changed its best actor and actress categories to simply best drama performance and best serial drama performance back in 2008.\n\nAre gender specific categories becoming outdated? Viola Davis and Jon Hamm are previous Emmy acting recipients\n\nAnd bar two years when they reverted back to best male and best female in 2012 and 2013, it's been the same ever since.\n\nUsually the serial and drama vote has been split between a male and female winner, but this year Sarah Lancashire won best drama performance for her role in Happy Valley and Lacey Turner won best serial drama performance for EastEnders.\n\n\"It felt right for the National Television Awards to make the change,\" says Kim Turberville, executive producer and founder of the NTAs.\n\n\"A great performance is great regardless of gender and we think that dropping the male/female division has made the drama performance category more exciting.\n\n\"It may surprise viewers one year if all four short-listed nominees voted for by the public happen to be female or male, but if that is the case it will be because of their brilliant performances and will be an interesting outcome in itself.\"\n\nIt was a female double win for Lacey Turner and Sarah Lancashire in the gender neutral categories at the National Television Awards\n\nIn the music world, while the Brit Awards offer the more traditional best male and best female prizes for both British and international artists, across the pond at the Grammys, no such thing exists.\n\nAlthough the Grammys feature a huge 80-plus list of categories, including everything from best Latin rock album to best new age record, there is no sign of any male or female awards. The big awards are considered to be album of the year, song of the year and record of the year.\n\nSo it's not just an issue of gender identity - it's about having no distinction between female and male talent. Put simply, which performance is the best overall?\n\nBut there could be other implications for awards organisers if they changed their rules.\n\nHaving only one overall best actor category - if you agree with Dillon that the word actor is a non-gendered word - could give the winner more kudos in the acting community having beaten both male and female competition.\n\nOn the other hand, with just one category, fewer performers may get short-listed and worthy nominees may miss out.\n\nFor example, the Oscars currently have five nominees in each best actor and best actress categories. They may well increase the number of nominees if there was to be only one best performance award, but that's not a given.\n\nIt could also potentially mean fewer actresses are nominated overall. If, in any given year, there are more male performances nominated but only one category for them to be recognised in, they could effectively take the places of what would've been female nominees.\n\nColman and Laurie were both recognised at the Golden Globes for The Night Manager\n\nPerhaps one way to solve this would be to be more genre specific in each category - so rather than best actress or best actor, how about best drama performance or best comedy performance?\n\nOf course the Golden Globes already do this, although they still split the awards down gender lines.\n\nOlivia Colman and Hugh Laurie were both beneficiaries of this system earlier in the year, when they won best performances by an actor and an actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or TV movie in The Night Manager.\n\nAnd you could argue that having more gender split categories might boost the profiles of women film-makers, who historically struggle to gain recognition in areas such as directing, which is gender neutral.\n\nThere have only ever been four female nominees for the best director Oscar and only one winner - Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker in 2010.\n\nWho might have made a best female director nominee at this year's Oscars? Perhaps Andrea Arnold (American Honey), Mira Nair (Queen of Katwe) or Jodie Foster (Money Monster)?\n\nDillon's hope is that the Emmys conversation opens the debate further, saying: \"I can only speak to the world in which I wish to live.\n\n\"I think this is a really good place to start a larger conversation about the categories themselves, and what changes are possible and what may or may not be coming.\n\n\"I'm excited to see what other people think, and what they want to say once they become aware of this.\"\n\nAnd who knows - could a change happen at the Baftas? We've asked them if they can see a rule change on the horizon, but they have yet to respond.\n\nA version of this story was originally published on 7 April 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nLewis Hamilton heads into this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix looking for his fifth win in Shanghai.\n\nNo driver has won more races there than the Briton, and he will no doubt be more determined than ever to take victory and get his season up and running.\n\nWith Mercedes having been on pole in 58 of the last 61 races, Hamilton will be the man to beat, but how do you see the top 10 shaping up in the race?\n\nWho will finish in the top 10 at the Chinese Grand Prix?", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Live text commentary and analysis on BBC Sport website and app\n\nGreat Britain's double gold medallist Nicola Adams believes new trainer Virgil Hunter will play a key part in success as a professional.\n\nAdams will make her professional debut in Manchester on Saturday when she fights Argentina's Virginia Carcamo.\n\n\"Virgil has a lot of knowledge and one thing I like about him is he knows how to take an Olympic champion and turn them into a pro,\" said Adams, 34.\n\n\"He did it with Andre [Ward] and he's capable of doing the same with me.\"\n\nAmerican Ward, 33, has gone from winning gold at the 2004 Olympics to becoming a two-weight world champion and being unbeaten in 31 fights.\n\nAdams has been training alongside the likes of IBF, WBA and WBO light-heavyweight champion Ward as she prepares for her fight, and says doing so \"has left me a bit in awe, to be honest\".\n\nShe added: \"Like every fighter, my ultimate goal is to headline a show in Las Vegas and with the way the sport is building at the moment I see no reason why I can't get there.\n\n\"Other female boxers like Claressa Shields and Katie Taylor have been putting women's professional boxing on the map and now that I've joined them it can only raise the bar again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-6 -5-4 Spieth (US), Moore (US), Hoffman (US); -3-2-1\n\nEngland's Justin Rose jumped into a share of the lead with Spain's Sergio Garcia as the battle for the Masters intensified on day three at Augusta.\n\nRose, 36, sunk five birdies in the last seven holes in his five-under-par 67 to join Garcia, who hit 70, on six under.\n\nRickie Fowler finished a shot back, while Jordan Spieth carded a 68 to move level with fellow Americans Charley Hoffman and Ryan Moore on four under.\n\nLee Westwood (68) moved to one under while Rory McIlroy (71) is level par.\n\nRose is one of four previous major winners in the top 10 going into Sunday's final round, which will be live and uninterrupted on BBC Two from 18:30 BST.\n\nGarcia, Fowler and England's Westwood are all hoping to finally land one of golf's four most prestigious tournaments.\n• None How the drama unfolded on day three of the Masters\n• None How to follow the Masters on the BBC\n\nOlympic champion Rose, 36, has not claimed a major since his maiden triumph at the 2013 US Open, but lifted himself into contention for a first Masters title with a stunning finish on Saturday.\n\nThe Englishman, who has four previous top-10 finishes at the Augusta National, was level par for the round after 11, only to blitz the final seven holes.\n\nHe rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt at the 17th, then a 10-footer at the last, to join Hoffman in the lead.\n\nGarcia, playing alongside the 40-year-old Californian, birdied the 15th to briefly make it a three-way tie at the top.\n\nBut Hoffman, one of four to share the overnight lead after the second round, slipped behind Rose and Garcia after finding water on the par-three 16th and ending with a double bogey.\n\n\"The key for me was staying patient early in my round. For me the test was around six when I made bogey, I stayed with it and played well on the back nine. Everything clicked into gear,\" said Rose.\n\n\"Patience is the key on Sunday. This is a golf course where you have to pick your moments. That will be the game plan.\"\n\nTwo-time major winner Spieth is hoping to banish memories of last year's spectacular final-day collapse by winning his second Masters.\n\nAnd the 23-year-old Texan, who has finished second, first and tied second in his three Augusta appearances, put himself in the frame again with a nerveless third-round display.\n\nAfter an opening-round 75 which featured a quadruple-bogey nine on the 15th, Spieth was 10 shots adrift of leader Hoffman.\n\nNo previous Masters winner has trailed by more than seven shots after 18 holes.\n\nSpieth, who recovered with a three-under 69 on Friday, started his third round with five pars, but three birdies in four holes before the turn catapulted him into contention.\n\nFurther birdies at 13 and 15 moved him into outright second, only for a bogey on 16 - his first in 30 holes - to drop him back into a share for fourth.\n\n\"We wanted to shoot four under and thought if we did the lead would move to six or seven and I'd creep on it,\" said the 2015 champion, who is bidding to become the youngest two-time Masters winner.\n\n\"Moments present themselves on Sunday here - it is about being patient.\n\n\"I know better than anyone what can happen on a Sunday.\"\n\nWorld number eight Fowler putted solidly on his way to a hard-fought one-under-par 71, while Moore responded to the grief of losing his grandmother earlier this week with six birdies in a three-under 69.\n\nLike Garcia, Worksop's Westwood has long been considered one of Europe's finest players, only to have an excellent career somewhat tarnished by the absence of a major title.\n\nAnd the 43-year-old, who was third after an opening-round 70, appeared to have scuppered his chances of ending that long wait following a five-over 77 on Friday.\n\nHowever, he is back with an outside chance after converting six birdies in a four-under-par 68.\n\n\"Obviously I would like to be deep in the red, but one under is pretty good,\" said Westwood, who finished tied second with Spieth last year.\n\n\"I've got half a chance if I can get a roll going on the front nine.\"\n\nWorld number two McIlroy's hopes of becoming only the sixth man to win all four majors look slim.\n\nThe Northern Irishman, 27, made a strong start with birdies on the second and third, only to be set back by three-putts on the fifth and seventh which cost him a bogey and double bogey.\n\nFurther birdies on the eighth and 12th provided hope, but he could not add any more to close the gap on the leaders.\n\n\"I had some chances on the back nine that I could have converted,\" said the four-time major winner.\n\n\"I think I probably could have shot a 67 or 68, but I had just a few too many wasted opportunities.\n\n\"I'm going to need my best score around here, 65, to have a chance.\"\n\nFind out how to get into golf with our special guide.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham produced a sensational late turnaround to beat a stubborn Swansea side and keep intact their aspirations of winning a first Premier League title.\n\nDespite dominating possession, Spurs fell behind to a neat close-range finish from their former winger Wayne Routledge.\n\nThe visitors were camped in their opponents' half for long periods but were frustrated by a combination of their own lack of a cutting edge and Swansea's diligent defending, before Dele Alli eventually broke through to convert Christian Eriksen's cross after 88 minutes.\n\nSon Heung-min fired Tottenham ahead in added time, and then Eriksen completed the remarkable comeback with a curling effort.\n\nWhile second-placed Spurs continue to breathe down the necks of leaders Chelsea, a third defeat in four games sees Swansea drop into the relegation zone.\n\nHaving cut Chelsea's lead at the top of the table to seven points with Saturday's win at Burnley, Spurs were aiming to further reduce that deficit with a fifth successive Premier League victory.\n\nYet for all that Mauricio Pochettino's side had impressed this season, that triumph at Turf Moor was only their fifth away league win - and their vulnerability on the road was evident at the Liberty Stadium.\n\nAlthough they enjoyed near total control of possession and territory during a one-sided first half, Tottenham fell behind after Swansea's first attack of the game.\n\nJordan Ayew muscled his way into the visitors' penalty area and pulled the ball back to Routledge, one of four former Spurs in the hosts' line-up, and the winger squeezed his finish past ex-Swans keeper Michel Vorm.\n\nTottenham continued to boss proceedings but lacked a cutting edge in attacking positions, missing injured top scorer Harry Kane and frustrated by their dogged opponents.\n\nBut as they had demonstrated in their previous seven games without Kane - four wins and three draws - Spurs can cope in the striker's absence.\n\nThey left it late, with Alli tapping into an empty net from Eriksen's wicked low cross, before Son finished from close range to send the visiting Spurs fans into raptures.\n\nEriksen then added a third in added time to complete a stunning fightback and leave their opponents crestfallen.\n\nA return of just one point from their previous three games had seen Swansea sink deeper into relegation trouble, one point and one place above the bottom three.\n\nHead coach Paul Clement spoke of a nervousness inside the Liberty Stadium during Sunday's goalless draw with Middlesbrough, though any creeping sense of anxiety for the home fans was eased with Routledge's early goal.\n\nThey made their ground a cauldron of noise, roaring their approval with every tackle, block or pass from a Swansea player.\n\nThe hosts dared to attack on occasion, with Kyle Naughton close to becoming the second ex-Spurs player to score against his former employers as his deflected shot fizzed wide.\n\nBut it was Swansea's defensive effort which provided the foundation for their admirable display, and looked set to earn them a first league win over Spurs since 1982.\n\nHowever, their resistance was eventually broken and, with relegation rivals Hull beating Middlesbrough, the Swans' descent back into the bottom three leaves their hopes of survival in doubt.\n\nSwansea have never beaten Spurs in the Premier League - the stats you need to know\n• None Tottenham Hotspur (29) have won more points in 2017 than any other Premier League team (W9 D2 L1).\n• None Spurs have won 17 points from losing positions in the Premier League this season; more than any other side in the competition.\n• None In fact, under Mauricio Pochettino Tottenham have won 53 points from losing positions - 13 more than any other Premier League side in that time.\n• None Swansea have never beaten Tottenham in 12 matches in the Premier League, drawing two and losing 10.\n• None No Premier League team has scored more 90th minute winning goals this season than Tottenham (3 - level with Arsenal).\n• None Dele Alli has been involved in 13 goals in 12 Premier League games for Tottenham in 2017 so far (9 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Alli has yet to lose a Premier League game in which he has scored, winning 16 and drawing five. Christian Eriksen has been directly involved in 10 goals in his seven Premier League games against Swansea (6 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Wayne Routledge made his 182nd Premier League appearance for Swansea City; more than any other player in the competition.\n• None Routledge scored his first Premier League goal at the Liberty Stadium since Dec 2014, ending a run of 33 apps there without one.\n\n'This season we are fighting again' - What they said\n\nSwansea manager Paul Clement: We are clearly very disappointed to get to 88 minutes leading 1-0 - we had a good chance at 1-0 as well.\n\n\"We continued to defend well and limit them. The fact we conceded on 88 and then couldn't even draw is heartbreaking.\n\n\"You still have to do all the things we had done. We were fatigued at the end but the lads gave everything and I am proud of them. We can't feel sorry for ourselves. We have two massive games now at West Ham and Watford.\"\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: \"We started the game very well and created some chances in the first few minutes. In that moment I think we feel the game is going to be easy. The perception from the touchline was that the players started to play at a low tempo. When we concede the goal we realise we need to push and increase our level.\n\n\"How the goals arrived at the end was crazy but we pushed, we played better and we created chances to win. It is a good example of the team never giving up and trying to the end. Big credit to the players, they showed big character.\n\n\"The most important thing is the badge. When you play for Tottenham it is not about the names it is about the team and the spirit. You would like to have all your players available but this season we are showing we are a team.\"\n\nSwansea face two big Premier League away games, at West Ham this Saturday, followed a week later by a trip to Watford.\n\nTottenham are at home against the Hornets this Saturday and then host Bournemouth on the 15th.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Vincent Janssen tries a through ball, but Dele Alli is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alfie Mawson (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Swansea City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Swansea City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Vincent Janssen.\n• None Attempt saved. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Goal! Swansea City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mousa Dembélé.\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Son Heung-Min. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "In the UK, Horlicks has long been seen as a soothing bedtime drink\n\n\"Comforting, warming, fortifying since 1906,\" is written on the promotional mug Horlicks launched in the UK last year.\n\nIn Britain, the malted milk drink has long been linked to bedtime, a soothing aid to sleep.\n\nIn India, it's an entirely different story. \"Taller, stronger, sharper,\" is at the top of the Indian website, which has lots of photos of energetic schoolchildren leaping about.\n\nIn India, Horlicks is a breakfast drink, given to children as an energy boost to fortify them ahead of a long day of learning.\n\nYet the drink's main ingredients are exactly the same: wheat, malted barley and milk.\n\nThe fact that the same liquid can be perceived in two such different ways is a great example of the \"crazy nonsense and beauty of marketing\", says Andrew Welch.\n\nAs London managing director for brand consultancy Landor, Mr Welch's job is to help brands build and improve their reputation, and ultimately create higher sales.\n\nInternational expansion is often the only way for firms to do this. When domestic growth has stalled, other countries can provide a business with fresh customers potentially in an area with less competition or where demand for a particular product or service is higher.\n\nAnd of course, having a presence in more than one country ensures a firm isn't reliant on the health of just one nation's economy for its success.\n\nBut how exactly do companies go from being a local firm based in one country to a global name?\n\nMr Welch says how Horlicks has been marketed is a great example of how to do it, with the drink's attributes emphasised in different ways to appeal to specific audiences. The drink has significantly boosted non-pharmaceutical sales in India for its owner, drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline.\n\n\"You can't cookie cutter your brand around the world. This is an organisation which has gone beyond its home market and managed to stay relevant,\" says Mr Welch.\n\nOr, to use the industry lingo, \"global is out\" and \"multi-local\" is in.\n\nA well-known brand in the West, eBay had to change its tactics to succeed in China\n\nBut it's not easy. Online auction site eBay is one of the world's best-known firms, boasting 167 million active buyers and reporting just shy of $9bn (£7bn) in revenues last year.\n\nYet when it first tried to launch in China it failed. The difficulty of competing with local rivals meant that in 2006, a mere two years after entering China, it was forced to admit defeat and shut down its main website in the country.\n\nInstead it formed a joint venture with a local partner to help operate an online auction business in the country.\n\nCritics say it failed to recognise that having a strong US brand would not automatically translate to success in China.\n\nAirbnb boss Brian Chesky has rebranded itself in China in a bid to make the home rental firm more appealing\n\nHome rental site Airbnb is already trying to avoid that mistake, recently rebranding itself as \"Aibiying\" in China. The name translates as \"welcome each other with love\", and the company reportedly said it would be easier for Chinese people to pronounce.\n\nOne of the frequent criticisms of globalisation is that it is eroding countries' distinctive differences, making cities everywhere look more and more similar.\n\nFrom Germany to the United Arab Emirates to China you can visit the same shops, buy the same furniture, eat the same food, watch the same programmes and listen to the same music.\n\nChris Hirst, European and UK group chief executive of advertising agency Havas, says firms expanding overseas have to overcome people's natural antipathy to this.\n\n\"People don't like the idea of a global phenomenon. They want to feel close to a brand and want it to be relevant to them.\"\n\nPart of the appeal of luxury firms such as Louis Vuitton is that they're foreign\n\nThe one exception to this is luxury firms, such as Louis Vuitton or Hermes, who can get away with less local differentiation because their foreignness is part of what makes them desirable, he says.\n\nAt the other end of the scale, firms such as fast-food chain McDonald's may appear the same in whichever country you go to, but actually works hard to localise its branches, he says. He notes the firm differentiates some menu items to fit in with the local cuisine and tends to source ingredients from the host country.\n\nBut the number of potential countries a firm can now reach has made it harder. In the 1990s, going global simply meant expanding into western Europe and north America, now countries such as India, China and Russia are all in play, says Mr Hirst.\n\nIn fact, many of the areas that will generate the most growth in future are currently unfamiliar in the West, according to management consultancy McKinsey.\n\nIt predicts about 400 midsize emerging-market cities will create nearly 40% of global growth over the next 15 years.\n\nTech firms such as Apple consistently are ranked amongst the world's most successful brands\n\nIn some ways advances in technology have made this easier, enabling firms to be present around the world, even in places where they don't have a physical presence.\n\nThe latest annual ranking of the world's most valuable brands by consultancy Interbrand is dominated by tech firms. Apple and Google came top for the fourth year in a row.\n\nSimon Cotterrell, head of strategy at Interband, says that as well as needing to invest less in infrastructure when they expand, their success is also down to the simplicity of their business models.\n\n\"The utility is staring customers in the face and doesn't need an explanation.\"\n\nIn the end, what determines global success for all firms is the same thing that drives success in a company's home market, he says.\n\n\"You have to have an offer that meets the needs of that audience. Your relevance has to come back to that problem: are you solving a customer problem in that market?\n\n\"It's not brain surgery,\" he says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jess Fishlock celebrates her 100th Wales cap in style as she scores with a stunning strike against Northern Ireland.", "A number of online services are charging \"divorced\" Muslim women thousands of pounds to take part in \"halala\" Islamic marriages, a BBC investigation has found. Women pay to marry, have sex with and then divorce a stranger, so they can get back with their first husbands.\n\nFarah - not her real name - met her husband after being introduced to him by a family friend when she was in her 20s. They had children together soon afterwards but then, Farah says, the abuse began.\n\n\"The first time he was abusive was over money,\" she tells the BBC's Asian Network and Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"He dragged me by my hair through two rooms and tried to throw me out of the house. There would be times where he would just go crazy.\"\n\nDespite the abuse, Farah hoped things would change. Her husband's behaviour though became increasingly erratic - leading to him \"divorcing\" her via text message.\n\n\"I was at home with the children and he was at work. During a heated discussion he sent me a text saying, 'talaq, talaq, talaq'.\"\n\n\"Triple talaq\" - where a man says \"talaq\", or divorce, to his wife three times in a row - is a practice which some Muslims believe ends an Islamic marriage instantly.\n\nIt is banned in most Muslim countries but still happens, though it is impossible to know exactly how many women are \"divorced\" like this in the UK.\n\n\"I had my phone on me,\" Farah explains, \"and I just passed it over to my dad. He was like, 'Your marriage is over, you can't go back to him.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farah would have had to consummate her halala marriage\n\nFarah says she was \"absolutely distraught\", but willing to return to her ex-husband because he was \"the love of my life\".\n\nShe says her ex-husband also regretted divorcing her.\n\nThis led Farah to seek the controversial practice known as halala, which is accepted by a small minority of Muslims who subscribe to the concept of a triple talaq.\n\nThey believe halala is the only way a couple who have been divorced, and wish to reconcile, can remarry.\n\nHalala involves the woman marrying someone else, consummating the marriage and then getting a divorce - after which she is able to remarry her first husband.\n\nBut in some cases, women who seek halala services are at risk of being financially exploited, blackmailed and even sexually abused.\n\nIt's a practice the vast majority of Muslims are strongly against and is attributed to individuals misunderstanding the Islamic laws around divorce.\n\nBut an investigation by the BBC has found a number of online accounts offering halala services, several of which are charging women thousands of pounds to take part in temporary marriages.\n\nOne man, advertising halala services on Facebook, told an undercover BBC reporter posing as a divorced Muslim woman that she would need to pay £2,500 and have sex with him in order for the marriage to be \"complete\" - at which point he would divorce her.\n\nThe man also said he had several other men working with him, one who he claims initially refused to issue a woman a divorce after a halala service was complete.\n\nThere is nothing to suggest the man is doing anything illegal. The BBC contacted him after the meeting - he rejects any allegations against him, claiming he has never carried out or been involved in a halala marriage and that the Facebook account he created was for fun, as part of a social experiment.\n\nIn her desperation to be reunited with her husband, Farah began trying to find men who were willing to carry out a halala marriage.\n\n\"I knew of girls who had gone behind families' backs and had it done and been used for months,\" she says.\n\n\"They went to the mosque, there was apparently a designated room where they did this stuff and the imam or whoever offers these services, slept with her and then allowed other men to sleep with her too.\"\n\nBut the Islamic Sharia Council in East London, which regularly advises women on issues around divorce, strongly condemns halala marriages.\n\n\"This is a sham marriage, it is about making money and abusing vulnerable people,\" says Khola Hasan from the organisation.\n\n\"It's haram, it's forbidden. There's no stronger word I can use. There are other options, like getting help or counselling. We would not allow anyone to go through with that. You do not need halala, no matter what,\" she adds.\n\nFarah ultimately decided against getting back with her husband - and the risks of going through a halala marriage. But she warns there are other women out there, like her, who are desperate for a solution.\n\n\"Unless you're in that situation where you're divorced and feeling the pain I felt, no-one's going to understand the desperation some women feel.\n\n\"If you ask me now, in a sane state, I would never do it. I'm not going to sleep with someone to get back with a man. But at that precise time I was desperate to get back with my ex-partner at any means or measure.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEnglish trio Ben Duckett, Chris Woakes and Toby Roland-Jones have been named among Wisden's Cricketers of the Year.\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli, 28, was named leading cricketer in the world, while Australia's Ellyse Perry, 26, was the world's leading women's cricketer.\n\nThe coveted awards, which began in 1889, are a central feature of the annual Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.\n\nThe Wisden Five - the editor's verdict\n\nWisden editor Lawrence Booth said 2016 was the year Woakes, 28, \"announced himself as an international-class all-rounder\".\n\nHe praised the 26 wickets the Warwickshire player took over last summer's four Tests against Pakistan, and the unbeaten 95 he scored in a one-day international against Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge in June.\n\nNorthamptonshire batsman Duckett, 22, was singled out for his \"remarkable\" run total of 2,706 across all formats of the game last year.\n\n\"As much as anyone, he epitomised English cricket's new breed of 360-degree batsmanship,\" it was added.\n\nRoland-Jones, 29, who was called up to England's Test squad for the first time in July, picked up a hat-trick for Middlesex as they secured a first County Championship title in 23 years in September.\n\nBooth described the feat as \"the highlight of the domestic summer\".\n\nYounus' \"classy\" 218 in Pakistan's final Test against England at The Oval was \"a reminder that his struggles earlier in the series had been a blip rather than part of a decline\", Booth wrote.\n\nMisbah's celebratory press-ups after an unbeaten century in the first Test at Lord's were described as \"one of the motifs of the year\".\n\nTraditionally, the editor chooses five cricketers each year, but players can only be nominated once in their careers.\n\nPerry and Kohli on top of the world\n\nMeanwhile, Australia all-rounder Perry \"seemed to be operating on another level\" over a year in which she averaged 81 with the bat in one-day internationals, taking her record between 2014 and 2016 to 17 half-centuries in 23 innings.\n\nAnd India captain Kohli's double ton in Mumbai confirmed him as \"the spiritual successor to Sachin Tendulkar\".", "She made her name as the youngest member of girl band The Saturdays - but Vanessa White has ditched the squeaky clean pop of All Fired Up and What About Us for an altogether more intriguing foray into sultry and infectious R&B.\n\nIt's two o'clock on a crisp November day and Vanessa White saunters up to the gates of Ealing Studios in west London.\n\nThe film studio has played host to Shaun of the Dead, Bridget Jones and the entire \"downstairs\" set of Downton Abbey - but she's not here to film a cameo (\"Can you imagine?\" she giggles).\n\nInstead, the 27-year-old climbs the fire escape of a dilapidated high-rise building, enters a propped-open door and navigates the corridors to a small back room that's been converted into a recording studio.\n\nLike all such facilities, it's painted black and littered with empty liquor bottles. The walls are haphazardly decorated with polaroids of previous occupants - including US hitmakers The Chainsmokers - and, in the corner, there's a tiny figurine of Ariel from The Little Mermaid.\n\nInside, Vanessa's producer SwiftKnight is ready and waiting, sorting through various tracks he's hoping she might choose for her forthcoming EP.\n\nBut first, the singer has a confession: \"I've got a sore throat and I'm a bit hung over.\"\n\nIt doesn't seem to matter. If anything, the consensus is that a husky voice is better for the material - a sultry and sumptuous serving of downtempo R&B; all heavy breathing and soaring harmonies.\n\nStaving off the hangover with a \"nourishing\" lunch box, Vanessa explains her musical state of mind to the team.\n\n\"Everything I'm doing now is so dark,\" she says, cueing up a song on her phone. \"Not like I-want-to-kill-myself dark, but it's quite angry.\"\n\nOne of the tracks - tentatively called Trust - is seething with vitriol.\n\n\"I won't stroke your ego,\" she spits. \"I'm onto you, I'm onto you. Don't underestimate my intelligence.\"\n\nThe song was inspired by encounters with \"snaky people\" in the music industry, she explains: Specifically, a toxic situation that developed around her and ended up \"with the lawyers\" last year.\n\nShe can't discuss the details, but says her solo career was significantly delayed as a result. The EP she's working on today was originally due last summer.\n\n\"There were certain songs I loved that I couldn't use any more,\" she explains. \"So I've basically had to start again, which is why it's taken this long.\n\n\"The silver lining is it's given me something to write about. I'm in a much better position now, mentally.\n\n\"I used to get so scared of going in the studio with people I didn't know but now, you could put me anywhere and I'd be fine.\"\n\nVanessa certainly takes charge in the studio. Having brought the producers up to speed, she sits cross-legged on a sofa as they scroll through a few skeleton songs, looking for \"an uptempo track with a dark heart\".\n\nOne by one, Vanessa dismisses them. \"That's too light,\" she says of one. \"I'm not instantly drawn to it,\" is her verdict on the next.\n\nAfter half a dozen tracks are waved off, engineer Day Decosta brings up a simple loop built around a gooey, pulsing bass groove.\n\nVanessa instantly sits up, alert. \"Oh, I like this.\"\n\nShe starts ad-libbing vocal riffs over the top, trading ideas with co-writer Celetia Martin, a former vocalist for Groove Armada whose credits include Skepta, Conor Maynard and, yes, The Saturdays.\n\nWithin minutes, she heads to the vocal booth. \"I don't really know what I'm doing right now,\" she laughs. \"I'm just going to sing loads of random nonsense.\"\n\nSlowly, painstakingly, the song takes shape. Some of the improvisations stick and are pieced together into a coherent melody. Every so often, Vanessa emerges from the booth to kneel on the floor with Celetia, and the pair go back and forth over lyrics and harmonies.\n\nWhen inspiration dries up, they scroll through Instagram, gossip about TV box sets, and goof off doing the Mannequin Challenge for Vanessa's Instagram page.\n\nConversation eventually turns to the singer's upcoming holiday, a \"juice retreat\" in Portugal, where solid food is forbidden for an entire week.\n\nIt sounds awful (although photos from the journey suggest otherwise) - but it's apparently the standard sort of torture female pop stars endure before the promotional round of video and photo shoots begin.\n\n\"It sounds worse than what it was,\" laughs the singer when we catch up four months later.\n\n\"Honestly, if you were hungry it wasn't like they starved you. They added more to the smoothies or they'd give you a piece of fruit. It was actually fine.\n\n\"I feel like I need another one now, that's the problem!\"\n\nIn any case, the 27-year-old counts dressing up and being photographed as a perk of her job... although it wasn't always that way.\n\n\"When I was in The Sats, it actually got a bit boring having to be made up every single day,\" she says. \"I stopped appreciating it.\n\n\"Now I can come to the studio looking like this and it's fine. Dressing up has become more of a treat again.\"\n\nBack at Ealing Studios, work continues late into the night - long after the BBC has left the building, having contributed precisely zero to the writing process.\n\nThe song is ultimately destined for the scrapheap, but Trust (completely overhauled and re-titled Trust Me) makes it onto Vanessa's Chapter Two EP, which was released last Friday.\n\nAs she predicted, it set the tone for a collection of brooding neo-soul that's surprisingly candid about anger, lust and sexuality. Fans of The Saturdays' chirrupy chart fodder are in for quite a surprise.\n\n\"I guess people are going to question it,\" she admits of her new direction. \"But I feel pop is not very me at the moment.\n\n\"It took a bit of time to find a sound that was completely right for me. Now I feel like I've really nailed it, and it's obvious it's coming from me. Once people believe that, you're half-way there.\"\n\nBorn in 1989, the star was just 17 when The Saturdays formed\n\nCertainly, the sophisticated harmonies and complex ad-libs reflect the US singers she grew up idolising - Janet, Alliyah, Brandy and Mariah - without sounding like a cheap, plastic counterfeit.\n\n\"We've had a problem with that in the UK in the past,\" she acknowledges. \"I don't know why we haven't really got the sounds right before - but this is what I listened to for years and years, so I guess that's where it's come from.\"\n\nThe EP has been well-reviewed on the sort of music sites that would have given The Saturdays a wide berth. But it's hard to see where the music fits in the current charts, crammed full of Ed Sheeran's acoustic pop and The Chainsmokers' emo EDM.\n\n\"To be honest with you, I'm not even thinking about that,\" says the singer. \"With everything that's happened this year, including the label stuff, I've ended up doing this on my own - and at this point I'm preferring it, to be honest.\n\n\"I feel like I have to run with this. I'm not going to be hard on myself and expect it to be [huge] at this point.\n\n\"Whatever happens will happen.\"\n\nVanessa White's Chapter Two EP is out now on Salute the Sun 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.", "Michel Barnier (R), European Chief Negotiator for Brexit and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission will pay a key role in negotiations\n\nThe European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution that lays out its views on the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe parliament will have no formal role in shaping the Brexit talks. The negotiations will be led by the European Commission on behalf of the EU's remaining 27 member states. Their draft negotiating guidelines were issued last week.\n\nBut the parliament's views still matter because under the Article 50 rules it will get a vote on the final EU-UK \"divorce\" deal and if it does not like what has been agreed it could demand changes and delay the process.\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris teases out some of the key sentences from the resolution and explains their significance.\n\n- A revocation of notification needs to be subject to conditions set by all EU-27, so that it cannot be used as a procedural device or abused in an attempt to improve on the current terms of the United Kingdom's membership;\n\nThis is interesting. It implies that the European Parliament thinks the UK can change its mind about Article 50 (whereas the UK government has implied the opposite). The truth is that irrevocability is the subject of legal dispute and, as this is a matter of interpreting a European treaty, the ultimate arbiter would be the European Court of Justice. Either way, the parliament makes clear here that it would not allow the UK to plead for a better deal if it tried to return - even the package of measures offered to David Cameron in February 2016 (remember this?) is now null and void.\n\n- Reiterates the importance of the withdrawal agreement and any possible transitional arrangement(s) entering into force well before the elections to the European Parliament of May 2019;\n\nIn theory the two-year Article 50 negotiating period could be extended if all parties agreed, but no-one really wants that to happen. And this is one of the reasons why the timetable is so tight. If the UK was still part of the European Union in May 2019, it might have to hold elections to elect British MEPs, despite being on the verge of leaving. It would raise all sorts of complications that the European Parliament is determined to avoid.\n\n- Stresses that the United Kingdom must honour all its legal, financial and budgetary obligations, including commitments under the current multiannual financial framework, falling due up to and after the date of its withdrawal;\n\nAnother reminder of the looming fight about settling the accounts (also known as the divorce bill). Parliament insists that the UK must honour all its commitments under the current multiannual financial framework - a kind of long-term budget - which runs until 2020. Because of the way the EU budget process works, that would mean the UK would have to help pay for things like infrastructure projects in poorer EU countries several years after it had left the Union.\n\n- States that, whatever the outcome of the negotiations on the future European Union-United Kingdom relationship, they cannot involve any trade-off between internal and external security including defence co-operation, on the one hand and the future economic relationship, on the other hand;\n\nI think this is probably cleared up by now, but the implied link between security co-operation and trade in Theresa May's Article 50 letter raised a few eyebrows elsewhere in the EU. Cooler heads suggested it was there for domestic consumption and the UK government said it was all a misunderstanding. But the parliament is putting down an explicit marker that trade-offs between security and the future economic relationship won't be acceptable.\n\n- Stresses that any future agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom is conditional on the UK's continued adherence to the standards provided by international obligations, including human rights and the Union's legislation and policies, in, among others, the field of the environment, climate change, the fight against tax evasion and avoidance, fair competition, trade and social rights, especially safeguards against social dumping;\n\nThe resolution suggests that the future relationship could be built upon an agreement under which the UK would have to accept EU standards over a wide range of policy areas from climate change to tax evasion. In some areas that might be exactly what the UK government wants to do anyway, given that the UK has played a leading role in forging those policy positions in the first place. But domestic politics in the UK means any wholesale acceptance of EU policies could be a tough sell.\n\n- Believes that transitional arrangements ensuring legal certainty and continuity can only be agreed between the European Union and the United Kingdom if they contain the right balance of rights and obligations for both parties and preserve the integrity of the European Union's legal order, with the Court of Justice of the European Union responsible for settling any legal challenges; believes, moreover, that any such arrangements must also be strictly limited both in time - not exceeding three years - and in scope, as they can never be a substitute for European Union membership;\n\nTwo important points here. Firstly, the parliament is determined that the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice would continue to run during any transition period. The draft guidelines produced by the European Council last week made the same point but in less explicit language. If it wants a transition, the UK will have to accept a role for the ECJ. Secondly, the parliament says the transition should last no longer than three years, which is a shorter period than some might think necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Manager Jose Mourinho said Luke Shaw used \"his body with my brain\" during Manchester United's 1-1 draw with Everton and has told the club's young players they need to \"grow up\" quickly.\n\nDefender Shaw, 21, made his first appearance since January on Tuesday night and it was his injury-time shot that led to the penalty from which Zlatan Ibrahimovic equalised.\n\n\"He was in front of me and I was making every decision for him,\" said Mourinho.\n\n\"He has to change his football brain.\"\n\nShaw's appearance as a substitute against the Toffees was only his 16th match of the season for United and, while elements of his display pleased Mourinho, the Portuguese had a warning message.\n\n\"We need his fantastic physical and technical qualities but he cannot play with my brain,\" added the Old Trafford manager, who sent on Shaw only after Ashley Young's injury.\n\n\"He must accelerate the process. Twenty-one is old enough to have a better understanding. He has a future here but Manchester United cannot wait.\"\n\nShaw was left out of the United squad altogether for the draw with West Brom on Saturday, which led to a meeting between Mourinho and the full-back, who signed from Southampton for £27m in 2014.\n\nIf you were doing that to under 10s it would be embarrassing, never mind a full international. I can't believe what I heard last night.\n\nJose obviously feels he needs more from him but I don't know how much he can take. It's like Luke Shaw's a punchbag at the moment.\n\nI don't know about management at that level but I've got my own kids - in a similar kind of thing, man management - and sometimes you need to put your arm around them. At the moment that's certainly not happening for Luke Shaw, the poor lad.\n\nShaw was not the only United youngster singled out by Mourinho after United had drawn for the ninth time at home in the league this season.\n\nEngland striker Marcus Rashford scored eight times in his first 14 Premier League games but has not found the net since 24 September.\n\nRashford had one early chance saved on Tuesday, although he was flagged offside, and then struggled.\n\nMourinho says the 19-year-old is suffering from a major lack of confidence.\n\n\"The kid is desperate,\" said Mourinho. \"He tries and tries.\n\n\"It is not a surprise in the second year. One day I will try to find out if it happened with Ryan Giggs or one of those guys.\n\n\"I must not kill him. I have to help him because the kid is phenomenal.\"\n\nUnited had striker Ibrahimovic to thank again as the Swede's injury-time penalty rescued a point which keeps United fifth in the table.\n\nThe former Barcelona, Inter Milan and Paris St-Germain striker's contract expires at the end of the season and he is yet to decide whether he will still be at Old Trafford next term.\n\n\"We are talking,\" the 35-year-old told MUTV. \"Whether we were far from each other or close to each other, there is no news. There are still talks and let's see what will happen. I am open and nothing is done yet.\n\n\"I came here without the Champions League and I came here with the team as it was. It was not a team that was favourite to win. I still came and I came to help. I came to do what I am able to do - to make it better and to bring the team to higher views so let's see what happens.\n\n\"I am 35. A lot of things have to be settled. It's not like I'm 20 and I have another five or 10 years. Probably I have one, two, three years so everything depends on what you want and what the club wants, and what the vision of the club is because I said from day one I didn't come here to waste time. I came here to win.\n\n\"If you want to win bigger then you have to create bigger.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes says that he never felt his job was in danger following his comments to a BBC reporter that she might \"get a slap\".\n\nMoyes has apologised for what he said to Vicki Sparks after an interview following a draw with Burnley in March.\n\nSunderland are standing by the Scot, who has been asked to give his observations on the incident by the FA.\n\n\"It's really good to have the support and I'm really grateful to them,\" Moyes told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\nWhen asked if he had thought his position was under threat following the comments, he said: \"No. I felt I had made my apology, there had been no complaint from Vicki Sparks, and because of that, everything was fine.\"\n\nHe also said it was his idea to offer an apology, adding: \"As I said at the time, I regret my words.\"\n\nIn his post-match news conference following Tuesday's 2-0 loss at Leicester, he admitted that he had been \"surprised, in many ways\" by the reaction to his comments.\n\n\"The world of football is a great business now,\" he added. \"It employs an incredible amount of people now, be it through the media or on the training grounds, and for that reason it is a big talking point.\"\n\nIn the interview in question, Moyes was asked by Sparks if the presence of owner Ellis Short had put extra pressure on him.\n\nHe said it had not but, after the interview, added Sparks \"might get a slap even though you're a woman\" and told her to be \"careful\" next time she visited.\n\nBoth Moyes and Sparks were laughing during the exchange and the former Everton and Manchester United manager later apologised to the reporter, who did not make a complaint.\n\nMoyes revealed on Monday that the club knew about the incident soon after it occurred.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, the club said: \"The exchange between the manager and a BBC reporter was wholly unacceptable and such actions are not condoned or excused in any way.\n\n\"David recognised this immediately, proactively bringing the matter to the attention of the CEO and apologising to the reporter.\n\n\"The club also spoke with both a senior figure at the BBC and the reporter personally, expressing its profound regret over what had occurred.\n\n\"The matter was treated with the utmost seriousness from the outset and the swift and decisive action taken by the club and the manager at the time ensured that it was resolved to the satisfaction of the reporter and the BBC, which was the priority.\n\n\"With both the BBC and the reporter agreeing that appropriate action had been taken at the time, the club continues to fully support David in his role as manager of Sunderland AFC.\"\n• None Listen - \"doubly difficult for women to be accepted in world of sport reporting\"\n\nHis comments have been criticised by shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan and Women in Football, with the latter saying it was \"deeply disappointed and concerned\" but \"pleased that David Moyes has apologised\".\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke said: \"It was regrettable, it was distasteful and I think it showed a complete lack of respect. And we in the game stand for respect.\n\n\"But I don't think it undermines football's desire to be inclusive and respectful. Every now and again, we will have to remind people of the high standards we need to observe in football.\"\n\nWhen asked if it was sexist, Clarke said: \"It could have been interpreted as such.\n\n\"I think it's doubly bad to use such a term to a woman because there is a lot of violence against women in society and terms like that aren't just disrespectful, I think they are bad examples.\n\n\"I regret that it happened and I'm sure that David Moyes regrets that it happened.\"\n\nThe chief executive of Domestic violence charity Women's Aid, Polly Neate, said: \"We cannot be complacent about remarks like these from influential men.\n\n\"We urge the FA to act swiftly and take this opportunity to send out a clear and strong message to the footballing community that there is no place for sexism and misogyny in modern football.\"\n\nSpeaking in a news conference on Monday, Moyes said: \"I deeply regret the comments I made.\n\n\"That's certainly not the person I am. I've accepted the mistake. I spoke to the BBC reporter, who accepted my apology.\"\n\nThe BBC confirmed that Moyes and Sparks had spoken about the exchange and the issue had been resolved.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Mr Moyes has apologised to our reporter and she has accepted his apology.\"\n\nSunderland are bottom of the Premier League on 20 points, eight points from safety.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nAugusta National. The Green Jacket. Amen Corner. The manicured fairways. The blooming azaleas. Unmistakably, the Masters.\n\nGolf's first major of the year is upon us, with the world's finest players making their annual pilgrimage to one of sport's most iconic venues.\n\nThe first tee shot will be hit at 13:00 BST on Thursday with a field of 94 men aiming to sink the winning putt come Sunday.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson and Northern Ireland's four-time major winner Rory McIlroy head the field in the year's first major.\n• None Quiz: Match the Masters winner with his champions dinner.\n\nWhat else do you need to know? Plenty. Here's the lowdown...\n\nWho are the main contenders?\n\nPlenty of people backed Dustin Johnson to win his first Green Jacket - but that was before the current world number one suffered a back injury the day before the tournament started, after a fall at his rented home.\n\nJohnson tried to take part in the tournament, but walked off the first tee on Thursday without playing his shot and withdrew.\n\nThe American, 32, had been head and shoulders above his rivals over the past nine months, winnnig seven of the 17 tournaments he has played since claiming his first major at the US Open at Oakmont in June, racking up another seven top-10 finishes in the process.\n\nIn Johnson's absence, Jordan Spieth will look to banish memories of last year's spectacular final-day collapse by winning his second Masters.\n\nThe American, 23, led by five shots as he approached the 10th at Augusta on the Sunday, only to dramatically drop six shots in three holes and allow England's Danny Willett to take advantage.\n\n\"No matter what happens at this year's Masters, whether I can grab the jacket back or I miss the cut or I finish 30th, it will be nice having this Masters go by,\" he said earlier this month.\n\n\"The Masters lives on for a year. It brings a non-golf audience into golf. And it will be nice once this year has finished to be brutally honest.\"\n\nSpieth has dropped to sixth in the world rankings since his Masters meltdown, but did claim his first PGA Tour title since May when he won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last month.\n\nWorld number three Jason Day will play at Augusta after pulling out of a recent tournament to spend time with his mother, who has been treated for lung cancer.\n\nThe Australian, 29, broke down in tears after withdrawing from the WGC Match Play a fortnight ago.\n\n\"There's been a lot of things go on this year that have been somewhat distracting to my golf,\" he said.\n\n\"Golf was the last thing that I was ever thinking about when this first came about. I'm in a much better place now.\n\n\"I feel happier to be on the golf course and enjoying myself out here a lot more than I was the last month or two.\"\n\nJapan's Hideki Matsuyama is bidding to become the first Asian player to win the Masters, having risen to fourth in the world after a stellar finish to the 2016 season.\n\nThe 25-year-old ended last year with four victories in five tournaments - finishing second in the other - but has not been able to recapture the form in recent weeks.\n\n\"I'm really not hitting it as well as I would like, so whether or not my confidence level is where it should be, I'm not sure,\" said Matsuyama, who finished fifth in the 2015 Masters and shared seventh place last year.\n\nThat is the question we have been asking since McIlroy won the 2014 Open Championship at Hoylake.\n\nThe Northern Irishman steps on to Augusta's first tee on Thursday (18:41 BST) aiming to become only the sixth man to win all four majors.\n\nHe is seeking a first Masters title following victories at the US Open, the Open Championship and the US PGA Championship.\n\nWinning the Green Jacket would propel the 27-year-old into exalted company alongside Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player and Ben Hogan.\n\nAnd, after three consecutive top-10 finishes at Augusta, the world number two has made no secret that finally sealing victory is his main priority.\n\n\"I don't feel like I can fly under the radar anymore, but at the same time it has been nice to just go about my business and try to get ready for this tournament,\" McIlroy said.\n\n\"I've realised that the more I can get comfortable with this golf course and the club as a whole, the better.\n\n\"The more I can just play the golf course and almost make it seem like second nature to me, the better.\"\n\nWhen the fourth home nations golfer followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle, Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam to win the Masters, most expected it would be Rory McIlroy slipping into the iconic wool jacket.\n\nInstead it was Danny Willett.\n\nThe Englishman, playing in only his second Masters, was three shots adrift of Spieth going into Sunday's final round last year, but was catapulted to victory thanks to a superb five-under-par 67 and the Texan's meltdown.\n\nWhat made his triumph even more remarkable was his participation at Augusta had been in doubt.\n\nHis wife Nicole was due to give birth on the final day, with only the early arrival of baby Zachariah allowing him to play.\n\n\"It's going to be awesome to go back as defending champion,\" he said in BBC documentary When Danny Won the Masters.\n\n\"I can't wait to take part in all the things you get to take part in, the par three competition, the champion's dinner and see all the other people who've won that golf tournament who are still there to be able to enjoy it with you.\n\n\"It is something that you can't buy in life. You can only earn and the fact that I've earned is going to be something pretty special.\"\n\nHowever, Willett has since struggled to match his form over those four days at Augusta.\n\nHe rose to a career-high ranking of ninth in the world following his maiden major, but has dropped to 17th after managing just four top-10 finishes in the past 12 months.\n\n\"The game is not far away,\" said the 29-year-old Yorkshireman.\n\n\"Our run of form obviously has been nowhere near what it was last year and nowhere near what some of the other guys are playing.\"\n\nWillett is one of a record 11 English players in the 94-strong field at Augusta, while Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are also represented.\n\nMcIlroy is the only Northern Irishman taking part, while Scotland's Sandy Lyle and Wales' Ian Woosnam make their annual return as former champions.\n\nEngland's Justin Rose has been a regular top-10 finisher in golf's four majors over the past decade, but only has one victory at the 2013 US Open to show for his efforts.\n\nHe finished tied 10th at Augusta last year, his fourth top-10 finish at the Masters.\n\nTommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton and English amateur champion Scott Gregory are making their Masters debuts this week - no player has won the Masters on their debut since American Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.\n\nFleetwood, 26, was ranked 188th in the world in September 2016, but has climbed to career-high 32nd after returning to former coach Alan Thompson and employing friend Ian Finnis as his caddie.\n\n\"One of the greatest accomplishments I've had in my career was actually qualifying for the Masters,\" said Fleetwood.\n\nGregory, a 22-year-old from Hampshire, secured his place by winning the British Amateur Championship last summer.\n\nHis preparations have included watching hours of footage from the past four tournaments at Augusta.\n\n\"I've watched a lot of clips on YouTube,\" he told BBC South Today.\n\nWillett's surprise success ended a long European drought at Augusta, becoming the continent's first winner since Jose Maria Olazabal's success 17 years previously.\n\nThis year, American players will be hoping to regain their recent dominance.\n\nTen of the previous 16 winners have been home players, with Johnson and Spieth leading the charge alongside fellow top-15 players Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed.\n\nAnd rule out left handers Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson at your peril.\n\nBetween them the veteran pair have five Green Jackets hung up in their wardrobes - three for Mickleson and two for Watson - and are still loitering around the world's top 20.\n\n\"I always think I have a chance,\" said 38-year-old Watson, who has won just one PGA Tour title in nearly two years.\n\nStrong winds and cool temperatures have been forecast on Thursday and Friday, conditions which 46-year-old Mickelson believes will play into his hands.\n\n\"I hope to rely on that knowledge and skill to keep myself in it heading into the weekend where players less experienced with the golf course will possibly miss it in the wrong spots and shoot themselves out,\" said the world number 18.\n\nTwenty years ago at Augusta, Tiger Woods memorably blitzed his way to a first major, the first step towards his impending global superstardom.\n\nBut the 41-year-old will not be marking the special anniversary by walking the fairways after pulling out this week through injury.\n\nThe 14-time major winner, who has been plagued by injury problems in recent years, said he is not \"tournament ready\" to tee up at an event with which he is synonymous.\n\nThe American went on to wear the Green Jacket on another three occasions - 2001, 2002 and 2005 - but has not been able to play in two of the past three tournaments because of long-running back problems.\n\n\"I did about everything I could to play at this year's Masters,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm especially upset because it's a special anniversary for me that's filled with a lot of great memories.\n\n\"I have no timetable for my return, but I will continue my diligent effort to recover, and want to get back out there as soon as possible.\"\n\nWoods has only played twice this year, missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in January and withdrawing from the following week's Dubai Desert Classic before the second round.\n\nThis year's tournament will be tinged with sadness - but also a cause for celebration - as Augusta pays its own tribute to the man who won four Masters titles and was fondly known as 'The King' in golfing circles.\n\nArnold Palmer, viewed as one of the greatest and most influential players in the sport's history, died at the age of 87 in September.\n\n\"His presence at Augusta National will be sorely missed, but his impact on the Masters remains immeasurable - and it will never wane,\" said Billy Payne, chairman of Augusta National, shortly after his death.\n\nWhere the Masters will be won or lost\n\nSeeing the sign pointing towards Amen Corner can strike fear into the minds of even the world's best golfers.\n\nAmen Corner, a term coined by legendary sports writer Herbert Warren Wind in 1958, geographically refers to the approach to the par-four 11th, all of the short 12th and the first half of the par-five 13th but many tend to think of it as all three holes in their entirety.\n\n\"If you can get through those in level par you're a happy man,\" says BBC golf commentator Ken Brown.\n\nIf Jordan Spieth had got through those holes in level par in the final round last year then he, and not Danny Willett, would have won the Green Jacket.\n\nThe Texan appeared to be cruising towards becoming only the fourth man to win back-to-back Masters, leading by five shots as he approached the 10th.\n\nBut he twice found the water on the iconic 12th to card a quadruple bogey seven - following successive bogeys on the 10th and 11th holes - to hand the advantage to Willett.\n\nSpieth was not the first Masters contender to see their dreams fade on the back nine on the final day, with Greg Norman in 1996 and Rory McIlroy in 2011 immediately springing to mind.\n\nOne suspects he won't be the last...\n\nAlthough the Masters began in 1934, the victorious golfer did not receive a Green Jacket until Sam Snead triumphed in 1949.\n\nHowever, Augusta members had worn the coloured coats since 1937, encouraged by co-founder Clifford Roberts, so patrons could easily identify \"a source of reliable information\".\n\nOnce Snead received his Green Jacket, the coat became a symbol of success - and is now one of the most iconic prizes in sport.\n\nWinners are allowed to take the jacket home for a year and are rather generously allowed to wear the single-breasted, lightweight jacket \"in public during that time on special occasions\".\n\nAfter that, past champions have a custom-tailored coat waiting for them on their return to the Augusta clubhouse.\n\n\"It felt like my old friend was back on my shoulders,\" said 2013 champion Adam Scott when he returned a year later.\n\nHow to follow on the BBC (all times BST)\n\nSaturday 8 April: The Masters Live, BBC Two, 19:30-00:00 and BBC Radio 5 live, 21:00-01:00\n\nSunday 9 April: The Masters Live, BBC Two, 18:30-00:00 and BBC Radio 5 live, 20:00-01:00\n\nLive text commentary with analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website from 12:45 on Thursday and Friday and from 16:00 on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nFull details of the BBC's extensive coverage from Augusta", "Last updated on .From the section Equestrian\n\nShow jumper Nick Skelton, who became Britain's second-oldest Olympic gold medallist with victory at Rio 2016, has retired from the sport.\n\nThe Warwickshire rider, 59, will appear for a final time at May's Royal Windsor Horse Show, to parade Big Star, the horse on which he won Olympic gold.\n\nSkelton was competing at his seventh Games - 16 years after a broken neck forced his initial retirement.\n\n\"This sport has given me more than I could have ever hoped,\" he said.\n\n\"It is such a difficult decision to make, but I'm not getting any younger and it is nice for the two of us to end on the highest note possible.\n\n\"Thank you to all of the incredible friends and fans for your support - we are truly appreciative and humbled.\n\n\"And lastly, thank you to all of the horses I've ridden. You have provided me with opportunities one could never have imagined.\"\n\nSkelton broke his neck in a fall in September 2000 that looked to have ended his career, but he recovered enough to begin competing again in 2002. He has also had a hip replacement and two knee operations.\n\nHe began riding at just 18 months on a Welsh pony called Oxo, who was born in the same year as him and lived to the age of 39.\n\nIt was the beginning of a career that yielded 10 European and six World Championship medals and a World Cup title in addition to two Olympic golds.\n\nSkelton holds the British record for jumping the highest fence, clearing over 7ft 7ins on Lastic in 1978, and won the Hickstead Derby three times in the 1980s.\n\nHe claimed team gold at London 2012 and in Rio provided Britain's first individual show jumping gold, and the first medal of any colour in the sport, since Ann Moore's silver 44 years earlier.\n\nSkelton came third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for 2016, behind triathlete Alistair Brownlee and winner Andy Murray.\n\nIn accepting the prize in December, tennis star Murray joked: \"I've got a bone to pick with my wife because about an hour ago she told me she'd voted for Nick Skelton. Not smart from her with Christmas coming up.\"\n\nSkelton was later asked whether he was aware Murray's wife had voted for him and responded: \"I'm very pleased with her actually. But she didn't vote enough times.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA court in India has declared the Ganges river a legal \"person\" in a fresh effort to save it from pollution. Research associate Shyam Krishnakumar explains how the ruling could help preserve the waterway upon which so many depend.\n\nThe legal battle to save the Ganges, the lifeline of more than 500 million people across India, has received a fresh boost thanks to a series of rulings by the high court in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand.\n\nFirst the court declared the Ganges and Yamuna rivers to be legal persons. In a subsequent hearing, it also gave this designation to glaciers, including Gangotri and Yamunotri (where the Ganges and Yamuna originate from), rivers, streams, rivulets, lakes, air, meadows, dales, jungles, forests wetlands, grasslands, springs and waterfalls.\n\nThese verdicts represent a shift from a view that sees nature as a resource to one that considers it an entity with fundamental rights. Other non-human entities that have legal personalities in India include companies, temple deities and trusts.\n\nIn jurisprudence, nature is considered property with no legal rights. Environmental laws only focus on regulating exploitation. But this is now changing, with calls for the inherent rights of nature to be recognised, both in India and around the world.\n\nThe Ganges is seen as sacred by Hindus\n\nIn Ecuador, a new constitution mandates that nature has the right to exist, maintain and regenerate. New Zealand recently granted the Whanganui River personhood status, the culmination of a 140-year legal struggle by the Maori people.\n\nMaking nature a legal entity means that cases can be brought up directly on its behalf. This has the potential to become a game-changer in legally enforcing environmental protection.\n\nFor instance, it may no longer be necessary to prove in court that polluting the Ganges actually harms humans. Contamination on its own could be enough to make the case that it violates the river's \"right to life\".\n\nIn addition to this, in a related order, the court imposed a blanket ban on new mining licenses for four months and has set up a committee to explore the environmental impact of mining in India's mountainous regions. The Uttarakhand state government is planning to challenge the ban in the Supreme Court.\n\nBut it is not just mining. The court has also directed the state pollution control board to shut down hotels, industries and ashrams that discharge untreated waste into the river. This is expected to affect over 700 hotels in the tourist areas of Haridwar and Rishikesh alone.\n\nThese rulings indicate that the court will strictly monitor polluting of the Ganges. The response of the government, however, is yet to be seen.\n\nThe ruling could be a powerful tool in the fight to save the Ganges from pollution\n\nIt may no longer be required to prove in court that polluting the Ganges actually harms humans\n\nSome aspects of this ruling are still unclear, though. What does a right to life mean for a river or a water body? If it means the right to flow freely, what happens to dams across the Ganges?\n\nEnforceability is another issue. Will this ruling be restricted to only the state of Uttarakhand or will it be extended across India?\n\nThe legal guardians appointed are members of the government. Will they have the independence to appeal against governmental actions like unsustainable canal dredging? Can a citizen bring a case representing a water body?\n\nIf yes, this can become a powerful legal tool in the hands of communities and activists to safeguard the environment.\n\nWhile radically new from a legal perspective, the case has also been about recognising the traditional Hindu view that regards the universe as a manifestation of the divine.\n\nThis means that rivers, plants, animals and even the earth are considered sentient divinities with particular forms, qualities and characteristics.\n\nMillions of people across India depend on the Ganges for their livelihoods\n\nHindus come from across India to bathe in the waters of the Ganges\n\nPersonification as a deity cultivates empathy and creates a strong emotional bond with the ecosystem, leading to social norms emphasising conservation. This principle of sacredness and respect has been passed down through the generations through stories and local bio-cultural traditions.\n\nIn Hinduism, the Ganges is revered as a goddess who purifies a person of all sins. The river is worshipped as \"Ganga Mata\", the divine mother who has sustained life and nurtured civilisation for thousands of years.\n\nExpressions of her worship include the Ganga Aarti, where thousands offer lit lamps to the river every evening, and the Kumbh Mela, a pilgrimage of over 100 million people.\n\nCan this view that considers rivers, trees and animals sacred, personifies them as deities and reveres them through bio-cultural traditions hold possibilities for sustainability in India? Evidence seems to suggest so.\n\nThe most famous case is the \"Chipko\" movement of the 1970s where tribal women hugged trees to prevent the felling of their sacred groves.\n\nAnd recently, the north-eastern state of Sikkim became India's first fully organic state in just 10 years, as people saw organic farming as taking their traditional way forward.\n\nIn the case of the Ganges, the organisers of the Ganga Aarti use the occasion to raise awareness about actions that pollute the river and administer a pledge to keep it clean to thousands every day.\n\nWhen environmental conservation is seen to be in alignment with the cultural context, it drives community involvement. The High Court's judgement is a welcome step in that direction.\n\nShyam Krishnakumar is a Research Associate with Vision India Foundation and a member of Anaadi Foundation. His work focuses on civilisational studies.", "There have been fears about deportation among migrant families in the US\n\nSitting in a lecture hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, Maria Marquez found her mind was wandering.\n\nThe history undergraduate was wondering what would happen if she or a member of her family were to be deported from the United States.\n\n\"I remember sitting in class and making a list of people I would contact,\" she says.\n\n\"I made a list of the lawyers I would go to and the paperwork I would need.\"\n\nMs Marquez, 25, is an \"undocumented student\". Her family moved from Guadalajara, Mexico to California without papers when she was just three years old and have lived there ever since.\n\nHundreds of thousands of students are in a similar position. They have succeeded at school, and started university, with dreams of professional careers in fields such as medicine and law.\n\nA charity in Connecticut is running workshops for migrants fearing deportation\n\nBut since the election of President Trump, and his tough talking on illegal immigration, they feel increasingly vulnerable.\n\nThe subject of undocumented students' status has electrified US college campuses since the election.\n\nAs students ramp up campaigns for immigrants' rights, university leaders are appointing full-time immigration lawyers and counsellors to support them, running \"know your rights\" classes and even lobbying the government on their behalf.\n\nMs Marquez is in a legal grey area. She is one of about 750,000 young people recognised under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, an Obama-era measure that offers two-year protection from deportation, as well as work permits, to some undocumented immigrants who moved to the US as children.\n\nYale student Larissa Martinez is worried about her future status in the US\n\nPresident Trump's campaign website said he would \"immediately terminate\" the DACA programme. He has so far left it in place, but many students worry that its days might be numbered.\n\nAnd many students without DACA are more worried than before about deportation, because the administration has toughened guidance on enforcement to expand the list of prioritised \"removable aliens\".\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency was focusing on \"convicted criminals who pose a threat to public safety as well as recent border crosses\".\n\nAmid this uncertainty, universities are offering extra support for undocumented students.\n\nUniversity leaders have called on President Trump to lift the \"cloud of fear\"\n\nHarvard University in January appointed an in-house immigration lawyer, Jason Corral, to handle their concerns.\n\n\"Since the election we've stepped up our efforts because our students feel vulnerable,\" says Loc Truong, the university's director of diversity and inclusion. He says that Mr Corral has been kept \"very busy\".\n\nThe university has attempted to reassure students by saying it will not share their information with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement without a court order.\n\nOthers, including New York University and Columbia University, have given similar reassurances.\n\nBut the Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement \"has not and does not conduct enforcement on campuses unless there is a serious and extraordinary circumstance such as a threat to national security\".\n\nHarvard has an in-house immigration lawyer to help anxious students\n\nMeanwhile 560 college and university presidents signed a letter in March that urged President Trump to lift the \"cloud of fear\" over undocumented students.\n\nIgnacia Rodriguez, an immigration policy advocate at the National Immigration Law Centre, says the number of requests from colleges for its \"know your rights\" training sessions for undocumented students has significantly increased.\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\n\"I think that frankly universities should not be going to efforts to support people who are here breaking the law [by living in the US without papers],\" says Sterling Beard, editor-in-chief of the conservative site Campus Reform.\n\nHe said he had \"sympathy\" for young people brought to the US illegally as children, but that those who were in the country lawfully should be a priority.\n\nThere are also voices saying universities should not support students in the US illegally\n\n\"You have American students who are graduating tens of thousands of dollars in debt, or foreign students who come to the United States legally, but they don't get the same kind of attention,\" he said.\n\nAs the political battles rage, students are trying to carry on with their education - but this can be difficult.\n\nLarissa Martinez, 19, is in her first year at Yale University. She is an undocumented student who is not eligible for DACA status, because her family moved to the US in 2010, and the programme requires applicants to have lived in the US since 2007.\n\n\"There's an everyday struggle of wondering whether the worries of school are as important as they are to all of my peers,\" she says. \"I care about school, and I understand its importance, but sometimes it's hard to reconcile that with real life problems.\n\n\"Like, sometimes I wonder, what if every day I try my hardest and three and a half years into this [degree] I get deported? Then all of the struggle of working hard to be here meant nothing if it can be taken away so easily.\"\n\nMigrant parents in Connecticut assign custody of their children to friends if they are deported\n\nMs Marquez, who is due to finish her studies in June, is rethinking her plans in the wake of the election. She had hoped to go to graduate school in a northern area of California, such as San Francisco or Berkeley - but has decided to study somewhere further south where she will be closer to her parents because she is worried that they might be deported.\n\n\"Since Trump took office I've thought, I can't leave southern California,\" she says. \"I'm focusing on schools where I can easily go to my parents if they need me or if I need them.\"\n\nMarisa Herrera, executive director for community building and inclusion at the University of Washington in Seattle, says such concerns show how quickly undocumented students' experience has changed.\n\n\"A year ago, these kids thought anything was possible, regardless of their immigration status, whether that was studying abroad or being a doctor or a lawyer,\" she says.\n\n\"They really were unstoppable. Those possibilities are not out of the question for them now, but things have significantly changed,\" she says. \"Now, it's complicated.\"", "It might be slow, but the romance of commuting by ferry is not lost on Trond Bonesmo as he boards MF Norangsfjord for the crossing from Magerholm to Sykkylven.\n\n\"It's a welcome break, and the view isn't too bad either,\" he says as he looks across the sea towards the Sunnmoere Alps' snow-covered peaks.\n\n\"A bridge across the fjord would obviously make the crossing faster, but Storfjorden is two or three kilometres wide and 700 metres deep, which makes it very expensive to build one,\" says Mr Bonesmo, IT and operations manager for a consumer goods company.\n\nMany Norwegian fjords present similar difficulties to bridge builders, so instead the country's coastal population relies on ferries that link their often remote communities.\n\nEach year, some 20 million cars, vans and trucks cross the country's many fjords on roughly 130 ferry routes.\n\nMost of Norway's ferries run on diesel, spewing out noxious fumes and CO2.\n\nBut this is about to change.\n\nBuilding bridges across Norway's mountain-flanked fjords would be difficult and costly\n\nFollowing two years of trials of the world's first electric car ferry, named Ampere, ferry operators are busy making the transition from diesel to comply with new government requirements for all new ferry licensees to deliver zero- or low-emission alternatives.\n\n\"We continue the work with low-emission ferries because we believe it will benefit the climate, Norwegian industry and Norwegian jobs,\" Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in a speech in April 2016, in which she vowed to help fund required quayside infrastructure.\n\nFerry company Fjord1, which operates the MF Norangsfjord, has ordered three fully electric ferries that are scheduled to enter active service on some of its routes in January 2018.\n\nMulti Maritime, which designed the ferries, welcomes the growth in demand.\n\n\"Several years of investment in sustainable technologies have resulted in us having more than 10 fully electric and plug-in hybrid ferries under construction by several yards,\" says Gjermund Johannessen, managing director.\n\nMulti Maritime has designed three electric ferries for Fjord1\n\nIn addition to new-builds, the marine division of Siemens, which developed the technology for Ampere, believes 84 ferries are ripe for conversion to electric power. And 43 ferries on longer routes would benefit from conversion to hybrids that use diesel engines to charge their batteries.\n\nIf this were done, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions would be cut by 8,000 tonnes per year and CO2 emissions by 300,000 tonnes per year, equivalent to the annual emissions from 150,000 cars, according to a report penned jointly by Siemens and the environmental campaign group, Bellona.\n\nLong-distance ferries are not well suited to electrification, but about 70% of Norway's ferries cover relatively short crossings, so switching to electric power would pay for itself in a few years, according to the report.\n\nEach ferry would save about a million litres of diesel per year, helping to reduce energy costs by 60% or more, says Odd Moen, head of sales at Siemens' marine division.\n\n\"The electricity to power Ampere, with its 360 passengers and 120 cars, across a six kilometre-wide fjord costs about 50 kroner (£4.65; $5.80),\" he says.\n\n\"In Norway, that won't even pay for a cup of coffee and a waffle.\"\n\nNorway's older ferries are also being converted from diesel to electric\n\nAmpere's electric powertrain, which was designed by Fjellstrand shipyard using Siemens technology, includes an 800kWh battery pack weighing in at a hefty 11 tonnes, which powers two electric motors, one either side of the vessel.\n\nThe batteries are fully charged overnight, but as each of the 34 daily 20-minute crossings of the Sognefjorden requires 150kWh, the battery must be topped up during loading and unloading as well.\n\nDuring initial trials, the fast charging placed excessive strain on the local grid, designed as it was to service a relatively small population.\n\nTo lighten the load, high-capacity batteries were put on constant charge on either side of the fjord, ready to transfer the electricity quickly to the ferry's batteries whilst docked.\n\nThe charging added an extra burden to the Ampere crew's busy schedules. But this challenge is being dealt with by the latest electric ferry designs, which incorporate fully automatic charging systems.\n\nEmissions from diesel-powered ferries have always been a problem.\n\n\"When they're docked, their engines are idling - that's when you see those black fumes coming out of their chimneys - and then they're accelerating hard away from land, so their engines are never operating with maximum efficiency,\" explains Mr Moen.\n\nFerry pollution is an issue for most busy city ports; Hong Kong is no exception\n\nMr Moen says he has registered much interest in the technology from overseas, and urges other governments to require and support a switch from diesel to electric ferries where appropriate.\n\nIndeed, emissions from ferries is a problem not just in Norway, but in coastal communities and cities all over the world.\n\nThis is why Scotland has been moving to lower-carbon hybrid ferries - combining diesel and lithium-ion batteries - with three ferries now in operation.\n\nIn Hong Kong, the Environmental Protection Department has long been waging a war on emissions from ferries that are responsible for much of Victoria Harbour's poor air quality.\n\nSimilarly, in New Zealand a single ferry visit to Wellington used to pollute the air as much as all Wellington's cars did in a month, according to National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research figures.\n\nBack in rural Sykkylven, where the air is relatively fresh, NOx emissions pose less of a problem than in a congested city.\n\nBut CO2 emissions from ferries should be curbed nevertheless to help combat climate change, Mr Bonesmo says, as he steers his electric car off the ferry.\n\nBy 2020, an all-electric solution will have replaced the current diesel-electric ferry on the Magerholm-Sykkylven crossing.\n\n\"And then my entire commute will be emissions free,\" Mr Bonesmo grins.\n\nFollow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter and Facebook", "The news this week that more than 20 million people in the UK are physically inactive has led to a lot of discussion over how to tackle the problem. But with no easy solution and rates of obesity rising fast has it come to the point that exercise should become part of our working day?\n\n\"Exercise in the office isn't a new idea. But it's such a clear win-win - in terms of health, morale and productivity,\" says Ryan Holmes, the CEO of HootSuite, a social media platform.\n\nIn a first-person article on Medium entitled, Why It's Time We Paid Employees to Exercise at Work, Holmes makes a passionate case for exercise becoming part of the working day and bosses paying for it.\n\nHis social media tech company has about 700 employees, and exercise before, during and after working hours is encouraged, in the small on-site gym.\n\n\"Yoga classes are packed before work, at lunch and after work. In the gym, volunteers from our company lead sweaty bootcamps and cross-training classes. Groups set out from our office for lunchtime runs and evening hikes. We have a hockey team and a road biking team and even a Quidditch team that does battle on broomsticks in the park.\"\n\nTech giant Google led the way in office gyms but Holmes doesn't believe a company has to have a gym on site, and says he encouraged staff to exercise even when they were a small start-up.\n\n\"We made it clear that anyone could block off an hour for exercise during the day, provided it didn't conflict with meetings and they made up the time (by having lunch at their desks, for instance).\"\n\nAnd he believes it's more than worth it.\n\n\"I see employees return from workouts refreshed and better focused on their jobs. Time lost on exercise is made back and more in terms of improved productivity.\"\n\nAnd he believes he'd never have built up his company without taking exercise himself during the day that enabled him to \"maintain composure and focus in the midst of chaos\".\n\nAre exercise classes in the office a far-fetched idea?\n\nThe main barrier raised by many against taking regular exercise is work-life commitments so finding more time in the day for exercise does lead us to the workplace.\n\nThe government issued guidelines via NICE in 2015 on how promoting a culture that improves the health and wellbeing of employees is \"good management and leads to healthy and productive workplaces\".\n\nAnd there is an economic case for promoting exercise at work - healthy staff mean fewer absences due to illness.\n\nEach year, more than a million working people in the UK experience a work-related illness. This leads to around 27 million lost working days costing the economy an estimated £13.4bn.\n\nA study at Bristol University showed that employees who can exercise at work \"are more productive, happy, efficient and calm\".\n\nExercise re-energised staff, improved their concentration and problem-solving and made them feel calmer.\n\nMany major companies now have gyms on site\n\nWith 60% of our day often spent at work, the British Heart Foundation wants employers to make workplaces healthier places.\n\nThey have lots of tips for employers on how to make businesses more healthy and point out that classes like pilates and boxercise can be popular in the workplace if organised to fit around the working day, and delivered on-site or in a facility nearby.\n\nBut if employers can't go that far, the foundation says bosses should encourage staff to take a short active break during the day as shown in their 10 minute workout video.\n\nExercise breaks are a feature of a number of large Japanese companies. In 2010, China reintroduced mandatory exercises twice a day at state-owned companies after a three-year gap.\n\nSet up by the Communist Party, they had previously been running since the 1950s, with state radio broadcasting music at 10:00 and 15:00 for workers to do their set exercises.\n\nMaking exercise compulsory would be seen as a step too far for a country like the UK, but with more and more desk-bound jobs these days, do employers hold the key?\n\nOne place to start could be for employers to ban \"cake culture\" in the office.\n\nProf Nigel Hunt, from the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, says the habit of bringing cakes into the office fuels obesity and dental problems.\n\n\"For many people, the workplace is now the primary site of their sugar intake,\" he says, and suggests staff should be rewarded with fruit, nuts or cheese instead.\n\nWorking standing up is being encouraged to improve workers' health\n\nAnother very simple step to help our health in the office is to stand up more.\n\nThe NHS offers advice on how to manage the government's recommended 150 minutes of exercise a week, but they also have advice on how much just standing up can improve our health.\n\nThe link between illness and sitting first emerged in the 1950s, when researchers found London bus drivers were twice as likely to have heart attacks as their bus conductor colleagues.\n\nStanding up three hours a day, five days a week for a year, would be the equivalent of \"running 10 marathons\", according to experts.\n\nNHS Choices recommends breaking up long periods of sitting time with \"shorter bouts of activity for just one to two minutes\".\n\nAnd some people now choose to work standing at higher desks.\n\nOne final option we could suggest is getting an office dog.\n\nNestle's headquarters in London allows employees to bring their dogs to work because they say it promotes a less stressful office and encourages more exercise and a healthier work-life blend.", "Presidents Xi and Trump meet in Florida on Thursday\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said that trade negotiations with China will be \"very difficult\" when he meets President Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Thursday.\n\nTrade will be one of two key issues on the agenda, along with North Korea. But what's the problem - and what can Trump do about it?\n\nThe problem with the US-China trade relationship is that it is highly unequal and has been for a long time.\n\nIn 2016 alone, the US imported $480bn (£385bn) of goods and services from China - mostly consumer items like clothing, shoes, televisions, smartphones, laptops and tablets.\n\nThose imports keep prices low for American consumers.\n\nIn return, the US sold just $170bn (£137bn) worth of exports to China - including sophisticated machinery like aircraft and agricultural products like soybeans.\n\nIt also makes money from services, like the education of an estimated 350,000 Chinese students in the US.\n\nOverall, China is the largest source of the US trade deficit - the amount by which the value of its imports exceeds the value of its exports. In 2016 it accounted for about 60% of its overall deficit of $500bn (402bn).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The meeting takes place at Mar-a-Lago in Florida - a private members club as well as the Trump family's winter getaway\n\nPresident Trump is unhappy with this state of affairs, tweeting in January: \"China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth from the US in totally one-sided trade.\"\n\nHe sees a link with the loss of manufacturing jobs - and he has a point, because a large trade deficit generally goes hand-in-hand with a smaller manufacturing sector.\n\nThis is a problem, because for people without college degrees these jobs tend to be well-paying ones.\n\nUS shoppers have enjoyed years of cheap imports\n\nDuring his campaign, Mr Trump spoke often of wanting to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US and, in the first presidential debate, said: \"They're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China.\"\n\nAfter China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 there was a surge of Chinese imports into the US, something economists called the \"China shock\".\n\nBetween 2000 and 2007, US manufacturing jobs fell sharply, from 16.9 million to 13.6 million. The 2008 financial crisis pushed the number lower, to 11.2 million, although the number has since been fairly stable.\n\nWorkers making clothing and electronic goods were among the worst affected.\n\nIt is difficult to settle upon an exact figure, but some economists think that 40% of these job losses can be linked to Chinese imports.\n\nHowever, the influx of cheap goods also created non-manufacturing jobs in the US, because consumers had more money to spend on other things.\n\nThat boosted healthcare, entertainment, travel, and leisure. So, think of the trade deficit destroying some jobs and creating others.\n\nSo, what can President Trump do about the trade deficit?\n\nCandidate Trump threatened harsh protectionist measures, such as a 45% tariff on Chinese imports, but history shows that protectionism does not reduce trade deficits.\n\nHe also threatened to name China a \"currency manipulator\" and at one point during his campaign went so far as to accuse it of \"raping\" the US with its trade policy.\n\nFor years China intervened to keep its exchange rate low, which kept the price of its goods down and helped increase the US deficit. But more recently its central bank has kept the currency high - making its exports more expensive - and it is in the US's interest to encourage more of this.\n\nThe US has long been spending more on goods from other countries than it sells\n\nThe most promising route for President Trump is to negotiate better access to Chinese consumers.\n\nChina has many restrictions on imports, for example a 25% tariff on cars. And while the US sells a lot of agricultural products to China, notably soy beans, key markets like beef and pork are highly restricted.\n\nProbably most important for the US is that modern service sectors like finance, social media, telecommunications, health care and transportation are largely closed to imports and foreign investment.\n\nSo far there has been little progress, but opening China's markets would offer more choice to its own consumers and would help maintain a stable relationship with the US.\n\nChina's economy depends on keeping the trade flowing with its biggest customer.\n\nWill there be a trade war?\n\nProbably not, because protectionist measures would hurt the US economy and the Chinese are counting on it to be impractical.\n\nThe Chinese Communist Party has an important congress at the end of the year and it will be difficult for Xi to do anything bold before then.\n\nEven afterwards, China is likely to move very gradually on market opening.\n\nTrump was smart to set low expectations for the summit.\n\nDavid Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, a public policy organisation based in Washington DC.\n• None An A-Z of big issues in tense US-China summit", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe four home football associations have held further talks over a Team GB women's football team taking part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.\n\nEnglish, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish representatives held discussions on the topic while attending the Uefa Congress in Helsinki, Finland.\n\nMen's and women's sides competed under the GB banner during the 2012 Olympics.\n\nPlans for the teams to compete at the 2016 Games were scrapped after protests from the Irish, Scottish and Welsh FAs.\n\nThough there is no prospect of a return for a men's side, it is believed there could be a possibility of a women's team competing in 2020.\n\nThe associations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have traditionally been against teams playing under a GB flag for fear of losing their status as independent football nations.\n\nWales boss Chris Coleman has previously said he is not in favour of the idea.\n\n\"I cannot accept we should be a Great Britain team. I think that is wrong. Our independence would possibly go away,\" former Football Association of Wales (FAW) president Trefor Lloyd Hughes told BBC Wales Sport.\n\nBritish Olympic chiefs have already said they are in favour of fielding GB soccer teams in Tokyo.\n\nWent out in quarter-finals after 2-0 defeat by Canada (at Coventry City - attendance 28,828) Beat New Zealand 1-0 in opening match - the first event of the 2012 Olympics (24,549 watched in Cardiff) Topped group with 1-0 win over Brazil before record British women's football crowd of 70,584 at Wembley Coach Hope Powell picked an 18-strong squad, consisting of 16 English and two Scottish players", "Donald Trump campaigned for president as the ultimate outsider, promising to unseat a corrupt and atrophied Washington establishment. Now, after two months in office, has he become the establishment? Are Trump and his team the insiders now?\n\nOne thing the recent collapse of healthcare reform efforts in the House of Representatives has revealed is just how quickly attitudes and alliances can shift in Washington, DC.\n\nLast year Mr Trump and members of the House Freedom Caucus, a collection of 30 or so libertarian-leaning fiscal conservatives in Congress, were singing from the same anti-government hymnal.\n\nNow, however, Mr Trump is the government - and he teamed up with congressional leadership to back a healthcare bill that conservative hard-liners believe didn't go far enough in undoing the 2009 Democratic-designed system.\n\nThe effort's failure set off back-and-forth sniping between Mr Trump and the Freedom Caucus that morphed into a classic insider-outsider faceoff, with Mr Trump cast as the new voice of the powers that be.\n\nCongressman Justin Amash said the White House has become part of the hated status quo - the \"Trumpstablishment\", he called it in a Saturday tweet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat line drew the ire of Mr Trump's director of social media, Dan Scavino Jr, who tweeted that Mr Amash was a \"big liability\" and encouraged Michigan voters to unseat him in next year's Republican primary. (The tweet has since been criticised as a possible violation of a federal law preventing executive branch officials from attempting to influence election campaigns.)\n\nIf Mr Trump's conservative critics are trying to make the case that the president has become the establishment he campaigned against, their arguments have been buttressed by the financial disclosure documents released by the White House on Friday evening, which revealed exactly how well-heeled and connected many of the top White House staff are. According to the Washington Post, 27 members of Mr Trump's team have combined assets exceeding $2.3bn (£1.84bn).\n\nPresidential daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner - both unpaid presidential advisers - are worth roughly $740m.\n\nSenior White House strategist Steve Bannon earned as much as $2.3 million in 2017. Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive who is one of Mr Trump's top economics advisers, has a net worth approaching $611m.\n\nThe New York Times points out that many in the inner circle of the putatively anti-establishment Mr Trump drew significant sums from the network of big-money political donors, think tanks and associated political action committees that populate the Washington insider firmament.\n\n\"The figures reveal the extent to which private political work has bolstered the financial fortunes of Trump aides, who have made millions of dollars from Republican and other conservative causes in recent years,\" the paper reported.\n\nAlready there are signs that conservative true-believers - some of whom were never fully sold on Mr Trump to begin with - are questioning Mr Trump's anti-establishment bona fides.\n\n\"That's the dirty little secret,\" writes conservative columnist Ben Shapiro. \"Trump isn't anti-establishment; he's pro-establishment so long as he's the establishment.\"\n\nEven conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, an early Trump supporter, is having some doubts.\n\nDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump railed against the Washington establishment\n\n\"I think it is really, really unhelpful to Donald Trump's ultimate agenda to slam the very people who are going to be propping up his border wall, all the things he wants to do on immigration, on trade,\" she said on Fox News.\"I don't know where he thinks he's going to get his friends on those issues.\"\n\nPerhaps of greatest concern to Mr Trump is that the failure to enact promised healthcare reform, along with his recent feud with members of his own party, have been accompanied by a softening of his core support in recent polls.\n\nIn a Rasmussen survey, the number of Americans who \"strongly approve\" of the president has dropped from 44% at shortly after his inauguration to 28% today. While the Republican base is largely sticking with Mr Trump so far, they may be starting to have some doubts.\n\nFor much of 2016 Donald Trump was the barbarian at the gate, threatening to rain fire on the comfortable Washington power elite. Even in his January inaugural address, he condemned an establishment that \"protected itself\" at the cost of average Americans.\n\n\"Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land,\" he said.\n\nNow, however, Mr Trump and his team of formerly angry outsiders meet in the Oval Office. They fly on Air Force One. They host events in the White House rose garden. They issue tweets warning apostates of harsh political consequences.\n\nThey walk the halls of power and call the shots.\n\nIt doesn't get any more \"insider\" than that.", "A Civil Defence volunteer uses an oxygen mask to help him breathe.\n\nThe response to this latest chemical \"attack\" in Syria will provide a measure of just how far the international community has come in struggling with the security crisis in Syria.\n\nIt also demonstrates the growing calamity in the country where the conflict moves from phase to phase, but shows no sign of ending.\n\nPerhaps at the outset it should be established what we know. There seems no doubt that a chemical incident occurred, and there were Syrian government air attacks in the area. The opposition of course has no air force.\n\nThe West places the blame squarely on the Assad regime. Russia - one of President Assad's few allies - has a different story.\n\nIt says an air attack hit a weapons dump, thus releasing the chemical agent. All of the Western experts on chemical warfare contacted by the BBC have been highly sceptical about the Russian claim.\n\nAs yet there has been no clear analysis of samples from the location of the strike or from the victims. More information will undoubtedly become available.\n\nReports of the first significant use of chemical weapons - including Sarin nerve agent - by the Assad regime in 2013, prompted the international community's first purposeful diplomatic intervention in the Syrian War.\n\nThe Obama administration had marked down the use of chemical arms as \"a red line\", which, if crossed, would lead to serious consequences for the Assad regime.\n\nIn the event, President Obama decided to pull back and avoid military action. The US and Russia came together and brokered a deal under which the Assad regime would give up its chemical arsenal under international inspection.\n\nThe problem of chemical weapons in Syria appeared to have been resolved. But this was not so.\n\nSince then there have been sporadic reports of the further use of chemical weapons both by the Assad regime and so-called Islamic State. These have often involved the use of commercial chemicals like chlorine.\n\nBut this latest use of what looks to be a nerve agent like Sarin, and the frightful images of the attack, have underscored just how little progress has been made.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescue workers said many children were among those killed or injured in the attack\n\nBetween the Ghoutta attack in August 2013 to the incident in Idlib province this week, the situation on the ground in Syria has changed dramatically. Then the Assad regime seemed to have only a tenuous grip on power.\n\nThe policy of the West and its allies was to see Syria's leader - already branded by some as a war criminal - forced from office.\n\nThere was still a good deal of talk about a credible \"democratic\" opposition, which, if given sufficient means, could wrest control of much of the country from the Assad regime and IS alike.\n\nThe \"democratic\" opposition proved to have a very limited military capacity.\n\nMany of its most capable elements are closely linked to al-Qaeda: the next major problem that is likely to face the West some way down the line.\n\nThe Assad regime, bolstered by Iranian military assistance and Russian air power, has more than consolidated its position.\n\nAnd the most successful Western-backed elements of the opposition - the coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters in northern Syria - may be advancing against IS, but its success brings a host of other problems, notably in relations with Turkey, whose troops and proxies already occupy a significant zone inside the country.\n\nThe saga of the West's response to the use of chemical weapons underscores the improvised and uncertain course of policy towards Syria almost from the outset.\n\nRussia's intervention in the conflict managed to turn the tide in favour of Assad\n\nPresident Obama's declaration in 2012 that the use of chemical arms would cross \"a red line\" and change Washington's \"calculus\" seemed to go further than many of his advisers had expected.\n\nBut in the event - when push came to shove in 2013 - there were no punitive air strikes and the chemical disarmament deal seems now incomplete at best.\n\nNeither is US policy today any more coherent.\n\nThe Trump administration has roundly condemned the attacks, but President Trump himself has used the opportunity to condemn his predecessor for \"weakness and irresolution\" for not making good on his threats when the red line was crossed in 2013.\n\nHowever, back then, Mr Trump seemed to endorse the President's caution. He tweeted on 1 September 2013 that \"President Obama's weakness and indecision may have saved us from doing a horrible and very costly (in more ways than money) attack on Syria.\"\n\nToday, the international reaction in the wake of this latest episode is predictable and formulaic.\n\nWith Russia already providing an alibi for the Syrian regime, it is hard to see what can come out of the UN Security Council's meeting. It has been consistently and fatally divided on Syria since the outset of the crisis. But the chemical attack could still change \"the calculus\" around Syria to use President Obama's phrase.\n\nPresident Obama's failure to forcefully respond to the first chemical weapons attacks disappointed the Syrian opposition\n\nFor one thing, there will be a renewed debate about the whole question of \"safe areas\" and \"no-fly zones\" to provide protection to civilians, principally from regime air attack.\n\nIndeed the potential for such zones - especially in northern Syria close to the border with Turkey - has increased in the wake of the Turkish Army's entry on to Syrian soil.\n\nSuch zones though are a vexed question.\n\nAt some point - however defined or delineated - they require a willingness to take action against aircraft who strike inside them. Russia's air campaign complicates matters and so far has pretty well ruled out their establishment.\n\nThe chemical attack could change diplomatic calculations as well. The Trump administration's policy on Syria is still unformed.\n\nThe last major attack in 2013 brought Washington and Moscow together, albeit briefly. So far the Trump administration's much heralded reset with Moscow has proved elusive. Could this latest tragedy - whatever its cause - change that?\n\nThe Syrian crisis has decidedly entered a new phase - with new threats and new challenges emerging.\n\nPeace remains as elusive as ever.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nRory McIlroy has sought to make Augusta National like his \"home golf course\" during frequent practice sessions as he seeks his first Masters title.\n\nThe 27-year-old Northern Irishman has played 99 practice holes so far, with nine more to come on Wednesday.\n\n\"It's been a quiet build-up compared to previous years and I haven't minded that - it's been quite nice,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel good, like my game is there. I feel ready to go,\" the world number two told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I feel like I've done everything I can do to prepare. It's just a case of going out there and hitting the shots I need to.\"\n\nVictory this week would see McIlroy become just the sixth player to complete a grand slam of majors, adding to his US PGA Championship titles from 2012 and 2014, his 2014 Open Championship win and the US Open success he recorded in 2011.\n\nLast year he chose to sit out the traditional Par 3 contest - played on the eve of the Masters - to focus on winning the main event, but finished tied for 10th, his third top-10 finish in a row.\n\nFamously, no player has ever won Wednesday's curtain-raiser and gone on to win the main prize in the same year.\n\nHe will play in this year's Par 3 competition, adding to the number of holes he has amassed on the course in the run-up to the season's first major.\n\n\"The more you can make Augusta National feel like your home golf course, the better,\" added McIlroy.\n\n\"I've played here a good bit in recent weeks. I've shot good scores and I feel like I know what I am doing here. It's all there. I know it's all there, it's just a matter of going out there and doing it.\n\n\"That's the difficult thing - it's almost like getting out of your own way and letting your subconscious take over.\"\n\nMcIlroy, who picked up a £7.7m bonus in September by winning last year's PGA Tour points race, begins his first round at 18:41 BST on Thursday alongside Japan's Hideto Tanihara and Spain's Jon Rahm.", "Ex-Manchester United defender Phil Neville believes there is \"something fundamentally wrong\" with Luke Shaw that has forced manager Jose Mourinho to publicly criticise him.\n\nBBC pundit Neville scouted Shaw for United when he was at Southampton, believing the full-back, 21, would become a star at Old Trafford.\n\nBut the £27m signing has played only three times since the end of November.\n\nThe England player says he will \"fight to the last second\" to prove himself.\n\nShaw came off the bench in Tuesday's Premier League 1-1 draw with Everton and won the late penalty that salvaged a point for the home side.\n• None Neville: Fergie would have given Shaw 'full barrels'\n\nMourinho, who had criticised the player's commitment and focus earlier in the week, did praise him - but also commented on his lack of \"a football brain\", adding: \"I was making every decision for him.\"\n\nNeville told BBC Radio 5 live: \"When Luke Shaw signed for Manchester United I was probably involved in the process of scouting him and recommending him as a player because I thought he would be a Manchester United left-back for the next 10 years. You would think he would be a sensational player, but he just hasn't done it.\n\n\"I know he's suffered an injury but there must be something fundamentally wrong if the manager is questioning your attitude, training performances, desire. That from a 21-year-old with the world at your feet, you think maybe this is the last throw of the dice from Jose to try and get something out of Luke Shaw that he knows is in there.\"\n\nNeville said his Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson \"would have probably dealt with it in a similar way to Jose\" though \"probably not as much publicly\".\n\nHe added: \"Behind the scenes he [Ferguson] would have been giving him the full barrels and leaving him in no doubt that if you don't meet those standards, go and play for somebody else.\"\n\n\"Jose's probably tried this behind closed doors and this is the last throw of the dice. To speak poorly about one of his own players, he must be absolutely at his wits end.\"\n\n'I love this club and will give everything to be here'\n\nFull-back Shaw, meanwhile, is determined to meet the challenge of becoming a United player.\n\n\"I will fight to the last second because I want to be here for the club,\" he said.\n\nShaw met Mourinho on Monday morning to clarify his position.\n\nIt is not known what was said but the defender feels he still has a future at Old Trafford.\n\n\"I am keeping my head up,\" he said. \"I love this club and will give everything to be here.\n\n\"I am going through a phase where everything is sort of going against me. But I want this so badly. I want to prove everyone wrong.\n\n\"The stuff that has been going on is hard for me to take because deep down that is not me as a person.\"\n\n'Eight new signings and a Jose team'\n\nNeville feels Mourinho has similarly given plenty of chances to his squad, who lie sixth in the Premier League table, four points and two places behind Manchester City who hold the final Champions League qualifying spot.\n\nThey could still qualify for the lucrative Champions League by winning the Europa League.\n\nNeville, who spent a decade at United as a player, said many members of the squad seemed nervous at home, which had played a part in them drawing nine games at Old Trafford.\n\n\"If anything goes drastically wrong and they are knocked out of the Europa League or struggle to qualify in the top four, I think Jose Mourinho will make major changes,\" added Neville.\n\n\"He's given this team a year now to prove themselves: the Chris Smallings, the Phil Jones, the Marcos Rojos, the Daley Blinds of this world - if they don't perform from now until the end of the season I think you'll see six, seven, maybe eight new signings in the summer and a real Jose Mourinho-type team picked.\"", "Miles Storey misses a golden opportunity on the goal-line during Aberdeen's victory against Inverness CT at Pittodrie. Commentary by Colin Wallace.\n\nPlease note, only available to users in the UK.", "Anna says she would have been in hospital for longer if it wasn't for the system\n\nOn a hospital ward in Leeds, parents of premature babies are encouraged to help care for their newborns - from taking temperatures to the delicate task of inserting feeding tubes. So how does the approach benefit families?\n\n\"It is just nice to feel like a mum, rather than just somebody watching,\" Anna Cox tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme, as she takes the temperature of her baby.\n\nLola was born at just 23 weeks. She had a twin brother who sadly did not survive and she was given little hope of survival.\n\n\"During labour, one of the neo-natal consultants came to see us and painted a really bad picture that she could have all sorts of problems,\" Anna says.\n\nLola was cared for at St James's University Hospital in Leeds -the first in the UK to implement a family integrated care system.\n\nIt put parents - not nurses - in charge of everything other than the most complicated medical treatments for their premature babies while they were in hospital.\n\n\"One of the jobs we have to do is take her temperature, maybe every three or four hours,\" Anna says.\n\n\"It is a pretty simple procedure really.\"\n\nHowever, parents also perform more complicated tasks, including inserting a tube into their baby's nose to allow them to feed.\n\n\"There are certain things they [nurses] obviously watch over you quite a bit to begin with because it needs to be done right,\" she says.\n\n\"They do like to make sure you know what you're doing, they wouldn't just leave you to it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lola was born at just 23 weeks\n\nKatie Crossley's daughter, Molly, was born eight weeks early and had breathing difficulties.\n\n\"While I'm here, I pretty much do everything that a normal mum would do,\" she says. \"Everything, from feeding to medicine, cleaning, bathing.\"\n\nShe has also been taught how to insert a tube up Molly's nose and into her stomach allowing her to be fed.\n\n\"Being around it and watching it has made me more confident when I've come to actually doing it,\" she says.\n\nIn the past, caring for premature babies usually meant keeping parents at arm's length.\n\nAs recently as 20 years ago, the closest parents of premature babies could get to their newborns was looking at them through a glass window.\n\nIt meant the bond between parent and child was harder to establish and breastfeeding rates were often lower.\n\nBut the idea of putting parents in charge of neonatal care is not a new one.\n\nIn the 1970s in Tallinn, Estonia - then part of the Soviet Union - the head of the local hospital faced a problem. The hospital had too many premature babies to look after and not enough nurses.\n\nHowever, they soon noticed the system was helping babies.\n\nUnder his system, mothers had more regular \"skin to skin\" contact with premature babies. It resulted in better breastfeeding rates and shorter hospital stays.\n\nIt took 30 years for other hospitals to copy the system, but now the system has been introduced in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and now Leeds.\n\nKatie Crossley says she is now confident inserting a tube to feed her baby\n\nDr Liz McKechnie, consultant neonatologist at St James's, says the family integrated care scheme aims to put the parent at \"the very centre of the team caring for the baby\".\n\n\"It is not rocket science, it is such a straightforward thing to do, to allow parents to look after their babies,\" she says.\n\nShe is adamant the move was not down to cost-cutting and that nursing levels on the unit have not dropped.\n\n\"In the past, care has been very much the nurse leading it, so they're saying 'right, it's feed time, it's bath time'. Whereas now, it is very much the parents who are leading that.\n\n\"They are feeding the baby when the baby needs feeding, rather than when the clock says it is feed time - and that's much better for the baby.\"\n\nShe says the new system was a \"major cultural change\" and caused anxiety among nurses on the neonatal unit when it was introduced 18 months ago.\n\nNurses on the ward say training parents to care for their babies takes as long - if not longer - than doing the procedures themselves.\n\nBut they say families are getting home sooner, the long-term development of babies is improving and breastfeeding rates have increased.\n\nThe system is about to be trialled in the intensive care unit in St James's sister hospital.\n\nParents are encouraged to take the temperature of their babies\n\nAs for Lola, she was allowed home just before she was 14 weeks old.\n\n\"Without the family integrated care we would've been in a lot longer,\" says her mother, Anna. \"Lola is still on oxygen and [otherwise] they wouldn't have allowed us to come home with that.\n\n\"I feel really confident in everything they taught us.\"\n\nDr McKechnie adds: \"The fact is that families are going home more confident and more able to care for their babies, and that means a lot.\n\n\"Nobody wants to stop it, it is definitely here to stay, everybody can see the benefits of it.\"\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 Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nDefending Masters champion Danny Willett says returning to the scene of his greatest triumph may not spark an instant upturn in form.\n\nThe Englishman, 29, won his first major after a shock win at Augusta, aided by American Jordan Spieth's collapse.\n\nWillett rose to a career-high ninth in the world, but has dropped to 17th after failing to win an event since.\n\n\"You do have a spring in your step coming back as champion,\" he said. \"But you can't change your game like that.\"\n• None 'Everything was shaking' - Willett relives his Masters win\n• None Masters quiz: Match the winner with the dinner\n\nWillett became the first Briton to win the Green Jacket in 20 years when he shot a five-under-par 67 as 2015 champion Spieth crumbled during a thrilling final round.\n\nHowever, he has struggled to regularly match his form at Augusta since.\n\nThe Yorkshireman finished third in the PGA Championship and second in the Italian Open following his Masters triumph, but suffered a dip in form ahead of his Ryder Cup debut in October.\n\nHe failed to win a single point as Europe lost 17-11 at Hazeltine, while also being distracted by questions over his brother Peter's controversial comments about American fans.\n\nWillett has only claimed one top-10 finish so far in 2017, blowing a three-shot 54-hole lead to finish fifth at the Maybank Championship in February.\n\n\"The pressure has been more from myself. It's not a nice feeling to not hit good golf shots when you know what you can do,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the last 12 months has made me a little more impatient.\n\n\"I think achieving what I achieved last year and performing under the pressure that I did on Sunday, if you don't do that every time you get a bit annoyed.\n\n\"That's where the game jumps up and bites you. It's not that easy.\"\n\n'If the Yorkshire puddings go flat we won't be happy'\n\nOne of Willett's roles in his return to Augusta as defending champion is choosing the menu for the annual Masters champions' dinner on Tuesday.\n\nThirty-four former winners will start with cottage pie before tucking into roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and apple crumble.\n\n\"There's been a lot of thought gone into it about how we can embrace British culture and hopefully they enjoy a little taste of Yorkshire,\" said Willett, who was born in Sheffield.\n\nAsked if Augusta's chef was confident of making Yorkshire puddings, he responded: \"He'd best be, otherwise I'll be in the kitchen making sure his oil is hot enough!\n\n\"If they go a bit flat, we're not going to be happy. I'm sure that he's been practising.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJoe Root will take time to get used to the England captaincy because \"nothing can prepare you\" for the role, says his predecessor Alastair Cook.\n\nCook resigned as England captain in February, with Root taking over for this summer's home series against South Africa and the West Indies.\n\n\"It is a big role, but an exciting one. Joe will find his feet,\" 32-year-old Cook told BBC Look East on Wednesday.\n\n\"He will find his way, it will probably take him a while to get used to it.\"\n\nEssex batsman Cook led his country to Ashes victories in 2013 and 2015 during a record 59 matches in charge.\n\nHe is England's highest run-scorer in Test cricket with 11,057, while his 140 Test appearances and 30 centuries are also England records.\n• None Listen: England will be fearful of Aussie attack\n\n\"I am looking forward to working with Joe in a different way.\n\n\"I think a couple of moments will be slightly strange in that first Test match week but it won't be any different in the long run.\n\n\"Hopefully I can help him, and the most important thing is England winning.\n\n\"I don't think anything can prepare you for the England captaincy but he will find his feet. He is a very good player, has a very good cricket brain and has got the respect of the dressing room.\"\n\nCook has been ruled out of Essex's opening County Championship game against Lancashire on Friday with a hip injury.\n\nBut he still holds ambitions of playing under Root during the next Ashes series at the end of the year.\n\n\"I have still got a few games left in me. I'm 32 years old but hopefully I can carry on scoring runs for England,\" said Cook.\n\n\"It is a different phase of my career after being captain but I love playing for England. I hope to score enough runs to get on that plane for the Ashes tour.\"\n\nAnd last month Root confirmed that having Alastair Cook in the side was integral to both his and the team's future success.\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"If I feel I need help he'll be more than willing, but he'll also let me do it my own way.\"", "Jeff De Young served in Afghanistan with a bomb-detection dog named Cena N641, a black Labrador. In the intense atmosphere of war the two developed an unbreakable bond. This is the story of how Cena helped Jeff survive not only war, but also life after war.\n\nThe day I turned 18 I started Marine Corps boot camp, and 15 months later I went to Afghanistan. It was 2009 and I was absolutely terrified.\n\nThey paired us with the dogs based on our personalities. Cena was a slightly goofy, quiet dog, and I was a slightly goofy, quiet kid, so it made sense for us to be with each other.\n\nTogether we were known as Kid and Chicken. Chicken was one of those nicknames that you don't remember where it came from, it just kinda stuck. And although I was 19 by this stage, I looked like I was about 12, I didn't even have any facial hair. As a joke, the Marines mailed a permission slip home for my mom to sign because I looked so young they didn't believe that I was allowed to be over there.\n\nI would operate Cena using hand and arm commands and a whistle. I'd be in front of the patrol and Cena would be further ahead again, so if either of us walked on an improvised explosive device, although we would have been hurt, the rest of the patrol would be safe. I'd never been faced with a situation like that before and it felt like a crash course in adulthood, responsibility, and survival.\n\nCena had been a champion bird dog. When waterfowl falls from the sky there is no scent trail to follow like there would be with a rabbit or a deer, so the dog has to investigate the area and find the scent on the wind, it's amazing.\n\nDogs' noses are so much more powerful than ours. We smell cookies, but they smell the flour, the nutmeg, the butter, the eggs, the milk - they can dissect everything and they can detect smells that we don't even know exist.\n\nHe'd been trained to detect more than 300 different types of explosives and if he smelled something interesting on patrol he would lie down and notify me, and then I'd call in an explosives technician.\n\nWe had to trust each other - we would have a dozen, two dozen marines behind us and any mistake could have been fatal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Jeff describes how Cena supported him during his darkest hours serving in Afghanistan\n\nThe battle of Marjah was a turning point in my life. We approached the town before the sun came up, no-one was talking, no-one was joking. It was very tense. You could hear the rounds snap overhead, and then when the round went past you, you heard a zing almost like a whistle.\n\nI was so worried about getting Cena to safety, I even had to lie on top of him to protect him from gunfire. Another time I carried him through a freezing cold, flooded river on my shoulders like a hunter would a deer.\n\nIt got so cold in the fighting holes that even Cena's body heat didn't help, so one day I offered an Afghan soldier the entire contents of my wallet for his scratchy, olive, drab wool army blanket. I had $100 (£80) in my wallet. I was either going to burn the money or get the blanket, that's how cold I was. I still have that blanket.\n\nThe first week inside Marjah I lost a couple of very good friends. One of them was a former room-mate I'd trained with, Lance Corporal Alejandro Yazzie. He was 23, a Navajo, and an all-round good guy. His grandfather had been a wind talker [code talker] in World War Two. When I found out it was Yazzie I was devastated. I held on to Cena and cried into him.\n\nYazzie was the first of seven friends I lost in Afghanistan. I carried a flag inside my helmet and whenever a friend would pass away I'd add their name to it.\n\nEventually I just couldn't cope any more. I grabbed my military rifle and went to the latrine area. I remember sitting there trying to prepare my mind and make peace, and then Cena peeked around the corner. His ears went up like in the cartoons and he opened his mouth like he was smiling. His tail started spinning so hard that his whole body was rocking back and forth like he was excited by a piece of bacon.\n\nI started laughing, and I laughed so much that I just broke down crying. I realised then that I couldn't leave Cena because I didn't know if his next handler would love him the way I did. He really was the only person in my life that I had a deep relationship with at that time. I left the latrine, put my rifle back and focused on work.\n\nIt's really hard to explain what it's like, psychologically, coming back from war. Even the drive home was strange. New music was out, new cars were on the roads, there were new stores. It felt like when you leave the cinema to get popcorn and then miss the best part of the film.\n\nI got married three days after returning and I was so busy doing all this happy stuff, it was like a Band-Aid over Afghanistan. But I wasn't really taking care of myself and dealing with what had happened over there.\n\nA couple of weeks after coming home the post-traumatic stress (PTSD) and separation anxiety from being away from Cena really hit me. I'd always understood that I wouldn't have him forever but I'd had no idea how being apart from him would affect me. I felt like a stranger at home and I didn't feel comfortable unless I was with my battalion members or other veterans. I had nightmares and spent many nights crying in the bedroom corner or talking out loud to my fallen friends.\n\nOver the next four years Cena was always on my mind, but as time went on it became hard to keep up hope that we would be together again.\n\nThen one day, when I was in college, I got a call. The woman on the phone said: \"Mr De Young? My name is Mrs Godfrey, would you like to adopt your bomb dog?\" Without even thinking I said, \"Heck, yes!\" That was 24 April 2014, one day shy of four years since Cena and I had been separated.\n\nIt was just a turmoil of emotions on the car ride there. When Cena came down the aisle I very awkwardly - like a guy crossing a high school dance floor - ran up, kneeled down and started hugging him. He leaned into me like, \"Hey man, what's up?\" and started licking my face.\n\nAside from my children being born and the day I was married, that was the happiest day of my life. It was like all of my Christmases rolled into one.\n\nI'd been married for four years by the time I got Cena back. Unfortunately, my inability to recognise that I had issues as a result of being in Afghanistan ultimately led to my divorce. Cena was helping me with healing and support but the damage to my relationship was already done. On 5 June 2015 I ended my marriage.\n\nI have three daughters, they are six, five and two-and-a-half. Cena took to them instantly, and they love him back - they try to paint his nails and put bows on him. Before getting Cena back, the sound of a child crying would trigger a panic attack in me, as a result of an incident in Afghanistan, and it was tough knowing that I couldn't help my kids because my brain couldn't process that memory.\n\nWith Cena, if my daughters cried I would sit on the couch, put my forehead to his, scratch his ears and just breathe. Gradually, Cena would only need to be beside me and I could cope.\n\nBy the time my third daughter was born I was able to do a lot of the diaper changes and bottle feeding even if she was crying, and to finally be able to help my daughter felt like being released from jail, it was freedom.\n\nI'm a military ambassador for the American Humane Association now and I travel around the country raising awareness about how important it is to reunite service dogs with their handlers, and how the dogs can be a vital form of treatment for veterans with PTSD. My work is most definitely therapy for me, too. The military teaches us how to put the uniform on, but it doesn't teach us how to take it off, metaphorically speaking. I've lost count of how many friends I've lost now, who've taken their lives - four just last year alone.\n\nI couldn't even think about talking about what I saw in Afghanistan four or five years ago, but slowly, by opening up to other veterans, by putting myself out there and airing everything that happened it's becoming so much easier.\n\nI've recently found out that I have a heart condition called tachycardia. The doctors say it was probably triggered by an explosion or something that happened in Afghanistan. When I'm stressed my heart rate goes up to 200 beats per minute, high enough for a heart attack, so I'm having an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) fitted in my chest. I'm still mentally processing the idea that soon I'm going to have an electronic box in my chest to keep my heart in check.\n\nCena is in OK health, although his front wrist bothers him and his hips are pretty bad. He'd been back to Afghanistan, and I tracked down two of his other handlers through Facebook. I keep them up to date with how he is doing and I hope to get them to come to Michigan to see him - it's been years since they've seen Cena too.\n\nCena was retired after his third deployment because of a hip injury and there's no doubt in my mind that he has PTSD. I think he has memories of things that he saw that he doesn't like. He has nightmares, he'll whimper, he'll run around in his sleep and his teeth will snarl. But he's always by my side - we go to the gym together, we go to college together - my college even wants to get him his own cap and gown for when I graduate.\n\nCena's nine-and-a-half now. Dogs tend to live to 11 or 12, so I've started making peace with the fact that he may pass away soon. I've been preparing my mind for that.\n\nJeff De Young was interviewed by Sarah McDermott and Rose de Larrabeiti.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEight England players are set to appear at the Indian Premier League when the 10th edition of the competition begins on Wednesday.\n\nBen Stokes became the IPL's most expensive foreign player when Rising Pune Supergiants bought him for £1.7m.\n\nBowler Tymal Mills, bought for £1.4m by Royal Challengers Bangalore, could face former international team-mate Chris Jordan in the opening match.\n\nThe Sunrisers, captained by Australia international David Warner, beat RCB in the final of the 2016 competition.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes could be in action on Thursday when his side play Mumbai Indians, who have wicketkeeper Jos Buttler in their ranks.\n\nThe competition features some of the best Twenty20 players in the world, including South Africa's AB de Villiers, Australia batsman Aaron Finch and India captain Virat Kohli.\n• None Quiz: How well do you know the IPL?\n\nEngland one-day captain Eoin Morgan joined Kings XI Punjab for £240,066, while limited-overs opening batsman Jason Roy was sold to Gujarat Lions and all-rounder Chris Woakes was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for £504,140.\n\nSam Billings was also kept on by Delhi Daredevils during the first round of the auction.\n\nFast bowler Mills is available for the whole tournament as he is limited to playing T20 cricket because of back pain.\n\nEngland's other players may not be available for the full competition because of international commitments, beginning when England host Ireland in one-day matches on 5 and 7 May.\n\nThe eight-team IPL format is similar to the proposed city-based Twenty20 tournament for English domestic cricket, which could be introduced in 2020.", "Mrs May has defended Britain's ties with the Saudi regime\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May flies into Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a two-day visit to Britain's biggest trading partner in the Arab world.\n\nFor the British, the visit has a straightforward agenda; in a world overshadowed by the uncertainties of Brexit this trip is primarily about trade and investment - Saudi investment that is - into the UK.\n\nBritish goods and services exported to Saudi Arabia totalled £6.6bn ($8.25bn) in 2015.\n\nFor the Saudi rulers - one of the few remaining absolute monarchies in the world - it is also about something else.\n\nThe Saudis are feeling increasingly surrounded and threatened by their regional rival Iran and its proxy militias.\n\nWhen they look at the map of the region they see Iran effectively controlling five Middle Eastern capitals now: Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and Sana'a, and spreading its influence among the Shia populations in Bahrain and along Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast.\n\nSo the Saudis want to know that their defence alliance with the UK, as well as the US, is rock solid.\n\nBut left out of the picture are the human rights organisations and campaign groups that want Mrs May to use this visit to pressure the Saudis to both end their military campaign in neighbouring Yemen and to release three young prisoners held on death row.\n\nThe death toll is mounting from the war in Yemen, at least 7,700 civilians killed according to the UN, most by Saudi-led air strikes, and millions at risk of malnutrition or even starvation.\n\nMore than 60% of civilian deaths in Yemen are due to Saudi-led air strikes, the UN says\n\nIn Yemen, the Saudis and their allies the UAE are determined to reverse what they see as an Iranian-backed coup by minority Houthi rebels who have illegally taken over half the country, including the capital, and carried out numerous human rights abuses since seizing power in 2014.\n\nBut the Saudis have got themselves bogged down in an unwinnable war and paying the price are Yemen's civilians; schools, hospitals, markets and a funeral have all been hit by clumsy targeting from the air.\n\nThis has prompted calls for the UK and the US to stop supplying planes, weapons and intelligence to the Saudis, at the very time that the UK is seeking ever closer ties with the Gulf Arab states.\n\nMrs May has defended the UK's ties with the Saudis by pointing out that they have provided vital intelligence that has saved British lives.\n\nThis is true. In 2010 a Saudi human informant inside al-Qaeda in Yemen tipped off MI6 that a bomb was hidden in cargo on a plane heading for Britain.\n\nIt was. The printer ink toner cartridges, packed with PETN explosive, got as far as East Midlands Airport before the police finally discovered them after the agent gave them the serial numbers.\n\nCampaigners want the UK government to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and to call for the release of blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 10 years and 1,000 lashes for \"insulting Islam\"\n\nBut Saudi Arabia's human rights record still makes the country a controversial ally for the UK which purports to have an ethical foreign policy.\n\nCommenting on Mrs May's Saudi visit, human rights pressure group Reprieve said: \"As the prime minister makes ever greater overtures towards the Saudi government, the kingdom continues to carry out appalling abuses, including torture, forced 'confessions' and death sentences for juveniles.\n\n\"Theresa May's desire for closer relations with the Gulf must not cloud Britain's commitment to human rights.\"\n\nSo for Theresa May the coming two days will require something of a balancing act - pushing for much-needed trade, more investment and closer ties with Riyadh and yet at the same time expressing just enough concern at humanitarian issues to avoid excessive criticism at home.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nZlatan Ibrahimovic rescued an injury-time draw for Manchester United against Everton as Jose Mourinho's side once again failed to win in the league at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Swede's 94th-minute penalty was awarded after Luke Shaw's goal-bound shot was handled on the line by visiting defender Ashley Williams, who was given a red card.\n\nThe point means United extend their unbeaten run to 20 games, but have now drawn nine times at home in the league and 12 overall, while opponents Everton missed the chance to leapfrog them in the table.\n\nEverton's opener came through Phil Jagielka's clever, flicked finish from close range when he had his back to goal.\n\nIn response to going behind, Ander Herrera struck the crossbar after Joel Robles parried Daley Blind's free-kick and the United midfielder also forced Toffees goalkeeper Robles into a full-stretch save.\n\nPaul Pogba came on for the second half and headed against the bar from Ashley Young's free-kick, while Ibrahimovic had a goal disallowed for offside in a disjointed United performance.\n\nRelive the draw from Old Trafford\n\nUnited were staring at defeat for the first time since their 4-0 drubbing against Chelsea in October before Ibrahimovic's coolly taken penalty which sent Robles the wrong way.\n\nThe striker said before kick-off that he and the club are \"still in talks\" about signing a new deal for next season and they are indebted to the Swede for his 27 goals this term, many of which have been on important occasions.\n\nIt was a huge let-off for the hosts, who had 61.5% possession and 18 shots, but only three on target, showing their obvious weakness in front of goal.\n\nMuch of United's play was in front of the Everton backline - often sideways and ponderous - without displaying any real strategy to breakdown the opposition.\n\nPrevious boss Louis van Gaal's slow style of play was criticised by the supporters, but United's last two performances have been a throwback to those days.\n\nIn fact, after 29 games in his first season, Van Gaal claimed 56 points and were fourth in the league, while Mourinho has two fewer points and are a place further back.\n\nIn an attempt to get back into the contest, world record signing Pogba replaced left-back Daley Blind at half time.\n\nA reshuffle to the side meant Herrera dropped to Blind's previous position, allowing Pogba to take up his role in the middle of the park.\n\nBut less than five minutes later, Herrera swapped positions with Young to go to the right-back spot.\n\nAll this took place with full-backs Matteo Darmian and Luke Shaw - whose commitment has been questioned by the manager - sitting on the bench.\n\nShaw did come on just after the hour mark but only after an injury to Young, while Henrikh Mkhitaryan - dropped as Mourinho was \"not happy\" with his performance in the previous match against West Brom - replaced Michael Carrick.\n\nThe confusion from his players and the muddled changes from boss Mourinho showed the apparent mistrust he holds towards his squad as they struggle to find cohesion and incisiveness.\n\nA busy April for United has started with two draws, with five further league and two Europa League games to play.\n\nFrom Manchester United, it was a dog's dinner of a performance. They had no idea who was playing where and they played that way. They have gone away with one point but should have had none.\n\nUnited were absolutely all over the place. I cannot see what they were trying to achieve here. They had no shape about them at all.\n\nWhere was Marouane Fellaini even playing? One second he is trying to go forward and the next he is running back - at times he is just chasing the ball like a six-year-old in the playground.\n\nHaving collected 1-0 victories in his two previous visits to Old Trafford with Southampton, Dutchman Ronald Koeman was looking to make it a hat-trick by becoming the first manager in Premier League history to win three consecutive away games at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Everton boss was one minute away from doing so.\n\nThe Dutchman would have set a record which even Sir Alex Ferguson, Louis van Gaal and Mourinho failed to do in their opening three home games as United manager.\n\nKoeman's side took the lead as centre-back Jagielka nipped in ahead of the hesitant Marcos Rojo and from there on, the Blues defended deep and resolutely but ultimately came away with just a point.\n\nEverton's robustness was typified by the assured 20-year-old Mason Holgate, who made four interceptions and regained possession nine times, which was more than any other team-mate.\n\nThe impressive Ashley Williams patrolled the defence and completed 11 clearances for his team, but it was his late error which led to the equaliser.\n\nA flash point in the second half saw Kevin Mirallas petulantly refuse a handshake from his manager when substituted on 67 minutes.\n\nCommenting on the incident, Koeman said: \"I can understand players are a bit disappointed if you sub them but the way he reacted was not a team in my opinion and I will speak with him about that.\"\n\n'Result is hard to take'\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho told BBC Sport: \"We scored two legal goals but I tell you with a smile on my face because I am not upset with the linesman. A really difficult decision for him, only video assistant replay could help this.\n\n\"After pressure, after pressure, after pressure the goal finally arrived and at least you don't have the feeling of defeat.\n\n\"The players gave everything. The performance from a football point of view was not good but I am very pleased with the effort.\"\n\nEverton boss Ronald Koeman told BBC Sport: \"It was a difficult game, we controlled it well at 1-0 up, we had chances on the counter in the second half but not always was the last ball a good one.\n\n\"It was really disappointing you don't get the win. The penalty was the right decision but it was really hard to take.\n\n\"Manchester United were attacking, taking risks, for that we had to kill the game. I was really confident to keep the clean sheet tonight.\"\n\nUnited continue their difficult month with a trip to bottom side Sunderland on Sunday (kick-off 13:30 BST), while Everton host Leicester on the same day (kick-off 16:00 BST).\n\nNo more second half comebacks - the stats\n• None Manchester United's Premier League unbeaten run now stands at 20 games, but they've drawn half of those (won 10, drawn 10).\n• None Ashley Williams became the first Everton player to be sent off in the Premier League against Manchester United since David Weir in October 2002.\n• None Phil Jagielka has scored his first Premier League goal since May 2015, 703 days ago against Aston Villa.\n• None Defender Jagielka is the 17th scorer for Everton this season in the Premier League - they have had more different scorers than any other club.\n• None The Red Devils have drawn 12 league games this season, their most in a campaign since the 1998-99 season (13).\n• None United have won just one of the 11 Premier League games they have been trailing at half-time at Old Trafford since Alex Ferguson left the club (drawn three, lost seven).\n• None United have won just six of their 16 league games at home this season (37.5% win percentage), their worst home win % in a campaign since 1973-74 (33.3%).\n• None Goal! Manchester United 1, Everton 1. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Ashley Williams (Everton) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Luke Shaw (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.\n• None Tom Davies (Everton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Manchester United's Luke Shaw is being targeted by Jose Mourinho as a player who needs more development, but is his football brain really a problem or is Shaw being used as a \"punchbag\"?\n\nWATCH MORE: Shaw needs to grow up - Mourinho", "Marilyn Shankle-Grant on a recent visit with her son, Paul Storey\n\nFor the families of men facing the death penalty, money can be a barrier to seeing a loved one before the end.\n\nMarilyn Shankle-Grant's son, Paul Storey, has been fighting his death sentence for almost 10 years. All his legal efforts so far have fallen short, and in autumn, a judge set his execution date for 12 April, 2017.\n\nStorey was convicted in the 2006 shooting death of 28-year-old Jonas Cherry during an armed robbery. Storey's accomplice - the gunman - pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Storey went forward with a jury trial and received the death penalty in 2008.\n\nSince he was sent to death row, Shankle-Grant has been able to see her son about once a month, making the four-hour drive from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to the state prison in Livingston, Texas.\n\nBut recently things have got more difficult for the 57-year-old hospitality worker. The stress and depression over her son's impending execution was affecting her work performance, and she lost a job she had held for 30 years.\n\nShe tried to pick up temporary work, and even started her own business, Marilyn's Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes, baking flat, buttery rounds from her grandmother's recipe, wrapping them up in cellophane and selling them at local events.\n\nBut even that small income stream has dried up - she stopped making tea cakes not long after her son's execution date was announced.\n\n\"When I do them, I do it with lots of love,\" she explains. \"Right now that's just not in me.\"\n\nThe situation has become dire - her Forth Worth home entered foreclosure this week. She needs $8,000 (about £6,400) to save it.\n\nThe prison in Livingston, Texas, where Paul Storey and other death row inmates are held\n\nHer financial difficulty - not to mention her broken car - have made the trips to Livingston a real financial strain, at the same time that the approaching execution date makes them more important than ever. She estimates each trip costs roughly $350.\n\nWith just six weeks left to visit before her son is executed, Shankle-Grant posted a weary status to her Facebook page, lamenting the short amount of time she has left with her son and the financial struggle she faces just to see him.\n\nIt caught the eye of Abraham J Bonowitz, co-director of Death Penalty Action, an anti-death penalty charity. He had met Shankle-Grant many times over the years at death penalty abolition events.\n\nBonowitz reached out to Shankle-Grant to ask her permission to set up an online fundraiser on her behalf. He created a page on the crowdfunding site You Caring, which included a note from Shankle-Grant.\n\n\"My love and devotion to my son are not matched by the resources needed to make the trip as often as I am allowed to visit him,\" she wrote. \"With a heavy heart I turn to my fellow human light to ask you to help me help my son face the darkness as his destruction approaches.\"\n\nThe donations began streaming in. One anonymous donor contributed $1,000.\n\n\"My father was executed in Texas 13 years ago, and while the situation is still painful, I'm thankful for our last few visits, and I know he was as well,\" wrote one contributor.\n\n\"Nobody's going to be able to take away the pain that Marilyn has, but we can take away some of the anxiety,\" says Bonowitz, who is considering making these fundraisers a permanent part of his work.\n\nSo far, he has raised nearly $6,000. The money allows Shankle-Grant to rent a car each weekend, stay for two nights in a nearby hotel, as well as pay for meals and gas.\n\nThanks to the funds, Shankle-Grant has been able to visit her son every weekend since. She says she is incredibly grateful for the help.\n\n\"None of this would be able to be happening if it weren't for that You Caring page,\" she says. \"I'm able to talk to him. When he's down and out and depressed, we can talk about it and talk him through it. It gives me comfort, too.\"\n\nAbraham Bonowitz at an anti-death penalty rally he hosts in front of the US Supreme Court each year\n\nShankle-Grant's situation illustrates the hidden impact on the families of the condemned, who often come from low-income backgrounds and can live far away from the prison in which their loved one is housed. After 30 years of death penalty abolition work, Bonowitz has seen the situation many times before. Often a church or a non-profit will step in to help defray the cost of visiting a family member before an execution.\n\n\"None of these families have any money,\" he says. \"Marilyn never did anything wrong and yet she is made to suffer. It's her son's fault, yes, but that doesn't mean the love for her child stops.\"\n\nThe success of the fundraiser caught the attention of advocates in Arkansas, which is poised to execute eight inmates over the course of 10 days, due to the fact that the state's supply of an execution drug called midazolam is about to expire.\n\nDeborah Robinson, a freelance journalist who is writing a book about the eight men, says she has heard from three of them, asking for help so that their families can see them before the execution dates in late April.\n\n\"I have a 21-year-old daughter whom I haven't seen in 17 years, along with a 3-year-old granddaughter,\" wrote inmate Kenneth Williams, who is scheduled to die on 27 April, in a message to Robinson.\n\n\"The financial costs have prevented her from coming. If I am going to be executed, I would love to see her before I go one last time and to see my grandchild for the first time.\"\n\nLynn Scott with her brother Jack Jones, Jr, who has been in prison since 1995\n\nLynn Scott, the sister of death row inmate Jack Jones, Jr, lives in North Carolina. She runs her own business as a wedding planner, but she and her husband lost nearly everything after the 2008 recession - their house, their 401k, they sold off most of their possessions. After Scott's husband suffered a massive heart attack in 2015, they found themselves financially devastated.\n\n\"We live paycheck to paycheck,\" she says.\n\nArkansas is scheduled to execute her brother on 24 April. With airfare, hotel, car rental and meals - plus cremation and burial expenses - she expects that she will need about $5,000.\n\n\"It's very difficult,\" says Scott. \"What I want people to know is - whatever the inmates did, we didn't do that. I didn't do that to those people, but I'm still losing someone.\"\n\nModelling a crowdfunding page after the one in Texas, Robinson is now raising funds for all three Arkansas families to help defray some of those costs.\n\nShankle-Grant and Storey on a visit in 2014\n\nIf Shankle-Grant's You Caring page raises more money than she can use to see her son, she says she wants the excess funds to go to the families in Arkansas.\n\nHer son, Storey, still has a lawyer fighting for a stay of execution, in part based on the fact that his victim's parents are opposed to the death penalty and do not want him to be executed. Glenn and Judy Cherry have written letters to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and other state officials asking for mercy.\n\nShankle-Grant still holds out hope that her son's execution will be halted, and the portion of the fundraiser money that is designated for her son's burial can be sent to the other families. She is asking supporters to write letters to the Texas Department of Corrections, asking that Storey's life be spared.\n\nIn the meantime, because of a court hearing Storey has been moved to a county jail that allows him to use the phone for the first time in years (phone calls are not allowed for death row inmates in his prison). Shankle-Grant says he has been able to talk to his elderly grandparents, who can't travel to see him, and thanks to the fundraiser, she was easily able to pay the hefty $300 phone bill. She is also able to talk to him, sometimes as often as four times a day.\n\nIt's a small comfort as the execution date creeps closer and closer.\n\n\"He'll hang up and call back, hang up and call back,\" she says. \"I don't know after [nine] days if I'm ever going to hear his voice again. For me, it's very important.\"\n\nIf an inmate's family does not make other arrangements - which can cost thousands - they are buried in this prison cemetery in Huntsville, Texas", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool have been fined £100,000 by the Premier League and handed a two-year ban on signing academy players from other clubs for a rule breach.\n\nIt relates to the club's approach to a 12-year-old academy player at Stoke City in September last year.\n\nLiverpool will be banned from signing any academy players who have been registered with a Premier League or EFL club in the previous 18 months.\n\nThis second year of the ban will be suspended for a three-year period.\n\nIn September 2016 Liverpool made an application to register the Stoke City Academy player and compensation was agreed.\n\nBut the application was rejected by the Premier League Board.\n\nAn investigation by the Premier League found that Liverpool spoke to the youngster and his family before they should have and also paid for him and some of his family to attend a game at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool also offered to pay the player's school fees, which were being paid by Stoke at this time, but this was a breach of newly-introduced regulations which state a benefit can only be offered if it is applicable to all youngsters across the club's academy and this was not the case.\n\nPremier League rules ban the offer of any inducements from clubs to encourage a move.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Gordon Corera has had a rare tour of GCHQ\n\nThe operations centre sits on one of the upper floors of GCHQ and runs 24/7. At any one time, a team of analysts might be monitoring the kidnap of a British citizen abroad or an ongoing counter-terrorist operation run jointly with MI5.\n\nIn one corner, a large globe visualises all the cyber attacks targeting the UK from around the world. The room is a reminder of the range of activity that GCHQ is involved in - as well as its global reach in monitoring communications and data flows.\n\nRussian cyber attacks are high up the agenda, in the wake of claims Moscow interfered in the US election and is trying the same in Europe.\n\n\"We have been watching Russian cyber activity since the mid 1990s,\" GCHQ's outgoing director, Robert Hannigan, tells the BBC.\n\n\"The scale has changed. They've invested a lot of money and people in offensive cyber behaviour and critically they've decided to do reckless and interfering things in European countries.\"\n\nMr Hannigan says that whilst it is impossible to be absolutely sure, the defences against such attacks seem to have held in the UK.\n\nOne of his legacies will be the creation of the National Cyber Security Centre, an arm of GCHQ which is based in London and is much more public facing in providing protective advice to the country about the threats in cyberspace.\n\nTerrorism sits alongside cyber threats on the agenda. So-called Islamic State - or ISIL - has proved adept at exploiting the power of the internet.\n\nThe Queen visits the National Cyber Security Centre - part of intelligence agency GCHQ\n\n\"It's one of their most important assets. As they are defeated on the ground, the 'online caliphate' will become more important.\n\n\"They will continue to try to use the media to crowd-source terrorism to get people around the world to go and commit acts of violence on their behalf...\n\n\"There are things we can do to contest ISIL in this media space... but it's not just for governments to do operations online. It's for the companies and for the rest of media and society to have the will to drive this material off the internet...\"\n\nWhen he took over as head of GCHQ in 2014, Mr Hannigan launched what was seen as a broadside against technology companies - arguing they were in denial about the way they were used by terrorist groups to communicate and spread their message.\n\nIn the wake of the Westminster attack, the Home Secretary Amber Rudd said that companies should not offer a safe space for terrorists to hide - a reference to the development of end-to-end encryption services which make it impossible to provide the content of communications, even on production of a warrant.\n\nGCHQ, as well as trying to break codes, also works to secure communications and so treads a fine line.\n\n\"Encryption matters hugely to the safety of citizens and to the economy.... The home secretary is talking about a particular problem - that this strong encryption is being abused by terrorists and criminals...\n\n\"Our best way forward is to sit down with the tech companies...\"\n\nRobert Hannigan steps down as GCHQ boss on Friday after nearly three years in the job\n\nThe other area of tension with firms has been over extremist content hosted on websites.\n\nHere, government has recently been placing pressure on the companies to be more proactive in taking down content rather than waiting for it to be reported to them.\n\n\"I think they have moved a long way [but] there's further to go,\" Mr Hannigan says.\n\n\"When I started the job in 2014 they really were reluctant to accept responsibility for anything they carried on their networks - whether that was terrorism, child sexual exploitation or any other kind of crime.\"\n\nGCHQ can detect the work of hackers around the globe\n\nThe threat from IS has been particularly acute in Europe in the last few years. That has driven increased security co-operation - so will Brexit be a problem?\n\n\"I don't think so, because the intelligence-sharing has never been through EU structures and national security has never been part of the European Union's remit.\n\n\"It's simply a statement of fact that we have very, very strong intelligence and security and defence capabilities and we bring a lot to Europe and to our European partners...\"\n\nThe relationship with the US is by far the deepest, which he says will not change under the Trump administration.\n\n\"It's the most powerful weapon we have against terrorism in particular and has massively paid dividends in the last 10 years.\"\n\nIn recent weeks, there was controversy after reports claimed the Obama administration asked GCHQ to spy on President-elect Donald Trump.\n\nGCHQ took the unusual step of publicly denying this.\n\n\"We get crazy conspiracy theories thrown at us every day,\" Mr Hannigan says. \"We ignore most of them. On this occasion it was so crazy that we felt we should say so and we have said it's a ridiculous suggestion.\"\n\nA globe in the operations centre visualises the cyber attacks targeting the UK\n\nDeep underground, beneath the grass sit a series of cavernous computer halls. The noise is at points overwhelming.\n\nMuch effort goes into cooling the machines. Some of the endless racks contain off-the-shelf server technology but large specialist supercomputers sit alongside which are used by the cryptanalysts for code-breaking.\n\nThe exact specifications of these machines and just how much computing power sits in Cheltenham is classified largely to keep other states - primarily the Russians and Chinese - guessing.\n\n\"It's impossible to do counterterrorism or cyber security without that kind of power,\" Mr Hannigan explains, arguing that the challenge remains finding the small needle in the haystack of the massive volume of data on the internet.\n\nAnother aspect of Mr Hannigan's legacy will be the push for greater transparency and openness.\n\n\"It's very important in a democracy to have the consent of the public as well as the legislation in place and to explain that everything we do is under the law,\" Mr Hannigan says.\n\nHe took over an agency bruised by the Edward Snowden revelations and allegations of \"mass surveillance\".\n\n\"Obviously a debate on privacy and greater transparency are good things - but it was perfectly possible to do that and indeed it was happening anyway without the damage that the Snowden revelations did. The same is true of the WikiLeaks disclosures.\"\n\nMr Hannigan says he and the organisation remain optimistic, rather than pessimistic, about the spread of technology.\n\n\"Technology and the internet are overwhelmingly brilliant things for human progress,\" Mr Hannigan says.\n\n\"Unfortunately there will always be people who want to abuse the latest technology. And it's our job to deal with that dark side.\"\n\nMr Hannigan's successor, Jeremy Fleming, formerly Deputy Director of MI5, takes over on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea maintained a seven-point advantage over Tottenham at the top of the Premier League with a hard-fought victory over Manchester City.\n\nPep Guardiola suffered league defeats home and away to the same opponents in a single league season for the first time in his managerial career as City are left to fight for a top-four place.\n\nEden Hazard gave Chelsea a 10th-minute lead when his shot deflected off returning City captain Vincent Kompany past keeper Willy Caballero, who should have done better.\n\nChelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois was also badly at fault when his poor clearance to David Silva set up Sergio Aguero's equaliser after 26 minutes - but Chelsea were back in front before half-time.\n\nThey were awarded a penalty after Fernandinho tripped Pedro and even though Cabellero saved Hazard's spot-kick, the rebound fell kindly for the Belgian to score.\n\nCity, who stay in fourth, had the better chances in a tense second period, with Kompany's header bouncing back off the bar and John Stones shooting over from six yards in injury time. Chelsea, however, held on for a win that was even more vital given Tottenham's dramatic late comeback at Swansea City.\n\nChelsea's progress towards the Premier League title has been a tale of almost unbroken serenity since manager Antonio Conte reworked his tactical approach after successive losses at home to Liverpool and away to Arsenal in September.\n\nThis was arguably their biggest game since as it followed on from the shock home loss to Crystal Palace and it was against a Manchester City side with the talent and capability to make this night at Stamford Bridge a real test of nerve.\n\nAnd so it proved as City, with Silva the orchestrator supreme, putting Chelsea's defence and their supporters on edge right until the final whistle.\n\nChelsea emerged triumphant thanks to the mixture of talent and resilience that has served them so well this season and the celebrations at the final whistle reflected just what a significant night this might prove to be.\n\nHazard provided the flourishes but manager Conte proved his pragmatism with the introduction of Nemanja Matic for Kurt Zouma at the start of the second half to attempt to lock down the win.\n\nIt worked to an extent but Chelsea also enjoyed good fortune as Kompany's header bounced back off the bar and Stones somehow scooped an injury-time chance over the top.\n\nIn the final reckoning, Chelsea showed the bloody-minded defiance of champions - and this is the sort of result that could earn them that crown.\n\nIf this meeting of two of the Premier League's superpowers and two elite coaches was meant to be an enjoyable experience, you would not have known from the body language of Chelsea coach Conte and his Manchester City counterpart Guardiola.\n\nThe Catalan, in particular, appears to lead an agonised existence in his technical area. The advocate of the joyous, beautiful game looks as if he is going through torture in almost every match.\n\nHe was slapping his thigh and remonstrating with backroom staff within 15 seconds of the kick-off and he was in regular dialogue with fourth official Bobby Madley, with Conte occasionally joining in.\n\nIt was, it should be stressed, another frustrating night for Guardiola when his team promised much and ended with nothing - although it concluded with a warm handshake for Conte, who also looked like he had endured a tough night.\n\nConte, by his standards, was relatively low key but the mask dropped at the final whistle as he pumped his fists in the direction of Chelsea's fans. This was a huge night for the Italian as he did the double over Guardiola.\n\nManchester City remain the great enigma of the Premier League - looking like they could score every time they attack but liable to concede at any moment.\n\nGuardiola still has a goalkeeper conundrum, with Willy Caballero unconvincing and caught out by a routine deflection from Kompany for Hazard's first goal, while there is an air of permanent frailty at the back.\n\nCity's slim title hopes are now over and they must hunt a top-four place, aided by Bournemouth's late equaliser at Liverpool, and the FA Cup.\n\nThey must achieve one of both of those targets to stop this season ending unfulfilled before Guardiola tackles those goalkeeping and defensive problems in the summer.\n\nGood for Hazard, not good for Guardiola - the match stats\n• None Eden Hazard is the first Chelsea player to score home and away against Man City in the Premier League since Salomon Kalou in 2007-08.\n• None Hazard now has 10 Premier League goals at Stamford Bridge this season - more than any other player. This is the second time he's reached double figures at home in the league, after netting 10 there in 2013-14.\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored five goals at Stamford Bridge as an away player in the Premier League - the only player with more is Robin van Persie (six), while Craig Bellamy also has five.\n• None Pep Guardiola has suffered six league defeats as Manchester City boss this season - his highest tally in a single league season as a manager.\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte told Match of the Day: \"My look is tired because I feel like I played it tonight with my players. I suffered with them.\n\n\"But we must be pleased because we beat a strong team - the best team in the league. I think they have a great coach - the best in the world. To win this type of game at this time of the season is great.\"\n\nMan City boss Pep Guardiola told Match of the Day: \"It's an honour to have the amazing players I have. We come here to Stamford Bridge and play the way we have, with huge personality. I'm a lucky guy to manage these guys.\"\n\nChelsea travel to Bournemouth in Saturday's late kick-off (17:30 BST) while Man City host Hull City at 15:00.\n• None N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. John Stones (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range is too high. Assisted by Vincent Kompany with a headed pass following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nolito with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross following a corner.\n• None Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nDefending champion Heather Watson beat Serbia's Nina Stojanovic in three sets to reach the second round of the Monterrey Open in Mexico.\n\nWatson, 24, fought for two hours and 52 minutes to register a 6-2 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 victory over the world number 126.\n\nThe British number three smashed her racquet in frustration after squandering two match points in the second set tie-break.\n\nShe will face Russian sixth seed Ekaterina Makarova in the second round.\n\nWatson, currently ranked 125th in the world, led the second set 5-2 before Stojanovic hit back to force a deciding set.\n\nShe is joined in the second round by compatriot Naomi Broady, who beat Catherine Bellis on Monday.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nPre-tournament favourite Dustin Johnson has suffered a lower-back injury following a fall at his rental home on the eve of Thursday's opening round of the Masters in Augusta.\n\nHis agent David Winkle says he still hopes to play tomorrow.\n\nWorld number one Johnson fell on the stairs on Wednesday and \"landed hard on his lower back\".\n\nHe is said to be uncomfortable but is resting and doctors have advised him to keep the injury stable.\n\nJohnson is due to tee off in the last group at 19:03 BST on Thursday evening.\n• None Quiz: Match the Masters winner with his Champions dinner\n\n\"Dustin took a serious fall on a staircase in his Augusta rental home,\" Winkle said in a statement.\n\n\"He landed very hard on his lower back and is now resting, although quite uncomfortably.\n\n\"He has been advised to remain immobile and begin a regimen of anti-inflammatory medication and icing, with the hope of being able to play tomorrow.\"\n\nThe American, 32, won his third successive tournament when he beat Spain's Jon Rahm in the World Match Play final in late March.\n\nHe has won seven of the 17 tournaments he has played since claiming his first major at the US Open at Oakmont in June, racking up another seven top-10 finishes in the process.\n\nThere is the adage of \"beware the injured golfer\" but there is no doubt this is a significant blow for Johnson.\n\nSince winning last year's US Open he has been a commanding presence and built a telling aura.\n\nNow his Masters bid is surrounded by uncertainty. His late tee time may prove a blessing as it gives an extra recovery period but there is no doubt this is a considerable setback.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Football Association says Joey Barton's 18-month suspension from all football activities was \"the shortest possible\" ban it could have imposed after he breached rules on gambling.\n\nIn the written reasons explaining Wednesday's decision, the FA revealed Barton placed 1,260 bets worth £205,172, at a loss of £16,708.\n\nThe 34-year-old Burnley midfielder has admitted he is addicted to gambling.\n\nBut the FA said a \"dismissive attitude to the rules\" was also a factor.\n\n\"His addiction may have distorted his thinking in part, but it is not a compete answer for this continued conduct,\" the FA said.\n\nThe governing body acknowledged Barton's \"difficulties are compounded by the fact betting is 'everywhere' in sport\".\n\nIt also said it accepted his betting was \"not calculated to make money\" which it said \"mitigates the gravity of his offending\" and that he was not trying to \"fix\" matches.\n\n\"I am not a cheat, I have never tried to influence a game,\" Barton was quoted as saying.\n\nHowever, it concluded that \"the shortest possible sanction to reflect the totality of his betting breaches was a suspension from football and footballing activity for a period of 18 months\".\n\nHow was the sanction decided?\n\nThe FA said that \"for a single bet placed on a participant's own team to lose\" its guidelines suggest that a fine and a suspension of six months to life is \"appropriate\".\n\nBarton placed 15 bets on his own team to lose.\n\nHowever, the FA said it had not simply calculated the total sanction by multiplying each breach with the suggested ban of six months.\n\nAfter a hearing that lasted seven hours which \"would not have been out of place before the High Court\", it said it reached a conclusion that was \"reasonable, proportionate and fair\".\n\nHow much did Barton bet?\n\nHow were the bets discovered?\n\nAccording to the FA, gambling company Betfair - with which Barton was a registered user - contacted them via email in September 2016, highlighting a potential breach of FA rules.\n\nBetfair provided a spreadsheet of Barton's online gambling activity with them, and the FA's investigation was started.\n\nHowever, Barton was first in breach of the FA's rules on players gambling over the 2005-06 season, when he was a Manchester City player.\n\nIn 2012, the FA wrote a letter to him highlighting concerns over him tweeting \"predictions\" for matches.\n\nBarton tweeted in response that \"according to the FA, I am not allowed to give my opinion on results\", describing the body as \"so out of touch with reality it is untrue\".\n\nThe pattern of betting since released shows that Barton was gambling on matches he was not allowed to.\n\nBut it would appear the FA was not aware of this activity until it was contacted by Betfair.\n\nBarton plans to appeal against the length of the suspension, which he has called \"excessive\".\n\nHis manager at Burnley, Sean Dyche has confirmed that Barton will not be offered a new contract in the summer if the ban remains in place.\n\nThe ex-England international was in his second spell at Turf Moor before the ban, having helped the Clarets reach the Premier League in the 2015-16 season.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\n\"Cheat\" Maria Sharapova should not have been allowed to play again, says 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard.\n\nRussian Sharapova has beaten Roberta Vinci and Ekaterina Makarova at the Stuttgart Open on her return from a 15-month doping ban.\n\nIn October, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Sharapova was not an \"intentional doper\".\n\nBut Bouchard said: \"She's a cheater and I don't think a cheater in any sport should be allowed to play again.\"\n\nCanadian Bouchard, 23, now ranked 59th in the world, told TRT World: \"I think from the WTA it sends the wrong message to young kids: cheat and we'll welcome you back with open arms.\n\n\"I don't think that's right and she's not someone I can say I look up to any more.\n\n\"It's so unfair to all the other players who do it in the right way and are true.\"\n\nWhen asked about the comments after her win over Makarova, Sharapova said: \"I don't have anything to say - I am way above that.\"\n\nFive-time Grand Slam winner Sharapova, who was suspended in March 2016 after testing positive for meldonium, was given a wildcard for the tournament.\n\nThe 30-year-old has also received wildcards for the tournaments in Madrid and Rome and will find out if she has been given one for the French Open on 16 May - 12 days before the competition.\n\nThat decision has been defended by WTA chief Steve Simon, who said it was in keeping with how former dopers were treated in other sports.\n\nSharapova says she would \"play in the juniors\" if it meant competing in this year's French Open and Wimbledon.\n\nShe won her first grand slam title at Wimbledon aged 17 in 2004 and won the last of her five major titles at the French Open in 2014.\n\nThe Russian does not have a world ranking after her points expired during her suspension and would need to reach the final in Stuttgart to be eligible for French Open qualifying.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, former world number one Sharapova said: \"If I get the opportunity to be in a draw then I will take it.\n\n\"I'm being offered wildcards from tournament directors and I'm accepting them.\n\n\"I'm coming with no ranking and I'm not getting a wildcard to receive a trophy or a golden platter. I have to get through the matches and I still have to win them.\n\n\"I've been waiting for this for a long time,\" she said. \"It's the best feeling in the world, those first few seconds before you enter the arena.\n\n\"I spent a long time without hitting any balls. I went to school, I grew my business and had a normal life. I put the racquet away for a little bit.\n\n\"There were a lot of things that I did that I probably would never have done in my twenties.\n\n\"I felt I had to grow as a person and I think I've done that. But this is what I've done for so long. I'm a competitor - that's when I'm at my best.\"", "Coverage: Practice, qualifying and race on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra (second practice online only). Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nLewis Hamilton says Mercedes will not impose team orders as a matter of course, but are aware they may be necessary in the title fight this year.\n\nTeam-mate Valtteri Bottas was ordered to move aside so Hamilton could attack eventual winner Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari in the last race in Bahrain.\n\nBut Hamilton said ahead of Sunday's Russian Grand Prix: \"Our approach is, the team need to win.\n\n\"So we have to try to work as a team but only in special circumstances.\"\n\nHamilton said he had \"never particularly liked\" team orders but that the Mercedes drivers were clear about what their responsibilities were during a race.\n\n\"We have to make sure we maximise the points for the team through the weekend,\" Hamilton said. \"And our notes in our job description is to win for the team not for yourself.\n\n\"If you can't win, it is not the case of not wanting the other car to win. You want the team to win and succeed.\n\n\"Mercedes, we want to finish ahead of Ferrari this year and to do that we have work as a team more than ever before.\"\n\nHamilton heads into the race at the Olympic Park in Sochi seven points behind Vettel in the championship and 23 - almost a clear win - ahead of Bottas.\n\nBut he insisted he would have moved over for Bottas had the roles been reversed in Bahrain.\n\n\"I would have reacted the same way as him,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"He was struggling - he has admitted he was struggling with his rear tyres and when I passed I said to the team: 'If I don't pull away I'll let him back past.' But I did [pull away].\n\n\"So I could see Sebastian pulling away and I was like: 'We have to together pick up the pace.' And at the time Valtteri was struggling with the car balance so it made no sense for us both to fall behind and just let them pull away.\n\n\"So in that scenario we worked as a team and while it was very tough for him he was great gentleman about it and did the team proud.\"\n\nVettel was also asked about the prospect of Ferrari introducing team orders, given he is already 34 points ahead of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.\n\nThe four-time champion said: \"The way we have raced the last two and a half years has been straightforward. It has been close, sometimes too close. You try to fight your team-mate as well as all the others. But more than anything we know and understand we are racing for Ferrari.\"\n\nHe said he expected Mercedes, who are the only team to lead a lap in any of the three races held so far in Russia, to be tough to beat in Sochi.\n\n\"On paper it is a very strong circuit for Mercedes, not just historically, a lot straights, power-sensitive circuit,\" Vettel said. \"We'll see. There is also a lot of corners, where last year the car was already pretty good. If we can be very close to them or even beat them, it would be good.\n\n\"We are very happy with the races we had, especially the pace, which has been a match for Mercedes in the races. But this year you need to focus on every single step to stay in the hunt as the cars will evolve through the season. That's where our focus is at the moment.\"\n\nBottas said Mercedes had not discussed whether there would come a point where the team had to designate a number one and number two driver in the interests of the title battle.\n\n\"We have not had the conversation because there is no need to,\" said the Finn, who joined Mercedes this season as a replacement for world champion Nico Rosberg, who retired at the end of last season.\n\n\"This team has never had number one or two and it is not planning to. It is always trying to give equal chance [to both drivers].\n\n\"But what is different is that the gap to the second team in the last few years has been bigger so letting the drivers race has not cost anything.\n\n\"I do understand this year it can cost points and if for any reason the pace of the other car is not good, the team has to be clever to not lose points.\n\n\"We have only had three races and I feel all my good races are on the way. I am not thinking of anything like that and I am sure the team think there is no need to.\"\n\nHamilton, who has won one race to Vettel's two so far this season, said he was optimistic Mercedes could beat Ferrari in Russia.\n\n\"If we win, it will be earned, and we are here to earn it,\" he said. \"There are lots of things we are trying to do to combat the strength of the Ferrari and I think we can.\n\n\"This is a different track, different tyre wear and we will just have to drive the socks off the car.\n\n\"We have to be operating on all cylinders every race because one small drop in percentage and the Ferrari is ahead.\"", "Gia is going to take a week's paid leave to house train her puppy Rye\n\nAs anyone who has had a new puppy will understand, 24-year-old Gia Nigro has got her hands full.\n\nGia, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, is the proud owner of a nine-week-old goldendoodle puppy (a cross between a golden retriever and a poodle) called Rye.\n\nLike any young dog it is going to require a fair amount of training to ensure it becomes housetrained and obedient.\n\nBut what can you do if, like Gia, you work full-time, and you don't have any holiday time left to dedicate to your new four-legged friend?\n\nThankfully for Gia, her employer - Scottish brewer Brewdog - announced a rather unusual new employee perk earlier this year - one week's paid leave for all workers who adopt a puppy or rescue dog.\n\nUnsurprisingly the announcement - which was released to the media in a press release rather than just told to staff - made headlines around the world. Newspaper reports were quick to praise the scheme that Brewdog has dubbed \"pawternity\" leave.\n\nThe pawternity scheme coincided with the opening of Brewdog's new US brewery and bar\n\nHowever, the more cynical may have wondered whether there was more than a whiff of gimmick to Brewdog's unusual new employee benefit. They may further question whether it was unveiled as \"clickbait\" to draw attention to a press release that also announced that the company had just opened a new 100,000 sq ft (9,000sq m) North American brewery in Columbus.\n\nNot that Gia, who works at the new facility, has any complaints. \"The policy gives me the flexibility to choose when to take a fully paid week off with Rye, which I'll be doing next month to get her fully house trained,\" she says.\n\nAnd in defence of Brewdog, it has also always been dog-friendly, and allows employees to take their pets to work with them.\n\nWhile employee perks are nothing new, they have become both more unusual and headline grabbing in recent years. But why exactly are firms offering them?\n\nLast year New York-based online retailer Boxed was praised when its co-founder and boss Chieh Huang announced that the company would contribute to the cost of employees' weddings.\n\nMr Huang says he was inspired to start the unusual scheme when he saw one of his employees crying at work because he was struggling to cover the cost of his mother's medical bills and save for his forthcoming wedding.\n\nBoxed worker Marcel Graham (centre, in a hat) cried after being told his wedding would be paid for\n\n\"He basically realised that he was just never going to make it work,\" says Mr Huang, who was immediately inspired to pay for the worker's wedding, and then introduce the company-wide policy.\n\n\"The response was overwhelming,\" says Mr Huang. \"There was lots of yelling, high-fiving, and tears of joy.\n\n\"I think that day our employees realised that we understand just how much of a commitment they make to us every day, putting in long hours to make this company grow, and that we're willing to make a commitment to them in return. I really think that resonated with them.\"\n\nWhile Boxed is a bit cagey about the details, under the scheme it will pay up to $20,000 (£16,000) for weddings, depending on seniority and time with the company.\n\nBoxed will pay up to $20,000 towards an employee's wedding\n\nSo far half a dozen Boxed workers have redeemed the perk, and Mr Huang says there are \"lots more on the horizon\".\n\nHe firmly rejects the suggestion that the scheme was introduced simply to garner publicity.\n\n\"There are definitely less expensive ways to get media attention,\" says Mr Huang. \"We definitely do not sit around in a room trying to come up with ideas on how to create buzzworthy corporate benefits.\"\n\nOccupational psychologist Cheryl Isaacs says that having generous employee perks can be a good way for a company to help ensure that it has a contented workforce, and that numerous studies have shown (perhaps unsurprisingly) that happy staff are more productive.\n\nOne such recent report into the issue by the University of Warwick found that employee happiness boosted productivity by 12%, while unhappy workers were 10% less productive.\n\nHowever, London-based Ms Isaacs cautions that the benefits should apply to most employees, and not just a few.\n\n\"A deeper question that each individual organisation needs to answer is: does the benefit bring ROI [return on investment']? Will it have any long-lasting benefits for the company?\" she says.\n\nOther employee perk schemes that have made the headlines in recent years include Apple and Facebook offering to pay for egg freezing for their female employees, while Netflix allows staff to take up to a year's parental leave.\n\nUS firm Zillow pays for female staff to post their breast milk\n\nMeanwhile, US online real estate firm Zillow pays for female employees to post their breast milk if they are working away from home. They introduced the scheme in 2010 after a worker had difficulty getting her container of milk through airport security.\n\nWhile all these firms say they are trying to help their staff rather than garner positive publicity, Florida-based PR expert Glenn Selig guesses that businesses can often be seeking both.\n\n\"Companies can both really mean it - want to improve the lives of their employees, and get their names out there,\" he says.\n\n\"I wouldn't be surprised if in the C suites [at boardroom level] there was some kind of conversation about what kind of benefit can be offered to employees that would also make the company look good, and could generate positive attention.\"\n\nWhile Brewdog has a range of staff benefits that don't make the headlines, such as paying staff a guaranteed living wage and generous parental leave, Mr Selig says the \"pawternity\" scheme is a \"really neat idea\" from a PR point of view.\n\n\"Will it make people buy the beer? I don't know,\" he says.\n\n\"But you might remember it next time you're sitting in a bar and someone mentions Brewdog.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nRonnie O'Sullivan says he has no intention of retiring and does not care if he fails to win another World Championship.\n\nThe 41-year-old, a five-time winner at the Crucible, was beaten 13-10 by Ding Junhui in a captivating quarter-final.\n\nO'Sullivan was \"disappointed\" to lose but insisted he enjoyed the tournament and playing in a \"fantastic match\".\n\nHe said: \"I love what I do so why would I not do it? The real love is getting your cue out of the case.\"\n\nBut O'Sullivan's season and tournament have been characterised by controversy.\n• None O'Sullivan: I won't be bullied or intimidated by game's authorities\n\nFollowing his first-round win over Gary Wilson, he claimed to have been bullied by snooker bosses, an accusation strongly denied by World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn.\n\nO'Sullivan's gripes with the sport's authorities date back to January when he publicly criticised a referee and swore at a photographer during the Masters.\n\nThat Masters victory was the only tournament win for O'Sullivan this season, although he has made three ranking event finals.\n\nAt the Crucible, only Steve Davis, a six-time world champion, and Stephen Hendry, a seven-time winner, have more titles.\n\nAnd one more ranking-event success would also see him move second on the all-time list with 29, seven behind Hendry.\n\nHe said: \"I have had the best year of my life and have not won many tournaments, and I think 'how does that relate?'\n\n\"But I have never been one for chasing records and I won't stop playing because I am not winning tournaments. I will keep playing because I love playing.\"\n\nThe continued growth of the game in the Far East has also presented O'Sullivan with more opportunities.\n\n\"I do a lot of exhibitions,\" he added. \"I like to entertain and put on a good show and I like to enjoy myself. In a world where everything is so serious I like to make it fun.\n\n\"China has great offers coming through. I hope to spend a lot of time playing in events. I see myself spending more time in China than I do here.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Hearn - who said O'Sullivan's claims of \"bullying and intimidating\" were words that were \"alien\" to him - announced an increase in tour prize money for next season, going up up £12m from the current £10m, with an aim to reach the £20m mark.\n\nThe winner of the 2017 World Championship will receive £375,000. That will rise to £425,000 in 2018 and £500,000 the following year.\n\nHearn also said entry fees for playing in ranking tournaments would be abolished for tour players.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nMarouane Fellaini was sent off for headbutting Sergio Aguero as Manchester City and Manchester United fought out an attritional goalless draw at Etihad Stadium to leave their hopes of a place in the Premier League's top four still in the balance.\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho will be the happier after they extended their unbeaten league run to 24 games, a feat achieved without Fellaini in the closing stages after he was dismissed for a senseless headbutt on Aguero.\n\nArgentine Aguero came closest for City when he hit the post early on and manager Pep Guardiola was left with an injury concern when keeper Claudio Bravo was taken off on a stretcher after injuring his calf catching a cross in the second half.\n\nCity substitute Gabriel Jesus had a later header correctly ruled out for offside as they remain in fourth place, with United a point behind in fifth as both sides have five games remaining.\n\nBravo's season could be over - Guardiola\n\nIn Short - why Mourinho should sign John Terry\n\nResilient Man Utd still in top four hunt\n\nUnited had 30.8% possession - their lowest figure in a Premier League game since Opta started recording possession in 2003-04.\n\nBut Mourinho's side showed all the qualities that have ensured they have remained unbeaten in the Premier League since October to battle their way to a point here.\n\nUnited spent much of the game on the back foot and almost the entire second half camped in their own territory, but showed the reserves of resilience, organisation and defiance that compensates for their current lack of stardust.\n\nMichael Carrick provided the solid platform and for the most part City were frustrated, with too many efforts off target or lacking the power to trouble United keeper David de Gea.\n\nUnited carried real threat in the pace of Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial but their midfield lacked the guile to provide the right service.\n\nThis result keeps United right in the hunt for the top four as they stand in fifth place, one point behind City and two points behind third-placed Liverpool with a game in hand.\n\nThe biggest minus on their night was the crass stupidity of Fellaini, needlessly involved in the incident that saw him thrust his head into the face of Aguero.\n\nFellaini had been booked 19 seconds earlier for another foul on the City forward and after his red card the Belgian had to be encouraged to leave the field by his team-mates.\n\nThis was deja vu for City and Guardiola - so much possession and territory, too little end result.\n\nCity created the best chances and effectively spent the second 45 minutes camped in United territory but as on so many occasions this season, including the FA Cup semi-final loss to Arsenal, possession and territory was not turned into scoreline supremacy.\n\nIt is a puzzle Guardiola must solve and one which will cause him disquiet given the range of attacking talent at his disposal.\n\nCity are still having to fight for that top four place and Guardiola must hope his side discover a ruthless edge, with the return to fitness of Gabriel Jesus sure to help. The Brazilian, signed last year but unable to play until January, was making his first appearance since he was injured playing against Bournemouth on 13 February.\n\nKompany back to his best\n\nVincent Kompany's return to form and fitness has been massive bonus for Manchester City and Guardiola - and the 31-year-old who has captained the club to two Premier League titles looked back to his imperious best against Manchester United.\n\nKompany gives City's defence added power and assurance, as well as leadership, and illustrated again how much he has been missed as he has battled a succession of injuries.\n\nHe played only 33 games in 2014-15 and 22 last season, a total that included only 14 league matches, and this was only his 10th appearance this term as the campaign moves into May.\n\nThis was the first time in more than a year Kompany has put together a sequence of three successive games and came after a tough 120 minutes in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final defeat by Arsenal at Wembley.\n\nKompany is providing quality for the present and may also give Guardiola food for thought when he makes his summer transfer plans, which are almost certain to include a move for another central defender, with Southampton's Virgil van Dijk and Burnley's Michael Keane among those linked with a switch to Etihad Stadium.\n\nUnited see red again - the stats\n• None Seven of the eight red cards given in this Premier League fixture have been to Manchester United players.\n• None Sergio Aguero attempted nine shots in this match. The last player to attempt more in a competitive game against the Red Devils was Cristiano Ronaldo (11) for Real Madrid in a Champions League match back in March 2013.\n• None This equals the most shots that Aguero has attempted in a Premier League game without scoring (9) - level with his appearance versus West Brom in March 2015.\n• None The two occasions that Manchester United have allowed their opponents the most shots in a Premier League game this season have both been against Man City (18 at Old Trafford and 19 tonight).\n• None United have equalled their record for the longest unbeaten run within a single top-flight season - 24 games, level with 2010-11.\n• None City have now failed to score in four of their last five Manchester derbies in all competitions.\n\nManchester City will climb above Liverpool, who don't play until Monday, if they win at relegation-threatened Middlesbrough on Sunday (14:05 BST), while Manchester United host struggling Swansea City at Old Trafford on the same day (12:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Sergio Agüero tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the red card for violent conduct.\n• None Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "One of the most important sectors at the heart of the Brexit negotiations will be financial services.\n\nAs Mark Carney said, London is \"effectively, the investment banker for Europe\" and the City is the financial capital of the European Union.\n\nNearly 80% of foreign exchange trading and 30% of all bank lending in the EU flows through the UK.\n\nHow much that will change after Britain leaves the European Union is a matter of increasingly tense debate.\n\nIn the UK, very senior figures within the financial services sector argue that it is \"nonsensical\" to argue that after Brexit, large amounts of euro-denominated trading should move on to the continent.\n\nThey point out that significant amounts of dollar-trading are executed through London - and neither the EU nor the UK has a single-market agreement with the US.\n\nMany on the continent of Europe see it differently, saying that financial oversight will only be possible if euro-trading valued in trillions of pounds a year is put under the direct jurisdiction of European Union-based regulators.\n\nThe biggest sector seen at risk is euro-denominated clearing, the billions of pounds worth of derivatives products traded every day to insure companies, for example, against interest rate changes, currency fluctuations and inflation risk.\n\nMichel Sapin, the French finance minister, told the BBC that it was a question of control.\n\n\"I believe that there is an issue of sovereignty and security of European monetary markets and therefore the majority of the clearing houses cannot remain in London,\" he told me.\n\n\"There will be movement, there will be a displacement and actually many of the financial institutions are already preparing themselves towards that.\"\n\nMany believe that if the trading moves, jobs will move as well.\n\n\"I don't see how it could be a good thing for the City,\" Mr Sapin said.\n\n\"The City will remain a large financial centre, will remain important for Europe as well as for the rest of the world.\n\n\"But the security of the monetary system is something that's of vital importance for any given country or any given groupings of countries - such as the case of the eurozone countries.\"\n\nHundreds of billions of pounds of trades will be at stake.\n\nAt the moment, the two sides - the UK and the EU - appear a long way apart.", "Athaya Slaetalid with husband Jan and their son Jacob\n\nThere's a shortage of women in the Faroe Islands. So local men are increasingly seeking wives from further afield - Thailand and the Philippines in particular. But what's it like for the brides who swap the tropics for this windswept archipelago?\n\nWhen Athaya Slaetalid first moved from Thailand to the Faroe Islands, where winter lasts six months, she would sit next to the heater all day:\n\n\"People told me to go outside because the sun was shining but I just said: 'No! Leave me alone, I'm very cold.'\"\n\nMoving here six years ago was tough for Athaya at first, she admits. She'd met her husband Jan when he was working with a Faroese friend who had started a business in Thailand.\n\nJan knew in advance that bringing his wife to this very different culture, weather and landscape would be challenging.\n\n\"I had my concerns, because everything she was leaving and everything she was coming to were opposites,\" he admits. \"But knowing Athaya, I knew she would cope.\"\n\nThere are now more than 300 women from Thailand and Philippines living in the Faroes. It doesn't sound like a lot, but in a population of just 50,000 people they now make up the largest ethnic minority in these 18 islands, located between Norway and Iceland.\n\nIn recent years the Faroes have experienced population decline, with young people leaving, often in search of education, and not returning. Women have proved more likely to settle abroad. As a result, according to Prime Minister Axel Johannesen, the Faroes have a \"gender deficit\" with approximately 2,000 fewer women than men.\n\nThis, in turn, has lead Faroese men to look beyond the islands for romance. Many, though not all, of the Asian women met their husbands online, some through commercial dating websites. Others have made connections through social media networks or existing Asian-Faroese couples.\n\nFor the new arrivals, the culture shock can be dramatic.\n\nOfficially part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Faroes have their own language (derived from Old Norse) and a very distinctive culture - especially when it comes to food. Fermented mutton, dried cod and occasional whale meat and blubber are typical of the strong flavours here, with none of the traditional herbs and spices of Asian cooking.\n\nAnd, although it never gets as cold as neighbouring Iceland, the wet, cool climate is a challenge for many people. A good summer's day would see the temperature reach 16°C.\n\nAthaya is a confident woman with a ready smile who now works in the restaurant business in Torshavn, the Faroese capital. She and Jan share a cosy cottage on the banks of a fjord surrounded by dramatic mountains. But she's honest about how difficult swapping countries was at first.\n\n\"When our son Jacob was a baby, I was at home all day with no-one to talk to,\" she says.\n\n\"The other villagers are older people and mostly don't speak English. People our age were out at work and there were no children for Jacob to play with. I was really alone. When you stay at home here, you really stay at home. I can say I was depressed. But I knew it would be like that for two or three years.\"\n\nThen, when Jacob started kindergarten, she began working in catering and met other Thai women.\n\n\"That was important because it gave me a network. And it gave me a taste of home again.\"\n\nKrongrak Jokladal felt isolated at first, too, when she arrived from Thailand. Her husband Trondur is a sailor and works away from home for several months at a time.\n\nShe started her own Thai massage salon in the centre of Torshavn. \"You can't work regular hours with a baby, and although my parents-in-law help out with childcare, running the business myself means I can choose my hours,\" she says.\n\nIt's a far cry from Krongrak's previous job as head of an accountancy division in Thai local government.\n\nBut she is unusual in that she runs her own business. Even for many highly educated Asian women in the Faroes, the language barrier means they have to take lower-level work.\n\nAxel Johannesen, the prime minister, says helping the newcomers overcome this is something the government takes seriously.\n\n\"The Asian women who have come in are very active in the labour market, which is good,\" he says. \"One of our priorities is to help them learn Faroese, and there are government programmes offering free language classes.\"\n\nKristjan Arnason recalls the effort his Thai wife Bunlom, who arrived in the Faroes in 2002, put into learning the language.\n\n\"After a long day at work she would sit reading the English-Faeroese dictionary,\" he says. \"She was extraordinarily dedicated.\"\n\n\"I was lucky,\" Bunlom adds. \"I told Kristjan that if I was moving here he had to find me a job. And he did, and I was working with Faeroese people in a hotel so I had to learn how to talk to them.\"\n\nIn an age when immigration has become such a sensitive topic in many parts of Europe, Faeroes society seems remarkably accepting of foreign incomers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuen and Karsten have been married for just over a year. They met on a dating website called Thai Cupid.\n\n\"I think it helps that the immigrants we have seen so far are mostly women,\" says local politician Magni Arge, who also sits in the Danish parliament, \"They come and they work and they don't cause any social problems.\n\n\"But we've seen problems when you have people coming from other cultures into places like the UK, in Sweden and in other parts of Europe - even Denmark. That's why we need to work hard at government level to make sure we don't isolate people and have some kind of sub-culture developing.\"\n\nBut Antonette Egholm, originally from the Philippines, hasn't encountered any anti-immigrant sentiment. I met her and her husband as they moved into a new flat in Torshavn.\n\n\"People here are friendly, she explains, \"and I've never experienced any negative reactions to my being a foreigner. I lived in metro Manila and there we worried about traffic and pollution and crime. Here we don't need to worry about locking the house, and things like healthcare and education are free. At home we have to pay. And here you can just call spontaneously at someone's house, it's not formal. For me, it feels like the Philippines in that way.\"\n\nLikewise, her husband Regin believes increasing diversity is something that should be welcomed not feared.\n\n\"We actually need fresh blood here,\" he adds, \"I like seeing so many children now who have mixed parentage. Our gene pool is very restricted, and it's got to be a good thing that we welcome outsiders who can have families.\"\n\nHe acknowledges that he's had occasional ribbing from some male friends who jokingly ask if he pressed \"enter\" on his computer to order a wife. But he denies he and Antonette have encountered any serious prejudice as a result of their relationship.\n\nAthaya Slaetalid tells me that some of her Thai friends have asked why she doesn't leave her small hamlet, and move to the capital, where almost 40% of Faroe Islanders now live. They say Jacob would have more friends there.\n\n\"No, I don't need to do that,\" she says. \"I'm happy here now, not just surviving but making a life for our family.\n\n\"Look,\" she says, as we step into the garden overlooking the fjord. \"Jacob plays next to the beach. He is surrounded by hills covered in sheep and exposed to nature. And his grandparents live just up the road. There is no pollution and no crime. Not many kids have that these days. This could be the last paradise on earth.\"\n\nTim Ecott is the author of Stealing Water, Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World and Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCrystal Palace boss Sam Allardyce hopes to have on-loan Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho back before the end of the season - but admits the player may have suffered a serious injury.\n\nSakho was carried off during Palace's 1-0 defeat to Tottenham on Wednesday.\n\nHe fell awkwardly after challenging Spurs striker Harry Kane for the ball in the second half.\n\nThe 27-year-old joined Palace in January, signing on loan until the end of the season.\n\nAllardyce, who had said after the game he suspected it was \"ligament trouble\", said on Thursday: \"I'd like to think it is not serious and he will get back before the end of the season but I'm not sure.\n\n\"We are unable to say what the extent of the injury is at the moment. It didn't look to clever the way the knee hyperextended.\n\n\"Let's wait for the scan, will probably have to contact Liverpool depending on how serious the damage is. We can't speculate on if, when and how and the seriousness of the injury.\"\n\nSakho has made eight appearances for Crystal Palace, helping them move up to 12th and seven points clear of the relegation zone.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister sticks relentlessly to her \"strong and stable\" slogan\n\nAs the general election approaches, MPs start to repeat themselves. Over and over again. In every interview. Why do they do it?\n\nThe final Prime Minister's Questions before the general election had just finished when an exasperated Paul Flynn asked the Speaker whether a microchip had been planted into Tory MPs that makes them say the words \"strong and stable\" every 18 seconds.\n\nThe veteran Labour MP had a point - the Conservatives' slogan had just been used 16 times, including a hat-trick of mentions inside a single question by backbencher Michael Fabricant.\n\nIn the 10 days since the general election was announced (with a speech outside 10 Downing Street containing three \"strong and stables\"), it's cropped up 25 times in the House of Commons.\n\nIt's also been crowbarred into interviews by Tory MPs and ministers, repeated in speeches and tweeted endlessly.\n\nMrs May used it seconds into her first stump speech of the campaign, in Bolton - and then, in case anyone missed it, another 11 times.\n\nRival parties have attempted to turn the tactic on its head and use it in their attacks on the government.\n\nSo why are we subjected to such a barrage?\n\nSome MPs have found creative ways to plug their slogan\n\nThings can get a bit surreal on the campaign trail\n\nA clue lies in the calculation by Barack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina, who has reportedly been hired by Theresa May's election team. He has said voters only spent four minutes a week thinking about politics.\n\nSo politicians keep saying their key messages in the hope that they will squeeze into that four-minute window.\n\nAs a result, anyone tasked with following campaigns in detail ends up repeating phrases like \"long-term economic plan\" and \"cost of living crisis\" in their sleep.\n\n\"You have to do it over and over again,\" says Tony Blair's former director of communications Lance Price.\n\n\"It doesn't matter that journalists are sick and tired of hearing it - the point is that voters have to hear it a lot before it sinks into their subconscious and starts to have some resonance.\"\n\nA phrase doesn't need to mean much, he thinks.\n\nTony Blair's team championed the \"on message\" campaign style\n\n\"Blair would say 'the future, not the past' - which was almost completely meaningless, but he said it over and over again and it portrayed the Tories as harking back to the past, while Labour was shiny and new.\"\n\nIt's safe to say that Jeremy Corbyn, who promised a \"new kind of politics\" on becoming leader, has not followed the New Labour playbook.\n\nHe tested out some punchy phrases in that final PMQs (saying the Tories were \"strong against the weak and weak against the strong\") but Labour has so far not adopted the relentless repetition approach.\n\nPR expert Mark Borkowski is not impressed by what he calls \"simplified electioneering\", saying that while people might be \"hypnotised by the repetitive, simple nature of it\", it could increase cynicism about politicians among voters who have had enough of elections.\n\n\"It's fashionable to think they can control the message with a single word, but I think people want more,\" he said.\n\n\"If anything it's going to do more to perpetuate election ennui.\"\n\nHe's not alone in wishing for more substantial speeches.\n\n\"The party machine is too risk-averse to countenance real speech,\" complained classics professor Mary Beard before the last general election.\n\n\"In ancient Greece and Rome, on the other hand, the art of rhetoric was at the heart of political life.\n\n\"Recapturing some of that lost art might be a good idea, and might get us beyond pretty much indistinguishable soundbites.\"\n\nBut for Mr Borkowski, the US election, and Donald Trump's promise to \"make America great again\", is helping shape this campaign.\n\n\"Everybody seems to be completely obsessed with the success of Trump,\" he says.\n\n\"Although people won't admit it, they are very close to actually mimicking what they think was successful for him.\"\n\nWe won't know for another six weeks what has worked for the UK's political leaders - which leaves plenty of time for more \"strong and stables\" to be hurled our way.", "Back in 1993, a rapidly rising Tony Blair caught the public's attention by pledging to be \"tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime\".\n\nLiverpool toddler Jamie Bulger had been murdered and violence would soon peak at around four million incidents a year. Records show the public were really worried about crime.\n\nAnother big story that year was the creation of the European Single Market - and nowhere near the same number of people were bothered about that.\n\nHow times change. Today, more than half of those polled say the EU is one of the most important issue facing Britain today. Only 8% are concerned by crime.\n\nBut the latest release of data from the Office for National Statistics includes some potentially worrying signs ahead of an election where crime is almost certainly not going to figure highly in the minds of voters, let alone the parties after their vote.\n\nFor years, the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), the main and most comprehensive measure of what crime people say they experience, has been charting a long-term fall in offences which is consistent with what's been happening in every other comparable nation.\n\nThe CSEW says that traditional crime is broadly static at just over six million offences in the year to December 2016. When you add to that experimental data on cyber and fraud, it comes to 11.5m crimes.\n\nThere are holes in the CSEW that are difficult to fill - it doesn't cover all types of victims and all types of offences and only recently began asking people about fraud and computer-related crime. But, broadly speaking, it's considered to be a good measure of the long-term trends.\n\nAt the same time, police recorded crime has gone up to 4.8m offences - a rise of 9% - and it has seen rises in both serious violence and \"traditional\" offences such as burglary and robbery.\n\nThose figures - the data collected from what coppers actually know - have been having a torrid time.\n\nThere have been a series of revamps and changes in methodology amid concerns that not all forces are recording accurately what's going on - particularly in relation to violence.\n\nThe resulting data still isn't considered to be 100% trust-worthy as a \"national statistic\".\n\nAnd just to further confuse the picture, there's an entirely independent and highly regarded measure of violence from hospitals that says it has been falling substantially.\n\nSo that's as clear as mud. What's going on?\n\nSome of the 9% increase in police recorded crime is almost certainly down to changes in how things are being recorded, but the ONS also stresses that those tweaks can't account for all of the change\n\nOn violence, the CSEW estimates there were 29 incidents per 1,000 people - a 4% rise on last year which may not be statistically significant (there are always blips up and down in data).\n\nPolice on the other hand recorded a 19% rise in all violent offences - up to 1.1m incidents over the same year.\n\nWhile the overwhelming number of violent incidents result in either no or minor physical injury, there are some concerning rises with guns and knives.\n\nFirearms offences went up 13%, although all incidents involving guns are still down almost 50% on a decade ago.\n\nKnife crime has gone up 14% during the last year, returning to levels last seen six years ago when it became a political and policing priority.\n\nBoth of these rises have already been concerning chief constables, with the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick saying tackling these offences may define her tenure.\n\nAs for fraud and cyber crimes, there are some more concerning figures here. The crime survey hasn't yet collected two complete years of data on these offences - but statisticians already think that it's a rising trend based on other sources.\n\nThere were about 5.4m fraud offences in the year to December, with almost 2m of those being computer related, such as online scams or malware used to trick people into providing access to their online accounts.\n\nThe National Fraud Intelligence Bureau recorded a 4% increase in offences, but it's not quite clear what's going on nationwide because not all victims come forward. And, just as seriously, not all police forces are geared up to understand what's going on in their patch.\n\nThis raises real strategic resources questions for the police: while your average detective knows a thing or two about gathering fingerprints and tracking burglars - spreadsheets and malware are a totally different world.\n\nMarian Fitzgerald, a leading criminologist at the University of Kent, says crime stats have become \"a dog's breakfast\".\n\nShe argues that not only has the crime survey failed to properly inform the public about the emergence of new types of crimes, the police have been caught massaging figures under pressure from successive governments.\n\n\"I think the police figures stabilised after the outcry in 2014 when the police were shown to have been fiddling their figures, particularly in relation to violence and sexual offences,\" says Professor Fitzgerald.\n\n\"Any rises that we are seeing now are genuine. Improvements [to police recording practices] stabilised a long time ago.\"\n\nSo is society becoming more criminal, more dangerous? The ONS is working on ways to assess the impact of crime, including a measure of the severity that different crimes cause: an attempted break-in to a shed to nick a lawn mower is wholly different to an act of violent domestic abuse.\n\nTom Gash, an author and former Whitehall adviser on crime, says: \"If you take a centuries-long perspective, [the figures ] are great news. There have been radical changes in the reduction of violence in modern society.\n\n\"You could discount [the most recent figures] and say it is a very short-term thing, but the thing that worries me is that this is a rise in violent crime that emulates the US.\n\n\"The crime drop in America preceded the crime drop we saw here.\n\n\"The truth is we don't really know what's going on. We're not sure if this has been caused by cuts in policing or mental health or youth services, or some broader societal factor that we haven't yet worked out.\"", "Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live from 21:00 BST and text updates on the BBC Sport website and app from 20:00 BST.\n\nA crowd of 90,000 around the ring at Wembley, a million more on pay-per-view at home, an opponent who has been in more world title fights than he has professional bouts.\n\nLittle about Saturday's heavyweight showdown with Wladimir Klitschko should leave Anthony Joshua as unnaturally calm as he appears to be. But the kid from Watford turned IBF world champion stands in a sweet eddy in his division's turbulent waters - the past all promise, the future more auspicious still.\n\nHeavyweight boxing is so often about hope and hype above authenticity, delusion rather than cold reality.\n\nPunters come back not because so many title fights prove unforgettable, but for the promise that the next really will be - repeat experiences of disappointing champions, meaningless titles and badly made matches pushed away by the beguiling possibility of what might yet lie ahead.\n\nJoshua - 18 fights and less than a cumulative two ring hours into a professional career that followed hard on a late start and rapid progression - goes to Wembley defined by the same heady mix of promise and possibility: that at 27 he has too much speed and power for the 41-year-old Klitschko, that his rapid improvement will continue at the same steep pace, that he could yet prove the perfect heavyweight at an imperfect time for the most captivating class of all.\n\nFor the Joshua of today - hours before the biggest test of his sporting life - appears to have everything the archetypal champion should possess.\n• None Ali? Lewis? Klitschko? Which heavyweight great are you?\n\nThere is his physique: big without being bulky, powerful but explosive, a little reminiscent of Ken Norton through his mid-70s trilogy with Muhammad Ali.\n\nThere is the back story: just the right amount of jeopardy, on remand in Reading prison and later caught in possession of eight ounces of cannabis, before a classical conversion to boxing via a dedicated cousin and grassroots coach, winning the last home gold medal of Great Britain's historic haul on the very last day of the 2012 Olympics.\n\nThere is the unpretentiousness of a man who still lives much of the time with his mother, Yeta, in Golders Green, north London. He has prepared for Saturday night with a three-month training camp at the same unglamorous English Institute of Sport in Sheffield that was both home to fellow Olympic champion Dame Jess Ennis-Hill and where he trained under coach Rob McCracken in the build-up to those London Games.\n\nThere is enough easy charisma to attract both boxing acolytes and cynics, enough charm to stop for every selfie without making it look like a conscious exercise in personal marketing, sufficient understanding of where he has come from to recently gift that first coach at the Finchley & District Amateur Boxing Club, Sean Murphy, a brand new BMW with personalised plates.\n\nAnd there are the knockouts. Eighteen in 18 pro fights, 13 of them inside the first three rounds.\n\nPeople don't pay big money for heavyweight fights to see them go the distance. Nobody turned up to watch Mike Tyson look technically neat for 12 rounds. Lots have decried Klitschko for his sensible strategies.\n\nThey go to see it end as quickly as possible, the sudden termination worth more than a drawn-out dance. It is the only sport where punters are more satisfied the less they see.\n\nAs Joshua said when bumping into a beaming Jose Mourinho backstage at the O2 arena a year ago after taking the IBF heavyweight title from Charles Martin with a second-round knockout: \"People want to see blood, uh?\"\n\nThat was the first fight Mourinho had ever been to - another illustration of Joshua's rare draw, with the Manchester United manager's star-struck grin one more. Joshua looked as relaxed as if he was shaking hands with a steward, his composure as unbroken as it had been in the ring.\n\nAll possibilities, all promises. All pointers to a special future and a place amongst the elite.\n\nAnd yet so little of it can be guaranteed this early in his entry into a brutal business, not when the challenges will keep coming in different shapes and guises both on Saturday and beyond.\n• None 'Father Time has caught up with Klitschko'\n\nThere is no obvious nastiness about Joshua, his behaviour in the build-up to this fight is in contrast to that of fellow Britons David Haye and Tyson Fury in their own battles with Klitschko. In traditional boxing parlance that is a flaw rather than a strength. Villains sell tickets. Bad guys get paid to be bad.\n\nWhen you've sold 90,000 tickets on the appeal of your other attributes that may be less of a worry than it would be for other fighters.\n\nBut there are still great unknowns amid the allure. How might a man who didn't box until after his 18th birthday fare against an opponent who has been fighting in front of stadium sellouts for decades? How will a kid who was seven years old when Klitschko made his professional debut cope with an atmosphere that British boxing has never seen before?\n\nKlitschko is now 41 years old. He was soundly beaten by Fury and hasn't fought in the 16 months since. But he has held all three world titles and lost only four out of 68 professional fights.\n\nWhen Joshua last felt real pressure - in his grudge match against Dillian Whyte - the composure sometimes slipped. In his rush to finish it, he was almost finished himself.\n\n\"There is a chance that Josh could be completely out of his depth,\" says his promoter Eddie Hearn, before adding: \"And there is a chance he could be the fighter we believe he is, and he goes out there and dismantles Klitschko. No-one really knows - and that's the beauty of the fight.\"\n\nCan Joshua handle the unexpected explosive punch? Maybe very few heavyweights can. Ask Lennox Lewis about that night in Carnival City Casino and the impact of Hasim Rahman's right hand.\n\nMaybe the rumours of Joshua being dropped in sparring are just that, or that he is not a gym fighter, or that he needs the challenge of a big fight to bring out his best. Maybe it doesn't matter that only twice in his professional career has he gone beyond the third round.\n\n\"Professional fighters - we're not gods, we're not superheroes,\" he has said. \"We are just human and we make mistakes.\"\n\nAt this moment, Joshua has both a burgeoning aura of invincibility and the character outside the ring to match it. He is also at his tipping point between relative fame inside sport and a leap - should he triumph at Wembley - into the wider public consciousness.\n\n\"If it's all fake, people will soon figure it out,\" he has said. \"Just be yourself.\"\n\nThe one-time bricklayer believes it. He also admitted recently that he is aiming to become boxing's first billionaire. Both that and the extravagance of his recent escapades on holiday in Dubai pointed to a possible contradiction between the two positions. Few intend to change when they pass through that tipping point - but when the world around you changes, you tend to adjust to it.\n\nIt is all part of the fascination with Joshua, all part of that same magic blend of prospect and probability.\n\nNothing has been lost, everything is still possible. Boxing still feels fresh to him, its fascination bright, his love of its nuances and enthusiasm for its punishing routines undimmed.\n\nAnd so we wait, hoping again, drawn in once more by rich promise and real talent - and, of course, a little hype.\n\nGet all the latest boxing news leading up to the Joshua-Klitschko fight, sent straight to your device with notifications in the BBC Sport app. Find out more here.", "Boris Johnson's sister Rachel has joined the Liberal Democrats to fight against a \"hard Brexit\", according to Channel 4 News.\n\nMs Johnson reportedly had talks with the party about standing at the general election for them in a target seat.\n\nBut she was unable to do so because of a rule requiring candidates to have been members for at least a year.\n\nHer brother, the foreign secretary, played a leading role in the campaign to get the UK to leave the EU.\n\nBut their father, Stanley, a former MEP, and Tory MP brother Jo all backed Remain.\n\nWriting in her column in the Mail on Sunday last June, Ms Johnson said the EU referendum result made her daughter cry, while her son's friends were blaming Boris for \"stealing our futures\". Brexit \"feels wrong to my stomach\", she wrote.\n\nShe has previously revealed that she joined the Conservatives in 2008, inspired by a dinner party discussion with David Cameron in Notting Hill, but left in 2011 complaining she was treated \"like the brainwashed member of a cult\".\n\nThe Lib Dems are campaigning against a \"hard Brexit\" that would take the UK out of the single market and end free movement of people - and for a second referendum on the terms of any Brexit deal reached with the EU.", "Joey Barton was never destined to leave football by going quietly into the sunset - so it should come as no surprise that one of the game's most complex, contradictory and divisive personalities has effectively been forced into retirement by an 18-month Football Association suspension for betting offences.\n\nThe 34-year-old has travelled a troubled and tempestuous road since emerging as a talented youngster at Manchester City, earning one England cap and a career full of headlines while also playing for Newcastle United, Queen's Park Rangers, Marseille, Rangers and Burnley.\n\nThe headline on Barton's personal website reads: \"Footballer. Question Time Guest. Philosophy Student. Future Coach. Fluent French Speaker. What Has Become Of Me?\"\n\nMany will wonder what will be become of Barton after his ban, £30,000 fine and warning about his future conduct after accepting he placed 1,260 bets on matches between 26 March 2006 and 13 May 2016.\n\nWhat is certain is that it is highly unlikely football has heard the last of an outspoken controversialist who mixes intelligence with a self-destructive streak that has too often disguised a player of genuine talent.\n\nBarton comes from the same Huyton area of Merseyside that produced former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard - a tough, uncompromising part of the world that shapes characters.\n\nHe survived rejection by his beloved Everton to emerge at Manchester City, where his ability after making his debut against Bolton Wanderers on 5 April 2003 made him stand out.\n\nBarton's constant courting of controversy, however, often overshadowed what he offered the team. It was a strand that has run through his career.\n\nHe picked up his first red card in an FA Cup fourth-round tie at Tottenham in 2004 and later demonstrated his rebellious streak by storming away from the stadium after being dropped by then City manager Kevin Keegan for a game against Southampton.\n\nThe more serious problems came off the field when he was fined six weeks' wages, with two weeks suspended, for stubbing a cigar out in the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy at City's Christmas party. Tandy later sued Barton and won £65,000 in damages.\n\nBarton was also fined eight weeks' wages after being found guilty of gross misconduct following a confrontation with a teenage Everton fan at the team hotel in Bangkok on a pre-season tour in summer 2005.\n\nIn May 2007 he was suspended by City after a training ground altercation left team-mate Ousmane Dabo needing hospital treatment. He was charged with assault, receiving a four-month suspended jail sentence on 1 July 2008 as well as being ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and pay £3,000 in compensation to Dabo. He was also banned for 12 matches, six suspended, by the FA and fined £25,000.\n\nBarton made his one England appearance while at City, a 12-minute appearance as a substitute against Spain in February 2007. He was linked with a recall in 2011 but then-manager Fabio Capello wrote him off, saying: \"He is a good but dangerous player because you could end up 10 v 11.\"\n\nIt was the old, old story. The talent was obvious. The temperament too risky.\n\nBarton joined Newcastle United in June 2007 for £5.8m but was arrested on 27 December 2007 after an incident in Liverpool city centre. He was charged with common assault and affray, and subsequently jailed for six months on 20 May 2008 after admitting the charges.\n\nHe served 77 days of his prison term and also continued to suffer on-field disciplinary problems, drawing heavy criticism from then-Newcastle manager Alan Shearer after being sent off for a late challenge on Liverpool's Xabi Alonso in May 2009 as the Magpies fought for their Premier League life.