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The World Anti-Doping Agency said many athletes who had been targeted for testing "simply could not be found".
It added that, on some days, "up to 50% of tests were aborted".
Its 55-page Independent Observers report found that, of the 11,470 athletes, 4,125 had no record of any testing in 2016, of whom 1,913 were competing in 10 "higher-risk sports".
It also said:
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is ultimately responsible for delivering the anti-doping programme for the Olympic Games.
Wada mentioned several "failings" which led to inadequate support for the chaperones employed to notify athletes of testing.
It said that on several occasions more than half of these failed to turn up, or turned up very late. It said they were "disincentivised" because of a lack of training, poor travel arrangements, and the fact many could not speak English.
It said that, for "the majority of times" the 'no-notice' nature of testing was "obviously compromised" because chaperones did not know where athletes were and had to ask their team-mates where they were.
In one of its recommendations, it said: "Untrained and inexperienced chaperones should not be working at the Games.
"It undermines respect and trust among athletes in the anti-doping program, and provides opportunities for experienced and unscrupulous athletes who would want to abuse the system to manipulate the doping control process."
Wada did praise improvements made to Rio's anti-doping laboratory, however.
The organisation had suspended the lab just six weeks before the Games opened, because it failed to comply with international standards.
But Wada said it had been "superbly equipped", and was "operated very securely and generally very efficiently".
It said it now represents an "outstanding legacy from the Games for the anti-doping movement in South America".
A statement on the IOC's website quoted Dr Richard Budgett, the IOC's medical and scientific director, saying the report "shows that it was a successful Olympic Games with a successful anti-doping programme".
He added that the integrity of the programme had been "ensured despite some challenges".
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, Sir Craig Reedie, president of Wada, said that the logistical problems highlighted were disappointing.
"What was a real problem was the sample collection," he said, "and there were number of major issues in Brazil, one was the lack of money and the other lack of manpower and some of that worked its way through to the sample collection process.
"In general the integrity of the process was not undermined according to the report."
Reedie said the doping programme had been well planned but let down by unforeseen circumstances.
"If you assume that you have a certain number of people to do the work and 50% don't turn up you've got a problem," he said.
BBC sports editor Dan Roan
In the midst of the Russian doping scandal, and the revelation that both London 2012 and Sochi 2014 were sabotaged by state-sponsored cheating, it was crucial that the authorities did as much as possible to show they were keeping Rio 2016 clean.
Instead, this damning report is another shattering blow to the credibility of anti-doping and the Olympic movement's integrity, showing how organisational chaos blighted the Games' drugs-testing programme.
After it refused demands to ban Russia's entire team from the Olympics, do not be surprised if there are now calls for the IOC itself to be declared Wada non-compliant.
And there could also be tough questions for the UK Anti-Doping agency, which acted as the secretariat for a pre-Rio anti-doping taskforce. | A Wada report on the anti-doping methods employed at Rio 2016 has highlighted "serious failings". | 37794421 | [
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Naming rights are among the powers set to be devolved in the Wales Bill now going through the UK Parliament.
But Jane Hutt, Labour's chief whip in the assembly, will call for the Welsh Parliament name to be adopted "at the earliest opportunity", and used unofficially until formalised.
AMs will debate the issue in the Senedd next Tuesday.
Ms Hutt will table a motion proposing that "the National Assembly for Wales agrees that: (a) its name should be changed to the "Welsh Parliament" at the earliest opportunity; and that (b) it should be known unofficially by that name until such a name change can be formalised".
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "The First Minister is opening up debate among Assembly Members, early in the life of this Assembly, to consider the most appropriate name for the institution.
"It is ultimately a matter for the National Assembly itself; legislation is not required to change what the institution calls itself."
Asked for a response, a Wales Office spokesman said: "The Wales Bill will give the Assembly the power to call itself what it wants."
Glyn Davies, the Conservative backbench MP for Montgomeryshire, said he would refer to the assembly as a parliament, saying on Facebook that AMs "should have done it years ago".
In May, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns spoke of the Wales Bill offering opportunities "to deliver a real parliament for Wales, with greater powers and a government responsible for raising as well as spending money".
However, differences remain between the two governments on whether powers over income tax should be devolved without a referendum.
Welsh Labour ministers claim that alleged underfunding of Wales by the UK Treasury should be addressed first, while some Tory MPs say their party should keep its promise to voters to hold a referendum. | The Welsh Assembly could be renamed the Welsh Parliament before AMs have the legal right to make the change. | 36595575 | [
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Prof Allyson Pollock and colleagues at Queen Mary University of London say the contact sport is too dangerous.
They do not want an outright ban but say the sport must change and safeguards are needed.
The Rugby Football Union said steps had been taken to make the sport safer.
The RFU says the physical and social benefits that rugby offers to children "massively outweigh any potential drawbacks" and that myriad safety measures are already in place.
These include the provision of a safe environment through investment in pitches and facilities, ensuring adequate first aid and medical facilities, and fully training coaches in methods to prevent injuries to young players.
Ministers also want to see more children taking up sport.
In 2012, then Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt announced a plan to link up thousands of schools with rugby clubs.
But Prof Pollock fears there are not enough safety checks and measures to support this, meaning children could get hurt. She wants to see an increase in the recording of injuries and better injury prevention analysis. She claims that, compared with New Zealand, the UK has few strategies to protect players.
Each season, children have about a one in 10 chance of getting injured badly enough that they need at least seven days off the pitch.
Some injuries are minor, but others can cause permanent disability.
Most rugby injuries occur during the tackle, as players collide at speed.
But scrums are the most dangerous part of play, where some of the most serious injuries occur, Prof Pollock and colleagues say in their report in the British Medical Journal.
Concussion and spinal trauma are the big concerns.
Some injuries can prove fatal - as the Robinson family from County Antrim know only too well after their 14-year-old son, Ben, died having been hurt in a school rugby match in 2011.
He collapsed at the end of that match after he was involved in a series of heavy tackles. An inquest heard that the teenager died from brain injuries.
Prof Pollock says not enough is being done to put in place injury monitoring and prevention strategies - and little is known about what really works.
"Only by collecting injury data and by providing feedback to individuals and organisations working on safety initiatives will the short - and long-term impact of injury prevention programmes, whether for rugby or any other sport, be known," she said.
She added some measures - such as matching child rugby players by size rather than age, playing only non-contact matches and having fewer players on the pitch at any one time - may help reduce the frequency of the most severe injuries.
The RFU says set-phase play such as scrums and line-outs are introduced gradually, according to a child's rugby development, with scrums initially only containing three players per side and are uncontested.
An RFU spokesman said: "We take player safety extremely seriously, and this is at the core of all the training we deliver to coaches, referees and medics, at all levels of the game.
"Rugby for young people at schools or clubs in England exists in different forms, both contact and non-contact.
"Significant work has been undertaken over a number of years to develop new rules of play to ensure maximum possible safety, with a structured progression to cover the introduction, playing, teaching and refereeing of the game from under-seven to under-18."
A government spokesman said: "Player safety in schools and at all levels of sport is absolutely paramount and sports governing bodies and the government are completely committed to it.
"The rugby governing bodies work hard to ensure the sport in schools is played as safely as possible and that young people reap the benefits of participating - boosting their health, self-esteem and encouraging teamwork." | A government drive to boost participation in rugby in English schools is ill-conceived and risks children getting seriously hurt, public health doctors have warned. | 32383607 | [
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Football was the overall winner in the attendance stakes at 43.4 million, while three of the 10 best attended showpieces were horseracing events.
Rugby union attendances, boosted by the 2.5 million fans at the Rugby World Cup, climbed to 7.5 million.
This year's total was less than the 75 million at UK sports events in 2012.
However, that year was boosted by 11 million visitors to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.
Excluding the Rugby World Cup, the 10 most popular individual sporting events of 2015 had a combined attendance of 2.5 million, with Wimbledon topping the list again.
The tennis tournament attracted just under half a million spectators during the fortnight.
In terms of attendees-per-event-day, Formula 1's British Grand Prix was the winner, averaging more than 100,000 per day.
Referring to the popularity of horseracing events, Alan Switzer, director in Deloitte's sports business group, said: "British racecourses are on track for record attendances of 6.2 million in 2015.
"Flagship events such as Royal Ascot, the Cheltenham Festival and the Epsom Derby are firmly established in the top tier of best-attended annual UK sporting events, whilst the breadth and depth of other meetings throughout the year ensure horseracing remains one of the UK's most popular spectator sports."
Two new individual events entered the top 10 best-attended sporting events in 2015: MotoGP's British Grand Prix (154,000) and the Badminton Horse Trials (147,000).
These events replaced the Ryder Cup and Aintree Grand National from 2014.
Deloitte said that although overall attendances for the year fell short of the record of 75 million set in 2012, taking away the one-off effects of the Olympic and Paralympic Games that year, and the Rugby World Cup in 2015, attendances rose by 6% across the period.