\n\nBarton was suspended by the club and the misery was compounded by Newcastle's subsequent relegation.\n\nHe stayed with Newcastle but his career on Tyneside concluded amid acrimony in August 2011 after contract talks broke down and Barton aired his frustrations on social media, tweeting: \"Somewhere in those high echelons of NUFC they have decided I am persona non grata.\"\n\nBarton then joined QPR but an unfulfilling spell - which included a sending-off at former club City on the day the hosts won the Premier League so dramatically in 2012 - ended with a loan move to Marseille in France.\n\nQPR were relegated in his absence, but even far afield Barton could not escape controversy, receiving a two-match suspended ban for likening Paris St-Germain defender Thiago Silva to an \"overweight ladyboy\" on Twitter.\n\nBarton's first spell at Burnley was an unqualified success as they won promotion to the Premier League and he was included in the 2016 PFA Championship team of the year, but a short stint in Scotland at Rangers turned into a nightmare.\n\nHe was suspended for three weeks following a training-ground row with team-mate Andy Halliday after a 5-1 loss at Celtic and his contract was terminated in November.\n\nNow, after his latest collision with authority, it is hard to see him back on the field again.\n\nBarton's reputation is as contrary as it is controversial - listen to interviews and an eloquent, thoughtful character can be detected amid the outspoken statements that have attracted such adverse publicity.\n\nThere were those at Manchester City, in particular, eager to highlight this other side of Barton. They spoke about an individual with very obvious personal issues who also had a softer side, as well as a bright and intelligent manner at odds with the public perception of an unsavoury, ill-disciplined individual.\n\nBarton's reputation as a midfield enforcer on the field often obscured the natural gifts that saw him represent his country and command much interest when he came on the transfer market.\n\nThe man regarded as too dangerous to play for England reported from Rio during the 2014 World Cup, penning an article for his website on 'Social Media, Protest, And The Pacification Of The Favelas'.\n\nEven to those of us who do not know him personally, it is clear there is much more to Barton than meets the public eye.\n\nHe was invited to appear on the BBC's flagship political programme Question Time in May 2014, although he admitted first-night nerves led to him being accused of sexism when he likened choosing a political party to making a choice \"between four really ugly girls\".\n\nIt was a sign of his status as someone with something to say that he was asked to be a panellist and an indication that Barton was always keen to operate on a broader front than simply football.\n\nBarton was a guest of the Oxford Union in March 2014, where he was invited to debate philosophy, football and social media at the university. His appearance was later described as \"inspirational\" by students.\n\nAnd he can be a character who, for all the lurid publicity, draws loyalty and affection - as demonstrated by Burnley manager Sean Dyche's willingness to take him back into the fold at Turf Moor.\n\nDyche prides himself on a tight-knit, trouble free, well-disciplined dressing room, so it was testimony to his high regard for Barton that he welcomed him back this season despite the player leaving Turf Moor for that ill-fated spell at Rangers following promotion back into the Premier League.\n\nOnly last week Barton displayed his enthusiasm for engaging in community work on the club's behalf, spending time with patients at the local Pendleside Hospice.\n\nBarton, for all the noise surrounding him, was seen as a leader and a mature, experienced voice at Burnley during their promotion season. It was a far cry from undergoing anger management in 2005 and also completing a programme of behavioural management at the Sporting Chance clinic, set up to help troubled sportsmen and women.\n\nIf Barton the man is a mass of contradictions, the same could be said of some of his opinions.\n\nBarton was embarrassed earlier this season when he dived theatrically after a clash with Matt Rhead at Turf Moor as Burnley slumped out of the FA Cup to non-league Lincoln City.\n\nHe soon found himself reminded of his own former stance on the subject via a tweet from February 2013 that had stated: \"Players who roll around when nobody touches them should be subsequently banned. I hate cheats. Authorities should address it.\"\n\nBritish boxer Carl Frampton tweeted that Barton should have been \"embarrassed and ashamed\".\n\nBarton is also prepared to fly in the face of conventional wisdom, often at the risk of ridicule, as when he recently questioned the current praise of Chelsea's Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year N'Golo Kante.\n\nHe said of a player on course for a second successive title with Chelsea after Leicester's triumph last season, and enjoying successes Barton could only dream about: \"At the moment, in England, people only swear by N'Golo Kante. It's the fashion.\n\n\"For pundits he's the best midfield player in the world. Oh, he's very good but I played against him three weeks ago and that's not the case. He's a fantastic destroyer in a phenomenal team but not a creator.\"\n\nSo what has become of Joey Barton?\n\nBarton has divided opinion throughout his career - and he was at it again in what was effectively his retirement statement when he said: \"If the FA is serious about tackling gambling, I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry.\"\n\nHe was referring to the links between betting chain Ladbrokes and the FA Cup.\n\nIt was a view that, yet again, polarised feelings. Was Barton making a valid point or simply trying to absolve himself from blame for breaking clear FA rules?\n\nIf this is the end of Barton's career, it is one that will be remembered with distaste by many and yet he creates interest to such an extent that he has 3.25 million followers on Twitter. He has achieved notoriety, but also plenty of interest, with his opinions on sport, politics and society and the occasional dabble in homespun philosophy.\n\nHe is prepared to lay bare his own shortcomings with gambling in his most recent statement and yet is regarded by his many detractors as someone simply excusing himself for more wrongdoing.\n\nFor all his faults - and his timeline of trouble hints at many - Barton is an intelligent, but clearly flawed man.\n\nWill there yet be more chapters in Barton's contrary, controversial, eventful story?", "Teenage years can be fraught with dilemmas. But what if you are deaf and fast losing your sight too?\n\nMolly Watt was born severely deaf and learned to lip read. But, at the age of 12, she was diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a degenerative disease which causes sight and hearing loss.\n\nNow aged 22 she has just 5% of sight left in one eye.\n\n\"My vision is like looking through a straw,\" she says.\n\n\"There's lots of flashing lights in my 'good' bit and I just have to learn to avoid them. On a bad day, I don't see a lot at all.\n\n\"The worst case scenario for any deaf person is to lose their sight. Usher syndrome is not a death sentence but it is incredibly challenging. Without awareness and appropriate support, it is easy to fall into depression and despair - I've been there.\"\n\nThe loss of Molly's sight was rapid, and within two years of being diagnosed she was registered blind.\n\n\"My parents knew about my Usher syndrome diagnosis on the day, however, I was unaware of the seriousness of the condition. It wasn't until I was experiencing the deterioration in my vision that I started asking more questions.\n\n\"By the age of 15 I did my own research and that's when I first saw the word 'blind'. It's difficult to accept losing any sense but so much worse when it is the one you most rely on.\"\n\nUsher syndrome is the most common cause of deafblindness and impacts mobility and balance and can lead to depression. The term 'deafblind' refers to a spectrum of hearing and sight loss.\n\nEmma Boswell, the national coordinator from the charity Sense, says there is not an average age for people being diagnosed with Usher, although assessments for cochlear implants now include an eye test which has increased the speed of diagnosis.\n\n\"When a person finds out about their diagnosis, it can be very frightening, upsetting and presents an unknown future,\" she says. \"Some parents won't tell their child as they want to keep their diagnosis quiet until they are older.\"\n\nMolly grew up in Maidenhead with three siblings - two brothers and a sister - and says her relationship with them has been affected by Usher.\n\n\"I had already established a long time ago I was not like my siblings. Sadly I was always seen as the 'favourite' child because I was always being taken out to appointments. As my brothers matured and realised my reality could have been theirs, they were quick to realise they are in fact lucky.\n\nBBC See Hear created images of what some people with Usher syndrome experience\n\nUsher syndrome is a degenerative condition which combines deafness with a visual impairment called Retinitis Pigmentosa, an eye disease of the retina that affects peripheral vision and causes night-blindness.\n\nIt is believed to have a prevalence rate from 3.2 to 6.2 per 100,000 people.\n\nSpeech therapy helped Molly to talk and lip-read and she went to mainstream school until the age of 14, when she moved to a deaf boarding school.\n\nShe says she was \"excited to be like everyone else\" but was bullied which exacerbated her depression and anxiety. After taking a year out she returned to mainstream education.\n\nHer experiences are often dictated by the support she receives. While she says college restored her faith in humanity, she left university early due to a lack of assistance.\n\n\"Lecturers didn't have the time to understand my condition. Training and awareness sessions were set up for staff and nobody turned up.\n\n\"I just needed materials to be made accessible - large text, for lecturers to wear a radio aid that connected to my hearing aids - it's as simple as that.\"\n\nUsher syndrome as a teenager comes with additional challenges such as negotiating a social life.\n\nThe majority of Molly's friends are hearing and sighted and she communicates with them through speech.\n\n\"I have to strategise everything I do. I am night-blind and so when I go out I would often ask to hang onto a friend. I will only go out with the close friends who do not make me feel a burden.\"\n\nBoswell says some young people manage to \"fit\" within their circle of friends as they grow up, while others struggle.\n\n\"Some may feel left out of conversations if they are struggling to keep up with who is talking,\" she says. \"Some teenagers may find it difficult to socialise with their friends in dark areas.\"\n\nAt 22 Molly is independent but relies on those around her to help as well using assistive technology.\n\nShe calls her Apple watch \"invaluable\" as it taps her wrist to alert her to a text or call, enables her to pay for items in shops and is more discrete than holding a phone.\n\nShe also wears hearing aids, which enable her to lower or increase the sound of the bass or cancel out background noise via an app. The first time she used it she discovered people could hear sound behind them.\n\nThe mental health of those with Usher syndrome can also be affected. Molly has bipolar disorder and severe anxiety triggered by the quick progression of Usher.\n\n\"It's been a rocky road of denial as it is hard to come to terms with an ever-changing progressive condition. Battling with depression and anxiety was a constant struggle as I never wanted to leave the house.\"\n\nBoswell says the impact upon mental health can depend on the support offered and how open people are about the challenges they face. Those who keep quiet are more likely to become \"isolated and distressed,\" she says.\n\nMolly has set up her own charity - The Molly Watt Trust - to support others with Usher and has spoken at prestigious institutions including Harvard University and the House of Commons outlining how capable people with Usher are.\n\n\"The hardest thing about Usher syndrome is not knowing what the long term prognosis is,\" she says. \"I am deafblind, but there is nothing wrong with my brain hence my determination to always find a way.\"\n\nFor more information on Usher Syndrome and how to receive support on this or other sensory impairments, please visit Sense.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n• None Being deaf and losing your sight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Auliya Atrafi found fighting continues close to where the MOAB hit\n\nOn 13 April the US dropped one of its largest non-nuclear bombs on a tunnel complex used by so-called Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan. It was the first time such a weapon had been used in battle.\n\nThe BBC's Auliya Atrafi has been to the area to see if it really had any impact in the battle against IS.\n\nThe view from the hills overlooking the Mamand Valley is beautiful. Green fields and trees fill the valley floor. Ahead, the valley narrows and hills become mountains. In the distance rises the magnificent Spin-Ghar, the White Mountain, which marks the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.\n\nBut there was no chance of quiet contemplation when I visited this area of Nangarhar province. Above, three types of American fighter planes were circling and dropping bombs.\n\nOne bomb hit the narrow part of the valley. It was there, a young soldier told me, that the weapon known as the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) had been used.\n\nI was confused. Reports of the bomb had made me think that it had wiped out the IS stronghold here in Achin district. I assumed that US and Afghan troops would have sealed off the area and that IS (or Daesh, as it is known here) would be in disarray.\n\nAn Afghan officer corrected me. \"For a start this bomb wasn't as powerful as you think,\" he said.\n\n\"There are still green trees standing 100m away from the site of the impact.\"\n\nThe 21,600lb (9,800kg) MOAB flattened houses and trees, but didn't destroy everything\n\nA large number of IS militants were killed by the MOAB, but it is hard to know how many. The Achin district governor, Ismail Shinwary, says at least 90.\n\nEither way, the battle against IS continues.\n\n\"Daesh hasn't gone anywhere; there are hundreds of caves like the one the Americans bombed,\" the officer says, adding that strikes have continued since the bomb was dropped. \"They can't get rid of them like this.\"\n\nThe fighting appeared to be taking place along a huge area in the mountains. The bombardment was relentless, filling the valley with smoke and noise.\n\nBut IS were taking casualties. Over a breakfast of eggs and green tea, the district police chief, Major Khair Mohammad Sapai, showed us pictures of dead IS fighters. They had beards and long hair.\n\nIn death they looked pitiable, quite unlike the image they try to portray in their propaganda videos - riding horses, carrying their black flags or making the local Shinwari people sit on bombs and then blowing them up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Auliya Atrafi assesses the impact of the Mother of All Bombs\n\nMajor Khair said some of them were foreigners, but from their disintegrating, dust-covered faces it was hard to tell.\n\nHe showed us hand-written lists of Afghan telephone numbers seized during operations, and some of the names on the list were indeed Arabic or Pakistani.\n\nThe major's claims were backed up by Hakim Khan Momand and his friends. They are members of the so-called \"people's uprising\" - new militias made up of local people that help with security in the area. They cooperate with state security forces but their existence is seen as a sign of weak central government and instability.\n\nThe bearded men lay on portable cots, drinking strong green tea and relishing the sight of IS fighters being bombed by American planes.\n\n\"They are all sorts - Uzbeks, Tajiks, Arabs and Wahhabis from Kunar Province. They have nowhere to go; best to bury them in the caves where they happen to be hiding,\" Hakim Khan said.\n\nHis house lies in the Mamand Valley, in an area still under the control of IS. He adds: \"God willing, the Americans have given us their word that they would clear the entire valley of Daesh fighters.\"\n\nUnlike the Taliban, who tend to have many supporters in their core areas, IS seem to have angered a lot of people. Few seemed unhappy about the US bombardment.\n\nA couple of kilometres from the frontline, ordinary life was continuing. Women carried water, boys played cricket and people went about their daily tasks.\n\nHowever, there was anxiety. One man, Khaled, said local people were pawns in a US game.\n\n\"[Dropping the bomb] was a trick to show the world that their mission was going well. But this wasn't the type of bomb they showed in the media. The bomb did nothing.\"\n\n\"Will IS come back?\" I asked.\n\n\"Yes, as soon as the government leaves, the locals won't be able to fight them. If the government makes permanent bases in the area and helps us, then we will be happy,\" he answered.\n\nChildren play cricket a few kilometres away from where IS positions are being bombed\n\nLocal children wander in a bazaar destroyed by IS in the area\n\nAnother local resident suggested IS could do with something a little stronger.\n\n\"Let Americans bring down a bigger one, this one was small,\" he said.\n\nBack in the hills, Hakim Khan and his friends were listening in to IS fighters communicating via walkie-talkies with the help of their radio. The fighters were reassuring each other and communicating with their comrades in a neighbouring district.\n\nA border police officer wondered aloud if the commitment of the Trump administration would match that of IS.\n\n\"The more we kill, the more they come from the other side of the Durand line, in Pakistan,\" he said.\n\nAfter a night back in the safety of Jalalabad, we returned the next morning.\n\nThere was no fighting so we drove into the valley until we were stopped near the bomb impact site by Afghan special forces, who agreed to show us around.\n\nThey said that IS fighters saw the district as their own. After most locals fled, IS banned poppy cultivation and began farming wheat, turning the valley green.\n\nNow the lush allotments were their battlefields. Bodies lay next to hollow trees that fighters had been sleeping inside.\n\nShear, a tough-looking special forces soldier, said that IS fighters were \"crazy\" and very committed.\n\n\"They make the most of their basic Russian guns; they are technical fighters,\" he said.\n\n\"You can't hear them coming in the mountains: they will wear six pairs of socks and get within striking distance without you hearing them.\n\n\"In the mountains they fight individually or in groups of two or three. They don't leave their positions, so you have to kill them. And their friends don't come to collect their bodies; they lie where they die.\"\n\nWe waited for permission to visit the impact site, surrounded by crates of military supplies dropped from the air.\n\nOur escort was Haji Beag, a unit commander, who first showed us a smaller \"IS command base and prison\".\n\nOne door opening into a spacious courtyard led to a room which led to a small cave that could house around 10 people.\n\nIt was dug into the rock and felt very solid. It was clear why finding and killing IS militants in these mountains took so much time and energy.\n\nA special forces soldier shows the BBC around a cave inside the tunnel complex\n\nAt the entrance to the cave stood an improvised cage, made of mesh frames. It held two tight spaces which Haji Beag said were used as prison cells.\n\nHe said he believed the US made a good decision to use the MOAB to target caves used over decades by different militant groups - from the Mujahedeen, to the Taliban, and most recently IS.\n\n\"We found about 20 bodies around the site after the explosion. The cave system has been destroyed,\" he said. \"It's possible that most of dead are buried inside those caves.\"\n\nThe drive to the impact site with Haji Beag and his unit was a short one. American planes were still flying above us, targeting the next valley a kilometre away. The mountainous terrain was hard on our four-wheel drive and as we approached the site a rocket landed 200m in front of us.\n\nNo one was hurt, but it made Haji Beag cautious, and we weren't allowed to set foot on the impact site.\n\nBut we could see it, and it was unremarkable. There was no big crater. Trees had been burnt and a few rooms had been flattened. Not far from it, houses still stood and there were green trees around.\n\nAs we left the valley, the bombardment continued. It seemed clear that the bomb that was dropped on 13 April had not come close to delivering a knock-out blow to IS militants entrenched in the area, and the locals certainly expect more conflict ahead.\n\nTo me, at least, the Mother Of All Bombs failed to live up to her reputation.", "Recent aerial photographs of extensive pollution at industrial sites in northern China have caused a public outcry, and calls for action from the authorities.\n\nThe images, taken by a drone, show a cluster of dark red and rust-coloured pits occupying a big patch of land in a village called Nanzhaofu in Hebei province.\n\nThe NGO which broke the story, Chongqing Liangjiang Voluntary Service Centre, said preliminary tests it conducted showed the waste water in the pits was strongly acidic.\n\nThe pollutants have been been there for years, it said, meaning the underground water might have been contaminated.\n\nThe centre said three pits in total had been found, covering a total of 350,000 sq m.\n\nThe two largest were 500m apart in Nanzhaofu while a third smaller one was found in Xizhaizhuang county in Tianjin.\n\nTogether, the two provinces circle Beijing. Volunteers told Chinese media that similar polluted land could be found in other provinces.\n\nAfter the images were published on the NGO's social media accounts last week there was an outburst of public anger.\n\n\"Those photos are shocking, the authority has been doing nothing, I am so angry!\" one social media user said.\n\n\"My aunt is from that county in Hebei, she died from cancer two years ago. Her grandson is suffering from cancer and her mother in law has cancer too,\" said another.\n\n\"I thought it was just coincidence but now I don't. The government has to provide us a safe environment.\"\n\nIt's still not clear where the contaminants came from, but the local authorities were quick to respond to the anger and launch an investigation.\n\nThe Tianjin authorities sent workers to clean up the pit there, along with three other contaminated sites.\n\nThey promised to eradicate the problem before the end of July, but this did little to ease the anger.\n\nIn Hebei, authorities blamed local people for the contamination, saying they had been illegally dumping acid waste for years. The main suspect had been arrested in 2013, they said.\n\nBut on social media, people are asking why, if the suspect has been arrested, nothing had changed and the land is still contaminated.\n\nReporters who visited Nanzhaofu were told by locals that their lives had been severely affected by the pollution - cancer rates were increasing, they claimed, and a pungent smell had filled the air in the summer in recent years.\n\nThey don't drink well water, instead they either buy barrel water, or get to a well 5km away in a neighbouring county.\n\nIn its annual report this week, the environment ministry said water standards in some areas of northern China had declined since 2015.\n\nEnvironment Minister Chen Jining said water samples found 36.3% of heavy polluting industries' land and the surrounding soil did not meet government standards, according to a report by South China Morning Post.\n\nXiong'an is about to be the site of a massive urban development project\n\nHowever, Mr Chen said China's overall condition of air, water, and soil pollution had improved in 2016.\n\nOne particular area of concern among the public comments has been that all the three sites are less than 100km from Xiong'an, the area of Hebei recently identified as the location of a new Special Economic Zone.\n\nThe decision will bring huge investment to the region, putting it on a par with areas like Pudong in Shanghai.\n\nIt will serve as an extension of Beijing, and the Hebei party chief has said the project would prioritise ecological development and \"build a new area of green, forest, wisdom and clean water\".\n\nBut Hebei has been notorious for its pollution levels for years.\n\nMany have been asking whether it's right for China to begin developing a new area if it can't keep the existing one clean, and whether the necessary environmental protections really will be put in place.", "Stop before you copy your boss into that email.\n\nIt's not going to make you look good - it's going to make everyone else in the office distrust you.\n\nThat's the finding of research into the pernicious \"cc effect\", carried out by a professor of management studies at Cambridge University's Judge Business School.\n\nDavid De Cremer has looked into the emotional undergrowth of office email traffic.\n\nWhen people keep copying in a manager, it doesn't create \"transparency\", says Prof De Cremer, but feeds a \"culture of fear\".\n\nBut what about the other unspoken evils of office email clogging up your inbox?\n\nIf I keep emailing they'll know I'm still here at work\n\nWhere are you sending that email?\n\nWhat makes you think I'm an attention seeker?", "There's a glint of pride in Abu Jaafar's eyes as he explains what he does for a living.\n\nHe used to work as a security guard in a pub but then he met a group which trades in organs. His job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money, and the influx of refugees from Syria to Lebanon has created many opportunities.\n\n\"I do exploit people,\" he says, though he points out that many could easily have died at home in Syria, and that giving up an organ is nothing by comparison to the horrors they have already experienced.\n\n\"I'm exploiting them,\" he says, \"and they're benefitting.\"\n\nHis base is a small coffee shop in one of the crowded suburbs of southern Beirut, a dilapidated building covered by a plastic tarpaulin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I know what I'm doing is illegal, but I'm helping people, that's how I see it.\"\n\nAt the back, a room behind a rusty partition is stuffed with old furniture and has budgerigars singing in cages in each corner.\n\nFrom here he has arranged the sale of organs from about 30 refugees in the last three years, he says.\n\n\"They usually ask for kidneys, yet I can still find and facilitate other organs\", he says.\n\n\"They once asked for an eye, and I was able to acquire a client willing to sell his eye.\n\n\"I took a picture of the eye and sent it to the guys by Whatsapp for confirmation. I then delivered the client.\"\n\nThe narrow streets in which he operates are crammed with refugees. Around one in four people in Lebanon today have fled the conflict across the border in Syria.\n\nMost aren't allowed to work under Lebanese law, and many families barely get by.\n\nAmong the most desperate are Palestinians who were already considered refugees in Syria, and so are not eligible to be re-registered by the UN refugee agency when they arrive in Lebanon. They live in overcrowded camps and receive very little aid.\n\nAlmost as vulnerable are those who arrived from Syria after May 2015, when the Lebanese government asked the UN to stop registering new refugees.\n\n\"Those who are not registered as refugees are struggling,\" Abu Jaafar says. \"What can they do? They are desperate and they have no other means to survive but to sell their organs.\"\n\nSome refugees beg on the streets - particularly children. Young boys shine shoes, dodge between cars in traffic jams to sell chewing gum or tissues through the windows, or end up exploited as child labour. Others turn to prostitution.\n\nBut selling an organ is one way to make money quickly.\n\nOnce Abu Jaafar has found a willing candidate he drives them, blindfolded, to a hidden location on a designated day.\n\nSometimes the doctors operate in rented houses, transformed into temporary clinics, where the donors undergo basic blood tests before surgery.\n\n\"Once the operation is done I bring them back,\" he says.\n\n\"I keep looking after them for almost a week until they remove the stitches. The moment they lose the stitches we don't care what happens to them any longer.\n\n\"I don't really care if the client dies, I got what I wanted. It's not my problem what happens next as long as the client got paid.\"\n\nHis most recent client was a 17-year-old boy who left Syria after his father and brothers were killed there.\n\nHe's been in Lebanon for three years with no work and mounting debt, struggling to support his mother and five sisters.\n\nSo, through Abu Jaafar, he agreed to sell his right kidney for $8,000 (£6,250).\n\nTwo days later, clearly in pain despite taking tablets, he was alternately lying down and sitting up on a tattered sofa, trying to get comfortable.\n\nHis face was covered in a sheen of sweat and blood had seeped through his bandages.\n\nAbu Jaafar won't reveal how much he made from the deal. He says he doesn't know what happens to the organs after they have been removed, but he thinks they're exported.\n\nAcross the Middle East there's a shortage of organs for transplant, because of cultural and religious objections to organ donation. Most families prefer immediate burial.\n\nBut Abu Jaafar claims there are at least seven other brokers like him operating across Lebanon.\n\n\"Business is booming,\" he says. \"It's growing and not decreasing. It definitely boomed after the Syrian migration to Lebanon.\"\n\nHe knows what he does is against the law but doesn't fear the authorities. In fact he is brazen about it. His phone number is spray-painted on the walls near his home.\n\nIn his neighbourhood, he is both respected and feared. As he walks around people stop to joke and argue with him.\n\nHe has a handgun tucked under his leg as we talk.\n\n\"I know that what I am doing is illegal but I am helping people\", he says.\n\n\"That's how I perceive it. The client is using the money to seek a better life for himself and his family.\n\n\"He's able to buy a car and work as a taxi driver or even travel to another country.\n\n\"I am helping those people and I don't care about the law.\"\n\nIn fact, he says, it's the law that lets many refugees down by restricting access to work and aid.\n\n\"I am not forcing anyone to undertake the operation,\" he says. \"I am only facilitating based on someone's request.\"\n\nHe lights a cigarette and raises an eyebrow.\n\n\"How much for your eye?\" he asks.\n\nAbu Jaafar is not his real name - he would only agree to talk to the BBC on condition of anonymity.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live from 21:00 BST and text updates on the BBC Sport website and app from 20:00 BST.\n\nAnthony Joshua has challenged Wladimir Klitschko to \"stand up to the power\" after the Ukrainian branded him only \"a puncher\" in the run up to Saturday's bout.\n\nKlitschko, who is entering his 29th world title fight, revealed he has made a video of his prediction for their heavyweight bout.\n\nThat has been saved on a memory stick which will be sewn into his robe.\n\n\"It's strategy,\" said Joshua, 27. \"An attempt at a mind game.\"\n\nHe added: \"I didn't take it the way he wanted to express it.\"\n\nFormer heavyweight champion Klitschko, 41, will auction his robe - and its contents - for charity after the Wembley Stadium super fight for Joshua's IBF title and the vacant WBA belt.\n\nAt a news conference free of the antics seen at many pre-fight gatherings, he told BBC Radio 5 live: \"Don't ask me what's on the stick. Only one person will know about it. If that person wants to put it on social media, then the world will know.\"\n• None Klitschko on 5 live: 'My ego moves me to my obsession'\n• None Watch Joshua: The Road to Klitschko on iPlayer\n• None Listen to 5 live Boxing with Costello and Bunce - Joshua v Klitschko preview\n\nThe pair will meet in front of an expected 90,000 fans, a post-war record for a UK boxing match.\n\nNeither man has spoken negatively about their rival during the build-up, but Klitschko broke rank briefly on Thursday, saying Joshua is no more than a \"puncher\" while adding that he himself is \"a boxer who can punch\".\n\nThe Ukrainian added: \"I am the winner, already before the event. Even if it is his home, I'm taking it as my event and my fight, my win.\"\n\nJoshua, who has had 18 professional fights compared to Klitschko's 68, responded: \"If I couldn't box I wouldn't be here. I may not be the best but what I do good, I do brilliantly. That's got me here.\n\n\"If he claims to be the better boxer so be it, but when I start punching you in your jaw, you best stand up to the power. This is just another stepping stone towards greatness.\"\n\nKlitschko - who shouted \"fake news\" at one reporter when asked about a rumoured eye-socket injury - is bidding to regain two of the three major titles he lost to Tyson Fury in his last outing in 2015.\n\nHe admits being introduced as the challenger still feels \"weird\" but pointed to his experience, stating he had been involved in boxing for the 27 years Joshua has been alive.\n\nVictory for the Ukrainian would see him become a three-time heavyweight champion, like his retired brother Vitali, who believes Joshua is complacent in his approach.\n\n\"I've never seen my brother so concentrated,\" said Vitali.\n\n\"I want to say that Joshua is a great fighter, great skills, but he has never been at such a high level. He looks relaxed, like it will be easy. It will not be.\n\n\"After I was told about the fight I studied Joshua and I was happy. He has the right style for Wladimir, a good opponent.\"\n\nJoshua enters Saturday's fight with 18 knockout wins in his 18 matches, while Klitschko boasts a record of 64 wins - 53 by KO - and four defeats.", "Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has been knocked out of the World Championship, losing 13-10 to China's Ding Junhui in the quarter-finals.\n\nO'Sullivan's tournament had been overshadowed by his claims that he had been bullied by snooker bosses.\n\nBut he seemed unaffected by the controversy as he scored a tournament-high break of 146 to win three from four frames and get back to 11-9, having trailed 10-6.\n\nThe pair then shared the next two frames and Ding held his nerve, scoring a classy 117 to earn a semi-final place against Mark Selby.\n\nSelby was in sensational form to thrash Marco Fu 13-3.\n\nThe reigning champion scored 139 and 143 but it was no surprise the latter mark was beaten by O'Sullivan in a match that featured five centuries and 18 breaks of more than 50. Only one of the 23 frames did not include a half-century.\n\nO'Sullivan, 41, who hugged his equally emotional opponent at the end, said: \"It was a fantastic match and I am really pleased to be involved. I really enjoyed it. I would rather lose a good match than win an awful one.\n\n\"Ding is a special lad, a beautiful guy. He is all good; he doesn't have a bad bone in his body.\n\n\"He wants to win this title so bad. He is in a great place and I wish him all the best.\"\n\nIn the same way boxers collapse into each other's arms at the end and say, 'you are a great player'. That moment was very similar, regardless of whether it was a physical contest or not, it was the same mentality.\n\nFor all of the times when Ronnie O'Sullivan throws teddies out of the pram, players appreciate other great players. From Ding Junhui's perspective, getting to the final last year was a massive stepping stone. This is another part of the jigsaw puzzle and unlocks the World Championship a little further for him.\n\nDing has always been clinical in among the balls and he looks very strong in that department, but beating Liang Wenbo from behind, showing heart and determination, and now beating O'Sullivan, he has answered a lot of questions at the Crucible that he has not answered before.\n\nIt is a bit like a video game for Ding, he has beaten the boss but now has to go to the next level to face a bigger boss - Mark Selby.\n\nFacing the world champion will be a bigger hurdle mentally and we cannot say how it will pan out. Selby has looked astonishing so far, if Ding beats him, then he has to play someone great in the final. He is only halfway through in sessions played.\n\nDing, last season's runner-up, is looking to become the first Asian player to lift the world title, and said he \"played great\".\n\n\"I kept my form from the first frame to the last frame and I put him under pressure,\" Ding said.\n\n\"I do not have a good record against him but every time I had a chance I did well. He was not in his best form but he is still good enough.\n\n\"Ronnie said I looked a different player and I looked stronger. I thank him. To beat him you have to work hard. I am more confident.\"\n\nA spirited O'Sullivan comeback before the mid-session break kept alive hopes of him claiming a sixth World Championship title.\n\nThe Englishman had won a crucial final frame on Tuesday with a blistering century inside four minutes and, after taking scrappy opener, a rapid break of 97 made it three in a row to cut the gap to 10-8.\n\nBut Ding, who has often been accused of crumbling under pressure, responded with a fine 69.\n\nO'Sullivan was in full flow, turning down the chance of a maximum by going for a pink rather than a slightly trickier black during a magnificent 146.\n\nOnly Mark Allen and Graeme Dott have ever managed a 146 at the Crucible but neither did so in the seven minutes and 32 seconds it took O'Sullivan to clear up and reduce the gap to two frames.\n\nBut Ding, 30, kept his opponent at bay in the closing stages with breaks of 87, 63 and 117 to win two of the final three frames and get over the line.\n\nBarry Hawkins beat Stephen Maguire 13-9 to reach the last four, having made breaks of 126, 98 and 86 in the match. The 2013 finalist faces four-time champion John Higgins next.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "Jiranuch Trirat next to a picture of her daughter\n\nAn incident as shocking as a man murdering his 11-month-old daughter live on Facebook before killing himself was bound to provoke heated debate.\n\nThe 21-year-old man broadcast himself hanging his daughter from a half-finished building on the island of Phuket in Thailand, reportedly after ending a turbulent and sometimes violent relationship with his wife.\n\nThe man's Facebook page has received dozens of comments from Thai people outraged by the death of the little girl. Some men who have also had failed relationships have posted how they got through their problems and rebuilt bonds with their children.\n\nThais are accustomed to seeing violent scenes on their television news bulletins, which would be deemed unacceptable in many Western countries.\n\nPrevious shocking incidents, like appalling car accidents caused by negligent driving, have led to brief national debates, but have quickly dropped from public consciousness. But there have been some reflective responses to this incident, with a number of people urging people not to share the video.\n\nMs Trirat and her husband had a sometimes violent relationship, reports said\n\nThe long period of time the video remained viewable on Facebook - 24 hours - is one area the social media giant may be able to address.\n\nThai police were aware of the video almost immediately after the crime took place. It is not clear yet when the Thai authorities alerted Facebook.\n\nThe police now say that in future they will discuss inappropriate online content with social media companies like Facebook, YouTube or Instagram, and how to take it down quickly. But the challenge of stopping offensive and disturbing content on a medium, which is used by so many people, including two-thirds of the Thai population, is a difficult one.\n\nThe Thai military government does operate a range of censorship regimes, and blocks many thousands of websites, especially those carrying content deemed critical of the monarchy.\n\nOn the day this awful incident occurred, the Ministry of Digital Information and Economy demanded that local internet service providers (ISPs) do even more to block anti-monarchy content, and the government is believed to be trying to implement a single digital gateway which will allow it to wall Thailand off from such content.\n\nBut until now it has been wary of tampering with Facebook. A clumsy attempt to block Facebook shortly after the military had seized power in 2014 provoked a huge public outcry, and the social media giant remained unavailable for only 30 minutes.\n\nFacebook is hugely popular with Thai people and businesses\n\nAside from the general popularity of Facebook for social communication, it is also used by large numbers of Thai businesses to promote their products and services.\n\nUntil now there has been little public debate over the negative sides of social media, for example hate speech, trolling and fake news, which have aggravated Thailand's bitter political polarisation. There is no law against hate speech.\n\nSo Thai society is less prepared to address issues like those thrown up by this murder-suicide.\n\nA more fruitful area for discussion coming out of this incident might instead be the issue of domestic violence in Thailand, and the high level of suicides related to it.\n\nThe Thai Department of Mental Health reports that there are around 350 suicides a month here, a figure it says it is working to reduce.\n\nFour times as many men than women are victims of suicide, and the highest number of those male suicides are related to relationship problems, and reactions to being criticised or insulted, or loss of face.\n\nThe department says alcohol consumption also plays a big role in encouraging these men to kill themselves, and that it is very common for them to assault others, usually family members, before they do.", "UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has confirmed he will stand as a candidate at the general election.\n\nHe told LBC Radio he would announce which constituency he was contesting within the next 48 hours.\n\nMr Nuttall, who sits in the European Parliament, had previously suggested he might not stand in 8 June's contest, saying UKIP leaders had done well outside the Commons.\n\nHe failed to beat Labour at a by-election in Stoke-on-Trent last month.\n\nAt a UKIP campaign event on Monday, he repeatedly refused to say whether he would stand in the general election.\n\nBut on Thursday he told LBC: \"As the leader of the party, I will be, obviously, leading the party into battle as I have done many times in the past\".\n\nHe said he would stand in a seat where \"we think we can give it a good go\".\n\nHe defined success for UKIP as improving on the single seat the party had won in 2015 - Douglas Carswell's victory in Clacton.\n\nStressing the need to \"get people over the line this time\", he said: \"The one thing that we learned from 2015 is that vote share, although it is nice to get four million votes and 13% was wonderful, there is no prize for second place in the first-past-the-post system.\n\n\"I would like us to get more MPs elected than we got in 2015. I think it's doable. I think what we have got to do is target our resources sensibly, that means both in resources and in terms of manpower.\"\n\nMr Nuttall had previously said he did not want to be tied to one constituency during the general election campaign, as happened to his predecessor, Nigel Farage, in 2015 in Thanet, where he failed to unseat the Conservatives.", "Spoofs and tall tales are a staple of internet music discourse. Every now and then something appears online which may seem remarkable, and could well be true, but turns out to have been created as a prank to fool unsuspecting fans. It's a world away from the definition of fake news as is applied to current affairs in 2017, although as we'll see, there certainly have been fake music news stories that overlapped with international politics.\n\nTwitter: Daddy Lieb It's for the children 3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\nIn 2014, there was a kerfuffle around a news story taken from Twitter, in which it appeared that doting new father Dan Lieberman had named his twin boys Ghostface and Raekwon after his favourite rappers in Wu-Tang Clan. He even provided a picture as proof, which was then Instagrammed by the real Raekwon with the caption \"This is live, family named their twins Raekwon & ghostface!!! #wu4thebabies\" However, it later emerged that the form in question is not a binding legal document, and had been created by Dan as a joke. He posted on his Facebook page: \"I got the best Father's Day gift I could get yesterday, but this is a close second.\"\n\nDerek Erdman is the receptionist at Sub Pop records, first musical home of Nirvana, and one day while bored at work, he decided to place a fake advert on Craigslist, using photos he found online, in which he posed as a former flatmate of Kurt Cobain's (and former member of a pretend grunge band called Gruntruck) with some of his possessions to offload. These included a Swatch phone, a video game called Kingman and a pair of skis, with the quote: \"He owed us rent and said he would get the box when he came back and gave us money but he never came back, then when he was famous he never really talked to any of us again.\" The reaction was quick and feverish, with fans rushing to grab some unheard of Nirvana memorabilia. In a since-deleted interview with the music site Revolt, Derek was asked if, seriously, anyone really wanted Kurt's skis, to which he replied, \"THEY WANT THEM BAD. They also want that video game. I've gotten a lot of replies from 'serious collectors' and people who will pay for shipping. Have you ever shipped skis? That sounds like it would be really difficult. Not too many people wrote about the Swatch phone, which was surprising.\"\n\nRadiohead's working method is often to sit on songs until they've found the right way to perform them, which can mean that some can be overlooked or simply left behind. So it's not really that big of a surprise for fans to uncover a 'lost' song of this sort and post it online. And indeed, that's what happened, in a music forum. The song, uploaded and shared with feverish intensity, was supposedly entitled Putting Ketchup in the Fridge and sounds exactly like an outtake from The Bends, with Thom Yorke's quavery voice in full effect. The only problem is, it's not Thom Yorke's voice, but that of a Toronto singer-songwriter called Christopher Stopa. And the song is actually called Sit Still. It was released in 2001 to very little fanfare. Speaking to The Vancouver Observer, Christopher said: \"I tried to push that song for 10 years, but if people are listening to it now, and like the song, it's an indication that I believed in it. There are lots of great songs on the internet. People who listened to my song weren't just looking for a great song, they were specifically looking for a song by Radiohead.\"\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\n4. Drake and Rihanna are making an album\n\n[LISTEN] Radio 1 Breakfast Show: is this the end of Drake and Rihanna?\n\nAlthough this may seem to be the most feasible of the stories listed here, the rumour that Drake and Rihanna were creating something together has a backstory that is just as plausible, and therefore just as suspect. In August 2016, fans were delighted to discover that a website had been registered with the URL drakeandrihanna.com, and a countdown clock. Surprise album releases being what they are, this did not seem beyond the realms of possibility, but TMZ discovered that the site was actually set up by web celeb Joanne the Scammer (played by Branden Miller). It was an act of revenge, after Joanne had been turned down for a selfie with Drake at the VMA awards. Branden created the site as a prank, then when fans started to take it seriously, he issued a video explaining that it wasn't real, and why he did it.\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\nMarshall Mathers has been the subject of two internet news hoaxes that claim that he has died in violent circumstances. The first is that he died in a car crash in the early 2000s and has been replaced by a near-identical replica - a yarn that has taken on similar characteristics to the conspiracy theory that Paul McCartney died in 1966, and will probably keep on popping up from time to time, whenever the (possibly not) real Slim Shady has a record out. But in 2013, a Facebook post was widely shared, with a grisly photo that purported to show him being attacked by a man with a knife. The link in the post then opened up a series of spam windows, but diligent journalists did check that all was well before exposing the hoax. A representative from the Eminem camp told E! News: \"He remains unstabbed.\"\n\n6. Cher is alive and well\n\nTwitter is very good at spreading breaking news and sharing emotional reactions, so the death of a beloved pop star is one of those moments in which the social media site is the perfect place to be. However, it's always a good idea to be sure of your facts before rushing to put fingertip to screen, as Kim Kardashian West found out in 2012. A tweet claiming to have re-tweeted a headline from CNN announced that Cher had died, and before long \"RIP Cher\" had become a worldwide trending topic, with news organisations scrambling to ascertain if this was true or not. Caught up in the moment, Kim tweeted \"Did I juist hear Cher has passed away? Is this real? OMG,\" and then: \"I hope this is a Twitter joke and not true. I don't see it on the news anywhere. I'm praying it's not true…\" It wasn't true, and she later tweeted: \"Can't believe people would make up a sick joke like Cher died. These people need to get a life! Thanks Twitter for clearing that up.\"\n\nIn July 2016, a report on a website called Kypo 6 flew across social media, claiming that Justin Bieber had told reporters that he was leaving Los Angeles and moving out to San Marcos, Texas. It quoted him as saying: \"I'm just tired of the LA lifestyle and I feel like, at this point in my life, I'd rather just live in a place full of real, genuine people.\" Howerver, it was very similar to a story on a site called The Clancy Report, suggesting that Justin had fallen in love with Roanoke, a city in North Texas. And some digging by Texan local news site Chron reveals that this exact quote has also been attributed to Justin Timberlake, Eminem and Nicolas Cage, to illustrate false news stories about Hollywood stars moving to less celebrated locations, such as El Paso, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Naperville, Illinois.\n\nThe most recent fake music news story to be passed around as truth concerned Lars Ulrich, motormouth drummer in Metallica. On Easter Sunday a story was posted on the metal news website The Metal Den claiming that Lars had announced his retirement from music, effective immediately, just as the band were about to head out on a world tour. He was quoted as saying, \"As we get older, there are phases of life that we enter into, and being a musician just isn't fun anymore,\" and suggested he'd be devoting his attention to other fields of creative endeavour. However, while several news outlets ran the story, it wasn't true, as was later confirmed by Metallica's management, to the site MetalTalk.\n\n3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info\n\nThe Britpop band Menswe@r never sold a great many records, but they were very heavily featured in the music press of the time and their presence at the party cast a long shadow. So when their former guitarist Chris Gentry posted a picture of himself holding a platinum disc on Twitter claiming that their debut album Nuisance had finally sold more that 300,000 copies, there was an air of surprise, but not total shock. However, it turned out that all he had done is buy the disc on eBay and then insert the band's artwork. BBC 6 Music presenter and former Menswe@r drummer Matt Everitt told NME: \"My annual royalty cheques (approximately £83) would suggest something is amiss here. However, I'm currently expecting our long-delayed Led Zeppelin style reunion at the O2 and 15 CD/DVD/Blu-ray boxset retrospective of our lengthy and critically acclaimed career to become a reality, just in time for Christmas.\" The satirical news site Holy Moly ran a story that the band's singer Johnny Dean had been so taken in that he immediately started contacting his representatives to find out where his share of the money had gone. Chris Gentry has since deleted his Twitter account.\n\n[LISTEN] Elton John was not the first victim of a celebrity prank call\n\nIn 2015, a Russian phone prankster named Vladimir Krasnov, or \"Vovan\", rang Elton John claiming to be President Putin and wishing to discuss gay rights. Sir Elton, a critic of the Russian premier's \"isolating and prejudiced\" views, took the call and had what he felt was a decent stab at an opening debate on a subject close to his heart. Sadly, it was all a hoax, with parts of the recorded conversation ending up on Russian state TV. Krasnov told BBC News: \"It turned out that Elton John was really expecting that call, so he really believed he was talking to the people we said we were. He said, 'Thank you, you have made my day. This day and this conversation were the most wonderful of my life.'\" Had things been left at that, this would just be an audacious prank played on a pop star. But then something unexpected happened - the fake news became real. Both Elton John and Russian government sources have confirmed that an actual phone call took place shortly afterwards, with Elton telling the Today Programme: \"[Putin] was very affable, he was very apologetic, he was very sincere. As soon as I can get a date in my diary that coincides with him, then I will be going... to Moscow and I will meet him.\"", "Unmarried girls who got pregnant used to be seen as bringing shame to their families in parts of Uganda, so they were taken to a tiny island and left to die. The lucky ones were rescued, and one of them is still alive. The BBC's Patience Atuhaire tracked her down.\n\n\"When my family discovered that I was pregnant, they put me in a canoe and took me to Akampene [Punishment Island]. I stayed there without food or water for four nights,\" says Mauda Kyitaragabirwe, who was aged just 12 at the time.\n\n\"I remember being very hungry and cold. I was almost dying.\"\n\nOn the fifth day a fisherman came along and said he would take her home with him.\n\n\"I was a bit sceptical. I asked him whether he was tricking me and wanted to throw me into the water.\n\n\"But he said: 'No. I am taking you to be my wife.' So he brought me here,\" she reflects fondly, seated on a simple chair on the veranda of the house she shared with her husband.\n\nShe lives in the village of Kashungyera, just a 10-minute boat trip across Lake Bunyonyi from Punishment Island, which is actually just a patch of waterlogged grass.\n\nThis is where Mauda Kyitaragabirwe was left to die\n\nAt first, Ms Kyitaragabirwe was unsure how to greet me until Tyson Ndamwesiga, her grandson and a tour guide, told her that I spoke the local Rukiga language.\n\nHer face cracked into a nearly toothless smile. She held my arm from the elbow, in the tight grip that the Bakiga people usually reserve for long-lost relatives.\n\nThe slender-built Ms Kyitaragabirwe walks with steady steps and estimates that she is in her eighties, but her family believes she is much older.\n\nShe was born before birth certificates were common in this part of Uganda so it is impossible to be sure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The island where pregnant girls were sent to die\n\n\"She used to have a voter's registration card from just before Uganda's independence [in 1962]. That is what we used to count backwards. We think she's around 106,\" says Mr Ndamwesiga.\n\nIn traditional Bakiga society, a young woman could only get pregnant after marriage. Marrying off a virgin daughter meant receiving a bride price, mostly paid with livestock.\n\nAn unmarried pregnant girl was seen as not only bringing shame to the family, but robbing it of much-needed wealth. Families used to rid themselves of the \"shame\" by dumping pregnant girls on Punishment Island, leaving them to die.\n\nBecause of the remoteness of the area, the practice continued even after missionaries and colonialists arrived in Uganda in the 19th Century and outlawed it.\n\nMost people at the time - especially girls - did not know how to swim. So if a young woman was dumped on the island, she had two options - jump into the water and drown, or wait to die from the cold and hunger.\n\nI asked Ms Kyitaragabirwe if she was scared. She tilts her head to one side, frowning, and fires back:\n\n\"I must have been about 12 years old. If you're taken from your home to an island where no-one else lives, in the middle of the lake, wouldn't you be scared?\"\n\nThere are 29 islands on Lake Bunyoyi, including one that used to be a leper colony\n\nIn another part of the region, present-day Rukungiri District, pregnant girls would be thrown off a cliff at Kisiizi Falls.\n\nLegend has it that it was not until one of them dragged her brother down with her that families stopped pushing their daughters to their deaths.\n\nNo-one ever survived Kisiizi Falls. But a number of girls are said to have survived Punishment Island, thanks to young men who could not afford to pay a bride price.\n\nAfter her husband took her to his home in the village of Kashungyera, Ms Kyitaragabirwe became a subject of curiosity and gossip.\n\nOver the decades, she has become a tourist attraction - her home a regular stop for tourists on the trail of the history of the area.\n\nWhile discussing her life story, she often stopped talking and stared at her hands contemplatively.\n\nAt other times, like when I asked how she lost her eye, she was quite evasive, instinctively raising her hand to touch it.\n\nThe touchiest subject seemed to be the fate of the baby she was pregnant with when she was left to die.\n\n\"The pregnancy was still quite young. I never had the baby. Back then you could not fight back to defend yourself. If you did, they would beat you up,\" she says, lifting her head-wrap from her lap to wipe her face.\n\nEven though she did not say it outright, I understood what she meant - she was beaten up and had a miscarriage.\n\nI have three daughters. If any of them had got pregnant before they were married, I wouldn't blame them or punish them.\n\nPunishing girls - known in the local language as Okuhena, from which the island draws its local name Akampene - was an age-old practice. And Ms Kyitaragabirwe would have known about the consequences of a pregnancy.\n\n\"I had heard about other girls that had been taken to Punishment Island, although not anyone close to me. So, it seems I was also tempted by Satan,\" she chuckles.\n\nShe never saw or heard from the man who led her down \"Satan's path\". However, she had heard, many years ago, that he had died.\n\nOf her husband, James Kigandeire, who died in 2001, she said: \"Oh, he loved me! He really looked after me.\n\n\"He said: 'I picked you up from the wilderness, and I am not going to make you suffer'.\n\n\"We had six children together. We stayed in this home together until he died.\"\n\nMs Kyitaragabirwe's grandson, Tyson, works as a tour guide in the area\n\nAnd while it took decades, she was finally reconciled with her family.\n\nShe smiled and said: \"After I became a Christian I forgave everyone, even my brother who had rowed me in the canoe. I would go home to visit my family, and if I met any of them I would greet them.\"\n\nMs Kyitaragabirwe is believed to be the last woman who was dumped on the island, with the practice having died out after Christianity and government became stronger in the region.\n\nStill, unmarried pregnant women were frowned upon for many years.\n\nCondemning this attitude, Ms Kyitaragabirwe said: \"I have three daughters. If any of them had got pregnant before they were married, I wouldn't blame them or punish them.\n\n\"I know it can happen to any woman. If a young woman got pregnant today, she would come to her father's house and be taken care of. The people who carried out such practices were blind.\"", "You say chorizo, I say....? Exactly how to pronounce the spicy pork sausage has got viewers of Masterchef in a pickle. But is there a right way and a wrong way?\n\nIn Wednesday's episode, the velvety tones of the voiceover on the popular BBC One cooking show introduced a dish:\n\n\"Iberico pork with grilled calamari, served with chuh-REE-thoh jam, a chuh-REE-thoh and tomato puree, Asian pear and a dressed fennel salad.\"\n\nIt sounded delicious, but when its creator - the Michelin-starred chef Shaun Rankin - talked about the dish chu-REE-thoh had become shuh-REE-zoh, and Twitter was vexed.\n\nMartha Figueroa-Clark, a linguist in the BBC pronunciation unit for more than 10 years, says the question of how to say \"chorizo\" comes up a lot.\n\nThe usual pronunciation in English is chuh-REE-zoh, although chuh-REE-soh, chorr-EE-zoh and chorr-EE-soh (-orr as in sorry) are also certified as pronunciations in British dictionaries.\n\nBut in mimicking a European Spanish pronunciation, the \"z\" can also be pronounced as \"th\" as in 'think'. In Central and South American varieties of Spanish, the \"z\" is pronounced as \"s\" as in 'sit'.\n\nOne common mispronunciation is chuh-RITS-oh. Martha suggests this might come from people thinking it is an Italian word.\n\nSo how did Rankin get it wrong? Certainly, the chef, who grew up in Yorkshire and trained in kitchens around the world, will not be a stranger to the word.\n\nIndeed, his food style at his restaurants in Jersey and Mayfair, central London, are influenced by European and Asian cooking.\n\nMartha suggests he might have been influenced by the pronunciation of \"ch\" in French or Portuguese (\"chouriço\", pronounced shoh-REE-soo).\n\nThe problem often comes when two people on TV say the same word in different ways in a short space of time, drawing attention to the pronunciation.\n\nShe advises broadcasters to choose one pronunciation and stick to it.\n\nHer team consults a range of dictionaries to establish the accepted pronunciations of words in English and advises broadcasters accordingly.\n\nIf the pronunciation of a foreign word is not yet established in English, they research the pronunciation and devise an anglicised form for BBC broadcasts.\n\nGiven the fuss about a sausage, the next time you're at your local Italian, you might want to keep the waiters happy by asking for a large glass of PEE-noh GREE-joh (-j as in Jack) with your bruusk-ET-uh (-uu as in book).\n\nThe BBC pronunciation guide says chuh-REE-zoh is the most established way to say chorizo\n• None Why is there a vegetable shortage?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCricket's bosses have reversed a decision which effectively handed control of the sport to India, England and Australia.\n\nThe International Cricket Council (ICC) decided in 2014 that the 'Big Three' should have more powers over how the game is run and its financial split.\n\nBut at a meeting in Dubai, the ICC board voted to pass a new financial model and governance structure.\n\nThe changes will have to be ratified by the ICC full council in June.\n\nThe 2014 changes had angered other large cricketing nations such as South Africa and Pakistan.\n\nHowever, the reversal is likely to upset India which has been demanding a $570m (£442m) cut from ICC revenues but will now receive $293m (£227m).\n\nThe board voted 13 to one in favour of the financial changes and local media have reported that India was the only dissenting voice.\n\nBased on forecasted revenues and costs, the England and Wales Cricket Board will receive $143m (£111m) across the same period (2016-2023), Zimbabwe will get $94m (£73m) and the remaining seven Full Member nations $132m (£102m) each.\n\nConstitutional changes made by the board - including paving the way for more Test cricket nations and the introduction of an independent female director - were agreed by a vote of 12 to two.\n\nICC chairman Shashank Manohar, who announced in March that he is stepping down, said: \"This is another step forward for world cricket and I look forward to concluding the work at the annual conference.\n\n\"I am confident we can provide a strong foundation for the sport to grow and improve globally in the future through the adoption of the revised financial model and governance structure.\"\n\nThe ICC meeting has also agreed to look at:\n• None Bringing more context to international bilateral cricket including resolving the current calendar congestion in order to bring a clear framework to all three formats\n• None Changes to the women's game including a separate rankings system for Women's ODI and T20I cricket\n• None The feasibility of further matches in Pakistan involving a World XI\n• None Development of a detailed strategy for the growth of cricket in China.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Newcastle winger Sylvain Marveaux is one of four people arrested in a tax fraud investigation by Revenue & Customs (HMRC).\n\nFrench authorities said secret payments made to players and agents during deals between French and Premier League clubs are the focus of the probe.\n\nNewcastle and West Ham's grounds were raided on Wednesday, as HMRC deployed 180 officers across the UK and France.\n\nMarveaux, 31, joined Newcastle from Rennes in 2011 and made 39 appearances.\n\nHe returned to France to join Lorient last year.\n\nNewcastle's managing director Lee Charnley was also arrested. He was released without charge at about 17:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe French Prosecutor's office says 10 searches were carried out in France and four people were placed in police custody.\n\n\"The British authorities suspect secret payments may have been made to benefit certain players, their agents or third parties, allowing them to avoid paying tax on the income, or making social security payments,\" said a statement from the French Prosecutor's office.\n\nFrench officials were asked by HMRC to provide assistance to their investigation in July 2016.\n\nIt took a further nine months before officers launched their raids on both sides of the Channel.\n\nHMRC said it searched premises in the north east and south east of England, and seized business records, financial records, computers and mobile phones.\n\nWest Ham's London Olympic Stadium and Newcastle's St James' Park were among the locations raided.\n\nHMRC officers also visited offices belonging to Chelsea FC \"in connection with its wider investigation\", a club spokesman confirmed.\n\nBut it is understood the club's premises were not raided and no arrests were made.\n\nThe wheels of tax investigations turn slowly - so any sporting implications resulting from these arrests and raids may not be known for some time.\n\nIt would appear, on face value, that Premier League points and status for both West Ham United and newly promoted Newcastle United are safe for now.\n\nHowever this \"on-going\" investigation risks creating instability and uncertainty for both clubs at a time when they both, for different reasons, need it the most. HMRC investigations of this scale are costly and only undertaken in the most serious of circumstances. This isn't going away anytime soon.\n\nRafael Benitez, celebrating promotion on Monday, told reporters it was good to work at a club where there's no backroom politics, a not so subtle reference to his tumultuous time at Real Madrid.\n\nWith Newcastle having documents seized, and further questions looming for its senior officials, he may have spoken too soon.", "The claim: Pensioners would be £872 worse off if the triple-lock was taken away. The triple-lock is a commitment to raise the basic state pension by average earnings, inflation or 2.5%, whichever is higher.\n\nReality Check verdict: In the long-term, pensioners would be worse off without the triple-lock. How much worse off would depend on what replaces it. Ian Blackford's figure is a forecast of what would happen if the state pension was only increased in line with inflation predictions for the next five years. He appears to have misspoken, because the research actually said that pensioners would lose £817 over five years.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May refused to say whether the Conservatives will keep the same protections for the state pension if they win the general election.\n\nResponding to a question from Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader in Westminster, she pledged that pensioners' incomes would continue to rise, but would not specify by how much.\n\nThe government is currently committed to maintaining the pension triple-lock until 2020, which means it will raise the basic state pension by average earnings, inflation or 2.5%, whichever is higher.\n\nLabour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP are all committed to maintaining the triple-lock.\n\nBut the Work and Pensions Committee has said it should be scrapped on the grounds that it is \"unsustainable\" and \"unfair\" on younger families.\n\nIt suggested that pensions should rise in line with earnings and be protected against inflation being higher than earnings, but with no minimum annual increase.\n\nJohn Cridland, who published a report on the future of state pensions last month, suggested that the triple-lock would also eventually need to be abandoned in favour of an earnings link.\n\nIn the long-term, the triple-lock is a big issue, with the number of people of pension age per person of working age forecast by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to rise considerably over the next 50 years.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Newsnight, Mr Blackford cited research from the House of Commons Library, which found that \"over a five-year period, pensioners would be £872 worse off if the triple lock was taken away\".\n\nGiving a bit more detail, the library was asked to take Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts for the next five years of inflation and average earnings figures.\n\nIt then compared what would happen to pensions under different scenarios.\n\nIt turned out that protecting it in line with with earnings would make almost no difference, because average earnings are expected to be more than 2.5% throughout the period.\n\nProtecting only in line with inflation would cost a total of £642 over five years for a pensioner on the basic state pension and £817 over five years for someone on the new state pension.\n\nMr Blackford presumably remembered that figure wrongly when he said it would cost £872.\n\nClearly these figures are based on forecasts for what will happen in the future, which are uncertain. An alternative is to look at how much the triple-lock has cost in the past as the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has done.\n\nThe triple-lock makes a particularly big difference in periods of relatively low earnings growth and low inflation as the UK has experienced recently.\n\nIt found that the triple-lock had cost about an extra £6bn a year compared with only protecting with earnings and £4bn a year compared with adjusting in line with inflation.\n\nThe IFS made this chart showing the difference in the percentage of national income spent on the state pension with or without the triple-lock, also based on OBR forecasts.\n\nThe IFS suggested that the government should decide what proportion of earnings it wants the state pension to be and then stick to that, rather than arbitrarily increasing it gradually through the triple-lock.\n\nWhat happens to the triple-lock is highly significant because it has made such a difference in incomes for pensioners compared with workers.\n\nIn-work benefits are protected less generously than state pensions.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation brought out research recently suggesting that pensioner households on average are better off than working households after housing costs have been taken into account.\n\nTaking income after housing costs makes a huge difference because pensioner households are more likely to own their own homes and to have relatively small or paid-off mortgages.\n\nThis chart from the Resolution Foundation gives income after housing costs for the median pensioner and working household as well as a richer one and a poorer one.\n\nFormer pensions minister Baroness Altmann told Newsnight that the triple-lock was particularly unfair on younger families because it was putting pressure on the government to keep raising the pension age to keep pension costs down, so the time when they could claim their own pensions was being delayed.\n\nAmong the options for replacing the triple-lock are:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Presenter: \"Do you know what a mugwump is?\"\n\nTheresa May: \"What I recognise is that what we need in this country is strong and stable leadership.\"\n\nIt's probably fair to say that this is not the stuff of epic election moments - those times that have shaped all our destinies; moments when the country asks itself, truly, who governs?; days when suddenly, a leader, a party's fate is decided.\n\nTheresa May, it's also probably fair to assume, did not dream of that question being put to her, nor of having to provide an answer, and, slightly robotically, grimly stick to her prepared script come hell or high water, rather than echo the colourful copy of her foreign secretary.\n\nNor perhaps, was Boris Johnson's first big day out on the campaign trail designed to land the prime minister with questions tonight about her intentions for Syria.\n\nWould she just do Donald Trump's bidding if asked to help in another attack? Hypothetical questions she resolutely refused to answer at a rally of the party faithful in Yorkshire.\n\nYet few in Tory HQ will be weeping at the product of Boris Johnson's arrival in this campaign, whether it is his Victorian insult hurled at Jeremy Corbyn, which will have upset some voters, (we heard that sentiment that the Tories were \"bullying\" Mr Corbyn on the trail in Essex), nor his admission that it would be \"very difficult\" for the UK to refuse Donald Trump.\n\nWhether it was the accidental or deliberate howls of not one, but two dead cats today, the foreign secretary's productive morning attracted yet more attention to one of the issues the Conservatives believe is most dangerous for Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHis attitudes towards security and defence, long held, and central to his core supporters, are, the Tories believe, one of his greatest vulnerabilities in this campaign. For floating voters, or many traditional Labour voters, the Tories will have been only too glad to create as much noise as they can.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nDing Junhui scored five half-centuries and a ton and showed his growing matchplay maturity to lead reigning champion Mark Selby 5-3 after an intriguing start to their World Championship semi-final.\n\nBoth players demonstrated their potting prowess before the mini-break, scoring alternating fifties to share the opening four frames.\n\nBut China's Ding got the better of two of three scrappy frames to edge 4-3 ahead before taking frame eight with a brilliant 110.\n\nThe contest resumes on Friday morning, with the winner of the first-to-17 match playing either John Higgins or Barry Hawkins in the final.\n• None READ MORE: Higgins two clear of Hawkins in semi-final\n• None Vote for your most memorable Crucible Theatre moment\n\nUnlike last year's Crucible final, when a disastrous start saw Ding lose the opener and slump 6-0 behind against the Englishman on his way to an 18-14 defeat, the world number four settled immediately.\n\nA beautifully measured 76, after Selby broke down in the 40s, put him ahead.\n\nSelby's superb 68 levelled and the pair then exchanged frames, Ding regaining the lead with an 84 and the world number one rounding off a high quality mini-session with a stylish 99.\n\nDing had a pot success rate of 91% with the world number one marginally ahead at 92% but the first frame on the resumption was the definition of scrappy.\n\nTwo-time champion Selby, 33, won it to lead for the first time, but Ding's new found mental strength saw him outsmart Selby in a tactical 39-minute frame.\n\nHe then took control of his third last-four appearance at snooker's showpiece event with breaks of 50 and 56 to edge ahead at 4-3.\n\nAnd he compiled a brilliant 110 - his 10th ton of the tournament - to take his third frame in a row and establish a two-frame lead.\n\n\"I didn't think Ding could beat Ronnie, but he proved me wrong. Ding's weakness has been his mental strength and I said before I couldn't think of a reason why Mark Selby wouldn't win the World Championship but I can now - Ding Junhui.\n\n\"Selby played some of the best snooker I have ever seen on Wednesday. The 143 he made was the best break I have seen since working on snooker. It was unbelievable.\n\n\"Ding has to go up a level to win this match. He was great against Ronnie O'Sullivan.\n\n\"But he has to virtually not miss at all, and he started like that and needs to keep that up. It is lining up to be a classic.\n\n\"Who wins the scrappy frames could decide the match. He outplayed Mark in the safety exchange in frame six; he always had the upper hand. It is important for Ding to win those types of frames.\n\n\"We were spoilt in the first four frames but if it remains close it will get more cagey.\"", "Three or four dress changes, a bevy of bridesmaids, photos taken by drone and its own #weddinghashtag.\n\nThe modern wedding has begun to take on the look of a vulgar \"arms race\", a lifestyle magazine has warned.\n\nCountry Life has urged people to rein it in a bit - saying weddings, and their constant cataloguing on visual social media, may put couples under pressure to spend big.\n\nThey also place guests under duress to pay for the hen-do; the stag weekend; the day itself; a present or honeymoon contribution; and a new outfit.\n\n\"The whole thing has got rather out of hand,\" editor Mark Hedges observes.\n\nFigures from the close of the 2016 wedding season put the average cost of the UK wedding at £27,000 and that rises to £38,000 in London.\n\nWebsite Bridebook looked at 20,000 UK weddings and found 4% of those held in the south-east of England cost more than £100,000.\n\nConsidering the latest figures from the ONS show there were 247,372 marriages between opposite sex couples in England and Wales in 2014, and 4,850 same sex couples tied the knot, it is certainly big business.\n\nThere were also 111,169 divorces in the same year, and while the average UK annual income stands at around £27,195, the costs are substantial to most, and unrealistic for many.\n\nThe magazine's Rosie Paterson believes there is a trend for \"very elaborate showy weddings\" that detract from the real purpose of the day.\n\nShe says: \"I've seen a few friends go through the planning process, and not necessarily enjoying it. This is our gentle plea for restraints for weddings to come back to what they are really about - the wedding itself.\"\n\nWeddings abroad from Mexico to Vietnam, stag dos in Europe or Las Vegas, wedding styling or themes poached from celebrity wedding culture or reality shows like Don't Tell the Bride. They all feed the fire, she says.\n\nWhen weddings are then posted on Instagram or Pinterest, with their own hashtag, she adds, it may be an outlet for creativity, but: \"You're suddenly looking at how everyone else is doing it. There's the ooh and aah of a giant party, but you are not, in fact, looking at the commitment. \"\n\nMark Hedges adds: \"Everyone sees what everyone else has done and feels they have to do better.\n\n\"They don't need to do better, they just need to get married and have a very special, sometimes simple, day. It should be fun, it should be delightful.\"\n\nThen there's the \"nightmare\" of the three-day extravaganza, says Hedges, culminating in that \"sorry, sorry day afterwards, when everyone's probably got slightly sore heads, wondering why they can't go home\".\n\nBut is advice from a middle-to-upper-class lifestyle magazine on how to keep it real a bit rich?\n\nPeople have always been competitive. Bridezilla is no new phenomenon.\n\nIdealised images, in a vast range of wedding magazines, have been around for years.\n\nFor nuptials organiser George Watts, known as the Wedding Fairy it's all relative and based on what individuals want to achieve with, as he puts it, \"their big day\".\n\n\"Some people might want to host their wedding in a two-star Michelin restaurant, some might want the local country pub. At the end of the day, it's the couple's choice,\" he says.\n\nHe is currently planning a client's six-figure celebration, \"£100,000 plus, it's a huge wedding\". And he says there are more choices available than there were 20 years ago.\n\n\"I deal with so many couples, particularly brides, who have dreamt of their wedding day all their life. They've saved for it all their life, their family have. So why not put on a big day exactly how they want to?\" he asks.\n\n\"Instead of just the standard cake, flowers and dress there's so many more elements that people can bring into their day to make it their own, make it memorable.\"\n\nPerhaps, as the 2017 summer wedding season looms, it is all to plan for.\n\nTake the last letter in today's Telegraph, from one Wendy May of Hereford, which ponders: \"Sir - My son and his family are attending a wedding next weekend. The best man is a dog.\n\n\"Is this a common occurrence, or a new fad?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tells Today the UK could help the US respond to a chemical attack in Syria\n\nBritain has long been as much a military ally of the United States as a diplomatic one.\n\nMargaret Thatcher allowed Ronald Reagan to use UK airbases to strike Libyan targets in 1986.\n\nJohn Major sent British forces to join the US-led coalition expelling Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait in 1991.\n\nAnd more than a decade later, Tony Blair embarked on George Bush's military adventure in Iraq.\n\nSo it might not seem surprising for Boris Johnson to tell the BBC's Today programme that if President Trump asked for British military support against the Syrian government, it would be hard to say, \"No.\"\n\nHe was being asked how the UK might respond if the United States launched another attack on Syrian government targets.\n\nEarlier this month, the US launched 59 cruise missiles in an attack on an airbase that both the US and the UK claimed had been used to mount a sarin-gas attack on civilians in rebel-held areas in Syria.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pentagon has released video of missiles being launched from US Navy ships, targeted at a Syrian airfield.\n\nThis is what the foreign secretary told Today: \"It would be very difficult if the US has a proposal to have some sort of action in response to a chemical weapon attack, and if they come to us and ask us for our support - whether it's with submarine-based cruise missiles in the Mediterranean or whatever it happens to be, as was the case back in 2013 - in my view and I know this is also the view of the PM, it would be very difficult for us to say, 'No.'\"\n\nAnd to emphasise the point, he added: \"If the Americans were once again to be forced by the actions of the Assad regime - and don't forget it was Assad who unleashed murder upon his own citizens with weapons that were banned almost 100 years ago - if the Americans choose to act again, and they ask us to help, as I said, I think it would be very difficult to say, 'No.'\"\n\nDonald Trump had previously rejected calls for further US military intervention in Syria\n\nIn fact, Mr Johnson has said this before.\n\nLast Tuesday he told the House of Commons: \"It is my belief - I stress that no such decision has yet been taken - that were such a request to be made in future and were it to be a reasonable request in pursuit of similar objectives, it would be very difficult for the United Kingdom to say, 'No.'\"\n\nYet no-one noticed Mr Johnson saying this, because a few hours earlier Theresa May had announced her intention to hold a general election, and attention was elsewhere.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson's remarks are significant for several reasons.\n\nHe has made explicit what previously was implicit.\n\nSometimes in diplomacy it matters if politicians say things publicly into a microphone.\n\nAnd we now have it on the record that the UK is willing in principle to attack Syrian government targets at the behest of the United States.\n\nAnd this is not just his view: he said it was the prime minister's view too.\n\nThis is a departure because until now overt UK military action in Syria has been focused on attacking the so-called Islamic State group.\n\nMPs voted to allow this, after a debate in December 2015.\n\nSince then, the Ministry of Defence says, UK warplanes operating out of Cyprus have carried out 90 air strikes against IS targets.\n\nThere have been many other sorties over Syria in which UK aircraft and drones have gathered intelligence.\n\nIn 2013, then Prime Minister David Cameron said he accepted there could be no military action without parliamentary support\n\nMr Johnson also made clear that the government may not necessarily consult Parliament before joining in any US military action.\n\nAsked if the decision would have to go before the Commons, Mr Johnson replied: \"I think that needs to be tested.\"\n\nPressed on whether going to the House of Commons would be a necessary precondition, Mr Johnson replied: \"I think it would be very difficult for us to say, 'No.'\n\n\"How exactly we were able to implement that would be for the government, for the prime minister, to decide.\"\n\nThis is controversial for several reasons.\n\nFirst, in 2013 MPs rejected military action against Syrian forces after similar allegations that they had used chemical weapons.\n\nThis reinforced a convention - not a legal requirement - that the government must seek parliamentary approval before ordering military action, except in emergencies.\n\nAnd secondly, as of next week, there will be no MPs for the government to consult, after Parliament is dissolved ahead of the UK general election.\n\nSo, Mr Johnson has clearly allowed for the possibility of military action during the campaign, without parliamentary consultation.\n\nSources close to the foreign secretary insisted that he was not ruling out a parliamentary vote and that the government's position had not changed.\n\nHe was very careful about spelling out the conditions in which the UK might help.\n\nHe is talking about UK military action only after a similar chemical weapons attack and only if it were a \"reasonable request\" in pursuit of similar objectives.\n\nIn other interviews on Thursday morning, Mr Johnson talked about military action that was \"commensurate and appropriate and timely\".\n\nSo this is no blank cheque.\n\nThe foreign secretary has given himself plenty of wriggle room.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSunderland were left on the brink of relegation from the Premier League after losing the Tees-Wear derby to fellow strugglers Middlesbrough, who registered a first victory of 2017.\n\nMarten de Roon's goal early in a drab contest was the 59th Sunderland have conceded this season and left the Black Cats 12 points adrift of safety with five games remaining.\n\nSunderland face Bournemouth on Saturday and could be relegated if they fail to win and other results go against them.\n\nThe Black Cats are bottom of the league, having spent 236 days in the relegation zone, and have taken just two points from the last 27 available.\n\nSecond-bottom Middlesbrough cannot be relegated this weekend but they face a tough run-in against Manchester City, Chelsea, Southampton and Liverpool.\n\nHow could Sunderland go down?\n\nSunderland will be relegated at the weekend if:\n• None They lose to Bournemouth and Hull avoid defeat at Southampton\n• None They lose to Bournemouth and Swansea - who play on Sunday - beat Manchester United\n• None They draw with Bournemouth and Hull win at Southampton\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes, who was charged by the FA prior to the game after telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks she might \"get a slap\", said before kick-off he thought his side could still keep their Premier League status.\n\nHowever, the on-field body language and frantic decision-making betrayed a side low on confidence.\n\nThe Black Cats started strongly, but once De Roon scored they lacked intensity, losing possession too easily to leave Moyes frustrated on the sidelines.\n\nThe defence that allowed an unmarked De Roon to ghost in and score was culpable again minutes later as Stewart Downing ran through on goal but Jordan Pickford - one of Sunderland's few bright spots this season - made the stop.\n\nSunderland looked slightly better going forward, with record signing Didier Ndong lashing a shot at Brad Guzan before Billy Jones headed the rebound over. However, in a tepid game where both sides struggled for rhythm, the Black Cats could not keep the pressure on for long.\n\nThe boos the Sunderland players walked off to at half-time were amplified come the end of the match, with fans chanting \"you're not fit to wear the shirt\".\n\nBoro tough it out for rare win\n\nMiddlesbrough have struggled at home this season and prior to this match had scored just 13 goals at the Riverside - the lowest of any top-flight team.\n\nThey have also played out seven goalless draws, underlining their lack of threat in the final third.\n\nSo it was perhaps no surprise they needed to profit from their opponents' carelessness to score the only goal of the game, with the unmarked De Roon sneaking in between Jones and John O'Shea before sliding the ball through Pickford's legs.\n\nBoro looked vulnerable after going in front, with Sunderland given too much space inside the area, leading to a number of scrambled clearances.\n\nThe hosts held on, though, to end manager Steve Agnew's winless streak since taking over from the sacked Aitor Karanka in March.\n\nThe result also meant Boro striker Rudy Gestede, brought on as a late substitute, finally ended a Premier League-record run of 43 games without a win.\n• None Middlesbrough have completed a league double over the Black Cats for the first time since the 2002/03 season.\n• None Marten de Roon has scored twice in his last four Premier League appearances, as many as in his previous 26 combined.\n• None De Roon's goal was Middlesbrough's first shot of the match.\n• None It was Middlesbrough's first Premier League goal inside the opening 10 minutes at the Riverside since a Tuncay Sanli strike in the third minute against Hull in April 2009.\n• None Although they were beaten, Sunderland had more shots than an opponent in an away Premier League game for the first time since April 2016 against Stoke.\n• None Sunderland have now failed to score in 17 Premier League games this season, more than any other side.\n\n'While there's a chance, we will keep going'\n\nSunderland manager David Moyes: \"I've never been in this position before so it's new to me. It's something I'm not enjoying.\n\n\"We didn't get a good result but I thought we played well. It was a poor goal that we gave away but I can't fault the players or their efforts. We tried to build play up, make opportunities, but I wasn't disappointed with the performance.\n\n\"While there's a chance, we'll keep going. Good performances lead to results, that's the way it goes. I think we've had a couple of pretty good performances in the last few games.\n\n\"We know our position, we're not daft, we know exactly where we are. We have to try and pick up every win.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough manager Steve Agnew: \"It feels great. Everybody is absolutely delighted with the three points. We had to defend for long spells but we got the goal early. I'm so proud of the players.\n\n\"Clean sheets are obviously something you build on. I think it was important, the early goal. It gave everybody a lift and a confidence to see the game through.\n\n\"The players are all happy. I think all we do now is we remain focused for the game on Sunday against Manchester City. We'll certainly gain some confidence and belief going into games.\"\n\nSunderland host Bournemouth on Saturday (15:00 BST) while Middlesbrough face Manchester City at home on Sunday (14:05 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Adam Forshaw.\n• None Fabio Borini (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Sunderland. Adnan Januzaj tries a through ball, but Jermain Defoe is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Christian Fuchs should have been booked for throwing the ball at Alexis Sanchez \"on purpose\" during Arsenal's 1-0 win over Leicester, says Arsene Wenger.\n\nAs Leicester chased an equaliser, defender Fuchs took a throw-in and seemingly aimed the ball at Sanchez.\n\nThe Chilean, who went down theatrically after a short delay, was booked for standing too close to the throw-in.\n\n\"Fuchs was lucky not to get a yellow card because he threw the ball at him on purpose,\" said Arsenal boss Wenger.\n\nThe ball hit Sanchez on the shoulder, but the 28-year-old fell to the ground clutching his face and was shown a yellow card by referee Mike Jones for not retreating far enough.\n\nAccording to the Football Association's 'Laws of the game', law 15 states that \"opponents must stand at least two metres from the point at which the throw-in is taken\".\n\n\"In the first two attempts when Fuchs tried to throw the ball in, Sanchez stood next to him and didn't know he had to be further away,\" said Wenger.\n\n\"Also the referee did not tell him to move further away and after that he got a yellow card because he didn't accept the rule. I accept that. He was not the required distance. The referee or the linesman should have told him.\"\n\nSanchez later posted pictures on Twitter of his split lip, but Wenger revealed that it came from a separate incident, which he was similarly unhappy about.\n\n\"Robert Huth went really in with him I think,\" he added. \"I helped him to get up and he was bleeding on the lips.\"", "Tottenham kept up the pressure on Premier League leaders Chelsea as Christian Eriksen's superb long-range strike secured a hard-fought victory at Crystal Palace.\n\nSpurs had struggled to break down a disciplined Palace side for much of the game and it looked like they would have to settle for a point.\n\nBut Eriksen fired into the bottom corner from 30 yards late on to keep Spurs within four points of Chelsea with five games remaining.\n\nPalace, who lost influential defender Mamadou Sakho to injury in the second half, rarely threatened as they concentrated on frustrating the visitors.\n\nThe win means Tottenham move on to 74 points, surpassing their previous best ever Premier League total of 72 - set in 2012-13 - when they finished fifth.\n\nIf they beat rivals Arsenal on Sunday it will ensure they finish above the Gunners in the table for the first time since the 1994-95 season.\n\nPalace, meanwhile, remain 12th - seven points above the relegation zone.\n\nTottenham needed victory to not just stay in touch with Chelsea but also put behind them the FA Cup semi-final defeat to the Blues on Saturday.\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino had been adamant that the 4-2 loss at Wembley would not hurt his players mentally in the title pursuit but that assessment initially looked incorrect as they struggled against a well-drilled Palace.\n\nEriksen, so often the centre of everything good Tottenham did against Chelsea, was kept quiet while Dele Alli and Harry Kane struggled to provide a spark in attack as the visitors finished the first half with just one shot on target.\n\nPochettino brought on Son Heung-min and Moussa Sissoko for the second half and changed to a back four in an effort to find a breakthrough. As time went on it looked more and more likely that victory would elude them but to their credit they stayed patient before a moment of magic from Eriksen finally unlocked the Palace defence.\n\nThe forward took full advantage of a moment when he was afforded a rare bit of space, shooting from distance beyond the reach of Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey.\n\nIt was not a classic performance by a Tottenham side that has scored at least three goals in each of their last three Premier League games but it was one that showed they have the ability to dig in and grind out a result - a side of their game that could prove crucial in the title run in.\n\nShould Spurs have been down to 10 men?\n\nIt could have been a different game if Tottenham lost Victor Wanyama to a second booking in the first half.\n\nAfter picking up an early yellow card for a bad foul, the midfielder slid in late on Andros Townsend. Referee Jon Moss took Wanyama to one side, but let him off with a warning.\n\nPochettino opted to withdraw Wanyama at half time, but Palace boss Sam Allardyce felt he should never have had the option to do that in the first place.\n\n\"Jon Moss should have sent him off,\" said Allardyce. \"The second challenge was probably more of a booking than the first one.\n\n\"It is disappointing for us, it is a mistake but at the end of the day we lost a game and we can only think about ourselves right now.\"\n\nSakho has been a key player in Palace's upturn in form, with every performance since the defender's January arrival on loan from Liverpool serving only to enhance his transfer value.\n\nAgainst Tottenham he was once again excellent, keeping the attacking talent of Kane, Alli and Eriksen quiet throughout the first half.\n\nOne moment in particular stood out when, under pressure from Kane, he coolly chested the ball down inside his own area before calmly clearing, prompting home fans to chant \"sign him up, sign him up\".\n\nBut they must now face up to the possibility of Sakho being absent from the Palace backline after he suffered what looked like a bad injury early in the second half, falling awkwardly following a challenge.\n\nAllardyce's side are unlikely to go down thanks to an incredible run of just two defeats in their last nine Premier League games but Palace fans will be hopeful of seeing Sakho in a Palace shirt again this season.\n\nWhat they said\n\nCrystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: \"Outstanding team effort by the players, who have had less time to recover against an exceptionally good side.\n\n\"Our application was outstanding and we gave Tottenham a hell of a game in the first half, nip and tuck, but of course it would happen that we would tire given the lack of recovery time compared to Tottenham.\"\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: \"It was unbelievable. Very good performance. I think second half we played much better than in the first half. It was difficult in the first half for us to move the ball and find the space but we changed the shape at half time and it was more fluid, we started to find the space and started to push Palace deeper and deeper.\n\n\"It was good to get the three points and be alive in the race for the title. The challenge is to keep going. It is always better to win but it is true [the Arsenal game] is a big derby, perhaps the last at White Hart Lane and I think it will be an exciting game.\"\n\nEight in a row for Spurs - the stats\n• None Spurs have won eight consecutive league games for the first time since October 1960 (13 in a row).\n• None Crystal Palace have lost four successive league games against Spurs in the top-flight for the first time since September 1971 (five in a row).\n• None Christian Eriksen has had a hand in 16 goals in his last 12 games in all competitions for Tottenham (5 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Since his debut in September 2013, Christian Eriksen has scored more Premier League goals from outside the box than any other player (14).\n• None Spurs became the third Premier League side to score 100+ goals in all competitions this season after Man City (105) and Arsenal (106).\n• None Mousa Dembele became the fourth Belgian player to reach 200 appearances in the Premier League alongside Vincent Kompany, Marouane Fellaini and Simon Mignolet.\n• None Crystal Palace have lost seven of their last eight Premier League London derbies on home soil (W1).\n\nIt's the big one for Tottenham on Sunday as they host fierce rivals Arsenal in the Premier League (16:30 BST). Crystal Palace, meanwhile, are at home to Burnley in Saturday's evening kick-off (17:30 BST).\n• None Attempt blocked. Martin Kelly (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andros Townsend with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Davies with a headed pass following a corner.\n• None Luka Milivojevic (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Girl on the Train was Paula Hawkins's first novel under her own name\n\nThe only problem with writing a debut novel that sells 20 million copies and spawns a Hollywood film is - your follow-up has a lot to live up to.\n\nPaula Hawkins' 2015 debut The Girl on the Train was a publishing phenomenon, and the first reviews for her new book Into The Water are in.\n\nAnd most critics are not impressed.\n\nReviewing it for The Guardian, crime author Val McDermid predicted Hawkins' sales would be \"massive\" but \"her readers' enjoyment may be less so\".\n\nMcDermid was puzzled by the 11 narrative voices used in Into The Water, which is released in the UK next week.\n\nShe wrote: \"These characters are so similar in tone and register - even when some are in first person and others in third - that they are almost impossible to tell apart, which ends up being both monotonous and confusing.\"\n\nShe added: \"Hawkins had a mountain to climb after the success of The Girl on the Train and no doubt the sales of her second thriller will be massive. I suspect her readers' enjoyment may be less so.\"\n\nSlate's Laura Miller declared that Into the Water \"isn't an impressive book\".\n\nShe wrote: \"Its tone is uniformly lugubrious and maudlin, and Hawkins' characters seldom rise to the level of two dimensions, let alone three.\"\n\nBut Miller pointed out: \"None of this will necessarily prevent Into the Water from triumphing at the cash register. The book surely will become a best-seller, if only on the strength of residual name recognition for The Girl on the Train.\"\n\nJanet Maslin wasn't much more enthusiastic in The New York Times.\n\n\"If The Girl on the Train seemed overplotted and confusing to some readers, it is a model of clarity next to this latest effort.\n\n\"Her goal may be to build suspense, but all she achieves is confusion. Into the Water is jam-packed with minor characters and stories that go nowhere.\"\n\nShe asks: \"What happened to the Paula Hawkins who structured The Girl on the Train so ingeniously?\"\n\nHowever, The New Statesman's Leo Robson defended the book, writing: \"Most of the time, the novel is plausible and grimly gripping.\n\n\"Into the Water follows its predecessor in applying laser scrutiny to a small patch, but there are signs of growth and greater ambition.\"\n\nHe described Hawkins's writing as \"addictive\", adding that the novel \"is on a par with The Girl on a Train\".\n\nThe film adaptation of The Girl on the Train was released last September\n\nThe Evening Standard's David Sexton wrote: \"Unfortunately, Into the Water turns out to be hard work.\"\n\n\"There's a ridiculous multiplication of narrators from the start, some first-person, others third, so that on first reading it is almost impossible to keep track of who's who and what relation they have to one another... several of the stories never really cohere.\"\n\nMarcel Berlins in The Times said: \"This novel has its intriguing attributes.\n\n\"It does not follow the usual samey fashionable pattern of 'domestic noir' and psychological thrillers. For that Hawkins ought to be commended, even if the result is not a full success.\n\n\"She is let down by her overambitious structure and a lack of sufficient tension. Hawkins does not quite pass the second-book test.\"\n\nOf course, reviews of any kind are unlikely to deter the millions who enjoyed The Girl on the Train.\n\nAfter all, critics didn't much like the film adaptation of her previous book, starring Emily Blunt, but that didn't stop it being a box office success.\n\nThe Girl on the Train was Hawkins' first book under her own name, but she had previously written a string of chick-lit novels under the pen name Amy Silver.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Five things cosmetic surgeons think you should know\n\nWeighing up a facial filler, Brazilian butt-lift or one of the many other cosmetic procedures available? Here are five things you might want to consider beforehandWith thanks to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBorussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra says he is \"doing much better\" after being injured when his side's bus was damaged by explosions in Germany.\n\nBartra, 26, fractured his wrist in the incident, which led to Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final first-leg against Monaco being postponed.\n\nThe match has been rescheduled for Wednesday, with a 17:45 BST kick-off.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for all your support and your messages,\" Spaniard Bartra posted on social media.\n\n\"All my strength to my team-mates, supporters and fans and to [Dortmund] for tonight's match.\"\n\nThe German club said Bartra had an operation on Tuesday after \"breaking the radial bone in his arm and getting bits of debris lodged in his hand\".\n\nThe centre-back, who has 12 international caps, joined the Bundesliga side from Spanish champions Barcelona in June last year.\n\nCaptain Marcel Schmelzer said: \"We're all in shock and our thoughts are with Marc. We hope that he will make a speedy recovery.\"\n\nDortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said the club will \"not bend before terror\" after the attack.\n\n\"We want to show that terror and hatred can never dictate our actions,\" he said chief executive.\n\n\"This is perhaps the most difficult situation that we have faced in the past decades,\" he added.\n\nWatzke said he he had spoken to players in the dressing room, urging them \"to show society that we do not bend before terror\".\n\nHe added: \"We do not just play for us today. We play for everyone - no matter whether Borussia, Bayer or Schalke supporters. And of course we play for Marc Bartra, who wants to see his team win.\"\n\nWatzke earlier confirmed the \"explosive strike on the bus\" happened as it left the team hotel, with \"three explosive devices placed and triggered on the edge of the road\".\n\nGoalkeeper Roman Burki, who was sitting at the back of the team bus alongside Bartra, told Swiss newspaper Blick: \"We left the hotel and went down the street. The bus turned down the main street, and there was a giant explosion.\n\n\"After the bang, we all ducked in the bus and those who could threw themselves to the ground. We did not know what had happened.\n\n\"We're all shocked - nobody thought of a football match in this moment.\"\n\nThe bus was damaged at 18:15 BST on Tuesday - 90 minutes before kick-off - about six miles from the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund.\n\nPolice said there were three explosives hidden in a nearby hedge. They called it \"a targeted attack\" and found a letter at the scene claiming responsibility for the attack.\n\nFederal prosecutors revealed on Wednesday that an Islamist suspect had been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nPolice are preparing for a \"large deployment\" at the rescheduled game, and security at Wednesday's other Champions League ties - Atletico Madrid v Leicester City and Bayern Munich v Real Madrid - is being stepped up.\n\n\"Measures are being reviewed and stepped up wherever and whenever it is needed,\" Uefa competitions director Giorgio Marchetti told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"The security risk is the top priority element which is included in the preparation of matches.\"\n• None 'Every player was shocked and it was silent' - German reporter on scene\n\nTuesday's match was initially delayed and, with thousands of fans already inside the stadium, was postponed 15 minutes before the scheduled kick-off, with Monaco fans chanting in support of their opponents.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino condemned the incident, while Uefa counterpart Aleksander Ceferin said he was \"deeply disturbed\" and praised the decision to postpone the game.\n\nWatzke said: \"I have to express a huge compliment to our fans, who have dealt with it very well, objectively, reasonably and solidly.\n\n\"It will not be easy to get that out of the mind. I think the team will feel it on Wednesday.\"\n\nWith the second leg in Monaco set for 19 April, Watzke said there was no choice but to play the game on Wednesday, as Monaco have a domestic game against Dijon on Saturday.\n\nSoon after the match was rearranged, people in the Dortmund area offered to host Monaco fans who chose to stay in Germany for an extra night or two, using #bedforawayfans.\n\nAnd Monaco offered to reimburse their supporters staying in Germany with up to £67 (80 euros).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA common seating problem on a United Airlines flight on Sunday ended with a man being bloodied and dragged from his seat and an already troubled airline earning more bad press. How did it all go so wrong?\n\nOverbooking on flights happens all the time. Airlines boost their profit margins by overselling, betting against the number of passengers who will miss their flights.\n\nIn this case, the problem arose because United decided at the last minute to fly four members of staff to a connection point and needed to bump four passengers to make way for them.\n\nWhen there's a seating issue the first step is to offer an inducement to the passengers to take a later flight. On Sunday passengers were offered $400 (£322), a hotel room for the night and a flight the following afternoon.\n\nWhen no-one took the offer, the amount was upped to $800. Still no-one bit, so a manager boarded the flight and informed passengers that four people would be selected to leave the flight.\n\nThat selection is based on several factors, but frequent fliers and higher fare-paying passengers are given priority to stay aboard, a spokeswoman for United confirmed.\n\nA couple who were selected agreed to leave the plane voluntarily. A third passenger, reportedly the wife of the man who was forcibly removed, also agreed. The man, who said he was a doctor and had to see patients in the morning, refused.\n\nAt this point, the airline could have identified another passenger for removal or raised its offer anywhere up to a maximum of $1,350.\n\nErin Benson, a spokeswoman for United, could not confirm whether other passengers were sought. She did confirm that no offer was made above $800, but could not comment on why.\n\nAccording to eyewitnesses, the man who refused to be ejected said he was a doctor and he had appointments to keep the following day, though this has not been confirmed. This was a Sunday night flight; the next flight on offer didn't leave until 15:00 on Monday.\n\nAn eyewitness said the man was \"very upset\" about the possibility of being bumped and attempted to call his lawyer. An airline manager told him that security would be called if he did not comply.\n\nAt this point, security officers came to speak to him, first one then two more. As the video shows, their conversation ended with the man being yanked from his seat onto the floor and dragged off, blood visible on this face.\n\nUnited is technically within its rights to forcibly remove the man for refusing to leave the flight, and the step is part of the airline's carriage guidelines, but such instances are extremely rare.\n\nOf the 613 million people who flew on major US carriers in 2015, 46,000 were involuntarily denied boarding, according to data from the Department of Transportation - less than 0.008%.\n\nThe majority of those would have been informed before they boarded the flight, said Charles Leocha, the founder of passenger advocacy group Travelers United. He could not remember seeing a passenger violently dragged off a plane. \"It turned my stomach,\" he said.\n\nRemoving passengers at the last minute to make way for staff was also highly unusual, he said. Staff transport should be identified ahead of time and factored into bookings.\n\nUS fliers have become resigned to chronic delays and poor service, according to Mr Leocha, and a lack of readily available information about their rights meant they were too dependent on the airline managers in situations like these.\n\n\"Our expectations have been driven so low that passengers have begun to accept it,\" he said. \"What they shouldn't have to accept is being dragged off the flight to make way for an employee.\"\n\nOscar Munoz, CEO of United, said in a statement: \"This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers.\"\n\nMr Munoz said the airline would review the event and \"reach out\" to the passenger, though a spokeswoman could not confirm whether United was in touch with him yet.\n\nOne of the security officers involved in the incident was suspended on Monday afternoon, pending a review, said the Chicago Department of Aviation in a statement.\n\nThe actions of the officer were \"obviously not condoned by the Department\", the statement said.\n\nWhatever happened on the flight - and the details will undoubtedly emerge in the coming days - it was a bad day for United, Mr Leocha said. The airline had only recently been at the centre of another controversy, when a fortnight ago it refused to let two girls board because they were wearing leggings.\n\n\"This isn't really a lesson for passengers it's a lesson for airlines,\" he said. \"The only lesson here for passengers is when security get on throw up your hands, because otherwise you're going down the aisle with a fat lip.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nSam Warburton: How the Lions captain injured his knee Wales' Sam Warburton has been ruled out for the rest of the domestic season after suffering a medial knee ligament injury against Ulster on 7 April. But the Cardiff Blues flanker is likely to be fit for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand in June. Lions head coach Warren Gatland names his tour party on 19 April, with Warburton tipped to be captain. \"Sam has a low grade strain which will put him out for approximately six weeks,\" said Blues coach Danny Wilson. \"It won't interfere with the Lions. \"If we were fortunate enough to make the second European [Champions Cup qualifying] play-off game, we would envisage him being available for that. \"So he shouldn't have any problems regarding the Lions.\" Former Blues, Wales and Lions flanker Martyn Williams expressed mixed feelings over Warburton's injury. 'As long as he's up and running for the first Test' He said: \"There will be a concern I'm sure in the back of Sam's mind. \"It's not ideal even though you always look at the positive side of things that there is a break before the tour. \"But Sam Warburton is as professional as they come and I'm sure he'll be fine. \"Ideally as long as he's up and running for that first Test, that's all it's about.\" Sam Warburton captained the British and Irish Lions on their 2013 tour of Australia However, another former Wales and Lions flanker, Colin Charvis, said: \"It's horrendous timing. \"He's spent a couple of years and then a couple of years building for the Lions and he is in great form at the moment. \"But it's not just Warren Gatland who will look at this - it's the whole Lions management team and will wonder about what they are going to do with Sam Warburton.\" Cardiff Blues will be involved in a play-off for a place in European Champions Cup in late May - with the Lions not due to play the first game of their tour until 3 June. Wilson is confident Warburton - who captained the Lions in 2013 but missed the third Test v Australia with a shoulder injury - will recover in time for the tour. \"You see players who get back quickly if they follow protocol through religiously and get a bit of luck and I am sure that will be the case with Sam, knowing how diligent he will be. \"Sam is very experienced and a good pro. He knows his body and knows if he works hard to get that right he will be back relatively quickly. \"He has been fine today. I think it's relatively good news considering how it could have been.\"\n• None Get all the latest rugby union news by adding", "Pensioner Genevieve is excited to meet someone from \"Brexit Britain\" and wishes France could also leave the European Union\n\nTo find out what French voters make of their forthcoming presidential election, I am following the route of the Tour de France and this week I've reached the south-west of the country.\n\nPensioner Genevieve has just ordered the plat du jour as I walk into the beautiful Veloc cafe in Perigueux and, as this is her birthday lunch, she's telling the cafe owner with a flirtatious wink, she's already got her eye on one of his bottled prunes afterwards as a \"special little treat for a special little old lady\". She turns her infectious smile to me.\n\n\"Ooh!\" she says when I tell her who I am. \"How lovely, a lady from Brexit Britain. I think Brexit's great. I'd like France to get out of Europe so she could find her own identity again.\"\n\nAll the way down the Dordogne valley, Britain's influence is hard to ignore. The region is home to so many British expats that it's often dubbed Dordogne-shire.\n\nThey may not have got the French eating Marmite quite yet but they certainly have got the locals chewing over the results of last June's referendum and wondering what a Frexit might taste like.\n\nUnlike some of his customers, cafe owner Christophe Constantin feels thoroughly European\n\nCafe owner Christophe Constantin shakes his head firmly when I ask whether he sees France's future outside Europe.\n\nSince opening his cafe six months ago he explains, 27 different nationalities have walked through his door. And he feels thoroughly European, he adds.\n\nHis neighbour Thomas listens in as he sips coffee at the bar. \"I think there's a strong current pushing for France to leave the EU actually,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's a strong possibility that we'll be out - perhaps not in these elections but maybe after the next. The EU needs to reform to avoid this total divorce.\"\n\nFar-right leader Marine Le Pen has made renegotiating France's membership of the EU one of her key campaign promises. She has vowed to pull France out of the euro and to hold a referendum on a new deal.\n\nSince France has a constitution that states that the \"Republic is part of the European Union\" however, any Frexit would require a constitutional change.\n\nThe two uniformed men on the street opposite the cafe laugh when I suggest that it is unlikely that the Front National would be able to get such a constitutional change approved.\n\n\"Don't worry, we'll watch how Britain does it first,\" says one.\n\nBack inside the cafe, Genevieve's charm has won over Christophe and she's contentedly tucking into her freebie birthday prune. She beckons me over.\n\n\"I'm voting Le Pen,\" she says. \"Because she wants to close the borders, just like Trump is doing in America.\"\n\nShe licks the last of the syrup from her spoon. \"Let's make France great again!\"\n\nThe castle at Pau, one of the stages on the route of the Tour de France cycling race\n\nThree hundred kilometres (186 miles) further south and in his office in Pau's town hall, centrist Mayor Francois Bayrou looks out on to the imposing snowy peaks of the Pyrenees.\n\nFor years, he's been trying to tell the French that they have been imprisoned by a two-party system - between a Left and a Right that will never concede there might be a third way.\n\n\"But that has to change now,\" says Mr Bayrou who has stood as a centrist candidate in the last three presidential elections.\n\n\"We need to unite people and we need to reform. The Socialist Party is decomposing and the Republican right is in civil war.\"\n\nFrancois Bayrou, a former centrist presidential candidate and Mayor of Pau, says he will now support Emmanuel Macron\n\nThis year it won't be Mr Bayrou who is representing the centrists. It is the younger, staunchly pro-European Emmanuel Macron with his brand new movement En Marche.\n\nEmmanuel Macron borrows creeds from left and right and his centrist approach has already won him more than 100,000 supporters nationally but it has left others suspicious and confused.\n\n\"What does he really stand for?\" asks a woman on her way to work. \"I'm not sure I trust him.\"\n\n\"I will probably vote Macron, but with no enthusiasm or conviction,\" says a retired man strolling through the park. \"But maybe we should try something a little bit different.\"\n\nResidents of Mirail, a poor suburb of Toulouse, believe the neighbourhood carries a stigma that is hard to live down\n\nMy next stop is Mirail, a poor and largely immigrant suburb of Toulouse. In this \"sensitive neighbourhood,\" as the French call it, they need a political solution that is radically different. The police won't even come here let alone the politicians.\n\n\"If you want to talk about Islam or about terrorism, I'm off,\" warns a young man in a grey hoodie at Kada's burger stall.\n\n\"We need to talk about jobs - that's what we need to talk about - work is the problem here, not Islam.\"\n\nHis friend shouts over him. \"Politicians know damn well what we need. They've known for years.\n\n\"Why would I vote when no-one represents my neighbourhood or me?\"\n\nYoung men in Mirail want jobs and opportunities and a president who could offer them those\n\nKada, who runs the burger stall, nods at the groups of men clustering round him.\n\n\"If you come from a sink estate like this, believe me you're stigmatised. But give us jobs and watch what we can do.\"\n\nKada believes it's his civic duty to vote but he understands why so many of his customers won't be voting.\n\n\"Look at this social collapse, this poverty. People don't want us to feel as French as everyone else. I want a president who can lift us up from all this.\"\n\nShopkeeper Klams says he has never voted and has seen no sign of change in 20 years\n\nIn his telephone repair shop, Klams sorts through tiny screws on his workshop counter as he hums along to his latest rap song about divisive politics.\n\nAlthough he has left-wing sympathies, he has never voted because, as he says, even the Socialists seem to want to clamp down on Muslims - always banging on about Muslim women wearing headscarves.\n\nHe searches my face for traces of irony when I suggest that perhaps he needs to vote so his voice will be heard.\n\n\"In 20 years, nothing's changed in this neighbourhood,\" he says. \"Politicians just forget us the minute the elections are over.\"\n\nHe picks up a screwdriver. \"That's why I vote God.\"\n\nYou can listen to Emma Jane Kirby's full radio reports as she tours France on BBC Radio 4's PM programme.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nThe MCC has confirmed that a series of law changes - including the introduction of sendings-off - will come into effect on 1 October.\n\nA new law entitled 'players' conduct' gives umpires a range of powers, from imposing penalty runs to ejection from the match.\n\nBat sizes will be restricted and attaching bails to the stumps, in order to prevent injury, will be permitted.\n\nThe laws are also being written in language that is not gender specific.\n• None Read more on what offences could result in a player being sent off\n\nTerms such as batsman and third man remain, but the laws will remove previous references to the term \"he\".\n\nThe law regarding handled the ball has been removed, with that form of dismissal merged into obstructing the field.\n\n\"MCC has left no stone unturned in researching and redrafting the new Laws of Cricket and has done so in order to make the laws work in a way that makes sense to players, umpires and spectators,\" MCC laws manager Fraser Stewart said.\n\n\"The laws are applicable worldwide so they need to be as simple as possible to understand and inclusive to all.\n\n\"The club hopes to encourage interest in the game at all levels and believes these new laws are reflective of the present time and easier for cricketers and umpires to interpret.\"\n\nOther changes include alterations to running out the non-striker, a batsman being run out if their bat 'bounces' after being grounded, and substitutes being allowed to keep wicket.", "Teresa and Larry Clark, from Waynesboro, VA, have witnessed multiple executions\n\nTeresa Clark has watched three strangers die. She held her husband's hand the first time, but after that the experience began to feel normal.\n\nThe couple, who run a chimney sweeping business in Waynesboro, Virginia, volunteer to watch executions. Teresa's husband, Larry, 63, went to the first one alone.\n\n\"He was very curious. I dropped him off and I asked him all kinds of questions,\" she says. \"Afterwards he said, 'You gotta see this'.\"\n\nEventually she did. In 1998 they made the \"nervous journey\" to watch the execution of Douglas Buchanan, Jr, who had been convicted of murdering his father, stepmother, and two stepbrothers.\n\nWitnesses like Teresa and Larry Clark are a legal necessity. In Virginia, as well as some other death penalty states, the law requires people with no connection to the crime attend each execution.\n\nVolunteers \"are considered public eyewitnesses, and go to executions standing in the place of the general public,\" says Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"It's a recognition that these proceedings need to take place in public view.\"\n\nOn the night of the execution, Teresa, Larry and the other volunteers were picked up by the prison bus and taken to Greensville Correctional Facility in Jarratt, Virginia. After spending some time mingling with reporters in the cafeteria, they were led into a small room.\n\nThe room was brightly lit, and featured a large viewing window. When the curtains opened they saw the gurney. Then Buchanan entered.\n\nWhen asked if he had any final words, he replied: \"Get the ride started. I'm ready to go.\"\n\nDuring executions, Teresa says the prisoners look right into the observation gallery, and the room stays silent.\n\n\"It's quite weird, watching somebody look at you as they're getting ready to die,\" she says.\n\nAfter the execution, the doctor pronounces the inmate dead and the curtains close. The witnesses are thanked for their service and sent home.\n\nThe volunteer process made headlines recently when Wendy Kelley, director of the Arkansas corrections department, appealed for volunteers at a community meeting. The state plans to execute a record seven inmates in 11 days, but can't find enough people who are willing to watch.\n\nArkansas state law says that at least six \"respectable citizens\" must be at every execution to \"verify that the execution was conducted in the manner required by law.\"\n\nThe publicity worked. Arkansas now has a flurry of volunteers.\n\nBeth Viele, 39, from Jacksonville, Arkansas, wrote a letter to Kelley expressing her interest.\n\n\"Please accept this correspondence as a formal request to be a volunteer witness for the eight upcoming executions,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I would love to be part in helping the families of the victim(s) see long overdue JUSTICE be carried out.\"\n\nFrank Weiland, 77, works as a brass works fabricator in Lynchburg, Virginia. He's volunteered to witness four executions. He says he goes as a show of support for law enforcement.\n\nThe last execution he witnessed was in 2006, when Brandon Hedrick chose the electric chair over lethal injection.\n\n\"This guy didn't live too far from me, and I know some people that knew him.\"\n\n\"They said he was scared of needles,\" Weiland says with a laugh.\n\nHe watched Hedrick get strapped into the chair, and saw the warden put a sponge on his head to help the electrical current travel faster. \"The next thing you know - boom!\" Weiland says.\n\n\"I noticed his hands on the arms of the chair, and I said, well if there's anything as far as feeling goes he'll clench, and he did not clench. The noise is kind of a bump.\n\n\"He didn't convulse or anything. As a matter of fact if I had the choice I would take the chair.\n\n\"The only thing that told you that he was getting it was the way his legs smoked a little bit.\"\n\nEight men the state of Arkansas originally planned to execute over 11 days. Jason McGehee (bottom left)'s execution has been stayed an additional 30 days\n\nStill, witnessing these deaths leaves an impact.\n\n\"I've replayed it very much in my mind,\" he says. \"I really don't know why, but I have.\"\n\nTeresa Clark tells a story about the night following the first execution she attended.\n\n\"I was sitting in my car at a red light and I looked in the rear view window, and I swear I saw the man I just saw die,\" she says.\n\n\"The picture kind of sticks with you.\"\n\n\"If they called now and needed somebody, I would go.\"\n\n\"It came across my mind, and it still does, that these people know when they're going to die, and the people they killed didn't. They get to say their goodbyes, so I really can't say I felt sorry for them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brothers David, Vincent and Barry all died as a result of blood contamination\n\nThousands of people with haemophilia were infected with HIV and hepatitis as a result of NHS treatments in the 1970s and 80s. But their families are still seeking a public inquiry into the scandal.\n\nTony Farrugia was just 14-years-old when his father Barry died of Aids.\n\nOver the next 20 years, two of his four uncles would also die in what was perhaps the worst treatment scandal in the NHS's history.\n\nIn the 1970s and 80s, thousands of haemophiliacs - like members of Tony's family - were treated with contaminated blood products.\n\nSome 4,670 of them were later diagnosed with hepatitis C, while around 1,200 also contracted HIV.\n\nMany did not live long enough to be treated with modern drugs.\n\nThirty years later, the survivors and their relatives have told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they are still fighting for answers.\n\nSome are worried that a new support scheme planned by the government could leave them struggling to pay mortgages and bills.\n\nTony's father Barry was diagnosed with haemophilia - a genetic condition that prevents blood from clotting - as a baby.\n\nIt took Tony almost 25 years to get hold of his father's medical records after his death.\n\nThey show that Barry was a mild haemophiliac, whose symptoms could have been managed.\n\nHe might not have needed to be treated with the blood clotting agent Factor VIII - the cause of the contamination - but it was prescribed anyway.\n\nThe result was that he was infected with hepatitis B in the late 70s and then with HIV as early as 1980.\n\nEntries in the records show that doctors were aware he might have had the virus two years before he was finally told.\n\nTony, then a teenager, was sent away to live with other family members but the new living arrangements did not work out and he was eventually placed in care.\n\nIn the summer of 1986, he visited his father in hospital for the final time.\n\n\"He started to lose weight by then,\" Tony recalls, \"a lot of weight - so he was really, really skinny.\"\n\n\"I remember my dad asking me for some of my ice cream. I handed it to him, at which point one of the nurses intervened and said 'you can't give him that'.\n\n\"He had blisters in his mouth which were bleeding. I couldn't share an ice cream with my dad because they had given him Aids,\" he says.\n\nBarry's death in September 1986 split the family apart.\n\nTony went back into care in Luton while his twin brother David went to a separate care home in North London.\n\nHis older teenage brothers were left to fend for themselves.\n\nIt was not until 2010 that he was reunited with other members of his family.\n\n\"That was the first time since dad died that we were together again,\" Tony says.\n\n\"That's what the [health service] did, they destroyed my dad with these viruses then they watched his family crumble.\"\n\nIn the years after Barry's death the family continued to struggle.\n\nOne of Barry's brothers, Vincent, was killed by Aids passed on through contaminated blood.\n\nIn 2012, another brother, David, died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage linked to the hepatitis C he had contracted through Factor VIII.\n\nMadeline, David's widow, says the contaminated blood scandal has caused \"devastation\" to her family.\n\n\"I can put my hand on my heart and tell you I am not the same person [since David's death]. I will never be the same person,\" she said.\n\n\"It comes back to haunt you in so many ways.\"\n\nMadeline says the doctors who prescribed Factor VIII \"never, ever\" told them there was a risk of blood contamination.\n\nAngie, Barry's sister, adds: \"Treatment shouldn't kill you, should it? Medical treatment shouldn't kill you.\"\n\nThe family say they also had to live with the stigma that surrounded Aids in the 1980s.\n\nOn one occasion, Vincent had \"Aids scum\" scratched into his car.\n\nWhen he walked into his local cafe one day, everyone else got up and walked out.\n\n\"It was awful - awful - to see this happen to a person,\" Angie said.\n\nThe family are still looking for answers as to why their relatives died and have called for a public inquiry.\n\n\"All we are after is recognition for the harm which was done. We still haven't got the truth and they haven't given us all the answers,\" says Tony.\n\n\"The government can't learn lessons until they face up to what they have done.\"\n\nThousands of people in the UK were infected when they were treated with imported blood products in the 1970s and 80s\n\nThere have been two previous inquiries.\n\nOne was privately funded from donations and could not force health officials or ministers to testify.\n\nThe other only looked at a small number of Scottish victims and did not have the power to summon witnesses from England.\n\nThe Haemophilia Society is now calling for a full public inquiry into the scandal, something the government has so far ruled out.\n\nVictims and their families are also worried that a new financial support scheme currently being planned could leave some worse off.\n\nUnder the proposals, a widow of a haemophiliac who died from Aids in England will receive a one-off sum of £10,000, compared to a lifetime payment of £27,750 a year in Scotland.\n\nA new Welsh scheme announced this month is also significantly more generous than in England and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The whole thing is a shambles, it's shameful,\" says Sue Threakall, of the campaign group Tainted Blood.\n\n\"These are payments which people rely on to pay their mortgages, pay rent and feed their families.\"\n\nThe government says it has doubled the amount it is spending on support payments to those affected since 2015.\n\n\"This is significantly more than any previous government has provided for those affected by this tragedy,\" a spokesman for the Department of Health said.\n\n\"We will continue to listen and are currently consulting on new measures to extend the group of individuals who benefit from higher annual payments.\"\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\nArsene Wenger says the uncertainty over his future is not affecting his Arsenal players, but admits their 3-0 defeat at Crystal Palace is \"a big worry\".\n\nWenger is out of contract at the end of the season and has been offered a new two-year deal, although he is yet to announce whether he will continue.\n\nSixth-placed Arsenal are seven points off the top four with eight games left.\n\n\"I've managed over 1,100 games for Arsenal and we're not used to losing like that,\" said the Frenchman.\n\n\"We have to respond very quickly and not accept it.\"\n\nSome travelling fans told Wenger it was \"time to go\", also singing \"you're not fit to wear the shirt\" at the players, as Arsenal were convincingly beaten at relegation-threatened Palace.\n\nGoals from Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye and Luka Milivojevic inflicted a fourth straight away league defeat on Arsenal - for the first time during Wenger's 21-season reign.\n\nIt leaves the Gunners in serious danger of missing out on a top-four finish for the first time under the 67-year-old.\n\n\"I understand our fans are disappointed and we all are deeply disappointed,\" he said.\n\n\"It's very worrying and disappointing the way we lost the game. Palace were sharp, they beat Chelsea the other day, and that shows they have quality.\n\n\"We are in a difficult position. The game tonight doesn't help.\"\n• None Listen: It hurts me to say it, but it's time for Wenger to go - Hartson\n\nPalace wanted it more than us - Walcott\n\nArsenal controlled possession against their 16th-placed hosts, having 72% of the ball, but were unable to make that dominance count.\n\nThe Gunners managed just three shots on target, all in the first half.\n\n\"That's not Arsenal,\" said stand-in captain Theo Walcott. \"It wasn't us at all.\n\n\"All we can do is apologise for that performance.\n\n\"Palace just wanted it more. You could sense that from the kick-off.\n\n\"We thought we had got out of this little patch and hopefully we haven't been dragged straight back into it. Judging on that performance, it looks like we have.\"\n\nArsenal have won only one of their past five Premier League matches, losing three and conceding 11 goals in the process.\n\nPalace boss Sam Allardyce said he had targeted their defensive frailties in the build-up to Monday's game, highlighting the space behind their full-backs for Townsend and Wilfried Zaha to exploit.\n\n\"We all know they are in a poor spell of results for the first time for years,\" said the former England manager.\n\n\"The weaknesses with Arsenal have been defensively because they leave Shkodran Mustafi and and Gabriel really exposed.\n\n\"Nacho Monreal and Hector Bellerin play like right and left wingers, the wingers come inside with the centre-forward and they're just left on their own.\"\n\nFormer Blackburn and Chelsea striker Chris Sutton on BBC Radio 5 live:\n\n\"At one time, Arsene Wenger managed the Invincibles. He is now managing the Invisibles. He has to go, because the players are not listening.\n\n\"The biggest problem with Arsenal is that it's Wenger who makes the decision on his future. I don't get it. It should be up to the owners.\n\n\"They must be embarrassed by tonight's performance. It was limp. They were played off the park by a team in danger of relegation.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri believes that someone within the club was working against him, but does not think the players got him sacked.\n\nThe Italian led the Foxes to the Premier League title last season but was dismissed in February.\n\n\"I can't believe my players killed me. No, no, no,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"Maybe it was someone behind me. I had a little problem the year before and we won the title. Maybe this year, when we lose, these people push a little more.\"\n\nWhen Ranieri was sacked, Leicester were one point above the Premier League relegation zone.\n\nAssistant manager Craig Shakespeare was placed in charge and presided over five successive league victories and a Champions League last-16 win against Sevilla.\n\n\"I listen to a lot of stories,\" added 65-year-old Ranieri, who refused to identify who he was referring to.\n\n\"I don't want to say who it is. I am a loyal man. What I had to say, I said face to face,\" he told the broadcaster's Monday Night Football show.\n• None Ranieri and more in the latest Football Daily podcast\n\nIn the aftermath of Ranieri's exit, some reports suggested players had been instrumental in his dismissal, with striker Jamie Vardy and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel among those to publicly deny the squad were involved.\n\nRanieri's final game in charge was a 2-1 defeat at Sevilla, with the Foxes winning the return leg under Shakespeare 2-0 to earn a Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid.\n\n\"I thought the Sevilla match was a turning point,\" said the former Chelsea manager. \"Everyone was fighting together, Jamie Vardy scored a goal.\n\n\"But I found out on the way home that I would be sacked. It was a shock for me and for a lot of other people.\"\n\nRanieri's dismissal sparked a wave of support from fellow managers, pundits and supporters, with former Leicester and England striker Gary Lineker saying he \"shed a tear\".\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho wore Ranieri's initials on his shirt and said the Leicester players were \"selfish\".\n\nThe Italian said he received support from all across the world.\n\n\"It was amazing,\" he said. \"When we won the title I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.\n\n\"In case I don't have the time to reply to all of them, I want to thank all the fans.\n\n\"I have won trophies around Europe, but never the title. Three times I was runner-up. Leicester and the fans will be in my heart for all of my life.\"", "When Jude Ower entered the gaming industry she was one of very few women\n\nJude Ower loved playing video games as a child, but she never dreamed that her passion would eventually become a force for good and win her accolades and honours.\n\nAfter 12 years making games for education and training, she went on to create an international games platform with a social conscience - Playmob.\n\n\"After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Zynga, the creator of Farmville, launched a campaign to raise funds for the victims by selling an in-game item, with a percentage of each purchase going to help the victims,\" she explains.\n\n\"It was massively successful and raised over $1m in a matter of days. It was then I thought: 'Maybe I could make a platform that connected games and causes?'\"\n\nPlaymob pairs games developers or businesses with a charity and then sets up in-game advertising campaigns. By clicking on links within the game, players can make donations.\n\nThe campaigns have helped more than 3,000 teenagers receive counselling for cyber-bullying, provided protection for 31 pandas, and secured education for 8,500 children in Africa and Asia, the company says.\n\n\"With Playmob we can track the social impact, such as number of trees planted, number of meals provided, water wells built, and so forth,\" she says.\n\n\"This allows players to see that the more they play and interact with the branded content, the more good they do.\"\n\nSo far the games platform has raised more than $1m for charities over the past five years, and more than 1.5 million players have interacted with charitable in-game content.\n\nHer success saw her awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2015 for services to entrepreneurship and she's been voted one of the top 100 Women in Tech in Europe.\n\nMs Ower is just one of a growing number of entrepreneurs - many of them women - exploring how technology can be harnessed in the cause of philanthropy.\n\nThis is tech for social good, or \"philtech\" as it's sometimes called.\n\nErin Michelson had all the trappings of financial success but felt \"terribly unhappy\"\n\nErin Michelson's high-flying banking career took her to Hong Kong, Chicago, New York and San Francisco, where she rose to vice president and director of philanthropic management at Bank of America.\n\nBut despite seemingly having it all, she felt there was something missing.\n\n\"I realised that even though I had all the trappings of success, I was terribly unhappy,\" she says.\n\n\"So I quit my job, sold everything I owned, set up a charitable fund, and headed out on a two-year around-the-world trip volunteering with humanitarian organisations.\"\n\nTaking only one suitcase, she spent 720 days travelling to 62 countries across all seven continents - an adventure that helped her find meaning in her life, she says.\n\nAfter writing a book about her experiences, she returned to San Francisco and founded Summery, a data analytics company that has developed a piece of online software similar to the Myers-Briggs personality test.\n\nSummery helps firms match their charitable projects with their employees' personalities\n\nThe program combines behavioural science and analytics to give employers an idea of their staff's social priorities and attitudes towards giving, which she says helps inform companies how to focus their charitable efforts.\n\n\"The test matches you with one of 10 'giving' personalities and provides a snapshot of your giving DNA, one of 59,048 possibilities,\" says Ms Michelson.\n\nBy taking the guesswork out of charitable giving, she says it can improve the relationship between employer and staff, to everyone's benefit.\n\n\"Engaged employees lead not only to better corporate performance, but also significant cost savings through stronger retention and more targeted recruitment based on cultural appreciation,\" she says.\n\nRichard Craig, chief executive of the Technology Trust, which helps charitable organisations use tech more effectively, says: \"Over the last couple of years there has been a noticeable trend in graduates specifically looking for roles in charities and non-profits who might previously have looked to careers in the City, for example.\n\n\"I am seeing the same trend with technology start-ups, with a proportion looking to deliver social good either as non-profits themselves, or commercial organisation with social purpose.\"\n\nGood-Loop's Amy Williams says she saw \"untapped potential\" in online advertising\n\nIt was while working for an advertising agency in London that Amy Williams had her \"philtech epiphany\".\n\n\"I saw firsthand the huge amount of money that gets passed from one big conglomerate to another, buying and selling the cheap commodity of our attention online,\" she says.\n\n\"The stark contrast between these two worlds really hit me - £4.7bn was spent on online advertising in the UK last year.\"\n\nShe quit and went travelling, working as a volunteer for a small charity in Argentina called Food For Thought, which specialises in nutrition education for kids.\n\n\"I started started to see the untapped potential within online advertising to make some real positive impact.\"\n\nInspired by her experiences, she founded Good-Loop, a company that rewards viewers of video ads with donations to their chosen charities.\n\nBrands create a video and if the visitor watches it for 15 seconds or more, the advertiser pays 50p - with 50% of that going to the chosen charity, 40% to the content creator, and 10% to Good-Loop.\n\nShe says the process makes viewers more engaged with brands because they have opted to watch the content rather than having it forced upon them.\n\nPlaymob's Jude Ower believes recent political events in Europe and the US have fired up younger generations to get more involved in socially responsible causes.\n\n\"We are seeing people leave well-paid jobs to take a risk and set up on their own, not just in the hope of creating a successful start-up, but to do something with purpose.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester City kept Atletico Madrid within reach as they restricted the dominant Spaniards to a single goal in their Champions League quarter-final first leg.\n\nKoke had already hit the visitors' post in the first half when the referee judged Marc Albrighton's foul on Antoine Griezmann had been inside the penalty area.\n\nReplays showed contact was made outside the box but Griezmann duly stepped up to send Kasper Schmeichel the wrong way.\n\nFernando Torres slipped as the goal beckoned in the second half but, that chance apart, Atletico struggled to carve out clear-cut openings against a stubborn Leicester defence.\n\nRobert Huth - who will be banned for the second leg after being booked - saw a shot blocked and Shinji Okazaki narrowly failed to make contact with a low cross in the best of Leicester's rare raids forward.\n• None Relive the action at the Vicente Calderon\n\nDespite giving up 68% of possession and failing to register a shot on target, Leicester will take heart from their previous encounter with La Liga opposition.\n\nThey were similarly dominated by Sevilla in the first leg of their last-16 tie, but turned round the visitors' 2-1 lead on a tumultuous night at the King Power Stadium.\n\nHaving reached the final in two of the last three years, however, Atletico are a team of greater pedigree and expectations than their compatriots.\n\nWith the meanest defence in La Liga and Griezmann poised to counter, Atletico are also ideally suited to withstand whatever atmosphere the Foxes fans whip up next Tuesday.\n\nThe technical quality of Atletico's players was matched by a shrewd tactical plan from manager Diego Simeone that sought out the space Leicester tried to deny them.\n\nGriezmann - reputedly a summer target for Manchester United - popped up between the lines, with midfield anchorman Wilfred Ndidi and the two centre-backs uncertain who was best placed to pick him up.\n\nIt was the France international's more obvious quality that earned Atletico the opener as his searing pace spread panic in the Leicester defence and Albrighton bundled him over.\n\nReferee Jonas Eriksson pointed to the spot despite Leicester's protests and Schmeichel could not produce a third penalty save after his two in the tie against Sevilla.\n\nAlmost as important might be the yellow card that Huth received in attempting to contain Griezmann.\n\nThe German will be suspended for the second leg and, with captain Wes Morgan not yet back from injury, boss Craig Shakespeare will have to make do and mend in the centre of defence on the biggest night in the club's history.\n\nWhile the Leicester fans high in the Vicente Calderon weighed up whether they were satisfied with the way the tie was poised at its halfway point, some might have taken time to reflect on the heights the team have scaled in just a few short years.\n\nEight years ago almost to the day - 11 April 2009 - their team travelled to the less illustrious surroundings of Hereford's Edgar Street ground in League One.\n\nMidfielder Andy King, who played that day in Hereford and came on in the second half in Madrid, is the only Foxes player who connects the two wildly contrasting eras.\n\nFormer Manchester United, Everton and England defender Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 live:\n\nIt was an outstanding result. Craig Shakespeare would have taken that before tonight .\n\nLeicester have defended really well and limited Atletico Madrid to shots from distance. It was just a horrendous penalty decision that has cost them the game.\n\nWe have no monitor and no television replays and I knew straight away that Marc Albrighton's challenge was outside the box. We must be about 80 yards away from the incident. The referee was right on top of it. It was a diabolical decision.\n\nI didn't expect that sort of defensive concentration from them. I feared the worst after their 4-2 defeat by Everton on Sunday. I keep thinking that the Leicester fairytale can't continue, but the fans here believe.\n\nWhat I will say however, is that Atletico might prefer playing Leicester at the King Power where they will be forced to come out and attack.\n• None Atletico Madrid have won 17 of their 22 Champions League home games under Diego Simeone, with the Spanish club unbeaten in the knockout stages.\n• None Leicester have lost on each of their three European trips to Madrid, with Atletico still unbeaten at home against English sides (winning six, drawing five).\n• None The Madrid club have progressed in six of their last eight European cup ties against English opposition.\n• None Atletico Madrid have also kept a clean sheet in 16 of their last 18 Champions League games at the Calderón.\n• None Antoine Griezmann has been directly involved in 10 goals in his last nine Champions League appearances at the Calderon (eight goals, two assists).\n• None Attempt blocked. Koke (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.\n• None Attempt missed. Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Filipe Luis. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBorussia Dortmund's Champions League quarter-final with Monaco has been postponed after the Dortmund team bus was damaged by an explosion.\n\nThe German team confirmed that defender Marc Bartra broke his wrist in an incident near their hotel and required hospital treatment.\n\nThe match will now be played at Dortmund's Westfalenstadion at 17:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nPolice confirmed there had been three explosions in the area of the team bus.\n\nDortmund's chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said: \"There has been an attack with explosives on the team bus.\n\n\"The whole team is in a state of shock - you can't get pictures like that out of your head.\"\n• None 'Every player was shocked and it was silent' - German reporter on scene of bus explosion\n\nWindows were broken on the bus, which was six miles from the stadium at the time of the incident at around 18:00 BST, and former Barcelona centre-back Bartra was sent to hospital.\n\nPolice said the cause of the explosions, at Hochsten outside the city, was unclear, but added there had been no evidence of any threat to supporters.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy tweeted his support , wishing Bartra a quick recovery, as did his former club.\n\nThe night's other quarter-final between Juventus and Barcelona kicked off as scheduled.\n\nDortmund president Reinhard Rauball added: \"Of course this is an extremely difficult situation for the players.\n\n\"But they are professionals, and I am convinced that they will put that away and will bring their performance on Wednesday.\"", "The lack of clarity with US foreign policy is a cause of concern for America's allies\n\nJust a few days ago the Russian embassy in London responded on its Twitter feed to the British Foreign Secretary's announcement that he was cancelling his planned visit to Moscow.\n\nAccompanying the Russian tweet was a picture of the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimea War - one of the great disasters of 19th Century British military history.\n\nIt was, though, a curious choice of subject.\n\nMaybe the Russian embassy should brush up on their own history, for whilst the charge itself was a glorious failure, Britain and France - who had gone to war with Russia ostensibly over an arcane dispute involving the Ottoman Empire and access to holy sites - did in fact win and Moscow had to back down.\n\nBut there is another more important lesson from the Charge of the Light Brigade that is relevant to today's diplomatic crisis. The flower of Britain's Light Cavalry charged down the wrong valley directly into the mouth of the Russian guns because the message ordering them into action was not clear.\n\nThe US struck at the Syrian airfield from where the Americans say the recent chemical attack was launched with impunity. They did so to reinforce a red line - drawn by the previous Obama administration - but one never acted upon.\n\nOf course the thing about red lines is that they need to be crystal clear. In the immediate aftermath of the strike this seemed to be the case. The message was: use nerve gas again and consequences will follow.\n\nBut on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer muddied the waters.\n\nAsked if air attacks with conventional weapons might also draw US punitive action, he said: \"If you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people, you will see a response from this president.\"\n\nBarrel bombs, though, tend to be large canisters filled with explosives and shrapnel that are typically dropped by Syrian government forces from helicopters. In other words they are conventional rather than chemical munitions.\n\nSo was Mr Spicer broadening the red line? Belatedly the White House had to issue a clarification noting that what he really was saying was that barrel bombs containing chemical weapons would draw a US response.\n\nThis lack of clarity would not matter quite so much if it was not characteristic of the Trump administration's whole approach to foreign policy. And the stakes could not be higher.\n\nOne crisis in US-Russia relations is already upon us. Another involving the unpredictable North Korean regime is fast building. These are the Trump team's first big foreign policy tests and so far they are gaining a very mixed report card.\n\nIn the wake of the US strike on the Syrian air base, Trump administration officials - ranging from the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and US National Security Adviser General H R McMaster, to the White House spokesman Sean Spicer - have suggested a variety of US policy approaches that extend from the relative isolationism of \"America First\" to a more strident interventionism.\n\nOn key questions there seems to be little agreement.\n\nIs the US eager to remove the Assad regime? Does its priority remain the fight against so-called Islamic State? How does the strike against Syria that has enraged not just Russia but also Iran square with US interests in Iraq, where, unlike in Syria, Washington and Tehran find themselves on the \"same side\" in that they are both giving military backing to the Iraqi Government?\n\nMr Tillerson will arrive in Moscow without the backing of the G7 for economic sanctions against Russia\n\nThe lack of clarity in the message is hampering America's allies as well.\n\nThe British Prime Minister Theresa May has spoken of a \"window of opportunity\" to separate Russia from Syria's President Assad. But Tuesday's G7 group of nations meeting has pointedly failed to agree on the need for additional economic sanctions against Russia.\n\nMr Tillerson is arriving in Moscow without the strong backing from America's key allies that he had hoped for. Yes, they all agree that Mr Assad cannot be part of the solution. They all agree Russia must exercise its responsibilities in Syria. But in terms of what to do, they are as much at sea as the Trump administration itself.\n\nWhat is still needed is a broad statement of US policy goals and the instruments that will be used to achieve them. Without that the growing militarisation of US foreign policy - stepped up strikes in Yemen; more troops to Syria and Iraq; and the punitive cruise missile attack in Syria - may worry both friends and potential enemies alike.\n\nThere seems to be no central guiding brain behind the evolution of the Trump team's foreign policy. The US president himself has failed to articulate any clear approach.\n\nWith regard to Syria that may be unsettling. With regard to North Korea, it could be potentially catastrophic.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nSerenity was a word that sprang to mind throughout the epic Masters that spawned Sergio Garcia's maiden major victory.\n\nThe 37-year-old broke through thanks to an apparent inner peace that enabled him to cope with all that Augusta and the elements could throw at him.\n\nWhether it was the gusty winds of the first two days or the intimidating last-day surge of Justin Rose as he collected a hat-trick of front-nine birdies, Garcia remained unperturbed in becoming the only man to be sub-par in all four rounds.\n\nIt is a state of mind that was beyond the Spaniard in pretty much all of his previous 73 attempts to win a major.\n\n\"I felt very calm,\" Garcia said during his champion's news conference. \"I felt very at ease.\"\n• None Watch: The best shots from the 2017 Masters\n\nSitting there in his newly won Green Jacket, it seemed Garcia had finally found the secret - a key to unlock the major puzzle. And it could equip him well in his quest to ensure he does not become a one-hit wonder at major level.\n\nThis was particularly apparent when he recounted the events of the par-five 13th in his final round on Sunday. He had bogeyed the 10th and 11th and now his drive caught a tree and dropped into an unplayable position beneath a bush.\n\nCommentating on BBC Radio 5 live, I suggested we were witnessing another major implosion from a player burdened by a suffocating desire to land the most glamorous of golf's top four prizes.\n\nHow wrong can one be? Garcia's response, to conjure a par before going birdie and eagle over the next two holes, was stunning.\n\n\"In the past, I would have started going at my caddie,\" Garcia admitted. \"And oh, you know, why doesn't it go through [the tree's branches] and whatever.\n\n\"But I was like, well, if that's what is supposed to happen, let it happen. Let's try to make a great five here and see if we can put in a hell of a finish to have a chance.\n\n\"And if not, we'll shake Justin's hand and congratulate him for winning.\n\n\"So I think I did that very well throughout the whole week, and it's something I need to keep improving and keep getting better at it.\"\n\nIf he is able to regularly harness this new outlook, he will become a formidable force at future majors.\n\nA better mental attitude would work in tandem with impressive physical conditioning that shows no sign of deterioration. Garcia had played 71 consecutive majors heading into the Masters.\n\nThat speaks volumes for his longevity and consistency at the top of the game despite several relative troughs before this standout peak in his career graph.\n\nNow he is entitled to feel as though he can swiftly become a multiple major champion in the way Padraig Harrington did a decade ago.\n\nGarcia was twice the fall-guy when the Irishman claimed his three crowns, starting with victory in 2007 at Carnoustie, where the Spaniard narrowly missed a putt for victory.\n\nHarrington retained his Open crown at Birkdale a year later before beating Garcia to the PGA title at Oakland Hills the following month.\n\nThis year the Open returns to Birkdale and the Masters champion can draw on another piece of history to fuel his hopes of snatching the Claret Jug.\n\nIn 1998, Mark O'Meara, who was four years older than Garcia is now, claimed his first major with a thrilling Masters triumph. Later that year he went to the Merseyside course and doubled his major tally.\n\nWhether Garcia can emulate such a feat is subject to many factors - the form of rivals, the state of his game and how the draw is affected by seaside weather.\n\nBut there is no doubt he is better equipped to deal with the mental tests that come during the biggest tournaments.\n\nAlready a winner of the Players' Championship, Garcia has now won at every level of the game.\n\nThat might be it for him. Darren Clarke found a similar serenity to win the 2011 Open and it proved his crowning moment.\n\nYet Garcia, I sense, is more likely to kick on from this triumph and find ways to retain this successful state of mind. If he does, prepare for some thrilling jousts against Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and, yes, Sunday's runner-up Rose.\n\nThe Englishman, no doubt, feels this was a Masters that got away. His missed putts on the 13th and 17th let open the door to major glory, which Garcia was finally ready to charge through.\n\nIt was a thrilling and memorable Masters and one that may leave quite a legacy.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPaulo Dybala scored twice as Juventus took charge of their Champions League quarter-final tie with Barcelona courtesy of a commanding first-leg display in Turin.\n\nThe Argentine forward curled home both of his goals before the break, the first from an angle inside the box and the second from a central position on the edge.\n\nJuve turned a dominant lead into one that should see them go on and win the tie when Giorgio Chiellini showed strength and guile to steer home a header from a corner.\n\nFor the second European round running, Barca - who were as defensively suspect as they were in losing 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their last-16 tie - must recover from a heavy away defeat to progress.\n\nHowever, after their record-breaking achievement to overturn that deficit against PSG, they will retain hope heading into the return leg at the Nou Camp on Wednesday, 19 April.\n• None Podcast: 'Not the end of an era, but the end of their hopes'\n\nThe last time these sides met in the Champions League was in the 2015 final, when Barcelona won 3-1.\n\nThe Italians are a much-changed side, with only goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Leonardo Bonucci starting both the game in Berlin and Tuesday's in Turin, but they played like a team with a score to settle.\n\nThe opening 20 minutes were a lesson in high-pressing, aggressive play that created a clear headed opening for Gonzalo Higuain to spurn before Dybala's two strikes.\n\nThe remaining 70 minutes saw Juve retain a high work-rate but with the luxury of strategically selecting their moments to counter-attack.\n\nThis approach twice allowed Higuain to have shots that were saved by Marc-Andre ter Stegen before more lax defending - this time from Javier Mascherano, who had been moved to centre-back from midfield at half-time - allowed Chiellini to head home following a corner.\n\nThe win means Juve, who have won their past 32 Serie A home games, are undefeated in 18 European games in Turin.\n\nWith the second-best defence of any side in Europe's top-five leagues and having gone 441 Champions League minutes without conceding, the Italians are well-equipped to avoid wilting under second-leg pressure in Spain.\n\nMore away woe for fading Barca\n\nBarcelona's heroics in the return leg against PSG papered over the cracks of a terrible first-leg display in the French capital.\n\nAfter another heavy away defeat - their third in four Champions League games on the road and a second in succession after Saturday's La Liga loss at Malaga - there is no escaping the feeling this is a team in decline.\n\nThey are often shambolic at the back, with Samuel Umtiti and Jeremy Mathieu error-prone and Mascherano a fading force.\n\nAndres Iniesta is a class act in midfield and the attacking unit of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar is unrivalled in Europe, but only the talismanic Messi proved a threat in Turin.\n\nHe had a goal rightly ruled out for offside, curled a shot just past the post, laid on a defence-splitting pass for Suarez to shoot wide and another to send Iniesta clear only to see Buffon superbly claw his shot past the post.\n\nBuffon's instinctive save not only denied Barcelona a vital away goal, but came just 76 seconds before Dybala made it 2-0.\n\nLuis Enrique's side have come back from a seemingly inevitable exit once in this season's Champions League. They will need all 11 players at the very top of their game if they are to have any chance of repeating the feat.\n\n'It was like the third half from Paris'\n\nJuventus coach Massimiliano Allegri: \"I want to congratulate the lads because, as a team, they did great.\n\n\"It isn't easy overcoming a team like Barcelona, but we also dug deep to keep a clean sheet. That was fundamental for us.\n\n\"But we have to remain humble, keep our heads down and keep working. PSG scored four, and look what happened.\n\n\"In Barcelona, it will be different and we have to try and score a goal.\"\n\nBarcelona coach Luis Enrique: \"We basically gifted two goals to Juventus in the opening half. As coach, for me it's inexplicable how they were so much better than us.\n\n\"It's like a nightmare. We've had very little luck of late, and now I can only hope that from tomorrow we get back on our feet.\n\n\"In the first half the players were determined, but we made the same mistakes from Paris, and that's a problem. Our second half was much better. But I still have the opening half in my head, like a nightmare.\n\n\"Maybe it wasn't [a repeat of] Paris, but it was like the third half from Paris.\n\n\"I'm an optimistic person. But I take responsibility for this. I'm the coach and the buck stops at me.\n\n\"If we play as well as we can, we can score four goals against anyone.\"\n• None Juventus are unbeaten in their last 18 Champions League home games (W11 D7 L0), their longest ever run without a defeat in the competition on home soil. Their last home defeat in the competition was versus Bayern Munich in April 2013 (0-2).\n• None Juventus have now won 16 successive home matches in all competitions and are unbeaten in 48 games there (W42 D6 L0). Their last home defeat in all comps came against Udinese in August 2015.\n• None Massimiliano Allegri has equalled Juventus' longest winning streak in the Champions League (five games - previously done by Fabio Capello in 2004-05 and Antonio Conte in 2012-13).\n• None Dybala's first two goals in 2016-17 for Juventus were scored away from home, but his 14 goals since then have all been scored at the Juventus Stadium.\n• None Barcelona have lost four of their past five Champions League away games in the knock-out stages (W1 D0 L4), conceding 12 goals in these games.\n\nBarcelona host Real Sociedad in La Liga on Saturday before the home leg with Juve. The Italian side travel to Pescara this Saturday and then to Spain four days later.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Neymar with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dani Alves (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonzalo Higuaín.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Javier Mascherano.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 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\nThe United States, Canada and Mexico have announced they will make a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup.\n\nIt will be the first tournament after the expansion from 32 teams to 48 and, if successful, would be the first time a World Cup has been shared by three hosts.\n\nThe proposal would be for the USA to host 60 matches, with 10 games each in Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe decision on who will host the event will be made in 2020.\n\nThat is three years later than originally scheduled because of corruption allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.\n\nThe USA staged the 1994 World Cup, which had the highest average attendance in the tournament's history, while Mexico was the first nation to host the event twice, in 1970 and 1986. Canada hosted the 2015 women's World Cup.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has promised to build a border wall between the USA and Mexico but Sunil Gulati, president of the US Soccer Federation, said Trump is \"supportive\" of the bid and had \"encouraged\" it.\n\n\"The United States, Mexico and Canada have individually demonstrated their exceptional abilities to host world-class events,\" added Gulati.\n\n\"When our nations come together as one - as we will for 2026 - there is no question the United States, Mexico and Canada will deliver an experience that will celebrate the game and serve players, supporters and partners alike.\"\n\nEuropean and Asian countries cannot bid for the 2026 World Cup due to world governing body Fifa's rotation policy, which means the previous two host confederations - Europe in 2018 and Asia in 2022 - are excluded.\n\nThe new-look tournament will begin with an initial round of 16 three-team groups, with 32 qualifiers going through to the knockout stage.\n\nFifa's executive committee is no longer responsible for the final say on which country is awarded a World Cup.\n\nInstead, it will establish a shortlist before the 209 member nations of Fifa cast a vote for their preferred choice.\n\nThe 2026 tournament will be the first to be decided under the new system.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nFormer Wales and British and Irish Lions scrum-half Mike Phillips is to retire when Sale Sharks' season ends.\n\nThe 34-year-old won two Grand Slams with Wales, in a career that spanned the 2003-2015 World Cups.\n\nIn all, he made 99 Test appearances, five of them in two Lions tours, and won three Six Nations with Wales.\n\n\"I will attack the next chapters with the same passion, commitment and laughter as I did during my entire career,\" he wrote on social media.\n\nHe also tweeted: \"Thanks to the fans, teammates, clubs, coaches, @WelshRugbyUnion the @LionsOfficial, friends & family who have supported me over the years.\"\n\nThe Carmarthen-born player's career has not been without controversy.\n\nHe was sacked by Bayonne in October 2013, having been suspended by them a year earlier for off-field misconduct, and by Wales in July 2011 after a confrontation with a doorman in Cardiff city centre.\n\nOn the field, Phillips' combative style and imposing physical presence made him Wales' number one scrum-half for much of the era since Warren Gatland took over the national team before the 2008 Six Nations.\n\nPhillips scored a try that helped Wales to victory against England at Twickenham to start that Grand Slam campaign.\n\nHe was also part of the 2012 clean sweep and Wales' 2013 title win.\n\nThe Lions picked Phillips for the 2009 tour of South Africa, and he played in all three Tests in their 2-1 series defeat.\n\nTwo more Lions caps followed in 2013 when Gatland guided the tourists to a 2-1 win in Australia.\n\nPhillips' career: Scarlets to Sale via Welsh rivals and French clubs\n\nPhillips' Wales career began against Romania in 2003 while he was understudy to fellow Wales and Lions cap Dwayne Peel at Scarlets.\n\nHis last Wales cap came against Ireland in Cardiff in August 2015 as they prepared for that year's World Cup.\n\nPhillips was initially left out of coach Warren Gatland's squad for the tournament, but recalled as cover for the injured Rhys Webb before the opening game against Uruguay.\n\nHowever, he played no part as Wales reached the quarter-finals and retired from Test rugby in December that year.\n\nPhillips joined Cardiff Blues from Scarlets in 2005, moved to Ospreys two years later and headed to France to join Bayonne in 2011.\n\nHe then played for another French Top 14 side, Racing 92, and joined English Premiership club Sale for the 2016-17 season.", "Heather Watson and Naomi Broady knocked out of Biel Bienne Open Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish pair Heather Watson and Naomi Broady were both knocked out in the first round of the Biel Bienne Open in Switzerland. Watson, world ranked 110th, was beaten 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 by the Estonian Anett Kontaveit, who is the world number 99. The 24-year-old faced 18 break points - compared to just one for her opponent - on the way to losing. World 124 Broady was beaten 6-4 6-2 by German Julia Goerges, who is 46 in the women's rankings.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCoverage: Scrum V Live on BBC Two Wales, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live scores online\n\nWales scrum-half Rhys Webb says being selected for the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand would be the pinnacle of his career.\n\nBut he is philosophical about the prospect after missing the 2015 Rugby World Cup through injury.\n\nWebb is a leading contender to be named in the Lions squad on 19 April and said: \"If it happens, it happens, and it would be a dream come true.\n\n\"But I know what it's like to miss out on these big competitions.\"\n\nWebb suffered a serious ankle injury in September 2015, a matter of weeks before the start of the World Cup, and played no part in Wales reaching the quarter-finals.\n\nAnd the 28-year-old says such experiences are helping him stay focused on helping his region the Ospreys in the Pro12.\n\n\"The Lions is obviously the best of the best, but I've missed out on the World Cup and I know what it's like,\" Webb told 5 Live's Rugby Union Weekly podcast.\n\n\"Don't get me wrong, as the time is getting closer, the more motivational videos from past Lions are popping up on Twitter, and I would love to bits to be a part of it.\n\n\"But we've got to win the league first.\n\n\"It would be the pinnacle of my career, but we've got the Blues on Saturday, and that is the final game ahead of the announcement next week.\"\n\nOspreys are third in the Pro12 table - seven points adrift of second-placed Munster - and face Cardiff Blues this weekend as part of Welsh rugby's Judgment Day double-header at the Principality Stadium.\n\n\"We've had three disappointing results - Treviso, the [Challenge Cup] quarter-final [against Stade Francais], and Leinster on the weekend - so we are on a bit of a tricky losing streak,\" Webb added.\n\n\"But we are in total control of where we are in the league, the boys have a had a great season so far.\n\n\"It's about trying to stay positive and get that momentum now this weekend, in a full Principality Stadium against our local rivals the Blues.\"", "Protests gripped Rotterdam in March when a Dutch ban on visits by Turkish ministers enraged Ankara\n\nHow do Turks in the Netherlands feel about Turkey's controversial referendum on 16 April? Turks living abroad are already voting - deciding whether to give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers.\n\nThe BBC's Anna Holligan looks at the tensions gripping the Dutch-Turkish community.\n\nA convivial mood emanates from the crowds flashing ID cards and smiles, as they stream through metal barriers outside a temporary polling station, set up inside a convention centre in a suburb of The Hague.\n\nFamilies link arms, children catch melting ice-cream with the tips of their tongues. Some women wear headscarves, others let their bleached hair flow, men hug and share jokes in their mother tongue.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers keep a cautious watch across the street.\n\nAbout 250,000 Dutch-Turks are eligible to vote. Along with the millions in Germany, a politically-engaged diaspora could swing what is expected to be a tight result.\n\nTwo young men made the one-hour round trip from Rotterdam to mark their ballot because \"it's the motherland'. The 25-year-old grins - one day he will go and live there forever. He voted \"yes\" because \"Erdogan is a good man who can make the country better\".\n\nErdogan critic Sinan Can: \"Every day it's getting worse. I'm afraid someone will get killed\"\n\nBut those who hold different views take a risk by expressing them.\n\nSinan Can's documentary work has made him unpopular with the pro-Erdogan lobby based in the Netherlands.\n\n\"When I went to vote they called me a traitor, if you're critical of Erdogan you're considered disloyal to Turkey. Fear is the biggest problem among Turks here.\n\n\"They say if I go to Turkey they'll get me and lock me up. Gulenists have a lot of death threats, every day it's getting worse. I'm afraid someone will get killed,\" he said.\n\nHe has not been home for three years.\n\nAnd last week's detention of 10 Dutch-Turkish holidaymakers was evidence that this isn't paranoia.\n\nMr Erdogan's AK Party says the botched military coup last July was instigated by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally turned enemy.\n\nTurks first moved to the Netherlands as \"guest workers\" during the post-war economic boom in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nNow they are third- and fourth-generation.\n\nMany of those who were born and educated in this secular society feel a greater affinity with the Islamic country of their ancestors. And this romanticised nostalgia is buoyed by propaganda pumped out by satellite TV and other state-funded channels.\n\nThe long arm of Mr Erdogan is felt through the Turkish government's influence on the diaspora.\n\nHakan Buyuk works for the Dutch-Turkish weekly newspaper Zaman Vandaag - he has been told by police to keep a low profile after reporting threats to his life.\n\n\"The Union of European Turkish Democrats functions as the AKP in Europe. Diyanet - the directorate of religious affairs - is funded by the Turkish government and runs about 150 mosques in the Netherlands,\" he says.\n\nTurks are deciding whether to give President Erdogan sweeping new powers\n\nLast month Dutch police fired water cannons to disperse a pro-Erdogan crowd outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, protesting after two Turkish ministers were barred from addressing a rally.\n\nMr Erdogan fired back with insults, calling the Dutch \"Nazi remnants\" and accusing them of presiding over the genocidal slaughter of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.\n\n\"It just makes them more passionate about him,\" says Thijl Sunier, professor of cultural anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam. He tells me Dutch-Turks see Mr Erdogan through rose-tinted glasses.\n\n\"They don't experience the negatives caused by his policies, all the economic crumbling... they're looking at him from a distance, they're impressed by the macho way he does politics.\"\n\n\"We are very concerned,\" says Han Ten Broeke, the liberal VVD party's foreign affairs spokesman.\n\n\"We are a free and open society. This monitoring makes people silent. We get diversions, intimidation and violence. We simply cannot tolerate that in this country.\n\n\"There's been a surge in police reports of Turks who feel threatened by other Turks - these are Dutch people and it's happening in the midst of our society.\"\n\nThe Dutch government believes these ties to a country led by someone seen as the authoritarian antithesis of Dutch liberal tolerance is one of the greatest impediments to Turkish integration.\n\nSchilderswijk in The Hague: Many Dutch-born Turks show strong loyalty to Turkey\n\nSome working-class neighbourhoods are divided along ethnic lines - places like Feijenoord, a Rotterdam district, and Schilderswijk in The Hague.\n\nThere it is \"proud Turks\" versus nationalist white Dutchmen, like Erwin, who tells me the Turks need to \"get more Dutch - we're not trying to make them walk in clogs, but they have to stop trying to grab onto the past\".\n\nProf Sunier says this push is more influential than the pull Dutch-Turks feel from Ankara.\n\n\"If we continue to see people with a Turkish background as foreigners, even when they are born and raised here, it creates this feeling that even when they have a Dutch passport, speak Dutch, have a Dutch education, still they cannot reach higher levels - this is more important than all the efforts of Erdogan.\"\n\nThe AKP - enjoying very solid support in Turkey - is even more popular among foreign-born Turks. In Turkey's November 2015 election 70% of Dutch-Turks voted Erdogan.\n\nSuch powerful political influence over a large ethnic minority poses challenges not only for the Netherlands but for Europe in general.", "A shortage of leaders has left thousands of children stuck on a waiting list to become Scouts, Beavers, Cubs or Explorers, the Scout Association says.\n\nHere, two people to have donned the Scouts' woggle and scarf describe the ups and downs of being a volunteer.\n\nLynn Dredge, who leads her local Beaver group for six- to eight-year-olds in Surrey, says she really enjoys her role.\n\n\"You're able to do things you would have as a child but with your adult's head on - you still get that level of fun,\" she says.\n\n\"We do sleepovers in the Scout hut and sing songs - all the old traditional things which the kids love.\n\n\"Because we're a village I sometimes see old Beavers who are now grown up - they'll say 'Hi Kingfisher!' which is my scouting name.\"\n\nThe 52-year-old, a teaching assistant in a primary school, has led the group for 16 years. She began as a parent volunteer after her son Stephen joined.\n\nNow, she runs a weekly meeting during term-time that lasts for an hour-and-a-quarter, and plans sessions with two other leaders.\n\nTo organise this summer's term, \"I met the other leaders at the pub and within a couple of hours we'd planned from now until July.\"\n\nEach weekly evening has a different theme, where children may be taught to tie knots, how to light a campfire or learn computer skills.\n\nAnd there are the trips. A camp-out on Dorset's Brownsea Island nature reserve and a jamboree in Holland where Scouts meet counterparts from across the world are on the agenda for Lynn's Beaver Scout Colony.\n\n\"The adults are Scouts as much as the children,\" Lynn says.\n\n\"If they go abseiling, or perform a talent show, we do it too - I'd never ask them to do something I'm not prepared to do myself.\"\n\nOn the shortage of volunteers, she says parents often \"love the idea\" of their children scouting - but that they are rarely prepared to give their own time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scout Katie Ainscough tells the Today programme why the group is still important\n\n\"They forget that it's run by volunteers, week in and week out.\"\n\nShe said some parents put their children on waiting lists up to four years before they are old enough to join, especially for oversubscribed groups.\n\n\"A group in Ashford has to run two evenings a week, of around 20 children each, and there is still a waiting list,\" she says.\n\n\"I've had to tell parents that unless you're prepared to help we won't be able to carry the group on.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"For the people who say that they don't have anytime to volunteer, I say, it's about juggling life.\"\n\nBut with the activities come responsibilities. Training, health and safety rules and planning can be onerous, some leaders say.\n\nJim Godden, 52, was a Scout leader in Bristol for eight years, but says he became \"disillusioned\" with bureaucracy by the time he left in 2015.\n\n\"I was a very active Scout, leading a successful troop,\" he says.\n\n\"We regularly went mountain walking, climbing, water-skiing, kayaking, biking and wild swimming, among many other activities.\"\n\nBut it gradually became more difficult to authorise activities with senior leaders, he says, \"even with the correct levels of leader ability and adhering to all safety factors\".\n\nHe adds: \"The only way the Scout movement can really move on is to attract those people who already take part in adventurous activities.\"\n\nJim says children want \"adventure and excitement,\" rather than sitting at a campfire singing songs.\n\nHe says some leaders are old-fashioned and \"still see it from their 'good old days' when they were Scouts.\"\n\nFor its part, the Scout Association said it was making it easier for those with limited time to join up by being flexible about how much time they can give and the sorts of jobs they do.\n\nIt says they are responding to people wanting \"much more flexible volunteering arrangements\" than in the past.\n\nIt said people could take up administrative and trustee roles, as well as being group leaders. They can help once a fortnight, month or term or at special events or camps.\n\nBut this has to be balanced with training leaders, who with one other adult can be responsible for around 20 young people at a particular time.\n\nEveryone who signs up has a criminal record check and an appointment to assess if they are suitable for leading.\n\nAfter this, volunteers have five months to complete an initial training which includes essentials like first aid and leadership training.\n\nOnce complete, they get a \"Gilwell woggle\" to show they are a learner leader.\n\nBut it can take up to five years to finish training and get a Wood Badge - the recognised insignia given to adult scouters across the world.\n\nIt looks like two wooden beads threaded onto a leather thong, and is modelled on a necklace given out by Robert Baden-Powell's at the first Scoutmasters' training camp in 1919.\n\nLynn says: \"It sounds like a lot, but you fit in learning over the weekend. We all enjoy teaching the children, but it's about us learning too.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nAboriginal players from Australian rules football's AFL have written an open letter to the sport's fans calling for an end to racial abuse.\n\nIt comes after Port Adelaide Power's Paddy Ryder and Adelaide Crows player Eddie Betts were racially abused during a match at Adelaide Oval on Saturday.\n\nIn the letter, the AFL players' indigenous advisory board said it had \"had enough\".\n\n\"Racial vilification has been a part of our game for too long,\" it added.\n\n\"That both Eddie and Patrick were abused because of the colour of their skin is absolutely unacceptable.\"\n\nThe latest incident follows a Port Adelaide Power member being banned after she was filmed throwing a banana at Betts last year.\n\n\"These are more than just words and the impact these slurs have on the player, their family, their children and their community is profound,\" continued the statement.\n\n\"There's no room in our game for any form of vilification, whether it's based on race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.\n\n\"Anyone who thinks that this is an acceptable way to act is no football fan.\"", "Fred Scappaticci denies he was an Army agent within the IRA\n\nThe British spy Stakeknife - described by an Army general as \"our golden egg\" - is now the subject of a £35m criminal inquiry called Operation Kenova.\n\nThe inquiry has been triggered by a classified report which Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions Barra McGrory QC has told Panorama \"made for very disturbing and chilling reading\".\n\nWhat Stakeknife actually did has been wreathed in speculation since he was identified in 2003 as Belfast bricklayer Freddie Scappaticci.\n\nThe one stand-out fact, however, has not been in doubt: for over a decade Scappaticci maintained his cover in the IRA by interrogating fellow British agents to the point where they confessed and were then shot.\n\nOne British spy was preparing other British spies for execution.\n\nAnd there were a lot of executions: 30 shot as spies by the IRA's so-called Nutting Squad which, I am told, Scappaticci eventually came to head.\n\nPanorama has learned that Scappaticci is linked to at least 18 of those \"executions\".\n\nNot all the victims would have been registered agents like him who produced the best intelligence.\n\nSome were akin to \"informers\" - people with close access to IRA members, or who passed on what they saw and heard to the security forces.\n\nA few were innocent of the IRA's charge of spying.\n\nStill, the spectacle of one British agent heading an IRA unit dedicated to rooting out and shooting other British spies is so extraordinary that I've often wondered how exactly the state benefitted by the intelligence services having tolerated this for the whole of the 1980s.\n\nThe obvious person to ask is Scappaticci himself - but a draconian injunction stops journalists from approaching him, even to the point of making any enquiries about where he now lives or what he does.\n\nJon Boutcher (left), chief constable of Bedfordshire Police, is leading Operation Kenova, with the authority of PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton\n\nScappaticci was recruited by a section within military intelligence called the Force Research Unit, or FRU.\n\nI'm told the Army have assessed his intelligence as having saved some 180 lives.\n\nCan Scappaticci's intelligence have been so valuable that the sacrifice of other agents was a price worth paying to maintain his cover?\n\nIt's not quite that simple.\n\nHad the cavalry been sent in every time Scappaticci tipped off his handlers about who was at risk, he himself wouldn't have lasted long.\n\nYet protecting him also meant the murders he knew about - or was even involved in - were never properly investigated, driving a \"coach and horses\" through the criminal justice system, according to Mr McGrory.\n\nBarra McGrory said the report made for \"disturbing and chilling reading\"\n\nAlso, the Army's assessment that Stakeknife saved 180 lives doesn't translate to the number of actual lives saved as a direct consequence of actioning Stakeknife's intelligence by, for example, interdicting an IRA unit on active service.\n\nI understand that figure of 180 is partly the army's guesstimate of lives that would have been lost had Stakeknife's intelligence not led to arrests and the recovery of weapons.\n\nOf course Stakeknife also contributed significantly to \"building a picture\" of the IRA, an insight much valued by the intelligence services.\n\nAn ex-FRU operative with access to his intelligence told me: \"He knew all of the main players and picked up a tremendous amount of peripheral information.\n\n\"As the [IRA] campaign changed and the political side became more important again he was highly placed to comment on that.\"\n\nNo doubt, but it's hard to quantify \"picture building\" in terms of actual lives saved.\n\nOne thing is for sure: leading a double life at the heart of an IRA unit with a Gestapo-like hold over its rank and file would have required cunning - and resilience.\n\nEspecially since Scappaticci told his army handlers he disliked gratuitous violence.\n\nHe seems to have managed the violence bit though, even when it was close to home.\n\nI'm told that in January 1988, Scappaticci sent a young boy up to the home of Anthony McKiernan, asking him to call by to see Scappaticci.\n\nThe Scappaticcis and McKiernans were friends - children from both families had sleepovers.\n\nThat was the last McKiernan's wife and children saw of him. Accused by Scappaticci's Nutting Squad of being a spy - something the family strongly deny - some 24 hours later, he was shot in the head.\n\nUnsurprisingly, Scappaticci's ex-IRA comrades paint a less flattering picture than his handlers.\n\nThey say he was a prodigious consumer of pornography, loved James Bond movies and - although he was on the IRA's Belfast Brigade staff - was never a \"true republican.\"\n\nThat might explain why, after Scappaticci was released from detention without trial in December 1975, he drifted away from the republican movement and got involved in a building trade VAT scam.\n\nThere were family holidays in Florida.\n\nBut then he was arrested by the police and agreed to work for the fraud squad as an informer.\n\nHis former IRA comrades also speak of a man with an intimidating manner, handy with his fists and a large ego who liked to be at the centre of things.\n\nHis appointment to the IRA's Nutting Squad - a job most IRA members ran a mile from - certainly gave him that opportunity.\n\nIt provided Scappaticci with unrivalled access to what the IRA high command were thinking and their war plans.\n\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife, in 2003\n\nIt also gave him access to the names of new IRA recruits on the pretext of vetting them, plus details of IRA operations on the pretext of debriefing IRA members released from police custody to establish whether they gave away too much to their interrogators.\n\nThat explains why military intelligence was so eager to recruit Scappaticci when, in September 1979, he graduated to the FRU from spying for the fraud squad.\n\nHe got an agent number - 6126 - and a codename. Stakeknife.\n\nHis luck ran out in January 1990 after police agent Sandy Lynch was rescued from the clutches of the nutting squad.\n\nThe police thought Lynch was about to be shot, Scappaticci having got him to confess. The ordinary CID who did not know Scappaticci was a spy found a thumb print in the house where Lynch had been held.\n\nScappaticci fled to Dublin. However, a senior police officer who was in the know advised the FRU to get Scappaticci to concoct an alibi for his thumbprint.\n\nIt worked. On his return to Belfast in the autumn of 1992, Scappaticci was arrested and then released without charge.\n\nHis handlers hoped he could return to spying. But by now the IRA were suspicious and removed him from the security unit.\n\nWith Scappaticci's access to IRA secrets gone, the FRU formally stood him down as an agent in 1995.\n\nHow did he escape the same treatment at the hands of the IRA that he had helped mete out to others?\n\nProbably because the sight of his body dumped on a roadside would have provoked a slew of questions about those IRA leaders who appointed him to protect the IRA from spies like him - and who also ignored warnings from their more sceptical comrades along the border that \"Scap\" was not to be trusted.\n\nThat did not stop the IRA in Belfast from putting Scap in his place.\n\nAfter being sidelined, he agreed to help the staunchly republican Braniff family clear the name of a brother, Anthony, who was shot as a spy in 1981. He was eventually exonerated by the IRA.\n\nBut when Scappaticci spoke up for Anthony at a private meeting of republicans, to his embarrassment, the IRA's most senior man in Belfast, Sean \"Spike\" Murray suddenly appeared and slapped him down.\n\nWhen Scap was eventually outed as Stakeknife by a former FRU operative in 2003, he was spirited to England where MI5 told him the IRA knew he had been a spy.\n\nHe rejected MI5's offer of protective custody, flew straight back to Belfast and sought a meeting with the IRA.\n\nHe gambled on not being shot because he calculated the IRA now had every reason to support a denial that he was a spy - even though he knew they didn't believe him.\n\nHis gamble was based on the fact that the IRA's political wing Sinn Fein were now engaged in the peace process.\n\nScappaticci calculated that were the IRA to admit they'd long suspected he was a spy, it would undermine the official line that they'd fought the British to an honourable draw.\n\nAny such admission would provoke the rank and file into questioning whether the IRA had been pushed into peace, paralysed by the penetration of agents like him.\n\nAfter meeting two of the most senior representatives of the IRA leadership, Martin \"Duckster\" Lynch and Padraic Wilson, I'm told Scappaticci and the IRA came to an understanding: Scappaticci would issue a firm denial which the IRA would not contest.\n\nTo this day, that's been the IRA's official position - even though, as they say in Belfast, the dogs in the street know it's nonsense.\n\nOnce again, Agent 6126 had relied on his wits and native cunning.\n\nWhether the 71-year-old Scappaticci now outwits the 50 detectives trawling over everything he did, what his handlers allowed him to do, and what the IRA leaders authorised him to do, is another question.\n\nYou might say he's the spy who knows too much - because he knows the answers to all these questions.\n\nPanorama is broadcast on Tuesday night and can be watched online after broadcast\n• None Panorama - The Spy in the IRA\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCrystal Palace continued their recent revival to boost their Premier League survival hopes and leave Arsenal struggling to maintain their run of top-four finishes under Arsene Wenger.\n\nPalace led through Andros Townsend's close-range finish, doubling their lead when Yohan Cabaye's shot looped in.\n\nLuka Milivojevic clinched victory with a firm, low penalty as Palace moved six points clear of the relegation zone.\n\nSixth-placed Arsenal did not manage a shot on target in a poor second half.\n\nSome travelling Gunners fans again called for manager Wenger, who has led Arsenal to top-four finishes in each of his previous 20 seasons at the helm, to leave the club.\n\nThe Frenchman's side are seven points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City with eight games remaining.\n• None Follow all the post-match reaction from Selhurst Park\n\nThe manner of Arsenal's performance - disorganised, devoid of attacking ideas and lacking fight - will increase the scrutiny on Wenger yet again.\n\nThe 67-year-old has already faced protests from some supporters urging him to leave, with more calls clearly audible - along with the barracking of his players in the latter stages - at Selhurst Park.\n\nWenger's contract expires at the end of the season and the club has offered him a new two-year deal, although he is still to announce whether he intends to carry on.\n\nArsenal had 72% possession against Palace but that mattered for little as the hosts broke quickly on the counter-attack, exploiting space down the flanks and taking their chances clinically.\n\nThe Gunners looked defensively vulnerable whenever Palace went forward, lacking leadership without injured captain Laurent Koscielny.\n\nAnd when the visitors did attack, Palace keeper Wayne Hennessey was only required to make saves from Mohamed Elneny and Alexis Sanchez.\n\nAfter the break, Hennessey did not even face a shot on target as Arsenal suffered a fourth straight away defeat for the first time under Wenger.\n\n\"Palace wanted it more. You could sense that from the kick-off,\" Theo Walcott, Arsenal's stand-in captain, said.\n\nWhile Wenger has never led Arsenal to a finish outside the top four, opposite number Sam Allardyce has a proud record of not being relegated from the top flight.\n\nOn this evidence, Allardyce looks much likelier to maintain his achievement than his long-time adversary.\n\nThe former England manager, who has previously kept up Bolton, Blackburn and Sunderland, took a while to improve Palace's fortunes after replacing Alan Pardew in December, but the Eagles are starting to reap the rewards of his methods when it matters.\n\nPalace had too much pace, power and passion for a lifeless Gunners side.\n\nAlthough Arsenal dominated possession in the first half, Palace had the better chances and deservedly led when Townsend drilled in Wilfried Zaha's cross from the right.\n\nPalace leaked goals under Pardew, but have discovered defensive resilience under Allardyce - leading to four clean sheets in their past six league games.\n\nThat run has coincided with the arrival of centre-back Mamadou Sakho, the loan signing from Liverpool who again led their backline with a determined and disciplined performance.\n\nIt laid the platform for Palace to go on and secure victory after the break.\n\nCabaye clipped Zaha's pass into the top corner before Gunners keeper Emiliano Martinez clumsily brought down Townsend, allowing Milivojevic to confidently tuck in his first Palace goal.\n\n\"Tactically the players were aware of what had to happen to beat Arsenal,\" said Allardyce.\n\n\"Arsenal have been weak defensively - they leave the centre-backs exposed.\"\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nCrystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Tactically the players were aware of how to beat Arsenal. The first thing was to defend and frustrate them, keep them playing sideways, then use the space behind the full-backs. Arsenal have been weak defensively, they leave the centre-backs exposed.\n\n\"We won a lot of possession off them and created lots of chances. Cabaye's goal, what a finish - and that was down to us pressing them. It wasn't a shock for me because we played Chelsea and won that game. The result might be a shock, but we did that again and did it better.\n\n\"We all know Arsenal are going through their worst spell for years, but the only way to take advantage is by playing well. Everything worked perfectly for us today.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We lost too many duels and we paid for that. There is no obvious reason why. We prepared well. It's difficult to explain just after the game.\n\n\"I don't think my players didn't want it, but we lost duels in decisive moments and that's how games are decided at this level.\n\n\"I understand our fans are disappointed and we all are deeply tonight. It's very worrying and disappointing the way we lost the game. Palace were sharp, they beat Chelsea the other day, and that shows they have quality.\n\n\"We are in a difficult position. The game doesn't help.\"\n• None Arsene Wenger has suffered four consecutive away Premier League defeats for the first time as Arsenal manager.\n• None This is Arsenal's worst away Premier League run since April 1995 (also four defeats in a row) when they were managed by Stewart Houston.\n• None Wenger lost for the first time against Palace in 12 top-flight matches.\n• None Arsenal conceded three goals in four consecutive away league games for the first time since September 1929.\n• None In the past eight Premier League games, only Sunderland (six) have lost more games than Arsenal (five).\n• None Wilfried Zaha has had a hand in five goals in his past five Premier League games (two goals, three assists).\n• None Zaha now has nine Premier League assists for the season, matching the record held by Wayne Routledge in 2004-05.\n• None Sam Allardyce has won three consecutive home Premier League games for the first time since he was West Ham boss in December 2014.\n\nCrystal Palace will look to earn the one win Allardyce believes they need to be assured of safety when they host Leicester on Saturday. Arsenal travel to Middlesbrough next Monday in a game with significant implications at both ends of the table.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jeffrey Schlupp.\n• None Offside, Crystal Palace. Joel Ward tries a through ball, but James McArthur is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Andros Townsend with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mamadou Sakho (Crystal Palace) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Arsenal legend Tony Adams has been appointed head coach of Spanish top-flight side Granada until the end of the season.\n\nOn the face of it, giving Adams - whose previous managerial experience amounts to ill-fated spells in charge of Wycombe, Portsmouth and Azerbaijani side Gabala - the task of saving La Liga's 19th-placed club from relegation seems a strange decision.\n\nBut, as Spanish football writer Andy West explains, the appointment is a more logical one than it might first appear.\n\nAdams a La Liga manager - how has that happened?\n\nAlthough Adams' elevation to manager of La Liga strugglers Granada looks extremely bizarre, upon closer inspection it makes a reasonable amount of sense.\n\nGranada are owned by Chinese businessman Jiang Lizhang (often referred to as John Jiang), also the part-owner of NBA basketball team the Minnesota Timberwolves, who bought the Andalusian club last summer from Italian entrepreneur Gino Pozzo.\n\nAdams is a vice-president of Jiang Lizhang's DDMC Football Club Management Company, and last year he had a spell in China as sporting director for the Chinese Super League team which is owned by DDMC, Chongqing Dangdai Lifan.\n\nAfter leaving China, Adams moved to Spain midway through the current season, working in a similar role for Granada with the aim of helping Jiang Lizhang construct his plans for the club's long-term future.\n\nSo, Adams already had a strong personal involvement at Granada as the chief advisor on all footballing matters to the club's owner.\n\nAnd when the position of Granada manager Lucas Alcaraz became untenable after Sunday's 3-1 home defeat by Valencia, in many ways Adams was the logical choice to deepen his role by becoming a part-time interim coach before, assumedly, the appointment of a long-term successor in the summer.\n\nWhat kind of club is he taking over?\n\nIt's obvious that Granada have been deeply mired in a painful 'transitional period' since last year's takeover by Jiang Lizhang.\n\nBut in fact, the instability at the club goes back much further because former owner Pozzo - who is also in charge of Watford and Udinese - based his recruitment strategy upon an endless recycling of players between his three clubs.\n\nAlthough that strategy helped earn Granada promotion into the top flight in 2011 and has kept them (just) in the top division ever since, it is hardly an ideal recipe for long-term success when most of your best players are either on loan from - or destined to join - one of the owner's other clubs.\n\nRegular changes on the bench also pre-date the Jiang Lizhang era, with Adams becoming not only the club's third manager of the current season but also their seventh in just over three years.\n\nInterestingly, Adams criticised the approach of the previous regime during a recent interview about his then-advisory Granada role on the club's official website, explaining: \"We inherited 106 players, of whom only 44 actually belong to Granada.\n\n\"Our aim is to return Granada [Football Club] to Granada so the people here can identify fully with their team and their players.\n\n\"I'm here to put the Spanish structure in place, with players who will belong to Granada CF and who will fight for Granada.\"\n\nNow he'll be putting that structure in place from a lot more close-up than he probably initially envisaged.\n\nDoes he have any chance of keeping them up?\n\nRealistically, Granada have very little chance of staying up.\n\nSunday's defeat against Valencia left them eight points adrift of safety, with just seven games remaining and only one point gained from their last six outings.\n\nGranada will probably need to win at least four of their remaining games to have any chance of survival and, as their upcoming opponents include Real Madrid, Sevilla and fierce local rivals Malaga, that's a major ask.\n\nHowever, they do have a kind run-in, with the final two games coming away to bottom-placed Osasuna, who will almost certainly already be relegated by then, and mid-table Espanyol, who will have nothing to play for.\n\nIf Adams can even extend Granada's season that long it will be regarded as a big success, and an awful lot will depend on his first game in charge: at home to Celta Vigo on Sunday evening.\n\nCelta are the perfect opponents for Adams' La Liga debut. The Galician team's league campaign has more or less ground to a halt while they focus their energies on the Europa League, and their trip to Granada is sandwiched between the first and second legs of their quarter-final meeting with Genk.\n\nAdams, therefore, is highly likely to face a virtual reserve team when Celta come to Granada next weekend, giving him a wonderful opportunity to make a flying start. If he doesn't, it will probably be curtains.\n\nCould this turn into a permanent role?\n\nIt would make much more sense for Adams' new role to be a temporary one, buying some time while the club makes longer-term plans for next season and beyond.\n\nCertainly, Adams being named permanent manager would not fit very well with the 'Spanish structure' he spoke about in his interview last month.\n\nAnd until today, everything Adams had said about his role at Granada suggested that he was happy to take a backroom director's role rather than holding ambitions to become first-team manager, and that remains the most likely scenario beyond the current season.\n\nBut considering his strong relationship with the club's owner, of course he could end up getting the job on a permanent basis.\n\nIf he has success in the next few weeks, Adams may acquire a taste for the dugout, and he may convince decision-maker Jiang Lizhang that he is the right man to lead the team's bid to return to top-flight football.\n\nThis, after all, is that most illogical of businesses… football. So don't rule anything out.", "\"I'm not good enough. I don't have the thing I need to have. I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.\"\n\nSport is supposed to be all about unbreakable self-belief and unshakeable mental fortitude. Vulnerabilities are tucked away for dark private moments with family and coaches, or alone with nothing for company but demons and deep regret.\n\nIn public you are always good enough. You are there because you have that thing. Admitting you are weak is the biggest weakness of all.\n\nWhen Sergio Garcia made those comments at Augusta, five years ago after 13 seasons of not-quites and might-have-beens, it both subverted the protocol and confirmed what lots of people feared anyway: the kid who began as El Nino was destined to play out his career as El Nearly-Man, a beautiful ball-striker but imperfect with his putter, indomitable in Ryder Cup but fragile in the final-day shootouts in strokeplay, loved for those flaws and the anguish they brought him as much as others were admired for cold-eyed closing out of the biggest moments.\n\nSeventy-three appearances at majors. Four times a runner-up. Twelve top fives, 22 top tens, a habitual bridesmaid who could be relied upon to drop the bouquet every time it was thrown his way.\n\nYou play every shot with Garcia when you're watching him, his hopes and doubts and fears running across his face and through his body language. Which is why, when he birdied the first hole of his final round on Sunday to go a shot clear of Justin Rose at the top of the Masters leaderboard, and then rolled in an eight-foot birdie on the fourth to go two clear, it felt less like a march towards victory than a man climbing a ladder he will shortly fall off.\n\nGoing into Sunday, Garcia was a cumulative 35 over par on Augusta National's back nine in his 18 previous appearances. Rose was an aggregate 11 under.\n\nAs they went to the turn, there were those watching at home wondering if they should turn off their televisions, go to bed and just live the rest of their lives pretending Garcia had won. It would be easier that way. Inevitably, the Spaniard then bogeyed the 10th, stuck his tee shot on the 11th behind a pine tree and then went deep into the azalea bushes on the 13th.\n\nDifferent day, customary script. Rose all control and precision, no emotion visible behind sunglasses and cap and dark clothing; Garcia with a desperation in his eyes, face pale from sunblock, grimacing and twitching and going down in flames.\n\nTwo shots down, out to 10-1 with the bookies, playing for second or third place once again.\n\nWhen Garcia first came close at a major, there was joy in his eventual defeat. While he lost the 1999 US PGA Championship to Tiger Woods, his shot from behind a tree on the 16th and the chase he gave it - dashing down the fairway, jumping high to see if it had somehow made the green - spoke of certain promise and special talent as much as it did his compatriot and mentor Seve Ballesteros.\n\nAs the teenager became a man, the exuberance and expectations fell away. At Hoylake in 2006, he began the final round of The Open in the final pairing with Woods a shot back only to finish seven behind, Woods relentless in red, Garcia's pastel lemon outfit as faded as his form. The following year at Carnoustie it was worse by a margin: in the lead after all of the first three rounds, three shots clear of second going into the final day, three bogeys in four holes throwing that away, missing an eight-foot putt on the 18th for the win, losing the subsequent four-hole playoff with Padraig Harrington by a single painful stroke.\n\nAnd so it went on. The US PGA Championship, 2008, sticking his second shot on the 16th on the final Sunday into the water to hand Harrington another golden moment, joint runner-up at Hoylake in 2014 as Rory McIlroy turned his own youthful promise into record-breaking success.\n\nOver those years Garcia went from youngest swinger in town towards comfortable middle age: hair shorter and thinner, irons still pristine, putter still cold as often as hot. So much to his game, that thing, that undefinable difference, still never there.\n\nUntil Sunday. From the drop-zone on the 13th he scrambled an unlikely par. At the 14th his approach brought a birdie; another outrageous iron on the 15th led to a first eagle for the Spaniard at Augusta in 452 holes.\n\nOn the par-three 16th, his US rivals Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler falling away and forgotten up ahead, he struck his tee shot to six feet. Rose, alone alongside him at nine under, fired his own over the fringes of the green to eight.\n\nRose's putt curled to the cup and then, almost with a sigh, dropped in. Garcia's fell apologetically off the club-face and dribbled wide, a two-second study in doubt and trepidation. Not good enough. Playing for second or third.\n\nOn the 18th, a more bountiful chance still: Rose back level after wobbling on the penultimate green, his own birdie putt ghosting past the lip, Garcia with a straight four-footer to end it all.\n\nStarted right, stayed right. The thing, condensed into a single shot, one putt that could haunt a man for a lifetime ahead.\n\nSport isn't fair. There is no karmic rebalancing to reward the unlucky or the pleasant. You looked at Garcia, eyes clenched shut, behind him a spectator with his arms outstretched and palms turned upwards in disbelief, and you thought you saw a man stuck in his own cruel destiny, desperate for victory but almost scared to seize it, not embracing that defining moment but wanting it all over as soon as possible.\n\nAnd you were wrong. For this time, on this day, Garcia would be the one to stay strong. Rose into the pine straw with his tee shot on the first sudden-death play-off hole, Garcia crushing his drive, firing his approach to eight feet.\n\nTwo putts for the title, only one needed. A near-perfect sporting story, and the perfect Sergio way to win it - leading, collapsing, coming back, blowing it, rallying, a nerveless putt.\n\nThe week before Garcia's first Open as a professional, 18 years ago at Carnoustie, I was sent to the east coast of Scotland to interview him for a now-defunct magazine called Total Sport. He was 19, considered to be part Tiger, part Seve, the hottest talent in town, a story every journalist wanted to write.\n\nI drove a day to get there and arrived an hour early for our 7.30am rendezvous. When there was no sign of him at 8am, I sent the first text. At 8.30am I phoned. At 9am I tried both again.\n\nAt 10am I had hope, at 11am some anger, at midday an intense hunger and thirst. Staying until 3pm made little sense, but I did it anyway. I may as well have done. Carnoustie on a Sunday offers limited alternative entertainment.\n\nThat eight-hour wait in a cold marquee came, over the next decade, to define how I thought of Garcia: enough talent to drive the length of a country to witness, a habitual inability to deliver on a promise, enough charm to leave your opinion of his character unaltered.\n\n1999 to 2017 seems a long time to wait for anyone. But at last Garcia has delivered.", "England and Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli jumps in the car with Lloyd for an eventful ride to work.\n\nFor more Taxi To Training click here.", "The self-propelling Eelume robot moves like a snake through the water\n\nIn the near future, ocean search-and-repair specialists won't need arms or legs, according to one vision.\n\nIn fact, they are destined to be much more slithery.\n\n\"We try to get people to move away from the word snake because it's seen as kind of scary but even I find myself all the time calling it a snake,\" says Richard Mills from marine tech firm Kongsberg.\n\nIf the idea of a swimming robot snake doesn't appeal, you might want to skip the next few paragraphs.\n\nI first mentioned Eelume to a friend who asked me whether I would be allowed to have a swim with it.\n\nI was secretly relieved that the answer was no.\n\nWhat started as a university robotics research project in Norway 10 years ago, has become a commercial prototype - and it is unavoidably snake-like.\n\nIt's designed to inspect structures on the sea bed and carry out repairs, and is currently being tested on oil rigs.\n\nASV Global describes the controller for its remotely operated vessel as being like \"an Xbox controller on steroids\"\n\nThe flexible, self-propelling, tubular device has a camera at each end and is kitted out with sensors.\n\nBecause it has a modular design, its parts can be switched to suit different tasks, with swappable tools including a grabber and cleaning brush.\n\nThe design allows the robot to work in confined spaces that might be inaccessible to other vehicles, as well as to wriggle its body to stay in place in strong currents.\n\nAnd because it is designed to connect itself to a seabed dock when not in use, it can be deployed at any time whatever the surface conditions.\n\nIt isn't yet on the market, but was recently on show at the Southampton's Ocean Business trade fair.\n\nThe Eelume robot sea snake that could one day explore the Titanic\n\nFuture plans already include a cheap 3D-printed model and another which can operate in very deep water.\n\n\"Something like going inside the Titanic, where divers can't, is a great opportunity that we could look at in the future,\" said Mr Mills.\n\n\"We are only limited by imagination in where we can take this vehicle.\"\n\nJust as driverless cars are causing excitement on land, autonomous boats are also making a splash.\n\n\"Unmanned systems allow you to focus on the data,\" said Dan Hook from UK firm ASV Global, which was also at the Southampton expo.\n\nThe vessel can run for up to five days at a time either autonomously or via remote control\n\n\"You stay on board your ship in a warm, dry location, you can focus on the data and where to send the unmanned system next.\"\n\nThe firm's two autonomous vessels - which can also be operated via remote control - currently run on diesel generators rather than battery power.\n\n\"We're seeing increasing regulation on the types of engines we can use - it's a good thing to force you into the cleaner engines,\" he said.\n\n\"They are quieter and more efficient... but the future is electric, we're seeing it in cars, it's happening in our industry as well.\"\n\nBatteries from the specialist battery-maker Steatite's have to function at low temperatures and high pressure, and power deep-sea devices for days at a time.\n\nThis is the battery that will be tested on Boaty McBoatface\n\nLithium-sulfur battery tech, already in the sights of electric car makers, is set to be trialled on board the famous autosub trio collectively known as Boaty McBoatface later this year - and it will be a Steatite creation.\n\n\"Lithium-sulfur is the next generation from lithium-ion,\" said the firm's Paul Edwards.\n\n\"It's got a better energy density, so you get more energy for the amount of weight you are carrying.\"\n\nThe Deep Trekker sub can go for six to eight hours - but its operator can't\n\nBut if you think that it is battery life that holds marine tech back, then think again.\n\nIt is more likely to be your concentration span, said Sam McDonald, president of a Canadian firm called Deep Trekker.\n\nThe firm was demonstrating two remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) - the larger of which was about the size of a small child.\n\nMs McDonald said that the operator would become tired before the ROV did.\n\n\"I need to take a break after three or four hours of running it,\" she said.\n\n\"You're looking at a screen the whole time, it takes a great deal of concentration.\n\n\"You're trying to hold position under the water, looking at infrastructure or watching tools or divers work, you're constantly moving your hands and eyes,\" she explained.\n\nIf that sounds exhausting imagine being in charge of a whole load of them at once.\n\nReturn to sender... rewards will be offered for washed-up ecosubs\n\nPlanet Ocean was showing off the ecosub - a small, thigh-sized device that looks a bit like an old shell casing and is designed to \"swim\" in shoals, with each individual sub packed with different sensors to build up collectively a strong picture of the group's watery environment.\n\nOne \"pilot\" can oversee many simultaneously, and they are so small that each individual sub can only carry four or five sensors, said managing director Terry Sloane.\n\n\"If they bump into each other it's not a big disaster,\" he said.\n\n\"They only weigh 5kg [11lb] on land\".\n\nKeen to encourage recycling, Mr Sloane is prepared to offer a bounty for washed-up ecosubs that find their way to the beach - there's a hotline number on the casing for eagle-eyed beachcombers to call.\n\n\"We don't want to leave things floating around in the ocean, but it doesn't take many hours of searching for one to make it uneconomical to recover,\" he said.\n\n\"We expect people to recover them and claim a reward.\"", "The proposed 10-month Premiership rugby season \"fills players with dread\", says Leicester Tigers captain Tom Youngs.\n\nFollowing the announcement of the new global calendar in March, Premiership Rugby confirmed the 2019-20 domestic season will start in early September and finish at the end of June.\n\nHowever, players have voiced their concerns about the schedule.\n\n\"I think it fills us all with a bit with dread,\" Tigers hooker Youngs, 30, told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I know they are trying to look after us a little bit, but that's a long time. It's long enough now.\"\n\nPremiership Rugby say the 10-month campaign will allow clubs to become \"more sophisticated\" in their management of players, with chief executive Mark McCafferty insisting player welfare remains the priority.\n\nBut Youngs, who has 28 England caps and three for the British and Irish Lions - is among those to stress the need for a long summer break and pre-season, rather than shorter rest periods during the campaign.\n\n\"It would shorten pre-seasons, and pre-season is so vital to get us ready to go through the season,\" he added.\n\n\"I know in June, if I don't go on any tours or anything, I have five weeks off and that is nice to know. Even when pre-season games come round, it feels a little bit like you have only played last week.\n\n\"I don't know the ins and outs, but I wouldn't be too keen about it to be honest. I do feel the players are going to be the ones to drag it through. To just extend the season, I don't think that will really work.\"\n\nSenior figures in the club game, such as Northampton forward Christian Day, have not ruled out the option of players going on strike and Youngs says the next few months could be critical.\n\n\"It will be interesting to see what happens over the next year or so, and how the players try to get this resolved to where we would like it to be,\" he said.\n\n\"It's probably going to clash at some point and we will have to see how it all unfolds.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nTrump is extremely confident of winning his first World Championship this year Favourite Judd Trump says he believes he is \"the best\" in the world and can win the 40th World Snooker Championship to be held at the Crucible Theatre. Trump, 27, has been the form player this season, reaching five ranking title finals and winning two - the European Masters and Players Championship. \"I honestly believe I can play to a standard which is very rare nowadays,\" Trump told BBC Sport. The event starts on Saturday at 10:00 BST and runs until 1 May. Defending champion Mark Selby opens play against Ireland's Fergal O'Brien in Saturday's morning session, before five-time winner Ronnie O'Sullivan plays Crucible debutant Gary Wilson in the afternoon session at 14:30. Bristol-born Trump, who begins against qualifier Rory McLeod on Tuesday, was runner-up to John Higgins in 2011, but has only reached two semi-finals since. However, he feels the consistency he has shown this season - taking his career ranking victories to seven - puts him among the players to beat in Sheffield. \"Being the favourite is a help,\" said Trump. \"When people tip you, a lot put themselves under pressure but I use it as an advantage. \"The public are seeing something from me which they have not seen before, and I think I can win it. It is about keeping your foot on the gas. \"I have been too inconsistent here in the past but I am at an age where there are no more excuses, I am getting towards the peak of my career and now is the time to really step up and win a lot of titles.\" The World Championship will be played at the iconic Sheffield venue until 2027 at least after a new 10-year agreement was struck. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn signed the deal on Friday during the broadcast of 40 Years of the Crucible on the BBC Red Button. Defending champion Selby won the title for a second time by beating Ding Junhui in last year's final. The Leicester man won the most recent ranking event - the China Open - but is aware that no player has won the World Championship in the same year. \"The hoodoo needs to be broken at some point. Hopefully this year might be the case,\" Selby told BBC Sport. \"To win it again and be on three just on your own would be very, very special. This year is as hard as it has been to pick a winner with so many players on form. \"It is Judd Trump's best chance to win it this year.\" Selby plays his first match on the opening morning against O'Brien, who claimed the longest frame in professional snooker history in his final qualifier which lasted two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds. World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said last week that China will become the sport's superpower within the next decade. This year's tournament in Sheffield sees five Chinese players competing - last year's finalist Ding, Liang Wenbo and Xiao Guodong as well as teenage debutants Zhou Yeulong, 19, and 17-year-old Yan Bingtao. Yan becomes the first player born after 2000 to appear at the main stages of the tournament and the second youngest ever to do so. But the youthful duo are no strangers to success after their two-man team won the 2015 World Cup in their home country. Englishmen Wilson and David Grace (both 31), plus Thailand's Noppon Saengkham, 24, will also appear at the Crucible for the first time. Wilson faces a tough draw against five-time champion O'Sullivan, Grace plays Kyren Wilson and Saengkham faces 2010 champion Neil Robertson of Australia. Best shots of the 2016 World Championship Will the centuries record be beaten? The stats…\n• None For the first time, the World Championship will be broadcast live on World Snooker's Facebook page across 40 countries in North America, South America and Asia.\n• None The total prize money is £1.75m, with the winner picking up £375,000.\n• None Eighty-six centuries were made in both 2015 and 2016 - a record. All the top 16 players were at the Crucible on the eve of the tournament and were asked by BBC Sport to describe the iconic venue in three words or fewer...", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton said he was \"genuinely happy\" to see Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas score his first pole at the Bahrain Grand Prix.\n\nThe Finn, brought in by Mercedes this year as the replacement for retired world champion Nico Rosberg, beat Hamilton by just 0.023 seconds.\n\n\"He is a great guy and it is his first pole so he will be struggling to sleep tonight through excitement.\"\n\nSunday's Bahrain Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live.\n\nBottas' lap brought to an end Hamilton's run of six consecutive poles dating back to last year's US Grand Prix.\n\n\"I've had a decent run,\" Hamilton said. \"I'm very happy with what I've had.\n\n\"I'm genuinely very happy for Valtteri. He has done a fantastic job, been inching away at it bit by bit. He did a better job today.\n\n\"It could be his first win, and if it's not he will get a win. He's an exceptional driver.\n\n\"The first sector was my weak point but the second and third were very good. It wasn't terrible. It was very close, only a quarter of a tenth so I can't be too angry.\"\n\nHamilton added: \"There's going to be lots of ups and downs throughout the year but Valtteri's definitely keeping me on my toes. He's getting stronger and stronger.\n\n\"I know how special it is to have your first pole position. It is just amazing. You dream of it as a kid and I know that he will be enjoying it.\n\n\"But obviously I will try my hardest to win the race.\"\n\nBottas has bounced back from a difficult race in China last weekend, in which he spun while warming his tyres behind the safety car and finished sixth as Hamilton won.\n\n\"It's always nice to have a good result whether you've had a good or bad weekend before but for sure if you've had a bit of a struggle in the last race it's always nice to start the weekend in a good way,\" Bottas said.\n\n\"The race is what matters but it's good. I'd rather be on pole than anything less, so let's see.\n\n\"There is no point to start dreaming about anything.\"\n\nHamilton fears the pace of the Ferraris in the race, with Sebastian Vettel - who is leading the championship jointly with Hamilton - starting third.\n\n\"Ferrari, in their race pace, they are very quick,\" Hamilton said.\n\nVettel added: \"It's a long race, tyre management will be crucial conditions will be a bit different and a lot of things can change around.\n\n\"We were a little bit further back than we hoped. We should have a good car in the race and take it from there.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Counties\n\nEx-England captain Alastair Cook hit an unbeaten 39 for Essex against Somerset in his first Championship appearance since standing down as Test skipper.\n\nCook took two slip catches in the first session as the visitors bowled Somerset out for 209 in Taunton.\n\nIn bowler-friendly conditions Peter Trego (48) top scored as the home side struggled to deny Essex's bowlers.\n\nAlthough Nick Browne was bowled cheaply by Craig Overton, Cook held out under heavy cloud cover as Essex closed 60-2.\n\nCook returned to the hosts' line-up after being sidelined for their first match against Lancashire with a hip injury, and the England opener took two low catches at first slip as Marcus Trescothick and new Somerset captain Tom Abell were both dismissed by Ravi Bopara.\n\nDean Elgar (34) and James Hildreth (36) shared a 54-run third-wicket partnership, before the former was stumped off spinner Ashar Zaidi.\n\nTrego's lone resistance was ended as he top-edged Simon Harmer to Zaidi but the hosts managed to pick up a solitary batting bonus point as they edged past 200.\n\nAfter a short delay due to bad light and surviving a tight lbw call, Cook sent Jamie Overton for three consecutive fours as he eased into the match.\n\nRoelof van der Merwe ensured Somerset ended on a high, as he bowled Tom Westley for 10 with the final ball of the day.\n\n\"I think it's probably slightly swung in their favour.\n\n\"It's the old cricketing cliché: you can only see how good a pitch is when both sides have batted on it and Alastair Cook is a phenomenal player and he's making life look relatively easy out there and I don't think any of us did.\n\n\"It's a sporting wicket. There's certainly something there for the bowler, but you get rewarded for quality batting.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nDefending champion Mark Selby reached the second round of the World Championship by thrashing Fergal O'Brien 10-2 at the Crucible Theatre.\n\nLeicester's Selby, who beat Ding Junhui in last year's final, looked on course for a whitewash by going 8-0 ahead.\n\nIrishman O'Brien claimed the ninth and 11th to avoid becoming only the second player to exit without winning a frame, but Selby wrapped up the match.\n\nHe will face either Wales' Ryan Day or China's Xiao Guodong in the next round.\n\nSelby has enjoyed a stellar season - claiming four ranking titles, including this month's China Open, though no player has followed that by winning the world title in the same season.\n\nThe world number one made top breaks of 92, 77 and 66 as he began his attempt to win his third title at the Sheffield venue, which is holding the event for a 40th year.\n\n\"I'm very happy to get through and happy with the scoreline but my performance could have been better,\" Selby said. \"I was not killing enough frames off in the first visit and would have liked to have capitalised on them.\n\n\"I would like to win every tournament I play in. I am confident and I am playing well enough.\n\n\"Even if I don't play well, I have a never-say-die attitude and you have to scrape me off the table.\n\n\"I was gutted not to go 9-0 because I know the history that there has only been one whitewash here. I was devastated to go in after the first session at 8-1.\"\n\nHaving made light work of O'Brien, Selby has almost a week off, returning to action next Saturday.\n\nDubliner O'Brien came through qualifying by beating David Gilbert in a final-frame decider - the longest frame in snooker history, timed at two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds.\n\nBut he struggled badly in the first-round encounter, managing a high break of just 32, although he avoided the ignominy of joining Eddie Charlton - who lost 10-0 to John Parrott in 1992 - as the only players not to win a frame at the championship.\n\nHe has now lost six successive meetings against Selby, claiming just four frames in a run stretching back to 2006.\n\n\"When I won my first frame, it was good because the crowd were so supportive and willing me not to get the whitewash,\" said O'Brien.\n\nIn an all-Scottish tie, qualifier Stephen Maguire claimed eight frames in a row to trounce Anthony McGill 10-2.\n\nMaguire, who has won five ranking titles, has fallen to 24th in the world but was in good scoring form, compiling breaks of 97, 66 and 60 to go through.\n\nMeanwhile, five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was pegged back to a 5-4 lead over debutant Gary Wilson.\n\nFormer taxi driver Wilson fell 5-1 behind but took the last three frames of the session, including the ninth having needed snookers.\n\nOn the other table, Kyren Wilson leads 5-4 against Crucible first-timer David Grace.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham's impressive form in pursuit of Chelsea will make the Premier League leaders nervous, according to Stamford Bridge legend Frank Lampard.\n\nSpurs beat Bournemouth for a seventh straight league win and moved to within four points of Chelsea before the Blues meet Manchester United on Sunday.\n\n\"Chelsea are very aware that Spurs are there and it'll be a tough game for them tomorrow,\" Lampard told BBC Sport.\n\n\"There will be some nervousness but so there should be.\"\n\nLampard was speaking to BBC Final Score and will be a part of the analysis team on Match of the Day on Saturday.\n\nTottenham were eventual champions Leicester's nearest rivals for much of last season, but fell away, collecting only two points from their final four games and ending below north London rivals Arsenal in third.\n\nSpeaking after Tottenham's 4-0 win over the Cherries, boss Mauricio Pochettino insisted his side had \"improved a lot\" since 12 months ago and were ready for the scrutiny and pressure of a close-fought title run-in.\n\n\"That was a very bad period at the end of last season,\" said the Argentine.\n\n\"We expended a lot of energy fighting against Leicester, against Chelsea, against the media.\n\n\"We fought against everyone. But now we are focusing on fighting our opponents when we play.\n\n\"From the beginning of the season that was our chance to improve our mentality, our belief, and I think you can see the group and the team have improved.\"\n\nChelsea will restore their advantage to seven points with only six games to play if they beat Manchester United and former manager Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford.", "The UK has been bombing so-called Islamic State targets in Iraq since 2014 and in Syria since the year after.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not release statistics on the number of bombs dropped, but does release weekly updates of operations in the region.\n\nBBC analysis shows UK forces have dropped bombs on 69 of the 99 days of 2017 to 9 April.\n\nIn that time, at least 216 bombs and missiles have been dropped by the Royal Air Force.\n\nThe total number is likely to be higher as MoD updates sometimes do not specify the number of bombs or missiles used in a strike.\n\nWhere the number was not known, the BBC presumed one bomb was dropped.\n\nThe most commonly used weapon is the Paveway IV precision guided bomb. At least 129 have been used against IS targets by the RAF this year.\n\nThrough Operation Shader, the RAF is supporting Iraqi ground forces as part of a US-led international coalition.\n\nThe current focus of the battle against IS, which the MoD calls Daesh, has been for control of Mosul. It has been held by IS militants since 2014 and is the jihadist group's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.\n\nAn MoD update from 6 April details a strike against a \"Daesh motor team\" in north-western Mosul, where a Brimstone missile was used to destroy the target.\n\nThe RAF flight then tracked a truck \"carrying a terrorist team who had been planting booby traps\" before scoring another \"direct hit\" on the moving vehicle.\n\nMeanwhile in Syria, RAF Typhoons have been supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The building was destroyed by a direct hit from a Paveway IV\n\nThe Ministry of Defence published footage on 18 March of RAF Tornados destroying a building in Syria.\n\nAt the time, the MoD said: \"A Daesh headquarters was identified at a small building five miles east of Raqqa, this was destroyed by a direct hit from a Paveway IV released by a Tornado flight.\"\n\nThis strike came shortly after the US sent 400 Marines to Syria to support allied local forces in their assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa.\n\nExact numbers of casualties from the conflict with IS are not available. The RAF says it takes all steps to minimise civilian casualties.\n\nThe UK parliament backed British participation in air strikes against IS in Iraq back in September 2014.\n\nJust over a year later in 2015, MPs authorised air strikes against IS in Syria.\n\nThe UK has conducted more than 1,200 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since it became involved - more than any other coalition country bar the United States.\n\nIn 2016 alone, the US dropped 12,192 bombs in Syria and 12,095 in Iraq, according to the American think tank Council on Foreign Relations.\n\nThe UK is part of the Global Coalition, a body of 68 partners from across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas which has committed to defeating IS using military action among other tactics.", "Immigrants take part in a workshop called \"Me Preparo\" to plan what happens to their US-born children if they are deported\n\nUnder Donald Trump's new immigration order, even undocumented immigrants with similar circumstances can have opposite outcomes.\n\nUnder an Obama administration policy, some undocumented immigrants without criminal records and established families and careers in the US were given a temporary reprieve from deportation.\n\nIn February, the Trump administration issued new enforcement memos that made virtually anyone residing in the US illegally a priority for removal, removing such considerations.\n\nThe new policy leaves the decision who to deport to deportation agents and encourages a \"case-by-case\" evaluation. Such individual discretion can spur dramatically different results for immigrants with otherwise remarkably similar circumstances.\n\nThis week, we looked two cases that illustrate this effect, as well as some of the others making news for facing deportation.\n\nMs Castro, who was born in Mexico and lives in Lothian, Maryland, is the wife of an Army veteran. She has four children, including a disabled son, who are all US citizens.\n\nShe also has a 20-year-old removal order that places her on uncertain ground with immigration officials. Under the Obama administration, Ms Castro had been attending regular meetings with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since 2011 and even had a legal work permit.\n\nWhen the Trump administration said that it would prioritise deporting anyone with a final order for removal, Ms Castro and her family dreaded their next appointment with immigration officials.\n\nDespite her fears, Ms Castro decided to go to her appointment, hoping that the agency would allow her to stay with her family because she had no criminal record.\n\nOn 4 April, Ice granted Ms Castro a \"non-detained order of supervision\" which means she is required to report her status to immigration officials, said an Ice spokesperson.\n\nBecause of this agreement, she will be able to stay in the US for at least one more year until her next check-in with Ice.\n\nMs Castro's continued order of supervision \"doesn't mean someone else in her exact same situation would be granted another year,\" Joshua Doherty, Ms Castro's lawyer says.\n\nMaribel Trujillo-Diaz's case mirrors Ms Castro's in many ways. She is also a mother to four US citizens living near Cincinnati, Ohio. Under the Obama administration, she too had been attending regular meetings with Ice for several years and had been allowed to stay in the US with her family.\n\nWith no criminal record, Ms Trujillo-Diaz also obtained a legal work permit through US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).\n\nMs Trujillo-Diaz came to the US in 2002, but she first encountered Ice agents during a workplace raid of the Koch Foods factory where she was working in 2007, before she had her work permit.\n\nShe pursued an asylum hearing, as she had fled Mexico after gang members began targeting her family because her brother refused to join the gang, according to her lawyer, Emily Brown.\n\nMs Trujillo-Diaz's application for asylum was rejected, as was her appeal.\n\nDespite a final order of removal issued in 2014, immigration officials had allowed Ms Trujillo-Diaz to live in the US with the understanding that she would check in with Ice once a year.\n\nAt her first check in since the Trump administration issued its new enforcement priorities, Ice agents told Ms Trujillo-Diaz to prepare for deportation proceedings. She returned for a second check in on 3 April, and again Ice agents told her to be ready to be removed from the US.\n\nTwo days later, Ice officers arrested her as she was leaving for work.\n\nMs Trujillo-Diaz is now in a detention centre in Louisiana, and a request for a stay in her case has been denied.\n\nIce has scheduled her deportation for 19 April, Ms Brown said.\n\nSome of the reasons undocumented immigrants were not deported under Obama administration policy:\n\nMs Tichelman, a Canadian national, faces deportation after serving a two-year sentence in the Santa Clara County Jail in California.\n\nIn 2014, while on board a yacht after being hired as a prostitute, Ms Tichelman injected a 51-year-old Google executive with heroin, causing the man to accidentally overdose and die. She was convicted of felony involuntary manslaughter.\n\nA judge determined that Ms Tichelman's crimes made her ineligible to remain in the US legally and issued an order for her removal on 6 April.\n\nShe will remain in Ice custody until arrangements for her deportation are finalised, an Ice spokesperson said.\n\nMr Ali, a resident of Portland, fled Somalia in 1996 as a seven year old. A year later, he had gained permanent legal status in the US.\n\nAccording to Ice officials, Mr Ali has an \"extensive criminal record\" that includes two convictions for misdemeanour assault. None of his criminal charges have been for felonies.\n\nIce agents arrested Mr Ali while he was visiting a country courthouse to plead not guilty to a drink-driving charge.\n\nThe arrest inside the courthouse caused backlash from local immigration lawyers and advocates who worry that such arrests will discourage immigrants from seeking legal help.\n\nMr Ali remains in Ice custody in the Strafford County Correction facility in New Hampshire.\n\n\"I've been here my whole life, and they [are] kicking me out for this one charge,\" Mr Ali told the Bangor Daily News.\n\n\"If I go back to my country, they're going to pretty much kill me. I don't know [anything] about my country. I'm American. I consider myself American.\"\n\nBeristain, in blue, has been in the US for 20 years\n\nMr Beristain, whose wife voted for Donald Trump, was deported on 4 April after his family and community in Indiana fought to keep him in the US.\n\nThe restaurant owner and father was removed from the US and dropped off in Juárez, Mexico last week, after living in the US for nearly 20 years.\n\nHe can apply to have the 10-year ban on entering the US after a deportation waived and try to gain legal residency, but the outcome of such a petition is uncertain.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nScotland's Ricky Burns failed to unify the super-lightweight division as his WBA title was taken by IBF and IBO champion Julius Indongo in Glasgow.\n\nIndongo, unbeaten in 21 fights prior to this unification contest, forced his fellow 34-year-old on to the back foot for much of the fight.\n\nBurns rallied in the fifth and sixth rounds but the tall southpaw emerged a worthy winner on points.\n\nThat was reflected in the judges' scoring - 120-108, 118-110, 116-112.\n\n\"The better man won on the night, no excuses,\" said Burns. And no-one could argue.\n• None What next for beaten Burns?\n\nThis was Burns' third fight at the Hydro and 13th at world title level, while Indongo - \"on a mission\" from Namibia's president Hage Geingob - was fighting overseas for only the second time as a professional.\n\nOn his first, in December, he knocked out IBF champion Eduard Troyanovsky in Moscow.\n\nIt was clear from early in Saturday's fight that Indongo would try to use his greater height and reach to throw jabs at Burns' head, and he did this to good effect in the opening three minutes.\n\nBurns has started slowly in recent fights before finding his rhythm, and the Namibian began much the livelier, bouncing around the centre of the ring against a hesitant home fighter.\n\nIndeed, he looked to have won the first four rounds by dint of his greater work-rate and accuracy, though Burns was beginning to connect with his right.\n\nWith their man having 47 bouts under his belt to Indongo's 21, the home fans may have wondered if the tactic was to use his experience to let his opponent tire himself out.\n\nRounds five and six signalled an improvement in Burns' form, with his aggression rewarded as Indongo was forced backwards for the first time.\n\nThe lead Indongo had built was thanks to the accumulation of cleaner shots rather than anything that badly hurt the Coatbridge fighter in his 17th year as a professional.\n\nAnd, though Burns was still strong in defence, by the time the ninth round had ended he must have realised he was trailing heavily on the scorecards.\n\nHis task in the remaining three rounds had to be to stop Indongo for the first time in his nine-year career.\n\nThat looked increasingly unlikely as he struggled to get inside to inflict damage. Too often he was over-stretching to land a meaningful shot, and when he did trouble Indongo his opponent snuffed out the attack with footwork and by holding on.\n\nIt leaves Burns' dreams of a further unification bout against Terence Crawford in Las Vegas in tatters, though it would be a surprise if he was considering retiring.\n\n'He was better than we thought' - Burns\n\nRicky Burns: \"He was so so awkward. He was a lot better than we thought he was going to be. He can hit as well.\n\n\"I'm going to have all the doubters saying I'm finished - but I'll come again.\n\n\"He started the rounds fast and the height and reach advantage meant he was out of my distance.\"\n\nJulius Indongo: \"I feel very proud. My home crowd are watching. It's for the whole of Africa. This is so great.\n\n\"I am very proud for opening my doors and now the world can see me.\"\n\n\"It was pretty one-dimensional from Ricky Burns, who was trying to jump in from long distance on a fighter who was bigger, with longer arms and a heavy puncher.\n\n\"Indongo was dominant, knew what he was about, kept swinging dangerous bombs and didn't let Burns in at all.\n\n\"In the last two rounds, when he had the match won, he still wanted to dominate, and like true champions, wanted to get rid of his challenger.\n\n\"He ticks all the right boxes. It is going to take a high-level operator to cope with him. I think Terence Crawford is that kind of guy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Katie Archibald won gold in the women's omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong.\n\nThe 23-year-old Scot held off Australia's Amy Cure in the points race for her first individual world title.\n\nBritain now have three medals following a silver for Elinor Barker and bronze for Chris Latham in the scratch races.\n\nWorld Championship debutant Ryan Owens reached the quarter-finals of the men's sprint as fellow Briton and Olympic champion Callum Skinner crashed out.\n• None The omnium explained and other mysteries\n\nArchibald won Olympic gold alongside Barker, Laura Kenny and Joanna Rowsell Shand in the team pursuit at Rio 2016 and was world team pursuit champion in 2014.\n\nBut with defending world and Olympic omnium champion Kenny pregnant with her first child, Archibald was handed an individual spot and seized her opportunity.\n\n\"I feel really privileged to pull it off,\" she said. \"It was an unbelievably grippy race, I really thought I'd lost it in the middle point but I pulled it out of the bag.\n\n\"It feels very strange, I'm used to having my girls, my team-mates, around me it's odd to celebrate by yourself but I'm looking forward to catching up with them at the hotel.\"\n\nEuropean champion Archibald won the first two events - the scratch race and the newly-added tempo race - and led by eight points at the halfway stage.\n\nShe finished fifth in elimination race as rival Cure took maximum points, meaning the two were level going into the final event.\n\nArchibald edged two points clear before the final sprint of the points race, and put in a fantastic push down the final straight to secure victory.\n\nIt was her first individual success on a world stage and she has had to overcome multiple setbacks on her road to individual glory.\n\nAt the end of 2015, a motorbike accident forced her to withdraw from the 2016 World Championships in London and she was heavily criticised by ex-British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton.\n\nIn November last year, she fractured her wrist as she partnered Manon Lloyd to victory in the inaugural women's madison at the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow.\n\nA wonderful performance. I thought she was completely spent in the closing stages; I genuinely didn't think that she had another sprint in her. But she just found something from somewhere to take the sprint from her rivals.\n\nShe knew she only had one effort, Cure went too early but nobody could manage the speed of Archibald's final dash.\n\nSome of the big names are out of the British team but it's giving the younger riders a chance to shine and hopefully cement a place in the team come Tokyo 2020.\n\n'I can't be too disappointed'\n\nEarlier, Owens eased into Saturday's quarter-finals of the men's sprint. The 21-year-old, who travelled to Rio 2016 as a reserve, beat Hugo Barrette of Canada.\n\nThe 24-year-old Scot, who also won Olympic gold in the team sprint alongside Kenny and Phil Hindes in Rio, was beaten by Max Niederleg of Germany.\n\n\"The field were three or fourth tenths ahead of my pace and it makes it difficult when you come up against the second seed,\" Skinner told BBC TV.\n\n\"It's just a reflection of where we are. I can't be too disappointed.\"\n\nIn the men's individual pursuit, Matt Bostock and Andy Tennant finished 13th and 14th while, in the men's points race, Mark Stewart came seventh.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nColumnist Kelvin MacKenzie has been suspended by the Sun after he expressed \"wrong\" and \"unfunny\" views about the people of Liverpool.\n\nIn an article published on Friday, MacKenzie compared Everton midfielder Ross Barkley, who has a grandfather born in Nigeria, to a \"gorilla\".\n\nHe said men with similar \"pay packets\" in Liverpool were \"drug dealers\".\n\nMerseyside Police are investigating whether his comments constitute a \"racial hate crime\".\n\nThe Sun apologised \"for the offence caused\" and added that it was \"unaware of Barkley's heritage\".\n\nIn a statement of his own, MacKenzie reiterated the latter sentiment, adding that it was \"beyond parody\" to describe the column as \"racist\".\n\nIn the article, which has since been taken off the newspaper's website, former editor MacKenzie said:\n• None Barkley is \"one of our dimmest footballers\", also calling him \"thick\".\n• None His eyes make him \"certain not only are the lights not on, there is definitely nobody at home\", adding: \"I get a similar feeling when seeing a gorilla at the zoo\".\n• None Men with similar \"pay packets\" in Liverpool are \"drug dealers\" and in prison.\n\nAlongside the article, the Sun published adjoining pictures of Barkley and a gorilla on their website with the caption \"Could Everton's Ross Barkley represent the missing link between man and beast?\" The picture was later removed.\n\nBarkley, 23, was punched in a Liverpool bar last weekend in what his lawyer described as an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nPolice confirmed they were investigating the \"full circumstances\".\n\n'It's a smack in the face to our city'\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said he had reported the article to the police for a \"racial slur\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, Anderson said: \"Not only is it racist in a sense that he is of mixed-race descent, equally it's a racial stereotype of Liverpool. It is racist and prehistoric.\"\n\nAnderson later tweeted to say he had given a statement to Merseyside Police and reported the article to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.\n\nAnd in a further tweet, he said that \"ignorance simply cannot be used as a defence\" and that apology is \"simply not enough\".\n\nFurthermore, he criticised Everton for their failure to respond by banning Sun journalists from Goodison Park, calling it \"a smack in the face to our city\".\n\nAnd he asked fans attending Saturday's Premier League meeting with Burnley to turn their backs on the pitch at 15:06 BST in protest.\n\nMacKenzie was editor of the Sun when it published a front-page article headlined 'Hillsborough: The Truth' in the aftermath of the 1989 disaster at Sheffield Wednesday's football stadium.\n\nThe article claimed Liverpool fans were to blame for the tragedy, in which 96 people died. MacKenzie apologised in 2012.\n\nLast year's landmark Hillsborough inquests recorded that the 96 fans were unlawfully killed and that Liverpool supporters at the FA Cup semi-final had played no role in causing the tragedy.\n\nThis Saturday, 15 April, marks the 28th anniversary of the disaster.\n\nBurnley midfielder Joey Barton, who was an Everton youth player, tweeted: \"Those comments about Ross Barkley, a young working-class lad, are disgusting. Then add in the fact he is mixed race! It becomes outrageous.\"\n\nFormer Liverpool striker Stan Collymore tweeted: \"Implied racism at its finest.\"\n\nFootball's equality and inclusion organisation Kick It Out said they had received complaints about the \"insulting and offensive\" comments.\n\n\"We will be contacting Everton and the PFA about their responses in providing support to Ross and his family,\" they said.\n\nBBC Sport has contacted Everton and Barkley's representatives for comment.", "\n• None Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Line the base of two 20cm/8in loose-bottomed cake tins with baking paper and grease the sides with baking spread.\n• None Sieve the cocoa powder into a large mixing bowl. Add the water and stir until you have a smooth paste. Add the remaining ingredients. Whisk together using an electric hand whisk until light and fluffy. Spoon into the two tins and level the tops.\n• None Bake for 20–25 minutes, until well risen and coming away from the sides of the tins. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.\n• None To make the icing, put the gelatine leaves in a shallow bowl of cold water for 5 minutes until soft.\n• None Put the sugar, cocoa powder, cream and 125ml/4fl oz water into a saucepan over a medium heat. Stir until melted, then bring up to the boil and stir until smooth. Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate. Leave to cool for 5 minutes.\n• None Squeeze any liquid from the gelatine leaves and stir into the chocolate mixture until dissolved. Pour through a sieve into a bowl and leave to cool and thicken in the fridge for about an hour, until it reaches the consistency of thick mayonnaise.\n• None Slice each cake in half horizonatally. Put one cake half on a wire rack and smooth a layer of whipped cream on top. Continue this process so you have four layers of cake and three layers of cream. Press the cakes down between each layer so the cream comes right to the edges and the cakes are level at the sides. Smooth around the edges with a palette knife so the excess cream very lightly covers the sides and gives a smooth edge.\n• None Gently warm the apricot jam and brush lightly over the cake, covering the sides and top. Chill in the fridge for 15 minutes.\n• None Put about 100ml/3½fl oz of the icing in a heatproof bowl and gently melt over a pan of simmering water. Dip half of each strawberry in the melted icing. Put on baking paper to set.\n• None Once the cake has finished cooling in the fridge, transfer to a wire cooling rack placed on a large baking tray to catch any excess glaze as you pour it over the cake. Pour the remaining icing over the cake and smooth over the top and sides. Be very careful doing this, you want a smooth shiny icing. Leave for an hour or so to set. Arrange the glazed strawberries around the bottom edge of the cake.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham made it seven top-flight wins in succession for the first time since 1967 and continued their pursuit of leaders Chelsea with a dominant victory over Bournemouth.\n\nThe game was essentially won in a three-minute period in the first half in which Mousa Dembele fired Spurs ahead from close range following a corner before Son Heung-min doubled the lead with a darting run and neat finish.\n\nHarry Kane, making his first start in a month, made sure of the three points with a low finish just minutes into the second half.\n\nThe strike makes the 23-year-old just the fourth player to score 20 Premier League goals in three consecutive seasons after Alan Shearer, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Thierry Henry.\n\nVincent Janssen capped off Spurs' afternoon by scoring just his second Premier League goal of the season in injury time, just minutes after coming on as a substitute.\n\nMauricio Pochettino's side are now four points behind Chelsea, who face Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.\n\nBournemouth, who managed one shot on target, are now without a win in four matches and remain seven points above the bottom three with six games left to play.\n\nWith this win Tottenham surpassed the 70 points that gave them third place in 2015-16, during which they challenged for the Premier League trophy until their 36th fixture - a 2-2 draw at Chelsea.\n\nThe smart money remains on the Blues playing a more central role in extending Spurs' wait for a first title since 1961, especially if they win at United, but Pochettino's side are doing everything to capitalise on any potential slip-up.\n\nThis is a more mature, clinical and refined Tottenham side than 12 months ago, and this performance illustrated that perfectly.\n\nFrom the start they pressed their opponents relentlessly and dominated possession before the goals came.\n\nDembele's was a simple but emphatic finish following Christian Eriksen's corner. Son showed speed and guile to score after receiving a pass from Kane, whose goal was the result of great tenacity in winning the ball from Simon Francis in the box.\n\nThe biggest cheer of the afternoon, though, was reserved for the contribution of Janssen, who followed up his own blocked shot to score his sixth goal in his 35th appearance of what has been a tough first season in English football.\n\nSpurs have now scored the joint-most goals in the division, conceded the fewest and are hitting peak form at potentially just the right time.\n\nThey have also made White Hart Lane a fortress. This was their 12th victory in succession, making it their longest-ever winning streak on home soil in a single top-flight season.\n\nBournemouth looking over their shoulder\n\nBournemouth are now without a win in three, since last month's 2-0 win over Swansea which lifted them up to 11th.\n\nThis game was no barometer of their suitability for a possible relegation fight, simply because Tottenham were so good. But Eddie Howe's side were easily brushed aside, having now conceded three or more goals in 12 Premier League games.\n\nThey were second best in every department as Spurs bullied their defence, bossed midfield and denied Benik Afobe and Joshua King any sight of goal.\n\nTheir only shot on target came in the 74th minute, when Charlie Daniels' long-range effort gave Hugo Lloris the simplest of saves.\n\nTheir dismal afternoon was compounded when on-loan midfielder Jack Wilshere limped off injured following a tackle on Kane in his own box.\n\n'The three points are very important to keep our dream.'\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I am proud of our players after that performance. We have to wait to see what happens.\n\n\"Harry Kane is a fantastic player - he is one of the best in England and it is fantastic he is fit again to help the team.\n\n\"Son is brilliant - he needed time to adapt his game but he is now fit and healthy and he is feeling really comfortable.\n\n\"I was happy for Vincent Janssen because I knew it was his only chance to score and it's important he feels the happiness when you score.\n\n\"At the end of the season when everyone is tired, we need everyone to have the right mental attitude and happiness helps. We now need everyone to rest and get ready for the next few games.\n\n\"The three points are very important to keep our dream.\"\n\nBournemouth boss Eddie Howe, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We know we need more. We've known all along.\n\n\"The danger is if everyone says, 'You're safe.' We've got to focus the players' minds that we're not.\"\n\nEriksen the league's top provider - the stats you need to know\n• None Bournemouth posted a 31.31% possession figure in this game, their lowest ever in a Premier League game.\n• None Spurs have scored the most (43) and conceded the fewest (eight) home goals in the Premier League this season.\n• None Christian Eriksen now has more assists than any other player in the Premier League this season (12).\n• None Son Heung-min has been directly involved in six goals in his past four Premier League games (five goals, one assist).\n• None Harry Kane has provided five Premier League assists this season, his best-ever return in a top-flight campaign.\n• None Vincent Janssen finally netted his first Premier League goal not to come from the penalty spot in his 24th appearance in the competition.\n\nTottenham await the result of Chelsea's game at Old Trafford and then face the Blues in the FA Cup semi-finals next weekend. They return to league action on Wednesday, 26 April at Crystal Palace.\n\nBournemouth have two big Premier League games to come this month - next Saturday's home game against Middlesbrough, followed seven days later by a trip to Sunderland.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 4, Bournemouth 0. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Davies with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ryan Fraser.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mousa Dembélé with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Joshua King (Bournemouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Pugh.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jan Vertonghen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City strengthened their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish as a slick second-half display saw off a subdued Southampton.\n\nInjury-hit skipper Vincent Kompany headed David Silva's left-wing corner past keeper Fraser Forster's weak save for his first goal in 20 months.\n\nLeroy Sane drilled in Kevin de Bruyne's pass after a quick counter, with Sergio Aguero's far-post header sealing it.\n\nPep Guardiola's side are third, seven points clear of fifth-placed Everton.\n\nMid-table Saints failed to create many chances against a City side well marshalled by Kompany, with Dusan Tadic shooting over before the break.\n\nClaude Puel's side, who were attempting to win three successive league games for the first time under the Frenchman, remain in ninth place.\n\nFollow all the post-match reaction from St Mary's\n\nHow would City's season have panned out had they had a fully fit Kompany playing regularly?\n\nMany Blues fans would suggest their team would be much closer to leaders Chelsea - and, on the evidence of his performance against Southampton, it is hard to disagree.\n\nCity's talismanic captain has made just eight appearances in another campaign limited by niggling injuries, but returned at St Mary's with an imperious display.\n\nWhile Kompany will grab the headlines for his goal, his work at the other end of the pitch - leadership, organisation and composure - is what the Blues have been lacking at times this season.\n\nCity's defensive resilience meant keeper Claudio Bravo - trusted again by Guardiola - barely had to make a save.\n\nAnd it laid the platform for the visitors to cut Saints apart once Kompany, who marked his goal with an exuberant celebration, had made the breakthrough.\n\n\"I scored in front of the away fans and for me it was a great feeling,\" the Belgian said.\n\n\"I feel like I want to give so much but I am restrained at times. I keep positive and keep going no matter what.\"\n\nSlick City looking good for top four?\n\nGuardiola might have thought winning the Premier League during his first season in English football would be relatively straightforward after starting with seven successive wins.\n\nInstead, the Spaniard goes into the top-flight run-in facing a tense wait to see if his team are good enough to finish in the top four.\n\nIf City play with this sort of defensive resilience, in conjunction with their already lethal attacking play, it will be hard to see either Everton or Manchester United overhauling them.\n\nOnce the visitors took a deserved lead, they looked resolute at the back and picked off Saints on the break with a clinical counter-attack to double their advantage.\n\nDe Bruyne led the charge as City broke quickly, expertly picking out Sane for the young German to drill low under Forster.\n\nDe Bruyne was also the architect for the third, clipping a right-wing cross to the far post for Aguero to secure City's first win in four away matches.\n\n\"This result is so important for our qualification for the Champions League,\" said Guardiola, whose side host neighbours United in their next league game.\n\n\"It will go to the last game for the Champions League. It will be so tough.\"\n\nSouthampton look almost certain to fall short of emulating last season's sixth-place finish as Puel's first campaign at the helm is petering out to a quiet conclusion.\n\nSaints will need a remarkable finish to grab European qualification and, having already passed the 40-point mark deemed enough to avoid relegation, are well clear of the drop.\n\nTheir performance against City was indicative of a side with little to play for going into the final month of the season.\n\nThe home side only managed one effort on target, and Maya Yoshida's second-half header was easily stopped by Bravo.\n\n\"We simply did not play well enough, we were nervous with the ball,\" said Puel, who replaced Ronald Koeman last summer.\n\nCity's attentions are diverted away from the Champions League chase and onto the pursuit of silverware as they meet Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final next Sunday (15:00 BST).\n\nGuardiola's side return to Premier League action when they host neighbours United on Thursday, 27 April (20:00).\n\nSaints have a 10-day break before returning with a trip to leaders Chelsea on Tuesday, 25 April (19:45).\n• None City have won 11 away games this season, more than they have in any other top-flight campaign.\n• None Guardiola has made 100 changes to his Premier League starting line-ups this season, 15 more than any other manager.\n• None Since his debut in August 2010, Silva has provided 64 Premier League assists - 13 more than any other player.\n• None De Bruyne is the Premier League's leading assist maker this season, having set up 13 goals.\n• None Sane has scored in three of his past four Premier League away games.\n• None Aguero has scored in each of his past 12 Premier League appearances in the month of April\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"I missed Vincent Kompany a lot. He wins duels, he can find passes to help us, so hopefully he can be fit until the end of the season because he's important for us.\n\n\"With all the injured players, Gabriel Jesus, Ilkay Gundogan, we would have been stronger.\"\n\nOn whether City can catch the top two: \"Tottenham are so strong. We saw again today that they are not going to drop points.\n\n\"Our performance away in that league was amazing this season. We dropped too many points at home.\n\n\"Look how strong Chelsea and Tottenham are at home. If you want to win the Premier League, you have to win at home to Middlesbrough and Southampton.\"\n\nSouthampton manager Claude Puel: \"It's a disappointment because we can do better, we can create better opportunities.\n\n\"We did not have enough, we were not sufficient. It was not a good day for us, but congratulations to Manchester City.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sofiane Boufal (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Manchester City 3. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Goal! Southampton 0, Manchester City 2. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Maya Yoshida (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Maya Yoshida (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dusan Tadic with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Jesús Navas (Manchester City) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The mountains targeted are found in the Achin district of Nangarhar province\n\nDonald Trump has not only normalised American foreign policy, he has arguably made it more effective.\n\nWith two high-profile, signal-sending bombing raids and a series of breathtaking policy reversals, President Trump has brought US foreign policy back in line with conventional thinking. But he has added to the equation a measure of force that gives Washington new clout.\n\nWhen policy shifts so dramatically and with such little explanation, it can obviously shift again.\n\nSo we don't know how long the new positions will last. Nato could be back out of favour, Putin back in, simply with a couple of 140-character tweets.\n\nBut Donald Trump is a voracious consumer of cable television and the hunch is he will like the near-universal praise he's been getting on US talk shows this week.\n\nThere are clearly glaring inconsistencies in his new foreign policies - he bombs a Syrian air base because of the suffering of Syrian babies, but bans Syrian refugees from entering America.\n\nThere are pitfalls too. His switch on China appears largely based on a good rapport with Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago, but China still has interests which are not in sync with America's - its expansion in the South China Seas is just one.\n\nBut, as one Republican put it to me this week, Mr Trump has begun to know what he doesn't know. That's important. He has begun to understand that the world is more complicated than he thought.\n\nYou can laugh all you like at the sight of Mr Trump getting so publicly tutored on China, North Korea, the Export-Import bank and currency manipulation. Of course it was foolish to promise simple solutions to complex problems. But it's better to learn now how difficult those things are than never to learn at all.\n\nHis recent praise of Nato and rejection of Moscow immediately put this White House more in sync with European allies.\n\nEurope has long believed that the real threat to global security comes from Russia, not China. That's not what millions of Mr Trump's voters believe. He will have to keep them in mind as he backs away from calling China a currency manipulator and slapping it with tariffs, as he had promised he would do in the campaign.\n\nBut the shifts do bring America back into the foreign policy mainstream.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It felt like the sky was coming down, villagers told journalist Bilal Sarwary\n\nThe use of force, in Syria and Afghanistan, meanwhile, sends the message to America's adversaries that Mr Trump is not as war-averse as his predecessor.\n\nThe White House was delighted that Xi Jinping got to hear the news, over dessert in Mar-a-Lago, that the US had bombed Syria. They wanted him to get the message that there's a new sheriff in town - and ideally to pass that message on to their contacts in Pyongyang.\n\nThose Tomahawks launched against the Shayrat air base didn't really do much to limit Syria's military capability, but they did send several effective signals to Syria and its friends.\n\nFirst, using chemical weapons against civilians will have consequences. Second, this is a president who is prepared to use force fast and with no warning - Trump isn't paralysed by analysis which was the criticism of Barack Obama.\n\nThird, and perhaps more critical, it gave Secretary of State Rex Tillerson a large stick to pack in his luggage for his trip to Moscow.\n\nMr Obama's secretary of state, John Kerry, negotiated over Syria for years with no leverage because the Russians knew his boss wouldn't sanction the use of force - not so anymore.\n\nThere was similar messaging printed on that massive bomb dropped on suspected Islamic State militants in Afghanistan this week. Dropping a big bomb is one thing, but you get a lot more attention when that bomb is rather gruesomely nicknamed \"the mother of all bombs\".\n\nIt wasn't just a bomb, it was the biggest conventional weapon ever used in combat. It was positively Trumpian.\n\nThat MOAB also sent signals. Mr Trump told his supporters during the campaign that his number one foreign policy priority was defeating so-called Islamic State. Some of those voters were not thrilled then that his first military intervention was in response to the suffering of Syrian children.\n\nThey are suspicious of America getting dragged into more Middle East conflicts that don't help US interests. Bombing IS was a reminder that Mr Trump is focused on what he calls America's number one national security challenge.\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow\n\nAhead of the Easter weekend, with North Korea rumbling about a nuclear test, the Afghan strike may also have served as another reminder to Pyongyang that Mr Trump has big, bunker-busting weapons and will use them.\n\nSo, in two short weeks, and with a new and more professional team in the White House, Mr Trump has stabilised foreign policy. Allies will wait to see if the change lasts and who really speaks for the president. But for the moment there is a collective sigh of relief that American leadership may be back in more conventional hands.\n\nVery soon, the focus will shift back to domestic policy and there Mr Trump has more of a challenge. He needs a legislative win fast. When Congress returns in a week, he will tackle health care, again, tax reform and he faces a government shutdown over America's debt limit. Failure on those will quickly shift the tone of the TV commentators.\n\nA 300m (328yds) long network of tunnels and caves was destroyed\n\nPresident Trump has no domestic equivalent of the confident, competent General H R McMaster, his new national security adviser.\n\nThe Republican party is divided and the conservative wing has already shown it is prepared to say no to the president. Democrats, having been berated on Twitter and on TV by Mr Trump, are now in no mood to abandon their angry liberal base and work with him.\n\nMr Trump has had a good couple of weeks. He has shown a capacity to learn and adapt as a result. He has begun to understand what he doesn't know and he has marginalised the more populist members of his team.\n\nHe wants successes. It is easier for him to get them on the world stage than at home - it would be ironic if America's isolationist president now decided to become a foreign policy president because that's where the wins are.", "So there it is. Another year of plummy accents, eccentric knitwear and quick-fire trivia, over.\n\nThe final gong has sounded, the teams have clapped magnanimously at each other and the sheet of corrugated metal with twiddly lines on it has been handed over. But for many of us, this run of University Challenge did not end as we'd expected.\n\nPaxman began with a slightly extended intro, outlining some of the numbers behind the show: hundreds of entrants, dozens of teams, thousands of questions. What his eyes normally communicate silently, his voice this time confirmed: It's been a long series.\n\nAfter a couple of body-blows to Balliol, in which Paxman reminded them they'd already lost once to Wolfson in the quarters, it was on to the intros.\n\nYang. Chaudhri. The camera panned right and there he was, Eric Monkman, from Oakville, Canada - the wingtips of his baby blue collar poking out from beneath a striped blue/black crewneck. And like that, he was gone, turning to his left to introduce the wry, kind-eyed Paul Cosgrove, who you can tell enjoys his fleeting role in the major historical event that is #Monkmania.\n\nOn to Balliol. Potts. Lloyd. \"And this is their captain...\" Goldman. For many, tonight's pantomime villain. It's a thankless task, squaring off against Monkman. If you lose, you're the poor sap who ran up against Monkman in the 2016/17 final (\"What was his name again? Nice young man, wore glasses?\"). If you win, you dash the hopes of a nation.\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nThen the quiz began. And for the first half or so it was a tussle for dominance. Balliol were first out of the blocks, answering the starter and all three bonuses for a perfect 25. But Monkman knows his operatic characters...\n\n#UniversityChallenge \n\n\n\nQuestion: What is it about #Monkman that makes him so irresistibly charming?\n\n\n\nAnswer: pic.twitter.com/YxB9GVFlyH — JOE (@JOE_co_uk) April 10, 2017\n\nSo Wolfson were soon back on track.\n\nIt carried on like this in a blistering display for much of the first half. James Joyce, chloroform, historical accords from map boundaries, famous duels. The teams tore through the Qs, with the two captains picking up most of the points - often before Paxman had finished reading from his card.\n\nAround 10 minutes in, Wolfson were 20 ahead. But then something strange happened. Paxman got a few words into a question on the Iron Crown of Lombardy, and Monkman buzzed. But when the crash zoom had finished and his name had been called, you could tell he'd buzzed expecting the question to focus on something else, and he had to put his hands in the air and offer \"It's housed... in Italy somewhere?\"\n\nPaxman was not impressed. \"Yes, I'm afraid that is a completely useless answer,\" he scolded, and offered it up to Balliol, docking Wolfson five points.\n\n\"In Italy somewhere...I don't know, sorry\" - exactly how I answered every question during my geography degree. I'm as clever as #Monkman 💪🏼 — Alice Kiernan (@kiernan_alice) April 10, 2017\n\nA little later, a fiendish question left the entire studio silent. What is the total atomic number of the four elements that spell the word SNOB?\n\nAnd then Monkman could be seen forbidding his players from buzzing.\n\nEventually Yang had a guess, and Monkman didn't look impressed.\n\nFrom then, the contest felt somehow out of reach for Wolfson. They rallied a couple of times, edging ahead here and there, but in the latter third Balliol powered ahead, often answering correctly after Wolfson had buzzed in early and been wrong.\n\nWhen the final final gong sounded, Balliol were a good 50 points ahead. Monkman's Wolfson team had lost.\n\nBut there was a twist in the tale, and a lovely coda to the series, when Paxman's disembodied voice explained that the final we'd just been watching had been filmed some time earlier. After establishing shots of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, we were suddenly in an oak-panelled interior, port glasses on the sideboard and the eight finalists mingling around none other than Professor Stephen Hawking.\n\nAfter Professor Hawking congratulated the teams, and made a quip about bacteria, we were treated to perhaps the most touching moment of this series - our man Eric Monkman's broad, beaming smile as he took in the fact that he was in the presence of such a great mind.\n\nWe will miss you, Eric Monkman.\n\nAnd finally, one more thank you: Thanks to these guys! What a great experience we shared. pic.twitter.com/RFucsRTSKV — Eric Monkman (@e_monkman) April 10, 2017", "Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas took his first pole position by beating team-mate Lewis Hamilton by just 0.023 seconds at the Bahrain Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton was ahead by 0.052secs after the first laps in the top-10 shootout but appeared to have a scrappy final lap, allowing Bottas to edge ahead.\n\nIt was Mercedes' first front-row lock-out of 2017, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel third, 0.478secs off the pace.\n\nSunday's Bahrain Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live.\n\nMercedes' advantage of nearly half a second was by far their biggest over Ferrari so far this season.\n\nBut an advantage in qualifying does not necessarily mean Mercedes' superiority will translate into the race on Sunday.\n\nMercedes have a qualifying engine mode that adds more extra power than their rivals, and Hamilton expects Ferrari to have an advantage on tyre usage in the heat.\n\nFor Bottas, who has replaced world champion Nico Rosberg following the German's retirement, it was his most convincing qualifying performance of the year, after trailing Hamilton by 0.2-0.3secs in the first two races.\n\nHamilton was quickest in the first two sessions and on their first runs in final qualifying, but was made to pay the price on his final lap for a slow middle sector, in which he lost 0.2secs, and then a mistake at the final corner, where he needed to correct a slide on entry.\n\nHow Bottas did it\n\nIt was an impressive performance by Bottas, especially after a dispiriting race in China last weekend where he spun behind the safety car and finished sixth.\n\nThe Finn appeared to adjust his approach to counter Hamilton's pace.\n\nHe had been quicker than Hamilton in the first two sectors of his first lap only for Hamilton to find extra pace in the third.\n\nBut, on his final lap, he took it easier in the first sector and then pushed harder in the next two and it made the difference.\n\nWhat they said\n\nBottas, whose first pole came in his 82nd grand prix, said: \"It took a few races but got it and hopefully it's the first of many.\n\n\"I just want to say a big thank you to the team. Both starting from the front row. We really focused on the evening conditions and got a lot of lap time out of the car.\n\n\"It's not an easy track to get anything right. It's quite technical. Easy to lock up and miss the apex. It is getting the lap together and it was a good enough balance for pole.\"\n\nHamilton said: \"Big congratulations to Valtteri. He has been working so hard. Today he was just quicker, so hats off to him.\n\n\"The first lap was good. But it was so close. I was losing a bit of time in the first sector. The second lap was not as good. Just overall a little bit down. Overall, a great battle. That's how close qualifying should be. I'm generally happy with the job I did.\"\n\nVettel said: \"I was generally very happy with how it went. We had some issues on Friday, just in terms of balance, Q2 was tight - just 0.05secs. I was very happy with my first lap but I was a bit down because 0.4secs was more than I expected. The last lap I tried a bit harder and it didn't work.\"\n\nRicciardo benefited from a poor performance by Raikkonen, struggling with his dreaded understeer, to pip the Finn by just 0.022secs and take the final spot on the second row.\n\nThe Australian also beat team-mate Max Verstappen, who was sixth, for the first time this season in qualifying - the Dutchman blaming Williams driver Felipe Massa for blocking him.\n\nMassa was eighth, behind Renault's Nico Hulkenberg, with Haas driver Romain Grosjean and Hulkenberg's team-mate Jolyon Palmer 10th and in the top 10 for the first time this season, albeit 1.2secs off the German.\n\nFernando Alonso, who has been the centre of attention this weekend after Wednesday's news he will compete in the Indianapolis 500 instead of the Monaco Grand Prix, was 15th.\n\nThe Spaniard said he was on course for about 12th or 13th on the grid with a lap 0.5secs quicker than in first qualifying but suffered an engine failure towards the end of the lap.\n\nTeam-mate Stoffel Vandoorne was 0.3secs slower than the Spaniard and did not make it out of first qualifying. Vandoorne's weekend has been plagued by engine problems - he lost two MGU-Hs, the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbo, on Friday.\n\nBoth men are likely to suffer engine penalties later in the season as a result of Honda's reliability issues.", "New York City striker David Villa scores an incredible 50-yard lob to help his side to a 2-0 victory over Philadelphia Union in the MLS.", "The North Korean capital is gearing up for celebrations\n\nThis week Pyongyang is a city in a frenzy of preparation.\n\nAt times the crowds of people thronging the sidewalks have turned the streets into a blaze of colour - the women, vivid explosions of rainbow hues in their traditional Korean dresses, and the men, although black or grey suited, carrying large artificial pink and red flowers.\n\nThese plastic, pom-pom like azaleas are used for waving in the ritualised adulation of their leader for which they are now so busy rehearsing.\n\nSome sit in large groups waiting for instructions, others walk purposefully to or from the parade ground, chatting or laughing together along the streets of a capital city that is still largely devoid of traffic.\n\nAntiquated army trucks with open tops trundle into town, in convoys dozens long, each packed with soldiers in uniform.\n\nThere's a relaxed, holiday feel: the female conscripts, separated in their own trucks, smiling and waving at passers-by, the male troops singing merrily in unison.\n\nIt gives this city the air of a giant film set for a war-time period costume drama.\n\nBut in the world's last truly totalitarian state, this is the reality.\n\nMass mobilisation is the defining essence of social and political life and there is no more important occasion for the expression of absolute fealty to the leader than The Day of the Sun.\n\nSaturday marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's long-dead founding president Kim Il-sung, although according to the country's constitution he remains formally in office.\n\nThe celebrations this year have taken on an added sense of symbolic meaning as they take place amid one of the periodic peaks in the tension that has so often defined the country's relationship with the outside world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People on the Pyongyang subway reveal how they feel about the country's nuclear tests\n\nThis isolated regime has shown a skilful knack of posting itself into the priority inbox of every US president who has come to office in recent years.\n\nThis time is no different, with an underground nuclear test shortly before the election, followed by a flurry of ballistic missile tests during the first few weeks of Mr Trump's presidency.\n\nNorth Korea launched a missile into the Sea of Japan last week, according to South Korean reports\n\nAnd like other presidents before him, Mr Trump appears to be exploring whether - instead of the failed diplomacy, debate and delay - a more direct, dramatic option might be available.\n\nWhether he will, like others, finish his term having eventually decided that there is no realistic alternative remains to be seen.\n\nBut the fact that no US administration has yet been able to find a way to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions is a measure of the remarkable success of its game of brinkmanship with the outside world.\n\nIt is a classic study in military deterrence.\n\nThe regime's most powerful weapon has long been its conventional artillery.\n\nPlaced close to the border, it could cause significant damage and large loss of life in the South Korean capital within a matter of minutes.\n\nFor the government in Seoul it makes not just any offensive military option unthinkable, but complicates even defensive calculation.\n\nIn 2010, following an audacious and unprovoked torpedo attack on the South Korean warship the Cheonan - claiming the lives of 46 sailors and widely believed by the international community to have been carried out by the North - the South sat on its hands.\n\nA few months later there was also no retaliation when North Korea shelled a South Korean island, hitting both military and civilian targets.\n\nIt is proof that the North has calculated all too well the costs of military engagement for its democratic, populous and economically vibrant neighbour.\n\nThe attack on the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan killed 46 South Korean sailors\n\nEmploying exactly the same logic, Pyongyang has been edging ever closer to possessing a deliverable nuclear arsenal with the aim of forcing its foes further afield into the same strategic bind.\n\nThe one thing that keeps the North Korean leadership awake at night is the thought of the B52 bombers stationed on the Pacific island of Guam.\n\nAnd they have learned a very particular lesson from the US-led efforts to bring about regime change elsewhere in the world.\n\nIraq didn't have nuclear weapons and Libya had given its up.\n\nUnless North Korea can be given the kind of guarantees that would make it feel secure enough - which seems unlikely in the short term - then any effort to negotiate away its nuclear programme is bound to fail.\n\nSo for now, the world is left with two stark choices.\n\nWomen dressed in traditional outfits attended the opening ceremony of a housing development on Thursday\n\nAccept North Korea as a member of the nuclear-armed club, or try to force it to disarm, either through ever tougher sanctions or the incalculably risky option of military action.\n\nAs President Trump weighs these options, North Koreans are preparing to march, dance and sing to the glory of the country's ruling family this weekend.\n\nAnd there is speculation that another nuclear test could be a matter of just days away.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice, qualifying and race on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra (second practice online only). Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nFerrari's Sebastian Vettel was fastest in second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix with the Mercedes and Red Bull teams close behind.\n\nThe German was only 0.041 seconds quicker than Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas.\n\nRed Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was third with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes behind him.\n\nWe have hopefully closed that gap a little bit\n\nVettel's session was interrupted when his car shut down out on the track as he began his race-simulation run.\n\nBut after managing to crawl back to the pits, Ferrari fixed the car and he was able to complete his work.\n\nThe four-time world champion said: \"It was not the best day for us, we still need to improve the car. The car feels good. On one lap it was OK. Long run we might be quite a bit behind, but I am sure we can improve for tomorrow.\"\n• None Relive all the action from the second practice session\n\nIt was the second technical problem for Ferrari, after Raikkonen broke down with a turbo overheating problem in the first session. The Finn needed a new internal combustion engine to be fitted as well ahead of the second session.\n\nHamilton's true pace was not seen - he had a messy session and set his lap when his tyres were older than his rivals'.\n\nHamilton aborted his first lap, was blocked by Renault's Nico Hulkenberg on the next and finally nailed a time on his third attempt, when the edge would have gone from the rubber.\n\nHe and Vettel are tied on points at the top of the championship after a win and a second place apiece in the first two races of the season in Australia and China.\n\nThe pattern of the season so far in qualifying has been Hamilton on pole by a small margin, with Vettel and Bottas second and third separated by thousandths of a second.\n\nConditions are very different in Bahrain compared to Melbourne and Shanghai and Hamilton is concerned that Ferrari will be faster in the desert as a result of what he expects to be their lighter demands on the tyres.\n\nOn the race-simulation runs, Hamilton appeared to have a small advantage over the other drivers on the super-soft tyres and the soft tyres - other than two very quick laps by Raikkonen on the softs right at the end of the session.\n\nBut Hamilton said he had been told Ferrari were quicker than Mercedes in race pace.\n\n\"I didn't get to finish my lap. I would hope I would be in amongst [the top three if I had],\" he said.\n\n\"Ferrari's race pace is a couple of tenths faster than ours. We have to work out how we are going to close that gap.\n\n\"The car did not feel spectacular on the long run. There are some things we have to work on just with the tyres. But it could all be different on Sunday.\"\n\nThe stage seems set for a very close race between Mercedes and Ferrari, with Red Bull much closer on raw pace in the dry than they have been so far this season.\n\nRed Bull team boss Christian Horner told BBC Sport the team had made some changes to the car and it had been \"a positive day\", especially for Ricciardo.\n\n\"We have hopefully closed that gap a little bit. Hopefully we can build on that through the weekend,\" he added.\n\nBehind the big three, Hulkenberg was an impressive sixth fastest for Renault, ahead of Felipe Massa's Williams.\n\nHulkenberg's team-mate, Englishman Jolyon Palmer, was a second off the German in 13th place, just ahead of the McLaren of Fernando Alonso.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen was only eighth fastest but on his qualifying simulation his floor was damaged by a small wing that had come off Bottas' Mercedes. The Dutchman looked relatively competitive on his race runs.", "Great Britain's Elinor Barker and Emily Nelson win silver in the inaugural women's world championship madison after a fierce battle with Belgium's gold medallists Jolien D'Hoore and Lotte Kopecky.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nRonnie O'Sullivan reached the World Championship second round by beating Crucible debutant Gary Wilson 10-7.\n\nThe five-time champion went 5-1 up in Saturday's first session in Sheffield, including a 122 break, but former taxi driver Wilson then won three in a row.\n\nOn Sunday, O'Sullivan made 124, 83 and 74 to go 9-5 ahead, Wilson hitting back with 103 before succumbing.\n\nO'Sullivan, who later launched an attack on World Snooker, celebrated by repeatedly punching the air.\n\n\"I have a responsibility to the fans who come to support me and they want to see me do well,\" he said, as he spoke to the media at the length for the first time since winning the Masters in January.\n\n\"It is important I keep focused, professional, keep myself out of trouble and do a job, it is about business.\n\n\"I love to play and it is extra special at the Crucible.\n\n\"The main thing is to be in the right frame of mind, the fans have supported me for 25 years, they will continue to support me but I feel loyalty towards them and they are the most important people in my career.\"\n• None 'I won't be bullied or intimidated by World Snooker' - O'Sullivan\n\nFormer world number one O'Sullivan won the most recent of his five world titles in 2013.\n\nThis year, he is only third favourite behind Judd Trump and defending champion Mark Selby thanks to an inconsistent season in which he has reached four major finals but claimed just one title.\n\nHis victory at the Masters for a record seventh time was the last time he won consecutive matches in a tournament - a run of five events.\n\nAt Alexandra Palace, O'Sullivan spoke about \"missing too many easy balls\" and the problem was evident early on in Sheffield as he struggled to clinch frames when given an opportunity.\n\nBut the world number 12 improved significantly in the second session and next faces another former champion in Shaun Murphy or Chinese 17-year-old Yan Bingtao.\n\nWallsend player Wilson had shown his class in qualifying by making a maximum 147 break and seven further centuries.\n\nThe world number 59 did display his high-scoring ability with breaks of 103 and 100 and said he felt \"comfortable\" in his first appearance at the event.\n\nHe added: \"In one way I am pleased. I did not give him it and he had to work for it.\n\n\"I felt if it got close, I had a chance of winning. It could have been closer earlier on and I was sat thinking it should be 8-8.\n\n\"You can't be too disappointed in your first time at the Crucible and I've shown what I am capable of.\"\n\nIn Sunday afternoon's other game, Kyren Wilson beat another Crucible first-timer, David Grace, 10-6.\n\nWilson - a beaten finalist in this season's Indian Open - stroked in 93 and 72 against the Yorkshireman, who performed well with breaks of 104 and 75.\n\nAnd in the battle of the former champions, Peter Ebdon took the last two frames of Sunday's session - including the ninth on a re-spotted black - to trail Stuart Bingham 5-4.\n\nIn Sunday evening's two games Mark Allen took a 5-4 lead against Jimmy Robertson while Marco Fu fell 7-2 behind against Luca Brecel.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBritain's 4x100m women's relay team will not compete at the IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas next week.\n\nBritish Athletics says the \"precautionary decision\" will allow the squad to recover from \"minor\" injuries before August's World Championships.\n\nOlympic bronze medallists Daryll Neita and Desiree Henry have had hamstring and knee injuries respectively.\n\nFellow squad members Ashleigh Nelson and Imani Lansiquot have also had hamstring problems.\n\nBritish Athletics performance director Neil Black said there was \"no need to take any unnecessary risks\" for the event, which takes place from 22-23 April.\n\nHe added: \"All our decisions are made with a long-term view of having our top athletes fit and competing to win medals in front of a home crowd in London.\"\n\nThe top eight finishers in the 4x100m and 4x400m for both men and women in the Bahamas will earn automatic entry for the London 2017 World Championships.", "In the dusty, baking emptiness of Leer in South Sudan, bags of British food aid fall from the sky to relieve the hunger below.\n\nIt is here in the north of the country that the United Nations has declared a famine. It is here that the fighting between government and rebel forces has driven so many into hunger and homelessness. And it is here that UK aid is being carefully targeted from the air.\n\nTo watch these bags of cereal and pulses and food substitutes pour from the bellies of ageing Russian transport planes that have been hired by the aid agencies is to witness an absolute good. For without it, more people in this war-ravaged, hunger-stricken country in central Africa would starve to death.\n\nI watched the Ilyushin planes lumber slowly into view alongside Priti Patel, the International Development Secretary, who had travelled many hours to see what impact the money she had authorised was having on the ground.\n\nDespite the controversy over her £13bn aid budget, Ms Patel insisted that Britain's humanitarian spending gave it influence in the world.\n\nUK International Development Secretary Priti Patel inspects aid sacks that have been dropped by plane\n\nFirst the planes practise a low pass over the drop zone, marked by a large white cross. They make another wide circuit to let nearby villages know an aid delivery is on its way. And then, at around 300 metres above the ground, they begin to drop their cargoes.\n\nEach plane can carry about 30 metric tonnes of aid, about 600 sacks. They make three passes, dropping 200 sacks each time. These are not parachute-born crates, just individual bags hurtling towards the ground. Like some dreadful game of pass-the-parcel, each sack is bagged seven times to stop it exploding on impact.\n\nTo watch this, to see the gleam of hope in the eyes of those waiting below, is a moving experience. For many of them, without this aid, they would be forced to live off what nuts, leaves and water lilies they can forage, none of which provides adequate nutrition.\n\n\"UK aid is providing a much-needed lifeline to people who have been persecuted, driven off their homes, forced to flee,\" Ms Patel told me. \"The aid that we are providing right now is the difference between life and death.\"\n\nYet the problem is this. Each plane contains food enough for only 2,000 people a month. The cost of the planes is astronomic and there are only seven in the region that the World Food Programme can operate.\n\nThere is a scarcity of available food aid because there are so many other droughts in the region. Each drop has to be negotiated with local community leaders and armed groups, whose permission is needed to ensure that any fighting is put on hold. The hungry will come only if they feel safe.\n\nAny food drop in a government-held area has to be matched by one in territory held by the rebels\n\nThe distribution centre on the ground - a temporary, pop-up affair - can exist only for a few days before the security risks become again too great.\n\nAny food drop in a government-held area has to be matched by one in territory held by the rebels. The amount of aid has to be roughly equal in size to avoid accusations that the aid agencies are taking sides.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn other words, this aid that falls from the sky may help people who are the hardest to reach in a severe humanitarian crisis. But it is expensive, complicated and, as aid workers repeatedly told me, not nearly enough.\n\nThere are three road corridors into South Sudan along which aid can travel by truck. And this can be more efficient. One truck alone can carry as much as a Russian transport plane.\n\nYet trucks have deal with checkpoints, fighting and simple banditry. And soon they will lose the roads when the rains come and render much of the country impassable. So there is, aid workers say, a race against time to build up aid dumps before the weather closes in.\n\nSuch is the reality of delivering British and other aid in the north. To the south, in the capital, Juba, the UK is funding much of South Sudan's only children's hospital - its medicines, its water tanks, its solar panels. Here doctors are seeing rising numbers of children with acute malnutrition. And inevitably they need more resources, above all more space.\n\nChildren in South Sudan are suffering from acute malnutrition\n\nOn the day we visited, in one ward alone, there were 43 children sharing 21 beds. I spoke to Rhoda, a 50-year-old woman who had brought in her granddaughter 10 days previously. Cecilia, only 18 months old, arrived severely malnourished. Her mother had died and Rhoda had no milk to feed her. But, she told me, Cecilia's fever and diarrhoea had abated after a few days of milk and porridge.\n\nFurther south, the problem is one of refugees. More than a million South Sudanese have fled the country to escape the fighting. We travelled to northern Uganda where on average 2,000 people are pouring over the border each day. Last week there was one 24-hour period when no fewer than 7,000 refugees came across.\n\nBidibidi refugee camp, across the border in Uganda, has quickly grown into the world's largest\n\nUganda - unusually - welcomes refugees and gives them a plot of land with shelter and access to services. Here millions of pounds of UK aid is being spent to provide some of the basic infrastructure. Yet here again the scale of the crisis outweighs the humanitarian response. Last August there was next to nothing at the main refugee settlement at Bidibidi. Now, it is the largest such settlement in the world, home to more than 270,000 people.\n\nClearly, the scale of the humanitarian challenge is huge and growing. But the aid agencies report that the United Nation emergency response for South Sudan is hugely underfunded, with some international donors showing reluctance to stump up the cash. So this is a crisis that many expect to get worse before it gets better.", "Since the US election presidential race, fact checking websites report what seems like an increase in anti-Trump, 'liberal fake news'.\n\nThe fact-checking site Snopes told BBC Trending radio that in the past week, for example, they have debunked many more anti-Republican party stories than pro-Republican ones.\n\nOne example of an incorrect story is the unflattering, digitally-manipulated image, which suggested that US President Donald Trump had diarrhoea during a recent golf outing.\n\nIt's hard to gather definitive data on the political bias in fake news stories, so the evidence for a rise in 'liberal fake news' is essentially anecdotal. But a recent study did effectively debunk the stereotype that fake news tends to be shared more by uneducated people or those with right-leaning politics, as compared to other groups.\n\n\"It [fake news] affects both the right and the left. It affects educated and uneducated. So the stereotypes of it being simply right-wing and simply uneducated are 100% not true,\" says Jeff Green, who is the CEO of Trade Desk, an internet advertising company that was recently commissioned by American TV channel CBS to investigate who is reading and sharing fake news online.\n\nHis company did this by initially putting out two fake news stories - one from the left which falsely stated police had raided a protestors camp at Standing Rock and burnt it down, and the other from a right-wing website about false claims there was a congressional plot to oust Donald Trump.\n\nA left-wing fake story falsely claimed police had raided a protestors camp at Standing Rock and burnt it down\n\nBy using specialist software, the company's researchers then followed readers' online behaviour to get an idea of who and where they were.\n\n\"On the left if you're consuming fake news you're 34 times more likely than the general population to be a college graduate,\" says Green.\n\nIf you're on the right, he says, you're 18 times more likely than the general population to to be in the top 20 percent of income earners.\n\nAnd the study revealed another disturbing trend: the more you consume fake news, the more likely you are to vote. It's \"fascinating and frightening at the same time,\" says Green.\n\nOne of the reasons for the growth in liberal fake news is financial.\n\n\"Those people who generate this kind of fake news don't care about politics. They just care about generating clicks, and so sometimes they generate similar messages for the right and the left,\" says Filippo Menczer, a professor of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University who runs the fake news tracking site Hoaxy.\n\nAs for where the market for liberal fake news comes from, according to Claire Wardle, who is a research director at First Draft - a non-profit organisation which is looking for solutions around trust and truth in the digital age - the appetite stems from so-called confirmation bias.\n\n\"People like to share information that makes them feel good, \" she says.\n\n\"Many people on the left right now are feeling overwhelmed and fearful and unsure of what's going to happen next. While they're scrolling through their information feeds at speed on small mobile phones their critical functions are not kicking in, and they're seeing information that makes them feel immediately connected with other people who think similarly to them. And without doing the usual checks that they would do, they're sharing and very quickly passing on similarly false and problematic content that we were seeing before the election.\"\n\n\"Check your sources,\" says Brooke Binkowski from fact-checking site Snopes\n\nBrooke Binkowski, who is managing editor at Snopes website, warns newsreaders to stay aware of the emotions they feel when consuming content.\n\n\"If you are a newsreader or someone who likes reading news but you don't know immediately what may or may not be fake, ask yourself by reading the headline, what emotions do I feel? Am I really angry, scared, frustrated, do I want to share this to tell everybody what's going on? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then check your sources.\"\n\nCorrection 17 April 2017: A reference to Snopes finding that suggestions President Trump profited from the US missile strikes in Syria were false has been removed from this story. It found the claims unproven.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.\n\nNEXT STORY: US internet 'warriors' send racially charged symbols to France\n\nThe far-right online strategy in France is very different, Marine Le Pen's party says. WATCH: US internet 'warriors' send racially charged symbols to France", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nN'Golo Kante has won the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award for 2016-17.\n\nThe Chelsea midfielder, 26, beat Eden Hazard, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Alexis Sanchez in the vote by his fellow players.\n\nTottenham's Dele Alli won the young player prize for the second successive year. Manchester City's Lucy Bronze won the Women's Player of the Year award.\n\nBirmingham's Jess Carter was named Women's Young Player of the Year.\n\nKante said: \"It's a huge honour to be chosen by the other players. It's the biggest honour to get this award.\"\n\nThe midfielder is on course to win the Premier League with Chelsea, having done so last season at Leicester, and added: \"My first two seasons were very beautiful. Last season was very beautiful. This season so far, we have had a good season but we have to finish well.\"\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham received the PFA's Merit award for his contribution to the game during the ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel in London on Sunday.\n\nFormer England women's captain Kelly Smith - who became England's first female professional footballer when she joined American side New Jersey in 1999 - landed the PFA Special Achievement award.\n• None How do you create the next N'Golo Kante?\n\nKante was key to Leicester's surprise Premier League win last year and could become first player to achieve the distinction of winning successive titles with different clubs if Chelsea can stay ahead of Spurs in this season's race.\n\nSince signing Kante in July, Chelsea have gone from a mid-table finish to the top of the pile with six games to play.\n\nIn his absence, Leicester have largely struggled to replicate their heroics of last season and are still not safe from relegation.\n\nFrance international Kante has played every minute in the league this season apart from the Boxing Day game against Bournemouth, when he was suspended, and the final 11 minutes against Tottenham on 4 January.\n\nBBC pundit Danny Murphy, speaking on Match of the Day 2 on Sunday, described Kante as irreplaceable in the Chelsea line-up.\n\nFormer England midfielder Murphy said: \"He's the one you can't replace. If Eden Hazard wasn't there, you could put Willian in. Kante is the best midfielder in the Premier League, if not Europe.\"\n\nMatthew Upson, the former England defender, added on the same programme: \"It's 100% deserved. He is the most valuable player in the Premier League with his contribution.\n\n\"He might not be the most creative player, or have the biggest sudden impact, but over the course of the season he is the most valuable player in the Premier League. He's been outstanding.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier this season, BBC pundit Phil Neville described Kante as \"the one who has knitted this Chelsea team together\".\n\n\"I thought he was a number six like former Chelsea player Claude Makelele. But he is a number six, an eight and a 10 - he plays absolutely everywhere, three different positions,\" he said.\n\n\"I think Kante is the most complete midfielder in the Premier League at the moment.\n\n\"He will redefine what we are looking for from a midfield player.\"\n\nKante is famously a quiet man, yet on the pitch he is a tigerish opponent.\n\nHis total of 110 tackles in the Premier League this season is second only to Everton midfielder Idrissa Gueye (127), while his figure of 72 interceptions is eclipsed only by Ander Herrera of Manchester United.\n\nWatford captain Troy Deeney recently spoke about what it is like to play against Kante - an insight that perhaps explains why his peers voted him the best of their number.\n\n\"Whenever we broke on them last season, I always had the fear factor that Kante was coming back and I knew we didn't have much time before he got there,\" Deeney said.\n\n\"Even if I actually did have time, I always thought he might be there, so I would rush things a bit.\"\n\nKante only third pick among BBC Sport readers\n\nKante might be top of the class among his fellow professionals, but he did not quite come out on top among BBC Sport readers, who were recently asked to name their Premier League team of the year.\n\nMore than 40,000 teams were selected, with the most popular XI displayed below.\n\nKante was named in more than 80% of users' teams, but his exploits in the middle of the park for the Premier League leaders were not enough to make him the most selected player overall.\n\nThat accolade instead went to Spurs midfielder Alli, followed by Chelsea midfielder Hazard and then Kante.\n\nTwo of the nominees for the senior PFA award failed to make the BBC Sport team of the year, with Arsenal forward Sanchez and Manchester United striker Ibrahimovic missing out.\n\nAlli's young player prize is consolation for his omission from the six-man shortlist for the senior award, despite scoring 16 goals from midfield as Spurs have mounted a serious title bid.\n\nThe 21-year-old's importance to Tottenham's hopes is underlined by the fact they have scored a goal every 42 minutes with Alli on the field in the Premier League this season, compared to every 83 minutes without him.\n\nHe scored eight goals in six Premier League games between 18 December and 21 January, and was named the league's player of the month for January.\n\nThe England midfielder also showed his class with a brilliantly taken goal in Spurs' FA Cup semi-final defeat by Chelsea on Saturday.\n\nAlli said of his award: \"It's an unbelievable feeling, especially to be voted by the other players as well.\n\n\"It's been an unbelievable season for us all. I think we've just got to keep going, keep fighting and keep improving as a team.\"\n\nEngland full-back Bronze, 25, won the PFA Women's Player of the Year award for the second time after being part of the Manchester City squad that won the Women's Super League without losing a single game in 2016.\n\nBronze said: \"As a defender, you don't really get a lot of accolades, but it's a great award to win.\n\n\"As a team, we've been very successful, and individuals have performed really well in the team. This award for me is all thanks to the team, because without them, I wouldn't be anywhere near this.\"\n\nBirmingham midfielder Carter, 19, saw off competition from three Manchester City players to win the Women's Young Player of the Year award.\n\nShe started every game in the WSL in 2016 and completed 90 minutes in all but the season-opener at Sunderland.\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder Beckham was honoured by his peers in recognition of his stellar career at club and international level.\n\nBeckham, 41, won 115 England caps - captaining his country on 59 occasions - and played for some of the most famous clubs sides in the world.\n\nHe scored 85 goals during his time at United, where he also won six Premier League titles and the Champions League. He also won Spain's La Liga during a four seasons at Real Madrid.\n\nBeckham follows former United team-mate Ryan Giggs in winning the Merit prize. He also received the award alongside his 'Class of 92' United team-mates in 2013.\n\n\"I dreamed of playing for Manchester United and England my whole young life,\" Beckham said. \"To have represented my country the number of times that I did, and to have been captain as well, that is my proudest thing as a footballer.\n\n\"I had 22 years of playing the sport that I never saw as a job. I always saw it as a hobby because I would have done it whether I'd be paid or not. I lived my dream and I had a lot of people to support me.\"\n\nEngland's record goalscorer and former Arsenal forward Smith retired from football at the age of 38 in January.\n\nShe scored 46 goals for her country, earned 117 England caps, played in six major tournaments and represented Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics.\n\n\"When I started out playing football as a little girl I never imagined me reaching the heights that I have, in my 20-odd-year career,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been a phenomenal journey: lots of highs, lots of lows, but I've really enjoyed every moment of it, and I feel very privileged to be here tonight to pick this up.\"", "The way Chelsea beat Tottenham in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final showed why they are going to win the Premier League title too.\n\nAs usual, Antonio Conte's side were dogged and resilient - and the manager's gameplan worked perfectly.\n\nThey were content to soak up Spurs' pressure and possession and, when they went up the other end, they took their chances brilliantly.\n\nThe Blues scored four goals against the team with the best defensive record in the top flight, so you cannot say they did not deserve their victory.\n\nAnd anyone who doubted Chelsea after their defeats by Manchester United and Crystal Palace just had to watch them at Wembley to see how good they are.\n\nThis was a superb display that won a brilliant cup tie and, psychologically, could and probably should pull them across the line in the title race too.\n\nThey know they beat their closest rivals despite not having three key players for the majority of the game - centre-back Gary Cahill, who was out injured, and winger Eden Hazard and striker Diego Costa, who came off the bench with less than half an hour to play.\n\nConte's decision to leave Costa and, in particular, Hazard out of his starting line-up was a huge call - but it worked.\n\nThe guy he brought in for Hazard - Willian - scored twice. Then, when he brought Hazard on in the second half, the Belgium international changed the game.\n\nHazard scored Chelsea's vital third goal and he also rolled the ball into Nemanja Matic for his fantastic strike to make it 4-2.\n\nWhen you make big decisions, you want them to work in your favour, and things could not really have worked out any better for Conte on Saturday.\n\nThe Italian has not got very much wrong in his first season in the Premier League, especially since switching to his favoured formation of three at the back at the end of September.\n\nThe double is definitely on, which would be an incredible achievement.\n\nKenny Dalglish (with Liverpool in 1986) and Carlo Ancelotti (with Chelsea in 2010) are the only other managers to have done it in their first season in England, and now Conte has a fantastic chance of doing the same.\n\nTottenham did not make their possession count\n\nThe benches illustrated the difference in depth between the two teams, because Chelsea's substitutes made a huge difference, and Tottenham's didn't.\n\nIt obviously helps when you have got big hitters like Hazard, Costa and Fabregas to come on - but I still think Spurs wasted a great opportunity to beat a weakened Chelsea side.\n\nTottenham dominated possession - they had 63% of the ball and played 544 passes to 323 by Chelsea - but I don't think they did enough with it.\n\nThey only had four shots on target, and one of them was in the 93rd minute.\n\nKane took his goal very well and Dele Alli's finish to make it 2-2 was superb after a brilliant ball by Christian Eriksen.\n\nThe way Alli found the space inside the area was very similar to the headers he scored when Spurs beat Chelsea in the league in January but, other than that, they did not open Conte's side up often enough.\n\nNo trophy for Tottenham this time\n\nAs much as victory will lift Chelsea, this defeat will damage Tottenham - who have now lost seven straight FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nI don't think it affects Spurs' title hopes, because I never thought Chelsea would chuck the league away whatever happened at Wembley.\n\nBut, trophy-wise, it now looks like Mauricio Pochettino's team will not have anything to show for their season - and I think the next 12 months will be a crucial time for the club.\n\nIf you go through the Tottenham team, they have one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League - if not the best - in Hugo Lloris, and they certainly have the best defender in Toby Alderweireld.\n\nAlli is one of the most sought-after young players in the world and Kane is one of the best strikers in the Premier League, and with Victor Wanyama and Mousa Dembele in midfield they have one hell of a spine.\n\nBut all that talent needs to get over the line in something - and soon.\n\nThey need to win a trophy next season, otherwise I fear their top players will look to go elsewhere to get some silverware.", "I don't see Manchester City's failure to win a trophy as a disaster for Pep Guardiola, but finishing outside the Premier League's top four would be unacceptable.\n\nExpectations were so high when Guardiola arrived in England because he had won silverware in each of his previous seasons as a manager, dating back to 2008.\n\nSo a trophy in his first year in charge at City was seen by many people as the benchmark for success, but it was never a given and I don't think he ever thought it would be that easy either.\n\nBy now, he knows how gruelling a Premier League season really is, and has probably changed some of his plans for new signings accordingly.\n\nSunday's defeat by Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final underlined exactly how much there is for him to work on, and I am sure he will embrace that challenge.\n\nBut to carry out those plans, and get the new players he wants and needs, City simply have to be in the Champions League next season.\n\n'Guardiola must pick up his players quickly'\n\nThis is Guardiola's biggest moment as City manager, because has to make sure his players are ready to perform in the Manchester derby on Thursday.\n\nThey will be very disappointed because they put a lot into the semi-final, and the game going to extra time will not help their preparation either.\n\nGuardiola has to pick them up and turn the mood around. It is all about him now, and what he can do about the situation City are in.\n\nUnited reduced the gap between themselves and City to a point by beating Burnley on Sunday and they are in the ascendancy right now after making it to the semi-finals of the Europa League as well.\n\nI don't think City need to beat them, because just avoiding defeat would be a huge psychological boost.\n\n'City will make top four - but it will be tough'\n\nThe United game is not make or break but, after being knocked out of the FA Cup, City definitely need a lift to set themselves up for the run-in.\n\nIf you look at their remaining games after they play Jose Mourinho's side, they might appear simple when compared with United's run-in.\n\nBut, apart from their win over Hull at the start of April, I don't remember City having a really comfortable game at Etihad Stadium for some time, regardless of the opposition.\n\nTeams have sat back against them and been hard to break down, a bit like Arsenal did in the first half at Wembley.\n\nLosing David Silva so early on against the Gunners was a big blow, and it will hurt City's chances if his injury turns out to be a serious one.\n\nI still think City will make the top four, but it is going to be tough.\n\n'City were too predictable going forward'\n\nIn the next month, City will need their star attacking players to perform better than they did against Arsenal.\n\nThe Gunners looked far more dangerous when they attacked. When Danny Welbeck came on late in normal time, I felt the tide turn in their favour because his pace gave City's defence a different test.\n\nArsene Wenger's gameplan was very good, of course, but City just seemed to lack something going forward and their build-up play was too slow and too predictable.\n\nI could see Guardiola on the sidelines screaming at Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane to run in behind the Arsenal defence. They did not really test the Gunners' back three - as good as those defenders were.\n\nDon't get me wrong, City's players did not let him down - they gave everything they had, but it was not good enough.\n\nProbably the biggest positive for Guardiola was Yaya Toure, because I thought he was absolutely sensational - the best player on the pitch.\n\nToure did everything he could to pick City up and drag them into the final on his own. It wasn't enough but if he can maintain that kind of form, then he could make the difference to City's top-four prospects.\n\nWhen Guardiola is making plans for next season, I think 100% that Toure should be part of them.\n\nHe turns 34 in May and is out of contract in the summer but he showed against the Gunners how much he still has to offer.\n\nToure's problem is that he is entering the stage of his career where you have to adjust the team to suit his game - he is at his best when he is going forward but, when he does that, other people need to provide some protection.\n\nThat is why there could be a split. I don't think Guardiola wants to build his side around any individuals, because his vision is always a complete team.\n\nIf Toure is prepared to sit on the bench then he could still have a part to play at City next season. If he's not, I can see him leaving, although he clearly still has so much class.", "Raheem Sterling's goal for Manchester City is ruled out after the linesman says Leroy Sane's cross went out of play behind the goal before coming back in, during their FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he will \"come back even stronger\" after suffering cruciate knee-ligament damage.\n\nThe 35-year-old was injured in the final minute of normal time during last week's Europa League quarter-final second-leg win over Anderlecht.\n\nIbrahimovic is United's top scorer this season, with 28 goals but it is unclear when he will be fit to play again.\n\n\"I will be out for a while,\" he wrote but added \"giving up is not an option.\"\n\nWriting on Instagram, the Swede added: \"I will go through this like everything else and come back even stronger. So far I played with one leg so it shouldn't be any problem.\n\n\"One thing is for sure, I decide when it's time to stop and nothing else.\"\n\nSpeaking before Sunday's 2-0 win at Burnley, United manager Jose Mourinho said on Sky Sports: \"I know (how long he will be out for), but it is for the medical department to be more specific and they prefer to wait a couple more days because the players want to see other specialists and to have an extra opinion and we have to respect that. But they are important injuries.\"\n\nAsked whether Ibrahimovic would play again, the Portuguese replied: \"I don't care about it in this moment, I just want the player to recover the best he can.\"\n\nIbrahimovic joined the club on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain last summer but is yet to agree an extension to his one-year United deal.\n\nMarcos Rojo also suffered cruciate knee-ligament damage in the same game.\n\nThe defender was replaced on 23 minutes after colliding with a visiting player.\n\nMourinho said he also knew how long Rojo would be out for, adding: \"Marcos was in the best moment of his career, playing very well for us and finally getting a position as a central defender in the national team. It's really sad.\"\n\nRojo's injury leaves United manager Jose Mourinho short of options at centre-back with England internationals Phil Jones and Chris Smalling already on the sidelines.\n\nEric Bailly and Daley Blind are United's only fit senior centre-backs ahead of the Manchester derby at Etihad Stadium on Thursday.\n\nUnited midfielder Juan Mata says the loss of both players has tarnished recent good results.\n\n\"These situations just happen in football, that's for sure, although they're never easy to take,\" he said.\n\n\"Now it's time to be patient and strong to face the recovery period and I'm sure both of them will do their best.\"\n\nMata, 28, is currently recovering from groin surgery and is hopeful of returning before the end of the season.\n\n\"The truth is I'm feeling much better now and I hope to be back with the team soon, to try to help in the last spell of the season,\" he added.", "When Theresa May announced on Tuesday she was seeking an early general election, scores of people saw their weekends and half-term holidays vanish in a giant puff of electioneering, manifesto-writing and the mammoth admin task of staging a nationwide ballot.\n\nBy anyone's estimations, the general election of 2015 was an immense piece of administration.\n\nForty-five million ballot papers were printed to reflect 650 separate candidate lists for the election. Forty-three thousand polling stations were staffed for 15 hours by 120,000 people. And the total cost of it came to £98,845,157.\n\nBut all that was organised with five years' notice - the duration between the previous election and the date of the 2015 poll.\n\nThe time frame for the 2017 ballot, which takes place on 8 June, is little more than seven weeks.\n\nOne Conservative member of staff told the BBC she was completely taken aback. \"I have friends who work for ministers and even they didn't see it coming until the Cabinet meeting took place.\"\n\nThe clock is already ticking, and there is much work to be done. A Labour aide working for an MP described the past week as \"very stressful\".\n\n\"In my own time after work I've been contributing to campaign materials and arranging to uproot myself from London so I can go back to the constituency.\"\n\nWhile general elections are about putting MPs in Parliament, it falls to councils to organise the nitty-gritty of voting and counting.\n\nVenues for polling stations and counting centres will need to be earmarked and reserved for 8 June. And that needs to happen before polling cards can be sent out.\n\nSome of the 120,000 people employed to conduct the 2015 election\n\nThis work is carried out by local authorities' electoral services divisions and overseen by returning officers.\n\nJohn Turner, chief executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators, predicts this election will be particularly onerous for two reasons - the compressed time scale, and the fact local elections are already taking place in many areas in less than two weeks.\n\n\"Many polling stations aren't publicly owned,\" said Mr Turner. \"They're church halls or community centres, and a lot rests on returning officers' ability to persuade the owners to move things around and make the space available.\"\n\nAs for staffing, electoral services departments maintain databases of temporary workers. But \"in this case some of them may already have made other plans or booked holidays\".\n\n\"Although returning officers are helped by permanent teams, this varies a lot. In some district councils it will only be two or three people and colleagues from other departments will have to pitch in.\n\nPolling stations have to be organised\n\n\"It's going to be an intense time for many of us, working 12-hour days.\"\n\nMr Turner is confident, however, that it will all come together in time, noting: \"We're a bit like the duck paddling away beneath the water but serene on the surface.\"\n\nThere's equally little hope of sleep for those in charge of political policy making. They will be working around the clock on putting together manifestos.\n\nIt's a particularly stressful time for the party in government, says Nick Pearce, head of the No 10 policy unit under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. As well as existing government duties, staff will be working \"flat-out\" to get the document finalised.\n\n\"A minister, usually from the Cabinet Office, takes overall responsibility, working with political staff from different departments to draft sections and liaise with the prime minister and her chief of staff,\" he explained.\n\nMinisters, lobbyists and Treasury staff also get heavily involved, trying to place pet projects and ensure big-ticket items are properly costed.\n\n\"There's huge pressure not to get anything wrong,\" said Mr Pearce. \"But working quickly like this there is certainly potential for that to happen.\"\n\nAnd what of getting the message out?\n\nSeven weeks is \"a very, very tight time frame\" for organising a marketing and advertising strategy, said Rachel Hamburger, an advertising executive and former Lib Dem campaigner.\n\n\"I'd be very surprised if we saw any nationwide broadcast campaigns comparable to famous ones of the past such as the Blair 'devil eyes',\" she said.\n\n\"With a long run-up, parties could be expected to run focus groups, market research and analysis of what is most important to their campaign before deploying adverts.\n\nThis time, she believes. parties will \"concentrate resources on individual seats and simple messages\".\n\nElsewhere in the media, broadcasters are preparing for election night. The BBC is reassigning hundreds of researchers, producers, camera crews and local reporters to put together its results programme.\n\nParties, meanwhile, have to deal with the small matter of ensuring there are candidates in place in 650 constituencies for people to elect.\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have both altered their normal selection procedures to speed things up, while all 54 of the SNP's existing MPs are expected to stand again.\n\nThe other parties are in varying states of readiness.\n\nThe Lib Dems say they have about 100 candidates still to pick. UKIP and Plaid Cymru will adopt the bulk of their candidates next week, while Greens' selection is under way with local electoral alliances under consideration.\n\nNone of Northern Ireland's parties are thought to have selected candidates, as talks continue about restoring devolved government.\n\nMost candidates will not have had a chance to allocate resources. It has already led some to take the unusual step of appealing for online donations.\n\nRegional party offices will provide MPs and activists with support, but the prevailing mood could be described as one of apprehensiveness.\n\nWhen asked to sum up how things were going, a fretful Conservative source said: \"Everything is basically on fire.\"\n\nA Labour campaigner replied with a series of distressed crying and screaming emojis.\n\nHowever, on a purely technical point, it's worth noting the 50-day gap between announcement and polling day is actually the longest since 1983.\n\nWhat's different this time is the lack of preamble, and thus preparation.\n\nAs the BBC's former head of political research David Cowling put it: \"Everyone was lulled into a false sense of security by assurances... and we're now completely stunned.\"", "Nacho Monreal fires in from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's teasing cross to draw Arsenal level against Manchester City in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRomania captain Ilie Nastase was banned from the Fed Cup tie against Britain after an incident that left Johanna Konta in tears and her match suspended.\n\nIn Konta's match against Sorana Cirstea, Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nThe world number seven lost her serve in the next game and was visibly upset before play was halted for 25 minutes.\n\nThe world governing body said it was looking into \"this matter as well as previous comments made by Mr Nastase during the week\".\n\nNastase - a former world number one - had caused controversy in the build-up to the tie after being heard making a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn child.\n\nWhile Romanian player Simona Halep was answering a question in English about Williams' pregnancy on Friday, the 70-year-old turned to one of his other team members and added in Romanian: \"Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?\"\n\nHe also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media.\n\nBefore play had even started on Saturday, Nastase insulted a British journalist over their reporting of Friday's events, calling the Press Association's tennis correspondent \"stupid\".\n\nAnd as he was finally escorted away from the venue by a group of security guards, he abused the reporter again, calling her \"ugly\".\n\nWARNING: Some people may find the language below offensive\n\nThe incident that led to him being dismissed on Saturday happened when Cirstea was 2-1 up in the second set of the World Group II play-off tie in Constanta.\n\nAfter Konta and Keothavong had complained of calling out from the crowd at 1-1, Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul and abusive language.\n\nNastase called both Konta and Keothavong \"a bitch\" multiple times, as well as swearing at them.\n\nHe was sent off the court by referee Andreas Egli and, after initially taking a seat in the stands, was then escorted back to the locker room.\n\nKonta went 3-1 down after her serve was broken in the next game and was in tears before the umpire suspended play.\n\nRomania player Halep spoke to the crowd during the suspension to try to calm the situation.\n\nWhen play resumed in a subdued atmosphere, Konta won five games in a row to win the match 6-2 6-3, levelling the tie at 1-1.\n\nThe ITF explained Nastase was asked to leave \"for unsportsmanlike conduct, having already received two official warnings\".\n\nA statement added: \"Mr Nastase was also removed from the grounds due to his serious misconduct. His accreditation was removed and he will play no further part in the tie.\"\n\n\"It was not something anyone should experience,\" Konta told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It did upset me quite a lot and that was shown. I am not one to cry on court. It was slightly embarrassing but it affected me more than I would have liked.\n\n\"I know that Fed Cups can be quite emotional and can sometimes take an unexpected turn but it wasn't something I was prepared for.\n\n\"Obviously, it left me slightly unnerved but the best I could do was to make it as much about the tennis as possible. I felt I did that and am looking forward to that again tomorrow.\"\n\nKeothavong said she had \"expected a patriotic crowd\", but did not expect \"abusive language to be used\".\n\n\"It's unacceptable. No-one deserves to be spoken to in that way,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We've come here to play tennis. The referee made the right call to suspend the match, and during the break I was just trying to keep Johanna calm.\n\n\"All of the players - from both teams - handled the situation incredibly well. It's happened, it's done and there is a lot to play for tomorrow.\"\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association said it was \"deeply shocked\" by Saturday's events.\n\n\"There is no place in sport for that type of behaviour, it's not acceptable and the integrity of the sport must always be paramount,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We will be submitting an official complaint to the ITF after this tie and expect a full investigation into the actions by the Romanian captain.\"\n\n'Maybe next time I will cry'\n\n\"Someone crying cannot stop a match,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"From a tennis point of view, Johanna deserved the win - she is a better player than me - but the behaviour of the British team was exaggerated.\n\n\"Why did we stop? Only because Johanna cried? I have never cried on the court because someone told me something. You have to toughen up.\n\n\"OK, at 2-1 you take our captain out, that was the right decision, but then at 3-1 I break you and now you cry. I am not saying it was fake, but it was not logical.\n\n\"Next time I'm in trouble I will cry, maybe I can go off the court. As Romanians we get double insulted because of our nation but it's OK, we are tough. Tougher than British people apparently.\"\n\nBefore play started on Saturday, Nastase went into the media centre to seek out British journalists over their reporting of the comments he made about Williams at Friday's news conference.\n\nPress Association Sport reported that their tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks was the only member of the British media present in the room at the time and that he said to her: \"Why did you write that? You're stupid, you're stupid.\"\n\nPA Sport has sent details of Nastase's remarks to the International Tennis Federation.\n\n\"He repeatedly called me stupid, asked me why what he said was racist,\" said Crooks.\n\n\"I explained we simply reported what he said and that it was unnecessary to make such a comment about colour. He said the English were out to get him and called me stupid a few more times.\n\n\"Fortunately he was across the other side of the room from me and there were other journalists around so it was unpleasant rather than threatening.\n\n\"But it is certainly not the behaviour you would expect of someone in his position and wholly unnecessary, especially given he did not dispute the accuracy of what was reported.\"\n\nAnd when Nastase was escorted from the venue on Saturday he confronted Crooks again, calling her \"ugly\" as he was being led away by security.\n\nWhen asked about the comments made about Williams and to Keothavong on Friday, he told told BBC Sport: \"That's Nastase. He was all the time with a lot of jokes. That's why everybody likes him.\n\n\"He didn't make any mistakes. It was not racist, you cannot take it seriously. I'm sure it was just a joke,\" Cosac added.\n\n\"What I know is that he is a very good friend with Yannick Noah and he played many tournaments together with Arthur Ashe [Noah and Ashe are the only black men to win Grand Slam singles titles] - I'm sure he didn't say something wrong.\"\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Romania took the lead when Halep won 26 of the last 33 points on her way to comfortably beating Heather Watson 6-4 6-1.\n\nWorld number five Halep increased her intensity at 4-4 and broke Watson to love before serving out to take the opening set for the hosts.\n\nWatson, ranked 113, struggled to cope with her rival as she lost her serve twice to love in the second set.\n\nThis was a very decorated player, but an increasingly isolated man, losing his cool on a spectacular scale.\n\nNastase appears to have no concept of why I, and my three British colleagues here in Constanta, felt his slurs and actions of Friday needed highlighting.\n\nHaving targeted one of the journalists in the morning, he turned his ire on his opposite number and her star player when battle was joined on the court.\n\nITF president Dave Haggerty says Nastase's conduct is \"unacceptable\". They have issued more than one stern statement this weekend, but will be judged on their deeds, rather than their words.\n\nIf the ITF do not act, then the Romanian Federation clearly will not either. Their president cannot understand why we do not appreciate Nastase's sense of humour.\n\nWhy can't we see that his captain is more than entitled to make derogatory comments about Serena Williams - because many of his best friends are black?", "I know some rather annoying crows in the Somali port town of Berbera. Every morning, as I eat my breakfast by the beach, they swoop down and steal my bread, my jam, even my butter.\n\nThen they fly back up to their perches on a tall metal fence. They look like sentries, their black feathers gleaming, beaks curved and sharp.\n\n\"The Russians brought those birds,\" an elderly Somali tells me. He shows me the giant site of the old Soviet military base, the still-functioning runway they built during the Cold War to counter US influence in the Horn of Africa.\n\nAt more than 4km (2.5 miles) in length, it's one of the longest on the continent.\n\nFast-forward nearly half a century and, once again, Berbera, now part of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, is full of chatter about military bases.\n\nThat is because a deal has just been struck for the United Arab Emirates to build a facility there. There is talk of MPs being bribed handsomely to accept it.\n\nSome Somalis feel this is part of yet another effort to colonise their country. They have even started a social media campaign - #UAEHandsOffSomalia.\n\nThe Emirates already have a base in Eritrea, just up the coast, which is used to conduct war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, a short way across the sea.\n\nTravel in the other direction and you hit a huge Turkish base stretching along the beach south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Engineers working on its final touches tell me it's going to be Turkey's largest overseas military training camp.\n\nThe base is just a small part of Turkey's massive involvement in the country, which started in 2011 during the first famine of the 21st Century. Somalia is an eccentric choice for a gateway into Africa but, like other foreign powers, Turkey wants influence, prestige and economic gain.\n\nIt sometimes feels like Mogadishu is a Turkish colony. As soon as you land at the airport, red and white Turkish flags seem to outnumber the sky blue Somali ones.\n\nMany of the staff at the glistening new Turkish-built terminal come from Turkey. They tell me they do not like living in Somalia - it is too hot and there are too many explosions.\n\nTalk to the United Nations and to what, in development jargon, are called Somalia's \"traditional donors\" - in other words, the US and Europe - and they say, fairly diplomatically, that although they appreciate the efforts of the \"newcomers\", there is a lack of co-ordination.\n\nToo many countries are training too many different sections of the Somali security forces, which are already fractured and have a tendency to fight each other almost as much as they fight the local partners of al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State.\n\nI also get the sense that they are a tiny bit envious of all the kudos countries such as Turkey, Qatar and the UAE get for rebuilding Mogadishu and flying in supplies for people affected by the current drought.\n\n\"They are small fry doing highly visible projects,\" one Western diplomat tells me in his base inside the heavily protected international airport. \"We do far more but we prefer not to shout about it.\"\n\nAmerica in particular has good reason not to show off about its activities in Somalia, which include drone attacks and vast amounts of financial assistance.\n\nThe 1993 helicopter downings in Mogadishu shocked and angered the US\n\nIt cannot forget Black Hawk Down, when its troops withdrew in humiliation after a Somali militia shot down two of its helicopters in Mogadishu in 1993, dragging naked bodies of US servicemen through jeering crowds.\n\nAt times, Somalia seems like a vast international marketplace with foreign diplomats, private security companies and a few bold businessmen coming to ply their wares.\n\nThere is vast profit to be made in securing and rebuilding a broken country that has come top of the \"failed states\" list for several years in a row. Plus there's oil, minerals, fish, livestock and a fabulously strategic location.\n\nThe regional powerhouse, Ethiopia, is not at all happy about Somalia's new friends, especially those from the Gulf. It sees Egypt behind all of this, plotting reprisals for the giant dams Ethiopia is building, which Egypt fears may starve it of waters from the Nile.\n\nPessimists see real danger in this geopolitical realignment. They fear a war, with Somalia and Eritrea, emboldened by their new Gulf allies, taking on Ethiopia. More conflict in an already volatile region would threaten the global economy. Most of Europe and Asia's maritime trade, worth about $700bn (£550bn) a year, goes through the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb strait between Eritrea and Yemen.\n\nThe optimists see opportunity, with a thriving Red Sea zone opening up new economic partnerships and giving landlocked Ethiopia increased access to desperately needed ports.\n\nSomalis are worried about unintended consequences. Just like the US, which in 1993 saw a well-meaning humanitarian effort turn into a humiliating nightmare, they say all this friendship from the Gulf is going to end in trouble.\n\n\"Look at the Taliban of tomorrow,\" says a Somali friend, pointing towards neatly dressed children in the playground of a Saudi-funded school. \"A new Cold War is being fought on our land, and one side, the West, doesn't even know it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUKIP is to include a ban on the full veils worn by some Muslim women as part of its general election manifesto, its leader Paul Nuttall has said.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show Mr Nuttall said wearing a burka or niqab in public was a barrier to integration and a security risk.\n\nHe also said UKIP could undertake not to stand against Brexit-supporting MPs.\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna said the country would not take advice from \"hate peddlers\" at UKIP on integration.\n\nThe UKIP leader suggested that the party would not stand against MPs in marginal seats who supported Brexit, if local parties agreed.\n\nHe cited the example of David Nuttall, Conservative MP for Bury North, who is defending a majority of 400.\n\n\"What I don't want to see happen is good Brexiteers - not fly-by-night or five-to-midnight Brexiteers, people who've campaigned for years for Brexit - I don't want to see them lose their seats and a Remainer be there in their place,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Nuttall refused to confirm his own plans to stand as candidate in the June 8 election.\n\n\"I will make a decision in the coming week about where to stand, obviously I'll be having conversations with local branches,\" he said. \"Nothing is decided.\"\n\nIn February, he failed to win in Stoke-on-Trent Central, after Labour held the seat.\n\nSpeaking about full face-veils, Mr Nuttall told the programme: \"We have a heightened security risk at the moment and for CCTV to be effective you need to see people's faces.\n\n\"Secondly, there's the issue of integration. I don't believe you can integrate fully and enjoy the fruits of British society if you can't see people's faces.\n\n\"I can't walk into a bank with a balaclava on or a crash helmet, if I can't do it and other people can't do it, I don't see why there are special interests for certain people.\"\n\nMuslim women who defied the ban could face a fine, he suggested.\n\nHe said that being \"hidden behind the veil\" contributed to 58% of Muslim women being economically inactive.\n\nMr Nuttall said: \"We'll come in line with other European countries such as Belgium, Bulgaria - there's a ban for example in the city of Barcelona, some places in Italy and, indeed, Angela Merkel is talking about this in Germany at the moment.\n\n\"Manfred Weber, who's the leader of the biggest group in the European Parliament, is now talking about an EU-wide ban. We can either be on the curve on this or behind the curve.\"\n\nLabour's Mr Umunna tweeted his opposition to the measure after the interview.\n\n\"Sorry,\" he wrote. \"Britain won't be taking any lessons on integration from the hate peddlers at UKIP.\"\n\nUKIP member and former donor, Arron Banks - who has publically called Mr Nuttall \"weak\" - also disagreed with the policy.\n\nMr Banks, who is hoping to run as a candidate for UKIP in Clacton, told the BBC's Sunday Politics Show: \"I'm not personally in favour of that. I think people have a right to their religious beliefs.\n\n\"I think there are certain circumstances where if it's a security issue - maybe the airports, or public transport - it's acceptable, but I'm not in favour of curtailing people's [freedoms].\"\n\nHowever, he stood by the previous he call made on Twitter for a ban on Muslim immigration into the UK.\n\n\"I've said that - I'm not disputing that,\" added Mr Banks. \"My answer is you can't possibly curtail someone's religious freedoms but what you can do is stop adding to the problem.\"\n\nMr Nuttall also told the programme that he wanted to prevent Islamic sharia law becoming \"a parallel legal system in this country\".\n\n\"It cannot be right that we have court or councils in this country where the word of a woman is only worth half that of a man. That has no place in a liberal, democratic, functioning Western democracy,\" he said.\n\nBut he said that Beth Din, Jewish rabbinical courts, would not be affected, because they had been established for centuries and the Orthodox Jewish population was falling.\n\nThe party's manifesto is also expected to suggest that anyone with evidence of female genital mutilation taking place will be bound by law to inform police.\n\nAnd it will also call for postal voting to be largely abolished, because of concerns over electoral fraud.\n\nThe former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, proposed a burka ban in 2010.\n\nBut the party later dropped the policy, and it did not appear in its 2015 manifesto.\n\nFull-face veils are already banned in public in some European countries, including France.", "Dermot O'Leary and Davina McCall were among the hosts\n\nITV's The Nightly Show didn't get off to the strongest start - but its fortunes improved over its eight-week run.\n\nThe first series of the new entertainment show drew to a close on Friday after 40 episodes.\n\nIt was broadcast every weeknight in the 10pm slot normally occupied by the news, and saw a different celebrity take over presenting duties each week.\n\nThe show struggled at the beginning - viewing figures quickly dropped after the first episode hosted by David Walliams and critics weren't too keen on it either.\n\nBut things improved as the series progressed, with the show gradually building an online audience and some presenters proving particularly popular with viewers.\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"ITV is doing better than any other terrestrial channel this year in terms of year-on-year performance, we've had a really strong start to the year.\n\n\"We're in a strong position to try some new things and experiment, it is imperative we try new things, which have the potential to enhance our entertainment offering.\"\n\nLet's take look back over The Nightly Show's first season.\n\nDavid Walliams was the first of The Nightly Show's guest presenters\n\nDavid Walliams was on hosting duties for The Nightly Show's first week - and helped the series start strongly with an average of 2.9 million live viewers tuning in for its opening episode.\n\nBut his performance received negative reviews from critics and the audience dropped to 1.2 million by Friday's programme.\n\n\"I think David Walliams just isn't a natural presenter, and it really came across,\" says Frances Taylor, TV critic for the Radio Times.\n\n\"He's a great actor and comedian but we'd never seen him at the helm of a programme, and if you're going to have revolving hosts you've got to have someone strong to kick it off.\n\n\"If you don't, viewers will lose interest, and once they've gone, it's difficult to get them back.\"\n\nDermot O'Leary was one of the most popular presenters with viewers\n\nWalliams put the viewing figures and poor reviews down to people being annoyed about the News at Ten being moved back by half an hour in the schedules.\n\nAfter his stint, John Bishop, Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary, Gordon Ramsay, Bradley Walsh and Jason Manford all had a turn.\n\nSome presenters were more popular with viewers and critics - particularly O'Leary, who was booked for a second week later in the run.\n\nRamsay proved a successful booking too, and he helped the show build a stronger online following, partly due to the star guests he drew to the show.\n\nSeveral of Gordon Ramsay's segments went viral, such as musician John Legend's comic take on Ramsay's sweary language\n\nUK chat show hosts such as Graham Norton, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross regularly attract high-profile guests, but their shows only air once a week.\n\nWhen you've got five nights of shows to fill, talent booking is a greater challenge, especially outside the US, says author, lecturer and television executive Lyndsay Duthie.\n\n\"In the US, you've got A-list guests night after night because there's a bigger talent pool to draw from,\" she says.\n\n\"James Corden has Madonna and Michelle Obama taking part in Carpool Karaoke, which makes it not only entertaining, you can't believe the talent they've got on there.\"\n\nThe Nightly Show struggled a little on this front - but it did manage to attract some big names as it went on, particularly the week Ramsay was in charge.\n\n\"The stuff Gordon Ramsay did with John Legend has got such global appeal because they're such big stars in America,\" says Frances Taylor.\n\nIn one segment, which was a hit, Legend was seen at a piano, singing some of the foul-mouthed chef's most famous TV insults.\n\n\"If you've got names like that then people all round the world will recognise them, and that means that it probably will go viral, and that's the whole point of shows like this,\" Taylor adds.\n\n\"Bradley Walsh interviewing Louise Redknapp didn't have quite the same worldwide appeal.\"\n\nThe Oscars mix-up occurred the evening before The Nightly Show launched\n\nOne of the benefits of producing a show which is recorded on the same day it's broadcast is the writers' ability to put in jokes about the day's news events.\n\nTaylor says: \"A show like this lives and dies by the writing, and The Nightly Show was billed as a topical programme, but there was hardly any topicality in it.\"\n\n\"The Oscars gaffe, which happened the day before their first show, was such a gift as a topic, but David Walliams could only come up with a couple of poor envelope swapping gags.\"\n\nShe compares it to the pastiche The Late Late Show did in the US, where Corden dressed up as Emma Stone and sang a parody song about the Oscars mix-up, which Taylor says was a stronger treatment.\n\n\"If The Nightly Show comes back it needs to play on the topicality. The fact this is filmed a couple of hours before transmission, they're not maximising that opportunity.\"\n\nBut Duthie says: \"In the US you have teams and teams of people writing the opening monologues, which is a luxury that most British shows don't have.\"\n\nJason Manford hosted the show in its penultimate week\n\nITV pushed the News at Ten back by half an hour to make room for The Nightly Show as part of the broadcaster's initiative to try out what it calls \"Five Nights of New\" schedule.\n\nBut, says Duthie, where The Nightly Show was concerned, it may have suffered due to its chosen timeslot. The most successful chat shows in the US start much later in the evening.\n\n\"In the UK we're much more conservative,\" she says. \"By 10:30pm, peak time is over. But if a show is on later, you're catching people coming home from the pub late at night, and a lot of younger viewers.\"\n\nShe adds that part of the problem facing any new nightly entertainment show is the difference in audience expectation between the UK and the US.\n\n\"We've gotten so used to watching light-hearted entertainment shows on Friday and Saturdays that a lot of British viewers aren't used to upbeat, happy content on a Monday evening,\" Duthie says.\n\n\"Also, perhaps the networks wouldn't pay for original programming at 11:30pm in the UK - budgets are usually spent by about 10:30.\"\n\nBut she praised ITV for being willing to try something new in the first place: \"As much as I love the News at Ten, it wasn't performing very well for ITV, so commercially it was a good decision to look at that 10 o'clock slot.\"\n\nITV pushed its evening news bulletin, fronted by Tom Bradby, back in the schedule\n\nITV's director of TV Kevin Lygo told Broadcast: \"In terms of The Nightly Show, this eight-week run is about extending the 10pm hour, extending the primetime feel of ITV, and seeing how that looks and feels during this period and how viewers respond to something other than repeats, alongside the News.\n\n\"The intention was to make that hour feel a bit fresh and different with some stunt scheduling and I think we've done that.\n\n\"After the run has finished we'll obviously look at the shows and all the data and discuss what next.\n\n\"The broader point is - TV is a risk business, you need to try new things, and launch them with confidence and visibility to give them the best chance of success.\n\n\"And you've got keep doing that, and we will.\"\n\nJohn Bishop and Bradley Walsh presented The Nightly Show during its run\n\nUS chat show hosts - from Ellen DeGeneres to Jimmy Fallon - now depend heavily on building a strong online following to match their viewing figures.\n\nThe Nightly Show had mixed fortunes on this front, with some segments not attracting many views, but others going viral worldwide.\n\nAt the time of writing, a compilation of Ramsay's best pranks during his week on the show has attracted 3.4 million views.\n\nFay Ripley giving parenting tips to John Bishop, in contrast, has had just a couple of hundred.\n\nBut while social media success can give a show a huge boost, it can also cause the problem of shows being judged too quickly.\n\nFleabag's strong online following helped it build an audience\n\n\"Now you get such a snap decision with everything,\" says Taylor. \"If something isn't immediately funny, you see people all over Twitter saying 'this is rubbish'.\n\n\"Social media can be great because you can build an audience for a show and make it an underground hit, like Fleabag.\n\n\"But conversely, when you've got something high profile that people don't enjoy, the knives are out.\n\n\"To some extent, all publicity is good publicity, but if a show can't breathe, it will put people off. Once that dies down, more people are likely to come to it naturally.\"\n\nThe ITV spokesman said the show's online clip performance had been \"impressive, amassing more than 40 million views in total for its online content across various platforms, and more than 50,000 subscribers and followers\".\n\nEllen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon's US shows have a strong online presence\n\n\"The figures reflected the viral nature of the content. The John Legend/Gordon Ramsay sketch accrued more than 16.5 million views on Facebook. It was shared more than 310,000 times.\n\n\"The Gordon Ramsay Blender clip accrued over 4.3 million views on Facebook. It also trended at number one worldwide on YouTube for three days as well as accruing over 3.5 million views on YouTube.\"\n\nThe clip saw Ramsay pretend to cut his hand in a food blender, to the horror of the audience and guest Frank Skinner.\n\n\"It was the most talked about video on the Internet for the weekend of 1-2 April,\" ITV said.\n\nAs for The Nightly Show's future, ITV will now take some time to examine how the first series performed in more detail, before deciding whether to commission another.\n\nITV said: \"We don't normally make decisions on recommissions until after a series has ended.\"\n\nWhether it comes back in its current form or returns with a few tweaks, we could well be seeing much more of The Nightly Show in the future.\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.", "The claim: Speaking in Swindon, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Half a million children are now being taught in super-size classes of over 36.\"\n\nReality Check verdict: This is incorrect. Actually about 42,000 pupils are in classes of 36 or more - about 1% of children. Mr Corbyn appears to be confusing statistics. It is right, as the earlier Labour press release said, to say about half a million pupils in state-funded primary schools in England are in classes of between 31 and 35.\n\nLabour claims that pupils in England's primary schools \"are packed like sardines\" in classrooms.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said in a speech in Swindon on Friday: \"Half a million children are now being taught in super-size classes of over 36.\"\n\nThis is at odds with what his party's press release said, which was that half a million children in state-funded primary schools are in classes between 31 and 35 pupils. That's about 12% of primary school pupils.\n\nThat figure is confirmed by government figures from the school census (see tables 6a and 6b), which also says that about 42,000 pupils are in classes of 36 pupils or more, which is about 1% of primary school pupils.\n\nGovernment rules say no infant school child should be taught in a class size greater than 30 - that's children in Key Stage 1 who are aged five to seven.\n\nThat rule can be waived in exceptional circumstances - usually if twins or siblings are admitted to the school, or a child in care has to be given a place.\n\nThe official school census for 2016 shows that more than half of Key Stage 1 classes with one teacher have either 29 or 30 pupils in them. Of the infant classes with more than 30 pupils, roughly 95% have 31 or 32 pupils. Classes with more than 32 children in them are uncommon.\n\nRules on classes sizes do not apply to children in Key Stage 2, which is ages seven to 11.\n\nBetween 2006 and 2016, the average Key Stage 1 class grew from 25.6 to 27.4 but at Key Stage 2, where there is no cap on numbers, it has remained stable at around 27 pupils in a class on average.\n\nWhile numbers of pupils in oversized classes has increased, the number of primary school aged children has increased by about half a million over that period.\n\nSince 2010, the proportion of children in classes of 31 to 35 pupils has risen from 10.6% to 11.9%.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexis Sanchez pounces on a loose ball to put Arsenal 2-1 up in extra-time against Manchester City in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nDefending champions Saracens survived a first-half examination from Munster before taking control to reach a third Champions Cup final in four years.\n\nMunster dominated the first half but somehow trailed 6-3 at the break, Tyler Bleyendaal landing one penalty to two from Owen Farrell.\n\nA converted Mako Vunipola try saw Saracens start to pull away.\n\nAnd, with Farrell landing his shots at goal for a 100% record, a Chris Wyles try saw them home with some ease.\n\nSaracens will face the winner of Sunday's Clermont Auvergne v Leinster match in the final in Edinburgh on Saturday, 13 May.\n\nThe scoreline might suggest it was yet another ruthless performance from Saracens, who did the English and European double last year, but for the first 40 minutes it looked as though it might be two-time former winners Munster heading to Murrayfield.\n\nTheir run to the last four has been hugely emotional, with head coach Anthony Foley dying the night before they were due to face Racing 92 in their opening match in this season's European Champions Cup.\n\nDetermined to honour the memory of a true Munster man, they had rekindled memories of their European reign a decade ago and their passionate supporters filled nine-tenths of the 51,300 seats in the Aviva Stadium.\n\nRoared on by their fans they had two-thirds of the territory and three-quarters of the possession in the opening half, but superb defence from Saracens kept them at bay and ensured that the romantics hoping for a Munster victory were denied by the pragmatists from north London.\n\nSaracens are renowned for the ruthless efficiency of their game, content to kick for territory before launching attacks, and happy to use their 'Wolfpack' defence to not only keep the opposition at bay but drive them back behind the gainline.\n\nAnd it was their defence that kept them in it during an opening 40 minutes that saw them pinned inside their own half by the accurate boots of Munster half-backs Duncan Williams and Bleyendaal.\n\nIndiscipline prevented Saracens from building any momentum of their own.\n\nBut no matter how hard Munster pressed they could not break down the Londoners' defensive wall, and so obdurate were they that, despite being under the cosh for long periods, the champions turned round three points to the good.\n\nAfter the restart it was the most workmanlike part of the game that saw them wrest the upper hand, with their front row increasingly dominant in the scrums as tight-head Vincent Koch turned on the power.\n\nA trickle of penalties enabled England sharp-shooter Farrell to edge them further into the lead and after cutting out the silly penalties of the first half they assumed total control.\n\nThey were still far from perfect and added two more bad misses to one in the first half, when Richard Wigglesworth had dropped the ball with a clear run to the line.\n\nFirst Alex Goode passed behind Chris Ashton with a try begging, before George Kruis showed his rugby intelligence to pick and drive from a ruck, only to drop the ball as he reached to score.\n\nBut England prop Vunipola rumbled over to give them a 10-point lead and with their big carriers - brother Billy prominent among them - now smashing over the gainline, the momentum had swung entirely.\n\nReplacement Wyles latched on to a Farrell grubber kick to put them out of sight and although Lions tourist Stander scored a late consolation, it was long since clear that it was the businesslike Londoners who were headed to the final.\n\n'Our togetherness shone through' - what the managers said\n\n\"I thought our defence was extraordinary. We soaked up a lot of pressure and coped with their attack really well.\n\n\"The game started exactly as they would have wanted. We couldn't really escape our half in the first half but our defence remained good.\n\n\"It was a brilliant occasion. Munster's supporters are as good as any in the world. In the face of that, the fight and the togetherness we had to show, to win the game was brilliant.\"\n\n\"We played against a team that were better than us. That's a reality.\n\n\"Even though there were stages that were close and we had a few opportunities, I thought the scoreboard was a true reflection of the game.\"\n\nReplacements: Saili for Taute (55), Sweetnam for Earls (63), Keatley for Bleyendaal (71), Cronin for Kilcoyne (56), Marshall for N Scannell (60), Archer for J Ryan (63), D. O'Callaghan for P O'Mahony (52), Deysel for O'Donnell (50).\n\nReplacements: Lozowski for Bosch (74), Wyles for Maitland (62), Spencer for Wigglesworth (71), Lamositele for M Vunipola (71), Brits for George (50), du Plessis for Koch (71), Hamilton for Itoje (74), S Burger for Wray (55).\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Ray Davies' new album contrasts the America of his childhood dreams to the reality he discovered while living in New Orleans\n\n\"Sorry, I'm chewing gum,\" says Ray Davies five minutes into our interview, before extracting the offending substance from his mouth.\n\nIt's a fitting interruption. We're here to talk about his latest album, Americana, which charts his love-hate relationship with the US - and there's nothing more American than chomping on a stick of Wrigley's.\n\nOf course, our most recently-ennobled rock star is best known for his writing about England on songs like Waterloo Sunset, Muswell Hillbilly, Sunny Afternoon, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, but his obsession with the States started early.\n\nAs a schoolboy, he was captivated by black and white cowboy movies and the be-bop records his older sisters would bring home.\n\nAfter receiving a guitar for his 13th birthday, he devoured records by Muddy Waters and Slim Harpo. His love affair with the blues was so strong that when he wrote The Kinks' first hit single, You Really Got Me he intended it to be \"a blues song\".\n\n\"Then it turned out to be a pop hit.\"\n\nSomewhat disingenuously, he tells the BBC You Really Got Me was supposed to be The Kinks' only song (even though it was their third single).\n\n\"I wanted that to be a hit and then I was going to get out of town,\" he says.\n\n\"Unfortunately they asked me to write another one, and another one.\"\n\nThe star recently received a knighthood for services to music\n\nThe Kinks' success meant Ray and his younger brother Dave could finally visit the Land of the Free - but things didn't go entirely to plan, as he describes on the new album.\n\n\"They called us The Invaders, as though we came from another world,\" he sings. \"And the man from immigration shouted out, 'Hey punk, are you a boy or a girl?'\"\n\nThe band could have overcome the prejudice if they weren't already in disarray - prone to fighting on stage, and let down by a promoter who refused to pay them in cash.\n\nThings came to a head while taping Dick Clark's TV show Where The Action Is in 1965.\n\n\"Some guy who said he worked for the TV company walked up and accused us of being late,\" Davies wrote in his autobiography X-Ray.\n\n\"Then he started making anti-British comments. Things like 'Just because the Beatles did it, every mop-topped, spotty-faced limey juvenile thinks he can come over here and make a career for himself.'\"\n\nA punch was thrown, and the American Federation of Musicians refused to issue the Kinks permits to perform in the US for the next four years.\n\n\"It was a terrible blow to our career,\" says Davies. \"We couldn't tour. We couldn't play Woodstock.\n\n\"Being a bolshie 21-year-old, I said, 'Let's make records and tour the rest of the world'.\n\n\"But deep down I was really hurt, because America was the inspiration for much of our music.\"\n\nThe Kinks' hits included Sunny Afternoon, All Day and All of the Night and Set Me Free\n\nWhen the band were finally allowed back, in 1970, they had to start from scratch, plying their trade in tiny clubs and high school gymnasiums.\n\n\"It was quite a humbling experience after being really successful before,\" Davies recalls.\n\nYet the US became the band's lifeline in the 1970s, providing adulation, success and financial reward as interest dwindled at home.\n\n\"We ended up playing Madison Square Garden in 1980, which is a sign you've made it back. So it was a 10-year programme. It was hard work but, in a strange way, we built a loyal fanbase in that time.\"\n\nSo perhaps it's no surprise that Davies sings \"I want to make my home/Where the buffalo roam\" on the title track of his new album.\n\nIndeed, he moved to the US for several years, finding his spiritual home - and sanctuary - in New Orleans.\n\n\"I'm just another person there, which is really nice,\" he says. \"And I fitted in with the music scene.\"\n\nLiving across the road from a church, he would frequently witness the city's brass band funerals, which stretch through the streets in celebration of local musicians and dignitaries at the end of their life.\n\nBut his sojourn in the city ended badly one Sunday evening in January 2004.\n\nDavies was strolling along an unusually deserted Burgundy Street with his girlfriend Suzanne Despies.\n\nA car pulled up alongside them, a young man got out, and demanded Despies' purse. She handed it over without any resistance, but Davies suddenly decided to give chase.\n\nHis assailant was armed, and shot Davies in the leg, breaking his femur.\n\n\"Why did I do it? That's the unanswerable question,\" he says.\n\n\"I've never really been the sort of person who would chase a man with a loaded gun. But I did. Foolishly, perhaps, and irresponsibly. But I did it.\n\n\"It was one of those heat of the moment situations, and I have no explanation other than that.\"\n\nAmericana, is based on Davies' 2013 memoir of the same name\n\nHe ended up in hospital, heavily drugged and, for the first 24 hours, an anonymous \"John Doe\".\n\nThe experience informed a song - Mystery Room - in which the star faces his mortality for the first time: \"My brain's hit a brick wall / My body's in free-fall.\"\n\nIt's partnered with another track, Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys, which equates ageing rock stars with gunslingers about to hang up their holsters.\n\n\"Rock and roll cowboys, where do you go now?\" asks Davies. \"Do you give up the chase like an old retiree? Or do you stare in the face of new adversaries?\"\n\nIt's a question that's flummoxed many of his 60s contemporaries. Has he ever contemplated giving up?\n\n\"Every writer who's written and toured for more than five years reaches a point where they think, 'Do I keep going?' or, 'Where do I go next?'\" he says.\n\n\"Every day I wake up and say, 'I love writing songs but do I want to do this?' and the answer is I do.\n\nFor the new record, he sought the help of alt-country stalwarts The Jayhawks, whose deft arrangements provide a rich backdrop to Davies' wry and incisive lyrics.\n\nWas it challenging, I wonder, for him to walk in and take charge of an already-established band?\n\n\"It was a diplomatic situation,\" he says... well, diplomatically.\n\n\"At first, they were trying to sound English in their backing vocals, but I deterred them from that.\n\n\"The reason I picked them is because they just play the songs. They don't embellish too much unless I ask them to, which is great.\"\n\nThe star hopes to tour with the Jayhawks later this year. 'If the diaries coincided, it would be wonderful.'\n\nThe Americana sessions went so well that there are \"another 20\" songs waiting to be finished and released, all derived from Davies's 2013 book of the same name.\n\n\"It's a big work, but I hope it'll be put together for a deluxe record later on.\"\n\nIs he tempted to write something more topical for that record, given the ongoing political turmoil in the US?\n\n\"Everyone who knows my work comes up to me and says: 'It's time to revive Preservation,'\" he says, referring to The Kinks' 1973 concept album and tour, in which a comedian becomes a dictator, funded by big business and using the media as a tool of control.\n\n\"It was a fun show but it had quite serious undertones,\" says Davies, \"and I think that sums up America at the moment: it's a fun show with very serious undertones.\n\n\"I do hope America balances itself out. It's slightly off-kilter at the moment.\n\n\"He [Trump] has still got to face Congress, and it's still a democratic country. I think the will of the people will be heard, and America's constitution is strong.\n\n\"It's a difficult time of re-adjustment for them - but I think in time it'll balance itself out.\n\n\"It's a beautiful place but a dangerous place, as I found out.\"\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.", "FGM is illegal in the UK but campaigners warn children are still taken abroad to have it done\n\nA case of female genital mutilation was discovered every three days, on average, by maternity staff in Wales last year, according to new figures. One victim - an asylum seeker mother-of-three living in Swansea - describes her struggle to protect her two daughters from the practice. Names have been withheld to protect her children.\n\nI was cut when I was two days old. I didn't know anything about it until years later my mum told me I had it done.\n\nFor me, growing up in Benin City in Nigeria, it was normal. Everyone had it done. The eldest of five daughters I was aware of my younger sisters having it done when I was growing up.\n\nBut I would just go off to play when the cutter came, I didn't really realise what was going on.\n\nIt wasn't until the cutter came to see my youngest sister I realised what was happening. By then she was seven and I was 12, so I was a bit more aware.\n\nMy mother told my sister in the weeks before: \"Someone is coming to cut you, like I cut your sisters, my mum cut me and my great-grandmother cut her. It is nothing.\"\n\nThen I asked her about it. She said it was a man who cut me, I bled for an hour and nearly died. After that they didn't cut my sisters until they were a bit older as they were scared they would die.\n\nEven though I knew this, I couldn't tell my sister because if she didn't have it done or tried to run away people would have told her she was unclean, the community would have despised her and she would have been told she didn't belong.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat day, the cutter had already been to see other girls. The cutter lay a small mat down in the back yard of our house and had pieces of broken bottles, razor blades to do the cutting. They were not clean, they had blood on them already.\n\nShe had a big lady with her, she forced my sister onto the ground and sat on her chest to hold her still. My sister could hardly breathe and couldn't move her arms or legs. The cutter was behind the lady and got to work.\n\nMy sister was fighting, she was screaming, but there was nothing she could do. I was screaming \"stop this\".\n\nBy the end there was blood everywhere and my sister was unconscious. She had cried so much she didn't have anything left to give.\n\nThey said to give her water and tried to clean her up. That was all she had to make her feel better - water.\n\nI just thought it was something that had to happen or you wouldn't be accepted by the community. I didn't know any different.\n\nMy mum told you: \"If you don't do it your husband in future will not like you, will not respect you, will not appreciate that you are a proper woman. You will be cast out by the community\".\n\nThey want the man to enjoy sex with you, it is all for the man, but why go through pain for just the man to enjoy sex with you when you don't enjoy it? It does not make sense to me.\n\nWhen I came to England in 2007 I started to realise it was not necessarily the natural thing I had been brought up to believe. When I had my first boyfriend it was painful both during sex and after sex, I couldn't understand it. But I had no-one to talk to about it. I just assumed it was normal.\n\nWhen I fell pregnant they told me I couldn't give birth naturally, so I had to have a Caesarean with both my girls and my little boy.\n\nMy daughter will soon turn seven - the age when my sister had it done - and I am so scared that someone will try to do it to her.\n\nFor links to organisations offering support on FGM visit BBC Action Line\n\nI'm so happy my girls weren't born in Nigeria - if they had been my mum would have quietly come to my house, even if I said no, when I was at the market she would have come and had them cut.\n\nI'm no longer in touch with family back in Nigeria, and thank god for that at the moment because of the risk of FGM. I'm just trying to bring my girls up, to teach them about my country and gradually teach them about FGM. But how do you explain FGM to a seven-year-old child?\n\nI'm afraid to take them back to Nigeria to visit, I would really love to, but how safe is it? Even though it is banned there now it is still a way of life, because their foremothers have been doing it for a long time they continue to do it.\n\nIf I saw my mum, my sister or my grandmother there would be a very-massive risk for my girls.\n\nCampaigners believe young girls are targeted for FGM in the summer holidays - when there is time for them to recover\n\nNo way will I let someone do that to my girls, no way. They are happy, they are free, they are so blessed.\n\nBut even though we are in Wales now I'm so worried about someone seeing them and thinking they must have it done, and taking an opportunity to do it.\n\nI know people might think \"why would they cut my daughters if they don't know them?\" but they are from a community that practises it. They might think this is a young girl, she needs to have it done.\n\nI can never leave them anywhere, I can never leave them with anyone.\n\nSurvivors like me need to talk about being cut so that people know about it, so we are empowered to protect our children from it. If everyone keeps quiet, how are we going to stop it?\n\nI want my daughters to know I stood up to speak against it, that is what I think my mum should have done for me and I want to do it for them.\n\nJust as generations have been doing it, maybe my generation will be the one that stops it.", "Parliament voted for an early general election on Wednesday, with 522 MPs in favour. However, 13 voted no. But who are the 13 and why are they against the poll?\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1987\n\nWhat positions has he held? Parliamentary commissioner for administration (June 1987 - March 1997), Health Committee member (October 2005 - November 2007), Public Administration Committee member (July 1997 - May 2001).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Campbell is 73 and has been treated for stomach cancer. However, he is on the road to recovery after an operation and chemotherapy. He announced earlier on Wednesday he would stand again for election as it would be the party's national executive committee who would choose his replacement rather than the local party - not something he was keen on.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 1984\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow secretary of state for international development (January 1989 - January 1992), shadow secretary of state for Wales (July 1992 - November 1992), shadow minister for culture, media and sport (November 1992 - January 1993), chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party (May 2005 - December 2006).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The Welsh MP said the only reason the prime minister called the election was a \"cut and run tactic\" because of how difficult Brexit negotiations will be. As a former MEP, she said members of the European Parliament were \"not going to roll over with a handshake and a smile, they are going to talk tough and be tough\". Ms Clwyd added: \"Nobody is ready for this general election. I do think this is an irrelevance considering what is happening in the world at the moment.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2001\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Member of multiple committees, including the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (July 2015 - present), the Privacy and Injunctions Committee (July 2011 - March 2012) and the Consolidation Bills Committee (December 2010 - March 2015).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Farrelly has one of the smallest majorities in the UK, with only 650, so it may be understandable why he was not keen for an election. But he told a local newspaper reporter for the Stoke Sentinel that he voted against it because he believes it will be \"bad for the country\" and the unity of the UK.\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1997 (the seat changed from Poplar and Canning Town to Poplar and Limehouse in 2010)\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Minister of state for environment, food and rural affairs (June 2009 - May 2010), shadow minister for environment, food and rural affairs (May 2010 - October 2010), shadow minister for transport (October 2010 - August 2013).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Fitzpatrick was planning to retire in 2020, but he will be standing for re-election. He said he voted no because he thought the prime minister was \"taking advantage of a lead in the opinion polls for purely party political advantage, not in the national interest.\" He added that Mrs May's \"misleading [of] the public... ought to have been objected to and opposed.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Shadow secretary of state for defence (June 2016 - Oct 2016) and shadow secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (October 2016 - February 2017).\n\nWhy did he vote no? It may be for personal reasons as he is due to get married on 6 May. He told the Daily Telegraph: \"Theresa May kind of has thrown a clanger into my life. We've had to cancel the honeymoon and we don't even know if we're getting married now, so I don't know. It's a bit of a disaster personally.\" But he has also said it was down to the way the government had gone about turning over the Fixed Term Parliament Act. \"At this critical time, it isn't the time for Theresa May to simply call an election when it is convenient,\" he said. \"Had a motion of no confidence in the government been on the table I would have voted for it.\"\n\nWhen did she win her seat? 1997\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow minister for the equalities office (October 2010 - April 2011) and shadow minister for equalities (April 2011 - October 2011).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The former Labour minister has announced she is not going to stand for re-election, saying she is \"bored by political squabbles over personalities\". Of the election she said: \"I can't believe that spending eight weeks of a time-limited negotiation period campaigning in an election rather than talking to our EU partners will strengthen her hand in negotiations with anyone outside her own Conservative Party.\"\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2014\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow minister for communities and local government (September 2015 - June 2016) and shadow minister for foreign and Commonwealth affairs (October 2016 - present).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The Greater Manchester MP said she voted against the election because of \"voter fatigue\". She told Buzzfeed that after a by-election that saw her become an MP, the 2015 general election, the referendum, and the mayoral race in 2017, there was the potential for low turnout. Ms McInnes added: \"I haven't met anyone who welcomes it, people just go 'oh no, not again'.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1970\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Member of the National Executive Committee (July 1979 - July 1992, July 1994 - July 1998, July 1999 - May 2010), vice-chair of the Labour Party (July 1987 - July 1988) and Party Chair (July 1988 - July 1989).\n\nWhy did he vote no? No official word from Mr Skinner, but during PMQs he asked for a guarantee that those Tory MPs under investigation for election expenses would not stand. For him, failure to do that would make the whole campaign \"the most squalid in my life time\". Perhaps not a surprise he voted against it then.\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1997\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Parliamentary secretary at the cabinet office (November 1999 - June 2001) and Lord Commissioner at the Treasury (June 2001 - May 2002).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Stringer condemned his own party for not opposing the snap election and \"falling into Theresa May's trap\" to boost the Tories. He added: \"The opinion polls might be a few points out but they're not telling a complete lie. We have got to spend the next seven weeks getting our policy issues over, they appear to be popular with the public when tested. But I wasn't going to vote to support Theresa May's cynical move to try and increase the Conservatives' majority.\"\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2001\n\nWhat positions has she held? Shadow spokesperson for trade and industry, home affairs, women and culture, media and sport (May 2001 - May 2005, when she was an Ulster Unionist MP).\n\nWhy did she vote no? There has not been a public statement on her reasons.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? SNP Westminster spokeswoman for disabilities (May 2015 - November 2015).\n\nWhy did she vote no? It was an eventful day for Ms McGarry, who confirmed she was pregnant after she fainted in the Houses of Parliament. An ambulance was called, but just as a precaution. The politician, who lost the SNP whip and now sits as an independent after allegations of fraud were made against her, hasn't explained why she voted as she did.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? SNP Westminster group leader for business, innovation and skills (May 2015 - October 2015).\n\nWhy did she vote no? She is currently sitting as an independent after withdrawing the SNP whip last year. Ms Thomson took to Twitter to say she voted against the early election, unlike many of her SNP colleagues. She said: \"This is a time for leadership from the opposition, not abstention.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2005\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Leader from 2011 to 2015.\n\nWhy did he vote no? He said Theresa May's call for an election was a \"cynical exercise\" aimed at \"gathering up muscle to confront Europe and go for a hard Brexit\".", "Note: Battleground seats are defined as those where the winning party had a majority of less than 10%\n\nThere are 650 constituencies in the United Kingdom. But the election campaign over the coming weeks will be concentrated in the marginal battleground seats - the ones with small majorities that are most likely to change hands.\n\nThere's no official definition of a marginal seat but people often look at constituencies where the majority - the gap between the first and second placed parties - is under 10%.\n\nFor politicians it's obviously a good idea to focus on these battleground seats. There's not much point in spending lots of time and money in constituencies that they already hold comfortably, or where they're so far behind they have no realistic chance of winning.\n\nThere are exceptions to this. In 2015 the SNP surge in Scotland was so powerful that apparently \"safe\" seats fell. And the collapse of the Lib Dems saw them lose some seats they'd held with sizeable majorities.\n\nSuch large swings are rare though. And even in 2015 the Conservative/Labour fight took place almost exclusively in the battleground seats.\n\nEighteen seats changed hands between the two biggest parties. Only one of those, Ilford North, had a majority above 10%.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content.\n\nSeats the Conservatives will be gunning for include Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East, Birmingham Edgbaston and Wirral West.\n\nRecent elections have seen poor returns for the Conservatives in the north-east of England but it's a part of the country that voted strongly for Brexit and Prime Minister Theresa May hopes her focus on the issue will help them gain seats.\n\nLabour-held Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East is a good example. Its voters backed Brexit and there's a considerable pool of almost 7,000 voters who went for UKIP last time.\n\nThat's one group the Conservatives will target. If they trust Theresa May to deliver Brexit, the Conservatives will argue, why vote UKIP? Picking up a decent chunk of them would be enough to overturn Labour's majority of 2,268.\n\nOther pro-Brexit Conservative targets in the north of England and the Midlands include Halifax, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Derbyshire North East and Walsall North. In all of them there's a sizeable number of people who voted UKIP in 2015 and a small Labour majority.\n\nBirmingham Edgbaston is a different sort of target. Its voters were fairly evenly split on Brexit. But it's a relatively prosperous part of the city which used to be a Conservative stronghold.\n\nAn increase in the number of ethnic minority voters helped Labour last time round but it's always remained in the Conservatives' sights. With Gisela Stuart standing down after 20 years as the MP, they'll see an opportunity.\n\nWirral West is one of 10 seats lost by the Conservatives to Labour in 2015 - Esther McVey was ousted as the MP after just one term.\n\nWith their current lead in the opinion polls, they'll be highly optimistic they can take it back - along with other seats lost in 2015 such as City of Chester, Dewsbury and Lancaster and Fleetwood.\n\nLabour start the election as the clear underdogs compared to the Conservatives. But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hopes to win over voters during the campaign.\n\nGower, in South Wales, has the smallest majority of any seat in the country - a mere 27 votes. If just 14 voters switched from the Conservatives, Labour would take it so they will be campaigning for every vote. Before 2015 they'd held it for more than 100 years and it had been considered a Labour heartland seat.\n\nOther losses from 2015 they'll want to reverse include Morley and Outwood, former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls's old seat, and Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.\n\nIn recent years London has been Labour's strongest region. They made seven gains here in 2015 and Sadiq Khan went on to win the 2016 mayoral election comfortably.\n\nCroydon Central was a seat they narrowly missed out on last time but they reduced the Conservative majority to just 165 votes. In a sign of their intentions, Jeremy Corbyn went to the constituency on the very afternoon that MPs voted to allow the early election.\n\nHendon and Harrow East are other London targets\n\nLabour lost 40 Scottish seats to the SNP in 2015. In many cases the swing was so massive that they now look beyond reach.\n\nBut they'll be looking for any signs of the beginning of a fight back. RenfrewshireEast, which used to be Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy's seat, is their top target. Next down the list is Edinburgh North and Leith.\n\nThe Lib Dems are starting from a low base. They lost 49 seats in 2015, holding on to just eight, and are looking for a recovery this time.\n\nAs the most pro-EU of the national parties, the Lib Dems will particularly target seats like Conservative-held Twickenham in London, which voted heavily for Remain in last year's referendum and where Sir Vince Cable is returning to refight his old seat.\n\nThe December 2016 by-election in neighbouring Richmond Park, where they overturned Conservative Zac Goldsmith's 23,000 majority, showed their strategy could work.\n\nOther pro-Remain constituencies in their sights include Kingston and Surbiton and, outside of London, Bath and Cambridge - the latter held by Labour.\n\nDunbartonshire East also voted for Remain but here they must challenge the SNP, another strongly pro-EU party. Nevertheless, the Lib Dems will think they have a chance.\n\nJo Swinson was ousted there in 2015 when the SNP's vote surged by 30%. She's standing again and won't need much of that back to recapture the seat.\n\nThe pro-EU message probably won't go down so well in Yeovil, which backed Leave in the referendum. But it's a constituency that the Lib Dems held for more than 30 years before it went Conservative in 2015 - Paddy Ashdown used to be the MP - and the broader south-west region used to be a stronghold for the party.\n\nOther targets here include Thornbury and Yate, on the outskirts of Bristol, and St Ives in Cornwall - a county where the Lib Dems used to dominate.\n\nWith the SNP already holding 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland it's clearly impossible for them to make significant gains. But they'll be gunning for Labour's only Scottish constituency, Edinburgh South, and they're not far behind in Lib Dem-held Orkney and Shetland.\n\nPlaid Cymru are just 229 votes behind Labour in Ynys Mon (Anglesey). But there could also be an intriguing battle in Rhondda if party leader Leanne Wood decides to stand, even though mathematically it's a lot further down the target list. She achieved a tremendous 24% swing there in the Welsh Assembly election last year, so a gain is not out of the question.\n\nUKIP's results in 2015 demonstrated again how parties can suffer under the first-past-the-post electoral system.\n\nThey received 3.9 million votes but won just one seat, Clacton, and even there the victor was Douglas Carswell, who had defected from the Conservatives.\n\nThe problem UKIP have is that their vote is very evenly distributed compared to the other main parties - in fact, so much so that they're not even a close second in many places.\n\nFormer leader Nigel Farage fell 3,000 votes short in Thanet South last time. They're also close in Hartlepool where the Labour MP is standing down so that may be their best chance.\n\nThe Green Party are also badly served by first past the post. The only seat where they start in second place within 10% of the winner is Labour-held Bristol West. The Lib Dems are also a significant presence in that constituency and even the fourth-placed Conservatives got nearly 10,000 votes in 2015 so there a lot of possible outcomes.\n\nIt may be only two years since the last general election. But in Northern Ireland it's less than two months since voters last went to the polls. The Assembly election held on 2 March saw gains for Sinn Fein and losses for the main unionist parties (UUP and DUP). It would be wrong to assume the general election will automatically follow the same pattern but it will certainly have an impact on the campaign.\n\nSinn Fein will be eager to recapture Fermanagh and South Tyrone - reversing the loss they suffered in 2015. The swing they achieved in March would be enough to get them over the line.\n\nBelfast South is a rare three-way marginal. Both the DUP and the Alliance Party (APNI) are within 10% of the incumbent SDLP. In fact Sinn Fein is less than 11% behind as well so there are lots of possible outcomes. Perhaps the most important factor, here and elsewhere, will be whether all the parties stand. In 2015 the DUP and UUP agreed to co-operate by standing aside for each other in four constituencies. That certainly helped and the UUP have already announced they'll do the same again. Previously the SDLP have refused to enter any deal with Sinn Fein but they are thinking of doing so this time as part of a broader anti-Brexit alliance. That could change the complexion of a number of battleground seats.\n\nThe contest in South Antrim is different. It has an overwhelming majority of unionist voters. The question is whether they'll back the UUP or DUP. The seat has switched between the two parties four times this century. It wouldn't take much of a shift for it to switch again.", "Someday, what seems like Syria's forever war will end. Then the focus will shift to rebuilding a country shredded and scarred by conflict. A husband and wife, both architects, who witnessed their city's devastation are already thinking about how to restore it.\n\n\"It's not easy to rise from the ruins, it's not easy,\" reflects Marwa al-Sabouni.\n\nWe're standing in the cool dark depths of a hammam - a public bath dating back to Roman times in the old quarter of Homs. Its thick stone walls are now rough blotches of black and brown, dappled by shafts of light streaming through holes in a domed ceiling designed to draw light into this ancient warren.\n\nThe history within these walls is even darker.\n\n\"This was a major battleground,\" Sabouni explains as we walk through the hammam's main chamber, with what remains of a water fountain at its centre.\n\nThe debris of recent battles has been slowly cleared since two years of fierce clashes in the Old City area ended in 2014 when the government took back what had been a rebel-held enclave of Syria's third city.\n\n\"So many of us didn't even know this beautiful hammam, and so many other parts of our heritage, existed before the war,\" Sabouni says.\n\n\"It was neglected and then destroyed before we had to chance to know it.\"\n\nSabouni has taken me on a walk to illustrate some of the main ideas in her acclaimed book, The Battle for Home. An evocative memoir of her family's experience of living through a punishing war in their city, it's also an architect's vision of how to rebuild Syria to help mend its wounds and avoid errors of the past.\n\nOne of her biggest allies is fellow architect Ghassan Jansiz - who happens to be her husband. Their ideas about architecture brought them together as students.\n\nThey remained with their two young children in a city which saw some of the first protests and the most vicious fighting of the war.\n\nThis 2,000-year-old hammam is our first stop on Sabouni's itinerary as we set out to explore the souk, a sprawling market that was once the vibrant heart of the Old City.\n\nIts labyrinth of alleyways is still largely deserted with most shops shuttered, or shattered by the gunfire and explosions.\n\nSyria's destructive conflict has been fuelled by many faultlines. Sabouni says architecture is one of them.\n\n\"Of course, I'm not saying that architecture is the only reason for the war, but in a very real way it accelerated and perpetuated the conflict,\" she explains.\n\nHer book chronicles the rise, over the past century, of soulless tower blocks and urban sprawls that effectively created sectarian ghettos and eroded shared public spaces which had long shaped Syrian society. Sabouni sees the built environment as a crucible for the frictions that led to civil war.\n\nA meander through Homs's old market is also a journey further back in time, through thousands of years of Syrian history and successive empires that left their mark. In this rich story, Sabouni finds lessons for a more inspired and inclusive way of living.\n\n\"Certain architectural elements from different eras are all incorporated within the same structures and they don't cancel each other out,\" she explains as she leads me to what she calls a \"hidden house.\"\n\nA long dimly lit corridor leads into an exquisite courtyard with leafy fruit trees dotted with oranges. A sudden burst of bright colour surprises, as a small symbol of renewal.\n\n\"You see, this is what I talk about in the book,\" Sabouni exclaims.\n\n\"We had something very beautiful, very ancient and very harmonious interwoven in our lives, in our daily lives,\" she says, making her point that Syria's precious world heritage lies not only in famed sites such as the Roman ruins of Palmyra, but in its everyday social fabric.\n\n\"We vandalised a lot of it, and we mistreated a lot of it, so maybe we have the chance to start over now.\"\n\nIn another corner of the market, Jansiz shows me another hammam dating from the days of the Ottoman empire.\n\nIts vaulted ceilings with intricate patterns of holes creates a dance of circles of light on the stone walls and floor.\n\nBut it's a pattern of light caused by damage rather than design which provides a small example of how to build from the ruins. The market's metal roofs - punctured by bullets and shrapnel - inspired Jansiz's work on the first rebuilding project in the Old City funded by the UN Development Programme (UNDP).\n\nOn the day we visit, the project is a hive of activity. Workmen in blue overalls are putting the finishing touches on the new patterned screen now arching over the alleyway at one of the market's main entrances.\n\n\"Rebuilding is not just about stones,\" explains Jansiz, who was the lead architect on the first phase of the project.\n\n\"This market wasn't just a place to sell and buy stuff. It was also a social hub where people from all social and religious groups would spend time with each other.\"\n\nBoth Jansiz and Sabouni underline how the damage to Syria's social fabric is far deeper even than the endless ruins in pulverised neighbourhoods.\n\n\"All the workers you see around you are from Homs,\" Jansiz adds. \"They understand this city and understand its pain.\"\n\nThe long arcades of shuttered shops bear silent testimony to this aching sense of loss. Only about 30 out of nearly 5,000 have reopened.\n\nSome shopkeepers can't afford to rebuild, or await electricity and other services. Some sided with the rebels and were forced to flee, and are now unable or unwilling to return.\n\nWith still no end in sight to this war, major Western donors still resist putting money for reconstruction into areas now back in government hands.\n\n\"So far we're only focusing on limited rebuilding to provide some support and a bit of hope,\" UNDP Country Director Samuel Rizk tells me.\n\nBut the EU recently began to carefully raise the prospect of reconstruction funds, if and when a hesitant process of political talks with the opposition makes significant progress.\n\nAnd a Chinese delegation was in Damascus this week to discuss future investments in industries and infrastructure.\n\nThere are already hints of conflicts to come over contracts and concepts for a post-war Syria.\n\nEven the first phase of this small project to rebuild a roof in the Old City ended up being clouded by disagreements.\n\nSabouni believes Syrians must begin to imagine a different future.\n\n\"It may sound so sophisticated or a luxury to talk about architecture,\" she says. \"But if we don't think about it, I think we will miss the chance to rebuild it in the right way.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Theresa May has said the election is needed because Westminster is divided over Brexit\n\nTheresa May's claims that a general election victory will strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations have been called \"nonsensical\" by the European Parliament's chief Brexit co-ordinator.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt, a long-standing critic of Brexit, wrote in The Observer that it was \"irrelevant\" whether the Conservatives increased their majority.\n\nInstead, Mrs May appeared to be driven by \"political opportunism\", he said.\n\nMrs May says the poll is needed because Westminster is divided over Brexit.\n\nThe decision to hold the election on 8 June - three years earlier than scheduled - was approved on Wednesday, with 522 MPs in favour and 13 against.\n\nMr Verhofstadt wrote: \"The theory espoused by some, that Theresa May is calling a general election on Brexit in order to secure a better deal with the EU, is nonsensical.\n\n\"Will the election of more Tory MPs give Theresa May a greater chance of securing a better Brexit deal?\n\n\"For those sitting around the table in Brussels, this is an irrelevance.\"\n\nMr Verhofstadt added that many in Brussels believed the chances of a deal were being eroded by Mrs May's \"tough negotiating red lines\" and a lack of \"political room for manoeuvre\" domestically.\n\nHe said there was no guarantee \"a sprinkling of additional Conservative MPs on the backbenches\" would change this.\n\n\"Indeed, it appears this election is being driven by the political opportunism of the party in government, rather than by the people they represent,\" he added.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt accused Mrs May of being motivated by \"political opportunism\"\n\nMrs May has argued that an increased Commons majority would strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations, making it more difficult for the opposition parties at home to obstruct her plans.\n\nIn her speech on 18 April, announcing the decision to call an election, she said: \"Division in Westminster will risk our ability to make a success of Brexit and it will cause damaging uncertainty and instability to the country.\n\n\"So we need a general election and we need one now, because we have at this moment a one-off chance to get this done while the European Union agrees its negotiating position and before the detailed talks begin.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic beat Rangers at Hampden to set up a Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen and the chance to complete a domestic treble.\n\nCallum McGregor's superbly placed finish put the Premiership champions ahead during a dominant first half from Brendan Rodgers' side.\n\nScott Sinclair squeezed in a penalty after Rangers' James Tavernier had fouled Leigh Griffiths.\n\nGoalkeeper Craig Gordon twice denied Kenny Miller in Rangers' best attacks.\n\nBut the Ibrox side could not prevent the first defeat of Pedro Caixinha's reign as manager and must now focus on securing European qualification through the league.\n\nCeltic have already won that tournament and the League Cup and will face the Dons back at the national stadium on 27 May - the second Aberdeen-Celtic cup final this season - hoping to complete the domestic clean sweep for the first time since 2001.\n\nThis was a difficult day for Rangers, but one can only speculate as to how much sorer it might have been had Andy Halliday been sent off after lunging in on Patrick Roberts early on. The Rangers midfielder took Roberts out and was fortunate to see yellow instead of red.\n\nQuickly, Celtic took hold of things and their greater intensity, accuracy and quality paid off with the opener. Mikael Lustig hit a long ball over Danny Wilson's head and into Moussa Dembele, who took it down, looked around him and saw McGregor steaming forward untracked.\n\nThe Frenchman played it to McGregor, who stroked it coolly into the corner of Wes Foderingham's net.\n\nCeltic were dominant but their mission was not helped when they lost Dembele to a hamstring injury just before the half-hour. Griffiths came on.\n\nRangers had been fortunate to escape a dismissal earlier with Halliday and were lucky again when Myles Beerman, already on a yellow for fouling Roberts, impeded him again a minute later.\n\nBeerman survived, but it was not long before Rangers' hopes of a cup final appearance were extinguished.\n\nCaixinha made two substitutions at the break - Joe Dodoo coming on for the peripheral Joe Garner and Barrie McKay replacing Halliday - but no sooner had those changes bedded in than Celtic hit their opponents on the counter-attack and smoothed their passage to the final.\n\nIt was Dedryck Boyata who broke up a Rangers attack and got his team on the front foot. Roberts took it on and put Griffiths into the box, where he was taken down by Tavernier. The spot-kick from Sinclair found the target via Foderingham's diving hands and then the inside of his right-hand post.\n\nThere could have been more. Foderingham tipped over Griffiths' shot, Boyata headed over and Roberts had one saved. Celtic then lost their edge and Rangers got on top and started creating chances - good ones.\n\nJust after the hour, Miller had a close-range header saved by Gordon. The striker might have done a whole lot better.\n\nThen, with 10 minutes left, he had another opportunity - a point-blank shot kicked away by Gordon. Again, it was the type of opening that Rangers had to convert.\n\nMartyn Waghorn headed over from a good position, Dodoo forced a diving save from Gordon and, at the other end, McGregor's replacement Tom Rogic hit a post for Celtic.\n\nThose late chances will give Rangers hope for their Old Firm league meeting at Ibrox on Saturday - but Celtic's victory was well earned and their treble dream remains very firmly on track.\n• None Attempt saved. Joseph Dodoo (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Tomas Rogic (Celtic) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box.\n• None Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Tomas Rogic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Martyn Waghorn (Rangers) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Whether you consume music digitally or collect vinyl records, Brexit has the potential to affect you.\n\nThe UK music industry, like its counterparts in other countries, has had a tough time adapting to the technological shake-ups of recent years.\n\nBut now it also has to plan for the changes that will be ushered in by the UK's decision to leave the European Union.\n\nObviously there is still huge uncertainty about what the country's future relationship with the EU will be like, since its expected departure in the spring of 2019 is still subject to lengthy negotiations.\n\nHowever, it is already possible to identify areas of the music business that may feel the effects.\n\nWith the industry's annual Record Store Day falling this year on Saturday, 22 April, record shops are enjoying a boom in sales of old-fashioned vinyl releases.\n\nThe format was widely expected to die a slow death with the advent of the CD, but in recent times, vinyl records have managed to outsell downloads.\n\nHowever, when Record Store Day 2020 rolls around, there is a risk that those singles and albums could cost significantly more.\n\nWill these records cost more post-Brexit?\n\nIf the UK does not manage to conclude a favourable trade deal with the EU, then tariffs may be applied on goods coming into the UK.\n\nThere are now only a couple of vinyl pressing plants left on British soil, so the majority of records sold in the UK are manufactured in factories based in other EU countries. The same goes for CDs.\n\nIf tariffs on goods return, record labels will face increased costs, which they will have to pass on to consumers.\n\nSo why buy music on physical formats anyway? This is the 21st Century, so go for streaming or downloads.\n\nWell, even there, Brexit is likely to have consequences.\n\nThe pound has fallen in value in the wake of last June's referendum outcome. The leading music streaming services, from Sweden's Spotify to US-based Apple Music, are all multinational firms whose pricing policies are decided elsewhere.\n\nApple has already increased the price of its apps this year, in a move widely attributed to the Brexit vote. Apple Music subscriptions could follow suit if the pound falls any further.\n\nIn other ways, however, Brexit will have no effect at all. Many politicians and business leaders have called for the UK to preserve its access to the European single market, but in digital terms, things are more complicated.\n\nThe vast majority of Spotify's catalogue is available all over the world\n\nWhile goods are covered by the single market in Europe, the market for services is still very much a work in progress.\n\nAnd when it comes to the distribution of digital products, including music and e-books, consumers will still find that borders get in the way.\n\nIf you have an account with Amazon UK, you can buy a CD from Amazon's French website, but it won't allow you to buy the same music on download.\n\nThat said, streaming services are more unified. Spotify, for instance, makes practically all its catalogue accessible everywhere in the world, with some minor variations in local-language music.\n\nBut although Brussels has failed to create a digital single market for music consumers, it has done a lot for music producers.\n\nPeople who make music can make money from it in various ways. As well as selling digital or physical copies of it, they are also paid royalties every time it is played in public.\n\nThere are two kinds of these:\n\nMechanical royalties date back to the days of piano rolls\n\nAnd although there is no EU single market for digital music purchases, there is now a thriving single market for licensing music and collecting royalties on it.\n\nIn the UK, the main royalty collection society is PRS for Music. Its chief executive, Robert Ashcroft, says that the European Commission made a big difference with its Collective Rights Management Directive, which came into force in the UK in April last year.\n\nAs a result, it is now much easier to license music in many territories at once, rather than having to authorise it country by country, as was formerly the case.\n\nPRS, for example, works in a joint venture with its counterparts in Sweden and Germany, STIM and GEMA, to operate a pan-European online music rights licensing service.\n\nThis means that songwriters and music publishing companies can get paid more quickly and accurately.\n\n\"We have already been licensing our rights on a pan-European basis,\" says Mr Ashcroft. \"Brexit won't stop that and it's not in our business interest to stop it either.\"\n\nThe UK's law on music copyright has changed in recent years because of Brussels.\n\nIn November 2013, UK copyright protection on sound recordings increased from 50 years to 70 years, in line with an EU directive approved in 2011.\n\nHowever, recordings that had already slipped into the public domain, such as the Beatles' first single, stayed there.\n\nThe Beatles' earliest recordings are now out of copyright\n\nAnd there is a \"use it or lose it\" provision for hitherto unreleased recordings from 50 years ago. If record companies have ageing tracks in the vaults that they have never issued, then they have no comeback if other people get hold of them and release them.\n\nWill all this change when the UK \"takes back control\"? PRS's Mr Ashcroft thinks not.\n\n\"I expect it to continue unless and until someone presents an argument that it's damaging to the economy,\" he says.\n\nOne area where Brexit could have a negative impact is on touring musicians. There are fears that music groups might have to scale back European tours after Brexit and fewer European acts could travel to the UK.\n\n\"We have a very healthy business in royalties that are earned when our members' works are performed overseas,\" says PRS's Mr Ashcroft. \"If there were obstacles to British bands touring, that would be a potential challenge.\"\n\nAt the same time, however, he is concerned about Brexit's potential impact on his own organisation's staffing levels. \"Eleven per cent of our employees come from countries other than the UK. We operate daily in 13 languages. We need the prime minister to give assurances that the people resident and working here can stay.\"\n\nOn that basis, he feels that the UK's music business is well integrated with the rest of Europe and hopes it will stay that way, despite Brexit: \"We are so international that we think our business transcends that.\"", "Nemnaja Matic strikes from distance to put Chelsea 4-2 up and seal thei victory over Tottenham in the 2017 FA Cup semi-finals.", "The Women's Equality Party leader says many women are being shut out of the political debate\n\nThe leader of the Women's Equality Party, Sophie Walker, is to stand against Tory MP and male rights advocate Philip Davies in the election.\n\nIf elected in the West Yorkshire seat of Shipley, she said she would be a \"voice for all women\" in Westminster.\n\nShe said Mr Davies had a \"track record of misogyny\", including trying to block laws on domestic violence.\n\nMr Davies said he welcomed his rival \"parachuting herself\" into the seat with a \"politically correct agenda\".\n\nMr Davies, who won the Shipley seat with a majority of more than 9,624 at the last election, is an outspoken critic of political correctness and what he has described as \"zealous\" feminism.\n\nThe MP, who has warned that men's voices are being \"neutered\" and that their rights must be more strongly defended, caused a stir when he was elected to the Commons equality and women's committee last year.\n\nAnnouncing her candidacy on 8 June, Ms Walker - a former journalist - took a swipe at Mr Davies, suggesting that it was a \"national embarrassment\" that he was on the committee.\n\nMr Davies has claimed militant feminists want to have \"their cake and eat it\"\n\n\"Shipley deserves an MP that will represent the needs and interests of all its constituents, instead of one who spends constituency time on a self-indulgent anti-women campaign,\" she said.\n\n\"Right now if you live in Shipley, your MP is best known in Parliament as a sexist whose favourite pastime is inventing long speeches to prevent other MPs from passing important legislation such as the provision of free hospital parking for carers and compulsory sex and relationships education in schools.\"\n\nMs Walker also criticised the Conservatives' record on equality issues, saying public spending cuts had disproportionately affected women and Brexit would exacerbate the situation.\n\nShe said she would campaign for a fair immigration system after the UK's exit from the EU, more support for women's pensions and for social justice to be put at the heart of a \"caring economy\".\n\n\"Philip Davies' party's austerity policies hit women harder than men and pushed more women into poverty. His party's funding cuts shut vital services to survivors of violence, when two women a week die at the hands of abusive partners.\"\n\nMr Davies, who has represented Shipley since 2005 and strongly supported the UK leaving the EU, challenged Ms Walker to back up her claims of sexism with any evidence.\n\n\"I have consistently asked Sophie Walker to quote just one thing I have ever said which has asked for a woman to be treated less favourably than a man, and she hasn't been able to find even one quote from the 12 years I have spent in Parliament,\" he told the Observer.\n\n\"I would very much welcome Ms Walker parachuting herself into Shipley as a candidate with her extreme politically correct agenda of positive discrimination and quotas, and am very happy to let the good people of the Shipley constituency decide who they want to represent them.\"\n\nMr Davies has regularly called for more focus in the Commons on men's issues, including suicide rates and educational under-achievement among young men and what he says is the varying treatment of male and female prisoners.\n\nIn a speech last year he attacked \"militant feminists and politically correct males\", accusing them of fighting for equality while also seeking special protection when it suited them.\n\nEarlier this year, he was accused of trying to block a Parliamentary bill that would force the UK to sign up to the international Istanbul Convention on preventing domestic violence by making a series of long speeches in the House of Commons.\n\nThe Women's Equality Party, co-founded by comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, was founded in 2015. Ms Walker stood for London mayor in May 2016.", "Sergio Aguero races on to a Yaya Toure pass to lift it over Petr Cech and put Manchester City 1-0 up against Arsenal in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.\n\nWatch all the best action from the FA Cup semi-finals here.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nGreat Britain have lost their Fed Cup World Cup Group II play-off in Romania, consigning them back to the Europe/Africa Zone.\n\nIt was 1-1 after Saturday's play, when host captain Ilie Nastase was banned for swearing at the umpire, Johanna Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nOn Sunday, Simon Halep won 6-1 6-3 against Konta to put Romania in front.\n\nIrina-Camelia Begu then beat Heather Watson 6-4 7-5 as Romania took an unassailable lead before the doubles.\n\nKonta was left in tears after Nastase's conduct and, even though the world number seven still beat Sorana Cirstea on Saturday, she found Halep a tougher test.\n\nHalep, ranked fifth in the world, raced into a 4-0 lead as she made the most of her clay-court knowhow and broke to love in taking the first set in 27 minutes.\n\nKonta gave signs of a comeback by breaking Halep and taking a 3-1 lead in the second set, but the Romanian responded by impressively taking five games in a row to win the match.\n\nAfter that result, world number 113 Watson knew she had to win against 33rd-ranked Begu and she was involved in a tight match with plenty of quality and drama.\n\nThere were five breaks of serve in the first set, which Begu took, but none in the second until Watson lost the seventh game.\n\nThe Briton broke back but then lost her serve again at 5-5 and Begu served out for a match that lasted two hours and two minutes to secure victory for Romania.\n\nBritain's Laura Robson and Jocelyn Rae defeated Simona Halep and Monica Niculescu in the dead rubber.\n\nCirstea claimed Konta had \"overreacted\" by crying in their match but the British number one has defended her actions.\n\nThe incident that led to Nastase being dismissed on Saturday happened when Cirstea was 2-1 up in the second set.\n\nAfter Konta and Keothavong had complained of calling out from the crowd at 1-1, former world number one Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul language before verbally abusing the British player and her captain.\n\nHe was sent off the court by referee Andreas Egli and, after initially taking a seat in the stands, was then escorted back to the locker room.\n\nKonta went 3-1 down after her serve was broken in the next game and was in tears before the umpire suspended play for about 25 minutes.\n\n\"With all due respect to Sorana, she was not in my shoes at that end of the court being verbally threatened,\" said the Briton. \"Any abuse is not all right.\n\n\"But when it's a couple of metres away from you, screaming at you, I think that's a different ball game.\n\n\"It's not something that you truly know how it affects you until you experience it, so I do believe she may have been slightly unaware of the events that happened.\"\n\nHalep defended the crowd following her win on Sunday and, on Nastase - whose has been suspended by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) while it investigates the incidents, said \"maybe he did mistakes\".\n\n\"I was not there right on the court but I heard some things so I cannot defend anything here,\" she added.\n\n\"I don't know exactly what happened but the people from ITF, they will know what they're going to do.\"\n\nIt was a classy performance from Simona Halep, who was superior in every department. She has just indicated in a TV on-court interview that she really liked her chances - as she feels she has \"dominated\" previous matches against Konta, despite losing both.\n\nThe last few games of the Begu-Watson match were a reminder of the drama Fed Cup and Davis Cup matches usually throw up.\n\nIt is not a weekend we will forget in a hurry, but there is no doubt the best team won.\n\nThe zonal competition of Euro Africa Zone 1 beckons once again for the British team in February next year. It is a routine they are tiring of.\n\nThe United States will take on Belarus in the Fed Cup final after overcoming defending champions Czech Republic on Sunday.\n\nBethanie Mattek-Sands and Coco Vandeweghe downed Kristyna Pliskova and Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-3 in the crucial doubles of their semi-final in Florida for a 3-2 winning margin.\n\nThe US are 17-time champions and will be facing debutants Belarus in Minsk on November 11-12.\n\nBelarus made the final by defeating Switzerland 3-2 in their semi-final by sweeping after winning both the reverse singles on Sunday.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nWatch: Live on BBC Two and BBC One with extra coverage of the elite races and the finish line on Red Button, online, Connected TVs and app Follow: Text updates and the best of social media on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritish five-time Olympian Jo Pavey is aiming to secure qualification for the 2017 World Championships when she races in Sunday's London Marathon.\n\nPavey needs to finish as one of the top two British women and run a time of two hours and 36 minutes or better.\n\nShe will be at the Worlds in August to receive a bronze medal after her 2007 fourth place was upgraded when Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse failed a doping test.\n\n\"I've trained as hard as I could,\" said the 43-year-old.\n\n\"I've had a bit more illness than I would have liked but any busy parent can relate to that and I've kept training consistently.\"\n\nPavey will race her first marathon in six years on Sunday. She is up against fellow Britons Alyson Dixon, Louise Damen, Charlotte Purdue and Susan Partridge as they also compete to qualify for the World Championships, which are being held in London from 5-13 August.\n\nWith Callum Hawkins already selected, Tsegai Tewelde goes up against 10 other male runners in a bid to make the British team for the summer's event.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain's six-time Paralympic champion David Weir says Sunday's race \"could be\" his last.\n\nEthiopian great Kenenisa Bekele, who is the 5,000m and 10,000m track world record holder, headlines the men's elite race.\n\nThe women's elite line-up also includes Kenyan Florence Kiplagat, who won last year's Chicago Marathon, compatriot and Tokyo Marathon champion Helah Kiprop, and Olympic 5,000m champion and fellow Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot, who will make her marathon debut aged 33.\n\n'There are still people cheating the system'\n\nDrugs cheats like 2016 London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong are \"ruining the sport\", says European 10,000m champion Pavey.\n\nOlympic gold medallist Sumgong, 32, tested positive for banned substance EPO in an out-of-competition test.\n\n\"It is a shame you have got a winner like Sumgong testing positive,\" Pavey told BBC Sport. \"We're glad that she's been caught, that's one good thing to say.\n\n\"You want to believe in a good performance, you want to be looking at athletes winning Olympics and big events and admire their performance.\n\n\"There is still a lot more work to do to make sure others are going through the same anti-doping methods as we are in the UK - I had people on my doorstep a couple of days ago and that is what you want to see around the world.\n\n\"People like her are ruining the sport because every time you see a good performance, you're wondering is that for real or not.\"\n\n'I am not getting slower'\n\nBritain's Weir, 37, will be competing in the race for the 18th year in a row, on the back of winning the Paris Marathon men's wheelchair race earlier in April in one hour 29 minutes, 25 seconds.\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"I am just happy to be in good shape to compete. I don't put that pressure on my shoulders [to get the seventh title].\n\n\"I wait until the morning to see how I feel - I am in pretty good shape and I am happy with my performance over the past couple of weeks.\n\n\"I feel I am not getting any slower - to do that time on that course in Paris, a very rough, hard course. It just gave me a lot of confidence to perform mentally and physically in London.\n\nAsked if it will be his last race, Weir replied: \"It could be. But I have enjoyed the training and enjoyed just concentrating on the road, not thinking about being back on the track after the marathon.\"\n\nIn January, the six-time Paralympic champion said he will never wear a Great Britain vest again after an unsuccessful Paralympic Games in Rio last year.\n\nEthiopian great Kenenisa Bekele, who won last year's Berlin Marathon in the second-quickest time ever, heads the men's elite field along with Kenya's Stanley Biwott.\n\n\"Times are very important,\" Bekele said. \"On the track I don't see anyone out there looking like they can reach my marks at the moment. In the marathon, running two hours, 10 minutes and winning would not give you full happiness. Winning in two hours, four minutes would be a different feeling.\n\n\"But it is really challenging. It is almost 10,000 metres pace so it is difficult. I had to learn how to run differently from the track, a different foot strike. Every race, every course is different and I am learning with every one.\"\n\nBBC commentator Brendan Foster is set to commentate on his last London Marathon - an event he has covered since its inception in 1981.\n\nThe 69-year-old, who will retire after the World Championships in London in August, said: \"I'm looking forward to it.\n\n\"It's the 37th time I've done it, you'd think I'd be used to it by now. I've done every single one but it's as good as ever.\n\n\"The whole city comes alive and is awash with people and colour. It will be exciting at the front end, as it always is.\"", "The player's kit suppliers Head and Nike have stood by her\n\nMaria Sharapova faces the biggest challenge of her tennis career - namely her return to the sport after a 15-month drugs ban - and it is not just her continued sporting success that is in the spotlight.\n\nOff the court, where she makes the bulk of her earnings, the question is - can she be as big a sponsor draw as she was before her enforced absence?\n\nThe 29-year-old will return to action on Wednesday, 26 April, in Stuttgart after being handed a wildcard.\n\nAlthough some fellow players have expressed misgivings, she has the support of the WTA tour, and her fans.\n\nAnd, with biggest commercial rival Serena Williams announcing she is pregnant and facing time away from the game, the Russian's return is certainly timely.\n\nIn the year from June 2015, Forbes estimates the five-time Grand Slam winner made $1.9m (£1.5m) in prize money from playing, but a whopping $20m from endorsements, a sum matched only by Williams.\n\nAnd it is this primary source of earnings that Sharapova will be looking to reinvigorate.\n\nSharapova has participated in Evian promotional events during her ban\n\n\"During her time out there will have been some continued relationship with her sponsors,\" says Simon Chadwick, professor of sports enterprise at the University of Salford.\n\n\"But I am sure there will have been some sort of penalty clause in her sponsor contracts for incurring a suspension.\"\n\nFollowing Sharapova's admission in March 2016 that she had tested positive for a banned drug at that year's Australian Open, she was initially banned by the International Tennis Federation for two years, later reduced on appeal.\n\nBut unlike golfer Tiger Woods, who haemorrhaged sponsors very quickly after his extra-marital affairs came to light, Sharapova's backers waited to see how things played out.\n\n\"That was because they had invested so much money and effort into their deals,\" says Prof Chadwick.\n\n\"Also, to terminate deals could have been dangerous as she might come back successfully, and if you as a sponsor have decided to cancel her contract then the door has been left wide open for a rival.\"\n\nSharapova's deal with Tag Heuer was not extended\n\nAs it was the sponsor reaction was mixed - Head and Evian were immediately supportive, Nike and Porsche put their relationships on hold but later came back on board, while Tag Heuer and Avon chose not to extend deals that had ended.\n\nGiven the large amounts of money and time invested - Nike's relationship with the player dates back to when she was 11 years old - it is not surprising the major brands wanted to think hard before reaching their decisions.\n\n\"In terms of brands and reputation, what all this has highlighted is that first of all Sharapova is a major brand in her own right,\" says Karen Earl, chairman of the European Sponsorship Association.\n\n\"She commands a lot of media attention, as the furore about her comeback demonstrates. It also highlights that she is a huge star, and that women's tennis feels it needs her.\n\n\"That is one of the reasons why brands want to continue to associate with her. Those that stuck with her value the association of her brand with their brands.\"\n\nMrs Earl says the fact that Sharapova immediately put her hand up and admitted the drugs breach helped mitigate the damage to her brand, and those of her partners.\n\n\"Sharapova admitted she had done a wrong thing.\n\n\"She has gone out of her way to recognise what she has done and has handled that situation in a credible way. She has been contrite and said it will not happen again,\" says Mrs Earl.\n\n\"The fact there hasn't been a public outcry against her return will have reassured brands to stick with her.\n\n\"If there had been protests from tennis fans, then that might have influenced her sponsors' decisions.\"\n\nProf Chadwick says Sharapova's management and advisers, those who look after her profile, grabbed hold of a difficult situation very quickly.\n\nHe believes the Russian is now pushing at an open door with regards to her return to the sport, with WTA boss Steve Simon quoted as saying: \"I believe that the game, the fans, the tour... everybody is going to welcome Maria back.\"\n\nEven before Serena Williams' pregnancy announcement, Prof Chadwick says that the sport was struggling to find an heir apparent at the top of the women's game.\n\n\"There is not a great deal of highest-quality talent following on behind,\" he says.\n\n\"Nobody seems to be able to string together a consistent run of results. Women's tennis needs all the help it can get in terms of heroes, big names, elite talent to attract fans to the sport.\n\n\"As a constellation of female tennis player brands, the sport has been somewhat diminished by Sharapova's absence.\"\n\nThe Russian took part in an exhibition match with Monica Puig in Puerto Rico in December 2016\n\nMrs Earl points out that while many players have not taken too kindly to Sharapova's return, for her sponsors the important thing is the welcome she will receive from her fans, who are potential purchasers of their products.\n\n\"The sponsors are not endorsing her because she has been the most successful player, it is because of what she brings off the court,\" she says.\n\n\"Her persona and brand are what is most important. She knows how to market herself. She is commercially astute.\n\n\"To her credit, even after her time away, she is still probably the most marketable female tennis player.\"\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.\n\nUKIP's manifesto will include proposals to ban full veils, the party's leader Paul Nuttall has told the BBC.\n\nThe announcement has sparked strong reaction on both sides of the debate.\n\nNazif, 37, is Muslim. Originally from Afghanistan, he has lived in the UK since 2002.\n\nWhile his relatives do not regularly wear either the burka or the niqab, he is not in favour of an outright ban.\n\n\"If it came about voluntarily I would welcome it,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not in favour of the burka.\n\n\"But if women want to wear it or they don't, it should be up to the women themselves.\"\n\nMr Nuttall has cited security concerns as one of the motivations behind the proposed ban.\n\nBut for Nazif and his family, back in Afghanistan it was the burka which offered security on otherwise dangerous journeys across the country.\n\nTravelling to Pakistan, he says they were forced to go through checkpoints controlled by non-government forces.\n\n\"Having your face revealed was a sign that you are part of the government,\" he said.\n\n\"My sisters wore the veil in order not to arouse suspicion.\"\n\nWhen they were safe, they would remove the veil again.\n\n\"If they want to ban the veil it must not be banned under the pretext of security,\" he said.\n\n\"Paul Nuttall sees it as an election chip but he doesn't know the full reason.\n\n\"In my own family's experience it was a way of getting from point A to point B.\n\n\"I am 100% behind a move towards phasing out the veil. But encourage those who wear it to feel safe.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, social media user Rachel Robbins was equally sceptical of the security pretext for UKIP's proposed ban.\n\nBut others disagree. Brian, from Lichfield, reflected the mood of much of the correspondence the BBC received.\n\n\"You can't go into a bank or building society wearing a crash helmet or other 'western' headgear that covers the face.\n\n\"The same should apply to the burka and the veil.\"\n\nMr Nuttall also highlighted concerns about integration as a key reason for proposing the ban.\n\n\"I don't believe you can integrate fully and enjoy the fruits of British society if you can't see people's faces,\" he said on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme.\n\nJennifer, who works in Bradford, agreed that full-face veils could be a barrier to integration.\n\n\"I've worked in Bradford for a long time,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm increasingly seeing more women with their faces covered.\n\n\"I see the increase in women wearing it as evidence of the polarisation of these communities and the isolation of these women from mainstream society.\n\n\"It seems like a deliberate barrier to separate them.\"\n\nMarwa, from London, disagrees. Two years ago she decided to start wearing a hijab - a headscarf worn by many Muslim women. The hijab would not be included in the proposed ban.\n\n\"A lot of my family don't wear the hijab,\" she said, \"but it was my individual choice.\n\n\"I liked the way I felt when I wore it.\n\n\"I'm not sure that banning religious expressions and beliefs will help Muslims feel like they're part of Britain.\n\n\"It's this kind of barely tolerant attitude that makes Muslims feel further excluded and alienated.\n\n\"It seems to me that Mr Nuttall believes that in order to allow women to be free and to be 'integrated' they must first be told how to dress.\n\n\"The hypocrisy of his argument is baffling. What is it that he really wants?\"\n\nOthers have also questioned the motivation behind Mr Nuttall's announcement.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Brendan Cox, the activist and husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, suggested the move had more to do with UKIP's poll numbers.\n\nSome European countries, including France, already enforce a public ban on full-face veils, while in December 2016 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that wearing full-faced veils should be prohibited in Germany \"wherever it is legally possible\".", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBritain's David Weir won a record seventh London Marathon men's wheelchair title - and afterwards called it his \"best victory ever\".\n\nThe six-time Paralympic gold medallist beat reigning champion Marcel Hug of Switzerland in a sprint finish to win for the first time since 2012.\n\nThe 37-year-old finished in one hour 31 minutes six seconds on Sunday.\n\n\"It's been challenging since Rio to get mentally focused and get ready for this race,\" he said afterwards.\n\n\"Because of the stuff that's gone on in my mind, it's definitely one of the biggest wins I've ever had in my career.\"\n\nWeir's win - in this 18th London Marathon - meant he surpassed fellow Briton Baroness Grey-Thompson, who has six titles in the women's wheelchair race.\n\n\"To be honest, two or three months ago I didn't even think I'd get on the start line just because I've been struggling with a little bit of depression so to get here and to race and to win, and to beat Tanni's record, is just an honour.\"\n\nIn January, Weir said he would never wear a Great Britain vest again after an unsuccessful Paralympic Games in Rio last year.\n\nA six-time world champion, he said he felt like he had been \"stabbed in the back\" after he crashed out of the marathon in Rio, his last ever Paralympic event, and indicated London could be his final race.\n\nThe thrilling finish on The Mall saw Weir edge out Hug and Spaniard Rafael Botello Jimenez, who was third, only three seconds behind the Briton.\n\nManuela Schar of Switzerland took victory in the women's wheelchair race for the first time in 1:39:57.\n\nSchar, who won the Boston Marathon earlier this month, dominated the women's race and finished almost five minutes ahead of second-placed Amanda McGrory of the United States.\n\nAnother American, Susannah Scaroni, finished third in 1:47:37.\n\nThe event doubles as the IPC Athletics Marathon World Cup, and is the third race in the Abbott World Marathon Majors series.\n• None Get Inspired: How to get into Running\n\n\"That finish hasn't been there for the last few years. Everyone wanted him to have a good race.\n\n\"For him, as much as anyone else, that's a top win - he ran a devastating race.\n\n\"Well done, David Weir. I'm really proud of you.\"", "The Enniskillen bombing killed 11 people but became a turning-point\n\nThe threat from terrorism is always evolving, but some things remain constant - the emotions of loss and the risks taken by those who want peace, writes Peter Taylor.\n\nWhen I first started working in television 50 years ago, I never imagined that I would spend much of the next half century reporting the phenomenon of terrorism.\n\nFrom those early days I have tried to understand the roots of violence and explain not what happens but why it happens.\n\nGradually I got used to reporting death. But I never became insensitive to it.\n\nDuring Northern Ireland's Troubles, I got to know a loyalist assassin - Billy Giles - well and grew to like him. I first met him when making a documentary in the Maze Prison in 1989.\n\nI talked to Billy in his cell. He was doing life for the murder of his Catholic workmate. He had lured him into a car and then shot him in the back of the head.\n\n\"The only way to stop them was to terrorise them. It was them and us,\" he said. But the act of pulling the trigger had a profound effect on Billy.\n\n\"Before I was a decent young man. It [the conflict] turned me into a killer. It felt like someone had reached down and ripped my insides out. You hear a bang and it's too late. [I] never felt a whole person again.\"\n\nHe was released the year before the Good Friday Agreement - which established peace in Northern Ireland - and I met him again. He was a man transformed from the gaunt, haunted figure I'd met in the Maze. He was now wearing a suit, collar and tie and carrying a briefcase.\n\nHe looked every inch a businessman and not a loyalist killer. Billy was upbeat and optimistic as he told me about starting a new life. But his ambition proved illusory.\n\nI later heard that he'd hanged himself. I was shattered. I couldn't believe that he'd taken his own life. He left a suicide note. He said he'd ordered a Chinese takeaway, prepared the noose and sat down to write a letter.\n\n\"I was a victim too, now hopefully I'll be the last. Please don't let any kid suffer the history I have. Please let our next generation live normal lives. Steer them towards a life that is Troubles free. I've decided to bring this to an end now. I'm tired.\"\n\nI remember reading Billy's suicide note, hoping that his final wish would come true. At least some of it has.\n\nThe emotion that has never left me is the profound sadness I feel for some of those whom I have met, got to know and interviewed. One interview affected me personally above all others.\n\nPeter Taylor covered the early years of the Troubles\n\nThe blanket protest by the IRA prisoners in the Maze started in 1977. They refused to wear prison uniform, insisting they were political prisoners and not criminals. The protesters resorted to wearing only a blanket to try and force the issue.\n\nTo try and understand the situation from the other side of the cell doors, I met Desmond Irvine, the secretary of the Northern Ireland Prison Officers Association.\n\nAs a unionist prison officer, what he said came as a surprise. He agreed to do an interview despite the Northern Ireland Office advising him against it. I felt he wanted to get his message across.\n\nI asked if he respected the prisoners for their protest. \"I don't think they just do it mainly for publicity but because it's their belief. I suppose one could say a person who believes sincerely in what he is doing, and is prepared to suffer for it, [deserves] a certain measure of respect which you give to him.\"\n\nNormal life was disrupted for many years in parts of Northern Ireland\n\nAfter transmission, he wrote me a letter saying how pleased he was with the positive reaction he had had to the interview.\n\nThen a few days later, the IRA shot him dead.\n\nDeeply shocked, I felt sick. At his funeral I cried. And I remember the prison governor telling me not to blame myself, saying he was murdered because he was a prison officer and not because I had interviewed him.\n\nBut I'm still haunted by what happened. I was called by a Belfast journalist who asked how it felt to have blood on my hands. Death had come too close to home and I seriously considered stopping reporting Northern Ireland. In the end, I decided to carry on.\n\nThe pain I felt was nothing compared with that suffered by loved ones long after victims are forgotten.\n\nJoan Wilson was one of the most unforgettable people I met. She lost her 20-year-old daughter, Marie, a nurse, in the IRA bomb attack on Enniskillen's Remembrance Day parade in November 1987.\n\nEleven people died, all of them Protestants, and all civilians, apart from one police reservist. Over 60 were injured.\n\nJoan was at home when the bomb went off. \"I thought, well, Gordon [her husband] and Marie are there. I hope nothing terrible has happened.\"\n\nBoth were buried under 6ft of rubble. Gordon managed to reach Marie's hand. \"Daddy, I love you very much,\" were the last words she uttered.\n\nJoan rushed to the hospital knowing little of what had happened. \"I was absolutely horrified to see Marie on the bed, wired up. I took her hand, and it was cold. \"As we stood there watching her life ebbing away, it ebbed away, and she passed over to our heavenly father in our presence.\"\n\nThe attack did incalculable damage to the IRA and the beginning of the peace process can be traced from that day.\n\nAt the time, British and Irish intelligence services believed that Martin McGuinness was the acting head of the IRA's Northern Command - in whose operational area the attack took place - although when I put it to him, he denied it.\n\nI interviewed Joan after McGuinness had become Ian Paisley's partner in the Stormont government's devolved power sharing executive - a sight you might think Joan would find hard to stomach. But that wasn't the case.\n\n\"I'm very pleased to see Dr Paisley, whom I regard as a great man of God, sharing with Martin McGuinness, and I think each will be good for the other.\n\nI've spoken to many victims of the IRA's campaign and many, like Lord Tebbit, whose wife Margaret was paralysed in the Brighton bomb, would profoundly disagree.\n\nTebbit is excoriating in his condemnation of Martin McGuinness and furious at the media hagiography that he believes followed McGuinness's death.\n\nPeace eventually came to Northern Ireland, but other conflicts have proved more intractable.\n\nThe 1983 Lebanon barracks bombings presaged the widespread modern use of suicide attacks\n\nGoing through my archive of over 100 documentaries reminds me of how chillingly prophetic many interviewees have been.\n\nIn Lebanon, 25 years ago, I talked to Col Bill Cowan, the US undercover soldier sent to identify the masterminds behind two devastating truck bomb attacks carried out by Islamist suicide bombers in Beirut in 1983.\n\nThe first reduced the US Embassy to rubble, killing 63 people including most of the CIA station. Six months later, the second suicide bomber killed 241 US Marines at their base south of Beirut. Many perished in an avalanche of concrete and masonry.\n\nI later interviewed Cowan by one of the few walls left standing - it had been part of a bar and you could still see a Playboy bunny drawn on it. He warned: \"Unless we find a way of working with Islamic fundamentalism, we are going to face much, much greater threats over the next decade.\"\n\nThe attack on the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam brought notoriety to al-Qaeda\n\nThe threats went far beyond the next decade. In 1998, al-Qaeda suicide truck bombs shattered two of America's east African embassies, massacring more than 200 people, most of them Muslims.\n\nThen three years later, 9/11 claimed the lives of almost 3,000 - it was a dramatic wake-up call to the world that Cowan's dire warning had come true.\n\nIn another interview shortly after 9/11, Dewey Claridge, the spy who helped set up the CIA's Counterterrorism Centre, described what he wanted to see happening to Osama Bin Laden.\n\n\"I don't want him brought to trial. I don't want to see a dead body because that just makes him a martyr. I just want him to disappear. Concrete shoes dropped into the Indian Ocean takes care of the dead part of 'dead or alive'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When British troops went into Northern Ireland\n\nBin Laden's fate was exactly as Dewey Claridge's crystal ball had predicted.\n\nIn Northern Ireland it was a military stalemate that persuaded the British and the IRA to talk.\n\nThat stalemate, in which the SAS and its covert intelligence arm, known as the \"Det\" (for Detachment), left the IRA in no doubt that the \"Brits\" were not going to allow the IRA to win.\n\nBetween 1983 and 1992 the SAS and the Det shot dead 35 IRA suspects.\n\nI remember doing an interview with one \"Det\" operator, a young woman, who described the celebrations back at base after the killing of IRA volunteer, William Price in 1984. To some of the team, the permanent removal of an IRA man from the battlefield was cause for a party.\n\n\"They [the IRA] make no secret of the fact that they celebrate the death of a soldier or policeman,\" she told me. \"We celebrated in the same way. If a terrorist was shot, there was a cake made with their name on it.\"\n\nWasn't that macabre? \"Possibly,\" she replied, \"but the saying is live by the sword and die by the sword.\"\n\nI finally found a photo of the cake - in the shape of a cross, with icing round the edges and \"RIP\" etched above the place where Price was killed.\n\nPerhaps the most uplifting stories in the midst of seemingly endless atrocities are about those who have the courage to take great personal risks to work towards peace.\n\nI found that the Derry businessman, Brendan Duddy, displayed extraordinary generosity of spirit. For over 20 years, he was the vital secret back channel intermediary between the MI6 officer Michael Oatley (and later his MI5 successor) and the IRA's ruling Army Council, via Martin McGuinness.\n\nThis top secret channel of communication cultivated for so long in the shadows ultimately led to the IRA ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nIt took me many months to discover the identity of the mysterious intermediary and when I finally did, to my astonishment, his first words were: \"I've been waiting to hear from you.\"\n\nA long night followed at Duddy's home, in the tiny parlour where many of the secret meetings were held. He told me his remarkable story.\n\nExtraordinarily, IRA leaders were being smuggled over the border and brought in from Belfast for negotiations with the British government via MI6 and MI5.\n\nIt was 10 years after our first contact before Brendan finally agreed to an interview.\n\nThe emotional stress he had suffered in his efforts to bring peace were apparent in his voice.\n\nHe described being present at the seminal first meeting in his parlour between the MI6 officer, Michael Oatley, and Martin McGuinness in 1991.\n\nI asked why he had taken the risks he had. \"When you ask questions like that I choke. I get emotional. I find it hard to answer. I had no choice.\"\n\nBut can the principle of engaging with the enemy be applied to other conflicts?\n\nAfter 9/11 a long and exhaustive hunt for Osama Bin Laden was launched\n\nThe former director of MI5, Eliza Manningham Buller, believes that it can. I interviewed her when the main threat came from al-Qaeda, in the wake of the 7/7 London bombings.\n\nThe so-called Islamic State was yet to emerge. I asked if the \"war on terror\" was winnable. \"Not in the military sense,\" she said.\n\n\"There won't be a Waterloo or an El Alamein. The terminology about winning the 'war on terror' was not something that I ever subscribed to. It's always better to talk to the people who are attacking you than attacking them. I would hope that people are trying to reach out to the Taliban, to people on the edges of al-Qaeda to talk to them.\"\n\nSo after 50 years what are the lessons to be learned about defeating terrorism?\n\nIt has to be tackled on both the military and political front, with both security forces and their political masters being sensitive to the delicate balance between alienating communities and gaining their support.\n\nIn the absence of the elusive military victory, governments also need to be ready to engage with the enemy as the British did with the IRA, the Spanish have tried with Eta and most recently the Colombians have achieved with the Farc.\n\nAll these were possible because the enemy had a political agenda around which there could be dialogue.\n\nThe problem with al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State is that their agenda embraces a thousand years not 50. And al-Qaeda and IS are infinitely more ruthless and indiscriminate than the IRA ever was.\n\nIt is even difficult, as last week's attack in Westminster shows, to establish whether or not an attacker is genuinely one of their adherents or supporters.\n\nAlthough victory over IS may be declared in Mosul and Raqqa, the final victory lies not in crushing its armies on the battlefield but in defeating its ideology.\n\nCorrection 3 April 2017: This report has been amended to clarify that Billy Giles was released in 1997, not under the Good Friday Agreement a year later.\n\nPeter Taylor's documentary, Fifty Years Behind the Headlines - Reflections on Terror, is on Saturday 1 April at 20:00 BST on BBC Radio Four. Catch up later on iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham cut the gap on Premier League leaders Chelsea to seven points as they overcame a stubborn Burnley at Turf Moor.\n\nThe visitors struggled in a drab first half as Dele Alli fired wide when well-placed and both central midfielders Victor Wanyama and Harry Winks were withdrawn through injury.\n\nWinks suffered a particularly nasty fall, tumbling into the Burnley dugout after trying to tackle Stephen Ward, before he was carried off on a stretcher at the interval.\n\nDespite a lack of attacking fluency, Spurs continued to exert pressure on the Clarets from corners, with Eric Dier firing in after the hosts failed to properly clear Christian Eriksen's delivery.\n\nVincent Janssen, making his first Premier League start of 2017, became the third Tottenham player forced off injured but that allowed the introduction of Son Heung-min.\n\nAnd the South Korea striker made sure of victory as he tapped in Alli's squared pass on 77 minutes as Spurs controlled the final stages.\n\nVictory, coupled with Chelsea's shock 2-1 defeat to Crystal Palace, ensures Mauricio Pochettino's side stay in contention for the title with nine games remaining.\n• None Reaction as Chelsea lose and Spurs close the gap on the leaders\n\nA perennial worry with Tottenham is whether they possess the depth required to match the undoubted quality of their starting side and sustain a season-long challenge.\n\nVictory over Southampton in the absence of injured striker Harry Kane last time out suggested those concerns could be consigned to the past, only to reappear in the first half at Turf Moor.\n\nKyle Walker's deputy Kieran Tripper made several mistakes against his former club, Winks was guilty of trying to force passes in midfield and Janssen was again ineffective, lacking the pace and guile to test the organised duo of Michael Keane and Ben Mee.\n\nWhile not in the circumstances Spurs would have wanted, the added quality of Mousa Dembele and especially Son ultimately ensured a more comfortable afternoon.\n\nThe Korean's movement was vital in opening up a tiring Burnley as Alli made amends for his earlier uncharacteristic miss to calmly find the striker free to side-foot in.\n\nAfter the game, Pochettino said Kane could be back \"in a few weeks,\" yet in the meantime Son could again prove a stellar stand-in, while Janssen's spell on the sidelines looks set to resume.\n\nBurnley's feted home form this season had seen them only lose to Arsenal, Manchester City and Swansea before this game and they once again followed a similar blueprint of pressing and cutting off lines of passing to frustrate superior opposition.\n\nAndre Gray and Ashley Barnes kept the Tottenham defence honest through the first half, while Keane and Mee easily repelled much of what Spurs attempted.\n\nYet the Clarets were undone by a rare lapse in concentration at a set-piece as Jeff Hendrick failed to firmly decide whether to let Eriksen's corner run or hack it clear, only to put the ball straight into Dier's path for the opener.\n\nThe hosts looked notably tired and bereft of ideas in the final 20 minutes as they fell to 15th, five points above the relegation zone.\n\nHome games against Stoke City, Manchester United, West Brom and West Ham during the run-in should see Sean Dyche's side pick up enough points to avoid a relegation scrap, but they may rue a missed opportunity to secure a point here.\n\nAfter this season had started to look like a procession to the title for Chelsea, Saturday's results hint that a coronation of Antonio Conte's side remains premature.\n\nTottenham's challenge is tough - but not unprecedented.\n\nIn 2012, Manchester City overhauled an eight-point gap in six games to beat Manchester United to the title on goal difference.\n\nIf Spurs are to pull off a miraculous comeback, this victory could be the first step in a crucial week that sees Chelsea host Manchester City and Tottenham travel to relegation-threatened Swansea.\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino: \"We showed great character and I'm very proud and pleased because the performance in the second half was very good.\n\n\"This win is massive for us - we have to be there if Chelsea fail and we are there. We are fighting for the Premier League.\n\n\"When you reduce the gap to seven points it's completely different to 10 points - we just have to be there if Chelsea fail and want to be there until the end of the season.\"\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche: \"Up until the first goal we were solid and kept them from using the lines of passing that they like.\n\n\"We created some good positions but not good chances and then gave away a really poor goal.