Major sporting events in the UK next year include the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, the European Aquatics Championships and the FIH Women's Champions Trophy in hockey. | Attendances at professional sports events in the UK topped 70 million this year, up 5% on 2014, according to Deloitte's sports business group. | 35097124 | [
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The hosts scored a brilliant first-half try and had the Scots under severe pressure at times after the interval.
But from 16-9 down, four penalties from Greig Laidlaw - who had come on for Henry Pyrgos - saw the visitors home.
"If we can have frustrating days and a win at the end of them all the time, I will be happy," Cotter said.
"It was a game that in the context of the end of a season and a long year, to get the win, to grind it out, I am happy.
"I am happy with the character, the way the team applied pressure and finally got the result. It could have gone the other way.
"We weathered a very difficult first half, they flew into us and lifted the intensity from last week, we felt that. It took us a while to wear them down, but we are happy with the result.
"No coach is ever going to be totally happy and I know we will find parts we need to improve on. It will be a focus next time we come together."
Assistant coach Jonathan Humphreys praised the impact of replacement front-rowers Gordon Reid, Fraser Brown and WP Nel, who came on together for the second half in place of Rory Sutherland, Stuart McInally and Moray Low, and earned Scotland some scrum dominance.
"I thought they were excellent," Humphreys told BBC Scotland. "We wanted some energy and they certainly gave us that.
"We had to change things up, we were probably over-playing a bit in the first half. We decided to make it a bit more conservative and try to force them into some errors.
"It was probably a game we would have lost just over 12 months ago. The character we showed was fantastic - five metres from our own line, defending 13 or 14 phases, and we managed to keep them out."
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Defeated Japan coach Mark Hammett believes Scotland were allowed to get away with slowing the ball down without punishment during a vital period of the second half.
"I'm really, really proud of the effort. We witnessed a really outstanding game here in Tokyo," he said.
"I don't think the best team won and even talking to the Scottish coaches, they agree. We are obviously very, very disappointed.
"I feel that perhaps the last two Tests we have been slightly disrespected as a team and what we can achieve. In all that attack, particularly in the second half, we did not get the reward.
"There was obviously a reason the ball was being slowed down. We worked really hard for that but did not get the outcome we believe we should have had." | Scotland head coach Vern Cotter praised the character of his side to "grind out" their 21-16 win over Japan despite an underwhelming performance in Tokyo. | 36631336 | [
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Harvey, 21, scored five goals in 50 league appearances for the Pilgrims but rejected the offer a new contract.
Manager Gary Mills is also considering signing ex-Burton Albion striker Shaun Harrad, who has been training with the Dragons.
Harrad is a free agent after finishing the 2015-16 season at Torquay, who are keen to re-sign the 31-year-old.
"He's experienced, knows the leagues and has scored an abundance of goals in his career," Mills told BBC Wales Sport.
"I managed him at Notts County when he was a younger player so he could well be part of us as well."
Full-back Jordan Evans has also been on trial with the National League side following his release from Championship club Fulham.
Evans is a product of Wrexham's academy and Mills said the 20-year-old could sign for the club ahead of their opening league game against Dover Athletic on 6 August. | Wrexham have signed Plymouth Argyle forward Tyler Harvey on a one-year deal. | 36912365 | [
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The Tyco BMW rider, who was injured in a 130mph crash at Ireland's Corner last August, also sat out this year's North West 200 and Isle of Man TT.
Gary Dunlop will make his debut with his father's famous number three plate.
"I've never let anyone since Joey ride as number three but who better to use it than Gary," said clerk of the course Noel Johnston.
"I think it'll be pretty special to see it on the grid after all these years."
Joey Dunlop won a record 26 Isle of Man TTs and 24 Ulster GPs before he was killed in a crash while racing in Estonia in July 2000.
Michael Dunlop and Ian Hutchinson both return to Dundrod gunning for the top step of the podium with Dean Harrison, Ivan Lintin, Lee Johnston, William Dunlop, Peter Hickman, Bruce Anstey, Dan Kneen, Conor Cummins and Christian Elkin among the 173 entries.
Johnston said the absence of Martin, who will be in Utah filming a land speed record attempt, is "a shame, but in no way will there be any less of a spectacle for the fans".
He added: "I'm very pleased with the final entry list and think it says a lot about the popularity of the event that the total number of entries are growing year on year, as is the number of newcomers [54] coming to Dundrod."
Martin has presented a number of TV programmes in recent years, most notably Channel 4's Speed with Guy Martin.
The 2016 Ulster Grand Prix will run between August 8 and 13. | Guy Martin will not be racing at next month's Ulster Grand Prix because of TV commitments in America. | 36892925 | [
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European workers now make up 6.8% of Britain's workforce of 31.5 million, according to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Supporters of the Vote Leave campaign said the latest numbers were evidence of "uncontrolled migration".
But the prime minister's office said the broader point was that the UK economy was growing.
The number of EU workers in the UK workforce has risen by 224,000 in the past year, an increase of 11.7%.
During the same period the overall UK workforce has increased by 1.3%.
Reality Check: How much of the rise in jobs is due to foreigners?
Vote Leave's Iain Duncan Smith said poorly-paid or unemployed British workers were being "forced to compete with millions of people from abroad for jobs, and they suffer downward pressure on their wages".
UKIP said the latest employment statistics "showed why we need Brexit to put British workers first".
UKIP employment spokeswoman Jane Collins MEP said the free movement of people and the 2.15 million workers from the EU now in the UK was "a huge boon to multinational companies who can exploit the oversupply of labour to keep their wages low".
It was "not so good for the parts of Britain with serious unemployment problems", she added.
But a spokesperson for the prime minister said: "It is good that we've got a growing economy and we're seeing record numbers of British nationals in employment."
The Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) said the employment rate for Britons was the highest since record-keeping began, and that since 2010 the number of British people in work had increased by 1.5 million.
The government has taken action "to protect the benefits system and ensure migrants come to this country for the right reasons," said a DWP spokesman.
Official figures released on Wednesday showed the jobless rate remained at 5.1%, in the first quarter of 2016.
The Office for National Statistics added there were 31.58 million people in work, up 44,000 from the previous quarter.
That took the employment rate to a record high of 74.2% in the three months to March.
Prof John Van Reenen, director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, says that while it may be tempting to assume that Europeans are taking jobs that might otherwise go to British workers, the overall picture is far more complex.
"In certain occupations, there is a negative impact" from the arrival of European workers, Mr Van Reenen acknowledged. But when economists examined the effects of European immigration to specific regions of the UK, they found a negligible impact on British unemployment rates in those regions.
"It doesn't seem to be obvious from the data that this is happening," he said.
But Conservative MP Dr Liam Fox, who is campaigning to leave the EU, says that European migrants are putting Britain's public services under strain.
"People can feel that in their daily lives by the lack of school places, the difficulty seeing a GP and the competition for housing," he told the BBC's Norman Smith.
"And of course those who fund the Remain campaign... Goldman Sachs, the big banks, the big corporates, the oil companies, they don't really care because they don't use those particular services," he added. | Downing Street has sought to play down figures showing that EU workers in the UK have risen to a record 2.1 million. | 36331073 | [
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Caerphilly council has been accused of lacking "Christmas cheer" by the opposition Plaid Cymru group.
But council leader Keith Reynolds said it has made cuts to protect key services.
The ruling Labour group said the decision was taken "reluctantly" but it had to save £12m for 2015-16.
Plaid's Colin Mann said: "It will be really disappointing if our town centres don't have any Christmas cheer this year with the lighting cancelled."
He said the lighting was available, but there is no money to pay contractors to put up and dismantle it. | There will be no Christmas lights in towns around Caerphilly county this year after funding was cut. | 33952119 | [
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Councillors are unhappy Ordnance Survey (OS) maps only refer to Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog by that name.
But it is also know locally as Traeth Morfa Bychan - after the village next to the shoreline.
OS told the authority the name was adopted after consultation with the council, and they had been told the English version was most commonly used.
"During the council's Language Committee, members declared their commitment to protecting indigenous Welsh names and places in Gwynedd," said a council spokesperson.
They said they would continue to collaborate with agencies such as OS to "ensure that the correct names are used wherever possible".
"In this case, the discussion with the OS will continue regarding the possibilities for changing the name that appears on their maps," added the Gwynedd official.
"In the meantime Gwynedd council will consult with community councils in the specific area, to gather evidence that will enable the council to submit robust evidence to the OS for changing the name that appears on their maps." | Officials have said they will push to get the Welsh name of a Gwynedd beach on maps. | 36116022 | [
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Gwent Police was called to the incident near Raglan Services at about 11:30 BST on Sunday.
The ambulance service said a patient had been taken to Bristol Royal Infirmary.