\n\n\"That lifted them and they looked more assured after that and showed what a tope side they are.\"\n• None Tottenham have won more points than any other Premier League team in 2017 (26).\n• None This was Burnley's first home defeat by two or more goals in the Premier League since losing 1-3 against Everton in October 2014 (eight home defeats by a one-goal margin since).\n• None Son Heung-Min has scored eight goals in 25 Premier League games this season, doubling his tally from last season (four goals in 28 games).\n• None Dele Alli has been involved in 11 goals in 11 Premier League games for Tottenham in 2017 so far (eight goals, three assists).\n• None Eric Dier's goal was his first in the Premier League since December 2015 (vs Newcastle), and first away from home in the competition since August 2014 (vs West Ham).\n• None Burnley have now gone six Premier League games in April without scoring.\n\nBurnley host Stoke City at Turf Moor on Tuesday, with kick-off at 19:45 GMT, while Tottenham travel to Swansea on Wednesday, with kick-off also at 19:45 GMT.\n• None Offside, Burnley. Stephen Ward tries a through ball, but Sam Vokes is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko tries a through ball, but Dele Alli is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Ashley Barnes (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Goal! Burnley 0, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the left. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Attempt missed. Scott Arfield (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ashley Barnes. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "In the early 1980s, the Aids virus seemed to emerge from nowhere.\n\nThere was no cure and its origins were a mystery. But one theory began to surface - that it was the product of secret US military research at the Fort Detrick Laboratory.\n\nWhat was the source for this piece of fake news? The answer was the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service.\n\n\"The Aids disinformation campaign was one of the most notorious and one of the most successful Soviet disinformation campaigns during the Cold War,\" argues Thomas Boghardt, a historian at the US Army Center of Military History who has studied the case in detail.\n\nKGB political officers in the field were tasked with spending up to a quarter of their time on what were called \"active measures\".\n\nMr Boghardt believes the KGB station in New York first came up with the idea, which played into distrust in US institutions and rumours of covert biological warfare programmes.\n\n\"Intelligence meant not only gathering but using - or weaponising - that intelligence for influence operations,\" he explains.\n\nThe aim of these \"active measures\" was to sow confusion and distrust either within a country or between allies. He says that in 1980, the Soviets spent an astonishing $3bn (£2.4bn) a year on active measures.\n\nIt was not the only time the KGB successfully pushed a conspiracy theory.\n\nWithin weeks of the assassination of President Kennedy, it tried to circulate stories of official CIA involvement.\n\nThe Russians tried to implicate the CIA in the assassination of President Kennedy\n\nIt even covertly financed a book on the subject published in America within a year of the killing.\n\nMany attempts at disinformation were amateurish and failed. The main challenge was crafting something plausible. Those that succeeded either blended fact with fiction or worked with the grain of existing conspiracies.\n\nWhen it came to targeting Britain, Moscow had help in the shape of former MI6 officer and KGB spy, Kim Philby.\n\n\"He would provide advice on how to do it,\" General Oleg Kalugin - formerly of the KGB and Philby's ex-colleague - told me. \"He said 'this would not work, that sounds too Soviet'.\"\n\nTypically this would involve taking genuine documents from Western countries which spies had stolen and then adding in a few fake paragraphs to twist the meaning.\n\n\"We preferred to work on genuine documents with some additions and changes, and Philby in that sense was [the] number one guy,\" says Kalugin, now based in the US.\n\nIn the 1980s, the US tried to counter the tide of KGB disinformation by setting up an \"Active Measures Working Group\", with experts from across government agencies.\n\n\"The only way you could counter active measures was by coming back with the truth,\" explains David Major, a former FBI official who served on the group.\n\nGordon Corera presented Subversion: West on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 31 March at 11:00 BST.\n\nYou can listen to it, and the previous episode Subversion: East on the BBC Radio 4 website.\n\nIt would try and identify fake stories and then advise the media about their source. \"We were saying which one of these stories turns out to be fake news.\" Major says.\n\nIt tried to counter one claim that Americans were going to South America, ostensibly to adopt children but actually to harvest their body parts.\n\nThe challenge in the Cold War was getting out a story.\n\nIn the case of the Aids virus, it was planted in a small journal in India which was funded by the KGB.\n\nThe story - on 17 July 1983 - warned that Aids might invade India and was the product of US experiments, with an anonymous US scientist linking it to Fort Detrick.\n\nScientists at the US Army's Fort Detrick Laboratory were falsely accused of generating AIDS\n\nInitially, there was not much pick-up. But two years later, Soviet news outlets ran the story, citing the Indian reports. That meant they could claim they were not the source.\n\nThe story then spread rapidly over the next few years and can still be found in the wilder edges of the internet.\n\nThe KGB placed great emphasis on not just recruiting people who had access to secrets but people who could influence opinion, so called \"agents of influence\".\n\n\"The Soviet and Soviet Bloc intelligence agencies were very good at cultivating contacts with journalists for instance, or intellectuals, who sometimes knowingly and sometimes unknowingly would be used as launching platforms for fake or leaked stories,\" explains Prof Thomas Rid of King's College, London.\n\nSometimes documents would also be mailed anonymously to journalists.\n\nBut did active measures stop at the end of the Cold War?\n\n\"The Soviet Union may have dissolved in 1990-91 but Soviet intelligence stayed virtually intact both in terms of its organisation and the goals it pursued - and that includes active measures,\" says Mr Boghardt.\n\nThere were also new opportunities thanks to technology.\n\n\"In the 1990s when the Internet slowly emerged, it was really a no-brainer to start to use a platform that made it a lot easier to leak anonymously, to give information anonymously to the public,\" argues Prof Rid.\n\nThe KGB did allegedly try and influence American elections in the past - for instance by pushing the \"Reagan means War\" line in the 1984 US election - and the US intelligence community believes that it did so again in 2016 through a wide-ranging influence operation.\n\nFBI Director James Comey has confirmed there was an open investigation over the links between the Trump campaign and Russia\n\nThis included hacking into organisations like the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign officials' emails and feeding information to websites.\n\n\"What we've seen during the Cold War, somewhat counter-intuitively, is artisanal active measures - very labour intensive at the front end, down to using white gloves when you sign the letter in order to avoid fingerprints, the letter that you then mail anonymously,\" says Prof Rid.\n\n\"It really required good tradecraft. But what we see in 2016 is the opposite: lazy industrial scale hacking and dumping.\"\n\nThe leaking of real information is different from the creation of fake news stories, but they too are alleged to have appeared in 2016 although it is harder to trace their origins in the online world.\n\nIn the current environment, the term fake news has taken on many meanings. Russian intelligence's active measures may well be part of a chaotic mix.\n\nBut in a world in which accusations of fake news and conspiracy are bandied around freely, even exposing such measures can be swept up in a whirlwind of claim and counter-claim.\n\nThe result is confusion. And more divisions which any future active measures can then exploit.\n\nGordon Corera presented Subversion: West on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 31 March at 11:00 BST. You can listen to it and the previous episode Subversion: East on the BBC Radio 4 website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 1 April brings changes to some important rates and taxes\n\nHousehold budgets are likely to be further stretched in the first week of April, as dozens of items including water bills, council tax, NHS charges, and some broadband and energy charges all rise.\n\nThose on welfare will feel the squeeze especially, as payment rates are frozen for the second year in succession, and the generosity of some benefits are reduced.\n\nHowever, those in work are likely to become better off, as tax rates become more generous, and the National Living Wage also rises.\n\nSome of these changes will occur on 1 April, at the start of the government's financial year, while others occur on 6 April, the start of the tax year.\n\nFrom 6 April the personal allowance - the annual amount you can earn before paying tax - rises from £11,000 to £11,500. This should save over 20 million people £100 a year, and take thousands out of tax altogether.\n\nAt the same time the starting point for paying the higher, or 40%, rate of tax will move from £43,000 to £45,000. This will save higher rate taxpayers a further £400 a year.\n\nHowever, in Scotland the higher rate threshold has been frozen at £43,000, so better-off taxpayers north of the border will see no benefit.\n\nMillions of people over the age of 25 will receive a 4% pay rise from 1 April, as the National Living Wage (NLW) increases from £7.20 an hour to £7.50.\n\nHowever, those between the ages of 21 and 24, who receive the National Minimum Wage (NMW), will get a rise of only 1.4% - well below the current 2.3% CPI inflation rate.\n\nSavers can apply to open a new Lifetime Isa (Lisa) from 6 April. The government will add a 25% bonus to your savings after a year, up to a maximum of £1,000. The Lisa is designed for people who want to buy a property, or need a retirement income.\n\nAnyone nearing the age of 40 is advised to consider opening a Lisa soon, as those over that age cannot start an account.\n\nMore details about the Lisa here.\n\nThe allowance for saving into an ordinary Individual Savings Account (Isa) goes up from £15,250 to £20,000 from 6 April.\n\nThe money can be invested in a cash Isa, or in stocks and shares.\n\nThere is no tax to pay on income from an Isa, or on any capital gain.\n\nAnyone buying a new car from 1 April will pay a different rate of Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).\n\nThis is because car emissions have got so much cleaner that most of them would no longer qualify for VED at all.\n\nNew buyers will pay a special rate in the first year, depending on engine emissions, followed by a fixed rate in one of three categories thereafter: zero emission, standard or premium.\n\nThe standard rate will be £140. Luxury cars, costing more than £40,000 will pay an extra £310.\n\nRates for existing car owners will not change.\n\nInheritance tax will become less onerous for people who want to leave property to their children.\n\nCurrently, any estate worth more than £325,000 carries a tax liability of 40% on anything above that threshold.\n\nBut from 6 April there will be a new transferable main residence allowance on property within the estate, enabling individuals to pass on an extra £100,000 tax free.\n\nCouples who are married, or in a civil partnership, will now be able to pass on £850,000 in total without paying tax, an amount that will rise to £1m by 2021.\n\nPeople living in England will see the steepest general rise in council tax. From 1 April the rise will average 4%, equating to £61 for a typical Band D property. The rise will be smaller in district councils, which do not have responsibility for social care, and up to 4.99% in those that do.\n\nIn Scotland the average rise is 3%, equating to about £32 for a Band D property. However, householders in the top four bands (E to H) will see extra increases, due to MSPs deciding to increase the \"multiplyer\". Those with properties in band E will see typical rises of £105 a year, while those in band H are likely to pay £517 more.\n\nCouncil taxpayers in Wales will see a rise of 3.1% on average, equal to about £35 a year on a Band D property.\n\nRate-payers in Northern Ireland have still not been told what their bill will be, due to political issues.\n\nFrom 6 April there will be cuts to future child tax credits. Where a first child is born after this date, claimants will no longer receive the family element of the payment, worth £545 a year.\n\nThose whose first child was born before 6 April will see no change.\n\nIn addition, those who have a third or subsequent child after this date will no longer receive a payment for that child - limiting future tax credits to two children only.\n\nThe same will apply to people claiming universal credit. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculates that as a result of this change alone, 600,000 three-child families will on average be £2,500 worse off than under the old system.\n\nBut in practice no existing parent, and no existing claimant, will actually lose money.\n\nFrom Monday 3 April new claimants for the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) of ESA will receive £29 a week less than existing claimants. These are people whom the government judges may be capable of working at some stage in the future.\n\nThey will receive £73 instead of £102, to bring them into line with claimants for Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA).\n\nThe IFS has estimated that half a million future claimants will receive £1,400 a year less than current claimants.\n\nApril 2017 sees the start of the second year in which many state benefits will be frozen. This includes JSA, ESA, child benefit and some housing benefit payments.\n\nGiven that CPI inflation is currently running at 2.3%, this will amount to a real terms cut for tens of millions of people.\n\nThe freeze is due to last until March 2020.\n\nFrom 10 April, those people who claim universal credit (UC) will be allowed to keep more of what they earn from a job before their benefits are reduced.\n\nPreviously those in work were allowed to keep 35p out of every pound they earned, before their UC payment was cut.\n\nNow they will be allowed to keep 37p in every pound. This is as a result of the so-called taper rate being reduced from 65% to 63%.\n\nThe cost of an NHS prescription in England rises on 1 April from £8.40 to £8.60. However the cost of pre-payment cards has been frozen.\n\nDental charges in England are also rising. The cost of a check-up will go up by 90p to £20.60, the cost of a filling goes up by £2.40 to £56.30, and the most complex work will go up by £10 to £244.30.\n\nFrom 1 April, four million consumers who use pre-payment meters for their gas and electricity will see their charges capped. The regulator, Ofgem, says they should each save around £80 a year.\n\nHowever, on average they were paying £220 more than other consumers, so they will still be paying a higher charge than others.\n\nWater and sewerage bills will go up on 1 April. The average rise in England and Wales is 2%, making a typical annual bill £395. In Scotland the rise will be 1.6%, or around £5 per household.\n\nResidents of Northern Ireland pay for water through their rates bills.\n\nSome energy bills will rise significantly. SSE customers on standard tariffs will see electricity prices rise by 14.9% on 28 April. E.On will increase electricity prices by 13.8%, and gas prices by 3.8%, on 26 April. Most other suppliers increased their prices in March.\n\nSeveral telecoms companies, including BT, EE and Vodafone are putting up prices. The cost of BT broadband, for example, will go up by £2.50 a month.\n\nOn 1 April the cost of a TV licence goes up by £1.50, to £147.", "Smugglers being chased by the Royal Navy. Virtually every seaside community in Britain saw its share of smuggling in the 18th Century\n\nA boat beaches in a lonely cove at night, the crew hurriedly unloading its cargo of tea to waiting men and pack horses while armed lookouts stand guard against a surprise swoop by the revenue men.\n\nIt may be a stereotypical image, but in the 18th Century, a cuppa was in such high demand that many Britons were willing to risk jail for the privilege.\n\nIn fact, this kind of smuggling was a vital part of Britain's economy for some 200 years.\n\nIt was a trade triggered by increasingly high tariffs or duties, taxes a merchant would have to pay to legally import tea.\n\nThe duties on importing tea reached a staggering 119% in the 1750s - which meant that if you could avoid paying the tax, the cost of your brew dropped by more than half.\n\nTea became hugely popular in Britain in the 1700s\n\nNot surprisingly many customers turned to the smugglers, who were willing to risk imprisonment or have their ships destroyed and goods seized if they were caught.\n\nWhen import taxes or tariffs are low, there's not much profit to be made from smuggling.\n\nConversely, when a government makes it expensive to legally import items it encourages smugglers who can undercut the official price.\n\nTea was one of the most important items illegally brought into Britain in the 18th Century - everybody wanted to drink it, but most could not afford it at the official price.\n\nTea chests in London in the 1950s - the nation's love affair with the drink has endured\n\nIn an age before income tax, tea duties accounted for 10% of government revenues, which was enough to pay for the Royal Navy, but as tariffs on it reached 119% it gave smugglers their chance.\n\n\"If you had high tariffs and goods people wanted, it gave smugglers a business opportunity,\" says Exeter University historian Helen Doe.\n\nMore than 3,000 tonnes of tea was smuggled into Britain a year by the late 1700s, with just 2,000 tonnes imported legally.\n\nIn some areas whole communities were dependent on smuggling, from landowners who might finance the operation down to the fishermen who might be crewing the boats.\n\nThere were three main types of smuggling, says Robert Blyth, senior curator at the National Maritime Museum in London.\n\nA romanticised view of the smuggling trade; in reality smugglers often used threats of violence against customs men\n\n\"There's small-scale smuggling, where you might row your boat out to meet a ship and take off some of its cargo to sell illegally, the ship's captain declaring the missing cargo as 'spoiled at sea' when it gets to port to officially unload the rest,\" he says.\n\n\"Then there are commercially organised groups bringing contraband into harbours across the UK in a sophisticated operation.\n\n\"Finally, you have simple theft and pilfering in major ports like London from ships that have already moored, but have not yet been checked by the revenue.\"\n\nIt wasn't just the British who were developing a taste for tea. The popularity of the drink in Sweden meant the country also played an important role in 18th Century smuggling into Britain.\n\nGothenburg was the base for the Swedish East India Company's operations\n\nSwedish East India Company merchants were able to buy the best quality Chinese tea because unlike other European countries they were prepared to pay in silver - rather than seeking to barter or trade.\n\nQuite a few were actually Scottish, political refugees who had fled to Sweden after the failure of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, and who thus saw little wrong in avoiding paying tax to Britain's Hanoverian government.\n\nSo popular was this trade that newspapers in Scotland and northern England openly carried adverts for this smuggled tea, called \"Gottenburgh Teas\".\n\nBuilding specialised docks with guarded warehouses helped cut down stealing of goods once ships had reached London\n\nFor many tea traders in Britain, buying smuggled tea made sense, says Derek Janes, a history researcher at Exeter University.\n\n\"Britain's own East India Company had a monopoly on tea imports, so if an Edinburgh merchant wanted to buy it you had to go to London, you had to pay to bring it back to Scotland - and you had to pay upfront.\n\n\"But if you bought it from the smugglers it would be half the price - with no tax to pay - they would deliver to your door and you would get up to four months credit. A much better service!\"\n\nOne of those involved in this trade was John Nisbet, who became rich enough to commission architect John Adams to design his harbourside mansion in Eyemouth in the Scottish borders, complete with hidden partitions for the smuggled tea.\n\nOften when the customs officials got a tip-off about his ship it was too late - the cargo had already been smuggled ashore. And if a smuggler did have his goods seized, he could sometimes negotiate a price to buy it back from the government.\n\n\"John Nisbet had a ship and cargo seized, but you can see the lawyer for the board of customs in Edinburgh say that the witnesses had disappeared, so the customs did a deal. He paid £250 to get it all back, which still left him in profit,\" says Mr Janes.\n\nBy 1784, the government realised high tariffs were creating more problems than they were worth and cut tea duties to just 12.5%, making tea affordable for most people. The change meant smugglers switched to bringing in spirits and wine instead.\n\nThe end of the Napoleonic wars saw the Royal Navy in undisputed command of the Channel, making it much harder for smugglers to avoid detection\n\nThe Napoleonic wars saw an upsurge in smuggling, but after 1815 with the Royal Navy in undisputed command of the sea, its days were numbered.\n\nUltimately, many smugglers failed. In the long run, the business did not generate enough cash to compensate for the risks of losing stock or ships to the customs. John Nisbet may have been able to afford a fine house but even he went bust eventually, the result of one too many cargo seizures.\n\nIn the end, it was economics that finally put an end to the smuggling era. Britain's adoption of a free trade policy in the 1840s reduced import duties significantly, making smuggling no longer viable.\n\nAnd thanks to that shift in policy, you can now sit back, relax and enjoy a nice cup of tea without any fears of going to prison.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea's lead at the top of the Premier League was cut to seven points after they suffered a shock home defeat by Crystal Palace and Tottenham beat Burnley.\n\nAntonio Conte's side had won their past 10 league games at Stamford Bridge and had not lost there in any competition since 16 September, but saw that run ended by a battling Eagles side.\n\nThe Blues struck first, when Cesc Fabregas turned home Eden Hazard's cross after five minutes, but they were quickly behind.\n\nWilfried Zaha produced a fine solo finish to turn and fire home from the edge of the box and, 91 seconds later, set up Christian Benteke to put Palace ahead with a delicate dinked effort.\n\nChelsea piled on the pressure and had 24 shots at goal, their second-highest total in 29 league games this season.\n\nBut they could find no way past Eagles keeper Wayne Hennessey, who made 11 saves in total to ensure his side won a fourth successive game.\n\nChelsea cannot find a way through\n\nThe international break cannot have helped Chelsea's rhythm but that did not seem a problem when Hazard, back from a calf injury, and Fabregas combined early on.\n\nPutting Pedro in as right wing-back in place of the absent Victor Moses did not seem to cause the leaders too many issues either, as many of their best attacks came down that flank.\n\nA drop in energy levels might have played a part in places, however. N'Golo Kante, who played 90 minutes for France against Spain in midweek, was noticeably below par in the centre of midfield.\n\nMore than 10 minutes of stoppage time was played before the game ended, but Chelsea did not appear any more likely to score and were reduced to hopeful balls into the box as Hazard's influence faded.\n\nAntonio Conte's side remain in a strong position at the top of the table but, if tiredness was an issue against the Eagles, it could affect them again in the next few days.\n\nChelsea's lack of European involvement means they are not used to playing in midweek, and only 13 different players have started 22 league games for them since 1 October.\n\nWith two games in the next seven days, at home to Manchester City and away at Bournemouth, Conte may have to test the strength in depth of his squad for the first time.\n\nDespite their lack of sparkle, Chelsea's defeat was not down to a lack of chances - but, when they did break down Palace's determined defence, they found Hennessey in inspired form.\n\nHis best save was an instinctive stop from Diego Costa in the first half but every facet of the Wales international's game was tested as Chelsea tried to find a way back into the game after going behind.\n\nHennessey had to move quickly to keep out Marcos Alonso's dangerous cross-shot, dash from his line to prevent Costa from stretching to poke the ball home, and was also tested from distance by Nemanja Matic.\n\nHe was helped by his defenders when dealing with the sheer number of crosses from the home side - 35 in total, 12 more than they have previously made in any league game under Conte - but superbly marshalled a back-line that changed twice during the game because of injuries to James Tomkins and then Scott Dann.\n\n'We must accept this result' - what the managers said\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte speaking to Match of the Day: \"This is football. We must accept this result.\n\n\"We scored our goal after five minutes and then we conceded two in a few minutes. When you concede goals in that way you must understand the situation and improve on these mistakes.\n\n\"In every game in England, anything can happen. The league is so strong. We faced a team today with strong players. I think they showed they were a good team.\n\n\"Now we have to think about the next game. If we had won we would have been happy but now it's important to focus on Manchester City.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce: \"I think our performance is typical of what seems to be the character of the side. It's the first time we've gone behind so early. The determination has shone through. We knew we were going to be pegged back.\n\n\"The defence was outstanding, the goalkeeper was outstanding. We could have scored more.\n\n\"It's a sweet three points, to come to the champions - or who I think are going to be champions - and win. This is what the Premier League is about. There can be a shock anywhere. It will make people sit up and say wow.\"\n\nWhat next? Man City come to Stamford Bridge\n\nPalace remain four points clear of the relegation zone, with a game in hand on third-bottom Hull, and a vastly superior goal difference. They are on the road again in midweek, and travel to Southampton on Wednesday (19:45 BST).\n\nChelsea have a chance to make immediate amends on home turf when they host Manchester City on the same night (20:00).\n\nAllardyce beats Chelsea again - the stats you need to know\n• None Allardyce is the first manager to win a Premier League game against Chelsea with four different clubs.\n• None Fabregas scored in his 43rd Premier League game, but this was the first time he had been on the losing side.\n• None Benteke has scored in his past three Premier League appearances at Stamford Bridge, each with a different club (Aston Villa, Liverpool and Crystal Palace).\n• None Chelsea conceded two goals in the opening 11 minutes of a Premier League home game for the first time since October 1995 (v Manchester United).\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Willian tries a through ball, but David Luiz is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. David Luiz tries a through ball, but Pedro is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mamadou Sakho (Crystal Palace) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Jeffrey Schlupp following a set piece situation.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mamadou Sakho (Crystal Palace) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An infestation of \"longtails\" caused a rather unusual problem for Rick Faragher\n\nRick Faragher is no pied piper - he is from the Isle of Man and people there are deeply superstitious about using the three-letter \"r\" word for vermin.\n\nBut the BBC News reporter had to face his fears when he was sent to cover a story in Belfast that made his blood run cold.\n\nI winced the moment I got the nod.\n\nI'd covered some difficult stories for the BBC but this was the most daunting in terms of subject matter.\n\nIt's not that I have an issue with the creatures themselves, it's just their name.\n\nFor the first 29 years of my life, I had never actually used the word.\n\nBut that was about to change in 2015. It was unavoidable. I had a professional obligation to utter the dreaded word - RAT.\n\nA rat by any other name - ringie, joey or roddan are acceptable in the Isle of Man\n\nLike any self-respecting Manxman - Isle of Man native - I had opted for other terms - \"longtail\" is the most common.\n\nOthers such as \"ringie\", \"joey\" or the native Gaelic word \"roddan\" are also acceptable.\n\nI was out of my homeland and out of my comfort zone. I honestly thought I could hear the creatures sniggering at my plight.\n\nBut I went out and I mumbled my way around the word with the owner of the infested house.\n\nThis was a disaster. I felt embarrassed already.\n\nEven people who move to the Isle of Man often dodge the term, whether through genuine fear of bad luck, or to avoid shock and outrage from the locals.\n\nSome say it began with fishermen who brought their superstitions back to shore.\n\nI knew there were three ways to stop a jinx if ever I was forced to say it: Whistle immediately afterwards; touch a piece of wood while saying it, or cross my fingers.\n\nThere's an ancient belief that killing a wren on St Stephen's Day is good luck for you... not such great luck for the wren\n\nThe interviews with the owner and environmental health officer were soon filmed and it was time for my piece to camera - almost three decades of superstition about to end.\n\nI fidgeted, cleared my throat, and slowly climbed the ladder to the attic.\n\nAfter a couple of seconds the time had come… \"Rats.\"\n\nRats: \"They fought the dogs and killed the cats and bit the babies in the cradles\"\n\nI said it without hesitation in an attempt to sound convincing.\n\nMy right hand squeezed the ladder. My left hand was out of shot, fingers firmly crossed.\n\nWe Manxmen are not alone.\n\nDr Andrew Sneddon, from Ulster University, said superstitious beliefs about rats were commonplace in Ireland in the early 20th Century.\n\n\"In County Galway, people believed that if you were plagued by rats you could get them to move on by getting an owl's quill and dipping it in raven's blood while saying 'rats be gone',\" he said.\n\nIn the Middle Ages, people believed fairies could \"blast\" cattle and humans\n\n\"In County Cavan, there were people who used charms to banish rats for you, and in County Laois, rats were believed to be a sign of an enemy or bad luck.\"\n\nIt seems it is not just rats that gave our ancestors sleepless nights.\n\n\"From the Medieval period onwards, Ireland, in common with the Highlands and islands of Scotland, and the Isle of Man, fairy belief is very strong in the sense that you try not to upset the fairies because they are dangerous,\" said Dr Sneddon.\n\n\"They can whisk away healthy children and leave sickly changelings in their wake. They can fairy blast or elf-shoot your cattle and make them ill, they can also blast humans.\n\n\"They can also abduct you and take you away to their land. This can also happen if you step into a fairy ring, either made of mushrooms or a Neolithic stone circle.\n\n\"In Ireland, as a precaution, traditionally you don't mention the name fairy, you say gentry or good people.\"", "Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho questions whether the game was evenly matched, despite BBC Sport's Conor McNamara insisting he was only asking the Red Devils' manager's opinion.\n\nWatch highlights of all of the day's Premier League action on Match of the Day on BBC One and this website from 22:30 BST.", "The Trump administration's immigration enforcement priorities are beginning to affect legal residents as well as undocumented men and women.\n\nThis week, a number of visa and green card holders were faced with the prospect of deportation, which stirred debate about what crimes should disqualify an immigrant from staying in the US.\n\nOne man is fighting to have his case retried because he claims his lawyer failed to instruct him that a guilty plea would initiate the deportation process. The case is currently being heard by the US Supreme Court.\n\nHere's a look at some of the people making news for facing deportation this week.\n\nDrs Satija and Ummat, a married couple, both had legal status to live and work in the US as neurologists.\n\nBoth have green card applications sponsored by their employers. Because of a backlog in processing green card requests going back to 2008, the doctors have been granted provisional legal status to be in the US until their applications are officially approved.\n\nWhen Dr Satija's father fell ill in October, the couple flew to India. A Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent stamped their travel paperwork despite the fact that it had expired the previous year. No one noticed the mistake until the doctors tried to return to the US, when another CBP agent noticed the document had expired four months earlier.\n\nInitially, immigration agents allowed Dr Satija and Dr Ummat to re-enter the US and attempt to correct their paperwork. However, a few weeks ago they were informed that they would have to leave the US and would not be granted temporary permission to stay.\n\nTheir lawyer, Gordon Quan, says his clients were able to secure a 90-day extension to fix their paperwork.\n\n\"We were just trying to get some time for the sake of the patients because people had surgeries, were in the middle of operations,\" says Mr Quan.\n\n\"I got a call from the hospital saying that some patients may even die if the doctors are forced to leave during that time.\"\n\nAn Arizona State University student from China, Mr Zhang was convicted of illegally filming women in a campus bathroom in January. Mr Zhang was in the country on a student visa.\n\nAfter his conviction, Mr Zhang received a sentence of 10 years of supervised probation and was prohibited from contacting any of the victims he filmed.\n\nHowever, Mr Zhang now faces deportation because an immigration judge decided his legal basis for being in the US ended when he was convicted for felony voyeurism.\n\nHe remains in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona, awaiting arrangements to be deported to China.\n\nMr Perez is a dairy farm employee and an advocate for migrant workers. He was working on a campaign to allow undocumented residents of New York to apply for driver's licenses before Ice agents arrested him in February.\n\nBorn in Mexico, he has lived in Livingston County, New York, for 17 years and has four children, three of whom are US citizens.\n\nMr Perez had a deportation case against him that was administratively closed in September 2016. He had no criminal record, and possessed a social security number, and a work permit.\n\nHaving an immigration case administratively closed \"is essentially like being in limbo,\" says Fox. \"You're not on a path to citizenship, but you're not going to be deported as long as you comply with the conditions.\"\n\nWhen Ice officials asked him to come into a local office for a routine check-in this year, he was subsequently detained.\n\n\"I was part of the community and represented my colleagues and I felt free finally, after living in fear for so long,\" Mr Perez said in a written statement.\n\n\"People know me, I speak up, I am not hiding, and when they called me to go in and sign I went, I didn't hide.\"\n\nMr Perez is scheduled to have a hearing to set his bail on 19 April.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Sanchez-Reyes's son, Henry Sanchez-Milian, was arrested on rape charges in Rockville, Maryland, after allegedly assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a high school bathroom.\n\nOn 24 March, officers looked into Mr Sanchez-Reyes' immigration status as part of their investigation into his son's alleged crime. He was arrested for residing in the US illegally.\n\nMr Sanchez-Reyes has been issued a notice to appear in immigration court. He is currently detained at the Howard County Detention Facility in Maryland and could face deportation to Guatemala.\n\nMr Rodriguez Dominguez, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was detained by Ice agents at his Portland home on 26 March. He has lived in the US since he was 5 years old.\n\nIn December, Mr Rodriguez Dominguez faced charges for drunk driving, but a judge allowed his to enter a diversion program that would clear the charge from his record. If the charge remained, Mr Rodriguez Dominguez's Daca status could have been revoked.\n\nAfter protests demanding his release, Mr Rodriguez Dominguez left Ice custody on bond on Monday. His immigration case will still move forward through the court system.\n\nAn Ice spokesperson told Willamette Week that the agency still considered Mr Rodriguez Dominguez a deportation priority because of his guilty plea on the drunk-driving charge.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool enhanced their prospects of a top-four place by beating derby rivals Everton, whose own hopes of breaking into the battle for a Champions League qualification spot were severely damaged by the defeat.\n\nSadio Mane gave the hosts an early lead when he played a one-two with Roberto Firmino and finished off an angled run with a shot into the far corner.\n\nA Philippe Coutinho shot was palmed up by Toffees keeper Joel Robles and headed off the line by Phil Jagielka before the visitors equalised.\n\nJagielka flicked on a corner at the near post and, after Ashley Williams got a touch, Matthew Pennington arrived to slot in his first Everton goal on his first appearance of the season.\n\nHowever, the match was level for just two minutes and 57 seconds before Coutinho beat two players and curled a shot into the top corner, and he then set up substitute Divock Origi - on for the injured Mane - to power in Liverpool's third.\n\nThe result leaves the Reds six points clear of fifth-placed Manchester United - who have two games in hand - while Everton are seven points off the top four having played more matches than their rivals.\n\nLiverpool hired a private jet to bring Coutinho and fellow Brazil international Firmino back after their country's win over Paraguay in midweek and will feel the move was worth it after the forward returned to form in style.\n\nCoutinho has struggled since recovering from an ankle injury in January but provided an assist as well as his goal as the Reds extended their unbeaten run against their Merseyside neighbours to 14 games in all competitions.\n\nThe 24-year-old was a picture of feints, shimmies and attacking runs at the Blues defence, and might have scored earlier if Robles and Jagielka had not combined to deny him.\n\nMane, who scored the winner in the reverse fixture, set the Reds on their way with his 13th goal of the season - but an injury in the second half will be a concern for Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, who is already without attacking midfielder Adam Lallana for up to a month.\n\nSenegal winger Mane, Liverpool's top scorer this season, hurt himself trying to win the ball off Leighton Baines and, when he tried to put weight on his leg after treatment, collapsed.\n\n\"I've met Mane in the dressing room. It doesn't look too good,\" said Klopp.\n\nEverton striker Romelu Lukaku has been accused of going missing in the big games, despite being the Premier League's top scorer with 21 goals this season.\n\nThe Belgium international may have scored against top-four sides Manchester City and Tottenham during the present campaign, but he gave his critics further fuel after an ineffective display at Anfield.\n\nHe did not have his only touch in the Liverpool area until the 70th minute and he also failed to have a shot - on or off target - on the opposition goal.\n\n\"On today's showing, what you saw was a striker who didn't do enough to keep himself on the pitch,\" BBC Sport pundit Jason Roberts told Final Score.\n\n\"In these games where you need him to do a little bit more of the dogged work, he didn't offer that to his team. His head went down and that was the story of Everton.\"\n\nMidfielder Ross Barkley is also a key player for the Goodison Park club. However, he was also disappointing as he tested referee Anthony Taylor's patience with challenges on James Milner and Emre Can, before being booked for a late tackle on Dejan Lovren.\n\nEverton have not won at Anfield since September 1999 and they did little to alter the view that they have a psychological barrier at the home of their neighbours.\n\nEven having gone into the match with one defeat in 12 league games and four clean sheets in their past five games, they could not stop their hosts doing the double over them this season.\n\nHowever, there were mitigating circumstances with injuries to defenders Seamus Coleman and Ramiro Funes Mori forcing manager Ronald Koeman to replace them with right wing-back Mason Holgate, 20, and centre-back Pennington, 22.\n\nPennington did have the joy of scoring but was also caught out for Coutinho's goal as Liverpool widened the gap between the two teams to nine points.\n\nWhat they said:\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp on Barkley's challenge on Lovren: \"I'm still a kind of a guest in this country. How can I decide what is OK and what is not OK?\n\n\"My opinion is that the players should leave the pitch healthy and fit but not injured.\n\n\"It's not my job to judge it. If you saw something, say it. If not, be quiet.\"\n\nEverton boss Koeman: \"Maybe one or two tackles were a little too much. It's football, a derby.\n\n\"From both sides I saw tackles that were maybe more than a yellow. According to the bench of Liverpool - I don't mean the manager - the referee should have shown eight red cards.\"\n\nKlopp record - the stats you need to know\n• None Klopp is the first Liverpool manager to win his first three league Merseyside derbies against Everton.\n• None Mane has scored in both Merseyside derbies this season, the first player to do that since Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge in 2013-14.\n• None Mane has now been involved in 18 league goals this season (13 goals, five assists), his best return in a Premier League campaign.\n• None Pennington became the fifth player - following Duncan Ferguson, John Arne Riise, Raul Meireles and Steven Naismith - to score his first Premier League goal in a Merseyside derby.\n• None Only Olivier Giroud (seven) has scored more goals as a substitute than Divock Origi's six since the Belgium international's Premier League debut in September 2015.\n\nThere is a fast turnaround in the top flight with a midweek programme in which Everton visit Manchester United on Tuesday for a 20:00 BST kick-off and Liverpool host Bournemouth on Wednesday, also at 20:00.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Ashley Williams (Everton) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin Mirallas (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Idrissa Gueye.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. James Milner tries a through ball, but Roberto Firmino is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Emre Can. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nKenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei broke four world records as she stormed to victory at the Prague Half Marathon.\n\nThe 23-year-old completed what was just her fifth half marathon in one hour, four minutes and 52 seconds - 14 seconds quicker than the record set by Peres Jepchirchir earlier this year.\n\nAnd she also clocked splits of 30:05, 45:37 and 1:01:25 to break the 10km, 15km and 20km world records on the way.\n\n\"I only wanted to improve my time. This is a surprise for me,\" Jepkosgei said.\n\n\"I didn't know I would break the world record today.\n\n\"But the conditions were good for me because I'm used to training at this time of day.\"\n\nDefending champion Violah Jepchumba finished second - 30 seconds back - and Fancy Chemutai third, with America's sixth-placed Jordan Hasay the only non-Kenyan in the top 10.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRoger Federer won a thrilling three-hour contest against Nick Kyrgios to set up a final against Rafael Nadal at the Miami Open.\n\nThe Swiss, 35, won 7-6 (11-9) 6-7 (9-11) 7-6 (7-5) to take his 2017 record to 18 wins and one defeat.\n\nFederer will take on Nadal for the 37th time on Sunday, and the second final this year after beating the Spaniard at January's Australian Open.\n\nNadal, 30, beat Italy's Fabio Fognini 6-1 7-5 in the first semi-final.\n\nFognini, 29, had become the first unseeded player in 10 years to make the last four but was no match for Nadal, who will try to win a first Miami title in his fifth final on Sunday.\n\n\"It's great to be in the final for me,\" said Nadal after winning the first of the semi-finals. \"I am excited to play another final of an important event.\n\n\"If it's Roger, it's going to be another one for both of us, and that's it. Just another one.\"\n\nFederer made sure that there will be another episode to his rivalry with Nadal, which began in Miami 13 years ago.\n\nThe 18-time Grand Slam champion maintained his spectacular run of results with victory over the in-form Kyrgios.\n\n\"It felt very good,\" said the Swiss, who last won the Miami title in 2006. \"You don't very often play three breakers in a match.\n\n\"Winning breakers is always such a thrill. I tried to really fight for it. I can't always show my fighting skills, it is great winning this way.\"\n\nDespite playing in front of a heavily pro-Federer crowd, Kyrgios extended the former champion over three hours and 10 minutes, with the 21-year-old Australian showing his frustration by smashing his racquet after losing match point.\n\n\"I had some ups and downs, bit of a rollercoaster,\" said Kyrgios.\n\n\"Ultimately I think I put in a good performance. I thought the crowd would've enjoyed watching it, people at home would've enjoyed watching it. But I wouldn't be surprised if they found something bad, though.\"\n\nOn Saturday, British number one Johanna Konta plays Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki in the women's final at 18:00 BST - with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nKonta, 25, became the first British woman to reach the Miami Open final with a 6-4 7-5 victory over Venus Williams in the last four on Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United's injury problems have worsened, with midfielder Juan Mata joining defenders Chris Smalling and Phil Jones on the sidelines.\n\nUnited announced on Friday that Mata, 28, has had surgery on a groin problem.\n\nJones, 25, injured a toe in an innocuous training-ground tackle, with reports claiming it involved Smalling.\n\nSmalling, 27, has been pictured wearing a leg brace , and United manager Jose Mourinho said both central defenders would be out \"long term\".\n\nThe club are yet to reveal how long Mata will be out for, and said updates on his recovery \"will follow in due course\".\n\nCaptain Wayne Rooney returns for Saturday's Premier League game against West Brom (15:00 BST) after recovering from a knee injury.\n\nThe 31-year-old has missed the Red Devils' past four games.\n\nBut United will be without striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and midfielder Ander Herrera, who are both suspended, and midfielder Paul Pogba, who has a hamstring problem.\n\nAsked how long he expects to be without Jones and Smalling, Mourinho: \"I don't know. I think clearly they are long-term injuries, and Pogba I have no idea.\"\n\n'One defeat and we're out of it'\n\nMourinho has previously said he would concentrate on United's Europa League campaign and a two-legged quarter-final against Belgian team Anderlecht next month, rather than the league.\n\nHowever, as United are four points behind Liverpool, who occupy the fourth Champions League qualifying place and have two games in hand, he is not abandoning the league.\n\n\"Every match now for us is a big match,\" he said.\n\n\"Europa League is play quarter-final or go home, in the Premier League one more match, one more victory we are in the run, one defeat maybe you are not in the run any more.\"\n\n'I am sorry for what I did to him'\n\nMourinho also said he regretted the way he treated Bastian Schweinsteiger, and added he apologised to the midfielder before his move to the Chicago Fire.\n\nThe German World Cup winner, who joined United in 2015, trained with the reserves following Mourinho's arrival in the summer, but was brought back into the first team in late October.\n\nHowever, last week the 32-year-old was permitted a move to join the MLS side.\n\n\"He's in the category of players that I feel sorry for something that I did to him,\" Mourinho said.\n\n\"The last thing I told him before he left: 'I was not right with you once, I have to be right with you now.'\n\n\"So when he was asking me to let him leave, I had to say 'yes, you can leave' because I did it once, I cannot do it twice.\n\n\"I will miss a good guy, a good professional, a good influence in training - a very good influence.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRepublic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill described Ronald Koeman as a \"master tactician of the blame game\" as their row over James McCarthy escalated.\n\nMcCarthy, 26, missed Everton's past two matches but linked up with the Republic squad during the international break.\n\nAfter he injured a hamstring, Toffees boss Koeman accused O'Neill of \"not protecting\" the midfielder.\n\nKoeman later reiterated his point in an ironic tweet, signing it: \"From the master tactician.\"\n\nIn his news conference on Friday, Koeman was clearly angered as he read out a prepared statement saying: \"Clearly James was not fit to play. We advised extreme caution. He was not fit to play.\n\n\"In my opinion, the Ireland manager in this instance was not protecting the player. I am not surprised but I am disappointed.\"\n\nIn response, O'Neill issued his own statement.\n\nIt read: \"Once again the Everton manager, master tactician of the blame game, has struck out in his comments, criticising both myself and James McCarthy.\n\n\"Perhaps a review of Everton's pre-season programme might provide some enlightenment.\n\n\"James had a magnificent tournament for the Republic of Ireland last summer during at Euro 2016, playing his last game in very late June.\n\n\"He then returned to Everton after a very short break, but only 11 days later, he played his first of three games, all within an eight-day period, against Real Betis, Manchester United and Espanyol. Overloading?\n\n\"It should be added that James last played for his country on 9 October - almost half a year ago. Since that time he has been totally under Everton's supervision.\n\n\"James is diligent and conscientious in his professional preparation. Perhaps, in this instance, quiet introspection may serve the Everton manager and his medical staff better.\"\n\nMcCarthy was named in O'Neill's starting line-up for the 0-0 draw against Wales but pulled out of the team after suffering an injury in the warm-up.\n\nIn October, Koeman said McCarthy, who has been struggling with a hamstring injury for several months, had been \"massively overloaded\" by the Republic.\n\nThat came in response to O'Neill's claim the Dutchman was \"bleating\" about the matter.\n\nFormer Republic midfielder Roy Keane, O'Neill's assistant, then said Everton players must \"toughen up\".\n\n'This is not the first time' - Koeman's full statement\n\n\"James had an injury when he reported for Ireland duty last week and our medical team made the Ireland medical team aware of this.\n\n\"Everton's medical team advised extreme caution, not only due to the current injury but also due to previous injuries.\n\n\"The assessment by the Ireland medical was that it would be a high risk for James to play against Wales.\n\n\"But of course James has a strong desire to play for his country so when asked if he was fit to play he said he felt he was fit. And he was selected to start the game but withdrawn.\n\n\"In my opinion, in this instance it was not protecting the player. James was clearly not fit to play. He only trained for two days with Ireland and broke down in the warm-up.\n\n\"He has only played only one game from the start in 2017 and he did not play for three weeks before the Wales game. In my opinion he would need at least one full week of training sessions to be declared fit.\n\n\"I spoke to James, he needs to take responsibility for this. But this is not the first time.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSt Johnstone players Danny Swanson and Richard Foster are set to face \"severe\" punishments for brawling with each other in the 1-0 defeat at Hamilton, manager Tommy Wright says.\n\nThe Perth club has suspended the team-mates pending a club investigation, which will start on Monday.\n\nWright told BBC Scotland that \"if what's alleged\" to have occurred did in fact happen \"we'll come down severely hard on both\".\n\nReferee Don Robertson sent off both players during the break.\n\nWright, whose side confirmed their top six place due to results elsewhere, says he did not see the incident as he had already started walking up the tunnel following the half time whistle.\n\nBBC Scotland reporter Jonathan Sutherland saw Foster throw a punch at Swanson, who retaliated by aiming a kick at the defender after he had slipped.\n\n\"I haven't seen it with my own eyes but obviously something happened,\" said Wright.\n\n\"I'm going to wait and see for myself. The players have been told they let themselves down, and let the team down. We should be celebrating confirming our top six place tonight.\n\n\"Under no circumstance will they get off lightly if what is alleged to have happened has happened. The hardest punishment I can do legally with them, I'll do it.\"\n\nWright was angry that the incident left his side up against it in the second half, and that the shine was taken off the Saints confirming a top six berth.\n\n\"It's another great achievement getting the top six,\" he added. \"We showed a lot of character and should have had a penalty. (Georgios) Sarris has got arms all over Murray Davidson and that should have been a penalty kick.\n\n\"The boys were magnificent and probably deserved a point but they didn't get it.\"\n\nHamilton player Ali Crawford was shown a yellow card and assistant manager Guillaume Beuzelin sent to the stand after becoming involved in the chaotic scenes that followed the incident between Foster and Swanson.\n\nHowever, manager Martin Canning told BBC Scotland: \"I would rather be talking about us. It is not something you want to see, but it is a passionate game and sometimes it spills over.\n\n\"My players acted well. I think Darian MacKinnon was just trying to separate them and calm things down.\n\n\"I don't think I have to take any action against my players.\"\n\nHamilton moved off bottom spot in the table thanks to the win, sealed by a late Alex D'Acol goal. They are 11th on 27 points, two clear of bottom club Inverness Caledonian Thistle.\n\n\"With 11 against 11 in the first half, I thought we were excellent and we kept going and got a huge three points,\" Canning added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Serbian spoof election candidate Luka Maksimovic may attract more than 10% of the vote\n\nWhat does it say about a country, specifically its politicians, when one of the three leading election contenders is a satirical candidate?\n\nGoing into the final days of campaigning, Ljubisa Preletacevic is vying with well-established political players in the race to become Serbia's next president.\n\nThey include a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, Vuk Jeremic; the ultranationalist leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj; and a former minister of the economy, Sasa Radulovic.\n\nPreletacevic has been consistently out-polling all of them. Not bad for a man who does not actually exist.\n\nPosters of ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj (L) vie with those of favourite Aleksandar Vucic\n\nFor all the considerable publicity about his presidential bid, it would take an upset of unprecedented scale for him to prevent Aleksandar Vucic from becoming head of state.\n\nThe incumbent prime minister looks a reasonable bet to pass the 50% threshold and win in the first round. But the man on the white horse is an irresistible story.\n\nThe creator of Ljubisa Preletacevic is a 25-year-old student, Luka Maksimovic. He came up with the character for last year's local elections in Mladenovac, a suburb of Serbia's capital, Belgrade.\n\nThe student and his friends were as stunned as everyone else when Preletacevic led a coalition (known as \"Hit It Hard\" or \"Keep It Strong\", depending on the translator) to 20% of the vote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe character was supposed to be a joke - a parody of an opportunist politician. The name Preletacevic is a pun: prelatac is a word used to describe a political figure who switches parties for political gain.\n\nThe ever-present white suit and his nickname, \"Beli\" (white), also cock a snook at politicians who promise probity on the campaign trail, but head straight for the trough once elected.\n\nIn contrast, Preletacevic and his cohorts brazenly commit to making false promises. One particularly eyebrow-raising proposal was a plan to open a euthanasia department for pensioners in a local hospital, to cut down on the cost of care for the elderly.\n\nThe parody struck such a chord that Preletacevic's SPN party, which stands roughly for \"Have You tasted the sauerkraut?\" has become the biggest opposition grouping on Mladenovac council, with 12 seats.\n\nHis appeal appears to be spreading nationwide, to the considerable chagrin of economic reformers and ultranationalists alike.\n\nHis alter-ego, Luka Maksimovic, has responded with grim satisfaction to double-digit poll ratings, accusing Serbian politicians of being \"dirty and corrupt\" and declaring that it is time \"at least to try to do something to change that\".\n\nWhether a comedy candidate with little-to-nothing in the way of serious policies can promote a meaningful analysis of the shortcomings of Serbian politics is another question.\n\nAmong the main candidates are: ex-foreign minister Vuk Jeremic (L), former ombudsman Sasa Jankovic and ex-economy minister Sasa Radulovic\n\n\"He does have two effects. He can encourage young voters who don't want to go to the polls. So he can, with his satire, mobilise them.\n\n\"But the second effect is that he is counting on those who are dissatisfied.\"\n\nIt is not favourite Aleksandar Vucic who is losing votes, he believes, but his most serious challengers, ex-ombudsman Sasa Jankovic and former foreign minister Vuk Jeremic.\n\n\"This is a serious moment and it's not time for games and humour,\" he warns.\n\nAleksandar Vucic will, in all probability, complete a smooth transition from the prime minister's office to the presidency. And the power base in Serbia will go with him.\n\nBut perhaps, as well as raising laughs, Ljubisa Preletacevic will raise awareness that Serbian politics has problems that need serious consideration.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea's surprise defeat by Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge makes the title race \"more interesting\", says Blues boss Antonio Conte.\n\nThe Premier League leaders suffered only their second home defeat of the season as Palace boosted their survival hopes with a 2-1 win.\n\nTottenham's win at Burnley means they are seven points behind Chelsea.\n\n\"For (the media) it's a good result, because it makes this more interesting in the championship,\" Conte said.\n\n\"But I always said the league finishes when you have the mathematical certainty that you won. Otherwise you must fight, you must play every game to try to win.\"\n\n'Spurs will fight for the title'\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says he and his players still believe they can catch Chelsea following their 2-0 win at Burnley.\n\n\"It's an important, a massive three points for us to still believe we can fight for the title,\" said the Argentine.\n\n\"We showed great belief and character and faith. That makes us proud.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal defender Martin Keown on Match of the Day\n\n\"I don't think it can be done. But Tottenham have been brilliant since the turn of the year. They're the two best teams and let's see what they can do.\"\n\nPrior to Palace's visit, Chelsea had not lost in any competition since a 2-0 defeat at Tottenham on 4 January.\n\nIt looked like they were on course for another victory when Cesc Fabregas struck early on, but two quick goals from Wilfried Zaha and Christian Benteke secured a fourth successive win for Palace.\n\nThe Eagles, having looked in real danger of going down earlier this season, are now four points clear of the relegation zone.\n\n\"Nobody expected it,\" said Palace boss Sam Allardyce, who has never been relegated from the Premier League as a manager.\n\n\"It's an absolutely outstanding victory for us, particularly in the position we're in.\"", "Coverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nFour-time champion Tiger Woods has confirmed he will not be fit for next week's Masters and has not put a timetable on his return.\n\nThe American, 41, winner of 14 majors, has not played since withdrawing from the Dubai Desert Classic on 3 February with ongoing back spasms.\n\nThis year marks the 20th anniversary of his first Masters win and he said: \"I did about everything I could to play.\"\n\nWoods also missed the 2014 and 2016 Masters tournaments because of injury.\n\nHe won the last of his 14 major titles at the US Open in June 2008 and has since had surgery on his knee and back.\n\nAfter an absence of 17 months, he returned to the PGA Tour in January but missed the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open after rounds of 76 and 72 and was injured again after an opening round of 77 in Dubai the following week.\n\n\"My back rehabilitation didn't allow me the time to get tournament ready,\" Woods said in a statement on his website.\n\n\"I'm especially upset because it's a special anniversary for me that's filled with a lot of great memories.\n\nFind out how to get into golf with our special guide.\n\n\"I have no timetable for my return, but I will continue my diligent effort to recover, and want to get back out there as soon as possible.\"\n\nWoods said he would still be at Augusta National's clubhouse on Tuesday for the annual Champions Dinner ahead of the year's opening major, which starts on Thursday.\n\n\"Woods has been struggling with back injuries for quite some time now. There was an awful lot of optimism that this would be the year he would make a successful comeback to competitive golf.\n\n\"But having played only three rounds before succumbing to yet more back problems, no surprise he has not managed to make it in time for what is always an arduous test at the Masters.\n\n\"It's always a blow for golf when Woods doesn't play because he remains the biggest calling card in the game but there are a crop of young players who are at the very top of the game who are really driving it forward.\n\n\"But it would have been a huge boost for the game if Tiger Woods had been back at Augusta - and competitive - at the first major of the year.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger has reiterated his desire to manage next season as he believes \"retirement is dying\" for people of his age.\n\nWenger, 67, has been criticised by some fans after the Gunners slipped to sixth in the Premier League following four defeats in their past five games.\n\nA 10-2 aggregate loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League added to the pressure on the Frenchman.\n\nBut Wenger, who has been at Arsenal since 1996, said: \"I will not retire.\"\n\nHis contract expires at the end of the season but the club has offered a new two-year deal. Wenger has said he will make a decision on his future \"very soon\".\n\n\"Retiring is for young people,\" said Wenger, speaking before Sunday's league match at home to Manchester City.\n\n\"For old people retirement is dying. I still watch every football game. I find it interesting.\"\n\nWenger is into his 21st year as Arsenal manager but he has not led the Gunners to a Premier League title in 13 years.\n\n\"Of course I'm as hungry,\" he said. \"I carry a bit more pressure on my shoulders than 20 years ago - but the hunger is exactly the same.\n\n\"When you see what the club was and what it is today - when I arrived we were seven people [members of staff], we are 700 today.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hate defeat. I can understand the fans that are unhappy with every defeat but the only way to have victory is to stick together with the fans and give absolutely everything until the end of the season, that's all we can do.\"", "When Rebecca Lowe set off solo from the UK for Iran by bicycle, her friends thought she had taken leave of her senses. But although she had to endure gropers, extreme heat and heavy-handed police, most of the people she met were a long way removed from stereotypes.\n\nThe day I left London to embark on a 6,000-mile (10,000km), year-long cycle to Tehran, I was deeply unprepared.\n\nI wasn't fit. I had never used panniers. I had no sense of direction. It was six years since I had last ridden up a hill.\n\nBut for all my doubts, I was dedicated to the task at hand. My aims were simple: develop enviably shapely calves, survive and shed light on a region long misunderstood by the West.\n\nMostly, I wanted to show that the bulk of the Middle East is far from the volatile hub of violence and fanaticism people believe. And that a woman could cycle through it safely.\n\nNot everyone had faith in my ability to do so, however. \"We think you'll probably die,\" one friend told me before I left. \"We've put the odds at about 60:40.\"\n\nOthers were less optimistic.\n\nA man in the pub said I was a \"naive idiot who would end up decapitated in a ditch - at best\". A good friend sent me a copy of Rudyard Kipling's If, stressing the importance of keeping \"your head when all about you / Are losing theirs\".\n\nYet I remained tentatively confident. The region may be politically precarious, but the people I knew from experience to be warm and kind.\n\nCrime rates were low and terrorist strongholds isolated and avoidable. Even exposed on a bike, I felt my odds of staying alive weren't bad.\n\nI'd chosen a bicycle for its simplicity and slowness of pace, and its immersive, worm's-eye view. On a bike you don't just observe the world but are absorbed within it. You are seen as unthreatening and endearingly unhinged, and are welcomed into people's lives.\n\nI set off in July 2015. Over the next four months I inched my way with sluggish determination across Europe.\n\nAs summer bled into autumn, my stamina gradually grew - along with my thighs. By Bosnia they were formidable. By Bulgaria they had developed their own gravitational field.\n\nBut leaving Europe was nerve-wracking. I was now outside my comfort zone, in the relative unknown.\n\nIn front of me lay Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Oman, the UAE and Iran. Pre-warned about men, terrorists and traffic, I began the next leg of my journey with caution.\n\nI swiftly relaxed, however. A truck driver stopped just to hand me a satsuma. A cafe owner gave me his earmuffs. Dozens of others offered food, water, lifts and lodgings, and endless varieties of kebab.\n\nThroughout the Middle East, it was the same. Doors were forever flung wide to greet this strange, two-wheeled anomaly who was surely in need of help, and possibly psychiatric care.\n\nMy hosts varied widely: rich and poor, mullahs and atheists, Bedouin and businessmen, niqab-clad women and qabaa-robed men. Every person and community was different, but certain traits linked them all: kindness, curiosity and tolerance.\n\nIn Sudan, families fed me endless vats of ful (bean stew) and let me sleep in their modest mud-brick houses. One Nubian family gently restored me to health after I ran out of water in the Sahara and collapsed, vomiting and delirious, on their doorstep: the lowest point of the trip, and the only time I experienced true panic.\n\nIranian hospitality felt like a soft protective cloak, omnipresent and ever-reliable. So much wonderful, impractical food was given to me by passers-by - watermelons, bread, bags of cucumbers - that much had to be discarded.\n\nPersian culture pulsed with contradictions. On my first day, the police admonished me for removing my headscarf in blazing heat under a tree. Minutes later the officer's sister-in-law was serving me khoresh gheimeh (lamb and split pea stew) in her nearby bungalow.\n\nThe trip was not all blissfully trouble-free, of course.\n\nThere were the sex pests, for a start. In Jordan, Egypt and Iran, I was groped, ogled and propositioned with disappointing regularity.\n\nIn Egypt, one randy tuk-tuk driver got his comeuppance following a juicy bum squeeze by being beaten to a pulp by the police convoy on my tail - my horror at their brutality only outdone by my undisguised glee.\n\nIn Jordan, a truck driver who'd picked me up following a puncture repeatedly asked for kisses and grabbed my breasts. Fortunately his bravado ceased abruptly at the sight of my penknife wafting ominously close to his crotch.\n\nSuch incidents angered me intensely, and were often frightening and unsettling. Lechery is hardly a preserve of the Middle East, but there were areas where strains of patriarchy and entitlement ran deep.\n\nI realised quickly, however, that these men were not monsters. They were ignorant and often ill-educated. Not to mention severely sexually frustrated within a culture where physical intimacy is shameful and stigmatised.\n\nThey were more cowardly opportunists than malicious aggressors, and it was usually easy enough to send them scuttling cravenly on their way.\n\nThere were certain things no-one could help with, however. The traffic was obscene by Turkey and got progressively worse. The heat was obscene by Sudan - upwards of 40 C - and also got progressively worse.\n\nToilets were a serious concern. In the remote gold mining regions of northern Sudan, where few women ventured, there simply weren't any.\n\n\"Look around you,\" a man at one roadside shack told me, gesturing to the entirely exposed desert behind him. \"The Sahara is your toilet.\"\n\nThe most worrisome issue, however, was political. Across the region, repression was palpable, and foreign journalists clearly weren't welcome.\n\nDon't tell the authorities your profession, I was told, or others would pay the price too. I took this advice - yet it was hard to feel at ease.\n\nIn Egypt, ruled by a heavy-handed military regime, tourists were tightly controlled and protected. The police were suffocating in their oversight, escorting me 500 miles (800km) down the Nile and aggressively grilling everyone I met.\n\nIn Iran, I was given more freedom. Yet foreigners are not permitted to stay with locals without permission, and several of my hosts endured an intense grilling by police. Some of those aware of my profession declined any contact at all due to fear of repercussion.\n\nEverywhere I went, security and oppression continually curbed freedom and dissent.\n\nIn Turkey, pro-Kurdish human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi was killed by an unknown gunman a few days after we met. In Sudan, two students were killed in clashes with regime forces and supporters during my brief stay in Khartoum.\n\nIn Jordan and Lebanon, refugee camps were visibly struggling to cope with the growing numbers of Syrians fleeing war.\n\nThe enduring impression was a region in crisis, stretched hopelessly between tyranny and terror. Yet there was light along the way - and that light was the people.\n\n\"The world shouldn't judge us by our politics,\" a member of the Center for Civil Society and Democracy, a Syrian activist group I spent Christmas with, told me. \"We hate our politics. We should be judged by ourselves.\"\n\nAnd that, for me, is the nub of the matter.\n\nThe Middle East is a risky place, but the risks are primarily political. Beyond the pockets of conflict and terror highlighted daily in the media lies a broader reality: that of warm, compassionate communities living normal, everyday lives.\n\nSo is it safe for a woman to cycle alone across the Middle East? With the right precautions, yes.\n\nWould I let my daughter do it? Absolutely not in a month of Sundays - are you mad?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nWe've all done it.\n\nWith darkness falling, and your parents calling you in for tea, you squeeze in one last penalty to win the FA Cup, one last drop-kick to win the Rugby World Cup, one last putt to win The Masters.\n\nTwo Yorkshiremen had those same moments growing up around Sheffield in the early part of the century. This time last year, they made one a reality.\n\nDanny Willett may have hit the drives and holed the putts that made him the first Englishman since Nick Faldo in 1996 to win the Masters and don the famous Green Jacket, but his caddie Jonathan Smart is claiming a bit of the credit.\n\nIn a documentary - When Danny Won The Masters, to be shown on BBC Two at 15:00 BST on Sunday, 2 April - the friends share their memories of an unforgettable Sunday afternoon playing the back nine at Augusta National.\n\nWillett, playing with fellow Englishman and friend Lee Westwood, began the final round three shots adrift of defending champion Jordan Spieth, who was four groups behind him on the course.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who was only playing in the tournament because his son Zachariah was born a week early, takes up the tale on the 10th tee...\n\nDanny: We were two under through the first nine but we were still three shots behind Jordan.\n\nJonny: We made an unbelievable par save on the ninth; it was the smelliest nine-footer down the hill and it kept us going. Then we had our funniest moment of the week walking down the 10th fairway. Danny said: \"We're in contention on Sunday at the Masters.\" We were like little kids. We were laughing, not in disbelief, but at realising the situation we were in.\n\nDanny: I hit two lovely shots on 10 and made par.\n\nDanny: Everyone knows how difficult 11, 12 and 13 are with the wind swirling between the trees. I hit two lovely shots on 11 and made par, found the front edge on the par-three 12th and made par. We stepped on to the 13th tee and Jordan had birdied the eighth and ninth and stretched out to a five-shot lead.\n\nThe tee shot on the par-five 13th is really difficult for me because I hit a fade and it needs a draw. We hit three wood all week and almost played it as a three-shotter, but on Sunday Jonny and I said, 'If we're going to do anything we need to try and force it a little bit'. So I stepped up and gunned it. A little five-yard draw with the driver round the corner.\n\nJonny: Dan is adamant that was his best shot of the week.\n\nDanny: I then hit five iron to the middle of the green and had a two-putt birdie but while I was doing that, Jordan had bogeyed 10.\n\nWillett gets within one\n\nDanny: I hit a nice drive down the right on 14 and a wedge to four feet and made birdie again. Jordan bogeyed 11.\n\nJonny: It was a four-footer that was straight downhill but I wasn't sure if it was going to break, it wasn't obvious. Nothing is said, we both know we've got to keep pushing. Those two holes were massive for us.\n\nDanny: The next time we see the leaderboard, Lee Westwood has just chipped in for eagle from the back of the 15th green to get within one of us.\n\nJonny: Everything went ballistic. We had another birdie chance but that shot from Westy brought another player into it. I had goosebumps because the fans on the 16th can also see everything and the sound was ridiculous.\n\nDanny: I had a 10-12-footer from the back edge. I thought that was to tie the lead. I missed it but tapped in for par. John put the flag in, walked back, said 'that was a good effort' and then we heard all the oohs and aahs from the gallery.\n\nJonny: I'll never forget walking to the 16th tee. I saw people in the gallery putting their head in their hands and we turned around and saw they were changing the big scoreboard.\n\nDanny: It's just off the back right of 15 and Jordan had gone from five under to one under on the par-three 12th and we were at four under. So we looked at each other and waited for them to change the score because we thought they've got it wrong. After five or 10 steps, we realised we were at four, Westwood at three and Jordan at one.\n\nJonny: That's when things got a little bit more interesting.\n\nDanny: I'd been dying for the bathroom so I ran down past the 16th tee and everyone's saying 'look at the leaderboard, you're leading the Masters'. I'm in the bathroom and my hands are shaking and I'm nervous but thinking 'this is what you practise for'.\n\nI kept telling myself, five good swings, see if you can hole a couple of putts and we'll see what happens. When I came out, I was in the best frame of mind I'd been in for a long time. Mentally I was seeing everything as it happened and I wasn't getting too far ahead.\n\nJonny: There was no discussion. If we acknowledge the position we're in, we're admitting we're nervous, so how is that going to help? We stick to our routine. We had 181 yards to the flag. An eight iron. We created a picture, just like we do on every shot.\n\nDanny: I hit a lovely eight iron to about 10 feet.\n\nJonny: I walked off ahead as soon as he hit it. I'm pretty excitable and I didn't want him to see any emotion I'm giving off. Walking to the green there was no discussion. Everyone's telling Danny 'this is yours' but he probably didn't hear any of it. He was ridiculously focused.\n\nDanny: We rolled in our birdie putt.\n\nJonny: The putt on 16 was all him. When he has a good line, why would he call me in? It only creates doubt.\n\nDanny: Westy hit it to 35 feet and three-whacked, so all of a sudden we've opened a bit more of a gap. In the past 45 minutes, we'd gone from five behind to two in front. It was bonkers.\n\nJonny: On the 17th tee, I consciously said to Dan that these guys behind us are good and capable of making four birdies in a row.\n\nDanny: I hit not a bad tee shot but was a bit hindered by a tree for the second and I hit eight iron long left. Looking back, I left myself a really tricky chip.\n\nJonny: I was thinking 'there's loads of green to work with' and it was a bog-standard chip shot. It got to the top of the hill and I thought 'he's not hit that hard enough' but it rolled over and then I thought 'that's quick' but it finished stiff and I thought that wasn't an easy chip shot!\n\nDanny: I chipped it pretty much stone dead, which, round Augusta, you don't do. I'm going to go back this year and put a ball down and just see how difficult it is.\n\nDanny: We'd hit a little cut driver off the 18th tee all week but we were pretty pumped with adrenaline and Jonny called three wood.\n\nJonny: My book said 296 yards to reach the bunker, so it's not hard to hit a good drive straight into it. He's got a low ball flight so he couldn't have done what Sandy Lyle did out of that bunker and reach the green.\n\nDanny: He said: 'You can hit three wood as good as you like and you're never ever going to reach those bunkers.'\n\nJonny: Everyone was hustling to get a place to stand.\n\nDanny: There was a lot of commotion. I stepped off the tee twice because people are moving up the sides, through the leaves, through the trees.\n\nJonny: That tee shot to me looks like hitting down a hotel corridor and I'm thinking it's getting narrower. Third time he's pulled the trigger.\n\nDanny: I hit it 295 yards, straight down the middle of the fairway. Again, the hands were shaking, everything was shaking, but the walk up to the second shot was pretty enjoyable.\n\nJonny: There's a dip down before you walk up the hill to the green. As we got to the bottom, he took a massive deep breath. I knew he was nervous so I just said to him: 'You don't need to take that deep a breath, it's not that big a hill.'\n\nDanny: I'd done 80% of the job I told myself I had to do - to make five good swings. One more to go. I think we had 183 yards, Jonny will still know. Can't miss the green left, can't miss it short, can't miss it long. I've seen it millions of times on the television, where it's impossible to get up and down from, and where you can give yourself a bit more margin. I pushed the seven iron a bit but it pitched on the collar of the green and worked off the bank back down exactly as I'd seen it before.\n\nJonny: The walk up to the green was an unbelievable experience. We were having a little giggle to ourselves, saying 'this is pretty cool'. I wish I'd taken it in more.\n\nDanny: It was almost job done. We've got a 13-footer to get to six under, which I thought would be a difficult number for anyone to get to. But we get up on the green and look at the putt and you think it would be nice to get to six but I don't want to drop to four. So I cosied it down there and tapped in for par.\n\nJonny: The walk from the green to the clubhouse was bonkers. It was bizarre, surreal. It's stuff you watch on television and don't do yourself. We're walking off 18 and half-thinking we've won the Masters.\n\nDanny: My father-in-law was at the back of the green, giving me a hug. You walk up to the cabin, sign your card [a bogey-free five-under-par 67], making sure you've got all that right and then it's a waiting game. We had 45, 50 minutes of waiting.\n\nJonny: I didn't know what to do with myself. I was half-watching, half-wondering if we should go the practice range in case there's a play-off.\n\nDanny: We sat outside the recorders' hut and I'm trying to call [wife] Nic. The signal's not great, I'm just trying to get through to her. And I'm texting my mum and dad and brothers. But I'm constantly looking at the television to see what Jordan does.\n\nSpieth birdies the par-five 15th to go three under with three to play.\n\nDanny: You're going over all the scenarios where you can get beat. And then he made bogey on 17. He dropped back to two under and it's a physical impossibility to tie.\n\nJonny: I didn't realise the cameras were there and I just jumped on him.\n\nDanny: I was on the phone to Nic, and Jonny jumped on me on the sofa. Everyone's seen that on the TV. That was the moment you realise that's what you've worked for and what you've just achieved. It isn't a dream. It's come true.\n\nDanny: Every major trophy is significant in its own way but the Green Jacket is special. It's having your locker in the champions' locker room. It's your jacket being in there for the rest of your life. It's being able to go back to Augusta forever, until you don't want to play any more. The ceremony in Butler Cabin. You don't get to go inside the places I got to see at Augusta unless you win at Augusta. I'm honoured to be part of that now.\n\nJonny: We were whisked round the back of the clubhouse to Butler Cabin. That was cool. You've watched it on TV and then we're doing it. Dan's putting a Green Jacket on. I remember them fitting it because they've got them all lined up. Before he went in the room he looked across at me, just laughing. It was nuts. We've all had putts as juniors to win the Masters. I always dreamt about doing it but it was mega to be as close as I was to it and have some sort of contribution to Dan winning it.\n\nDanny: When you walk through the door at home, you're not Masters champion any more. You're dad, or Dan. You're straight back to changing nappies and you take the jacket off so you don't get anything on it. The only time I've watched it back was that evening. I opened a beer and sat on the sofa with Nic. Watched it for an hour and a half. Highlights of what we'd done two days before. Just a crazy old few days really.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nLeinster put four tries past Premiership leaders Wasps to reach the European Champions Cup semi-final.\n\nA sparkling first half by the three-time champions had them in control at 22-3 ahead with Isa Nacewa, Jack Conan and Robbie Henshaw scoring tries.\n\nShellshocked Wasps rallied with Christian Wade and Jimmy Gopperth closing the gap to 25-17 with 20 minutes remaining at the Aviva Stadium.\n\nBut Fergus McFadden halted their charge with a late try to settle it.\n\nThe game was billed as a show-case for players aiming for a place in the British and Irish Lions squad, which is announced on 19 April.\n\nLeinster dominated the first half, but the scoreboard didn't reflect their superiority until Conan and Henshaw's tries in the closing moments of the opening period.\n\nTwo-time champions Wasps, nervous and slow to settle, conceded an early penalty which Sexton converted after six minutes to get Leinster up and running.\n\nLeinster full-back Joey Carbery set up two first-half tries and his first significant contribution was a superb flat pass out wide to Nacewa, who touched down in the corner.\n\nWasps inflicted a record 33-6 defeat on Leinster at the RDS last season, and also won 51-10 at home, but this was a horror show by the under-performing Premiership leaders.\n\nThey blew their one big chance to establish a foothold in the game when Willie Le Roux's showboating cost them a try after 24 minutes.\n\nKurtley Beale's footwork created the opening for the South African but he lost control of the ball as he dived over the line and his effort was disallowed.\n\nJimmy Gopperth's penalty finally got Wasps on the scoreboard after 32 minutes and Dai Young's side, who had no continuity and struggled to take the ball through the phases, were fortunate to only trail by five points.\n\nLeinster were excellent with the ball in hand and enjoyed over 70% possession in the opening half, which eventually led to two tries within six minutes of half-time.\n\nAgain, Carbery was the architect. He exchanged passes with Fergus McFadden and then put Conan away, the number eight's arcing run taking him over the line. Sexton added the extras to make it 15-3.\n\nWasps needed half-time but Leinster stole the ball from a driving maul by the visitors and and three passes later it was try number three for the home side.\n\nDan Leavy popped it up to Sean O'Brien who off-loaded to Sexton, and Henshaw was on his shoulder to crash over for a well-worked try leaving it 22-3 at the interval.\n\nSexton's early second-half penalty stretched Leinster's lead but from 22 points down, Wasps somehow found another gear to almost get back on terms.\n\nLeinster switched off with full-back Carbery coming into the line leaving acres of space in the back field and Christian Wade exploited it as he won the race to touch down his own grubber kick to earn Wasps an opening try after 53 minutes.\n\nGopperth spent two seasons at Leinster before joining Wasps in 2015 and he was instrumental in their much-improved second half performance.\n\nThe Kiwi's direct run punched holes in the Leinster midfield and an excellent one-handed finish suddenly had Wasps right back in the game, with his conversion making it 25-17 with 20 minutes still remaining.\n\nBut Leinster resumed control of territory and possession and McFadden's converted short range try with six minutes to go ensured it is Leinster who will face either Clermont or Toulouse in the semi-finals.\n\n'We looked like rabbits in the headlights'\n\nWasps' Director of Rugby Dai Young: \"In these games you can't give yourself a mountain to climb like we did in the first half.\n\n\"We knew we had to be at our best and we didn't need to help them along the way.\n\n\"Le Roux is really disappointed [with his botched try attempt]. You expect a player of that quality to score but we also gave away two tries.\n\n\"We looked like rabbits in the headlights in that first half and the biggest disappointment is we didn't do ourselves justice.\"\n\nLeinster fly-half Johnny Sexton: \"Wasps are the best team around at capitalising on mistakes and we're disappointed with some of the mistakes we made.\n\n\"We wanted to show we had a physical backline but conditions were awful out there. The ball was like a bar of soap and there was a swirling wind.\"\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nThere are supposed to be only two options. In or out. Cambridge or Oxford. You can't be both.\n\nIn the long history of one of sport's most enduring rivalries, just two men have crossed the line.\n\nWhen the the 163rd Boat Race gets under way on the river Thames on Sunday, William Warr will be going up against his old team-mates, rowing for Oxford against his former Cambridge team.\n\n\"It hasn't been easy. It was a decision I had to make, but guys I was really close with now barely speak to me any more,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Some have said they really hope I lose, that they completely disagree with what I'm doing, which I understand. It is a very strong bond.\n\n\"But life does go on. You need to think about your career - we are students, sometimes people forget that - and the research I am doing can help save lives, so to not go and do that because of some old rivalry would be selfish.\"\n• None Read more: The Beeb and the Boat Race\n\nWarr, 25, rowed for Cambridge in the 2015 event. They lost, as Oxford claimed their 11th success since 2000.\n\nBut Cambridge did win last year - without Warr, who is now doing a PhD at Oxford.\n\nHe knew it was the only place where elite rowing could live alongside his field of study. And he knew it when he was still on speaking terms with the Cambridge fold.\n\n\"I came to Oxford to do this PhD on how to prevent chronic disease in some of the poorest parts of the UK,\" he explains.\n\n\"I also want to go to the Olympics in 2020, so the only way to combine the two aspirations was to come here.\n\n\"I spoke to Cambridge's president, we talked through the options, laid everything out, and really it was only way to go.\"\n\nIt could have been worse, you might say. Warr was only at Cambridge for nine months. Nine months is a long time in comradeship and toil, but the silent treatment will feel like a price worth paying if Oxford slide through Sunday's 6.8km Championship Course the quicker. Especially because of the history involved.\n\nThe Dark Blues (Oxford) trail the Light Blues (Cambridge) by 79 victories to 82 since the race began, in 1829.\n\nBut nearly two centuries on, there is no suggestion of inside knowledge tipping the scales.\n\n\"The Oxford people aren't interested in knowing what Cambridge are doing, and nor would I tell them anything,\" he says.\n\n\"They trust the coach, Sean Bowden, and they've been very successful over the past 15 years. I think they know enough not to worry too much.\n\n\"The two coaching programmes are slightly different on techniques, but there are similarities, and we train pretty much the same hours at both Oxford and Cambridge. The weekly timetable is really similar.\n\n\"But it will be a bit strange for me on the start-line. Because it's a special race.\"", "Adrian Mole, the angst-ridden diarist created by the late Sue Townsend, reaches his 50th birthday on 2 April. His diaries, over eight volumes, made Townsend one of the best-selling British authors of recent decades. But what made the character so compelling?\n\nStephen Mangan played Mole in the 2001 TV adaption of Townsend's The Cappuccino Years and worked closely with the writer on bringing him to life on screen.\n\nNow aged 48, he began reading the Secret Diary as a teenager.\n\n\"Obviously when you read it as a 13 or 14-year-old you miss some of the nuances, but what's so clever about the books is that you get so many different perspectives,\" he says.\n\n\"It's written from the point of view of a 13-year-old boy, but it's also there's the story of [his separating] parents. It's a very clever trick, because through his lack of awareness you learn so much about marriage, parenting and life.\n\n\"A lot of the poignancy and depth of the book is revealed to you later when you're a little bit older.\"\n\nMole's waspish observations of the politics of the day are another feature of Townsend's books. He criticises Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands War and - in later editions - New Labour and Tony Blair.\n\n\"Sue was very engaged politically and socially tuned in to what was going on, and Adrian was her way in to discuss that,\" Mangan adds.\n\n\"She deals with big cultural phenomena through the books and with characters you love and sympathise with.\n\n\"We can be very entrenched in our attitudes, and with comedy, especially one based on a dweeby and nerdy loser like Adrian, bypasses this.\n\n\"We still read Jane Austen today, despite those books being a satire of the social scene at the time - if it's done with that amount of wit, warmth and intelligence it becomes universal.\"\n\nIn the early 1980s, while Mole was worrying about his spots and dreaming about his beloved Pandora, author Nina Stibbe was leaving their hometown of Leicester for London.\n\nThen a young nanny - and now a successful novelist in her own right - she instantly recognised the problems occupying Mole.\n\n\"I read it when it first came out and - although I was 19 not 13 and had just moved to London - it was interesting because it was like a vindication,\" she says.\n\n\"He was neurotic, he was anxious, but he didn't mind about it, he just got on with worrying, and it was the same stuff that I was worrying about.\n\n\"He was worrying about his family, his mother's drinking and promiscuity, and I think it was the first time there was a character doing this sort of thing in such a charming way.\"\n\nStibbe's collection of letters Love, Nina chronicles her time observing the London literary scene of the 1980s (she was employed as a nanny by Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, and frequent visitors to the houses included Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller).\n\n\"When the first diary came out I was living in London, I was a nanny, and I was around all these very accomplished writers and playwrights, and they were all loving [Mole],\" she adds.\n\n\"I think people can identify with him - the way he worries about things that might go wrong is something that affects us all, whether it's health or what's happening next year.\n\n\"I wrote about divorce once, and I thought about [Mole's parents] George and Pauline's marriage, because it's so interestingly done - my parents had lots of friends like that.\n\n\"It was all so real, and Sue was writing from experience. The main thing is that it's hilarious, that's the nub and the magic of it.\"\n\nLouise Moore grew up reading the Mole diaries - and years later wrote a fan letter to Townsend which led to a long-lasting friendship.\n\nWhen Townsend asked Moore to publish The Cappuccino Years, in which Mole has a brief stint as a celebrity chef before moving back to his native Leicestershire, she described it as \"like winning the Lottery\".\n\n\"I'd just left school [when I read the Secret Diary...] and I loved it,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the quintessential humour that I love.\n\nShe says Mole's \"everyman\" qualities kept fans on his side throughout his struggles with life.\n\n\"Sue was very clear that she didn't want Adrian to grow up and be unappealing,\" she adds.\n\n\"She knew him so well, she'd said that when she was writing other books she'd start to think about him, and he followed her through her life.\n\n\"He was her mouthpiece in a way. He's very ridiculous and naïve, but he also has a great wisdom and empathy for the human condition.\n\n\"He quietly triumphs in the face of almost constant adversity - he's one of the world's unsung, ordinary heroes.\"\n\nLeicester is the backdrop for much of the Mole books, but it's importance to the character - and Townsend - is often overlooked, says Dr Corinne Fowler, an associate professor at the University of Leicester.\n\n\"Sue was very connected to the region,\" she says.\n\n\"At her funeral one of the actors who was involved in the first production said she insisted she took the local actors with her when it transferred to London because of her commitment to the local arts scene.\n\n\"Apparently there were a few references to Leicester in the early manuscripts, but it seems the editor must have asked them to be removed. I think that tells you something about literary culture... anywhere outside London risked being seen as parochial if it includes the local references for a region. Later on I would imagine she had that authority to put those [references] in.\"\n\nMole's appeal has always been much wider, though, and to mark his half-century, three new radio plays featuring the character have been commissioned by the university's Centre for New Writing.\n\n\"[Townsend] would have had a field day with Brexit,\" adds Dr Fowler. \"She would have given a voice to the grievances of the Remainers and the political developments across the decade.\n\n\"But I think it's interesting how it transcends places. Much of it's a comment on Thatcher's Britain, about growing up in poverty in the UK, about so many national things pertinent to the UK.\n\n\"So it's incredible to have someone growing up in Sao Paulo, for example, and understanding and liking it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDefender Andrew Considine scored a hat-trick as Aberdeen hammered a dismal Dundee side to ensure Celtic must wait to be crowned Premiership champions.\n\nA win for Dee would have handed the title to Celtic, but their visitors put that prospect to bed in the first half.\n\nA Considine double and goals from Adam Rooney and Kenny McLean had Derek McInnes' men 4-0 up at the break.\n\nRyan Jack hit the fifth before Niall McGinn tapped home and Considine completed his hat-trick.\n\nCeltic will clinch the title on Sunday if they beat Hearts at Tynecastle (12:30 BST kick-off)\n\nAberdeen are 11 points clear of Rangers in third, while Dundee are eighth.\n\nThe Dons are in a very strong position to finish second behind Celtic, with their showing here throwing the gauntlet down to Rangers before their meeting next weekend.\n\nTheir performance was even more dominant than the scoreline suggests.\n\nAberdeen bossed it from the first whistle and Considine nodded over the bar with a great early chance.\n\nHe made up for that miss soon after, powering home a header from Jonny Hayes' perfect delivery.\n\nRooney drew a good stop from Dee keeper Scott Bain, but the striker did not have to wait long to add his name to the scoresheet, headed in Shay Logan's exquisite cross.\n\nMcLean slammed in number three with his right foot before Considine cashed in on sloppy defending to nod his second.\n\nThere was no let-up after the break as Jack slotted the fifth in off the post, McGinn tapped home and Considine slid in to seal his hat-trick.\n\nWhat a horrible evening this was for Paul Hartley's side.\n\nNot many teams would have contained Aberdeen in this form, but Hartley will be furious at some of his side's defending.\n\nThey have been depleted by injury but that does not account for such a display.\n\nThe absence of injured striker Marcus Haber seemed to have a major impact as his replacement Faissal el Bakhtaoui was unable to hold the ball up and bring team-mates into the game.\n\nWeekend results will determine how damaging this has been for Dundee, whose next game away to Ross County takes on added significance as they look to avoid being dragged into the relegation scrap.\n\nEvery player in red did themselves proud, but Considine and McLean deserve special mention.\n\nMcLean stood out all night and it was significant that he was removed after an hour, with some key games coming up for the Pittodrie outfit.\n\nConsidine, of course, takes the majority of the headlines thanks to his first hat-trick as a professional.\n\nIndividually and collectively, the Dons were sensational.\n\nIt seems this Aberdeen team is going from strength to strength, which promises much for the remainder of the season.\n• None Goal! Dundee 0, Aberdeen 7. Andrew Considine (Aberdeen) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Christie following a set piece situation.\n• None Cameron Kerr (Dundee) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Faissal El Bakhtaoui (Dundee) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Dundee 0, Aberdeen 6. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ryan Christie. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "It is clear that the UK will face a tough divorce from the European Union after European Council President Donald Tusk characterised the forthcoming talks as \"difficult, complex\" and possibly \"confrontational\".\n\nFrom the outset it is clear that the EU side will control the agenda.\n\nThat was underlined again on Friday in an early skirmish over procedure. Theresa May wanted divorce talks to run in parallel with negotiations about a future trading relationship. That won't happen.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel had been quick to rule that out and was given swift backing by the French president Francois Hollande. That was reinforced again on Friday with the leak of the European Council's negotiating guidelines.\n\nWhy is this so important?\n\nEurope's leaders want to ensure that Britain agrees to the principles governing the terms of Brexit as a condition for talks continuing. As Mr Tusk said, the UK cannot just walk away without paying debts.\n\nAngela Merkel insists the principles of Brexit should be negotiated before a trade deal with the UK can be considered\n\nOn the EU side there is another calculation: it will be easier to ensure unity among the 27 member states on the terms of the divorce, rather than on trade, when different national interests could come into play.\n\nPreserving unity is a fundamental concern and Mr Tusk insisted that the EU \"will act as one\".\n\nBy insisting that the principles of the divorce bill be settled first, the leaders of the 27 are also stopping Mrs May using payments as a bargaining chip over the future trading relationship.\n\nThere were, however, some hints at flexibility, with Mr Tusk saying that the EU would monitor the negotiations and determine when \"sufficient progress had been achieved to allow talks to proceed to the next phase of a future relationship\".\n\nOf course, it is the EU that will decide what progress has been made but those negotiations on trade could begin as early as the autumn.\n\nFor the EU there are four priorities in the talks: settling the divorce bill which some in Brussels have estimated at €60bn (£50bn), establishing the future status of EU citizens living in the UK, keeping open Northern Ireland's borders and agreeing which laws companies will operate under post-Brexit.\n\nBut EU leaders have opened the door to holding trade talks before Brexit has been completed and some in the UK will see that as a promising gesture.\n\nThe negotiating guidelines allow for a transition period before a future trading agreement is in place. In Brussels there is an expectation that some kind of transition period will be needed after the divorce talks have been completed.\n\nA trade deal can only be formally concluded once the UK has ended its membership.\n\nEU leaders are expected to finalise the union's negotiating position on 29 April\n\nThe EU sees that transitional period as being \"limited\" and will insist that the UK continues to abide by Union rules during this period. That could prove very controversial because it means there is a very real prospect that, come the next UK general election in 2020, some payments to the EU are still being made with a continuing role for the European Court.\n\nThere are differences among Europe's leaders over how constructive they are willing to be in the talks. Some want to demonstrate that leaving the EU is not easy, that divorce must hurt.\n\nThe French believe there must be an element of pain to deter others, although the prospect of other countries leaving is currently very remote. Mr Tusk's perspective is that the process of leaving is \"punitive\" enough without further punishment being necessary.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Friday that in calls he had made over the past two days there had been \"lots of goodwill' from European Union ministers.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson has emphasised the \"goodwill\" shown by other EU members\n\nThe wider reaction is that the UK, by triggering Article 50, has stepped into the unknown and taken a huge risk. \"A highly indebted Britain has most to lose from uncertainty,\" was one assessment.\n\nThe mood in the European press has been generally gloomy, seeing departure as an act of self-harm, of Britain being tied up in Kafkaesque procedures, of British citizens being worse off by €5,000 (£4,300) a year.\n\nSome papers focused on the UK's future isolation, repeating what passes for accepted wisdom in Brussels that in a global world countries are better off in larger blocs. Among some commentators there was the scarcely veiled hope that at some stage the UK will return to the European fold, tail between legs.\n\nThe British strategy is to be constructive towards the EU project and to deliver on the \"sincere co-operation\" it has promised Angela Merkel.\n\nIt has accepted that some payments will have to be made to meet existing obligations, that EU citizens will have to retain rights during the negotiating period and that there may be some limited role for the EU's courts in settling trade disputes.\n\nTheresa May will have to balance her room for manoeuvre with the demands of her own party\n\nThe UK has some cards: it can offer help with security and intelligence but, by tying that assistance to the future trading relationship, it prompted German MPs to cry \"blackmail\". Mr Johnson responded by saying that Britain's commitment to EU defence was \"unconditional\".\n\nBut it is clear that every time the UK tries to play its cards there will be voices, particularly from the European Parliament, in full complaint. Mrs May and her team will have to handle the parliament with great skill, as it will have a say on any eventual deal.\n\nEurope will be on alert for any attempt by Britain to divide and rule the remaining 27 EU countries. Mrs Merkel has set out the German interest: despite intensive lobbying from German car manufacturers it is the unity and integrity of the European Union that will be the priority - the EU must not be damaged or weakened by these negotiations.\n\nThese guidelines will be fleshed out into a more comprehensive negotiating document that will be presented to Europe's leaders at the end of April.\n\nMrs May knows compromises will have to be made to avoid the talks breaking down, but her room for manoeuvre is limited by sections of her own party who are determined to ensure a clean break with the EU.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta is targeting the world number one ranking after claiming the biggest title of her career at the Miami Open.\n\nThe 25-year-old British number one beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 to claim £940,000 in prize money and is set to climb to seventh in the world.\n\nKonta was the world number 146 in June 2015, but she believes a Grand Slam title and further progress is possible.\n\n\"The belief has been there since I was a little girl,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd like to be the best player in the world but there's a lot of work to be done between now and then.\n\n\"Everybody's journey is different. I needed a little more time and a little more experience to accumulate the knowledge that I have and re-use it in my matches.\n\n\"I play smart tennis and calmer tennis I think. It just took time. On paper it looks like a quick turnaround but it's been a long time coming.\"\n\nFormer Fed Cup captain Judy Murray - mother of Andy - has previously suggested the turnaround began with a heavy defeat in a match against Belarus in February 2015.\n\nMurray put that down to Konta's \"really bad performance anxiety\", describing the result as \"a bit of a horror\".\n\nBut her skill at handling the pressure of elite-level sport is now one of her biggest assets.\n\nKonta herself has credited the influence of former mental coach Juan Coto, who died in December.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live following his death, Konta said: \"Everything that I do, he will be a part of. He left me with some incredible tools to deal with my profession and also life. He is still very much a part of my journey.\"\n\nShe is working with a new coach this season - having made a surprise decision to replace Spaniard Esteban Carril towards the end of 2016, the most successful year of her career so far.\n\nUnder the guidance of Wim Fissette, Konta won January's Sydney International without dropping a set, before now claiming her first success at a higher level - the top 'Premier Mandatory' rung of the WTA Tour - in Miami.\n\n\"She has big ground strokes, not many weaknesses, and I also saw her as somebody who is very hard-working and very disciplined,\" Fissette told BBC Sport during the Australian Open, where Konta made the quarter-finals.\n\n\"I started working with her because I really believe she can win a Grand Slam if she keeps getting better like this.\"\n\nIn October, Konta became only the fourth British woman to make the top 10 since the WTA rankings began in 1975 - after Jo Durie, Virginia Wade and Sue Barker.\n\n\"I think it was probably a combination of everything, but also a question of maturity,\" Konta said of her rise on Saturday.\n\n\"I was very fortunate that throughout the years I've managed to have some very, very good people around me.\n\n\"The more I was able to absorb from them, their knowledge and wisdom, and the more I was able to reinvest that into the matches that I played, that's the reason I'm here now.\"\n\nOnly one other player has gathered more ranking points in 2017 than Johanna Konta, but more importantly the new world number seven has now successfully negotiated the perfect dress rehearsal for a Grand Slam.\n\nSix victories over 10 days against the very best in the world in one of the WTA's Big Four tournaments is the perfect stepping stone to Grand Slam success.\n\nWimbledon should provide Konta with as good an opportunity as the Australian and US Opens - where she has already had so much joy - but now it is time for the clay: a surface on which Konta is still to prove herself.\n\nBBC Sport's Piers Newbery: Konta continues to amaze. Last year was the first time she was ranked high enough to even play in Miami. And not at her best this week.\n\nBBC tennis commentator David Law: Hope Konta can crack it at Wimbledon where she would fully enter the general public's consciousness. Can be a powerful positive role-model.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton believes the 2017 Formula 1 season could be \"the most exciting\" of his career.\n\nThe Mercedes driver is tied on points with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel after his victory in the Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton predicted the initiative would swing back and forth between the two teams throughout the season.\n\n\"It is close,\" he said. \"I am down for it. I am looking forward to the fight with Sebastian and the other guys are going to be in amongst it.\"\n\nHamilton's win in Shanghai means he and Vettel have a victory and a second place apiece after the first two races.\n\nHamilton gained the advantage in China through early strategy calls in a chaotic opening few laps but the race eventually distilled to a battle between him and Vettel in the closing laps, the two cars separated by about eight seconds.\n\nHamilton said: \"We are both pushing. It's great, last 20 laps, exchanging times, he was closing the gap a little bit, but I managed to stay ahead.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old won two of his three titles in last-race showdowns, beating Ferrari's Felipe Massa in 2008 only when he passed a car on the last corner of the final lap of the last race.\n\nHamilton also tied on points with then-McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso in 2007, the pair finishing one point behind champion Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari.\n\nBut Hamilton said he believed this year's battle could be the toughest he has yet had.\n\n\"It is going to be one of the closest ones - if not the closest - I have ever experienced,\" he said.\n• None Listen: Vettel out of position at the start\n\nVettel told his team over the radio on the slowing-down lap the he believed they again had the fastest car, two weeks after winning in Australia by pressuring Mercedes into an early pit stop.\n\nThe four-time champion said: \"It felt like we were the quickest, man. We couldn't prove that, but next time we will.\"\n\nBut the German, whose team failed to win a race in 2016, played down talk of a season-long fight between Ferrari and Mercedes.\n\n\"It would be great news for us,\" Vettel said. \"They are the ones to beat, they have a very strong team, doing very well the last three years being flawless and smashing a lot of records.\n\n\"So for us it is really good news we had another race where we were really close and were able to put some pressure on.\n\n\"It is just race two. I really enjoyed it and at this point I don't care about the rest of the year.\"", "Hampshire chased a target of 320 on day three to complete a remarkable County Championship win at Yorkshire.\n\nResuming on 10-0, the away side began well, Michael Carberry (41), Jimmy Adams (72) and James Vince (44) all contributing to take them to 176-3.\n\nFurther runs from Rilee Rossouw (47) and Liam Dawson (37) edged them closer to their target.\n\nTim Bresnan (3-73) struck to give hope, but Lewis McManus (30 not out) and Gareth Berg (33 not out) saw them home.\n\nHaving collapsed to 75-8 in the first innings, a target of 320 - the largest total of the match - appeared a difficult ask, but Hampshire's openers made the most of some fortune to give their side a strong start.\n\nAdams was dropped by Adam Lyth at second slip on 11, while Peter Handscomb was guilty of spilling Carberry in the gully when the opener had scored just six runs.\n\nCarberry was eventually caught at long leg by Steven Patterson off Ben Coad's bowling and Adams was trapped lbw by Azeem Rafiq's first ball before Vince became Coad's second victim, offering a low return catch.\n\nBresnan had Sean Ervine caught behind, and while Rossouw and Dawson put on a partnership of 57, both were dismissed by the Yorkshire seamer - Rossouw caught by Andrew Hodd and Dawson by a diving Bresnan.\n\nHampshire rallied with a crucial stand of 58 between 22-year-old McManus and Berg, whose six off Coad assured victory for former Yorkshire and England all-rounder Craig White's side against his old club.\n\nIt is a fine start to the 2017 campaign for Hampshire, who finished eighth last season and only avoided relegation from Division One due to Durham's demotion for financial troubles.\n\n\"It was a good game of cricket for the neutral, wasn't it? But it's disappointing to be on the wrong end of it because I felt we had opportunities to win.\n\n\"We could have put the game to bed on Saturday afternoon. I didn't think it was a 180-odd all out pitch. We could have applied ourselves a little bit better.\n\n\"If we'd have got 220-250 and they'd have been chasing 400, it's a different game. Also, a couple of catches went down, and it's a different game at 20-2. But fair play to Hampshire, it was a good chase. Not many teams come here and chase over 300 in the fourth innings.\"\n\n\"That was a great win. You don't win many games being 58-5 in the first innings. To claw it back and come out of that situation with a victory is pretty special, so I'm proud of the lads.\n\n\"Every win's special, but this one perhaps a little more so. Everyone was so determined. It wasn't an easy pitch. There was a little bit in it. So the way the boys worked hard and got stuck in was outstanding.\n\n\"We've had a great start, but we know in two weeks when Yorkshire come down to Hampshire, they will be like wounded animals. They will come at us hard. So we need to prepare ourselves for that.\"", "Spain's Sergio Garcia ends his long wait for a first major title with a thrilling play-off win over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Matt Kuchar shoots the first hole-in-one of the 2017 Masters on the 16th hole during the final round at Augusta.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won a tight fight with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to take pole position for Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nHamilton beat Vettel by 0.186 seconds for his second pole in two races, while the German edged the second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas by 0.001secs.\n\nFerrari's Kimi Raikkonen made it the same top four on the grid as at the season-opening race in Australia.\n\nRed Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fifth but 1.355secs off the pace.\n\nThe Australian's team-mate Max Verstappen was 19th after an engine problem.\n• None Sunday's race is live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live at 07:00 BST\n\nMercedes and Ferrari going toe to toe\n\nChina has underlined the impression created at the Australian Grand Prix that Mercedes and Ferrari are incredibly closely matched at the start of a season where huge regulation change has produced faster and more demanding cars.\n\nAnd as in Melbourne, it was Briton Hamilton who made the difference, pulling out the stops when it mattered in the final qualifying session as it appeared Ferrari might have the edge.\n\nVettel was fastest in final practice and in the first part of qualifying, and Raikkonen of Finland topped the second session.\n\nBut 32-year-old Hamilton produced the first lap under one minute 32 seconds all weekend at the start of the top 10 shootout, beating Vettel by 0.184secs despite a slide at Turn 11.\n\nHamilton and Vettel both lowered their times by a little over 0.2secs on their final runs and the Mercedes man kept the advantage.\n\nIt was Hamilton's sixth pole in a row - dating back to last year's US Grand Prix - and his sixth in China, where his record of four wins is better than any other driver.\n\nHowever, he will surely know he has his work cut out to beat Ferrari in the race after Vettel's impressive victory in Australia two weeks ago.\n\nThe race could well be wet, with overnight rain predicted and cooler temperatures than qualifying, which was dry and bright.\n\nGoverning body the FIA has taken steps to ensure the cars can run after farcical scenes on Friday, when practice was badly disrupted because the medical helicopter could not operate.\n\nA wet race would be a complete unknown for the drivers - not only did they get hardly any running on Friday but they have not driven these new cars in the wet before this weekend, and Pirelli has designed new wet tyres for this season after complaints the previous ones were not effective enough.\n\nProof the cars are harder to drive this year\n\nThe first session of qualifying ended with a heavy crash for Sauber driver Antonio Giovinazzi.\n\nThe Italian lost control coming out of the last corner in the closing minutes of the session, dashing the hopes of Force India's Esteban Ocon, Haas' Romain Grosjean and Renault's Jolyon Palmer of improving and getting into the second session.\n\nGiovinazzi, ironically, qualified 15th - fast enough to get into Q2, but was unable to take part because of the damage to his car.\n\nHe was on a lap that was on target to beat team-mate Marcus Ericsson, but even so ended up less than 0.1secs behind the Swede.\n\nAfter qualifying Englishman Palmer and Grosjean of Switzerland were each handed five-place grid penalties by race stewards for not slowing sufficiently under the waved yellows for the crash.\n\nPalmer's team-mate Nico Hulkenberg was an impressive seventh, and just 0.5secs behind the Red Bull, which uses the same engine, underlining the progress Renault have made over the winter. The German was just pipped for sixth by Williams' Brazilian driver Felipe Massa.\n\n'A very perfect lap' - what they said\n\n\"The Ferrari looked so fast and we knew it was going to be close, and we knew we had to pull out all the stops and I managed to do a very, very perfect lap,\" Hamilton said.\n\n\"It started off not as good as the first lap, maybe because of tyre temperature, but it got better and better. It felt strong.\n\n\"Coming into the last corner knowing I was up a couple of tenths is always nervous because you want to gain some - but you don't want to lose everything you've gained.\n\n\"It's exciting for me because we're really fighting with the guys and that is what racing is all about. It pushes you to raise the bar every time you go out, which I love.\"\n\nVettel said: \"It was a nice session. I enjoyed it a lot. I was very happy with the lap I had. Last corner I lost a little bit, maybe chickened on to the brakes a bit too soon - but we just had enough margin to make it on to the front row.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea maintained their seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League with an entertaining victory over spirited Bournemouth.\n\nPressured by Tottenham's earlier thrashing of Watford, the visitors looked to be cruising after two goals in three first-half minutes.\n\nBut Bournemouth, who had already hit the post, got back into the contest through Joshua King's long-range deflected effort.\n\nThe Cherries continued to press after half-time, only for Chelsea to gradually regain control and secure the points through Marcos Alonso's impeccable free-kick.\n\nThe Blues next travel to Manchester United, their sternest of seven league fixtures between now and the end of the season.\n\nIf they return from Old Trafford with their seven-point advantage still intact, they will be a huge step closer to a sixth title and fifth in the Premier League era.\n\nA week ago, Chelsea's seemingly unstoppable march to glory was disrupted by a shock home defeat by Crystal Palace, giving hope to second-placed Tottenham.\n\nHowever, they got back on track by beating Manchester City and seemed unaffected by Spurs' earlier victory in producing an emphatic start in the south-coast sun.\n\nIf the Chelsea first goal was bizarre - Diego Costa's scuffed shot went in off the head of grounded home defender Adam Smith - the second was sublime.\n\nN'Golo Kante, excellent in both winning the ball and moving the visitors forward, found the equally impressive Eden Hazard with a precision long pass, allowing the galloping Belgian to round home keeper Artur Boruc.\n\nThe away side were pegged back either side of half-time, but gradually reasserted themselves as the second period progressed and Alonso's curling, dipping free-kick killed the contest.\n\nAt the beginning of March, Bournemouth were winless in eight league games, only five points above the relegation zone and being dragged into a fight for survival.\n\nHowever, some whole-hearted displays, including coming from behind to earn a point at Liverpool in midweek, meant this was their first defeat in six.\n\nIt could have been different with a change of fortune, too.\n\nThere was a huge slice of luck involved in Chelsea's first and Benik Afobe was unfortunate to hit the woodwork when arriving late to meet Charlie Daniels' cross.\n\nWith Afobe, King and Ryan Fraser all lively, the Cherries were willing to test Chelsea through the middle and got their reward when King lashed in his 13th of the season from outside the box, via a touch off David Luiz - even if Chelsea complained of a Smith handball in the build-up.\n\nUltimately, though, coming from two behind was too much to ask for the home side and it was Boruc who was the much busier keeper in the second period.\n\nIf there is one, incredibly slight, concern for Chelsea in the run-in, it may be the form of Costa, who has now gone five domestic games without a goal.\n\nThe Spain international's afternoon was one of frustration, mis-kicks and miscues, albeit plenty of endeavour to create goalscoring opportunities.\n\nHis attempt for Chelsea's first was a comical slice, only saved from going well wide by the intervention of Smith.\n\nBut that was not the only time that Costa struggled in front of goal, with the man who has netted 18 times this season often lacking sharpness when presented with an opportunity.\n\nStill, that is no comfort for the chasing pack, who probably already have too much to do.\n\n'Chelsea were too strong' - what they said\n\nBournemouth manager Eddie Howe: \"I thought it was a tight game and we were well in it. It doesn't help going 2-0 down and it took a worldie free-kick to win the game.\n\n\"I have to compliment Chelsea, they're an outstanding team and their system works very well for them. But I compliment my boys as well because they played very well. In the end Chelsea were too strong.\n\n\"I'm not feeling anything other than we need to win some more games. What we've historically done is always try to win and that's the same aim no matter how many points you have and how many games are left.\"\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte: \"It's normal to have a pressure. We started the game very well with great attention and focus. Then we conceded the goal and we lost a bit of confidence. In the second half we managed the game and scored another goal, then the free-kick from Marcos Alonso.\n\n\"When you have this type of opponent, Tottenham, who is in good form and wants to catch you, it is important to have a good answer. This is a good answer. There are seven games to go and in England it is not easy, there is a lot of pressure.\"\n• None Eden Hazard has scored four times in his last three Premier League appearances against Bournemouth.\n• None Hazard's haul of 14 Premier League goals this season is his joint-best-ever return in a season in the competition (also 14 in 13-14 and 14-15).\n• None N'Golo Kante has provided his first ever Premier League assist for Chelsea in what is his 30th appearance.\n• None Joshua King has scored 10 goals in his last 11 Premier League appearances, after netting just three in the 20 before that this season.\n• None Indeed, only Romelu Lukaku (11) and Harry Kane (11) have scored more Premier League goals in 2017 than Josh King (10 - level with Dele Alli).\n• None Marcos Alonso has netted five PL goals this season. Among defenders, only James Milner (7) and Gareth McAuley (6) have more.\n\nBournemouth complete a back-to-back double of the Premier League's top two with a trip to Tottenham Hotspur at 12:30 next Saturday, while Chelsea are reunited with former manager Jose Mourinho against Manchester United at 16:00 on Sunday, 16 April.\n• None Max Gradel (Bournemouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Diego Costa (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt saved. Victor Moses (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Arter (Bournemouth) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lys Mousset.\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Smith (Bournemouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Joshua King (Bournemouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jack Wilshere.\n• None Pedro (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRangers scored three times in five late second-half minutes to end second-place Aberdeen's run of 10 consecutive home wins and cut the gap to nine points.\n\nIn a scrappy first half, Joe Garner drew a save from Aberdeen keeper Joe Lewis and crossed for Martyn Waghorn to volley over.\n\nAberdeen dominated after the break as Wes Foderingham saved from Kenny McLean and twice from striker Adam Rooney.\n\nBut Kenny Miller's brace and Joe Dodoo's third earned Rangers the win.\n• None Dons will still finish second - McInnes\n\nAberdeen are still well placed to finish runners-up to Premiership champions Celtic, with nine points and a far superior goal difference separating them from Rangers with only six games remaining.\n\nDerek McInnes's men started the match as favourites and the early signs suggested they would live up to their billing as they pressed, fought and chased Rangers across every inch of the pitch.\n\nIt was more a bruising battle than a beautiful game, though, and referee Kevin Clancy was flashing cards early, with Garner and Ryan Jack the first to be booked as they squared up to each other.\n\nFor all its lack of free-flowing football, it was a very watchable spectacle. Jonny Hayes forced a low save from Foderingham at one end and Waghorn should have burst the net rather than volleying over after a sumptuous cross from Garner on the right.\n\nThe visitors actually enjoyed the best chances in the early stages despite their lack of fluidity in midfield.\n\nRangers manager Pedro Caixinha said beforehand that his players were entering hell with this trip but it looked more like limbo as both sides continued to cancel each other out. The Portuguese was also well aware that anything other than victory would see his side consigned to third at best.\n\nThe Ibrox side have obvious frailties at the moment, especially in defence where youngsters are deputising for more experienced injured regulars, but they showed fight and spirit that would be rewarded later in the match.\n\nYoung David Bates looked slow and ponderous at times although Myles Beerman at left-back was composed and calm when needed.\n\nWhen Aberdeen click, it is mostly down to the hard work of their impressive wide men and so it was in the second half as Niall McGinn and Hayes terrorised the Rangers full-backs.\n\nHayes skipped past two on his way to the box but Graeme Shinnie's hooked shot was blocked by Foderingham. McGinn was at it on the other side and his trickery was feeding Rooney but his fellow Irishman could not convert despite several gilt-edged invitations.\n\nYou could sense the tide turning though and Rangers were struggling to contain the waves of red battering their defences.\n\nFor all their efforts though, few chances were seriously testing Foderingham.\n\nWith 11 minutes remaining, veteran striker Miller scored his 10th goal in 40 appearances this season. Against the run of play, Waghorn created space for himself in the box and when his shot was saved, 37-year-old Miller lashed a fabulous effort high into the back of the net.\n\nAberdeen had no time to compose themselves before Miller made it two when he skipped through a defence in disarray to slide neatly past Lewis and send the small band of Rangers fans wild.\n\nSubstitute Dodoo played his part in that second goal and he slammed home a third to complete an incredible five minute turnaround that sent the Dons fans scurrying for the exits in disbelief.\n\nThose who remained in defiance almost witnessed a Miller hat-trick as he followed up on Dodoo's shot that came back off the crossbar but defender Andrew Considine spared further blushes as he cleared off the line.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Joseph Dodoo (Rangers) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.\n• None Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Rooney (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.\n• None Goal! Aberdeen 0, Rangers 3. Joseph Dodoo (Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Aberdeen 0, Rangers 2. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joseph Dodoo.\n• None Goal! Aberdeen 0, Rangers 1. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nSpain's Sergio Garcia won his first major title at his 74th attempt with a thrilling play-off victory over England's Justin Rose at the Masters.\n\nBoth players finished on nine under par after 72 holes at Augusta, setting up a sudden-death play-off on the 18th.\n\nGarcia, 37, holed a birdie putt for victory after his European Ryder Cup team-mate could only manage a bogey.\n\nCharl Schwartzel was third on six under with England's Paul Casey and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy in the top 10.\n\nJordan Spieth, one of the pre-tournament favourites, and fellow American Rickie Fowler both fell away badly on the final day.\n\nSpieth, champion in 2015, signed for a three-over-par 75, while playing partner Fowler carded a 76 to finish tied in 11th on one under.\n\nGarcia finally won one of golf's four majors - the Open Championship, the US Open and the US PGA Championship are the other three - after 22 previous top-10 finishes.\n\nHe became the third Spaniard to win the Masters - after Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal - on what would have been the 60th birthday of Ballesteros, who died in 2011.\n\n\"To join Seve and Jose - my two idols - is amazing,\" said Garcia.\n• None I will have many more chances - Rose\n• None Relive all the drama of Garcia's win at Augusta\n\nShot one: Rose teed off first on the 18th, pushing his drive right into the trees, only for his ball to bounce back towards play and reappear in the pine needles.\n\nGarcia thumped his drive almost 300 yards down the fairway.\n\nShot two: Rose could only punch his way out of trouble onto the fairway, while Garcia landed his approach on the green, 12 feet from the hole.\n\nShot three: The Englishman responded by hitting his ball about 15 foot to the right of the hole - on a similar line to his putt in regulation play about 15 minutes earlier.\n\nRose missed his par putt to the left of the hole, leaving Garcia two shots for victory and the Spaniard rolled in his first attempt, with his ball circling the cup before dropping in.\n\nGarcia dropped to his knees in celebration, and Rose instantly walked over to congratulate him as they shared a warm embrace on the green.\n\nGarcia and Rose, who started playing against each other as teenagers and have become firm friends since, went out as Sunday's final pairing after sharing the overnight lead on six under.\n\nRose has long craved a follow-up victory to his 2013 US Open win, in order to go down in history as a multiple major champion. For Garcia, the stakes were even higher.\n\nNot only was the Spaniard aiming to win his first major, he was also trying to prove that he had the mental resilience to triumph.\n\nWhat followed was an intense battle filled with drama and tension.\n\nGarcia started strongly with birdies on the first and third, opening up a three-shot lead on Rose after he bogeyed the fifth.\n\nBut the Englishman replied with three straight birdies to rejoin his playing partner on eight under at the turn.\n\nGarcia bogeyed the 10th to give Rose the outright lead, then appeared to lose his composure when he pulled his tee shot into the trees on the par-five 13th. He was forced to take a one-shot penalty because of an unplayable lie, but scrambled well to save par.\n\nThis sparked his revival, A remarkable eagle on the par-five 15th - his first in 452 holes at Augusta - followed by a Rose birdie, meant the pair were tied on nine under with three to play.\n\nGarcia pushed a short birdie putt right on the par-three 16th after Rose had holed his to open a one-shot lead, only for the Englishman to bogey the 17th.\n\nBoth players missed birdie putts on the last, Garcia from four feet, setting up the first Masters play-off between two European players, which Garcia nicked in fading light.\n\n\"It has been such a long time coming,\" said the world number 11, who will rise into the top 10 on Monday.\n\n\"I knew I was playing well. I felt the calmest I ever felt in a major.\"\n\nWhile Garcia was being presented with the Green Jacket in the Augusta clubhouse, Rose was left rueing another near miss.\n\nThe Olympic champion has not claimed a major since winning the 2013 US Open, but lifted himself into contention for a first Masters title with five birdies in the final seven holes on Saturday.\n\nBut Rose, who also finished second behind Spieth in 2015, had to settle for a fifth top-10 finish at Augusta National.\n\n\"It is disappointing to come so close,\" said the world number 14. \"I felt in control until the end.\n\n\"But I'm really happy for Sergio. I'd love to be wearing the Green Jacket but if it wasn't me then I'm glad it is him.\"\n\nWorld number two McIlroy's ambition of becoming only the sixth man to win all four majors must wait for at least another year.\n\nThe 27-year-old, who has already won the Open, US Open and two US PGA Championship titles, battled back from three over par after eight holes on Thursday to finish three under after a closing 69.\n\n\"It wasn't quite good enough. I felt like I had an opportunity on Saturday to shoot something in the mid-60s which would have got me closer to the lead and I didn't quite do that,\" said McIlroy.\n\n\"I gave a decent account of myself and will come back next year and try again.\"\n\nCasey, 39, carded four birdies in a bogey-free front nine to move into contention at four under, but could not improve that score as he shot 68 to earn his fourth top-10 finish at Augusta.\n\nSouth Africa's Schwartzel, the 2011 champion, holed five birdies in the final 10 holes to finish with a 68, while American Matt Kuchar aced the 16th - the only hole-in-one of the week - on his way to the day's joint best round of 67.\n\nHe finished tied fourth on five under with Belgian Thomas Pieters, who impressed on his Masters debut.\n\nTwo-time major winner Spieth was hoping to banish memories of last year's spectacular final-day collapse at the 12th by winning his second Masters.\n\nBut the 23-year-old American, who was already three over for the day and well down the leaderboard, saw his challenge completely disappear on the iconic par-three when he again knocked his tee-shot into the water guarding the green.\n\nIt is the first time in his four Masters appearance the 2015 champion has not finished in the top two.\n\nSpieth's playing partner Fowler started one shot off the lead as he targeted his first major, only to rack up seven bogeys in a disappointing round.\n\nFellow American Fred Couples, the 57-year-old who won the Masters in 1992, ended up tied 18th at one over.\n\n\"It was an electrifying final day. It was a duel of the highest quality, top sportsmanship and both Sergio and Justin take great credit.\n\n\"I think the golfing world thinks 'well, Justin has a major, it is time for Sergio to win one'.\n\n\"He thoroughly deserves it, he has been a champion golfer and in the top 20 of the world for virtually 20 years.\"\n\n'Who writes these scripts?' - reaction to Garcia's win\n\nFind out how to get into golf with our special guide.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City's Claudio Bravo is one of the world's top keepers when it comes to build-up play, manager Pep Guardiola said after beating Hull 3-1.\n\nTigers defender Andrea Ranocchia beat him with a weak shot on Saturday - the visitors' only effort on target.\n\nBravo has now conceded seven goals from the past seven shots on target he has faced in the Premier League.\n\nBut Guardiola said his footwork is \"the best with Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer and Barcelona's Marc-Andre ter Stegen\".\n• None Relive the action from Etihad Stadium as it happened\n\nThe Chile international replaced Willy Caballero for the game against Hull to make his first league appearance since 21 January.\n\nHe was involved in City's second goal, which featured an impressive series of passes from one end of the field to the other before Raheem Sterling crossed for Sergio Aguero to score his 28th goal of the season.\n\nGuardiola added: \"With his feet he helps us a lot to create good build-up and create our possession in the middle of the pitch.\"\n\nBravo conceded twice against Tottenham and four times at Everton in his previous two Premier League appearances.\n\nThe last time he saved a shot on target in the league was against Burnley on 2 January.\n\nTop-four battle will go to the end\n\nCity's first Premier League win since a 2-0 success at Sunderland on 5 March ended a four-match run without a victory.\n\nThey are fourth in the table, two points behind Liverpool with a game in hand and seven clear of Arsenal and Manchester United, who have both played two matches fewer. City host United in the Manchester derby on 27 January.\n\nFormer Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Guardiola, who replaced Manuel Pellegrini at Etihad Stadium in the summer, does not feel the race to finish in the top four and secure Champions League qualification will be decided until the final game of the season on 21 May.\n\nHe said: \"We do not have a big gap. We have to be aware of the situation. We have teams like Leicester, West Brom and Southampton still to play. We have suffered a lot in matches like this this season.\n\n\"I am pretty sure we are going to fight against Arsenal, United and Liverpool until the end to qualify in the third and fourth position.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nIs Dele Alli among England's greats? How good was that Manchester City team goal? Is Philippe Coutinho now Brazil's greatest export?\n\nWe try to answer those questions and take a look at some of the other interesting stats from the weekend.\n\nCould Alli be 'The Greatest'?\n\nThe stat: Dele Alli (40) has been involved in as many Premier League goals before turning 21 as Frank Lampard (15), Steven Gerrard (13) and David Beckham (12) combined.\n\nHe floats across the pitch like a butterfly and stings like a bee, as Watford discovered during Saturday's 4-0 defeat at White Hart Lane.\n\nAlli's stunning opener for Spurs, scored three days before his 21st birthday, further underlined the precocious talent of the youngster who, it is worth remembering, was scoring for MK Dons against Leyton Orient less than two years ago.\n\nThat is now an incredible 19 goals in all club competitions for the attacking midfielder this season, following on from the 10 he managed in his debut season for Spurs. He has now also scored more league goals (16) this season than any other under-21 player in Europe's top five leagues.\n\nSo what transfer fee would you attach to him now? £50m? £60m?\n\nFind out how to get into football with our special guide.\n\nWell, you could conceivably multiply that by two because the attacking midfielder has had a hand in as many Premier League goals before turning 21 as fellow Englishmen Frank Lampard (15), Steven Gerrard (13) and David Beckham (12) combined.\n\nBut wait, this is what former Premier League midfielder Robbie Savage had to say about Alli on BBC Radio 5 live's 606:\n\n\"What is world class? I think to be world class you have to affect big games, do it on a regular basis and win games on your own. To say he is world class now is a huge statement. Name me big games he's affected, particularly in Europe and the Champions League. Potentially yes, but is he now?\"\n\nWill the table below change Robbie's thinking?\n\nThe best team goal this season?\n\nManchester City coach Pep Guardiola must have had Barcelona flashbacks as he watched Sergio Aguero's goal during the 3-1 win over Hull on Saturday.\n\nAll 11 players touched the ball in the build-up, including keeper Claudio Bravo three times, as City put 21 passes together before the Argentine tapped in.\n\nPainfully for Guardiola, the fact Raheem Sterling's cross was parried into Aguero's path by Eldin Jakupovic means the official statisticians class this one as having zero passes in the build-up.\n\nIt was a stunning goal but, even if this had gone down as a 21-pass move, it still would not have featured in the top-five longest build-ups of the season.\n\nPass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass etc etc etc GOAL!\n\nWhat this does suggest, however, is that if you want to score a great team goal, Hull are the team to do it against.\n\nBravo - will he ever save a shot?\n\nOpposition players scanning Manchester City's team-sheet before kick-off might be inclined to first check who is in goal.\n\n\"Brilliant. Claudio Bravo,\" could be how they react. After all, the 33-year-old Chile player has let in all the past seven shots on target on his goal.\n\nHe also has the worst save percentage in the Premier League season so far - stopping only 54.39% of the efforts he has faced. Crystal Palace's Steve Mandanda (58.54%, but has only played nine league games) and Swansea's Lukasz Fabianski (58.64%) have the second and third worst records.\n\nCoutinho - the Premier League's best Brazilian ever?\n\nHe showed his potential at Inter Milan, but it is at Liverpool where Coutinho has blossomed.\n\nThe 24-year-old midfielder's well-taken equaliser in the Reds 2-1 win at Stoke on Saturday was his 30th in the Premier League, which saw him overtake former Middlesbrough forward Juninho as the highest scoring Brazilian in the competition's history. Parabéns!\n\nIncidentally, former Arsenal defensive midfielder Gilberto Silva has played the most games (170) and has the best win percentage - an impressive 61.8%. Coutinho's is currently at 53.8%.\n\nJust how boring are Middlesbrough?\n\nYes, some would say we are kicking a team while they are down - down, not relegated Boro fans - but this BBC weekly statistics piece takes no prisoners.\n\nMiddlesbrough - you are definitely not in the running for the Premier League 'Entertainers' award.\n\nThe Teesside club have been involved in SEVEN goalless draws in the Premier League this season - three more than any other side.\n\nAnd their Riverside Stadium has also seen fewer goals than any other Premier League ground this season (29 - 12 scored and 17 conceded).\n\nSign up for the 2017 FA People's Cup and take your chance to win tickets to the FA Cup final and achieve national five-a-side glory.\n\nBut they do not hold the unwanted honour of the most 0-0s in a season - that goes to Sunderland (2014-15), Sheffield United (1993-94) and Leeds United (1996-97) who took part in a mind-numbing NINE goalless draws.\n\nAnd the fewest goals at a ground was when Manchester City's City of Manchester stadium witnessed a paltry 26 in 19 games during the 2006-07 season. Manager Stuart Pearce was sacked at the end of that campaign.\n\nBournemouth's Norwegian forward Joshua King is proving to be a thorn in the sides of the Premier League elite.\n\nIn fact, the 25-year-old's strike against Chelsea in Saturday's 3-1 defeat means he has now scored eight goals against teams currently in the top 10 - the most of any player featuring in a team outside the top half.\n\nAnd only Everton's Romelu Lukaku (13) and Tottenham's Harry Kane (11) have scored more Premier League goals in 2017 than King, who has 10 - level with Spurs' Alli.\n\nSunderland have now failed to score in seven successive Premier League games - the joint-second worst run in Premier League history.\n\nCrystal Palace hold the record of nine games (1994-95), with Derby (2007-08) and Ipswich (1994-95) also going seven games without scoring.\n\nAll three of those teams were relegated during those seasons.", "2010 Open champion Louis Oosthuizen almost holes a brilliant bunker shot after using the slope the seventh green to feed back to the hole on the final day of the 2017 Masters.\n\nWATCH MORE: Rose lights up back nine\n\nWATCH MORE: Best shots of day three", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nGreat Britain's double Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams marked her professional debut with a 40-36 points victory over Argentina's Virginia Carcamo in Manchester.\n\nThe 34-year-old was vastly superior in the flyweight contest, which was held over four, two-minute rounds.\n\n\"I was a bit too eager to get the stoppage as I wanted to entertain the crowd, \" said Leeds-born Adams.\n\nAs an amateur, Adams won gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016.\n\nShe also won Commonwealth, European and World titles before switching to the professional ranks in January and signing with promoter Frank Warren.\n\nHer next fight is scheduled for 13 May in Leeds.\n• None Also on the Manchester bill: Flanagan retains WBO lightweight title\n\nAdams was aggressive against 32-year-old Carcamo and looked quicker and faster than her opponent in a comfortable victory.\n\n\"I absolutely enjoyed every minute of it,\" Adams told BT Sport. \"You can see a lot more without the headguard. I loved it. I'm here to stay.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, she added: \"I was absolutely buzzing when I went out there and with experience I will learn to settle down and get into my flow faster.\n\n\"I am happy with how my training camp is going, it is a steady learning curve and I am learning new things. As my fights progress I will get better and better in the ring.\"\n\nAdams became the first woman to box for England in 2001 and joined the Great Britain squad in 2010. In beating China's Ren Cancan to win flyweight gold at London 2012, she became the first Olympic women's boxing champion.\n\nShe also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2015 European Games and 2016 World Championships, before retaining her Olympic title by beating France's Sarah Ourahmoune in Rio.\n\nThe second Olympic title made her the first British boxer to retain gold in 92 years.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nOne For Arthur. One for Scotland, one for a jockey back from injury and two golf 'widows' on the weekend of the Masters.\n\nIn the great tradition of the famous race, the 170th edition of the Grand National at Aintree delivered a story with many strands.\n\nThe 14-1 winner One For Arthur, thought to be named after the famous Irish brewer Arthur Guinness, held off the challenge of Cause Of Causes to triumph, with Saint Are third and favourite Blaklion fourth.\n\nIt was only a second Scottish-trained winner of the National, with Lucinda Russell the fourth woman to saddle the victor.\n\nJockey Derek Fox was having his first ride in the marathon contest over 30 fences and four-and-a-quarter miles, and just his sixth since breaking his left wrist and right collarbone in a fall last month.\n\nOwners Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson bought the horse and gave their syndicate a cheeky name as their partners were often away playing golf.\n\nThe feel-good story was capped with all 40 runners returning safely for the fifth year running.\n• None Where did your horse finish?\n\nRussell wore a wide grin as she received widespread congratulations and declared: \"He's done us proud and he's done Scotland proud.\"\n\nAfter a 38-year wait since Rubstic's triumph, she had helped deliver another victory for her homeland and a third in nine years for female trainers.\n\n\"It means everything, of course it does,\" said the 50-year-old, who is based at Kinross, Tayside, north of Edinburgh, and follows Jenny Pitman, Venetia Williams and Sue Smith as National winners.\n\nRussell is assisted by her partner Peter Scudamore, the eight-time champion jockey who missed out on National success as a rider - coming closest to winning from 12 rides when third on Corbiere in 1985.\n\n\"I don't like the word 'small' but we are not one of the more fashionable places and, from about Christmas-time, I felt confident things were going well,\" he said.\n\nScudamore advised Fox to steer clear of taking an inside track so he could avoid trouble and the race plan worked to perfection.\n\nFox did not sit on a horse for three-and-a-half weeks after being injured in a fall at Carlisle on 9 March.\n\nFollowing intensive rehabilitation at the Injured Jockeys Fund's Jack Berry House in Malton, North Yorkshire, he returned to action three days before the National.\n\n\"Winning is the best feeling I've ever had, and probably ever will have. He's such a brave horse,\" said the 24-year-old Irish rider.\n\n\"For the first two weeks after I was injured I was very hot and cold. I was very low some days and thought I wouldn't make it.\"\n\nHis jubilant mother Jackie, from Sligo, watched from the winner's enclosure and said he had always been destined for this moment.\n\n\"At every parent teacher evening I went to, they were giving out, but I knew he was going to be a jockey,\" she said.\n\nShe said Derek had dressed as a cowboy riding a pony called Reggie in a St Patrick's Day parade when he was four years old.\n\n\"Aged nine, he went to riding school. The instructor said: 'You'll never make it as a showjumper, but I can see you going over the fences at Aintree',\" added his mother.\n\nWith their partners spending weekends on the golf course, friends Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson wanted to get their own sporting interest.\n\n\"We had a lot of gin and decided to get a horse together. We went to Cheltenham sales and got One For Arthur,\" said Belinda.\n\nAfter forking out £60,000 for the horse in December 2013, the pair registered their ownership as 'The Two Golf Widows\".\n\nTheir silks contain a Scottish flag and the purchase has paid off - with the owners earning about £500,000 in prize money from the £1m contest.\n\nDeborah, close to tears, said: \"We always hoped he'd be a National horse in the making.\n\n\"Our dream was to get him here but to actually win, well I'm lost for words.\n\n\"The syndicate name is slightly tongue-in-cheek as my partner Colin is on the golf course every single weekend. There's probably two weekends when he's not.\"\n\nThis, perhaps not surprisingly, was one of those two weekends.\n\n\"They are both here today, of course,\" she said. \"They weren't going to miss out.\"\n\nFraser, the husband of Belinda, confirmed: \"This is miles better than golfing.\"\n\nWhat's in a name? - the horse\n\nTwo false starts in warm sunshine led to 31 of the 40 jockeys, including Fox, being referred to the British Horseracing Authority for approaching the starting tape before the flag was raised.\n\nFox went on to give One For Arthur an impeccable ride, sending his mount to the front approaching the last and winning by four-and-a-half lengths.\n\nRussell had been unsure he would appreciate the drying ground, but there was no stopping the Irish-bred gelding, who was following up his win in the Classic Chase at Warwick.\n\nSo where does the name One For Arthur come from?\n\n\"We're not totally sure. We think he was named after Arthur Guinness,\" said the trainer.\n\n\"His name is still on the Guinness cans and people say I'll have 'One For Arthur' or one for the road.\"\n\nVictory in the world's most famous steeplechase was one for the almanac. One brewed in Ireland and toasted in Scotland.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBottom club Sunderland's hopes of avoiding relegation suffered another setback as Manchester United eased to victory to climb to fifth in the table.\n\nSunderland played with 10 men for more than 45 minutes after Sebastian Larsson's controversial red card for a challenge on Ander Herrera.\n\nZlatan Ibrahimovic had already put United ahead with a sublime, curling 20-yard effort.\n\nHenrikh Mkhitaryan made it 2-0 before Marcus Rashford drilled in the third.\n\nSunderland are 10 points from safety with just seven games left and have not scored for seven matches.\n\nUnited, who move above Arsenal, are four points behind fourth-placed Manchester City with one game in hand over their neighbours.\n• None Analysis: Why Moyes needs to change Sunderland's mood\n• None Reaction from the Stadium of Light\n\nThis was Sunderland's 21st league defeat in 31 games this season, while they have now gone 11 hours and 15 minutes without scoring in the top flight.\n\nIt is hard to see where another win is going to come from and the Black Cats' relegation to the Championship could be confirmed as soon as 26 April - with five games remaining.\n\nSunderland were not helped by an injury to Bryan Oviedo, which cut short the defender's afternoon, while Larsson's contentious straight red card for going over the top of the ball on Herrera ended any realistic chance of a win before the interval.\n\nLarsson, who was furious with referee Craig Pawson's decision, now faces a suspension for his first Premier League dismissal in what was his 278th appearance in the competition.\n\nMoments before the red card, Victor Anichebe had been denied by United's Argentina keeper Sergio Romero, who was starting in place of the injured David de Gea.\n\nJermain Defoe went close from 20 yards after the interval but the Black Cats have lost six of their last seven games and look drained of any confidence.\n\nJose Mourinho made five changes for his side's 50th competitive game of the season but while keeper De Gea's absence was down to injury, the United boss opted to rotate players ahead of Thursday's Europa League quarter-final first leg with Anderlecht.\n\nLuke Shaw made a surprise return just days after Mourinho had questioned the full-back's commitment and delivered a polished performance as the Red Devils stretched their unbeaten Premier League run to 21 games.\n\nShaw recovered from an early booking, awarded for flying in behind on Didier Ndong, to offer width and attacking threat down the left.\n\nIn front of watching England manager Gareth Southgate, he set up a great chance for Marouane Fellaini, made captain for the day four months after being booed by his own fans.\n\nAnd Shaw's lively contribution also included an attempt on goal and the pass to Mkhitaryan to make it 2-0.\n\nIt was telling when Mourinho gave the 21-year-old a deserved pat on the back when he was replaced, with United in total control, soon after Ndong accidentally stood on his ankle.\n\nIbrahimovic's opening goal was a delight, spinning away from Billy Jones before bending home from outside the area.\n\nNo Sunderland player had touched the ball when Mkhitaryan doubled the lead 45 seconds into the second half with a low shot, while substitute Rashford completed a fine counter-attack to slot his first league goal since 24 September.\n\nOnly days earlier, Mourinho said Rashford was suffering from a major lack of confidence caused by his lack of goals.\n\nSunderland boss David Moyes: \"I don't want to blame referees for my position and us losing. Today the result was helped by the referee. Manchester United were playing well but the red card was a decision that went against us.\n\n\"[Before United scored] We were hanging in the game and staying in the game and trying to do our best. We gave away a poor goal and I thought we needed to get a lot closer. When we went down to 10 men it made it a lot harder.\n\n\"We keep going. We have another home game next Saturday and we have to try and win it. We do some good things but just lack a bit of quality but it's not for the want of trying. The boys are doing everything they can.\n\n\"The hardest thing as a manager is losing and we're losing a lot. The players care and want to do well and we're not doing as well as we should be.\"\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho: \"We want to fight in the Premier League until it is mathematically impossible. The Premier League we cannot win, but Europa League we can.\n\n\"We had lots of players that were not here today and the most important thing after the three points was to have no more injuries.\n\n\"I took Shaw off because of the yellow card and the pressure from the crowd. It was good to protect him but was also good for him to play one hour with a good solid performance and no mistakes, so I'm really pleased for him.\"\n• None Sunderland have now failed to score in seven successive Premier League games - the joint-second worst run in Premier League history. Crystal Palace hold the record with nine games (1994-95), with Derby (2007-08) and Ipswich (1994-95) also going seven games without scoring.\n• None The Black Cats' run without scoring in the Premier League now stands at 675 minutes. In that time they have attempted 79 shots in total without netting any of them.\n• None Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in his 21st different match of the season for Manchester United.\n• None Ibrahimovic has now scored 10 away goals in the Premier League this season - only Sergio Aguero (11) and Alexis Sanchez (12) have more on the road.\n• None Sunderland have averaged a red card every 887 minutes in Premier League history - only three teams have a worse ratio than this: Hull (720 mins), Blackburn (824 mins) and Barnsley (855).\n\nSunderland host West Ham United in the Premier League next Saturday (15:00 BST) by which time Manchester United will have played Thursday's Europa League quarter-final first leg against Anderlecht in Belgium (20:05 BST).\n• None Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Goal! Sunderland 0, Manchester United 3. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jermain Defoe (Sunderland) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Victor Anichebe.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Zlatan Ibrahimovic tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Didier Ndong (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Matteo Darmian (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Anthony Martial (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEverton registered their seventh straight home league win as Romelu Lukaku scored twice to check Leicester's renaissance under boss Craig Shakespeare.\n\nTom Davies poked in for the hosts after 30 seconds, before Leicester rallied with a slick counter-attacking goal from Islam Slimani and a superb free-kick from Marc Albrighton.\n\nBut Leicester, much changed before Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final at Atletico Madrid, never looked comfortable.\n\nLukaku headed in a Ross Barkley cross to draw Everton level and Phil Jagielka was allowed too much space at a corner as the Toffees reached the break ahead.\n\nLukaku drilled in from close range after the interval and the withdrawal of the bright Demarai Gray and striker Jamie Vardy seemed to signal Leicester's attentions turning towards Europe.\n• None Listen: 'In my opinion he's the best' - 5 live Football Daily\n\nWith his 22nd and 23rd Premier League goals putting him four clear of Harry Kane in the top-flight scoring charts, Lukaku will soon have to search further afield for his scoring benchmarks.\n\nHis game-sealing second - a sharp finish after cleverly lurking in the shadow of Jagielka at a corner - means that only five other men have scored more in Europe's top four leagues.\n\nThe last time that Everton had such a prolific goalscorer was Gary Lineker in the 1985-86 season. Lineker left at the end of that campaign for Barcelona and, after Lukaku turned down a £140,000-a-week contract extension last month, it seems European football is the minimum required to keep him at the club.\n\nVictory moves Everton level with sixth-placed Arsenal, below them on goal difference, albeit having played three games more.\n\nSeventh should be good enough for a Europa League place, however, with Manchester United winning the League Cup and the FA Cup semi-finals being contested by teams above them in the table.\n\nOne goal in 30 seconds, three inside 10 minutes and five before the half was out. An extraordinary first 45 minutes was more a product of flimsy defending rather than incisive attacking, however.\n\nLeicester have kept clean sheets in their last two games with Yohan Benalouane filling in for Wes Morgan at the centre of defence, but the Tunisian looked out of his depth from the first minute at Goodison Park.\n\nAs Kevin Mirallas drove towards the penalty area in the match's first attack he rashly sold himself to spread panic through the visitors backline and allow Davies space to score the joint fastest Premier League goal of the season.\n\nAt the other end Everton seemed to miss the suspended Ashley Williams' authority and organisation as Gray burst forward on a swift counter to slip in Slimani but it was Benalouane's presence, rather than the Wales international's absence, that was to prove the more telling feature of the match.\n\nFirst the Leicester centre-back allowed Lukaku to stroll in front of him to restore parity in the 23rd minute and then lost contact with Jagielka as the captain sent his side to the dressing room ahead at the end of a breathless first half.\n\nMadrid on the mind for Foxes\n\nVictory for Leicester at Goodison Park would have extended their winning streak in the league to six matches - more than they achieved at any point in last season's title-winning campaign.\n\nHowever, their title defence, fatally undermined by their form under Shakespeare's predecessor Claudio Ranieri, has now been eclipsed by their run to the last eight of the Champions League.\n\nThe return of the rested Wilfred Ndidi in midfield should add much-needed steel to the side for a testing evening in the Vicente Calderon as they aim for silverware that would arguably surpass even last season's Premier League coup.\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nEverton boss Ronald Koeman: \"Romelu Lukaku is one of the best strikers in the world and I think the boy is improving in different aspects.\n\n\"Everybody knows he's a key player for Everton and we will try to do everything to keep him here but the final decision is always with the player. Everyone knows he has his own ambition but we will try our best.\n\n\"After we got to 4-2 we really controlled the game and it's one of the most complete performances of the season.\"\n\nLeicester manager Craig Shakespeare: \"We've got a big run of games coming up. I need to use the squad. The team that was picked was good enough to come here and get the result.\n\n\"We've said before we don't dwell on results. We can't do because we're training tomorrow for a big game on Wednesday.\n\n\"We have to move on quickly and we will learn from it. You're always a bit disappointed but we will brush ourselves down and we will be ready for Wednesday.\"\n• None Everton have now won seven successive Premier League home games - equalling their Premier League club record.\n• None Everton have already scored more Premier League goals at Goodison Park in 2017 (26 in seven games) than they did in the whole of 2016 (25 in 18 games).\n• None Romelu Lukaku has scored in seven successive Premier League matches at Goodison Park (12 goals) and has scored in all eight appearances there in 2017 overall (seven in league, one in FA Cup).\n• None Lukaku's run is the best in Everton's Premier League history at home, beating Duncan Ferguson and Francis Jeffers's runs of scoring in six successive appearances at Goodison Park.\n• None Lukaku now has 23 Premier League goals this season; one more than Middlesbrough have as a team (22).\n• None This was the first Premier League game to see three goals scored by the 10th minute of the match since Newcastle 4-4 Arsenal in February 2011, when Newcastle came from 0-4 behind.\n• None This was only the third Premier League match this season to see five goals scored in the first half, following Hull v Middlesbrough on 5 April and Crystal Palace v Liverpool on 29 October.\n• None Phil Jagielka has scored two Premier League goals over the space of six days - his previous two Premier League goals came over a period of 897 days.\n\nEverton will look to extend their winning streak at Goodison Park to eight matches when they take on Burnley on Saturday at 15:00 BST. Leicester take on last season's runner-ups Atletico Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday at 19:45 BST.\n• None Attempt saved. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Everton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin Mirallas.\n• None Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Davis Cup dead rubber singles match between Great Britain's Dan Evans and France's Julien Benneteau descends into farce when Nicolas Mahut and coach Yannick Noah join the action.\n\nREAD MORE: France knock GB out of Davis Cup quarter-finals", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nNeymar was sent off for Barcelona as they lost at Malaga and failed in their bid to go level on points with La Liga leaders Real Madrid.\n\nThe current Spanish champions were given a boost after Real's 1-1 draw with city rivals Atletico earlier.\n\nHowever, a first-half strike from ex-Barcelona forward Sandro Ramirez and a late effort from Jony Rodriguez ended their hopes.\n\nForward Neymar was sent off in the 65th minute after receiving a second yellow.\n• None Relive the action as it happened\n\nThe Brazil international - with 15 goals for Barca this season in all competitions - had brought down Diego Llorente with a late challenge, and then sarcastically applauded as he made his way off the pitch.\n\nThe 25-year-old is set to be suspended for the next league game against Real Sociedad on 15 April. But he could receive a longer ban if his reaction to the red card is deemed as contempt of the officials, which would mean he would miss the potentially season-defining El Clasico at the Bernabeu on 23 April.\n\nBarca barely troubled Malaga keeper Carlos Kameni, although the Cameroon international did make two good saves to block two firm efforts from Luis Suarez.\n\nMalaga, who began the match in 15th spot, looked far more threatening, especially on the counter-attack. They took the lead in the 32nd minute when Sandro - who left for Malaga this summer - fired past Marc-Andre ter Stegen.\n\nIn the second half they had a goal disallowed when Adalberto Penaranda was wrongly flagged offside before they finally scored their second. Pablo Fornals' square ball found Rodriguez, who slotted in from 10 yards out.\n\nThe defeat means Barcelona remain on 69 points, three behind Real who have a game in hand.\n• None Attempt missed. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Goal! Málaga 2, Barcelona 0. Jony (Málaga) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Fornals following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Javier Mascherano with a through ball.\n• None Javier Mascherano (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jon Rahm and William McGirt hole superb back-to-back shots on the 13th on the final day's play at Augusta National.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nCoverage: Practice and qualifying on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; race on BBC Radio 5 live. Live text commentary, leaderboard and imagery on BBC Sport website and app.\n\nLewis Hamilton heads into this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix looking for his fifth win in Shanghai.\n\nNo driver has won more races there than the Briton, and he will no doubt be more determined than ever to take victory and get his season up and running.\n\nWith Mercedes having been on pole in 58 of the last 61 races, Hamilton will be the man to beat, but how do you see the top 10 shaping up in the race?\n\nWho will finish in the top 10 at the Chinese Grand Prix?", "What do Europeans really think about British culture?\n\nQueuing, tea and talking about the weather. Are us Brits really that predictable? A few UK-based Europeans who we spoke to (before the referendum) seemed to think so. What's more, they wouldn't have it any other way. We'll say 'cheers' to that.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nMercedes driver Lewis Hamilton dominated the Chinese Grand Prix to take his first win of the year and move into a share of the championship lead.\n\nHamilton's victory, in a race enlivened by a wet start and some terrific wheel-to-wheel battles, ties him with first-race winner Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.\n\nVettel was second, hardening impressions that 2017 will be a fight between the two multiple champions.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen moved up from 16th on the grid to finish third.\n• None Listen: Vettel out of position at the start\n\nAnyone's race - no matter where you start from\n\nThe grand prix could have swung in favour of either Hamilton or Vettel depending on how events had played out.\n\nIn the end, fate decided for Hamilton, who was able to control the race from the front throughout and respond to his pursuers, who were always kept well out of arm's length.\n\nVettel had to fight back after losing out on strategy in a chaotic opening, which kept the shape of the race in doubt through a series of incidents and accidents.\n\nVerstappen further heightened his already burgeoning reputation as one of F1's most exciting drivers with a strong performance to challenge Hamilton early on.\n\nThe Dutchman, up from 16th to seventh on the first lap, took the final podium spot, but was under pressure in the closing laps from his more measured team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who Verstappen had overtaken impressively in the early stages.\n\nHamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas had a chastening day, spinning behind the safety car in the early stages and dropping back to 12th, from which he recovered to finish sixth, behind the second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen.\n\nAnd there was cruel luck for Fernando Alonso, who drove a strong opening lap to have the uncompetitive McLaren-Honda up into eighth place, ran seventh for much of the race and was on course to finish there when his driveshaft failed shortly after half distance.\n\nThe moment it fell for Hamilton\n\nThe race could have turned out very differently had it not been for a key moment on lap four.\n\nAfter a wet start, Hamilton led the opening lap from Vettel and Bottas but the deployment of the virtual safety car following a crash by Williams rookie Lance Stroll, involved in a collision with Force India's Sergio Perez, prompted Vettel and most of the midfield runners to pit for dry tyres on lap two.\n\nThe decision dropped Vettel to sixth but with all the runners ahead of him still on the grooved intermediate tyres on a rapidly drying track.\n\nThe four-time champion was now in a strong position, and poised to take the lead when Hamilton, Bottas, Ricciardo, Raikkonen and Verstappen pitted.\n\nBut Hamilton and the others were saved by a crash by Sauber's Antonio Giovinazzi, the Italian losing it at the last corner, just as he had in qualifying on Saturday.\n\nThat brought out the safety car and Hamilton and the rest could make their own pit stops for dry tyres without losing out.\n\nFrom there, Hamilton could control the race at will and was pretty much untroubled, despite a late push from Vettel.\n\nThe overtaking move of the race\n\nAs the safety car helped Hamilton, it hurt Vettel, who now had to battle past both Red Bulls and team-mate Raikkonen to retain the championship lead.\n\nRicciardo began to struggle and he soon had a queue behind him, with Verstappen heading Raikkonen and Vettel.\n\nVerstappen, predictably, was the man on the move, passing his team-mate on lap 11 at the Turn Five hairpin and chasing after Hamilton.\n\nRaikkonen spent another nine laps failing to pass Ricciardo before the Finn was overtaken by team-mate Vettel at Turn Five.\n\nTwo laps later, Vettel put perhaps the move of the race on Ricciardo, going all the way around the outside of Turn Five, the two banging wheels in a puff of blue smoke as they accelerated side-by-side towards the fast Turn Six, where the Ferrari finally claimed the place.\n\nVettel chased down Verstappen, who he provoked into a mistake at the Turn 14 hairpin at the end of the long straight on lap 28, exactly half distance.\n\nA pit stop for fresh tyres from Ferrari forced Mercedes to respond but, with the two cars evenly matched, there was stalemate.\n\nThere were a number of great performances - Hamilton was sublime in the lead, Vettel excellent in attack-recovery mode, Alonso dragging his recalcitrant McLaren into the points, Carlos Sainz impressive in the Toro Rosso.\n\nBut it's hard to look beyond Verstappen - 16th to seventh on the opening lap, the usual plethora of great passes, embarrassing Ricciardo in the early laps, and holding on for a podium in a car with difficult balance because of lack of track time in qualifying.\n\nWhat they said\n\n\"I think this will be one of the closest [title fights] if not the closest I have experienced,\" said Hamilton.\n\n\"Ferrari have done a great job and it is great that we are both pushing.\"\n\nSebastian Vettel: \"The safety car came just as I was about to start to feel the dry tyres were a lot quicker but then I had a very exciting race. I was stuck in the train for a little while but then tried to chase down Lewis Hamilton. It was a good match. It was good fun.\"\n\nMax Verstappen: \"It was a very challenging race but I really enjoyed it. I think I overtook nine cars in the opening lap so it was a very good race for me!\n\n\"I didn't have a lot of track time this weekend because didn't do much in qualifying so I wasn't expecting to finish on the podium having started in 16th.\"\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nChapter three of their promising battle takes place under the lights of Bahrain next weekend, where temperatures will be a good 20C higher than on a chilly 12C day in Shanghai.\n\nBoth Hamilton and Vettel share two victories each in the desert race.\n\nListen to 5 live's Chinese Grand Prix Review on Monday, 10 April at 04:30 BST.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-6 -5-4 Spieth (US), Moore (US), Hoffman (US); -3-2-1\n\nEngland's Justin Rose jumped into a share of the lead with Spain's Sergio Garcia as the battle for the Masters intensified on day three at Augusta.\n\nRose, 36, sunk five birdies in the last seven holes in his five-under-par 67 to join Garcia, who hit 70, on six under.\n\nRickie Fowler finished a shot back, while Jordan Spieth carded a 68 to move level with fellow Americans Charley Hoffman and Ryan Moore on four under.\n\nLee Westwood (68) moved to one under while Rory McIlroy (71) is level par.\n\nRose is one of four previous major winners in the top 10 going into Sunday's final round, which will be live and uninterrupted on BBC Two from 18:30 BST.\n\nGarcia, Fowler and England's Westwood are all hoping to finally land one of golf's four most prestigious tournaments.\n• None How the drama unfolded on day three of the Masters\n• None How to follow the Masters on the BBC\n\nOlympic champion Rose, 36, has not claimed a major since his maiden triumph at the 2013 US Open, but lifted himself into contention for a first Masters title with a stunning finish on Saturday.\n\nThe Englishman, who has four previous top-10 finishes at the Augusta National, was level par for the round after 11, only to blitz the final seven holes.\n\nHe rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt at the 17th, then a 10-footer at the last, to join Hoffman in the lead.\n\nGarcia, playing alongside the 40-year-old Californian, birdied the 15th to briefly make it a three-way tie at the top.\n\nBut Hoffman, one of four to share the overnight lead after the second round, slipped behind Rose and Garcia after finding water on the par-three 16th and ending with a double bogey.\n\n\"The key for me was staying patient early in my round. For me the test was around six when I made bogey, I stayed with it and played well on the back nine. Everything clicked into gear,\" said Rose.\n\n\"Patience is the key on Sunday. This is a golf course where you have to pick your moments. That will be the game plan.\"\n\nTwo-time major winner Spieth is hoping to banish memories of last year's spectacular final-day collapse by winning his second Masters.\n\nAnd the 23-year-old Texan, who has finished second, first and tied second in his three Augusta appearances, put himself in the frame again with a nerveless third-round display.\n\nAfter an opening-round 75 which featured a quadruple-bogey nine on the 15th, Spieth was 10 shots adrift of leader Hoffman.\n\nNo previous Masters winner has trailed by more than seven shots after 18 holes.\n\nSpieth, who recovered with a three-under 69 on Friday, started his third round with five pars, but three birdies in four holes before the turn catapulted him into contention.\n\nFurther birdies at 13 and 15 moved him into outright second, only for a bogey on 16 - his first in 30 holes - to drop him back into a share for fourth.\n\n\"We wanted to shoot four under and thought if we did the lead would move to six or seven and I'd creep on it,\" said the 2015 champion, who is bidding to become the youngest two-time Masters winner.\n\n\"Moments present themselves on Sunday here - it is about being patient.\n\n\"I know better than anyone what can happen on a Sunday.\"\n\nWorld number eight Fowler putted solidly on his way to a hard-fought one-under-par 71, while Moore responded to the grief of losing his grandmother earlier this week with six birdies in a three-under 69.\n\nLike Garcia, Worksop's Westwood has long been considered one of Europe's finest players, only to have an excellent career somewhat tarnished by the absence of a major title.\n\nAnd the 43-year-old, who was third after an opening-round 70, appeared to have scuppered his chances of ending that long wait following a five-over 77 on Friday.\n\nHowever, he is back with an outside chance after converting six birdies in a four-under-par 68.\n\n\"Obviously I would like to be deep in the red, but one under is pretty good,\" said Westwood, who finished tied second with Spieth last year.\n\n\"I've got half a chance if I can get a roll going on the front nine.\"\n\nWorld number two McIlroy's hopes of becoming only the sixth man to win all four majors look slim.\n\nThe Northern Irishman, 27, made a strong start with birdies on the second and third, only to be set back by three-putts on the fifth and seventh which cost him a bogey and double bogey.\n\nFurther birdies on the eighth and 12th provided hope, but he could not add any more to close the gap on the leaders.\n\n\"I had some chances on the back nine that I could have converted,\" said the four-time major winner.\n\n\"I think I probably could have shot a 67 or 68, but I had just a few too many wasted opportunities.\n\n\"I'm going to need my best score around here, 65, to have a chance.\"\n\nFind out how to get into golf with our special guide.", "Few other post-war prime ministers have called a snap election\n\nA snap general election has been announced by UK Prime Minister Theresa May, to \"guarantee certainty and security\". But what does history say about her chances of winning a greater majority?\n\nSince World War Two, there are really only two other examples of a prime minister going to the country within a year or two of the previous contest.\n\nHowever, there have also been a few occasions which have seen prime ministers who - like Theresa May - made it to Downing Street without winning an election themselves going to the country for a \"personal mandate\".\n\nSince 2011, parliamentary terms have been fixed at five years and, even before this, elections were generally only called by prime ministers every four or five years.\n\nIn March 1966 however, Labour's Harold Wilson went to the country just under 18 months after winning in October 1964.\n\nHarold Wilson called two snap elections to try to win a strong majority\n\nHis decision was hardly a surprise. The 1964 election had seen Labour replace the Tories after 13 years, but with only the narrowest of majorities - just four MPs.\n\nAn avid reader of opinion polls and an acute interpreter of local and by-election results, Wilson timed his strike to perfection.\n\nHe bagged a majority of nearly 100, albeit one he managed to squander by 1970, when Labour was beaten by the Tories under Ted Heath - the prime minister who took the UK into Europe.\n\nBy February 1974, however, Wilson was back in Downing Street - and things were even trickier than they had been 10 years previously.\n\nRather than a tiny parliamentary majority, Labour had no majority at all.\n\nWilson was obliged to form a minority administration and hope that it could last long enough for him to convince the country that he really was the man for the job again.\n\nWilson waited just nine months before making that appeal.\n\nThe result was far from what he'd hoped for - a painfully small three-seat majority which eventually evaporated completely, leaving the government reliant on a pact with the Liberal Party.\n\nSo, early elections don't always deliver everything the prime minister who calls them might wish for.\n\nBut what about contests called by incumbents who have taken over at Number 10 without first winning a general election as party leader?\n\nJohn Major was among prime ministers who went on to win a \"personal mandate\"\n\nWell, here, the outlook is much brighter for those who call the election.\n\nWinston Churchill, after suffering at least one serious stroke that was hidden from the public, finally gave way to his successor Anthony Eden in April 1955.\n\nEden wasted no time by calling an election in May - a contest which saw him increase his party's majority from 17 to a very respectable 60.\n\nAt just under 50%, the Tories' share of the vote was the highest ever achieved in the post-war period.\n\nIt wasn't enough, however, to see Eden through the Suez crisis, which led to his resignation and replacement in January 1957 by the wily Harold Macmillan.\n\n\"Supermac\", true to form, bided his time before seeking his own personal mandate and was rewarded in October 1959 with a 100-seat majority.\n\nThe third Tory prime minister who initially got the top job by virtue of his support in the party rather than in the country was John Major.\n\nHe waited 16 months after replacing Margaret Thatcher before calling an election in 1992, but while his victory left the Conservatives with a much reduced majority, he had avoided what two years previously looked like certain defeat.\n\nHistory, then, appears to be on Theresa May's side. But, given the unpredictability of the current political climate, the outcome is far from guaranteed.\n\nTim Bale is professor of politics at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Follow him @ProfTimBale.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe doctor who gave double Olympic champion Mo Farah a controversial supplement has told MPs that he failed to properly document the treatment.\n\nDr Robin Chakraverty said the amount of L-carnitine was well within World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) limits.\n\nDr Chakraverty said the substance was given to help the Briton's performance.\n\nHe said he gave 13.5 millilitres of the legal supplement, below the maximum allowed of 50ml within six hours, by injection and not via drip.\n\nEd Warner, the UK Athletics (UKA) chairman, told MPs that not recording injections was \"inexcusable\" although Dr Chakraverty said record keeping had since improved.\n\nThe use of the substance, given to Farah in 2014, is being looked at by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) - which has called it an infusion - to determine whether rules were broken.\n\nThe injection was made in consultation with Farah's American coach Alberto Salazar.\n\nSalazar and Farah, Olympic champion in both the 5,000m and 10,000m in 2012 and 2016, have strongly denied breaking any rules.\n\nDr Chakraverty, formerly UKA's chief medical officer, now works with the England men's football team,\n\nHe told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on Wednesday there had been staffing cuts at UKA and he had been responsible for the healthcare of 140 athletes in an \"immensely busy\" job.\n\n\"Where we have had lapses is when you're on the road, when you're travelling, and that is probably the unique thing about this role. Not all our athletes train in one area,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are constantly on call for athletes you travel to those athletes. If you don't record it straight away - which I didn't in this case - then it can get forgotten because you have all these other things. That is just the scenario. It is not an excuse.\"\n\nIn March, the BBC reported that UKA staff may not have properly recorded the use of L-carnitine - a naturally occurring amino acid often prescribed as a supplement for heart and muscle disorders.\n\nWarner said it was \"disappointing\" the injection had not been recorded at the time by the doctor.\n\n\"That has formed part of Dr Chakraverty's annual appraisal processes. That was something which was clearly marked out by Dr Chakraverty and his line manager as in need of improvement. He won't be proud of that fact but won't shy away from the fact it's there,\" he said.\n\nFarah was given the injection during preparations before his full London Marathon debut in 2014, in which he finished eighth.\n\nSalazar has been under investigation by Usada and UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) since 2015, following claims of doping and unethical practices made in a BBC Panorama programme.\n\n'Don't tar us with the same brush'- Warner\n\nAt a meeting of the committee earlier this year, a doctor who received a 'mystery package' for cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011 said he had no record of his medical treatment at the time.\n\nEx-Team Sky medic Dr Richard Freeman had a laptop containing medical records stolen in 2014, the committee was told in March.\n\nTeam Sky and British Cycling's record-keeping was questioned at the earlier hearing and when it was raised again on Wednesday, Warner replied: \"Please don't tar us with the same brush\".\n\nHe said UKA was keen to centralise its records and now handles all of Farah's medical care.\n\n\"There was a period of a few months in which we allowed Mo to go to Oregon and be treated by a local GP over in America, and we were observing his medical care from afar,\" said Warner.\n\n\"A decision was taken that we had to make sure we were in control of all medical interventions where Mo was concerned. That should always be the case for funded athletes.\"\n\nAn interim Usada report centres on claims a number of athletes at Salazar's Nike Oregon Project were given L-carnitine - some of which were \"almost certainly\" more than 50ml and therefore doping violations.\n\nAnother former UKA doctor, Dr John Rogers, visited a training camp held in France in 2011.\n\nHe reported back some concerns about the side-effects of some of the supplements Farah was taking, but stressed there were no worries that anything illegal may have been taking place.\n\nFarah was receiving supplements to help prevent stress fractures and for iron and vitamin D deficiencies.\n\nDr Rogers told the committee Salazar's knowledge of sports medicine and science at the time was more advanced than any coach he had worked with.\n\n\"We had several conversations here and he was very open and transparent about the sports medicine practices he was using,\" he said.\n\n\"There was no concern there were any Wada rules being broken.\n\n\"There were some medical concerns around possible side-effects from some of the strategies they were using and it was important I shared that in terms of the continuity of care.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Damian Collins MP said at the start of the hearing that the MPs' final report into anti-doping would now not be published until after the General Election on June 8.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\non BBC Radio 5 live and online from 19:00 BST on Wednesday\n\nLions captain Sam Warburton is not the most vocal of leaders but when he speaks \"you can hear a pin drop\", says predecessor Paul O'Connell.\n\nWarren Gatland announces his squad to tour New Zealand on Wednesday at 12:00 BST, with 2013 captain Warburton once again leading the tourists.\n\nO'Connell, Lions captain in 2009, said Warburton reminds him of late Munster captain and coach Anthony Foley.\n\n\"Foley was a similar character. He didn't speak a lot,\" said O'Connell.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live before Warburton's appointment had been confirmed, former Ireland captain O'Connell added: \"Foley was one of my first captains in Munster.\n\n\"Very often there was plenty of other people chatting and barking and staying on top of people, but when he picked his moment to speak everyone listened.\n\n\"It was probably the same in 2013 in Australia - Sam didn't say a lot.\n\n\"Myself and a few others were chirping at people and staying on top of people a little bit, but when Sam elected to speak you could hear a pin drop.\"\n\nWarburton, 28, will join Martin Johnson as a two-time Lions captain when head coach Gatland reveals his full squad at midday on Wednesday.\n\nIreland international Foley became Munster's head coach in 2014, but died suddenly in Paris in October at the age of 42.\n\nWarburton was appointed Wales captain in 2011, but was replaced by Alun Wyn Jones for the 2017 Six Nations as Wales finished fifth.\n\nWales head coach Rob Howley, deputising for Warren Gatland, said he wanted Warburton to concentrate on his individual game.\n\n\"I thought Alun Wyn Jones would end up doing it [captaining the Lions]. Early on Sam hadn't played a lot of rugby,\" added O'Connell.\n\n\"Because of the way he stepped aside from the Welsh captaincy, I thought he just wanted to focus on himself and get back playing as well as he could.\n\n\"But he just got better and better throughout the Six Nations and it just made sense by the end. He will be a fantastic captain.\"", "The world has been consumed by the fear of war in Korea over the past week - everywhere, it seems, except Korea. The BBC's correspondent in the South Korean capital says there is a disconnect between the hyped-up atmosphere and the reality on the ground.\n\nI get emails from people in Europe asking me whether nuclear war is about to start - and then I look out of the window, in Seoul, and see a market where people amble gently between the stalls, sampling street food.\n\nAround the world, headlines scream \"danger\" - but at what would be the epicentre of any war, there's not the slightest sign of fear.\n\nWhile tension mounts far away, street dancers in Seoul accost passers-by with pamphlets advertising a concert.\n\nWho's right? The headline writers or the putative war victims? Has the world suddenly got much more dangerous?\n\nIn one way, it obviously has.\n\nNorth Korea is closer to possessing effective nuclear warheads and missiles, simply because it's had longer to sort out the problems.\n\nNorth Korea tests missiles every one or two weeks to learn from their mistakes.\n\nSpeaking at the DMZ, US Vice-President Mike Pence said the \"era of strategic patience is over\"\n\nBut the expert view is that North Korea does not have the capability to strike the United States.\n\nIt is making progress, but it isn't there yet. A day after the fearsome display of missiles in Pyongyang, North Korea launched a dud - another one.\n\nThe other new element is President Trump himself. He's been sending different messages, which require a little analysis.\n\nUnder President Obama, the policy was called \"strategic patience\" - squeeze North Korea with sanctions, persuade others to do the same, particularly China, and sit it out.\n\nAt the demilitarized zone (DMZ) this week, Vice-President Mike Pence said the \"era of strategic patience is over\".\n\nBut is it? Or does it continue under another name?\n\nThe military option - an attack on North Korean nuclear installations - was considered by previous presidents and ruled out because half the population of South Korea lives in the greater Seoul area, which is within easy range of North Korean artillery. That remains true.\n\nDecapitation - the assassination of Kim Jong-un - has also not happened for a variety of reasons: success couldn't be guaranteed, and it isn't clear what orders the military might have to retaliate against South Korea if the north's \"supreme leader\" were attacked. That hasn't changed.\n\nKim Jong-Un has defied international pressure to abandon his nuclear weapons programme\n\nWhether the policy really has changed depends on whether President Trump has a different attitude to risk and the potential cost of war, perhaps a war that would suck in China.\n\nThe United States had information the regime was about to move fuel rods from its reactor at Yongbyon, to the north of Pyongyang, to a reprocessing centre (the first step in making a nuclear bomb).\n\nPlans were made to send fighters and cruise missiles to attack, but the order was never given.\n\nBut it was a plan that scared the North Koreans and enabled a deal to be done.\n\nThe US provided fuel to a fuel-starved economy, and North Korea agreed to freeze its programme (though it then cheated and the deal fell apart in 2002).\n\nToday, Mr Perry believes the opportunity for what he calls \"creative diplomacy\" is there, particularly because China may be more helpful than it was during the Clinton presidency.\n\nNorth Korea has to believe that the United States might attack and that, on this reasoning, makes President Trump's unpredictability an asset.\n\nThe recent parade in Pyongyang featured what appeared to be a new class of land-based ballistic missile\n\nIn recent days, the administration has downplayed the idea of attacking North Korea.\n\nNational security adviser Lt Gen HR McMaster said on Sunday: \"All our options are on the table.\"\n\nBut, crucially, he added: \"It's time for us to undertake all actions we can, short of a military option, to try to resolve this peacefully.\"\n\nThere is a pessimistic view and an optimistic view.\n\nThe bleak view is that President Trump is way out of his depth and acts impulsively.\n\nOn this reading, we are in great danger.\n\nSir Max Hastings, the author of an acclaimed history of the Korean War, has written: \"As ever with this president, it is impossible to judge whether he means what he says, or even understands the significance of his words.\"\n\nHe cited a scenario that in his view echoed the way the world stumbled into war in 1914, through the \"dysfunctional personality\" of a leader.\n\nThe nightmare scenario now would be: \"The United States delivers an ultimatum to North Korea, insisting it renounces its nuclear weapons.\n\n\"The half-crazed regime in the capital, Pyongyang, refuses.\n\n\"US aircraft and missiles strike at Kim Jong-Un's nuclear facilities.\n\n\"North Korea's neighbour and ally, China, responds by hitting carriers of the US Seventh Fleet in the Pacific.\n\nBut there is a more peaceful scenario, suggested by some experts in South Korea.\n\nProf John Delury, of Yonsei University, in Seoul, says: \"The smart play for Mr Trump would be to return to those five wise words he said about Mr Kim on the campaign trail, 'I would speak to him.'\n\n\"The United States should swiftly negotiate a bilateral deal that freezes Mr Kim's nuclear and missile programme.\"\n\nUnder this scenario, money - a lot of money - would be given to North Korea in order to improve its economy.\n\nThere would probably have to be a guarantee that the regime wouldn't be toppled.\n\nIn this case, Kim Jong-un would have to be ready to negotiate (a huge if) and some trust would have to be put in him not to cheat and not to keep demanding more (another big if).\n\nWhich way will Trump jump?", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nCoverage: Watch live on the BBC Sport website, Connected TVs and app. Race highlights and reports on the BBC Sport website\n\nOlympic champion Adam Peaty narrowly missed out on breaking his own world record as he claimed the 50m breaststroke title at the British Swimming Championships in Sheffield.\n\nEngland's Peaty, who claimed the 100m on day one, finished six hundredths of a second outside his record in a \"very frustrating\" time of 26.48 seconds.\n\nBut the 22-year-old, who has already booked his place at July's World Championships in Budapest, now believes he could go below the 26-second mark this summer.\n\nHaving given his 100m gold medal away to a fan in the crowd, Peaty said he was saving his 50m medal for his grandmother.\n\nJocelyn Ulyett, 21, broke the British record en route to a surprise victory in the 200m breaststroke, beating Olympians Chloe Tutton and Molly Renshaw and describing her performance as \"crazy\".\n\nHer time of two minutes 22.08 seconds helped her become only the second British swimmer to gain an automatic World qualifying time.\n\nDouble Olympic silver medallist Jazz Carlin was over 10 seconds outside the automatic time as she won the 800m freestyle in eight minutes 30.56 seconds.\n\nThe Welsh swimmer, who also failed to make the consideration time, will get another chance to qualify in Saturday's 400m.\n\nJames Guy, who won 200m freestyle gold at the World Championships in 2015, produced a huge personal best to win the 200m butterfly in one minute 55.91 seconds and gain a consideration time for the Worlds.\n\nGeorgia Davies also set a consideration time in the 100m backstroke, winning in 59.34secs.\n\nIn Wednesday's other finals, Chris Walker-Hebborn won the men's 100m backstroke in 54.24secs, while Charlotte Atkinson claimed the 50m butterfly in 26.81secs, but both were outside the consideration times.", "For more than two thousand years people have believed that joint pain could be triggered by bad weather, but the link has never been proven.\n\nNow, by harnessing the power of thousands of volunteers, doctors hope to unravel the mystery. And the new technique could offer countless solutions to a whole host of ailments.\n\n\"I'm always in pain, 24/7,\" says Becky Mason, sitting at home on her sofa in Alsager near Manchester.\n\nLike millions of people around the world she suffers from pains in her muscles and stiffness in her joints.\n\n\"I know, if it's going to be a very damp cold day, it's likely that my pain is going to be worse.\"\n\nShe has discussed it with her GP and has always wondered if there really is a link between her pain and the weather.\n\nBecky isn't alone. The link between joint pain and bad weather has long been suspected by patients and medical professionals alike and the theory dates back at least to Roman times and possible earlier.\n\n\"Is it an old wives tale? Am I imagining it?\" she asks.\n\nIt's a question she finally hopes to answer, not by visiting a hospital or undergoing tests, but simply by using her smartphone.\n\nEach day she enters information about how she feels into an app on her phone, the phone's GPS pinpoints her location, pulls the latest weather information from the internet, and fires a package of data to a team of researchers.\n\nOn its own Becky's data is of limited interest, but she isn't acting alone. More than 13,000 volunteers have signed up for the same study, sending vast quantities of information into a database - more than four million data points so far.\n\nVolunteers using the 'Cloudy with a chance of pain app', developed by data capture firm umotif\n\nThe app, called \"Cloudy with a Chance of Pain\" is part of a research project being run by Will Dixon. He is a consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital and has spent years researching joint pain.\n\n\"At almost every clinic I run, one or more patients will tell me that their joint pains are better or worse because of the weather\" he says, but until now he has never had the means of collecting enough data to find a conclusive answer.\n\nWhich is perhaps a good point to explain Will Dixon's other job title - Professor of Digital Epidemiology.\n\nTraditional epidemiologists study health and disease in particular populations. Usually it means collecting data in person - asking patients to visit you, or heading out into the field. 'Shoe leather epidemiology', it is sometimes called.\n\nBut digital epidemiology allows patients to send detailed information over the internet - which means they can do it more regularly, and of course you can get many more people to take part, thousands more; numbers that would be unthinkable using the old methods.\n\nBy combing through that data, Professor Dixon hopes it will be possible to find correlations and clues that would have been hidden to doctors just a decade ago. His team will analyse the data over the coming year, and hope to find a definitive answer to the question.\n\nWorld Hacks is a new BBC team looking at global problems.\n\nWe meet the people fixing the world.\n\nThe technique isn't just limited to arthritis research.\n\nAnother study underway in the US has recruited more than 20,000 participants using an app that asks them to say \"ahhhhhhh\" into their phone.\n\nNamed mPower, and built using technology developed by British academic Max Little, the project hopes to find out more about the onset and progression of Parkinson's disease. If the \"ahhhhhhh\" sound is smooth and unbroken, it has likely come from a healthy patient. But if it breaks and wavers, it could suggest that the patient may have Parkinson's.\n\nBy monitoring the precise pattern and pitch of the noise, it may even be possible to determine how advanced the disease has become, or how strongly its symptoms are being felt at a given moment. Using that information, it could allow patients to take much more specific doses of a drug to help manage the disease. The software is even being used in a clinical trial for a new drug.\n\nAnd again, it is the accumulation of vast amounts of data, volunteered by thousands of participants, that is making the study possible.\n\nAnother app, soon to be launched, will allow users to photograph their plate of food, and use artificial intelligence to work out what's on the plate. The technology could help people determine the nutritional content of their meal, and allow public health bodies to track how well any particular population is eating.\n\nIt is being developed by Marcel Salathe, also a Professor of Digital Epidemiology and founder of what is likely the world's first lab dedicated to the field of study.\n\nMarcel Salathe is a professor of digital epidemiology at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne\n\nHe thinks the discipline could have particular benefits in parts of the world where basic medical infrastructure is lacking, but lots of people have smart-phones. Digital epidemiology could become the reporting network through which sickness outbreaks are initially detected, he says.\n\nBut vast amounts of data don't come without their own unique set of difficulties, he warns.\n\n\"The data can be extremely noisy,\" he explains. \"Dealing with very large data sets and finding a needle in the haystack is very challenging from a technical perspective.\"\n\nPerhaps the most interesting part of this new technique is the motivation of the people donating their data.\n\n'Cloudy with a Chance of Pain' may never reap rewards for Becky herself, yet she seems quite happy to spend her time putting her data into a smartphone app and then sending this off to a remote location.\n\n\"When you're in pain all the time, it's easy to get low,\" she says \"I'm at home and I can't work which makes me feel useless. But [with this app] I can still be helpful, and that's so powerful in my tiny little world, it helps me in a massive way.\"\n\nListen to BBC World Hacks on the World Service or listen back on the iPlayer.\n• None Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms'", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray made a winning return to the ATP Tour after a month out with an elbow injury at the Monte Carlo Masters but Kyle Edmund lost to Rafael Nadal.\n\nMurray, 29, was broken in the first game by Gilles Muller but soon asserted his class en route to a 7-5 7-5 win.\n\nThe world number one last played on the ATP Tour in Indian Wells on 12 March, though he contested an exhibition match against Roger Federer on 10 April.\n\nEdmund lost 6-0 5-7 6-3 to Nadal in a thriller lasting more than two hours.\n\nThe British number three lost his serve in the opening game of the match before nine-time champion Nadal cruised to the first set.\n\nBut Edmund won his first game at the start of the second set and hit a number of forehand winners en route to levelling the match.\n\nHe continued to impress in the decider as the pair exchanged early breaks before the Spaniard took a decisive 4-3 lead and won the next two games to complete victory in two hours 19 minutes.\n\nMurray, the top seed in Monte Carlo, gave up three double faults in the first game of his match, then hit long to gift Luxembourg's Muller the break.\n\nThe Scot continued to labour on his serve but somehow limited the damage, saving break point in the next game then fending off two set points while serving at 4-5.\n\nMuller's failure to capitalise on Murray's rustiness was then brutally exposed by the Scot, who broke the world number 28 in back-to-back games to claim the opening set, before recovering from an early break in the second to wrap up victory in one hour 55 minutes.\n\n\"It was a tough first match,\" Murray told Sky Sports. \"I started slow and wasn't serving well at the start.\n\n\"I only started serving properly four, five days ago, so I knew it was going to take time but I didn't expect to start the match serving like like that.\"\n\nThird seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland is also into round three after beating Czech Jiri Vesely 6-2 4-6 6-2. Fifth seed Marin Cilic and sixth-seeded Dominic Thiem also progressed.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSerena Williams, the most successful female player of the Open era, is pregnant - just 12 weeks after winning a record 23rd Grand Slam singles title.\n\nThe American, 35, is due to give birth in the autumn, says her representative.\n\nThe world number two posted a picture on social media app Snapchat, posing in a mirror with the message: \"20 weeks\", before deleting it.\n\nIf accurate, that would mean Williams was around eight weeks pregnant while winning in Melbourne.\n• None How can you win a Grand Slam when you're pregnant?\n\nWilliams will miss the rest of the season, having not played since the Australian Open, citing a knee injury.\n\nWilliams, who will return to world number one next week, would be eligible to retain her ranking under the WTA special ranking rule if she is ready to play her first tournament within 12 months of giving birth.\n\nFormer world number one Victoria Azarenka gave birth to her first child in December and is expected to return to competition at the end of July.\n\nBelgium's Kim Clijsters, meanwhile, won the US Open in 2009 just 18 months after giving birth to her daughter.\n\nThe news would suggest that Serena won the Australian Open while roughly eight weeks into her pregnancy.\n\nWe are very unlikely to see her compete in another Grand Slam before the French Open of 2018. That event will take place four months before her 37th birthday - but do not write off a woman who will return to world number one on Monday.\n\nAzarenka is a useful guide. Even though she is eight years younger, the Belarusian returned to serious training in March after giving birth in December and is targeting the WTA event in Stanford at the end of July for her return.\n\n'There's going to be a baby GOAT' - reaction\n\nUS Open Tennis responded to Williams' message by saying: \"Serena Williams will have a new pride and joy to hug and call her own soon! Congratulations on the exciting baby announcement!\"\n\nBest female player of the Open era\n\nWilliams, who announced her engagement to the co-founder of community news and chat site Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, in December, is top of the all-time list of major winners since Grand Slams accepted professional players in 1968.\n\nShe is second only to Australian Margaret Court on the list of women's all-time Grand Slam singles titles leaders - Court won 24 titles between 1960 and 1973.\n\nCourt, who won the singles Grand Slam in 1970, gave birth to her first child in March 1972, aged 29, and returned to win three of the four Grand Slam events in 1973.\n\nWilliams is a five-time Tour finals winner, the last of which came in 2014, and was recently picked as the greatest female tennis player of the Open era by BBC Sport readers.", "The fundraising appeal beat its £260,000 target within a few hours\n\nA 17-year-old Formula 4 driver who was involved in a \"horrific\" crash at Donington Park has had both his legs amputated.\n\nBilly Monger, from Charlwood, Surrey, ran into the back of another car which appeared to have stopped on the track during the race on Sunday.\n\nThe teenager had to be extracted from his vehicle at the Leicestershire track and airlifted to hospital.\n\nA JustGiving page set up to raise money for the boy hit £300,000.\n\nBilly Monger picked up two podiums in his first four races of the F4 British Championship\n\nThe team behind the car, JHR Developments, set up the page with the blessing of the teenager's family, with the aim of raising £260,000.\n\nA statement on the page said: \"Thousands of people have already watched the haunting footage of the crash which left Billy fighting for his life. Sadly, Billy has had amputations to both legs.\n\n\"We now need your kindness and support to help give Billy and his family the best chance to fight these injuries that will affect Billy's life so massively.\"\n\nThe post, signed by Steven Hunter, JHR Developments and the Monger family, said the money would be put into a trust to help him \"return to a full and active life\".\n\nThe Formula 4 British Championship is a motor racing series which features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers.\n\nIt is designed as a low-cost entrance to car racing, and is aimed at young racing drivers moving up from go-karting.\n\nIt replaced the British Formula Ford Championship in 2015 - a series in which successful Formula 1 drivers such as Ayrton Senna and Jenson Button won their first single-seater titles.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFour points will be enough for Birmingham City to maintain their Championship status, says new manager Harry Redknapp.\n\nThe 70-year-old was appointed on Tuesday, with Blues 20th and three points above the relegation zone.\n\nTheir final three matches are trips to Aston Villa and Bristol City plus a home match against play-off hopefuls Huddersfield Town.\n\n\"We need a win and a point,\" Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"Gary [Rowett, former manager] did well when he was here with the same sort of group. He got the best out of them.\n\n\"Four points would do it. Easier said than done, but we will give it our best.\"\n\nRedknapp, appointed 16 hours after Gianfranco Zola resigned on Monday, has secured four points from his first three games in charge three times in his career.\n\nShould Blackburn and Nottingham Forest both win on Saturday, Birmingham would slip into the bottom three before Redknapp's first match in charge, which is a trip to local rivals Villa on Sunday.\n\n'The players have obviously not performed'\n\nBlues, who were seventh in December when Rowett was sacked, went on to win just two of their 24 matches during Zola's four-month tenure.\n\nRedknapp has not held a permanent managerial position since leaving Queens Park Rangers in 2015, but has had stints as interim manager at Jordan and adviser to Derby County last season.\n\n\"The players have put in the club in the position they're in - you can blame who you like, they've obviously not performed,\" said the ex-Portsmouth, West Ham and Tottenham boss.\n\n\"They've got to take responsibility. They're the only ones who can get us out of it. You can only do so much from the touchline.\"\n\nRedknapp, who will be assisted by former Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill and ex-Bournemouth boss Paul Groves, has only been appointed until the end of the season.\n\n\"If I can keep them up, next year would be something I'd really fancy,\" he added.\n\nFirst team coaches Pierluigi Casiraghi and Gabriele Cioffi, fitness coach Andrea Caronti and video analyst Sebastiano Porcu, all part of Zola's backroom team, have followed the Italian out of St Andrew's while goalkeeper coach Kevin Hitchcock will retain his role at the club.", "A look at the life and times of the UK's Prime Minister, Theresa May, who has decided to call a general election for 8 June.\n\nTheresa May is Britain's second female prime minister but, unlike her predecessor Margaret Thatcher, she came to power without an election.\n\nShe took over as leader of the governing Conservative Party last July following the resignation of David Cameron, who had gambled everything on Britain voting to stay in the European Union.\n\nLike Mr Cameron, Mrs May had been against Brexit but she cleverly managed to keep the Eurosceptics in her party on side during the referendum campaign by keeping a low profile.\n\nShe reaped her reward by emerging as the unchallenged successor to Mr Cameron - portraying herself as a steady, reliable pair of hands who would deliver the will of the people and take Britain out of the EU in as orderly a fashion as possible.\n\nThe plan was for there to be no election until 2020, but as the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg explains, the political logic for going to the country earlier became inescapable.\n\nWith a commanding lead in the opinion polls, the bigger gamble might well have been to wait another three years and risk Brexit negotiations turning sour or the opposition Labour Party recovering ground.\n\nTheresa May, back row, right, in the 1999 shadow cabinet\n\nThe 60-year-old former home secretary has a reputation for a steady, unshowy approach to politics, although she was known in her early days at Westminster for her exotic taste in footwear and a fondness for high fashion (she named a lifetime subscription to Vogue as the luxury item she would take to a desert island).\n\nShe battled her way through the Westminster boy's club as one of a handful of women on the Conservative benches - she would later be joined by more female colleagues thanks, in part, to her own efforts as party chairman to get women candidates into winnable seats.\n\nShe developed a reputation as a tough, critics would say inflexible, operator, who was not afraid of delivering unpalatable home truths.\n\nSome in the Conservative Party have never forgiven her for a 2002 conference speech in which she told members that \"you know what some people call us - the nasty party\".\n\nHer lectures to Police Federation conferences as home secretary about the need for reform and to tackle corruption added to this steely reputation.\n\nShe was always ambitious but her rise through the ranks was steady, rather than meteoric.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: We need proven leadership to negotiate the best deal\n\nThe daughter of a Church of England vicar, Hubert, who died from injuries sustained in a car crash when she was only 25, Theresa May's middle class background has more in keeping with the last female occupant of Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher, than her immediate predecessor.\n\nTheresa May married her husband Philip in 1980\n\nBorn in Sussex but raised largely in Oxfordshire, Mrs May - both of whose grandmothers are reported to have been in domestic service - attended a state primary, an independent convent school and then a grammar school in the village of Wheatley, which became the Wheatley Park Comprehensive School during her time there.\n\nThe young Theresa Brasier, as she was then, threw herself into village life, taking part in a pantomime that was produced by her father and working in the bakery on Saturdays to earn pocket money.\n\nFriends recall a tall, fashion-conscious young woman who from an early age spoke of her ambition to be the first woman prime minister.\n\nThe young Theresa Brasier at a function in the village hall\n\nLike Margaret Thatcher, she went to Oxford University to study and, like so many others of her generation, found that her personal and political lives soon became closely intertwined.\n\nIn 1976, in her third year, she met her husband Philip, who was president of the Oxford Union, a well-known breeding ground for future political leaders.\n\nThe story has it that they were introduced at a Conservative Association disco by the subsequent Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. They married in 1980.\n\nHer university friend Pat Frankland, speaking in 2011 on a BBC Radio 4 profile of the then home secretary, said: \"I cannot remember a time when she did not have political ambitions.\n\n\"I well remember, at the time, that she did want to become the first woman prime minister and she was quite irritated when Margaret Thatcher got there first.\"\n\nTheresa May is seen here as a child with her parents Hubert and Zaidee\n\nThere are no tales of drunken student revelry, but Pat Frankland and other friends say May was not the austere figure she would later come to be seen as, saying she had a sense of fun and a full social life.\n\nAfter graduating with a degree in Geography, May went to work in the City, initially starting work at the Bank of England and later rising to become head of the European Affairs Unit of the Association for Payment Clearing Services.\n\nBut it was already clear that she saw her future in politics. She was elected as a local councillor in Merton, south London, and served her ward for a decade, rising to become deputy leader. However, she was soon setting her sights even higher.\n\nMrs May, who has become a confidante as well as role model for aspiring female MPs - told prospective candidates before the 2015 election that \"there is always a seat out there with your name on it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look at Theresa May's journey to the top job\n\nIn her case - like that of Margaret Thatcher - it took a bit of time for her to find hers. She first dipped her toe in the water in 1992, where she stood in the safe Labour seat of North West Durham, coming a distant second to Hilary Armstrong, who went on to become Labour's chief whip in the Blair government. Her fellow candidates in that contest also included a very youthful Tim Farron, who is now Lib Dem leader.\n\nTwo years later, she stood in Barking, east London, in a by-election where - with the Conservative government at the height of its unpopularity - she got fewer than 2,000 votes and saw her vote share dip more than 20%. But her luck was about to change.\n\nThe Conservatives' electoral fortunes may have hit a nadir in 1997, when Tony Blair came to power in a Labour landslide, but there was a silver lining for the party and for the aspiring politician when she won the seat of Maidenhead in Berkshire. It's a seat she has held ever since.\n\nMrs May first stood for Parliament in 1992 in North West Durham\n\nTheresa May has described her husband Philip as her rock\n\nTheresa May bumps into rock star Alice Cooper outside a BBC studio in 2010\n\nAn early advocate of Conservative \"modernisation\" in the wilderness years that followed, Mrs May quickly joined the shadow cabinet in 1999 under William Hague as shadow education secretary and in 2002 she became the party's first female chairman under Iain Duncan Smith.\n\nShe then held a range of senior posts under Michael Howard but was conspicuously not part of the \"Notting Hill set\" which grabbed control of the party after its third successive defeat in 2005 and laid David Cameron and George Osborne's path to power.\n\nThis was perhaps reflected in the fact that she was initially given the rather underwhelming job of shadow leader of the House of Commons. But she gradually raised her standing and by 2009 had become shadow work and pensions secretary.\n\nNevertheless, her promotion to the job of home secretary when the Conservatives joined with the Lib Dems to form the first coalition government in 70 years was still something of a surprise - given that Chris Grayling had been shadowing the brief in opposition.\n\nWhile the Home Office turned out to be the political graveyard of many a secretary of state in previous decades, Mrs May refused to let this happen - mastering her brief with what was said to be a microscopic attention to detail and no little willingness to enter into battles with fellow ministers when she thought it necessary.\n\nTheresa May initially fell down the pecking order under David Cameron but worked her way back up\n\nWhile some in Downing Street worried that the Home Office was becoming her own personal fiefdom, she engendered loyalty among her ministers and was regarded as \"unmovable\" as her tough-talking style met with public approval even when the department's record did not always seem so strong.\n\nIn his memoir of his time in office, former Lib Dem minister David Laws says: \"She would frequently clash with George Osborne over immigration. She rarely got on anything but badly with Michael Gove. She and Cameron seemed to view each other with mutual suspicion.\n\n\"I first met her in 2010. I was sitting in my Treasury office, overlooking St James's Park, me in one armchair and the home secretary in the other, with no officials present. She looked nervous.\n\n\"I felt she was surprised to find herself as home secretary. Frankly, I didn't expect her to last more than a couple of years.\"\n\nDespite her liberal instincts in some policy areas, she frequently clashed with the then deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, particularly over her plan to increase internet surveillance to combat terrorism, dubbed the \"Snooper's Charter\" by the Lib Dems.\n\nAfter one \"difficult\" meeting with Mr Clegg, he reportedly told David Laws: \"You know, I've grown to rather like Theresa May... 'She's a bit of an Ice Maiden and has no small talk whatsoever - none. I have quite difficult meetings with her. Cameron once said, 'She's exactly like that with me too!'\n\n\"She is instinctively secretive and very rigid, but you can be tough with her and she'll go away and think it all through again.\"\n\nMrs May has confronted what she sees as vested interests in the police\n\nThe new prime minister is a self-declared feminist\n\nOn the plus side crime levels fell, the UK avoided a mass terrorist attack and in 2013, she successfully deported radical cleric Abu Qatada - something she lists as one of her proudest achievements, along with preventing the extradition to America of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.\n\nShe was not afraid to take on vested interests, stunning the annual conference of the Police Federation in 2014 by telling them corruption problems were not just limited to \"a few bad apples\" and threatening to end the federation's automatic right to enrol officers as its members.\n\nHowever, the Passport Office suffered a near meltdown while she faced constant criticism over the government's failure to meet its promise to get net migration down to below 100,000 a year.\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper, who went up against her in the Commons as shadow home secretary, told The Guardian: \"I respect her style - it is steady and serious. She is authoritative in parliament - superficial attacks on her bounce off.\n\n\"The flip side is that she is not fleet of foot when crises build, she digs in her heels (remember the Passport Agency crisis in 2014 when the backlog caused hundreds to miss their holidays, and the Border Force crisis in 2011 when border checks were axed).\n\n\"And she hides when things go wrong. No interviews, no quotes, nothing to reassure people or to remind people she even exists. It's helped her survive as home secretary - but if you are prime minister, eventually the buck has to stop.\"\n\nThere was a bitter public row with cabinet colleague Michael Gove over the best way to combat Islamist extremism, which ended with Mr Gove having to apologise to the prime minister and Mrs May having to sack a long-serving special adviser - a turf war which is said to have led to a diminution in her admiration for the prime minister.\n\nFormer Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke also had run-ins with her and was recorded on camera ahead of an interview last week saying that Mrs May was good at her job but a \"bloody difficult woman\" - before adding as an aside, a bit like Mrs Thatcher. A reference to be Conservative leader can hardly come better than that.\n\nMrs May has never been one of the most clubbable of politicians and is someone who prefers not having to tour the tea rooms of the House of Commons - where tittle-tattle is freely exchanged.\n\nShe has rarely opened up about her private life although she revealed in 2013 that she had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and would require insulin injections twice a day for the rest of her life - something she says she had come to terms with and which would not affect her career.\n\nMrs May's taste in footwear has kept photographers interested for more than a decade\n\nGenerally thought to be in the mainstream of Conservative thinking on most economic and law and order issues, she has also challenged convention by attacking police stop and search powers and calling for a probe into the application of Sharia Law in British communities.\n\nShe also expressed a personal desire to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights but later said she would not pursue this as PM due to a lack of parliamentary support - an example of what many believe will be pragmatism in office.\n\nHer social attitudes are slightly harder to pin down. She backed same sex marriage. She expressed a personal view in 2012 that the legal limit on abortion should be lowered from 24 to 20 weeks. Along with most Conservative MPs she voted against an outright ban on foxhunting.\n\nWhat is undisputable is that at 59, Mrs May was the oldest leader to enter Downing Street since James Callaghan in 1976 and is the first prime minister since Ted Heath who does not have children.\n\nMrs May has worked closely with David Cameron and will now succeed him\n\nMrs May has been the most senior female Cabinet minister for the past six years\n\nOne of Westminster's shrewdest as well as toughest operators, Mrs May's decision to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU but to do so in an understated way and to frame her argument in relatively narrow security terms reaped dividends after the divisive campaign.\n\nDuring what turned out to be a short-lived leadership campaign, Mrs May played strongly on her weight of experience, judgement and reliability in a time of crisis.\n\nThe first months of Mrs May's time in Downing Street have been dominated by the process of divorcing the UK from the EU - but there have been signs that she won't be content with the \"safe pair of hands\" tag that is often attached to her.\n\nBrexit, she has said, won't be allowed purely to define her time in office and she has promised a radical programme of social reform, underpinned by values of One Nation Toryism, to promote social mobility and opportunity for the more disadvantaged in society.\n\nPolicies such as new grammar schools or more selection have been put forward - but with a slender parliamentary majority of 17 her government had little breathing room on bringing forward tightly contested legislation.\n\nSo, despite promising not to hold a general election before she had to, in 2020, she has now decided to seek a mandate for her own particular brand of Conservatism to, as she put it, to \"guarantee certainty and security for the years ahead\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heligoland: When Britain blew up an island\n\nBrexit may have triggered a political earthquake in Europe, but 70 years ago the UK sent real shockwaves across the seas with the largest non-nuclear explosion of that era.\n\nAs one of the four victorious allied powers after World War Two, Britain was governing a large area of occupied Germany.\n\nThe British sector included the tiny island of Heligoland, which had long been a source of diplomatic tension between the two countries.\n\nSo, when in 1947 the British needed a safe place to dispose of thousands of tonnes of unexploded ammunition, Heligoland must have seemed an obvious choice.\n\nThe code-name for the plan combined the British flair for understatement with the military taste for the literal-minded; it was to be called Operation Big Bang.\n\nThe Heligoland Big Bang was the largest non-nuclear detonation to date\n\nHeligoland had been a German naval fortress, and historian Jan Rüger, author of Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea, says Operation Big Bang was designed by the British to make a big point.\n\n\"They're very clear that there's a symbolic side to this [operation] and that is the German tradition of militarism,\" he explains.\n\n\"There's a sense that Prussian militarism and its threat to Britain has to end and that's very much how Operation Big Bang is received in Britain.\"\n\nThe operation was carefully stage-managed - the old black and white pictures even include a close-up of a Royal Navy officer's finger triggering the blast. Aerial footage shows the entire horizon erupting in a huge grey curtain of mud, sand and rock.\n\nFor the Royal Navy and the British Army of Occupation it was mission accomplished.\n\nHeligoland was evacuated during World War Two\n\nFor the people of Heligoland it felt very different.\n\nEurope in 1946 and 1947 was in chaos, with millions of displaced and dispossessed families drifting between camps or sheltering in ruined buildings.\n\nThe island had been evacuated during the war and many Heligolanders were living in exile in the coastal city of Cuxhaven about 60km (37 miles) to the south.\n\nOlaf Ohlsen, who was 11 years old in 1947, gathered with the rest of the exiled population on the cliffs to listen for the sound of the explosion.\n\nFew people in history can have lived through such a moment, standing at the edge of sea knowing that they would hear but not see an explosion that they knew would destroy their homes.\n\nHeligolander Olaf Ohlsen was 11 years old when the detonation took place\n\nOlaf says everyone knew that the explosion would be shattering.\n\n\"Even in Hamburg, which is more than 150 km (93 miles) from the island,\" he told me, \"a schoolteacher kept a document which said the British had warned everyone to leave doors and windows open to help the buildings withstand the blast.\"\n\nOlaf's father was among the pessimists who believed that Britain's real intention was to blow up the island behind a literal smokescreen created by the destruction of the captured ammunition.