The road was closed in both directions between Monmouth and Raglan for about four hours but police said traffic was now moving freely. | A person has been taken to hospital by air ambulance following a serious crash on a major road in Monmouthshire. | 39913154 | [
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It was easy to do she says, because of Britain being inside the European Union. She has already sent off her postal vote: she voted to stay in.
It wasn't just the weather that made the Stevensons leave the UK.
Their cleaning business was in trouble because it was being undercut by companies run by Polish migrants.
But so what, Nigel says. He thinks British people need to ''up their game'' and stop complaining about immigration.
''They have had it too easy for too long'', he says. Nigel will also be voting for Remain.
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Sit on the sea wall by their café and you'll struggle to hear much Spanish conversation. Almost everyone walking by is either a British tourist or resident.
There are 309,000 Brits registered as having residency in Spain but there are likely to be many thousands more living here for just part of the year.
Sat at one of the café's tables is Scotsman Mark Connor. A singer and radio DJ, he performs at a nearby Irish bar.
He has been paying close attention to the referendum debate and is annoyed by some of the arguments being put forward by the Remain side.
In particular he is irritated at the suggestion that if Britain leaves, the Spanish government could make it harder to live and work here.
The Spanish wouldn't dare make it harder for Brits he says because they contribute so much to the economy.
'"The pensioners have their own UK pensions so they're not a drain on the state," Mark tells me.
"And then there are all the well-off Brits living up in the hills and down at the marina, are you seriously telling me that the Spanish are going to get rid of them? I don't think so."
A few miles away is a community known as Little Britain. It is not hard to understand why.
There is a fish and chip shop, British Butcher's, Chinese and Indian Restaurants, an Iceland close by, and of course, full English Breakfasts a-go-go. At its heart is the Benavista Bowls Club.
Almost all of the club's 150 members are British and they are mostly retired.
There has been speculation that they could be hit financially, that their UK pensions could be frozen because that is what has happened to expats in some non-EU countries.
Largest number of Brits living in EU countries, according to Migration Watch.
There have also been warnings that the Spanish government could start charging them for their healthcare.
Speaking to members after the match it was striking how many wanted to get out of the EU and how few had thought about how they might be affected financially.
Whilst one couple worried about their pensions, the others did not seem particularly bothered about being charged for health care; almost all of them had private health insurance.
John Richardson, summed up the mood best. ''Oh, they'll sort something out''. | It was ten years ago that Ruth and her husband Nigel packed up their life in London and bought the Blue Palm cafe in Marbella. | 36427547 | [
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But more than 400 years on, it has become a sticking point in the Stormont talks.
In response to demands for an Irish language act, the Democratic Unionist party is understood to want more formal protection for Ulster-Scots too.
But what form would that take and what do Ulster-Scots speakers want?
According to the 2011 census, 8% of Northern Ireland's population claim some knowledge of Ulster-Scots - just over 140,000 people.
That included 13% of Protestants and 3% of Catholics.
By contrast, more than 179,000 people claimed to have some knowledge of Irish.
The former Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure published proposals for an Irish language act in 2015.
However, in the same year the department published a strategy to enhance and develop the Ulster-Scots language, heritage and culture up until the year 2035.
Although a strategy is not legislation, that document gives some pointers about what form any enhanced status for Ulster-Scots may mean.
It included these proposals:
Those were all important for Ulster-Scots enthusiasts at the Ullans centre in Ballymoney, County Antrim - a hub for the Ulster-Scots language, music, dance and history.
But more money is also a big issue, according to Louise Morrow who teaches classes in Ulster-Scots.
"Equality of funding is a big thing for me," she said.
"The Irish language does get more funding and is more recognised than the Ulster-Scots language.
"We would also like to see more Ulster-Scots townland names being recognised.
"Ulster-Scots is forgotten about in some ways I feel."
For fellow volunteer Johnny Crawford, more education is vital.
"We'd like to see more provision in schools and more curriculum-based Ulster-Scots," he said.
"It's also mostly primary school driven, as there isn't a lot of resources for post-primary pupils."
The Ullans centre is also home to Northern Ireland's only dedicated Ulster-Scots radio station, Fuse FM.
One of its presenters, Liam Logan, says any legislation or strategy to protect and promote Ulster-Scots can be introduced gradually.
"At the bottom of it is that notion of education, so people have an idea of their Ulster-Scots linguistic heritage," he said.
"And a wee bit of respect that says just because you speak in an Ulster-Scots way, it doesn't mean you're stupid."
So while the talking goes on at Stormont - and like their counterparts who speak Irish - Ulster-Scots enthusiasts say they want action and not just words.
And according to fluent Ulster-Scots speaker Jack Kyle, from Ballymoney, the stakes are high.
"I was born here, my father was born here and my mum and my grandparents," he said.
"People around here still speak Ulster-Scots like they did.
"We just don't want to see it dying out." | Ulster-Scots is a language which has been part of life here since the first Scots planters arrived in Ulster in the 17th Century. | 40437157 | [
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There are around 200 suicides a year of people cared for by crisis teams - three times the number in hospitals.
A third had been discharged from hospital in the previous fortnight, while a further third had been using the service for less than a week.
The University of Manchester report suggests crisis teams in the UK are under too much pressure.
Crisis resolution/home treatment (CRHT) teams are made up of psychiatrists, mental health nurses, social workers and support workers.
They visit patients in their homes, administering medication and offering psychological and practical support.
By Michael Buchanan, BBC social affairs correspondent
Twenty years ago, there was a broad consensus within the NHS that suicides among psychiatric patients were inevitable.
The landscape has now changed. Medics in Detroit proved that you could cut out all suicides and now the more innovative parts of the NHS are trying to embark on a similar exercise.
But reaching that goal requires a culture change. Not just to appreciate that it is possible, but to invest in the training and other resources that will make it possible.
Too often, inpatient beds have been cut with the NHS promising the savings will be invested in community services.
Twenty years of research, with ever increasing suicides under the care of crisis teams, shows that simply hasn't happened. Too many psychiatric patients are still simply being failed.
One other important point this research highlights - those NHS trusts that involve families in investigating deaths improve performance. Why some trusts fail to do so, or engage in some tokenistic efforts, is utterly baffling.
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH) report suggests the teams are bearing the pressure of caring for patients who actually need a more acute level of care, such as inpatient beds.
It said crisis teams had become the "default option" in acute care "used for too many patients at high risk".
Prof Louis Appleby, director of NCISH, said: "Our findings suggest that we are accepting too much risk in the home treatment these teams offer and that the crisis team is now the priority for suicide prevention in mental health."
The report suggests people who live alone - as 43% of those who committed suicide did - were at particular risk and that the crisis team may not have been a "suitable" level of care.
Poor access to specialist help for drug and alcohol misuse was also noted by the authors.
Joy Hibbins suffered a "horrifying, shocking, terrifying and profoundly distressing" incident in 2012. Within days, she was feeling suicidal for the first time in her life, and was directed towards her local crisis team.
"I found it almost impossible to engage with them as there were so many of them," she says. "A different person was coming out to see me every day.
"When you've been through something extremely traumatic it is hard enough to build trust with one person, never mind a whole team and it meant that I was having to repeat information about the experience to different people. There was no sense of continuity of care from my perspective.
"There are some very good individuals within the crisis teams but there are many issues. They are working very much under pressure. "
In an effort to prevent others from suffering a similar experience, Joy has set up a charity in Gloucestershire which provides round-the-clock support to people contemplating suicide.
Suicide rates across the UK vary. In general, rates have risen since the 2008 recession - except in Scotland where there has been a sustained fall. The rate is highest in Northern Ireland.
Samantha Nicklin, head of campaigns at Rethink Mental Illness, said: "Every suicide is preventable. We are still losing too many brothers, sisters, parents, children and friends this way.
"While progress is being made in our understanding of how to support people with mental illness and prevent suicide, we are still seeing people struggling to get the help they need before they reach crisis point, with overstretched services and patchy care across the country."
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said: "It is a flawed and unacceptable system whereby patients at risk of death by suicide are denied the hospital care that would be given to anyone with life-threatening physical illness and placed in the hands of overworked, understaffed community teams.
"We cannot stand by and watch unnecessary deaths because of a principal that everyone, however ill, should be treated in the community." | Suicides of people being cared for in the community are higher than among hospital inpatients, a report says. | 37563259 | [
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Ricky Miller ended a run of two games without a goal with a penalty in the 26th minute, sending Liam Roberts the wrong way after his own trickery in the box drew the foul from Chester's Matthew Waters.
James Alabi was a constant threat for Chester and he showed great strength with his back to goal to spin and lash home an equaliser on the half-hour mark.
Miller then raced clear of the visitors' backline and finished his 29th goal of the season after 49 minutes, before Joe Healy completed the scoring with a superb volley from the edge of the box nine minutes later.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Dover Athletic 3, Chester FC 1.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 3, Chester FC 1.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Tyrone Sterling replaces Ricky Modeste.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Chris Kinnear replaces Joe Healy.