\n\nHe still recalls the first time his father brought news of what had happened after the blast, shouting with excitement: \"Heligoland is still here, it's still here.\"\n\nIn the middle of the 20th Century Heligoland still mattered to its people, fiercely independent speakers of a Friesian dialect who are neither British nor German.\n\nHeligoland was a German military base in both world wars\n\nBut it had lost the strategic importance that made it a crucial bone of contention between the great powers of Europe a hundred years earlier.\n\nBritain occupied Heligoland in the Napoleonic period as part of its complex manoeuvrings to deny the French leader the support of the navies of Scandinavia as he took over huge parts of Europe.\n\nThus the British found themselves with a handy naval base that guarded the entrance to the port of Hamburg and allowed it to slip secret agents freely into Napoleonic Europe. By the time they gifted it to the Kaiser in 1890, though, its usefulness appeared to be at an end.\n\nDetlev Rickmers, a local hotel owner whose family have been Heligolanders for 500 years, says that even though it's more than a century since the link was broken, a sense of Britishness ran through the population for a long time after 1890.\n\n\"Of course there was a British governor, there was a sense of being British,\" he says. \"There were connections to Britain. My grandfather told me that he always remembered the excitement of the days when the salesman would call from Huntley and Palmer.\"\n\nIn the wake of the Big Bang, of course, things are very different.\n\n70 years on, the crater from the explosion is still a feature of the island\n\nThe British bombing operation acted as a kind of catalyst for a new form of post-war German nationalism. There were campaigns for the island to be returned to German sovereignty and for a rebuilding programme to allow the Heligolanders to go home.\n\nHistorian Jan Rüger says that perhaps for the last time Operation Big Bang had made Heligoland part of a larger historical argument.\n\n\"As always in history there's a paradoxical side to these events,\" he says. \"In this case it lies in the way that all over Germany this is seen as a moment that victimises the Germans and allows them to see themselves as victims after a war in which the rest of Europe has been the victim of German aggression.\"\n\nThe British bombing left Heligoland's landscape pock-marked and cratered. But the island endured: a stubborn lump of rock in the North Sea.\n\nAnd while most visitors are drawn these days by the lure of duty-free shopping, Heligoland has a fascinating story to tell to anyone who'll listen.", "In an innovative campaign Mr Mélenchon addressed Parisians from a barge\n\nIs it the mellowing of age? Is it a return to an original kinder self? Or is it all part of a brilliant pre-election re-make?\n\nNo-one knows the answer, but everyone understands the question. Something has changed in Jean-Luc Mélenchon.\n\nAt the last election in 2012 he was the far-left candidate who ate quote-hunting journalists for breakfast. He fulminated and he fumed. Supporters loved him, but most of the population took fright.\n\nThis time around France's scourge of capitalism is as sharp as ever with his tongue. But gone is the hate and the wall-to-wall vituperation. Instead, he plays on another rhetorical chord, which is humour.\n\nThe snarl has been replaced by the smile, and the Mélenchon ratings have gone through the ceiling.\n\nFor his critics this is disconcerting, because behind the new-found charm they see the same irresponsible firebrand as first stormed out of the Socialist Party (PS) nearly a decade ago.\n\nBorn in Tangiers in 1951 of Spanish-Italian extraction, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had a career in teaching and journalism before launching himself into Socialist politics in the late 1970s.\n\nGravitating to the left of the party, he served briefly as junior education minister under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. In 2002 he co-founded a movement, Nouveau Monde (New World), which attacked what it saw as the Socialist party's rightward drift.\n\nJean-Luc Mélenchon chose the distinctive Greek letter phi as his movement's logo\n\nHe voted against the EU's proposed constitution in 2005, on the grounds that it would turn market capitalism into a permanent state of being. Three years later he decided the Socialists had become a party of sell-outs, and left for good.\n\nAfter setting up a new Parti de Gauche (Left Party), he was elected as a Euro MP in 2009 in an alliance with the Communists.\n\nNow he is once again backed by the Communists in this, his second presidential campaign. But he eschews traditional party affiliations. Instead, his movement is called La France Insoumise (France unbowed), and its symbol is the Greek letter phi (from the initials of the movement).\n\nMore on the French election:\n\nJean-Luc Mélenchon's programme has changed little from 2012. He wants the presidential system of the Fifth Republic to be replaced by a government more directly answerable to parliament.\n\nHe wants a €100bn (£84bn; $107bn) state investment plan; a top tax rate of 90%; retirement at 60; a 32-hour working week; 200,000 new state-paid jobs; and a ban on firing workers when companies are making profits.\n\nHe wants to renegotiate the EU treaties so that the European Central Bank answers to political, rather than purely monetary, interests; and an end to so-called \"austerity\" rules that put limits on national deficits.\n\nHe would leave Nato and the IMF, and even bring France (via its territory of Guyane) into the little-known Latin American union Alba (Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas), which was set up by Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.\n\nMr Mélenchon (R) wears a worker's jacket with a red triangle on the collar, a symbol worn by communists deported by the Nazis in World War Two\n\nJean-Luc Mélenchon's manifesto is immediately recognisable. But this time the sales pitch is different.\n\nThe old iconography has disappeared. The red flags no longer fly at rallies, and he has ditched the singing of the Internationale. He refuses to be described as far-left, and does not even mind the term populist.\n\nHis communications team has been masterly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Luc Mélenchon appeared in seven places at once\n\nIn popular YouTube videos he speaks directly to voters, defying the quick-click culture with detailed lectures on economics.\n\nHis smartness of phrase was a hit in the presidential debates. The jibe, not the insult, is now his strength.\n\nBut the pièces de résistance, certainly from the PR viewpoint, have been the hologram rallies, in which he has appeared simultaneously in venues hundreds of kilometres apart, striding the stage in his old-fashioned teacher's jacket and expounding on the evils of the system.\n\nSome critics argue the whole Mélenchon campaign contains an element of the hologram: his proposals are insubstantial because they are totally unrealistic.\n\nThe skill has been in the communication, in articulating and spreading a message that many people, clearly, are very happy to hear.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nRonnie O'Sullivan hopes for a \"sensible resolution\" over any outstanding issues with snooker authorities.\n\nThe five-time world champion accused World Snooker of bullying after his first-round win at the World Championship on Sunday.\n\nWorld Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has said the claims are \"unfounded\".\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, 41-year-old O'Sullivan said his legal team would address the issues at the end of the tournament at Sheffield's Crucible.\n\nHe also said he would make no further comment on the matter during the event, but would focus instead on winning a sixth world title.\n\n\"There has been some speculation and commentary around the answers I gave when questioned by the media at my press conference on Sunday.\n\n\"Any outstanding issues with the snooker authorities will be addressed by my legal team following the conclusion of this great event, when I hope a sensible resolution can be reached.\n\n\"I will not be making any further comment about this during the World Championship. I request the press and media respect this position in all further interviews.\n\n\"I wish to focus all my energies on performing to the very best of my ability for the fans in my quest for a sixth world title.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 live's George Riley, who spoke to O'Sullivan at the news conference on Sunday\n\nWittingly or unwittingly, Ronnie is the story because he is snooker's most prized asset.\n\nGoing to war with the sport's hierarchy is massive news.\n\nHe cannot have been surprised that I challenged how he has been with the media.\n\nAll we have been trying to do since the Masters is talk to him about snooker. Had he not avoided doing so then this situation probably wouldn't have arisen.\n\nIn requesting that we don't ask tough questions, the hope is that we can go back to talking about the snooker.\n\nI feel like he is obsessing more about the questions that we might ask than the answers he is giving; he doesn't have to say anything he doesn't want, but we have to be able to at least ask.\n\nIn the statement he asks for the media to respect his decision to not comment further, but in the past few months he has not shown the media much respect. We are not trying to catch him out.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick to take his Champions League tally to 100 goals as holders Real Madrid controversially overcame Bayern Munich in extra time to reach the semi-finals.\n\nBayern Munich midfielder Arturo Vidal's harsh 84th-minute dismissal was the first pivotal moment of a thrilling game, and Ronaldo was clearly standing in an offside position to score Madrid's second in extra time.\n\nNeeding at least two goals to progress, Bayern had led when Robert Lewandowski confidently drilled in a penalty.\n\nMadrid struggled to find rhythm at a nervy Bernabeu before Ronaldo headed in Casemiro's precise cross.\n\nBayern responded just 36 seconds later as Sergio Ramos' own goal forced extra time, but then crumbled after Ronaldo fired in Madrid's second.\n\nThe Portugal captain tapped in the third - his 100th Champions League goal - after Marcelo's marauding run, with Marco Asensio sealing victory by shooting into the bottom corner.\n\nMadrid will discover their semi-final opponents when the draw is made on Friday.\n\nNeighbours Atletico progressed after edging past Leicester City, while the other two ties - Barcelona against Juventus, and Monaco against Borussia Dortmund - conclude on Wednesday.\n• None Referee was not up to task - Ancelotti\n\nAnticipation was high when two of Europe's biggest and most successful clubs were drawn together - and an enthralling tie did not disappoint.\n\nHowever, it was somewhat tinged by Madrid benefiting from two debatable decisions by Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai and his officials.\n\nChile midfielder Vidal, already booked for an early foul on the edge of the Bayern area, was shown a second yellow card for what appeared to be a clean sliding tackle on Madrid substitute Asensio.\n\nAnd then Ronaldo was standing at least a yard offside when he met Ramos' pass and spun to fire Madrid 4-3 ahead on aggregate.\n\n\"In a quarter-final you have to put a better referee, or it is the moment to introduce video refereeing, which is what Uefa are trying, because there are too many errors,\" Bayern manager Carlo Ancelotti said.\n\nNothing separated the two teams over 180 engaging minutes in Munich and Madrid, only for the German champions to finally run out of steam as they battled a numerical disadvantage.\n\nBayern also played the final 30 minutes at the Allianz Arena last week with 10 men after Javi Martinez's dismissal.\n\nAncelotti's side remained resolute in the first period of extra time - until the tiring visitors unravelled after Ronaldo put the Spanish league leaders ahead.\n\nHistory-seeking Madrid get the rub of the green\n\nMadrid are aiming to become the first club to retain the Champions League and moved a step closer by eventually seeing off Bayern.\n\nFor long periods, Madrid were edgy defensively and uncertain going forward - with Ronaldo guilty of wasting a number of chances in normal time.\n\nBayern knew they would have to become only the third side to overturn a first-leg home defeat in a Champions League tie to reach their sixth successive semi-final.\n\nFewer places are harder to achieve that than the home of the 11-time European champions.\n\nAlthough only one away team had managed to leave the Bernabeu with victory in Madrid's previous 33 home matches in all competitions, Bayern looked confident and organised as they quietened the home crowd.\n\nBayern top scorer Lewandowski, who missed the first leg with a shoulder injury, fired them ahead with a coolly taken penalty before Ramos' bizarre own goal - the ball ricocheting off his right foot and spinning inside the near post - forced extra time.\n\nBut Madrid eventually wrestled control of the tie thanks to their numerical advantage and the decisions of the officials.\n\nSheer relief greeted the final two Madrid goals as their jubilant players wildly celebrated reaching a record seventh successive semi-final in Europe's premier club competition.\n\n\"I don't get involved if decisions are right or wrong,\" said Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane.\n\n\"Everyone has their own opinions, some might say it was not a second yellow card for Vidal, some might say it is.\n\n\"Cristiano's goal might have been offside but it doesn't change anything.\"\n\n'Ronaldo is always there for us' - post-match reaction\n\nOn some home supporters whistling at Cristiano Ronaldo during the game: \"Cristiano has shown that in the key moments he is there, he makes the difference. When he has to be, he is there.\n\n\"It is unique and we are happy for him and for the team.\n\n\"Maybe after today they do not whistle anymore, but this is Madrid and that things happen from time to time, and he knows it. He has to be calm.\n\n\"The public will always thank Cristiano for everything he has done.\"\n• None Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick made him the first player to reach 100 Champions League goals\n• None On the same night, Real's neighbours Atletico reached the same tally as a club\n• None Madrid have qualified for the Champions League semi-finals for the seventh consecutive season - the longest streak in competition history\n• None Bayern lost both legs of a Champions League knockout tie for the first time since April 2014, which was also against Real Madrid in a 5-0 semi-final aggregate defeat\n• None Ronaldo has scored nine times against Bayern in the Champions League - only Barcelona's Lionel Messi has scored as many against a single opponent (against Arsenal)\n• None Lewandowski has netted six goals against Real Madrid in the Champions League, the most of any opposition player\n• None The Poland striker converted his sixth penalty in the Champions League, maintaining his 100% record from the spot in the competition (excl. shootouts)\n• None Arturo Vidal's red card was the 19th shown to a Bayern Munich player in the Champions League - only Juventus (22) have had more in the competition\n• None The average age of Bayern's starting line-up in this game was 30 years and 116 days, making it their oldest in Champions League history\n\nBoth teams go back to domestic league action hoping to move a step closer to their respective titles.\n\nMadrid have the small matter of El Clasico to focus on. Zidane's team can move six points clear at the top of La Liga by beating arch-rivals Barcelona.\n\nThe sides meet on Sunday at the Bernabeu (19:45 BST), with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nBundesliga leaders Bayern, who are eight points clear with five games left, will hope to bounce back from this defeat when they host Mainz on Saturday.\n• None Attempt missed. Casemiro (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Marcelo.\n• None Attempt missed. Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Arjen Robben with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 4, FC Bayern München 2. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 3, FC Bayern München 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Marcelo.\n• None Attempt missed. Casemiro (Real Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Lucas Vázquez.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 2, FC Bayern München 2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergio Ramos.\n• None Offside, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez tries a through ball, but Cristiano Ronaldo is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWales back row Sam Warburton will captain the British and Irish Lions on their tour of New Zealand this summer, but England skipper Dylan Hartley has not been selected in the 41-man squad.\n\nCoach Warren Gatland has chosen 16 England players, 12 from Wales, 11 from Ireland and two from Scotland.\n\nThe tour, which runs from 3 June to 8 July, features three Tests against the All Blacks, who are world champions.\n\n\"There were some pretty lively debates finalising the squad,\" said Gatland.\n\nThe New Zealander, who also took charge of the Lions in Australia in 2013, added: \"We are very happy with the quality of squad we have.\"\n• None 'Gatland got his selections right & the Lions can win' - Guscott's verdict\n\nWarburton, 28, led the Lions to victory four years ago.\n\nThe former Wales skipper is only the second player, after England's Martin Johnson, to captain the Lions in two tours.\n\nHe stepped down as Wales captain before the 2017 Six Nations and was replaced by lock Alun Wyn Jones, who also took over when Warburton was injured for the third Lions Test in 2013.\n\n\"It is going to be the toughest thing I've done but it is definitely the biggest honour I have had,\" Warburton said.\n\n\"I am really looking forward to captaining the Lions for the second time and, with it being in New Zealand, it definitely ranks as the pinnacle of my career so far.\"\n\nHartley, 31, misses out despite leading England to a second straight Six Nations title, with compatriot Jamie George, Ireland's Rory Best and Wales' Ken Owens the three hookers selected.\n\nThe Northampton Saints player is the third England captain in succession to miss out on Lions selection, after Steve Borthwick in 2009 and Chris Robshaw in 2013.\n\nEngland centre Jonathan Joseph is included, but there is no place for fellow Six Nations winners Joe Launchbury, George Ford, James Haskell and Robshaw.\n\nWales number eight Ross Moriarty is a surprise inclusion, while New Zealand-born Ireland centre Jared Payne is also selected.\n\n'This will be the toughest tour' - reaction\n\nGatland on Warburton: \"Sam is fully aware his form needs to be good enough to be selected. There is pressure on him for that but he is the right man for the job.\n\n\"He did a great job in 2013 so for us he is the natural choice.\"\n\nGatland on squad: \"There is no clear number one, two or three in some positions. That is what makes us excited about the quality of the squad.\n\n\"This will be the toughest tour - in previous tours the midweek games have been easier. If you look at the quality of the teams we are playing midweek, it is going to be hugely challenging.\n\n\"That is why we have picked a few extra players, to make sure we have got depth and quality.\"\n\nFormer England back Austin Healey: \"No matter who the Lions pick people will always be happy or unhappy. Surprised there wasn't more Scotland players. Two isn't enough.\"\n\nEx-Wales international Jonathan Davies: \"So glad Jonathan Joseph is in the Lions squad. He's got that something special.\"\n\nFormer Wales and Lions forward Adam Jones: \"Very proud of my boys Joe Marler and Kyle Sinckler getting the Lions call up! They will both do incredibly well out there.\"\n\nCourtney Lawes: \"Thank you everyone for your kind messages. It's an honour to be selected for the tour to New Zealand and made even more special as it's on my son's birthday, I could not be happier.\"\n\nBorthwick is an assistant to Gatland for the tour of New Zealand and has worked with Hartley since December 2015 as England's forwards coach in Eddie Jones' set-up.\n\n\"Dylan will be undoubtedly very, very disappointed but the thing about him, one thing that's really struck me, is just how resilient he is,\" Borthwick said.\n\n\"He's bounced back from a lot of things, he's a strong character, and I've no doubt that's exactly what he will do now.\n\n\"It's one of those positions where we are absolutely spoilt for choice with the options we have.\n\n\"We believe we've got three hookers there that are the right ones that we need to play the rugby we want to in New Zealand.\"\n\nVerdict: A decision that will be doubly galling to Hartley - missing out on a tour to the country of his birth and seeing a man picked who is his back-up for England. Even if, in truth, it was more of a battle for the third hooker's spot between Hartley and Owens.\n\nStat: All 17 of George's caps for England have been as a replacement.\n\nDecision: Launchbury and Gray brothers out, Henderson in\n\nVerdict: While Henderson's display against England in the Six Nations may have sealed his place, Launchbury's sterling efforts in the first four matches have not been enough. Richie and Jonny Gray, meanwhile, can take consolation in the fact the second row is the most competitive position in the squad.\n\nStats: Richie Gray has started 56 of his 65 appearances for Scotland, Jonny Gray 29 of his 33. Of Henderson's 32 caps for Ireland, almost half have come off the bench.\n\nVerdict: It was reported Joseph would miss out, but his sweet angles and steps could prove critical in a Test series where the Lions will have to score multiple tries to win matches. Moriarty's form for Wales and an expanded squad of 41 get him in; Payne represented New Zealand Under-21s, and comes with both local knowledge and caps for Gatland's old side Waikato.\n\nStat: Joseph has scored 80 points in 33 appearances for England.", "Player nationalities did not influence the selection of the 41-man British and Irish Lions squad to tour New Zealand this summer, says coach Warren Gatland.\n\nGatland, who has been Wales coach since 2007, has chosen 16 England players, 12 Welsh, 11 Irish and two from Scotland.\n\nWales finished fifth in the 2017 Six Nations, below champions England, with Ireland second and Scotland fourth.\n\n\"I didn't realise the split in the numbers,\" 53-year-old New Zealander Gatland said on the issue.\n\n\"We didn't go through the numbers. We put together a group of players in each position we felt were in contention and then we went through and individually selected those players.\"\n• None 'Gatland got his selections right & the Lions can win' - Guscott's verdict\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley was not selected, despite leading England to back-to-back Six Nations titles, with Gatland preferring Ireland's Rory Best, England's Jamie George and Wales' Ken Owens as his three hookers for the month-long tour which starts on 3 June and concludes with the third Test on 8 July.\n\nEngland fly-half George Ford also missed out, with Ireland's Johnny Sexton, England's Owen Farrell and Wales' Dan Biggar selected at number 10.\n\nIreland's Donnacha Ryan, England's Joe Launchbury and Scotland brothers Jonny and Richie Gray were other notable absentees.\n\n\"We had a long and lively debate about hookers. Dylan has done a great job for England,\" Gatland said.\n\n\"If we picked him and left out Jamie George, Rory Best or Ken Owens you would be asking the same question. They were arguably form players in the Six Nations. Dylan has been unlucky.\n\n\"There has been a lot of discussion about Launchbury, Donnacha Ryan and the Gray brothers. Selection is a matter of opinion and that is what makes it interesting.\"\n\nWhat do the pundits think?\n\nEx-Lions Matt Dawson, Martyn Williams and Keith Wood were speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Lions special on Wednesday.\n\n\"This will be the strongest Lions squad, I think, ever. However I do feel that the weighting of the players, in particular having 12 Wales players in that squad, I can look at four or five and think maybe there were other options.\"\n\n\"The simple truth is that [Gatland] knows a lot of those Welsh players and trusts them. There's a few of those guys he may know better than others.\"\n\n\"If you're purely going on what's just happened in the Six Nations, I think quite a few of the Welsh players have maybe been picked on what they've done for Warren Gatland in the past and on previous Lions tours. But that is always the case if you've got a coach who is also a national coach.\n\n\"The fact there wasn't a Scottish voice in that management team to back the corner of any of the Scottish players - I'm sure that led to it as well.\n\n\"If you look at the pedigree and the quality of those Welsh players I'm sure you can make a case for every one of them.\n\n\"[But] there is no doubt about it, the fact that there is such a Welsh influence within that management team has got a few of those over the line.\"\n\n\"There just seems an imbalance there, but this is not about nationalities. It is about Gatland selecting the squad he thinks can win a Test series in New Zealand. It's all about the style of rugby they want to play - all about power, all about physicality. He's picked a squad of players he knows can play that sort of game.\n\n\"We might only have two Scotland players in the squad [Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour], but we might have two in the Test team.\"\n\nNew Zealand coach Steve Hansen said: \"He has got a particular style he likes, that works for him up there [in the northern hemisphere], using the big ball carriers up front and big midfielders to carry, so the selection reflects that.\n\n\"I'm a little bit surprised he hasn't selected a couple of other people, but if he was picking the All Blacks he would pick some different people to me.\n\n\"I think this is the best British and Irish Lions team that we've seen come here for a long, long time. There is depth all the way through.\"\n\n'It's not about Sam Warburton, it's about the team'\n\nGatland appointed Warburton the youngest Lions captain since 1955 in 2013 and has now made him just the second player to skipper the Lions twice.\n\nThat comes despite the Cardiff Blues forward stepping down as Wales captain before this year's Six Nations and suggestions he will face a battle for his starting place.\n\n\"One of his greatest qualities is that it is not about Sam Warburton, it is about the team,\" Gatland said.\n• None Williams: 'Brutal' way for Jamie Roberts to find out about Lions' exclusion\n\n\"He will be under no doubt his form has to be good enough.\n\n\"He will understand that and respect that because it is not about Sam Warburton, it is about the team and that is what I like about him as a person and an individual.\"\n\n\"Ironically, I think it may be easier for Sam to captain the Lions than Wales,\" Gatland added.\n\n\"He is under great scrutiny, pressure and expectation as Welsh captain. I think he will find it easier because of the quality of the squad and other leaders in the team will hopefully make his job pretty seamless and easy.\"\n\nWarren Gatland is a coach who has never been swayed by public opinion; this was the man who dropped the great Brian O'Driscoll four years ago, so making big calls like leaving out England's all-conquering captain, picking only two Scots, or selecting as many as 12 Welshmen, would have been done with one target in mind - beating New Zealand.\n\nWhile the squad is full of power and heft, the decision to pick Jonathan Joseph - who was struggling to make the party - as well as players like Elliot Daly, Stuart Hogg and Liam Williams, means there will be no shortage of pace and skill in the backline.\n\nHowever, the centre pairings early on in the tour will be an indicator of how the Lions want to play the game, with an onus likely to be on physicality, while opting for Dan Biggar over George Ford or Finn Russell shows the desire for durability, consistency and temperament over raw game-breaking ability.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC’s John Sudworth asks North Korea’s vice-foreign minister what message he has for Donald Trump\n\nTwo days ago, I stood on the edge of Kim Il-sung Square in the centre of Pyongyang and watched, with a mixture of awe and unease, as North Korea's giant military parade passed by.\n\nBack in that same location today, the vast space of the square was almost empty except for a few government workers on foot and the odd car - which pretty much sums up the traffic situation, or lack of it, in this isolated, sanction-hit city.\n\nMy government minders ushered me up the steps of the foreign ministry and I soon found myself sitting face to face with Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol.\n\nWere some of the weapons on display in the parade, as many analysts have speculated, new intercontinental ballistic missiles? I asked him.\n\n\"The respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in his historic new year address this year said that we are at the final stage of preparations to launch an ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile),\" he replied.\n\n\"I'm no military expert,\" he went on, \"but I hope that there was an ICBM among the missiles shown at the parade.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's John Sudworth, in Pyongyang, explains what may happen next\n\nNorth Korea needs such weapons, he said, \"in order to protect our government and system from threat and provocation from the United States\".\n\nAnd in a direct riposte to US President Donald Trump and his assertion that North Korea will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, Mr Han added this.\n\n\"According to our own schedule we'll be conducting more tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.\"\n\nNorth Korea has long been seen to use provocation and brinkmanship to raise tension for its own strategic advantage.\n\nIt is then able to win diplomatic and economic concessions through negotiations to defuse the crisis, only later to go on to renege on its disarmament commitments.\n\nAs the cycle begins again, at each stage, it moves a step closer to its goal of becoming a fully-fledged nuclear power.\n\nBut while the current state of technological advancement of North Korea's weapons programme matters deeply to the outside world, in particular its near neighbours, the hostile rhetoric is rarely something to take at face value.\n\nRead between the lines and, mostly, it is always conditional, peppered with ifs and buts, as it was today.\n\n\"If the US goes on with their reckless option of using military means then that would mean from that very day, an all out war,\" Mr Han told me.\n\nThe interview does though give a hint of the new worrying unpredictability at play.\n\nDonald Trump's recent ordering of the airstrike on a Syrian airbase has clearly rattled Pyongyang and the threat now is not simply of retaliation to an attack, but even, Mr Han suggests, to the planning of one.\n\n\"If the USA encroaches upon our sovereignty then it will provoke our immediate counter reaction and if it is planning a military attack against us, we will react with a nuclear pre-emptive strike by our own style and method.\"\n\nExperts say an all-out war is very unlikely\n\nHowever, despite the posturing on both sides, the risks, most observers agree, are still limited.\n\nFor the US and its allies, war carries incalculable risks and although Washington insists that all options are on the table, it now appears to be signalling that diplomacy and toughened sanctions are the most likely way forward.\n\nIt is as yet unclear how, having failed before, those things will force this most totalitarian of states to give up its nuclear weapons.\n\nAs Vice-Foreign Minister Han made clear to me, North Korea has learned the lessons from recent history, in particular the US-led attempts at regime change in Iraq and Libya.\n\n\"If the balance of power is not there, then the outbreak of war is imminent and unavoidable.\"\n\n\"If one side has nukes and the other side doesn't, and they're on bad terms, war will inevitably break out,\" he said.\n\n\"This is the lesson shown by the reality of the countries in the Middle East, including Libya and Syria where people are suffering from great misfortune.\"\n\nThe vice-foreign minister said North Korean people are guaranteed their human rights\n\nWithin the city limits of Pyongyang, foreign journalists get to see very little of ordinary life on these carefully choreographed and highly controlled media tours.\n\nEven further beyond reach, good evidence shows, lie the vast political prisons in which all dissent and opposition to the system, however mild, is crushed.\n\nRather than building nuclear weapons, I ask Mr Han, wouldn't North Korea be better improving life for its own people, perhaps starting with abolishing those gulags?\n\n\"We do not tolerate any others criticising our style of socialism and we believe in the choice we have made,\" Mr Han replies.\n\n\"The masses are the centre of our state and their security and human rights are guaranteed.\"\n\n\"As for the so called political prison camps you have just mentioned,\" he went on, \"it is something that our enemies have fabricated and it has been disseminated by their followers in order to demonise our country\".\n\nMilitarised and isolated, North Korea has the right to follow its own path and, Mr Han apparently believes, no one will be able to stop it.\n\nSo far, he has been proven right.", "Manager Craig Shakespeare challenged his Leicester team to reach the Champions League again after their quarter-final loss to Atletico Madrid.\n\nThe Premier League champions were the last surviving English team in this season's competition.\n\nBut, despite a spirited second-leg display, a 1-1 draw meant Atletico progressed via a 2-1 aggregate win.\n\n\"The whole club, from the supporters to the players to the owners can be immensely proud,\" said Shakespeare.\n\n\"We had them rattled with the effort and commitment we showed. It's no discredit to lose to a team of that calibre.\n\n\"I've just said to the players that they should want more of this and they've agreed that that's what they want.\n\n\"All players want to play at the highest level and the Champions League is the highest level but we have to get back to winning ways in the Premier League now.\"\n\nSeeking to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit, Leicester fell further behind to Saul Niguez's header in the first half on Tuesday, meaning they required three goals to progress.\n\nThe Foxes dominated the second half and gave themselves hope when Jamie Vardy finished from close range on the hour mark.\n\nBut, despite sending on Leonardo Ulloa for Shinji Okazaki at half-time and leading the shot count 17-2 after the break, they were unable to breach a resolute Atletico defence for a second time.\n\n\"In the first half, we played really well but the goal changes the game plan - we knew we had to score three - so I had to make the change,\" Shakespeare told BT Sport.\n\n\"In terms of effort, commitment, application - as a group we were tremendous.\n\n\"The momentum was with us when Jamie scored but it just wasn't to be.\"\n\n'We'll sit down at the end of the season'\n\nShakespeare was appointed Leicester manager until the end of the season following the sacking of Claudio Ranieri in February.\n\nThe 53-year-old, previously Ranieri's assistant, oversaw six wins in his first six games to steer the Foxes away from the relegation zone.\n\nWhen asked about his future, he replied: \"It's not in my hands. It's in the club's hands. I've said we'd sit down at the end of the season. I'm more than happy to do that before if it arises but the contract says until the end of the season.\n\n\"I've enjoyed it, pitting your wits against one of the best managers in the world, one of the best sides in the world.\n\n\"Now is a time to reflect and I'm sure at the end of the season I'll be able to reflect on my own performance as well as the club's.\"\n\n\"Ranieri wasn't on anybody's radar and clearly they went for a big name and it worked.\n\n\"There's just part of me that feels a little bit sorry for Craig Shakespeare because the same thing might happen again.\n\n\"He almost becomes unemployable because wherever he goes. If he goes in as a number two, the moment you have a bad game [people will think] he's going to want the job and someone's going to get sacked.\n\n\"So no-one is going to want to employ him as a number two. Does he get a big job as a number one? I think that will be difficult. Will he want to step down to the Championship? Probably not, because he's still very inexperienced.\"\n\n'We were living in fear all night of what Leicester might achieve'\n\nAtletico Madrid have now reached the last four of the Champions League in three of the past four seasons.\n\n\"I'm full of emotions, full of pride for the performance of my team,\" said manager Diego Simeone. \"Full of hope and excitement as we progress.\n\n\"But I have to say what a great performance from Leicester. It was almost a pleasure to compete against them. We were living in fear all night of what they might achieve. They pushed us all the way.\n\n\"We performed in the way this match needed us to perform. We always come up with a solution. I don't like to praise too much but we responded and played in the way we needed to.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Surfer Mick Fanning: \"I punched the shark in the back\"\n\nHow do you stop a great white shark, a creature that can grow up to six metres in length and weigh more than a tonne?\n\nIt is a question that has dogged authorities in those countries where people suffer attacks by sharks (great white and others). Attacks continue to happen, and as long as they do, so will the calls for preventative measures.\n\nBut what are the possible solutions? Do they make sense? And are shark attacks a big enough problem to warrant such measures?\n\nA shark shield is a device that lets out an electromagnetic pulse to deter sharks, and the Western Australia (WA) government has proposed offering a subsidy of A$200 (£117; $150) to anyone wanting to buy one (this is roughly equivalent to a third of the cost of the device).\n\nOn the other hand, the WA opposition says shields would remain prohibitively expensive to most people, even with a discount.\n\nThe University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute has been tasked with testing different shark deterrents by Australia's federal government.\n\nSpeaking to media on Wednesday, Prof Shaun Collin, the institute's director, said a shark shield proved to be an effective deterrent in 400 tests of an \"investigative\" shark attack - in which the shark approaches prey to assess what it is.\n\nHowever, he said the shields proved ineffective in \"ambush\" attacks, in which the shark swims at speed from deep on seeing a silhouette - possibly of a surfer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA shark net is stretched through the water to try and separate swimmers and surfers from what may try and approach them. They are not new at all, having been used across Australia for decades.\n\nThe New South Wales government ran a trial with a net from 2015-16 and, in one aspect, it proved successful - it caught 133 sharks in that time.\n\nThe down side? A government report showed 615 other marine animals were caught, including 90 threatened or protected species. Close to half of them died after being caught in the netting.\n\nThe nets have been called cruel by campaigners, and have been cut by activists.\n\nThis method, too, has been attacked as cruel - it is a baited hook suspended underwater and tied to a float on the surface of the water.\n\nIt is also anchored to the sea bed, meaning the shark has nowhere to go once it has taken the bait. Larger sharks are often shot; smaller ones released. It was a policy pushed in Western Australia under the state's previous government and has been used in other Australian states.\n\nThere was some controversy that drum lines were not put in place on the beach where Laeticia Brouwer died.\n\nBut many also question their effectiveness - including the government now in place in WA.\n\nOn Tuesday, the state's Fisheries Minister Dave Kelly told ABC: \"We made it clear in opposition that we don't see the merit in automatically deploying drum lines, because they don't actually make our beaches any safer.\n\n\"We want to focus on individual shark deterrence, which can actually provide genuine protection for the people who are most at risk.\"\n\nThe possibility of an active cull - not just killing sharks caught in drum lines - was one raised by Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg on Wednesday.\n\nAnd while Australia's government is committed to a programme of conserving shark populations, and proposals of culls are generally met with protests, there is some support for a targeted cull.\n\nAn editorial in the centre-right The Australian newspaper by its surf writer, written after Laeticia Brouwer's death, said \"our insane shark conservation policies have cost another life\", adding that there was blood on the hands of the government.\n\nThere are plenty of solutions on the table - but just how big a problem are shark attacks in Australia?\n\nWhen Laeticia Brouwer was attacked near Esperance on Monday, she became the 15th person to be killed by a shark in Western Australia since 2000, but the first in the country since June last year.\n\nThe number of shark attacks in Australia - including fatal and non-fatal - has risen over the past century, but in a way that is consistent with how Australia's population has grown.\n\nBut, as horrific as those incidents are for everyone affected, there is, on average, only one death due to a shark attack in Australia every year.\n\nThe number of people killed by a shark in Australian waters has changed little over the years despite the country's population - and tourist numbers - booming.\n\nIn 1950, when there were 8.3m people living in Australia, two people were killed by sharks. Last year, with a population of more than 24m, there were still only two fatalities.\n\nJohn G West, who runs the Australian Shark Attack File, which reports all attacks for the Taronga Conservation Society, says the chances of being killed by a shark now are much slimmer than in previous years.\n\nIn a 2011 report, he said the number of attacks that were fatal fell from 45% in the 1930s to 10% in the decade leading up to 2011.\n\nBut while human populations have grown, he points out that the number of sharks has fallen.\n\nOne thing, though, seems sure.\n\n\"Encounters with sharks, although a rare event, will continue to occur if humans continue to enter the ocean professionally or for recreational pursuit,\" Mr West writes.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus produced an exceptional defensive performance to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League after stopping Barcelona from scoring at the Nou Camp.\n\nTrailing 3-0 from the first leg, Barca peppered the Italian goal but failed to repeat their last-16 heroics when they overturned a first-leg 4-0 deficit to beat Paris St-Germain.\n\nLionel Messi, who had earlier been denied by Gianluigi Buffon, fired wastefully over the bar while Luis Suarez and Neymar also spurned chances on a night Barca were restricted to one shot on target.\n\nJuve's Gonzalo Higuain fired tamely at Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Juan Cuadrado missed another chance but the final whistle was celebrated wildly by the champions of Italy, who have not conceded a single goal from open play in this season's Champions League.\n\nJuventus join Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Monaco in Friday's last-four draw (from 11:00 BST).\n\nThe champions of Italy are 180 minutes away from the final in Cardiff on 3 June after a superb defensive performance as Barca and their formidable strike force failed to score over two legs.\n\nJuventus join Manchester United (2007-08) and Bayern Munich (2012-13) as one of only three teams that have stopped the Catalans scoring in both legs of a Champions League tie.\n\nThey were as brave and aggressive as they were calm and disciplined with Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini monumental at the heart of the defence.\n\nWhen Barca did manage to carve out chances, Suarez, Messi and Neymar failed to deliver.\n\nAll three had chances before the interval. In the space of a few minutes, Suarez had a goal-bound shot blocked, Messi dragged a chance from 12 yards and Neymar volleyed wide.\n\nIt said everything about Juve's defensive display that Buffon only had one save to make, the 39-year-old denying Messi before the Barca forward hammered the rebound into the side-netting.\n\nYet Juve, as adventurous going forward as they were solid at the back, might have beaten the Spanish champions for the second time in a week.\n\nHiguain should have done better from close range after a ball over the top before Cuadrado flashed a chance narrowly wide on the counter.\n\nIn the end it did not matter, Juve and their travelling fans celebrated a night to remember.\n\nBarca boss Luis Enrique will leave the Nou Camp this summer having failed to reach the semi-finals for a second successive season.\n\nThis was every bit as painful as their exit at the hands of La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid at the same stage 12 months ago.\n\nThey had 19 shots on the night - yet only one on target as Juve avenged their defeat against the same opponents in the 2015 final.\n\nNeymar, who scored twice in the 6-1 return leg win over Paris St-Germain in the previous round, ended this game in tears with Barcelona's season in danger of falling flat.\n\nThey face Real Madrid in El Clasico on Sunday (19:45 BST) knowing defeat will leave them six points behind the leaders, who have a game in hand.\n\nBarca are in the final of the Copa del Rey but Enrique knows that even if his side beat Alaves on 27 May, it will be scant consolation if they fail to win La Liga following another disappointing European campaign.\n\nBuffon in sight of his first Champions League triumph - the stats\n• None Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon has now kept 46 clean sheets in the Champions League. Only Iker Casillas (54), Edwin van der Sar (50) and Petr Cech (47) have more.\n• None Buffon's 2016-17 Champions League campaign: Nine games seven clean sheets, two goals conceded.\n• None Juve last won the Champions League in 1996.\n• None Lionel Messi had five shots off target in the match, his most in a Champions League game since September 2015 against Roma (also five).\n• None Attempt blocked. Mario Lemina (Juventus) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonzalo Higuaín.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dani Alves.\n• None Offside, Barcelona. Andrés Iniesta tries a through ball, but Gerard Piqué is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Sami Khedira (Juventus) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Cuadrado. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United manager Jose Mourinho has urged striker Anthony Martial to \"give me things that I like\" if he wants to feature in the first team.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who joined United for £36m in 2015, has started 12 Premier League games this season.\n\nAnd the France forward was left out of the match-day squad for last Sunday's 2-0 win over Chelsea.\n\n\"I go in the direction of the players, they have to also come in my direction,\" said the Portuguese.\n\n\"The same way I know what the players like, I think the players also know what I like,\" he added.\n\n\"That's why [Marcus] Rashford, even without scoring goals, is always a player I trust and I play. He is always a player I support because he is always coming in the direction that I want from a Manchester United player.\n\n\"It's about going in the direction we like. Is Anthony [Martial] a player with great potential? Yes, I think. Can he play successfully for me? Yes, I think. But he needs to give me things that I like very much.\"\n\nMartial has fallen behind Rashford in the attacking pecking order at United, with the 19-year-old England striker having scored twice in his past three games.\n\nMartial came on as a substitute in the first leg of United's Europa League quarter-final in Anderlecht on Thursday and could feature in the return leg at Old Trafford.\n\nMourinho suggested that captain Wayne Rooney, who has started just one Premier League game this year because of injury, could feature on the bench on Thursday.\n\n\"He's working now and improving and if in today's training session the answer is positive I will select him to be on the bench tomorrow,\" said Mourinho.\n\n\"We have seven to play in the Premier League and hopefully four in the Europa League.\n\n\"We don't have many players. We lost players in the January market and didn't buy players. We need everyone.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first day of school. It was supposed to be an exciting, happy time for so many of the 2,500 refugee children now living in camps in Greece.\n\nBut instead some were met with stone-throwing and nationalist slogans, after far-right demonstrators took issue with the government's policy to integrate them.\n\nFortunately for 10-year-old Moustafa, his appointed school in Thessaloniki saw no protests. And despite living in a metal container known as an isobox, the past few months have brought a form of structure to his life.\n\nHe spent a year fleeing war and fearing for his life, but now he has a schedule.\n\nEvery afternoon he boards a coach organised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that takes him to the city centre for school. He is one of 60,000 refugees and migrants trapped in Greece since relocation to European countries stagnated and the borders were closed.\n\nNationalists protested as refugee children started school in Oraiokastro, near Thessaloniki, in February\n\nMoustafa explains how his village near Damascus was trapped between rival warring groups and, before it was too late, his family headed for Europe.\n\nHe recounts the moment they were rescued from a sinking dinghy - so accurately, it is as if he is playing back recorded footage.\n\nHe shows off the school kit he has been given, including notebooks, pens, pencils and a rucksack.\n\n\"The most important thing now is for me to study and learn Greek,\" Moustafa says. \"I want to be a doctor.\"\n\nRead more on the migrant crisis:\n\nThe new school initiative backed by the EU follows a law passed by the Greek parliament last August. It kickstarted new classes to prepare refugee children for eventual integration into the Greek education system.\n\nNinety-seven schools are currently involved. In three, the initiative was met with contempt. Crowds of far-right nationalists gathered to wave Greek flags, boo the children and shout slogans such as \"My homeland won't fall!\"\n\nIn the town of Profitis, riot police were called in to escort pupils after stones were thrown.\n\nNationalists demanded that Greeks should come first, not refugees\n\nIn Oraiokastro, protesters chained themselves to the school gates. The self-styled \"Patriotic Union of Greek Citizens of Oraiokastro\" said they didn't believe the pupils had been adequately vaccinated - something the health ministry has denied. In Perama, there were reports of physical violence.\n\nIn contrast, the arrival of pupils at Moustafa's school in Thessaloniki went smoothly. The headteacher, Ioannis Nomikoudis, says it is down to the communication between the government, school and parents' committee.\n\n\"The parents of the children here are not racist, but they do still have concerns and we cannot ignore that. The thing is, we didn't make the children's arrival debatable - like in some places.\"\n\nFor Education Ministry General Secretary Giannis Pantis, the fact that there were protests at only three of the 97 schools was a success. \"In many other schools the children were welcomed with songs and balloons,\" he said.\n\nHe oversaw the programme from the start, when a scientific committee of leading Greek intercultural education experts and sociologists was brought together to provide advice. They assessed the work of NGOs in the camps and designed the curriculum of maths, Greek, English, art, IT and physical education.\n\nIntegration into the school system is an important part of establishing a new home\n\nThe implementation of the programme has not come without its problems, though.\n\nThe lack of certified Greek-Arabic translators is a huge issue. The government says it is not a question of not being able to afford them, but that they just do not exist.\n\nRefugee children are taught Greek - but lessons can be hard because few Greeks speak Arabic\n\nMaths teacher Irene Voutskoglou said she did not realise how big the challenge would be.\n\n\"We can't really communicate well at all,\" she says. \"I have to appoint a student as an 'assistant teacher' to help me. I didn't even realise that numbers were different in Arabic. Our zero is a dot in Arabic for example. And our five looks like a seven in Arabic.\"\n\nMost translators are provided through charities, who receive funding from the European Union. But camp coordinators say the translators' language skills are often not good enough and that they are also needed to teach the children their native language.\n\n\"This is supposed to be a transitional year,\" says Giannis Pantis, the man from the ministry.\n\n\"The children attend school in the afternoon, when the school day for current pupils has finished. We believe they cannot yet be fully integrated.\n\n\"Last week a child saw a helicopter and ran out of the school. Another started to cry and hid beneath the table. Some of these children, due to the war, are almost 10 years old but have never been to school. They can't read or write. Many of them have post-traumatic stress disorder. We have a lot to do this year.\"\n\nWith a flagging economy and an education system already crippled by six years of austerity, the refugee crisis has further stretched Greece's capacity.\n\nThe government is reliant on just €7m (£6m; $7.5m) of European funding for the next two years (NGOs have received €83m directly) and the Greek national budget to implement the programme.\n\nDespite the struggles, Mr Pantis says they are determined to honour the government's commitment to the fundamental and universal right to education.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\non BBC Radio 5 live and online from 19:00 BST on Wednesday\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley is set to miss out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.\n\nDespite leading England to back-to-back Six Nations titles, Hartley is expected to be overlooked for one of the three hooker spots for this summer.\n\nWales' Sam Warburton is set to be confirmed as Lions captain for the second time, while Welsh centre Jamie Roberts is set to be a shock inclusion.\n\nLions coach Warren Gatland will name his squad at 12:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nGatland and his coaches met for a final selection meeting on Tuesday, and about 40 players are now expected to be named.\n\nIf his omission is confirmed, Hartley will become the third England captain in succession to miss out on Lions selection, after Steve Borthwick in 2009 and Chris Robshaw in 2013.\n\nThe 31-year-old was picked for the tour of Australia four years ago, but was suspended before the series after swearing at an official.\n\nHartley's compatriot Jamie George, Ireland's Rory Best, and Wales' Ken Owens are expected to fill the three hooker berths.\n\nDespite finishing fifth in the Six Nations, Wales are understood to have more than 10 players in the squad, with hard-running centre Roberts, 30, a surprise late addition having started on the bench in all five matches in this year's Six Nations.\n\nHowever, Scotland's representation is likely to be limited to full-back Stuart Hogg, and one of Tommy Seymour or Sean Maitland on the wing.\n\nNorthampton hooker Hartley, whose chances were rated at 50-50 on Monday, would become the latest in a list of shock English exclusions.\n\nFellow Six Nations winners Joe Launchbury, James Haskell, George Ford, Jonathan Joseph and Mike Brown are also in danger of missing out.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nBournemouth's on-loan midfielder Jack Wilshere will not play again this season after suffering a fractured leg.\n\nThe 25-year-old England international, on a season-long loan from Arsenal, was injured in the Cherries' 4-0 defeat by Tottenham on Saturday.\n\n\"It's a big blow to lose Jack,\" Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said.\n\nWilshere has made 29 Premier League appearances this season for the club, without scoring, after joining them on transfer deadline day in August.\n\nScans have revealed a hairline crack in Wilshere's left fibula and he will miss Bournemouth's last five games of the season and return to Arsenal for further treatment.\n\nGunners manager Arsene Wenger said he expects the midfielder to return in July for pre-season training.\n\n\"I felt sad when he was injured again,\" the Frenchman said. \"Jack is a great football player with a great football brain. His career has been stopped by many injuries.\"\n\nWilshere was substituted after 56 minutes of the game at White Hart Lane following a challenge with Tottenham striker Harry Kane.\n\n\"We've loved working with him since he arrived in August,\" Howe added. \"He's made a huge contribution to our season and we wish him a quick recovery.\"", "You can't put a service on a container ship and send it around the world the way you can with physical goods\n\nThe future of international trade has leapt up the agenda.\n\nThe British vote to leave the European Union is one central reason. There is also the election of Donald Trump after a campaign in which he was highly critical of some US trade agreements.\n\nMuch of the debate has focused on trade in goods. Will there be tariffs on British exports to the EU and vice versa? President Trump has threatened carmakers with a \"border tax\" if they expand operations in Mexico.\n\nBut what about services? After all, the service sector dominates most economies.\n\nIt accounts for 78% or more of national economic activity in the UK, France and the US. Those are well known as service-driven economies. But in Germany, that great manufacturing powerhouse, it's getting on for 70% and even in China it is close to half.\n\nPeople often travel abroad for cheaper health treatment such as dentistry\n\nWhen we look at cross-border trade, however, it is a rather different story. The value of global trade in goods still exceeds services by a factor of more than three.\n\nBut services trade is growing and it is important for many economies.\n\nBarriers to services trade have proved to be harder to deal with.\n\nThey come in the form of regulation - not the tariffs or taxes that impinge on commerce in goods.\n\nCountries sometimes impose limits on the percentage share of ownership that foreign companies can have in a business that provides services. In China, for example, the limit is 50% for insurance and some telecommunications services.\n\nThere can also be nationality requirements. In China again, the chief partner in auditing and accounting firms must be a Chinese national.\n\nIn just about all countries practitioners of many professions require approved qualifications (often for very good reasons). The extent to which there is mutual recognition of other countries' qualifications varies.\n\nThere are also sometimes licensing and residency requirements which can stand in the way of cross-border provision.\n\nChina may be known for its manufacturing capabilities, but services now account for half of its economy\n\nIt is also the case that the nature of many services does make trade intrinsically rather more challenging. You can't put a service on a container ship and send it around the world the way you can with goods.\n\nBut it is possible to trade services internationally. A stockbroker in London can buy and sell shares for German investors. People can travel abroad for health treatment. Firms can establish a commercial presence in other countries. And individual practitioners can go abroad and work as an independent supplier - perhaps as a plumber - or as an employee of, for example, an insurance company.\n\nSo liberalising services trade is more complicated than it is for goods.\n\nBut there have been efforts.\n\nThe World Trade Organization's rulebook includes something called the General Agreement on Trade in Services, or GATS.\n\nWTO member countries have made commitments during past negotiations about the extent to which they allow foreign suppliers access to their services markets. These vary from country to country and are listed in \"schedules\" attached to the agreement.\n\nThe GATS also has rules that promote transparency, to make it easier for businesses to navigate any rules that affect them. There are also rules that prohibit discrimination between different trade partners.\n\nGovernments in many of the big service-driven economies - Europe and the US in particular - have seen the GATS as a useful start, but as very much unfinished business.\n\nAttempts to regulate how services are traded are continuing\n\nSo there is also a separate negotiation under way called the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). It is not yet complete and so it is not yet an \"agreement\", strictly speaking.\n\nThe negotiations involve 23 WTO members. That counts the European Union as one, so it will probably rise to 24 when the UK leaves the EU.\n\nTiSA does not have a high profile in news terms, but has been very controversial.\n\nCritics accuse the governments involved of negotiating in secret. They also criticise the \"ratchet clause\" that the agreement is likely to include, which would prevent countries from reintroducing trade barriers that they had removed.\n\nCritics say that would make it harder for any government involved to reverse the privatisation of any services that had been transferred to the private sector. They also say it would undermine the rights of governments to regulate in the public interest.\n\nThe European Commission - which negotiates on trade policy for the EU - rejects this.\n\n\"Quite to the contrary, the right to regulate services will be enshrined in TiSA. Rather, the objective is to tackle discrimination that currently prevents service suppliers from operating in another TiSA party,\" a spokesperson says.\n\nOn the ratchet clause the Commission says it won't have the effect that critics allege. And it says the EU won't make commitments on allowing foreign suppliers to provide some key publicly funded services, including health and education.\n\nFinancial services exports such as share trading will be an important factor in Brexit negotiations\n\nService industries are also likely to be an important area for British trade negotiators looking at opportunities for UK business after leaving the European Union.\n\nFinancial and business services account for about half the total of British services exports, which is in the region of a quarter of a trillion pounds ($300bn). It will be an important factor for UK commercial relations with the EU, and for any new agreements that might be done with countries outside the EU, including the US.\n\nThe UK still exports more goods than services, but that lead has narrowed dramatically. Research commissioned by Barclays Bank projected that services could account for more than half of British exports within a decade.\n\nSo barriers to cross-border trade in services really will matter to the British and many other economies.", "Health is always discussed on the doorsteps in general election campaigns.\n\nLabour has long seen the NHS as its defining electoral issue.\n\nThe Conservatives have tried hard to demonstrate their commitment with pledges in recent years of above-inflation investment.\n\nBut how much difference will it make this time in a campaign that is sure to be dominated by Brexit?\n\nPolling suggests the state of the NHS is high on people's list of concerns.\n\nAn Ipsos/Mori survey in January in association with the Economist showed that 49% of respondents considered it to be one of the biggest issues facing Britain, up nine percentage points since December and the highest level recorded since April 2003.\n\nThis was slightly ahead of the proportion (41%) seeing the EU and Brexit as a major issue. Immigration was next on the list, though lower than in December.\n\nThe same survey just before the general election in May 2015 had the economy, the NHS and immigration bunched quite closely together as issues of the highest public concern.\n\nThe latest snapshot has the NHS pulling ahead of both. But the key question is whether what people tell the pollsters are key issues translates into voting intentions.\n\nThe King's Fund think tank recently analysed the British Social Attitudes survey taken across England, Scotland and Wales and found that public satisfaction with the NHS was high at 63%, little changed from 2015.\n\nIt is worth pointing out, though, that this polling was carried out in the summer and early autumn of 2016 before the latest bout of winter pressures.\n\nThe general election health debate will be about England as governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their health services and they have no elections this time.\n\nLabour made health a central plank of its 2015 election campaign. Andy Burnham, then the party's health spokesman, spoke out forcefully about the pressures on hospitals over the preceding winter.\n\nHe also accused the Conservatives of encouraging privatisation of the NHS, which they in turn denied.\n\nBut this failed to cut through, as the Tories achieved a majority.\n\nThis time Labour is stressing that health will again be central to its campaigning effort.\n\nJon Ashworth believes public concern about the NHS has intensified\n\nThe shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, believes that public concern is greater than in 2015 and that a tipping point has been reached over A&E delays and longer waits for routine operations.\n\nOn some benchmarks NHS England has seen its worst ever winter as hospitals have struggled to keep up with rising patient demand.\n\nWhat will become clear in the weeks ahead is whether patient frustration is being raised consistently with canvassers on the doorsteps.\n\nLabour will allege the Conservative government has failed to get to grips with an NHS crisis.\n\nJeremy Corbyn and the Labour left will push their claim that the government has allowed private providers to take an increasing share of the NHS cake and there is a covert agenda to undermine the service.\n\nThe proportion of the NHS budget in England allocated to private organisations has increased. But whether this cuts any ice beyond the core Labour vote is far from certain.\n\nNHS spending will no doubt feature strongly in the campaign debates.\n\nLabour has yet to say how much more money it will pledge to health.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have hinted strongly they will call for higher NHS budgets with a ring-fenced health and social care tax.\n\nA review of health policy for the Lib Dems raised the idea of an independent body to predict spending requirements.\n\nHealth spokesman Norman Lamb has pushed the idea of a cross-party approach to chart the future of the NHS.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats have indicated they will campaign on the potential problems for the health and social care workforce when the UK leaves the EU.\n\nPromises to guarantee citizenship rights for existing staff from the EU working in this country seem likely.\n\nJeremy Hunt will defend his record as a long-serving health secretary\n\nAll that leaves the Conservatives and Jeremy Hunt, the longest-serving health secretary in modern times, defending their record on health.\n\nParty sources indicate that an \"aggressive case\" will be made and that \"scare stories\" about the state of the NHS will be rebutted.\n\nThey point to the recent update on strategy by the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, in which he pointed to cancer survival being at a record high, improved dementia diagnosis and safer patient care.\n\nWhat remains to be seen is how much emphasis will be given to the seven-day NHS pledge made in 2015.\n\nThe Conservatives will undoubtedly be challenged on whether enough money has been allocated to the NHS up to 2020.\n\nThey will highlight the £2bn pledged for adult social care in England over the next three years.\n\nPoliticians in England will soon discover as they knock on doors whether the NHS could this time be an issue that will swing votes as well as fuelling campaign rhetoric.", "A string of brutal murders in the US has thrown a national spotlight on MS-13, a street gang that was born in LA but has roots in El Salvador.\n\nThe latest was a mass murder on Monday on Long Island, where the bodies of four males, including three teenagers, were found mangled in the woods, according to police.\n\nPresident Trump tweeted to call the gang \"bad\". Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to \"devastate\" it. Both blamed Obama-era immigration policy for its rise.\n\nBut what is MS-13 and is Obama really to blame?\n\nThe gang began in the barrios of Los Angeles in LA during the 1980s, formed by immigrants who had fled El Salvador's long and brutal civil war. Other members came from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.\n\nThe MS stands for Mara Salvatrucha, said to be a combination of Mara, meaning gang, Salva, for Salvador, and trucha, which translates roughly into street smarts. The 13 represents the position of M in the alphabet.\n\nMS-13 established a reputation for extreme violence and for killing with machetes. It took root in neighbourhoods dominated by Mexican gangs, and later expanded to other parts of the country.\n\nAccording to the FBI, the gang has spread to 46 states.\n\nIn 2012, the US Treasury designated the gang a \"transnational criminal organisation\". It was the first street gang to receive the dubious honour, placing it alongside much larger international cartels like the Mexican Zetas, Japanese Yakuza and Italian Camorra.\n\nMS-13 has been accused of recruiting poor and at-risk teenagers. Joining is said to require being \"jumped in\" - subjected to a vicious 13-second beating - and \"getting wet\" - carrying out a crime, often a murder, for the gang.\n\nLeaving is potentially even more dangerous. Large chest tattoos brand members for life, and some factions are said to murder members who attempt to leave.\n\nA 2008 FBI threat assessment put the size of MS-13 between 6,000 and 10,000 members in the US, making it one of the largest criminal enterprises in the country.\n\nIt is now larger outside the country, according to the agency. An anti-gang crackdown in the late 1990s saw hundreds of early members shipped back to Central American countries, where they established offshoots. Estimates put the number of members in Central American countries at at least 60,000.\n\nThe gang's annual revenue is about $31.2m (£23.4m) according to information from a large-scale Salvadorean police operation obtained by the El Faro newspaper - mainly from from drugs and extortion.\n\nRecent high-profile cases linked to the gang include the murder of two female high-school students who were attacked with a machete and baseball bat as they walked through their neighbourhood in New York last month - a revenge attack over a minor dispute, according to police.\n\nFour alleged MS-13 members were charged with that crime. Another two alleged members were charged at the same time with the murder of a fellow gang member said to have violated gang protocol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe same month, two alleged members of the gang in Houston, Texas were charged with kidnapping three teenage girls, holding them hostage and raping them before shooting one dead on the side of the road.\n\nMiguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, laughed and waved at the cameras during their court appearance.\n\nMS-13's motto is \"kill, rape, control\", according to one FBI gang specialist who investigated the group.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Sessions have pointed the finger at former President Barack Obama over the spread of MS-13, alleging that his open-door immigration policies fuelled its growth.\n\nBut the gang formed and flourished in the US long before Mr Obama came to power. MS-13 was identified as a significant threat in the 1990s, and a special FBI taskforce was convened against the gang in 1994.\n\n\"The big surge was during Bush-Cheney when the drivers of illegal migration in Central America grew, when various crackdowns on crime filled prisons to bursting point, and when funding for rehabilitation programs declined,\" Fulton T Armstrong, a research fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, told fact-checking website Politifact.\n\n\"I have seen no evidence that the Obama administration can be blamed in any way for the existence or activities of the gang in the US,\" said Ioan Grillo, author of a book on US gang crime.\n\nThe Obama administration also prioritised the deportation of gang criminals, including MS-13 members, in an aggressive deportation program.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMonaco reached the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2004 after an impressive second-leg performance in the last eight against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.\n\nThe Ligue 1 side took a 3-2 first-leg lead back to Stade Louis II, where kick-off was pushed back five minutes after Dortmund's team bus was delayed.\n\nTeenager Kylian Mbappe pounced from close range to increase Monaco's advantage after three minutes and Radamel Falcao headed in soon after to all but put the tie beyond Dortmund.\n\nThe Bundesliga outfit threw on exciting forward Ousmane Dembele and it was a fantastic run from the 19-year-old that set up Marco Reus to lash in after the break.\n\nBut substitute Valere Germain scored 22 seconds after coming off the bench for the hosts to secure their spot in the last four.\n\nMonaco will discover their semi-final opponents when the draw is made on Friday, with Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Juventus also progressing.\n\nLeonardo Jardim's young Monaco side have swept aside all before them in the Champions League this season, entertaining as they go with a brand of fearless, attacking football that the Portuguese boss said before the tie is part of their \"DNA\".\n\nThe hosts poured forward with ruthless efficiency in the first half, with the pace of Benjamin Mendy and Thomas Lemar creating an overlap on Monaco's left that Dortmund had no answer to.\n\nIt was from his first burst from full-back that Mendy forced Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Burki to parry a long-range effort into the path of Mbappe, and the prolific teenager finished smartly.\n\nMendy and Mbappe then combined for Lemar to add his fourth assist of the knockout stages when he set up Falcao for the former Manchester United and Chelsea striker's 25th goal of the season.\n\nAt 31, Colombia forward Falcao is a relative veteran in this Monaco side and his experience in forward play complemented the penetrating runs and powerful dribbling of strike partner Mbappe.\n\nThe 18-year-old was particularly effective for Monaco on the counter attack as Dortmund searched for a way back into the tie late on, before his replacement Germain put it beyond their reach following another Lemar assist.\n\nDortmund boss Thomas Tuchel had been aggrieved by the decision to reschedule his side's home first-leg meeting with Monaco just 24 hours after three bombs exploded near their team bus last Tuesday, leaving defender Marc Bartra with a fractured wrist.\n\nTuchel complained his players had been \"completely ignored\" but, after a 3-1 Bundesliga win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, the 43-year-old said the incident was out of his side's system before the trip to the Stade Louis II.\n\nHowever, their second-leg preparation was also disrupted with Dortmund saying their bus was held for 20 minutes by local police.\n\nThe visitors started slowly, and the task of overturning a first-leg deficit became substantially trickier after conceding two early goals and watching Nuri Sahin's curling free-kick strike a post at the other end.\n\nMonaco's young stars may have shone through over the two legs, but Dortmund have one of their own. Tuchel turned to Dembele after only 27 minutes, and the 19-year-old was the visitors' biggest threat.\n\nBut with top scorer Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang unable to make an impact over the two legs, Dortmund lacked the clinical touch of their opponents.\n\nThe last time the Red and Whites reached the last four of Europe's premier competition they went on to finish as runners-up to Jose Mourinho's Porto.\n\nDidier Deschamps' outfit were surprise finalists 13 years ago, but surely only the most ardent of Monaco fans would have predicted the new breed would have a shot at Champions League glory this season.\n\nThe principality side are impressing on three fronts, sitting top of Ligue 1 having scored 90 goals in the process and also making it into a French Cup semi-final.\n\nThey remain unbeaten in the Champions League this term at Stade Louis II, where scouts from Europe's top clubs will no doubt be gathering, and have scored three times in each of their knockout games.\n\nThree of the competition's elite await in the semi-finals, but with confidence oozing through Jardim's squad and the goals flowing freely, Monaco may be the one they want to avoid.\n\n'We were in control and showed ambition'\n\nMonaco coach Leonardo Jardim: \"It could have been 5-3 or 6-3 because both teams missed several chances.\n\n\"We played a very solid game, we were in control but we showed ambition. We were always looking for the extra goal, that is the way we play, it is in our DNA.\n\n\"Now, regardless of who we will take on next, we will be facing a very experienced team.\n\n\"Our rivals will want to draw us [on Friday] but our ambition is to enjoy it and play with our attacking qualities like we always do.\"\n\nFalcao on target again - the stats\n• None Borussia Dortmund have lost nine of their past 12 games in the Champions League knockout stages.\n• None Radamel Falcao has scored 39 goals in the Europa League and Champions League since his debut in October 2009 against Chelsea; only Robert Lewandowski (41), Lionel Messi (77) and Cristiano Ronaldo (85) have more European goals (excl. qualifiers).\n• None Marco Reus has been directly involved in 15 goals in his past 13 Champions League appearances for Borussia Dortmund (11 goals, four assists).\n• None Kylian Mbappe is the first player to score in each of his first four Champions League knockout games.\n• None Mbappe is the sixth player to score in his first four Champions League starts and the first since Diego Costa in 2014.\n• None Thomas Lemar is the first player to assist a goal in four consecutive Champions League knockout games since Andres Iniesta in May 2011.\n\nLeague leaders Monaco return to domestic action on Sunday when they visit fourth-placed Lyon in Ligue 1 before a French Cup semi-final against title rivals Paris St-Germain on Wednesday.\n\nDortmund are 16 points off Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich, who they face in the German Cup on Wednesday, but could move up to third if they beat Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday.\n• None Attempt missed. Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Christian Pulisic.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lukasz Piszczek.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Lukasz Piszczek with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marcel Schmelzer.\n• None Goal! Monaco 3, Borussia Dortmund 1. Valère Germain (Monaco) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Monaco) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Tiemoué Bakayoko (Monaco) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Thomas Lemar with a cross 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. \"I always thought depression was something a bit weak-minded\"\n\nThe hardest challenge for many business leaders is how to deal with mental health, an issue that still makes many uncomfortable.\n\nEven harder than that is when those mental health issues affect you.\n\nJayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive of the bank Virgin Money and one of the UK's most successful businesswomen, has told the BBC of her own efforts to tackle mental health issues.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, she said that she had suffered post-natal depression after the birth of her daughter and had \"suicidal thoughts\" because of the intense pressure as Virgin Money was preparing for a stock market flotation.\n\nShe said that it was time for businesses to speak more openly about mental health issues and that her own battles with mental health problems had made her stronger.\n\nMs Gadhia was speaking to mark the publication of her autobiography, The Virgin Banker.\n\nIn it, she describes how many business leaders still act like \"dinosaurs\" towards women.\n\nOn one occasion when Ms Gadhia was finding an issue at work difficult, a senior male colleague asked her \"if she was going through the menopause\".\n\n\"I was at a dinner with some of the [banking] regulators last year and there was a very senior City man there and the conversation turned to gender equality,\" Ms Gadhia told me.\n\n\"And he said, I am all for gender equality, but what happens if I employ a woman and the next week she tells me: 'I'm pregnant?'\n\n\"And there was a gasp around the table to think that people were still thinking like that.\n\n\"I remember going back to the office and saying: 'You know what, the dinosaurs are still out there.'\n\n\"It is undoubtedly the case. I see it from time to time.\n\n\"But equally I see the opposite, I also see that senior men in the City are talking to me about how they can help.\n\n\"So I don't want to portray a picture of bleakness - there are definitely pockets that haven't improved, but there are definitely very influential men and women who want to make it [greater gender equality] work.\"\n\nMs Gadhia revealed that one of her toughest periods in work was following the birth of her daughter, Amy, in 2003.\n\nWith her husband, Ash, she had been through many cycles of IVF which had not worked.\n\nThey had tried one final time and Ms Gadhia had become pregnant, which had made her feel \"thrilled\".\n\nBut depression struck after the birth.\n\n\"Ash had given up his job and we had only me earning, a new mouth to feed and I remember feeling completely out of control because what I wanted to achieve - that is, packing up work and staying with my child - was unachievable,\" Ms Gadhia said, speaking publicly about how she was affected for the first time.\n\n\"How on earth was I going to manage that?\n\n\"It was the first time that I'd ever, ever experienced what people described as depression.\n\n\"I had always thought, despite the fact that my mum had suffered over the years with her own issues, that depression is something that was a bit weak-minded or something.\n\n\"And when it hit me, I realised nothing could be further from the truth.\n\n\"And when I read the Harry Potter books and saw the Dementors, that is how depression felt to me - that sort of a thing that comes into your life and sucks all of your energy out of it - and I just felt hopeless.\n\n\"I didn't know where to go, I didn't know what to do do, who to talk to and at that point, everybody expects you to be happy and thrilled.\"\n\nAfter many months of suffering - at one point, Ms Gadhia was convinced her baby daughter was dead - she eventually went to the doctor for help.\n\nThe clinical tests showed that her depression was serious.\n\n\"It was knowing what I was dealing with that helped me to deal with it,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if I'd have just gone on and not realised that I had a clinical problem and that depression wasn't something that you can just sort of push through, it would have been very different.\"\n\nPrince Harry has been praised for speaking out by mental health charities\n\nMs Gadhia started working shorter hours, took exercise and put her life back into \"balance\".\n\nShe says that a healthier work-life balance wasn't just good for her and her family, it was also good for work.\n\nThe first year she changed the way she worked, Ms Gadhia received the highest bonus of her career.\n\nShe said that it was important that businesses had an open attitude to mental health, which can affect up to one in four adults.\n\nMore than 15 million working days a year are lost to problems of depression, anxiety or stress, costing businesses up to £70bn annually.\n\nYesterday, Prince Harry received widespread praise after talking to the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon about his mental health problems, following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.\n\nPrince Harry revealed that he had \"shut down all his emotions\" for 16 years before seeking help.\n\n\"I think we still have a culture of not talking about it,\" Ms Gadhia said.\n\n\"I don't want to get to a place where we we've got everybody crying on each other's shoulders.\n\n\"But I think finding a way for organisations to support staff that want to talk about the issues that they're going through and having maturity of line management to know when that's required - to know where help can come - is really important.\n\n\"If someone turns up to work on crutches with a broken leg, it is easier to sympathise or empathise or help.\n\n\"But when you can't see it, I think that's much harder. It is easier to dismiss and the dismissal, the putdown if you like, makes the problem worse.\n\n\"I think that's part of the reason why both raising the issue - and in a sensible and controlled way, discussing it - means it can be remediated in some way, whatever the right way is for the individual. It's super-important.\"", "If you worry about germs on the train, in the office or at the gym, you might resort to covering your hands in gel to put your mind at rest. But could they be less effective than we think?", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLyon and Besiktas have been given suspended bans from European competition by Uefa after crowd trouble marred their Europa League quarter-final first leg in France on 13 April.\n\nThe bans are suspended for two years and both clubs have also been fined 100,000 euros (£83,800).\n\nThe tie at Parc Olympique Lyonnais, which ended 2-1 to Lyon, kicked off 45 minutes late.\n\nThe return leg in Turkey takes place on Thursday (20:05 BST).\n\nA Uefa statement said the charges against Lyon related to crowd disturbances, setting off of fireworks, blocked stairways, insufficient organisation and field invasion by supporters after their second goal.\n\nThe charges against Besiktas related to crowd disturbances, setting off of fireworks and the throwing of objects.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ennis-Hill receives a damehood from the Duke of Cambridge\n\nFormer heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill has formally been made a dame during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe 31-year-old, from Sheffield, has received the honour for her services to athletics.\n\nEnnis-Hill, who won gold at London 2012 Olympics and silver four years later in Rio, announced her retirement from the sport in October.\n\nAt the same ceremony, designer and ex-Spice Girl Victoria Beckham was made an OBE for services to fashion.\n\nEnnis-Hill, who received her honour from the Duke of Cambridge, will receive another World Championships gold medal after Tatyana Chernova was stripped of her 2011 world title for doping.\n\nThe 2012 Olympic champion, who was accompanied by her grandparents, mother Alison Powell and husband Andy Hill at the ceremony, said: \"Just to hear the national anthem in this kind of moment again is really special.\n\n\"I've so many amazing memories of standing on the podium and hearing it and to be here receiving a damehood, which I never imagined I would ever receive, is an incredible honour.\"\n\nShe was accompanied at the ceremony by her husband Andy Hill\n\nShe added: \"I've had more than I could ever imagine out of my career so I can't stand here receiving a damehood and wish for any more.\"", "The US-led coalition appears confident that fighters of the so-called Islamic State (IS) will be defeated in Mosul. But the battle for Iraq's second largest city has already been going on for six months and the Iraqi forces have only just reached the edges of the old city.\n\nOptimism has been tempered by the slow progress of what has become a brutal fight for every street. In the words of the US coalition spokesman Col John Dorrian \"the fight's been very, very slow and very, very hard… its gut-busting\".\n\nWe joined the Iraqi forces about to launch yet another assault to take more territory. Over the past few weeks, the initial advance has slowed to a crawl with the front lines relatively static. They want to break the deadlock. This is the story of just one battle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Beale and cameraman Barnaby Mitchell are embedded with Iraqi troops\n\nThey mass under the cover of darkness. The same Iraq units who've been fighting here for months. The troops both battle hardened and battle weary. It's supposed to be a surprise dawn attack. But IS will be lying in wait. As we move forward on foot we soon come under fire.\n\nWe follow one of the Iraqi commanders, Maj Mohammed, as he sets up a makeshift headquarters in an abandoned house that's already seen heavy fighting. There's IS graffiti on the walls.\n\nAs his troops advance there is a sudden, panicked call on the radio. It's his first casualties. They've walked into a booby-trapped building: several men have been injured and they're calling for help.\n\nThe battle to drive IS fighters out of Mosul has been going on for six months\n\nThere's no let-up in the fighting as dawn breaks amid the heavy thud of machine guns firing on both sides.\n\nWe hear coalition aircraft overhead. Then a whoosh and a thud, followed by an explosion. One of the IS heavy machine guns has been silenced by a coalition airstrike.\n\nThere are several more over the next few hours - uncomfortably close. An Iraqi soldier smiles and points as a bomb travels at speed towards another IS-held building nearby.\n\nIn the distance we can now see the black flag of IS flying. And nearer, the buildings and the holes in the wall from where they're firing.\n\nThere's another whoosh, thud and boom and then a plume of smoke from an air strike. We're told to stay inside because the Iraqi forces have heard a small IS drone. They're often armed with grenades.\n\nFive hours later, the battle is still raging over the same few streets. An Iraqi armoured bulldozer tries to clear a path through the wrecked cars and rubble to help the advance. But the driver is targeted by an IS rocket-propelled grenade. There's a frantic effort to free him from the cabin. His comrades eventually succeed but he's lost limbs and is bleeding profusely.\n\nThe Iraqi forces have to contend with booby traps and air attacks from IS drones\n\nNo-one can question the bravery of the Iraqi forces, but you can see the losses and the expectations of victory weighing heavily on their shoulders.\n\nWe ask to leave when IS begin to mortar the Iraqi positions. The impact sends brick and concrete flying through the air. The building we are taking shelter in shudders and then there's a cloud of debris. Someone shouts \"Gas!\" but thankfully it's not.\n\nWe leave in the same Humvee we first arrived in. The seats are now stained in blood from ferrying the wounded. By the end of the day, the Iraqi forces have taken a few more streets.\n\nBut this is unforgiving, urban warfare and for the Iraqi forces there is still a mountain to climb.", "Lisbonne and Hawaii were saved from a house fire thanks to home security tech\n\nChristophe Deschamps was watching a basketball game with his wife and three children when he received an alert on his smartphone.\n\nThe home security system told him something was wrong, so he quickly accessed the video feed on his phone.\n\n\"I could see smoke,\" he says. Their home, in the Wallonia region of southern Belgium, was on fire.\n\nThe family's thoughts immediately turned to their two Bernese Mountain dogs - Lisbonne and Hawaii - locked in the garage. A terrible family tragedy was threatening to unfold.\n\nThe video images now showed the smoke getting thicker and brightness coming from flames off-camera.\n\nThe fire alarm had already alerted the firefighters, so the Deschamps family rushed home as quickly as they could.\n\n\"It was more important for us to save the dogs than the house,\" says Christophe. \"My wife was crying and panicking, thinking the dogs could die.\"\n\nThe security camera recorded the progress of the fire in the Deschamps' home\n\nFortunately, Lisbonne and Hawaii were saved with just 20cm of air left to breathe above the floor of the smoke-filled garage. But the fire damage to the house took six months to repair.\n\nThe dogs' lucky escape was due to the indoor security camera Christophe had installed.\n\nThe smart camera, made by Netatmo, sends alerts when it hears an alarm - whether smoke, carbon monoxide or security - and automatically starts recording.\n\nIt is also one of the first smart home cameras featuring face recognition technology capable of distinguishing between people it knows and strangers.\n\nParents working late can receive alerts when their kids arrive home, for example, and will receive an \"unknown face seen\" alert if someone breaks in.\n\nThe French company says evidence collected by its smart cameras has led to the successful prosecution of burglars.\n\nThe connected home security market is expanding fast, with companies such as Withings, Nest, D-Link, Netgear, Philips, Panasonic - not to mention the tech behemoths Apple, Amazon and Samsung - all offering an expanding array of internet-connected smart gadgets, from thermostats to motion-sensitive cameras with infrared and audio capability.\n\n\"We put the connected home security market at 95.4 million unit sales in 2016,\" says Francesco Radicati, a technology specialist at consultancy Ovum.\n\n\"Service providers, such as Qivicon, AT&T Digital Life, and Vivint Smart Home, are selling device multi-packs including multiple sensors, and these are proving very popular.\n\n\"We estimate the market will grow to 744 million devices sold in 2021.\"\n\nInnovations are coming on to the market thick and fast.\n\nFor example, connected light bulb firm LIFX has produced a version that can beam infrared light outdoors, enabling a compatible security camera, such as the Nest Cam Outdoor, to see better in the dark.\n\nThe key innovation, however, has been the integration of the smartphone into such connected networks, giving users remote control wherever they have an internet connection.\n\nBut aren't all these security cameras intrusive and even a little voyeuristic?\n\nNetatmo has addressed this issue by making its Welcome camera programmable, so you can disable recording for individuals you specify. And most camera systems can be disabled remotely.\n\nIt isn't just our homes that technology is helping keep safe.\n\nCars are also a common target for thieves. This is why Matej Persolja, 33, founded CarLock, a company based in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and San Francisco in the US.\n\nCarLock's system plugs into a vehicle's onboard diagnostics port and sends an alarm to your phone if your vehicle is moved, the engine starts, it detects unusual vibration, or if the gadget is disconnected.\n\nMr Persolja started the business after thinking his car had been stolen. It turned out his car had only been moved to make way for construction work taking place in the area.\n\n\"Before I learned that, I was almost certain my car had been stolen and I still remember that awful feeling,\" he says.\n\nThe CarLock system enables owners to track the location of their car if it has been stolen and also acts like a telematics box recording driving behaviour and the general health of the engine.\n\nAnd there are a growing number of remote control apps for cars on the market.\n\nViper's SmartStart app - currently only available in the US and Canada - enables you to start your car, lock and unlock it, and track its movements remotely using your smartphone.\n\nRemote starting is useful for de-icing your car in the mornings while you get ready for work and have breakfast. Even if someone sees the car running and a thief smashes a window to steal it, the physical key is still needed to drive the car off.\n\nYou can also keep an eye on your kids' driving habits and receive an alert if they take the car beyond a geographical point that you specify.\n\nFord is even integrating Amazon's Alexa voice-activated software into its cars, enabling drivers to remotely start their cars with a voice command and personal identification number.\n\nOf course, the elephant in the room with all these connected security products is the risk of being hacked. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre recently demonstrated how a connected doll could be hacked and used to open remote control door locks.\n\nAnd poorly secured security cameras have been hijacked to carry out web attacks.\n\nHow to protect your smart home and all its internet-connected devices will be the subject of a future Technology of Business feature.", "Last updated on .From the section Swimming\n\nCoverage: Watch live on the BBC Sport website, Connected TVs and app. Race highlights and reports on the BBC Sport website.\n\nOlympic champion Adam Peaty booked his place at the 2017 World Championships with victory at the British Championships in Sheffield.\n\nPeaty, 22, who became Britain's first male Olympic swimming champion for 28 years in Rio, took the British 100m breaststroke title in 57.79 seconds.\n\n\"This is what I race for, to win and I'm pleased with that time,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\nPeaty gave away his British gold medal to a young fan in the crowd.\n\n\"Hopefully that lad will look at the medal and it will make him think, 'If I train harder, I can be out there too' and then he'll be here competing one day,\" said the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth champion.\n\nRoss Murdoch should also be at the Budapest World Championships in July after finishing second in one minute flat.\n\nIn addition to Peaty and Murdoch, Rio Olympians James Guy and Stephen Milne (400m freestyle), Hannah Miley and Aimee Willmott (400m individual medley) all recorded times which will put them in contention for selection for the Worlds.\n\nPeaty says he now wants to chase \"legendary\" status and lower the world record of 57.13 he set at the Rio Olympics.\n\n\"Me and my coach [Mel Marshall] have set this target, it's called 'project 56' and that's the aim, to keep going quicker and winning every race.\"\n\nFind out how to get into swimming with our fully inclusive guide.\n\nGuy - who missed out on individual honours at Rio 2016, but won two silver medals as part of the men's relay teams - took the men's 400m freestyle title.\n\nFellow Olympians Chris Walker-Hebborn (50m backstroke) and Hannah Miley (400m individual medley) retained their respective crowns, while 17-year-old Imogen Clark claimed her first GB title with victory in the 50m breaststroke in a British record of 30.21 secs.\n\nDefending 200m freestyle champion Jazz Carlin was a surprise third in an event won by Ellie Faulkner in a personal best time of one minute 57.88 secs.\n\nWelsh swimmer Carlin - who won Rio Olympic silver medals in the 400m and 800m freestyle events - will return for the 800m competition on Wednesday.", "Police and Taliban positions can be just a short distance apart in parts of Lashkar Gah\n\nWhen I went back to Helmand I expected to find fighting, opium fields and new frontlines. But I didn't expect it to be so hard to distinguish between warring sides. And the fall of Sangin while I was there came as a big shock, writes BBC Afghan's Auliya Atrafi.\n\nGoing home to Helmand felt different this time - things really are unstable.\n\nThe last time I witnessed such a fluid situation was in the early 1990s after Kabul had fallen to the mujahideen.\n\nA few communist families were in control. After that Helmand was ruled by the mujahideen and then by the Taliban. For the last 15 years, however, it's mainly been ruled by the Afghan government, although it's still considered a Taliban heartland and a centre of insurgency, smuggling and opium.\n\nI took the road from Kabul to Helmand via Kandahar in mid-March - a precarious 10-hour bus journey. In recent months the main road leading to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, has been in and out of government control.\n\nFrom the bus I saw police stations that had been partially blown up by the Taliban. Bridges had been destroyed. The roadside was littered with the carcasses of burnt-out government Humvees.\n\nThis is normally the scariest part of the journey, as Taliban fighters try to kidnap government personnel, but I didn't encounter any.\n\nDespite being surrounded by the Taliban, people in Lashkar Gah were calm. The Taliban seemed to be on the defensive as the government had started clearance operations.\n\nA few times a day American Apache helicopters flew overhead, a reassuring sign the Taliban wouldn't be allowed to take over the city.\n\nThe Taliban take the American planes seriously; when they briefly captured the northern city of Kunduz in 2015, they paid a heavy price.\n\nNonetheless, staying positive was difficult. As one trader put it: \"Life is shaky and people are disappointed with governance. Fighting is so close that when we sleep at night we can hear gun shots.\n\n\"Travelling is dangerous and takes longer, and schools are barely functioning. People are generally upset.\"\n\nAmid the instability, locals are trying to move forward. But they are also aware their city could move from government to Taliban hands.\n\nMany of the pragmatic Helmandis have found a guarantor - \"a Taliban cousin\" - among the insurgents in case the city falls.\n\n\"The Taliban told me to live in peace; they said their friends would arrive at my place as soon as they take the city,\" one resident said confidently.\n\nSecurity personnel use what cover they can to observe the Taliban\n\nHelmand is mostly made up of Sunni Pashtuns but it is also has a large Shia community.\n\nThe Taliban do not target Shia, unlike other Islamist extremist groups who view Shia as heretics. But Shia are generally pro-government and making such alliances has proved harder for them than their Sunni neighbours.\n\nIn Gereshk, north of Lashkar Gah, Shia are caught in the crossfire between a Taliban hotbed, Nahr Seraj, and the city.\n\nLocals are scared and some remember violence that erupted in the early 1990s when the mujahideen took over the district.\n\n\"A commander called Rais of Baghran came. He took people out of their houses and shot them; he kicked people out and looted their properties,\" said district committee member Mirza Khan.\n\n\"We left everything behind; families fled in the middle of the night and migrated to Pakistan and Iran… We fear that might be repeated again.\"\n\nIt wasn't just Shia - as the communist government collapsed, many communities experienced similar treatment. But Shia in Gereshk say they were targeted by the commander while Sunnis were left alone.\n\nMirza Khan also says two tribal elders who appealed to the Taliban for the release of a prisoner two years ago were killed - something he calls a \"sort of bias\".\n\nHelmand is at the heart of Afghanistan's opium trade\n\nThe Taliban say they have no racial or sectarian bias: \"What has happened must have been a personal issue,\" a Taliban spokesman told the BBC.\n\nFear is not restricted to the Shia. In Lashkar Gah, the front line is on the city's western edge. I went to pay a visit to the border police battalion in the Bolan area.\n\nThe front line here is a crowded neighbourhood where children still play traditional games outside. But most of the houses lie empty, used by the warring sides.\n\nWe were advised to drive faster on some corners as the Taliban shoot at vehicles.\n\nCommander Juma Khan thought it better we had tea inside his office, saying: \"The Taliban threw a grenade into our courtyard a bit earlier.\"\n\n\"Are they so close?\" I asked with a mixture of fear and astonishment.\n\n\"Yes,\" said Juma Khan, adding: \"They sometimes throw stones at us from the other side of the wall.\"\n\nI later heard that the two sides can hear one another - they even jokingly invite each other for tea, though the offer is always rejected.\n\nThe police station had many holes for observation and snipers. Some were on the roof and some were small tunnels.\n\nIt was hard to see much through the holes, but as we drank green tea in the commander's office there was a constant exchange of small arms fire.\n\nThe conflict in Helmand is complex; it is not about blind hatred and mindless killing. There are families who are fighting on opposite sides without feelings of hostility.\n\nTaliban commanders claim huge influence over government institutions. Tribal alliances and economic incentives are more important than ideology.\n\nBusiness transcends borders; right now there are four multi-million dollar infrastructure projects funded by the government moving forward despite the fighting.\n\nSouth of the Bolan hills is the road to Nad Ali and Marja districts. A local resident told me of a traffic policeman who was seen serving at rival checkpoints.\n\n\"He would manage the traffic at the government checkpoint; when things got bad at the Taliban checkpoint, they would call him and he'd ride his rattling moped and bring order at the Taliban checkpoint.\"\n\nStill, fighting continues and the Taliban generally hold the upper hand. According to the provincial council more than 85% of the province is still under insurgent control. Of 14 districts, seven are in Taliban hands; two are under siege; in the rest, the government operates in central areas only.\n\nTroops - like this man here clearing IEDs - have cleared the road to Nad Ali\n\nTo the west of Bolan lies Nad Ali. Security forces managed to clear the road to the centre after months of Taliban siege. The white flags of the Taliban indicate the front line, a few hundred metres from the main road.\n\nGovernment casualties were not too high during the Nad Ali operation. Air support played an important role but one of the operational commanders, Bismillah Jan, believes lines are generally thin on the Taliban side.\n\nHe believes if he's given men and aerial support he can beat them back. But the security forces also lack personnel - as the decision to abandon Sangin showed.\n\nThe government strategy seems to be to gather scattered forces and unite them as a solid front in central Helmand. But as soon as fighters were freed from Taliban sieges, many disappeared.\n\n\"Our 20 or so friends in those remote bases kept 200 Taliban busy. Now the Taliban can join together and attack central Gereshk district,\" Bismillah Jan warns.\n\nDisagreements and lack of co-ordination are still the overriding issues in Helmand - on both sides. On the government side, many believe the US is not fully committed to weakening the Taliban.\n\n\"There are dozens of armed Taliban, often roaming in long convoys in the countryside but the American Apaches won't touch them. They only target a small number in actual fighting,\" one official said.\n\nBut there are also cracks on the Taliban side. Reports about leadership divisions are everywhere in city circles. Tribal politics and the fight for resources are profoundly influencing Taliban affairs, it seems.\n\nSome blame the killing of two influential Taliban commanders, Mehraj and Haji Ismat, by American drones on Haji Manan, the Taliban governor for Helmand who, rumour has it, is working for the US.\n\nHaji Manan's reported disagreement with Taliban leader Haibatullah is another bit of welcome news in Lashkar Gah.\n\nAnd there is also talk that this year the Taliban will be on the defensive in Helmand and will devote their energy to destabilising neighbouring Kandahar province instead.\n\nWhether that happens remains to be seen - but for people in Lashkar Gah, these are all hints this year may be calmer than last.\n• None Why Sangin's fall to the Taliban matters\n• None The new 'Great Game' in Afghanistan", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nTournament favourite Judd Trump has been knocked out of the World Championship by world number 54 Rory McLeod after a remarkable first-round 10-8 defeat.\n\nMcLeod, a 46-year-old 1000-1 outsider, led 9-7 when slow play meant the match had to be halted prior to Wednesday's afternoon session.\n\nAn out-of-sorts Trump won a scrappy opening frame when their match resumed in the evening, but the Leicester man sealed what he called \"the biggest win of his career\" to reach the last 16.\n\nAs exciting as the Dott-Carter contest was, it never got close to reproducing the drama between Trump and rank outsider McLeod, who has only previously reached the second round at the Crucible once in his long career.\n• None Watch the latest action from both tables\n\nTrump, the 2011 runner-up, has reached five major finals this season and was full of confidence about his chances of claiming a first Crucible title in the build-up to snooker's showpiece occasion.\n\nHe resumed 5-4 behind on Wednesday after surrendering a 4-0 lead but, despite seeming to be hindered by a shoulder problem, the 27-year-old managed to fight back to 6-6 before McLeod pulled away\n\nMcLeod has only qualified for the World Championship three times in his long career.\n\nBut his astute matchplay and meticulous approach seemed to disrupt Trump, who was uncharacteristically wayward with his long potting and sloppy with his break building when he did get in the balls.\n\n\"It's brilliant. I was relaxed at 4-0. He was potting everything. There is not much you can do so you have to bide your time,\" McLeod said after the match.\n\n\"Maybe I went into zombie mode because I didn't know the score - if it was 4-4 or 5-4.\n\n\"I tried not to think about things too much. You have to dismiss the pressure.\"\n\nMcLeod plays Scotland's Stephen Maguire in the second round.\n\nEarlier Carter took the opening frame to reduce the overnight gap to 6-4 against Dott and the Essex potter kept nagging away at the qualifier to get back to 8-7.\n\nBut Dott edged a pivotal 16th frame when both men wasted good chances and went on to consign Carter to a first last-32 exit since 2006 - the year Dott was crowned champion.\n\n\"I love it here,\" said Dott. \"I am not the best at anything, long potting, safety or break building. But I am pretty good at everything, and over the long games that is what you need.\n\n\"My season can be absolute garbage and then I come here and I feel like a snooker player.\"\n\nElsewhere, Neil Robertson, the 2010 champion, cruised into an 8-1 lead against World Championship debutant Noppon Saengkham in a match that plays to a conclusion on Thursday.\n\nChina's Xiao Guodong beat Ryan Day, the only Welshman who qualified for this year's tournament.\n\nXiao led 6-3 after the morning session and remained fully in control to ensure there is no Welsh representation in the second round of the World Championship for the first time since 1969.\n\nThe other evening match was an all-English encounter with 2013 runner-up Barry Hawkins leading Leicester's Tom Ford 7-2 when play ended for the day.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLeicester City's Champions League adventure ended in disappointment at the quarter-final stage despite a spirited second-leg display against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThe Foxes dominated for much of the game at the King Power Stadium, creating numerous chances throughout, but were left with too much to do after Saul Niguez's 26th-minute header added to Atletico's one-goal advantage from the first leg in Madrid.\n\nNeeding three second half goals, Leicester responded with splendid defiance and equalised on the night when Jamie Vardy scored at the far post just after the hour.\n\nThey kept battling until the end as Atletico survived several scrambles, but the La Liga superpower held on and the Premier League's interest in the tournament ended.\n\nThe Foxes go down fighting\n\nLeicester City have gained huge credit and credibility in making their way to the last eight of the Champions League as England's last surviving representatives.\n\nAnd even in defeat over two legs to this battle-hardened Atletico Madrid side - twice losing finalists in recent seasons - the Foxes can be proud of another monumental effort that just came up short.\n\nCraig Shakespeare's side were second best as Atletico looked a cut above for the first 45 minutes to lead through Niguez's header, which left Leicester needing those three goals against a miserly defence.\n\nThe hosts could have been forgiven for throwing in the towel but instead came out fighting, invigorated by Shakespeare's positive half-time changes. He sent on Ben Chilwell and Leonardo Ulloa for Shinji Okazaki and defender Yohan Benalouane, flooding Vardy with greater support.\n\nVardy's goal was no more than they deserved and for a time they had Atletico rocking, giving the King Power Stadium belief that another miracle was on the cards. They almost added a second in goalmouth scrambles, especially when Stefan Savic blocked Vardy's goal-bound shot.\n\nIn the final reckoning, the lack of an away goal and a controversial first-leg penalty scored by Antoine Griezmann left them with a hurdle that was just too tough to surmount.\n\nThere was disappointment inside the King Power Stadium at the final whistle but it was masked by a fully deserved standing ovation for Leicester's players.\n\nWhen last season's Premier League champions started their Champions League journey, many believed reaching the knockout phase would represent success - so once again they defied the odds.\n\nAtletico Madrid are a side built in the image and likeness of their manager Diego Simeone - talented, uncompromising and streetwise.\n\nAnd in the end it was that combination of qualities that made it just too tough for Leicester City to take their journey a step further into the last four.\n\nAtletico showed their quality in the first half to score that crucial away goal, then demonstrated the resilience that has taken them to two Champions League finals in 2014 and 2016 [both lost to arch-rivals Real Madrid].\n\nIt needed a mixture of defiance and desperation but in the end it was enough to send them into another Champions League semi-final.\n\nThe King Power rises to the occasion\n\nThis may be the last Champions League night at the King Power for some time - and if it is, Leicester City made sure it left plenty to remember them by.\n\nThe pre-match ceremonials were raucous and spectacular, with pyrotechnics, dry ice and fireworks whipping the home fans into a noisy frenzy.\n\nAtletico were unmoved by the atmosphere early on but certainly felt its force as they were penned back in the second period.\n\nThe King Power has proved to be the perfect environment for Leicester City's Champions League adventure - and so it proved once more here.\n\nLeicester manager Craig Shakespeare, speaking to BT Sport: \"In the first half we played really well but the goal changes the game plan - we knew we had to score three - so I had to make the change.\n\n\"There's no discredit to lose to a team of that calibre.\n\n\"In terms of effort, commitment, application - as a group we were tremendous.\n\n\"The momentum was with us when Jamie [Vardy] scored but it just wasn't to be.\n\n\"I think the whole club, the supporters, owners and players, can be immensely proud of what they've achieved.\n\n\"I've just said to the players 'you should want more of this'.\"\n\nAtletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone: \"I'm full of emotion and pride at the performance of my team.\n\n\"I also have to say, what a great performance from our opponents. It was almost a pleasure to compete against them.\"\n• None Only Edinson Cavani (four) and Robert Lewandowski (four) have scored more away goals than Saul Niguez (three) in the Champions League this season.\n• None Saul's goal was the 100th Atletico Madrid had scored in the Champions League, in their 68th match in the competition.\n• None Filipe Luis has provided back-to-back assists in all competitions for Atletico for the first time since October 2013.\n• None Jamie Vardy is the first English player to score in a Champions League quarter-final since Frank Lampard in 2012.\n• None Both of Vardy's Champions League goals have come in the knockout stage of the competition.\n• None The Foxes had 16 shots in the second half of this match, while Atletico had two.\n• None Leicester exit the Champions League unbeaten at home in their first campaign (W4 D1).\n\nLeicester return to Premier League action with an away game at Arsenal on Wednesday, 26 April, followed three days later with another away game at West Brom.\n\nAtletico Madrid are also away from home in their next match - a trip to Espanyol in La Liga on Saturday (19:45 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing misses to the left. Assisted by Stefan Savic following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ben Chilwell.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Chilwell (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Koke.\n• None Attempt blocked. Daniel Drinkwater (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wilfred Ndidi.\n• None Substitution, Leicester City. Daniel Amartey replaces Wes Morgan because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Wes Morgan (Leicester City) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden of the tax take.\n\nReality Check verdict: The government is very reliant on richer people for its funding. More than a quarter of income tax is paid by the 1% of taxpayers with the highest incomes.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell kicked off his election campaign on Wednesday by talking about increasing taxes on the rich and on corporations.\n\n\"The burden in terms of the tax take is falling on middle and low earners,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nIn fact, the tax base is very reliant on rich people, with income tax becoming increasingly reliant on them.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which does a great deal of work on inequality, says that the income tax system is relying too much on the richest 10%, which is a problem because their earnings are volatile.\n\nIt also pointed out that the combined effect of tax and benefit changes was hitting the poorest people the hardest, but Mr McDonnell was not talking about benefits.\n\nThis chart from the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that about 90% of income tax is paid by the 50% of taxpayers with the highest incomes, while more than a quarter is paid by the richest 1%.\n\nIndirect taxes such as VAT and fuel duty are not progressive though - people with lower incomes do not pay lower rates - so we need to consider all taxes.\n\nThe Treasury published analysis at the time of the Budget predicting what proportion of incomes people would be spending on all taxes by 2019-20.\n\nThe result is in the darker green bars below the line in this chart, with the poorest households on the left and the richest on the right.\n\nThe proportion of income spent on taxes does appear to be increasing as income increases throughout the distribution. The exception is for the poorest 10%, who seem to be spending slightly more than the next 10%, although the IFS says that is probably due to people misreporting their incomes in the survey from which this analysis is taken.\n\nThere is more on the impact of taxes on income in this ONS report, which calculates it in a different way, flattening the increase in the proportion of income spent on taxes as households get richer.\n\nLater in the interview, John McDonnell also said: \"Middle and low earners are being hit very, very hard by... income tax rises.\"\n\nThe basic rate of income tax has been 20% since 2008 and the higher rate has been 40% for longer than that. There have been additional rates introduced but they do not affect middle and low earners.\n\nIn 2010, the income tax personal allowance, which is the amount you are allowed to earn before paying any income tax, was £6,475. This year it is £11,500. That has clearly risen considerably faster than inflation, so for people paying the basic rate of income tax there has been a tax cut, while a higher proportion of low earners are not paying income tax at all.\n\nThe level of income at which people start paying the higher rate of income tax has not been rising as fast as the personal allowance, in fact it has fallen in some years since 2010, but only about 15% of income taxpayers pay higher rate, so they probably do not count as being low or middle earners.\n• None 'Rich will pay more' under Labour\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League clubs have made limited progress on improving access for disabled fans, campaigners have said.\n\nThirteen out of the 20 sides are failing to provide the required number of wheelchair spaces, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).\n\nIt says only seven clubs have larger, fully equipped toilets, while seven clubs are breaking Premier League rules on providing information to fans.\n\nThe Premier League said clubs were working hard to improve facilities.\n\nA BBC report in 2014 found that 17 of 20 clubs did not provide enough wheelchair spaces.\n\nClubs later set a self-imposed deadline to meet standards by August 2017 and the Premier League has pledged to publish a report then to highlight the work carried out.\n\nEHRC chair David Isaac said it would launch an investigation into clubs who had failed to meet the minimum requirements and did not publish a clear action plan or timetable for improvement.\n\n\"The end of the season is fast approaching and time is running out for clubs,\" he said.\n\n\"For too long Premier League clubs have neglected the needs of their disabled fans\n\n\"The information we received from some clubs was of an appalling standard, with data missing and with insufficient detail. What is clear is that very few clubs are doing the minimum to meet the needs of disabled supporters.\n\n\"The Premier League itself does not escape blame. They need to make the concerns of disabled fans a priority and start enforcing their own rule book. We will be meeting individual clubs and asking them to explain themselves and tell us what their plans are.\"\n\nClare Lucas, activism manager for learning disability charity Mencap, said clubs should have 'changing places' toilet facilities, with more space and equipment including a height-adjustable changing bench and a hoist.\n\n\"For too long Premier League clubs have neglected the needs of their disabled fans, many of whom are forced to be changed on toilet floors, because clubs are yet to install proper facilities. It is simply inexcusable,\" she said.\n\nWhat the commission says\n\nAccording to the EHRC, the following clubs have not met requirements in particular areas:\n\nToilets: Without larger, fully equipped toilets, known as 'changing places' toilets - Bournemouth, Burnley, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Hull, Middlesbrough, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Tottenham, Watford, West Brom\n\nInformation: Not publishing access statements to give disabled fans information about their ground - Burnley, Crystal Palace, Hull, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Stoke, West Ham\n\nWhat the Premier League says\n\n\"In September 2015 Premier League clubs unanimously agreed to improve their disabled access provisions by meeting the Accessible Stadia Guide (ASG) by August 2017.\n\n\"Clubs are working hard to improve their facilities and rapid progress has been made. The improvements undertaken are unprecedented in scope, scale and timing by any group of sports grounds or other entertainment venues in the UK.\n\n\"Given the differing ages and nature of facilities, some clubs have faced significant built environment challenges. For those clubs cost is not the determining factor.\n\n\"They have worked, and in some cases continue to work, through issues relating to planning, how to deal with new stadium development plans, how to best manage fan disruption or, where clubs don't own their own grounds, dealing with third parties.\n\n\"Clubs will continue to engage with their disabled fans and enhance their provisions in the coming months, years and beyond.\"\n\nThe story so far\n\n2014: A BBC investigation finds that 17 of the 20 clubs in the top flight at that time had failed to provide enough wheelchair spaces.\n\nSeptember 2015: The Premier League promises to improve stadium facilities for disabled fans, stating that clubs would comply with official guidance by August 2017.\n\nSeptember 2016: Campaigners say up to a third of clubs will miss the deadline to meet basic access standards.\n\nOctober 2016: Leading disability campaigner Lord Holmes tells MPs that legal action against clubs and the Premier League remains an option if standards are not met.\n\nJanuary 2017: A report by MPs says some clubs could face sanctions because they are not doing enough. Manchester United,Liverpool and Everton announce plans to develop their grounds to accommodate more disabled supporters.\n\nFebruary 2017: A Premier League report outlines the detailed work the clubs are undertaking to make sure they meet guidelines but adds that at least three clubs will miss the August 2017 target.\n\nApril 2017: Premier League clubs have made limited progress on improving access for disabled fans, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe classic car speeds through the English countryside, a lovingly-maintained example of motoring heritage.\n\nIt rounds a left-hand bend, negotiates a tight right corner, and gracefully dips out of view, a petrol-fuelled gazelle.\n\nThis is a collectable automobile that has seen its value soar in recent years. Proud owner Ed Hughes is a very happy man.\n\nYet the 45-year-old's set of wheels isn't what most people would imagine when they think of a classic car. It isn't a vintage Ferrari, Lamborghini or Jaguar, for example.\n\nInstead, it's a 1994 Lada Riva, the boxy, four-door Russian runabout that regularly features in \"worst cars of all time\" lists.\n\nMr Hughes' example has a 1.5 litre engine, 80,000 miles on the clock, and a top speed of 95mph (153 km/h). And he loves Ladas so much that he owns five of them.\n\nWhile some might scoff at the suggestion that a Lada Riva is a classic car, it does in fact meet the generally agreed criteria - it is an old car that is no longer in production, and there is enough interest in the vehicle for it now to be collectable rather than scrapped.\n\nAnd like any classic car worth its salt, there is money to be made, although not Ferrari-style tens of millions. Mr Hughes bought his red Riva 14 years ago for £50. It's now worth £2,000.\n\nAs the global classic car industry continues to grow strongly, an increasing number of previously unheralded cars are now being avidly collected. But why the Lada Riva?\n\nMr Hughes, who gave up a career in teaching to write full-time for Practical Classics magazine, admits that Ladas were \"deeply unfashionable\" for years. But as his father had owned a few of the Soviet cars when he was growing up, Mr Hughes says \"he'd always liked them\".\n\nSo in the late 1990s he started buying Ladas, including the Riva, which was available in the UK from 1983 to 1997.\n\nWhen most people think of classic cars, they imagine Ferraris not Ladas\n\n\"As happens with old cars, people were throwing them away as their value decreased, and I started rescuing some of the nicer models,\" says Mr Hughes.\n\n\"What they lack in fit and finish they make up for in being quite well built mechanically.\"\n\nMr Hughes says there are two main reasons for the big rise in the value of Ladas in the UK in recent years.\n\n\"Firstly, a new generation of people in their 20s and 30s like the car's shape - there is nothing like it on the road. They've now become a fashion statement.\"\n\nDave Richards says it is vital to seek help before buying a classic car\n\nSecondly, they are being snapped up to be exported back to Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.\n\nMr Hughes explains: \"There's a small but avid market for Ladas in Eastern Europe, specifically for nice right-hand drive models made for export to Britain.\n\n\"Hungarians go berserk for them [in particular] because they think it's utterly amazing they were built for sale to the 'capitalist West' as it were.\"\n\nIn addition to his five Ladas, Mr Hughes' collection of \"Eastern European motoring delicacies\" includes three Wartburgs and a Trabant from former East Germany; a Moskvich from Russia; and a Zaporozhets and a Tavria from Ukraine. He also has \"a half-share\" in a Izh Oda, also from Russia.\n\nMr Hughes says he wouldn't swap his collection for a Ferrari, because he argues that anyone with a \"big enough chequebook\" can pick up an old example of the Italian sports car, while it \"requires a bit more skill, care, and so on, to own a fleet of motoring's less-loved specimens\".\n\nMotoring journalist Dave Richards says that the big increase in the number of formerly \"prosaic\" or ordinary cars now considered to be classics certainly isn't limited to former Soviet vehicles.\n\nInstead, he says that cars such as old Ford Cortinas and Capris, the original Mini, and even the Austin Maxi, are in big demand. Plus the Citroen 2CV and the original VW Beetle.\n\n\"Many of these cars are practically extinct now, you hardly ever see them on the road, but there is a real demand for those that are still out there... this limited supply means that prices are being driven ever upwards,\" says Mr Richards, who is also co-owner of car restoration business Project Shop, based near the Oxfordshire town of Bicester.\n\nThe company makes a good living restoring classic cars to their former glory.\n\nAt the UK branch of US car giant Ford, it celebrates its old cars in a quiet corner of its factory in Dagenham, east London.\n\nIts Ford Heritage Collection is an Aladdin's Cave of more than 100 Ford cars from the past 80-plus years.\n\nThe jewel in the crown is a Ford Escort 1850GT, which won the first London-to-Mexico rally in 1970.\n\nIvan Bartholomeusz, who helps to look after the collection, estimates that this car is worth at least £500,000.\n\nYet the museum of cars is also home to Ford Fiestas from the 1990s.\n\nFord Capris are now much in demand\n\nMr Bartholomeusz says that the best Ford Cortinas made in the first half of the 1970s can now sell for £18,000, but back in the 1980s were worth as little as £100.\n\nHowever, Mr Richards cautions that there is still some risk to buying a classic car, be it a Lada, Ford or Ferrari.\n\n\"Don't trust your own judgement,\" he says. \"Instead, elicit the help of a car club who might know the vehicle in question, or take someone from that club with you to look at that car.\n\n\"This is better than saddling yourself with a car that could cost you a packet.\"\n\nOf course, owning a classic car isn't just about money; some people do it for the sheer fun.\n\nBronwyn Burrell was 25 when she took part in the same 1970 London-to-Mexico rally as the feted Escort, co-piloting an Austin Maxi.\n\nBronwyn Burrell, pictured here in 1964, took up motorsport in the 1960s\n\nAfter a 47-year hiatus she's now taking the very same Maxi racing again, and is due to take part in the London-to-Lisbon classic car rally later this month.\n\nMs Burrell says: \"It's such good fun, a really exhilarating drive. It's just like I'm 25 again, reliving my youth.\n\n\"I wouldn't sell the Maxi unless I had to. As far as I'm concerned she's priceless.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham produced a sensational late turnaround to beat a stubborn Swansea side and keep intact their aspirations of winning a first Premier League title.\n\nDespite dominating possession, Spurs fell behind to a neat close-range finish from their former winger Wayne Routledge.\n\nThe visitors were camped in their opponents' half for long periods but were frustrated by a combination of their own lack of a cutting edge and Swansea's diligent defending, before Dele Alli eventually broke through to convert Christian Eriksen's cross after 88 minutes.\n\nSon Heung-min fired Tottenham ahead in added time, and then Eriksen completed the remarkable comeback with a curling effort.\n\nWhile second-placed Spurs continue to breathe down the necks of leaders Chelsea, a third defeat in four games sees Swansea drop into the relegation zone.\n\nHaving cut Chelsea's lead at the top of the table to seven points with Saturday's win at Burnley, Spurs were aiming to further reduce that deficit with a fifth successive Premier League victory.\n\nYet for all that Mauricio Pochettino's side had impressed this season, that triumph at Turf Moor was only their fifth away league win - and their vulnerability on the road was evident at the Liberty Stadium.\n\nAlthough they enjoyed near total control of possession and territory during a one-sided first half, Tottenham fell behind after Swansea's first attack of the game.\n\nJordan Ayew muscled his way into the visitors' penalty area and pulled the ball back to Routledge, one of four former Spurs in the hosts' line-up, and the winger squeezed his finish past ex-Swans keeper Michel Vorm.\n\nTottenham continued to boss proceedings but lacked a cutting edge in attacking positions, missing injured top scorer Harry Kane and frustrated by their dogged opponents.\n\nBut as they had demonstrated in their previous seven games without Kane - four wins and three draws - Spurs can cope in the striker's absence.\n\nThey left it late, with Alli tapping into an empty net from Eriksen's wicked low cross, before Son finished from close range to send the visiting Spurs fans into raptures.\n\nEriksen then added a third in added time to complete a stunning fightback and leave their opponents crestfallen.\n\nA return of just one point from their previous three games had seen Swansea sink deeper into relegation trouble, one point and one place above the bottom three.\n\nHead coach Paul Clement spoke of a nervousness inside the Liberty Stadium during Sunday's goalless draw with Middlesbrough, though any creeping sense of anxiety for the home fans was eased with Routledge's early goal.\n\nThey made their ground a cauldron of noise, roaring their approval with every tackle, block or pass from a Swansea player.\n\nThe hosts dared to attack on occasion, with Kyle Naughton close to becoming the second ex-Spurs player to score against his former employers as his deflected shot fizzed wide.\n\nBut it was Swansea's defensive effort which provided the foundation for their admirable display, and looked set to earn them a first league win over Spurs since 1982.\n\nHowever, their resistance was eventually broken and, with relegation rivals Hull beating Middlesbrough, the Swans' descent back into the bottom three leaves their hopes of survival in doubt.\n\nSwansea have never beaten Spurs in the Premier League - the stats you need to know\n• None Tottenham Hotspur (29) have won more points in 2017 than any other Premier League team (W9 D2 L1).\n• None Spurs have won 17 points from losing positions in the Premier League this season; more than any other side in the competition.\n• None In fact, under Mauricio Pochettino Tottenham have won 53 points from losing positions - 13 more than any other Premier League side in that time.\n• None Swansea have never beaten Tottenham in 12 matches in the Premier League, drawing two and losing 10.\n• None No Premier League team has scored more 90th minute winning goals this season than Tottenham (3 - level with Arsenal).\n• None Dele Alli has been involved in 13 goals in 12 Premier League games for Tottenham in 2017 so far (9 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Alli has yet to lose a Premier League game in which he has scored, winning 16 and drawing five. Christian Eriksen has been directly involved in 10 goals in his seven Premier League games against Swansea (6 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Wayne Routledge made his 182nd Premier League appearance for Swansea City; more than any other player in the competition.\n• None Routledge scored his first Premier League goal at the Liberty Stadium since Dec 2014, ending a run of 33 apps there without one.\n\n'This season we are fighting again' - What they said\n\nSwansea manager Paul Clement: We are clearly very disappointed to get to 88 minutes leading 1-0 - we had a good chance at 1-0 as well.\n\n\"We continued to defend well and limit them. The fact we conceded on 88 and then couldn't even draw is heartbreaking.\n\n\"You still have to do all the things we had done. We were fatigued at the end but the lads gave everything and I am proud of them. We can't feel sorry for ourselves. We have two massive games now at West Ham and Watford.\"\n\nTottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: \"We started the game very well and created some chances in the first few minutes. In that moment I think we feel the game is going to be easy. The perception from the touchline was that the players started to play at a low tempo. When we concede the goal we realise we need to push and increase our level.\n\n\"How the goals arrived at the end was crazy but we pushed, we played better and we created chances to win. It is a good example of the team never giving up and trying to the end. Big credit to the players, they showed big character.\n\n\"The most important thing is the badge. When you play for Tottenham it is not about the names it is about the team and the spirit. You would like to have all your players available but this season we are showing we are a team.\"\n\nSwansea face two big Premier League away games, at West Ham this Saturday, followed a week later by a trip to Watford.\n\nTottenham are at home against the Hornets this Saturday and then host Bournemouth on the 15th.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Vincent Janssen tries a through ball, but Dele Alli is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Alfie Mawson (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Goal! Swansea City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Swansea City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Vincent Janssen.\n• None Attempt saved. Vincent Janssen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Goal! Swansea City 1, Tottenham Hotspur 1. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mousa Dembélé.\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Son Heung-Min. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Zachodnia bus station in Warsaw is big, bustling and busy.\n\nPeople laden with 57 varieties of luggage - from smart suitcases to supermarket bags tied together with string - queue in the spring sunshine, passports open, tickets in their hands.\n\nCoaches come and go all the time. To St Petersburg, Bosnia, Minsk and Vienna. And this one - after a gruelling 29-hour journey with many stops - to London.\n\nAs the driver Lukasz hauls bags into the coach's underbelly, he tells me there used to be 20 people a day going to London, but now there's not a single one going the whole way.\n\n\"It's a very strong situation in London for Polish people, difficult,\" he says.\n\nWhy? It is because of Brexit.\n\nThere is a widespread perception Britain is no longer a friendly place.\n\nI am told Polish TV and radio has been full of a story about a Polish teenager being attacked. It may not be true, but there have been many such stories here, apparently unreported in Britain.\n\nIt is at least arguable that one of the main reasons we are leaving the EU is because many people thought there were too many Poles and Eastern Europeans in the UK.\n\nTheir fate will be the very first thing to be discussed in the Brexit talks.\n\nTheresa May has said she \"wants and expects\" to be able to protect the rights of Polish citizens in the UK\n\nKasia, who lives in the UK, tells me: \"Nobody knows what will happen, that's the scariest thing. What will we need to stay? No answers.\"\n\nThe Polish government will be a big player when it comes to the negotiations over the UK's divorce from the EU.\n\nEuropean Council president Donald Tusk, incidentally a former Polish prime minister whose reappointment the Polish government tried to block, stresses the need for unity.\n\nBut individual nations will have individual bees in their respective bonnets.\n\nThe Polish government will place a high priority on the rights of its citizens who live in the UK and those who want to come in the future.\n\nStudents at Warsaw University tell me Britain is still a prime destination. Natalia wants to study in Scotland and helps run an advice service for students.\n\n\"We've got thousands of questions,\" she says. \"'What about Brexit?', 'Will we still be able to get a student loan?', 'Will I be able to finish my studies?' And to be honest we can't really answer them.\n\n\"My friend is currently studying in the UK and she got an email saying 'We are not sure if you will be able to finish your studies here, but don't worry, we hope it will work out'.\"\n\nPoland's fiercely nationalistic ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) is very hostile to the powers that be in Brussels and sees the UK as something of an ally, one it will miss.\n\nPrime Minister Beata Szydlo accused President Hollande of trying to blackmail Poland, which is the biggest net recipient of EU funds\n\nOne of the party's MPs, Marcin Horala, tells me his government should demand as little change as possible.\n\n\"It would be best to keep all the achievements of the EU as it is: free travel, free work. That you can change your place of living freely within Europe is profitable for all sides, including Britain.\n\n\"I would try to convince the British government to have two immigration policies,\" he says. \"One for members of the EU, one for others.\"\n\nAs it happens, at the time I visit Poland, Catherine Barnard, professor of European law at Cambridge, is lecturing at the College of Europe just outside Warsaw. She tells me this would all be very complicated.\n\n\"For those who are currently [in the UK], there is a real problem. We have no records of who is in the country,\" she explains.\n\n\"For people who have been working for agencies, working in the fields, collecting daffodils in the East of England, [it's] much harder to work out how long they've been here. They may not have any paperwork. It will be quite difficult to prove their right to be in the UK.\"\n\nShe adds: \"There will be some sort of work permit scheme in the future. Will it be light touch, or a full visa scheme, as applied now to non-EU nationals? That's extremely burdensome to employers and a lot of small businesses [who have] never been through that process will be in for a quite significant shock.\"\n\nPawel Kaczmarczyk, director of the Centre for Migration Research in Warsaw, argues the British government knows the UK needs Polish immigrants, and so - despite claims to be \"taking back control\" - there won't be any real difference.\n\n\"All of us know that migration is a lot about perception, not reality. But when we consider this case, it has been a hugely beneficial process, and still politicians and the media are able to present it as a negative story. That is one of the main reasons for Brexit.\n\n\"It's quite a paradox: in the end we will see Polish migrants staying in the UK and the UK out of the EU.\"\n\nPoland will play a critical role in these coming talks and, despite a great feeling of friendship towards the UK, few think Mrs May will get her way.\n\nMark Mardell presents The World This Weekend, on BBC Radio 4 on Sundays at 1300 BST. Or you can listen again via the BBC Radio 4 website.", "World number one Dustin Johnson is out of the Masters at Augusta National after suffering a back injury in a fall at his rental home on Wednesday.\n\nThe American, 32, looked set to take part after warming up on the range but he then withdrew on the first tee.\n\nThe US Open champion fell on the stairs and hurt his lower back on Wednesday.\n\n\"I'm playing the best golf of my life and to have a freak accident happen yesterday afternoon, it sucks really bad,\" said Johnson.\n• None Townsend: Johnson could have done 'long-term damage to his swing'\n\n\"I have been worked on all morning and obviously I can take some swings, but I can't swing full, I can't make my normal swing and I didn't think there was any chance I could compete.\"\n\nThe 15-time PGA Tour winner added: \"I was wearing socks and slipped and went down the three stairs. The left side of my lower back took the brunt of it and my left elbow is bruised as well.\"\n\nJohnson's caddie was placing the ball on his tee for him on the range, while coach Butch Harmon said pain hindered Johnson's rest overnight.\n\nShortly before his withdrawal, he progressed from hitting wedge shots on the range to fuller swings and his involvement looked likely as he made his way to the first tee for a scheduled 19:03 BST start alongside playing partners Bubba Watson and Jimmy Walker.\n\nJohnson was a popular pick to win the first major of the year as a result of the fine form he has shown in 2017. He has won the past three tournaments in which he has competed - February's Genesis Open, and both the WGC Mexico Championship and WGC Dell Match Play in March.\n\nAs well as winning last year's US Open by four shots, he finished ninth at the Open Championship and tied fourth at the Masters.\n\nJohnson took until the very last second to make what must have been an agonising decision to pull out. He was standing on the first tee before making the toughest call of his career. It is a severe blow for the player who has dominated golf this season.\n\nHe arrived here off the back of three big victories and was a justifiable favourite. All that has been lost through his freak fall at his rental home and the damage done to his back.", "A number of online services are charging \"divorced\" Muslim women thousands of pounds to take part in \"halala\" Islamic marriages, a BBC investigation has found. Women pay to marry, have sex with and then divorce a stranger, so they can get back with their first husbands.\n\nFarah - not her real name - met her husband after being introduced to him by a family friend when she was in her 20s. They had children together soon afterwards but then, Farah says, the abuse began.\n\n\"The first time he was abusive was over money,\" she tells the BBC's Asian Network and Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"He dragged me by my hair through two rooms and tried to throw me out of the house. There would be times where he would just go crazy.\"\n\nDespite the abuse, Farah hoped things would change. Her husband's behaviour though became increasingly erratic - leading to him \"divorcing\" her via text message.\n\n\"I was at home with the children and he was at work. During a heated discussion he sent me a text saying, 'talaq, talaq, talaq'.\"\n\n\"Triple talaq\" - where a man says \"talaq\", or divorce, to his wife three times in a row - is a practice which some Muslims believe ends an Islamic marriage instantly.\n\nIt is banned in most Muslim countries but still happens, though it is impossible to know exactly how many women are \"divorced\" like this in the UK.\n\n\"I had my phone on me,\" Farah explains, \"and I just passed it over to my dad. He was like, 'Your marriage is over, you can't go back to him.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farah would have had to consummate her halala marriage\n\nFarah says she was \"absolutely distraught\", but willing to return to her ex-husband because he was \"the love of my life\".\n\nShe says her ex-husband also regretted divorcing her.\n\nThis led Farah to seek the controversial practice known as halala, which is accepted by a small minority of Muslims who subscribe to the concept of a triple talaq.\n\nThey believe halala is the only way a couple who have been divorced, and wish to reconcile, can remarry.\n\nHalala involves the woman marrying someone else, consummating the marriage and then getting a divorce - after which she is able to remarry her first husband.\n\nBut in some cases, women who seek halala services are at risk of being financially exploited, blackmailed and even sexually abused.\n\nIt's a practice the vast majority of Muslims are strongly against and is attributed to individuals misunderstanding the Islamic laws around divorce.\n\nBut an investigation by the BBC has found a number of online accounts offering halala services, several of which are charging women thousands of pounds to take part in temporary marriages.\n\nOne man, advertising halala services on Facebook, told an undercover BBC reporter posing as a divorced Muslim woman that she would need to pay £2,500 and have sex with him in order for the marriage to be \"complete\" - at which point he would divorce her.\n\nThe man also said he had several other men working with him, one who he claims initially refused to issue a woman a divorce after a halala service was complete.\n\nThere is nothing to suggest the man is doing anything illegal. The BBC contacted him after the meeting - he rejects any allegations against him, claiming he has never carried out or been involved in a halala marriage and that the Facebook account he created was for fun, as part of a social experiment.\n\nIn her desperation to be reunited with her husband, Farah began trying to find men who were willing to carry out a halala marriage.\n\n\"I knew of girls who had gone behind families' backs and had it done and been used for months,\" she says.\n\n\"They went to the mosque, there was apparently a designated room where they did this stuff and the imam or whoever offers these services, slept with her and then allowed other men to sleep with her too.\"\n\nBut the Islamic Sharia Council in East London, which regularly advises women on issues around divorce, strongly condemns halala marriages.\n\n\"This is a sham marriage, it is about making money and abusing vulnerable people,\" says Khola Hasan from the organisation.\n\n\"It's haram, it's forbidden. There's no stronger word I can use. There are other options, like getting help or counselling. We would not allow anyone to go through with that. You do not need halala, no matter what,\" she adds.\n\nFarah ultimately decided against getting back with her husband - and the risks of going through a halala marriage. But she warns there are other women out there, like her, who are desperate for a solution.\n\n\"Unless you're in that situation where you're divorced and feeling the pain I felt, no-one's going to understand the desperation some women feel.\n\n\"If you ask me now, in a sane state, I would never do it. I'm not going to sleep with someone to get back with a man. But at that precise time I was desperate to get back with my ex-partner at any means or measure.\"", "Michel Barnier (R), European Chief Negotiator for Brexit and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission will pay a key role in negotiations\n\nThe European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution that lays out its views on the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe parliament will have no formal role in shaping the Brexit talks. The negotiations will be led by the European Commission on behalf of the EU's remaining 27 member states. Their draft negotiating guidelines were issued last week.\n\nBut the parliament's views still matter because under the Article 50 rules it will get a vote on the final EU-UK \"divorce\" deal and if it does not like what has been agreed it could demand changes and delay the process.\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris teases out some of the key sentences from the resolution and explains their significance.\n\n- A revocation of notification needs to be subject to conditions set by all EU-27, so that it cannot be used as a procedural device or abused in an attempt to improve on the current terms of the United Kingdom's membership;\n\nThis is interesting. It implies that the European Parliament thinks the UK can change its mind about Article 50 (whereas the UK government has implied the opposite). The truth is that irrevocability is the subject of legal dispute and, as this is a matter of interpreting a European treaty, the ultimate arbiter would be the European Court of Justice. Either way, the parliament makes clear here that it would not allow the UK to plead for a better deal if it tried to return - even the package of measures offered to David Cameron in February 2016 (remember this?) is now null and void.\n\n- Reiterates the importance of the withdrawal agreement and any possible transitional arrangement(s) entering into force well before the elections to the European Parliament of May 2019;\n\nIn theory the two-year Article 50 negotiating period could be extended if all parties agreed, but no-one really wants that to happen. And this is one of the reasons why the timetable is so tight. If the UK was still part of the European Union in May 2019, it might have to hold elections to elect British MEPs, despite being on the verge of leaving. It would raise all sorts of complications that the European Parliament is determined to avoid.\n\n- Stresses that the United Kingdom must honour all its legal, financial and budgetary obligations, including commitments under the current multiannual financial framework, falling due up to and after the date of its withdrawal;\n\nAnother reminder of the looming fight about settling the accounts (also known as the divorce bill). Parliament insists that the UK must honour all its commitments under the current multiannual financial framework - a kind of long-term budget - which runs until 2020. Because of the way the EU budget process works, that would mean the UK would have to help pay for things like infrastructure projects in poorer EU countries several years after it had left the Union.\n\n- States that, whatever the outcome of the negotiations on the future European Union-United Kingdom relationship, they cannot involve any trade-off between internal and external security including defence co-operation, on the one hand and the future economic relationship, on the other hand;\n\nI think this is probably cleared up by now, but the implied link between security co-operation and trade in Theresa May's Article 50 letter raised a few eyebrows elsewhere in the EU. Cooler heads suggested it was there for domestic consumption and the UK government said it was all a misunderstanding. But the parliament is putting down an explicit marker that trade-offs between security and the future economic relationship won't be acceptable.\n\n- Stresses that any future agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom is conditional on the UK's continued adherence to the standards provided by international obligations, including human rights and the Union's legislation and policies, in, among others, the field of the environment, climate change, the fight against tax evasion and avoidance, fair competition, trade and social rights, especially safeguards against social dumping;\n\nThe resolution suggests that the future relationship could be built upon an agreement under which the UK would have to accept EU standards over a wide range of policy areas from climate change to tax evasion. In some areas that might be exactly what the UK government wants to do anyway, given that the UK has played a leading role in forging those policy positions in the first place. But domestic politics in the UK means any wholesale acceptance of EU policies could be a tough sell.\n\n- Believes that transitional arrangements ensuring legal certainty and continuity can only be agreed between the European Union and the United Kingdom if they contain the right balance of rights and obligations for both parties and preserve the integrity of the European Union's legal order, with the Court of Justice of the European Union responsible for settling any legal challenges; believes, moreover, that any such arrangements must also be strictly limited both in time - not exceeding three years - and in scope, as they can never be a substitute for European Union membership;\n\nTwo important points here. Firstly, the parliament is determined that the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice would continue to run during any transition period. The draft guidelines produced by the European Council last week made the same point but in less explicit language. If it wants a transition, the UK will have to accept a role for the ECJ. Secondly, the parliament says the transition should last no longer than three years, which is a shorter period than some might think necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLeicestershire have been deducted 16 County Championship points for repeated disciplinary offences.\n\nBowler Charlie Shreck was found guilty of \"using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting and/or making an obscene gesture\" in a pre-season match against Loughborough MCCU in March.\n\nThe county's fifth offence in 12 months triggered the automatic punishment.\n\nCaptain Mark Cosgrove, in charge for each of the indiscretions, has been banned for one Championship match.\n\nThe punishment means that Leicestershire, who finished seventh in Division Two in 2016, will begin the season on minus 16 points.\n\nTheir campaign begins on Friday at home to Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe club have also been fined £5,000 and given a further eight-point penalty suspended for 12 months.\n\nFast bowler Shreck, 39, has been given a two-match suspension by the county.\n\nCosgrove pleaded guilty to the charges and is set to serve his suspension in a fortnight's time, in the Championship match against Glamorgan which starts on 21 April.\n\n\"We've got to get better and be more disciplined - 16 points is a big deal to us. It's a game,\" Cosgrove told BBC Radio Leicester.\n\n\"Hopefully we can get some positive points on the board. This hurts the boys. We need to learn and get better.\n\n\"Charlie is very disappointed and very apologetic. He overstepped the mark. He knows he did the wrong thing.\n\n\"We've just got to take it and move on and get busy into the season.\"\n\nIn August 2015, Leicestershire were deducted 16 points and given a suspended fine for similar breaches.\n\nIn a statement from the cricket discipline commission on Friday, it was \"noted that actions taken by the club since the previous disciplinary panel hearing have not been effective\".\n\nDurham begin their Division Two campaign on minus 48 points, the England and Wales Cricket Board having imposed the penalty because of the county's financial problems.\n\nMeanwhile, Leicestershire opener Harry Dearden has signed a one-year contract extension, Aadil Ali has agreed a new deal until 2019 and academy batsman Sam Evans has signed a three-year deal - his first professional contract.\n\nCoverage: Ball-by-ball BBC local radio commentary of every match in Division One and Division Two, plus live text coverage of every round of fixtures on the BBC Sport website.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nAugusta National. The Green Jacket. Amen Corner. The manicured fairways. The blooming azaleas. Unmistakably, the Masters.\n\nGolf's first major of the year is upon us, with the world's finest players making their annual pilgrimage to one of sport's most iconic venues.\n\nThe first tee shot will be hit at 13:00 BST on Thursday with a field of 94 men aiming to sink the winning putt come Sunday.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson and Northern Ireland's four-time major winner Rory McIlroy head the field in the year's first major.\n• None Quiz: Match the Masters winner with his champions dinner.\n\nWhat else do you need to know? Plenty. Here's the lowdown...\n\nWho are the main contenders?\n\nPlenty of people backed Dustin Johnson to win his first Green Jacket - but that was before the current world number one suffered a back injury the day before the tournament started, after a fall at his rented home.\n\nJohnson tried to take part in the tournament, but walked off the first tee on Thursday without playing his shot and withdrew.\n\nThe American, 32, had been head and shoulders above his rivals over the past nine months, winnnig seven of the 17 tournaments he has played since claiming his first major at the US Open at Oakmont in June, racking up another seven top-10 finishes in the process.\n\nIn Johnson's absence, Jordan Spieth will look to banish memories of last year's spectacular final-day collapse by winning his second Masters.\n\nThe American, 23, led by five shots as he approached the 10th at Augusta on the Sunday, only to dramatically drop six shots in three holes and allow England's Danny Willett to take advantage.\n\n\"No matter what happens at this year's Masters, whether I can grab the jacket back or I miss the cut or I finish 30th, it will be nice having this Masters go by,\" he said earlier this month.\n\n\"The Masters lives on for a year. It brings a non-golf audience into golf. And it will be nice once this year has finished to be brutally honest.\"\n\nSpieth has dropped to sixth in the world rankings since his Masters meltdown, but did claim his first PGA Tour title since May when he won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last month.\n\nWorld number three Jason Day will play at Augusta after pulling out of a recent tournament to spend time with his mother, who has been treated for lung cancer.\n\nThe Australian, 29, broke down in tears after withdrawing from the WGC Match Play a fortnight ago.\n\n\"There's been a lot of things go on this year that have been somewhat distracting to my golf,\" he said.\n\n\"Golf was the last thing that I was ever thinking about when this first came about. I'm in a much better place now.\n\n\"I feel happier to be on the golf course and enjoying myself out here a lot more than I was the last month or two.\"\n\nJapan's Hideki Matsuyama is bidding to become the first Asian player to win the Masters, having risen to fourth in the world after a stellar finish to the 2016 season.\n\nThe 25-year-old ended last year with four victories in five tournaments - finishing second in the other - but has not been able to recapture the form in recent weeks.\n\n\"I'm really not hitting it as well as I would like, so whether or not my confidence level is where it should be, I'm not sure,\" said Matsuyama, who finished fifth in the 2015 Masters and shared seventh place last year.\n\nThat is the question we have been asking since McIlroy won the 2014 Open Championship at Hoylake.\n\nThe Northern Irishman steps on to Augusta's first tee on Thursday (18:41 BST) aiming to become only the sixth man to win all four majors.\n\nHe is seeking a first Masters title following victories at the US Open, the Open Championship and the US PGA Championship.\n\nWinning the Green Jacket would propel the 27-year-old into exalted company alongside Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player and Ben Hogan.\n\nAnd, after three consecutive top-10 finishes at Augusta, the world number two has made no secret that finally sealing victory is his main priority.\n\n\"I don't feel like I can fly under the radar anymore, but at the same time it has been nice to just go about my business and try to get ready for this tournament,\" McIlroy said.\n\n\"I've realised that the more I can get comfortable with this golf course and the club as a whole, the better.\n\n\"The more I can just play the golf course and almost make it seem like second nature to me, the better.\"\n\nWhen the fourth home nations golfer followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle, Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam to win the Masters, most expected it would be Rory McIlroy slipping into the iconic wool jacket.\n\nInstead it was Danny Willett.\n\nThe Englishman, playing in only his second Masters, was three shots adrift of Spieth going into Sunday's final round last year, but was catapulted to victory thanks to a superb five-under-par 67 and the Texan's meltdown.\n\nWhat made his triumph even more remarkable was his participation at Augusta had been in doubt.\n\nHis wife Nicole was due to give birth on the final day, with only the early arrival of baby Zachariah allowing him to play.\n\n\"It's going to be awesome to go back as defending champion,\" he said in BBC documentary When Danny Won the Masters.\n\n\"I can't wait to take part in all the things you get to take part in, the par three competition, the champion's dinner and see all the other people who've won that golf tournament who are still there to be able to enjoy it with you.\n\n\"It is something that you can't buy in life. You can only earn and the fact that I've earned is going to be something pretty special.\"\n\nHowever, Willett has since struggled to match his form over those four days at Augusta.\n\nHe rose to a career-high ranking of ninth in the world following his maiden major, but has dropped to 17th after managing just four top-10 finishes in the past 12 months.\n\n\"The game is not far away,\" said the 29-year-old Yorkshireman.\n\n\"Our run of form obviously has been nowhere near what it was last year and nowhere near what some of the other guys are playing.\"\n\nWillett is one of a record 11 English players in the 94-strong field at Augusta, while Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are also represented.\n\nMcIlroy is the only Northern Irishman taking part, while Scotland's Sandy Lyle and Wales' Ian Woosnam make their annual return as former champions.\n\nEngland's Justin Rose has been a regular top-10 finisher in golf's four majors over the past decade, but only has one victory at the 2013 US Open to show for his efforts.\n\nHe finished tied 10th at Augusta last year, his fourth top-10 finish at the Masters.\n\nTommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton and English amateur champion Scott Gregory are making their Masters debuts this week - no player has won the Masters on their debut since American Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979.\n\nFleetwood, 26, was ranked 188th in the world in September 2016, but has climbed to career-high 32nd after returning to former coach Alan Thompson and employing friend Ian Finnis as his caddie.\n\n\"One of the greatest accomplishments I've had in my career was actually qualifying for the Masters,\" said Fleetwood.\n\nGregory, a 22-year-old from Hampshire, secured his place by winning the British Amateur Championship last summer.\n\nHis preparations have included watching hours of footage from the past four tournaments at Augusta.\n\n\"I've watched a lot of clips on YouTube,\" he told BBC South Today.\n\nWillett's surprise success ended a long European drought at Augusta, becoming the continent's first winner since Jose Maria Olazabal's success 17 years previously.\n\nThis year, American players will be hoping to regain their recent dominance.\n\nTen of the previous 16 winners have been home players, with Johnson and Spieth leading the charge alongside fellow top-15 players Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed.\n\nAnd rule out left handers Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson at your peril.\n\nBetween them the veteran pair have five Green Jackets hung up in their wardrobes - three for Mickleson and two for Watson - and are still loitering around the world's top 20.\n\n\"I always think I have a chance,\" said 38-year-old Watson, who has won just one PGA Tour title in nearly two years.\n\nStrong winds and cool temperatures have been forecast on Thursday and Friday, conditions which 46-year-old Mickelson believes will play into his hands.\n\n\"I hope to rely on that knowledge and skill to keep myself in it heading into the weekend where players less experienced with the golf course will possibly miss it in the wrong spots and shoot themselves out,\" said the world number 18.\n\nTwenty years ago at Augusta, Tiger Woods memorably blitzed his way to a first major, the first step towards his impending global superstardom.\n\nBut the 41-year-old will not be marking the special anniversary by walking the fairways after pulling out this week through injury.\n\nThe 14-time major winner, who has been plagued by injury problems in recent years, said he is not \"tournament ready\" to tee up at an event with which he is synonymous.\n\nThe American went on to wear the Green Jacket on another three occasions - 2001, 2002 and 2005 - but has not been able to play in two of the past three tournaments because of long-running back problems.\n\n\"I did about everything I could to play at this year's Masters,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm especially upset because it's a special anniversary for me that's filled with a lot of great memories.\n\n\"I have no timetable for my return, but I will continue my diligent effort to recover, and want to get back out there as soon as possible.\"\n\nWoods has only played twice this year, missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open in January and withdrawing from the following week's Dubai Desert Classic before the second round.\n\nThis year's tournament will be tinged with sadness - but also a cause for celebration - as Augusta pays its own tribute to the man who won four Masters titles and was fondly known as 'The King' in golfing circles.\n\nArnold Palmer, viewed as one of the greatest and most influential players in the sport's history, died at the age of 87 in September.\n\n\"His presence at Augusta National will be sorely missed, but his impact on the Masters remains immeasurable - and it will never wane,\" said Billy Payne, chairman of Augusta National, shortly after his death.\n\nWhere the Masters will be won or lost\n\nSeeing the sign pointing towards Amen Corner can strike fear into the minds of even the world's best golfers.\n\nAmen Corner, a term coined by legendary sports writer Herbert Warren Wind in 1958, geographically refers to the approach to the par-four 11th, all of the short 12th and the first half of the par-five 13th but many tend to think of it as all three holes in their entirety.\n\n\"If you can get through those in level par you're a happy man,\" says BBC golf commentator Ken Brown.\n\nIf Jordan Spieth had got through those holes in level par in the final round last year then he, and not Danny Willett, would have won the Green Jacket.\n\nThe Texan appeared to be cruising towards becoming only the fourth man to win back-to-back Masters, leading by five shots as he approached the 10th.\n\nBut he twice found the water on the iconic 12th to card a quadruple bogey seven - following successive bogeys on the 10th and 11th holes - to hand the advantage to Willett.\n\nSpieth was not the first Masters contender to see their dreams fade on the back nine on the final day, with Greg Norman in 1996 and Rory McIlroy in 2011 immediately springing to mind.\n\nOne suspects he won't be the last...\n\nAlthough the Masters began in 1934, the victorious golfer did not receive a Green Jacket until Sam Snead triumphed in 1949.\n\nHowever, Augusta members had worn the coloured coats since 1937, encouraged by co-founder Clifford Roberts, so patrons could easily identify \"a source of reliable information\".\n\nOnce Snead received his Green Jacket, the coat became a symbol of success - and is now one of the most iconic prizes in sport.\n\nWinners are allowed to take the jacket home for a year and are rather generously allowed to wear the single-breasted, lightweight jacket \"in public during that time on special occasions\".\n\nAfter that, past champions have a custom-tailored coat waiting for them on their return to the Augusta clubhouse.\n\n\"It felt like my old friend was back on my shoulders,\" said 2013 champion Adam Scott when he returned a year later.\n\nHow to follow on the BBC (all times BST)\n\nSaturday 8 April: The Masters Live, BBC Two, 19:30-00:00 and BBC Radio 5 live, 21:00-01:00\n\nSunday 9 April: The Masters Live, BBC Two, 18:30-00:00 and BBC Radio 5 live, 20:00-01:00\n\nLive text commentary with analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website from 12:45 on Thursday and Friday and from 16:00 on Saturday and Sunday.\n\nFull details of the BBC's extensive coverage from Augusta", "Marcus Brigstocke is furious about the decision to leave the EU\n\nComedy and current affairs have always had a close relationship - but Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency have posed new challenges for comics.\n\nPolitics has long been a part of Marcus Brigstocke's comedy routine.\n\nHe's used to people not always agreeing with what he says, but this year it's been different.\n\nThe subject was Brexit and the reaction in some places was unlike anything he'd experienced before.\n\nWe met in Llandudno at the Craft of Comedy Festival. It's been described as the party conference of comedy - an annual get together to discuss the life and business of people making a living from making other people laugh.\n\nI spoke to him at the end of a session on politics and comedy.\n\nHe explains that, as a result of his jokes, \"a lot of the people I think of as 'my audience' post-Brexit will not be back... they were that angry.\"\n\nBoris Johnson was one of the key figures of the Vote Leave campaign\n\nBrigstocke is furious about the decision to leave the EU. The topic touches him more deeply than almost any other but he has doubts about this political passion.\n\n\"Anger's not great for comedy, it's been good for me but you still have to have nuance. You have to find the line and I've struggled with that.\"\n\n\"People are more upset about this than anything else I have experienced.\"\n\nGareth Gwynn is one of Britain's most prolific topical gag writers. He's worked on Have I Got News For You, the Now Show and the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4.\n\nHe has a different concern about Brexit.\n\n\"Since June 2016 almost every time you walk in to that writers' room and it's tail it's Trump, heads it's Brexit,\" he says.\n\n\"It's so big we can't avoid it and the problem is trying to come up with new angles. It's both potentially trying for both the writers and the audience.\"\n\nBrexit and Donald Trump's presidency have posed new challenges for comics\n\nThe passions aroused by Brexit are, it appears, challenging for satire. Britain is deeply divided and that poses problems.\n\nJosh Buckingham is a commissioner for Channel 4. It is legally obliged to be politically impartial and while it can delight in taking pot shots at politicians it can't do it from just one perspective.\n\nHe feels some viewers who spend a lot of time watching online content may not be so open to this.\n\n\"Audiences expect you to have a view and when they encounter you being even handed they might say, 'pick a side', he explains.\n\nOf course many comics have picked a side. The divide? Marcus Brigstocke could only think of two or three comics who might admit to being pro-Brexit - Lee Hurst and Geoff Norcott are notable examples.\n\nIn a room of more than a hundred writers, producers and performers - we asked if any would come forward and admit to being pro-Brexit.\n\nOnly one person put their hand up. One or two others approached me quietly afterwards but didn't want to be interviewed.\n\nThe UK is scheduled to leave the EU on Friday, 29 March 2019\n\nThe one person that agreed to speak was James Cary, a writer of sitcoms. He's also an evangelical Christian and used to being in a minority in the comedy world. He's happy to be contrary.\n\n\"I think it's because Brexit is associated with conservatism and patriotism and nationalism and these are things comedians like to play against,\" he says.\n\n\"I think it's led to a really interesting discussion. I think you've got to be very careful about impugning anyone's motives... England and London are very different places\"\n\nHe adds: \"We have to be wary of describing one as a metropolitan elite and likewise seeing people in England backward, nationalistic and patriotic and racist.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA court in India has declared the Ganges river a legal \"person\" in a fresh effort to save it from pollution. Research associate Shyam Krishnakumar explains how the ruling could help preserve the waterway upon which so many depend.\n\nThe legal battle to save the Ganges, the lifeline of more than 500 million people across India, has received a fresh boost thanks to a series of rulings by the high court in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand.\n\nFirst the court declared the Ganges and Yamuna rivers to be legal persons. In a subsequent hearing, it also gave this designation to glaciers, including Gangotri and Yamunotri (where the Ganges and Yamuna originate from), rivers, streams, rivulets, lakes, air, meadows, dales, jungles, forests wetlands, grasslands, springs and waterfalls.\n\nThese verdicts represent a shift from a view that sees nature as a resource to one that considers it an entity with fundamental rights. Other non-human entities that have legal personalities in India include companies, temple deities and trusts.\n\nIn jurisprudence, nature is considered property with no legal rights. Environmental laws only focus on regulating exploitation. But this is now changing, with calls for the inherent rights of nature to be recognised, both in India and around the world.\n\nThe Ganges is seen as sacred by Hindus\n\nIn Ecuador, a new constitution mandates that nature has the right to exist, maintain and regenerate. New Zealand recently granted the Whanganui River personhood status, the culmination of a 140-year legal struggle by the Maori people.\n\nMaking nature a legal entity means that cases can be brought up directly on its behalf. This has the potential to become a game-changer in legally enforcing environmental protection.\n\nFor instance, it may no longer be necessary to prove in court that polluting the Ganges actually harms humans. Contamination on its own could be enough to make the case that it violates the river's \"right to life\".\n\nIn addition to this, in a related order, the court imposed a blanket ban on new mining licenses for four months and has set up a committee to explore the environmental impact of mining in India's mountainous regions. The Uttarakhand state government is planning to challenge the ban in the Supreme Court.\n\nBut it is not just mining. The court has also directed the state pollution control board to shut down hotels, industries and ashrams that discharge untreated waste into the river. This is expected to affect over 700 hotels in the tourist areas of Haridwar and Rishikesh alone.\n\nThese rulings indicate that the court will strictly monitor polluting of the Ganges. The response of the government, however, is yet to be seen.\n\nThe ruling could be a powerful tool in the fight to save the Ganges from pollution\n\nIt may no longer be required to prove in court that polluting the Ganges actually harms humans\n\nSome aspects of this ruling are still unclear, though. What does a right to life mean for a river or a water body? If it means the right to flow freely, what happens to dams across the Ganges?\n\nEnforceability is another issue. Will this ruling be restricted to only the state of Uttarakhand or will it be extended across India?\n\nThe legal guardians appointed are members of the government. Will they have the independence to appeal against governmental actions like unsustainable canal dredging? Can a citizen bring a case representing a water body?\n\nIf yes, this can become a powerful legal tool in the hands of communities and activists to safeguard the environment.\n\nWhile radically new from a legal perspective, the case has also been about recognising the traditional Hindu view that regards the universe as a manifestation of the divine.\n\nThis means that rivers, plants, animals and even the earth are considered sentient divinities with particular forms, qualities and characteristics.\n\nMillions of people across India depend on the Ganges for their livelihoods\n\nHindus come from across India to bathe in the waters of the Ganges\n\nPersonification as a deity cultivates empathy and creates a strong emotional bond with the ecosystem, leading to social norms emphasising conservation. This principle of sacredness and respect has been passed down through the generations through stories and local bio-cultural traditions.\n\nIn Hinduism, the Ganges is revered as a goddess who purifies a person of all sins. The river is worshipped as \"Ganga Mata\", the divine mother who has sustained life and nurtured civilisation for thousands of years.\n\nExpressions of her worship include the Ganga Aarti, where thousands offer lit lamps to the river every evening, and the Kumbh Mela, a pilgrimage of over 100 million people.\n\nCan this view that considers rivers, trees and animals sacred, personifies them as deities and reveres them through bio-cultural traditions hold possibilities for sustainability in India? Evidence seems to suggest so.\n\nThe most famous case is the \"Chipko\" movement of the 1970s where tribal women hugged trees to prevent the felling of their sacred groves.\n\nAnd recently, the north-eastern state of Sikkim became India's first fully organic state in just 10 years, as people saw organic farming as taking their traditional way forward.\n\nIn the case of the Ganges, the organisers of the Ganga Aarti use the occasion to raise awareness about actions that pollute the river and administer a pledge to keep it clean to thousands every day.\n\nWhen environmental conservation is seen to be in alignment with the cultural context, it drives community involvement. The High Court's judgement is a welcome step in that direction.\n\nShyam Krishnakumar is a Research Associate with Vision India Foundation and a member of Anaadi Foundation. His work focuses on civilisational studies.", "A multi-billionaire donates $100m to investigative journalism and hacks everywhere ask \"where do I apply?\".\n\nIs this what the future of media looks like?\n\nI hope not. As modern entrepreneurs go, Pierre Omidyar is among the most innovative and successful. With a net worth, according to Forbes, of just over $8bn (£6.3bn), the founder of eBay and First Look Media has used his Omidyar Network to plough huge sums into philanthropy. At the Skoll World Forum in Oxford this week, he said his latest pledge would be distributed over three years, with the aim of fighting the \"root causes of the global trust deficit\".\n\nEbay founder Pierre Omidyar donating to fight the \"root causes of the global trust deficit\"\n\nHe went on: \"A free and independent media is key to providing trusted information and critical checks and balances on those in positions of power\".\n\nThe first $4.5m (£3.6m) will go to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which produced the revelatory Panama Papers in 2016.\n\nThis is hugely admirable. I wish I had made $8bn, so that I could put one pound in every 80 of my fortune toward uncovering great scoops. And, together with a couple of other developments this week, it shows who is making the running in modern news: Very rich tech industrialists.\n\nOn Monday, Facebook announced the launch of the News Integrity Initiative, a $14m project to improve news literacy around the world. This afternoon, Adam Mosseri, Facebook's Vice-President for News Feed, also announced the launch of a new educational tool to help users spot fake news.\n\nAnd Full Fact, the British fact-checking organisation, is re-publishing its top tips for spotting fake news. These will appear in users' news feeds tomorrow and over the weekend.\n\nAll this follows a raft of measures in recent months to show that the social media giant - and specifically its founder, Mark Zuckerberg - take the spread of misinformation online very seriously.\n\nBut look more closely at that News Integrity Initiative: It's a collaboration with other international partners, including the Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, the Ford Foundation, John S and James L Knight Foundation, and Tow Foundation. That's a lot of charities right there.\n\nIn other words, the two biggest announcements in the world of media this week - involving the long-term funding of investigative journalism, and the attempt to protect citizens from the ill-effects of fake news - both stem from charity.\n\nFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: joining with other charities to improve news literacy around the world\n\nJournalism has always depended on charity. In fact, it has always relied on the whims, fancies and vanity of rich men (it has tended to be men) in particular, who are prepared to lose huge sums of money in return for political and commercial influence. Sometimes they are prepared to lose huge sums of money because they believe deeply in the intrinsic value of journalism, but this is rare.\n\nSo, in a sense, the likes of Omidyar and Zuckerberg putting up cash to create a more informed citizenry is nothing new: They're just a digital update of the press barons of the past.\n\nExcept for the context, that is. Today, the business model for sustaining high-quality journalism has been undermined by the internet, which has turned general news into a widely available commodity. Consequently, there is a real danger that journalism becomes ever more dependent on charity, especially from the very rich.\n\nBut charity is a poor basis for high-quality journalism, because it cannot be relied upon. The whim of donors might be fragile; and excessive dependence on the favour of individuals can leave you exposed. One virtue of The Guardian's current business model, in which it asks digital readers for donations, is that it will help create a broad base of supporters who can be tapped up regularly. (Whether these contributions can meaningfully contribute to eradicating losses currently in the tens of millions of pounds is a more open question).\n\nThe news that Omidyar is giving so generously to support journalism is, then, both welcome and a warning. Welcome, because $100m going into scrutiny of the rich and powerful is a great service to democracy. But a warning, because Omidyar knows that his $100m is especially welcome specifically because conventional sources of funding for investigative journalism - that is, paying readers, viewers and listeners - are thought to be in short supply.\n\nIn a February blog post, I argued that recent evidence suggests many readers are willing to pay for quality, as shown by the growing circulations of The Spectator, New Statesman, and Private Eye.\n\nFresh evidence arrived this week, in the shape of the Financial Times' annual results. Across digital and print, the pink'un has a circulation that's nudging 850,000. That's up eight per cent year on year. Digital subscriptions - that is, people paying for journalism online, across multiple platforms - accounts for 650,000 of the total: more than three quarters, and up 14 per cent year on year.\n\nThe FT has three big advantages over some of its rivals. First, it is both a specialist and general publication, because it has financial information that some companies prize. And, of course, one viable future for journalism is specialism: Just think of all those guest publications in the final round of Have I Got News For You.\n\nSecond, it has a clientele who are generally wealthier than those of, say, most tabloids. And third, a combination of these two factors mean many of their customers can get their companies to pay for those subscriptions.\n\nNevertheless, it has deployed these advantages effectively. You can't argue with the success of Chief Executive John Ridding's strategy of the \"march to a million\" - the aim to get to a million subscribers by 2020.\n\nJohn Ridding, chief executive officer of the Financial Times, is on a \"march to a million\"\n\nYears ago, I made - and comprehensively lost - an internal argument at The Independent that that paper (which I was not yet Editor of) should go radically upmarket, and become a kind of white FT that had the confidence to charge.\n\nMy thinking was that profit is the ultimate and best guarantee of independence; that if you're reliant on advertising alone, your ultimate fidelity is to advertisers rather than readers; and that being paid by your readers has the double advantage of reducing your exposure to the ad market and deepening your relationship with the audience.\n\nThere's not much I've seen in the past few years to persuade me that's wrong. We know that The Economist believes print display advertising will completely disappear in the next few years. Media organisations wholly or solely dependent on advertising will find they are susceptible to the vagaries of an ad market which is anyway being gobbled up by Facebook and Google; and their editorial values under pressure from the need to drive traffic.\n\nOf course, you might argue all this is easy for me to say, writing as I am in the offices of a licence-fee funded public broadcaster. That's another model for funding journalism, the long-term viability of which is a subject for another day.\n\nFor students with ambitions to enter journalism, this week provided two visions of what the future of this trade looks like: Dependence on charity, and dependence on committed customers, also known as viable business.\n\nFor all that Omidyar's largesse is to be applauded, the latter is a much safer bet.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard has signed a new contract at Old Trafford that could earn him £100,000 a week.\n\nThe 24-year-old England international is now committed to the Premier League club until 2021 and there is the option to extend the deal by a further year.\n\nLingard has made 70 appearances for United, who he joined as a seven-year-old, and won four caps for his country.\n\n\"Manchester United has always been a big part of my life,\" said Lingard.\n\n\"I feel great pride every time I pull the shirt on.\"\n\nLingard holds the rare distinction of scoring in three successive games for his club at Wembley.\n\nAfter netting the winner in last season's FA Cup final, Lingard also scored against Leicester in the Community Shield and Southampton as United won the EFL Cup in February.\n\n\"To have scored in two cup finals for my boyhood club were immensely proud moments for me and my family,\" he added.\n\n\"As a team, we have already won a major trophy this season and I look forward to helping us win many more under this great manager.\"\n\nUnited boss Jose Mourinho said: \"Jesse is a popular member of the squad and I am delighted he has signed a new contract.\n\n\"He has good intelligence which, when combined with his energy and ability, makes for a player with a great future ahead of him.\"\n\nLingard had spells on loan at Leicester, Birmingham and Brighton before he was given his first-team debut by Mourinho's predecessor Louis van Gaal against Swansea in the opening game of the 2014-15 season.\n\nThis season he has played 29 times, scoring five goals.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Build-up and live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live from 13:00, with text updates and pinstickers' guide on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nTop female jockey Katie Walsh has been passed fit to ride in Saturday's Grand National despite injuring her arm in a fall at Aintree on Thursday.\n\nThe 32-year-old fell at The Chair on Distime in the Foxhunters' Chase and was taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nEarly reports suggested she would miss the ride on 33-1 shot Wonderful Charm because of a broken arm.\n\nBut later on Thursday, Walsh posted on social media: \"All X-rays clear. Just a bit of bruising. Roll on Saturday.\"\n\n\"I am raring to go. It's great to be here,\" she told BBC Radio 5 live on Saturday morning.\n\n\"Wonderful Charm does his work late on in a race, which will suit him well here and I think the ground might suit him.\"\n\nWalsh finished third on Seabass in 2012, the highest Grand National finish by a female jockey.\n\nHer elder brother Ruby, who has won the Grand National twice, has missed four of the past seven runnings of the race because of injury.\n\nMeanwhile, Daryl Jacob, who suffered a fall in Friday's Topham Chase, is also clear to ride in the National and will partner Ucello Conti for Gordon Elliott.", "Chelsea's win over Manchester City and Tottenham's triumph at Swansea meant it was 'as you were' at the top of the Premier League - but the story behind the scorelines was one of pulsating drama.\n\nIt was a night of fluctuation at either end of the table, with fortunes swinging back and forth as the season enters the finishing straight.\n\nExhausted Conte reflects on job well done\n\nItalian Antonio Conte has an image as one of the Premier League's most animated managers, stalking the touchline constantly and even swinging from the dug-out in celebration when Gary Cahill scored a late Chelsea winner at Stoke recently.\n\nHe was in more subdued mood during and after the 2-1 win that gave them the league double over Pep Guardiola's side and maintained their seven-point advantage over Spurs in second - although he gave his familiar joyous response to all four sides of Stamford Bridge at the final whistle.\n\nConte admitted: \"My look is tired because I feel like I played it with my players tonight. I suffered with them. But we must be pleased because we beat a strong team - the best team in the league.\n\n\"I think they have a great coach - the best in the world. To win this type of game at the end of the season is great.\"\n\nIt restored Chelsea's equilibrium after the surprise home loss to Crystal Palace and brought calm back to a tense Stamford Bridge.\n\nBut while Conte was able to rest after this crucial win, events elsewhere mean he and his players cannot relax too much, despite that seven-point cushion with only eight games to go.\n\nWhen Spurs trailed late in the game at Swansea to Wayne Routledge's early goal, while Chelsea led Manchester City, the gap between the top two was a potential 10 points, and the old insults were being prepared for manager Mauricio Pochettino and his players.\n\n'Spursy' is a label that has often been attached to Tottenham's capacity to come up short, never more so than last season when they finished third in what had effectively been a two-horse race to the title with eventual champions Leicester. On the final day, they lost 5-1 at relegated Newcastle, insult added to injury as bitter rivals Arsenal beat Aston Villa to finish second.\n\nWere Spurs going to falter again, pushing the door ajar on Saturday by beating Burnley while Chelsea lost to Palace, only to slam it shut in their own face in south Wales?\n\nThey answered those charges with a brilliant finishing surge at the Liberty Stadium - turning a 1-0 deficit into a stunning triumph with goals from Dele Alli, Son Heung-min and Christian Eriksen.\n\nSpurs are no longer 'Spursy', irrespective of where they finish this season. This is a side and a squad laced with quality and depth, and made of stern stuff - this was another crucial win secured without injured top-scorer Harry Kane.\n\nTwo tough away assignments at Turf Moor and struggling Swansea have yielded six points and the statistics speak to both their ability and their durability.\n\nSpurs have won 29 points in 2017 - more than any other Premier League club. They have won nine, drawn two and lost one of their 12 league games.\n\nThey have also won 17 points from losing positions, more than any other side, and under Pochettino have won 53 points from losing positions - more than any other side in that time.\n\nSpurs remain outsiders to pip Chelsea but this is a team that will keep Conte and his Blues players just glancing over their shoulder and on their mettle. Pochettino has learned the lesson of last term, when his side ran out of steam. They are looking to last the distance.\n\nLiverpool's season has been summed up in the past five days. Impressive in beating in-form neighbours Everton 3-1 in the Merseyside derby on Saturday then slipping up against so-called lesser opposition as they conceded a late equaliser to draw 2-2 with Bournemouth at Anfield on Wednesday.\n\nKlopp's side have done the double over Arsenal and Everton, drawn twice with Manchester United, and won and drawn against Manchester City, Chelsea and Spurs. It is a hugely impressive record.\n\nSet this against their past six defeats, which all came against teams in the bottom half of the table at kick-off. Liverpool have lost to Burnley, Bournemouth, Swansea, Hull and Leicester this season - even doomed Sunderland held them to a 2-2 draw at the Stadium Of Light.\n\nThe loss of top scorer Sadio Mane to injury is also ominous. Liverpool have won only two points in four Premier League games without the Senegal striker this season.\n\nLiverpool remain third but they were victims of their own carelessness and the Spurs' revival at Swansea. If they had held out for another three minutes they would have been only three points behind them - while at one point it looked like results might even have had them level with the second-placed side.\n\nNow their position looks markedly more perilous. They are two points ahead of fourth-placed Manchester City, who have a game in hand, and six points ahead of Arsenal and Manchester United, who both have two games in hand.\n\nLiverpool have two away games coming up at Stoke and West Bromwich Albion - and Klopp has problems to address.\n\nMarco Silva's appointment was questioned when he succeeded Mike Phelan at Hull City in January. Those doubts seemed a long way away as the Portuguese guided them out of the Premier League's bottom three for the first time since October.\n\nThe 4-2 victory over Middlesbrough not only provided the Tigers with another vital three points after the win over West Ham at the weekend, it also inflicted a heavy blow on a relegation rival, leaving the Teessiders seven points behind Silva's side, albeit with a game in hand.\n\nSilva has shown a sure touch at home, with five wins and 16 points out of 18, but also a priceless ability to take misfits and give them back their belief.\n\nOumar Niasse was a laughing stock at Everton, a striker not even given a first-team locker by manager Ronald Koeman and exiled to the under-23s - where, it should be said, his attitude was widely praised - after a miserable time following his £13.5m move from Lokomotiv Moscow in February.\n\nHe did not score a goal for Everton and yet he was on the mark for Hull for the fifth time against Middlesbrough and is displaying glimpses of a quality that were never on show at Goodison Park.\n\nAnd on Wednesday, there was a goal for another on-loan forward, Lazar Markovic, who has been on his travels after struggling at Liverpool following a £20m move from Benfica in 2014.\n\nThe Serb had a loan deal with Sporting Lisbon cancelled this season before arriving at Hull and also had an unfulfilling spell at Fenerbahce last season, but Silva has shown faith.\n\nThe Portuguese also seems to have built a side with backbone, the Tigers coming from behind twice for the crucial wins against the Hammers and Boro.\n\nThe 39-year-old is under contract until the end of the season and his reputation is growing by the week. It will be an impressive addition to his CV if he can navigate a route to safety after taking over when his new charges were propping up the Premier League table.", "When National Hunt jockey Declan Murphy suffered a disastrous fall at Haydock Park in 1994, after winning all the major races that season, the Racing Post published his obituary. But as he explains here, a furious determination got him back in the saddle.\n\nI was probably four when I sat on my first pony. Where I was brought up, in a little village in County Limerick, we had access to ponies the same way as kids in other countries have access to bicycles.\n\nI learned to ride bareback and when you fell off nobody picked you up. You had to be courageous. I remember trying a saddle for the first time thinking, \"Why do people use these?\" It didn't seem natural.\n\nI'd been a leading amateur jockey, but I'd never really wanted to be a professional, the only thing I'd ever wanted to be was a lawyer. I used to read the Jenny Bannister American Diary - about the lives of Irish people who had emigrated to America - in the Irish Independent every Thursday morning before going to school, and I was convinced that that's where I would be as soon as I had graduated.\n\nIn fact I did go to study law at the University of California. I was going to become a criminal lawyer and I had this idea in my head that I was going to put everything right in America.\n\nBut then I was invited to England to ride for a famous horse trainer called Barney Curley. He was a gambler and had trained to be a Jesuit priest. The man intrigued me. If he had sold carrots I would probably have gone and sold carrots for him, I was that intrigued by him. It was Barney Curley that introduced me to professional racing.\n\nThe greatest sensation one can ever get on horseback is to achieve a perfect rhythm with your horse's stride pattern - you're actually at one with half a ton of horse flesh, galloping at 35, 40mph. You get a sense of adrenaline at that speed, calculating the pace exactly to get the horse to finish the race at his strongest. By the end you are completely drained emotionally but you have this feeling of elation - a feeling that carries you, it lifts you.\n\nOn that fateful day I was riding the favourite, Arcot, in the last big race of the season. It had been a fantastic year, I had ridden 60 winners.\n\nWhen Arcot jumped the second last hurdle I was in position to win the race, but suddenly things started to unfold.\n\nListen to Declan Murphy talking to Outlook on the BBC World Service at 12:06 on Thursday 6 April, or catch up afterwards on the BBC iPlayer\n\nAbout 200m before the final hurdle I sensed that my horse did not have the energy within him to sustain the stride pattern that he was on.\n\nI made a tactical assessment that I needed to shorten his stride to clear the last jump. I had calculated everything in my mind perfectly, but in a moment of madness the horse took off a stride too soon. His pelvis cracked with the hyperextension and he crashed on the hurdle.\n\nPropelled forward by the momentum of his stride pattern, my head collided with his head, knocking me unconscious before I hit the ground. Another horse, galloping up from behind, had no way to avoid me - the jockey did everything he could. They managed to avoid my stricken horse and tried to jump over me, but the horse landed on my head.\n\nDeclan Murphy falls from his horse at the Swinton Hurdle, Haydock Park, in 1994\n\nMy mother had never wanted me to ride horses, but my father loved it and was terribly proud of all my achievements. Both of them were at home watching on TV. Joanna, my girlfriend, was watching on TV too. She had seen me fall many times before and you knew everything was OK when the commentator, Sir Peter O'Sullevan, would say, \"And Declan Murphy is up on his feet now.\"\n\nBut the broadcast that day ended with Peter O'Sullevan saying, \"We have no news of Declan Murphy. We will bring it to you when we have it.\"\n\nI was put on a life support machine at Warrington Hospital then taken by ambulance with a police escort to the Walton Centre of Neurology in Liverpool. When Joanna arrived she had to wrestle her way through the paparazzi.\n\nThe surgeon who had operated on me told her that I had had a very major trauma to the brain and that there was a chance that I wouldn't survive the next three hours. If I did live for those three hours, I had a 50/50 chance of surviving for the six hours after that, he said. And if I did live after those six hours I would probably be very badly brain damaged.\n\nWhen they drew back the curtain she says the person she looked at on the bed wasn't me. My head was huge, distended, my eyes were black as soot.\n\nJoanna was told to talk to me to try to get some kind of reaction from me, but there was no reaction.\n\nThe doctors came and told her they were going to try to take me off the life support machine, they called it a \"sink or swim trial\".\n\nJoanna asked them, \"What happens if he sinks?\"\n\nThe first time that they took me off the life support machine she said it was horrific - everybody was shouting at me, trying to get a response out of me, and with a gasp I opened my mouth but I could not breathe, I couldn't get any air. Joanna thought I had died. She says she still has nightmares about it today.\n\nThey tried to revive me on three occasions and failed every time. After the third attempt the doctors said, \"We think it's time to switch off the life support machine.\"\n\nAt that point the hospital stopped issuing press bulletins about me and the newspapers took that as a sign that I'd died.\n\nMy eldest sister, Geraldine, decided it was a parent's prerogative if my life support was to be switched off, but at that moment, my father declared a morbid fear of flying and decided that he and my mother would have to come from Ireland by boat.\n\nSo the decision about whether to turn off my life support or not, which could have been made in three hours had they flown, was now not reached for 10 hours since they were coming by sea.\n\nI was 28 when I had my accident, but when I woke up from my coma I was mentally 12 years old.\n\nI was very unwell. I couldn't walk, I couldn't eat. I was paralysed, tubed-up on a hospital bed. I couldn't do anything.\n\nThe surgeons came and asked me questions like, \"Who is the taoiseach?\"\n\n\"Jack Lynch,\" I answered, because he had been when I was 12. The doctors scratched their heads and walked away thinking something wasn't quite right.\n\nThere were many moments that I thought, \"I'm not going to make it,\" but I had this way of fooling my mind by doing everything in little increments. If I could walk 10 yards with sticks or with someone holding me today, tomorrow I'd walk 12.\n\nDeclan, visiting a racecourse for the first time since his fall, meets Pony Peter at Cheltenham in November 1994\n\nBelief is self-fulfilling, the more you believe that you can do something, the more you give of yourself to achieve that.\n\nJoanna and I had been in love before the accident, we'd been together for five years. But when they cut open my brain to operate they'd torn out the pages of our love story, and when I woke from my coma I couldn't remember parts of my life - there is a period of four years, six months and four days that is still missing. And I couldn't remember that part of myself.\n\nIn my head I was 12 years old and Joanna was like a sister to me, not a lover. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to deal with in my life, to own up to that and walk away.\n\nFor quite a long time after my accident people always referred to me in the past tense. \"You were so great, you were so good at riding horses, you were so stylish, you were so eloquent.\"\n\nThat really, really disturbed me, because I wanted to be a \"now\".\n\nThere's a very thin line between sanity and insanity, and I walked along it, I ran along it, I danced along it. I tilted to the other side on many occasions. I was losing control of my own mind, and without something to focus on I think would have ended up being taken away by men in white coats.\n\nSo in my head I decided I wanted to ride again.\n\nWhen I first sat on a horse after my accident it was a surreal experience. I just sat on the horse - just to feel its body underneath me, to feel its breath, to feel its muscles, to feel everything about the horse.\n\nThe first time I ever had a gallop on a horse after my accident I got off that horse and I walked along next to him, with him nuzzling his head in to my shoulder. I could hear those two sounds, his hoof beat and my heart beat.\n\nAnd that's when I decided I was going to make a comeback.\n\nDeclan Murphy on the scales before his comeback race, at Chepstow, in October 1995\n\nWhen I rode at Chepstow that first time I thought: \"I have to do this, I have to prove myself.\"\n\nI wanted to win and fortunately I rode a good race and I did win.\n\nFor the first time since I'd come out of my coma I felt the burden of expectation had been unleashed. I had nothing to prove to anybody any more, least of all to myself. I had that final endorsement that I could still do everything I had ever done. I had placed my flag on my mountain.\n\nWhen Prof John Miles was interviewed for my book, Centaur, he said that the level of risk that I took in just getting on a horse again was monumental, because had I had any kind of fall, any kind of incident, I would not have survived.\n\nPeople were amazed that I could get back on a horse and that I could win. And they were surprised that I could then walk away from it as if it had never happened and just get on with my life.\n\nI'm married now and I have a seven-year-old daughter, Sienna. I see my youth in her. I feel very fortunate, having been through what I have but having been able to rebuild my life and reach a state of contentment. That touches my heart.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The claim: The Independent Schools Council says Labour's plan to fund free school meals for all primary school children in England by charging VAT on private school fees doesn't add up financially.\n\nReality Check verdict: Unless increased fees led to large numbers of children switching from private to state schools, there's no reason Labour's plans would not work financially.\n\nJeremy Corbyn says Labour would provide a free school meal for every primary school child in England, which he would fund by charging VAT on private school fees.\n\nThe Independent Schools Council (ISC), which represents private schools, says Mr Corbyn's sums don't add up.\n\nAt the moment, every primary school child up to about the age of seven - Year 2 - automatically gets a free lunch at school.\n\nAfter this point, eligibility depends on whether families receive certain benefits. About 15% of primary school children in Years 3-6 currently receive a free school meal.\n\nThink tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated in 2012 that the total cost of providing free school meals to all primary school pupils in England would be an extra £1bn per year. Since 2012, inflation will have increased that figure.\n\nBut using figures from 2015-16, Mr Corbyn has a slightly lower estimate of £900m. The calculation assumes that not every child would take up their free lunch.\n\nAbout 7% of English school children attend private schools. The Independent Schools Council represents about 80% of all the private schools across the UK. In England, their 1,217 schools educate 474,687 children. The average annual fee across the UK, as listed by schools, is £16,119.\n\nThat would equate to a total fee income in England of £7.65bn a year. Add 20% VAT and you raise a sum of about £1.53bn - much more than the IFS's estimate for the cost of the policy.\n\nThat assumes that all pupils pay a full fee. The ISC says a third of pupils at its member schools are on reduced fees. That help is worth about £850m a year across the UK, reducing the total fee income and thus the VAT take.\n\nAnother potential reduction might be if non-UK resident parents are able to claim back VAT. Visitors to the UK can claim back VAT on certain goods and services and it's unclear whether school fees would be included in this list.\n\nBut the ISC doesn't represent all schools - the total number of privately educated pupils in England is about 570,000. That's more potential VAT take.\n\nHowever, raising tax also creates behaviour change - with an increased cost some parents would no longer send their child to a private school.\n\nIt's difficult at the moment to quantify how big this effect might be. But as shown above, Labour have left themselves a large leeway.\n\nIf there was a large exodus from private to state schools, the plan would become less viable.\n\nAn ISC spokeswoman says: \"A third of pupils at our schools are on reduced fees and are from families where both parents work hard to pay the fees. If this measure was introduced smaller independent schools might close, driving more children back to be funded in the state system.\"\n\nThe tax take would drop with each pupil leaving the private system. There would also be additional financial pressure on state school budgets from having to accommodate extra pupils.", "One of British sport's youngest professional head coaches is hoping to make his mark in rugby league's oldest cup competition.\n\nAt 24, Carl Forster has only been playing as a professional for seven years, but he was given the job as head coach when Whitehaven were relegated to England's third tier in 2016.\n\nAnd now he is hoping to draw on the fountain of youth when his League 1 side aim to cause an upset against Championship team Halifax in the fifth round of the Challenge Cup.\n\nThe tie, to be played at Whitehaven's Recreation Ground, has been chosen to be streamed live on the BBC Sport website on Sunday, 23 April (15:00 BST).\n\nIt is part of a commitment by BBC Get Inspired to, in the early rounds, put the focus on clubs who do not often get the chance to share the limelight with some of the game's giants.\n\n\"We can't wait for this tie,\" said former Salford and St Helens prop Forster. \"It'll be a real chance to see how far we have come in the last few months.\"\n\nWhitehaven turned heads when they appointed Forster as player-coach after last season's relegation campaign.\n\nHe is one of the youngest players in his own squad.\n\nBut the Cumbrian side have a strong start in 2017, beating Oxford in round four and South Wales in the league, while they also pushed high-flying Toronto Wolfpack close in their most recent league outing.\n\nForster continued: \"My age has created a bit of publicity. There are a lot of people talking about it. But for me it's not an issue. Nobody within our group talks about it.\n\n\"The job has been good. It's come with its struggles, especially in pre-season. But as soon as the competitive games have started, it's been going well.\"\n\nNow Forster's aim is to add to the collection of magical Challenge Cup memories that began with the 2002 final when he was just nine years old.\n\n\"My first memory was, as a St Helens fan, watching us in the final at Murrayfield when we got beaten by Wigan,\" he said.\n\n\"Then I was at the first game back at the new Wembley in 2007 when James Roby scored the first try there.\n\n\"Later I was in a St Helens squad that had a good cup run, playing in the early rounds. But now I'm just concentrating on doing a good job here.\"", "Ex-Manchester United defender Phil Neville believes there is \"something fundamentally wrong\" with Luke Shaw that has forced manager Jose Mourinho to publicly criticise him.\n\nBBC pundit Neville scouted Shaw for United when he was at Southampton, believing the full-back, 21, would become a star at Old Trafford.\n\nBut the £27m signing has played only three times since the end of November.\n\nThe England player says he will \"fight to the last second\" to prove himself.\n\nShaw came off the bench in Tuesday's Premier League 1-1 draw with Everton and won the late penalty that salvaged a point for the home side.\n• None Neville: Fergie would have given Shaw 'full barrels'\n\nMourinho, who had criticised the player's commitment and focus earlier in the week, did praise him - but also commented on his lack of \"a football brain\", adding: \"I was making every decision for him.\"\n\nNeville told BBC Radio 5 live: \"When Luke Shaw signed for Manchester United I was probably involved in the process of scouting him and recommending him as a player because I thought he would be a Manchester United left-back for the next 10 years. You would think he would be a sensational player, but he just hasn't done it.\n\n\"I know he's suffered an injury but there must be something fundamentally wrong if the manager is questioning your attitude, training performances, desire. That from a 21-year-old with the world at your feet, you think maybe this is the last throw of the dice from Jose to try and get something out of Luke Shaw that he knows is in there.\"\n\nNeville said his Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson \"would have probably dealt with it in a similar way to Jose\" though \"probably not as much publicly\".\n\nHe added: \"Behind the scenes he [Ferguson] would have been giving him the full barrels and leaving him in no doubt that if you don't meet those standards, go and play for somebody else.\"\n\n\"Jose's probably tried this behind closed doors and this is the last throw of the dice. To speak poorly about one of his own players, he must be absolutely at his wits end.\"\n\n'I love this club and will give everything to be here'\n\nFull-back Shaw, meanwhile, is determined to meet the challenge of becoming a United player.\n\n\"I will fight to the last second because I want to be here for the club,\" he said.\n\nShaw met Mourinho on Monday morning to clarify his position.\n\nIt is not known what was said but the defender feels he still has a future at Old Trafford.\n\n\"I am keeping my head up,\" he said. \"I love this club and will give everything to be here.\n\n\"I am going through a phase where everything is sort of going against me. But I want this so badly. I want to prove everyone wrong.\n\n\"The stuff that has been going on is hard for me to take because deep down that is not me as a person.\"\n\n'Eight new signings and a Jose team'\n\nNeville feels Mourinho has similarly given plenty of chances to his squad, who lie sixth in the Premier League table, four points and two places behind Manchester City who hold the final Champions League qualifying spot.\n\nThey could still qualify for the lucrative Champions League by winning the Europa League.\n\nNeville, who spent a decade at United as a player, said many members of the squad seemed nervous at home, which had played a part in them drawing nine games at Old Trafford.\n\n\"If anything goes drastically wrong and they are knocked out of the Europa League or struggle to qualify in the top four, I think Jose Mourinho will make major changes,\" added Neville.\n\n\"He's given this team a year now to prove themselves: the Chris Smallings, the Phil Jones, the Marcos Rojos, the Daley Blinds of this world - if they don't perform from now until the end of the season I think you'll see six, seven, maybe eight new signings in the summer and a real Jose Mourinho-type team picked.\"", "Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso has rejected claims he could walk away from McLaren-Honda during this season.\n\nHonda's new engine is less powerful and less reliable than last year's and McLaren are struggling towards the back of the field as they go into this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.\n\nBut Alonso said: \"I prefer to be here than in a supermarket in my home town.\"\n\nHe said claims from friend and former driver Mark Webber that he could quit mid-season were \"definitely not true\".\n\n\"If one ex-driver is interviewed, there is always one question about Alonso, on the situation, how difficult it is,\" the 35-year-old Spaniard said.\n\n\"Everyone [acts like they are] close to me and it's like I have a depression, and it's not like that.\n\n\"In F1, I am delivering at my best, I am more prepared than ever. I perform at my best.\"\n• None What next for McLaren-Honda?\n\nAlonso was on course to earn an unexpected point for 10th place last month in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix after what he said was \"one of the best races of my life\".\n\nHe held off two other cars until damage caused by a broken brake duct forced a late retirement.\n\n\"The team is not very competitive now; there's nothing we can do from one day to another,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, the team is expecting an extra result from me now, as we did in Australia, when the predictions say we are last.\n\n\"If in China they say we are last, hopefully Alonso will be in the points.\"\n\nHowever, Alonso said it was \"a little bit difficult to understand\" how the engine could have \"done a step backwards this year\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working very hard for the last couple of months to fight for podiums and victories and if we can't do that we need to change the situation.\n\n\"It is what we are asking for. We are here to win and we are not winning so we need to change something.\"\n\nBBC Sport revealed last month that McLaren had approached Mercedes about the possibility of using their engines in the future.\n\nAlonso said: \"I have nothing really to say. I know there is some media speculation about things. I read also the things. But as far as I am concerned there is no news.\"\n\nAlonso's contract with McLaren runs out this season and there is continuing speculation that he could switch to Mercedes in 2018 to partner Lewis Hamilton, whose team-mate Valtteri Bottas has signed only a one-year deal.\n\nAlonso said: \"It is a question for the future. Nothing is ruled out.\n\n\"I respect [Hamilton] a lot. We like to compete and beat the best. Same with Michael [Schumacher]. It was fantastic to win titles when Michael was on the track as well, because if not they do not have the same value.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea maintained a seven-point advantage over Tottenham at the top of the Premier League with a hard-fought victory over Manchester City.\n\nPep Guardiola suffered league defeats home and away to the same opponents in a single league season for the first time in his managerial career as City are left to fight for a top-four place.\n\nEden Hazard gave Chelsea a 10th-minute lead when his shot deflected off returning City captain Vincent Kompany past keeper Willy Caballero, who should have done better.\n\nChelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois was also badly at fault when his poor clearance to David Silva set up Sergio Aguero's equaliser after 26 minutes - but Chelsea were back in front before half-time.\n\nThey were awarded a penalty after Fernandinho tripped Pedro and even though Cabellero saved Hazard's spot-kick, the rebound fell kindly for the Belgian to score.\n\nCity, who stay in fourth, had the better chances in a tense second period, with Kompany's header bouncing back off the bar and John Stones shooting over from six yards in injury time. Chelsea, however, held on for a win that was even more vital given Tottenham's dramatic late comeback at Swansea City.\n\nChelsea's progress towards the Premier League title has been a tale of almost unbroken serenity since manager Antonio Conte reworked his tactical approach after successive losses at home to Liverpool and away to Arsenal in September.\n\nThis was arguably their biggest game since as it followed on from the shock home loss to Crystal Palace and it was against a Manchester City side with the talent and capability to make this night at Stamford Bridge a real test of nerve.\n\nAnd so it proved as City, with Silva the orchestrator supreme, putting Chelsea's defence and their supporters on edge right until the final whistle.\n\nChelsea emerged triumphant thanks to the mixture of talent and resilience that has served them so well this season and the celebrations at the final whistle reflected just what a significant night this might prove to be.\n\nHazard provided the flourishes but manager Conte proved his pragmatism with the introduction of Nemanja Matic for Kurt Zouma at the start of the second half to attempt to lock down the win.\n\nIt worked to an extent but Chelsea also enjoyed good fortune as Kompany's header bounced back off the bar and Stones somehow scooped an injury-time chance over the top.\n\nIn the final reckoning, Chelsea showed the bloody-minded defiance of champions - and this is the sort of result that could earn them that crown.\n\nIf this meeting of two of the Premier League's superpowers and two elite coaches was meant to be an enjoyable experience, you would not have known from the body language of Chelsea coach Conte and his Manchester City counterpart Guardiola.\n\nThe Catalan, in particular, appears to lead an agonised existence in his technical area. The advocate of the joyous, beautiful game looks as if he is going through torture in almost every match.\n\nHe was slapping his thigh and remonstrating with backroom staff within 15 seconds of the kick-off and he was in regular dialogue with fourth official Bobby Madley, with Conte occasionally joining in.\n\nIt was, it should be stressed, another frustrating night for Guardiola when his team promised much and ended with nothing - although it concluded with a warm handshake for Conte, who also looked like he had endured a tough night.\n\nConte, by his standards, was relatively low key but the mask dropped at the final whistle as he pumped his fists in the direction of Chelsea's fans. This was a huge night for the Italian as he did the double over Guardiola.\n\nManchester City remain the great enigma of the Premier League - looking like they could score every time they attack but liable to concede at any moment.\n\nGuardiola still has a goalkeeper conundrum, with Willy Caballero unconvincing and caught out by a routine deflection from Kompany for Hazard's first goal, while there is an air of permanent frailty at the back.\n\nCity's slim title hopes are now over and they must hunt a top-four place, aided by Bournemouth's late equaliser at Liverpool, and the FA Cup.\n\nThey must achieve one of both of those targets to stop this season ending unfulfilled before Guardiola tackles those goalkeeping and defensive problems in the summer.\n\nGood for Hazard, not good for Guardiola - the match stats\n• None Eden Hazard is the first Chelsea player to score home and away against Man City in the Premier League since Salomon Kalou in 2007-08.\n• None Hazard now has 10 Premier League goals at Stamford Bridge this season - more than any other player. This is the second time he's reached double figures at home in the league, after netting 10 there in 2013-14.\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored five goals at Stamford Bridge as an away player in the Premier League - the only player with more is Robin van Persie (six), while Craig Bellamy also has five.\n• None Pep Guardiola has suffered six league defeats as Manchester City boss this season - his highest tally in a single league season as a manager.\n\nChelsea manager Antonio Conte told Match of the Day: \"My look is tired because I feel like I played it tonight with my players. I suffered with them.\n\n\"But we must be pleased because we beat a strong team - the best team in the league. I think they have a great coach - the best in the world. To win this type of game at this time of the season is great.\"\n\nMan City boss Pep Guardiola told Match of the Day: \"It's an honour to have the amazing players I have. We come here to Stamford Bridge and play the way we have, with huge personality. I'm a lucky guy to manage these guys.\"\n\nChelsea travel to Bournemouth in Saturday's late kick-off (17:30 BST) while Man City host Hull City at 15:00.\n• None N'Golo Kanté (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. John Stones (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range is too high. Assisted by Vincent Kompany with a headed pass following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nolito with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Gary Cahill (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross following a corner.\n• None Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nCondensing the Six Nations Championship by a week would \"meddle with players' health\", says Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) chairman Gareth Davies.\n\nPlans by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) would remove one of the two weeks when games are not played to create space for a new global international season.\n\nIf agreed, a six-week tournament would start after the 2019 World Cup.\n\n\"To squeeze it into a shorter period is potentially damaging,\" Davies told BBC Radio Wales Sport.\n\n\"Yes they are professional and very well paid but the nature of rugby being such a physical game, I think we are meddling with players' health.\"\n\nLast week Scottish Rugby Union chief Mark Dodson told BBC Sport that reducing the tournament from seven weeks to six would be a threat to player safety.\n\nThe plans for a condensed tournament will be discussed at April's Six Nations review meeting where Ian Ritchie, chief executive of England's RFU, will be lobbying for its implementation.\n\nHowever, speaking to the BBC earlier this week England fly-half George Ford voiced concerns over a shorter Six Nations, saying it was \"important\" to have rest weekends.\n\n\"If we are looking at the intensity at which these guys play at international level these days, and the way they train in between, it's not just the playing of course,\" Davies added.\n\n\"It's the fact you're condensing the training into a far shorter period and I just can't see any argument for shortening it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Davies welcomed the news that an independent review will take place into Wales' controversial 20-18 defeat by France in the Six Nations - a game which lasted for 100 minutes.\n\nFrance brought Rabah Slimani back on for fellow prop forward Uini Atonio in the 81st minute against Wales.\n\nWayne Barnes allowed Slimani to return to the field after France's team doctor said Atonio needed a head injury assessment.\n\nSlimani's reappearance, which is to be investigated further, coincided with a series of scrums on the Wales line and France finally won in the 100th minute.\n\n\"There were some people who thought this could possibly be brushed under the carpet. To be fair to the executives at the Six Nations and the people who have led on the inquiry, they have come to the conclusion that it should go to a totally independent inquiry to really get to the bottom of what has happened,\" Davies added.\n\n\"Obviously the result of that can't be changed, we understand that but it is important because once we start manipulating the rules as it were, that is a dangerous road to go down.\n\n\"Rugby does pride itself on its level of integrity and honesty and I think this was obviously something that has threatened that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJoe Root will take time to get used to the England captaincy because \"nothing can prepare you\" for the role, says his predecessor Alastair Cook.\n\nCook resigned as England captain in February, with Root taking over for this summer's home series against South Africa and the West Indies.\n\n\"It is a big role, but an exciting one. Joe will find his feet,\" 32-year-old Cook told BBC Look East on Wednesday.\n\n\"He will find his way, it will probably take him a while to get used to it.\"\n\nEssex batsman Cook led his country to Ashes victories in 2013 and 2015 during a record 59 matches in charge.\n\nHe is England's highest run-scorer in Test cricket with 11,057, while his 140 Test appearances and 30 centuries are also England records.\n• None Listen: England will be fearful of Aussie attack\n\n\"I am looking forward to working with Joe in a different way.\n\n\"I think a couple of moments will be slightly strange in that first Test match week but it won't be any different in the long run.\n\n\"Hopefully I can help him, and the most important thing is England winning.\n\n\"I don't think anything can prepare you for the England captaincy but he will find his feet. He is a very good player, has a very good cricket brain and has got the respect of the dressing room.\"\n\nCook has been ruled out of Essex's opening County Championship game against Lancashire on Friday with a hip injury.\n\nBut he still holds ambitions of playing under Root during the next Ashes series at the end of the year.\n\n\"I have still got a few games left in me. I'm 32 years old but hopefully I can carry on scoring runs for England,\" said Cook.\n\n\"It is a different phase of my career after being captain but I love playing for England. I hope to score enough runs to get on that plane for the Ashes tour.\"\n\nAnd last month Root confirmed that having Alastair Cook in the side was integral to both his and the team's future success.\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"If I feel I need help he'll be more than willing, but he'll also let me do it my own way.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nReigning Olympic and London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong is the latest Kenyan athlete to fail a drugs test.\n\nThe 32-year-old tested positive for banned substance EPO in an out of competition test carried out by athletics' governing body the IAAF.\n\nSumgong - the first Kenyan woman to win Olympic marathon gold - was due to defend her London title on 23 April.\n\nKenya was last year declared in breach of anti-doping rules, and athletes underwent special testing for Rio 2016.\n\nThe East African country was deemed \"non-compliant\" by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but was reinstated before last summer's Games.\n\nBetween 2011 and 2016, more than 40 Kenyan track-and-field athletes failed doping tests.\n\nAmong those sanctioned was female marathon runner Rita Jeptoo, 36, who was banned for four years following a positive test for performance-enhancing drug EPO in 2014.\n\nSumgong is provisionally suspended, and she will face sanctions if her B-sample also tests positive.\n\nEunice Kirwa of Bahrain took silver behind Sumgong in Rio, with Ethiopia's world champion Mare Dibaba claiming bronze and another Ethiopian, Tirfi Tsegaye, fourth.\n\n\"We can confirm that an anti-doping rule violation case concerning Jemima Sumgong (Kenya) has commenced this week,\" the IAAF said in a statement.\n\n\"The athlete tested positive for EPO (Erythropoietin) following a no-notice test conducted in Kenya.\n\n\"This was part of an enhanced IAAF out-of-competition testing programme dedicated to elite marathon runners which is supported by the Abbott World Marathon Majors group.\"\n\nLondon Marathon organisers said they were \"extremely disappointed\" by Sumgong's positive test, adding: \"We are determined to make marathon running a safe haven from doping.\"\n\nIn 2015, the Sunday Times claimed the London Marathon had been won seven times in 12 years by athletes who had recorded suspicious blood scores.\n\nThat followed details of 12,000 blood test results from 5,000 athletes published by the newspaper, in partnership with German broadcaster ARD.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\n-7-3-2 -1 Henley (US), Chappell (US), Sullivan (Eng), Fitzpatrick (Eng), Mickelson (US), Rose (Eng), Dufner (US) Garcia (Spa)\n\nUnheralded American Charley Hoffman defied tricky blustery conditions to take a four-shot lead after day one of the 2017 Masters at Augusta National.\n\nHoffman, 40, sank nine birdies in a seven-under-par 65 to lead from compatriot William McGirt.\n\nLee Westwood is third on two under, one ahead of fellow Englishmen Justin Rose, Andy Sullivan and Matt Fitzpatrick.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Rory McIlroy rallied with three late birdies in a 72, while 2015 champion Jordan Spieth carded 75.\n\nEngland's defending champion Danny Willett started his defence with a double bogey and a bogey before fighting back to finish one over par.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson pulled out on the first tee after injuring his back when slipping on the stairs at his rental house on Wednesday.\n• None How the drama unfolded on day one of the Masters\n• None How to follow the Masters on the BBC\n\nScoring was expected to be tough at Augusta with high winds forecast to become even stronger as the opening day progressed.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case as it became a distinct possibility that no player would shoot under 70 in the opening round for the first time in 60 years.\n\nBut the tricky conditions proved little obstacle for McGirt and, particularly, Hoffman, who were the only players to score in the 60s.\n\nHoffman has only previously claimed one top-25 finish at a major, tying for ninth at the 2015 Masters, but put together a remarkable round.\n\nThe world number 52 closed the front nine with two birdies to move two under, then blitzed the back nine with a five-under 31 which included four straight birdies.\n\nThe Californian almost made it five on the last, only to see a 16-foot putt fall agonisingly short.\n\nNevertheless, his four-shot lead is the biggest first-round advantage at Augusta since 1941.\n\n\"The putts started going in the hole - as simple as that sounds,\" he said.\n\n\"I kept hitting my spots and in the wind I ended up getting 20 footers and I got some of them down the stretch.\"\n\nMcGirt, making his Masters debut, became the first player to break 70 with four birdies and a bogey in a three-under 69.\n\nThe 37-year-old from South Carolina does not have much previous pedigree in the majors, having missed the cut at the US Open and the Open in 2016 before earning a 10th-place finish at last year's PGA Championship.\n\n\"It was pretty darn special. Any time to break 70 here is awesome,\" said McGirt, who is ranked a place below Hoffman at 53rd in the world.\n\n\"The few times I came down here to play in practice the wind direction was the same so this was not new to me today.\n\n\"I'm lucky enough to know a few members here and I've spoken to a few caddies and they've been happy to share their knowledge with me.\"\n\nDefending champion Willett is one of a record 11 English players in the 93-strong field at Augusta, but made a nightmare start to his defence with a double bogey and a bogey in the opening two holes.\n\nBirdies on three and 10, with six successive pars sandwiched in-between, steadied the Yorkshireman's scorecard and a superb eagle on the par-five 13th moved him level par for the first time.\n\nHowever, a bogey on the 18th pushed him back over par.\n\n\"Battling back from three over even if it was flat and calm round this place would have been great,\" said the world number 17, who has not won a tournament since claiming the Green Jacket.\n\n\"We gathered ourselves after probably the worst start we could have wished for. A score of 73 seemed like a good score.\"\n\nOn returning to the scene of his greatest triumph for the first time, he added: \"The memories came flooding back. To be anywhere defending a title is incredible but to be here at Augusta National is amazing - at least once in your life, but it would be nice to do it a couple of times.\"\n\nWillett became the first Englishman to win the Masters in 20 years when he overhauled Spieth 12 months ago, and a number of his compatriots are in close contention as they aim to repeat his feat.\n\nFitzpatrick, the 22-year-old from Sheffield, led for a short period at three under before a double bogey on the 18th dropped him back into the pack also containing Sullivan and Rose.\n\nWestwood, 43, surged into third place with five straight birdies on the back nine as he continued his search for a first major title.\n\nWorld number two McIlroy, 27, is aiming to become only the sixth man to win all four majors - at his third time of trying at Augusta.\n\nMcIlroy is seeking a first Masters title following victories at the US Open, the Open Championship and the US PGA Championship.\n\nAnd, after three consecutive top-10 finishes in Georgia, he has made no secret that finally winning the Green Jacket is his main priority.\n\nThe Northern Irishman made a scruffy start to his opening round, however, dropping three shots without making a birdie on the front nine.\n\nGutsy par putts on 10, 11 and 12 prevented him dropping further adrift, setting the platform to haul himself back to level par with three birdies in the final six holes.\n\n\"After nine holes if someone had said I would shoot even par I would have ripped their hand off,\" he said.\n\nTwo-time major winner Jordan Spieth is hoping to banish memories of last year's spectacular final-day collapse by winning his second Masters.\n\nThe American, 23, led by five shots as he approached the 10th in 2016, only to drop six shots in three holes - including a quadruple bogey seven at the 12th - and allow England's Willett to take advantage.\n\nHe was putting together an encouraging first round on Thursday until another quadruple bogey wrecked his card, although at three over par he is still in contention.\n\nSpieth was among the leaders heading into Amen Corner, coming through the tough trio of 11, 12 and 13 unscathed.\n\nHe found the green on the iconic par-three 12th to huge cheers, then birdied the par-five 13th to move into a 13-man share of the lead at one under.\n\n\"I was relieved to see it down and on the green,\" he said of his tee shot on 12. \"And I guess everybody else felt maybe more than I did on it.\"\n\nBut his opening-day challenge faded quickly as a bogey on the 14th was followed by a nine on the par-five 15th.\n\nSpieth's approach fizzed back off the green into the water and, after taking a penalty drop, he knocked his fifth shot over the back, then hit a poor chip before needing three putts from 30 feet.\n\n\"It was nice to make a three at 12 and then four at the next,\" he added. \"I really thought we had it going there and just made a club choice mistake on 15 but we're still in the tournament.\"\n\nBelgium's Thomas Pieters - considered one of the rising stars on the European Tour - was one of the few players who managed to tame Augusta early on Thursday.\n\nHe moved into an early four-shot lead on his Masters debut, rattling in five birdies in his opening 10 holes.\n\nThen, the 25-year-old came unstuck at Amen Corner.\n\nHe signed for his first bogey at Augusta by three-putting on the 11th, but worse was soon to follow at the 12th.\n\nPieters dunked his tee-shot into Rae's Creek - the water hazard guarding the narrow green - before knocking on and needing two putts for a double bogey.\n\nAnd another double bogey at the last dropped him back to level par alongside McIlroy, Ireland's Shane Lowry, England's Paul Casey and four-time major winner Ernie Els.\n\n\"This was a day not to play yourself out of the Masters.\n\n\"Today, you couldn't win the tournament but you could lose it.\n\n\"All of the players that have battled to around par have kept themselves in it.\"\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What American and Chinese people want\n\nUS President Donald Trump will host his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for two days of talks in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. From trade to currency to North Korea, a lot is on the table for the leaders of the world's two largest economies. Will they have time for some golf?\n\nAs in alpha males. At a fraught moment in history, the world's two biggest economies are led by two macho men about to meet on a blind date. A could also be for the anxiety this unpredictable encounter provokes among policymakers on both sides, especially in a Chinese presidential team which hates surprises.\n\nPresident Trump has done a lot of rhetorical China bashing. But at this summit the contours of a real US China policy must start to appear. Was all Mr Trump's campaign talk of winning against China just sound and fury signifying nothing or was it a muscular new policy in the making?\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly accused China of being a master manipulator of its currency. Many economists say it was once but isn't now. For the past two years China has been selling its reserves to keep the value of its currency up rather than driving it down to boost exports. In Florida, will President Trump call President Xi a currency manipulator to his face or will he pick a different battle?\n\nWhat will this summit actually deliver? Nearly half the US trade deficit is with China and this week President Trump said again the US \"cannot continue to trade if we are going to have an unfair deal like we have right now\". But in his lexicon, D is also for difficult. He has warned that the summit with President Xi will be exactly that, which is perhaps a way of managing expectations down towards Ds for disappointment and deterioration. Some pessimists warn that the most this summit can deliver is greater predictability in a stressed and uncertain relationship. Other pessimists say those pessimists are already too optimistic, that this summit is premature because President Trump doesn't even have a China team let alone a coherent China policy. But those pessimists are in the American camp. For China, US incoherence is a source of optimism.\n\nAnd US employment. President Xi must convince his host that China offers solutions for both if he wants to keep US markets open to Chinese goods.\n\nPresident Trump is giving President Xi plenty of it by inviting him to his private Florida resort. That's meaningful to a status conscious Chinese audience at home. If Mr Trump can refrain from tarnishing the gift by some unforeseen slight or offence, optimists say he may get a calculated concession on North Korea or trade in return.\n\nBecause President Xi disapproves of a game played back home between tycoons and corrupt Communist Party officials. Instead G is for globalisation of which the Chinese president now likes to see himself the champion. Along with efforts to tackle climate change. Expect subtle Chinese allusions to President Trump's retreat from both.\n\nIt's supposed to be a gesture of peace and its absence would send the wrong signal, but President Xi has his own version of this ritual and will not want to submit to the much studied Trump grab and yank. Watch for a hybrid handshake.\n\nIvanka Trump, The soft power weapon of the Trump administration in China. Opinions divide on the father, but the daughter is a source of fascination to many young Chinese, and when relations between the incoming Trump administration and Beijing were at their nadir following the president elect's phone call with the Taiwanese president, it was Ivanka who kept lines of communication open with her attendance at a Chinese new year embassy function in Washington.\n\nJared Kushner, Ivanka's husband, has also established a good relationship with China's top diplomats in the US. At 36 and with no previous government experience, President Trump's son-in-law has become a key channel of communication between the White House and Beijing. But he's a novice on the most complex bilateral relationship in the world, and until last week his family's real estate business was pursuing a significant investment from a politically connected Chinese company. Those negotiations have now been suspended amid suggestions of a potential conflict of interest, but some observers still worry that he may be vulnerable to China's master negotiators and mistake a short-term gain for long-term US advantage.\n\nThe leader of North Korea managed to overshadow a visit to Asia last month by the new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. On that occasion it was the carefully timed announcement of a new rocket engine. No one is in any doubt that North Korea's bid for nuclear missiles which can reach American soil will loom large over this summit. But to prevent the world's inattention even for a moment, Kim Jong-un test fired a missile on the eve of President Xi's arrival in Florida.\n\nAnd the lower key presence of the first ladies Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan. As fashion model and folk singer respectively, both were familiar with the limelight long before their famous marriages. It will be interesting to watch the first ladies attempt to engage without upstaging the husbands.\n\nFor all President Xi's fine talk of openness and globalisation, the US market is currently open to Chinese goods and services in a way that China's is not. Beijing has repeatedly promised to remove import barriers, and as this is in the interests of China's long term growth, there really ought to be room for progress here.\n\nPresident Trump will have to avoid shouting, sulking and abuse. Chinese protocol will simply not tolerate it.\n\nThe slogans that China likes: \"One China\" and \"One Belt, One Road\". The former is the formulation which frames a fragile US-China understanding on how to avoid going to war over Taiwan. The latter is China's massive infrastructure and development initiative for Asia. After initially threatening to re-examine relations with Taiwan, President Trump committed to the \"One China Policy\" in a phone call with President Xi in February. But there is no fixed US position on \"One Belt, One Road\" and President Trump is highly unlikely to sign up to President Xi's other favourite slogan the 'new model of great power relations' by which China signals its hopes for an Asian sphere of influence.\n\nThe American ghost at the summit feast. The pivot to Asia was the slogan of the first Obama administration eight years ago, a vision of a United States firmly embedded in Asia with the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement underpinning a mesh of American security alliances. In Mr Obama's second term, the pivot to Asia was rebranded the rebalance, but with President Trump's decision to walk away from TPP, both pivot and rebalance are history. Even some US security alliances in Asia are looking less than solid in face of the rise of China and its vigorous cheque book diplomacy. If President Trump wants to hang onto allies like the Philippines and Thailand he urgently needs an Asia policy as well as a China policy. In fact, it's hard to define the latter without the former.\n\nThe Trump administration talks tough on China, but when it comes to actually engaging, it is in the same quandary as every previous US administration since the US and China restored diplomatic relations four decades ago - how to exert leverage on Beijing without damaging itself or its allies.\n\nBut also for rivalry and risk. In just a few brief hours together over a dinner and a lunch, can the two presidents build enough personal rapport to cut through the strategic rivalry and mistrust which risk the future of the world's most important bilateral relationship?\n\nThe South China Sea. President Trump does not want to accept China's audacious island-building and militarisation as a fait accompli but President Xi will certainly not back down to a summit threat. And if the new US president is silent on the subject of the South China Sea, some allies may see it as a signal of willingness to surrender control of these vital waters to Beijing. So what to say about the South China Sea?\n\nAnd tariffs and Twitter. And also for Thucydides Trap, the theory that a rising power causes fear in an established power which then escalates toward war. Xi Jinping actually discussed the Thucydides trap at the 2015 summit with Barack Obama. On that occasion, there was no agreement on how to avoid it. Most would agree that the rise of the rising power and the fear of the established power have only increased in the interim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the contentious issues around US-China trade?\n\nThis week President Trump said the US would solve the problem of a nuclear North Korea on its own if China was unwilling to help. In the first instance, dealing with the problem may mean secondary sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals who trade with North Korea. And as a last resort, it may mean the threat of pre-emptive US military action against Pyongyang. It's a discussion which will get President Xi's full attention but it seems unlikely that he and his host can agree on what constitutes Chinese \"help with North Korea\" let alone how much of it would be enough.\n\nUS presidents often use summits to remind their Chinese communist counterparts of the virtues of democracy, human rights and freedom. But President Trump may choose to remain silent on values.\n\nThe new US secretary of state gratified President Xi last month when on a visit to Beijing. He used the Chinese formulation \"non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation\" to describe US-China ties. President Xi would dearly love to hear President Trump echo this language. Despite all the name calling from Mr Trump over the past year, the Chinese president and his state-controlled media have stuck to mild appeals to reason and common interest in framing the US-China narrative. Vanilla is President Xi's favourite flavour here and if he can persuade President Trump to tweet bland he will call it a triumph.\n\nAt home, the Chinese president is in the sensitive run up to a Communist Party Congress at which he wants to install key allies in top positions. The last thing he needs is a trade war with a vital export market, especially as China's economic growth is slowing. A standoff in the South China Sea or on the Korean peninsula would be even worse. President Xi needs his relationship with President Trump to work. And he needs to go home calling this summit a success.\n\n… hmmm… not sure. Any suggestions?\n\nAs in zero sum game. If President Trump takes a zero sum attitude towards the US trade balance with China, and if President Xi takes a zero sum attitude towards the US role in Asia then their summitry will swiftly sour and all talk of winners will look hollow.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nReanne Evans moved to within two wins of becoming the first female competitor to reach the main TV stages at the Crucible with a shock 10-8 victory over Robin Hull in World Championship qualifying.\n\nThe 31-year-old has won the Ladies' World Championship a record 11 times, but was beaten in last year's final by Hong Kong's Ng On Yee.\n\nThe Dudley-born player, who is the women's world number one, will play world number 91 Lee Walker, of Wales, next.\n\nHaving accepted an invitation for qualifying at Pond's Forge in Sheffield, Evans fell 2-0 and 4-2 behind to world number 57 Hull before levelling at 4-4 and edging ahead for the first time at 6-5. She trailed again at 7-6 and 8-7 before wrapping up three frames in a row to progress.\n\nIn 2015, Evans faced 1997 world champion Ken Doherty in qualifying, but suffered a narrow 10-8 defeat.\n\n\"This is my best win,\" said Evans. \"Robin is an amazing player.\n\n\"I felt really good out there. If I had lost I would had felt even more gutted than a couple of years ago against Ken.\n\n\"When it went 8-8 I thought 'oh no, not again' but I stuck in well. I felt nervous but I had them under control.\"\n\nThe 2017 World Championship takes place from 15 April until 1 May, with world number one Mark Selby looking to successfully defend his title.\n• None See the qualifying draw and results in full", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nMiguel Francis says he is more likely to fulfil his potential after switching allegiance from Antigua and Barbuda to Great Britain.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who ran the seventh fastest 200m of 2016, is eligible for Britain as he was born in Montserrat, an Overseas Territory without its own Olympic team.\n\n\"I think I'll be less stressed when in a better environment, where people look after you better,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I do think I will perform better.\"\n\nHe can compete for Britain immediately.\n\nFrancis, who is part of a Jamaica-based training group coached by Glenn Mills and led by 100m and 200m world record holder Usain Bolt, ran a personal best of 19.88 seconds in June. Bolt's record is 19.19, set at the 2009 World Championships.\n\nAdam Gemili, 23, competed for Britain in the 200m at Rio 2016 and finished fourth in the final with a time of 20.12. His personal best is 19.97.\n\nFrancis was due to also compete at last summer's Olympics, but had to withdraw with a hamstring injury suffered in training.\n\nHe started the process to transfer his allegiance in August - before Rio - but appeared unlikely to see it through after announcing an apparent U-turn in March.\n\nThen he told the Antigua Observer that \"things got into my head\" and \"Antigua is who I want to run for\", while admitting the condition of the country's only athletics track was a concern.\n\nNow he insists he is more comfortable representing Britain.\n\n\"I'm running for who I am supposed to be running for,\" he added.\n\n\"Before I moved to Antigua my only option was Britain, but then Antigua wanted me to run for them. I ran for them for my career basically.\"\n\nFrancis' family fled Montserrat for Antigua following a volcanic eruption when he was six months old.\n\nHis parents have lived in Wolverhampton since 2014 and Francis has visited the area several times.\n\nZharnel Hughes - born in the British overseas territory of Anguilla - and the United States-born quartet of Tiffany Porter, Cindy Ofili, Shante Little and Montene Speight have all switched allegiance to Britain in recent years.\n\nThe switches led to criticism from several other British athletes, including former world indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty.\n\nThree athletes, three years on Miguel Francis failed to make the final of the 200m running for Antigua. Thomas Somers made the final, finishing seventh, but has struggled with injury in recent years. Zharnel Hughes, who switched from Anguilla to Britain in 2015, finished fifth.\n\nHow can sportsmen and women qualify for Britain? If you hold a British passport, regardless of where you were born, you are eligible. Tour de France winner Chris Froome - born in Kenya, schooled in South Africa, with a father and grandparents all born in Britain. If you are born and raised overseas, but subsequently move to the UK, with a British parent, as a child. Double Olympic champion Mo Farah - born in Somalia, moved to Britain aged eight to live with his British-born father Mukhtar In football and rugby, having an English, Scottish or Welsh parent or grandparent is enough for governing bodies, regardless of which passport the player holds. When is a Briton not a Briton? Read more in Tom Fordyce's blog from 2013", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Gordon Corera has had a rare tour of GCHQ\n\nThe operations centre sits on one of the upper floors of GCHQ and runs 24/7. At any one time, a team of analysts might be monitoring the kidnap of a British citizen abroad or an ongoing counter-terrorist operation run jointly with MI5.\n\nIn one corner, a large globe visualises all the cyber attacks targeting the UK from around the world. The room is a reminder of the range of activity that GCHQ is involved in - as well as its global reach in monitoring communications and data flows.\n\nRussian cyber attacks are high up the agenda, in the wake of claims Moscow interfered in the US election and is trying the same in Europe.\n\n\"We have been watching Russian cyber activity since the mid 1990s,\" GCHQ's outgoing director, Robert Hannigan, tells the BBC.\n\n\"The scale has changed. They've invested a lot of money and people in offensive cyber behaviour and critically they've decided to do reckless and interfering things in European countries.\"\n\nMr Hannigan says that whilst it is impossible to be absolutely sure, the defences against such attacks seem to have held in the UK.\n\nOne of his legacies will be the creation of the National Cyber Security Centre, an arm of GCHQ which is based in London and is much more public facing in providing protective advice to the country about the threats in cyberspace.\n\nTerrorism sits alongside cyber threats on the agenda. So-called Islamic State - or ISIL - has proved adept at exploiting the power of the internet.\n\nThe Queen visits the National Cyber Security Centre - part of intelligence agency GCHQ\n\n\"It's one of their most important assets. As they are defeated on the ground, the 'online caliphate' will become more important.\n\n\"They will continue to try to use the media to crowd-source terrorism to get people around the world to go and commit acts of violence on their behalf...\n\n\"There are things we can do to contest ISIL in this media space... but it's not just for governments to do operations online. It's for the companies and for the rest of media and society to have the will to drive this material off the internet...\"\n\nWhen he took over as head of GCHQ in 2014, Mr Hannigan launched what was seen as a broadside against technology companies - arguing they were in denial about the way they were used by terrorist groups to communicate and spread their message.\n\nIn the wake of the Westminster attack, the Home Secretary Amber Rudd said that companies should not offer a safe space for terrorists to hide - a reference to the development of end-to-end encryption services which make it impossible to provide the content of communications, even on production of a warrant.\n\nGCHQ, as well as trying to break codes, also works to secure communications and so treads a fine line.\n\n\"Encryption matters hugely to the safety of citizens and to the economy.... The home secretary is talking about a particular problem - that this strong encryption is being abused by terrorists and criminals...\n\n\"Our best way forward is to sit down with the tech companies...\"\n\nRobert Hannigan steps down as GCHQ boss on Friday after nearly three years in the job\n\nThe other area of tension with firms has been over extremist content hosted on websites.\n\nHere, government has recently been placing pressure on the companies to be more proactive in taking down content rather than waiting for it to be reported to them.\n\n\"I think they have moved a long way [but] there's further to go,\" Mr Hannigan says.\n\n\"When I started the job in 2014 they really were reluctant to accept responsibility for anything they carried on their networks - whether that was terrorism, child sexual exploitation or any other kind of crime.\"\n\nGCHQ can detect the work of hackers around the globe\n\nThe threat from IS has been particularly acute in Europe in the last few years. That has driven increased security co-operation - so will Brexit be a problem?\n\n\"I don't think so, because the intelligence-sharing has never been through EU structures and national security has never been part of the European Union's remit.\n\n\"It's simply a statement of fact that we have very, very strong intelligence and security and defence capabilities and we bring a lot to Europe and to our European partners...\"\n\nThe relationship with the US is by far the deepest, which he says will not change under the Trump administration.\n\n\"It's the most powerful weapon we have against terrorism in particular and has massively paid dividends in the last 10 years.\"\n\nIn recent weeks, there was controversy after reports claimed the Obama administration asked GCHQ to spy on President-elect Donald Trump.\n\nGCHQ took the unusual step of publicly denying this.\n\n\"We get crazy conspiracy theories thrown at us every day,\" Mr Hannigan says. \"We ignore most of them. On this occasion it was so crazy that we felt we should say so and we have said it's a ridiculous suggestion.\"\n\nA globe in the operations centre visualises the cyber attacks targeting the UK\n\nDeep underground, beneath the grass sit a series of cavernous computer halls. The noise is at points overwhelming.\n\nMuch effort goes into cooling the machines. Some of the endless racks contain off-the-shelf server technology but large specialist supercomputers sit alongside which are used by the cryptanalysts for code-breaking.\n\nThe exact specifications of these machines and just how much computing power sits in Cheltenham is classified largely to keep other states - primarily the Russians and Chinese - guessing.\n\n\"It's impossible to do counterterrorism or cyber security without that kind of power,\" Mr Hannigan explains, arguing that the challenge remains finding the small needle in the haystack of the massive volume of data on the internet.\n\nAnother aspect of Mr Hannigan's legacy will be the push for greater transparency and openness.\n\n\"It's very important in a democracy to have the consent of the public as well as the legislation in place and to explain that everything we do is under the law,\" Mr Hannigan says.\n\nHe took over an agency bruised by the Edward Snowden revelations and allegations of \"mass surveillance\".\n\n\"Obviously a debate on privacy and greater transparency are good things - but it was perfectly possible to do that and indeed it was happening anyway without the damage that the Snowden revelations did. The same is true of the WikiLeaks disclosures.\"\n\nMr Hannigan says he and the organisation remain optimistic, rather than pessimistic, about the spread of technology.\n\n\"Technology and the internet are overwhelmingly brilliant things for human progress,\" Mr Hannigan says.\n\n\"Unfortunately there will always be people who want to abuse the latest technology. And it's our job to deal with that dark side.\"\n\nMr Hannigan's successor, Jeremy Fleming, formerly Deputy Director of MI5, takes over on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Build-up and live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live from 13:00, with text updates and pinstickers' guide on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nLizzie Kelly guided the 10-1 shot Tea For Two to victory in the Betway Bowl on the opening day of the Grand National meeting at Aintree.\n\nKelly was unseated at the second fence on the horse in March's Cheltenham Gold Cup, leaving her distraught.\n\nBut this time they got the better of last year's winner Cue Card for a second Grade One success.\n\nThey pulled alongside Cue Card with three to go and showed good strength to win by a neck after an epic battle.\n\n\"I just wanted him to run well and confidently and give me what I feel he is capable of,\" Kelly told BBC Radio 5 live afterwards.\n\n\"I thought the others would come back at me in the final stages so I just wanted to keep my momentum.\n\n\"I don't think I'm the nation's favourite person having beaten the nation's favourite horse [Cue Card].\"\n\nThe 23-year-old also admitted that her truncated Gold Cup experience, where she became the first woman since Linda Sheedy in 1984 to ride in the race, had been \"character-building\".\n\n\"I was just so disappointed because there is such a build-up and then, bam, you are out of it,\" she added.\n\n\"But that's racing. Sometimes you have good days and sometimes you have bad days.\n\n\"It's difficult to pick yourself up from being that low but I had to get back into the weighing room and things are forgotten quickly and you are on to the next race. You don't get a chance to dwell on it.\n\n\"I'm the only jockey to have ridden Tea for Two in a race so to see him running around Cheltenham without me was unnerving.\n\n\"When we got home, he was very subdued and I think it has done him the world of good because he has learned if he doesn't listen to me, things will go wrong.\"\n\nKelly shot to fame when she became the first female jockey to win a Grade One jumps race in Britain when she guided Tea for Two - part-owned by her mother Jane and trained by her stepfather Nick Williams - to victory in the Kauto Star Novice Chase at Kempton in December 2015.\n\n\"This [the Betway Bowl] means more than winning the Grade One at Kempton on him,\" she added. \"I didn't really appreciate that at the time, but this is special.\"\n\nKelly's mother Jane, who does much of the work with the horse, told BBC Radio 5 live that Thursday's race had been an anxious experience.\n\n\"I spent three-quarters of the race in the car park trying to hide,\" she said.\n\n\"We had such disappointment at Cheltenham. It's hard when you expect a big run, to come crashing down at the second.\n\n\"We scraped ourselves off the floor that day. The horse has been doing a lot of dressage and has been very well.\"\n\nOf the beaten horses, Cue Card's assistant trainer Joe Tizzard said the horse, who is now 11, will continue in training next year but Paul Nicholls's veteran campaigner Silviniaco Conti who finished sixth, has been retired.\n\nThis is notable result anyway, with Tea For Two establishing himself amongst jump racing's elite by defeating Cue Card, no less.\n\nBut this thrilling finish - they went head to head from the third last of the 19 fences - was also a really good sporting story.\n\nTwenty days after the tide of hype around his jockey being the first female to ride in the Gold Cup in decades came to a grinding halt on the turf at Cheltenham, the popular pair spectacularly re-discovered their mojo. And they also won on a left-handed track for the first time.\n\nOnly eight, Tea For Two is a top-flight contender for the future.\n\nChampion Hurdle winner Buveur D'Air looked impressive as he claimed a third Grade One success with victory in the Betway Aintree Hurdle.\n\nRunning for the first time over two-and-a-half miles, the 4-9 shot, ridden by Barry Geraghty and trained by Nicky Henderson, beat stable-mate My Tent Or Yours by five lengths.\n\nIt was a third Grade One win for the six-year-old who took the lead from The New One at the second-last and powered on to victory.\n\n\"He did that really well, he was obviously back in his Cheltenham form and Nicky has done a great job to get him back so soon,\" said Geraghty, who missed the Cheltenham Festival because of injury.\n\nWhat are the highlights on Aintree Ladies Day on Friday?\n\nAfter finishing second in their respective races at the Cheltenham Festival, both Fox Norton and Sub Lieutenant will hope to go one better in the Melling Chase (15:25 BST).\n\nThe Colin Tizzard-trained Fox Norton was beaten narrowly by Special Tiara in the Queen Mother Champion Chase but steps up in trip for the 2m 4f race while Sub Lieutenant, from the Henry de Bromhead yard, was edged out by Un De Sceaux in the Ryanair Chase.\n\nThe pair are part of a field of nine for the race and last year's winner God's Own, who saw his Champion Chase hopes disappear with two bad mistakes, will aim for back-to-back wins for trainer Tom George.\n\nJockeys will get a final chance to experience the Grand National before Saturday's big race in the Topham Chase (16:05).", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nCoverage: Watch highlights of the first two days before live and uninterrupted coverage of the weekend's action on BBC Two and up to four live streams available online. Listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra. Read live text commentary, analysis and social media on the BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nPre-tournament favourite Dustin Johnson has suffered a lower-back injury following a fall at his rental home on the eve of Thursday's opening round of the Masters in Augusta.\n\nHis agent David Winkle says he still hopes to play tomorrow.\n\nWorld number one Johnson fell on the stairs on Wednesday and \"landed hard on his lower back\".\n\nHe is said to be uncomfortable but is resting and doctors have advised him to keep the injury stable.\n\nJohnson is due to tee off in the last group at 19:03 BST on Thursday evening.\n• None Quiz: Match the Masters winner with his Champions dinner\n\n\"Dustin took a serious fall on a staircase in his Augusta rental home,\" Winkle said in a statement.\n\n\"He landed very hard on his lower back and is now resting, although quite uncomfortably.\n\n\"He has been advised to remain immobile and begin a regimen of anti-inflammatory medication and icing, with the hope of being able to play tomorrow.\"\n\nThe American, 32, won his third successive tournament when he beat Spain's Jon Rahm in the World Match Play final in late March.\n\nHe has won seven of the 17 tournaments he has played since claiming his first major at the US Open at Oakmont in June, racking up another seven top-10 finishes in the process.\n\nThere is the adage of \"beware the injured golfer\" but there is no doubt this is a significant blow for Johnson.\n\nSince winning last year's US Open he has been a commanding presence and built a telling aura.\n\nNow his Masters bid is surrounded by uncertainty. His late tee time may prove a blessing as it gives an extra recovery period but there is no doubt this is a considerable setback.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nN'Golo Kante has won the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award for 2016-17.\n\nThe Chelsea midfielder, 26, beat Eden Hazard, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Alexis Sanchez in the vote by his fellow players.\n\nTottenham's Dele Alli won the young player prize for the second successive year. Manchester City's Lucy Bronze won the Women's Player of the Year award.\n\nBirmingham's Jess Carter was named Women's Young Player of the Year.\n\nKante said: \"It's a huge honour to be chosen by the other players. It's the biggest honour to get this award.\"\n\nThe midfielder is on course to win the Premier League with Chelsea, having done so last season at Leicester, and added: \"My first two seasons were very beautiful. Last season was very beautiful. This season so far, we have had a good season but we have to finish well.\"\n\nFormer England captain David Beckham received the PFA's Merit award for his contribution to the game during the ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel in London on Sunday.\n\nFormer England women's captain Kelly Smith - who became England's first female professional footballer when she joined American side New Jersey in 1999 - landed the PFA Special Achievement award.\n• None How do you create the next N'Golo Kante?\n\nKante was key to Leicester's surprise Premier League win last year and could become first player to achieve the distinction of winning successive titles with different clubs if Chelsea can stay ahead of Spurs in this season's race.\n\nSince signing Kante in July, Chelsea have gone from a mid-table finish to the top of the pile with six games to play.\n\nIn his absence, Leicester have largely struggled to replicate their heroics of last season and are still not safe from relegation.\n\nFrance international Kante has played every minute in the league this season apart from the Boxing Day game against Bournemouth, when he was suspended, and the final 11 minutes against Tottenham on 4 January.\n\nBBC pundit Danny Murphy, speaking on Match of the Day 2 on Sunday, described Kante as irreplaceable in the Chelsea line-up.\n\nFormer England midfielder Murphy said: \"He's the one you can't replace. If Eden Hazard wasn't there, you could put Willian in. Kante is the best midfielder in the Premier League, if not Europe.\"\n\nMatthew Upson, the former England defender, added on the same programme: \"It's 100% deserved. He is the most valuable player in the Premier League with his contribution.\n\n\"He might not be the most creative player, or have the biggest sudden impact, but over the course of the season he is the most valuable player in the Premier League. He's been outstanding.\"\n\nSpeaking earlier this season, BBC pundit Phil Neville described Kante as \"the one who has knitted this Chelsea team together\".\n\n\"I thought he was a number six like former Chelsea player Claude Makelele. But he is a number six, an eight and a 10 - he plays absolutely everywhere, three different positions,\" he said.\n\n\"I think Kante is the most complete midfielder in the Premier League at the moment.\n\n\"He will redefine what we are looking for from a midfield player.\"\n\nKante is famously a quiet man, yet on the pitch he is a tigerish opponent.\n\nHis total of 110 tackles in the Premier League this season is second only to Everton midfielder Idrissa Gueye (127), while his figure of 72 interceptions is eclipsed only by Ander Herrera of Manchester United.\n\nWatford captain Troy Deeney recently spoke about what it is like to play against Kante - an insight that perhaps explains why his peers voted him the best of their number.\n\n\"Whenever we broke on them last season, I always had the fear factor that Kante was coming back and I knew we didn't have much time before he got there,\" Deeney said.\n\n\"Even if I actually did have time, I always thought he might be there, so I would rush things a bit.\"\n\nKante only third pick among BBC Sport readers\n\nKante might be top of the class among his fellow professionals, but he did not quite come out on top among BBC Sport readers, who were recently asked to name their Premier League team of the year.\n\nMore than 40,000 teams were selected, with the most popular XI displayed below.\n\nKante was named in more than 80% of users' teams, but his exploits in the middle of the park for the Premier League leaders were not enough to make him the most selected player overall.\n\nThat accolade instead went to Spurs midfielder Alli, followed by Chelsea midfielder Hazard and then Kante.\n\nTwo of the nominees for the senior PFA award failed to make the BBC Sport team of the year, with Arsenal forward Sanchez and Manchester United striker Ibrahimovic missing out.\n\nAlli's young player prize is consolation for his omission from the six-man shortlist for the senior award, despite scoring 16 goals from midfield as Spurs have mounted a serious title bid.\n\nThe 21-year-old's importance to Tottenham's hopes is underlined by the fact they have scored a goal every 42 minutes with Alli on the field in the Premier League this season, compared to every 83 minutes without him.\n\nHe scored eight goals in six Premier League games between 18 December and 21 January, and was named the league's player of the month for January.\n\nThe England midfielder also showed his class with a brilliantly taken goal in Spurs' FA Cup semi-final defeat by Chelsea on Saturday.\n\nAlli said of his award: \"It's an unbelievable feeling, especially to be voted by the other players as well.\n\n\"It's been an unbelievable season for us all. I think we've just got to keep going, keep fighting and keep improving as a team.\"\n\nEngland full-back Bronze, 25, won the PFA Women's Player of the Year award for the second time after being part of the Manchester City squad that won the Women's Super League without losing a single game in 2016.\n\nBronze said: \"As a defender, you don't really get a lot of accolades, but it's a great award to win.\n\n\"As a team, we've been very successful, and individuals have performed really well in the team. This award for me is all thanks to the team, because without them, I wouldn't be anywhere near this.\"\n\nBirmingham midfielder Carter, 19, saw off competition from three Manchester City players to win the Women's Young Player of the Year award.\n\nShe started every game in the WSL in 2016 and completed 90 minutes in all but the season-opener at Sunderland.\n\nFormer Manchester United midfielder Beckham was honoured by his peers in recognition of his stellar career at club and international level.\n\nBeckham, 41, won 115 England caps - captaining his country on 59 occasions - and played for some of the most famous clubs sides in the world.\n\nHe scored 85 goals during his time at United, where he also won six Premier League titles and the Champions League. He also won Spain's La Liga during a four seasons at Real Madrid.\n\nBeckham follows former United team-mate Ryan Giggs in winning the Merit prize. He also received the award alongside his 'Class of 92' United team-mates in 2013.\n\n\"I dreamed of playing for Manchester United and England my whole young life,\" Beckham said. \"To have represented my country the number of times that I did, and to have been captain as well, that is my proudest thing as a footballer.\n\n\"I had 22 years of playing the sport that I never saw as a job. I always saw it as a hobby because I would have done it whether I'd be paid or not. I lived my dream and I had a lot of people to support me.\"\n\nEngland's record goalscorer and former Arsenal forward Smith retired from football at the age of 38 in January.\n\nShe scored 46 goals for her country, earned 117 England caps, played in six major tournaments and represented Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics.\n\n\"When I started out playing football as a little girl I never imagined me reaching the heights that I have, in my 20-odd-year career,\" she said.\n\n\"It's been a phenomenal journey: lots of highs, lots of lows, but I've really enjoyed every moment of it, and I feel very privileged to be here tonight to pick this up.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nA city-based Twenty20 tournament could have \"far-reaching consequences\" for counties who play at non-Test match grounds, says Kent's Jamie Clifford.\n\nKent have abstained in a vote on a change in rules which would allow the competition to take place.\n\n\"Our stance reflects the anxiety among non-Test match grounds. Their role as active players in the game's future is at risk,\" said Kent chief Clifford.\n\nMiddlesex and Essex are the only two to say they will vote against the changes.\n\nThe proposed changes to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) articles of associations require the support of 31 of 41 voting members, with the new tournament scheduled to start in 2020.\n\nClifford added: \"While Kent Cricket does not wish to be at odds with the ECB, the proposals for the future direction of the game as they stand are such that the club cannot actively endorse them.\"\n\nHowever, while he also accepted it was \"inevitable that the proposals will receive the support that they need to be enacted\", he wants Kent to \"act as a 'critical friend' in their further development\".\n\n\"Part of the evolution must be to ensure that county cricket is at the game's heart long into the future.\n\n\"To see first-class counties reduced to bit-part players will not be an acceptable outcome - no matter how high the profile of the new Twenty20 competition.\"", "I don't see Manchester City's failure to win a trophy as a disaster for Pep Guardiola, but finishing outside the Premier League's top four would be unacceptable.\n\nExpectations were so high when Guardiola arrived in England because he had won silverware in each of his previous seasons as a manager, dating back to 2008.\n\nSo a trophy in his first year in charge at City was seen by many people as the benchmark for success, but it was never a given and I don't think he ever thought it would be that easy either.\n\nBy now, he knows how gruelling a Premier League season really is, and has probably changed some of his plans for new signings accordingly.\n\nSunday's defeat by Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final underlined exactly how much there is for him to work on, and I am sure he will embrace that challenge.\n\nBut to carry out those plans, and get the new players he wants and needs, City simply have to be in the Champions League next season.\n\n'Guardiola must pick up his players quickly'\n\nThis is Guardiola's biggest moment as City manager, because has to make sure his players are ready to perform in the Manchester derby on Thursday.\n\nThey will be very disappointed because they put a lot into the semi-final, and the game going to extra time will not help their preparation either.\n\nGuardiola has to pick them up and turn the mood around. It is all about him now, and what he can do about the situation City are in.\n\nUnited reduced the gap between themselves and City to a point by beating Burnley on Sunday and they are in the ascendancy right now after making it to the semi-finals of the Europa League as well.\n\nI don't think City need to beat them, because just avoiding defeat would be a huge psychological boost.\n\n'City will make top four - but it will be tough'\n\nThe United game is not make or break but, after being knocked out of the FA Cup, City definitely need a lift to set themselves up for the run-in.\n\nIf you look at their remaining games after they play Jose Mourinho's side, they might appear simple when compared with United's run-in.\n\nBut, apart from their win over Hull at the start of April, I don't remember City having a really comfortable game at Etihad Stadium for some time, regardless of the opposition.\n\nTeams have sat back against them and been hard to break down, a bit like Arsenal did in the first half at Wembley.\n\nLosing David Silva so early on against the Gunners was a big blow, and it will hurt City's chances if his injury turns out to be a serious one.\n\nI still think City will make the top four, but it is going to be tough.\n\n'City were too predictable going forward'\n\nIn the next month, City will need their star attacking players to perform better than they did against Arsenal.\n\nThe Gunners looked far more dangerous when they attacked. When Danny Welbeck came on late in normal time, I felt the tide turn in their favour because his pace gave City's defence a different test.\n\nArsene Wenger's gameplan was very good, of course, but City just seemed to lack something going forward and their build-up play was too slow and too predictable.\n\nI could see Guardiola on the sidelines screaming at Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane to run in behind the Arsenal defence. They did not really test the Gunners' back three - as good as those defenders were.\n\nDon't get me wrong, City's players did not let him down - they gave everything they had, but it was not good enough.\n\nProbably the biggest positive for Guardiola was Yaya Toure, because I thought he was absolutely sensational - the best player on the pitch.\n\nToure did everything he could to pick City up and drag them into the final on his own. It wasn't enough but if he can maintain that kind of form, then he could make the difference to City's top-four prospects.\n\nWhen Guardiola is making plans for next season, I think 100% that Toure should be part of them.\n\nHe turns 34 in May and is out of contract in the summer but he showed against the Gunners how much he still has to offer.\n\nToure's problem is that he is entering the stage of his career where you have to adjust the team to suit his game - he is at his best when he is going forward but, when he does that, other people need to provide some protection.\n\nThat is why there could be a split. I don't think Guardiola wants to build his side around any individuals, because his vision is always a complete team.\n\nIf Toure is prepared to sit on the bench then he could still have a part to play at City next season. If he's not, I can see him leaving, although he clearly still has so much class.", "If you had to pick a Mr Men character that you thought was most like yourself, which would you choose?\n\nWith global sales of more than 120 million, many of us remember the much-loved Roger Hargreaves books from our childhood.\n\nBut as enjoyable as the tales are to read, few of us would have thought that they had a practical application in the world of business.\n\nWell that's the case at UK shoe repair and key-cutting business Timpson, which recruits new staff solely according to which Mr Men characters their personalities resemble.\n\nYou can turn up for your Timpson interview with the world's finest CV or resume, and all the interviewer will do is work out whether you are a Mr Lazy (you don't have a hope), or a Mr Cheerful (you have a very good chance).\n\n\"We purely interview for personality,\" says Mr Timpson, who has been leading his family's firm for the past 42 years.\n\nJohn Timpson came up with the Mr Men recruitment policy\n\n\"We're not bothered by qualifications or CVs. We just look at the candidate and work out who they are, are they Mr Grumpy, Mr Slow, Mr Happy?\n\n\"If they tick all the right boxes then we put them in the shop for half the day. That's it, I dreamt that up years ago.\"\n\nIn explaining the thinking behind this rather novel approach to recruitment, Mr Timpson, 74, says that while you can train someone to do a job, you cannot train their personality.\n\nAnd if you look at the continuing performance of the business, the Mr Men method appears to work rather well.\n\nTimpson, a household name in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, saw sales rise 8% to £130m in the year to September 2015, with pre-tax profits up 65% to £10.3m.\n\nAs you have no doubt already gathered, Mr Timpson doesn't like to run his company - which was set up by his great-grandfather in 1865 - according to business convention.\n\nAnother factor that he says has been integral to its success is what he calls an \"upside-down management approach\", which gives the 1,325 Timpson branches a vast amount of autonomy.\n\nThe firm has 1,325 branches across the UK and Republic of Ireland\n\nMr Timpson, who has the chairman role, says: \"You can't train for great service, it's not by issuing rules or notices in the back of the staffroom.\n\n\"You only get great people when you give them the freedom, so we let them [staff] charge what they want. Here you can't tell people [the workers] what to do.\n\n\"So very often if a customer doesn't have the money, they can say 'don't worry, give us the money next time'.\"\n\nTimpson employees can also spend up to £500 to settle a customer complaint, without having to check first with head office or a senior manager.\n\nBut how does Mr Timpson ensure that workers are running a business and not a charity? He returns to the hiring process.\n\n\"When store managers pick people, they get good people,\" he says.\n\n\"And the staff get a weekly bonus depending on how the shop is doing. They're not giving the business away, we're trusting them to be commercial.\"\n\nAnother key policy at Timpson is to hire people who have a criminal record, with 10% of its 4,700 employees having served time in prison.\n\nThe first Timpson shop opened in Oldham, now part of Greater Manchester, in 1865\n\nGiving former criminals a second chance was the brainchild of Mr Timpson's son James, who since 2011 has been the firm's chief executive.\n\nMr Timpson senior says: \"I was a little apprehensive at what other people would think, but I was proved wrong.\n\n\"Our colleagues take great pride it in, and our customers like it too.\"\n\nJohn Timpson first joined the Manchester-based family firm as a teenager, working in a number of stores. At the time the company didn't just repair shoes, but also made and sold them.\n\nAfter university he joined shoemaking rival Clarks on a graduate scheme, before moving back to the family firm, and working his way up to buying director by the age of 27.\n\nMr Timpson had to regain control of the business in the 1970s\n\nHowever, in 1973 Mr Timpson and his father were forced out of the business after a boardroom bust up that saw his uncle take control.\n\nThe business did not fare too well without them though, and in 1975 Mr Timpson returned as managing director, and it was the uncle's turn to depart.\n\nEight years later Mr Timpson led a £42m management buy-out from the firm's then parent group, returning it to family ownership.\n\nIt was during this time that he made the decision to sell the shoe shops \"because they were heading nowhere\", and instead focus on shoe repairs.\n\nThe firm has since gone on to diversify into key cutting, watch repairs and selling house signs. It has also bought photography businesses Max Spielmann and Snappy Snaps, and the dry cleaning division of Johnson Services.\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman says other store chains could learn a lot from Timpson.\n\n\"Timpson couldn't be a more unglamorous or unexciting business to be in, yet they manage to be dynamic and innovative,\" says Mr Hyman. \"They are a breath of fresh air.\n\n\"Timpson as a group is alive and kicking, and that's more than can be said for a lot more mainstream retailers.\"\n\nWhile Mr Timpson has no plans to retire, it is his son James who now looks after the day-to-day running of the company.\n\nThis has enabled Mr Timpson senior to write a newspaper column and release a number of business books, including his latest entitled Keys To Success.\n\nIn addition to his career in business Mr Timpson has had a very busy family life. In addition to five kids of their own, he and his late wife Alex - who died last year aged 69 - fostered no less than 90 children throughout their marriage.\n\nMr Timpson says that fostering \"taught me a lot about people\".\n\nTimpson staff are given a lot of autonomy\n\n\"I still try to help children in schools, and educate teachers on why children in the care system often behave the way they do.\"\n\nOften travelling around the UK to visit stores, Mr Timpson says \"it's really nice going to a shop that's well run\".\n\n\"It's bloody nice when a customer says how nice that guy was. It's also nice to have a company that has values based on kindness and generosity.\n\n\"You can do good and make money at the same time.\"\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 Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live commentary from 17:30 BST on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra, BBC Sport website and mobile app.\n\nMaria Sharapova's first opponent following her 15-month doping ban has questioned the decision to give the Russian wildcards on the WTA Tour.\n\nSharapova plays Italy's Roberta Vinci in the first round of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart on Wednesday.\n\nThe 30-year-old's wildcard entry has already been called \"disrespectful\" by ex-world number one Caroline Wozniacki.\n\n\"I don't agree about the wildcard here and about the wildcard in Rome and the other tournaments,\" said Vinci, 34.\n\nSharapova was given a two-year ban last year, backdated to 26 January 2016, after testing positive for heart disease drug meldonium at the Australian Open.\n\nHer suspension was reduced to 15 months in October, following her appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nSharapova will also receive wildcards for upcoming tournaments in Madrid and Rome.\n\nWorld number 36 Vinci added: \"She made her mistakes for sure, but she paid and I think she can return to play - but without any wildcards.\"\n\nAgnieszka Radwanska of Poland, who could meet Sharapova in the second round in Stuttgart, has also been among those to question the treatment of the former world number one, saying she should not be invited to Grand Slams.\n\nThose views were met with a scathing response by Sharapova's agent Max Eisenbud, who labelled Radwanska, 28, and 26-year-old Wozniacki of Denmark \"journeyman\" rivals who wanted to prevent the Russian playing at next month's French Open because it is their \"last chance to win a Slam\".\n\nSharapova, twice a winner at the French Open, is unranked and will require a wildcard to compete at Roland Garros when the tournament starts next month, with France's tennis federation yet to announce its decision.", "The life of a carer can be very difficult. For Sue Jenkins, whose 88-year-old mother Patricia needs round-the-clock care, it is very hard indeed.\n\nTwo years ago, Patricia was diagnosed with dementia. An accident four years earlier broke her back and since then she has been disabled, doubly incontinent and using a wheelchair.\n\n\"I have given up my life,\" says Sue. \"I used to sail a lot. I used to do so many things. I'm a very outward-going person. But I take care of my mother. And that's it.\n\n\"Love is something that drives you to give up those things. You'll give up anything.\"\n\nBut she's struggling. She cares for her mother 24 hours a day. Even taking the time to speak to us was difficult.\n\nHer mother calls for her constantly. She can't spend very much time away from Sue before becoming agitated.\n\nThere are professional carers who come to the house to help, but none lives with them full time and it seems a big part of what Sue does is to manage them.\n\nMore than 20 professional carers have come and gone over the last few months because Patricia's behaviour can be so difficult.\n\n\"Dementia strips the person of their personality,\" says Sue\n\n\"She has a lot of challenging behaviour,\" says Sue.\n\n\"Screaming, hitting out. It's horrible because dementia strips the person of their personality.\"\n\nHer eyes fill with tears as she talks. The physical exhaustion of a life with little sleep is obvious.\n\nBut the emotional strain of watching her mother deteriorate is pushing her to breaking point.\n\n\"I've lost my friend. My best friend. She's there - somewhere inside. But the person I dearly love and dearly want to talk to about so many things has left me already.\n\n\"And the thought of losing her fills me with complete dread. Because my life is very much her,\" she says.\n\nI ask her what it's like when her mother hits her.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking. It can make you feel useless. As she's saying that, it can make you want to run for the hills and just run into the night.\n\n\"And there have been many occasions when I've wanted to run off, thinking I was a useless carer.\"\n\nThe thought of losing her mum fills Sue with \"complete dread\"\n\nIt costs more than £2,800 a week to keep Patricia at home. That money is paid by local care services.\n\nBut the authorities have twice tried to stop the money. Sue says it is an attempt to force her to put her mother in a home.\n\nThat is something she is adamant she will never do.\n\n\"I've seen what goes on in those places. It would kill her,\" she says.\n\nShe feels hounded by the authorities and says it's taking valuable time away from her and her mother. She's says she is sometimes up through the night replying to emails, while still caring for her mother.\n\n\"It's been absolutely devastating. The hours that have been stolen from me - email after email after email - chasing and phoning,\" she says.\n\n\"The government wants to encourage people to stay in their own homes and nurse people in their own homes. And say there's support out there. But there isn't.\n\n\"It's the most isolating situation anyone could find themselves in,\" she adds.\n\nSue says there are now only \"occasional little laughs\" with her mum\n\nThere are more than 6 million people in the UK who look after sick or elderly relatives full time. Those numbers have been steadily increasing. But so have the pressures on people like Sue.\n\nUK Homecare Association this month said 900 carers are quitting the industry every day.\n\nGovernment ministers say they will spend an extra £2bn on social care over three years.\n\nAnd earlier this week, Luke Hall, a Conservative MP on the Commons Work and Pensions Committee, said carers made \"a huge contribution to society\".\n\n\"It's only right that we do everything we can to support the selfless work they do,\" he said.\n\n\"That's why we already increased the rate of carer's allowance, meaning an additional £450 a year for carers since 2010.\"\n\nFor Sue, her dedication to her mother has meant she has sacrificed her own happiness. Her husband left her six years ago when she decided to look after her mother.\n\n\"You find that having any kind of relationship is very difficult. It would take a very understanding man to understand my situation.\"\n\nLife has become increasingly lonely for her. Yet she tries to remain positive.\n\n\"It is worth it. There are occasional little laughs. Not often these days, but they're there. It's love. It's what you do. It's deep.\"\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\nLionel Messi scored his 500th Barcelona goal to send them top of La Liga with an injury-time winner against 10-man Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.\n\nBarca, whose win put them top because of a better head-to-head record, have five games left, Real have six to play.\n\nCasemiro scored first for the hosts before Messi and Ivan Rakitic put Barcelona in front and Sergio Ramos was shown a red card for a wild lunge.\n\nSubstitute James Rodriguez thought he had earned Madrid a point late on.\n\nBut Messi, who scored his first with a superb jinking run and finish, fired in from the edge of the area to win it for Barcelona.\n\nBoth Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo had earlier missed good opportunities to give their sides the lead, with the Argentina international poking wide of an open goal before the break and the Real Madrid forward slicing over in the second half.\n\nReal - who have a game in hand on Barcelona - also felt they should have had a penalty when Ronaldo was clipped by Samuel Umtiti after only two minutes.\n• None Analysis: 500 up Messi proves he's still the best\n\nReaching the Champions League quarter-finals and competing to win La Liga would hardly constitute a crisis for most clubs, but this is Barcelona.\n\nTrophies are often the minimum requirement for those in charge at Camp Nou. Fans expect to see their side win in style and have questioned the merits of boss Luis Enrique, who is to leave at the end of the season.\n\nThe travelling Catalan contingent could not complain about Sunday's heroics, however, as they were treated to two fine finishes from Messi that were complemented by an equally composed Rakitic strike from the edge of the area.\n\nAny crisis talks can be postponed while this side continues to boast Messi in its ranks, with the little magician showing he still has the ability to carry the Blaugrana against the world's best teams.\n\nA genius with the football at his feet, Messi continued to be the creative spark for Barcelona even after Casemiro - lucky not to be sent off himself - had twice scythed the forward down and an innocuous Marcelo elbow left the Argentine with a bloodied mouth.\n\nHis reward, as well as outshining Real Madrid counterpart Ronaldo in this Clasico, was to further ingrain his name into Barcelona folklore.\n\nReal Madrid have won the Champions League in two of the past three seasons, but have been less successful domestically - they are without a La Liga title since 2012, with Barcelona taking the trophy three times and Atletico Madrid once since then.\n\nDown to 10 men after Ramos' sending off and having pulled level with five minutes to spare, Zinedine Zidane's outfit looked intent on a winner that would have effectively put the title beyond Barcelona.\n\nThat left the space for the visitors to break away and score themselves. Tactical naivety from Zidane? Perhaps, but with a game in hand, La Liga still looks Real's to lose.\n\nIt had started promisingly for the hosts, with Casemiro the unlikely early hero when he poked home after Ramos hit the post. However, when Gareth Bale limped off with an ankle problem, the momentum swung in Barcelona's favour.\n\nHas the momentum in the title race also shifted away from Los Merengues?\n\nIf Zidane's side, who remain on course to become the first team to secure back-to-back Champions Leagues, can win their remaining six games in La Liga, the Frenchman will end Madrid's five-year wait for the domestic title.\n\nKeepers come out on top... almost\n\nEven with Brazil international Neymar suspended for Barcelona and Bale going off injured in the first half for Madrid, both sides boasted a plethora of attacking talent at the Bernabeu.\n\nBut it was the goalkeepers who looked, for a long time, to have come out on top as Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Keylor Navas made a series of fine saves to keep the score down.\n\nBarcelona's Ter Stegen was equal to efforts from Ronaldo and Karim Benzema in the first half, before Paco Alcacer, Gerard Pique and Luis Suarez were all denied by Navas after the break.\n\nTer Stegen made 12 saves in total, the most by a Barcelona keeper in La Liga since the 2003-04 season, but had little chance with either Casemiro's opener or Rodriguez's late leveller.\n\nEventually Barcelona's class in attack also shone through, La Liga's top goalscorer Messi leaving Navas well beaten with the winner.\n\nLa Liga title 'will be tight until the end'\n\nBarcelona boss Luis Enrique: \"We are first now but Madrid have an extra game. It will be tight until the end. We got the result we came here for.\n\n\"This is a season that weighs on us like five. So many things have happened, good things, not so good things, things I've already forgotten.\n\n\"The 2-2 goal was a terrible blow but players were able to come back in the last breath - the happy ending that we all wanted at Barcelona.\"\n\nReal Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane: \"Nothing changes now. Maybe after today the league will be more open. But we still depend on ourselves.\"\n\nBoth sides are back in La Liga action on Wednesday, as Barcelona host Osasuna and Real Madrid visit Deportivo La Coruna.\n• None Lionel Messi (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 2, Barcelona 3. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jordi Alba.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Marco Asensio.\n• None Attempt saved. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo.\n• None Attempt saved. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Real Madrid 2, Barcelona 2. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Marcelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Carvajal.\n• None Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergi Roberto.\n• None Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The claim: 260,000 children in Scotland are living in poverty, 40,000 up on last year.\n\nReality Check verdict: The best available figures suggest he is right to say there has been a jump in child poverty in Scotland to 260,000 after several years of little change.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Aviemore on Monday.\n\nHe highlighted the increase in relative child poverty in Scotland, saying that 260,000 children are living in relative poverty, which is up 40,000 on last year.\n\nThe figures come from a Scottish Government publication, which calculates relative poverty as living in households with incomes below 60% of the median income for the UK, after housing costs have been paid.\n\nThe median income is the one for which half of UK households have a higher income and half have a lower one.\n\nThe most recent figure is for the financial year 2015-16, and suggests that 260,000 children were living in relative poverty after housing costs, which is 26% of children in Scotland. That's up from 220,000 or 22% in 2014-15.\n\nThe figures in this report come from the Family Resources Survey, which collects information about 2,700 households in Scotland.\n\nThat's a large survey, but it still has a margin of error, so when it suggests that 260,000 children are living in poverty it means that the statisticians are 95% confident that the actual figure is somewhere between 190,000 and 320,000. That means that even though 40,000 is an unusually large increase, it is well within the margin of error and so the change is not statistically significant.\n\nThe Scottish Government proposed a Child Poverty Bill last year. The bill will set ambitious targets for reducing child poverty by 2030.\n\nThe report itself warns against placing too much emphasis on a single year's figures. \"More data will be required to judge whether these changes are indicative of a longer term trend,\" it says.\n\nNonetheless, these are official figures and they are the best figures available, suggesting there may have been a jump after several years of little change.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Theresa May announced on Tuesday she was seeking an early general election, scores of people saw their weekends and half-term holidays vanish in a giant puff of electioneering, manifesto-writing and the mammoth admin task of staging a nationwide ballot.\n\nBy anyone's estimations, the general election of 2015 was an immense piece of administration.\n\nForty-five million ballot papers were printed to reflect 650 separate candidate lists for the election. Forty-three thousand polling stations were staffed for 15 hours by 120,000 people. And the total cost of it came to £98,845,157.\n\nBut all that was organised with five years' notice - the duration between the previous election and the date of the 2015 poll.\n\nThe time frame for the 2017 ballot, which takes place on 8 June, is little more than seven weeks.\n\nOne Conservative member of staff told the BBC she was completely taken aback. \"I have friends who work for ministers and even they didn't see it coming until the Cabinet meeting took place.\"\n\nThe clock is already ticking, and there is much work to be done. A Labour aide working for an MP described the past week as \"very stressful\".\n\n\"In my own time after work I've been contributing to campaign materials and arranging to uproot myself from London so I can go back to the constituency.\"\n\nWhile general elections are about putting MPs in Parliament, it falls to councils to organise the nitty-gritty of voting and counting.\n\nVenues for polling stations and counting centres will need to be earmarked and reserved for 8 June. And that needs to happen before polling cards can be sent out.\n\nSome of the 120,000 people employed to conduct the 2015 election\n\nThis work is carried out by local authorities' electoral services divisions and overseen by returning officers.\n\nJohn Turner, chief executive of the Association of Electoral Administrators, predicts this election will be particularly onerous for two reasons - the compressed time scale, and the fact local elections are already taking place in many areas in less than two weeks.\n\n\"Many polling stations aren't publicly owned,\" said Mr Turner. \"They're church halls or community centres, and a lot rests on returning officers' ability to persuade the owners to move things around and make the space available.\"\n\nAs for staffing, electoral services departments maintain databases of temporary workers. But \"in this case some of them may already have made other plans or booked holidays\".\n\n\"Although returning officers are helped by permanent teams, this varies a lot. In some district councils it will only be two or three people and colleagues from other departments will have to pitch in.\n\nPolling stations have to be organised\n\n\"It's going to be an intense time for many of us, working 12-hour days.\"\n\nMr Turner is confident, however, that it will all come together in time, noting: \"We're a bit like the duck paddling away beneath the water but serene on the surface.\"\n\nThere's equally little hope of sleep for those in charge of political policy making. They will be working around the clock on putting together manifestos.\n\nIt's a particularly stressful time for the party in government, says Nick Pearce, head of the No 10 policy unit under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. As well as existing government duties, staff will be working \"flat-out\" to get the document finalised.\n\n\"A minister, usually from the Cabinet Office, takes overall responsibility, working with political staff from different departments to draft sections and liaise with the prime minister and her chief of staff,\" he explained.\n\nMinisters, lobbyists and Treasury staff also get heavily involved, trying to place pet projects and ensure big-ticket items are properly costed.\n\n\"There's huge pressure not to get anything wrong,\" said Mr Pearce. \"But working quickly like this there is certainly potential for that to happen.\"\n\nAnd what of getting the message out?\n\nSeven weeks is \"a very, very tight time frame\" for organising a marketing and advertising strategy, said Rachel Hamburger, an advertising executive and former Lib Dem campaigner.\n\n\"I'd be very surprised if we saw any nationwide broadcast campaigns comparable to famous ones of the past such as the Blair 'devil eyes',\" she said.\n\n\"With a long run-up, parties could be expected to run focus groups, market research and analysis of what is most important to their campaign before deploying adverts.\n\nThis time, she believes. parties will \"concentrate resources on individual seats and simple messages\".\n\nElsewhere in the media, broadcasters are preparing for election night. The BBC is reassigning hundreds of researchers, producers, camera crews and local reporters to put together its results programme.\n\nParties, meanwhile, have to deal with the small matter of ensuring there are candidates in place in 650 constituencies for people to elect.\n\nLabour and the Conservatives have both altered their normal selection procedures to speed things up, while all 54 of the SNP's existing MPs are expected to stand again.\n\nThe other parties are in varying states of readiness.\n\nThe Lib Dems say they have about 100 candidates still to pick. UKIP and Plaid Cymru will adopt the bulk of their candidates next week, while Greens' selection is under way with local electoral alliances under consideration.\n\nNone of Northern Ireland's parties are thought to have selected candidates, as talks continue about restoring devolved government.\n\nMost candidates will not have had a chance to allocate resources. It has already led some to take the unusual step of appealing for online donations.\n\nRegional party offices will provide MPs and activists with support, but the prevailing mood could be described as one of apprehensiveness.\n\nWhen asked to sum up how things were going, a fretful Conservative source said: \"Everything is basically on fire.\"\n\nA Labour campaigner replied with a series of distressed crying and screaming emojis.\n\nHowever, on a purely technical point, it's worth noting the 50-day gap between announcement and polling day is actually the longest since 1983.\n\nWhat's different this time is the lack of preamble, and thus preparation.\n\nAs the BBC's former head of political research David Cowling put it: \"Everyone was lulled into a false sense of security by assurances... and we're now completely stunned.\"", "On general election polling day, broadcasters are obliged to refrain from coverage of campaigning and stick to uncontroversial accounts of politicians voting or the weather.\n\nBut there could be an important news story that day relating to one of the main issues of the campaign - the state of the health service.\n\nThursday 8 June is the day announced by NHS England for the publication of its monthly statistics.\n\nThese cover a raft of data, including waiting times for accident & emergency and the number of people waiting longer than they should for cancer treatment and routine surgery.\n\nIn the absence of campaign coverage before the close of polls at 22:00 BST, the NHS figures published that day for the month of April may generate a certain amount of broadcast and online media interest.\n\nGiven trends revealed in previous months, it's likely that waiting lists will be longer than a year earlier although there may have been improvement on previous months.\n\nNHS England updated its publications calendar only last week after the prime minister's announcement of the general election on 8 June.\n\nThe monthly performance statistics are usually published on the Thursday of the first full week of a month so the choice of date is logical.\n\nThe date chosen for the previous month's statistics is 11 May and the data then may fuel exchanges between the parties at the height of the campaign.\n\nThis data publication issue has not occurred before because in previous campaigns NHS England was not putting out such a wide range of statistics on a single day each month.\n\nThe current system only started in the summer of 2015.\n\nAs things stand and if the chosen date is not altered, voters could head to the polling stations with the performance of the NHS one of the main news stories of the day.\n\nSo are any other important health announcements due during the campaign?\n\nWhitehall's traditional \"purdah\" during an election period has begun.\n\nThis obliges government departments and other public sector organisations to refrain from new policy announcements.\n\nThe idea is to stop a government rushing out initiatives close to polling day.\n\nUsually purdah takes effect when parliament is dissolved but this time it has been imposed more than a week before that.\n\nThere have been claims, denied by government sources, that closing down the official news machine early is part of Downing Street's attempt to tightly control the agenda.\n\nPre-announced official statistics, like the NHS England performance figures, are not affected by purdah.\n\nIt is the same for economic data announcements like unemployment and inflation which go ahead as usual.\n\nThere is, however, uncertainty around one other key health service publication - the quarterly financial figures from hospitals and other trusts in England.\n\nThe regulator NHS Improvement would normally publish in late May the total deficits for trusts for the three months ending in March.\n\nThese are especially important as they cover the final quarter of the financial year and so give the full year total.\n\nThe state of NHS finances is a political hot potato and these figures are sure to generate more heated debate. But will they be published during the campaign?\n\nUnlike pre-announced official statistics, the precise date for the NHS Improvement financial data is not confirmed until close to the chosen publication date.\n\nI am told there is a debate at a high level of the NHS over whether they should be released, as would be expected, a couple of weeks before polling day in June.\n\nThere is a delicate balance to be struck between the public's right to see normally published information from autonomous NHS bodies and the need to take on board the sensitivities of a campaign.\n\nSome delicate decisions have to be made.", "I know some rather annoying crows in the Somali port town of Berbera. Every morning, as I eat my breakfast by the beach, they swoop down and steal my bread, my jam, even my butter.\n\nThen they fly back up to their perches on a tall metal fence. They look like sentries, their black feathers gleaming, beaks curved and sharp.\n\n\"The Russians brought those birds,\" an elderly Somali tells me. He shows me the giant site of the old Soviet military base, the still-functioning runway they built during the Cold War to counter US influence in the Horn of Africa.\n\nAt more than 4km (2.5 miles) in length, it's one of the longest on the continent.\n\nFast-forward nearly half a century and, once again, Berbera, now part of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, is full of chatter about military bases.\n\nThat is because a deal has just been struck for the United Arab Emirates to build a facility there. There is talk of MPs being bribed handsomely to accept it.\n\nSome Somalis feel this is part of yet another effort to colonise their country. They have even started a social media campaign - #UAEHandsOffSomalia.\n\nThe Emirates already have a base in Eritrea, just up the coast, which is used to conduct war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, a short way across the sea.\n\nTravel in the other direction and you hit a huge Turkish base stretching along the beach south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Engineers working on its final touches tell me it's going to be Turkey's largest overseas military training camp.\n\nThe base is just a small part of Turkey's massive involvement in the country, which started in 2011 during the first famine of the 21st Century. Somalia is an eccentric choice for a gateway into Africa but, like other foreign powers, Turkey wants influence, prestige and economic gain.\n\nIt sometimes feels like Mogadishu is a Turkish colony. As soon as you land at the airport, red and white Turkish flags seem to outnumber the sky blue Somali ones.\n\nMany of the staff at the glistening new Turkish-built terminal come from Turkey. They tell me they do not like living in Somalia - it is too hot and there are too many explosions.\n\nTalk to the United Nations and to what, in development jargon, are called Somalia's \"traditional donors\" - in other words, the US and Europe - and they say, fairly diplomatically, that although they appreciate the efforts of the \"newcomers\", there is a lack of co-ordination.\n\nToo many countries are training too many different sections of the Somali security forces, which are already fractured and have a tendency to fight each other almost as much as they fight the local partners of al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State.\n\nI also get the sense that they are a tiny bit envious of all the kudos countries such as Turkey, Qatar and the UAE get for rebuilding Mogadishu and flying in supplies for people affected by the current drought.\n\n\"They are small fry doing highly visible projects,\" one Western diplomat tells me in his base inside the heavily protected international airport. \"We do far more but we prefer not to shout about it.\"\n\nAmerica in particular has good reason not to show off about its activities in Somalia, which include drone attacks and vast amounts of financial assistance.\n\nThe 1993 helicopter downings in Mogadishu shocked and angered the US\n\nIt cannot forget Black Hawk Down, when its troops withdrew in humiliation after a Somali militia shot down two of its helicopters in Mogadishu in 1993, dragging naked bodies of US servicemen through jeering crowds.\n\nAt times, Somalia seems like a vast international marketplace with foreign diplomats, private security companies and a few bold businessmen coming to ply their wares.\n\nThere is vast profit to be made in securing and rebuilding a broken country that has come top of the \"failed states\" list for several years in a row. Plus there's oil, minerals, fish, livestock and a fabulously strategic location.\n\nThe regional powerhouse, Ethiopia, is not at all happy about Somalia's new friends, especially those from the Gulf. It sees Egypt behind all of this, plotting reprisals for the giant dams Ethiopia is building, which Egypt fears may starve it of waters from the Nile.\n\nPessimists see real danger in this geopolitical realignment. They fear a war, with Somalia and Eritrea, emboldened by their new Gulf allies, taking on Ethiopia. More conflict in an already volatile region would threaten the global economy. Most of Europe and Asia's maritime trade, worth about $700bn (£550bn) a year, goes through the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb strait between Eritrea and Yemen.\n\nThe optimists see opportunity, with a thriving Red Sea zone opening up new economic partnerships and giving landlocked Ethiopia increased access to desperately needed ports.\n\nSomalis are worried about unintended consequences. Just like the US, which in 1993 saw a well-meaning humanitarian effort turn into a humiliating nightmare, they say all this friendship from the Gulf is going to end in trouble.\n\n\"Look at the Taliban of tomorrow,\" says a Somali friend, pointing towards neatly dressed children in the playground of a Saudi-funded school. \"A new Cold War is being fought on our land, and one side, the West, doesn't even know it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nNewcastle United secured an immediate return to the Premier League with a convincing home victory over Preston.\n\nChristian Atsu put the Magpies 2-1 up at half-time after Jordan Hugill had cancelled out an Ayoze Perez opener.\n\nOn a tense evening at St James' Park, Newcastle nerves were settled when Preston's Paul Gallagher was sent off for handling on the line and Matt Ritchie scored the resulting penalty.\n\nPerez got his second from close range to send Newcastle up with Brighton.\n• None Listen: 'Newcastle can't be loyal to the players who won promotion'\n• None How Newcastle won promotion - relive the action as it happened\n\nRafael Benitez's side had taken only one point from their previous three matches, but their late-season wobble was not punished by their closest rivals.\n\nDefeats for Reading and Huddersfield on Saturday left Newcastle needing one more win to guarantee a top-two finish.\n\nNerves were evident among the players and the crowd, which was in excess of 50,000, until Ritchie converted his spot-kick to stretch Newcastle's advantage against 10-man Preston with 25 minutes to play.\n\nThe hosts took advantage of poor Preston defending for all four goals, with Perez netting twice from corners and Atsu finishing a counter-attack in first-half stoppage time after North End had lost possession in midfield.\n\nBenitez had made a huge impression on Newcastle supporters in his two-month stint at St James' Park, despite being unable to save the Magpies from dropping out of the Premier League at the end of last season.\n\nHe was widely expected to leave a club destined for the Championship - he was, after all, a former Champions League winner with Liverpool and had been in charge of Spanish giants Real Madrid only two months before replacing Steve McClaren.\n\nHowever, instead of activating the break clause allowing him to leave Newcastle in the event of relegation, the Spaniard chose to sign a three-year contract.\n\n\"The love I could feel from the fans was a big influence for me,\" said Benitez in May 2016, upon signing his new deal.\n\n\"This is a huge club and I wanted to be part of the great future I can see for Newcastle United. The main thing for me is that I have assurances that we will have a strong team - a winning team.\"\n\nBenitez told BBC Newcastle after the match: \"I have to congratulate the players, the staff, everyone here in the club and city.\n\n\"In the end it was a very difficult task because it's a very difficult division and we had to keep going and pushing. There are a lot of things you cannot control but in the end we are where we wanted to be.\n\n\"This day is massive because everyone said at the beginning you have to go straight up. You know from experience it's not easy for any team, especially when you go down and have to change half the squad.\n\n\"I think it's a really important achievement for everyone involved because you have to keep strong mentally and keep going for so many months.\"\n\nNewcastle forward Aleksandar Mitrovic, who had a number of chances to add to the scoreline against Preston, said: \"Trust me, this team is really special. That's the reason why we made it in the end.\n\n\"I didn't believe when they told me this league was so hard, but for me this league, physically, is harder than the Premier League.\n\n\"We still have a chance to win the league but the most important thing is next year we have Premier League football here.\"\n\nBenitez was backed extensively in the transfer market and more than £50m was spent as one of the most expensive squads in Championship history was assembled.\n\nAmong the incomings were striker Dwight Gayle and winger Ritchie, who cost a combined £22m from Crystal Palace and Bournemouth respectively and have repaid their sizeable transfer fees with 34 league goals between them this term.\n\nNewcastle recouped all of that outlay and more with the sales of high-profile players such as Moussa Sissoko, Georginio Wijnaldum and Andros Townsend to Premier League clubs.\n\nAs for those who stayed following relegation, they have also played their part in Newcastle's success.\n\nJonjo Shelvey, an England international as recently as November 2015, has featured in every league match he has been available for this season and been one of the team's main creative forces in midfield.\n\nNewcastle secured promotion this term with two games to spare, but they will not match the achievements of the last Magpies side to go up from the second tier in 2009-10.\n\nThey had been relegated in 2009 with the club's record goalscorer Alan Shearer in caretaker charge - and began 2009-10 with Chris Hughton as caretaker manager.\n\nAfter a positive start to the season, Hughton was given his first permanent managerial role in October and he led Newcastle to the title with 102 points from their 46 games - 23 points more than third-placed Nottingham Forest.\n\nThere was little investment in new players but the majority of the squad from the previous season remained. Captain Kevin Nolan led by example, scoring 17 league goals from midfield, a tally matched by emerging striker Andy Carroll.\n\nAlthough promotion to the top flight has once again been achieved at the first opportunity, the Championship title is likely to elude Newcastle this time around.\n\nLeaders Brighton - now managed by Hughton - will be crowned champions if they win either of their final two league matches.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt saved. Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Daryl Murphy.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul Dummett.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Dan Evans claimed his first ATP Tour win on clay to reach the second round of the Barcelona Open, as compatriot Kyle Edmund also progressed.\n\nWorld number 43 Evans took a final-set tie-break against Thiago Monteiro to triumph 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 7-6 (7-2).\n\nThe 26-year-old's only two previous wins on the surface at tour level came in Davis Cup dead rubbers.\n\nEdmund, the world number 42, brushed aside Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3 6-4 and faces Austria's Dominic Thiem next.\n\nEvans will play Mischa Zverev, who beat Andy Murray at this year's Australian Open, in the second round.\n\nHis most recent Davis Cup win on clay came earlier this month as GB lost to France in the quarter-finals.\n\nHe was outplayed by Chardy in his first Davis Cup singles rubber, before beating Julien Benneteau as the match descended into chaos.\n\nMuch of the build-up to the tie focused on Evans' inexperience on clay, and dislike for the surface.\n\nBritish number two Edmund, who also lost to Chardy in the singles at the Davis Cup, exacted revenge on the world number 70 with a straight-set victory in Barcelona.", "Lib Dem membership has passed the 100,000 mark following a surge of new joiners since Theresa May announced a snap general election.\n\nThe party said it has signed up 12,500 new members since last week - and is expected to reach its highest total in its history \"within days\".\n\nLeader Tim Farron said Lib Dems are the only party opposing Mrs May's \"hard Brexit agenda\".\n\nHe insisted the party would not enter a coalition with the Tories or Labour.\n\nThe biggest membership number the Lib Dems have had since their formation was 101,768 members in 1994.\n\nThe recent flurry of interest means more than 50,000 members have joined since last year's European referendum - and more than 67,500 since the party's electoral low point, at the 2015 general election.\n\nMr Farron, who pledged to build the membership to 100,000 when he became leader in 2015, said reaching the goal \"tells us that there's an appetite for change in British politics and Liberal Democrats are the vehicle for that change\".\n\nHe said: \"People want a strong opposition to Theresa May's hard Brexit agenda and the Liberal Democrats are the only party challenging them up and down the country.\"\n\nIn an appeal to would-be supporters, he said: \"This election is your chance to change the direction of our country. If you want to stop a disastrous hard Brexit, if you want to keep Britain in the single market, if you want a strong opposition to fight for an open, tolerant and united Britain - this is your chance.\"\n\nThe Lib Dem leader also repeated his insistence that there are \"no circumstances whatsoever\" that the party will go in to a coalition with the Conservatives or Labour after the 8 June election, given the current approaches of those two parties.\n\nHe also dismissed an informal arrangement to offer his party's support on budget measures and other key votes to help a minority Tory or Labour administration.\n\nOn Sunday he told ITV's Peston on Sunday: \"What Britain needs in this election is clarity and a contest. Theresa May has called this election because she believes it'll be a coronation.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats are determined to make it a contest with a clear alternative position, and I don't want people thinking a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a proxy for anything else.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nAlexis Sanchez's scrambled extra-time winner secured Arsenal an FA Cup final date with Chelsea - and ensured Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will end a season without a trophy for the first time in his coaching career.\n\nSanchez settled a contentious semi-final 11 minutes into the extra period after Manchester City failed to clear Mesut Ozil's free-kick.\n\nArsenal showed great resilience to come from behind - and eased the pressure on manager Arsene Wenger - after Sergio Aguero raced clear of Nacho Monreal to put City ahead in the 62nd minute.\n\nMonreal made amends with the equaliser 11 minutes later as he drilled in Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's cross at the far post - but City were left nursing a serious sense of injustice after this disappointing defeat.\n\nThey had a goal wrongly ruled out in the first half when Leroy Sane's cross was adjudged to have gone out before Aguero and Raheem Sterling combined to turn it into the net, while Yaya Toure and Fernandinho hit the woodwork after the break.\n\nIt left Arsenal victorious and Wenger aiming for a record seventh FA Cup triumph.\n• None Analysis: This is now Pep's biggest moment as Man City manager - Jenas\n\nWenger gets his statement of intent\n\nWenger's future - and the lack of clarity surrounding it - has only been brought into sharper focus by Arsenal's recent fall outside the Champions League places.\n\nThe manager needed a statement, as did his team, to ease the growing disquiet among Arsenal fans at the prospect that he will extend his stay as manager.\n\nArsenal's Wembley win against Manchester City will not ease the concerns in the minds of the doubters but he can point to the victory, and the manner in which it was achieved, as evidence that he could yet be the man to take the club forward.\n\nVictory in the final on 27 May would strengthen his and Arsenal's case for continuity, but for now there was much for the Frenchman and his players to treasure about this triumph.\n\nWenger persisted with an unfamiliar three-man defensive system comprising youngster Rob Holding, Gabriel and Laurent Koscielny and set up his team to deliver an uncharacteristically stubborn performance.\n\nArsenal rode their luck at times - but Wenger will take that all day.\n\nWenger's players have been accused of not playing for him in recent months. No such accusation could be levelled here as they dug deep for victory.\n\nThe Gunners' embattled manager pumped his fists towards the skies at the final whistle and beamed with delight - he may yet achieve glory amid the worst discontent of his reign.\n\nManchester City will argue long and hard that their chances of reaching the final were sabotaged by a first-half decision that saw a good goal ruled out.\n\nReferee's assistant Steve Child judged that Sane's cross had gone behind before Aguero turned it back at the far post and then Sterling made sure. Replays suggested the ball had not gone out and City were the victims of an injustice.\n\nCity will also feel Lady Luck deserted them as they lost playmaker David Silva to injury early on and saw those efforts from Toure and Fernandinho hit the woodwork.\n\nIn the final reckoning, they must also accept the brutal truth that once more they enjoyed superiority in possession and territory but could not find the ruthless touch.\n\nGuardiola, arguably football's most celebrated coach, was brought to Manchester City to lift them to another level - and on that basis his first season without a trophy in a glittering managerial career will be regarded by many as a failure.\n\nHe has found it more difficult than he may have imagined after the seamless successes of his years in charge of Barcelona and Bayern Munich.\n\nManchester City named an unchanged line-up under Pep Guardiola for the first time, in what was his 50th game in charge. The three players who have started the most often are David Silva, Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne - 38 times each. Another three players have started just once for Guardiola - Joe Hart, Tosin Adarabioyo and Angelino.\n\nHe must now address the problems that have undermined City this season, particularly uncertainty over the goalkeeper position, where his decision to replace Joe Hart with Claudio Bravo has been unsuccessful, and also sort out an uncertain and ageing defence.\n\nGuardiola's main priority now is securing a top-four place and getting into the Champions League, starting with Thursday's derby against Manchester United at Etihad Stadium.\n\nFailure to achieve that objective is unthinkable.\n• None This was Manchester City's first FA Cup semi-final defeat since 1932, also against Arsenal - the Citizens had won eight consecutively before this defeat.\n• None Alexis Sanchez is Arsenal's top scorer in games at Wembley, with four goals - he overtook Marc Overmars and Ian Wright on three.\n• None Sanchez has now been involved in more goals than any other Premier League player in all competitions this season (38, 24 goals and 14 assists).\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored 12 goals in his past 12 matches for Manchester City in all competitions.\n• None It was Aguero's second goal at Wembley, having netted for City against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final in April 2013.\n• None Nacho Monreal's last two goals for Arsenal have come in the FA Cup, both against Manchester clubs (having scored against Manchester United in March 2015).\n• None Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has six assists in his past 10 FA Cup starts for Arsenal. In all competitions this season, only Mesut Ozil (10) and Alexis Sanchez (14) have more assists than Oxlade-Chamberlain (nine).\n\nManchester City return to Premier League action with a home derby against neighbours United on Thursday. Arsenal are at home to Leicester in the league on Wednesday.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Jesús Navas tries a through ball, but Kelechi Iheanacho is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gaël Clichy.\n• None Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jesús Navas.\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fabian Delph (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Fabian Delph (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two graduate students stood silently beside a lectern, listening as their professor presented their work to a conference.\n\nUsually, the students would want the glory. And they had, just a couple of days previously. But their families talked them out of it.\n\nA few weeks earlier, the Stanford researchers had received an unsettling letter from a shadowy US government agency. If they publicly discussed their findings, the letter said, it would be deemed legally equivalent to exporting nuclear arms to a hostile foreign power.\n\nStanford's lawyer said he thought they could defend any case by citing the First Amendment's protection of free speech. But the university could cover legal costs only for professors. So the students were persuaded to keep schtum.\n\nWhat was this information that US spooks considered so dangerous? Were the students proposing to read out the genetic code of smallpox or lift the lid on some shocking presidential conspiracy?\n\nNo: they were planning to give the International Symposium on Information Theory an update on their work on public key cryptography.\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\nThe year was 1977. If the government agency had managed to silence academic cryptographers, they might have prevented the internet as we know it.\n\nTo be fair, that wasn't their plan. The World Wide Web was years away. And the agency's head, Adm Bobby Ray Inman, was genuinely puzzled about the academics' motives.\n\nHe felt cryptography - the study of sending secret messages - was of practical use only to spies and criminals.\n\nThree decades earlier, other brilliant academics had helped win the war by breaking the Enigma code, enabling the Allies to read secret Nazi communications.\n\nNow Stanford researchers were freely disseminating information that might help adversaries in future wars to encode their messages in ways the US couldn't crack.\n\nHis concern was reasonable. Throughout history, the development of cryptography has been driven by conflict.\n\nTwo thousand years ago, Julius Caesar sent encrypted messages to far-flung outposts of the Roman empire - he'd arrange in advance that recipients would simply shift the alphabet by some predetermined number.\n\nFor example, \"jowbef Csjubjo\" - if you substitute each letter with the preceding one - reads \"invade Britain\".\n\nDeciphering the Enigma code gave a significant strategic boost to the Allied campaign in WW2\n\nThat kind of thing wouldn't have taken the Enigma codebreakers long to crack. Today, encryption is typically numerical: first, convert the letters into numbers and then perform some complicated mathematics on them.\n\nThe recipient needs to know how to unscramble the message by performing the same mathematics in reverse. That's known as symmetrical encryption. It's like securing a message with a padlock, having already provided a key.\n\nThe Stanford researchers wondered whether encryption could be asymmetrical. Could you send an encrypted message to a stranger you'd never met before which only they could decode?\n\nBefore 1976 most experts would have said it was impossible. Then Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman published a breakthrough paper. It was Hellman who, a year later, would defy the threat of prosecution by presenting his students' work.\n\nThat same year, three researchers at MIT - Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman - turned the Diffie-Hellman theory into a practical technique, called RSA encryption, after their surnames.\n\nThese academics had realised that some mathematics are a lot easier to perform in one direction than another.\n\nTake a very large prime number - one that's not divisible by anything other than itself. Then take another. Multiply them together. That gives you an extremely large \"semi-prime\" number, one divisible only by two prime numbers.\n\nIt turns out it's exceptionally hard for someone else to take that semi-prime number and figure out which two prime numbers were multiplied together to produce it.\n\nIn effect, an individual publishes his semi-prime number - his public key - for anyone to see. And the RSA algorithm allows others to encrypt messages with that number, in such a way that they can be decrypted only by someone who knows the two prime numbers that produced it.\n\nIt's as if you're distributing open padlocks for the use of anyone who wants to send you a message which only you can unlock. They don't need to have your private key to protect the message and send it to you.\n\nThey just need to snap shut one of your padlocks around it.\n\nIn theory, it's possible for someone else to pick your padlock by figuring out the right combination of prime numbers. But it takes unfeasible amounts of computing power.\n\nIn the early 2000s, RSA Laboratories published some semi-primes and offered cash prizes to anyone who could figure out the primes that produced them.\n\nSomeone did scoop a $20,000 (£16,000) reward - but only after 80 computers worked on the number non-stop for five months. Larger prizes for longer numbers went unclaimed.\n\nNo wonder Adm Inman fretted about this knowledge reaching America's enemies.\n\nBut Prof Hellman had understood something the spy chief had not.\n\nThe world was changing and electronic communication was becoming more important. Many private sector transactions would be impossible without secure communication.\n\nYou take advantage of this every time you send a confidential work email, or buy something online, or use a banking app, or visit any website that starts with \"https\".\n\nWithout public key cryptography, anyone would be able to read your messages, see your passwords and copy your credit card details.\n\nPublic key cryptography also enables websites to prove their authenticity - without it, there'd be many more phishing scams. The internet would be a very different place and far less economically useful.\n\nTo his credit, the spy chief soon accepted that the professor had a point and no prosecutions followed. Indeed, the two developed an unlikely friendship.\n\nBut Adm Inman was right that public key cryptography would complicate his job.\n\nEncryption is just as useful to drug dealers, child pornographers and terrorists as it is to you and me paying for something on eBay.\n\nFrom a government perspective, perhaps the ideal situation would be if encryption can't be easily cracked by ordinary folk or criminals - thereby securing the internet's economic advantages - but government can still see everything that's going on.\n\nEdward Snowden leaked tens of thousands of documents revealing mass surveillance by the US and UK governments\n\nThe agency Adm Inman headed was called the National Security Agency (NSA). In 2013, Edward Snowden released secret documents showing just how the NSA was pursuing that goal.\n\nThe debate Snowden started rumbles on. If we can't restrict encryption only to the good guys, what powers should the state have to snoop - and with what safeguards?\n\nMeanwhile, another technology threatens to make public key cryptography altogether useless: quantum computing.\n\nBy exploiting the strange ways in which matter behaves at a quantum level, quantum computers could potentially perform some calculations significantly more quickly than regular computers.\n\nOne of those calculations is taking a large semi-prime number and figuring out which two prime numbers you'd have to multiply to get it. If that becomes easy, the internet becomes an open book.\n\nQuantum computing is still in its early days.\n\nBut 40 years after Diffie and Hellman laid the groundwork for internet security, academic cryptographers are now racing to maintain it.", "Watch five of the best shots from Mark Selby's 13-6 win over Xiao Guodong 13-6 to reach to reach the World Championship quarter-finals.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 live and text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app from 21:00 BST.\n\nBriton Anthony Joshua says \"Father Time has caught up with Wladimir Klitschko\" as the two prepare for Saturday's heavyweight world title bout.\n\nKlitschko, 41, lost his heavyweight title to Tyson Fury in November 2015 - his first defeat in 11 years.\n\nThe Ukrainian will fight Joshua for his IBF title and the vacant WBA Super and IBO heavyweight belts at Wembley.\n\n\"He has to pass on the baton. I do hear it a lot, he's too old, he's faded,\" Joshua, 27, told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"But then I try and flip it. Even if he is too old, which I think he is, he's in a good place mentally and that's a dangerous fighter.\n\n\"Timing is everything and maybe Father Time has caught up with the former champ.\"\n• None Hear more from Joshua speaking to BBC Radio 5 live\n• None Listen to the full 5 live Boxing with Costello and Bunce - Joshua v Klitschko preview\n• None Wladimir Klitschko: Anthony Joshua will be 'facing Mount Everest' for heavyweight title\n\nRob McCracken, who has trained Joshua since his days as an amateur, said the Ukrainian's age was a factor in his team accepting the fight.\n\n\"I'd be a liar if I said it wasn't the case. I think the last couple of fights he hasn't looked at his best,\" said McCracken.\n\n\"Timing is huge in boxing. Klitschko is coming to the end of his reign as a heavyweight on the planet.\n\n\"We are rolling the dice with Anthony in this situation. It's a huge step up in terms of experience and the calibre of the opponent but we think the timing is right.\"\n\nIn 2014, Joshua visited Klitschko's training camp to help the Ukrainian prepare for his bout with Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev, which he won.\n\nAnd Joshua, unbeaten in 18 fights since turning professional in 2013, believes he has come a long way since the two last met three years ago.\n\n\"I am a completely different person now. I'm at a place now where he's obsessed with beating me and I'm confident,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not a gym fighter. If I'm depending on his age and he's depending on the sparring from years ago then he will definitely get it wrong.\n\n\"He's got to come across a young lion who studies the game.\n\n\"Whatever type of fight he wants to fight, if it goes down the route of us two swinging until the cows come home, I don't think I will back out.\n\n\"My obligation first and foremost is to make him look like a novice.\"", "Edvard Munch's The Scream: One of the world's most famous works of art\n\nNorwegian scientists have put forward a new theory to explain the inspiration behind one of the most famous works of art ever produced.\n\nThe Scream (1892), by Edvard Munch, depicts a figure holding its face, which is making an agonised expression.\n\nBut look above this individual and the sky is full of colourful wavy lines.\n\nThe researchers say these are probably Mother of Pearl Clouds - rare phenomena that would have had a big impact on anyone who saw them for the first time.\n\n\"Today the general public has a lot more scientific information but you can imagine back in his day, he'd probably never seen these clouds before,\" said Helene Muri from the University of Oslo.\n\n\"As an artist, they no doubt could have made quite an impression on him.\"\n\nDr Muri was speaking here in Vienna at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly.\n\nMother Of Pearl Clouds seen at Lørenskog, Norway, in 2014\n\n\"I went along the road with two friends – the sun set\n\nI stopped, leant against the fence, tired to death - watched over the\n\nflaming clouds as blood and sword the city - the blue-black fjord and the city\n\n- My friends went away - I stood there shivering from dread - and\n\nThe unusual sky formation in The Scream has previously been ascribed to volcanic effects.\n\nJust nine years before Munch's first rendering of The Scream, Krakatoa famously blew its top.\n\nThis eruption in what is now Indonesia was one of the biggest such events in recorded history, and its sulphurous emission circled the globe to generate some spectacular sunsets.\n\nBut the Norwegian group argues that the wavy shapes painted by Munch are a far better match for what are termed Polar Stratospheric (Type II) Clouds; or as they are also sometimes called - Nacreous Clouds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helene Muri: \"They would have made quite an impression on the artist\"\n\nTheir rarity comes from the very particular conditions needed in their formation, at altitudes between 15km and 20km.\n\nThese requirements include not only very cold winter air, down at minus 80-85C, but a good degree of humidity as well.\n\nAtmospheric flow up and over mountains helps because it can inject moisture from the troposphere into the stratosphere, followed by a process called adiabatic cooling that can then greatly reduce air temperatures.\n\n\"That's when you can get very small ice crystals of about one micrometer,\" explained Dr Muri.\n\n\"These clouds are very thin and are best seen just before sunrise and after sunset, when the sun is below the horizon.\n\n\"You get these very distinct colourings, from the combination of scattering, diffraction and internal refraction of the sunlight on these tiny ice crystals.\"\n\nDr Muri has lived in the Oslo area for 25 years. She says she has seen the iridescent clouds only once with her own eyes - and she knows precisely when and what to look for.\n\nSuch phenomena could have taken Munch completely by surprise, she believes.\n\nThe background to The Scream was Oslo fjord, but what was the inspiration?\n\nThe team first started investigating the possible link between the unusual meteorology and The Scream when consultant Svein Fikke observed a display of the clouds in 2014.\n\nHe managed to take a series of stunning photos, and then started delving deeper into the story.\n\nSome very rare cloud types are reported to be increasing in frequency and distribution, perhaps due to climate change.\n\nAn example would be Noctilucent Clouds. These are the highest clouds on Earth, forming at altitudes of 80km and more. There is evidence to suggest they are becoming more visible at lower latitudes than used to be the case.\n\nIt is conceivable similar trends might occur with Nacreous Clouds, Dr Muri said, although no statistics can justify such a statement yet.\n\n\"We know that the troposphere is warming and expanding while the stratosphere above is compressing and cooling. So, the temperature characteristics of minus 80C and below might become commonplace in the future,\" she speculated.", "Two-thirds of European Jewry was murdered by the Nazis\n\nGiselle Cycowicz (born Friedman) remembers her father, Wolf, as a warm, kind and religious man. \"He was a scholar,\" she says, \"he always had a book open, studying Talmud [compendium of Jewish law], but he was also a businessman and he looked after his family.\"\n\nBefore the war, the Friedmans lived a happy, comfortable life in Khust, a Czechoslovak town with a large Jewish population on the fringes of Hungary. All that changed after 1939, when pro-Nazi Hungarian troops, and later Nazi Germany, invaded, and all the town's Jews were deported to Auschwitz.\n\nGiselle last saw her father, \"strong and healthy\", hours after the family arrived at the Birkenau section of the death camp. Wolf had been selected for a workforce but a fellow prisoner under orders would not let her go to him.\n\n\"That would have been my chance to maybe kiss him the last time,\" Giselle, now 89, says, her voice cracking with emotion.\n\nGiselle, her mother and a sister survived, somehow, five months in \"the hell\" of Auschwitz. She later learned that in October 1944 \"a skeletal man\" had passed by the women's camp and relayed a message to anyone alive in there from Khust.\n\n\"Tell them just now 200 men were brought back from the coal mine. Tell them that tomorrow we won't be here anymore.\" The man was Wolf Friedman. He was gassed the next day.\n\nAt Auschwitz-Birkenau, some 900,000 Jews were murdered on arrival\n\nSix million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices during World War Two. In many cases entire towns' Jewish populations were wiped out, with no survivors to bear witness - part of the Nazis' plan for the total annihilation of European Jewry.\n\nSince 1954, Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem (\"A Memorial and a Name\"), has been working to recover the names of all the victims, and to date has managed to identify some 4.7 million.\n\n\"Every name is very important to us,\" says Dr Alexander Avram, director of Yad Vashem's Hall of Names and the Central Database of Shoah [Holocaust] Victims' Names.\n\n\"Every new name we can add to our database is a victory against the Nazis, against the intent of the Nazis to wipe out the Jewish people. Every new name is a small victory against oblivion.\"\n\nIn Western Europe, the Nazis kept records of victims, such as this Frankfurt to Theresienstadt deportation list\n\nThe institution, a sprawling complex of buildings, trees and gardens on the western slopes of Mount Herzl, gathers details about the victims in two ways: through information from those with knowledge of the deceased, and archive sources, ranging from Nazi deportation lists to Jewish school yearbooks.\n\nToday Giselle has come to dedicate her father's name, nearly 73 years after he was killed, a small piece in a vast jigsaw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I never got the chance to kiss my father goodbye\"\n\nShe is helped by trained staff through the process of recording Wolf's details on a Page of Testimony, a one-page form for documenting biographical information about the deceased, such as where they lived before the War, their occupation and the members of their family, and, if available, a photograph.\n\n\"Only two-thirds of the way down do we ask where they were during the war and what happened to them,\" Cynthia Wroclawski, deputy director of Yad Vashem's Archives Division, points out.\n\n\"We're interested in seeing a person as a person and who they were before they became a victim.\"\n\nDetails about the lives of millions of victims are held in Yad Vashem's Hall of Names\n\nIt is, the institution says, a kind of paper tombstone. So far Yad Vashem has collected 2.7m Pages of Testimony.\n\nEach is stored in black boxes, each containing 300 pages - 9,000 boxes in all. They are kept in climate-controlled conditions on shelves surrounding a central installation, a 30ft-high conical lined with the faces of men, women and children who were murdered, rising up towards the sky.\n\nHere in the Hall of Names groups of visitors pass through in quiet contemplation. There is space on the shelves for 11,000 more boxes - or 6m names in all.\n\nWith the last survivors dying out, Yad Vashem is facing a race against time to prevent more than a million unidentified victims disappearing without a trace.\n\nThis is apparent in the decreasing number of Pages of Testimony it receives - down from at least 2,000 per month five years ago to about 1,600 per month currently.\n\nThe memorial is trying to raise awareness, including among Holocaust survivors who have not yet come forward. For decades, for many of them the experience was still too painful to talk about.\n\n\"It's quite a common occurrence, not only in Holocaust survivors but survivors of prolonged and extreme trauma in childhood,\" says Dr Martin Auerbach, Clinical Director at Amcha, a support service in Jerusalem for Holocaust survivors.\n\nThere are spaces on the shelves for a possible six million Pages of Testimony\n\nThat began to change, he says, after about 30 or 40 years, when many survivors started talking about what happened, not with their children but with their inquisitive grandchildren. Dr Auerbach sees the Names Recovery Project as a valuable part of the healing process.\n\n\"Filling out this page of information saying this was my father, mother, grandfather, nephews and nieces - you cannot bury your relatives who perished but you can remember them in a way that will commemorate them forever, so this is very important and also therapeutic for many survivors.\"\n\nWhile Yad Vashem has made great strides in identifying victims from Western and Central Europe - about 95% have now been named - far fewer names have been uncovered in Nazi-occupied areas of Eastern Europe, where about 4.5m Jews were murdered.\n\nThis is because while there was an organised, official process of arrest and deportation further west, in the east whole communities were marched off and massacred without any such formalities.\n\nOnly about half the victims of the Babi Yar massacre have so far been named\n\nAn estimated 1.5m Jews alone were shot to death by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) in what has become known as the Holocaust by Bullets, after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.\n\nIn Babi Yar, in Ukraine, for instance, of the 33,000 Jews from Kiev and its surroundings who were slaughtered in a ravine in September 1941 in the largest massacre of its kind, about half are yet to be identified.\n\nOthers not murdered by the Einsatzgruppen died, without a trace, from starvation or exhaustion in ghettos and labour camps, or were killed in nearby extermination camps, where they had been herded without any kind of processing.\n\nYad Vashem is working with Jewish organisations in those countries to try to reach remaining survivors in the former Soviet Union, where the Holocaust was not officially commemorated, and who may have little awareness of the memorial's existence.\n\nIt is a massive and often complex task. The memorial holds some 205m Holocaust-related documents, which are examined meticulously in the search for names.\n\n\"There is a lot of documentation where there are names that are very scattered,\" says Dr Avram. \"Names mentioned in a letter here or a report there. This can be very labour intensive. Sometimes you have to go through thousands and thousands of pages just to retrieve a few dozen names.\"\n\nThe difficulty is compounded by the fact that sources can be in 30-40 different languages, most are handwritten and can be in different scripts, such as Latin, Hebrew and Cyrillic. \"Our staff not only need to be linguists but they need to know calligraphy,\" says Dr Avram, himself a language expert.\n\nPages remembering victims have been filled in more than 20 languages - such was the scale of the Nazis' reach\n\nOne of the biggest gaps is with children, of whom some 1.5 million were murdered in the Holocaust. Only about half have been identified.\n\n\"It's one of the saddest things,\" says Dr Avram. \"We have reports where parents are named with say three or four children, unnamed. They were little children and people just don't remember.\"\n\nThe aim is to turn them from anonymous statistics into human beings again, like seven-year-old Edward-Edik Tonkonogi, from Satanov in Ukraine. His childish innocence and sweetness of character come across in a letter he wrote in 1941 to his parents who were travelling with a Russian theatre troupe:\n\nEdik was murdered after the Nazis entered the town that same year. His name was later memorialised in a Page of Testimony by a relative.\n\nAs time moves on, the task of finding missing names is getting harder in some respects but easier in others. The availability of source material is greater than ever and advances in technology mean it can be a less arduous task to gather information and manipulate the data.\n\nHowever, the fewer the names left to uncover, the more activity it takes to find them.\n\nThe digital age also means there are more tools at researchers' disposal than ever before. The department searching for names recently took to social media, including Facebook, in a push to reach untapped survivors. The campaign generated many new Pages of Testimony.\n\n\"When you're talking about social media you have the younger generation now understanding that those names are not in our database and trying to find out the information from their family members,\" says Sara Berkowitz, manager of the Names Recovery Project.\n\nThere is another significant, sometimes life-changing, outcome of the growth of the names database, which has been available online since 2004. It has led to emotional reunions of survivors who had lived their lives not knowing there was anyone else from their family left alive.\n\nLast year two sets of families belonging to two sisters, each of whom thought the other had perished in the Holocaust, were united after a chance discovery through the Pages of Testimony. It transpired the sisters had lived out their lives just 25 minutes away from each other in northern Israel, but passed away without ever being aware.\n\nIn 2015 a pair of half-siblings who did not know the other was alive were reunited as a result of searching the database, while in 2006 a brother and sister, one living in Canada and the other in Israel, were reunited 65 years after becoming separated in their hometown in Romania.\n\nThe project has also brought to light other, unfortunate findings. Argentinean-born Claudia de Levie, whose parents fled Germany in the 1930s, believed she had lost four or five relatives in the Holocaust. A search of the database to help with her daughter's homework revealed in fact 180 family members had been killed.\n\nClaudia de Levie lost many family members in the Holocaust, but found new living relatives\n\nFurther research however revealed through a signature on a Page of Testimony the existence of cousins of her husband, living in Hamburg. The families now speak to each other each week on Skype.\n\nIronically, a chief architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, lived as a fugitive in the same neighbourhood as Claudia when she was a child in Argentina, as she would later learn.\n\nThe importance of the mission to recover victims' names received global recognition in 2013 when the United Nations cultural agency, Unesco, included the collection in its Memory of the World register.\n\nThe agency lauded it as \"unprecedented in human history\", pointing out that the project had given rise to similar efforts in other places of genocide, such as Rwanda and Cambodia.\n\nManual searches of thousands of documents might yield just a few names\n\nDespite the millions of names recorded so far, there is still a long way to go if all six million are ever to be recovered, but those behind the project remain determined.\n\n\"I personally would like that we do reach that goal, that at least among those who perished there won't be a person who remains unknown. It's our moral imperative,\" says Sara Berkowitz.\n\n\"Until I sit in the office and days will pass by and I won't have work to do, I'll know that we've more or less raked the universe to try to get to every name and there is no more there.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UKIP's proposed ban on full veils worn by some Muslim women has \"great public support\", the party's deputy leader has claimed.\n\nPeter Whittle said wearing a burka or niqab is \"an absolute symbol of the subjectification of women\".\n\nUKIP wants no new Islamic schools in the state system until the Muslim community \"is better integrated\".\n\nShe spoke out after UKIP used a central London event to broaden its agenda beyond its successful campaign for Brexit.\n\nThe party says it wants girls at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to have annual school-based medical examinations. It also wants failure to report FGM to be made into a specific criminal offence.\n\nMr Whittle insisted his party wants people \"to integrate properly\", adding that UKIP firmly believes \"a multi-ethnic society can be a harmonious and successful one if it's bound together by an overarching attachment to Britain and British identity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut he argued that face coverings \"such as the Islamic veil are a deliberate barrier to integration - they say 'don't speak to me, I will not speak to you',\" adding that they are \"a potent symbol of female oppression\" and a \"security risk\".\n\n\"When it comes to things like the veil, France has banned it, Belgium has banned it,\" he told the BBC. \"The biggest parliamentary party in the European Parliament has recently called for an EU-wide ban on it.\"\n\nOther UKIP policies unveiled ahead of the 8 June general election include:\n\nCaroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party, claimed UKIP's integration agenda was \"an assault on multiculturalism and an attack on Muslims - it's full throttled Islamaphobia\".\n\n\"Now that the referendum has passed Nuttall's party is desperately scrabbling around for relevance and seems to have settled upon attacks on Muslims and fringe far right politics as their new home,\" she said.\n\nFormer Lib Dem home office minister Baroness Featherstone claimed UKIP's FGM medical checks were \"horrifically heavy-handed\", arguing they would \"alienate the very communities we are trying to reach out to\".\n\n\"We should be training our teachers and other providers such as community experts to identify those at risk and teaching children themselves that FGM is wrong and to come forward if they fear for themselves or a friend,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Labour shadow home office minister Diane Abbott appeared to back the policy for mandatory medical checks during a Westminster Hall debate in 2014.\n\nAt the time she said: \"It is a disgrace and a shame that in 2014 we cannot protect those young girls in London and other big cities. We have to face up to the need for prosecution and for routine medical examination.\"\n\nFormer UKIP member and donor, Arron Banks said he was not in favour of his party's proposed ban on the full face veil. \"I think people have a right to their religious beliefs,\" he told BBC's Sunday Politics show.\n\n\"I think there are certain circumstances where if it's a security issue - maybe the airports, or public transport - it's acceptable, but I'm not in favour of curtailing people's [freedoms].\"\n\nHowever, he stood by the previous call he made on Twitter for a ban on Muslim immigration into the UK.\n\nThe former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, proposed a burka ban in 2010. But the party later dropped the policy, and it did not appear in its 2015 manifesto.\n\nFull-face veils are already banned in public in some European countries, including France.", "Ray Davies' new album contrasts the America of his childhood dreams to the reality he discovered while living in New Orleans\n\n\"Sorry, I'm chewing gum,\" says Ray Davies five minutes into our interview, before extracting the offending substance from his mouth.\n\nIt's a fitting interruption. We're here to talk about his latest album, Americana, which charts his love-hate relationship with the US - and there's nothing more American than chomping on a stick of Wrigley's.\n\nOf course, our most recently-ennobled rock star is best known for his writing about England on songs like Waterloo Sunset, Muswell Hillbilly, Sunny Afternoon, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, but his obsession with the States started early.\n\nAs a schoolboy, he was captivated by black and white cowboy movies and the be-bop records his older sisters would bring home.\n\nAfter receiving a guitar for his 13th birthday, he devoured records by Muddy Waters and Slim Harpo. His love affair with the blues was so strong that when he wrote The Kinks' first hit single, You Really Got Me he intended it to be \"a blues song\".\n\n\"Then it turned out to be a pop hit.\"\n\nSomewhat disingenuously, he tells the BBC You Really Got Me was supposed to be The Kinks' only song (even though it was their third single).\n\n\"I wanted that to be a hit and then I was going to get out of town,\" he says.\n\n\"Unfortunately they asked me to write another one, and another one.\"\n\nThe star recently received a knighthood for services to music\n\nThe Kinks' success meant Ray and his younger brother Dave could finally visit the Land of the Free - but things didn't go entirely to plan, as he describes on the new album.\n\n\"They called us The Invaders, as though we came from another world,\" he sings. \"And the man from immigration shouted out, 'Hey punk, are you a boy or a girl?'\"\n\nThe band could have overcome the prejudice if they weren't already in disarray - prone to fighting on stage, and let down by a promoter who refused to pay them in cash.\n\nThings came to a head while taping Dick Clark's TV show Where The Action Is in 1965.\n\n\"Some guy who said he worked for the TV company walked up and accused us of being late,\" Davies wrote in his autobiography X-Ray.\n\n\"Then he started making anti-British comments. Things like 'Just because the Beatles did it, every mop-topped, spotty-faced limey juvenile thinks he can come over here and make a career for himself.'\"\n\nA punch was thrown, and the American Federation of Musicians refused to issue the Kinks permits to perform in the US for the next four years.\n\n\"It was a terrible blow to our career,\" says Davies. \"We couldn't tour. We couldn't play Woodstock.\n\n\"Being a bolshie 21-year-old, I said, 'Let's make records and tour the rest of the world'.\n\n\"But deep down I was really hurt, because America was the inspiration for much of our music.\"\n\nThe Kinks' hits included Sunny Afternoon, All Day and All of the Night and Set Me Free\n\nWhen the band were finally allowed back, in 1970, they had to start from scratch, plying their trade in tiny clubs and high school gymnasiums.\n\n\"It was quite a humbling experience after being really successful before,\" Davies recalls.\n\nYet the US became the band's lifeline in the 1970s, providing adulation, success and financial reward as interest dwindled at home.\n\n\"We ended up playing Madison Square Garden in 1980, which is a sign you've made it back. So it was a 10-year programme. It was hard work but, in a strange way, we built a loyal fanbase in that time.\"\n\nSo perhaps it's no surprise that Davies sings \"I want to make my home/Where the buffalo roam\" on the title track of his new album.\n\nIndeed, he moved to the US for several years, finding his spiritual home - and sanctuary - in New Orleans.\n\n\"I'm just another person there, which is really nice,\" he says. \"And I fitted in with the music scene.\"\n\nLiving across the road from a church, he would frequently witness the city's brass band funerals, which stretch through the streets in celebration of local musicians and dignitaries at the end of their life.\n\nBut his sojourn in the city ended badly one Sunday evening in January 2004.\n\nDavies was strolling along an unusually deserted Burgundy Street with his girlfriend Suzanne Despies.\n\nA car pulled up alongside them, a young man got out, and demanded Despies' purse. She handed it over without any resistance, but Davies suddenly decided to give chase.\n\nHis assailant was armed, and shot Davies in the leg, breaking his femur.\n\n\"Why did I do it? That's the unanswerable question,\" he says.\n\n\"I've never really been the sort of person who would chase a man with a loaded gun. But I did. Foolishly, perhaps, and irresponsibly. But I did it.\n\n\"It was one of those heat of the moment situations, and I have no explanation other than that.\"\n\nAmericana, is based on Davies' 2013 memoir of the same name\n\nHe ended up in hospital, heavily drugged and, for the first 24 hours, an anonymous \"John Doe\".\n\nThe experience informed a song - Mystery Room - in which the star faces his mortality for the first time: \"My brain's hit a brick wall / My body's in free-fall.\"\n\nIt's partnered with another track, Rock 'N' Roll Cowboys, which equates ageing rock stars with gunslingers about to hang up their holsters.\n\n\"Rock and roll cowboys, where do you go now?\" asks Davies. \"Do you give up the chase like an old retiree? Or do you stare in the face of new adversaries?\"\n\nIt's a question that's flummoxed many of his 60s contemporaries. Has he ever contemplated giving up?\n\n\"Every writer who's written and toured for more than five years reaches a point where they think, 'Do I keep going?' or, 'Where do I go next?'\" he says.\n\n\"Every day I wake up and say, 'I love writing songs but do I want to do this?' and the answer is I do.\n\nFor the new record, he sought the help of alt-country stalwarts The Jayhawks, whose deft arrangements provide a rich backdrop to Davies' wry and incisive lyrics.\n\nWas it challenging, I wonder, for him to walk in and take charge of an already-established band?\n\n\"It was a diplomatic situation,\" he says... well, diplomatically.\n\n\"At first, they were trying to sound English in their backing vocals, but I deterred them from that.\n\n\"The reason I picked them is because they just play the songs. They don't embellish too much unless I ask them to, which is great.\"\n\nThe star hopes to tour with the Jayhawks later this year. 'If the diaries coincided, it would be wonderful.'\n\nThe Americana sessions went so well that there are \"another 20\" songs waiting to be finished and released, all derived from Davies's 2013 book of the same name.\n\n\"It's a big work, but I hope it'll be put together for a deluxe record later on.\"\n\nIs he tempted to write something more topical for that record, given the ongoing political turmoil in the US?\n\n\"Everyone who knows my work comes up to me and says: 'It's time to revive Preservation,'\" he says, referring to The Kinks' 1973 concept album and tour, in which a comedian becomes a dictator, funded by big business and using the media as a tool of control.\n\n\"It was a fun show but it had quite serious undertones,\" says Davies, \"and I think that sums up America at the moment: it's a fun show with very serious undertones.\n\n\"I do hope America balances itself out. It's slightly off-kilter at the moment.\n\n\"He [Trump] has still got to face Congress, and it's still a democratic country. I think the will of the people will be heard, and America's constitution is strong.\n\n\"It's a difficult time of re-adjustment for them - but I think in time it'll balance itself out.\n\n\"It's a beautiful place but a dangerous place, as I found out.\"\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 Athletics\n\nBritain's Kelly Sotherton is set to be upgraded to an Olympic bronze medal for the second time in five months after retrospective drug tests.\n\nRussian Tatyana Chernova has been stripped of the heptathlon bronze she won at Beijing in 2008 after testing positive for a steroid.\n\nSotherton won heptathlon bronze in 2004 and had already been moved to third in the Beijing 4x400m relay after Belarus and Russia's disqualification.\n\nShe was fifth in the 2008 heptathlon.\n\nHowever, the 40-year-old has now climbed to third after the previously announced doping ban of Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska and now Chernova.\n\nSotherton retired five years ago after failing to recover from a back problem in time to qualify for the heptathlon at London 2012.\n\nAfter finding out she was to become a three-time Olympic medallist, Sotherton posted an emotional video on social media showing her reaction.\n\n\"Yes I had tears. Happy ones this time,\" she said.\n\nSotherton's compatriot, Jessica Ennis-Hill, belatedly won the 2011 World heptathlon title last year when Chernova was similarly stripped of gold for doping.\n\nFormer UK Athletics performance director Dave Collins, who oversaw the 2008 Games, said that British athletes receiving their medals was an \"essential step for the sport\".\n\nCollins' contract was not renewed after Britain fell one short of their medal target in Beijing.\n\n\"It's great to see but clearly it's a disappointment they didn't get their day in the sun,\" he said.\n\n\"It's great to see the teams getting recognition late, because it's better late than never. But by gosh, it would have been a lot better at the time.\"", "Note: Battleground seats are defined as those where the winning party had a majority of less than 10%\n\nThere are 650 constituencies in the United Kingdom. But the election campaign over the coming weeks will be concentrated in the marginal battleground seats - the ones with small majorities that are most likely to change hands.\n\nThere's no official definition of a marginal seat but people often look at constituencies where the majority - the gap between the first and second placed parties - is under 10%.\n\nFor politicians it's obviously a good idea to focus on these battleground seats. There's not much point in spending lots of time and money in constituencies that they already hold comfortably, or where they're so far behind they have no realistic chance of winning.\n\nThere are exceptions to this. In 2015 the SNP surge in Scotland was so powerful that apparently \"safe\" seats fell. And the collapse of the Lib Dems saw them lose some seats they'd held with sizeable majorities.\n\nSuch large swings are rare though. And even in 2015 the Conservative/Labour fight took place almost exclusively in the battleground seats.\n\nEighteen seats changed hands between the two biggest parties. Only one of those, Ilford North, had a majority above 10%.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content.\n\nSeats the Conservatives will be gunning for include Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East, Birmingham Edgbaston and Wirral West.\n\nRecent elections have seen poor returns for the Conservatives in the north-east of England but it's a part of the country that voted strongly for Brexit and Prime Minister Theresa May hopes her focus on the issue will help them gain seats.\n\nLabour-held Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East is a good example. Its voters backed Brexit and there's a considerable pool of almost 7,000 voters who went for UKIP last time.\n\nThat's one group the Conservatives will target. If they trust Theresa May to deliver Brexit, the Conservatives will argue, why vote UKIP? Picking up a decent chunk of them would be enough to overturn Labour's majority of 2,268.\n\nOther pro-Brexit Conservative targets in the north of England and the Midlands include Halifax, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Derbyshire North East and Walsall North. In all of them there's a sizeable number of people who voted UKIP in 2015 and a small Labour majority.\n\nBirmingham Edgbaston is a different sort of target. Its voters were fairly evenly split on Brexit. But it's a relatively prosperous part of the city which used to be a Conservative stronghold.\n\nAn increase in the number of ethnic minority voters helped Labour last time round but it's always remained in the Conservatives' sights. With Gisela Stuart standing down after 20 years as the MP, they'll see an opportunity.\n\nWirral West is one of 10 seats lost by the Conservatives to Labour in 2015 - Esther McVey was ousted as the MP after just one term.\n\nWith their current lead in the opinion polls, they'll be highly optimistic they can take it back - along with other seats lost in 2015 such as City of Chester, Dewsbury and Lancaster and Fleetwood.\n\nLabour start the election as the clear underdogs compared to the Conservatives. But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn hopes to win over voters during the campaign.\n\nGower, in South Wales, has the smallest majority of any seat in the country - a mere 27 votes. If just 14 voters switched from the Conservatives, Labour would take it so they will be campaigning for every vote. Before 2015 they'd held it for more than 100 years and it had been considered a Labour heartland seat.\n\nOther losses from 2015 they'll want to reverse include Morley and Outwood, former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls's old seat, and Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.\n\nIn recent years London has been Labour's strongest region. They made seven gains here in 2015 and Sadiq Khan went on to win the 2016 mayoral election comfortably.\n\nCroydon Central was a seat they narrowly missed out on last time but they reduced the Conservative majority to just 165 votes. In a sign of their intentions, Jeremy Corbyn went to the constituency on the very afternoon that MPs voted to allow the early election.\n\nHendon and Harrow East are other London targets\n\nLabour lost 40 Scottish seats to the SNP in 2015. In many cases the swing was so massive that they now look beyond reach.\n\nBut they'll be looking for any signs of the beginning of a fight back. RenfrewshireEast, which used to be Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy's seat, is their top target. Next down the list is Edinburgh North and Leith.\n\nThe Lib Dems are starting from a low base. They lost 49 seats in 2015, holding on to just eight, and are looking for a recovery this time.\n\nAs the most pro-EU of the national parties, the Lib Dems will particularly target seats like Conservative-held Twickenham in London, which voted heavily for Remain in last year's referendum and where Sir Vince Cable is returning to refight his old seat.\n\nThe December 2016 by-election in neighbouring Richmond Park, where they overturned Conservative Zac Goldsmith's 23,000 majority, showed their strategy could work.\n\nOther pro-Remain constituencies in their sights include Kingston and Surbiton and, outside of London, Bath and Cambridge - the latter held by Labour.\n\nDunbartonshire East also voted for Remain but here they must challenge the SNP, another strongly pro-EU party. Nevertheless, the Lib Dems will think they have a chance.\n\nJo Swinson was ousted there in 2015 when the SNP's vote surged by 30%. She's standing again and won't need much of that back to recapture the seat.\n\nThe pro-EU message probably won't go down so well in Yeovil, which backed Leave in the referendum. But it's a constituency that the Lib Dems held for more than 30 years before it went Conservative in 2015 - Paddy Ashdown used to be the MP - and the broader south-west region used to be a stronghold for the party.\n\nOther targets here include Thornbury and Yate, on the outskirts of Bristol, and St Ives in Cornwall - a county where the Lib Dems used to dominate.\n\nWith the SNP already holding 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland it's clearly impossible for them to make significant gains. But they'll be gunning for Labour's only Scottish constituency, Edinburgh South, and they're not far behind in Lib Dem-held Orkney and Shetland.\n\nPlaid Cymru are just 229 votes behind Labour in Ynys Mon (Anglesey). But there could also be an intriguing battle in Rhondda if party leader Leanne Wood decides to stand, even though mathematically it's a lot further down the target list. She achieved a tremendous 24% swing there in the Welsh Assembly election last year, so a gain is not out of the question.\n\nUKIP's results in 2015 demonstrated again how parties can suffer under the first-past-the-post electoral system.\n\nThey received 3.9 million votes but won just one seat, Clacton, and even there the victor was Douglas Carswell, who had defected from the Conservatives.\n\nThe problem UKIP have is that their vote is very evenly distributed compared to the other main parties - in fact, so much so that they're not even a close second in many places.\n\nFormer leader Nigel Farage fell 3,000 votes short in Thanet South last time. They're also close in Hartlepool where the Labour MP is standing down so that may be their best chance.\n\nThe Green Party are also badly served by first past the post. The only seat where they start in second place within 10% of the winner is Labour-held Bristol West. The Lib Dems are also a significant presence in that constituency and even the fourth-placed Conservatives got nearly 10,000 votes in 2015 so there a lot of possible outcomes.\n\nIt may be only two years since the last general election. But in Northern Ireland it's less than two months since voters last went to the polls. The Assembly election held on 2 March saw gains for Sinn Fein and losses for the main unionist parties (UUP and DUP). It would be wrong to assume the general election will automatically follow the same pattern but it will certainly have an impact on the campaign.\n\nSinn Fein will be eager to recapture Fermanagh and South Tyrone - reversing the loss they suffered in 2015. The swing they achieved in March would be enough to get them over the line.\n\nBelfast South is a rare three-way marginal. Both the DUP and the Alliance Party (APNI) are within 10% of the incumbent SDLP. In fact Sinn Fein is less than 11% behind as well so there are lots of possible outcomes. Perhaps the most important factor, here and elsewhere, will be whether all the parties stand. In 2015 the DUP and UUP agreed to co-operate by standing aside for each other in four constituencies. That certainly helped and the UUP have already announced they'll do the same again. Previously the SDLP have refused to enter any deal with Sinn Fein but they are thinking of doing so this time as part of a broader anti-Brexit alliance. That could change the complexion of a number of battleground seats.\n\nThe contest in South Antrim is different. It has an overwhelming majority of unionist voters. The question is whether they'll back the UUP or DUP. The seat has switched between the two parties four times this century. It wouldn't take much of a shift for it to switch again.", "It is a sunny Saturday afternoon and sausages are sizzling on the barbecue, wine is flowing and children shuttle between the swings and a plate of cupcakes.\n\nThis gathering in Nottingham looks like any group of friends, but the adults have one thing in common - they have all been widowed.\n\nWay: Widowed and Young is a peer support organisation, introducing people in similarly tragic situations to others who can understand their complex grief.\n\nAll the members present agree that its regular meetings and internet chatroom have been an essential part of coping in the days and years since their bereavements.\n\n\"When my husband first died, suddenly from meningitis, I couldn't be in the house on my own. I had panic attacks,\" says Georgia Elms, who is now chair of Way.\n\nGeorgia Elms was pregnant when her husband died\n\nShe was widowed 10 years ago and discovered she was pregnant with her second daughter the following day.\n\n\"It really does affect your mental health. You become a different person and your self-confidence goes,\" she adds.\n\n\"You think you're going mad when you're grieving. For me - and everybody grieves differently - I wanted to check that what I was feeling was normal. It made me feel a lot calmer, that everybody else felt the same way.\"\n\nMental health concerns are a common theme in the group.\n\n\"It's normal to feel a little bit crazy. You feel these hugely strong emotions and the kids do too,\" says Sarah Philips, another member of the group.\n\n\"If that's not handled well, you can end up being a bit crazy.\"\n\nKevin Moore lost his wife to breast cancer eight years ago and joined Way in order to meet other fathers in the same position.\n\n\"It's a very traumatic experience. It turns your whole world upside down. It certainly does affect your mental health overall,\" he says.\n\n\"There are some very dark times and it's very despairing at times when you don't know what happens next. Being able to share your concerns helps you move through those times together.\n\n\"It's not a medical condition you can go to the doctor's with.\"\n\nAngela Sumata's husband took his own life\n\nBeing widowed at all is highly traumatic, but for Angela Sumata, whose husband Mark took his own life 13 years ago, her grief was almost impossible to process.\n\n\"Bereavement and grief is something that we all have to deal with in life. The thing that compounds it when somebody takes their life, is that it brings with it a whole different level of complexity, the emotions you feel, how they can change from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute.\"\n\nAngela joined Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide, another peer support organisation, in the wake of her experience.\n\n\"When Mark took his life we were very well treated on the night, but after that you're really reliant on your friends and family. What we didn't have was the offer of support from any professional.\n\n\"All of my help has come from the charity sector, from people realising that the specialist services aren't there and forming charities themselves.\"\n\nIt is especially important for people affected by suicide, says Angela, who is now a campaigner and fronted the BBC documentary Life After Suicide.\n\n\"There's people who consider suicide because they've been bereaved by suicide. If you don't receive the help you need to navigate through the issues, then absolutely it can lead to mental health issues.\"\n\nYvonne Tulloch said society was not geared up to help people who were suddenly bereaved\n\nOne of the biggest issues, according to former cathedral minister Yvonne Tulloch, is finding the support when you need it.\n\nHer husband died suddenly nine years ago while on a business trip. She found her grief hard to contain and says she had suicidal thoughts herself.\n\n\"It's this massive sadness that comes over you and you just can't get out of that, and you feel like life just isn't worth living,\" she says.\n\n\"These days it feels like people just don't understand what you're going through, and society's not geared up to help.\n\n\"I spiralled down very rapidly and got to the point of beginning to think there's no point to my life any more. The thought of ending it began crossing my mind.\"\n\nShe has set up the website At A Loss, where users can search for the most suitable support, be it for the loss of a parent or partner, tailored to the individual's age.\n\n\"We are providing a one-stop shop website to help signpost the bereaved to support,\" she says.\n\n\"If you find somebody who's been through what you're going through, and has come out the other side, it gives you hope.\"", "Brexit is a major issue at the UK general election - here's what we know about where the main parties across the UK stand.\n\nIn short: Prime Minister Theresa May was against Brexit before the EU referendum but now says there can be no turning back and that \"Brexit means Brexit\". The reason she gave for calling a general election was to strengthen her hand in negotiations with the EU.\n\nHow the party sees Brexit: The Conservatives' priorities were set out in a 12 point plan published in January and the letter formally invoking Brexit in March.\n\nWhat we don't know: The Conservatives have not said how they will control migration from the EU after Brexit. They have also not committed to the size of any separation payment they would accept, beyond saying the UK would meet its international obligations.\n\nThey have not specified which matters returning from Brussels will be handed to devolved administrations and which will be kept at Westminster.\n\nNegotiating style: Mrs May has talked tough towards the EU in recent weeks, claiming some key figures were trying to interfere in the general election and promising to be a \"bloody difficult woman\" during negotiations.\n\nWhere the MPs stand: More Tory MPs backed Remain than Leave in last year's referendum - but they now strongly support the UK leaving - in February, only one voted against the government beginning Brexit by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.\n\nAll but one Tory MPs supported Theresa May in invoking Brexit\n\nRisks and rewards: Theresa May would use an election victory to say the country is uniting around her approach to Brexit, and has moved on from the divisions of the referendum campaign. But her uncompromising approach to leaving could upset some of the 48% who wanted to stay in, with the Lib Dems hoping to capitalise in areas - like London's Richmond Park in last year's by-election - that backed Remain.\n\nIn short: The Labour Party campaigned against Brexit in the referendum but now says the result must be honoured, and is aiming for a \"close new relationship with the EU\" with workers' rights protected.\n\nHow the party sees Brexit: Labour has set out several demands and tests it says Brexit must meet:\n\nWhat we don't know: Like the Conservatives, Labour has yet to spell out how it will manage migration after Brexit, and has not been drawn on the size of \"divorce bill\" it would be willing to pay.\n\nNegotiating style: Jeremy Corbyn says he is aiming for \"sensible and serious negotiations\" and will not be \"threatening Europe\".\n\nWhere the MPs stand: The vast majority of Labour MPs backed Remain ahead of the referendum - but most followed party orders to allow Article 50 to be invoked in February's vote.\n\nRisks and rewards: Labour is hoping its acceptance of the result will fend off attacks from the Tories and UKIP in Leave-backing areas - including Stoke Central where it won February's by-election. But there are divisions among MPs on the best way forward, and Labour faces the challenge of having to appeal to both sides of a polarising debate.\n\nThe Lib Dems hope a pro-EU stance will help them repeat their Richmond Park success\n\nIn short: The Liberal Democrats are strongly pro-EU, and have promised to stop what they call a \"disastrous hard Brexit\".\n\nHow they see Brexit: Central to the Lib Dems' offer is another referendum - this time on the terms of the final Brexit deal - in which the party would campaign to stay in the EU.\n\nThe Lib Dems also say they will fight with \"every fibre of their being\" to protect existing aspects of EU membership, such as the single market, customs union and the free movement of people.\n\nThey would guarantee EU citizens' rights and remain in Europe-wide schemes like Erasmus.\n\nWhere the MPs stand: All of the Lib Dem MPs backed staying in the EU, and seven out of nine opposed triggering Article 50, with two abstaining.\n\nRisks and rewards: The Lib Dems are hoping their pro-EU pitch will help them gather voters in pro-Remain areas, as when they captured Richmond Park in London in December's by-election. But according to estimates based on the referendum results, two of their sitting MPs represent areas that backed Leave last June - which might make the party's second referendum policy a tough sell on the doorstep.\n\nIn short: SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to have a special status after Brexit and for a second independence referendum to take place before the UK leaves.\n\nHow they see Brexit: The SNP's manifesto says it will demand a place for the Scottish government at the Brexit negotiating table.\n\nIt says it will fight to keep Scotland in the EU single market. The SNP says it will also press the UK government to guarantee the status of NHS workers from mainland Europe, and oppose any attempt to treat the fishing industry as a \"bargaining chip\".\n\nOnce negotiations are complete, and before the UK has left, the SNP wants a referendum on Scottish independence to take place.\n\nWhere the MPs stand: The SNP's 54 MPs voted en masse against triggering Article 50 and are expected to maintain their vocal opposition to Brexit in the next Parliament.\n\nRisks and rewards: The SNP will hope to harness Scotland's support for remaining in the EU (it voted Remain by 62% to 38%). But a significant minority of its supporters are thought to have backed Leave - while the Tories are said to be targeting the Moray seat of SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson, where Remain only narrowly saw off the Leave campaign in the EU referendum.\n\nUKIP says it will ensure the government does not \"backslide\" on Brexit\n\nIn short: UKIP has long campaigned to leave the EU - and having finished on the winning side in the referendum, is now styling itself as the \"guard dog of Brexit\".\n\nHow they see Brexit: The party has set six \"key tests\" for Brexit: Supremacy of Parliament, full control of migration, a \"maritime exclusive economic zone\" around the UK's coastline, a seat on the World Trade Organisation, no \"divorce\" payment to the EU and for Brexit to be \"done and dusted\" by the end of 2019.\n\nGreen Party of England and Wales joint leader Caroline Lucas has called for a second EU referendum on the Brexit deal reached with Brussels, and the Greens have promised \"full opposition\" to what they call \"extreme Brexit\".\n\nPlaid Cymru, which campaigned to stay in the EU, says it accepts that the people of Wales voted to leave, but says single market membership should be preserved to protect Welsh jobs.\n\nThe DUP campaigned in favour of leaving the EU - and, in its manifesto for this year's Assembly elections, said it wanted to see a \"positive\" relationship with the rest of Europe, involving \"mutual access to our markets to pursue common interests\".\n\nHaving campaigned to stay in the EU, the SDLP's MPs have opposed the invoking of Article 50, saying it is being done \"against the will of people in Northern Ireland\", where most people voted to Remain in the EU.\n\nBefore the referendum, the Ulster Unionist party said that on balance, it was better for Northern Ireland to stay in the EU - although not all its members agreed. It says it would honour the referendum result, and wants \"unfettered\" access to the single market and no hard border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nSinn Fein has accused the Conservative government of \"seeking to impose Brexit on Ireland\". It wants Northern Ireland to have a \"designated special status\" inside the EU.", "The relief in Brussels is palpable. It believes it is (almost) back from the brink.\n\nA passionate Europhile, Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign is as much blue and yellow as it is the \"tricolour\" of France.\n\nThe EU, he believes, should to be at the heart of French politics, with more integration in finance, defence and migration.\n\nHe wants to breathe life into the now-spluttering Franco-German motor; to take a lead role with Germany to - in his eyes - Make Europe Great Again.\n\nAngela Merkel and the European Commission's Jean-Claude Juncker can hardly conceal their delight. Both were quick to get on the phone to congratulate Mr Macron on his strong showing in Sunday's vote.\n\nBy this autumn fervent Eurocrats hope to look back fondly to a string of electoral defeats for populist Eurosceptics in Austria, the Netherlands, France, and then Germany.\n\nBut they shouldn't count their chickens.\n\nEuroscepticism is widespread in France, whether or not Marine Le Pen becomes president.\n\nIn the post-industrial north-east of France, with its hopelessly high unemployment, and in the resentful south-east with its struggling small businesses, globalisation and the EU are seen as joint public enemy number one.\n\nThe nostalgic nationalism peddled by Ms Le Pen is a source of comfort and hope.\n\n\"In the name of the people\" is her campaign slogan. Woman of the people is her image.\n\nShe was the only presidential candidate amongst 11 to hold their Sunday night election party outside Paris, basing herself in the troubled town of Hénin-Beaumont where she first made a political name for herself as a local councillor.\n\nSharpening her political claws against Emmanuel Macron, she is now keen to portray him as an arrogant elite-educated former banker, best friend of Brussels and the French bourgeoisie.\n\nAnd if Ms Le Pen beats the odds and garners France's top political job, that would spell the end of the European project as we know it.\n\nShe wants France out of the euro - which so many French blame for high prices and uncompetitiveness.\n\nAnd she dreams of the EU's demise, favouring a looser union of European nations over what she calls Brussels-domination.\n\nThe two will now go head-to-head in the second round\n\nPost-Brexit Britain would then be high up on her list of preferred European partners.\n\nBut before that could happen, current Brexit negotiations and future trade talks would be left hanging as the EU slowly imploded.\n\nThere would be chaos across EU countries which would affect Britain too.\n\nA President Macron, when it comes to Brexit, would likely play hardball.\n\nHe would help to keep the EU united in negotiations, making it harder for the UK to pick off individual countries, attempting to pressure or entice them to make a sweeter Brexit deal.\n\nBut EU passion aside, Mr Macron is not wedded to ideology. He is a newcomer to politics who claims to be neither right- nor left-wing.\n\nDuring his meeting with Theresa May in February he said post-Brexit economic, defence and security co-operation with Britain must remain close.\n\nAs a former (if not long-standing) Minister of the Economy in France, he is unlikely to turn up his nose at a good trade deal with the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic beat Rangers at Hampden to set up a Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen and the chance to complete a domestic treble.\n\nCallum McGregor's superbly placed finish put the Premiership champions ahead during a dominant first half from Brendan Rodgers' side.\n\nScott Sinclair squeezed in a penalty after Rangers' James Tavernier had fouled Leigh Griffiths.\n\nGoalkeeper Craig Gordon twice denied Kenny Miller in Rangers' best attacks.\n\nBut the Ibrox side could not prevent the first defeat of Pedro Caixinha's reign as manager and must now focus on securing European qualification through the league.\n\nCeltic have already won that tournament and the League Cup and will face the Dons back at the national stadium on 27 May - the second Aberdeen-Celtic cup final this season - hoping to complete the domestic clean sweep for the first time since 2001.\n\nThis was a difficult day for Rangers, but one can only speculate as to how much sorer it might have been had Andy Halliday been sent off after lunging in on Patrick Roberts early on. The Rangers midfielder took Roberts out and was fortunate to see yellow instead of red.\n\nQuickly, Celtic took hold of things and their greater intensity, accuracy and quality paid off with the opener. Mikael Lustig hit a long ball over Danny Wilson's head and into Moussa Dembele, who took it down, looked around him and saw McGregor steaming forward untracked.\n\nThe Frenchman played it to McGregor, who stroked it coolly into the corner of Wes Foderingham's net.\n\nCeltic were dominant but their mission was not helped when they lost Dembele to a hamstring injury just before the half-hour. Griffiths came on.\n\nRangers had been fortunate to escape a dismissal earlier with Halliday and were lucky again when Myles Beerman, already on a yellow for fouling Roberts, impeded him again a minute later.\n\nBeerman survived, but it was not long before Rangers' hopes of a cup final appearance were extinguished.\n\nCaixinha made two substitutions at the break - Joe Dodoo coming on for the peripheral Joe Garner and Barrie McKay replacing Halliday - but no sooner had those changes bedded in than Celtic hit their opponents on the counter-attack and smoothed their passage to the final.\n\nIt was Dedryck Boyata who broke up a Rangers attack and got his team on the front foot. Roberts took it on and put Griffiths into the box, where he was taken down by Tavernier. The spot-kick from Sinclair found the target via Foderingham's diving hands and then the inside of his right-hand post.\n\nThere could have been more. Foderingham tipped over Griffiths' shot, Boyata headed over and Roberts had one saved. Celtic then lost their edge and Rangers got on top and started creating chances - good ones.\n\nJust after the hour, Miller had a close-range header saved by Gordon. The striker might have done a whole lot better.\n\nThen, with 10 minutes left, he had another opportunity - a point-blank shot kicked away by Gordon. Again, it was the type of opening that Rangers had to convert.\n\nMartyn Waghorn headed over from a good position, Dodoo forced a diving save from Gordon and, at the other end, McGregor's replacement Tom Rogic hit a post for Celtic.\n\nThose late chances will give Rangers hope for their Old Firm league meeting at Ibrox on Saturday - but Celtic's victory was well earned and their treble dream remains very firmly on track.\n• None Attempt saved. Joseph Dodoo (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Tomas Rogic (Celtic) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box.\n• None Leigh Griffiths (Celtic) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Tomas Rogic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Martyn Waghorn (Rangers) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Women's Equality Party leader says many women are being shut out of the political debate\n\nThe leader of the Women's Equality Party, Sophie Walker, is to stand against Tory MP and male rights advocate Philip Davies in the election.\n\nIf elected in the West Yorkshire seat of Shipley, she said she would be a \"voice for all women\" in Westminster.\n\nShe said Mr Davies had a \"track record of misogyny\", including trying to block laws on domestic violence.\n\nMr Davies said he welcomed his rival \"parachuting herself\" into the seat with a \"politically correct agenda\".\n\nMr Davies, who won the Shipley seat with a majority of more than 9,624 at the last election, is an outspoken critic of political correctness and what he has described as \"zealous\" feminism.\n\nThe MP, who has warned that men's voices are being \"neutered\" and that their rights must be more strongly defended, caused a stir when he was elected to the Commons equality and women's committee last year.\n\nAnnouncing her candidacy on 8 June, Ms Walker - a former journalist - took a swipe at Mr Davies, suggesting that it was a \"national embarrassment\" that he was on the committee.\n\nMr Davies has claimed militant feminists want to have \"their cake and eat it\"\n\n\"Shipley deserves an MP that will represent the needs and interests of all its constituents, instead of one who spends constituency time on a self-indulgent anti-women campaign,\" she said.\n\n\"Right now if you live in Shipley, your MP is best known in Parliament as a sexist whose favourite pastime is inventing long speeches to prevent other MPs from passing important legislation such as the provision of free hospital parking for carers and compulsory sex and relationships education in schools.\"\n\nMs Walker also criticised the Conservatives' record on equality issues, saying public spending cuts had disproportionately affected women and Brexit would exacerbate the situation.\n\nShe said she would campaign for a fair immigration system after the UK's exit from the EU, more support for women's pensions and for social justice to be put at the heart of a \"caring economy\".\n\n\"Philip Davies' party's austerity policies hit women harder than men and pushed more women into poverty. His party's funding cuts shut vital services to survivors of violence, when two women a week die at the hands of abusive partners.\"\n\nMr Davies, who has represented Shipley since 2005 and strongly supported the UK leaving the EU, challenged Ms Walker to back up her claims of sexism with any evidence.\n\n\"I have consistently asked Sophie Walker to quote just one thing I have ever said which has asked for a woman to be treated less favourably than a man, and she hasn't been able to find even one quote from the 12 years I have spent in Parliament,\" he told the Observer.\n\n\"I would very much welcome Ms Walker parachuting herself into Shipley as a candidate with her extreme politically correct agenda of positive discrimination and quotas, and am very happy to let the good people of the Shipley constituency decide who they want to represent them.\"\n\nMr Davies has regularly called for more focus in the Commons on men's issues, including suicide rates and educational under-achievement among young men and what he says is the varying treatment of male and female prisoners.\n\nIn a speech last year he attacked \"militant feminists and politically correct males\", accusing them of fighting for equality while also seeking special protection when it suited them.\n\nEarlier this year, he was accused of trying to block a Parliamentary bill that would force the UK to sign up to the international Istanbul Convention on preventing domestic violence by making a series of long speeches in the House of Commons.\n\nThe Women's Equality Party, co-founded by comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, was founded in 2015. Ms Walker stood for London mayor in May 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Rees helped David Wyeth up The Mall to the finish line of the London Marathon\n\nIt's been hailed as the defining image of this year's London Marathon: runner Matthew Rees stopping to help fellow competitor David Wyeth after he almost collapsed just metres from the finish line. But why do some runners' legs turn to jelly?\n\nWith the end in sight, David Wyeth's legs began to buckle. Staggering along The Mall, head dropping, it looked like he would not complete the race.\n\nBut - in a show of comradeship that has quickly gone viral - fellow runner Matthew Rees stopped, pulled Mr Wyeth up and they completed the 26.2 mile challenge together.\n\n\"I saw David and his legs had completely collapsed beneath him,\" the Swansea Harriers runner told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"I went over and he said 'I've got to finish' and I said 'you will' and I helped him up.\"\n\nHis struggle is reminiscent of an exhausted Jonny Brownlee, who was helped over the finish line by brother Alistair in the Triathlon World Series in Mexico last year.\n\nJonny required treatment but later tweeted he was OK, with a photo of himself lying in a hospital bed on a drip.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonny Brownlee helped over finish line by brother Alistair in Mexico\n\nAt the time, Alistair said: \"I wish the flippin' idiot had paced it right and crossed the finish line first.\n\n\"You have to race the conditions. I was comfortable in third. I raced the conditions, I took the water on, made myself cool and I was alright.\"\n\nLondon Marathon Coach Martin Yelling says it is like runners have \"run out of petrol\".\n\n\"At the end of a marathon runners usually have given so much physically that their energy levels are completely depleted - the term is hitting the wall,\" he says.\n\n\"What that means is your body is struggling to find enough physical energy to move forward, the body is trying to tell you to stop.\"\n\nHe says there is a clear wrestle between physical exhaustion and \"incredible mental strength\" in runners who have hit the wall.\n\n\"For every-day runners it is about learning to understand how your body responds.\n\n\"We would call it listening to your body.\"\n\nTraining for a marathon, pacing yourself and the correct fuel and hydration is important in avoiding the wall and the so-called \"jelly legs\", he says.\n\nOther runners were helped by others as they collapsed before the London Marathon finish line\n\nTim Navin-Jones, from running club London City Runners, is one runner who can sympathise, having \"hit the wall\" himself during the New York Marathon.\n\n\"Your mind is telling you to keep going and your body is getting to the point where it says 'no',\" he says.\n\n\"Your legs really do turn to jelly - it is horrific.\n\n\"It is like being a really horrible version of drunk. It is sheer exhaustion.\"\n\nMr Navin-Jones, who has run five marathons among other distances, says it is difficult to know how to pace a marathon for those who have not done it before.\n\nA common mistake is runners starting a race too fast, he says.\n\nEmma Ross, head of physiology at the English Institute of Sport, says runners \"hit the wall\" in a marathon when they run out of carbohydrate to use as a fuel for running.\n\n\"So what you want to try and do is keep your carbohydrate stores topped up during the race to prevent you from predominantly having to use fat as a fuel,\" she says.\n\n\"When we use fat as a fuel, we have to go slower because as a process of burning energy it is a more complex and a slower system, so we can only support slower exercise.\"\n\nShe also warns that dehydration causes a decrease in blood volume, which makes the heart work harder, so it is important for runners to keep hydrated.\n\nRunner Gary McKee completed 100 marathons in 100 days for MacMillan Cancer Support, finishing on Sunday at the London Marathon.\n\nGary McKee completed 100 marathons in 100 days for MacMillan Cancer Support, raising more than £67,000\n\nThe 47-year-old, from Cleator Moor in Cumbria, says he managed to not hit the wall as he paced himself carefully during his challenge.\n\nHe says runners have to recognise when their body is telling them to stop.\n\n\"It is down to hydration. You will come to a point when you are tired.\n\n\"Have you overexerted yourself? Have you had enough calories? Enough carbs?\n\n\"The more you train, the higher your fitness levels become, so you can sustain it (running) for longer.\n\n\"If you understand what your body wants, just give it what it wants.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeague One champions Sheffield United are set to re-sign striker Ched Evans from Chesterfield.\n\nBBC Radio Sheffield reports the clubs have agreed a fee of about £500,000.\n\nEvans, 28, last played for the Blades in 2012 before he was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in 2011 and sentenced to five years in prison.\n\nThat conviction was quashed and, following a re-trial last October, Evans was found not guilty.\n\nWales international Evans joined Chesterfield last summer and has scored seven goals in 29 appearances for the relegated League One side this season.\n\nHe scored 42 goals in 103 league appearances in his first spell at Bramall Lane.\n\nEvans joined Sheffield United from Manchester City for £3m in 2009, but struggled in his first two seasons with the club, scoring only 13 goals in 74 games.\n\nHis form improved dramatically in his final season with the Blades, as he found the net 35 times in 42 appearances, before being jailed six days after his final game - a 3-1 win over Leyton Orient.\n\nAfter his release in October 2014, having served two and a half years of his prison sentence, the Blades revoked an initial offer to allow him to use their training facilities after 170,000 people signed an online petition against the move.\n\nUnited's main shirt sponsor threatened to end their association with the club if they re-signed Evans, three club patrons resigned, while Olympic heptathlon champion Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill wanted her name removed from a stand named after her if the striker was offered a contract.\n\nHe then nearly joined League One side Oldham Athletic in January 2015 before the club pulled out of the deal following threats to their staff and pressure from sponsors.\n\nChesterfield offered him a return to professional football in June 2016, two months after his conviction was quashed, saying \"a great deal of thought\" had gone into the signing.\n\nEvans scored in his first professional game in over four years with the equaliser in a 1-1 draw against Oxford on the opening day of this season in August.\n\nHe scored six more times before the turn of the year, but has failed to score in his past 11 appearances and has not featured since 4 March.\n\nThe Blades clearly believe they can get the best out of Ched Evans. He played his best football at Bramall Lane and Chris Wilder is known for his man-management skills.\n\nFans will be torn on this one. Some will back the signing and remember the days, albeit five years ago, that Evans was a prolific goalscorer. Others will see it as an unnecessary distraction.\n\nUnited have already won the League One title and this story will now dominate the headlines before their coronation as champions on Sunday.", "What do you do when the central policy on which your party was formed and has long campaigned becomes the domain of a political rival? If you're UKIP, get radical.\n\nTheresa May has framed this election in terms of Brexit. The Conservatives are the party which will deliver on the referendum result, she has said, while other parties - namely Labour and the Lib Dems - want to frustrate the process.\n\nIn doing so she's stolen a march on UKIP; the party which for so long was the sole advocate of leaving the EU.\n\nIt hasn't abandoned Brexit. It has said it will continue to \"hold the government's feet to the fire\" and push for the kind of EU exit it wants, adamant there's still a role to play.\n\nBut UKIP needs a new unique selling point.\n\nCue a plethora of policies designed to appeal to the party's core voters; a moratorium on new Islamic schools in the state system, Sharia courts outlawed and a ban on face coverings in public places.\n\nFormer UKIP leader Nigel Farage is not standing this time\n\nThis is a return to right-wing territory in which UKIP has dabbled before. A step away from the libertarian values the party has said in the past that it stands for.\n\nIt's an extension of the party's popular stance on controlled immigration; limit the number of people who come to the UK and ensure those who do fully integrate into society.\n\nUKIP has long appealed to a certain emotion among parts of the electorate, portraying itself as the true protector of British values, proud to stand up for a way of life it claims is at risk of erosion from political correctness.\n\nIts integration agenda was quickly labelled by some as offensive, even Islamophobic, but for UKIP these policies are true patriotism, a defence of the realm and its values from what it calls \"crude multiculturalism\".\n\nUKIP still sees itself as the party prepared to say things other politicians won't, unafraid to risk offence to create debate. It takes credit for forcing other parties to talk frankly about immigration; now they hope to do the same with integration and in doing so ensure their relevance beyond Brexit and appeal to their traditional supporters.\n\nThe Tories have stomped on UKIP turf, so the party's trying to break new ground.\n\nIf it's more radical as a consequence? So be it. The question is whether it will be enough.", "Law enforcement officers have been warning BBC Trending radio about a growing number of social media accounts wrongly purporting to be teen idols like Harry Styles and Justin Bieber, speaking inappropriately to young children.\n\nThe growing world of social media apps with big teenage audiences has made the situation even more difficult to police, they say.\n\n\"Identity assumption by child sex offenders is increasing quite steadily,\" Detective Inspector Jon Rouse, who runs task force Argos, a specialist branch responsible for tackling online child exploitation in Queensland, Australia, told us.\n\nDetective Inspector Rouse led a recent investigation that led to a 42-year-old man, who allegedly posed as Canadian singer Justin Bieber on a number of social media platforms in order to gain indecent images of children, being charged with more than 900 child sex offences.\n\n\"The fact that so many children across the world could believe that they were talking to Justin Bieber, and that Justin Bieber would make them do the things that they did, is really quite concerning,\" he says, \"I think a re-evaluation of the way we educate children about safe online behaviour is really needed.\"\n\nOne mother of an 8-year-old girl, who has asked to remain anonymous, told BBC Trending that her daughter had downloaded a popular social media app for just two days before she was approached by an account impersonating a celebrity.\n\n\"The first message was inviting you to enter a competition and to win it you get a five minute chat (with the celebrity),\" she says.\n\n\"And then the second message that came up was along the lines of 'all you need to do is send me a photo of you naked or of your vagina.' And then all these messages flew across the screen.\n\n\"Then the third message said 'don't worry about it. All the girls are sending me these photos. Just do it. It'll be our secret'. And then the last message was 'do it now'.\"\n\nThe problem is found across the internet, from big platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to newer platforms which have large teenage audiences.\n\nDetective Inspector Rouse of task force Argos raised concerns about Musical.ly, a social platform which launched in 2014. \"Lots of child sex offenders are utilising Musical.ly to groom children. That's a very well-known international fact, believe it or not,\" he says.\n\nThe issue is not that safeguards on Musical.ly are particularly different when compared to other social platforms, but rather that there are a lot of young people using the app. It's been downloaded by more than 50 million people under the age of 21, with a sizeable number of them being under the age of 16.\n\nMusical.ly told BBC Trending: \"We take the safety of our users very seriously and we have zero tolerance for inappropriate, illegal, or predatory behaviour on our apps. We urge our users to report any inappropriate activity to us.\"\n• There are more resources on the BBC Stay Safe site\n• The NSPCC also has a series of guidelines about protecting children\n\nChatter about this issue has been trending in the UK since February, when Gemma Styles, the sister of One Direction singer Harry Styles, alerted her followers to a fake Twitter account in her brother's name. She said the account was \"preying on vulnerable girls\".\n\nThe account @PrvtHarryStyles claimed to be a private page belonging to the One Direction star in which he could give advice to girls with mental health issues. It had over 10,000 followers.\n\nA One Direction fan named Amy told BBC Trending that she had been the one to notify Gemma Styles to the account. Amy adds adds that she's seen dozens of fake accounts pretending to be various members of One Direction.\n\n\"They work as kind of a network a lot of times, where a person will make a fake account and then they'll make a fake Louis account and a fake Liam account and a fake Zayn account and all these fake accounts will talk to each other which kind of props up all of them,\" Amy says.\n\nThis fake Harry Styles Instagram account has now been shut down.\n\nA number of people have posted about alleged inappropriate behaviour towards underage girls by the fake Harry Styles account.\n\nWe were unable to verify any of these allegations but we were contacted by someone saying they were a 19-year-old from the United States claiming that she sent naked pictures to this account, believing it was Harry Styles that she was talking to. She said she engaged with the account for about a month.\n\nBBC Trending contacted Twitter who said they don't comment on individual accounts, but they do have strict rules around impersonation. That account has now been closed down.\n\nThere have also been allegations made by Amy, and others on Twitter, that the person who ran the @PrvtHarryStyles account also ran a fake Harry Styles Instagram account under the name vharrystyles. That account had been active up until this week had 138,000 followers.\n\nAmy told BBC Trending that she tried to report the account to Instagram, but had difficulty doing so. According to Instagram's impersonation policies, only the person who is being impersonated can file a report.\n\nBBC Trending raised concerns about the account to Instagram. The photo-sharing site has now shut the account down, saying that they removed it because it violated their impersonation policies.\n\nAn Instagram account purporting to be Harry Styles has been shut down since BBC Trending spoke to Instagram about concerns from fans.\n\nA number of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have verification for public figures - a little blue tick logo that is supposed to allow famous people to signal that social media account is theirs.\n\nBut Sharon Girling, a safeguarding consultant who was the co-founder of the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, says underage children may not be savvy if they have not been properly educated about the internet.\n\n\"When you're nine or 10 or 12 looking at these accounts, they seem to be genuine and so as a consequence it's the younger element that is getting fooled into believing that they are legitimate,\" she says.\n\n\"We don't let people drive a car until they're 17 because it's illegal to drive a car and we understand people have got to have an understanding of their responsibilities.\n\n\"Yet we give mobile phones and apps to children as young as five and six without parents having any understanding of what they're doing on them.\"\n\nNEXT STORY: The rise of left-wing, anti-Trump fake news\n\nFollowing the results of the US presidential race, has fake news from the left seen a surge in popularity? 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 Tennis\n\nGreat Britain have lost their Fed Cup World Cup Group II play-off in Romania, consigning them back to the Europe/Africa Zone.\n\nIt was 1-1 after Saturday's play, when host captain Ilie Nastase was banned for swearing at the umpire, Johanna Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nOn Sunday, Simon Halep won 6-1 6-3 against Konta to put Romania in front.\n\nIrina-Camelia Begu then beat Heather Watson 6-4 7-5 as Romania took an unassailable lead before the doubles.\n\nKonta was left in tears after Nastase's conduct and, even though the world number seven still beat Sorana Cirstea on Saturday, she found Halep a tougher test.\n\nHalep, ranked fifth in the world, raced into a 4-0 lead as she made the most of her clay-court knowhow and broke to love in taking the first set in 27 minutes.\n\nKonta gave signs of a comeback by breaking Halep and taking a 3-1 lead in the second set, but the Romanian responded by impressively taking five games in a row to win the match.\n\nAfter that result, world number 113 Watson knew she had to win against 33rd-ranked Begu and she was involved in a tight match with plenty of quality and drama.\n\nThere were five breaks of serve in the first set, which Begu took, but none in the second until Watson lost the seventh game.\n\nThe Briton broke back but then lost her serve again at 5-5 and Begu served out for a match that lasted two hours and two minutes to secure victory for Romania.\n\nBritain's Laura Robson and Jocelyn Rae defeated Simona Halep and Monica Niculescu in the dead rubber.\n\nCirstea claimed Konta had \"overreacted\" by crying in their match but the British number one has defended her actions.\n\nThe incident that led to Nastase being dismissed on Saturday happened when Cirstea was 2-1 up in the second set.\n\nAfter Konta and Keothavong had complained of calling out from the crowd at 1-1, former world number one Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul language before verbally abusing the British player and her captain.\n\nHe was sent off the court by referee Andreas Egli and, after initially taking a seat in the stands, was then escorted back to the locker room.\n\nKonta went 3-1 down after her serve was broken in the next game and was in tears before the umpire suspended play for about 25 minutes.\n\n\"With all due respect to Sorana, she was not in my shoes at that end of the court being verbally threatened,\" said the Briton. \"Any abuse is not all right.\n\n\"But when it's a couple of metres away from you, screaming at you, I think that's a different ball game.\n\n\"It's not something that you truly know how it affects you until you experience it, so I do believe she may have been slightly unaware of the events that happened.\"\n\nHalep defended the crowd following her win on Sunday and, on Nastase - whose has been suspended by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) while it investigates the incidents, said \"maybe he did mistakes\".\n\n\"I was not there right on the court but I heard some things so I cannot defend anything here,\" she added.\n\n\"I don't know exactly what happened but the people from ITF, they will know what they're going to do.\"\n\nIt was a classy performance from Simona Halep, who was superior in every department. She has just indicated in a TV on-court interview that she really liked her chances - as she feels she has \"dominated\" previous matches against Konta, despite losing both.\n\nThe last few games of the Begu-Watson match were a reminder of the drama Fed Cup and Davis Cup matches usually throw up.\n\nIt is not a weekend we will forget in a hurry, but there is no doubt the best team won.\n\nThe zonal competition of Euro Africa Zone 1 beckons once again for the British team in February next year. It is a routine they are tiring of.\n\nThe United States will take on Belarus in the Fed Cup final after overcoming defending champions Czech Republic on Sunday.\n\nBethanie Mattek-Sands and Coco Vandeweghe downed Kristyna Pliskova and Katerina Siniakova 6-2 6-3 in the crucial doubles of their semi-final in Florida for a 3-2 winning margin.\n\nThe US are 17-time champions and will be facing debutants Belarus in Minsk on November 11-12.\n\nBelarus made the final by defeating Switzerland 3-2 in their semi-final by sweeping after winning both the reverse singles on Sunday.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nFu lost the first two frames of the final session to trail 10-8, but breaks of 78 and 115 pulled him level.\n\nRobertson took an error-strewn 21st frame on the black, but Fu remained the calmer player and took the next three.\n\nThe world number eight from Hong Kong plays Mark Selby in the last eight, the defending champion having earlier beaten Xiao Guodong 13-6.\n\nBarry Hawkins, runner-up in 2013, won by the same scoreline, securing his place in the quarter-finals with victory over Scotland's Graeme Dott.\n\nRobertson screamed in delight and hit the table in celebration after clinching what seemed to be a pivotal frame to go 11-10 ahead.\n\nBut Fu dug in to get over the line and continue a consistent season, that has seen him secure the third ranking title of his career, reach two semi-finals, as well as make the last four at the Masters.\n\nTwo-time Crucible semi-finalist Fu told BBC Sport: \"It was very tough. I had so many chances and missed so many chances.\n\n\"It was one of those matches that neither of us deserved to win. For fighting spirit I was a 10 out of 10, but for snooker it was four out of 10.\"\n\nRobertson described his performance as \"garbage\".\n\n\"I played awful snooker,\" said the Australian. \"It wasn't good to watch. I was awful in my first match too.\"\n\nWorld number one Selby, who led 10-6 overnight, rattled off breaks of 101, 73 and 60 to see off his Chinese foe.\n\nThe 33-year-old from Leicester told BBC Sport: \"To win the first frame and get settled - and to do it with a century - was great.\n\n\"I played a really solid game. I didn't make too many mistakes and put him under pressure. And when he made mistakes I capitalised.\n\n\"I won a couple of key frames from 40 or 50 points behind and made a couple of good clearances on Sunday afternoon. That was probably the turning point. To come out at 4-4 and keep that four-frame lead was vital.\"\n\n'Hawk' flies into last eight\n\nHawkins was also a 13-6 winner, beating former champion Dott to secure his place in the last eight.\n\nLike Selby, world number seven Hawkins was in no mood to hang around, quickly taking the first frame, wrapping up the second with a superb break of 98, before getting over the line in a scrappy third frame.\n\nThe Kent-based left-hander, who will play Stephen Maguire in the quarter-finals, said: \"I'm glad it's over. You want to finish off as quick as you can because it's a long tournament.\n\n\"Over the years I have had some unbelievably gruelling matches and it takes it out of you. I wasn't in top form but I played pretty solid. I kept him pretty cold and away from the table.\"", "Children of the 1980s, rejoice - the original Bananarama line-up is back together at last. Which got us thinking - lots of 80s bands have reformed over recent years but which ones are we still wishing would reunite?\n\nFrankie says relax - still the best slogan T-shirt ever\n\nLiverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, fronted by Holly Johnson, are still best remembered for their debut single Relax, which was famously banned by the BBC in 1984 due to its sexual lyrics but topped the UK singles chart for five consecutive weeks.\n\nThe band went on to become only the second act in the history of the UK charts (after Gerry and the Pacemakers) to reach number one with their first three singles when Two Tribes and The Power of Love also hit the top spot.\n\nBut their glory was short-lived. Their second album, Liverpool, released in 1986, failed to live up to expectations and a backstage bust-up between Johnson and bassist Mark O'Toole at their final gig at Wembley Arena sounded the death knell.\n\nWhile various reincarnations of the band have since reformed, we're still waiting for the original line-up to hit us \"with those laser beams.\"\n\nThe Smiths - we are never, ever, ever, getting back together\n\nNever gonna happen. Yes, we know. But just imagine! Johnny Marr and Steven Morrissey formed the band in 1982 with bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce.\n\nThey went on to release 17 singles and four studio albums, becoming one of the most influential bands of the 1980s.\n\nHits included This Charming Man, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, How Soon is Now?, Big Mouth Strikes Again, Panic and Girlfriend in a Coma.\n\nBut the dream combo of Marr's melodies and Morrissey's musings was broken with the band's acrimonious split in 1987.\n\nIn Marr's autobiography Set The Boy Free, he revealed that the official version of him walking out on the band wasn't the full story.\n\nThe tipping point, says Marr, was when Morrissey didn't turn up for the video shoot of the single Shoplifters Of The World Unite, and ordered him to sack their latest manager.\n\nWhatever the truth, Marr also wrote that he and Morrissey discussed the possibility of a reunion back in 2008. We're still waiting.\n\nBen Vol-au-vent Parrot, as Smash Hits liked to call him\n\nRing a bell? We've been wondering whatever happened to the beautiful beret-wearing Ben with the exotic-sounding surname Volpeliere-Pierrot (although Smash Hits preferred to call him Ben Vol-au-vent Parrot), not to mention Julian, Nick and Migi.\n\nThe band enjoyed 80s success with soulful pop hits including Down to Earth, Ordinary Day, Name and Number and Misfit.\n\nThey split after a last hurrah with a cover of Johnny Bristol's Hang On In There Baby in 1992. While Ben has joined some 80s tours singing solo the band have never reunited as a four-piece.\n\nIt's 30 years this year since Misfit and Ordinary Day entered the charts, so perhaps now would be a good time to hit the road again?\n\nIt wasn't a real 80s band without the obligatory sax\n\nIt's well documented that Paul Weller would only reform The Jam if his children were \"destitute\".\n\nBut what about his later band, Style Council, which he formed with Mick Talbot, formerly of The Merton Parkas and Dexy's Midnight Runners?\n\nThe Style Council had hits such as Walls Come Tumbling Down!, Shout to the Top, You're the Best Thing and Long, Hot Summer.\n\nThe band broke up in 1989. Weller has since said they didn't get the credit they deserved.\n\n\"I thought we were quite misunderstood and misrepresented. Yet, at the end of the day, we made some good records and I wrote some good songs around that time, songs I still stand by, and I think that will last as well.\"\n\nThe Housemartins - \"the fourth best band in Hull\"?\n\nFormed in Hull in the 1980s, The Housemartins line-up changed frequently over the years but most of us will remember its most famous members, Paul Heaton and Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim.\n\nCaravan of Love and Happy Hour were probably their best known hits and Heaton and Cook went on to further success with The Beautiful South and Beats International/Fatboy Slim.\n\nIn 2009, Mojo magazine got The Housemartins' original members together for a photo-shoot and interview but they said they would not be reforming.\n\nSo it looks like we won't be hearing from \"the fourth best band in Hull\" - as The Housemartins often described themselves - anytime soon.\n\nDon't Leave Me This Way Jimmy!\n\nWhile Bronski Beat continued following the departure of vocalist Jimmy Somerville in 1985, they are still best remembered for the hits they had with him at the helm, including Why?, Smalltown Boy and It Ain't Necessarily So.\n\nSomerville, of course, went on to form The Communards with Richard Coles, who is now a Church of England priest and Radio 4 presenter.\n\nBut will we see either of these bands back together?\n\nLarry Steinbachek, former keyboardist with Bronski Beat, sadly died at the age of 56 in January.\n\nAnd the Communards? Coles and Somerville fell out, not least because Coles lied when he told Somerville he had HIV.\n\nThe two are back in touch now but with Coles' commitments to the Church, a reunion seems unlikely.\n\nThe Thompson triplets - sorry, Twins, in their most recognised form\n\nYep, it's our wildcard entry - the band that was named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in The Adventures of Tintin.\n\nThe band had various line-up changes over the years but they were best known as the mid-80s trio consisting of Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway.\n\nTheir hits included Hold Me Now, Doctor! Doctor! and You Take Me Up but Leeway left the band in 1986 and Bailey and Currie could never replicate their earlier success (although they did have a dance hit in 1991 called Come Inside).\n\nThe pair had two children together and moved to New Zealand. While they did briefly reunite with Leeway on a Channel 4 show in 2001, they have so far resisted the urge to go down the nostalgia road and reform.\n\nIn 2014, Bailey began performing the band's hits as The Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey and continues to tour in 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUKIP's manifesto will include proposals to ban full veils, the party's leader Paul Nuttall has told the BBC.\n\nThe announcement has sparked strong reaction on both sides of the debate.\n\nNazif, 37, is Muslim. Originally from Afghanistan, he has lived in the UK since 2002.\n\nWhile his relatives do not regularly wear either the burka or the niqab, he is not in favour of an outright ban.\n\n\"If it came about voluntarily I would welcome it,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not in favour of the burka.\n\n\"But if women want to wear it or they don't, it should be up to the women themselves.\"\n\nMr Nuttall has cited security concerns as one of the motivations behind the proposed ban.\n\nBut for Nazif and his family, back in Afghanistan it was the burka which offered security on otherwise dangerous journeys across the country.\n\nTravelling to Pakistan, he says they were forced to go through checkpoints controlled by non-government forces.\n\n\"Having your face revealed was a sign that you are part of the government,\" he said.\n\n\"My sisters wore the veil in order not to arouse suspicion.\"\n\nWhen they were safe, they would remove the veil again.\n\n\"If they want to ban the veil it must not be banned under the pretext of security,\" he said.\n\n\"Paul Nuttall sees it as an election chip but he doesn't know the full reason.\n\n\"In my own family's experience it was a way of getting from point A to point B.\n\n\"I am 100% behind a move towards phasing out the veil. But encourage those who wear it to feel safe.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, social media user Rachel Robbins was equally sceptical of the security pretext for UKIP's proposed ban.\n\nBut others disagree. Brian, from Lichfield, reflected the mood of much of the correspondence the BBC received.\n\n\"You can't go into a bank or building society wearing a crash helmet or other 'western' headgear that covers the face.\n\n\"The same should apply to the burka and the veil.\"\n\nMr Nuttall also highlighted concerns about integration as a key reason for proposing the ban.\n\n\"I don't believe you can integrate fully and enjoy the fruits of British society if you can't see people's faces,\" he said on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme.\n\nJennifer, who works in Bradford, agreed that full-face veils could be a barrier to integration.\n\n\"I've worked in Bradford for a long time,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm increasingly seeing more women with their faces covered.\n\n\"I see the increase in women wearing it as evidence of the polarisation of these communities and the isolation of these women from mainstream society.\n\n\"It seems like a deliberate barrier to separate them.\"\n\nMarwa, from London, disagrees. Two years ago she decided to start wearing a hijab - a headscarf worn by many Muslim women. The hijab would not be included in the proposed ban.\n\n\"A lot of my family don't wear the hijab,\" she said, \"but it was my individual choice.\n\n\"I liked the way I felt when I wore it.\n\n\"I'm not sure that banning religious expressions and beliefs will help Muslims feel like they're part of Britain.\n\n\"It's this kind of barely tolerant attitude that makes Muslims feel further excluded and alienated.\n\n\"It seems to me that Mr Nuttall believes that in order to allow women to be free and to be 'integrated' they must first be told how to dress.\n\n\"The hypocrisy of his argument is baffling. What is it that he really wants?\"\n\nOthers have also questioned the motivation behind Mr Nuttall's announcement.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Brendan Cox, the activist and husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, suggested the move had more to do with UKIP's poll numbers.\n\nSome European countries, including France, already enforce a public ban on full-face veils, while in December 2016 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that wearing full-faced veils should be prohibited in Germany \"wherever it is legally possible\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nArsene Wenger believes Arsenal answered their critics with a \"strong and united\" performance as they beat Manchester City to reach a third FA Cup final in four years.\n\nAlexis Sanchez scored an extra-time winner as the Gunners came from behind to win 2-1 and reach a record 20th final - and an eighth under Wenger.\n\n\"People questioned us, we went through tough times,\" Wenger said.\n\n\"You can be divided or united and we have shown the right response.\"\n\nWenger, 67, has come under more scrutiny this season than at any other time in his 21-year reign at Arsenal, with the Gunners lying in seventh place in the Premier League and on the receiving end of a 10-2 aggregate thrashing by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.\n\nThe Frenchman is out of contract at the end of the season and has been offered a new two-year deal, although he is yet to announce whether he will continue.\n\nSome sections of Arsenal fans have protested against Wenger in recent months, but the manager was pleased to see his side rally after falling behind to Sergio Aguero's opener.\n\n\"You know I feel the club is in a very strong shape, and that we have a very strong overall situation and a very strong team,\" he said.\n\n\"One day I will leave anyway so the most important thing is that Arsenal will always be a great club that everybody admires.\n\n\"I felt it was a big test for us today, a mental test because many people question if we can turn up on an occasion like this.\n\n\"It was a very tight game but overall I think we deserved to win the game. The players showed great togetherness.\"\n• None Wenger has been 'let down at times' - Ramsey\n• None Should this 'goal' have been ruled out?\n\n'Sanchez will be here next year'\n\nSanchez and Mesut Ozil have been linked with moves away from the club this summer, and the Chilean highlighted his importance with his 24th goal of the season which settled the tie,\n\nWenger expects the former Barcelona forward to extend his stay at the Emirates.\n\nHe said: \"Alexis Sanchez was like the team. He had problems at the start and became stronger and stronger.\n\n\"He is an animal, always ready to kill the opponent. He will never give up.\n\n\"He will be here next year because he has a contract and hopefully we will manage to extend him.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he had no regrets after seeing his side beaten, a result which means the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss will end a season without a trophy for the first time in his coaching career.\n\n\"We performed like we would want to in a final,\" he said.\n\n\"We did absolutely everything. Congratulations to Arsenal. We'll improve next season.\n\n\"We competed here, we had more chances but the finishing was like it has been throughout the season.\"\n• None Analysis: This is now Pep's biggest moment as Man City manager - Jenas\n\nArsene Wenger's mask slipped as he pumped his fists in triumph repeatedly at the conclusion of Arsenal's win.\n\nWenger has never been under greater scrutiny or pressure than he has been in recent months, dealing with the toxic combination of growing unrest among Arsenal fans and a collapse in form that leaves their Champions League ambitions under threat.\n\nAnd yet here, with the pressure at its highest, Wenger coaxed the sort of performance out of Arsenal that puts him on course for an historic FA Cup win when they face Chelsea in the final in late May.\n\nYes, his Arsenal side enjoyed large portions of good fortune with Raheem Sterling's disallowed goal and efforts against the woodwork from Yaya Toure and Fernandinho - but Wenger deserves credit for persevering with a three-man defensive system that goes against his natural instincts.\n\nThis was an Arsenal display of steel, grit and resilience topped off by a comeback crowned by Sanchez's poached winner.\n\nAnd Arsenal's players played for their manager, with some dedicating the victory to the man who has been a convenient shield for their own shortcomings during the recent slide.\n\nReality dictates that Arsenal's ills and the uncertainly surrounding Wenger cannot be wiped away by one win. He will need a trophy and/or that top-four place otherwise they idea of him staying on and signing a new deal will be a hard sell to that disgruntled strand of Gunners support.\n\nAs for Wenger's opposite number Guardiola, he may have had a hard luck story to tell as he left Wembley but the bottom line is the man brought to Manchester City to move them on to the next level in succession to Manuel Pellegrini will end the season empty-handed and that is a serious disappointment.\n\nThis was not how it was meant to be but this City team simply has too many flaws. For all their attacking riches, they are not ruthless enough, are insecure at the back and uncertainty continues over the goalkeeping position, where Guardiola's choice to replace Joe Hart, Claudio Bravo, has not convinced.\n\nAnd now the pressure is really on - if Guardiola fails to guide City into the top four then this season will be nothing other than an abject failure after the exit at the last 16 stage to Monaco in the Champions League.\n\nCity are currently fourth, a point ahead of Manchester United before Thursday's derby at Etihad Stadium.\n\nA top-four place was the very minimum requirement for Guardiola and his players before the start of the season - failure to deliver would not be well-received by the club's fiercely ambitious Abu Dhabi-based hierarchy.", "The player's kit suppliers Head and Nike have stood by her\n\nMaria Sharapova faces the biggest challenge of her tennis career - namely her return to the sport after a 15-month drugs ban - and it is not just her continued sporting success that is in the spotlight.\n\nOff the court, where she makes the bulk of her earnings, the question is - can she be as big a sponsor draw as she was before her enforced absence?\n\nThe 29-year-old will return to action on Wednesday, 26 April, in Stuttgart after being handed a wildcard.\n\nAlthough some fellow players have expressed misgivings, she has the support of the WTA tour, and her fans.\n\nAnd, with biggest commercial rival Serena Williams announcing she is pregnant and facing time away from the game, the Russian's return is certainly timely.\n\nIn the year from June 2015, Forbes estimates the five-time Grand Slam winner made $1.9m (£1.5m) in prize money from playing, but a whopping $20m from endorsements, a sum matched only by Williams.\n\nAnd it is this primary source of earnings that Sharapova will be looking to reinvigorate.\n\nSharapova has participated in Evian promotional events during her ban\n\n\"During her time out there will have been some continued relationship with her sponsors,\" says Simon Chadwick, professor of sports enterprise at the University of Salford.\n\n\"But I am sure there will have been some sort of penalty clause in her sponsor contracts for incurring a suspension.\"\n\nFollowing Sharapova's admission in March 2016 that she had tested positive for a banned drug at that year's Australian Open, she was initially banned by the International Tennis Federation for two years, later reduced on appeal.\n\nBut unlike golfer Tiger Woods, who haemorrhaged sponsors very quickly after his extra-marital affairs came to light, Sharapova's backers waited to see how things played out.\n\n\"That was because they had invested so much money and effort into their deals,\" says Prof Chadwick.\n\n\"Also, to terminate deals could have been dangerous as she might come back successfully, and if you as a sponsor have decided to cancel her contract then the door has been left wide open for a rival.\"\n\nSharapova's deal with Tag Heuer was not extended\n\nAs it was the sponsor reaction was mixed - Head and Evian were immediately supportive, Nike and Porsche put their relationships on hold but later came back on board, while Tag Heuer and Avon chose not to extend deals that had ended.\n\nGiven the large amounts of money and time invested - Nike's relationship with the player dates back to when she was 11 years old - it is not surprising the major brands wanted to think hard before reaching their decisions.\n\n\"In terms of brands and reputation, what all this has highlighted is that first of all Sharapova is a major brand in her own right,\" says Karen Earl, chairman of the European Sponsorship Association.\n\n\"She commands a lot of media attention, as the furore about her comeback demonstrates. It also highlights that she is a huge star, and that women's tennis feels it needs her.\n\n\"That is one of the reasons why brands want to continue to associate with her. Those that stuck with her value the association of her brand with their brands.\"\n\nMrs Earl says the fact that Sharapova immediately put her hand up and admitted the drugs breach helped mitigate the damage to her brand, and those of her partners.\n\n\"Sharapova admitted she had done a wrong thing.\n\n\"She has gone out of her way to recognise what she has done and has handled that situation in a credible way. She has been contrite and said it will not happen again,\" says Mrs Earl.\n\n\"The fact there hasn't been a public outcry against her return will have reassured brands to stick with her.\n\n\"If there had been protests from tennis fans, then that might have influenced her sponsors' decisions.\"\n\nProf Chadwick says Sharapova's management and advisers, those who look after her profile, grabbed hold of a difficult situation very quickly.\n\nHe believes the Russian is now pushing at an open door with regards to her return to the sport, with WTA boss Steve Simon quoted as saying: \"I believe that the game, the fans, the tour... everybody is going to welcome Maria back.\"\n\nEven before Serena Williams' pregnancy announcement, Prof Chadwick says that the sport was struggling to find an heir apparent at the top of the women's game.\n\n\"There is not a great deal of highest-quality talent following on behind,\" he says.\n\n\"Nobody seems to be able to string together a consistent run of results. Women's tennis needs all the help it can get in terms of heroes, big names, elite talent to attract fans to the sport.\n\n\"As a constellation of female tennis player brands, the sport has been somewhat diminished by Sharapova's absence.\"\n\nThe Russian took part in an exhibition match with Monica Puig in Puerto Rico in December 2016\n\nMrs Earl points out that while many players have not taken too kindly to Sharapova's return, for her sponsors the important thing is the welcome she will receive from her fans, who are potential purchasers of their products.\n\n\"The sponsors are not endorsing her because she has been the most successful player, it is because of what she brings off the court,\" she says.\n\n\"Her persona and brand are what is most important. She knows how to market herself. She is commercially astute.\n\n\"To her credit, even after her time away, she is still probably the most marketable female tennis player.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Tories have announced a key new detail in how their proposed energy price cap would work.\n\nIt will be an \"absolute\" cap, based on the way limits for pre-payment meters have worked since the beginning of April.\n\nThe party has rejected the idea of a relative cap, which would limit the difference between the cheapest fixed-price deal and the more expensive Standard Variable Tariff (SVT) to, say, 6%.\n\nThat model was particularly controversial, as critics said suppliers would simply increase the price of fixed-rate deals, to maintain the differential with SVTs.\n\nThe idea of any form of capping was rejected by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last summer.\n\nHowever, when it issued its final report, the CMA admitted its members were divided on the issue.\n\nIf the Conservatives win the election, the regulator Ofgem would be asked to introduce a price cap along the lines of one introduced in April to cap prices on households with pre-payment meters.\n\nCurrently 16% of consumers are forced to buy their energy in advance, usually because their credit rating is poor.\n\nThe CMA ordered a cap on their charges because such households do not benefit from the competition that exists for all other consumers.\n\nUnder this system, the CMA has come up with an initial maximum figure for prices in each region of the UK, usually in line with the cheapest existing pre-payment meter tariff.\n\nThat number is adjusted every six months, taking into account wholesale energy costs, inflation, environmental obligations and the cost of transporting energy around the network.\n\nBut the CMA has always stressed that the pre-payment meter cap is temporary. By the time every home has a smart meters installed, it expects competition between suppliers to be working properly. As a result this cap is due to expire in 2020.\n\nThe cap is also designed to allow suppliers to price below the level of the cap if they want to.\n\nHowever, critics say that suppliers would be likely to increase their prices up to the level of the cap.\n\n\"In New Zealand, a price cap resulted in price bunching up around the cap, and a loss of competition,\" said Iain Conn, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica.\n\nHe also said that a cap in Spain resulted in a shortfall in infrastructure spending, which had to be plugged by the government.\n\nAn absolute cap would be fundamentally different to the controls advocated by Labour leader Ed Miliband in the run-up to the 2015 election.\n\nHe had proposed a price freeze for just 20 months. As far as we know, the Tory cap would be permanent.\n\nConsumer groups are generally opposed to the idea of any sort of cap, as it would tend to give consumers a false sense of security.\n\nHouseholders might think they are getting a good deal, so would make even less effort to switch suppliers.\n\n\"They're really difficult to get to work in practice,\" says Richard Neudegg, head of regulation at comparison site Uswitch.\n\nHe also believes that a cap would create higher prices in the long term, and entrench the position of the big six suppliers.\n\nAt the end of its two-year enquiry the CMA rejected the idea of a price cap on standard variable tariffs, saying that a cap would run an \"excessive risk\" of undermining the competition process.\n\nNevertheless the economist Martin Cave, a member of the enquiry, argued that a broader cap was necessary \"to address the scale of detriment\" because millions of the poorest consumers are still paying too much for their gas and electricity.\n\nIn December 2016 Ofgem said that 66% of consumers were still on expensive SVTs, and paying up to £260 a year too much.\n\nSince then, five of the big six suppliers have announced plans to raise their SVT prices, or have already done so.\n\nThere is also some evidence that fixed-price deals have also risen, closing the gap with SVTs.\n\nBut whether that is because of increasing wholesale costs - or because suppliers have been acting to mitigate the effects of a cap in advance - is hard to determine.\n\nWhile Ofgem has repeatedly said there was no justification for them doing so, it has so far refused to comment on the Conservative idea of a cap.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is the favourite to win the next round\n\nEmmanuel Macron has been installed as the overwhelming favourite to be the next French President - but what does that mean for business and Brexit?\n\nFor the bigger economic picture, a Macron win removes the chance of a political and economic shock to Europe's core.\n\nMarine le Pen's calls for France to leave the eurozone have been seen as an existential threat to the entire European project.\n\nMacron's likely win has seen the French stock market and the euro surge as that threat is seen as receding.\n\nA Macron win will be cheered by business who see him as untested and inexperienced but pragmatic and pro-business.\n\nSome argue that his business-friendly policies - such as cutting corporation tax from 33% to 25% and making it easier to fire (and therefore hire) workers - make France look more attractive to businesses scouring Europe for a potential EU base.\n\nMost bankers, for example, had put France near the bottom of the list when mulling any potential moves for those very reasons. A Macron presidency could see that change.\n\nBut there are two good reasons a Macron win could still be good for the UK in its Brexit negotiations.\n\nFirst, Macron may want to cut taxes and water down workers' rights - but he has to form a government to do it, and may need the support of French socialists who were excited by Benoit Hamon's ideas of a universal basic income and 32-hour working week.\n\nHis attempts to make France more attractive to business will have to navigate the rocks of coalition building. There have been many attempts to reform the French labour market. I can't think of a single success.\n\nThe second is a wider point about the security of the European project.\n\nFears that the UK's vote to leave the EU would inspire anti-EU sentiment right across Europe now seem to be fading.\n\nGeert Wilders' far right party in the Netherlands failed to live up to pre-election hype while its counterpart in Germany, Alternative fur Deutschland, is in disarray.\n\nThe UK's antipathy to the EU has, so far, failed to catch on elsewhere.\n\nWith that in mind, there is less reason to punish the UK in upcoming negotiations as a deterrent to other would-be leavers.", "We're as confused as these guys...\n\nA British woman's revealed she fell pregnant with twins, then conceived while carrying them and gave birth to triplets.\n\nIt's called superfoetation - when someone conceives then conceives again between two weeks and a month later.\n\nIt's extremely rare in humans. This is only the sixth time it's happened in 100 years.\n\nFertility expert Professor Simon Fishel says: \"It ought not to happen, but it does.\"\n\n\"The first case was reported in 1865 and there have been odd ones every now and again over the decade.\"\n\nMost of us assume that once a woman becomes pregnant then that's it, but not according to the man who delivered the first IVF baby in 1978.\n\n\"Evolution is designed, especially in women, that they don't release another egg,\" he says.\n\n\"If they ever did then it shouldn't be fertilised because the sperm shouldn't be able to get through.\n\n\"Even if that happens the lining of the womb would be unable to accept another embryo as changes have taken place while the foetus is growing in there.\"\n\nIt is remarkable for superfoetation to occur, but there's not always a happy ending.\n\n\"There have been cases where the other foetus has died in the womb as one could stop growing and have to be delivered early,\" says the professor.\n\nOne of the questions raised is how the foetuses will cope in the womb and whether they will end up competing at feeding time.\n\n\"It depends on the quality of the placenta, that is the most important thing for nutrition and development of the growing baby,\" Prof Fishel adds.\n\n\"If the placenta develops normally then it's fine but if the placenta fuses then that can cause problem. In the superfoetation situation we've seen here, it's worked fine.\"\n\nIt's claimed it's more prevalent in animals such as rodents, rabbits, horses and sheep.\n\nAlthough rare in humans these miracle births do happen and sometimes can be even more extreme.\n\n\"There was a case in Rome some time ago where they estimated it was about three to four months difference,\" says Prof Fishel.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBorussia Dortmund felt \"completely ignored\" over the rescheduling of their Champions League game against Monaco, says manager Thomas Tuchel.\n\nDortmund lost 3-2 in the first leg of the quarter-final on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after an attack on their bus caused the match to be postponed.\n\n\"We were told by text message that Uefa was making this decision,\" said Tuchel.\n\n\"A decision made in Switzerland that concerns us directly. We will not forget it, it is a very bad feeling.\"\n\nFollowing Tuchel's comments, Uefa released a statement saying the decision to play the match at 17:45 BST on Wednesday was made in \"complete agreement with clubs and authorities\".\n• None Bartra 'doing much better' after bus attack\n\nEuropean football's governing body added: \"We were in touch with all parties today and never received any information which suggested that any of the teams did not want to play.\"\n\nThree explosions hit Dortmund's team bus as they travelled to their Westfalenstadion home on Tuesday, with the match rescheduled later that evening.\n\n\"Of course we have to keep it going, but we still want to be competitive,\" added Tuchel. \"We do not want to use the situation as an excuse.\n\n\"We wished we would have had more time to deal with what happened, but someone in Switzerland decided we must play.\"\n\nSpain defender Marc Bartra suffered a broken wrist and has subsequently had surgery, but no other players were hurt.\n\n\"Every player has the right to deal with it in his way. The team did not feel in the mood, in which you must be for such a game,\" said Tuchel.\n\n\"We let the players choose if they wanted to play. But this morning, we found that the training had done good, that it had made us think of something else.\"\n\nGerman police have described it as a targeted attack and detained a suspect with \"Islamist\" links.\n\n\"We were attacked as men and we tried to solve the problem on the ground,\" said Tuchel, who has been in charge of the Bundesliga side since 2015.\n\n\"Everyone has their own way of reacting to events. The players had the choice not to play, but no-one chose this option.\"\n\nDortmund were 2-0 and 3-1 down to French side Monaco, for whom 18-year-old forward Kylian Mbappe scored twice.\n\n\"The team has shown an incredible character,\" added Tuchel. \"We have won the second half, the spirit in the second half was great.\"\n\nMonaco boss Leonardo Jardim had some sympathy with Tuchel's view, but said the packed fixture calendar contributed to the hasty rescheduling.\n\n\"Maybe it should not be played today, but the calendar gave few options to be able to play the match,\" he said.\n\n\"We produced a good result but it's only half-time of the quarter-final.\"\n\n'I will never forget those faces'\n\nTurkey midfielder Nuri Sahin came on as a second-half substitute for Dortmund.\n\n\"It is hard to talk about it and hard to find the right words,\" he said. \"Last evening we felt how it is to be in this situation. I don't wish a feeling like this on anyone.\n\n\"I didn't realise what happened and when I got home my wife and son were waiting in front of the door. I felt how lucky we were.\"\n\nThe 28-year-old, who has previously had a loan spell with Liverpool, added: \"I know football is very important. We love football, we suffer with football and I know we earn a lot of money and have a privileged life - but we are human beings, there is so much more than football in this world.\n\n\"When I was on the bus last night, I can't forget the faces, I will never forget those faces. I was sitting next to Marcel Schmelzer and I will never forget his face. It was unbelievable.\"", "It's a rare piece of green space with the backdrop of Parliament and a commanding view of the Thames.\n\nVictoria Tower Gardens, London's smallest royal park, is a popular haunt for dog walkers, joggers, families - and also picnicking office workers, who use it to soak up the sun and get a breather from the hustle and bustle of city life.\n\nBut that could be about to change because this narrow strip of parkland is set to become home to a national Holocaust memorial with an underground learning centre.\n\nBy Holocaust Memorial Day 2021, organisers anticipate the £50m scheme will transform the park, which dates back to the 1870s and is fringed by trees and benches, into a tourist destination and education resource attracting more than a million visitors a year.\n\nA shortlist of 10 architects are currently competing in an international design competition launched by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation to create the new structure, with the winning team to be announced by the end of May.\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron said the new monument would \"show the importance Britain places on preserving the memory of the Holocaust\", claiming it would represent \"a permanent statement of our values as a nation\" and something that would be visited \"for generations to come\".\n\nBut not everyone is happy about the plan. Some local residents, MPs and peers say that while they are fully behind the creation of a Holocaust memorial - and in particular a learning centre - they believe the project will destroy the park.