Evan Horwood (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Chester FC. Evan Horwood replaces Johnny Hunt.
Substitution, Chester FC. Craig Mahon replaces Kane Richards.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Moses Emmanuel replaces Ricky Miller.
Elliott Durrell (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Dover Athletic 3, Chester FC 1. Joe Healy (Dover Athletic).
Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces Matty Waters.
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Chester FC 1. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic).
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 1, Chester FC 1.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Chester FC 1.
Ricky Modeste (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Chester FC 1. James Alabi (Chester FC).
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Chester FC 0. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic) converts the penalty with a.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Dover ended a three-match winless run with an emphatic victory over Chester at Crabble. | 38701252 | [
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The 30-year-old London 2012 gold medallist recorded 8.18m in his final jump to win ahead of Uruguay's Emiliano Lasa (7.96m).
Holly Bradshaw set a new British women's pole vault record of 4.80m.
There was a minute's silence before the event for the victims of Monday's attack in the city.
Twenty-two people were killed and another 116 were injured by a suicide bomber as the crowd left a performance by US singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena.
The Great City Games, which is staged in the city centre, was given the go-ahead by council and police on Tuesday.
The Great Manchester Run will also go ahead this Sunday and will be covered on BBC One from 12:30-14:30 BST.
Friday's competition was the first major event in Manchester since the attack and drew thousands to a sunny Deansgate and Albert Square.
The latter, which three days ago hosted a vigil for those who lost their lives in the attack, was the scene for a stellar display from Rutherford.
His jump of 8.08m in his second attempt had already ensured victory before his final effort, which saw him extend his lead further.
"It's been absolutely amazing to get you all out here in support of us," said Rutherford afterwards. "It's been an incredibly difficult week for everybody and I'm so pleased we can come here and give you something to smile about and enjoy.
"Manchester is one of my favourite cities in the world to go to. I love it for the football and I love it for all you guys getting behind us in sport.
"It truly is a special place."
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It was a superb evening for Bradshaw, who beat her own personal best before going on to surpass her own British record in the pole vault.
Starting at 4.50m, the 25-year-old from Preston cleared at the third attempt to ensure victory over her rivals, with fellow Britons Rachel Gibbons and Sally Peake and Belgium's Chloe Henry all failing to go higher than 4m.
She then went on to surpass the mark of 4.71m she set in 2012 before also clearing 4.80m at the first attempt.
"It was a bit nerve-wracking at the start," Bradshaw, who was sixth at London 2012 and fifth four years later in Rio, told BBC Sport.
"But there were great conditions. Once I got in the zone, to jump 4.72 and then 4.80 I am really chuffed.
"Training has been going great. I am in the best shape I have ever been in. I just need to stay healthy, keep sharp and build momentum going into the majors."
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Jonnie Peacock eased to victory in the T44 men's 100m in 10.92 seconds, accelerating to pull well ahead of his three challengers.
South Africa's Arnu Fourie was second (11.25secs), with Michail Seitis third (11.39) and Italy's Emanuele di Marino fourth (12.18).
"We had a massive shift on technical aspects last year and had just six months to get them right before the Olympics but we improved a lot," Peacock told BBC Sport. "I still have a lot to improve. My first five metres today were terrible."
Sophie Kamlish made it a British double in the event with victory in the T44 women's 100m, beating Dutch three-time Paralympic gold medallist Marlou van Rhijn by 0.02secs in a time of 13.24.
On the specially laid track on Deansgate, Asha Philip pipped Australian Sally Pearson to the win the women's 100m in a time of 11.48secs.
Pearson made up for that disappointment by winning the final race of the evening - the 100m hurdles - in 12.81secs.
Another Briton, James Dasaolu, clocked 10.25 to take the men's 100m after 41-year-old Kim Collins, who claimed gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, pulled up with cramp.
American Johnny Dutch, who was coaxed out of retirement last year, impressed in the men's 200m hurdles with a time of 22.48secs, comfortably beating a British trio led by Sebastian Rodger (22.89).
There was a surprise result in the men's 150m as Greece's Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas claimed a personal best of 15.04secs to see off the challenge of Britain's Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, who also ran a PB of 15.22.
Fellow Briton Richard Kilty was third in 15.43. | Britain's Greg Rutherford claimed a resounding long-jump victory at the Great City Games in front of a big crowd in Manchester's Albert Square. | 40050737 | [
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Prices rose 0.8% in the month compared with 0.1% in November.
Overall in 2015 house prices rose by 4.5%, with the average price of a property in the UK now at £196,999.
Separately the Land Registry for England and Wales reported that prices rose by 5.6% in the year to November. It said the average price of a house or flat was £186,325.
Nationwide said the growth in house prices broadly matched growth in average salaries, adding that it expected to see a similar pace of growth next year.
Rival lender Halifax calculates that prices are rising twice as fast.
Its most recent survey suggested that prices went up by 9% in the year to November.
London remained the strongest performing region for the fifth year running, with average prices up 12% compared with a year ago, according to Nationwide.
But it did not expect house prices in the capital to continue to see above average growth next year, pointing to the fact that property was becoming unaffordable for many in the city.
Average prices in the London are now 50% above their pre-crisis peak in 2007, while in contrast property values in Northern Ireland remain 44% below their pre-crisis peak, despite rising by 6.5% in the last three months of the year.
Across the UK as a whole, prices are around 7% higher, Nationwide added.
Scotland was the only part of the UK that saw a fall in average house prices, with values down 1.9% in the three months to the end of December compared with the same period a year ago.
Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, forecast average house prices would accelerate at a modest pace, despite the likelihood of interest rate rises from the middle of next year.
"Further healthy gains in employment and rising wages are likely to bolster buyer sentiment, while borrowing costs are expected to rise only gradually. However, the main concern is that construction activity will lag behind strengthening demand, putting upward pressure on house prices and eventually reducing affordability," he added.
Overall, Mr Gardner forecast average house price growth of between 3% and 6% nationally in 2016.
He also raised concerns about regional variations in house prices, linking strong house price growth in some regions to higher rates of employment growth.
"The gain in employment in London is particularly striking, with the number of people in employment up 14% compared to the pre-crisis period," he added.
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight forecast house price growth of 6% in 2016 supported by continued buyer interest and shortage of available properties as well as healthy wage growth and levels of employment, relatively high consumer confidence and still very low mortgage interest rates.
But he warned that average house prices would "be constrained by more stretched house prices to earnings ratios, tighter checking of prospective mortgage borrowers by lenders and the probability that interest rates will start rising gradually during 2016". | Average house prices grew strongly in December according to the latest survey from building society Nationwide. | 35197410 | [
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The animal had been shot twice in the shoulder and once in its left back leg, which vets had to amputate.
The charity said the one-year-old cat was "incredibly lucky" to survive.
Last year the Scottish government held a consultation on licensing air weapons, but a majority of responders opposed the plan.
One-year-old Teenie was found injured by her owner Sarah Nisbett in NiddryView, Winchburgh, at about 16:30 on Friday 14 March and taken to the Scottish SPCA.
Mrs Nisbett said the cat was now having to learn how to walk again.
"The gun that was used must have some power because the pellet actually went through her back leg, that's why it was so badly damaged," she said.
"She's now learning how to hop around the house, it's terrible.
"The fact that it was three shots is crazy. We live in a housing estate and there are lots of kids. That just makes it worse because any of them could have been hit in the crossfire."
She added: "There's some sick people out there, hopefully somebody will know who's done this and let the police or the Scottish SPCA know."
Scottish SPCA Ch Supt Mike Flynn said: "Teenie's owners are understandably very upset and keen for us to find the callous person responsible to ensure no more cats come to harm.
"This is an alarming incident which only highlights why the Scottish government should implement the licensing of airguns as a matter of urgency."
He added: "The new licensing regime should ensure that only those with a lawful reason are allowed to possess such a dangerous weapon. It will also help the police trace anyone using an air gun irresponsibly."
Last year the Scottish government launched a consultation on licensing air weapons, with a large majority of those who responded opposing the plan.
Under the proposed scheme, anyone wanting to own an air gun would need to demonstrate they had a legitimate reason for doing so.
A total of 87% of respondents rejected the idea - with some describing it as "draconian" and "heavy-handed". A small number of people felt ministers were not going far enough.
The Scottish SPCA urged anyone with information about the incident to contact them. | An animal charity is calling for the licensing of air guns after a cat in West Lothian was left injured after being shot three times. | 26668081 | [
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Tensions remain between the ruling Frelimo party and the opposition former rebel movement Renamo and corruption has become a major concern.
The discovery of gas fields off Mozambique's coast in 2011 is set to transform the economy of one of Africa's poorest nations.
But despite recent economic growth, more than half of Mozambique's 24 million people continue to live below the poverty line.