\n\nBarbara Weiss, the architect who refurbished the Russell Square headquarters of the Wiener Library - the oldest institution for the study of the Holocaust and genocide - questioned why it could not be placed with it. \"I'm not against the memorial, I just don't want any building in our park, not even a hospital or an art gallery.\"\n\nMs Weiss is a leading light in the Save Victoria Tower Gardens campaign. She says the park is \"absolutely unique, historic and gorgeous - to put something else there will totally change its character completely\".\n\n\"It doesn't make a lot of sense to build a learning centre underground in an area beside a river in a flood area.\n\n\"The organisers are talking about one million extra visitors there - that's a lot of extra security. We would have people with machine guns and bag checks, and I know people who work in Parliament don't want that. They go to the park to get away from that pressure of feeling constantly monitored.\"\n\nLucy Peck, a retired architectural historian who lives nearby, said: \"I'm not against a memorial at all, but there are bigger places in London that could take a project of this size much more easily. There's a superb Holocaust gallery less than a mile away at the Imperial War Museum, so why build another fairly similar thing here?\"\n\nThe Imperial War Museum, a 15 minute walk from Parliament, was one of three locations out of 50 in the running as a Holocaust memorial site - until January 2016 when Mr Cameron named Victoria Tower Gardens as the preferred option.\n\nLucy Donoughue, the IWM's assistant communications director, said the museum - which is spending £15m on renewing and expanding its renowned Holocaust Exhibition and already attracts a million visitors a year - was not deemed central enough.\n\n\"While we were disappointed by this decision, we still remain hugely supportive of the initiatives laid out by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation,\" she said.\n\nVeteran Conservative MP Sir Peter Bottomley, who has lived near Victoria Tower Gardens for more than 25 years, says he is unhappy two other sites - Potters Field on the south bank of the Thames between Tower Bridge and City Hall, and Millbank, next to Tate Britain - were ruled out.\n\n\"Somewhere, somehow some unnamed person in Number 10 decided to substitute these three with Victoria Tower Gardens,\" he said. \"You can't have a prominent memorial here - you've got to keep the garden. I would urge the government to pause, reopen the debate and rethink.\"\n\nThe park, which is listed Grade II and is partly inside a Unesco world heritage site, is no stranger to significant structures including August Rodin's bronze The Burghers of Calais, a statue of the Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and a fountain commemorating the abolition of slavery.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, which is chaired by Sir Peter Bazalgette, said its mission had been to find \"the most iconic location\" for a national memorial and learning centre - and Victoria Tower Gardens, next to Parliament \"fulfils that aim better than any of the almost 50 sites we examined\".\n\nShe declined to say specifically why other sites had not been chosen except that \"a lot of those were for commercial reasons\".\n\n\"With cross-party support, we have made a promise to survivors that in Victoria Tower Gardens we will create a fitting national memorial as a permanent site of remembrance and an education centre to act more broadly as a voice against hatred and prejudice in the modern world, while respecting and enhancing the existing green space,\" she said.\n\n\"There can be nowhere more meaningful for such a powerful statement of our national values than next to Parliament, at the heart of our democracy. We want Britain's Holocaust survivors to know that we will not break our promise.\"\n\nBut Jewish Conservative peer Lord Wasserman, one of David Cameron's closest political allies who lives quite near the gardens, says it is not the right location for such a symbolic and important project.\n\n\"In particular, I am concerned that this will lead to massive resentment on the part of those ordinary Londoners who will be seriously inconvenienced by the additional traffic (vehicular and pedestrian) which the museum will generate,\" he said. \"I'm also concerned about the the additional security risk associated with such a site.\"\n\nMaja Turcan, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, says while a learning centre is needed \"particularly at a time where anti-Semitism and hate crimes are increasing\" - she questions why it could not be placed somewhere like Manchester \"where there's a big Jewish community, but is also multi-ethnic and multi-cultural\".\n\nVictoria Park Gardens as it is now\n\nAviva Trup, who manages Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors Services - a centre which offers a programme of social, cultural and therapeutic events for Holocaust survivors in the UK - said \"legacy and education is of upmost importance to our members\".\n\nShe would not be drawn on whether Victoria Tower Gardens was the right place for the project, saying that \"the most important thing is that the memorial is built in a central London location and is easy to access\".\n\nThe UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation is currently running a public consultation exercise, with exhibitions across the UK featuring the proposed schemes until the end of April.\n\nThe winning design will be announced before the end of May by Sir Peter's jury, whose members include: London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid, TV presenters Loyd Grossman - also chair of the Royal Parks - and newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky.\n\nThe project should be open to the public by Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2021.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nWladimir Klitschko has warned Britain's Anthony Joshua that fighting him will be like \"facing Mount Everest\" when the two meet on 29 April.\n\nThe Ukrainian, 41, who lost his heavyweight title to Tyson Fury in November 2015, will fight Joshua for the IBF, WBA Super and IBO titles.\n\nKlitschko's defeat by Fury was the Ukrainian's first loss in 11 years.\n\n\"I believe this fight is going to be the most important of my career,\" Klitschko told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"You can climb Mount Everest in a certain period of time in the window of the year. You might make it or you might not.\n\n\"But Mount Everest is still there. So am I.\"\n\nJoshua is the IBF title-holder, while the WBA title was vacated by Fury in October as he sought medical treatment for depression.\n\nJoshua, who visited Klitschko's training camp in 2014, turned professional in 2013 and is unbeaten after 18 fights.\n\nHowever, Klitschko will be his toughest opponent to date, with 64 wins and 53 knockouts since he turned pro in 1996.\n\nThe fight at Wembley is expected to attract over 90,000 spectators, which would rival the all-time British attendance record set in 1939.\n\n\"Opportunities are not coming every day. I have one of the rising stars, it's perfect,\" added Klitschko.\n\n\"Who else would I have fought? I have the greatest chance to get the majority of the titles back and fight a guy at the same eye level.\n\n\"I think our chances are really looking 50-50.\"\n\nListen to 5 live Boxing: Inside Klitschko's training camp on BBC Radio 5 live at 20:00 BST on Thursday, 13 April.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBorussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra says he is \"doing much better\" after being injured when his side's bus was damaged by explosions in Germany.\n\nBartra, 26, fractured his wrist in the incident, which led to Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final first-leg against Monaco being postponed.\n\nThe match has been rescheduled for Wednesday, with a 17:45 BST kick-off.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for all your support and your messages,\" Spaniard Bartra posted on social media.\n\n\"All my strength to my team-mates, supporters and fans and to [Dortmund] for tonight's match.\"\n\nThe German club said Bartra had an operation on Tuesday after \"breaking the radial bone in his arm and getting bits of debris lodged in his hand\".\n\nThe centre-back, who has 12 international caps, joined the Bundesliga side from Spanish champions Barcelona in June last year.\n\nCaptain Marcel Schmelzer said: \"We're all in shock and our thoughts are with Marc. We hope that he will make a speedy recovery.\"\n\nDortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said the club will \"not bend before terror\" after the attack.\n\n\"We want to show that terror and hatred can never dictate our actions,\" he said chief executive.\n\n\"This is perhaps the most difficult situation that we have faced in the past decades,\" he added.\n\nWatzke said he he had spoken to players in the dressing room, urging them \"to show society that we do not bend before terror\".\n\nHe added: \"We do not just play for us today. We play for everyone - no matter whether Borussia, Bayer or Schalke supporters. And of course we play for Marc Bartra, who wants to see his team win.\"\n\nWatzke earlier confirmed the \"explosive strike on the bus\" happened as it left the team hotel, with \"three explosive devices placed and triggered on the edge of the road\".\n\nGoalkeeper Roman Burki, who was sitting at the back of the team bus alongside Bartra, told Swiss newspaper Blick: \"We left the hotel and went down the street. The bus turned down the main street, and there was a giant explosion.\n\n\"After the bang, we all ducked in the bus and those who could threw themselves to the ground. We did not know what had happened.\n\n\"We're all shocked - nobody thought of a football match in this moment.\"\n\nThe bus was damaged at 18:15 BST on Tuesday - 90 minutes before kick-off - about six miles from the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund.\n\nPolice said there were three explosives hidden in a nearby hedge. They called it \"a targeted attack\" and found a letter at the scene claiming responsibility for the attack.\n\nFederal prosecutors revealed on Wednesday that an Islamist suspect had been arrested in connection with the incident.\n\nPolice are preparing for a \"large deployment\" at the rescheduled game, and security at Wednesday's other Champions League ties - Atletico Madrid v Leicester City and Bayern Munich v Real Madrid - is being stepped up.\n\n\"Measures are being reviewed and stepped up wherever and whenever it is needed,\" Uefa competitions director Giorgio Marchetti told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"The security risk is the top priority element which is included in the preparation of matches.\"\n• None 'Every player was shocked and it was silent' - German reporter on scene\n\nTuesday's match was initially delayed and, with thousands of fans already inside the stadium, was postponed 15 minutes before the scheduled kick-off, with Monaco fans chanting in support of their opponents.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino condemned the incident, while Uefa counterpart Aleksander Ceferin said he was \"deeply disturbed\" and praised the decision to postpone the game.\n\nWatzke said: \"I have to express a huge compliment to our fans, who have dealt with it very well, objectively, reasonably and solidly.\n\n\"It will not be easy to get that out of the mind. I think the team will feel it on Wednesday.\"\n\nWith the second leg in Monaco set for 19 April, Watzke said there was no choice but to play the game on Wednesday, as Monaco have a domestic game against Dijon on Saturday.\n\nSoon after the match was rearranged, people in the Dortmund area offered to host Monaco fans who chose to stay in Germany for an extra night or two, using #bedforawayfans.\n\nAnd Monaco offered to reimburse their supporters staying in Germany with up to £67 (80 euros).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA common seating problem on a United Airlines flight on Sunday ended with a man being bloodied and dragged from his seat and an already troubled airline earning more bad press. How did it all go so wrong?\n\nOverbooking on flights happens all the time. Airlines boost their profit margins by overselling, betting against the number of passengers who will miss their flights.\n\nIn this case, the problem arose because United decided at the last minute to fly four members of staff to a connection point and needed to bump four passengers to make way for them.\n\nWhen there's a seating issue the first step is to offer an inducement to the passengers to take a later flight. On Sunday passengers were offered $400 (£322), a hotel room for the night and a flight the following afternoon.\n\nWhen no-one took the offer, the amount was upped to $800. Still no-one bit, so a manager boarded the flight and informed passengers that four people would be selected to leave the flight.\n\nThat selection is based on several factors, but frequent fliers and higher fare-paying passengers are given priority to stay aboard, a spokeswoman for United confirmed.\n\nA couple who were selected agreed to leave the plane voluntarily. A third passenger, reportedly the wife of the man who was forcibly removed, also agreed. The man, who said he was a doctor and had to see patients in the morning, refused.\n\nAt this point, the airline could have identified another passenger for removal or raised its offer anywhere up to a maximum of $1,350.\n\nErin Benson, a spokeswoman for United, could not confirm whether other passengers were sought. She did confirm that no offer was made above $800, but could not comment on why.\n\nAccording to eyewitnesses, the man who refused to be ejected said he was a doctor and he had appointments to keep the following day, though this has not been confirmed. This was a Sunday night flight; the next flight on offer didn't leave until 15:00 on Monday.\n\nAn eyewitness said the man was \"very upset\" about the possibility of being bumped and attempted to call his lawyer. An airline manager told him that security would be called if he did not comply.\n\nAt this point, security officers came to speak to him, first one then two more. As the video shows, their conversation ended with the man being yanked from his seat onto the floor and dragged off, blood visible on this face.\n\nUnited is technically within its rights to forcibly remove the man for refusing to leave the flight, and the step is part of the airline's carriage guidelines, but such instances are extremely rare.\n\nOf the 613 million people who flew on major US carriers in 2015, 46,000 were involuntarily denied boarding, according to data from the Department of Transportation - less than 0.008%.\n\nThe majority of those would have been informed before they boarded the flight, said Charles Leocha, the founder of passenger advocacy group Travelers United. He could not remember seeing a passenger violently dragged off a plane. \"It turned my stomach,\" he said.\n\nRemoving passengers at the last minute to make way for staff was also highly unusual, he said. Staff transport should be identified ahead of time and factored into bookings.\n\nUS fliers have become resigned to chronic delays and poor service, according to Mr Leocha, and a lack of readily available information about their rights meant they were too dependent on the airline managers in situations like these.\n\n\"Our expectations have been driven so low that passengers have begun to accept it,\" he said. \"What they shouldn't have to accept is being dragged off the flight to make way for an employee.\"\n\nOscar Munoz, CEO of United, said in a statement: \"This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers.\"\n\nMr Munoz said the airline would review the event and \"reach out\" to the passenger, though a spokeswoman could not confirm whether United was in touch with him yet.\n\nOne of the security officers involved in the incident was suspended on Monday afternoon, pending a review, said the Chicago Department of Aviation in a statement.\n\nThe actions of the officer were \"obviously not condoned by the Department\", the statement said.\n\nWhatever happened on the flight - and the details will undoubtedly emerge in the coming days - it was a bad day for United, Mr Leocha said. The airline had only recently been at the centre of another controversy, when a fortnight ago it refused to let two girls board because they were wearing leggings.\n\n\"This isn't really a lesson for passengers it's a lesson for airlines,\" he said. \"The only lesson here for passengers is when security get on throw up your hands, because otherwise you're going down the aisle with a fat lip.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Elinor Barker was pipped to gold at the Track Cycling World Championships as Italy's Rachele Barbieri won the women's scratch race.\n\nJolien D'Hoore took bronze for Belgium in the 10km race on the opening day of the championships in Hong Kong.\n\n\"I went ever so slightly too soon and that probably cost me the win,\" Wales' Barker, 22, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I was just not fast enough. Congratulations to her but I'm really disappointed.\"\n• None The madison, omnium and other mysteries\n\nBarker won team pursuit Olympic gold alongside Katie Archibald, Laura Kenny and Joanna Rowsell Shand in Rio last summer.\n\nBut she just missed out on Wednesday as the medals were decided in a bunch sprint and Barbieri edged home.\n\nElsewhere, there was disappointment for Britain in the men's team sprint.\n\nJack Carlin, 19, Ryan Owens, 21, and Joseph Truman, 20, were third-fastest in qualifying but failed in their first-round match-up with the Netherlands.\n\nThe trio had taken two gold medals from two World Cup meetings in November - their first at senior level - but defeat meant they will miss out on a medal race.\n\n\"We've had a dream run up to now and we were close to our best time ever, it's really disappointing,\" Owens said.\n\n\"We came here in the form of our lives, and if a few technical things had gone differently it would have been a different story.\"\n\nNew Zealand retained their title with victory over Netherlands, while France won bronze from Poland.\n\nIn the men's team pursuit, Andy Tennant, Mark Stewart, Ollie Wood and Chris Latham qualified for Thursday's bronze-medal race against Italy. Australia and New Zealand will contest the gold medal.\n\nRussia won gold in the women's team sprint, beating Australia, while Germany won bronze from China. Great Britain did not have a team competing in the race.\n\nWhat a fantastic ride that was from Elinor Barker. First she had us on the edge of our seats, then she had us out of our seats, but in the end it wasn't quite her day.\n\nWith one lap to go, Elinor had got around the Dutch favourite and she probably thought she'd nailed it. The Italian just won it, but El looks so strong and I think we have got a lot more to see from her this week. Starting with a silver will only make her hungrier.\n\nNew Zealand were immense in the men's team sprint. It was tough on the British team, but this will inspire them to work harder.\n\nThey shouldn't be disappointed though. It's frustrating, but these are the first steps towards the Tokyo Olympic Games and they should be proud of what they have achieved so far. It's been a fantastic breakthrough on the elite international level from them this year.", "Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson is helping to spearhead the project alongside other advisers\n\nLiverpool has officially launched a bid to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, with a team of advisers appointed to spearhead the project.\n\nThe bid also sets out the city's interest in hosting the event in 2022, following Durban's withdrawal in March.\n\nSports executive Brian Barwick will chair the bid alongside teams employed to design branding and plan logistics.\n\nLiverpool City Council said it could potentially involve Everton's planned new stadium at Bramley Moore Dock.\n\nA council spokeswoman said plans were at an early stage, but the possibility of building a running track at the ground was likely to be discussed.\n\nThe city already has a 50m Olympic-standard pool in Wavertree, but no diving or training pool.\n\nLiverpool Arena would be one of the venues that could be used to host events\n\nA velodrome would also have to be built to accommodate cycling, while Liverpool Arena could be used to host other events.\n\nA budget of £500,000 has been set aside for the campaign, and an \"intense 3-6 month period of activity\" would now begin under the banner Team Liverpool, the council said.\n\nLiverpool mayor Joe Anderson said the city had sent out \"a powerful message that we are deadly serious about bidding for the games\".\n\n\"The Commonwealth Games has the potential to be a game changer in further driving forward the city's regeneration and renaissance,\" he said.\n\nLiverpool would be prepared to host the games in either 2026 or 2022, after Durban pulled out\n\nMr Barwick, 62, is chairman of the Rugby Football League, a member of the FA Council, and has worked on previous international bids for sports events including the Olympic Games and the World Cup.\n\nThe former head of BBC Sport said: \"The chance to lead the work for my home city of Liverpool to host the Commonwealth Games is a huge privilege.\"\n\nLocal sporting stars including heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson, boxer Tony Bellew, gymnast Beth Tweddle and former footballer Jamie Carragher have backed the campaign.\n\nLondon and Birmingham have expressed interest in staging the event, while Manchester, which hosted the games in 2002, has said it would be \"ready to help\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba has joined United Soccer League side Phoenix Rising as a player and co-owner.\n\nDrogba, 39, has not played since leaving Major League Soccer club Montreal Impact in November.\n\nHe will start out as a player but has also joined Phoenix's \"MLS expansion franchise ownership group\".\n\n\"To own a team and be a player at the same time is unusual but it's going to be very exciting,\" Drogba said.\n\n\"It's a good transition because I want to carry on playing but I'm almost 40 and it's important for me to prepare for my later career.\"\n\nPhoenix have just started their fourth season in the Western Conference of USL, which forms part of the second tier of the American league system.\n\nThe Arizona club hope to become one of four planned expansion teams in MLS over the next three years.\n\n\"I had offers from China, from England - in both the Premier League and even the Championship - but they were only as a player,\" Drogba told The Premier League Show.\n\n\"This was the right offer because it was important for me to think about playing, because I enjoy it, but also to get to the next stage of my career.\"\n\nDrogba scored 157 goals in 341 appearances during his first spell at Chelsea from 2004 to 2012, winning three Premier League titles and the Champions League.\n\nFollowing moves to Shanghai Shenhua in China and Turkish side Galatasaray, Drogba returned to the Blues for the 2014-15 season, scoring seven goals in 40 appearances, helping Jose Mourinho's side to the title, before 18 months with Montreal.\n\nHe joins former Chelsea team-mate Shaun Wright-Phillips at Phoenix, who have one win and two defeats from three games this season.\n\n\"I'm still a player but it's important to respect the decision of the manager,\" added Drogba, who is Ivory Coast's record goalscorer.\n\n\"When we're on the pitch, he's going to be the one who decides and when we go to board meetings, it's a different thing.\"\n\nWatch the full interview with Didier Drogba in The Premier League show on BBC Two on Thursday, 13 April (22:00 BST) .", "When Tony Abbott, as Australian prime minister in 2014, appeared to support a ban on the burka being worn in Parliament House, award-winning photographer Fabian Muir had one response. He trekked 1,600km (1,000 miles) across his homeland, camera in hand.\n\nMuir's resulting series pitted a cobalt-coloured garment of Afghanistan, alternatively spelled burqa, against Australia's most forbidding, and beautiful, terrains.\n\nBlue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country features a lone figure standing against swirling skies on a ridge of yellow sand; reflected in clear water; and walking amongst a forest of dead trees.\n\nNow Muir has made a follow up sequence - Urban Burqa.\n\nRather than pictured in the outback, a woman in blue stands, contrastingly, against the white of milk bottles in a supermarket. Other images include the figure outside a fluorescent McDonald's sign and in a concrete basement covered in graffiti.\n\nThe series is a critique of the rising far right and Islamophobia, Muir says.\n\nMuir says his series deals with \"confrontation and adaptation\"\n\n\"Tragically, [anti-immigrant sentiment] has only become more magnified since 2014,\" says Muir, pointing out that 49% of Australians in a 2016 poll supported a ban on Muslims entering the country.\n\n\"The refugee crisis… is always such an easy target for politicians. There's always going to be a percentage of the population who swallows that because it seems like an easy solution to problems.\"\n\nIn Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country, Muir wanted to show how the burka complemented - and even enhanced - the landscapes: \"It hinted or suggested a potential symbiosis of this country and immigrants, that runs counter to the narrative making the headlines at that time.\"\n\nUrban Burqa, by contrast, touches more on a cultural clash. \"It's still about simulation but there's also a sense of confrontation and adaptation, hence this darker, edgier feel to it,\" he says.\n\nBorn in a household of Australian creatives - Muir's mother was a director at Opera Australia, his father a director at the Australian Broadcasting Corp - Muir turned to photography after completing a law degree at Sydney University. He has since lived in Estonia, Lithuania, France, Spain and Germany.\n\nMuir, who is in his 40s, credits his success to a lack of formal training.\n\nThe subject is photographed against the Aboriginal flag\n\n\"I personally think it's unnecessary and potentially dangerous for an aspiring photographer [to attend photography school],\" he says. \"Especially if they're young. They're going to potentially lack the fortitude to resist their teacher's vision.\"\n\nMuir taught himself, learning on film. \"The trial and error was quite expensive,\" he laughs. \"Each shot cost me a dollar!\"\n\nStill, he appreciates the ability to pursue his own ideas \"untrammelled and unburdened by someone else's vision\".\n\nLast year Muir completed his series Intimate Perspectives on North Korea, selected as a finalist in the Magnum Photography Awards.\n\n\"It's a time capsule,\" says Muir of the nation, which he visited five times over the course of two years.\n\nShepherded around by guides, he was only allowed to walk unaided - and unwatched - on a handful of occasions.\n\nOne of Muir's photos from North Korea\n\nThe photographer was first inspired to travel to North Korea after coming across Tomas van Houtryve's 2009 photo essay The Land of No Smiles.\n\nHe says Houtryve's images are powerful but bleak. \"His descriptions are very acid, of children fleeing at the sight of him,\" he says. \"What I saw was very different.\"\n\n\"The bleakness is part of the narrative,\" continues Muir. \"But it's not the sole element. Almost more interesting was my experience of street level North Korea. They're really very warm and have a sense of humour, and enjoy very normal things.\"\n\nIn order to document this, Muir took photographs of picnics in the park, kids in a playground, and bathers at a beach resort. One of his most hard-hitting images is of young children in an orphanage sitting beneath portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.\n\nIt works because of \"the structural composition, which says something about North Korean society - this strict structure of children lined up under the presence of the leadership there,\" he says.\n\n\"For me it also raises questions: these infants, where are they going to be in the future? It asks questions about the future, it illustrates the present, and it also says something about the past.\"\n\nMuir says his series ends on a hopeful note\n\nKey was showing that there was more to the story than \"unthinking robotic people and their hatred for America and Japan\".\n\nThis hit home in 2015. \"Out of nowhere I sensed this figure cannon balling towards me and arms were thrown around me. It was this guide I had on previous visits - he was in his sixties, quite eccentric and has fantastic sense of humour,\" Muir says.\n\n\"He was almost in tears to see me again. It was absolutely genuine - no one put him up to that.\"\n\nWith regards to Urban Burqa, Muir believes it ends on a hopeful note.\n\nThe last image shows a woman in a burka standing in a bright blue skate park. The shadow from a skater in a T-shirt and shorts skirts the crown of her covered head, his hand almost touching her.\n\n\"For me it's a nice closing image, it's optimistic - because of the reaching out,\" he says. \"[But] there's a sense that there are a lot of barriers that have to be overcome.\"", "Income growth - or lack of it - has been one of the defining economic and political issues of the last decade.\n\nAverage weekly earnings are still £26 below where they were at their peak in 2008.\n\nEmployment levels are strong - which is economic good news.\n\nBut if people in work feel worse off year on year, then Number 10 knows it has a major issue to fix.\n\nThe reasons for Britain's wage stagnation problem are multiple.\n\nThe recession following the financial crisis raised the spectre of unemployment, meaning that holding on to your job became more important than asking for a pay rise.\n\nAs growth, demand and investment dried up following the banking collapse, inflation in western economies evaporated and in some sectors - such as food - price deflation became the norm.\n\nThe cost of living - the usual fuel for wage demands - stopped rising.\n\nThen there is Britain's productivity problem, which will not return to its long-term growth rate of 2% until 2020.\n\nProductivity measures the amount of value (outputs) created in the economy per unit of input - such as labour hours worked, materials used or capital investment spent.\n\nIts increase is directly related to income: if productivity rises, wealth is created more rapidly than costs rise, and increased profit and wage rises are the result.\n\nIf productivity is poor - and the UK lags far behind America, France and Germany on this measure - that wealth is harder to come by.\n\nAs Philip Hammond put it at the time of the Autumn Statement last November: \"It takes a German worker four days to produce what we make in five, which means, in turn, that too many British workers work longer hours for lower pay than their counterparts.\"\n\nBy the time a British worker has earned £1, a German worked has earned £1.35.\n\nWhen inflation is low or non-existent, stagnant real income growth is less of an issue for the people affected.\n\nBut over the past six months, inflation has risen markedly, from 1% in September to 2.3% last month.\n\nSome of that is down to the fall in the value of sterling, but global inflationary pressures are also rising as more solid growth returns, as I've written before.\n\nToday's figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that earnings growth is travelling in the opposite direction - down to 2.2% last month from 2.3% in February.\n\nAnd that, of course, is an average figure.\n\nFor some areas of employment - such as public sector workers - the picture is far grimmer.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says that more than a third of the workforce are already in sectors where pay is falling in real terms.\n\n\"Britain's brief pay recovery has come to an end,\" said Stephen Clarke, economic analyst at the think-tank.\n\n\"Forty per cent of the workforce are experiencing shrinking pay packets according to the latest figures, in sectors ranging from finance to the public sector. Many more will join them in the coming months as inflation continues to rise, with pay across the economy as a whole set to have fallen in the first three months of 2017.\"\n\nInflation is expected to jump again when the April figures are published next month - price rises associated with the later Easter holiday this year (increased air fares for example) will feed through as will plans by the major energy companies to raise prices.\n\nAt the same time, wage increases are set to continue slowing. It is likely that next month, falling real incomes will be back with us for the first time since September 2014.\n\nAs I have said before, Britain's income squeeze is one of the most difficult political and economic issues facing the government.\n\nMany will argue that an economy that works for everyone would not be expected to be one where people are worse off at the end of the year than they were at the beginning.", "Teresa and Larry Clark, from Waynesboro, VA, have witnessed multiple executions\n\nTeresa Clark has watched three strangers die. She held her husband's hand the first time, but after that the experience began to feel normal.\n\nThe couple, who run a chimney sweeping business in Waynesboro, Virginia, volunteer to watch executions. Teresa's husband, Larry, 63, went to the first one alone.\n\n\"He was very curious. I dropped him off and I asked him all kinds of questions,\" she says. \"Afterwards he said, 'You gotta see this'.\"\n\nEventually she did. In 1998 they made the \"nervous journey\" to watch the execution of Douglas Buchanan, Jr, who had been convicted of murdering his father, stepmother, and two stepbrothers.\n\nWitnesses like Teresa and Larry Clark are a legal necessity. In Virginia, as well as some other death penalty states, the law requires people with no connection to the crime attend each execution.\n\nVolunteers \"are considered public eyewitnesses, and go to executions standing in the place of the general public,\" says Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"It's a recognition that these proceedings need to take place in public view.\"\n\nOn the night of the execution, Teresa, Larry and the other volunteers were picked up by the prison bus and taken to Greensville Correctional Facility in Jarratt, Virginia. After spending some time mingling with reporters in the cafeteria, they were led into a small room.\n\nThe room was brightly lit, and featured a large viewing window. When the curtains opened they saw the gurney. Then Buchanan entered.\n\nWhen asked if he had any final words, he replied: \"Get the ride started. I'm ready to go.\"\n\nDuring executions, Teresa says the prisoners look right into the observation gallery, and the room stays silent.\n\n\"It's quite weird, watching somebody look at you as they're getting ready to die,\" she says.\n\nAfter the execution, the doctor pronounces the inmate dead and the curtains close. The witnesses are thanked for their service and sent home.\n\nThe volunteer process made headlines recently when Wendy Kelley, director of the Arkansas corrections department, appealed for volunteers at a community meeting. The state plans to execute a record seven inmates in 11 days, but can't find enough people who are willing to watch.\n\nArkansas state law says that at least six \"respectable citizens\" must be at every execution to \"verify that the execution was conducted in the manner required by law.\"\n\nThe publicity worked. Arkansas now has a flurry of volunteers.\n\nBeth Viele, 39, from Jacksonville, Arkansas, wrote a letter to Kelley expressing her interest.\n\n\"Please accept this correspondence as a formal request to be a volunteer witness for the eight upcoming executions,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I would love to be part in helping the families of the victim(s) see long overdue JUSTICE be carried out.\"\n\nFrank Weiland, 77, works as a brass works fabricator in Lynchburg, Virginia. He's volunteered to witness four executions. He says he goes as a show of support for law enforcement.\n\nThe last execution he witnessed was in 2006, when Brandon Hedrick chose the electric chair over lethal injection.\n\n\"This guy didn't live too far from me, and I know some people that knew him.\"\n\n\"They said he was scared of needles,\" Weiland says with a laugh.\n\nHe watched Hedrick get strapped into the chair, and saw the warden put a sponge on his head to help the electrical current travel faster. \"The next thing you know - boom!\" Weiland says.\n\n\"I noticed his hands on the arms of the chair, and I said, well if there's anything as far as feeling goes he'll clench, and he did not clench. The noise is kind of a bump.\n\n\"He didn't convulse or anything. As a matter of fact if I had the choice I would take the chair.\n\n\"The only thing that told you that he was getting it was the way his legs smoked a little bit.\"\n\nEight men the state of Arkansas originally planned to execute over 11 days. Jason McGehee (bottom left)'s execution has been stayed an additional 30 days\n\nStill, witnessing these deaths leaves an impact.\n\n\"I've replayed it very much in my mind,\" he says. \"I really don't know why, but I have.\"\n\nTeresa Clark tells a story about the night following the first execution she attended.\n\n\"I was sitting in my car at a red light and I looked in the rear view window, and I swear I saw the man I just saw die,\" she says.\n\n\"The picture kind of sticks with you.\"\n\n\"If they called now and needed somebody, I would go.\"\n\n\"It came across my mind, and it still does, that these people know when they're going to die, and the people they killed didn't. They get to say their goodbyes, so I really can't say I felt sorry for them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brothers David, Vincent and Barry all died as a result of blood contamination\n\nThousands of people with haemophilia were infected with HIV and hepatitis as a result of NHS treatments in the 1970s and 80s. But their families are still seeking a public inquiry into the scandal.\n\nTony Farrugia was just 14-years-old when his father Barry died of Aids.\n\nOver the next 20 years, two of his four uncles would also die in what was perhaps the worst treatment scandal in the NHS's history.\n\nIn the 1970s and 80s, thousands of haemophiliacs - like members of Tony's family - were treated with contaminated blood products.\n\nSome 4,670 of them were later diagnosed with hepatitis C, while around 1,200 also contracted HIV.\n\nMany did not live long enough to be treated with modern drugs.\n\nThirty years later, the survivors and their relatives have told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they are still fighting for answers.\n\nSome are worried that a new support scheme planned by the government could leave them struggling to pay mortgages and bills.\n\nTony's father Barry was diagnosed with haemophilia - a genetic condition that prevents blood from clotting - as a baby.\n\nIt took Tony almost 25 years to get hold of his father's medical records after his death.\n\nThey show that Barry was a mild haemophiliac, whose symptoms could have been managed.\n\nHe might not have needed to be treated with the blood clotting agent Factor VIII - the cause of the contamination - but it was prescribed anyway.\n\nThe result was that he was infected with hepatitis B in the late 70s and then with HIV as early as 1980.\n\nEntries in the records show that doctors were aware he might have had the virus two years before he was finally told.\n\nTony, then a teenager, was sent away to live with other family members but the new living arrangements did not work out and he was eventually placed in care.\n\nIn the summer of 1986, he visited his father in hospital for the final time.\n\n\"He started to lose weight by then,\" Tony recalls, \"a lot of weight - so he was really, really skinny.\"\n\n\"I remember my dad asking me for some of my ice cream. I handed it to him, at which point one of the nurses intervened and said 'you can't give him that'.\n\n\"He had blisters in his mouth which were bleeding. I couldn't share an ice cream with my dad because they had given him Aids,\" he says.\n\nBarry's death in September 1986 split the family apart.\n\nTony went back into care in Luton while his twin brother David went to a separate care home in North London.\n\nHis older teenage brothers were left to fend for themselves.\n\nIt was not until 2010 that he was reunited with other members of his family.\n\n\"That was the first time since dad died that we were together again,\" Tony says.\n\n\"That's what the [health service] did, they destroyed my dad with these viruses then they watched his family crumble.\"\n\nIn the years after Barry's death the family continued to struggle.\n\nOne of Barry's brothers, Vincent, was killed by Aids passed on through contaminated blood.\n\nIn 2012, another brother, David, died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage linked to the hepatitis C he had contracted through Factor VIII.\n\nMadeline, David's widow, says the contaminated blood scandal has caused \"devastation\" to her family.\n\n\"I can put my hand on my heart and tell you I am not the same person [since David's death]. I will never be the same person,\" she said.\n\n\"It comes back to haunt you in so many ways.\"\n\nMadeline says the doctors who prescribed Factor VIII \"never, ever\" told them there was a risk of blood contamination.\n\nAngie, Barry's sister, adds: \"Treatment shouldn't kill you, should it? Medical treatment shouldn't kill you.\"\n\nThe family say they also had to live with the stigma that surrounded Aids in the 1980s.\n\nOn one occasion, Vincent had \"Aids scum\" scratched into his car.\n\nWhen he walked into his local cafe one day, everyone else got up and walked out.\n\n\"It was awful - awful - to see this happen to a person,\" Angie said.\n\nThe family are still looking for answers as to why their relatives died and have called for a public inquiry.\n\n\"All we are after is recognition for the harm which was done. We still haven't got the truth and they haven't given us all the answers,\" says Tony.\n\n\"The government can't learn lessons until they face up to what they have done.\"\n\nThousands of people in the UK were infected when they were treated with imported blood products in the 1970s and 80s\n\nThere have been two previous inquiries.\n\nOne was privately funded from donations and could not force health officials or ministers to testify.\n\nThe other only looked at a small number of Scottish victims and did not have the power to summon witnesses from England.\n\nThe Haemophilia Society is now calling for a full public inquiry into the scandal, something the government has so far ruled out.\n\nVictims and their families are also worried that a new financial support scheme currently being planned could leave some worse off.\n\nUnder the proposals, a widow of a haemophiliac who died from Aids in England will receive a one-off sum of £10,000, compared to a lifetime payment of £27,750 a year in Scotland.\n\nA new Welsh scheme announced this month is also significantly more generous than in England and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The whole thing is a shambles, it's shameful,\" says Sue Threakall, of the campaign group Tainted Blood.\n\n\"These are payments which people rely on to pay their mortgages, pay rent and feed their families.\"\n\nThe government says it has doubled the amount it is spending on support payments to those affected since 2015.\n\n\"This is significantly more than any previous government has provided for those affected by this tragedy,\" a spokesman for the Department of Health said.\n\n\"We will continue to listen and are currently consulting on new measures to extend the group of individuals who benefit from higher annual payments.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "McLaren driver Fernando Alonso will miss the Monaco Grand Prix in May so he can race in the Indianapolis 500.\n\nThe double world champion has the full approval and support of McLaren and engine partner Honda, who are having a difficult season in Formula 1.\n\nAlonso, 35, will race for the Honda-powered Andretti team on 28 May, and the car will be branded a McLaren.\n\nMcLaren are yet to decide who will replace him in Monaco that weekend, but Jenson Button is a possibility.\n\nThe 2009 world champion has retired from F1 but is contracted to McLaren as an ambassador. It is not known whether the Briton would want to come back to drive an uncompetitive car.\n\nWhy does Alonso want to race at Indy?\n\nAlonso said he had long held an ambition to win the so-called 'triple crown' of Monaco, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.\n\nOnly one man has won all three in his career - the late Graham Hill in the 1960s.\n\nAlonso, who won the Monaco Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007, said: \"It's a tough challenge, but I'm up for it.\n\n\"I don't know when I'm going to race at Le Mans, but one day I intend to. I'm only 35. I've got plenty of time for that.\"\n\nThe Spaniard added he would definitely race for McLaren for the rest of the season, dismissing speculation he could quit part way through the year because of the Honda F1 engine's poor performance.\n\n\"It's of course a regret that I won't be able to race at Monaco this year,\" he said. \"But Monaco will be the only 2017 grand prix I'll be missing, and I'll be back in the cockpit for the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in early June.\n\n\"I've never raced an IndyCar car before, and neither have I ever driven on a super-speedway, but I'm confident I'll get to grips with it fast.\n\n\"I've watched a lot of IndyCar action on TV and online, and it's clear that great precision is required to race in close proximity with other cars on the far side of 220mph [354km/h].\"\n\nAlonso acknowledged he would be on \"a steep learning curve\".\n\nBut he added: \"I'll be flying to Indianapolis from Barcelona immediately after the Spanish Grand Prix, practising our McLaren-Honda-Andretti car at Indy from 15 May onwards, hopefully clocking up a large number of miles every day, and I know how good the Andretti Autosport guys are.\n\n\"I'll be proud to race with them, and I intend to mine their knowledge and expertise for as much information as I possibly can.\"\n\nMcLaren have supported Alonso's wishes because they recognise the efforts he has been putting in - and the frustration he is feeling - after three uncompetitive seasons since joining the team in 2015.\n\nHow will Alonso do?\n\nMcLaren executive director Zak Brown said: \"Could Fernando win this year's Indy 500? Well, I wouldn't be so silly as to make any such rash prediction, but I expect him to be in the mix.\n\n\"Put it this way: the team he'll be racing for won the race last year, using the same Honda engine, and he's the best racing driver in the world. That's quite a compelling combination.\n\n\"He'll have his work cut out to acclimatise to running at super-speedway velocities, but ultimately it's quality that counts in all forms of motorsport, and Fernando is very definitely quality. He's ballsy and brave too.\"\n\nAlonso joined McLaren-Honda with the intention of winning a third world title, but the package has been uncompetitive, with the vast majority of the blame lying with the Honda engine. His best results have been three fifth places.\n\nHe has won 32 grands prix - sixth in the all-time list - but has not stood on top of the podium since the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix in a Ferrari.\n\nAlonso's contract runs out at the end of this season. McLaren want him to re-sign and there is a hope this will help persuade him to do so.\n\nThe unexpected development marks McLaren's return to the Indy 500 for the first time in 38 years. They won the race with their own car in 1974 and 1976.\n\nIndyCars is now a 'spec' formula, where all teams use the same car, though the different engine manufacturers are allowed to design their own aerodynamic bodykits.\n\nThe Indy 500 is the most prestigious race in the USA and the blue riband event of the IndyCar Series.\n\nThe unique practice schedule gives Alonso more than the usual amount of time to prepare for a race.\n\nThere is a full week of practice, six hours a day for five days, before the qualifying weekend on 20-21 May, and two more days of practice before the race on 28 May.\n\nThe Andretti team, run by former IndyCar and grand prix driver Michael Andretti, is one of the leading teams in the championship and won the event last year with American Alexander Rossi, who raced five times in F1 for the Manor team in 2015.\n\nAndretti raced for McLaren in F1 in 1993 as Ayrton Senna's team-mate, completing 13 races with one podium finish before being replaced by Finn Mika Hakkinen and returning to race in the US.\n\nAndretti said: \"Fernando's lack of experience on super-speedways is not of concern to me.\n\n\"I do believe that the Indianapolis 500 is one of the best places for a rookie to start because there is the opportunity for so much practice time on the track - and, as we have demonstrated, it can be won by a rookie.\n\n\"Fernando is a great talent and I have full confidence that he will represent very strongly for McLaren, Honda and Andretti Autosport.\"\n\n'Unlike anything he has yet experienced' - analysis\n\nThis is a bold and exciting move by Alonso but one with plenty of risks.\n\nThe Spaniard remains in the very highest echelon of Formula 1 drivers and has more than enough talent to succeed in any car, but the type of racing he will encounter at Indianapolis is unlike anything he has yet experienced.\n\nIf he was racing on a road course - what Americans call F1-type tracks - he would be expected to be absolutely competitive straight away.\n\nBut Indianapolis is a so-called 'super-speedway' - an ultra-fast oval track where average lap speeds can exceed 230mph.\n\nNot only does Alonso have to get used to the intricacies of racing on a banked oval, including all the technical challenges involved, he will also have to learn the art of the 'draft' - using the slipstream of another car to gain speed - which is critical to oval racing.\n\nAnd because of the high speeds involved and the proximity of the cars, IndyCar racing has a reputation for being notably more dangerous than F1, and any accident can have serious consequences.\n\nBut what he is doing is not without precedent.\n\nHill, Jim Clark and Emerson Fittipaldi all won the F1 world title and the Indy 500, while Nigel Mansell switched to IndyCars in 1993 after failing to agree terms with Williams following his title success in 1992.\n\nAlonso will be able to count on advice not only from team owner Andretti, but also team-mate Takuma Sato, who raced in F1 in the mid-2000s.\n\nAnd former Indy 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, who is also in this year's field, also raced against Alonso in F1 from 2001-2005.\n\n'Racer' Alonso up for the challenge", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley says it would be a \"bonus\" to be selected for the British & Irish Lions tour of New Zealand this summer.\n\nHartley, 31, led Eddie Jones' side to the Six Nations championship last month and will finish the Premiership season with club side Northampton.\n\n\"I'm not building myself up for possibly what would be a setback in my eyes,\" Hartley told BBC Sport.\n\n\"So I'm taking it as it comes. I'm happy where I am at the moment. If it comes it is a bonus. If not then I have got other things to play for and other things to look forward to.\n\n\"For anyone selected I'm sure it's a great honour and I have been previously selected, so, yes, it is a great honour, but to tour I'm sure is a great experience.\"\n\n'It's my job to play well'\n\nThe immediate focus for the New Zealand-born hooker is guiding Saints at least to a European Champions Cup position in the Premiership.\n\nNorthampton are seventh in the table but level on points with Harlequins, in sixth, after losing their last two games.\n\nAnd Hartley said he would not allow Gatland's imminent announcement to impact on his performance level.\n\n\"It's an uncontrollable,\" he added. \"The selectors have got a pretty difficult job.\n\n\"What I can control is what I do this weekend against Saracens, every other player is thinking that as well.\n\n\"[Representative rugby] is the bonus of playing well off the back of club rugby or for your international side. It's not my job to worry about selection, it's my job to play well.\"\n\nHartley need only look back to 2013 to recall how much of an honour it was to be selected for a Lions tour, but also to remember the frustration of missing out.\n\nHis Premiership final sending off for Northampton that year, made doubly painful by a defeat by East Midlands rivals Leicester at Twickenham, culminated in an 11-week ban which ruled him out of the tour to Australia.\n\nHowever, he dismissed any talk of additional motivation ahead of the 2017 squad announcement.\n\n\"What motivates me is embracing what I'm doing at this stage of my life,\" added Hartley.\n\n\"Playing professional sport for a living is a great thing to say and do, the opportunity I've got for my family to provide and set ourselves up.\n\n\"I still enjoy it, I love the environment, whether it's the Saints dressing room or England. When you enjoy your work it's not work.\n\n\"Set-backs always refocus me but, ultimately, because I missed out on the Lions in 2013 doesn't motivate me to get up in the morning.\"\n\nGet all the latest rugby union news by adding alerts in the BBC Sport app.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's Mark Cavendish has been diagnosed with glandular fever and faces an uncertain timescale for his recovery, say Team Dimension Data.\n\nThe 30-time Tour de France stage winner, 31, has not raced for the team since Milan-San Remo on 18 March.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is no effective specific treatment,\" team doctor Jarrad van Zuydam said.\n\n\"His training and symptoms will be monitored very carefully and he will make a gradual return.\"\n\nIn a message on social media, Cavendish said he was \"sad to be out of action\", adding: \"Hopefully I can manage this effectively and be back in a few weeks.\"\n\nGlandular fever, also known as infectious mononucleosis, is caused by the Epstein Barr virus.\n\n\"Mark has been experiencing some unexplained fatigue during training. Recent blood analysis has revealed him to have infectious mononucleosis caused by the Epstein Barr virus,\" Van Zuydam added.\n\n\"It is difficult to give an accurate estimate of when we can expect him back at full fitness but we are hopeful of a significant improvement of his symptoms over the next two weeks.\"\n\nThe South Africa-based team insisted that Isle of Man rider Cavendish's \"main goal\" remained to race at this year's Tour de France.\n\nCycling's most prestigious stage race gets under way in the German city of Dusseldorf on 1 July, and finishes in Paris on 23 July.\n\nCavendish has the second highest number of stage wins in its history - four fewer than legendary Belgian rider Eddy Merckx.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLeicester City kept Atletico Madrid within reach as they restricted the dominant Spaniards to a single goal in their Champions League quarter-final first leg.\n\nKoke had already hit the visitors' post in the first half when the referee judged Marc Albrighton's foul on Antoine Griezmann had been inside the penalty area.\n\nReplays showed contact was made outside the box but Griezmann duly stepped up to send Kasper Schmeichel the wrong way.\n\nFernando Torres slipped as the goal beckoned in the second half but, that chance apart, Atletico struggled to carve out clear-cut openings against a stubborn Leicester defence.\n\nRobert Huth - who will be banned for the second leg after being booked - saw a shot blocked and Shinji Okazaki narrowly failed to make contact with a low cross in the best of Leicester's rare raids forward.\n• None Relive the action at the Vicente Calderon\n\nDespite giving up 68% of possession and failing to register a shot on target, Leicester will take heart from their previous encounter with La Liga opposition.\n\nThey were similarly dominated by Sevilla in the first leg of their last-16 tie, but turned round the visitors' 2-1 lead on a tumultuous night at the King Power Stadium.\n\nHaving reached the final in two of the last three years, however, Atletico are a team of greater pedigree and expectations than their compatriots.\n\nWith the meanest defence in La Liga and Griezmann poised to counter, Atletico are also ideally suited to withstand whatever atmosphere the Foxes fans whip up next Tuesday.\n\nThe technical quality of Atletico's players was matched by a shrewd tactical plan from manager Diego Simeone that sought out the space Leicester tried to deny them.\n\nGriezmann - reputedly a summer target for Manchester United - popped up between the lines, with midfield anchorman Wilfred Ndidi and the two centre-backs uncertain who was best placed to pick him up.\n\nIt was the France international's more obvious quality that earned Atletico the opener as his searing pace spread panic in the Leicester defence and Albrighton bundled him over.\n\nReferee Jonas Eriksson pointed to the spot despite Leicester's protests and Schmeichel could not produce a third penalty save after his two in the tie against Sevilla.\n\nAlmost as important might be the yellow card that Huth received in attempting to contain Griezmann.\n\nThe German will be suspended for the second leg and, with captain Wes Morgan not yet back from injury, boss Craig Shakespeare will have to make do and mend in the centre of defence on the biggest night in the club's history.\n\nWhile the Leicester fans high in the Vicente Calderon weighed up whether they were satisfied with the way the tie was poised at its halfway point, some might have taken time to reflect on the heights the team have scaled in just a few short years.\n\nEight years ago almost to the day - 11 April 2009 - their team travelled to the less illustrious surroundings of Hereford's Edgar Street ground in League One.\n\nMidfielder Andy King, who played that day in Hereford and came on in the second half in Madrid, is the only Foxes player who connects the two wildly contrasting eras.\n\nFormer Manchester United, Everton and England defender Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 live:\n\nIt was an outstanding result. Craig Shakespeare would have taken that before tonight .\n\nLeicester have defended really well and limited Atletico Madrid to shots from distance. It was just a horrendous penalty decision that has cost them the game.\n\nWe have no monitor and no television replays and I knew straight away that Marc Albrighton's challenge was outside the box. We must be about 80 yards away from the incident. The referee was right on top of it. It was a diabolical decision.\n\nI didn't expect that sort of defensive concentration from them. I feared the worst after their 4-2 defeat by Everton on Sunday. I keep thinking that the Leicester fairytale can't continue, but the fans here believe.\n\nWhat I will say however, is that Atletico might prefer playing Leicester at the King Power where they will be forced to come out and attack.\n• None Atletico Madrid have won 17 of their 22 Champions League home games under Diego Simeone, with the Spanish club unbeaten in the knockout stages.\n• None Leicester have lost on each of their three European trips to Madrid, with Atletico still unbeaten at home against English sides (winning six, drawing five).\n• None The Madrid club have progressed in six of their last eight European cup ties against English opposition.\n• None Atletico Madrid have also kept a clean sheet in 16 of their last 18 Champions League games at the Calderón.\n• None Antoine Griezmann has been directly involved in 10 goals in his last nine Champions League appearances at the Calderon (eight goals, two assists).\n• None Attempt blocked. Koke (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.\n• None Attempt missed. Ángel Correa (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Filipe Luis. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "When Jude Ower entered the gaming industry she was one of very few women\n\nJude Ower loved playing video games as a child, but she never dreamed that her passion would eventually become a force for good and win her accolades and honours.\n\nAfter 12 years making games for education and training, she went on to create an international games platform with a social conscience - Playmob.\n\n\"After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Zynga, the creator of Farmville, launched a campaign to raise funds for the victims by selling an in-game item, with a percentage of each purchase going to help the victims,\" she explains.\n\n\"It was massively successful and raised over $1m in a matter of days. It was then I thought: 'Maybe I could make a platform that connected games and causes?'\"\n\nPlaymob pairs games developers or businesses with a charity and then sets up in-game advertising campaigns. By clicking on links within the game, players can make donations.\n\nThe campaigns have helped more than 3,000 teenagers receive counselling for cyber-bullying, provided protection for 31 pandas, and secured education for 8,500 children in Africa and Asia, the company says.\n\n\"With Playmob we can track the social impact, such as number of trees planted, number of meals provided, water wells built, and so forth,\" she says.\n\n\"This allows players to see that the more they play and interact with the branded content, the more good they do.\"\n\nSo far the games platform has raised more than $1m for charities over the past five years, and more than 1.5 million players have interacted with charitable in-game content.\n\nHer success saw her awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2015 for services to entrepreneurship and she's been voted one of the top 100 Women in Tech in Europe.\n\nMs Ower is just one of a growing number of entrepreneurs - many of them women - exploring how technology can be harnessed in the cause of philanthropy.\n\nThis is tech for social good, or \"philtech\" as it's sometimes called.\n\nErin Michelson had all the trappings of financial success but felt \"terribly unhappy\"\n\nErin Michelson's high-flying banking career took her to Hong Kong, Chicago, New York and San Francisco, where she rose to vice president and director of philanthropic management at Bank of America.\n\nBut despite seemingly having it all, she felt there was something missing.\n\n\"I realised that even though I had all the trappings of success, I was terribly unhappy,\" she says.\n\n\"So I quit my job, sold everything I owned, set up a charitable fund, and headed out on a two-year around-the-world trip volunteering with humanitarian organisations.\"\n\nTaking only one suitcase, she spent 720 days travelling to 62 countries across all seven continents - an adventure that helped her find meaning in her life, she says.\n\nAfter writing a book about her experiences, she returned to San Francisco and founded Summery, a data analytics company that has developed a piece of online software similar to the Myers-Briggs personality test.\n\nSummery helps firms match their charitable projects with their employees' personalities\n\nThe program combines behavioural science and analytics to give employers an idea of their staff's social priorities and attitudes towards giving, which she says helps inform companies how to focus their charitable efforts.\n\n\"The test matches you with one of 10 'giving' personalities and provides a snapshot of your giving DNA, one of 59,048 possibilities,\" says Ms Michelson.\n\nBy taking the guesswork out of charitable giving, she says it can improve the relationship between employer and staff, to everyone's benefit.\n\n\"Engaged employees lead not only to better corporate performance, but also significant cost savings through stronger retention and more targeted recruitment based on cultural appreciation,\" she says.\n\nRichard Craig, chief executive of the Technology Trust, which helps charitable organisations use tech more effectively, says: \"Over the last couple of years there has been a noticeable trend in graduates specifically looking for roles in charities and non-profits who might previously have looked to careers in the City, for example.\n\n\"I am seeing the same trend with technology start-ups, with a proportion looking to deliver social good either as non-profits themselves, or commercial organisation with social purpose.\"\n\nGood-Loop's Amy Williams says she saw \"untapped potential\" in online advertising\n\nIt was while working for an advertising agency in London that Amy Williams had her \"philtech epiphany\".\n\n\"I saw firsthand the huge amount of money that gets passed from one big conglomerate to another, buying and selling the cheap commodity of our attention online,\" she says.\n\n\"The stark contrast between these two worlds really hit me - £4.7bn was spent on online advertising in the UK last year.\"\n\nShe quit and went travelling, working as a volunteer for a small charity in Argentina called Food For Thought, which specialises in nutrition education for kids.\n\n\"I started started to see the untapped potential within online advertising to make some real positive impact.\"\n\nInspired by her experiences, she founded Good-Loop, a company that rewards viewers of video ads with donations to their chosen charities.\n\nBrands create a video and if the visitor watches it for 15 seconds or more, the advertiser pays 50p - with 50% of that going to the chosen charity, 40% to the content creator, and 10% to Good-Loop.\n\nShe says the process makes viewers more engaged with brands because they have opted to watch the content rather than having it forced upon them.\n\nPlaymob's Jude Ower believes recent political events in Europe and the US have fired up younger generations to get more involved in socially responsible causes.\n\n\"We are seeing people leave well-paid jobs to take a risk and set up on their own, not just in the hope of creating a successful start-up, but to do something with purpose.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTeenager Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Monaco edged the first leg of the rescheduled Champions League quarter-final tie at Borussia Dortmund.\n\nIn a match delayed by 24 hours after a bomb attack on the hosts' bus, Mbappe diverted in Thomas Lemar's cross before Sven Bender's own goal made it 2-0.\n\nOusmane Dembele slotted in from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's flick to pull one back for Dortmund, but Mbappe curled home to restore the two-goal cushion before Shinji Kagawa added a late second for the hosts.\n\nKagawa showed great skill to dribble past Jemerson and slot in, and there was almost even more late drama when Aubameyang headed over from yards out.\n\nBut Monaco survived and will take a slender advantage into a highly anticipated second leg at Stade Louis II on 19 April.\n• None Bartra 'doing much better' after bus attack\n\nMonaco's free-wheeling attack has scored 88 goals in 31 Ligue 1 games this season, and Dortmund were the latest to be disorientated by their movement and slick passing.\n\nMbappe gave early notice of his muscularity and pace as Sokratis Papastathopoulos gave away an early penalty attempting to get back on the right side. The Greek was relieved to see Fabinho drag the spot-kick wide, but the let-off was brief.\n\nLess than three minutes later, Bernardo Silva broke free and picked out the overlapping Lemar with a sublime outside-of-the-foot pass. The full-back's cross from a prime shooting position seemed to catch his team-mates by surprise, but the ball ricocheted off Mbappe's thigh and rolled in.\n\nBender - playing in defence after Marc Bartra fractured his wrist in Tuesday's bomb attack - contrived to head Andrea Raggi's cross past his own goalkeeper for the second, but it was the third that fuelled the growing hype around Mbappe.\n\nThe 18-year-old's emergence has been sudden - he played only 25 minutes in the group stage - but he showed the anticipation and composure of a veteran as he pounced on Lukasz Piszczek's under-hit backpass, raced in on goal and barely broke stride in burying a curling shot into the top corner from 20 yards.\n\nWhile it is impossible to say whether Tuesday's attack contributed to Dortmund's slow start, manager Thomas Tuchel's double change at half-time was undoubtedly the spur to their recovery.\n\nThe introduction of Christian Pulisic - like Mbappe only 18 years old - was particularly effective. The United States international shredded left-back Raggi with pace and skill as Monaco were forced deeper and deeper.\n\nThe pressure soon told as Dembele side-footed home to give Dortmund hope.\n\nBut Mbappe's breakaway second meant that, despite Tuchel's exhortations on the sidelines and Kagawa's neat strike, the hosts will continue playing catch-up in next week's return leg.\n\nThe Dortmund fans invited visiting Monaco supporters into their homes after Tuesday night's postponement, and a sell-out crowd of 65,849 was characteristically loud and proud when the tie belatedly got under way amid heightened security.\n\nA huge 'tifo' greeted the teams as they strode out and for the rest of the evening the home fans in the Kop end of the Westfalenstadion displayed club badge by wearing coordinated coloured ponchos.\n\nThere were also messages of support for the injured Bartra in the stands and on the shirts of his team-mates.\n• None Mbappe is the youngest player to score a brace in a Champions League knockout game (18 years 113 days).\n• None Mbappe has now scored in three successive Champions League games for Monaco (four goals).\n• None He is the fifth player to score in his first three Champions League knockout stage appearances after Christian Karembeu, Steffen Effenburg, Luis Garcia and Leroy Sane.\n• None Fabinho had scored all nine of his penalties for Monaco this season in all competitions prior to his miss in this game.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Ousmane Dembélé with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Borussia Dortmund 2, Monaco 3. Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nuri Sahin with a cross.\n• None Fabinho (Monaco) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ousmane Dembélé (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Borussia Dortmund 1, Monaco 3. Kylian Mbappe (Monaco) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The lack of clarity with US foreign policy is a cause of concern for America's allies\n\nJust a few days ago the Russian embassy in London responded on its Twitter feed to the British Foreign Secretary's announcement that he was cancelling his planned visit to Moscow.\n\nAccompanying the Russian tweet was a picture of the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimea War - one of the great disasters of 19th Century British military history.\n\nIt was, though, a curious choice of subject.\n\nMaybe the Russian embassy should brush up on their own history, for whilst the charge itself was a glorious failure, Britain and France - who had gone to war with Russia ostensibly over an arcane dispute involving the Ottoman Empire and access to holy sites - did in fact win and Moscow had to back down.\n\nBut there is another more important lesson from the Charge of the Light Brigade that is relevant to today's diplomatic crisis. The flower of Britain's Light Cavalry charged down the wrong valley directly into the mouth of the Russian guns because the message ordering them into action was not clear.\n\nThe US struck at the Syrian airfield from where the Americans say the recent chemical attack was launched with impunity. They did so to reinforce a red line - drawn by the previous Obama administration - but one never acted upon.\n\nOf course the thing about red lines is that they need to be crystal clear. In the immediate aftermath of the strike this seemed to be the case. The message was: use nerve gas again and consequences will follow.\n\nBut on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer muddied the waters.\n\nAsked if air attacks with conventional weapons might also draw US punitive action, he said: \"If you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people, you will see a response from this president.\"\n\nBarrel bombs, though, tend to be large canisters filled with explosives and shrapnel that are typically dropped by Syrian government forces from helicopters. In other words they are conventional rather than chemical munitions.\n\nSo was Mr Spicer broadening the red line? Belatedly the White House had to issue a clarification noting that what he really was saying was that barrel bombs containing chemical weapons would draw a US response.\n\nThis lack of clarity would not matter quite so much if it was not characteristic of the Trump administration's whole approach to foreign policy. And the stakes could not be higher.\n\nOne crisis in US-Russia relations is already upon us. Another involving the unpredictable North Korean regime is fast building. These are the Trump team's first big foreign policy tests and so far they are gaining a very mixed report card.\n\nIn the wake of the US strike on the Syrian air base, Trump administration officials - ranging from the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and US National Security Adviser General H R McMaster, to the White House spokesman Sean Spicer - have suggested a variety of US policy approaches that extend from the relative isolationism of \"America First\" to a more strident interventionism.\n\nOn key questions there seems to be little agreement.\n\nIs the US eager to remove the Assad regime? Does its priority remain the fight against so-called Islamic State? How does the strike against Syria that has enraged not just Russia but also Iran square with US interests in Iraq, where, unlike in Syria, Washington and Tehran find themselves on the \"same side\" in that they are both giving military backing to the Iraqi Government?\n\nMr Tillerson will arrive in Moscow without the backing of the G7 for economic sanctions against Russia\n\nThe lack of clarity in the message is hampering America's allies as well.\n\nThe British Prime Minister Theresa May has spoken of a \"window of opportunity\" to separate Russia from Syria's President Assad. But Tuesday's G7 group of nations meeting has pointedly failed to agree on the need for additional economic sanctions against Russia.\n\nMr Tillerson is arriving in Moscow without the strong backing from America's key allies that he had hoped for. Yes, they all agree that Mr Assad cannot be part of the solution. They all agree Russia must exercise its responsibilities in Syria. But in terms of what to do, they are as much at sea as the Trump administration itself.\n\nWhat is still needed is a broad statement of US policy goals and the instruments that will be used to achieve them. Without that the growing militarisation of US foreign policy - stepped up strikes in Yemen; more troops to Syria and Iraq; and the punitive cruise missile attack in Syria - may worry both friends and potential enemies alike.\n\nThere seems to be no central guiding brain behind the evolution of the Trump team's foreign policy. The US president himself has failed to articulate any clear approach.\n\nWith regard to Syria that may be unsettling. With regard to North Korea, it could be potentially catastrophic.", "The squads patrol areas where there are most reports of harassment\n\nIn Uttar Pradesh, a special police squad has been set up to fight eve teasing - a local term for sexual harassment. But the move has led to allegations of moral policing. The BBC's Vikas Pandey spent a day with the squad in Allahabad city.\n\nIn a public park, a young couple try to hide as they spot the squad.\n\n\"Please come out. We are here for your safety,\" Niraj Kumar Jadaun, assistant superintendent of police and head of the squad, tells them.\n\nThe boy emerges and asks for forgiveness, only to be reassured by Mr Jadaun that he has done nothing wrong.\n\nAfter a brief conversation, the couple manage a faint smile before disappearing into the park.\n\n\"Some people are scared of cops. And that's the perception we have to fight against,\" he says. \"But eve teasing is another reality that we need to fight against.\"\n\nNiraj Kumar Jadaun wants to win the trust of young people\n\nPolice in Uttar Pradesh established the squad due to rising reports of sexual harassment. There are no reliable statistics and police say that in most cases women don't report harassment. But most women have a story, or several, to tell about inappropriate or abusive groping, language or behaviour.\n\nA total of 1,400 officers have been deployed to anti-harassment squads across the state. Each squad includes three uniformed officers and a female officer in plain clothes. They patrol in cars and on foot, targeting areas where they get most complaints about harassment.\n\nSo far there have been mixed results. Some squads have made headlines for \"moral policing\" and there have been reports of couples being harassed and even beaten up.\n\nBut Rahul Srivastava, chief spokesperson of the police, said that only \"a handful\" of officers were making mistakes.\n\n\"We are repeatedly training our staff about the dos and don'ts,\" he said. \"We have suspended nine officials so far for violations. Our instruction is clear that consenting adults should not be disturbed.\"\n\nMr Jadaun says upbringing can be to blame. \"In some cultures it's still a taboo for a boy and a girl to sit together in public places. So some cops who think on similar lines end up indulging in moral policing,\" he says. \"But their number is very small.\"\n\nThe police have strict instructions to not disturb consenting couples\n\nBack in the park, Mr Jadaun is stopped by a young man who wants to talk.\n\n\"My name is Abhilash Denis and I want to thank you for this initiative. But I also have some issues,\" he says.\n\nMr Denis says that he likes to go to public parks with his girlfriend.\n\n\"But it's always a risk. Eve teasers are always around. They make nasty remarks and make rude gestures. The squad's presence has made sure that such people are less visible in public places,\" he says.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean that cops have a right to disturb us any time.\"\n\nMr Jadaun assures him that police will only disturb him to ask about their safety.\n\nAbhilash Denis supports the initiative but wants it to work better\n\nPolice officers say they also visit rural areas to make women feel safe\n\nElsewhere in the park a woman, who didn't want to be identified, seems angry with the police.\n\n\"It's the police's responsibility to make us feel safe. But I don't want random police to question me just because I am sitting in a public place with my male friend,\" she says.\n\n\"Yes, I agree that eve teasing is a problem. And I am happy the police are doing something about it. But they need to get better at what they do.\"\n\nIn another part of the city, police approach two couples sitting on a bench.\n\nKritika Singh says she appreciates the work the police are doing, and didn't mind having a conversation with them.\n\n\"You have to know how big a problem eve teasing is in this state. Every girl can tell you horrific incidents they have faced in public places,\" she says.\n\n\"Abuse, filthy gestures from men are very common. Sometimes they also end up touching us inappropriately in public places.\"\n\nKritika Singh says eve teasing is rampant in Uttar Pradesh\n\nPolice constable Santosh Paul talks to two young women as the squad moves through the city\n\n\"I have seen reports about moral policing and that must stop. But the squad should not be shut. I have seen it making a difference. We feel a bit safer now, though not 100%.\"\n\nShe says she has grown up accepting harassment as a reality. \"For the first time something is being done, I am willing to accept it despite its imperfections.\"\n\nI witnessed similar conversations between the squad and people across the city. We stopped at schools, malls and shopping districts.\n\nThe squad questions many men, but nobody is detained. \"Our purpose is not to arrest people. We want eve teasers to know that the police are out there to catch them. We want them to change,\" Mr Jadaun says.\n\nEach squad shares its experiences each day with senior police officers\n\nAs the day finishes, the jury still seems to be out on whether the initiative is a success.\n\nIn some places people, mostly women, appreciated the squad's work. But some still have doubts about its methods.\n\nI put this question to the state's top police official, Javeed Ahmed.\n\n\"Eve teasing is a reality,\" he said. \"We needed to send a signal that women would be protected and people who harassed them would be dealt with in a strict manner.\"\n\nHe acknowledges that there is a long way to go. \"But I am glad we have made a start,\" he says. \"We can't become a progressive state if women don't feel safe here.\"\n\nBack at base, the squad hold a briefing to go over the day's events.\n\nSuperintendent of Police Vipin Tada says it is a chance to identify mistakes. \"They are learning fast. Just remember it's a new initiative for them as well,\" he says.\n\nAllahabad's top police officer Shalabh Kumar Mathur says he does not regret putting resources into this initiative.\n\n\"Eve teasing is a menace. If the choice is between doing nothing and doing something with scope for improvement, I would pick the latter,\" he says.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPaulo Dybala scored twice as Juventus took charge of their Champions League quarter-final tie with Barcelona courtesy of a commanding first-leg display in Turin.\n\nThe Argentine forward curled home both of his goals before the break, the first from an angle inside the box and the second from a central position on the edge.\n\nJuve turned a dominant lead into one that should see them go on and win the tie when Giorgio Chiellini showed strength and guile to steer home a header from a corner.\n\nFor the second European round running, Barca - who were as defensively suspect as they were in losing 4-0 to Paris St-Germain in the first leg of their last-16 tie - must recover from a heavy away defeat to progress.\n\nHowever, after their record-breaking achievement to overturn that deficit against PSG, they will retain hope heading into the return leg at the Nou Camp on Wednesday, 19 April.\n• None Podcast: 'Not the end of an era, but the end of their hopes'\n\nThe last time these sides met in the Champions League was in the 2015 final, when Barcelona won 3-1.\n\nThe Italians are a much-changed side, with only goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and defender Leonardo Bonucci starting both the game in Berlin and Tuesday's in Turin, but they played like a team with a score to settle.\n\nThe opening 20 minutes were a lesson in high-pressing, aggressive play that created a clear headed opening for Gonzalo Higuain to spurn before Dybala's two strikes.\n\nThe remaining 70 minutes saw Juve retain a high work-rate but with the luxury of strategically selecting their moments to counter-attack.\n\nThis approach twice allowed Higuain to have shots that were saved by Marc-Andre ter Stegen before more lax defending - this time from Javier Mascherano, who had been moved to centre-back from midfield at half-time - allowed Chiellini to head home following a corner.\n\nThe win means Juve, who have won their past 32 Serie A home games, are undefeated in 18 European games in Turin.\n\nWith the second-best defence of any side in Europe's top-five leagues and having gone 441 Champions League minutes without conceding, the Italians are well-equipped to avoid wilting under second-leg pressure in Spain.\n\nMore away woe for fading Barca\n\nBarcelona's heroics in the return leg against PSG papered over the cracks of a terrible first-leg display in the French capital.\n\nAfter another heavy away defeat - their third in four Champions League games on the road and a second in succession after Saturday's La Liga loss at Malaga - there is no escaping the feeling this is a team in decline.\n\nThey are often shambolic at the back, with Samuel Umtiti and Jeremy Mathieu error-prone and Mascherano a fading force.\n\nAndres Iniesta is a class act in midfield and the attacking unit of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar is unrivalled in Europe, but only the talismanic Messi proved a threat in Turin.\n\nHe had a goal rightly ruled out for offside, curled a shot just past the post, laid on a defence-splitting pass for Suarez to shoot wide and another to send Iniesta clear only to see Buffon superbly claw his shot past the post.\n\nBuffon's instinctive save not only denied Barcelona a vital away goal, but came just 76 seconds before Dybala made it 2-0.\n\nLuis Enrique's side have come back from a seemingly inevitable exit once in this season's Champions League. They will need all 11 players at the very top of their game if they are to have any chance of repeating the feat.\n\n'It was like the third half from Paris'\n\nJuventus coach Massimiliano Allegri: \"I want to congratulate the lads because, as a team, they did great.\n\n\"It isn't easy overcoming a team like Barcelona, but we also dug deep to keep a clean sheet. That was fundamental for us.\n\n\"But we have to remain humble, keep our heads down and keep working. PSG scored four, and look what happened.\n\n\"In Barcelona, it will be different and we have to try and score a goal.\"\n\nBarcelona coach Luis Enrique: \"We basically gifted two goals to Juventus in the opening half. As coach, for me it's inexplicable how they were so much better than us.\n\n\"It's like a nightmare. We've had very little luck of late, and now I can only hope that from tomorrow we get back on our feet.\n\n\"In the first half the players were determined, but we made the same mistakes from Paris, and that's a problem. Our second half was much better. But I still have the opening half in my head, like a nightmare.\n\n\"Maybe it wasn't [a repeat of] Paris, but it was like the third half from Paris.\n\n\"I'm an optimistic person. But I take responsibility for this. I'm the coach and the buck stops at me.\n\n\"If we play as well as we can, we can score four goals against anyone.\"\n• None Juventus are unbeaten in their last 18 Champions League home games (W11 D7 L0), their longest ever run without a defeat in the competition on home soil. Their last home defeat in the competition was versus Bayern Munich in April 2013 (0-2).\n• None Juventus have now won 16 successive home matches in all competitions and are unbeaten in 48 games there (W42 D6 L0). Their last home defeat in all comps came against Udinese in August 2015.\n• None Massimiliano Allegri has equalled Juventus' longest winning streak in the Champions League (five games - previously done by Fabio Capello in 2004-05 and Antonio Conte in 2012-13).\n• None Dybala's first two goals in 2016-17 for Juventus were scored away from home, but his 14 goals since then have all been scored at the Juventus Stadium.\n• None Barcelona have lost four of their past five Champions League away games in the knock-out stages (W1 D0 L4), conceding 12 goals in these games.\n\nBarcelona host Real Sociedad in La Liga on Saturday before the home leg with Juve. The Italian side travel to Pescara this Saturday and then to Spain four days later.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergi Roberto (Barcelona) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Neymar with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dani Alves (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonzalo Higuaín.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Javier Mascherano.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Harvard University has defended plans to remove a reference to \"puritans\" from its ceremonial song, as part of a project promoting \"inclusion and belonging\".\n\nThe proposal to change the fusty lyrics of a 19th Century song, \"Fair Harvard\", has started a very contemporary argument about identity and how universities represent their own past.\n\nHarvard's \"presidential task force on inclusion and belonging\" has announced a competition to find a replacement for the song's ending, which praises the university's puritan heritage: \"Be the herald of Light, and the bearer of Love, Till the stock of the Puritans die.\"\n\nThey want this symbol of Harvard's identity, sung at university ceremonies, to refer to something broader and more inclusive than the starchy New England colonialists.\n\nBut according to the Harvard Crimson university newspaper, the decision to ditch the reference to puritan founders seems to have had a lukewarm response among students.\n\nThere were questions raised about the relevance of changing a song from the 1830s that has never really been a source of contention.\n\nOn Twitter, there were complaints about \"editing history\" and censorship.\n\nAcademic and social commentator Frank Furedi described it as \"morally disoriented\".\n\nHow open are the gates to Harvard University? And will song lyrics change that?\n\nEven if puritans had once been a dominant force, there was no suggestion that the frugal religious reformers were still getting an unfair advantage in what is now the world's wealthiest university.\n\nAbout half the most recent intake is from an ethnic minority with close to equal proportions of male and female students.\n\nBut Professor Danielle Allen, co-chair of the university's inclusion task force, said in a statement that the symbols and mottos had to be appropriate for everyone \"regardless of background, identity, religious affiliation or viewpoint\".\n\nShe said the current university song lyrics suggested that \"the commitment to truth, and to being the bearer of its light, is the special province of those of puritan stock. This is false\".\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\nProf Allen also pointed out that the song had been changed before, with a reference to \"sons\" being changed to something more gender neutral in 1998.\n\nAnd as well as looking for different words, the university is considering an alternative tune or style for the song, with the suggestion of a hip-hop version.\n\nThis is the latest university battle over emblems and language, with arguments over how institutions should balance their historic roots with the need to appeal to a modern, diverse range of students.\n\nThese come alongside strongly-contested debates about \"safe spaces\" and \"no-platforming\", with arguments over whether students have a right to block views they find offensive.\n\nWhat does a Harvard student look like? And how should the university reflect its past?\n\nBut some student campaigners have brought about changes.\n\nAfter a long-running protest, Yale University announced earlier this year that it would re-name Calhoun College, named after a 19th Century advocate of slavery.\n\nIt is now to be named after a female computer scientist, Grace Murray Hopper.\n\nHarvard is dropping the title of \"house master\" because of connotations of slavery, and ending the use of a seal that includes the family crest of a notoriously brutal slave trader.\n\nThe university was once an owner of slaves and has held a series of events and commemorations to examine its own connections to the slave trade.\n\nOxford University has a project to create more diversity in the paintings on display\n\nGeorgetown University, in a bid to come to terms with its own legacy of slave owning, has promised extra support in the admissions process for any descendants of slaves sold by the university in the 1830s.\n\nIn the UK, there have also been questions about public symbols and memorials.\n\nStudents at the University of Bristol have called for the re-naming of a building because of claims of historic links with wealth derived from slavery.\n\nOxford University's Oriel College had a high-profile controversy over whether a statue of the Cecil Rhodes should be removed, with protestors arguing that the Victorian magnate's views on race made him an unsuitable figure to be commemorated.\n\nBut the call for the statue's removal was rejected.\n\nOxford University last month announced that it was putting up more than 20 portraits to ensure more images of women and people from ethnic minorities were represented on its walls.\n\nThe competition at Harvard to find new words for the university song is open until September.\n\nBut the debate about university symbols is going to last much longer.", "A shortage of leaders has left thousands of children stuck on a waiting list to become Scouts, Beavers, Cubs or Explorers, the Scout Association says.\n\nHere, two people to have donned the Scouts' woggle and scarf describe the ups and downs of being a volunteer.\n\nLynn Dredge, who leads her local Beaver group for six- to eight-year-olds in Surrey, says she really enjoys her role.\n\n\"You're able to do things you would have as a child but with your adult's head on - you still get that level of fun,\" she says.\n\n\"We do sleepovers in the Scout hut and sing songs - all the old traditional things which the kids love.\n\n\"Because we're a village I sometimes see old Beavers who are now grown up - they'll say 'Hi Kingfisher!' which is my scouting name.\"\n\nThe 52-year-old, a teaching assistant in a primary school, has led the group for 16 years. She began as a parent volunteer after her son Stephen joined.\n\nNow, she runs a weekly meeting during term-time that lasts for an hour-and-a-quarter, and plans sessions with two other leaders.\n\nTo organise this summer's term, \"I met the other leaders at the pub and within a couple of hours we'd planned from now until July.\"\n\nEach weekly evening has a different theme, where children may be taught to tie knots, how to light a campfire or learn computer skills.\n\nAnd there are the trips. A camp-out on Dorset's Brownsea Island nature reserve and a jamboree in Holland where Scouts meet counterparts from across the world are on the agenda for Lynn's Beaver Scout Colony.\n\n\"The adults are Scouts as much as the children,\" Lynn says.\n\n\"If they go abseiling, or perform a talent show, we do it too - I'd never ask them to do something I'm not prepared to do myself.\"\n\nOn the shortage of volunteers, she says parents often \"love the idea\" of their children scouting - but that they are rarely prepared to give their own time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scout Katie Ainscough tells the Today programme why the group is still important\n\n\"They forget that it's run by volunteers, week in and week out.\"\n\nShe said some parents put their children on waiting lists up to four years before they are old enough to join, especially for oversubscribed groups.\n\n\"A group in Ashford has to run two evenings a week, of around 20 children each, and there is still a waiting list,\" she says.\n\n\"I've had to tell parents that unless you're prepared to help we won't be able to carry the group on.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"For the people who say that they don't have anytime to volunteer, I say, it's about juggling life.\"\n\nBut with the activities come responsibilities. Training, health and safety rules and planning can be onerous, some leaders say.\n\nJim Godden, 52, was a Scout leader in Bristol for eight years, but says he became \"disillusioned\" with bureaucracy by the time he left in 2015.\n\n\"I was a very active Scout, leading a successful troop,\" he says.\n\n\"We regularly went mountain walking, climbing, water-skiing, kayaking, biking and wild swimming, among many other activities.\"\n\nBut it gradually became more difficult to authorise activities with senior leaders, he says, \"even with the correct levels of leader ability and adhering to all safety factors\".\n\nHe adds: \"The only way the Scout movement can really move on is to attract those people who already take part in adventurous activities.\"\n\nJim says children want \"adventure and excitement,\" rather than sitting at a campfire singing songs.\n\nHe says some leaders are old-fashioned and \"still see it from their 'good old days' when they were Scouts.\"\n\nFor its part, the Scout Association said it was making it easier for those with limited time to join up by being flexible about how much time they can give and the sorts of jobs they do.\n\nIt says they are responding to people wanting \"much more flexible volunteering arrangements\" than in the past.\n\nIt said people could take up administrative and trustee roles, as well as being group leaders. They can help once a fortnight, month or term or at special events or camps.\n\nBut this has to be balanced with training leaders, who with one other adult can be responsible for around 20 young people at a particular time.\n\nEveryone who signs up has a criminal record check and an appointment to assess if they are suitable for leading.\n\nAfter this, volunteers have five months to complete an initial training which includes essentials like first aid and leadership training.\n\nOnce complete, they get a \"Gilwell woggle\" to show they are a learner leader.\n\nBut it can take up to five years to finish training and get a Wood Badge - the recognised insignia given to adult scouters across the world.\n\nIt looks like two wooden beads threaded onto a leather thong, and is modelled on a necklace given out by Robert Baden-Powell's at the first Scoutmasters' training camp in 1919.\n\nLynn says: \"It sounds like a lot, but you fit in learning over the weekend. We all enjoy teaching the children, but it's about us learning too.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere is, to use Boris Johnson's own lingo, a \"whinge-o-rama\" raging among the foreign secretary's political opponents and in parts of the press about his performance in the current Syria crisis.\n\nHe faces a number of charges. First, he pulled out of a long-planned trip to Moscow after the US missile strike on a Syrian airfield. It was agreed the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should go instead.\n\nNext, Team Boris briefed journalists that the foreign secretary wanted to get the G7 to agree new sanctions against Russia at its meeting in the Italian city of Lucca. But Mr Johnson entirely failed to persuade other countries to agree.\n\nItalian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said there was no consensus new sanctions would help and argued they could push Russia into a corner.\n\nMr Johnson's own view of the Syrian conflict seems to have swerved around like a shopping trolley since he became the UK's chief diplomat in July.\n\nGiving evidence to a House of Lords committee at the start of 2017, he signalled a shift in UK policy towards Syria. Mr Johnson said the \"mantra\" of calling for President Assad to go had not worked and the military space had been left open to Russia to fill.\n\nThe Foreign Secretary told peers President Assad should be allowed to run for election as part of a \"democratic resolution\" of the civil war.\n\nNow, however, Mr Johnson believes the Syrian leader has to go.\n\nHow much of this is fair? And what might the episode say about Boris Johnson's standing in Theresa May's government?\n\nFirst, the UK was a bystander to the Trump administration's missile strike on Syria. The government was given a courtesy call to say it was coming but the UK was not asked to be involved.\n\nMr Johnson's trip to Moscow (which would have been the first by a British foreign secretary to Russia for five years) was long planned and quickly binned. I understand Mrs May told Mr Johnson it was his call whether he wanted to go or not. After speaking to Rex Tillerson, Mr Johnson and his US opposite number agreed it was best for one man to deliver a single message to Moscow.\n\nMr Johnson then spent a weekend hitting the phones to other G7 countries trying to get a united position agreed ahead of the meeting in Lucca. In its final communique, the G7 did agree to state the Assad regime had to end.\n\nBut further sanctions - an idea endorsed by Number 10 - got nowhere. It was clearly a snub to Mr Johnson although government sources insist sanctions have not been taken off the table.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, said other countries were \"less forward-leaning\" than the UK on the issue.\n\nDiplomacy is tough. But it may have been unwise for the Foreign Office to suggest sanctions were an ambition when key G7 nations clearly didn't agree.\n\nAt the weekend, I was told by Team Boris that he was very relaxed about the sniping and criticism being lobbed his way in recent days. And Mr Johnson has provoked quite a lot since he became foreign secretary, largely because of his use of decidedly undiplomatic language.\n\nHe was taken to task by a Swedish MEP in February for calling Brexit a \"liberation\". A month before that, Mr Johnson warned the French president not to respond to Brexit by administering \"punishment beatings\" in the manner of a World War Two film.\n\nGuy Verhofstadt, who speaks for the European Parliament on Brexit, branded the remarks \"abhorrent and deeply unhelpful\". It was several days after President Trump's election that Boris Johnson said it was time for Mr Trump's critics to get over their \"whinge-o-rama\" - a comment I know left some officials in Brussels agog.\n\nMr Johnson is always keen to speak with the swashbuckling pluck of the newspaper columnist he once was. His many fans in the Tory party might love it. But even Mrs May has hinted at exasperation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May jokes about Boris Johnson the FFS\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference last autumn, the prime minister said: \"Do we have a plan for Brexit? We do. Are we ready for the effort it will take to see it through? We are. Can Boris Johnson stay on message for a full four days? Just about.\"\n\nIt was a joke. But not many prime ministers joke about their foreign secretary's erraticism. Then in December, Mrs May described Boris Johnson as an FFS - saying that in this case it stood for being a Fine Foreign Secretary (and not the punchy abbreviation for a term of exasperation).\n\nWhen Mrs May was home secretary and Mr Johnson was London mayor they had a prickly relationship. She then beat him to the job he craved.\n\nHer appointment of the Brexit campaign's most prominent champion to the job of foreign secretary stunned Westminster and it remains one of the most intriguing political relationships within the government.\n\nWhile happy to clip his wings publicly from time to time, Theresa May also needs Boris Johnson on board as she embarks on Brexit.\n\nA force so effective in persuading Britain to vote to leave the EU is not a politician the prime minister wants sniping from outside the cabinet as the negotiating trade-offs begin.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nGreat Britain have named an unchanged Fed Cup team of Johanna Konta, Heather Watson, Laura Robson and Jocelyn Rae for their tie against Romania.\n\nBritain travel to the Black Sea city of Constanta for the World Group II play-off on outdoor clay on 22-23 April.\n\nThey are looking to return to the elite level of the competition for the first time since 1993, but will go into the tie as heavy underdogs.\n\nBritain set up the tie with a 2-1 victory over Croatia in February.\n\nWorld number five Simona Halep was named in Romania's squad, alongside Irina-Camelia Begu, Monica Niculescu and Sorana Cirstea.\n\nKonta, who claimed the biggest title of her career at the Miami Open earlier in April, is the highest-ranked British female at number seven in the world. Watson, at 110, is next.\n\n\"Romania have a first-class team and will have home advantage on their best surface. We are very much the underdogs,\" British captain Anne Keothavong said.\n\n\"But we have an excellent team spirit with lots of combined Fed Cup experience and Johanna is playing the best tennis of her career.\"", "Fred Scappaticci denies he was an Army agent within the IRA\n\nThe British spy Stakeknife - described by an Army general as \"our golden egg\" - is now the subject of a £35m criminal inquiry called Operation Kenova.\n\nThe inquiry has been triggered by a classified report which Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions Barra McGrory QC has told Panorama \"made for very disturbing and chilling reading\".\n\nWhat Stakeknife actually did has been wreathed in speculation since he was identified in 2003 as Belfast bricklayer Freddie Scappaticci.\n\nThe one stand-out fact, however, has not been in doubt: for over a decade Scappaticci maintained his cover in the IRA by interrogating fellow British agents to the point where they confessed and were then shot.\n\nOne British spy was preparing other British spies for execution.\n\nAnd there were a lot of executions: 30 shot as spies by the IRA's so-called Nutting Squad which, I am told, Scappaticci eventually came to head.\n\nPanorama has learned that Scappaticci is linked to at least 18 of those \"executions\".\n\nNot all the victims would have been registered agents like him who produced the best intelligence.\n\nSome were akin to \"informers\" - people with close access to IRA members, or who passed on what they saw and heard to the security forces.\n\nA few were innocent of the IRA's charge of spying.\n\nStill, the spectacle of one British agent heading an IRA unit dedicated to rooting out and shooting other British spies is so extraordinary that I've often wondered how exactly the state benefitted by the intelligence services having tolerated this for the whole of the 1980s.\n\nThe obvious person to ask is Scappaticci himself - but a draconian injunction stops journalists from approaching him, even to the point of making any enquiries about where he now lives or what he does.\n\nJon Boutcher (left), chief constable of Bedfordshire Police, is leading Operation Kenova, with the authority of PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton\n\nScappaticci was recruited by a section within military intelligence called the Force Research Unit, or FRU.\n\nI'm told the Army have assessed his intelligence as having saved some 180 lives.\n\nCan Scappaticci's intelligence have been so valuable that the sacrifice of other agents was a price worth paying to maintain his cover?\n\nIt's not quite that simple.\n\nHad the cavalry been sent in every time Scappaticci tipped off his handlers about who was at risk, he himself wouldn't have lasted long.\n\nYet protecting him also meant the murders he knew about - or was even involved in - were never properly investigated, driving a \"coach and horses\" through the criminal justice system, according to Mr McGrory.\n\nBarra McGrory said the report made for \"disturbing and chilling reading\"\n\nAlso, the Army's assessment that Stakeknife saved 180 lives doesn't translate to the number of actual lives saved as a direct consequence of actioning Stakeknife's intelligence by, for example, interdicting an IRA unit on active service.\n\nI understand that figure of 180 is partly the army's guesstimate of lives that would have been lost had Stakeknife's intelligence not led to arrests and the recovery of weapons.\n\nOf course Stakeknife also contributed significantly to \"building a picture\" of the IRA, an insight much valued by the intelligence services.\n\nAn ex-FRU operative with access to his intelligence told me: \"He knew all of the main players and picked up a tremendous amount of peripheral information.\n\n\"As the [IRA] campaign changed and the political side became more important again he was highly placed to comment on that.\"\n\nNo doubt, but it's hard to quantify \"picture building\" in terms of actual lives saved.\n\nOne thing is for sure: leading a double life at the heart of an IRA unit with a Gestapo-like hold over its rank and file would have required cunning - and resilience.\n\nEspecially since Scappaticci told his army handlers he disliked gratuitous violence.\n\nHe seems to have managed the violence bit though, even when it was close to home.\n\nI'm told that in January 1988, Scappaticci sent a young boy up to the home of Anthony McKiernan, asking him to call by to see Scappaticci.\n\nThe Scappaticcis and McKiernans were friends - children from both families had sleepovers.\n\nThat was the last McKiernan's wife and children saw of him. Accused by Scappaticci's Nutting Squad of being a spy - something the family strongly deny - some 24 hours later, he was shot in the head.\n\nUnsurprisingly, Scappaticci's ex-IRA comrades paint a less flattering picture than his handlers.\n\nThey say he was a prodigious consumer of pornography, loved James Bond movies and - although he was on the IRA's Belfast Brigade staff - was never a \"true republican.\"\n\nThat might explain why, after Scappaticci was released from detention without trial in December 1975, he drifted away from the republican movement and got involved in a building trade VAT scam.\n\nThere were family holidays in Florida.\n\nBut then he was arrested by the police and agreed to work for the fraud squad as an informer.\n\nHis former IRA comrades also speak of a man with an intimidating manner, handy with his fists and a large ego who liked to be at the centre of things.\n\nHis appointment to the IRA's Nutting Squad - a job most IRA members ran a mile from - certainly gave him that opportunity.\n\nIt provided Scappaticci with unrivalled access to what the IRA high command were thinking and their war plans.\n\nMr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife, in 2003\n\nIt also gave him access to the names of new IRA recruits on the pretext of vetting them, plus details of IRA operations on the pretext of debriefing IRA members released from police custody to establish whether they gave away too much to their interrogators.\n\nThat explains why military intelligence was so eager to recruit Scappaticci when, in September 1979, he graduated to the FRU from spying for the fraud squad.\n\nHe got an agent number - 6126 - and a codename. Stakeknife.\n\nHis luck ran out in January 1990 after police agent Sandy Lynch was rescued from the clutches of the nutting squad.\n\nThe police thought Lynch was about to be shot, Scappaticci having got him to confess. The ordinary CID who did not know Scappaticci was a spy found a thumb print in the house where Lynch had been held.\n\nScappaticci fled to Dublin. However, a senior police officer who was in the know advised the FRU to get Scappaticci to concoct an alibi for his thumbprint.\n\nIt worked. On his return to Belfast in the autumn of 1992, Scappaticci was arrested and then released without charge.\n\nHis handlers hoped he could return to spying. But by now the IRA were suspicious and removed him from the security unit.\n\nWith Scappaticci's access to IRA secrets gone, the FRU formally stood him down as an agent in 1995.\n\nHow did he escape the same treatment at the hands of the IRA that he had helped mete out to others?\n\nProbably because the sight of his body dumped on a roadside would have provoked a slew of questions about those IRA leaders who appointed him to protect the IRA from spies like him - and who also ignored warnings from their more sceptical comrades along the border that \"Scap\" was not to be trusted.\n\nThat did not stop the IRA in Belfast from putting Scap in his place.\n\nAfter being sidelined, he agreed to help the staunchly republican Braniff family clear the name of a brother, Anthony, who was shot as a spy in 1981. He was eventually exonerated by the IRA.\n\nBut when Scappaticci spoke up for Anthony at a private meeting of republicans, to his embarrassment, the IRA's most senior man in Belfast, Sean \"Spike\" Murray suddenly appeared and slapped him down.\n\nWhen Scap was eventually outed as Stakeknife by a former FRU operative in 2003, he was spirited to England where MI5 told him the IRA knew he had been a spy.\n\nHe rejected MI5's offer of protective custody, flew straight back to Belfast and sought a meeting with the IRA.\n\nHe gambled on not being shot because he calculated the IRA now had every reason to support a denial that he was a spy - even though he knew they didn't believe him.\n\nHis gamble was based on the fact that the IRA's political wing Sinn Fein were now engaged in the peace process.\n\nScappaticci calculated that were the IRA to admit they'd long suspected he was a spy, it would undermine the official line that they'd fought the British to an honourable draw.\n\nAny such admission would provoke the rank and file into questioning whether the IRA had been pushed into peace, paralysed by the penetration of agents like him.\n\nAfter meeting two of the most senior representatives of the IRA leadership, Martin \"Duckster\" Lynch and Padraic Wilson, I'm told Scappaticci and the IRA came to an understanding: Scappaticci would issue a firm denial which the IRA would not contest.\n\nTo this day, that's been the IRA's official position - even though, as they say in Belfast, the dogs in the street know it's nonsense.\n\nOnce again, Agent 6126 had relied on his wits and native cunning.\n\nWhether the 71-year-old Scappaticci now outwits the 50 detectives trawling over everything he did, what his handlers allowed him to do, and what the IRA leaders authorised him to do, is another question.\n\nYou might say he's the spy who knows too much - because he knows the answers to all these questions.\n\nPanorama is broadcast on Tuesday night and can be watched online after broadcast\n• None Panorama - The Spy in the IRA\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There's nothing but air in the middle of most chocolate eggs\n\nCracking open a large chocolate egg to find nothing in the middle is one of life's perennial disappointments.\n\nYet for some chocolate firms the fact that most Easter eggs are hollow is more than just disappointing, it's problematic.\n\n\"It sounds ridiculous, but there is a lot of air in Easter eggs relative to their value in weight,\" says Helen Pattinson, co-founder of boutique British chocolate chain Montezuma's.\n\nThe oval shape of eggs and the boxes required to keep them intact means that, compared to the amount of space they take up in a shipping container, it is impossible for Montezuma's to charge the end customer enough to make a decent profit.\n\nForeign sales account for about a fifth of the company's overall sales and for this financial year, ending in May, it expects exports to hit the £1m mark for the first time.\n\nDespite the strong demand from abroad, the firm is yet to send its chocolate eggs overseas.\n\n\"The economics just haven't added up so far,\" says Mrs Pattinson, who co-founded the firm in 2000 with her husband Simon.\n\nMore than three-quarters of Montezuma's chocolate exports go to the US, but it is yet to send any eggs\n\nThe company has six shops in the South East of England and sells directly to customers in the US and Europe via its website, and further afield via export arrangements. So far most of its overseas customers have come via a partnership deal with a large US retailer.\n\nDespite the more established reputation of Swiss and Belgian chocolatiers, Mrs Pattinson says she is seeing a growing demand for British-made chocolate.\n\n\"The most contemporary artisan foodies are beginning to realise Britain is a fantastic producer of chocolate,\" she says.\n\nLast year, the UK exported a whopping £245m worth of chocolate, up by almost a quarter on 2015.\n\nExports of unfilled chocolates and chocolate products, which include Easter eggs, totalled just over £30m, up 3% on 2015. While the vast majority of these went to EU countries, the biggest growth was in exports to non-EU countries which increased by almost a fifth, according to the Department for International Trade.\n\nAn \"element of snob value\" is helping British chocolate egg exports in some markets, says Sean Ramsden\n\nIt is a trend that hasn't escaped the notice of Sean Ramsden, chief executive of Ramsden International.\n\nThe family firm specialises in exporting British food overseas and Mr Ramsden says Easter is its busiest period after Christmas.\n\nThe awkward shape of chocolate eggs isn't a problem for the company because it supplies a much wider range of products, enabling it to mix Easter eggs with other food orders.\n\n\"Easter eggs are a popular UK product and they're very exportable. They [Easter eggs] are not as advanced in other countries,\" he says.\n\nWhen the Grimsby-based firm first started exporting in 1970, business was largely driven by expats. Marmite, brown sauce and baked beans were the items most in demand in the company's markets in Spain, Portugal, France, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong.\n\nNow it delivers to 130 countries and turnover last year was £50m. Mr Ramsden says the company's growth reflects demand from a growing global middle class.\n\n\"The food becomes premium by virtue of being imported. There is an element of snob value in certain markets,\" he says.\n\nHong Kong-based Sharan Gill always buys imported eggs for her daughters Eysha and Elyna\n\nParticularly in Asia, he says, customers are keen to have \"something a little bit different or a bit more exclusive\" such as a foreign brand.\n\nBut he says many of its customers also have an international outlook, with second homes in the UK, for example, and a genuine affection for British food.\n\nSharan Gill, who lives in Hong Kong, says she always buys imported chocolate eggs for her children at Easter.\n\n\"It's a tradition amongst my friends too, both Western and Asian. I spend between 100 to 150 Hong Kong dollars (£10-£15; $13-$19) on chocolates for the annual Easter egg hunt, which my kids thoroughly enjoy.\n\n\"Easter seems to be a growing trend, partly because clubs and restaurants promote it extensively.\n\n\"Plus Hong Kong has a large expat community, a large proportion of which consists of Westerners, for whom Easter is an established tradition. It is also celebrated by the predominantly Catholic Filipino community who form a large part of the domestic helper workforce,\" she says.\n\nGood Housekeeping magazine included Easter crackers on its Easter dinner table photo shoot for the first time this year\n\nThe fervour surrounding the Christian festival has reached such fever pitch that the home and lifestyle gurus at Good Housekeeping magazine recently declared the occasion \"a second Christmas\".\n\nIt is not just small firms benefiting from the growing sense of occasion. Marks and Spencer says it exports a number of its popular eggs to its 468 shops overseas, with them selling particularly well in Hong Kong, Western Europe and the Czech Republic.\n\n\"We're seeing double-digit growth on sales of our Easter eggs internationally - with people buying into both our large 'giftable' eggs as well as impulse purchasing small bags of chocolate foiled eggs and bigger bags of eggs for Easter egg hunts - an event which is increasing in popularity,\" says a spokeswoman.\n\nPeople really like the licensed character eggs and Star Wars' R2D2 is currently the best seller internationally, she adds.\n\nMarks and Spencer's R2D2 egg is its most popular internationally\n\nWhile market research firm Mintel doesn't track British chocolate exports, its figures show people around the world are eating more chocolate eggs.\n\n\"In Brazil, for example, the trade association ABICAB reported that 95 million chocolate Easter eggs were sold in 2016, a 19% increase over 2015. In that country, Easter eggs make up a major percentage of annual chocolate revenues,\" says global food and drink analyst Marcia Mogelonsky.\n\n\"In Ireland, consumers spent more than 40m euros (£34m; $42m) on Easter eggs in 2016, while the UK Easter egg market was valued at £220m.\"\n\nIt is a market that Montezuma's Mrs Pattinson is obviously keen to exploit.\n\n\"It's about putting our new product development heads on to find ones that don't have so much air inside,\" she laughs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live, plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nPremier League champions Leicester City are aiming to prolong their fairytale as they head into this week's Champions League quarter-finals, but they are heavy underdogs against an in-form Atletico Madrid team who have reached the final twice in the past three years.\n\nHere BBC Sport explains exactly what the Foxes must do to defy the odds once again.\n\nIt has regularly been suggested that Leicester have focused on the Champions League at the expense of their Premier League campaign, but they will be hard pushed to match the motivation of an Atletico team who have more reason than anyone to chase success on the European stage.\n\nLosing two finals in three years was extremely hard for Atletico to take, especially as both were against bitter rivals Real Madrid and could have very easily yielded a different outcome: the 2014 final was decided in extra time after Real equalised deep in stoppage time, and last season's went to a penalty shootout.\n\nManager Diego Simeone came close to leaving the club after the agony of last year's loss, admitting he did not know whether he would be able to muster the energy and passion to recover from such soul-destroying disappointment.\n\nBut, after a summer he has since described as \"mourning\", he elected to stay, and the Argentine is looking more intense than ever in his fierce pursuit of the only trophy he has not won since rejoining a club he had previously played for.\n\nAlthough they have never explicitly stated it, there is a strong sense Atletico have collectively prioritised the Champions League this season, focusing their considerable energies on giving themselves another opportunity to secure the trophy that has so cruelly eluded them in recent years.\n\nDefender Juanfran, whose penalty shootout miss gave Real the trophy last season, has expressed his belief that skipper Gabi will lift the trophy with a sense of sheer certainty that goes way beyond the optimism usually exuded by players.\n\nAtletico do not merely think they can win the trophy; they appear to know they will. This time they are determined to leave nothing to chance, and Leicester's task in overcoming that furiously purposeful intent cannot be overestimated.\n\nBy far Atletico's likeliest match-winner is striker Antoine Griezmann, who has made stunning progress since joining the club from Real Sociedad in 2014 and now surely deserves to be regarded as one of the very best players in the world.\n\nThanks to his rapid development under Simeone, the 26-year-old is the complete package. He is versatile, capable of playing through the middle or on either flank. He is fast, skilful, decent in the air, a good passer, possesses a velvet-smooth first touch and intelligent movement. In short, he does everything well and some things superbly.\n\nThose qualities have helped Griezmann score 23 goals in all competitions this season, including four in the Champions League and a late leveller in Saturday's morale-boosting Madrid derby draw at the Bernabeu.\n\nBut the importance of the Frenchman's contribution cannot be measured by statistics alone, because his team-first mentality and relentless work-rate make him an ideal fit for this Atletico side, and his elusiveness will make life very uncomfortable for a Foxes backline missing skipper Wes Morgan.\n\nThe silver lining for the English team, however, is that Griezmann's preferred strike partner and fellow Frenchman Kevin Gameiro looks likely to miss at least the first leg with a hamstring strain.\n\nGameiro was initially slow to settle after joining Atletico from Sevilla last summer, but he has improved since the turn of the year and produced his best performance yet to torment Bayer Leverkusen in the first leg of the last-16 tie.\n\nHe was injured during the recent international break and will probably be replaced by old warhorse Fernando Torres, who is still hard-working but far more limited than Gameiro, and increasingly inaccurate, with just seven goals this season and none in his past six outings.\n\nPenetrate one of the world's finest defences\n\nLeicester's task at the other end of the field is no more straightforward, because they somehow have to breach an Atletico defence which is arguably the best in the world - especially when it really matters.\n\nIf you think that's an exaggeration, how about this for a statistic: Atletico have not conceded a single goal in their past eight home knockout ties.\n\nThe last visiting player to score at the Vicente Calderon in a tie in the last 16 or later was Kaka in AC Milan's 4-1 loss in March 2014, and Leicester's challenge is to succeed where Chelsea, Barcelona (twice), Real Madrid and Bayern Munich have all failed.\n\nIn addition to the brilliant collective discipline and organisation instilled by Simeone, two players are chiefly responsible for Atletico's defensive excellence.\n\nFirstly, there's Uruguayan central defender Diego Godin, an old-fashioned, hard-nosed stopper who sometimes appears to enjoy conceding throw-ins and corners because it gives him the chance to make yet another clearance.\n\nAnd the second star of the backline is Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak, recruited from Benfica in the summer of 2014 with the significant task of filling the gloves of Thibaut Courtois. He has more than answered that call to become one of the game's top keepers, equalling an all-time La Liga record last season by conceding just 18 goals in 38 league outings.\n\nCraig Shakespeare has certainly made an impressive start to his managerial career, but the Foxes boss faces by far his biggest challenge as he confronts the fearsome Simeone.\n\nThe ex-Argentina midfielder has won almost everything there is to win since taking over at Atletico in late 2011, and he has done it by giving his team a clear vision of how they should play.\n\nSimeone is able to maximise his team's strengths and minimise their weaknesses by combining motivation with organisation, creating a true team structure where every player pulls in the same direction and has a clear understanding of their precise role.\n\nTactically, he generally prefers a 4-4-2 formation but also regularly employs a 4-3-3 or a 4-5-1. He is similarly versatile in his style of play, with Atletico equally capable of pushing high up the pitch and dominating possession, or sitting deep and waiting to strike on the counter-attack.\n\nWhichever approach he takes, Simeone is a master at achieving balance. The 10 outfield players move together like clockwork, hardly ever allowing themselves to become stretched or shapeless, and always ensuring every player is supported rather than isolated both with and without the ball.\n\nThe Argentine has summed up his tactical beliefs by stating that, whereas other coaches like to control the ball, he attempts to control the space.\n\nHe has been implementing that deep-thinking philosophy with great success at Atletico for more than five years and, for an opposing manager with just seven games and one Champions League match to his name, confronting Simeone's meticulously prepared team will present a major test.\n\nGriezmann might be the star while Oblak and Godin form the immovable barrier, but the motor of Atletico's machine is their midfield trio of Gabi, Koke and Saul.\n\nLion-hearted captain Gabi and understated playmaker Koke, in particular, have been key elements of Simeone's masterplan ever since he took over, with the duo barely missing a game during the past five years and providing the perfect link between defence and attack.\n\nSaul is the most individually gifted player of the three, with his goals against Bayern Munich in last season's semi-final and Bayer Leverkusen in February among the finest individual efforts the competition has seen in recent years.\n\nFrom a tactical perspective, the fact Simeone's midfield trio occupy very narrow positions is important, allowing them to protect the penalty area in defence and create space for full-backs Juanfran and Filipe Luis to come forward in attack.\n\nMore generally, their defensive diligence and unselfish willingness to do the dirty work without complaint allows them to epitomise the qualities Simeone demands from his team.\n\nTheir vast experience also speaks volumes about the scale of the task awaiting Leicester, with Gabi, Koke and Saul making a combined total of nearly 150 appearances in continental competitions under Simeone, during which time they have won five different trophies.\n\nThat statistic makes it abundantly clear just how strong Atletico are. They have been here many times before, they know exactly how they want to play, and they know exactly how they can win… against any opposition.\n\nThe question now is whether Leicester can do anything to stop them.", "Manchester United did Chelsea's title rivals Tottenham a favour and kept up their own pursuit of the top four with a dominant win over the Premier League leaders.\n\nMeanwhile, Manchester City strengthened their claim for Champions League qualification with a sublime second-half performance at Southampton.\n\nNo wonder players from those two clubs dominate my team of the week.\n\nFor the second consecutive week I have picked Simon Mignolet in my team. The Belgium international made a save that won the match against West Brom and prompted manager Jurgen Klopp to hug his players in sheer relief at a result that got him out of jail.\n\nTo be perfectly honest, Liverpool should have won this game comfortably. They dominated most elements of the match and should have scored at least one more, especially when Ben Foster became obsessed with joining the Albion attack in the final minutes as if he was going to somehow provide the equaliser.\n\nNevertheless it has been Mignolet who has proved to be Klopp's most valuable asset in the past couple of games.\n\nWhere has Jesus Navas' form suddenly come from? In the same way Victor Moses has found a new role starring as a wing-back, Navas seems to be doing equally well, but as a genuine full-back. Navas' pace has neutralised raids down City's right side, and in attack the Spaniard seems to have found a confidence to deliver decisive balls into areas I had never seen in his game before.\n\nPep Guardiola finding this position for Navas, not to mention invest his faith and time in the player, has proved to be quite an innovation.\n\nIt has given the team options and, with the introduction of a fit Vincent Kompany, managed to revolutionise City's back four.\n\nHow good was it to see Vincent Kompany back and among the goals? I have seldom met a player who is more impressive than the Manchester City captain.\n\nWhen he scored his first goal for the club since his return from yet another injury, the delight of his team-mates and the travelling City fans was evident.\n\nHowever, it was his defensive performance that was most impressive. I said a few weeks ago that if Kompany had been playing in City's game at Arsenal this month, Shkodran Mustafi would never have scored the Gunners' equalising header from a corner - such is the Belgian's all-round aerial power and general inspiration.\n\nArsenal got away without feeling the effects of Kompany's influence but Southampton did not. In fact, the Saints were blown away by City's performance, which was led by the Belgian defender. Great captain, great leader, great performance.\n\nWhen a centre-back scores goals in three consecutive games you have to consider whether the defender is just going through a purple patch or has a genuine knack of scoring goals. I think with Phil Jagielka it's both.\n\nThe Everton defender is certainly going through a wonderful period of scoring goals and that is because he is good at it.\n\nHis goal in the win against Burnley was absolutely superb for two reasons. Firstly because, more often than not, he times his run to perfection and gets his head on the ball and, secondly, because of his desire.\n\nThe way Jagielka responded to the initial save by Burnley keeper Tom Heaton (goalline technology said it had gone in, by the way) was striker-like, while as a defender his ability to read situations at the back has stood him in good stead all his career. A top-class professional.\n\nIt's not often I start my comments by commending a referee but on this occasion I find myself compelled to congratulate Bobby Madley on a tremendous game at Old Trafford - and so should Marcos Rojo.\n\nThere is no doubt in my mind a less considerate official might have sent Rojo or Chelsea striker Diego Costa off. If either had received their marching orders for a little 'argy bargy' in the first half it would have destroyed what was a marvellous contest and first-class entertainment.\n\nI must say Rojo won the battle of the warriors and, actually, it was fantastic to watch him and Costa battle it out - under the watchful eye of referee Madley, who orchestrated the affair beautifully.\n\nThis kid is going to be special. It has been a long time since I've seen a young lad look so promising. He is quick, direct, loves to take players on and scores goals. If you're a player with a bright future it doesn't get better than that.\n\nIt took a wonderful save from Fraser Forster to stop the Germany international from opening his account but the Southampton keeper was only delaying the inevitable.\n\nThe football played by Manchester City for their second goal was complete and utter bliss. From the moment Kevin de Bruyne (the king of the assists) won the ball in midfield, Sane was off like a hare, racing 40 yards to support De Bruyne, who provided him with the opportunity to score.\n\nIt takes guts, desire and fitness for a player to get into that position and offer alternatives for the man on the ball. That is what Sane now offers a Guardiola team who look better every time I see them. Pep is getting this team right.\n\nIt is not often a player finds himself on the front and back pages at the same time, but that is what Ross Barkley has had to cope with these past few days. However, the way the youngster has coped with some of society's excesses has been more than admirable.\n\nProfessional footballers dealing with the occasional confrontation from a member of the public, or a crass comment from a journalist who should know better, has been an occupational hazard for years. However, none of that seems to affect Barkley.\n\nIn fact, if his performance against Burnley was anything to go by, it seemed to energise the England international. His clearance off the line from a Michael Keane header was brilliant defending.\n\nWhen his goal came - and it was his goal, and should not have been credited to Ben Mee for trying to do his job and block the shot - Barkley deserved it. Precisely why the experienced Mark Clattenburg had to caution the player for celebrating his goal with the fans, bearing in mind the week he's had, I don't know. It seemed grossly unfair.\n\nWas Clattenburg so blithely unaware of the sheer thrill his goal and performance would have meant to Barkley under the circumstances? Well, for what it's worth, Barkley has shown himself to be a real professional, in the true sense of the word.\n\nHe is the sort player who looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, but Ander Herrera is capable of making life very difficult for his opponent.\n\nWhen he was commissioned by manager Jose Mourinho to take care of Eden Hazard in the FA Cup tie at Stamford Bridge, it it ended very badly for Manchester United and in particular for Herrera, who was sent off. Not so at Old Trafford, where there were three massive points at stake.\n\nLuck plays a part in most football matches and it could be argued Herrera had a large slice of it with the suspected handball that took the pace off an attempted Chelsea pass, allowing the Spaniard to produce a world-class through ball for Marcus Rashford to score.\n\nHis deflected second-half goal, which gave keeper Asmir Begovic no chance, was the final body blow for Chelsea - there was no way back for the Blues after that.\n\nHowever, it was Herrera's dominance over Hazard that set the tone for United's victory. Not since Italy defender Claudio Gentile outwitted Brazil legend Zico at the 1982 World Cup have I seen a marker nullify a top-class player so completely.\n\nTottenham's win against Bournemouth was a walk in the park and it was Son Heung-min who led the Cherries by the nose. I must say the Lilywhites are playing some wonderful stuff at the moment but Bournemouth didn't help their cause one little bit.\n\nThere are a few players in the Tottenham set-up who have distinguished themselves this season but the most improved Premier League player in my opinion is Son. He was brilliant against Bournemouth and seldom lets Mauricio Pochettino down when called upon.\n\nAnother manager who had done a wonderful job is Bournemouth's Eddie Howe but he really must do something about his goals-against record. It doesn't help when your captain and arguably best defender cannot determine whether his team-mate had the last touch before letting the ball roll out for a corner. It was patently obvious the ball came off Harry Arter's boot. If Simon Francis thought he could kid referee Michael Oliver by letting the ball out of play then he made a big mistake.\n\nBut if that wasn't bad enough, Bournemouth had seven defenders marking five Tottenham attackers at the ensuing corner and the ease with which Mousa Dembele lost his markers to put Spurs in front was quite alarming.\n\nFrom the moment Arnautovic hit the underside of the bar with a thunderous shot I knew he was in the mood to wreak havoc against Hull City. And so he did in a 3-1 win.\n\nArnautovic could have had a hat-trick but that did not matter because it was good to see one of the most gifted players in the league actually fancying it.\n\nHe seemed to be involved in everything Stoke did and when Xherdan Shaqiri is also on fire, watching the Potters is an absolute delight.\n\nThe ball from Arnautovic to Jonathan Walters, who eventually provided the cross for Peter Crouch to score, was simply wonderful.\n\nI've seen lots of gifted players in the candy-red-and-white-striped shirt of Stoke over the years and Arnautovic must rank among the best of them. But sadly we just don't see enough of what he has to offer.\n\nThis lad absolutely ran Chelsea ragged. I have not seen a single player this season give David Luiz and the entire Chelsea defence such a run-around.\n\nI have spoken before about how Manchester United must think long and hard about replacing Zlatan Ibrahimovic but I think after their game against Chelsea they don't have to be so concerned.\n\nRumours are rife about Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann, and others, joining the ranks at Old Trafford, and that makes sense. But United have a special talent on their hands in Rashford, and they must handle him with care.\n\nTo see this young man look so comfortable on one of the biggest stages in the world was one thing, but to see the United centre-forward destroy a world-class centre-back was something entirely different.\n\nWhat is even better is that Rashford is English.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton said he was \"genuinely happy\" to see Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas score his first pole at the Bahrain Grand Prix.\n\nThe Finn, brought in by Mercedes this year as the replacement for retired world champion Nico Rosberg, beat Hamilton by just 0.023 seconds.\n\n\"He is a great guy and it is his first pole so he will be struggling to sleep tonight through excitement.\"\n\nSunday's Bahrain Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live.\n\nBottas' lap brought to an end Hamilton's run of six consecutive poles dating back to last year's US Grand Prix.\n\n\"I've had a decent run,\" Hamilton said. \"I'm very happy with what I've had.\n\n\"I'm genuinely very happy for Valtteri. He has done a fantastic job, been inching away at it bit by bit. He did a better job today.\n\n\"It could be his first win, and if it's not he will get a win. He's an exceptional driver.\n\n\"The first sector was my weak point but the second and third were very good. It wasn't terrible. It was very close, only a quarter of a tenth so I can't be too angry.\"\n\nHamilton added: \"There's going to be lots of ups and downs throughout the year but Valtteri's definitely keeping me on my toes. He's getting stronger and stronger.\n\n\"I know how special it is to have your first pole position. It is just amazing. You dream of it as a kid and I know that he will be enjoying it.\n\n\"But obviously I will try my hardest to win the race.\"\n\nBottas has bounced back from a difficult race in China last weekend, in which he spun while warming his tyres behind the safety car and finished sixth as Hamilton won.\n\n\"It's always nice to have a good result whether you've had a good or bad weekend before but for sure if you've had a bit of a struggle in the last race it's always nice to start the weekend in a good way,\" Bottas said.\n\n\"The race is what matters but it's good. I'd rather be on pole than anything less, so let's see.\n\n\"There is no point to start dreaming about anything.\"\n\nHamilton fears the pace of the Ferraris in the race, with Sebastian Vettel - who is leading the championship jointly with Hamilton - starting third.\n\n\"Ferrari, in their race pace, they are very quick,\" Hamilton said.\n\nVettel added: \"It's a long race, tyre management will be crucial conditions will be a bit different and a lot of things can change around.\n\n\"We were a little bit further back than we hoped. We should have a good car in the race and take it from there.\"", "Brussels is gripped with gossip about the forthcoming Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe rights of British citizens living there and elsewhere are still to be decided, but a handful of the 25,000 British people living in Belgium do not want to wait for the outcome and are applying for citizenship in their adopted home.\n\nIn her house in a smart Brussels suburb, British-born business consultant Glynis Whiting brandished her stiff, shiny, new Belgian passport.\n\n\"I went through customs in Germany with it recently and I thought: 'This is me stating that I am a slightly different person than I was,'\" she told me.\n\nA resident of Belgium for two decades, she applied for Belgian citizenship before the UK's referendum on membership of the EU.\n\nShe described it as her insurance policy.\n\n\"If the UK had voted to leave it would have been essential for me to stay in Europe with no worries,\" she explained.\n\n\"If the UK had voted to stay then it was a vote of confidence in my now home country.\"\n\nThe application for Belgian citizenship is made at a local level\n\nIt was relatively easy for Glynis to meet the conditions laid down by the Belgian government: five years of residence, proof of economic integration such as payments into the social security system, and the ability to speak one of the national languages of French, Dutch or German.\n\nHer only mistake was failing to read the small-print on the application form, which specifies that copies of birth certificates must be less than three months old.\n\nIt all cost 200 euros (£170) plus a translator's fee.\n\nApplications are made at the level of the commune, the branch of local government that plays a big part in any Belgian resident's official life.\n\nStaff at the town hall in Ms Whiting's neighbourhood of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert were bemused but welcoming, she said.\n\nThe neighbouring district of Ixelles is assessing 50 applications from Brits and there have been another 300 requests for information.\n\nLocal councillor, Delphine Bourgeois, said interest has come in two distinct waves: immediately after the referendum, and the days before and after the delivery of Theresa May's letter that triggered the official start of the Brexit process.\n\nEleven cases are being processed in the suburb of Forest and 48 people have applied to the commune that covers the Brussels city centre.\n\nThis suggests there is a steady stream of British people adopting Belgian nationality, but not a stampede.\n\nJust over a thousand UK citizens currently work for the EU Commission\n\nQuestions and rumours abound in the expat community, from which commune has the most relaxed attitude concerning paperwork to whether the police inspect bedrooms to check that couples are definitely married.\n\nTo help expats navigate the system, the British Brussels Community Association is planning a series of workshops.\n\nBut becoming Belgian is not an option for some of the UK nationals employed in the EU institutions, such as the bloc's executive arm, the European Commission.\n\nMany of the Commission's 1023 British staff pay their tax directly into the EU budget which means they may not have contributed enough to the Belgian state coffers, for example.\n\nThen there are the EU agencies' own regulations.\n\nA letter from a British official, circulating among the European civil service trade unions, is calling on the EU Commission to clarify whether it will apply or ignore the paragraph of the staff handbook that specifies that only citizens of an EU member state can be employed by the organisation.\n\nEU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said all EU employees would be treated \"as Europeans\"\n\n\"With a snap of a finger, the commission could give certainty to British colleagues,\" said Michael Ashbrook of Solidarity, Independence, Democracy (SID), a trade union representing employees of EU institutions and agencies.\n\nThe European Commission President, Jean Claude Juncker, wrote to staff on the day after the referendum, saying that all employees would be treated \"as Europeans\" regardless of their nationality.\n\nHis spokesman said further details will emerge during the negotiation of the UK's departure.\n\nThe Brexit process gives hope to some British expats, such as Jason Phaetos, who runs the city's only Cornish pasty stall.\n\n\"I've asked a few people about how to get Belgian papers but [the EU and the UK] have got to come to some sort of arrangement so I'm not too worried about it at the moment,\" he told me.\n\nAnd does he know of anyone who has left Belgium, fearful for the their future after the referendum?\n\n\"Only a couple. They supported Brexit. They moved back England with big smiles on their faces.\"", "Elinor Barker won Great Britain's second gold of the Track Cycling World Championships in Hong Kong with victory in the women's 25km points race.\n\nBarker, who has also won silver medals in the madison and scratch races at the championships, produced a stunning late burst to pip America's Sarah Hammer.\n\nThe 22-year-old gained two laps on the field to win with 59 points from Hammer (51) and Dutch rider Kirsten Wild (35).\n\nThe team have won five medals in total, with the other coming earlier in the week with Chris Latham's bronze in the men's scratch race, to finish fourth on the medal table - Australia led the way with three golds in their haul of 11.\n\nIt is a first individual title for Wales' Barker, who won team pursuit gold medals at both the 2013 and 2014 Worlds and the Rio Olympics in 2016.\n\n\"I'm incredibly happy,\" she told BBC Sport. \"Until the last lap it was looking like another silver. I'm so happy it was a gold.\n\n\"Straight after the Olympics I told my coach I wanted to win the points races and I was backed.\n\nShe rode a near-perfect race, teaming up with Hammer, after winning the fourth of 10 intermediate sprints, to gain a lap midway through the 100-lap race that earned both riders 20 points and moved Barker to the top of the standings.\n\nBarker then consistently picked up points in the following sprints that came every 10 laps to strengthen her position.\n\nHowever, Hammer attacked with 29 laps of the race remaining and managed to gain another lap and pick up 20 points to put her on 51, with Barker on 39 and only 10 points available for the final sprint.\n\nWith around 15 laps remaining, Barker rode clear of the peloton in her quest to lap the field but the initial support she received from Wild waivered as the Dutch rider knew she had no chance of winning the title.\n\nBut Barker's aggression paid off as she raced around the velodrome and caught the bunch with six laps to go to pick up 20 points and lead on 59.\n\nShe still had to be watchful because a victory for Hammer in the final sprint could have been enough to win the title, but the American did not have the legs to contest it.\n\nMeanwhile, Katy Marchant went out of the keirin in the first round repechage as Germany's nine-time world champion Kristina Vogel won her third title.\n\nSenior academy rider Joe Truman set a personal best time of one minute, 01.429 seconds to finish 11th in the kilo. Francois Pervis of France won event for a fourth time.\n\nFrance also won the men's madison with Britain's Mark Stewart and Ollie Wood one of three pairs withdrawn after losing three laps on the field in the 200-lap race.\n\n\"It means the world to her. She said eight months ago she wanted to go for the points race and they put the plan in place.\n\n\"She hadn't scored in the first three sprints but she won the fourth, looked behind her and saw she had a gap and that Hammer was going with her.\n\n\"El had obviosuly done her research and saw she had a good rider going with her. Hammer is renowned in the cycling world as having the ability to win lots of different races so it's great for El to beat her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nDefending champion Mark Selby reached the second round of the World Championship by thrashing Fergal O'Brien 10-2 at the Crucible Theatre.\n\nLeicester's Selby, who beat Ding Junhui in last year's final, looked on course for a whitewash by going 8-0 ahead.\n\nIrishman O'Brien claimed the ninth and 11th to avoid becoming only the second player to exit without winning a frame, but Selby wrapped up the match.\n\nHe will face either Wales' Ryan Day or China's Xiao Guodong in the next round.\n\nSelby has enjoyed a stellar season - claiming four ranking titles, including this month's China Open, though no player has followed that by winning the world title in the same season.\n\nThe world number one made top breaks of 92, 77 and 66 as he began his attempt to win his third title at the Sheffield venue, which is holding the event for a 40th year.\n\n\"I'm very happy to get through and happy with the scoreline but my performance could have been better,\" Selby said. \"I was not killing enough frames off in the first visit and would have liked to have capitalised on them.\n\n\"I would like to win every tournament I play in. I am confident and I am playing well enough.\n\n\"Even if I don't play well, I have a never-say-die attitude and you have to scrape me off the table.\n\n\"I was gutted not to go 9-0 because I know the history that there has only been one whitewash here. I was devastated to go in after the first session at 8-1.\"\n\nHaving made light work of O'Brien, Selby has almost a week off, returning to action next Saturday.\n\nDubliner O'Brien came through qualifying by beating David Gilbert in a final-frame decider - the longest frame in snooker history, timed at two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds.\n\nBut he struggled badly in the first-round encounter, managing a high break of just 32, although he avoided the ignominy of joining Eddie Charlton - who lost 10-0 to John Parrott in 1992 - as the only players not to win a frame at the championship.\n\nHe has now lost six successive meetings against Selby, claiming just four frames in a run stretching back to 2006.\n\n\"When I won my first frame, it was good because the crowd were so supportive and willing me not to get the whitewash,\" said O'Brien.\n\nIn an all-Scottish tie, qualifier Stephen Maguire claimed eight frames in a row to trounce Anthony McGill 10-2.\n\nMaguire, who has won five ranking titles, has fallen to 24th in the world but was in good scoring form, compiling breaks of 97, 66 and 60 to go through.\n\nMeanwhile, five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was pegged back to a 5-4 lead over debutant Gary Wilson.\n\nFormer taxi driver Wilson fell 5-1 behind but took the last three frames of the session, including the ninth having needed snookers.\n\nOn the other table, Kyren Wilson leads 5-4 against Crucible first-timer David Grace.", "Mr Trump has been warm towards Egypt's president, after relations cooled under President Obama\n\nThey're calling him \"Abu Ivanka al-Amriki\" - \"Father of Ivanka, the American\".\n\nFrom Cairo to Qatar, the US presidential candidate once derided as impulsive, an Islamophobe and a misogynist appears to have turned into the Arab world's most popular US president since George H W Bush led the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation in 1991.\n\nToday, Donald Trump is riding high in much of the Arab world's eyes. So what is behind this and will it last?\n\nAsk anyone in the Arab world what they think of former President Barack Obama and most will tell you that his eight years in office were a massive disappointment, at least as far as the Middle East is concerned.\n\nIt started with Mr Obama's 2009 Cairo speech, entitled \"A New Beginning\".\n\nThis was supposed to set America on a path to new and better relations with the Arab world. Expectations were raised to unrealistically high levels and disappointment swiftly ensued.\n\nIn his 2009 speech, Barack Obama imagined Muslim and Western democrats working together\n\nThe Arab world watched the Syrian war spiral out of control, a presidential \"red line\" get crossed with impunity when chemical weapons were fired at civilians outside Damascus, and no tangible progress made on a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal.\n\nWorst of all, in Gulf Arab eyes, Mr Obama was seen as being soft on Iran, fuelling a suspicion that Washington was preparing to downgrade its Gulf Arab ties.\n\n\"People on the [Arab] street got sick and tired of Obama,\" says Mustafa Alani, director of the security and defence department at the Gulf Research Centre.\n\n\"During his time, we witnessed the rise of [so-called Islamic State], the entry of Russia into the region and the aggressive expansionism of Iran across the Middle East.\"\n\nDonald Trump is already well known in the Gulf for his business interests, like this golf course in Dubai\n\nEnter Mr Trump. A man who, as one of his first acts in office, tried to ban visitors from several Muslim-majority countries, none of which have ever attacked the United States.\n\nNo matter. This seems to have been largely overlooked in the gushing praise being heaped on the president for both talking tough and acting tough when it comes to Syria.\n\nOne hashtag doing the rounds on social media even reads \"We love you Trump\".\n\nWhat people admire is what they see as his willingness to act on his convictions, in contrast to how Mr Obama was perceived by many in the region - perhaps unfairly - as weak, indecisive and not really interested in the Middle East.\n\nThe US missile attack on a Syrian airbase was broadly welcomed in the Arab world\n\nBehind the scenes and in the corridors of power in several Arab capitals, there is enormous relief that a new team is in the White House.\n\nOn his recent visit to Washington, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi was given a red carpet welcome, effusive praise from Mr Trump and little mention made of the mounting human rights abuses being committed by his government in the name of national security.\n\nIn Yemen, the Obama administration was so appalled by the civilian casualties caused by faulty targeting from Saudi-led air strikes that it rowed back on US military support for Riyadh's coalition battling the rebel Houthi movement.\n\nThe Trump administration has reversed this.\n\nIn Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, two countries about whose human rights record the Obama administration had concerns, the White House has strengthened ties.\n\nEarlier this year, President Trump's newly appointed CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, was given a warm welcome in both countries' capitals.\n\nAnd on Iran, where Egyptian, Jordanian and Gulf Arab rulers all feared that the Obama administration was turning a blind eye to what they saw as Iranian expansionism for the sake of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, the Trump administration has reassured them with its hostile rhetoric towards Tehran.\n\nMr Trump's stance on Israeli settlements and Jerusalem though has angered Palestinians\n\nBut approval for President Trump is far from universal.\n\nWriting in Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National in February, the president of the Arab American Institute, James Zogby, complained of what he called \"ham-fisted anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies that have caused [IS], al-Qaeda and the Iranian leader to thank him\".\n\nWhat the Arab world wanted, he wrote, was a relationship with a US partner who would work with them to ensure regional stability.\n\nMr Alani told the BBC that while President Trump was certainly riding high on the back of the recent US missile strike on a Syrian air force base, there was still huge uncertainty in the region about his future intentions and what he expected from Arab leaders in return for US support.\n\n\"What will he demand from us in return? Will it be money? Will it be physical participation in military or other operations?\" he asked.\n\n\"We can agree [with Washington] on joint aims for the region, but we may still have differences on how to get there.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham's impressive form in pursuit of Chelsea will make the Premier League leaders nervous, according to Stamford Bridge legend Frank Lampard.\n\nSpurs beat Bournemouth for a seventh straight league win and moved to within four points of Chelsea before the Blues meet Manchester United on Sunday.\n\n\"Chelsea are very aware that Spurs are there and it'll be a tough game for them tomorrow,\" Lampard told BBC Sport.\n\n\"There will be some nervousness but so there should be.\"\n\nLampard was speaking to BBC Final Score and will be a part of the analysis team on Match of the Day on Saturday.\n\nTottenham were eventual champions Leicester's nearest rivals for much of last season, but fell away, collecting only two points from their final four games and ending below north London rivals Arsenal in third.\n\nSpeaking after Tottenham's 4-0 win over the Cherries, boss Mauricio Pochettino insisted his side had \"improved a lot\" since 12 months ago and were ready for the scrutiny and pressure of a close-fought title run-in.\n\n\"That was a very bad period at the end of last season,\" said the Argentine.\n\n\"We expended a lot of energy fighting against Leicester, against Chelsea, against the media.\n\n\"We fought against everyone. But now we are focusing on fighting our opponents when we play.\n\n\"From the beginning of the season that was our chance to improve our mentality, our belief, and I think you can see the group and the team have improved.\"\n\nChelsea will restore their advantage to seven points with only six games to play if they beat Manchester United and former manager Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford.", "An emotional Ronnie O'Sullivan has attacked snooker authorities for using \"threatening\" language and said he will not be \"bullied\" by them.\n\nThe five-time world champion is angry at a disciplinary letter sent to him.\n\nAfter beating Gary Wilson in the first round of the World Championship, O'Sullivan said: \"I phoned [World Snooker chairman] Barry Hearn four weeks ago and told him I am done with you and your board.\n\n\"A friend told me to let the lawyers deal with it. I won't get involved anymore because I am not being bullied.\"\n\nSince victory at the Masters in January, five-time world champion O'Sullivan has only replied to questions by the media with one or two-word answers, and has also sung an Oasis song in reply, and on another occasion responded as a 'robot' in protest at his perceived mistreatment by the sport's authorities.\n\nIf I did not have good lawyers, I would probably have walked away because I am too old to be dealing with things like that\n\nThat grievance seemingly dates to an incident during his record-breaking seventh Masters triumph at Alexandra Palace, when he publicly criticised a referee and swore at a photographer.\n\nWorld Snooker, the commercial arm of the sport, referred O'Sullivan's comments to governing body the WPBSA, which ultimately took no action as it accepted his explanation of the incidents.\n\nHowever, O'Sullivan was sent a letter by the WPBSA about his behaviour and warned he could face further sanctions including a fine. He responded by saying that repeated disciplinary action could cause him to reduce his playing time and media commitments, among other things.\n\nIn five events since then, O'Sullivan has failed to win consecutive matches.\n\nExplaining his behaviour, the Englishman said: \"I have no problems with the press. Sometimes I say things I should not say, I get myself into hot bother, and I get a letter through saying I need to respond in 14 days - a day before a tournament.\n\n\"It messed up my last three or four tournaments. I did not really win a match and it is not fair on the fans or those who invested in me.\n\n\"I phoned Barry Hearn four weeks ago and told him I am done with you and your board of people. A friend of mine told me to let the lawyers deal with it. I won't get involved anymore because I am not being bullied. I am not letting people do that to me ever again.\n\n\"I just want to play and have fun. I like Barry but I am not being intimidated or bullied anymore. The language can be quite threatening and intimidating in some of these letters. It is very unsettling.\n\n\"To go in with all that on my head, having to see lawyers and having to fight off something I feel I should not have to, they pushed me too far.\n\n\"If I did not have good lawyers, I would probably have walked away because I am too old to be dealing with things like that.\"\n\nWorld Snooker said it was unwilling to comment.\n\n\"We had no idea whether Ronnie would show up and, when he did, he was visibly emotional. Given he has chosen not to engage with the media since the Masters other than through robot impressions and Oasis songs, I didn't feel there was any alternative but to challenge him.\n\nI have heard Ronnie threaten to retire and talk of falling out of love with the game on so many occasions that you no longer bat an eyelid when he does so. But this felt different - his voice was cracking with emotion when he spoke of feeling bullied, intimidated and threatened by the governing body and its leader Barry Hearn. There were nerves among the press too. It felt like a very tense 10 minutes.\n\nWhether you side with O'Sullivan on this or feel - like Hearn does - that his behaviour is becoming embarrassing, there was raw anger here at the guys who run this sport. While some fellow players feel O'Sullivan receives preferential treatment, he himself feels persecuted.\n\nThis was a powerful and reasoned explanation as to why he is so upset. If this had come sooner rather than a series of childish media conferences, O'Sullivan might have found far more sympathy. Yet it appears that in his war with World Snooker, his relationship with the media has become a casualty.\"\n\nO'Sullivan, though, did not speak about his victory over Wilson, after which he celebrated enthusiastically by punching the air a number of times, hand-slapping a fan in the front row and blowing a kiss to the crowd.\n\n'The Rocket' was 5-1 up in the match, before being pegged back in the first session, but a blistering second session with breaks of 124, 90, 83 and 74 saw him advance.\n\nThe 41-year-old goes in search of his sixth world crown, as he looks to equal Stephen Hendry's record of 18 'Triple Crown' event wins.\n\n\"I like to play for the fans, I get a kick out of it,\" he added. \"It is about entertaining and put in good performances. That is the most important thing.\n\n\"I do not need to prove anything to anybody, I have won five worlds, seven Masters and five UK titles and I'm only one behind Hendry on the majors list. Another world title will not make a massive difference.\n\n\"I would love to win another world title but it is about working with people I enjoy working with and getting some satisfaction by playing with freedom.\"", "I was not surprised to see Jose Mourinho get his tactics spot on for Manchester United's 2-0 win over Chelsea, but he did not do it the way I expected.\n\nMourinho has masterminded plenty of wins in big games down the years, but he usually does it with a defensive approach and by setting up with a team that, first and foremost, is very difficult to break down.\n\nOn Sunday, he flipped that model on its head. United played with two up front and with wing-backs who were high up the pitch - they were on the front foot and went at Chelsea from the start.\n\nIt meant United produced a brilliant attacking display as well as a convincing defensive one that was tactically aware of the different threats that Chelsea posed.\n\nMan Utd did not give Chelsea an inch of space\n\nMourinho asked Ander Herrera to man-mark Eden Hazard and he did it brilliantly, but United's game-plan went much further than that.\n\nThey did not give Chelsea an inch of space anywhere on the pitch and did not allow them to get into any type of rhythm.\n\nIt started from the front, where Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard never stopped pestering the Blues defence, and Paul Pogba, Marouane Fellaini and Herrera seemed to win every meaningful battle in midfield.\n\nWhen the ball did reach Blues striker Diego Costa, he always seemed to end up on the floor because Eric Bailly and Marcos Rojo put him under so much pressure.\n\nThe Blues are unable to adapt\n\nUnited started the game so well and at such a high tempo that it seemed to take the wind out of Chelsea's sails.\n\nI've played in games like that where I was surprised at the way the opposition were set up or they came at us quicker than expected but, usually, it takes about 15 minutes to figure it out.\n\nIn that time you think 'well, we are all over the place at the moment but let's hang in here and we will get our rhythm back'. Eventually you can take control of the situation, even if you do go a goal down.\n\nUnited just did not allow that to happen, because they were constantly in Chelsea's faces.\n\nStopping Hazard was only part of that. Yes, he slipped through the net a couple of times when United tried to man-mark him when they lost in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge in March.\n\nThis time he did not get any joy at all, but Chelsea's problems at Old Trafford this time were not just because Herrera did a much better job than Phil Jones managed in that match.\n\nWhen N'Golo Kante and Nemanja Matic play together in the Blues midfield, as they did against United, I think there is a genuine issue with their attacking play.\n\nDefenders know that if Kante and Matic are playing, the ball is not going over the top. Costa does not make the runs for starters, which tells you everything.\n\nThey are both phenomenal midfielders but they are not going to deliver that sort of pass - there is a reason why Chelsea look far more dangerous when Cesc Fabregas is in the team.\n\nFabregas came on in the last 10 minutes at Old Trafford, when Chelsea were crying out for him in the first half as they were very predictable in possession.\n\nWhen Chelsea tried to find Costa, their passes seemed to be too slow and too obvious. He kept having to come short, with Rojo or Bailly staying close to him and knowing exactly what he was going to do.\n\nThere was no variation in their play and, crucially, they did not get the basics right either, which is very unlike them.\n\nUnited seemed to win every knockdown, tackle, or second ball in midfield, all of which helped them keep all the momentum.\n\nThey ran out deserved winners and kept alive their hopes of a top-four finish.\n\nIn my eyes, Herrera's performance was so good it made him a Mourinho player for life.\n\nMourinho now knows that if he needs someone to do a man-marking job - something ugly - he has the type of player who is clever and disciplined enough, and also has the physicality to do it.\n\nThe United manager will also have a bit more trust in the ability of young players like Rashford and Lingard after seeing them perform so well in such a big game.\n\nTheir pace gave something United different up front compared to when Zlatan Ibrahimovic leads the line.\n\nIbrahimovic has been brilliant this season and I still think he will be the man Mourinho looks to for the second leg of their Europa League quarter-final against Anderlecht on Thursday.\n\nBut having to choose between him and Rashford, who looked so sharp, is a good problem for Mourinho to have at such a busy time of the season.\n\nChelsea still in pole position despite defeat\n\nChelsea's trip to Goodison Park is the most difficult of their six remaining fixtures - Everton are flying at home, where they have won seven league games in a row.\n\nGoing to West Brom will be tricky too, because I am pretty sure Baggies boss Tony Pulis will set up exactly the same way he did against Liverpool on Sunday.\n\nPulis basically played with six at the back - four centre-halves and wingers that drop in as full-backs, which is a nightmare to play against - Liverpool were quite lucky to get their winner.\n\nSo, the Blues could drop points at The Hawthorns too, but I think they will absolutely wipe the floor with the teams they play in their four home games.\n\nWhen you go through Tottenham's run-in, it is much harder, and they basically have to win all of their games to have a chance of winning the title.\n\nSpurs will have to do it the hard way if they are going to be champions, but they have got the quality and depth in their squad to do it.\n\nWith the way they are playing at home, they have given themselves a chance - now they need more slip-ups from Chelsea.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEverton midfielder Ross Barkley was not affected by a difficult week that involved two major off-field incidents, said captain Phil Jagielka.\n\nBarkley was punched in a Liverpool bar last Sunday, then insulted in the Sun by columnist Kelvin MacKenzie.\n\nThe England international, 23, responded with two important clearances and a key role in Everton's second goal as they beat Burnley 3-1 on Saturday.\n\n\"I've known him a long time and nothing fazes him,\" Jagielka told BBC Sport.\n\n\"These things can happen. We had an academy day a couple of days ago, and he was part of that. He's just a normal lad who wants to play football.\"\n\nEverton manager Ronald Koeman was pleased with Barkley's performance against Burnley.\n\nKoeman said: \"The boy was really focused on the football side and not on all the stuff that came out after last Sunday.\n\n\"What happened we spoke about last Monday, and then you need to finish it and focus on the football side. Even in a really difficult situation, he did that, and it was really positive.\"\n\nBarkley's Everton team-mate Leighton Baines added he had been impressed by the midfielder's composure at the end of \"a busy week\".\n\nBaines told Everton's website: \"He's got a great temperament. Nothing ever seems to get to him.\n\n\"He's a lad who has been talked about a lot from a young age. He just gets on with his job. I think he's really progressed this year, and that's been good to see.\"\n\nUncertainty surrounds the future of Barkley, who has yet to agree an extension to a contract that expires at the end of next season.\n\nKoeman said after last weekend's 4-2 win over Leicester that the player would have to be sold if he did not sign a new deal.\n\nHowever, both the manager and the club's fans showed their support for Barkley after his turbulent week, which began with what the player's lawyer called an \"unprovoked attack\" in a Liverpool bar.\n\nThere then followed MacKenzie's column in Friday's edition of the Sun, in which Barkley, whose grandfather was born in Nigeria, was compared to a \"gorilla\".\n\nMacKenzie, who has since been suspended by the paper, also wrote that men with similar \"pay packets\" to Barkley in Liverpool were \"drug dealers\".\n\nEverton have banned the Sun for the \"appalling and indefensible\" allegations, for which the newspaper has apologised.\n\nPosters criticising the Sun were on show outside Goodison Park before Saturday's game. Inside the stadium, supporters displayed a banner featuring Barkley.\n\n\"I like him, but we're in danger of over-analysing our young English players because we want so much from them.\n\n\"He is getting to the stage now where he is a man and not a boy. He needs a consistent season. He needs to play at the level he showed today consistently. He's a bit phasey at times. For talent he's got it but I'd like to see him stay at Everton and improve.\"\n\n\"I think Ross Barkley handled today's pressure really well. He cleared the ball off the line at one point and generally succeeded in having an influence on the game.\n\n\"His manager Ronald Koeman will be impressed with how he's handled the off-the-field distractions this week.\"\n\n\"Ross Barkley is one of those players who needs to play on the edge, a bit like Wayne Rooney when he first started.\n\n\"Having an almost nasty side to his game is what he needs to make him that little bit better.\n\n\"He went out there today with a point to prove and he put in a good performance. He just needs to find that consistency to do that week in, week out.\"", "Taribo West is just one of the many top footballers to come out of Ajegunle\n\nAjegunle is known for being one of Lagos' toughest, most dangerous slums, but it also has another reputation - for producing some of Nigeria's top footballers. So what's the secret to its unlikely success? BBC Africa's Stanley Kwenda has been finding out.\n\nFor a football-obsessed nation like Nigeria, talent can be found in every corner, but there's definitely something special about Ajegunle, or AJ City, as it's known by locals.\n\nSince the early 1990s, Ajegunle has been churning out football talent. Famous names such as Taribo West, Odion Ighalo, Brown Ideye, Samson Siasia, Obafemi Martins, Taribo West and Jonathan Akpoborie all started here.\n\nLife is not easy for many of the residents of this sprawling ghetto.\n\nThey have to contend with high crime rates, as well the absence of running water, grid-powered electricity or healthcare.\n\nSo what are the factors that contribute to Ajegunley's footballing pedigree? Diversity, for one.\n\n\"It's a community with so many people from different ethnicities,\" says Bennedict Ehenemba, a football scout for German clubs who is a native of Ajegunle.\n\n\"Ajegunle accommodates the Yorubas, the Igbos, the Hausas, the Itsekiris and all the other tribes in Nigeria.\n\n\"It's a raw talent hub of Nigeria,\" he tells me.\n\nYoung boys have to find safe spaces to play football in Ajegunle\n\nMany success stories can be traced back to two local institutions - St Mary's Catholic Church and the Navy Barracks Camp.\n\nThey remain safe places for many young people to play the game.\n\nOther open spaces are often claimed by so-called \"Area Boys\", unruly gangs who often demand a fee for people to play there.\n\nSuper Eagles striker Jonathan Akpoborie, who made his name in Germany's Bundesliga in the 1990s, also honed his skills here.\n\n\"This is actually the home of football in Nigeria,\" Akpoborie tells me, adding that the game is seen by many youngsters as a route to a better life.\n\n\"I don't want to downgrade the area by attributing the success of footballers to poverty but there's just nothing to do for the kids.\n\n\"They spend most of their time here playing football and in so doing they develop themselves and naturally become gifted footballers.\n\n\"In one national team there's always one player who originated from Ajegunle.\n\n\"It's exactly how I started - the grown-ups play first, we watch them play, then eventually we get in the field. They were inspirational to us.\"\n\nNigerian forward Jonathan Akpoborie made his name in Germany in the 1990s\n\nThe slum also has an established system of grassroots football, which encourages talented youngsters to play competitive football for local clubs at an early age.\n\nThis often gives them an edge over players at competing academies across the country.\n\nAlfred Emuejeraye, who plies his trade in the Swiss lower leagues, also grew up in Ajegunle.\n\nHe believes the secret of the slum lies in its deep love of the game.\n\n\"The people here, the community are passionate about football, passionate about everything and are driven to succeed in whatever they do from musicians to taxi drivers... It's an all-round community,\" he tells me.\n\nOdion Ighalo - formerly of Watford FC in the English Premier League but now playing for Chinese Super League outfit Changchun Yatai FC - is another Ajegunle native.\n\nNow he lives in some of the world's biggest cities, but still remembers Ajegunle fondly.\n\n\"It was very tough growing up there. It's not like in Europe where you have everything provided.\n\n\"You have to look for money to buy football shoes, jerseys, transport and even water for to drink after training. If you can't afford the transport then you stay - and those who stay are great players,\" says Ighalo.\n\nOdion Ighalo - a striker for Chinese club Changchun Yatai FC - grew up in Ajegunle\n\nBolarinwa Olajide is a sports reporter with Lagos-based radio station Wazobia. He saw many of these players emerge from Ajegunle over the years.\n\n\"We see the hopeless, those who know they have a talent but they can't exhibit it anywhere. They can't afford fees to join a football academy, so they go to Ajegunle because they know scouts come to watch them play, and it's a chance to show what they can do as footballers,\" he tells me.\n\nLeicester City and Nigeria midfielder Wilfred Ndidi did not grow up in Ajegunle but played against boys from the slum during his time at an academy in Lagos.\n\nHe believes Ajegunle has produced good football players because the boys there \"work hard, the lifestyle is difficult so they try to work very hard and come out with their best.\"\n\nTo keep the Ajegunle legacy going, some of the footballers are already giving back to the community with projects to nurture future talent.\n\nAkpoborie is helping to identify future football talent, while Ighalo is building an orphanage in the heart of the slum.", "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\nScotland's Ricky Burns failed to unify the super-lightweight division as his WBA title was taken by IBF and IBO champion Julius Indongo in Glasgow.\n\nIndongo, unbeaten in 21 fights prior to this unification contest, forced his fellow 34-year-old on to the back foot for much of the fight.\n\nBurns rallied in the fifth and sixth rounds but the tall southpaw emerged a worthy winner on points.\n\nThat was reflected in the judges' scoring - 120-108, 118-110, 116-112.\n\n\"The better man won on the night, no excuses,\" said Burns. And no-one could argue.\n• None What next for beaten Burns?\n\nThis was Burns' third fight at the Hydro and 13th at world title level, while Indongo - \"on a mission\" from Namibia's president Hage Geingob - was fighting overseas for only the second time as a professional.\n\nOn his first, in December, he knocked out IBF champion Eduard Troyanovsky in Moscow.\n\nIt was clear from early in Saturday's fight that Indongo would try to use his greater height and reach to throw jabs at Burns' head, and he did this to good effect in the opening three minutes.\n\nBurns has started slowly in recent fights before finding his rhythm, and the Namibian began much the livelier, bouncing around the centre of the ring against a hesitant home fighter.\n\nIndeed, he looked to have won the first four rounds by dint of his greater work-rate and accuracy, though Burns was beginning to connect with his right.\n\nWith their man having 47 bouts under his belt to Indongo's 21, the home fans may have wondered if the tactic was to use his experience to let his opponent tire himself out.\n\nRounds five and six signalled an improvement in Burns' form, with his aggression rewarded as Indongo was forced backwards for the first time.\n\nThe lead Indongo had built was thanks to the accumulation of cleaner shots rather than anything that badly hurt the Coatbridge fighter in his 17th year as a professional.\n\nAnd, though Burns was still strong in defence, by the time the ninth round had ended he must have realised he was trailing heavily on the scorecards.\n\nHis task in the remaining three rounds had to be to stop Indongo for the first time in his nine-year career.\n\nThat looked increasingly unlikely as he struggled to get inside to inflict damage. Too often he was over-stretching to land a meaningful shot, and when he did trouble Indongo his opponent snuffed out the attack with footwork and by holding on.\n\nIt leaves Burns' dreams of a further unification bout against Terence Crawford in Las Vegas in tatters, though it would be a surprise if he was considering retiring.\n\n'He was better than we thought' - Burns\n\nRicky Burns: \"He was so so awkward. He was a lot better than we thought he was going to be. He can hit as well.\n\n\"I'm going to have all the doubters saying I'm finished - but I'll come again.\n\n\"He started the rounds fast and the height and reach advantage meant he was out of my distance.\"\n\nJulius Indongo: \"I feel very proud. My home crowd are watching. It's for the whole of Africa. This is so great.\n\n\"I am very proud for opening my doors and now the world can see me.\"\n\n\"It was pretty one-dimensional from Ricky Burns, who was trying to jump in from long distance on a fighter who was bigger, with longer arms and a heavy puncher.\n\n\"Indongo was dominant, knew what he was about, kept swinging dangerous bombs and didn't let Burns in at all.\n\n\"In the last two rounds, when he had the match won, he still wanted to dominate, and like true champions, wanted to get rid of his challenger.\n\n\"He ticks all the right boxes. It is going to take a high-level operator to cope with him. I think Terence Crawford is that kind of guy.\"", "Bristol have been relegated to the Championship with two games left to play after a brave defeat by ruthless Premiership leaders Wasps.\n\nJason Woodward's try put them ahead but Josh Bassett, Tommy Taylor and Joe Simpson scored as Wasps went in ahead.\n\nChristian Wade, Guy Thompson and Bassett went over for the visitors for a bonus point, which deflated Bristol.\n\nThe hosts rallied, Jack O'Connell and Nick Fenton-Wells touching down, but it could not stop them from going down.\n\nHaving finished top of the Championship in five seasons before finally winning promotion in the play-offs last year, Bristol will return to the second-tier at the first time of asking.\n\nAfter Worcester's win over Bath on Saturday, Mark Tainton's Bristol needed two points from the game to prolong their relegation battle, but they lacked a clinical streak.\n\nIt leaves them 12 points adrift at the bottom of the table, with a maximum of 10 points on offer from their final two matches.\n\nWasps were far from at their best, on the back foot for much of the game, but have restored their five-point lead at the top and need one win from their last two to secure a home semi-final in the play-offs.\n\nThe Premiership's top try-scorer Wade, on his 100th appearance for Dai Young's side, did his England hopes no harm with his 16th score of the campaign.\n\nBristol were promoted to the top tier on 25 May after winning their two-legged play-off final, with the Premiership season starting just 100 days later.\n\nDirector of rugby Andy Robinson, a former England head coach, was sacked in November after his side lost their first 10 games of the campaign.\n\nTainton took interim charge and Bristol finally got their first league win against Worcester on Boxing Day, following it up with victory at Sale and a losing bonus point at Northampton, but it was a false dawn.\n\nThe scrapping of the Championship play-offs, meaning the team that finishes top will gain automatic promotion, may give Bristol more time to plan ahead next season if they are successful.\n\n'Hopefully we can bounce back quickly'\n\nConnacht boss Pat Lam will have the task of bringing Bristol back into the Premiership, having signed a three-year deal in December to become head coach from June.\n\nTainton will remain at the helm for their final two matches at Saracens and at home to Newcastle, and remains optimistic about the future of the club.\n\n\"Obviously it's disappointing to get relegated, but we've put a plan in place whether we were going to stay in the Premiership or get relegated,\" he said.\n\n\"We have the infrastructure at Ashton Gate to be a Premiership team - we're not going to be next year, but hopefully the supporters will still watch us in that league.\n\n\"Bristol more than most know what a difficult league it (the Championship) is, but hopefully we can bounce back very quickly.\"\n\n\"It was a similar story to a lot of games - we've created an awful lot, we've been in the opposition 22 many times but we've just not executed and got across the line.\n\n\"We give Wasps an opportunity and they score tries, it's as simple as that - that's the difference in the level we need to get to.\n\n\"We were down and beaten in the second half but we played right until the very end of the game - I expect that from them in the next two games.\"\n\n\"Obviously there are still things to work on, especially our starts - I thought our first 10 minutes, again, we made far too many mistakes and gave ourselves a bit of a hill to climb.\n\n\"We just had enough to do it but we make it hard for us really - there's room to improve in every area, but I'm pretty pleased and felt we looked in control for most of the game.\n\n\"It's up to us to nail it (a top-two finish) ourselves - we're not relying on other people.\"\n\nFor the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.", "So there it is. Another year of plummy accents, eccentric knitwear and quick-fire trivia, over.\n\nThe final gong has sounded, the teams have clapped magnanimously at each other and the sheet of corrugated metal with twiddly lines on it has been handed over. But for many of us, this run of University Challenge did not end as we'd expected.\n\nPaxman began with a slightly extended intro, outlining some of the numbers behind the show: hundreds of entrants, dozens of teams, thousands of questions. What his eyes normally communicate silently, his voice this time confirmed: It's been a long series.\n\nAfter a couple of body-blows to Balliol, in which Paxman reminded them they'd already lost once to Wolfson in the quarters, it was on to the intros.\n\nYang. Chaudhri. The camera panned right and there he was, Eric Monkman, from Oakville, Canada - the wingtips of his baby blue collar poking out from beneath a striped blue/black crewneck. And like that, he was gone, turning to his left to introduce the wry, kind-eyed Paul Cosgrove, who you can tell enjoys his fleeting role in the major historical event that is #Monkmania.\n\nOn to Balliol. Potts. Lloyd. \"And this is their captain...\" Goldman. For many, tonight's pantomime villain. It's a thankless task, squaring off against Monkman. If you lose, you're the poor sap who ran up against Monkman in the 2016/17 final (\"What was his name again? Nice young man, wore glasses?\"). If you win, you dash the hopes of a nation.\n\nLooks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed.\n\nThen the quiz began. And for the first half or so it was a tussle for dominance. Balliol were first out of the blocks, answering the starter and all three bonuses for a perfect 25. But Monkman knows his operatic characters...\n\n#UniversityChallenge \n\n\n\nQuestion: What is it about #Monkman that makes him so irresistibly charming?\n\n\n\nAnswer: pic.twitter.com/YxB9GVFlyH — JOE (@JOE_co_uk) April 10, 2017\n\nSo Wolfson were soon back on track.\n\nIt carried on like this in a blistering display for much of the first half. James Joyce, chloroform, historical accords from map boundaries, famous duels. The teams tore through the Qs, with the two captains picking up most of the points - often before Paxman had finished reading from his card.\n\nAround 10 minutes in, Wolfson were 20 ahead. But then something strange happened. Paxman got a few words into a question on the Iron Crown of Lombardy, and Monkman buzzed. But when the crash zoom had finished and his name had been called, you could tell he'd buzzed expecting the question to focus on something else, and he had to put his hands in the air and offer \"It's housed... in Italy somewhere?\"\n\nPaxman was not impressed. \"Yes, I'm afraid that is a completely useless answer,\" he scolded, and offered it up to Balliol, docking Wolfson five points.\n\n\"In Italy somewhere...I don't know, sorry\" - exactly how I answered every question during my geography degree. I'm as clever as #Monkman 💪🏼 — Alice Kiernan (@kiernan_alice) April 10, 2017\n\nA little later, a fiendish question left the entire studio silent. What is the total atomic number of the four elements that spell the word SNOB?\n\nAnd then Monkman could be seen forbidding his players from buzzing.\n\nEventually Yang had a guess, and Monkman didn't look impressed.\n\nFrom then, the contest felt somehow out of reach for Wolfson. They rallied a couple of times, edging ahead here and there, but in the latter third Balliol powered ahead, often answering correctly after Wolfson had buzzed in early and been wrong.\n\nWhen the final final gong sounded, Balliol were a good 50 points ahead. Monkman's Wolfson team had lost.\n\nBut there was a twist in the tale, and a lovely coda to the series, when Paxman's disembodied voice explained that the final we'd just been watching had been filmed some time earlier. After establishing shots of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, we were suddenly in an oak-panelled interior, port glasses on the sideboard and the eight finalists mingling around none other than Professor Stephen Hawking.\n\nAfter Professor Hawking congratulated the teams, and made a quip about bacteria, we were treated to perhaps the most touching moment of this series - our man Eric Monkman's broad, beaming smile as he took in the fact that he was in the presence of such a great mind.\n\nWe will miss you, Eric Monkman.\n\nAnd finally, one more thank you: Thanks to these guys! What a great experience we shared. pic.twitter.com/RFucsRTSKV — Eric Monkman (@e_monkman) April 10, 2017", "Charting the travails of two out-of-work actors in the dying days of the 1960s, British film comedy Withnail and I has staggered to its 30th birthday. Star Richard E Grant looks back at its filming and considers whether anyone else could have tackled the role that put him on the road to Hollywood. Chin chin!\n\nCamden Town. Two sleep-deprived thespians wallow in filth, battling drug-induced paranoia, a worrying lack of booze and stalled careers.\n\nWhat follows - an ill-fated jaunt \"to the country\" and run-ins with an assortment of misfits and malcontents - would marry with caustic dialogue to produce an oft-quoted classic.\n\nLargely unnoticed on its release in April 1987, standout performances by Grant as the acid-tongued Withnail and Paul McGann as the more introspective I helped the film gradually gather a dedicated following.\n\nNo less memorable was its supporting cast of colourful characters, among them the love-struck Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths), drug-dealer Danny (Ralph Brown) and poacher Jake (Michael Elphick).\n\nInitially created as a semi-autobiographical novel by Bruce Robinson more than a decade and a half earlier, the writer-turned-director would largely use his one-time flatmate Vivian MacKerrell as the inspiration for the scabrous Withnail, while I - identified as Marwood in the script - was a version of Robinson himself.\n\nIt was, as he has outlined, \"a tale of English hopelessness\" and threw a spotlight on his \"appalling lifestyle\" as he struggled to find work after leaving London's Central School of Speech and Drama.\n\n\"Wait till the morning and we'll go in together\" - Marwood pleads with Withnail to abandon plans to tackle the fetid kitchen sink\n\nWith each set-piece so perfectly penned, the stale cigarette smoke and alcohol fumes almost seeped through the screen.\n\nBut while the story may have been loaded with laughs, Robinson demanded his dialogue was delivered with a straight face.\n\n\"Bruce was very exacting and did not brook any improvisation or word substitutions,\" says Grant, who himself had been without work for nine months and become increasingly beset by nagging doubts about his chosen career, having emigrated from Swaziland to Britain at the turn of the 80s.\n\n\"He was also adamant that as there were no jokes or punchlines, it had to be played with deadly seriousness.\n\n\"The script was so accurate in expressing the frustrations of being an out-of-work actor that as soon as Paul and I played everything 'for real', Bruce was very open and accommodating.\n\n\"That experience [of being unemployed] proved invaluable. Withnail is so staggeringly self-obsessed and entitled, which anyone who has been to drama school will be all too familiar with!\"\n\nAuditioning for the part would almost mirror the character's woes, as Grant competed against a gaggle of better-known names in a casting merry-go-round as dizzying as the concoction of drink and drugs downed throughout the film.\n\n\"I've been watching you\" - poacher Jake warns the hapless pair\n\nDaniel Day-Lewis had turned down the role and other leading contenders included Bill Nighy and Ed Tudor-Pole.\n\nIt was not much easier for McGann, with the role of Marwood offered to Michael Maloney.\n\nHaving stepped into his shoes, his strong Liverpudlian accent promptly saw him sacked before an equally swift reinstatement.\n\nSo what was it that Robinson eventually identified in the duo?\n\n\"Finding a contrasting pair of actors made the audition process protracted,\" Grant recalls, \"as Bruce was very determined to secure two people who looked and sounded like Vivian and himself.\n\n\"Paul is incredibly handsome and had the quality of 'an innocent abroad', which Bruce was after.\"\n\nWhile it may seem almost inconceivable for fans to imagine anyone else in the role of Withnail, Grant modestly disagrees.\n\n\"We want the finest wines available to humanity\" - the drunkards offend the owner of the Penrith Tea Rooms\n\n\"I absolutely believe that all those illustrious names could have essayed the role, as it is so brilliantly well written.\n\n\"Bruce writes stage directions with the same exactitude as his dialogue - hugely entertaining, mordant, witty, and conveying the precise mood so that you simultaneously 'see' and 'feel' what the scene is about.\"\n\nIndeed so expertly crafted was Robinson's dialogue, fans delight in reciting the characters' one-liners and stinging rebukes - and sometimes in the most unexpected of places.\n\n\"Oh, my boys\" - Uncle Monty shows his affection at the cottage dinner table\n\n\"[Some years later] I was filming in the Australian outback beside a dirt road in the middle of nowhere,\" says Grant.\n\n\"The only car that drove past all day was a battered yellow 1959 Ford Anglia - my dreaded primary school maths teacher drove one - and the driver leant out of his window and yelled 'scrubbers!' at me - to the bewilderment of the film crew.\"\n\nShooting got under way in August 1986, but, like the pair's rain-lashed on-screen drive from London to the Lakes, the film's journey to the cinema screen was tortuous.\n\nA modest million-pound budget would come from Beatles legend George Harrison's Handmade Films and a New York businessman.\n\nDecamping to Cumbria's Wet Sleddale to begin work at isolated cottage \"Crow Crag\" (the real-life Sleddale Hall, near Shap), interference from its backers threatened to derail production, causing Robinson to issue a \"back me or sack me\" ultimatum.\n\nFor Grant, that period of time was difficult for an altogether more tragic reason as he and his wife, Joan, grieved the loss of their daughter Tiffany, born prematurely at seven months and pronounced dead within a few minutes.\n\n\"She is the size of a little bird,\" he recalled in his book With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant.\n\n\"She is warm but dead. And perfect. Ten toes, ten fingers. Eyes, mouth, all. Broken. No breath.\n\n\"Our hearts are broken and will we ever cease weeping.\"\n\n\"I want something's flesh\" - Withnail goes fishing for lunch\n\nThe film would have its own sense of sadness and loss as McGann's I packs his bags having landed the lead role in a Manchester-based play - leaving the desperate Withnail railing in despair with only a bottle of Uncle Monty's wine and the Regent's Park wolves for company.\n\nJust as eloquently it would sum up the end of the 60s dream, replaced by commercialism and cynicism with the selling of \"hippy wigs in Woolworths\".\n\nAlthough Withnail and I failed to make a commercial splash upon its release, McGann would establish a solid stage and screen career, while Grant had Hollywood hot-shots Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese all come calling.\n\nHe has hardly stopped working since.\n\nIt is, he admits, \"some irony… playing an unemployed actor opened every subsequent career door I've walked through\".\n\nRobinson would have more mixed fortunes. Follow-up How to Get Ahead in Advertising, also starring Grant, was an altogether more patchy affair while Jennifer 8 and The Rum Diary also met with criticism.\n\nThirty years on, though, Withnail and I's popularity shows no sign of waning and a series of screenings are being staged by fans across the country throughout the coming months - with Sleddale Hall itself among the venues in July.\n\n\"Are you a sponge or a stone?\" - Monty propositions Marwood\n\nSo just what does the now 59-year-old Grant believe lies at the heart of its enduring appeal, and does he ever feel trapped by the role which, for many, defines his career?\n\n\"The film is so accurate about Bruce's experience of being an unemployed actor at the end of the 60s, encompassing his breadline, booze and drugged desolation, and being friends with the coruscating and charismatic MacKerrell, that it is indelibly authentic.\n\n\"His portrayal of a symbiotic male friendship is the core of the story, and its disintegration is painful and poetic.\n\n\"If I had only been offered 'alcoholic actor' roles I might have something to complain about, but that never happened. Playing someone so extreme has meant I've been cast in roles that demand a certain level of intensity or mania, which I've hugely enjoyed.\n\n\"I'm genuinely amazed that a film made so long ago, which initially met with such a lukewarm response, has accrued the status and cult following it has done.\n\n\"For that, I am eternally grateful.\"", "Joao Vitor ended up on the streets aged 14\n\nIn 1937, Jorge Amado published Captains of the Sands, a novel about a gang of orphaned children living on the streets of Salvador, north-east Brazil. Eighty years on, little has changed - thousands of children and adolescents still roam the city and sleep rough. David Baker hears some of their stories.\n\nZeca (not his real name) isn't proud of his past. A tall, skinny, slightly shy black teenager, he mumbles and looks down at his feet when he speaks about the years he spent living on the streets of Salvador.\n\nHe's 17, though he has the weary, cracked voice of an old man who has seen too much of life, and he talks about his time in the city's drugs gangs with regret.\n\n\"I found many types of job [with the gangs]\", he says, \"trafficking, packing, stealing…\" And then, after a long pause, he adds: \"killing.\"\n\nHe won't be drawn on the details but he says gang life was a case of kill or be killed.\n\nI have come to Salvador to meet people like Zeca because of a book published here 80 years ago that became a classic of Brazilian literature.\n\nJorge Amado's Captains of the Sands tells the story of a gang of orphaned children and adolescents living in an abandoned warehouse in Salvador's docks area who live by begging, stealing and hustling.\n\n\"Dressed in rags, dirty, half-starved, aggressive, cursing, and smoking cigarette butts, they were, in truth, the masters of the city,\" Amado wrote.\n\nHe wanted to show the freedom and fun these children could have looking after each other and having adventures through the city's streets.\n\nBut he also wanted to show the misery of their lives and to shame Brazil into doing something about the thousands of homeless children in the country that richer Brazilians at the time viewed as little more than pests.\n\nThat was then, but there are still gangs of children, like the Captains of the Sands, living on the city's streets.\n\nI met Zeca in a government-run shelter that takes children and adolescents off Salvador's streets and helps them reintegrate into mainstream life.\n\nLike him, many come from broken homes. And, almost the moment they arrive on the streets, they run the risk of being picked up by one of the many drugs gangs that run great swathes of this, Brazil's third-largest, city.\n\nBrazil's Modern-day Captains of the Sands was broadcast on BBC World Service's Assignment programme. Listen again on iPlayer.\n\nWhen Zeca talks of his own time with them his eyes develop a far-off look, as if something has died inside him.\n\n\"It was very violent,\" he says. \"If you live on the streets you have to be evil.\"\n\nZeca's story is so shocking that it's easy to forget he is still just a child.\n\n\"When I was 10 I used cocaine and smoked weed,\" says Zeca.\n\n\"I used to snort a lot of cocaine. And one day there was no coke for me to snort so I went on to the streets and started smoking crack.\"\n\nImmediately he discovered how violent life on Brazil's streets can be.\n\n\"I had a knife, a gun, all these sorts of things, to defend myself,\" he says.\n\n\"I could only sleep in the morning because during the night I had to stay awake. There were many dangers, someone could come and kill me.\"\n\nNGOs working in the city reckon there are as many as 3,500 people under 25 living on Salvador's streets still.\n\nAnd among them is a friendly, intelligent and curious young man I met one day in a square down by the city's docks - Joao Vitor.\n\nJoao Vitor is 20, black and very much at ease with his life on the streets. He's thrilled to talk and clears some space on the foam mattress he sleeps on for me to sit down and join him.\n\nHe grew up, he says, being looked after by his grandmother and, from the age of eight, he helped her cook and sell acaraje, deep-fried dumplings that are a classic Salvador street food. But when he was 14, she fell ill and had to move back to the countryside and Joao Vito ended up on the streets.\n\nIt was tough, he says, \"having to sleep in the streets, having to eat food that I didn't like, worrying about other people trying to attack you, but as time went by you get used to it\".\n\nAnd, he says, like the teenagers in Captains of the Sands, you quickly find yourself part of a gang who look out for each other.\n\n\"I've got nothing of value here,\" he says, showing me the few possessions he keeps next to his mattress. \"The things I really value are my friends here. They are my family.\"\n\nJoao Vitor has kept clear of the drugs gangs and he's pleased about that. \"Drugs diminish you as a person,\" he says.\n\nBut he has certainly experienced violence. He has scars on his arm and the side of his neck from when someone attacked him with a machete. And he has seen police attack people sleeping in the streets.\n\nThere is also, he says, the problem of poor people on the streets attacking each other.\n\n\"You will see many zombies on crack,\" he says. \"When they have money, they're happy because everyone is their friend. But when they have no money, if you touch them there will be a fight.\"\n\nHis experience, though, is very different from Zeca's. He says he prefers to deal with arguments through talking rather than a fight. And, when it comes to enjoying the freedom of Salvador's streets, he absolutely sees himself as like the children in Captains of the Sands.\n\n\"I am a Captain of the Sands,\" he says with a big smile. \"Because look at the life we live, bro. The only part I'm not is when it comes to stealing. But it's true as far as living adventures, always exploring the day that we're living, for sure I am.\"\n\nHe picks up his stuff and says he's off soon to have a dip in the sea and to catch up with some other people he knows who live on the city's streets.\n\n\"There'll be other friends of mine there too. If I need anything they'll sort me out,\" he says. \"This is what friendship is. It's a family.\"\n\nNeither Joao Vitor nor Zeca are certain about what the future holds for them - though Zeca, in the shelter, has at least taken a first step in getting off the streets. Both boys say they take life one day at a time.\n\nBut, however their lives turn out, there are thousands of young people like them living on Salvador's streets today and the Brazilian state has very few resources (and, some would say, very little political will) to help them.\n\nIf he returned to his city today, Jorge Amado would still feel the need to shame his country into action.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nIan Poulter moved to within three shots of the lead at the RBC Heritage in South Carolina - despite a close encounter with an alligator.\n\nThe Englishman shot a third-round 69 to move to 10 under, with American Jason Dufner leading the field on 13 under.\n\nPoulter, 41, hit his tee shot into the water on the 10th hole and took a drop on the bank, only to spot an alligator in the shallows nearby.\n\nHis playing partner Webb Simpson's caddie eventually chased it away but Poulter would double bogey the hole and bogey the next, before a birdie on the 14th helped him remain in contention.\n\n\"I took a couple of dummy swings and he decided to come in and take a closer look,\" Poulter told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I wasn't very comfortable with that. It's a little unnerving. I didn't want to put my club in the water because I didn't want him to take it. One of the other caddies came in and was a bit more aggressive, and he went.\"\n\nAsked if the incident had affected his play, Poulter said: \"No, not at all. My game feels good and I feel confident going into tomorrow.\"\n\nPoulter is playing on a major medical exemption after foot surgery last year and has this week and one more start to collect the prize money he needs to secure his playing status for the rest of the season.\n\nDespite three bogeys on the front nine, Dufner's two eagles and five birdies helped him to a 65 and moved him to 13 under at Hilton Head.\n\nCanada's Graham DeLaet is second after a 69, one ahead of Kevin Kisner and Simpson.\n\nEngland's Tyrrell Hatton remains in contention after a three-under 68 saw him move to eight under, a shot behind Donald and five shots adrift of 2013 PGA Championship winner Dufner.\n\nHowever, Scotland's Russell Knox fell behind as a one-over 72 saw him fall to a tie for 20th place, one shot in front of England's Andrew Johnston and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRoberto Firmino scored a winner for the second weekend running as Liverpool beat West Brom to go third in the Premier League.\n\nThe Brazil striker headed in at the end of the first half after Lucas Leiva had glanced on James Milner's free-kick.\n\nMilner volleyed over after half-time, and Simon Mignolet saved with his legs from Matt Phillips at the other end.\n\nLate on, Alberto Moreno missed an empty goal from 40 yards after Albion keeper Ben Foster had gone up for a corner.\n\nDespite that miss, Jurgen Klopp's side secured a fifth win in seven games, sending West Brom to a third straight defeat.\n\nKlopp has spoken recently of the need for Liverpool to \"win ugly\" - having developed a habit of beating the Premier League's top teams and then slipping up against sides lower down.\n\nLiverpool's manager was particularly wary of the threat that West Brom might pose from set-pieces, an area in which his team have been vulnerable defensively this season.\n\nTo counter that danger, Klopp used the fierce winds that hit Merseyside last Wednesday to his advantage - getting his players to face a barrage of high crosses and long throws in training that day.\n\nThe manager's reasoning was that if his players could deal with the ball in the air as it swirled about in the wind, they would be able to handle anything West Brom threw at them.\n\nBy and large, the preparation worked - with Liverpool also making sure not to give away too many set-pieces - although there was one hairy moment in the first half when Nacer Chadli miskicked with the goal at his mercy after Liverpool had failed to defend a free-kick.\n\nWhat was particularly impressive about Liverpool, though, was their midfield domination, which restricted the home side to just a handful of efforts at goal.\n\nLucas, Georginio Wijnaldum and Emre Can were key to keeping West Brom at bay, and ensured a win that keeps Klopp's side well on course for next season's Champions League.\n\nBefore last weekend's trip to Stoke, Liverpool had not won a league game all season without Sadio Mane in the team.\n\nKlopp needed that statistic to change after a knee injury sustained against Everton on 1 April ended the Senegalese striker's season early.\n\nHe found inspiration in the Potteries as goals from Philippe Coutinho and Firmino sealed a 2-1 victory, and the two Brazil internationals were involved in Liverpool's best attacking moments at The Hawthorns.\n\nFirmino proved his value in terms of creating chances as well as getting the winner, providing a fine diagonal pass that Coutinho volleyed wide in the first half, and crossing for Milner to volley over when well placed in the second.\n\nLiverpool could have won by a greater margin with better finishing - with Moreno guilty of the most glaring miss.\n\nThe full-back, on as a substitute, burst away in the closing seconds after keeper Foster was caught upfield for a corner. Instead of running the ball into the net, Moreno elected to shoot from long range, and missed the target.\n\nWest Brom remain on course to finish eighth, and equal their highest final league placing since 1981, but their season is in danger of petering out.\n\nOf their past seven matches, Tony Pulis' side have lost five and failed to score in six, with a 3-1 win over Arsenal on 18 March providing their only win and goals during that run.\n\nAlbion under Pulis have made a habit of being well organised, and of digging out victories with a significantly smaller share of possession.\n\nBut they failed to cause Liverpool enough problems, managing just two shots on target all afternoon.\n\nHal Robson-Kanu hit the first tamely at Mignolet in the opening half, and the goalkeeper reacted well to save with his legs as Phillips ran clear with 10 minutes to go.\n\nEven when they won a series of set-pieces in the closing moments, they could not make Liverpool pay.\n\nMan of the match - Emre Can (Liverpool)\n• None Roberto Firmino has now surpassed his Premier League goal tally from last season (10 in 2015-16, 11 in 2016-17).\n• None Since the start of last season, Firmino has been directly involved in 34 Premier League goals (21 goals, 13 assists), more than any other Liverpool player.\n• None Liverpool have won 66 points from 33 games this season; six points more than they picked up in the whole of 2015-16.\n• None West Brom have failed to score in four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2003.\n• None Liverpool have scored in more league away games this season (14) than they did in 2015-16 (13).\n• None Lucas has provided two assists in a Premier League season for the first time since 2009-10.\n• None West Brom have lost three of their past four Premier League games at The Hawthorns, as many as they lost in their previous 14 combined.\n• None Liverpool kept only their second ;eague clean sheet in 2017, in what was their 14th game of this calendar year.\n\n'No set-pieces, no set-pieces, no set-pieces'\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: \"It was a big win against a good, tall team. We played really well from the first second.\n\n\"We needed to adapt to what West Brom wanted to do. In all our plans, it was 'no set-pieces, no set-pieces, no set-pieces'.\"\n\nOn Liverpool's Champions League qualification chances: \"It is the Premier League, Arsenal have three, four, five games in hand so we should not think about this. Today we could only get to 66 points, so it feels perfect.\n\n\"Next week we try at Anfield to get 69 points, and let's carry on. If we do what we have to do, we will be where we want to be.\"\n\nWest Brom manager Tony Pulis: \"We are disappointed. I thought we did enough to get a point.\n\n\"The goal really knocked us. It took us 20 minutes, in which time they had some good opportunities.\n\n\"Chadli had a great chance at the back post, Matty Phillips should have scored one-on-one, Hal should have scored one-on-one - it wasn't all set-pieces.\n\n\"The difference between the top teams is the quality they have up front. The players have been fantastic this year, we have an opportunity to play some of the young players now too.\"\n\nWest Brom are at home to Leicester next Saturday (15:00 BST); Liverpool host Crystal Palace a day later at 16:30.\n• None Attempt missed. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Matt Phillips tries a through ball, but Salomón Rondón is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Darren Fletcher (West Bromwich Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Chris Brunt with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Matt Phillips (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Salomón Rondón.\n• None Attempt missed. Emre Can (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Jake Livermore (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Darren Fletcher.\n• None Attempt blocked. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Protesters have been attacking polling centres in Indian-administered Kashmir\n\nEight people died and more than 100 were injured in Indian-administered Kashmir in a highly contentious by-election over the weekend. Separatist leaders called for voters to boycott the polls and protestors attacked more than 150 polling centres.\n\nOn Thursday India attempted to re-run the disrupted ballots. There was massive security in place.\n\nBut an election without voters is a very sad affair.\n\nI arrived at one polling station five hours after it had opened. Not one ballot had been cast.\n\nThe eyes of seven bored election officers looked up expectantly as I walked in.\n\nIt was a sorry scene. The windows were broken but no-one had bothered to sweep up the puddles of broken glass on the floor.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters had stormed the building, pelting stones. The polling centres was forced to close, hence the ballot today.\n\nI introduced myself and asked how things were going.\n\n\"We're hatching eggs here,\" laughed Ali Mohammad, one of the election officers. He meant they were sitting doing nothing.\n\nPolling booths remained empty despite government efforts to conduct elections again\n\nWhen I asked why it was so quiet, he conceded that India's efforts to ensure there was no disruption this time round might well have put some voters off.\n\nKashmir is one of the most militarised region in the world - there are more personnel per capita here than in Iraq or Syria. We'd driven through streets lined with heavily armed officers to get here - one for every three eligible voters.\n\n\"Area domination\", the policeman in-charge called it, seemingly unconscious of how ominous his words sounded in a region many believe is on the brink of separatist revolt.\n\nBut back at the polling station, Mr Mohammad didn't think military muscle alone accounted for the lack of interest in the electoral process.\n\nWill it get any busier, I asked? He shook his head. \"We are ready for voters if they come, but it won't be busy here today,\" he told me, smiling gently.\n\nThen he frowned, clearly unhappy with his fellow Kashmiris' lack of engagement. Mr Mohammad is a teacher by profession.\n\n\"The right to vote is important,\" he said after a pause, \"it gives us the power to determine our own fate.\"\n\nKashmir is one of the most militarised places in the world\n\nHis words underscore just what an indictment of the mainstream Kashmiri parties the turnout on Sunday was when only 7% of the electorate bothered to vote.\n\nYes, separatists called for a boycott and yes, there were stone-throwing mobs at some polling stations, but if the electorate had been persuaded that politicians could deliver a brighter future, more would surely have made the effort to vote.\n\nThat was certainly the view of the group of young men I got talking to outside another of the polling centres that had been attacked.\n\nWhen I asked how many of them had been part of the stone-throwing mob, they shuffled nervously. Then 13, 14, 15 hands went up: half the group.\n\nThe justification was all too familiar - \"azadi\" or freedom.\n\nKashmiris have long dreamt of creating an independent nation up here in the bright green valleys of the Himalayas. It's an ambition India has no intention of allowing.\n\nIn the 80s and 90s, a few thousand militants were at the vanguard of the independence struggle. There are far fewer now - perhaps 250 or so - but opposition to Indian rule appears to be becoming more widespread.\n\nIt is the reason the young men give for trying to disrupt the polls. \"All politicians are the same and none of them will bring freedom, so why vote?\" asked one.\n\nKashmiri people say their only option is to fight Indian rule in the state\n\nBut what is the alternative?\n\nThe answer these young men gave doesn't augur well for Kashmir - or for India. They said they wanted to fight.\n\n\"When you suffer atrocity after atrocity you lose all fear. We aren't scared of anything now,\" claimed Aijaz Amin, his long eyebrows fluttering nervously.\n\nHe said he had never been involved in violence but he used an ominous Urdu phrase. The direct translation is, \"We have shrouds over our heads.\" It means they will do anything to get what we want, and it implies a fight to the death.\n\nBy late afternoon I had arrived at one of the most notorious villages in the constituency. Once again, no votes had been cast but, with a sickening inevitability, hundreds of young men came out to throw stones at the security forces.\n\nThe battle that followed had a ritual quality. These riots are repeated virtually every week here in Kashmir.\n\nAnd it all ended promptly at 4pm, when the polls closed. The last officers fired off a volley of shotgun rounds into the crowd, before leaping into their armoured vehicles and driving rapidly away.\n\nA couple of hours later the Kashmir Election Commission released the figures for the day's ballot.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nRonnie O'Sullivan reached the World Championship second round by beating Crucible debutant Gary Wilson 10-7.\n\nThe five-time champion went 5-1 up in Saturday's first session in Sheffield, including a 122 break, but former taxi driver Wilson then won three in a row.\n\nOn Sunday, O'Sullivan made 124, 83 and 74 to go 9-5 ahead, Wilson hitting back with 103 before succumbing.\n\nO'Sullivan, who later launched an attack on World Snooker, celebrated by repeatedly punching the air.\n\n\"I have a responsibility to the fans who come to support me and they want to see me do well,\" he said, as he spoke to the media at the length for the first time since winning the Masters in January.\n\n\"It is important I keep focused, professional, keep myself out of trouble and do a job, it is about business.\n\n\"I love to play and it is extra special at the Crucible.\n\n\"The main thing is to be in the right frame of mind, the fans have supported me for 25 years, they will continue to support me but I feel loyalty towards them and they are the most important people in my career.\"\n• None 'I won't be bullied or intimidated by World Snooker' - O'Sullivan\n\nFormer world number one O'Sullivan won the most recent of his five world titles in 2013.\n\nThis year, he is only third favourite behind Judd Trump and defending champion Mark Selby thanks to an inconsistent season in which he has reached four major finals but claimed just one title.\n\nHis victory at the Masters for a record seventh time was the last time he won consecutive matches in a tournament - a run of five events.\n\nAt Alexandra Palace, O'Sullivan spoke about \"missing too many easy balls\" and the problem was evident early on in Sheffield as he struggled to clinch frames when given an opportunity.\n\nBut the world number 12 improved significantly in the second session and next faces another former champion in Shaun Murphy or Chinese 17-year-old Yan Bingtao.\n\nWallsend player Wilson had shown his class in qualifying by making a maximum 147 break and seven further centuries.\n\nThe world number 59 did display his high-scoring ability with breaks of 103 and 100 and said he felt \"comfortable\" in his first appearance at the event.\n\nHe added: \"In one way I am pleased. I did not give him it and he had to work for it.\n\n\"I felt if it got close, I had a chance of winning. It could have been closer earlier on and I was sat thinking it should be 8-8.\n\n\"You can't be too disappointed in your first time at the Crucible and I've shown what I am capable of.\"\n\nIn Sunday afternoon's other game, Kyren Wilson beat another Crucible first-timer, David Grace, 10-6.\n\nWilson - a beaten finalist in this season's Indian Open - stroked in 93 and 72 against the Yorkshireman, who performed well with breaks of 104 and 75.\n\nAnd in the battle of the former champions, Peter Ebdon took the last two frames of Sunday's session - including the ninth on a re-spotted black - to trail Stuart Bingham 5-4.\n\nIn Sunday evening's two games Mark Allen took a 5-4 lead against Jimmy Robertson while Marco Fu fell 7-2 behind against Luca Brecel.", "Another of Japan's corporate behemoths faces the prospect of biting the dust\n\nOnce a household name, Toshiba is now bleeding billions of dollars and frantically trying to reassure investors that it will not succumb to the kiss of death.\n\nBut it also faces another fate: becoming the most high-profile member of Japan's corporate living dead, also known as zombie firms.\n\nToshiba admitted this week that its survival is at risk and that the firm could be delisted from the Tokyo stock exchange, following a major accounting scandal and an ill-timed bet on nuclear power.\n\nThe 142-year-old company is poised to record Japan's biggest industrial loss after its investment in US nuclear unit Westinghouse turned toxic.\n\nSo what's next? Well, a lot hinges on Toshiba's ability to raise much-needed cash through the sale of its valuable memory chip unit.\n\nHere are three possible scenarios.\n\nToshiba is already the \"walking dead\" financially, says Gerhard Fasol, chief executive of Eurotechnology Japan: \"Action should have been taken 20 years ago\".\n\nZombie companies are loosely defined as loss-making or insolvent entities that should be allowed to fail, but continue to operate because of lenient creditors.\n\nThousands exist in Japan and the issue is considered to be a reason why Japan's economy risks suffering from a third \"lost decade\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is Toshiba on the ropes?\n\nAll Toshiba needs now is a bailout from the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) or the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation, two government-backed bodies that rescue ailing companies, for this to happen.\n\nHowever, many investors are not fans of this option. They argue that zombie firms need to be killed off, so that \"creative destruction\" can take place.\n\nAmir Anvarzadeh of BGC Partners said if the government gets involved, \"then we suspect we will find Toshiba back on the brink again sometime in the the future.\"\n\nWant more proof of zombies? Not a single publicly-listed Japanese firm went bust last year. In fact, overall bankruptcies have fallen for eight years in a row.\n\nJapan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, touts those statistics as a sign of economic success, but being saved from going extinct is not necessarily a good thing.\n\nInnovation and new firm creation remains incredibly low in Japan compared with other developed countries, according to OECD research.\n\nBreaking up is hard to do. But Toshiba President Satoshi Tsunakawa has no other choice but to sell off some prized parts if he wants to keep the company afloat and alive.\n\nToshiba President Satoshi Tsunakawa (right) has a massive financial headache on his hands\n\nToshiba is in the process of auctioning off its semiconductor unit, which makes memory chips for smartphones, computers and other electronic devices.\n\nIt is the world's second-largest chip manufacturer behind Samsung, which is no mean feat, given how competitive the industry is.\n\nOver the last two years, there has been an aggressive wave of consolidation. So when Toshiba's unit was put up for grabs, an array of interested bidders quickly assembled.\n\nThe chip unit is estimated to be worth between $9bn (£7.2bn) and $13bn. Taiwan's Foxconn, which assembles Apple's iPhones, has reportedly offered as much as $27bn.\n\nFoxconn also bought Japan's Sharp last year. But things could easily change.\n\nThe chip sale is now said to be facing opposition from various stakeholders, including US firm Western Digital, which has a joint venture deal with Toshiba.\n\nThe Japanese government is also believed to be reluctant to allow the sale of another company with proprietary technologies to a Chinese or South Korean rival.\n\nBGC Partners' Mr Anvarzadeh dismisses the latter. \"Arguments that technology transfer ultimately trickle down to China sound dubious,\" he says, adding that Taiwan and Korea have more advanced chip technologies anyway.\n\nIf the chip sale falls through, more accounting irregularities emerge or the banks decide to call in their loans, then all bets are off.\n\nToshiba could be allowed to fail. But that would have serious ramifications and will see thousands of shareholders lose their savings. Then there is the issue of national pride.\n\nToshiba launched the world's first mass-market laptop in 1985 and became known for its consumer electronics products such as televisions, although it is worth stating those units are no longer at the heart of its business and some are loss-making.\n\nIn addition, the decline of Japan Inc, once renowned the world over for its game-changing companies, has been going on for a long time now.\n\nAfter 142 years of existence, is Toshiba now toast?\n\nAnalysts pretty much all agree that Toshiba is in a difficult, complicated situation. But they differ on the probable course of action.\n\nEurotechnology's Mr Fasol is predicting a \"politically brokered solution\", in which a US firm and a Japanese government investment fund acquire the chip company.\n\nBut Mr Anvarzadeh believes Toshiba should be allowed to sell the unit to Foxconn, because it is willing to pay the highest price.\n\n\"Pride is very expensive. I don't think the government can afford to be proud with Toshiba on the brink,\" he said.\n\n\"We think the best case scenario is for the Japanese government to stay out of this bidding process and, for once, allow market forces to run their course.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nEngland head coach Eddie Jones has named 15 uncapped players in his 31-man squad to tour Argentina in June.\n\nDylan Hartley will be captain after being left out of the Lions squad.\n\nFlanker Sam Underhill, New Zealand-born cross-code convert Denny Solomona, and fly-half Piers Francis - who will join Northampton from Auckland Blues in the summer - are included.\n\nThere are also call-ups for Sale twins Ben and Tom Curry, 18, as well as Saracens forward Nick Isiekwe, 19.\n\nLondon Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga and Harry Mallinder of Northampton are included too.\n\nAfter missing out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand, the likes of Joe Launchbury, James Haskell, Chris Robshaw, George Ford and Mike Brown all are included, but there is no place for Danny Cipriani, Christian Wade or Semesa Rokoduguni.\n\nHarlequins player Jack Clifford and Sam Jones of Wasps are unavailable through injury.\n\n\"We are looking forward to going to Argentina and winning 2-0,\" said head coach Jones.\n\nAustralian Glen Ella, who coached England on tour last summer, will again join Jones' backroom team.\n\nOn the tour, England will face their hosts in San Juan on Saturday 10 June and in Santa Fe a week later.\n\nAt a news conference, Jones said he did not want to get involved in debate about the Lions squad.\n\n\"You miss out on a Lions tour and you get an England tour - it's not a bad second prize,\" said the Australian.\n\n\"If I can develop three or four of these guys to be better than the Lions guys, it will be a successful tour.\n\n\"It's going to be a tough tour, but my job is to improve the squad. It's a great opportunity where we can bring a bunch of young, enthusiastic and potentially good players into the squad at one time.\"\n\nEven though 16 men are away with the Lions, this is a startling squad from Eddie Jones, with almost half of the touring party uncapped.\n\nThere are four men who helped clinch the Under 20s Grand Slam, one who recently qualified in Denny Solomona, while Sam Underhill and Piers Francis will both tour before they have played for their Premiership clubs.\n\nJones will lean on a wealth of experience - with all the main Lions casualties on this trip - but the abundance of youth points to a healthy future for English rugby.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nMarcus Rashford's extra-time goal sent Manchester United into the Europa League semi-final at the expense of Anderlecht on a night of tension at Old Trafford.\n\nThe Europa League has acquired huge significance for United and manager Jose Mourinho as it offers a potential route into the Champions League, away from the battle for top-four places in the Premier League - making this victory crucial.\n\nUnited took the lead on the night and in the tie when Henrikh Mkhitaryan drilled in a low finish in the 10th minute but Anderlecht restored parity when Sofiane Hanni scrambled home an equaliser after 32 minutes.\n\nMourinho's side were their own worst enemies with a shocking display of finishing as they missed chance after chance, their cause also undermined by injuries to defender Marcos Rojo in the first half and a serious-looking knee injury to top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the end of normal time.\n\nUnited were facing the prospect of a penalty shootout but Rashford, a scorer against Chelsea at the weekend, made the decisive contribution after 107 minutes with a brilliant turn and finish from Marouane Fellaini's knockdown.\n\nManchester United flirted with an exit from the Europa League here - and if they had gone out they would only have had themselves to blame.\n\nAs on so many occasions this season, United created multiple chances only to waste the opportunities and leave themselves hostages to fortune and the threatening counter-attacks of Anderlecht.\n\nRashford, Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba were all guilty of a succession of bad misses as the flaw that has undermined United all season reared its ugly head once more and kept Anderlecht in contention right until the final whistle in extra time.\n\nOn this occasion, at least, United rescued themselves with Rashford's goal but Mourinho will know his side must discover the killer touch from somewhere if they are to secure the Champions League place that must be the minimum requirement from this season.\n\nUnited can celebrate another step towards winning the Europa League and the Champions League place that comes with it - but this may yet prove to be expensive night for Mourinho as the season reaches its climax.\n\nThe biggest concern will surround Ibrahimovic, whose knee looked to give way as he challenged for a high ball in the final moments of normal time. He managed to get to his feet and wave away the waiting stretcher but was helped off as he limped down the tunnel at the Stretford End.\n\nIbrahimovic had actually had a nightmare before his injury but his influence this season has been huge and United will anxiously await the medical update.\n\nRashford has delivered against Chelsea and here against Anderlecht, offering the pace and movement which the 35-year-old Swede cannot, but the loss of Ibrahimovic would still be a setback of major significance after his 28 goals this season.\n\nAnd there will be almost equal concern about the injury to Rojo that saw the central defender taken off on a stretcher in the first half. He had received lengthy treatment previously before collapsing in a second challenge. United are already without injured central defenders Phil Jones and Chris Smalling, so they can ill-afford to lose Rojo.\n\nThis was a vital victory for Manchester United - but it may yet be victory at a heavy price.\n\nMourinho still on course\n\nWhen Mourinho was appointed United manager, it was with the express intention of bringing more trophies to Old Trafford - but also putting the club back in the Champions League.\n\nMourinho may be taking the scenic route and learning to love a competition he derided for so long, but with the fight for the top four in the Premier League so tight and with United facing tough trips to Manchester City and Arsenal in the run-in, the Europa League provides a welcome safety net.\n\nThe poor relation of European football's competitions has suddenly acquired crucial status at Old Trafford, as the celebrations at the conclusion of extra time proved.\n\nMkhitaryan among the goals again. The stats\n• None Jose Mourinho has won his past nine European home games as manager, including all six with Man Utd this season.\n• None Man Utd are unbeaten in their past 26 games in all competitions at Old Trafford (W17 D9); their longest unbeaten run since October 2011 (37 games).\n• None Anderlecht have never won in 18 previous away games against English sides (D2 L16), conceding in every contest.\n• None Henrikh Mkhitaryan has scored in five of his past six Europa League games.