Population 24.5 million
Area 812,379 sq km (313,661 sq miles)
Languages Portuguese (official), several indigenous languages, including Makhuwa
Major religions Christianity, indigenous beliefs, Islam
Life expectancy 50 years (men), 52 years (women)
Currency metical
President: Filipe Nyusi
Filipe Nyusi, of the ruling party Frelimo party, was sworn in as president in January 2015.
Two months later he succeeded former president Armando Guebuza as party leader, representing a change in guard in Frelimo which has dominated politics in Mozambique since it won independence from Portugal in 1975.
During his election campaign, Mr Nyusi pledged to transform Mozambique, one of Africa's poorest nations. He now presides over a country on the cusp of tapping newly discovered offshore gas fields, set to transform Mozambique's economy.
Television is the most popular medium in Mozambique.
State-run radio and private FM stations operate alongside dozens of government and Unesco-funded community radio and TV stations.
Print media have little influence given the high levels of illiteracy.
Press freedom is legally protected but according to a 2105 report by US-based Freedom House, many journalists practice self-censorship.
Some key dates in Mozambique's history:
1752 - Portugal colonizes Mozambique.
1891 - Portugal hands over the administration of the region to the Mozambique Company, a private business.
1962-74 Independence struggle: Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) formed.
1975 - Independence: Frelimo rules under single-party system with leader Samora Machel as president.
1976-92 - Civil war.
1986 - President Machel is killed in an air crash, Joachim Chissano installed as president.
1990 - Constitution amended allowing multi-party system.
1992 - UN-brokered peace deal ends fighting between Frelimo and the rebel Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo).
1994 - First multi-party elections, Joachim Chissano is re-elected president.
2004 - President Joaquim Chissano steps down after 18 years in office, succeeded by Armando Guebuza.
2011 - Discovery of natural gas set to transform Mozambique's economic landscape.
2015 - Mozambique declares itself free of landmines, a legacy of the civil war. | Mozambique, which gained independence from Portugal in 1975, is still suffering from the effects of a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992. | 13890416 | [
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The world number one, 32, beat Waters 11-2 11-5 11-4 in just 24 minutes at the National Squash Centre to secure a first national title since 2012.
"I am really happy that I played well all week to win the title again," she told the tournament website.
In the men's event, Nick Matthew beat James Willstrop 11-2 6-11 11-3 11-3 to win his eighth British title.
World number three Matthew, 35, lost his first set of the week but recovered to win the final in 50 minutes. | Laura Massaro won her third British title with a straight-set final victory over Alison Waters in Manchester. | 35575132 | [
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Parent company Mondelez says it plans to bring all Cadbury lines under its existing in-house fair trade scheme, Cocoa Life.
As a result, it says it will offer five times more sustainable chocolate in the UK by 2019.
But critics warn this could confuse consumers.
They also fear that shared standards around ethical trade will be lost if more firms drop Fairtrade.
So what prompted Mondelez's change of approach, and does it leave the future of the Fairtrade mark in doubt?
Broadly, Fairtrade works as a voluntary certification system which holds adherents to strict standards - in particular paying a minimum price for raw materials such as cocoa, sugar and coffee.
But Glenn Caton, northern Europe president at Mondelez, tells the BBC that while his firm and Fairtrade have the same goals, "sustainability is about much more to us than price".
"The next generation of farmers aren't taking on cocoa farming like they used to because it is so unprofitable, so we have to make sure their communities thrive and this means investing more in their communities," he says.
As such, Mondelez wants to lead its own sustainability efforts - investing more in areas such as its supply chain, bonuses for farmers, training and climate change prevention.
The Fairtrade Foundation has welcomed the move, too, which it says will leave farmers in developing countries like Ghana at least as well off, if not better-off.
"The relationship is not ending, it's changing," says policy and public affairs director Barbara Crowther, pointing out that the Fairtrade Foundation will remain a partner to Cocoa Life - independently assessing its progress and reporting its findings.
The big question now is whether other firms will also choose to abandon Fairtrade certification and adopt their own systems of self-regulation.
Certainly criticism of the Fairtrade system is mounting in the cocoa industry, says Dr Steve Davies of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
The big issue is that most cocoa producers are small farmers who can't achieve the economies of scale of bigger farms, and that leaves many vulnerable to risks like drought and struggling to survive.
"Fairtrade does bring benefits to some producers, but it will not be a way of transforming the world trade system as some people seem to see it," he says.
"The only way to improve conditions for people working at bottom of the supply chain - those farming raw materials like cocoa - is by investing in the supply chain. Price floors might help but will only go so far."
Another issue, says Tobias Webb, of supply chain consultancy the Innovation Forum, is that firms can find the web of overlapping ethical trade certifications out there complex to manage.
These include not just Fairtrade's, but the Rainforest Alliance - which is dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests - and UTZ, the world's most prevalent label for sustainable farming.
"Producers can end up putting four or five labels on their products, and achieving each one requires a costly and time consuming audit.
"So many businesses like Mondelez are now moving towards in-house systems where they work in partnership with the NGOs as independent observers.
But not everyone wants to see Fairtrade stepping back from its role as a leading promoter of ethical trade.
Anna Taylor, executive director of think-tank the Food Foundation, says the UK has seen a "rapid rise" in Fairtrade sales in the last two decades which has been of huge benefit to farmers in the developing world.
Fairtrade cocoa products by volume increased 6% in the UK in 2015, and around 4,500 products in 74 countries have the Fairtrade mark worldwide.
The risk, she adds, is that we could lose a transparent set of universal standards that consumers "trust, see and recognise".
"Consumers more than ever want to be able to trust where their food comes from and are worried about 'black-box' supply chains."
Mr Webb sees another potential risk in big firms pulling away from the Fairtrade system.
"Will NGOs still be able to resource themselves to play the role of the critical friend? There is potentially a risk there that there is no independent observer - but firms do understand they need that credibility."
Ms Crowther says the Fairtrade Foundation does not see Mondelez's move as a threat to its future, and welcomes companies "taking ownership" of their sustainability challenges.
She adds that her organisation is also evolving to meet the cocoa industry's changing needs and moving beyond its historical focus on price regulation.
"If there is an opportunity to innovate in different way then we welcome it. It's also worth mentioning that Mondelez will continue to source the same amount of Fairtrade-certified sugar for its products.
"We are still the most recognisable ethical-trade mark globally and that's not going to change," she adds. | News that the UK's best known chocolate brand, Cadbury, is abandoning its Fairtrade certification has caused some concern in the food industry. | 38137480 | [
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I obviously hope that I win the match but I know Liam pretty well and this is a big opportunity for him to go out there, give it a go and show everybody what he's got.
You want to be playing on the big courts against the best players, in front of a big crowd, and there's no pressure on him, so I'm expecting him to play good tennis.
And Liam won't be the only one who's nervous - before any of the Slams I feel the tension, and as the tournament goes on it calms down a little bit each day.
This will be my 11th Wimbledon and I would say it feels different to when I first played. Then there was no expectation and winning the first match was a good, positive start. Now, if I don't win the first match it's a disaster!
But I do feel good right now, I'm happy with the way I'm playing and practising and, yes, I'm ready.
With 15 British players involved in the singles competitions at Wimbledon this year, and the recent success in doubles for my brother Jamie and Dom Inglot, it does feel like there's a bit of a feelgood factor around British tennis at the moment.
Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but this tournament is a big chance for some of them to make their mark and you just hope they do themselves justice, because it's tough working your way up through the rankings.
I played a lot of Futures tournaments, below the main tour, when I was 15, 16, 17 years old, and then you come to somewhere like Wimbledon, in front of a huge crowd with a great atmosphere, and the next week you go back to playing the Futures where there can be 10 or 15 people watching.
It's a totally different feeling, a different atmosphere, and I think you need to take motivation from matches like these when you're back in the smaller events and say "that's where I want to be".
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Playing at this level, being around the top players, practising with them before the event, you learn huge amounts from that. More than you will from playing any Futures event in my opinion.
So you want them to enjoy the week but also perform, otherwise it feels like a wasted opportunity.
Hopefully everyone will enjoy the experience but fight as hard as they can for every single point, and I think there will be a few surprise performances this year from the British players.
It's three years since I last played at Wimbledon with Ivan Lendl on my coaching team, and I think we've both changed in that time.
I'm more grown up, more mature. I'm married and have a family now. Ivan's done more coaching with junior players and I'm sure that affects the way he sees things a bit too.
There's a huge difference between working with a player at the top of the game and then teenagers that you're trying to develop at a much slower rate. I'm sure that's altered the way that Ivan approaches his coaching.
We've certainly had an excellent week of practice since Queen's Club, which was a great way for Ivan to return, and it honestly hasn't felt strange having him back as part of the team again.
As the number two seed, we've known all week that I would play my opening match at Wimbledon on Tuesday, and that gives us consistency in terms of the schedule, as I know I'll play every two days.
However, that only helps if I get the job done - if I have long matches like I had at the start of the French Open, then having a couple of days off over the middle weekend can help with recovery a little bit.