\n• None Mkhitaryan has scored in three successive appearances (all comps) for Man Utd for the second time this season.\n• None Only Genk (25) and Roma (24) have scored more goals in the Europa League this season than Anderlecht (23).\n\nManchester United switch their focus back to the Premier League as they travel to Burnley on Sunday (14:15 BST) before travelling to Manchester City on 27 April (20:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Kara (RSC Anderlecht) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Ivan Obradovic.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Henrikh Mkhitaryan tries a through ball, but Anthony Martial is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Uros Spajic (RSC Anderlecht) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.\n• None Attempt saved. Frank Acheampong (RSC Anderlecht) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kara with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 2, RSC Anderlecht 1. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Marouane Fellaini with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Parliament voted for an early general election on Wednesday, with 522 MPs in favour. However, 13 voted no. But who are the 13 and why are they against the poll?\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1987\n\nWhat positions has he held? Parliamentary commissioner for administration (June 1987 - March 1997), Health Committee member (October 2005 - November 2007), Public Administration Committee member (July 1997 - May 2001).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Campbell is 73 and has been treated for stomach cancer. However, he is on the road to recovery after an operation and chemotherapy. He announced earlier on Wednesday he would stand again for election as it would be the party's national executive committee who would choose his replacement rather than the local party - not something he was keen on.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 1984\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow secretary of state for international development (January 1989 - January 1992), shadow secretary of state for Wales (July 1992 - November 1992), shadow minister for culture, media and sport (November 1992 - January 1993), chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party (May 2005 - December 2006).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The Welsh MP said the only reason the prime minister called the election was a \"cut and run tactic\" because of how difficult Brexit negotiations will be. As a former MEP, she said members of the European Parliament were \"not going to roll over with a handshake and a smile, they are going to talk tough and be tough\". Ms Clwyd added: \"Nobody is ready for this general election. I do think this is an irrelevance considering what is happening in the world at the moment.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2001\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Member of multiple committees, including the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (July 2015 - present), the Privacy and Injunctions Committee (July 2011 - March 2012) and the Consolidation Bills Committee (December 2010 - March 2015).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Farrelly has one of the smallest majorities in the UK, with only 650, so it may be understandable why he was not keen for an election. But he told a local newspaper reporter for the Stoke Sentinel that he voted against it because he believes it will be \"bad for the country\" and the unity of the UK.\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1997 (the seat changed from Poplar and Canning Town to Poplar and Limehouse in 2010)\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Minister of state for environment, food and rural affairs (June 2009 - May 2010), shadow minister for environment, food and rural affairs (May 2010 - October 2010), shadow minister for transport (October 2010 - August 2013).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Fitzpatrick was planning to retire in 2020, but he will be standing for re-election. He said he voted no because he thought the prime minister was \"taking advantage of a lead in the opinion polls for purely party political advantage, not in the national interest.\" He added that Mrs May's \"misleading [of] the public... ought to have been objected to and opposed.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Shadow secretary of state for defence (June 2016 - Oct 2016) and shadow secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (October 2016 - February 2017).\n\nWhy did he vote no? It may be for personal reasons as he is due to get married on 6 May. He told the Daily Telegraph: \"Theresa May kind of has thrown a clanger into my life. We've had to cancel the honeymoon and we don't even know if we're getting married now, so I don't know. It's a bit of a disaster personally.\" But he has also said it was down to the way the government had gone about turning over the Fixed Term Parliament Act. \"At this critical time, it isn't the time for Theresa May to simply call an election when it is convenient,\" he said. \"Had a motion of no confidence in the government been on the table I would have voted for it.\"\n\nWhen did she win her seat? 1997\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow minister for the equalities office (October 2010 - April 2011) and shadow minister for equalities (April 2011 - October 2011).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The former Labour minister has announced she is not going to stand for re-election, saying she is \"bored by political squabbles over personalities\". Of the election she said: \"I can't believe that spending eight weeks of a time-limited negotiation period campaigning in an election rather than talking to our EU partners will strengthen her hand in negotiations with anyone outside her own Conservative Party.\"\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2014\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? Shadow minister for communities and local government (September 2015 - June 2016) and shadow minister for foreign and Commonwealth affairs (October 2016 - present).\n\nWhy did she vote no? The Greater Manchester MP said she voted against the election because of \"voter fatigue\". She told Buzzfeed that after a by-election that saw her become an MP, the 2015 general election, the referendum, and the mayoral race in 2017, there was the potential for low turnout. Ms McInnes added: \"I haven't met anyone who welcomes it, people just go 'oh no, not again'.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1970\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Member of the National Executive Committee (July 1979 - July 1992, July 1994 - July 1998, July 1999 - May 2010), vice-chair of the Labour Party (July 1987 - July 1988) and Party Chair (July 1988 - July 1989).\n\nWhy did he vote no? No official word from Mr Skinner, but during PMQs he asked for a guarantee that those Tory MPs under investigation for election expenses would not stand. For him, failure to do that would make the whole campaign \"the most squalid in my life time\". Perhaps not a surprise he voted against it then.\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 1997\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Parliamentary secretary at the cabinet office (November 1999 - June 2001) and Lord Commissioner at the Treasury (June 2001 - May 2002).\n\nWhy did he vote no? Mr Stringer condemned his own party for not opposing the snap election and \"falling into Theresa May's trap\" to boost the Tories. He added: \"The opinion polls might be a few points out but they're not telling a complete lie. We have got to spend the next seven weeks getting our policy issues over, they appear to be popular with the public when tested. But I wasn't going to vote to support Theresa May's cynical move to try and increase the Conservatives' majority.\"\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2001\n\nWhat positions has she held? Shadow spokesperson for trade and industry, home affairs, women and culture, media and sport (May 2001 - May 2005, when she was an Ulster Unionist MP).\n\nWhy did she vote no? There has not been a public statement on her reasons.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? SNP Westminster spokeswoman for disabilities (May 2015 - November 2015).\n\nWhy did she vote no? It was an eventful day for Ms McGarry, who confirmed she was pregnant after she fainted in the Houses of Parliament. An ambulance was called, but just as a precaution. The politician, who lost the SNP whip and now sits as an independent after allegations of fraud were made against her, hasn't explained why she voted as she did.\n\nWhen did she first win her seat? 2015\n\nWhat positions has she held in the party? SNP Westminster group leader for business, innovation and skills (May 2015 - October 2015).\n\nWhy did she vote no? She is currently sitting as an independent after withdrawing the SNP whip last year. Ms Thomson took to Twitter to say she voted against the early election, unlike many of her SNP colleagues. She said: \"This is a time for leadership from the opposition, not abstention.\"\n\nWhen did he first win his seat? 2005\n\nWhat positions has he held in the party? Leader from 2011 to 2015.\n\nWhy did he vote no? He said Theresa May's call for an election was a \"cynical exercise\" aimed at \"gathering up muscle to confront Europe and go for a hard Brexit\".", "As Fox News is forced to reassess its role in American political life, it might ask the question, is this White House about Trump or about the movement he stands for, call it Trumpism? There's a difference. It's the same question millions of voters who supported Donald Trump will soon want the answer to.\n\nFor the past couple of decades Fox News has dominated the American cable landscape by successfully combining a coherent conservative ideology with top quality television visuals. The political ideology is talked about a lot and was driven by one man, Roger Ailes who became founding CEO of the channel in 1996. His talent for TV is mentioned less often.\n\nThis piece is not about the sexual harassment allegations against Bill O'Reilly or Fox's role in putting women in overly sexual roles on air - that's the dark side of Roger Ailes' knack for producing seductive TV.\n\nWhen I praise Fox's visuals, I'm thinking of the graphics, the maps, the movement, the speed with which they get video up on air and the relentless determination to make sure the screen didn't look dull, even for a single moment.\n\nThe network was revolutionary. Yes, Fox could be lampooned for being too whiz-bang, but don't fool yourself, every other TV producer looked at what Mr Ailes was doing back in the 1990s and they were awestruck. They quickly followed suit as far as their own budgets allowed. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.\n\nNow Fox faces a different challenge, how to respond to the man in the White House, and the answer to that lies in the broader determination of what this presidency is really about.\n\nDonald Trump was elected to be a champion of the \"forgotten men and women\" of America. That was his populist promise. He would revive their economic fortunes and return power to the people.\n\nTo do so, he promised to be tough on the countries that had stolen those jobs - primarily China. It was a \"currency manipulator\", he railed, which \"raped\" America, didn't play fair and should be slapped with 40% tariffs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five Trump changes you may have missed\n\nIn the old steel mill towns of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and even Wisconsin, they nodded with relief. Finally here was someone who said what they had been thinking for years. It was time to get bearish on Beijing. That's a pretty good example of Trumpism.\n\nCandidate Trump ignored the wise old foreign policy hands who said that this strategy was unrealistic and that it would alienate China's co-operation on other issues, namely North Korea. With the arch-populist Steve Bannon whispering in his ear, Mr Trump continued to say what the people wanted to hear, he promised not to be afraid of anyone, not to compromise on their beliefs and always to put America first. The slogans won him the White House.\n\nThe Trump House in the former mining and steel town of Youngstown, Pennsylvania\n\nBut once he actually got into the Oval Office and sat behind that historic desk, two things happened to undermine that commitment. First, Mr Trump realised that the world was a lot more complicated than he'd taken time as a candidate to learn. The old hands were right, he did need China to help deal with Kim Jong-un and he wouldn't get that help if he slapped them with tariffs or started a currency war. Second, his approval ratings fell, dramatically.\n\nAlthough Mr Trump has seen a recent uptick in his poll numbers in the past couple of weeks, he is still at historic lows. This was embarrassing to a man who routinely spent a lot of time in his campaign speeches touting his impressive poll numbers. It was also embarrassing to his family.\n\nThe Trumps have built their brand on success. Failure was not a popular option in the family. Inside the White House, the president's daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared, realise that for Mr Trump to succeed, Trumpism may have to go. Or at least, be substantially sidelined. The two liberal, cosmopolitan New York Democrats had never been particularly wedded to the hellfire-and-brimstone vision of America that Steve Bannon described in the lines of Mr Trump's inaugural address. Neither of them are natural working-class populists.\n\nPosters outside the Fox News headquarters in New York City\n\nAs they both formally expanded their roles and their presence in their father's administration, a shift occurred away from protecting the ideology to protecting the man. The risk for Mr Trump is that these policy shifts - on China, the Export Import bank, the currency, Nato - risk disappointing his base.\n\nThe latest polls show Mr Trump scoring very badly on questions like \"shares my values\" or \"cares about people like me\". Many of these people really want Mr Trump to deliver on his campaign promises, not abandon them.\n\nThis is where Fox News comes in. Fox did well out of the Trump campaign. It was firmly in the president's camp and his frequent interviews with the network helped drive ratings which helped drive ad revenue. Throughout the Obama years, Fox was the insurgent network of opposition. Now it needs a new role.\n\nIt can be a mouthpiece of the Trump administration (though supporting the government doesn't make for the most gripping cable TV.) Or Fox can stick to its conservative roots and champion Trumpism, even when the man himself does not.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nFive-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was in majestic form as he took a 6-2 lead in his World Championship second-round match against Shaun Murphy.\n\nNeeding 13 frames to win, he raced into a 3-1 lead with breaks of 91, 75 and a magnificent 128, and maintained his relentless pace after the mid-session interval.\n\nMurphy was unable to withstand the pressure, meaning O'Sullivan is a strong favourite to clinch a quarter-final tie against Ding Junhui or Liang Wenbo at the Crucible.\n\nIn dismissing O'Sullivan's controversial claims that he had been bullied by snooker chiefs, Murphy added further spice to an already uneasy relationship and O'Sullivan responded in blistering fashion.\n\nThe Rocket's domination means world number five Murphy could face defeat inside two sessions for the second time against O'Sullivan at the Crucible, having lost 13-3 in the quarter-finals in 2014.\n\nNottingham's Murphy, the 2005 champion, had scored a superb 84 of his own to level at 1-1 and had chances in frames five and six before clinching an error-seven, tension-filled seventh frame on the black.\n\nBut O'Sullivan, 41, finished off with a superb 74 to remain on course for a sixth world title and 29th ranking title.\n\nMeanwhile, Barry Hawkins made light work of Leicester's Tom Ford in the final first-round match to be completed.\n\nThe 2013 runner-up led 7-2 overnight and although Ford won the opening frame, Hawkins looked untroubled and in good form to secure a last-16 meeting with Scotland's Graeme Dott.\n\nThe bottom line is that although there's great professional respect between these two superstar players, they don't particularly like each other.\n\nThat comes down to a spectacular clash in personalities. Shaun is very much the eloquent, thoughtful, considered company man who will probably be involved with the governing body one day.\n\nRonnie is the unpredictable enigma who will never be anything other than his own man. Murphy clearly thinks O'Sullivan's claims of bullying by the game's authorities are nonsense and said as much. That will have really wound Ronnie up. He was prowling the length of the Crucible corridors as they awaited their introductions into the arena.\n\nI walked past O'Sullivan and he had that look of channelled fury in his eyes that scares you. You could tell he wanted to hammer Murphy.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nJudd Trump faces a fine from snooker bosses for refusing to fulfil his post-match media duties following his shock World Championship loss to Rory McLeod.\n\nThe pre-tournament favourite was beaten 10-8 in the first round, with his agent saying Trump was unable to talk to the media because he was feeling unwell.\n\nHis failure to appear is a breach of his contract with World Snooker.\n\nThe world number two, 27, faces a fine from the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).\n\nWorld number 54 McLeod, who plays Scotland's Stephen Maguire in the second round, described his win as the \"best of his career\".\n\nThe 1000-1 outsider, 46, said: \"To beat Judd Trump on centre stage is brilliant. I have always known I am capable of it; it is actually producing when you need to and I have done it.\"\n\nMcLeod said he was not interested in whether Trump was unwell or injured, with the world number two seemingly grimacing in pain with a shoulder or arm problem during the course of the match.\n\n\"He was 4-0 up and he didn't look that injured, so what can I do?\" said McLeod.\n\n\"I had to deal with holding myself together. I am the oldest player left in the tournament. At 46 you have your aches and pains.\n\n\"Age is just a number; it's how you look after yourself and I think I am doing OK.\"\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has ruled out trying to sign England goalkeeper Joe Hart.\n\nIt was reported on Wednesday that the Anfield club were close to a £20m deal for the Manchester City keeper, who is currently on loan at Torino.\n\nHart, 30, is expected to leave City but Klopp is content with current keepers Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius.\n\n\"He's a fantastic keeper, the highest quality, but it's not for us at the moment, nor in the future,\" he said.\n\nHart told BBC Sport in March that he is \"surplus to requirements\" at City and does not see himself playing for the Premier League club again.\n\nHe moved to Italian side Torino on a season-long loan in August after being told he was free to leave City by manager Pep Guardiola.\n\n\"If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting, especially someone as powerful as that,\" Hart said.\n\nGuardiola has maintained that no decision will be taken until the end of the season.\n\n'Jordan looks healthy but he can't play football'\n\nKlopp also confirmed that midfielder Adam Lallana should return to full training in the latter part of next week after his thigh injury, and that forward Danny Ings is running again after a serious knee problem.\n\n\"At this moment he cannot really train. We must wait. We are in intense talks with different medical departments,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"He looks really healthy but he can't play football.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nJenson Button has pledged £15,000 to a fundraising page set up to support a British Formula 4 driver who had both legs amputated following a crash.\n\nBilly Monger, 17, drove at high speed into the back of a car which seemed to have stopped on the track during Sunday's race at Donington Park.\n\nLewis Hamilton has also offered support, tweeting: \"Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.\"\n\nMore than £500,000 had been raised by 13:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nMonger, who has been described as \"an extremely talented young driver\" had to be extracted from his vehicle at the Leicestershire track and airlifted to hospital.\n\nButton, the 2009 world champion who retired last year but will make a one-off outing for McLaren at next month's Monaco Grand Prix, was among the first to voice his support for Monger.\n\n\"This guy needs our help. I will be doing as much as I can to help this dude out,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nRed Bull's Max Verstappen also appeared to make a pledge on the page, tweeting: \"Really shocked about Billy Monger's terrible accident. If you can, please join me in helping him out.\"\n\nDonations also appeared to be made by former F1 drivers Max Chilton, Karl Wendlinger and Andre Lotterer, as well as touring car driver Jason Plato and American Nascar racer AJ Allmendinger.\n\nWilliams' Brazilian driver Felipe Massa showed his support on Twitter, writing: \"Let's help him. I'll do my best.\"\n\nEx-F1 driver Mark Webber wrote \"keep boxing mate\", while the Mercedes, Force India and McLaren teams have also showed their support on social media.\n\nSteven Hunter, head of the team JHR Developments that Monger has been with for the past four years, said it had been a \"heart-wrenching\" time.\n\n\"We saw the crash and our fears were as low as they could be,\" he said. \"But everything has been in the right direction since.\n\n\"Yesterday we lined everyone up and just took some time to wish him well. The pipes are out of his mouth and he spoke. He was hoarse but he just about spoke.\"", "It will be the tenth time David Dimbleby has hosted the BBC's general election coverage\n\nDavid Dimbleby is to host the BBC's 2017 general election programme.\n\nNews presenter Huw Edwards had been expected to front the show after Dimbleby said 2015's results coverage was his final time at the helm.\n\nIt will be the tenth occasion that Dimbleby has hosted proceedings, having first fronted the broadcast in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister.\n\nThe programme will start on the night of 8 June and continue until morning.\n\nEdwards will take over as lead presenter on the morning of 9 June and will also present the evening bulletin that day.\n\nBBC director of news James Harding had said ahead of the 2015 general election that it would be Dimbleby's last time as lead anchor, with Edwards set to front the show from then on.\n\nJeremy Vine, seen with his virtual swingometer in 2015, will again join the election presenting team\n\nHe said: \"This snap election surprised the country and election night is bound to be one of the most closely followed in recent times.\n\n\"BBC's results night will once again offer people the most reliable breaking news, impartial analysis, with a host of trusted experts and above all our unrivalled presenting team.\"\n\nDimbleby, 78, who also hosts debate show Question Time, will be joined in the studio by Mishal Husain, Emily Maitlis and Jeremy Vine.\n\nBBC experts including political editor Laura Kuenssberg and economics editor Kamal Ahmed will be giving their views on the proceedings as results come in.\n\nThe programme will be broadcast simultaneously on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.\n• None May says no to TV election debates", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBorussia Dortmund were in an \"awkward mindset\" after their team bus was delayed before Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg defeat at Monaco, said coach Thomas Tuchel.\n\nDortmund said the bus was stopped by police for 20 minutes, with kick-off then delayed by five minutes.\n\nThe incident happened a week after three bombs exploded close to their bus before the first leg in Dortmund.\n\n\"Everyone went quiet and it felt not so good,\" said Tuchel, 43.\n\nUefa said the kick-off had been moved back because of \"late team arrival\" at Stade Louis II, where Monaco went on to win 3-1 and progressed to the semi-finals 6-3 on aggregate.\n\nTuchel said the German club's bus was scheduled to leave 90 minutes before kick-off and \"everyone was there ready to go\".\n\n\"The police did not drive, police were everywhere around the bus, the street was free. We did not move one centimetre,\" he added.\n\n\"If you don't want to have a situation like last week you don't want this situation - the same team in the bus. We stood there for 16, 17 minutes.\n\n\"I had the feeling we were focused and full of joy and happiness to play this game. Then suddenly there were awkward mindsets going around.\"\n\nThe German said the delay did not have an impact on him throughout the game, but that he was \"not sure\" how it affected the players.\n\nDefender Marc Bartra was injured in last week's attack and was taken to hospital after breaking a bone in his wrist. The game was played 24 hours later.", "Cuba has faced more than 50 years of US sanctions. Now, for the first time, a unique drug developed on the communist island is being tested in New York state. But some American cancer patients are already taking it - by defying the embargo and flying to Havana for treatment.\n\nJudy Ingels and her family are in Cuba for just six days. They have time to go sightseeing and try out the local cuisine. Judy, a keen photographer, enjoys capturing the colonial architecture of Old Havana.\n\nAnd while she is in the country, Ingels, 74, will have her first injections of Cimavax, a drug shown in Cuban trials to extend the lives of lung cancer patients by months, and sometimes years.\n\nBy travelling to Havana from her home in California, she is breaking the law.\n\nThe US embargo against Cuba has been in place for more than five decades, and though relations thawed under President Obama, seeking medical treatment in Cuba is still not allowed for US citizens.\n\n\"I'm not worried,\" Ingels says. \"For the first time I have real hope.\"\n\nShe has stage four lung cancer and was diagnosed in December 2015. \"My oncologist in the United States says I'm his best patient, but I have this deadly disease.\"\n\nHe does not know she is in Cuba. When she asked him about Cimavax, he had not heard of it.\n\n\"But we've done a lot of research - I've read good things,\" Ingels says. Since January, Cimavax has been tested on patients in Buffalo, New York state, but it isn't yet available in the US.\n\nIngels, her husband Bill and daughter Cindy are staying at the La Pradera International Health Centre, west of Havana. It treats mostly foreign, paying patients like Ingels, and with its pool complex, palm trees and open walkways, La Pradera feels more like a tropical hotel than a hospital.\n\nThis trip from their home in California, together with a supply of Cimavax to take back to the US, will cost the Ingels family more than $15,000 (£12,000).\n\nCimavax fights cancer by stimulating an immune response against a protein in the blood that triggers the growth of lung cancer. After an induction period, patients receive a monthly dose by injection.\n\nIt's a product of Cuba's biotechnology industry, nurtured by former President Fidel Castro since the early 1980s.\n\nIronically, Cuba's biotech innovations can partly be explained by the US embargo - something Castro continually railed against. It meant Cuba had to produce the drugs it could not access or afford. And medications like Cimavax - low-tech products that could be administered in a rural setting - were developed to fit the Cuban context.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cuban cancer drug CIMAvax is bringing hope to US patients in the first collaboration of its kind\n\nNow the industry employs around 22,000 scientists, technicians and engineers, and sells drugs in many parts of the world - but not in the US.\n\nAnd although the Cubans will not reveal the cost of producing Cimavax, it is cheaper than other treatments.\n\nFor Cuba's residents, all health care is free. One beneficiary is Lucrecia de Jesus Rubillo, 65, who lives on the fifth floor of a block of flats in the east of Havana\n\nLast September she was given two or three months to live. What began as pain in Lucrecia's leg, was diagnosed as stage-four lung cancer that had spread.\n\nShe had chemotherapy. \"That was really very hard,\" she says. \"It gave me nausea, and it hurt. But my kids asked me to fight, so I did.\"\n\nAfter radiotherapy, Lucrecia began Cimavax injections. Now she is strong enough to walk up the five flights of stairs to her home, and her persistent cough has diminished. She feels better, more hopeful, and is thinking about what to do next.\n\n\"Perhaps I'll go to Spain to visit my kid,\" she says. \"I feel happy, and I'm still dreaming of the future, but I also feel sadness. I've had a lot of friends who've died of cancer, and they never had the chance I'm having with these injections. I feel privileged.\"\n\nHer doctor is Elia Neninger, an oncologist at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in Havana. Neninger is one of the principal clinicians to trial Cimavax on patients since the 1990s.\n\n\"Lucrecia arrived incapacitated by her disease in a wheelchair,\" Neninger remembers. \"Now the tumour on her lung has disappeared, and the lesions on her liver aren't there either. With Cimavax, she's in a maintenance phase.\"\n\nIn Cuba, specialists like Neninger do not talk about curing cancer - they talk about controlling it and transforming it into a chronic disease. She has treated hundreds of patients with Cimavax.\n\n\"I never thought I'd work on something that would improve the lives of so many people,\" she says. \"I have stage-four lung cancer patients who are still alive 10 years after their diagnosis.\"\n\nBut mostly Cimavax is proven to extend life for months, not years. And it does not help everyone. In trials, around 20% of patients haven't responded, Neninger says, often because the disease is very advanced, or they have associated illnesses that make treatment more difficult.\n\nNonetheless, Dr Kelvin Lee is impressed. He is the Chair of Immunology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, where the American trials of Cimavax are taking place.\n\nIt is the first time a Cuban medication has been trialled in the US, and required special permission because the embargo prohibits most collaboration and trade.\n\nCancer immunotherapy is getting more expensive in the US, Lee says. A cheap vaccine that can be administered at primary care level is very attractive. And he thinks it is possible that Cimavax could be used to prevent lung cancer, too.\n\n\"If we could vaccinate the high-risk smokers to prevent them from developing lung cancer, that would have an enormous public health impact both in the United States and worldwide.\"\n\nThis has not been proven, however, and the initial US trials of Cimavax only began in January.\n\nThere is political uncertainty, too. On the campaign trail before his election, President Trump said he would reverse the thaw with Cuba that began under the Obama administration, unless there was change on the island, which is governed as a one-party state.\n\n\"Our demands will include religious and political freedom for the Cuban people, and the freeing of political prisoners,\" Trump said on the campaign trail in Miami.\n\nSo far, Cuba has not made it to the top of his in-tray. There is a large constituency of Americans who believe that Cuba does not deserve the kind of recognition and status the association with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute brings.\n\nBut Lee thinks political arguments against US-Cuba collaboration are misplaced.\n\n\"The gas we put in our cars, the iPhones we tweet from, the shoes we buy our kids - all come from countries that the United States has fundamental differences with regarding women's rights, freedom of speech, personal liberties. Yet that has never stopped us from working with them in areas that benefit the people in both countries.\"\n\nFor now Bill Ingels, Judy's husband, isn't worried about falling foul of US authorities.\n\n\"I told them I was coming for educational purposes,\" he says. \"And I am learning about cancer and medication! I'm basically a very honest person, but if I have to, I will lie.\"\n\nIngels will not know if the vaccine has made a difference until she has a scan in three months.\n\n\"We feel pretty positive, and we thought this would be a great experience and journey for my family to take together. It's the first time I've felt up since I was diagnosed.\"\n\nCindy Ingels, Judy's daughter, is a nurse - she will administer the Cimavax shots to her mother back home in California.\n\n\"Even if she remains stable - that it maintains the tumour size, and it doesn't worsen - we'd be happy with that,\" she says. \"If the tumour decreases from what it is now, that would really be a miracle.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Andy Murray blew a 4-0 lead in the deciding set as he fell to a shock defeat by Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the Monte Carlo Masters third round.\n\nMurray went on to lose 2-6 6-2 7-5 in only his second match back after a month out with an elbow injury.\n\nTwo breaks had the Briton in command of the third set, but Spanish 15th seed Ramos-Vinolas hit back to win seven of the last eight games.\n\nRafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic both reached the quarter-finals.\n• None Serena Williams: How can you win a Grand Slam when pregnant?\n\nMurray, 29, was playing his first tournament since being beaten in the second round at Indian Wells in March.\n\nHe defeated Gilles Muller in straight sets on Wednesday, but admitted afterwards his elbow injury was still causing him some problems.\n\nMurray began his second-round match against Muller with three double faults in the first four points of the match, and his service game was again an issue against Ramos-Vinolas.\n\nThe Scot was broken seven times as 29-year-old Ramos-Vinolas claimed a first win against a world number one.\n\nMurray showed trademark fight in fending off three break points at 4-4 in the decider, but could not respond when the Spaniard was in the ascendancy in his next service game.\n\nMurray briefly threatened to break back with the score at 30-30 as Ramos-Vinolas served for the match, but he dragged a forehand wide and misjudged a drop shot into the net at match point.\n\nMarin Cilic awaits Ramos-Vinolas in the last eight after beating Tomas Berdych.\n\nMeanwhile, Jamie Murray made a winning start in the last 16 of the men's doubles, joining forces with Bruno Soares to beat Tommy Haas and Treat Huey 6-3 6-2.\n\nEven before this match, Murray was talking of adding an extra tournament to his schedule and heading to Budapest next week.\n\nHe needs more matches and the time to rebuild trust in his serve and elbow: the French Open begins just five weeks on Sunday.\n\nMurray has at least had four and a half hours of competitive clay-court action this week and won't be pressing the panic button just yet.\n\nHe reached the semi-finals in Monte Carlo last year, but struggled badly in the early rounds, and still went on to dominate the rest of the year.\n\nDefending championNadal registered a speedy victory over promising teenager Alexander Zverev, beating him 6-1 6-1 in one hour and eight minutes.\n\nZverev, who turned 20 on Thursday, smashed his racquet in half after being broken twice by Nadal in the second set.\n\nThe Spaniard, aiming for his 50th clay title, will next face Argentina's Diego Schwartzman.\n\nWorld number two Djokovic fought back from a mixed second set to beat 13th-ranked Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 6-2 4-6 6-4.\n\nThe Serb saved two break points at 4-4 in the final set before immediately breaking Carreno Busta to set up a quarter-final with Belgium's David Goffin.\n\nHowever, Switzerland's 2015 French Open champion Stan Wawrinka was beaten 6-4 6-4 by Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas.", "Player nationalities did not influence the selection of the 41-man British and Irish Lions squad to tour New Zealand this summer, says coach Warren Gatland.\n\nGatland, who has been Wales coach since 2007, has chosen 16 England players, 12 Welsh, 11 Irish and two from Scotland.\n\nWales finished fifth in the 2017 Six Nations, below champions England, with Ireland second and Scotland fourth.\n\n\"I didn't realise the split in the numbers,\" 53-year-old New Zealander Gatland said on the issue.\n\n\"We didn't go through the numbers. We put together a group of players in each position we felt were in contention and then we went through and individually selected those players.\"\n• None 'Gatland got his selections right & the Lions can win' - Guscott's verdict\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley was not selected, despite leading England to back-to-back Six Nations titles, with Gatland preferring Ireland's Rory Best, England's Jamie George and Wales' Ken Owens as his three hookers for the month-long tour which starts on 3 June and concludes with the third Test on 8 July.\n\nEngland fly-half George Ford also missed out, with Ireland's Johnny Sexton, England's Owen Farrell and Wales' Dan Biggar selected at number 10.\n\nIreland's Donnacha Ryan, England's Joe Launchbury and Scotland brothers Jonny and Richie Gray were other notable absentees.\n\n\"We had a long and lively debate about hookers. Dylan has done a great job for England,\" Gatland said.\n\n\"If we picked him and left out Jamie George, Rory Best or Ken Owens you would be asking the same question. They were arguably form players in the Six Nations. Dylan has been unlucky.\n\n\"There has been a lot of discussion about Launchbury, Donnacha Ryan and the Gray brothers. Selection is a matter of opinion and that is what makes it interesting.\"\n\nWhat do the pundits think?\n\nEx-Lions Matt Dawson, Martyn Williams and Keith Wood were speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Lions special on Wednesday.\n\n\"This will be the strongest Lions squad, I think, ever. However I do feel that the weighting of the players, in particular having 12 Wales players in that squad, I can look at four or five and think maybe there were other options.\"\n\n\"The simple truth is that [Gatland] knows a lot of those Welsh players and trusts them. There's a few of those guys he may know better than others.\"\n\n\"If you're purely going on what's just happened in the Six Nations, I think quite a few of the Welsh players have maybe been picked on what they've done for Warren Gatland in the past and on previous Lions tours. But that is always the case if you've got a coach who is also a national coach.\n\n\"The fact there wasn't a Scottish voice in that management team to back the corner of any of the Scottish players - I'm sure that led to it as well.\n\n\"If you look at the pedigree and the quality of those Welsh players I'm sure you can make a case for every one of them.\n\n\"[But] there is no doubt about it, the fact that there is such a Welsh influence within that management team has got a few of those over the line.\"\n\n\"There just seems an imbalance there, but this is not about nationalities. It is about Gatland selecting the squad he thinks can win a Test series in New Zealand. It's all about the style of rugby they want to play - all about power, all about physicality. He's picked a squad of players he knows can play that sort of game.\n\n\"We might only have two Scotland players in the squad [Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour], but we might have two in the Test team.\"\n\nNew Zealand coach Steve Hansen said: \"He has got a particular style he likes, that works for him up there [in the northern hemisphere], using the big ball carriers up front and big midfielders to carry, so the selection reflects that.\n\n\"I'm a little bit surprised he hasn't selected a couple of other people, but if he was picking the All Blacks he would pick some different people to me.\n\n\"I think this is the best British and Irish Lions team that we've seen come here for a long, long time. There is depth all the way through.\"\n\n'It's not about Sam Warburton, it's about the team'\n\nGatland appointed Warburton the youngest Lions captain since 1955 in 2013 and has now made him just the second player to skipper the Lions twice.\n\nThat comes despite the Cardiff Blues forward stepping down as Wales captain before this year's Six Nations and suggestions he will face a battle for his starting place.\n\n\"One of his greatest qualities is that it is not about Sam Warburton, it is about the team,\" Gatland said.\n• None Williams: 'Brutal' way for Jamie Roberts to find out about Lions' exclusion\n\n\"He will be under no doubt his form has to be good enough.\n\n\"He will understand that and respect that because it is not about Sam Warburton, it is about the team and that is what I like about him as a person and an individual.\"\n\n\"Ironically, I think it may be easier for Sam to captain the Lions than Wales,\" Gatland added.\n\n\"He is under great scrutiny, pressure and expectation as Welsh captain. I think he will find it easier because of the quality of the squad and other leaders in the team will hopefully make his job pretty seamless and easy.\"\n\nWarren Gatland is a coach who has never been swayed by public opinion; this was the man who dropped the great Brian O'Driscoll four years ago, so making big calls like leaving out England's all-conquering captain, picking only two Scots, or selecting as many as 12 Welshmen, would have been done with one target in mind - beating New Zealand.\n\nWhile the squad is full of power and heft, the decision to pick Jonathan Joseph - who was struggling to make the party - as well as players like Elliot Daly, Stuart Hogg and Liam Williams, means there will be no shortage of pace and skill in the backline.\n\nHowever, the centre pairings early on in the tour will be an indicator of how the Lions want to play the game, with an onus likely to be on physicality, while opting for Dan Biggar over George Ford or Finn Russell shows the desire for durability, consistency and temperament over raw game-breaking ability.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Surfer Mick Fanning: \"I punched the shark in the back\"\n\nHow do you stop a great white shark, a creature that can grow up to six metres in length and weigh more than a tonne?\n\nIt is a question that has dogged authorities in those countries where people suffer attacks by sharks (great white and others). Attacks continue to happen, and as long as they do, so will the calls for preventative measures.\n\nBut what are the possible solutions? Do they make sense? And are shark attacks a big enough problem to warrant such measures?\n\nA shark shield is a device that lets out an electromagnetic pulse to deter sharks, and the Western Australia (WA) government has proposed offering a subsidy of A$200 (£117; $150) to anyone wanting to buy one (this is roughly equivalent to a third of the cost of the device).\n\nOn the other hand, the WA opposition says shields would remain prohibitively expensive to most people, even with a discount.\n\nThe University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute has been tasked with testing different shark deterrents by Australia's federal government.\n\nSpeaking to media on Wednesday, Prof Shaun Collin, the institute's director, said a shark shield proved to be an effective deterrent in 400 tests of an \"investigative\" shark attack - in which the shark approaches prey to assess what it is.\n\nHowever, he said the shields proved ineffective in \"ambush\" attacks, in which the shark swims at speed from deep on seeing a silhouette - possibly of a surfer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA shark net is stretched through the water to try and separate swimmers and surfers from what may try and approach them. They are not new at all, having been used across Australia for decades.\n\nThe New South Wales government ran a trial with a net from 2015-16 and, in one aspect, it proved successful - it caught 133 sharks in that time.\n\nThe down side? A government report showed 615 other marine animals were caught, including 90 threatened or protected species. Close to half of them died after being caught in the netting.\n\nThe nets have been called cruel by campaigners, and have been cut by activists.\n\nThis method, too, has been attacked as cruel - it is a baited hook suspended underwater and tied to a float on the surface of the water.\n\nIt is also anchored to the sea bed, meaning the shark has nowhere to go once it has taken the bait. Larger sharks are often shot; smaller ones released. It was a policy pushed in Western Australia under the state's previous government and has been used in other Australian states.\n\nThere was some controversy that drum lines were not put in place on the beach where Laeticia Brouwer died.\n\nBut many also question their effectiveness - including the government now in place in WA.\n\nOn Tuesday, the state's Fisheries Minister Dave Kelly told ABC: \"We made it clear in opposition that we don't see the merit in automatically deploying drum lines, because they don't actually make our beaches any safer.\n\n\"We want to focus on individual shark deterrence, which can actually provide genuine protection for the people who are most at risk.\"\n\nThe possibility of an active cull - not just killing sharks caught in drum lines - was one raised by Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg on Wednesday.\n\nAnd while Australia's government is committed to a programme of conserving shark populations, and proposals of culls are generally met with protests, there is some support for a targeted cull.\n\nAn editorial in the centre-right The Australian newspaper by its surf writer, written after Laeticia Brouwer's death, said \"our insane shark conservation policies have cost another life\", adding that there was blood on the hands of the government.\n\nThere are plenty of solutions on the table - but just how big a problem are shark attacks in Australia?\n\nWhen Laeticia Brouwer was attacked near Esperance on Monday, she became the 15th person to be killed by a shark in Western Australia since 2000, but the first in the country since June last year.\n\nThe number of shark attacks in Australia - including fatal and non-fatal - has risen over the past century, but in a way that is consistent with how Australia's population has grown.\n\nBut, as horrific as those incidents are for everyone affected, there is, on average, only one death due to a shark attack in Australia every year.\n\nThe number of people killed by a shark in Australian waters has changed little over the years despite the country's population - and tourist numbers - booming.\n\nIn 1950, when there were 8.3m people living in Australia, two people were killed by sharks. Last year, with a population of more than 24m, there were still only two fatalities.\n\nJohn G West, who runs the Australian Shark Attack File, which reports all attacks for the Taronga Conservation Society, says the chances of being killed by a shark now are much slimmer than in previous years.\n\nIn a 2011 report, he said the number of attacks that were fatal fell from 45% in the 1930s to 10% in the decade leading up to 2011.\n\nBut while human populations have grown, he points out that the number of sharks has fallen.\n\nOne thing, though, seems sure.\n\n\"Encounters with sharks, although a rare event, will continue to occur if humans continue to enter the ocean professionally or for recreational pursuit,\" Mr West writes.", "PFA teams of the year: Chelsea and Tottenham dominate Premier League XI Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea and Tottenham have both had four of their players named in the Professional Footballers' Association Premier League team of the year. Defenders Gary Cahill and David Luiz and midfielders N'Golo Kante and Eden Hazard are Chelsea's representatives. Tottenham's quartet are defenders Kyle Walker and Danny Rose, midfielder Dele Alli and forward Harry Kane. Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea, Liverpool's Sadio Mane and Everton forward Romelu Lukaku are also picked. The divisional teams of the year have also been announced ahead of the 44th PFA Awards, which are being held in London on Sunday, 23 April. The PFA Players' Player of the Year and PFA Young Player of the Year will also be revealed at the event. The votes were provided by PFA members from 100 clubs from the Premier League, Football League and Women's Super League. Do you agree? Scroll down to the bottom of this page to select your own Premier League team of the year. Four from Brighton in Championship team Four players from recently promoted Brighton feature in the Championship team of the year - Goalkeeper David Stockdale, defenders Bruno and Lewis Dunk and the division's player of the year, midfielder Anthony Knockaert. Newcastle provide three players in defender Jamaal Lascelles, midfielder Jonjo Shelvey and forward Dwight Gayle. Chris Wood of Leeds, the top-scorer with 25 league goals, is also selected. Fulham have two players in the team - 16-year-old defender Ryan Sessegnon and Tom Cairney, who is named in midfield along with Huddersfield's Aaron Mooy. Blades have five in League One side PFA League One team of the year 2017 Sheffield United, who sealed promotion to the Championship on 8 April, have five players in the League One team of the year. They are goalkeeper Simon Moore, defender Kieron Freeman, midfielders Mark Duffy and John Fleck and the country's top goalscorer, Billy Sharp, who has 27 goals to his name this campaign. Bolton, who can join the Blades in the second tier if results go their way this weekend, provide defenders Mark Beevers and David Wheater. Bradford left-back James Meredith completes the back four, while Scunthorpe's Josh Morris (with 19 goals to his name) and Erhun Oztumer (scorer of 14) of Walsall are in midfield with Bury's James Vaughan (22 goals) in attack. PFA League Two team of the year 2017 The top three teams from League Two, Doncaster, Plymouth and Portsmouth, all of whom have already secured their promotion provide seven players for the fourth tier team of the year. Rovers' James Coppinger and John Marquis (who has scored 26 this season) are in midfield and attack respectively, with Portsmouth duo Christian Burgess and Enda Stevens named in defence. Argyle's Luke McCormick is in goal, along with team-mates Sonny Bradley (defence) and 14-goal Graham Carey (midfield). The other players are Blackpool defender Kelvin Mellor, midfielders Nicky Adams and Luke Berry (of Carlisle and Cambridge respectively) and Luton forward Danny Hylton (21 goals). Women's Super League winners Manchester City have five players in the division's team of the year. Three defenders - Lucy Bronze, Jenny Beattie and Steph Houghton - are selected, along with midfielder Jill Scott and forward Jane Ross. Chelsea have two representatives in midfielder Karen Carney and forward Eniola Aluko, with Reading's Mary Earps in goal, Birmingham's Jess Carter in defence and Arsenal's Jordan Nobbs and Liverpool's Caroline Weir in midfield. Pick your Team of the Year Pick your Team of the Year from our list and share with your friends.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus produced an exceptional defensive performance to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League after stopping Barcelona from scoring at the Nou Camp.\n\nTrailing 3-0 from the first leg, Barca peppered the Italian goal but failed to repeat their last-16 heroics when they overturned a first-leg 4-0 deficit to beat Paris St-Germain.\n\nLionel Messi, who had earlier been denied by Gianluigi Buffon, fired wastefully over the bar while Luis Suarez and Neymar also spurned chances on a night Barca were restricted to one shot on target.\n\nJuve's Gonzalo Higuain fired tamely at Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Juan Cuadrado missed another chance but the final whistle was celebrated wildly by the champions of Italy, who have not conceded a single goal from open play in this season's Champions League.\n\nJuventus join Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Monaco in Friday's last-four draw (from 11:00 BST).\n\nThe champions of Italy are 180 minutes away from the final in Cardiff on 3 June after a superb defensive performance as Barca and their formidable strike force failed to score over two legs.\n\nJuventus join Manchester United (2007-08) and Bayern Munich (2012-13) as one of only three teams that have stopped the Catalans scoring in both legs of a Champions League tie.\n\nThey were as brave and aggressive as they were calm and disciplined with Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini monumental at the heart of the defence.\n\nWhen Barca did manage to carve out chances, Suarez, Messi and Neymar failed to deliver.\n\nAll three had chances before the interval. In the space of a few minutes, Suarez had a goal-bound shot blocked, Messi dragged a chance from 12 yards and Neymar volleyed wide.\n\nIt said everything about Juve's defensive display that Buffon only had one save to make, the 39-year-old denying Messi before the Barca forward hammered the rebound into the side-netting.\n\nYet Juve, as adventurous going forward as they were solid at the back, might have beaten the Spanish champions for the second time in a week.\n\nHiguain should have done better from close range after a ball over the top before Cuadrado flashed a chance narrowly wide on the counter.\n\nIn the end it did not matter, Juve and their travelling fans celebrated a night to remember.\n\nBarca boss Luis Enrique will leave the Nou Camp this summer having failed to reach the semi-finals for a second successive season.\n\nThis was every bit as painful as their exit at the hands of La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid at the same stage 12 months ago.\n\nThey had 19 shots on the night - yet only one on target as Juve avenged their defeat against the same opponents in the 2015 final.\n\nNeymar, who scored twice in the 6-1 return leg win over Paris St-Germain in the previous round, ended this game in tears with Barcelona's season in danger of falling flat.\n\nThey face Real Madrid in El Clasico on Sunday (19:45 BST) knowing defeat will leave them six points behind the leaders, who have a game in hand.\n\nBarca are in the final of the Copa del Rey but Enrique knows that even if his side beat Alaves on 27 May, it will be scant consolation if they fail to win La Liga following another disappointing European campaign.\n\nBuffon in sight of his first Champions League triumph - the stats\n• None Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon has now kept 46 clean sheets in the Champions League. Only Iker Casillas (54), Edwin van der Sar (50) and Petr Cech (47) have more.\n• None Buffon's 2016-17 Champions League campaign: Nine games seven clean sheets, two goals conceded.\n• None Juve last won the Champions League in 1996.\n• None Lionel Messi had five shots off target in the match, his most in a Champions League game since September 2015 against Roma (also five).\n• None Attempt blocked. Mario Lemina (Juventus) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonzalo Higuaín.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Miralem Pjanic with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Juan Cuadrado (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dani Alves.\n• None Offside, Barcelona. Andrés Iniesta tries a through ball, but Gerard Piqué is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Sami Khedira (Juventus) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Cuadrado. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "May to form government with DUP backing\n\nTheresa May says she will govern with her Democratic Unionist \"friends\" and \"get on\" with Brexit after losing her majority, but rivals say she has caused chaos.", "Five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan and 2005 winner Shaun Murphy clash over O'Sullivan's claims of \"bullying\" by the snooker authorities, ahead of their meeting in the second round of the World Championship in Sheffield.\n\nWatch live coverage of Shaun Murphy v Ronnie O'Sullivan, Thursday 20 April, 19:00 BST on the BBC Red Button and the BBC Sport website & app.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nFormer champion Neil Robertson was made to wait before seeing off Thailand's Noppon Saengkham 10-4 in the first round of the World Championship.\n\nThe 2010 Crucible winner resumed 8-1 ahead, but Crucible debutant Saengkham finally relaxed to win three of the first four frames on Thursday.\n\nA break of 76 saw Robertson, ranked ninth in the world, take the frame he needed to close out victory.\n\nThe 35-year-old Australian will face Marco Fu in the second round.\n\n\"I am very happy to get through. The damage was done yesterday when I took advantage of his nerves on his debut and punished his mistakes,\" Robertson said.\n\n\"Today he came out without any pressure on him and he knocked in a lot of great balls to nick a few back. But at 8-1 ahead you will have to not to turn up to get beat from there.\n\n\"I was a little bit slack on a couple of shots but regained my focus after the interval and was determined to finish it off.\"\n\nIn the afternoon's other match - the first second-round encounter of this year's tournament - world number 14 Kyren Wilson leads 2015 world champion Stuart Bingham 5-3.\n\nWilson, 25, raced into a 5-0 lead against his out-of-sorts opponent, but Bingham recovered to score two 50s in taking the three remaining frames of the session.\n\nIn the evening session, Ronnie O'Sullivan faces Shaun Murphy in a mouthwatering and potentially spiky last-16 match.\n\nIt is five-time champion O'Sullivan's first appearance since accusing snooker bosses of bullying, claims that 2005 champion Murphy said were \"completely wrong\".\n\nBarry Hawkins resumes 7-2 up against Tom Ford in an all-English affair, the final first-round match to be played.", "Shaun Murphy pulls off an exquisite \"exhibition\" trick shot during his second-round match against Ronnie O'Sullivan at the Crucible.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "MPs agree to a government proposal to extend the deadline to restore devolution until 29 June.", "A string of brutal murders in the US has thrown a national spotlight on MS-13, a street gang that was born in LA but has roots in El Salvador.\n\nThe latest was a mass murder on Monday on Long Island, where the bodies of four males, including three teenagers, were found mangled in the woods, according to police.\n\nPresident Trump tweeted to call the gang \"bad\". Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to \"devastate\" it. Both blamed Obama-era immigration policy for its rise.\n\nBut what is MS-13 and is Obama really to blame?\n\nThe gang began in the barrios of Los Angeles in LA during the 1980s, formed by immigrants who had fled El Salvador's long and brutal civil war. Other members came from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.\n\nThe MS stands for Mara Salvatrucha, said to be a combination of Mara, meaning gang, Salva, for Salvador, and trucha, which translates roughly into street smarts. The 13 represents the position of M in the alphabet.\n\nMS-13 established a reputation for extreme violence and for killing with machetes. It took root in neighbourhoods dominated by Mexican gangs, and later expanded to other parts of the country.\n\nAccording to the FBI, the gang has spread to 46 states.\n\nIn 2012, the US Treasury designated the gang a \"transnational criminal organisation\". It was the first street gang to receive the dubious honour, placing it alongside much larger international cartels like the Mexican Zetas, Japanese Yakuza and Italian Camorra.\n\nMS-13 has been accused of recruiting poor and at-risk teenagers. Joining is said to require being \"jumped in\" - subjected to a vicious 13-second beating - and \"getting wet\" - carrying out a crime, often a murder, for the gang.\n\nLeaving is potentially even more dangerous. Large chest tattoos brand members for life, and some factions are said to murder members who attempt to leave.\n\nA 2008 FBI threat assessment put the size of MS-13 between 6,000 and 10,000 members in the US, making it one of the largest criminal enterprises in the country.\n\nIt is now larger outside the country, according to the agency. An anti-gang crackdown in the late 1990s saw hundreds of early members shipped back to Central American countries, where they established offshoots. Estimates put the number of members in Central American countries at at least 60,000.\n\nThe gang's annual revenue is about $31.2m (£23.4m) according to information from a large-scale Salvadorean police operation obtained by the El Faro newspaper - mainly from from drugs and extortion.\n\nRecent high-profile cases linked to the gang include the murder of two female high-school students who were attacked with a machete and baseball bat as they walked through their neighbourhood in New York last month - a revenge attack over a minor dispute, according to police.\n\nFour alleged MS-13 members were charged with that crime. Another two alleged members were charged at the same time with the murder of a fellow gang member said to have violated gang protocol.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe same month, two alleged members of the gang in Houston, Texas were charged with kidnapping three teenage girls, holding them hostage and raping them before shooting one dead on the side of the road.\n\nMiguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, laughed and waved at the cameras during their court appearance.\n\nMS-13's motto is \"kill, rape, control\", according to one FBI gang specialist who investigated the group.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Sessions have pointed the finger at former President Barack Obama over the spread of MS-13, alleging that his open-door immigration policies fuelled its growth.\n\nBut the gang formed and flourished in the US long before Mr Obama came to power. MS-13 was identified as a significant threat in the 1990s, and a special FBI taskforce was convened against the gang in 1994.\n\n\"The big surge was during Bush-Cheney when the drivers of illegal migration in Central America grew, when various crackdowns on crime filled prisons to bursting point, and when funding for rehabilitation programs declined,\" Fulton T Armstrong, a research fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, told fact-checking website Politifact.\n\n\"I have seen no evidence that the Obama administration can be blamed in any way for the existence or activities of the gang in the US,\" said Ioan Grillo, author of a book on US gang crime.\n\nThe Obama administration also prioritised the deportation of gang criminals, including MS-13 members, in an aggressive deportation program.", "Warren Gatland has got it right.\n\nI like the look and balance of the squad. The players are good enough to win the series, the challenge will be whether they can.\n\nNew Zealand at home are pretty much unbeatable. The statistics and a great deal of logic suggests a Lions win would be unlikely, but they have the best possible chance.\n\nThis is a talented squad of players. They have an opportunity to create a serious part of history against the best team in the world.\n• None Listen to Radio 5 live's special on the Lions squad announcement\n\n'Two-thirds of the squad was already inked in'\n\nThe omissions from the squad are down to the level of competition for places. I am just glad it was Warren who had to do it and not me.\n\nEngland captain Dylan Hartley's absence was not a massive surprise, given the quality of what Gatland is left with at hooker in Rory Best, Ken Owens and Jamie George. Dylan said himself in the lead-up to the announcement that it would be a bonus if he was selected. I guess that was him preparing himself for the news.\n\nGatland will have different requirements from his hooker than Eddie Jones has with England. Personally it has to be disappointing but Hartley will be prepared for it and will be thinking 'Argentina, here we come' as England tour there this summer.\n\nThe second row must have been the most talked about selection of all. So many great players, performing at a high quality in the Six Nations and in other domestic and European competition. You could look at Scotland's Jonny Gray and ask 'how, on statistics alone, can he possibly be left out?' Look at England lock Joe Launchbury and say 'how can a player of his quality be left out?' But look at who Gatland has picked in that position - Iain Henderson, Maro Itoje, Alun Wyn Jones, George Kruis and Courtney Lawes.\n\nThere were some who Gatland could not possibly leave out: Conor Murray, Jonathan Sexton, CJ Stander, Owen Farrell, George Kruis and Stuart Hogg to name a few - and there are more. At least two-thirds of the squad was inked in before selection.\n\n'Te'o could start the first Test'\n\nThere are a number of first-timers that will challenge guys that have been there before.\n\nJared Payne is seen as a slight surprise because he's been injured.\n\nKyle Sinckler is a dynamic, powerful ball carrier. You have to beat the All Blacks by being confrontational. There is nothing better than smashing through defenders, running aggressively. Sinckler has the ability to produce that kind of form.\n\nBen Te'o's power and the damage he does will fit Gatland's style to a tee. His Welsh team was all about thrust, power and dominance. If Sonny Bill Williams starts, who knows him better than Te'o, who has played against him more than anyone in rugby league? I can comfortably see Te'o starting.\n\nGatland has in mind how he believes he can beat the All Blacks with the players he has available. Now he has selected those players who best fit that style. But he does also have players like Payne, Jonathan Joseph, Jack Nowell and Liam Williams who are not all smash and grab and bulk. There is some finesse and skill in that squad.\n\n'Warburton is tried and tested'\n\nSam Warburton carries some great credentials and is highly regarded and respected at international level.\n\nHis performances in this year's Six Nations just got better and better, which got rid of any doubts over his performance.\n\nHis pedigree is first class, what he has won throughout his career to date stands up against some quality competition. He is proven, tried and tested. Hopefully he can lead them playing well and stay the course.\n\nHe plays in a position where he does get battered. He is likely to be at open-side flanker because another player in CJ Stander picks himself at blind-side. The All Blacks play with a great ferocity at the breakdown, Warburton knows that and I hope he is in a great position to withstand that for the series.\n\n'You need the right blend on tour'\n\nEngland and Ireland performed well in the Six Nations and autumn internationals, they knew they had a good chance of having good representation in the squad.\n\nWhen you put together a Lions squad you are not always thinking of the very best players, but also the best blend to tour for five to six weeks and who can get the best out of one another. What contribution can players make outside the game of rugby?\n\nThe form of a player goes a long way to determine if they make it. When there is a close decision to be made, the personality and character of a player can get them across the line and onto the tour.\n\nNone of these players had shocking seasons, not one does not deserve to be where they are. At one time or another they have shown world-class form.\n\nWe know some will get injured, some that are selected might not make it to the plane. I know on average six to eight replacements might make their way to New Zealand for the tour. Even those who have not made the official line-up will keep themselves ready.\n\n'Everyone has a chance of starting the first Test'\n\nIt is hard enough to choose the 41, let alone 23 for a match-day squad.\n\nJonathan Davies might not be in world-class form but he has a Lions pedigree. Some players move up a notch when they play for the Lions. Davies' last tour against Australia in 2013 was sensational, Warren will believe he can get the best out of him again. But Davies will know he is in one hell of a fight to retain his Test jersey.\n\nAlun Wyn Jones is not captain and he is not safe either. Everyone has a chance. As a virgin tourist or an established tourist, I always knew I had a chance and a threat of someone coming and taking your place.\n\nPeople will think what chance does Peter O'Mahony have of starting in that Test team? I think he has every chance, just look at his performance in his last game against England. If he goes out and plays before the first Test with that kind of intensity and impact he will stand a chance.\n\nEvery player in that 41 has every chance of playing in the first Test. They are all high-quality international players.\n\nThe coach has a pre-determined idea of how he feels that squad will play, but that can evolve. We will see the shaping of the Test team evolve over the first few weeks. Certain players, no doubt, will play themselves into that Test team.\n\nIt will be fascinating to watch, brilliant for us as supporters. There is nothing better than watching players come through and pick themselves.\n\n'This is why you play rugby'\n\nI got a late call-up because of an injury to Will Carling in 1989. I could not take the smile from my face for the rest of my career because of the opportunity to be part of something incredibly special.\n\nYou never want to stop going on Lions tours. It is one of the biggest parts of a rugby career if you get on a good one. I was fortunate to go on three enjoyable tours, which gave me fantastic experiences that will live with me forever.\n\nEvery time a Lions squad announcement is made, excitement courses through me. I relate to the players that are selected and what they are looking forward to. There are quite a few first-timers who will be delirious with excitement.\n\nAs a former Lion, I am envious of the opportunity these guys are are about to embark on. This is why you play rugby, to have these sorts of opportunities. It is mind-blowing. You will try and take it in your strike, but you want to explode. The key thing is keeping a lid on that explosion.\n\nThe way to beat New Zealand is playing with super intensity, some fortune and a very low level of mistakes. It sounds obvious, but not many teams are able to do it.\n\nGatland and his coaches have to get their players at a level of intensity so they are looking forward to what they are facing, simmering but not boiling over.\n\nLook at the intensity England played with last summer in Australia, the intensity Ireland took to Chicago. The intensity Wales took to New Zealand last year for 40 to 60 minutes. You combine all of that and you have got some serious intensity.\n\nI think they're going to be a tremendous squad. In 1993 we ran them to the last Test and then they put us away. In 2005 it was a non-contest, they were way too good. This time the balance is changing, we will see how far when they get there.\n\nIn times gone by, the New Zealand side had players that would walk into a world XV, but there aren't many players who would do that now. That for me is world rugby balancing off.\n\nIt will be hard and tough, especially if they play their best players in the provincial games. But if I was part of the Lions squad I would want to face the Test players in the warm-up matches.\n\nThe challenge is there and they have to rise to it. They are more than capable of giving a good account of themselves. Lions tours are one of adversity, you are not given much chance as a squad, your job is to earn the respect of a country and the only way to do that is by performing well and winning games.\n\nThey have a big opportunity to create some brilliant history.\n\nTo win would be sensational, as sensational as any series win in New Zealand in any Lions era. This is truly the biggest challenge of any Lions tour.\n\nIf I was part of that squad I would have high hopes of being successful. The question Gatland and his coaches will ask is 'why can't you win?'\n• None Get all the latest rugby union news by adding", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I always thought depression was something a bit weak-minded\"\n\nThe hardest challenge for many business leaders is how to deal with mental health, an issue that still makes many uncomfortable.\n\nEven harder than that is when those mental health issues affect you.\n\nJayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive of the bank Virgin Money and one of the UK's most successful businesswomen, has told the BBC of her own efforts to tackle mental health issues.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, she said that she had suffered post-natal depression after the birth of her daughter and had \"suicidal thoughts\" because of the intense pressure as Virgin Money was preparing for a stock market flotation.\n\nShe said that it was time for businesses to speak more openly about mental health issues and that her own battles with mental health problems had made her stronger.\n\nMs Gadhia was speaking to mark the publication of her autobiography, The Virgin Banker.\n\nIn it, she describes how many business leaders still act like \"dinosaurs\" towards women.\n\nOn one occasion when Ms Gadhia was finding an issue at work difficult, a senior male colleague asked her \"if she was going through the menopause\".\n\n\"I was at a dinner with some of the [banking] regulators last year and there was a very senior City man there and the conversation turned to gender equality,\" Ms Gadhia told me.\n\n\"And he said, I am all for gender equality, but what happens if I employ a woman and the next week she tells me: 'I'm pregnant?'\n\n\"And there was a gasp around the table to think that people were still thinking like that.\n\n\"I remember going back to the office and saying: 'You know what, the dinosaurs are still out there.'\n\n\"It is undoubtedly the case. I see it from time to time.\n\n\"But equally I see the opposite, I also see that senior men in the City are talking to me about how they can help.\n\n\"So I don't want to portray a picture of bleakness - there are definitely pockets that haven't improved, but there are definitely very influential men and women who want to make it [greater gender equality] work.\"\n\nMs Gadhia revealed that one of her toughest periods in work was following the birth of her daughter, Amy, in 2003.\n\nWith her husband, Ash, she had been through many cycles of IVF which had not worked.\n\nThey had tried one final time and Ms Gadhia had become pregnant, which had made her feel \"thrilled\".\n\nBut depression struck after the birth.\n\n\"Ash had given up his job and we had only me earning, a new mouth to feed and I remember feeling completely out of control because what I wanted to achieve - that is, packing up work and staying with my child - was unachievable,\" Ms Gadhia said, speaking publicly about how she was affected for the first time.\n\n\"How on earth was I going to manage that?\n\n\"It was the first time that I'd ever, ever experienced what people described as depression.\n\n\"I had always thought, despite the fact that my mum had suffered over the years with her own issues, that depression is something that was a bit weak-minded or something.\n\n\"And when it hit me, I realised nothing could be further from the truth.\n\n\"And when I read the Harry Potter books and saw the Dementors, that is how depression felt to me - that sort of a thing that comes into your life and sucks all of your energy out of it - and I just felt hopeless.\n\n\"I didn't know where to go, I didn't know what to do do, who to talk to and at that point, everybody expects you to be happy and thrilled.\"\n\nAfter many months of suffering - at one point, Ms Gadhia was convinced her baby daughter was dead - she eventually went to the doctor for help.\n\nThe clinical tests showed that her depression was serious.\n\n\"It was knowing what I was dealing with that helped me to deal with it,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if I'd have just gone on and not realised that I had a clinical problem and that depression wasn't something that you can just sort of push through, it would have been very different.\"\n\nPrince Harry has been praised for speaking out by mental health charities\n\nMs Gadhia started working shorter hours, took exercise and put her life back into \"balance\".\n\nShe says that a healthier work-life balance wasn't just good for her and her family, it was also good for work.\n\nThe first year she changed the way she worked, Ms Gadhia received the highest bonus of her career.\n\nShe said that it was important that businesses had an open attitude to mental health, which can affect up to one in four adults.\n\nMore than 15 million working days a year are lost to problems of depression, anxiety or stress, costing businesses up to £70bn annually.\n\nYesterday, Prince Harry received widespread praise after talking to the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon about his mental health problems, following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.\n\nPrince Harry revealed that he had \"shut down all his emotions\" for 16 years before seeking help.\n\n\"I think we still have a culture of not talking about it,\" Ms Gadhia said.\n\n\"I don't want to get to a place where we we've got everybody crying on each other's shoulders.\n\n\"But I think finding a way for organisations to support staff that want to talk about the issues that they're going through and having maturity of line management to know when that's required - to know where help can come - is really important.\n\n\"If someone turns up to work on crutches with a broken leg, it is easier to sympathise or empathise or help.\n\n\"But when you can't see it, I think that's much harder. It is easier to dismiss and the dismissal, the putdown if you like, makes the problem worse.\n\n\"I think that's part of the reason why both raising the issue - and in a sensible and controlled way, discussing it - means it can be remediated in some way, whatever the right way is for the individual. It's super-important.\"", "Health is always discussed on the doorsteps in general election campaigns.\n\nLabour has long seen the NHS as its defining electoral issue.\n\nThe Conservatives have tried hard to demonstrate their commitment with pledges in recent years of above-inflation investment.\n\nBut how much difference will it make this time in a campaign that is sure to be dominated by Brexit?\n\nPolling suggests the state of the NHS is high on people's list of concerns.\n\nAn Ipsos/Mori survey in January in association with the Economist showed that 49% of respondents considered it to be one of the biggest issues facing Britain, up nine percentage points since December and the highest level recorded since April 2003.\n\nThis was slightly ahead of the proportion (41%) seeing the EU and Brexit as a major issue. Immigration was next on the list, though lower than in December.\n\nThe same survey just before the general election in May 2015 had the economy, the NHS and immigration bunched quite closely together as issues of the highest public concern.\n\nThe latest snapshot has the NHS pulling ahead of both. But the key question is whether what people tell the pollsters are key issues translates into voting intentions.\n\nThe King's Fund think tank recently analysed the British Social Attitudes survey taken across England, Scotland and Wales and found that public satisfaction with the NHS was high at 63%, little changed from 2015.\n\nIt is worth pointing out, though, that this polling was carried out in the summer and early autumn of 2016 before the latest bout of winter pressures.\n\nThe general election health debate will be about England as governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their health services and they have no elections this time.\n\nLabour made health a central plank of its 2015 election campaign. Andy Burnham, then the party's health spokesman, spoke out forcefully about the pressures on hospitals over the preceding winter.\n\nHe also accused the Conservatives of encouraging privatisation of the NHS, which they in turn denied.\n\nBut this failed to cut through, as the Tories achieved a majority.\n\nThis time Labour is stressing that health will again be central to its campaigning effort.\n\nJon Ashworth believes public concern about the NHS has intensified\n\nThe shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, believes that public concern is greater than in 2015 and that a tipping point has been reached over A&E delays and longer waits for routine operations.\n\nOn some benchmarks NHS England has seen its worst ever winter as hospitals have struggled to keep up with rising patient demand.\n\nWhat will become clear in the weeks ahead is whether patient frustration is being raised consistently with canvassers on the doorsteps.\n\nLabour will allege the Conservative government has failed to get to grips with an NHS crisis.\n\nJeremy Corbyn and the Labour left will push their claim that the government has allowed private providers to take an increasing share of the NHS cake and there is a covert agenda to undermine the service.\n\nThe proportion of the NHS budget in England allocated to private organisations has increased. But whether this cuts any ice beyond the core Labour vote is far from certain.\n\nNHS spending will no doubt feature strongly in the campaign debates.\n\nLabour has yet to say how much more money it will pledge to health.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have hinted strongly they will call for higher NHS budgets with a ring-fenced health and social care tax.\n\nA review of health policy for the Lib Dems raised the idea of an independent body to predict spending requirements.\n\nHealth spokesman Norman Lamb has pushed the idea of a cross-party approach to chart the future of the NHS.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats have indicated they will campaign on the potential problems for the health and social care workforce when the UK leaves the EU.\n\nPromises to guarantee citizenship rights for existing staff from the EU working in this country seem likely.\n\nJeremy Hunt will defend his record as a long-serving health secretary\n\nAll that leaves the Conservatives and Jeremy Hunt, the longest-serving health secretary in modern times, defending their record on health.\n\nParty sources indicate that an \"aggressive case\" will be made and that \"scare stories\" about the state of the NHS will be rebutted.\n\nThey point to the recent update on strategy by the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, in which he pointed to cancer survival being at a record high, improved dementia diagnosis and safer patient care.\n\nWhat remains to be seen is how much emphasis will be given to the seven-day NHS pledge made in 2015.\n\nThe Conservatives will undoubtedly be challenged on whether enough money has been allocated to the NHS up to 2020.\n\nThey will highlight the £2bn pledged for adult social care in England over the next three years.\n\nPoliticians in England will soon discover as they knock on doors whether the NHS could this time be an issue that will swing votes as well as fuelling campaign rhetoric.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nTiger Woods faces a further six months on the sidelines after having another operation to try and cure pain in his back and leg.\n\nThe American 14-time major winner has had surgery three times in 19 months.\n\n\"I look forward to living without the pain I have been battling so long and to getting back to a normal life, playing with my kids and competing in professional golf,\" said Woods, 41.\n\nWoods is likely to miss this summer's US Open, Open Championship and US PGA.\n\n\"The surgery went well, and I'm optimistic this will relieve my back spasms and pain,\" said Woods, who will rest for several weeks before beginning his rehabilitation.\n\nThe former world number one returned to action in December 2016 after 15 months out following two back operations.\n\nHowever, he was forced to withdraw before the second round of February's Dubai Desert Classic after a back spasm.\n\nAnd he was unable to take part in this month's Masters, an event in which the four-time champion has only competed once since 2014.\n\nWoods won the last of his 14 major titles at the US Open in June 2008.\n\nA statement on his website said that patients \"typically return to full activity after six months\".\n\nThis is yet another massive blow to Tiger Woods' hopes of resurrecting his career. It is another lost season, another lengthy spell of rehab and another period in which the leading players stretch further clear of the former world number one.\n\nHis main objective is merely a pain-free life in which he is able to accomplish the domestic and family lifestyle most of us take for granted. Returning to the heights of the top of the sporting world seems further away than ever.\n\nIt feels as though he is moving ever closer to a painfully anti-climactic end to his career.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWith or without the benefit of hindsight, Serena Williams' victory at the Australian Open in January was sublime.\n\nThe 'greatest female tennis player of the Open era' won her 23rd Grand Slam without dropping a set.\n\nBut when you learn she did it while in the early stages of pregnancy, the feat becomes exceptional.\n\nSo how is it possible to win a Grand Slam while pregnant?\n\nDr Markos Klonizakis, a senior research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, says the triumph at that stage of pregnancy is \"amazing\".\n\n\"It is not easy for any woman to adapt to changes in her body, let alone while playing sport at an elite level,\" he said.\n\n\"Physiologically, the main challenge women face within about five weeks of pregnancy is in adapting to changes to the cardiovascular system.\n\n\"These are rapid and ensure blood and oxygen supply to the foetus.\n\n\"Many women feel they cannot breathe as easily as their heart rate increases.\n\n\"The nature of a Grand Slam tournament, where players have to recover to play consecutive matches, would have been a challenge for her, if you take into account nausea as well.\"\n\nProfessor Janice Rymer, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, added: \"For elite athletes, a tailored training and nutrition plan would normally be developed with a specialist team.\n\n\"High levels of exercise at around eight weeks gestation should not affect pregnancy for these athletes and those used to high levels of exercise.\n\n\"During the first few weeks of pregnancy these hormones may actually boost physical performance as a woman's natural production of steroids will increase slightly.\"\n\nWilliams is not the first elite athlete to compete while pregnant.\n\nBritish Olympic cycling champion Laura Kenny told BBC Radio 5 live: \"I was still competing when I first found out I was pregnant. I actually won the madison nationals with Elinor Barker when I was about five or six weeks pregnant, but any time after that I just feel like it is so intense that I wouldn't have been able to [compete].\"\n\nNigerian table-tennis player Olufunke Oshonaike who appeared at her sixth Olympic Games in Rio - only the second African women to do so - carried on playing when she was seven months pregnant, despite her \"big belly\".\n\nOnly last week, American swimmer Dana Vollmer competed in an elite 50m freestyle race while six months pregnant.\n\n\"As hard as people think this is, the race is only 30 seconds long as opposed to the entire day I spend holding and chasing around a 35-pound two-year-old,\" she said.\n\n\"This will feel like a break.\"\n\nAfter winning gold in the 100m butterfly in the 2012 London Olympics, Vollmer took time off to have her first child, son Arlen, and returned in time to qualify for Rio.\n\nBut this time around, she has made the decision to continue training. Baby number two, another boy, is due in July.\n\n\"Putting the health of the baby first doesn't just mean sitting on the couch,\" the 29-year-old said.\n\nIn June 2014, Alysia Montano competed in the 800m quarter-finals of the US track and field championships while eight months pregnant.\n\nThe then 28-year-old runner, who received a standing ovation after completing the race in 2 minutes 32.13 seconds, told the Daily Mail: \"I've been running throughout my pregnancy and I felt really, really good during the whole process.\"\n\nHer finishing time was 35 seconds slower than her personal best of 1:57.34, but she added: \"I just didn't want to get lapped and be the first person to get lapped in the 800m.\"\n\nFive-time Olympian and mother-of-two Jo Pavey told BBC Sport: \"It is difficult for sportswomen because [Williams] might not have known she was pregnant.\n\n\"I chose not to compete when I was pregnant. I did run round a women's 10k just to keep fit, but I didn't run as far as I could.\n\n\"I chose not to push myself to the limit, just to keep fit and active.\"\n\nAnd marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe said in 2015: \"My priorities changed the minute I knew I was pregnant, and everything I did centred around the baby.\n\n\"I lost that competitive instinct. It wasn't about running certain times in training anymore.\"\n\nWilliams' incredible feat led to a bout of introspection on social media, captured by BBC Sport's Sportsday Live debate under the heading:\n\n'Serena Williams won the Australian Open when she was pregnant, but...'\n\nHere's the best of your answers:\n\nDanny Kibbey: So Serena won a Grand Slam at 8 weeks? Pff, my missus completed IRONMAN WALES at 12 weeks (I watched on telly).\n\nMike T: Serena Williams was pregnant when she won the Australian Open and I can't even be bothered to finish this senten...\n\nTaryn Finley: Serena Williams was pregnant when she won the Australia Open in Jan, but I can't even get out of bed when I'm on my period.\n\nRaun Anand: Serena Williams won a Grand Slam whilst pregnant and I have trouble reaching for the remote after a McSpicy.\n\nAlison Hennessey: She won the Australian Open while eight weeks pregnant. And I complain about a dynamic yoga class..\n\nLisa: Serena Williams was pregnant when she won the Australian Open and I struggle to walk upstairs after a big lunch.\n\nAquelious: Serena Williams won the Aus Open when she was pregnant but I get tired if my FIFA17 match goes to extra time!!!\n\nChimp: Serena Williams won the Aus Open when she was pregnant, but I once completed a 24 hour Le Mans race on Gran Turismo. AND won.\n\nJablesfifa: Serena Williams won Aus Open while pregnant, but I got subbed off in the first half of a football match due to a wasp sting.", "At the moment (although we know Theresa May is very capable of changing her mind) there won't be head to head TV clashes between the PM and Jeremy Corbyn - or the PM and Nicola Sturgeon, or the PM with anyone else for that matter.\n\nOne, the Tory leader is no fan of the glitz of the TV studio. That's one reason why Number 10 is adamant that she will not take part in TV debates. But two - it's not just down to her very different style, but also, as David Cameron learnt very quickly, front runners in any campaign have everything to lose in those debates, and the underdogs have everything to gain.\n\nDowning Street knows they will take a certain amount of flak for the decision not to play ball, and the opposition parties are of course relishing every opportunity to say that the PM is too frightened to defend her record.\n\nBut right now Mrs May's allies are willing to wear it, rather than broker the risk of taking part, even if the broadcasters go ahead with the programmes without her.\n\nWhat will you hear a lot of from the Tory leader? Well if her very first campaign visit is anything to go by, David Cameron and George Osborne's \"long-term economic plan\" mantra will be replaced by the phrase \"strong and stable\".\n\nOn the stump you'd be forgiven for losing count of the number of times she used the phrase. One totting-up puts it at 13 mentions.\n\nBrexit has undoubtedly set the backdrop for this election, and provided the catalyst for its timing. But the Conservatives plan to win to deliver their version of Brexit by again and again comparing what they claim is the \"strong and stable\" leadership provided by the sitting prime minister, and the alternative put forward by Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nTomorrow he'll make his first big election speech, his first big chance to recast that argument.\n• None Brexit triggered: What happens now?", "A few weeks ago, Theresa May did something rather unusual. The prime minister went to Scotland and delivered a speech in praise of Britain's aid budget. As far as I can determine, this was a first. She praised the Department for International Development (DfID) that delivers that budget.\n\nIn an unexpected flurry of alliteration, she praised the aid money being spent in Somalia, South Sudan and Syria. She said UK aid \"helps millions around the world and speaks strongly to the values that we share as a country\".\n\nBut here's the thing: at no point did she mention the government's commitment - set out in law - to spend 0.7% of Britain's national income on foreign aid.\n\nAs ever, Mrs May was hedging her bets. For she is torn between competing pressures. On the one hand, she is under political pressure from supportive newspapers such as the Daily Mail to scrap the commitment. Some of her MPs are joining in, publicly attacking a £13bn budget they see as too large and too wasteful.\n\nIn a time of austerity and rising deficits, there are genuine questions about whether the aid budget should continue to be protected when others are facing cuts.\n\nIn these circumstances, it might seem tempting for the prime minister to ditch yet another of her predecessor's legacy policies.\n\nIn a speech in Scotland, Theresa May praised the UK's international aid budget and DfID\n\nYet Mrs May has also found it rather useful in recent months to praise the aid budget.\n\nWhen she argues that Brexit does not mean Britain turning in on itself, she recites a list that includes the UK's seat on the UN Security Council, its membership of Nato, and its commitment to spend 2% of national income on defence and 0.7% on international aid.\n\nIn Scotland, she used Britain's aid budget - and the soft power that it provided - to show what she thought the UK could deliver if the union continued.\n\nShe also likes the argument that Britain's aid budget gives it global diplomatic clout.\n\nUntil recently, there was an assumption at Westminster that the aid commitment would be up for grabs towards the end of the Parliament, ahead of an election in 2020.\n\nOne scenario was that Mrs May might have offered to drop the aid target to mollify Tory MPs unhappy with whatever compromise deal she negotiates on Brexit.\n\nBut the decision to go for an early election has accelerated that debate.\n\nIts critics say that the UK's £13bn aid budget is too large and too wasteful\n\nAnd right now there is a vacuum of uncertainty.\n\nThe Conservatives are refusing to say whether they will renew the 0.7% target in their election manifesto.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions this week, Mrs May gave an ambiguous, non-committal answer when asked to reaffirm the pledge.\n\nHer party spokesman said simply that the government would continue to support the poorest people around the world.\n\nAs for the manifesto and the aid commitment, he said only that \"we will set out our plans in due course\".\n\nIt is into this debate that the global philanthropist Bill Gates is making his pitch, warning the prime minister that dropping the aid target would \"cost lives\".\n\nThe uncertainty about Mrs May's intentions has prompted much speculation.\n\nSome Tories say the aid target should be merged into a new defence spending target.\n\nOthers say it should be redefined to include more security related needs.\n\nOthers again say the target should be kept but with different definitions, so that it has to be met not every 12 months but over an entire five-year Parliament.\n\nThis would mean that DfID would not have to spend money rashly at the end of the financial year simply to meet what is an artificial target.\n\nSo it is decision time for Theresa May on aid.\n\nShe could keep the 0.7% in her election manifesto.\n\nThis would incur the wrath of some Conservative MPs and voters who think the bloated aid budget would be better spent on schools and hospitals at home.\n\nBut it would also avoid a distracting row that might bleed into the election campaign.\n\nThe last thing the prime minister wants to do right now is upset potential Tory voters on the liberal left who are disillusioned with the Labour leadership.\n\nNor does she want to give the Liberal Democrats an early election gift.\n\nOr the prime minister could drop or amend the aid target.\n\nThis would please her political base, but it would also make it harder to argue that Britain was showing global leadership.\n\nSpending less on aid would reduce Britain's soft power, making it less easy for ministers to open doors in foreign capitals.\n\nIt would also undermine all those arguments that she and other ministers - such as the Development Secretary Priti Patel - have been making in defence of UK aid: namely that it promotes Britain's national interests by deterring refugees from Europe and turning fragile states into potential trading partners.\n\nIn that speech in Scotland, Theresa May said: \"We are a kind and generous country... a big country that will never let down - or turn our back on - those in need.\n\n\"We are a country that does, and will always, meet our commitments to the world - and particularly to those who so desperately need our support.\"\n\nWe are about to find out what those words mean.\n• None UK foreign aid- Where does it go and why?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: The prime minister justified calling an early election on the basis that it would strengthen her position in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nReality Check verdict: If she won, a larger majority would give her more flexibility to chart her own Brexit course at home and not having another election until 2022 would be advantageous. But it wouldn't necessarily strengthen her hand in negotiations with the rest of the EU.\n\nTheresa May told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she had called the snap election because she believed it would put her in a stronger position as she starts to negotiate the UK's exit from the EU.\n\nWould she be in a stronger position domestically?\n\nIf she won, a bigger majority would reduce the chances of a rebellion, either from Remain supporters or from those who advocate a more hardline Brexit.\n\nOf course, if the new Parliament has a greater number of ardent Remain supporters or she has a smaller majority or loses, that would be a different matter.\n\nWould a bigger majority in the UK Parliament strengthen her hand with the EU?\n\nIt certainly wouldn't weaken it, but winning an election doesn't automatically give you more leverage in negotiations with the EU. Consider the case of Alexis Tsipras in Greece, who swept to power promising to end austerity and renegotiate Greece's bailout programme. He couldn't deliver because the rest of the EU refused to change course.\n\nEU negotiators would actually welcome a UK government with a larger majority because they believe it would make negotiations more secure and be the best guarantee of avoiding last-minute complications.\n\nBut the biggest impact of an early election could be on what happens after March 2019, when the UK is scheduled to leave the EU.\n\nThe prime minister told the Today programme: \"If you look at the timetable, had the election been in 2020 we would have been coming up to the most crucial part of the negotiations - in what would have started to be the run-up to a general election.\"\n\nIn other words, an election in 2020 would take place during a transition period (the government prefers the term \"implementation phase\") at a time when we could - in effect - be half in and half out of the EU, during a transition period.\n\nDelaying the election means there would be less political pressure during that transition - when the UK would have to make compromises on issues such as free movement of people, budget payments and the role of the European Court of Justice.\n\nTo put it another way, holding an election now, and then another in June 2022, means in theory that a prime minister would have two years of Article 50 negotiations and then another three years of transition arrangements before they would have to go back to the country to let voters give their verdict on whether they had done a good job.", "Is the hippo in your workforce too dominating?\n\nAs Richard sat in an important meeting at work, he and his colleagues nervously considered the hippo in the room.\n\nRichard, who works for a TV production company in Toronto, was attending a key meeting to discuss future projects. And the hippo was dominating proceedings far too much.\n\nThankfully for the firm's health and safety considerations, there wasn't actually a large semi-aquatic mammal in the room with them.\n\nInstead this \"hippo\" was an acronym for \"the highest paid person's opinion\", and the other attendees were too scared to question its wisdom.\n\n\"I can recall meetings where people are brainstorming, throwing around ideas, and ultimately going with what the boss came up with on a whim,\" says Richard, 34, who did not want us to use his surname.\n\nSome bosses can be difficult to argue with\n\n\"You kind of see all the subordinates in the room glancing at each other defeated, [their faces] saying, 'are we really going ahead with this?'\"\n\nMost of us have had to work for an overly dominating hippo at some time in our careers - a boss who staff feel unable to criticise, or whose every idea employees feel they have to praise.\n\nBut how often is the unchallenged boss's decision correct? Far from all the time if a study by the Rotterdam School of Management is to be believed.\n\nThe report found that projects led by junior managers were more likely to be successful than those that had a senior boss in charge, because other employees felt far more able to voice their opinions and give critical feedback.\n\nBalazs Szatmari, the lead author of the study, says: \"The surprising thing in our findings is that high-status project leaders fail more often.\n\n\"I believe that this happens not despite the unconditional support they get, but actually because of it.\"\n\nBalazs Szatmari says staff often feel unable to question their senior bosses\n\nMr Szatmari, who looked at 349 projects in the video games industry dating back to 1972, says that staff were likely to fear \"the possible consequences of criticising the work of high-status employees\".\n\nShort of senior bosses not allowing themselves to do much at work, what is the solution?\n\nSarah Biggerstaff, a lecturer in leadership at Yale School of Management in Connecticut, says that companies simply have to work hard to allow staff to question their senior bosses' decisions without any fear of reprisal.\n\n\"It can be challenging to give feedback if there is a culture of fear around the office,\" she says.\n\n\"In that kind of organisation, if you don't go with the flow you won't get promoted. Or what's happened historically is that people pay lip service to executives instead of giving them constructive feedback in order to toe the line.\"\n\nSarah Biggerstaff says firms need to create a culture where senior bosses can be questioned\n\nJames Farrow, founding director of UK management consultancy Curium Solutions, agrees that senior managers should encourage staff to question their decisions and then \"acknowledge the different perspective, and not leap... to disprove their viewpoint\".\n\nHe adds that senior figures should \"never ridicule or push back strongly in large groups, so that people feel safe voicing their views\".\n\nBrian Morgan, professor of entrepreneurship at Cardiff Metropolitan University, says there are numerous examples of bad business decisions that may have been prevented if senior bosses had been more willing to accept a collective approach to decision making.\n\n\"The recent whistleblowing controversy at UK bank Barclays has brought into sharp focus the importance of creating a corporate culture of openness, where employees feel confident to speak candidly about some of the issues facing the business,\" he says.\n\nProf Morgan adds that Royal Bank of Scotland's ill-fated decision to buy Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007 for £50bn may also have been avoided if middle managers at RBS had been given more of a say.\n\nBarclays boss Jes Staley was recently criticised for trying to uncover a whistleblower\n\nUS computer group Cisco Systems has had a formal feedback system in place for a number of years to prevent senior figures making decisions in isolation.\n\nCassandra Frangos, vice president for global executive talent and organisational development at Cisco, says that in one incident it was reported that an executive \"was distant and defensive, and that he didn't partner on key business decisions\".\n\n\"The feedback was instantly eye-opening for the executive,\" she says.\n\nMr Szatmari's suggested solution to the problem is for the leader of any new project to be kept secret, thereby encouraging junior managers to be more willing to put across their honest opinions.\n\nHe says such a \"blind review process\" would work best in a large business, and \"offer an opportunity for leaders to learn from their staff, and to engage in the type of meaningful dialogue every company should have\".\n\nBack in Toronto, Richard says he remembers one project in particular that a former hippo pushed through.\n\n\"One idea, an animated, musical web series never really went anywhere commercially, and deep down it was what we all expected.\"", "Police and Taliban positions can be just a short distance apart in parts of Lashkar Gah\n\nWhen I went back to Helmand I expected to find fighting, opium fields and new frontlines. But I didn't expect it to be so hard to distinguish between warring sides. And the fall of Sangin while I was there came as a big shock, writes BBC Afghan's Auliya Atrafi.\n\nGoing home to Helmand felt different this time - things really are unstable.\n\nThe last time I witnessed such a fluid situation was in the early 1990s after Kabul had fallen to the mujahideen.\n\nA few communist families were in control. After that Helmand was ruled by the mujahideen and then by the Taliban. For the last 15 years, however, it's mainly been ruled by the Afghan government, although it's still considered a Taliban heartland and a centre of insurgency, smuggling and opium.\n\nI took the road from Kabul to Helmand via Kandahar in mid-March - a precarious 10-hour bus journey. In recent months the main road leading to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, has been in and out of government control.\n\nFrom the bus I saw police stations that had been partially blown up by the Taliban. Bridges had been destroyed. The roadside was littered with the carcasses of burnt-out government Humvees.\n\nThis is normally the scariest part of the journey, as Taliban fighters try to kidnap government personnel, but I didn't encounter any.\n\nDespite being surrounded by the Taliban, people in Lashkar Gah were calm. The Taliban seemed to be on the defensive as the government had started clearance operations.\n\nA few times a day American Apache helicopters flew overhead, a reassuring sign the Taliban wouldn't be allowed to take over the city.\n\nThe Taliban take the American planes seriously; when they briefly captured the northern city of Kunduz in 2015, they paid a heavy price.\n\nNonetheless, staying positive was difficult. As one trader put it: \"Life is shaky and people are disappointed with governance. Fighting is so close that when we sleep at night we can hear gun shots.\n\n\"Travelling is dangerous and takes longer, and schools are barely functioning. People are generally upset.\"\n\nAmid the instability, locals are trying to move forward. But they are also aware their city could move from government to Taliban hands.\n\nMany of the pragmatic Helmandis have found a guarantor - \"a Taliban cousin\" - among the insurgents in case the city falls.\n\n\"The Taliban told me to live in peace; they said their friends would arrive at my place as soon as they take the city,\" one resident said confidently.\n\nSecurity personnel use what cover they can to observe the Taliban\n\nHelmand is mostly made up of Sunni Pashtuns but it is also has a large Shia community.\n\nThe Taliban do not target Shia, unlike other Islamist extremist groups who view Shia as heretics. But Shia are generally pro-government and making such alliances has proved harder for them than their Sunni neighbours.\n\nIn Gereshk, north of Lashkar Gah, Shia are caught in the crossfire between a Taliban hotbed, Nahr Seraj, and the city.\n\nLocals are scared and some remember violence that erupted in the early 1990s when the mujahideen took over the district.\n\n\"A commander called Rais of Baghran came. He took people out of their houses and shot them; he kicked people out and looted their properties,\" said district committee member Mirza Khan.\n\n\"We left everything behind; families fled in the middle of the night and migrated to Pakistan and Iran… We fear that might be repeated again.\"\n\nIt wasn't just Shia - as the communist government collapsed, many communities experienced similar treatment. But Shia in Gereshk say they were targeted by the commander while Sunnis were left alone.\n\nMirza Khan also says two tribal elders who appealed to the Taliban for the release of a prisoner two years ago were killed - something he calls a \"sort of bias\".\n\nHelmand is at the heart of Afghanistan's opium trade\n\nThe Taliban say they have no racial or sectarian bias: \"What has happened must have been a personal issue,\" a Taliban spokesman told the BBC.\n\nFear is not restricted to the Shia. In Lashkar Gah, the front line is on the city's western edge. I went to pay a visit to the border police battalion in the Bolan area.\n\nThe front line here is a crowded neighbourhood where children still play traditional games outside. But most of the houses lie empty, used by the warring sides.\n\nWe were advised to drive faster on some corners as the Taliban shoot at vehicles.\n\nCommander Juma Khan thought it better we had tea inside his office, saying: \"The Taliban threw a grenade into our courtyard a bit earlier.\"\n\n\"Are they so close?\" I asked with a mixture of fear and astonishment.\n\n\"Yes,\" said Juma Khan, adding: \"They sometimes throw stones at us from the other side of the wall.\"\n\nI later heard that the two sides can hear one another - they even jokingly invite each other for tea, though the offer is always rejected.\n\nThe police station had many holes for observation and snipers. Some were on the roof and some were small tunnels.\n\nIt was hard to see much through the holes, but as we drank green tea in the commander's office there was a constant exchange of small arms fire.\n\nThe conflict in Helmand is complex; it is not about blind hatred and mindless killing. There are families who are fighting on opposite sides without feelings of hostility.\n\nTaliban commanders claim huge influence over government institutions. Tribal alliances and economic incentives are more important than ideology.\n\nBusiness transcends borders; right now there are four multi-million dollar infrastructure projects funded by the government moving forward despite the fighting.\n\nSouth of the Bolan hills is the road to Nad Ali and Marja districts. A local resident told me of a traffic policeman who was seen serving at rival checkpoints.\n\n\"He would manage the traffic at the government checkpoint; when things got bad at the Taliban checkpoint, they would call him and he'd ride his rattling moped and bring order at the Taliban checkpoint.\"\n\nStill, fighting continues and the Taliban generally hold the upper hand. According to the provincial council more than 85% of the province is still under insurgent control. Of 14 districts, seven are in Taliban hands; two are under siege; in the rest, the government operates in central areas only.\n\nTroops - like this man here clearing IEDs - have cleared the road to Nad Ali\n\nTo the west of Bolan lies Nad Ali. Security forces managed to clear the road to the centre after months of Taliban siege. The white flags of the Taliban indicate the front line, a few hundred metres from the main road.\n\nGovernment casualties were not too high during the Nad Ali operation. Air support played an important role but one of the operational commanders, Bismillah Jan, believes lines are generally thin on the Taliban side.\n\nHe believes if he's given men and aerial support he can beat them back. But the security forces also lack personnel - as the decision to abandon Sangin showed.\n\nThe government strategy seems to be to gather scattered forces and unite them as a solid front in central Helmand. But as soon as fighters were freed from Taliban sieges, many disappeared.\n\n\"Our 20 or so friends in those remote bases kept 200 Taliban busy. Now the Taliban can join together and attack central Gereshk district,\" Bismillah Jan warns.\n\nDisagreements and lack of co-ordination are still the overriding issues in Helmand - on both sides. On the government side, many believe the US is not fully committed to weakening the Taliban.\n\n\"There are dozens of armed Taliban, often roaming in long convoys in the countryside but the American Apaches won't touch them. They only target a small number in actual fighting,\" one official said.\n\nBut there are also cracks on the Taliban side. Reports about leadership divisions are everywhere in city circles. Tribal politics and the fight for resources are profoundly influencing Taliban affairs, it seems.\n\nSome blame the killing of two influential Taliban commanders, Mehraj and Haji Ismat, by American drones on Haji Manan, the Taliban governor for Helmand who, rumour has it, is working for the US.\n\nHaji Manan's reported disagreement with Taliban leader Haibatullah is another bit of welcome news in Lashkar Gah.\n\nAnd there is also talk that this year the Taliban will be on the defensive in Helmand and will devote their energy to destabilising neighbouring Kandahar province instead.\n\nWhether that happens remains to be seen - but for people in Lashkar Gah, these are all hints this year may be calmer than last.\n• None Why Sangin's fall to the Taliban matters\n• None The new 'Great Game' in Afghanistan", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nTournament favourite Judd Trump has been knocked out of the World Championship by world number 54 Rory McLeod after a remarkable first-round 10-8 defeat.\n\nMcLeod, a 46-year-old 1000-1 outsider, led 9-7 when slow play meant the match had to be halted prior to Wednesday's afternoon session.\n\nAn out-of-sorts Trump won a scrappy opening frame when their match resumed in the evening, but the Leicester man sealed what he called \"the biggest win of his career\" to reach the last 16.\n\nAs exciting as the Dott-Carter contest was, it never got close to reproducing the drama between Trump and rank outsider McLeod, who has only previously reached the second round at the Crucible once in his long career.\n• None Watch the latest action from both tables\n\nTrump, the 2011 runner-up, has reached five major finals this season and was full of confidence about his chances of claiming a first Crucible title in the build-up to snooker's showpiece occasion.\n\nHe resumed 5-4 behind on Wednesday after surrendering a 4-0 lead but, despite seeming to be hindered by a shoulder problem, the 27-year-old managed to fight back to 6-6 before McLeod pulled away\n\nMcLeod has only qualified for the World Championship three times in his long career.\n\nBut his astute matchplay and meticulous approach seemed to disrupt Trump, who was uncharacteristically wayward with his long potting and sloppy with his break building when he did get in the balls.\n\n\"It's brilliant. I was relaxed at 4-0. He was potting everything. There is not much you can do so you have to bide your time,\" McLeod said after the match.\n\n\"Maybe I went into zombie mode because I didn't know the score - if it was 4-4 or 5-4.\n\n\"I tried not to think about things too much. You have to dismiss the pressure.\"\n\nMcLeod plays Scotland's Stephen Maguire in the second round.\n\nEarlier Carter took the opening frame to reduce the overnight gap to 6-4 against Dott and the Essex potter kept nagging away at the qualifier to get back to 8-7.\n\nBut Dott edged a pivotal 16th frame when both men wasted good chances and went on to consign Carter to a first last-32 exit since 2006 - the year Dott was crowned champion.\n\n\"I love it here,\" said Dott. \"I am not the best at anything, long potting, safety or break building. But I am pretty good at everything, and over the long games that is what you need.\n\n\"My season can be absolute garbage and then I come here and I feel like a snooker player.\"\n\nElsewhere, Neil Robertson, the 2010 champion, cruised into an 8-1 lead against World Championship debutant Noppon Saengkham in a match that plays to a conclusion on Thursday.\n\nChina's Xiao Guodong beat Ryan Day, the only Welshman who qualified for this year's tournament.\n\nXiao led 6-3 after the morning session and remained fully in control to ensure there is no Welsh representation in the second round of the World Championship for the first time since 1969.\n\nThe other evening match was an all-English encounter with 2013 runner-up Barry Hawkins leading Leicester's Tom Ford 7-2 when play ended for the day.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer England and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu is in hospital after collapsing at Tottenham's training centre on Thursday.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who is Spurs' Under-23s coach, received medical treatment on site before being transferred to hospital by ambulance, the Premier League club confirmed.\n\n\"Everyone at the club sends their best wishes to Ugo and his family,\" Tottenham added in a statement.\n\nEhiogu has been at Spurs since 2014.\n\nHe made over 200 appearances for Aston Villa between 1991 and 2000 and then spent seven years at Middlesbrough.\n\nHe won the League Cup with Villa in 1996 and also with Middlesbrough in 2004.\n\nEhiogu, who was capped four times by England, also played for West Brom, Leeds, Rangers and Sheffield United before retiring in 2009.", "The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden of the tax take.\n\nReality Check verdict: The government is very reliant on richer people for its funding. More than a quarter of income tax is paid by the 1% of taxpayers with the highest incomes.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell kicked off his election campaign on Wednesday by talking about increasing taxes on the rich and on corporations.\n\n\"The burden in terms of the tax take is falling on middle and low earners,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nIn fact, the tax base is very reliant on rich people, with income tax becoming increasingly reliant on them.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which does a great deal of work on inequality, says that the income tax system is relying too much on the richest 10%, which is a problem because their earnings are volatile.\n\nIt also pointed out that the combined effect of tax and benefit changes was hitting the poorest people the hardest, but Mr McDonnell was not talking about benefits.\n\nThis chart from the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that about 90% of income tax is paid by the 50% of taxpayers with the highest incomes, while more than a quarter is paid by the richest 1%.\n\nIndirect taxes such as VAT and fuel duty are not progressive though - people with lower incomes do not pay lower rates - so we need to consider all taxes.\n\nThe Treasury published analysis at the time of the Budget predicting what proportion of incomes people would be spending on all taxes by 2019-20.\n\nThe result is in the darker green bars below the line in this chart, with the poorest households on the left and the richest on the right.\n\nThe proportion of income spent on taxes does appear to be increasing as income increases throughout the distribution. The exception is for the poorest 10%, who seem to be spending slightly more than the next 10%, although the IFS says that is probably due to people misreporting their incomes in the survey from which this analysis is taken.\n\nThere is more on the impact of taxes on income in this ONS report, which calculates it in a different way, flattening the increase in the proportion of income spent on taxes as households get richer.\n\nLater in the interview, John McDonnell also said: \"Middle and low earners are being hit very, very hard by... income tax rises.\"\n\nThe basic rate of income tax has been 20% since 2008 and the higher rate has been 40% for longer than that. There have been additional rates introduced but they do not affect middle and low earners.\n\nIn 2010, the income tax personal allowance, which is the amount you are allowed to earn before paying any income tax, was £6,475. This year it is £11,500. That has clearly risen considerably faster than inflation, so for people paying the basic rate of income tax there has been a tax cut, while a higher proportion of low earners are not paying income tax at all.\n\nThe level of income at which people start paying the higher rate of income tax has not been rising as fast as the personal allowance, in fact it has fallen in some years since 2010, but only about 15% of income taxpayers pay higher rate, so they probably do not count as being low or middle earners.\n• None 'Rich will pay more' under Labour\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPremier League clubs have made limited progress on improving access for disabled fans, campaigners have said.\n\nThirteen out of the 20 sides are failing to provide the required number of wheelchair spaces, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).\n\nIt says only seven clubs have larger, fully equipped toilets, while seven clubs are breaking Premier League rules on providing information to fans.\n\nThe Premier League said clubs were working hard to improve facilities.\n\nA BBC report in 2014 found that 17 of 20 clubs did not provide enough wheelchair spaces.\n\nClubs later set a self-imposed deadline to meet standards by August 2017 and the Premier League has pledged to publish a report then to highlight the work carried out.\n\nEHRC chair David Isaac said it would launch an investigation into clubs who had failed to meet the minimum requirements and did not publish a clear action plan or timetable for improvement.\n\n\"The end of the season is fast approaching and time is running out for clubs,\" he said.\n\n\"For too long Premier League clubs have neglected the needs of their disabled fans\n\n\"The information we received from some clubs was of an appalling standard, with data missing and with insufficient detail. What is clear is that very few clubs are doing the minimum to meet the needs of disabled supporters.\n\n\"The Premier League itself does not escape blame. They need to make the concerns of disabled fans a priority and start enforcing their own rule book. We will be meeting individual clubs and asking them to explain themselves and tell us what their plans are.\"\n\nClare Lucas, activism manager for learning disability charity Mencap, said clubs should have 'changing places' toilet facilities, with more space and equipment including a height-adjustable changing bench and a hoist.\n\n\"For too long Premier League clubs have neglected the needs of their disabled fans, many of whom are forced to be changed on toilet floors, because clubs are yet to install proper facilities. It is simply inexcusable,\" she said.\n\nWhat the commission says\n\nAccording to the EHRC, the following clubs have not met requirements in particular areas:\n\nToilets: Without larger, fully equipped toilets, known as 'changing places' toilets - Bournemouth, Burnley, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Hull, Middlesbrough, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Tottenham, Watford, West Brom\n\nInformation: Not publishing access statements to give disabled fans information about their ground - Burnley, Crystal Palace, Hull, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Stoke, West Ham\n\nWhat the Premier League says\n\n\"In September 2015 Premier League clubs unanimously agreed to improve their disabled access provisions by meeting the Accessible Stadia Guide (ASG) by August 2017.\n\n\"Clubs are working hard to improve their facilities and rapid progress has been made. The improvements undertaken are unprecedented in scope, scale and timing by any group of sports grounds or other entertainment venues in the UK.\n\n\"Given the differing ages and nature of facilities, some clubs have faced significant built environment challenges. For those clubs cost is not the determining factor.\n\n\"They have worked, and in some cases continue to work, through issues relating to planning, how to deal with new stadium development plans, how to best manage fan disruption or, where clubs don't own their own grounds, dealing with third parties.\n\n\"Clubs will continue to engage with their disabled fans and enhance their provisions in the coming months, years and beyond.\"\n\nThe story so far\n\n2014: A BBC investigation finds that 17 of the 20 clubs in the top flight at that time had failed to provide enough wheelchair spaces.\n\nSeptember 2015: The Premier League promises to improve stadium facilities for disabled fans, stating that clubs would comply with official guidance by August 2017.\n\nSeptember 2016: Campaigners say up to a third of clubs will miss the deadline to meet basic access standards.\n\nOctober 2016: Leading disability campaigner Lord Holmes tells MPs that legal action against clubs and the Premier League remains an option if standards are not met.\n\nJanuary 2017: A report by MPs says some clubs could face sanctions because they are not doing enough. Manchester United,Liverpool and Everton announce plans to develop their grounds to accommodate more disabled supporters.\n\nFebruary 2017: A Premier League report outlines the detailed work the clubs are undertaking to make sure they meet guidelines but adds that at least three clubs will miss the August 2017 target.\n\nApril 2017: Premier League clubs have made limited progress on improving access for disabled fans, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic clinched a sixth consecutive Scottish title with a flourish as three-goal Scott Sinclair again proved to be a thorn in the flesh of Hearts.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side survived early pressure to sweep to victory and secure the earliest title success, with eight games to spare, in a 38-game campaign.\n\nTwo deadly finishes from Sinclair - he has scored six in three outings against Hearts - edged Celtic ahead.\n\nStuart Armstrong and Patrick Roberts matched them before a Sinclair penalty.\n\nThe final whistle signalled a party in the Edinburgh sunshine as Celtic celebrated their 48th Scottish title - their 12th this century and first with Rodgers as manager.\n\nAnd the records keep tumbling for Celtic, who remain unbeaten in 37 domestic games this season, eclipsing a 100-year-old club record.\n• None How does Celtic's title win compare to other record-breaking runs?\n\nWinning the title in Edinburgh was an act of perfect symmetry for Rodgers' side.\n\nThe Northern Irishman's first domestic game in charge of Celtic was at Tynecastle and the packed stands were playing host to the 300th league meeting between the sides - and the 150th to be hosted by Hearts.\n\nOn that day back on 7 August, a late goal from Sinclair was needed to subdue hosts who were looking to overtake Aberdeen as Celtic's main title challengers after finishing third in their first season back in the top flight.\n\nA Sinclair double also helped secure a 4-0 win over Hearts in Glasgow in January on a day when he deputised up front due to the absence of first-choice strikers Moussa Dembele and deputy Leigh Griffiths.\n\nThat day, the 28-year-old's goals came after he was switched to a more natural wide role, with Roberts in the centre, and that's the way they started at Tynecastle this time out as Rodgers was again denied his two top marksmen through injury.\n\nLesson learned, one-time Manchester City winger Sinclair combined superbly with fellow Englishman Roberts, himself on loan from the Etihad Stadium, twice within three first-half minutes to virtually end Hearts' challenge.\n\nAberdeen's 7-0 thrashing of Dundee on Friday had ensured that Celtic would require another three points to secure the title.\n\nHowever, there were few signs that Hearts had the form to make them wait any longer.\n\nCeltic had arrived at Tynecastle unbeaten in their last 10 visits since their last defeat by Hearts - 2-0 at Tynecastle in October 2011 - with the Edinburgh side only avoiding defeat once during that spell.\n\nSince Ian Cathro had taken over as head coach from MK Dons-bound Robbie Neilson, they had slipped from second to fifth and had won only once in their last seven outings.\n\nYet they had lost only two of their last 14 Premiership home games and they came out full of determination to deny Celtic a title party in their own back yard.\n\nCathro looked to have won the early tactical battle, with his high-pressing game knocking the visitors out their stride and Isma Goncalves twice testing goalkeeper Craig Gordon, who then saved at point-blank range from Jamie Walker.\n\nIt had looked ominous for Hearts when Sinclair played in Callum McGregor to find the net after only two minutes.\n\nThe linesman's flag allowed the home side to breathe again and they were soon giving as good as they got in a fast and furious start that raged from end to end.\n\nMcGregor somehow side-footed wide from only six yards and we began to question Rodgers' decision to switch to an unusual formation with three at the back.\n\nHowever, Sinclair played a clever one-two with Roberts on the edge of the penalty box before thumping high past goalkeeper Jack Hamilton to give Celtic a 24th-minute lead.\n\nIt was soon two as Roberts threaded the ball behind the Hearts defence for Sinclair to score again.\n\nHearts' defensive frailties had come home to roost and Armstrong's 20-yard drive after the break and Roberts' deft chip from the edge of the penalty area ensured the title was on its way back to Glasgow.\n\nSinclair completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot after being pulled down by Krystian Nowak.\n\nWhat now for Celtic? With the League Cup already won, a Scottish Cup semi-final awaits as they seek a domestic treble and the prospect of ending the domestic season unbeaten - a feat no Scottish champions have achieved since the late 19th century.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Andraz Struna (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing.\n• None Goal! Heart of Midlothian 0, Celtic 5. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Krystian Nowak (Heart of Midlothian) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt saved. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Esmael Gonçalves (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Defending champions Saracens eased past Glasgow Warriors to set up a European Champions Cup semi-final with Munster.\n\nOwen Farrell penalties and a powerfully finished try from Chris Ashton put the London club 14-3 up at the interval.\n\nWarriors - in their first European quarter-final - hit back as Lee Jones finished from a fine Finn Russell kick.\n\nBut Marcelo Bosch and Brad Barritt went over before Ashton scored to move level with Vincent Clerc as the all-time leading try scorer in the competition.\n\nHis 36th European try comfortably booked Saracens a semi-final spot for the fifth-straight year and they began like champions, owning the ball, bossing the match, pinning Glasgow in their own 22 and threatening to score with every attack. Glasgow were under the cosh, hanging on for grim life.\n\nThe first of the near things came after just two minutes when Zander Fagerson was ransacked by Jim Hamilton in the Glasgow half. Saracens worked their way downfield, spun it wide to Ashton and only the scrambling Jones snuffed out the danger, the wing just about putting his opposite number into touch.\n\nFour minutes later the black waves washed over Glasgow again. Again it had its origins in a Glasgow error - Henry Pyrgos missing touch - and again they had to rely on last-ditch defending to keep Saracens out, Tommy Seymour doing the job on Sean Maitland this time.\n\nFarrell knocked over a penalty soon after, a scant return on their possession. For Glasgow, there was the desperate blow of Jonny Gray's injury, a loss that meant they were now without their two main hitters in the second-row having also had to do without the suspended Tim Swinson.\n\nThey dragged themselves level through a Russell penalty, then fell behind again with another for Farrell. Saracens got the reward that their possession demanded when Ashton went over in the corner, the arch-finisher at it again.\n\nFarrell's missed conversion kept it at 14-3 to the break. Glasgow had not existed as an attacking force, but they stirred after the restart and manufactured a score out of nothing. Russell's crossfield kick was fielded by Jones who beat Alex Goode, handed-off Ashton and ran on to score. Russell's conversion hit an upright, but, still, they had precious momentum at last.\n\nThey had it - and then they lost it. Glasgow became ragged, ruinously missing a simple kick to touch and inviting Saracens back on to them. The heavyweights took advantage as true heavyweights do. Schalk Brits launched the first attack, then Ali Price did brilliantly to scamper after and haul down a Richard Wigglesworth breakaway. But the Glasgow dam burst open just after and in Saracens flowed, Bosch driving through two tacklers and stepping around Price to score. Farrell's conversion made it 21-8. Too good.\n\nThe fly-half added a penalty as Saracens carried on pounding away at the Glasgow line. Later still there was another Saracens try that began when they won a strike against the head in the scrum. The visitors were out on their feet now. Saracens went right, then cut back and went left, Barritt finishing it off. Farrell made it 31-8 with the boot.\n\nA fourth try came as Saracens drove the stake deeper. Glasgow's messed up at a lineout and they were made to pay. The hosts went at them, worked an overlap against a jaded team and Ashton got his second of the day. Farrell's conversion was good.\n\nRyan Wilson got a consolation at the death, but there was a gulf between these teams. Saracens controlled this quarter-final from the first minutes and got their rewards towards the end. Glasgow did well to make the knockouts for the first time in their history, but there's no mercy in the last eight. Life is brutal among the elite.\n\nJeremy Guscott on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra: \"Glasgow have shown their class by not giving up and they know now how much they have to do if they want to make their first semi-final.\n\n\"The experience of winning before helps Saracens. Glasgow didn't have an answer for the added impetus of the Saracens subs.\"\n\nSaracens fly-half Owen Farrell: \"We have got some great line-runners here that are going to hold people in. When people are running lines like we had today then there are always going to be opportunities.\"\n\nGlasgow scrum-half Henry Pyrgos: \"Saracens were quality today. We were in the game for 60 minutes but they were ruthless in the last 20. We had a lot of confidence and were in the game but a couple of mistakes which Saracens punished took it away from us.\n\n\"This is the start for us as a club, the first time in the knock-outs and we want to be here again next year.\"", "Ciara Horne was taken to hospital with severe cuts and bruises on Thursday\n\nWelsh cyclist Ciara Horne says she needs psychological help before returning to road training after being knocked off her bike while commuting.\n\nThe double European champion said she fears she suffered a fractured wrist in the incident on Thursday but knows she \"escaped serious injury\".\n\nThe 27-year-old - Team GB's reserve as they won 2016 Olympic Team Pursuit gold in Rio - said she had lost confidence.\n\n\"It's frightening and has made me question my safety,\" she said.\n\nThe full-time physiotherapist was riding from her home in Cardiff to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant when the incident happened.\n\nCiara Horne (far right) was part of the GB team that won bronze at the 2016 World Championships\n\nShe was rushed to hospital in an ambulance with severe cuts and bruises and will have an MRI scan on a suspected fracture of the scaphoid, a bone in the wrist, on Monday.\n\nMiss Horne has had \"get well soon\" wishes from British cycling greats Jo Rowsell Shand, Laura Trott and Geraint Thomas since the incident near Pontyclun Fire Station in Rhondda Cynon Taff.\n\n\"As the car pulled from a side road straight out in front of me, I couldn't swerve or brake in time so hit it,\" she recalled.\n\n\"I bounced off the windscreen. As I crashed to the floor, my head was spinning and couldn't close my jaw. I was pretty hysterical.\n\n\"The man in the car behind me stopped and rung my mum. He said it was 'spectacular' and I was 'lucky to be alive' so I'm blessed to still be here.\"\n\nMiss Horne competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and is expected to be in the Welsh cycling squad, including Olympic gold medal winner Elinor Barker, that is among the favourites to win the four-rider, 4km team pursuit title at next year's Commonwealths in Australia.\n\nBut she told the BBC: \"It's frightening and has made me question my safety.\n\n\"I have lost a lot of confidence on the road. I know I should get straight back on the road but I will need the help of the brilliant Sport Wales psychologists who I can talk to, to build my belief back up.\n\n\"You don't ever think something like this is going to happen to you, it gave me one hell of a fright.\n\n\"My fitness is good, but I need to work on the mental side now and have a phased return to the road.\n\n\"I have a lot of soft tissue injuries and I know they take time to heal, often longer than broken bones.\"\n\nCiara Horne won two bronze medals at the 2016 World Championships\n\nMiss Horne has stepped away from British Cycling in Manchester to work full-time, as well as being funded by Welsh Cycling and training in Newport.\n\nShe will now take inspiration from fellow Welsh rider Becky James, the former double world champion, who recovered from a cancer scare and a chronic knee condition to win two silver medals at last year's Rio Olympics.\n\n\"Her Olympic silvers were like gold,\" said Miss Horne. \"She came back from numerous injuries and I hope I can do something similar. She's an inspiration.\n\n\"It's all about the journey and learning from adversity to come back stronger.\"\n\nCiara Horne was an unused reserve rider for the team pursuit squad at the 2016 Olympics in Rio", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 1 April brings changes to some important rates and taxes\n\nHousehold budgets are likely to be further stretched in the first week of April, as dozens of items including water bills, council tax, NHS charges, and some broadband and energy charges all rise.\n\nThose on welfare will feel the squeeze especially, as payment rates are frozen for the second year in succession, and the generosity of some benefits are reduced.\n\nHowever, those in work are likely to become better off, as tax rates become more generous, and the National Living Wage also rises.\n\nSome of these changes will occur on 1 April, at the start of the government's financial year, while others occur on 6 April, the start of the tax year.\n\nFrom 6 April the personal allowance - the annual amount you can earn before paying tax - rises from £11,000 to £11,500. This should save over 20 million people £100 a year, and take thousands out of tax altogether.\n\nAt the same time the starting point for paying the higher, or 40%, rate of tax will move from £43,000 to £45,000. This will save higher rate taxpayers a further £400 a year.\n\nHowever, in Scotland the higher rate threshold has been frozen at £43,000, so better-off taxpayers north of the border will see no benefit.\n\nMillions of people over the age of 25 will receive a 4% pay rise from 1 April, as the National Living Wage (NLW) increases from £7.20 an hour to £7.50.\n\nHowever, those between the ages of 21 and 24, who receive the National Minimum Wage (NMW), will get a rise of only 1.4% - well below the current 2.3% CPI inflation rate.\n\nSavers can apply to open a new Lifetime Isa (Lisa) from 6 April. The government will add a 25% bonus to your savings after a year, up to a maximum of £1,000. The Lisa is designed for people who want to buy a property, or need a retirement income.\n\nAnyone nearing the age of 40 is advised to consider opening a Lisa soon, as those over that age cannot start an account.\n\nMore details about the Lisa here.\n\nThe allowance for saving into an ordinary Individual Savings Account (Isa) goes up from £15,250 to £20,000 from 6 April.\n\nThe money can be invested in a cash Isa, or in stocks and shares.\n\nThere is no tax to pay on income from an Isa, or on any capital gain.\n\nAnyone buying a new car from 1 April will pay a different rate of Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).\n\nThis is because car emissions have got so much cleaner that most of them would no longer qualify for VED at all.\n\nNew buyers will pay a special rate in the first year, depending on engine emissions, followed by a fixed rate in one of three categories thereafter: zero emission, standard or premium.\n\nThe standard rate will be £140. Luxury cars, costing more than £40,000 will pay an extra £310.\n\nRates for existing car owners will not change.\n\nInheritance tax will become less onerous for people who want to leave property to their children.\n\nCurrently, any estate worth more than £325,000 carries a tax liability of 40% on anything above that threshold.\n\nBut from 6 April there will be a new transferable main residence allowance on property within the estate, enabling individuals to pass on an extra £100,000 tax free.\n\nCouples who are married, or in a civil partnership, will now be able to pass on £850,000 in total without paying tax, an amount that will rise to £1m by 2021.\n\nPeople living in England will see the steepest general rise in council tax. From 1 April the rise will average 4%, equating to £61 for a typical Band D property. The rise will be smaller in district councils, which do not have responsibility for social care, and up to 4.99% in those that do.\n\nIn Scotland the average rise is 3%, equating to about £32 for a Band D property. However, householders in the top four bands (E to H) will see extra increases, due to MSPs deciding to increase the \"multiplyer\". Those with properties in band E will see typical rises of £105 a year, while those in band H are likely to pay £517 more.\n\nCouncil taxpayers in Wales will see a rise of 3.1% on average, equal to about £35 a year on a Band D property.\n\nRate-payers in Northern Ireland have still not been told what their bill will be, due to political issues.\n\nFrom 6 April there will be cuts to future child tax credits. Where a first child is born after this date, claimants will no longer receive the family element of the payment, worth £545 a year.\n\nThose whose first child was born before 6 April will see no change.\n\nIn addition, those who have a third or subsequent child after this date will no longer receive a payment for that child - limiting future tax credits to two children only.\n\nThe same will apply to people claiming universal credit. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculates that as a result of this change alone, 600,000 three-child families will on average be £2,500 worse off than under the old system.\n\nBut in practice no existing parent, and no existing claimant, will actually lose money.\n\nFrom Monday 3 April new claimants for the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) of ESA will receive £29 a week less than existing claimants. These are people whom the government judges may be capable of working at some stage in the future.\n\nThey will receive £73 instead of £102, to bring them into line with claimants for Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA).\n\nThe IFS has estimated that half a million future claimants will receive £1,400 a year less than current claimants.\n\nApril 2017 sees the start of the second year in which many state benefits will be frozen. This includes JSA, ESA, child benefit and some housing benefit payments.\n\nGiven that CPI inflation is currently running at 2.3%, this will amount to a real terms cut for tens of millions of people.\n\nThe freeze is due to last until March 2020.\n\nFrom 10 April, those people who claim universal credit (UC) will be allowed to keep more of what they earn from a job before their benefits are reduced.\n\nPreviously those in work were allowed to keep 35p out of every pound they earned, before their UC payment was cut.\n\nNow they will be allowed to keep 37p in every pound. This is as a result of the so-called taper rate being reduced from 65% to 63%.\n\nThe cost of an NHS prescription in England rises on 1 April from £8.40 to £8.60. However the cost of pre-payment cards has been frozen.\n\nDental charges in England are also rising. The cost of a check-up will go up by 90p to £20.60, the cost of a filling goes up by £2.40 to £56.30, and the most complex work will go up by £10 to £244.30.\n\nFrom 1 April, four million consumers who use pre-payment meters for their gas and electricity will see their charges capped. The regulator, Ofgem, says they should each save around £80 a year.\n\nHowever, on average they were paying £220 more than other consumers, so they will still be paying a higher charge than others.\n\nWater and sewerage bills will go up on 1 April. The average rise in England and Wales is 2%, making a typical annual bill £395. In Scotland the rise will be 1.6%, or around £5 per household.\n\nResidents of Northern Ireland pay for water through their rates bills.\n\nSome energy bills will rise significantly. SSE customers on standard tariffs will see electricity prices rise by 14.9% on 28 April. E.On will increase electricity prices by 13.8%, and gas prices by 3.8%, on 26 April. Most other suppliers increased their prices in March.\n\nSeveral telecoms companies, including BT, EE and Vodafone are putting up prices. The cost of BT broadband, for example, will go up by £2.50 a month.\n\nOn 1 April the cost of a TV licence goes up by £1.50, to £147.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic have won a sixth consecutive Scottish Premiership title with eight games to spare after thrashing Hearts 5-0 at Tynecastle on Sunday.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side needed three points against fifth-placed Hearts to be confirmed as champions after Aberdeen hammered Dundee on Friday.\n\nAnd they did so with a hat-trick from Scott Sinclair and goals from Stuart Armstrong and Patrick Roberts.\n\nUnbeaten Celtic have dropped just four points so far during their campaign.\n\n\"My job when I came in was to win it in the best way we possibly could,\" said Rodgers.\n\n\"We have had many outstanding performances, but we have only just begun because there's still an awful lot of development in this team. That's the real exciting part.\"\n• None How does Celtic's title win compare with other record-breaking runs?\n\nWhat's left to play for this season?\n\nCeltic are still on course to win the domestic treble, having beaten Aberdeen in November to win the League Cup, while they face rivals Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-finals later this month.\n\nThe last time the club won all three major Scottish domestic trophies in one season was 2000-01 and the feat has only been achieved once since - when Rangers claimed a treble in 2002-03.\n\n\"The run we're on is incredible,\" said Rodgers in an interview with Football Focus prior to Sunday's title-clinching victory.\n\n\"In terms of the treble, we never really mention it. Obviously the supporters can dream, which is great, but we have to just think about performing and playing well.\"\n\nCeltic could also became the first team to go a full 38-game Scottish Premiership campaign unbeaten.\n\nThe last time a Scottish side went a full season unbeaten was Rangers in 1898-99, while Celtic did the same the year before - but the season only lasted 18 games.\n\nFormer Liverpool boss Rodgers was appointed in May 2016 to replace Ronny Deila, who quit at the end of last season after two mixed years in charge.\n\nDeila led Celtic to back-to-back titles but failed to deliver success in Europe, losing to Maribor and Malmo in the last round of Champions League qualifying and also finishing last in their Europa League group in 2015-16.\n\nRodgers' first major task was to qualify for the Champions League group stages, only for Celtic to suffer arguably the worst defeat in their history against Gibraltarian part-time side Lincoln Red Imps in the second qualifying round first leg.\n\nAfter winning the second leg to progress, they needed a stoppage-time penalty from Moussa Dembele to edge past Kazakh side Astana in the third qualifying round before hanging on away to Hapoel Beer Sheva of Israel to reach the group stages.\n\nOnce there, they suffered their heaviest European defeat in a 7-0 thrashing by Barcelona but recovered to secure two draws against Premier League side Manchester City and a draw at German side Borussia Monchengladbach.\n\n\"We need a couple of players in order to compete at Champions League level - we had some really good performances but there is certain dynamic, power and technique we need,\" Rodgers told Sky Sports after Sunday's title win.\n\nA summer clearout led to forwards Carlton Cole, Anthony Stokes, Colin Kazim-Richards and Stefan Scepovic all departing Celtic Park.\n\nYet the club were not left short of attacking talent after the signings of Dembele from Fulham and Scott Sinclair from Aston Villa.\n\nDembele, 20, has scored 32 goals this season and is now one of Europe's most sought-after talents, while 28-year-old winger Sinclair has struck 21 times in all competitions.\n\nRodgers has also improved the fortunes of players he inherited, most notably 25-year-old central midfielder Stuart Armstrong, who has impressed since becoming a regular starter after October, making his Scotland debut in March.\n• None Read more: Tom English on the Rodgers effect at Celtic\n\nFormer Celtic striker Chris Sutton: \"People can knock the Scottish league as much as they like, but at the start of the season, Rangers thought they could push Celtic.\n\n\"Brendan has done nothing wrong - unbeaten in the league, relative success in Europe given that the last manager was really poor and they had no right to get in the Champions League. I didn't think they'd get in the Europa League.\n\n\"He has worked wonders this season and should get credit for that.\n\n\"The pressure for Rodgers was going to come in the early part of the season, because the Celtic fans expected this season and expectation was high.\n\n\"He's totally transformed the playing personnel, made good signings and the team is a million times better.\"\n\nFormer Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner: \"Celtic will buy one or two more players and they can attract quality since they are in the Champions League.\n\n\"They did it in style. Their finishing was magnificent against Hearts - once they settled into this game, there was no chance of Hearts winning it.\n\n\"The way Celtic have gone about their business from day one has been exceptional. It's been a joy to watch them this season.\"\n\nRodgers has been suggested as a possible replacement for Arsene Wenger should the Arsenal boss decide to leave at the end of the season.\n\nThe Northern Irishman himself has said he wants to \"give more years\" to Celtic and is a supporter of what he calls \"one of the most iconic clubs in the world\".\n\nBut could Rodgers make a return to the Premier League?\n\nFormer Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann: \"Brendan Rodgers has got more chance and justification to get a big job now then he did at the time when he went to Liverpool.\n\n\"To go a whole season unbeaten, which they can still do, to get in the Champions League against all the odds and give Manchester City a game - of course they had a heavy defeat to Barcelona but it's happened to others.\n\n\"If you look at that Arsenal job, Rodgers could be one of the first names on the list.\"\n\nSunday Times football correspondent Jonathan Northcroft: \"Rodgers is still in the rebuilding phase of his career.\n\n\"I'm a fan of his in general, but this will be his first league title and he only just won his first trophy in November, so he's quite a long way away from being the man to succeed Arsene Wenger.\n\n\"He got quite sensitive towards the end of his time with Liverpool, towards how things were covered - he was banning the press.\n\n\"If he wants another big job, he's going to have to handle that properly.\"", "It was one of the worst school shootings in American history, but some people insist that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened. They post YouTube videos and spread rumours online, and their false theories have been repeated by a media mogul conspiracy theorist who has been linked to Donald Trump. Now, after years of harassment, the families of the victims are fighting back online.\n\nLeonard Pozner clicks on a YouTube video showing his street and the outside of his home. The camera zooms in on his balcony, and his address and a route to his door flash up on the screen.\n\nThere's no narration on the video - but there doesn't need to be. The message is clear: \"We know where you live.\"\n\nBecause of videos like this one - there are dozens on YouTube, and more appear ever day - Pozner doesn't want to disclose the city where he now lives. He's had death threats and has moved several times in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lenny Pozner lost his son Noah in the Sandy Hook shootings, and then had to fight trolls who said it never happened\n\nLeonard Pozner has been targeted because he's fought back against trolls and conspiracy theorists who make sweeping and false allegations about the murder of his son.\n\n\"Noah was just a regular six-year-old child,\" says Leonard, who's also known as Lenny. \"I dropped him off that morning - it really was an ordinary day of getting the kids ready for school.\n\n\"Then an hour-and-a-half later it was just the worst nightmare. Worse than any nightmare I could have imagined.\"\n\nThe nightmare began on 14 December 2012 when a young man named Adam Lanza killed his mother and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School. In a matter of minutes, he shot dead 20 children and six adults, before taking his own life.\n\nEven in a country where mass shootings are common, Sandy Hook stood out. The pupils were so young, and there were so many of them. Hundreds were traumatised - and many still are - after witnessing the carnage and its aftermath.\n\nAnd yet despite extensive investigations and a report which determined that Lanza acted alone, conspiracy theorists have constructed a fake alternate reality in which the whole thing was an elaborate hoax, staged by the government to try to introduce strict gun control laws.\n\nThey seize on small inconsistencies between initial news reports from the chaotic scene and the facts. The more extreme among them have targeted the families of Sandy Hook victims. There have been at least two arrests linked to the hoax theories. On Wednesday, a warrant was issued for a Florida woman who is accused of harassing Lenny Pozner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sister of a Sandy Hook victim tells the BBC she is getting threats from conspiracy theorists\n\n\"We're a luckier family,\" says Hannah D'Avino, whose sister Rachel was a behavioural therapist at Sandy Hook Elementary School. \"I personally will get about like three death threats a year because we don't speak up that much.\"\n\nOn a sunny, late winter's day in New England, Hannah sits in the stately Newtown Public Library, down the road from where her sister was murdered. She recalls her sister's spirit, her profound positive influence on her life, and her work with autistic children.\n\nHer voice is subdued, but quivers with quiet determination.\n\n\"My sister was murdered 11 days before Christmas and I consider myself lucky because I don't have a stalker,\" she tells me. \"That's the situation I'm in right now.\"\n\nSome of the conspiracy theorists are regular visitors to this small hamlet in suburban Connecticut. In addition to the death threats and harassment directed at Lenny, Hannah and others, they've made videos of the school and local area and ask questions of locals and family members, and have posted the footage on YouTube.\n\nAnd their theories have been picked up by one of America's most popular conspiracy theorists, a man who has been linked with President Donald Trump.\n\nThe online storm has prompted Lenny to form a volunteer network to track and take down the conspiracy theory videos and websites.\n\nAnd other Sandy Hook residents are pleading with President Trump, asking him to speak out and help stop the madness.\n\nYou can hear this story on BBC Trending on the BBC World Service or on The Sandy Hook Deniers on BBC Radio 4, Sunday 2 April at 13:30\n\nAnd for more Trending stories, download our podcast\n\nWolfgang Halbig is one of the chief conspiracy theorists who denies the massacre happened\n\nWolfgang Halbig lives in a big yellow house in a sunny, lavishly landscaped gated community in Florida. He's a retired school administrator and safety advisor, and he says that when he first heard news of the Sandy Hook shootings, he was sitting in a chair in his living room, drinking coffee.\n\n\"My hairs stood up,\" he says. \"Because they're not protected in the elementary schools.\"\n\nHalbig donated money to the Sandy Hook families. But he soon became both obsessed with the tragedy - and, somehow, convinced that it never happened.\n\n\"I think 14 Dec 2012 is an event that was in planning for a long, long time,\" he tells me. \"I think it probably took them two, two-and-a-half years to write the scripts for all the participants that were invited to participate in that exercise - or drill as I will call it.\"\n\nHalbig has since devoted years of his life to \"exposing\" what he thinks is a government plot. He started a website. He's revealed personal information about the victims of his attacks, including names, addresses, legal documents and financial information. And he's personally travelled to Sandy Hook a number of times.\n\n\"I call it an illusion. The biggest government illusion that's ever been pulled off by [the US Department of] Homeland Security.\"\n\nIn his office, ghoulish blown-up pictures of the crime scene mingle with pictures of his family and his days as an American football player. His so-called evidence consists of a string of tiny details, small anomalies which are for the most part easily explained by the inchoate nature of a horrific breaking news event.\n\n\"I'll be honest with you,\" he says, \"if I'm wrong, I need to be institutionalised.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConspiracy theories are a perennial feature of American life. But now they can be picked up by extremists and spread virally through social media. And that process has been fuelled by America's deeply partisan political environment.\n\nHundreds of videos online are pushing false Sandy Hook narratives. Collectively, they have millions of views. Falsehoods are repeated by Twitter accounts and on Facebook.\n\nStill, the theories might have stayed quarantined in some of the darker corners of the internet, were they not picked up and amplified by one of America's most popular conspiracy theorists.\n\nAlex Jones is a talk show host and the founder of the multimedia portal Infowars. Regular listeners and readers are used to his rants on everything from 9/11 to attacks across Europe. And on several broadcasts he embraced the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists. Less than two years after the attacks, he welcomed Halbig on his programme and talked about an Infowars story headlined \"FBI says no one killed at Sandy Hook\".\n\n\"Internet sleuths immediately took to the web to stitch together clues indicating the shooting could be a carefully-scripted false flag event, similar to the 9/11 terror attacks, the central tenet being that the event would be used to galvanize future support for gun control legislation,\" the story stated.\n\nHe returned to the theme several months later on his radio show: \"I've had the investigators on, the state police have gone public, you name it - the whole thing is a giant hoax. And the problem is, how do you deal with a total hoax? How do you even convince the public something's a total hoax?\"\n\nLater he said: \"Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they had actors there clearly but I thought they killed some real kids, and it just shows how bold they are, that they clearly used actors.\"\n\nThe liberal think tank Media Matters for America has listed other instances of Jones accusing the parents of murdered children being actors or casting doubt on the Sandy Hook investigation. Matt Gertz of Media Matters says that online and on air, Jones has an audience of about 8 million.\n\n\"It's kind of remarkable, but believing that Sandy Hook was a hoax is actually fairly small ball for an Alex Jones conspiracy,\" Gertz says. \"He thinks that a set of global elites are planning to murder 80% of the world populace and enslave the rest of them. He has claimed that the federal government has a weather machine that they use to target tornado strikes on unfriendly populaces.\n\n\"He is sort of the nexus for what's really a distributed network of conspiracy theorists who are on Facebook or on Twitter or using sites like Reddit or 4Chan or 8Chan.\"\n\nJones (left) along with former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone (centre) and journalist Jonathan Alter at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio\n\nJones, who did not respond to repeated requests for an interview, has also been linked to President Trump. In late 2015, Trump appeared on Jones's radio programme. At the end of a half-hour interview, the candidate told the host: \"I just want to finish by saying your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down, you will be very very impressed I hope.\n\n\"And I think we'll be speaking a lot... a year into office, you'll be saying 'Wow, I remember that interview, he said he was going to do it, and he did a great job.' You'll be very proud of our country.\"\n\nFormer Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone regularly appears on Jones's show, and reportedly was the person who introduced the presidential candidate and the talk show host.\n\nTrump has retweeted Infowars reporters and stories (for example here and here) and stories of dubious provenance that first appeared on the site have regularly shown up in Trump speeches and tweets.\n\nTo take just one example: in November 2016, Trump tweeted: \"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.\"\n\nThe message repeated an allegation with scant basis in fact - a story that had appeared on Infowars earlier that month.\n\nTrump has not endorsed the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, nor has he spoken about Jones's claims that the massacre was a hoax. The White House did not respond to a number of requests for comment, including a series of questions about the relationship between the president and Jones.\n\nJones himself has tried to make the most of his connections to Trump. He claims the president called him shortly after winning the election and has spoken to him since, although the the New York Times reported that a Trump aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, \"played down the frequency of their contact\".\n\n\"It is surreal to talk about issues here on air and then word-for-word hear Trump say it two days later,\" Jones said on his radio show in August 2016. \"It is amazing.\"\n\nGertz, from Media Matters for America, says that there is evidence that Jones does talk with the president. But he cautions that both men have had a history of pushing conspiracy theories and presenting \"alternative facts\".\n\n\"So trying to nail down for sure what their relationship is, based on the statements that they say about each other, is pretty dicey,\" he says.\n\nLess than two weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Jones posted a video which he declared was his \"final statement\" on Sandy Hook. In it, he claimed he had been unfairly treated by the media.\n\n\"I've always said I'm not sure what really happened, but there's a lot of anomalies and there has been a cover-up of what did happen there,\" he said.\n\n\"There is some evidence that people died there,\" he said. \"I don't know what the truth is, all I know is the official story of Sandy Hook has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.\"\n\nHe then played a montage of news clips and material from his Sandy Hook programmes over the years, including footage of Wolfgang Halbig. He did not include his \"Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors\" quote. In signing off, he took another swipe at parents of murdered children who spoke to the media in the aftermath of the attacks.\n\n\"If children were lost in Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and every one of those parents and the people who say they're parents that I see on the news. The only problem is, I've seen a lot of soap operas, and I've seen actors before, and I know when I'm watching a movie and when I'm watching something real. Let's look into Sandy Hook.\"\n\nIn front of his computer screen in his undisclosed location, Lenny Pozner is taking on the conspiracy theorists. He flicks through a YouTube page and points out a new video.\n\n\"Look - this was just posted,\" he says. \"It's a hoaxer type video - it's insulting, it has images of people who were connected to the tragedy.\"\n\nThe thumbnail picture has a photo of his son Noah's headstone. There's text on the picture which reads: \"empty grave\". In the video, there's a picture of Lenny himself.\n\n\"Here's a photo of me taken two days after my child was killed and I'm being called a liar fraud and terrorist,\" he says. \"That's how they vilify people.\"\n\nLenny used to be a casual Infowars listener - he liked to listen to conspiracy theories as entertainment. That's how he initially found out that his son's murder was being denied by the conspiracy theorists.\n\nAt first he tried to engage with them through a Facebook group. But soon the mood among the hard-core hoaxers hardened.\n\n\"The only people that would come into the groups were trolls,\" he says. \"They were just coming in for their own amusement... after that I decided that the most important thing would be to start taking down content that's spreading this information,\" he says.\n\nEvery day, Lenny scrolls though reams of conspiracy minded content, complaining to social networks and attempting to get videos and posts taken down using network rules about copyright, decency and harassment. And he's created an organisation, the Honr Network, to help the fight against the hoaxers.\n\nAfter four years of pain, compounded by the harassers and the conspiracy mongers, people in Sandy Hook are tired - and some of them are asking the president to step in.\n\nI meet Eric Paradis, a local Democratic Party official, in a bar down the road from Sandy Hook. One of Paradis's daughters was at Sandy Hook Elementary on the day of the shooting - she survived.\n\nAlthough Alex Jones has not been involved in the harassment of the families, Paradis says the president could use his influence to push Jones and the conspiracy theorists to the fringes, and help stop the harassment of Sandy Hook victims.\n\n\"The town committee wanted to put a letter together asking the president to denounce these hoaxers and tell them look… these are real children who died,\" he says.\n\nHis letter is still under consideration by local officials. It reads:\n\n\"[Jones] continues to spread hate and lies towards our town, towards the people and organizations who came to help us through those darkest days. Jones repeatedly tells his listeners and viewers that he has your ears and your respect. He brags about how you called him after your victory in November. Emboldened by your victory, he continues to hurt the memories of those lost, the ability of those left behind to heal.\"\n\nThe letter goes on to ask Trump to \"intervene and stop Jones and others hoaxers like him\". Paradis says he and other Democrats tried to avoid making the letter about Trump's larger political agenda.\n\n\"I really do think he can help us put a stop to it, because he does have a unique position with these hoaxers,\" he says. \"If he can help us out then that's fantastic and a Democrat [like me] would be very grateful if he could.\"\n\nLenny Pozner continues to take action against the trolls. He's filed a lawsuit against Halbig, alleging invasion of privacy. Halbig is fighting the suit, which is just getting underway, and says that if he loses, he'll check himself into a mental institution.\n\nLenny turns back to his computer, where he spots more conspiracy theory videos. So will he ever stop trying to fight the hoaxers?\n\n\"I don't know,\" he says. \"I would like not to have to do this. I would like to just leave it alone and feel the memory of my child is sacred and other people are also treating it that way,\" he says, \"but as long as they're not - I feel I need to defend that memory.\"\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.\n\nRead more from Trending: The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children\n\nThousands of videos on YouTube look like versions of popular cartoons but contain disturbing and inappropriate content not suitable for children. READ MORE", "Find out who won the inaugural celebrity boat race between teams led by Olympic gold medallists Steve Redgrave and James Cracknell.\n\nREAD MORE: Oxford triumph in men's race after Cambridge women win", "Afghanistan has been labelled one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. One study suggested 87% of women in the country experience some form of domestic violence. Sodaba Haidare visited one place in the capital Kabul that offers hope to women escaping abuse.\n\nAryan's shift in the kitchen has come to an end. She removes her apron and hat. Glimpses of her personality are revealed - she's wearing a colourful tunic over her black jeans, and she he has a mole exactly between her eyebrows - as if someone planted it in the perfect position.\n\nShe places a glass of fresh lemon juice on the table sits down across from me. Aryan is strikingly beautiful and moves with confidence. Yet it's hard to believe we are the same age. She is 24 but has the look of a much older woman. It's because of the years of abuse she endured at the hands of her violent husband.\n\nShe was only 16 when her parents arranged her marriage to a man she'd never met. Soon after the wedding, her husband and mother-in-law started beating her. She stuck it out, hoping things would get better with time. But they got worse.\n\nBy the time she realised she was in an abusive relationship, she already had three children.\n\nOne day, when Aryan's husband left for work, she examined the fresh bruises he'd left on her face, then packed her bags and took her children to the police station.\n\nWomen who suffer domestic abuse are usually turned away by Afghan police or persuaded to go back to their husbands for their family's honour. But Aryan thought her injuries would make the police take her seriously. And they did.\n\nShe was sent to a women's shelter, where she and her children lived ever since, with other women who have also escaped domestic violence. She often dreams of a future where she has her own place, where she can live without the fear of her ex-husband coming near her or her children.\n\nThe path to this dream becoming reality lies in the heart of Kabul. And it begins in a traditionally decorated Afghan restaurant called Bost.\n\nHope is at the heart of its mission. The place is run by survivors of domestic violence and here, women are celebrated as strong, independent human beings, not just victims. Bost is a base for eight women, of all ages. Working empowers them to write a new chapter in their lives.\n\nIt's a long and often difficult process. Still, it helps that every corner of this restaurant pays homage to powerful women. The place screams female empowerment.\n\nEvery wall is hung with pictures of women with unique stories.\n\nThere is Queen Soraya, the wife of King Amanullah, who dressed in European fashion and believed women should shed the veil, and that a man should only have one wife. She was also the minister of education, who opened the country's first school for girls in the 1920s.\n\nThen there is the current first lady, Rula Ghani, a Christian-born Lebanese woman, who surprised Afghans by speaking out about women's rights.\n\nThere are also lesser-known faces, Afghan women who have been killed simply for doing their jobs. Lt Islam Bibi, for example - a young police officer who suffered death threats from her own brother and was then shot down by unknown gunmen on her way to work. Their stories are not forgotten.\n\nAnother wall pays homage to Afghanistan itself, with images of three different women in vibrant, traditional clothes. They symbolise each region of this fractured nation.\n\nThere's a small stage, decorated with a handmade Afghan rug. Here female performers sit and play the long-necked string instrument known as the Tambur - or even the guitar or violin. It's an unusual sight in Afghanistan's conservative society, where many believe music should be forbidden - never mind played by women.\n\nNow a divorcee, Aryan has adored the three months that she's spent here. It has changed her.\n\nShe is no longer the insecure and scared woman she once was, who had to raise her arms in self-defence, who would cower at the slightest aggressive word. But her husband has left her with a lasting hatred of men. She thinks all men are abusive - but little by little that's changing too.\n\nHere, every day she sees men come to the restaurant with their families - men who are kind and caring. And she sees something that she never experienced. Love.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Smugglers being chased by the Royal Navy. Virtually every seaside community in Britain saw its share of smuggling in the 18th Century\n\nA boat beaches in a lonely cove at night, the crew hurriedly unloading its cargo of tea to waiting men and pack horses while armed lookouts stand guard against a surprise swoop by the revenue men.\n\nIt may be a stereotypical image, but in the 18th Century, a cuppa was in such high demand that many Britons were willing to risk jail for the privilege.\n\nIn fact, this kind of smuggling was a vital part of Britain's economy for some 200 years.\n\nIt was a trade triggered by increasingly high tariffs or duties, taxes a merchant would have to pay to legally import tea.\n\nThe duties on importing tea reached a staggering 119% in the 1750s - which meant that if you could avoid paying the tax, the cost of your brew dropped by more than half.\n\nTea became hugely popular in Britain in the 1700s\n\nNot surprisingly many customers turned to the smugglers, who were willing to risk imprisonment or have their ships destroyed and goods seized if they were caught.\n\nWhen import taxes or tariffs are low, there's not much profit to be made from smuggling.\n\nConversely, when a government makes it expensive to legally import items it encourages smugglers who can undercut the official price.\n\nTea was one of the most important items illegally brought into Britain in the 18th Century - everybody wanted to drink it, but most could not afford it at the official price.\n\nTea chests in London in the 1950s - the nation's love affair with the drink has endured\n\nIn an age before income tax, tea duties accounted for 10% of government revenues, which was enough to pay for the Royal Navy, but as tariffs on it reached 119% it gave smugglers their chance.\n\n\"If you had high tariffs and goods people wanted, it gave smugglers a business opportunity,\" says Exeter University historian Helen Doe.\n\nMore than 3,000 tonnes of tea was smuggled into Britain a year by the late 1700s, with just 2,000 tonnes imported legally.\n\nIn some areas whole communities were dependent on smuggling, from landowners who might finance the operation down to the fishermen who might be crewing the boats.\n\nThere were three main types of smuggling, says Robert Blyth, senior curator at the National Maritime Museum in London.\n\nA romanticised view of the smuggling trade; in reality smugglers often used threats of violence against customs men\n\n\"There's small-scale smuggling, where you might row your boat out to meet a ship and take off some of its cargo to sell illegally, the ship's captain declaring the missing cargo as 'spoiled at sea' when it gets to port to officially unload the rest,\" he says.\n\n\"Then there are commercially organised groups bringing contraband into harbours across the UK in a sophisticated operation.\n\n\"Finally, you have simple theft and pilfering in major ports like London from ships that have already moored, but have not yet been checked by the revenue.\"\n\nIt wasn't just the British who were developing a taste for tea. The popularity of the drink in Sweden meant the country also played an important role in 18th Century smuggling into Britain.\n\nGothenburg was the base for the Swedish East India Company's operations\n\nSwedish East India Company merchants were able to buy the best quality Chinese tea because unlike other European countries they were prepared to pay in silver - rather than seeking to barter or trade.\n\nQuite a few were actually Scottish, political refugees who had fled to Sweden after the failure of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, and who thus saw little wrong in avoiding paying tax to Britain's Hanoverian government.\n\nSo popular was this trade that newspapers in Scotland and northern England openly carried adverts for this smuggled tea, called \"Gottenburgh Teas\".\n\nBuilding specialised docks with guarded warehouses helped cut down stealing of goods once ships had reached London\n\nFor many tea traders in Britain, buying smuggled tea made sense, says Derek Janes, a history researcher at Exeter University.\n\n\"Britain's own East India Company had a monopoly on tea imports, so if an Edinburgh merchant wanted to buy it you had to go to London, you had to pay to bring it back to Scotland - and you had to pay upfront.\n\n\"But if you bought it from the smugglers it would be half the price - with no tax to pay - they would deliver to your door and you would get up to four months credit. A much better service!\"\n\nOne of those involved in this trade was John Nisbet, who became rich enough to commission architect John Adams to design his harbourside mansion in Eyemouth in the Scottish borders, complete with hidden partitions for the smuggled tea.\n\nOften when the customs officials got a tip-off about his ship it was too late - the cargo had already been smuggled ashore. And if a smuggler did have his goods seized, he could sometimes negotiate a price to buy it back from the government.\n\n\"John Nisbet had a ship and cargo seized, but you can see the lawyer for the board of customs in Edinburgh say that the witnesses had disappeared, so the customs did a deal. He paid £250 to get it all back, which still left him in profit,\" says Mr Janes.\n\nBy 1784, the government realised high tariffs were creating more problems than they were worth and cut tea duties to just 12.5%, making tea affordable for most people. The change meant smugglers switched to bringing in spirits and wine instead.\n\nThe end of the Napoleonic wars saw the Royal Navy in undisputed command of the Channel, making it much harder for smugglers to avoid detection\n\nThe Napoleonic wars saw an upsurge in smuggling, but after 1815 with the Royal Navy in undisputed command of the sea, its days were numbered.\n\nUltimately, many smugglers failed. In the long run, the business did not generate enough cash to compensate for the risks of losing stock or ships to the customs. John Nisbet may have been able to afford a fine house but even he went bust eventually, the result of one too many cargo seizures.\n\nIn the end, it was economics that finally put an end to the smuggling era. Britain's adoption of a free trade policy in the 1840s reduced import duties significantly, making smuggling no longer viable.\n\nAnd thanks to that shift in policy, you can now sit back, relax and enjoy a nice cup of tea without any fears of going to prison.", "An infestation of \"longtails\" caused a rather unusual problem for Rick Faragher\n\nRick Faragher is no pied piper - he is from the Isle of Man and people there are deeply superstitious about using the three-letter \"r\" word for vermin.\n\nBut the BBC News reporter had to face his fears when he was sent to cover a story in Belfast that made his blood run cold.\n\nI winced the moment I got the nod.\n\nI'd covered some difficult stories for the BBC but this was the most daunting in terms of subject matter.\n\nIt's not that I have an issue with the creatures themselves, it's just their name.\n\nFor the first 29 years of my life, I had never actually used the word.\n\nBut that was about to change in 2015. It was unavoidable. I had a professional obligation to utter the dreaded word - RAT.\n\nA rat by any other name - ringie, joey or roddan are acceptable in the Isle of Man\n\nLike any self-respecting Manxman - Isle of Man native - I had opted for other terms - \"longtail\" is the most common.\n\nOthers such as \"ringie\", \"joey\" or the native Gaelic word \"roddan\" are also acceptable.\n\nI was out of my homeland and out of my comfort zone. I honestly thought I could hear the creatures sniggering at my plight.\n\nBut I went out and I mumbled my way around the word with the owner of the infested house.\n\nThis was a disaster. I felt embarrassed already.\n\nEven people who move to the Isle of Man often dodge the term, whether through genuine fear of bad luck, or to avoid shock and outrage from the locals.\n\nSome say it began with fishermen who brought their superstitions back to shore.\n\nI knew there were three ways to stop a jinx if ever I was forced to say it: Whistle immediately afterwards; touch a piece of wood while saying it, or cross my fingers.\n\nThere's an ancient belief that killing a wren on St Stephen's Day is good luck for you... not such great luck for the wren\n\nThe interviews with the owner and environmental health officer were soon filmed and it was time for my piece to camera - almost three decades of superstition about to end.\n\nI fidgeted, cleared my throat, and slowly climbed the ladder to the attic.\n\nAfter a couple of seconds the time had come… \"Rats.\"\n\nRats: \"They fought the dogs and killed the cats and bit the babies in the cradles\"\n\nI said it without hesitation in an attempt to sound convincing.\n\nMy right hand squeezed the ladder. My left hand was out of shot, fingers firmly crossed.\n\nWe Manxmen are not alone.\n\nDr Andrew Sneddon, from Ulster University, said superstitious beliefs about rats were commonplace in Ireland in the early 20th Century.\n\n\"In County Galway, people believed that if you were plagued by rats you could get them to move on by getting an owl's quill and dipping it in raven's blood while saying 'rats be gone',\" he said.\n\nIn the Middle Ages, people believed fairies could \"blast\" cattle and humans\n\n\"In County Cavan, there were people who used charms to banish rats for you, and in County Laois, rats were believed to be a sign of an enemy or bad luck.\"\n\nIt seems it is not just rats that gave our ancestors sleepless nights.\n\n\"From the Medieval period onwards, Ireland, in common with the Highlands and islands of Scotland, and the Isle of Man, fairy belief is very strong in the sense that you try not to upset the fairies because they are dangerous,\" said Dr Sneddon.\n\n\"They can whisk away healthy children and leave sickly changelings in their wake. They can fairy blast or elf-shoot your cattle and make them ill, they can also blast humans.\n\n\"They can also abduct you and take you away to their land. This can also happen if you step into a fairy ring, either made of mushrooms or a Neolithic stone circle.\n\n\"In Ireland, as a precaution, traditionally you don't mention the name fairy, you say gentry or good people.\"", "Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho questions whether the game was evenly matched, despite BBC Sport's Conor McNamara insisting he was only asking the Red Devils' manager's opinion.\n\nWatch highlights of all of the day's Premier League action on Match of the Day on BBC One and this website from 22:30 BST.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal showed signs of recovery from their recent dismal run of form as they twice fought back from behind to draw with Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.\n\nThe Gunners had lost four out of their previous five Premier League games, and faced City against uncertainty surrounding manager Arsene Wenger's future, with more protests staged before kick-off.\n\nArsenal got off to the worst possible start when Leroy Sane put City ahead after only five minutes, running on to Kevin de Bruyne's routine pass to round David Ospina and score.\n\nTheo Walcott capped a spell of Arsenal pressure to scramble home an equaliser five minutes before the break - but they were on terms for only two minutes before Sergio Aguero's powerful finish put City back in front.\n\nArsenal lost Laurent Koscielny to injury at half-time and it was his central defensive partner Shkodran Mustafi who rose above City's defence from a corner to restore parity after 53 minutes.\n\nAguero missed two good chances for City and manager Pep Guardiola was furious that a late handball appeal against Nacho Monreal was ignored, leaving his side in fourth and Arsenal in sixth place in the table - seven points of the top-four pace.\n\nWhat does this mean for Wenger?\n\nTwo banners were held aloft at the final whistle - and both summed up the confusion currently surrounding Arsenal and manager Wenger.\n\nOne read \"Forever In Your Debt - One Arsene Wenger\" and the other carried the slogan \"All Good Things Must Come To An End.\"\n\nThere were renewed protests from a noisy, but relatively small, group of Arsenal fans before kick-off to illustrate the pressure on Arsenal's manager but there were precious few signs of discontent inside the stadium.\n\nThe smart money remains on Wenger extending a stay as manager that stretches back to October 1996 - but this result and performance did little either way to clear the muddied waters around this part of north London.\n\nWenger insists his decision is made while Arsenal's board say the next move will be mutual - so a draw almost summed up what seems to be the current inertia among the decision-makers.\n\nIf Arsenal had won, it would certainly have made any announcement more palatable, while a loss would have made it a harder sell.\n\nAs it is, a draw means the uncertainty goes on.\n\nArsenal needed to show signs of fight and resilience after a desperate sequence of four defeats in their previous five Premier League games - and they certainly showed that, if not huge quality.\n\nThe Gunners twice fought back from behind in a performance that was centred on determination rather than the dazzling football of old, but Wenger can at least take some comfort from that small mercy.\n\nArsenal's wafer-thin confidence was exposed by the manner in which they defended for both City goals, opened up too easily by De Bruyne's routine pass for Sane's opener and losing concentration and shape far too easily to concede a second to Aguero two minutes after Walcott's equaliser.\n\nThey still display very obvious defensive faults and the Achilles injury to Koscielny, the most reliable member of their rearguard, could prove to be a significant setback in the run-in.\n\nThis is a frail Arsenal side, reduced in self-belief by that recent poor run, but avoiding defeat here may just build some momentum as they chase a place in the Premier League's top four.\n\nCity may have been offered just the slightest hope of a route back into the title race by Chelsea's surprise loss at home to Crystal Palace - and a win here against Arsenal would have further cemented their place in the top four.\n\nSo a draw represents a real missed opportunity for Guardiola and his players, who failed to take advantage of the perfect start given to them by Sane's goal.\n\nCity cut Arsenal apart in the opening phases, when De Bruyne hit the post and Ospina saved well from David Silva.\n\nGuardiola's side play some scintillating attacking football but must discover a ruthless streak, with even the world-class Aguero missing inviting headed chances either side of Mustafi's equaliser.\n\nCity, without question, are fashioning an exciting attacking side with Sane, Aguero, Raheem Sterling, De Bruyne and Gabriel Jesus to come back, but this was another example of them being a work in progress.\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger: \"We were nervous and surprised by their start. I feared that we could start with the handbrake on because of the pressure we are under.\n\n\"We are in a tough battle for the top four. I am professional and I have shown great loyalty in the past.\n\n\"I love this club, I don't know how long I will be here, I am clear in my head, that's the most important thing. The decision will be soon.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We didn't play in the first half, after the goal we forgot to play, the desire went. In the second half we played more.\n\n\"We suffered a lot in the first half because we did not make those passes together.\n\n\"On Wednesday we play against a team [Chelsea] who is stable in what they do. We don't have too much time to prepare but we go back to Manchester now and recover and then come back to London.\"\n• None Arsenal have lost just one of 20 home Premier League matches against Manchester City (W12 D7).\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has assisted 11 Premier League goals this season, the joint-most in the division along with Gylfi Sigurdsson; only once before has a City player assisted more goals in a single Premier League season (David Silva with 15 in 2011/12).\n• None David Silva registered his 100th Premier League goal involvement with an assist for Aguero's goal - the Spaniard has scored 37 goals and assisted 63 since his debut in August 2010. His tally of 63 assists is 12 more than any other player since his debut.\n• None Sane's goal after four minutes and 22 seconds was the earliest Premier League goal Arsenal had conceded at the Emirates since February 2012, when Louis Saha scored after three minutes and 51 seconds for Spurs.\n• None Ten of Sergio Aguero's 14 Premier League goals this season have come away from home (71%).\n• None Mesut Ozil has assisted four Premier League goals against Man City, the joint-most he has managed against an opponent (level with Aston Villa).\n• None Mesut Ozil's assist in this game was his 50th for Arsenal in all competitions.\n\nThere is a full round of Premier League fixtures in midweek. Arsenal face West Ham at home on Wednesday evening, while Manchester City face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.\n• None Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Jesús Navas (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Pablo Zabaleta.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jesús Navas with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Alex Iwobi (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Héctor Bellerín.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Gaël Clichy tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sergio Agüero.\n• None Attempt missed. David Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Yaya Touré following a corner.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Shkodran Mustafi tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. David Silva tries a through ball, but Leroy Sané is caught offside.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (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 Athletics\n\nKenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei broke four world records as she stormed to victory at the Prague Half Marathon.\n\nThe 23-year-old completed what was just her fifth half marathon in one hour, four minutes and 52 seconds - 14 seconds quicker than the record set by Peres Jepchirchir earlier this year.\n\nAnd she also clocked splits of 30:05, 45:37 and 1:01:25 to break the 10km, 15km and 20km world records on the way.\n\n\"I only wanted to improve my time. This is a surprise for me,\" Jepkosgei said.\n\n\"I didn't know I would break the world record today.\n\n\"But the conditions were good for me because I'm used to training at this time of day.\"\n\nDefending champion Violah Jepchumba finished second - 30 seconds back - and Fancy Chemutai third, with America's sixth-placed Jordan Hasay the only non-Kenyan in the top 10.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger said Gunners fans were \"absolutely sensational\" during their 2-2 draw with Manchester City, despite further fan protests at Emirates Stadium.\n\nWenger, who is under pressure following one win in six matches and a slide down the Premier League table, has faced calls to resign from some fans.\n\n\"I must say, despite all that has happened on the fans front, our fans were fantastic today,\" said the Frenchman, whose side twice hit back to earn a draw against City.\n\n\"In very difficult moments our fans, at 1-0 down and 2-1 down, could have turned against us but I think they were absolutely sensational to get us through those difficult moments.\"\n\nGoals from Theo Walcott and Shkodran Mustafi cancelled out efforts from Leroy Sane and Sergio Aguero in a performance Wenger believed \"built confidence to help us to come back to our natural fluency.\"\n• None 'If Wenger goes now, Arsenal will fall apart'\n• None How Arsenal came from behind to claim point\n\nWenger, who is out of contract at the end of the season, has been offered a two-year extension and said on 18 March he will announce his future plans \"very soon\".\n\nFormer Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme that Wenger \"should declare his future for the good of the club.\"\n\nBut when pressed on his future following Sunday's draw, he said: \"I've shown great loyalty and always committed. I don't know how long I am here but I love the club and will do my best. I am clear in my mind, it will be soon, don't worry.\"\n\nArsenal are sixth in the Premier League table, seven points behind fourth-placed Manchester City.\n\nThe Gunners face West Ham at home on Wednesday and then travel to Crystal Palace the following Monday.", "Roger Federer overcame long-term rival Rafael Nadal to win the Miami Open for the third time and continue his remarkable start to the season.\n\nThe 35-year-old built on January's Australian Open win and his March Indian Wells success with a convincing 6-3 6-4 win over the Spaniard.\n\nThe pair shared 10 break points in the opening set, with Federer the only man to take one to crucially move 5-3 up.\n\nHe exuded control throughout, breaking at 4-4 in the second and serving out.\n\nA sweeping backhand down the line in the final game summed up the confidence which poured from the champion from start to finish as he moved to an 11-match winning streak and improved his record to 19 wins and just one defeat in 2017.\n\nA fourth straight win over Nadal - his longest winning streak in their 13-year professional rivalry - also makes Federer the oldest winner of the Miami Open.\n\nHe looked cool and calm throughout and his dominance this year is perhaps all the more remarkable given he took six months off through the second half of the 2016 season to recover from a knee injury.\n\n\"The dream continues,\" he said after the win. \"It's been a fabulous couple of weeks. What a start to the year, thank you to my team and all who have supported me, especially in my more difficult challenging times last year.\"\n\nFederer triumphed in his first tournament after the lay-off, beating Nadal in five sets at the Australian Open, but this time around, the Spaniard rarely looked like he would land a first Miami title in what was his fifth final.\n\nWhen the pair shared their first ever meeting here in 2004, only Federer held a Grand Slam title. They have now amassed 32 in total and like so often in the past, they contested each point with ferocity, making the two breaks of serve Federer secured critical.\n\n\"It's disappointing that every time in my career I have stood here I get the smaller trophy,\" said Nadal. \"It's been a very good two weeks for me. Even if I lost for the third time this year to Roger it's a good start, playing three finals.\"\n\nNadal - who also lost to American Sam Querrey in the Mexican Open final this year - failed to take two break points in the opening game of the match at Crandon Park Tennis Center and defended two successfully to level at 2-2.\n\nThough the first six games of the second set went with serve, Federer always held more comfortably. He forced a first break point at 3-3, only for Nadal to expertly read a cross-court effort with the pair exposed at the net.\n\nNadal's consequent fist pump evoked memories of see-saw exchanges they have shared over the years and he punched the air after defending a second break point to take the game - showcasing belief he could yet disturb Federer's seemingly unflappable rhythm.\n\nBut at 4-4, a Federer backhand barely crossed the net after hitting the tape, forcing Nadal to race forward and desperately flick the ball back, leaving his end of the court exposed for the 18-time Grand Slam winner to deliver a telling lob.\n\nIt gave him the chance to serve out the win and Nadal went long moments later, ensuring Federer's stellar start to the year continued.\n\nIt is 11 years since Roger Federer last completed the Indian Wells and Miami double, so add 'staggering stamina' to his rapidly increasing list of attributes for 2017.\n\nAt 35, though, Federer is also proving he is a realist and a pragmatist. Who is to say he would not have been able to piece together a very handy clay court season to increase his chances of becoming world number one once more?\n\nBut Federer knows even he can't keep up this relentless success - on all surfaces - over an 11-month season. Thus this eight-week break from tour to be followed by an appearance at the French Open where, even as a long shot for the title, he will remain the tournament's star turn.\n\nAnd in his mind - with Wimbledon and the US Open still to come - it is at Roland Garros that the season really begins.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSt Johnstone players Danny Swanson and Richard Foster are set to face \"severe\" punishments for brawling with each other in the 1-0 defeat at Hamilton, manager Tommy Wright says.\n\nThe Perth club has suspended the team-mates pending a club investigation, which will start on Monday.\n\nWright told BBC Scotland that \"if what's alleged\" to have occurred did in fact happen \"we'll come down severely hard on both\".\n\nReferee Don Robertson sent off both players during the break.\n\nWright, whose side confirmed their top six place due to results elsewhere, says he did not see the incident as he had already started walking up the tunnel following the half time whistle.\n\nBBC Scotland reporter Jonathan Sutherland saw Foster throw a punch at Swanson, who retaliated by aiming a kick at the defender after he had slipped.\n\n\"I haven't seen it with my own eyes but obviously something happened,\" said Wright.\n\n\"I'm going to wait and see for myself. The players have been told they let themselves down, and let the team down. We should be celebrating confirming our top six place tonight.\n\n\"Under no circumstance will they get off lightly if what is alleged to have happened has happened. The hardest punishment I can do legally with them, I'll do it.\"\n\nWright was angry that the incident left his side up against it in the second half, and that the shine was taken off the Saints confirming a top six berth.\n\n\"It's another great achievement getting the top six,\" he added. \"We showed a lot of character and should have had a penalty. (Georgios) Sarris has got arms all over Murray Davidson and that should have been a penalty kick.\n\n\"The boys were magnificent and probably deserved a point but they didn't get it.\"\n\nHamilton player Ali Crawford was shown a yellow card and assistant manager Guillaume Beuzelin sent to the stand after becoming involved in the chaotic scenes that followed the incident between Foster and Swanson.\n\nHowever, manager Martin Canning told BBC Scotland: \"I would rather be talking about us. It is not something you want to see, but it is a passionate game and sometimes it spills over.\n\n\"My players acted well. I think Darian MacKinnon was just trying to separate them and calm things down.\n\n\"I don't think I have to take any action against my players.\"\n\nHamilton moved off bottom spot in the table thanks to the win, sealed by a late Alex D'Acol goal. They are 11th on 27 points, two clear of bottom club Inverness Caledonian Thistle.\n\n\"With 11 against 11 in the first half, I thought we were excellent and we kept going and got a huge three points,\" Canning added.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nChelsea's surprise defeat by Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge makes the title race \"more interesting\", says Blues boss Antonio Conte.\n\nThe Premier League leaders suffered only their second home defeat of the season as Palace boosted their survival hopes with a 2-1 win.\n\nTottenham's win at Burnley means they are seven points behind Chelsea.\n\n\"For (the media) it's a good result, because it makes this more interesting in the championship,\" Conte said.\n\n\"But I always said the league finishes when you have the mathematical certainty that you won. Otherwise you must fight, you must play every game to try to win.\"\n\n'Spurs will fight for the title'\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says he and his players still believe they can catch Chelsea following their 2-0 win at Burnley.\n\n\"It's an important, a massive three points for us to still believe we can fight for the title,\" said the Argentine.\n\n\"We showed great belief and character and faith. That makes us proud.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal defender Martin Keown on Match of the Day\n\n\"I don't think it can be done. But Tottenham have been brilliant since the turn of the year. They're the two best teams and let's see what they can do.\"\n\nPrior to Palace's visit, Chelsea had not lost in any competition since a 2-0 defeat at Tottenham on 4 January.\n\nIt looked like they were on course for another victory when Cesc Fabregas struck early on, but two quick goals from Wilfried Zaha and Christian Benteke secured a fourth successive win for Palace.\n\nThe Eagles, having looked in real danger of going down earlier this season, are now four points clear of the relegation zone.\n\n\"Nobody expected it,\" said Palace boss Sam Allardyce, who has never been relegated from the Premier League as a manager.\n\n\"It's an absolutely outstanding victory for us, particularly in the position we're in.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nArsenal boss Arsene Wenger has reiterated his desire to manage next season as he believes \"retirement is dying\" for people of his age.\n\nWenger, 67, has been criticised by some fans after the Gunners slipped to sixth in the Premier League following four defeats in their past five games.\n\nA 10-2 aggregate loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League added to the pressure on the Frenchman.\n\nBut Wenger, who has been at Arsenal since 1996, said: \"I will not retire.\"\n\nHis contract expires at the end of the season but the club has offered a new two-year deal. Wenger has said he will make a decision on his future \"very soon\".\n\n\"Retiring is for young people,\" said Wenger, speaking before Sunday's league match at home to Manchester City.\n\n\"For old people retirement is dying. I still watch every football game. I find it interesting.\"\n\nWenger is into his 21st year as Arsenal manager but he has not led the Gunners to a Premier League title in 13 years.\n\n\"Of course I'm as hungry,\" he said. \"I carry a bit more pressure on my shoulders than 20 years ago - but the hunger is exactly the same.\n\n\"When you see what the club was and what it is today - when I arrived we were seven people [members of staff], we are 700 today.\"\n\nHe added: \"I hate defeat. I can understand the fans that are unhappy with every defeat but the only way to have victory is to stick together with the fans and give absolutely everything until the end of the season, that's all we can do.\"", "When Rebecca Lowe set off solo from the UK for Iran by bicycle, her friends thought she had taken leave of her senses. But although she had to endure gropers, extreme heat and heavy-handed police, most of the people she met were a long way removed from stereotypes.\n\nThe day I left London to embark on a 6,000-mile (10,000km), year-long cycle to Tehran, I was deeply unprepared.\n\nI wasn't fit. I had never used panniers. I had no sense of direction. It was six years since I had last ridden up a hill.\n\nBut for all my doubts, I was dedicated to the task at hand. My aims were simple: develop enviably shapely calves, survive and shed light on a region long misunderstood by the West.\n\nMostly, I wanted to show that the bulk of the Middle East is far from the volatile hub of violence and fanaticism people believe. And that a woman could cycle through it safely.\n\nNot everyone had faith in my ability to do so, however. \"We think you'll probably die,\" one friend told me before I left. \"We've put the odds at about 60:40.\"\n\nOthers were less optimistic.\n\nA man in the pub said I was a \"naive idiot who would end up decapitated in a ditch - at best\". A good friend sent me a copy of Rudyard Kipling's If, stressing the importance of keeping \"your head when all about you / Are losing theirs\".\n\nYet I remained tentatively confident. The region may be politically precarious, but the people I knew from experience to be warm and kind.\n\nCrime rates were low and terrorist strongholds isolated and avoidable. Even exposed on a bike, I felt my odds of staying alive weren't bad.\n\nI'd chosen a bicycle for its simplicity and slowness of pace, and its immersive, worm's-eye view. On a bike you don't just observe the world but are absorbed within it. You are seen as unthreatening and endearingly unhinged, and are welcomed into people's lives.\n\nI set off in July 2015. Over the next four months I inched my way with sluggish determination across Europe.\n\nAs summer bled into autumn, my stamina gradually grew - along with my thighs. By Bosnia they were formidable. By Bulgaria they had developed their own gravitational field.\n\nBut leaving Europe was nerve-wracking. I was now outside my comfort zone, in the relative unknown.\n\nIn front of me lay Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Oman, the UAE and Iran. Pre-warned about men, terrorists and traffic, I began the next leg of my journey with caution.\n\nI swiftly relaxed, however. A truck driver stopped just to hand me a satsuma. A cafe owner gave me his earmuffs. Dozens of others offered food, water, lifts and lodgings, and endless varieties of kebab.\n\nThroughout the Middle East, it was the same. Doors were forever flung wide to greet this strange, two-wheeled anomaly who was surely in need of help, and possibly psychiatric care.\n\nMy hosts varied widely: rich and poor, mullahs and atheists, Bedouin and businessmen, niqab-clad women and qabaa-robed men. Every person and community was different, but certain traits linked them all: kindness, curiosity and tolerance.\n\nIn Sudan, families fed me endless vats of ful (bean stew) and let me sleep in their modest mud-brick houses. One Nubian family gently restored me to health after I ran out of water in the Sahara and collapsed, vomiting and delirious, on their doorstep: the lowest point of the trip, and the only time I experienced true panic.\n\nIranian hospitality felt like a soft protective cloak, omnipresent and ever-reliable. So much wonderful, impractical food was given to me by passers-by - watermelons, bread, bags of cucumbers - that much had to be discarded.\n\nPersian culture pulsed with contradictions. On my first day, the police admonished me for removing my headscarf in blazing heat under a tree. Minutes later the officer's sister-in-law was serving me khoresh gheimeh (lamb and split pea stew) in her nearby bungalow.\n\nThe trip was not all blissfully trouble-free, of course.\n\nThere were the sex pests, for a start. In Jordan, Egypt and Iran, I was groped, ogled and propositioned with disappointing regularity.\n\nIn Egypt, one randy tuk-tuk driver got his comeuppance following a juicy bum squeeze by being beaten to a pulp by the police convoy on my tail - my horror at their brutality only outdone by my undisguised glee.\n\nIn Jordan, a truck driver who'd picked me up following a puncture repeatedly asked for kisses and grabbed my breasts. Fortunately his bravado ceased abruptly at the sight of my penknife wafting ominously close to his crotch.\n\nSuch incidents angered me intensely, and were often frightening and unsettling. Lechery is hardly a preserve of the Middle East, but there were areas where strains of patriarchy and entitlement ran deep.\n\nI realised quickly, however, that these men were not monsters. They were ignorant and often ill-educated. Not to mention severely sexually frustrated within a culture where physical intimacy is shameful and stigmatised.\n\nThey were more cowardly opportunists than malicious aggressors, and it was usually easy enough to send them scuttling cravenly on their way.\n\nThere were certain things no-one could help with, however. The traffic was obscene by Turkey and got progressively worse. The heat was obscene by Sudan - upwards of 40 C - and also got progressively worse.\n\nToilets were a serious concern. In the remote gold mining regions of northern Sudan, where few women ventured, there simply weren't any.\n\n\"Look around you,\" a man at one roadside shack told me, gesturing to the entirely exposed desert behind him. \"The Sahara is your toilet.\"\n\nThe most worrisome issue, however, was political. Across the region, repression was palpable, and foreign journalists clearly weren't welcome.\n\nDon't tell the authorities your profession, I was told, or others would pay the price too. I took this advice - yet it was hard to feel at ease.\n\nIn Egypt, ruled by a heavy-handed military regime, tourists were tightly controlled and protected. The police were suffocating in their oversight, escorting me 500 miles (800km) down the Nile and aggressively grilling everyone I met.\n\nIn Iran, I was given more freedom. Yet foreigners are not permitted to stay with locals without permission, and several of my hosts endured an intense grilling by police. Some of those aware of my profession declined any contact at all due to fear of repercussion.\n\nEverywhere I went, security and oppression continually curbed freedom and dissent.\n\nIn Turkey, pro-Kurdish human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi was killed by an unknown gunman a few days after we met. In Sudan, two students were killed in clashes with regime forces and supporters during my brief stay in Khartoum.\n\nIn Jordan and Lebanon, refugee camps were visibly struggling to cope with the growing numbers of Syrians fleeing war.\n\nThe enduring impression was a region in crisis, stretched hopelessly between tyranny and terror. Yet there was light along the way - and that light was the people.\n\n\"The world shouldn't judge us by our politics,\" a member of the Center for Civil Society and Democracy, a Syrian activist group I spent Christmas with, told me. \"We hate our politics. We should be judged by ourselves.\"\n\nAnd that, for me, is the nub of the matter.\n\nThe Middle East is a risky place, but the risks are primarily political. Beyond the pockets of conflict and terror highlighted daily in the media lies a broader reality: that of warm, compassionate communities living normal, everyday lives.\n\nSo is it safe for a woman to cycle alone across the Middle East? With the right precautions, yes.\n\nWould I let my daughter do it? Absolutely not in a month of Sundays - are you mad?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC Sport website and the sport app.\n\nThere are supposed to be only two options. In or out. Cambridge or Oxford. You can't be both.\n\nIn the long history of one of sport's most enduring rivalries, just two men have crossed the line.\n\nWhen the the 163rd Boat Race gets under way on the river Thames on Sunday, William Warr will be going up against his old team-mates, rowing for Oxford against his former Cambridge team.\n\n\"It hasn't been easy. It was a decision I had to make, but guys I was really close with now barely speak to me any more,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Some have said they really hope I lose, that they completely disagree with what I'm doing, which I understand. It is a very strong bond.\n\n\"But life does go on. You need to think about your career - we are students, sometimes people forget that - and the research I am doing can help save lives, so to not go and do that because of some old rivalry would be selfish.\"\n• None Read more: The Beeb and the Boat Race\n\nWarr, 25, rowed for Cambridge in the 2015 event. They lost, as Oxford claimed their 11th success since 2000.\n\nBut Cambridge did win last year - without Warr, who is now doing a PhD at Oxford.\n\nHe knew it was the only place where elite rowing could live alongside his field of study. And he knew it when he was still on speaking terms with the Cambridge fold.\n\n\"I came to Oxford to do this PhD on how to prevent chronic disease in some of the poorest parts of the UK,\" he explains.\n\n\"I also want to go to the Olympics in 2020, so the only way to combine the two aspirations was to come here.\n\n\"I spoke to Cambridge's president, we talked through the options, laid everything out, and really it was only way to go.\"\n\nIt could have been worse, you might say. Warr was only at Cambridge for nine months. Nine months is a long time in comradeship and toil, but the silent treatment will feel like a price worth paying if Oxford slide through Sunday's 6.8km Championship Course the quicker. Especially because of the history involved.\n\nThe Dark Blues (Oxford) trail the Light Blues (Cambridge) by 79 victories to 82 since the race began, in 1829.\n\nBut nearly two centuries on, there is no suggestion of inside knowledge tipping the scales.\n\n\"The Oxford people aren't interested in knowing what Cambridge are doing, and nor would I tell them anything,\" he says.\n\n\"They trust the coach, Sean Bowden, and they've been very successful over the past 15 years. I think they know enough not to worry too much.\n\n\"The two coaching programmes are slightly different on techniques, but there are similarities, and we train pretty much the same hours at both Oxford and Cambridge. The weekly timetable is really similar.\n\n\"But it will be a bit strange for me on the start-line. Because it's a special race.\"", "Adrian Mole, the angst-ridden diarist created by the late Sue Townsend, reaches his 50th birthday on 2 April. His diaries, over eight volumes, made Townsend one of the best-selling British authors of recent decades. But what made the character so compelling?\n\nStephen Mangan played Mole in the 2001 TV adaption of Townsend's The Cappuccino Years and worked closely with the writer on bringing him to life on screen.\n\nNow aged 48, he began reading the Secret Diary as a teenager.\n\n\"Obviously when you read it as a 13 or 14-year-old you miss some of the nuances, but what's so clever about the books is that you get so many different perspectives,\" he says.\n\n\"It's written from the point of view of a 13-year-old boy, but it's also there's the story of [his separating] parents. It's a very clever trick, because through his lack of awareness you learn so much about marriage, parenting and life.\n\n\"A lot of the poignancy and depth of the book is revealed to you later when you're a little bit older.\"\n\nMole's waspish observations of the politics of the day are another feature of Townsend's books. He criticises Margaret Thatcher, the Falklands War and - in later editions - New Labour and Tony Blair.\n\n\"Sue was very engaged politically and socially tuned in to what was going on, and Adrian was her way in to discuss that,\" Mangan adds.\n\n\"She deals with big cultural phenomena through the books and with characters you love and sympathise with.\n\n\"We can be very entrenched in our attitudes, and with comedy, especially one based on a dweeby and nerdy loser like Adrian, bypasses this.\n\n\"We still read Jane Austen today, despite those books being a satire of the social scene at the time - if it's done with that amount of wit, warmth and intelligence it becomes universal.\"\n\nIn the early 1980s, while Mole was worrying about his spots and dreaming about his beloved Pandora, author Nina Stibbe was leaving their hometown of Leicester for London.\n\nThen a young nanny - and now a successful novelist in her own right - she instantly recognised the problems occupying Mole.\n\n\"I read it when it first came out and - although I was 19 not 13 and had just moved to London - it was interesting because it was like a vindication,\" she says.\n\n\"He was neurotic, he was anxious, but he didn't mind about it, he just got on with worrying, and it was the same stuff that I was worrying about.\n\n\"He was worrying about his family, his mother's drinking and promiscuity, and I think it was the first time there was a character doing this sort of thing in such a charming way.\"\n\nStibbe's collection of letters Love, Nina chronicles her time observing the London literary scene of the 1980s (she was employed as a nanny by Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of Books, and frequent visitors to the houses included Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller).\n\n\"When the first diary came out I was living in London, I was a nanny, and I was around all these very accomplished writers and playwrights, and they were all loving [Mole],\" she adds.\n\n\"I think people can identify with him - the way he worries about things that might go wrong is something that affects us all, whether it's health or what's happening next year.\n\n\"I wrote about divorce once, and I thought about [Mole's parents] George and Pauline's marriage, because it's so interestingly done - my parents had lots of friends like that.\n\n\"It was all so real, and Sue was writing from experience. The main thing is that it's hilarious, that's the nub and the magic of it.\"\n\nLouise Moore grew up reading the Mole diaries - and years later wrote a fan letter to Townsend which led to a long-lasting friendship.\n\nWhen Townsend asked Moore to publish The Cappuccino Years, in which Mole has a brief stint as a celebrity chef before moving back to his native Leicestershire, she described it as \"like winning the Lottery\".\n\n\"I'd just left school [when I read the Secret Diary...] and I loved it,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the quintessential humour that I love.\n\nShe says Mole's \"everyman\" qualities kept fans on his side throughout his struggles with life.\n\n\"Sue was very clear that she didn't want Adrian to grow up and be unappealing,\" she adds.\n\n\"She knew him so well, she'd said that when she was writing other books she'd start to think about him, and he followed her through her life.\n\n\"He was her mouthpiece in a way. He's very ridiculous and naïve, but he also has a great wisdom and empathy for the human condition.\n\n\"He quietly triumphs in the face of almost constant adversity - he's one of the world's unsung, ordinary heroes.\"\n\nLeicester is the backdrop for much of the Mole books, but it's importance to the character - and Townsend - is often overlooked, says Dr Corinne Fowler, an associate professor at the University of Leicester.\n\n\"Sue was very connected to the region,\" she says.\n\n\"At her funeral one of the actors who was involved in the first production said she insisted she took the local actors with her when it transferred to London because of her commitment to the local arts scene.\n\n\"Apparently there were a few references to Leicester in the early manuscripts, but it seems the editor must have asked them to be removed. I think that tells you something about literary culture... anywhere outside London risked being seen as parochial if it includes the local references for a region. Later on I would imagine she had that authority to put those [references] in.\"\n\nMole's appeal has always been much wider, though, and to mark his half-century, three new radio plays featuring the character have been commissioned by the university's Centre for New Writing.\n\n\"[Townsend] would have had a field day with Brexit,\" adds Dr Fowler. \"She would have given a voice to the grievances of the Remainers and the political developments across the decade.\n\n\"But I think it's interesting how it transcends places. Much of it's a comment on Thatcher's Britain, about growing up in poverty in the UK, about so many national things pertinent to the UK.\n\n\"So it's incredible to have someone growing up in Sao Paulo, for example, and understanding and liking it.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nRugby union side Wasps have revealed they are interested in the possibility of setting up a Super League club in Coventry.\n\nBut they say they need to bring more rugby league events to the Ricoh Arena before considering whether to start a franchise.\n\n\"We're trying to grow awareness of the sport,\" Wasps chief executive David Armstrong told the BBC RL podcast.\n\n\"If that did work, then we would have a serious look at it.\"\n\nWasps moved into their Coventry base just over two years ago after spells ground-sharing with football clubs QPR and Wycombe Wanderers.\n\nThis season they expect to average over 17,000 for home matches.\n\nThey hosted rugby league for the first time with the Four Nations double-header last November - Australia v New Zealand and England v Scotland - which attracted over 21,000 spectators.\n\n\"We thought that was an outstanding success,\" said Armstrong. \"There was 8,000 or 9,000 fans from this region who purchased tickets and came along on the night. That was very encouraging for us.\"\n\n'We want to make sure we're ready for it'\n\nWakefield chairman Michael Carter recently told the BBC that brief discussions had taken place among Super League clubs about the possibility of relocation.\n\nAnd the RFL says it would consider any application to move a current Super League side into a new town or city. Coventry already has a semi-pro league side - the Bears - who play in League 1.\n\n\"I should think it will have its challenges with the fan-base,\" said Armstrong.\n\n\"So we're looking very carefully at how rugby league expands and how we can build our audience in the Midlands and around Coventry.\n\n\"I think that's a bit of a stretch at the moment. Before we got as far as that, we'd have to work hard on establishing our audience.\n\n\"It's a big venture and we'd want to make sure our fan-base and our audience is ready for it, rather than building it from scratch or on a little bit of hope.\"\n\nWasps missed out on hosting this year's Magic Weekend - on which every Super League fixture is played in one venue over one weekend - with Newcastle's St James' Park accommodating the event in May.\n\nBut Armstrong says they will push hard to host next year's event at the Ricoh.\n\n\"This year we submitted a bid and we discovered that all bar one club in Super League is closer to Coventry than Newcastle,\" he said.\n\n\"So we know we are not far away from the heartland, we know we've got a strong and interested audience, so our dipping the toe in the water will probably continue. We'll bid for it again for next year.\"\n• None Sign up for rugby league news notifications on the BBC Sport app", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta is targeting the world number one ranking after claiming the biggest title of her career at the Miami Open.\n\nThe 25-year-old British number one beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 to claim £940,000 in prize money and is set to climb to seventh in the world.\n\nKonta was the world number 146 in June 2015, but she believes a Grand Slam title and further progress is possible.\n\n\"The belief has been there since I was a little girl,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd like to be the best player in the world but there's a lot of work to be done between now and then.\n\n\"Everybody's journey is different. I needed a little more time and a little more experience to accumulate the knowledge that I have and re-use it in my matches.\n\n\"I play smart tennis and calmer tennis I think. It just took time. On paper it looks like a quick turnaround but it's been a long time coming.\"\n\nFormer Fed Cup captain Judy Murray - mother of Andy - has previously suggested the turnaround began with a heavy defeat in a match against Belarus in February 2015.\n\nMurray put that down to Konta's \"really bad performance anxiety\", describing the result as \"a bit of a horror\".\n\nBut her skill at handling the pressure of elite-level sport is now one of her biggest assets.\n\nKonta herself has credited the influence of former mental coach Juan Coto, who died in December.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live following his death, Konta said: \"Everything that I do, he will be a part of. He left me with some incredible tools to deal with my profession and also life. He is still very much a part of my journey.\"\n\nShe is working with a new coach this season - having made a surprise decision to replace Spaniard Esteban Carril towards the end of 2016, the most successful year of her career so far.\n\nUnder the guidance of Wim Fissette, Konta won January's Sydney International without dropping a set, before now claiming her first success at a higher level - the top 'Premier Mandatory' rung of the WTA Tour - in Miami.\n\n\"She has big ground strokes, not many weaknesses, and I also saw her as somebody who is very hard-working and very disciplined,\" Fissette told BBC Sport during the Australian Open, where Konta made the quarter-finals.\n\n\"I started working with her because I really believe she can win a Grand Slam if she keeps getting better like this.\"\n\nIn October, Konta became only the fourth British woman to make the top 10 since the WTA rankings began in 1975 - after Jo Durie, Virginia Wade and Sue Barker.\n\n\"I think it was probably a combination of everything, but also a question of maturity,\" Konta said of her rise on Saturday.\n\n\"I was very fortunate that throughout the years I've managed to have some very, very good people around me.\n\n\"The more I was able to absorb from them, their knowledge and wisdom, and the more I was able to reinvest that into the matches that I played, that's the reason I'm here now.\"\n\nOnly one other player has gathered more ranking points in 2017 than Johanna Konta, but more importantly the new world number seven has now successfully negotiated the perfect dress rehearsal for a Grand Slam.\n\nSix victories over 10 days against the very best in the world in one of the WTA's Big Four tournaments is the perfect stepping stone to Grand Slam success.\n\nWimbledon should provide Konta with as good an opportunity as the Australian and US Opens - where she has already had so much joy - but now it is time for the clay: a surface on which Konta is still to prove herself.\n\nBBC Sport's Piers Newbery: Konta continues to amaze. Last year was the first time she was ranked high enough to even play in Miami. And not at her best this week.\n\nBBC tennis commentator David Law: Hope Konta can crack it at Wimbledon where she would fully enter the general public's consciousness. Can be a powerful positive role-model.", "Roger Federer expects to take nearly two months off after winning the Miami Open with his only 2017 clay-court tournament being the French Open.\n\nThe 35-year-old beat Rafael Nadal in Miami on Sunday, to win his third title since January.\n\nFederer, who sat out the second half of 2016 to recover from a knee injury, says rest will help him prepare for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.\n\n\"When I am healthy and feeling good, I can produce tennis like this,\" he said.\n\n\"When I am not feeling this good there is no chance I will be in the finals competing with Rafa,\" the 18-time Grand Slam winner told ESPN on court after the win.\n\n\"That is why this break is coming in the clay-court season, focusing everything on the French, the grass and then the hard courts after that.\n\n\"I'm not 24 any more so things have changed in a big way and I probably won't play any clay-court event except the French.\"\n\nRafa to 'tear it into pieces'\n\nFederer has won the Roland Garros tournament once in 2009. If he sticks to his plan, he would sit out clay events such as the Monte Carlo Masters, Madrid Open, Rome Masters and Istanbul Open - the last clay tournament he won in 2015.\n\nThe break in Federer's season arrives during his best start to a campaign since 2006. Back then he won 33 of his first 34 matches of the year, compared to his current run of 19 wins and one defeat.\n\nVictory over Nadal sealed a third Miami Open title and added to wins at the Australian Open and Indian Wells this season.\n\n\"The dream continues,\" Federer said after the win. \"It's been a fabulous couple of weeks. What a start to the year, thank you to my team and all who have supported me, especially in my more difficult challenging times last year.\"\n\nIn his on-court interview, Federer backed Nadal, who has himself been hampered by injury, for clay success.\n\n\"I know everybody is working very hard on your team to get you back in shape, and keep going,\" said Federer. \"The clay courts are around, so I'm sure you are going to tear it into pieces over there.\"\n\nIt is 11 years since Roger Federer last completed the Indian Wells and Miami double, so add 'staggering stamina' to his rapidly increasing list of attributes for 2017.\n\nAt 35, though, Federer is also proving he is a realist and a pragmatist. Who is to say he would not have been able to piece together a very handy clay-court season to increase his chances of becoming world number one once more?\n\nBut Federer knows even he can't keep up this relentless success, on all surfaces, over an 11-month season. Thus this eight-week break from the tour to be followed by an appearance at the French Open where, even as a long shot for the title, he will remain the tournament's star turn.\n\nAnd in Federer's mind - with Wimbledon and the US Open still to come - it is at Roland Garros that the season really begins.", "Britain's Johanna Konta wins the biggest title of her career by beating Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 in the Miami Open final.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCeltic will target a domestic treble now they have secured a sixth successive league title, according to right-back Mikael Lustig.\n\nBrendan Rodgers' side had already lifted the Scottish League Cup before securing the Premiership title with a 5-0 thrashing of Hearts on Sunday.\n\nCeltic are in the Scottish Cup semi-finals, so a clean sweep is possible.\n\n\"It's our main goal now,\" Lustig told BBC Scotland. \"We play for Celtic and every game we want to win.\"\n• None A fitting way to win title, says Rodgers\n\nCeltic are unbeaten domestically in both cup and league since the start of the season and face city rivals Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-final on 23 April.\n\nAsked if finishing the season unbeaten is realistic, despite Rodgers promising to rest some players before the end of the campaign, Lustig said: \"Absolutely. It is going to be tough and we have to stay humble and remain focused, but we've got a big squad and people coming in who can do the job.\"\n\nPrevious manager Ronny Deila won two successive titles and Lustig believes performances have improved this season under Rodgers.\n\n\"The players got a lot more confident and the main thing is the manager and backroom staff work with us every day to keep us focused,\" said the Sweden defender.\n\n\"We knew we had really good players in the squad and we took in some players for this season who made a really big impact.\n\n\"But, even with the same players as last season, the confidence is much higher now.\"\n\nCeltic also began their league campaign with a 2-1 win against Hearts at Tynecastle.\n\n\"It has been a brilliant season and it's really nice to settle it here,\" said Lustig.\n\n\"We set up some goals before the season and the first game of the season was against Hearts here and it's really nice to win the title here as well.\"\n\nCeltic 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