My goal is definitely to try to avoid having those matches, which will hopefully set up another special couple of weeks.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery.
Media playback is not supported on this device | I hope Liam Broady is really pumped and excited for our first-round match at Wimbledon on Tuesday, because these are the moments you play for. | 36623213 | [
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His daughter said he had died at Val de Grace military hospital in Paris on Tuesday evening.
Raymond Aubrac and his late wife Lucie became important members of Jean Moulin's underground Resistance movement in 1942.
Aubrac was arrested in June 1943 with Moulin, who died after torture.
In a recent BBC interview, he described how their arrests by the Gestapo at a doctor's surgery in the suburb of Caluire in Lyon had come as "a shock but not a surprise".
Jean Moulin, who had been sent by Gen Charles de Gaulle to organise the underground resistance to Nazi occupation, was tortured, taken to Paris and later died on a train to Berlin.
But Raymond Aubrac escaped when a group of fighters including his wife attacked a lorry moving him and other members of the Resistance from jail in Lyon.
Born as Raymond Samuel in 1914, Aubrac was Jewish.
He studied engineering and married Lucie Bernard after war broke out. After his escape from jail, the couple reached London in February 1944.
Their story and their Resistance work with Jean Moulin became legendary in France and the couple gave a number of talks to schools and colleges about their experience.
After France was liberated, Aubrac was given the task of supervising reconstruction efforts in the port city of Marseille. From 1964-75 he served as a director at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
He twice gave evidence after the war against Rene Hardy, a fellow Resistance member who was accused of betraying his colleagues but was later acquitted.
In 2010, he travelled to London with President Nicolas Sarkozy to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Gen de Gaulle's appeal to the French people after the country had fallen to the Nazis.
Raymond Aubrac remained politically active until he died and gave his backing to Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande.
In tribute, President Sarkozy described him as an "heroic figure" whose "escape, thanks to the courage of his wife Lucie Aubrac, has entered into the legend of Resistance history".
Centrist presidential candidate Francois Bayrou praised him as a "major emblematic figure". | One of the leading figures of the French resistance against the Nazis, Raymond Aubrac, has died aged 97, his family says. | 17674554 | [
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Joey's Pizza has 212 stores across Germany with annual sales of €143m ($156.5m; £103.9m).
Germany is the world's fourth-biggest pizza market and the deal is worth up to A$120m ($86m).
The deal will increase the number of stores owned by Sydney-listed Domino's Pizza Enterprises to 1,870.
The joint venture will be two-thirds owned by the Australian company, with the remainder owned by the London-listed Domino's Pizza Group, which already has operations in Germany.
Don Meij, chief executive of Domino's Pizza Enterprises, said that entering the German market represented a long-term growth opportunity.
"The acquisition of the market-leading Joey's Pizza business provides immediate scale and marketing presence which we can build from," he said.
The company's Sydney-listed shares jumped more than 12% after the deal was announced. The stock has soared more than 125% in the past 12 months.
The Australian company also raised its profit outlook for the year to June by 30% - to A$166.1m net income before tax and other items.
The Domino's brand globally is owned by the New York-listed Domino's Pizza Inc.
The London-listed company has more than 800 stores in the UK, and holds franchises in Ireland, Germany and Switzerland. Up to 15 of its German stores will be bought by the joint venture.
Shares in Domino's Pizza Group have risen by 38% this year and the company is valued at £1.6bn.
Domino's Australia is the world's largest franchisee for the pizza brand. It holds the Domino's brand network in Australia, Belgium, France, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Monaco.
The Joey's Pizza deal is expected to be completed early next year, subject to regulatory approval. | The companies that own Domino's Pizza in the UK and Australia have set up a joint venture to buy Germany's biggest pizza chain. | 35109258 | [
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The Blues lead the top flight with 59 points with 14 games remaining.
Second-placed Tottenham lead the chasing pack with 50 points, and just five points separate them in second and Manchester United in sixth.
"I think there are six teams who are very strong and can fight to win the title," said Conte.
Third-placed Manchester City, Arsenal, in fourth, and fifth-placed Liverpool make up the top six.
"Manchester United? Yes. They have a great squad," added Conte.
"There are 14 games to play and five teams as well as us who can fight to win it. It's important we don't make mistakes in the race."
Chelsea face a trip to Burnley on Sunday for a 13:30 GMT kick-off. The Clarets have won their last seven games at home in all competitions with 28 of their 29 league points so far this season coming at Turf Moor.
"There are teams at the bottom who win and draw so you must have the right concentration," said Conte.
"If your ambition is to stay in the top four or top six, you can have highs and lows.
"If you want to win [the title] you must have concentration and focus and know that in every game you can lose points." | Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says it would be a "very big mistake" for his side to think they are close to winning the Premier League title. | 38930957 | [
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Bristol's Lee Haskins defends his IBF world bantamweight title against Ivan Morales at Cardiff's new Ice Arena.
Selby, 27, is brother of current World IBF Featherweight champion Lee Selby.
Andrew Selby made a dazzling start to his professional career, beating Tanzanian Haji Juma in Newport on October, 2015.
Leicestershire's Norman, 22, has been beaten once in 13 bouts. | The British Boxing Board of Control has sanctioned Andrew Selby to fight Louis Norman for the vacant British flyweight title on 14 May in Cardiff. | 36050605 | [
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The new College of Policing guidance is designed to help officers prosecute without relying on victims' evidence.
It also advises senior officers about the need for specialist staff to deal with cases of abuse and ensure victims receive the best possible support.
David Tucker, from the college, said a change was needed within policing in attitudes towards domestic abuse.
The College of Policing guidance focuses on abusive relationship dynamics.
A new domestic abuse offence of "coercive and controlling behaviour" within relationships is expected to come into force later this year, after it was unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May last year.
This type of behaviour can include the abuser preventing their victim from having friendships or hobbies, refusing them access to money and determining many aspects of their everyday life.
The college is releasing a "toolkit" for officers who are first at the scene of an incident, as well as checklists for call handlers and counter staff in police stations for when they are contacted about domestic abuse.
Mr Tucker, head of the college's crime and criminal justice faculty, said: "Our research indicated the need for a culture change within policing attitudes towards domestic abuse.
"Sometimes police cannot understand why a victim would stay in an abusive relationship.
"There are dozens of reasons why victims feel unable to leave or support prosecution.
"It is the responsibility of the perpetrator to stop the abuse and the responsibility of the police to bring the perpetrator to justice - the victim is not responsible for either."
He said police needed to investigate domestic abuse "pro-actively" and should be "properly trained".
Polly Neale, chief executive of the charity Women's Aid, said it was "vital" that police officers understood coercive control to help them identify victims.
Diana Barran, from the charity SafeLives, said the new guidance was "a huge step forward in helping police to understand the complex nature of domestic abuse and - in particular - coercive control". | Police officers in England and Wales are to get specialist advice on how to spot patterns of domestic abuse. | 34309575 | [
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Crews battled the fire in Littleborough, Rochdale, for several hours after it was reported shortly before 19:30 BST on Wednesday.
Engines from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service attended, with back-up from West Yorkshire.
Firefighters remained at the scene until after 05:30 BST and the cause remains under investigation. | About 50 firefighters tackled a large blaze at a five-storey disused mill in Greater Manchester. | 33179385 | [
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Cole, 22, has agreed a two-and-a-half year deal at the Silverlake Stadium, having joined Staines from Barnet in February 2016.
Eastleigh have also announced that Tyler Garratt's loan from League Two leaders Doncaster Rovers has been extended until 29 April.
The 20-year-old left-back has scored once in five matches for Eastleigh.
The Spitfires are 13th in the National League and travel to struggling Guiseley on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | National League Eastleigh have signed defender Chinua Cole from Isthmian League side Staines Town. | 38853540 | [
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Mr Jammeh, thought to now be in Equatorial Guinea, is not the first leader accused of lining his own pockets with state funds. In fact, many have taken far more. Here are some of the worst offenders.
Sani Abacha, Nigeria
Sani Abacha, the Nigerian leader from 1993 to 1998, reportedly looted somewhere between $1bn and $5bn from the country's coffers using fake funding requests. In 2014 the US Justice Department said it had frozen more than $450m of Abacha's stolen assets.
Suharto, Indonesia
Suharto, the president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998, is alleged to have cleaned out the country's state funds to the tune of about $35bn. In 2000 he was placed under house arrest and charged with the theft of $570m via fake charities, but court doctors found him too ill to stand trial. He died in 2008.
Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire
The leader of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 to 1997, Mobutu ran a murderous regime which brutally suppressed the opposition. He also lived in great style at the expense of the country's people, accumulating international properties including a 30-room mansion in Lausanne worth $5.5m. He is suspected of stealing about $5bn.
Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines
It's the shoes that everyone remembers - the supposed 3,000 pairs of designer shoes accumulated by Marcos' wife Imelda. They became an enduring symbol of the corruption of his leadership of the Philippines between 1965 and 1986. But Marcos is suspected of stealing more than $10bn from the country during his reign. After his death a series of lawsuits forced the Swiss banks in which he stashed the cash to release nearly $700m back to the Philippine authorities.
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is suspected of corruptly amassing as much as $60bn during his time in office - roughly equivalent to Yemen's annual GDP - much of it through schemes to provide oil and gas contracts. He was ousted from power in 2012 after the Arab Spring, but is now allied with the Houthi rebels, locked in battle with the country's internationally recognised government.
Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia
Slobodan Milosevic, the brutal dictator who ran Serbia between 1989 to 1997, was eventually charged with genocide, but he was first arrested on charges of plundering funds from the Serbian state. The total is not known, but he is suspected of stealing $1-$4bn. He died in 2006, while on trial in The Hague.
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt
Toppled by the 2011 uprising, Hosni Mubarak went on trial accused of embezzling funds meant for the renovation of presidential palaces to do up his personal properties. Mubarak and his sons were found guilty of embezzling more than $17m over an eight-year period. He was sentenced to three years in prison while his sons, Gamal and Alaa, got four years each.
Ben Ali, Tunisia
The 2011 overthrow of Ben Ali marked the beginning of the Arab Spring. Ali and his wife fled to Saudi Arabia but a Tunisian court sentenced them in their absence to 35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of public funds. At his trial, the prosecution said $27m in jewels and public money had been found at one of his mansions. | More than $11m (£8.8m; €10.3m) is reportedly missing from The Gambia's state coffers following the departure of long-time leader Yahya Jammeh, who clung to power for nearly two months despite losing the presidential election in December. | 38717136 | [
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Gary Price was suspended from all council duties for five months in November after Powys council's Standards Committee ruled he had breached the code of conduct.
His appeal has been dismissed by the Adjudication Panel for Wales following a two-day hearing in Llandrindod Wells.
Mr Price has been contacted for comment.
He was found to have sent information which the council said "incorrectly and unfairly" portrayed what happened at a grievance appeal hearing, in which he was a panel member.
The Adjudication Panel for Wales unanimously agreed to refer the matter back to the Standards Committee with a recommendation that Mr Price be suspended for three months.
Council leader Barry Thomas said the decision "sends out a clear message that those who enter public office have to operate within the members' code of conduct and maintain the highest possible standards". | A decision to suspend a Powys county councillor has been upheld. | 39224291 | [
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In April, Northern Ireland's secretary of state published a plan for a budget to be imposed if the Stormont parties could not reach a deal.
The indicative figures included a 2.5% cut to education.
At the time, the group of more than 40 principals in schools in the Belfast area called the proposals "totally unacceptable".
They sent a letter to parents, the Department of Education, the Education Authority and the secretary of state saying they could not impose the cuts "without seriously compromising their children's education".
On Tuesday, they went to a meeting of Belfast City Council to ask for support in fighting the cuts.
Lord Mayor Alderman Brian Kingston has now agreed to write to the secretary of state, MLAs and MPs.
Damian O'Neill, principal of the Good Shepherd Primary School in Dunmurry, told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme the principals did not know where else to turn.
"They (Belfast City Council) are the only elected body at the minute who we could reach out to.
"It's very, very important for us as principals that we see the best-possible outcomes for our children.
"But the circumstances at the minute would suggest to me that we won't be able to do that." | Belfast City Council has backed a group of principals who say they will refuse to make cuts to school budgets. | 39790202 | [
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Dene Magna School in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, has about 750 pupils on its roll.
Headteacher Stephen Brady said: "It's just got worse and worse - we had to send 26 pupils home today, sometimes common sense has to rule."
A private cleaning firm will begin a deep clean on Friday to sterilise the school ahead of it reopening.
The school normally has an attendance of 97%, with fewer than 20 students off in a day, but on Thursday this had fallen to 80%.
"We've had a steady increase in the number of students and staff coming down with this. I think we've been hit with what is a perfect storm of bugs," Mr Brady said.
"Some of the students have experienced nausea and sweating, others with vomiting and diarrhoea."
He also said a supply teacher had come in for one day but was forced to go home, after falling ill within a matter of hours.
It is expected that the pupils will recover from the bug within 72 hours.
"My only message is with the students don't let them go out and about at the weekend," added Mr Brady.
"If you can keep them in so they don't spread this amongst their friends.
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He was chairman for 16 years, during which time the club enjoyed an 11-year stint in the Premier League and two Uefa Cup campaigns.
"This is a very sad day for everyone," said Brett Warburton, vice-chairman of the Championship club.
"Phil has been a personal friend for more than 30 years. We send our deepest condolences to all Phil's family."
In November, Gartside handed responsibility for Bolton's takeover negotiations to football finance executive Trevor Birch.
Birch has been trying to to find a buyer as owner Eddie Davies wants to sell, with the club £172.9m in debt.
Former Bolton player and assistant manager Phil Brown recalled Gartside taking part in a training session, with a suit on, before the Sherpa Van Trophy final in 1989.
"He just wanted to be part and parcel of a successful club, a successful team," Brown, now Southend manager, told BBC Radio 5 live.
"To go from that to become chairman of the club in 1999 and obviously the most successful period the club has ever had, culminating in two great years in Europe... it was just fantastic for Phil and his family. Today is a very, very sad day for the club."
Former Trotters captain Kevin Davies, who retired last year, said Gartside was "really ambitious" for the club.
He said: "Everyone enjoyed the journey. To be around, he was kind and looked to put his arm around the players."
Davies said people may have differing opinion about Gartside's legacy but said he and former manager Sam Allardyce had certainly changed "the direction the club was going in".
BBC Sport's Simon Stone:
Born in Leigh, Gartside was at the helm for one of the most amazing periods in Bolton's long and colourful history.
With Eddie Davies providing the funds and Allardyce the managerial expertise, Gartside helped take Bolton into the Premier League in 2001, to the League Cup final in 2004 and Europe twice in three seasons after that.
A sixth-place finish in 2004-05 - with a squad that included Jay-Jay Okocha, Ivan Campo and Fernando Hierro - was an incredible effort for a club that could not rely on crowds of 25,000 even when things were going that well.
Allardyce's resignation in 2007 proved to be the beginning of the end of the good times for Bolton.
Though they retained top-flight status for another four seasons, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 2011, they never finished in the top half again.
By 2012, they had gone down, relegated at the end of a desperate season.
Allardyce's replacement, Sammy Lee, lasted 14 games. Gary Megson and Owen Coyle could not halt the slide.
Dougie Freedman could not secure a play-off berth in Bolton's first season as a Championship club and was replaced by Neil Lennon in October 2014.
Despite Davies agreeing to write off the club's debts as he looks for a way out, Bolton's financial situation has been described by Birch as "critical".
That is the legacy Gartside has left.
Sadly for him, it will be some time before Bolton fans can look past the current mess and remember the glorious nights against Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid that he helped create.
Had Gartside got his way, British football could have looked very different.
He was a Premier League representative on the Football Association executive board in 2009, when he put forward a proposal for Celtic and Rangers to be allowed to join the English league.
The plan was to form a 'Premier League Two' as a buffer for clubs - such as Bolton - who were unable to retain their top-flight status.
It was never formally discussed because of opposition from Uefa and many other Premier League clubs. | Bolton Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside has died aged 63 following a battle with cancer. | 35543921 | [
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A new grading system will use numbers instead of letters, and coursework is being scrapped for most subjects.
The changes will be in stages, starting with pupils due to take GCSE exams in 2017. Those who turn 13 in this academic year will be the first.
English and maths will be the first subjects affected.
Pupils will begin studying the new courses in English language, English literature and maths from the autumn of 2015.
And about 20 other popular GCSE subjects will be revamped in the same way, ready for teaching a year later, in 2016, with the first exams for those taken in 2018.
The changes apply to England only. Wales is planning its own GCSE shake-up, but Northern Ireland is not planning any changes. Scotland has its own exams system.
While they come in, pupils in England will have some exams graded with numbers and some with letters, leading teaching unions to warn this will be confusing for pupils, parents and employers.
The GCSE changes being announced will apply only to pupils in England.
Scotland has its own exam system, but Wales and Northern Ireland also use GCSEs.
Wales is also planning a shake-up, bringing in its own new GCSEs in maths, English and Welsh, which will be taught from the autumn of 2015.
In Northern Ireland no changes to GCSEs are planned. A recent review concluded there was "no case for replacing A-levels or GCSEs in the short or medium term".
Exams will be graded from 1 to 9, with 9 being the highest. Pupils who fail will be awarded a "U" for an unclassified result.
All exams will be taken after two years of study, rather than in modules taken at various stages over two years, meaning a return to the format of O-levels, which pre-dated GCSEs.
And there will be more marks awarded for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
The head of Ofqual, Glenys Stacey, said the changes were "fundamental".
"This is the biggest change in a generation," she said. "They [GCSEs] have been around for over 25 years but now we are seeing fresh content, a different structure, high-quality assessment coming in.
"It's a significant change for students and for schools."
Ms Stacey said the move to a numerical system meant a new grade was being added and that would help examiners distinguish between candidates' performance - especially at the top grades.
She suggested that the move away from traditional grades might be hard for some people to understand, but was important.
"The new qualifications will be significantly different and we need to signal this clearly," she said.
At the same time, the government is confirming changes to what has to be studied in English language, English literature and maths, because the overhaul of exams covers both what is studied and how it is assessed.
It says in English literature, students will have to "study whole texts in detail, covering a range of literature including Shakespeare, 19th Century novels, Romantic poetry and other high-quality fiction and drama".
The new maths exam will cover more topics and will be more challenging, the government says. Details were released on Friday morning.
For maths, Ofqual is keeping the present arrangement where pupils can be entered for either a higher- or lower-tier paper in maths, depending on their ability.
But in English, that division has been scrapped and one exam will be taken by all.
At the moment, students who are entered for easier papers can be awarded only the maximum of a C grade.
The government says young people were let down by the old exam system; that frequent testing meant not enough time was spent on "deep learning" and not enough attention was paid to grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Schools Minister Elizabeth Truss says the changes will improve students' "core skills" in maths and English and raise expectations.
"What we want to do is encourage schools to focus on those core skills that employers really want, because that is what is going to help our children get jobs when they leave school," she said.
Headteachers' representative, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), gave what it said was a "cautious welcome" to the changes.
Deputy general secretary Malcolm Trobe said: "There is much to welcome in today's announcement, especially the measured approach Ofqual has taken to this significant task.
This announcement seals the introduction of changes that have been in the pipeline for a while.
The moves amount to a big structural change to England's exam system and signal a clear break from the previous situation when students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland sat similar forms of GCSEs.
The move towards "linear" assessment, where everything rests on exams taken at the end of two years, is already under way, but the announcement of the removal of coursework from most GCSE subjects cements that.
As teachers, pupils and parents look ahead, they might wonder whether the alterations would survive any change in government.
A general election is scheduled for May 2015 - months before the teaching for these new courses begins.
Ofqual's Glenys Stacey says there is a "great deal of consensus that GCSEs need to reform" and that she does not sense "strong resistance" to the changes from politicians.
But there are clearly points on which the parties differ.
"We have always agreed that GCSE can be improved to better prepare students to meet the needs of the world we live in today. But the constant tinkering with GCSEs we have had in the past has not been helpful."
Unions representing classroom teachers warned that a shift away from coursework and having different levels of exams for different abilities could damage some pupils' education.
Secondary school teacher and spokesman for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Jovan Trkulja, said that less able students could suffer.
"Exams are challenging and they should continue to be challenging. But we have to remember that setting the top of the mountain as the baseline means someone has to fall behind, and I feel for the sense of failure for the less able," he said.
Shadow schools minister, Labour MP Kevin Brennan, said he had "reservations" about some aspects of the changes and that the move towards a numbered grading system was a step back to the 1970s.
He said he agreed that the pendulum "might have swung a little too far on coursework", but there was now a danger that "it will swing too far the other way".
"Having everything staked on one final exam is not great for all pupils," he said. | Exams regulator Ofqual has confirmed the changes it is making to GCSEs, in what it calls the biggest shake-up of exams in England for a generation. | 24759476 | [
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The Chiefs secured a bonus point before the break as Thomas Waldrom scored two tries and Jack Nowell and Mitch Lees also crossed the whitewash.
Frank Halai replied for Wasps on the stroke of half-time and Ashley Johnson and Lorenzo Cittadini scored after the restart to pull the home side level.
Waldrom then completed his hat-trick before Moray Low's late try secured a convincing victory for the visitors.
Exeter put in a clinical display in the first half, scoring four tries in the first 34 minutes for a 27-6 lead, with Jimmy Gopperth kicking two penalties for Wasps in reply.
But George Smith's grubber kick allowed Halai to score in the corner right on the half-time whistle and Gopperth converted to make it 27-13 at the break.
Johnson and Cittadini powered over to drag Wasps level on 52 minutes but Chiefs number eight Waldrom crashed over to seal his hat-trick and put Exeter back ahead.
After losing Henry Slade to a knee injury midway through the second half, Exeter asserted their control and Low bundled over for their sixth try of the afternoon.
The Chiefs will be replaced at the top of the table if unbeaten Saracens beat Newcastle Falcons on Sunday.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"Today was a real leveller and brought us back down to earth.
"We were beaten by a very good Exeter team that looked to be better than us in all departments. Sometimes you just have to put your hand up and say that.
"We were hugely disappointing in the driving at the line-out and that is something we pride ourselves on. Today Exeter made it look easy.
"You've got to give them credit but in saying that we have to be better than we were today. It tends to happen when people start saying nice things about you and you have to be careful not to believe it."
Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter:
"The performance was very good. Credit to Wasps, I was surprised how well they fought back into it.
"Wasps have had some big emotional performances in the last few weeks. They are draining and sometimes it's hard to hit the field with that same intensity.
"Our challenge was to try and put a bit of pressure on Wasps with our line speed, put pressure on their scoreboard and see if they had been drained by those two previous games."
Wasps: Piutau; Tagicakibau, Daly, Jacobs, Halai; Gopperth, Simpson; Mullan, Johnson, Cittadini, Davies, Gaskell, Jones, Smith, Thompson.
Replacements: Shervington, McIntyre, Cooper-Wooley, Myall, Hughes, Simpson, Jackson, Leiua.
Exeter: Dollman; Nowell, Slade, Hill, Short; Steenson, Chudley; Moon, Yeandle (capt), Francis, Lees, Parling, Johnson, Salvi, Waldrom.
Replacements: Taione, Rimmer, Low, Welch, White, Lewis, Whitten, Woodburn.
Referee: Greg Garner.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Exeter went top of the Premiership table after a thrilling win over Wasps. | 34978823 | [
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The election was called after mayor Lutfur Rahman was convicted of electoral fraud and removed from office in April.
He has been banned from standing again.
The Met Police said it was investigating 16 allegations of electoral malpractice in relation to this election, including harvesting votes and the improper distribution of election literature.
The full list of Tower Hamlets mayoral candidates is: | Voters in Tower Hamlets are going to the polls to vote for a new mayor. | 33088861 | [
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Highgate School is considering mix-and-match outfits for pupils after head teachers said that growing numbers of children were questioning their gender.
The school, which charges up to £6,790 a term, has also been encouraged to allow unisex toilets and open all sports to all pupils.
Girls at the school can wear grey trousers, dark blue jackets and ties.
But boys are not currently allowed to wear grey pleated skirts, although they would be under the new proposed dress code.
"We are asking them, should it be called uniform number one and uniform number two?," said head Adam Pettitt.
He said the issue of a gender neutral uniform had come up during question and answer sessions with his A-Level students.
This generation of young people was really questioning the binary way people look at things, he said.
"We're therefore exploring how our uniform policy could evolve to cater for those who do want to match clothing to gender, as well as those who don't."
He added: "In common with all other schools and youth organisations, yes, we are seeing greater numbers of pupils questioning gender identity than in the past.
"Having said that, in years gone by, absolutely no young people were raising it at all and it seems inconceivable that these sorts of questions simply didn't exist.
"The fact that there is significantly greater support and information available, both in schools and elsewhere, means that young people need no longer feel afraid to ask questions or speak out about their feelings.
"If they feel happier and more secure in who they are, it must be a good thing," he said.
Mr Pettitt said parents would be consulted before changes were introduced, but acknowledged that some former pupils had written to complain the school was "promoting the wrong ideas".
Co-educational independent boarding school Brighton College, where Mr Pettitt is a governor, has introduced a similarly gender neutral uniform.
Student equality groups have called for teachers to observe gender neutral speech codes and for a ban on phrases such as "man up".
And figures show a sharp rise in the number of young people seeking help to change gender.
Highgate School is holding a conference next month called The Developing Teenager which will examine how teachers should approach issues raised by transgender and gender neutral students.
In 2011, 12-year-old boy Chris Whitehead wore a skirt to school because he was angered by rules at Impington Village College, near Cambridge, that did not allow boys to wear shorts in hot weather.
The Year 8 pupil said he researched the policy, found a loophole in the rules and turned up to school in a skirt.
The school pledged to review the policy.
And last summer a group of teenage boys wore skirts to Longhill High School in Rottingdean, East Sussex after being disciplined for wearing shorts on a very hot summer's day. | Boys could be allowed to wear skirts at a north London private school if a plan for gender neutral uniforms comes in. | 39921309 | [
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Ai has accused Lego of "censorship and discrimination" after it refused his bulk order for bricks for a new exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.
Lego said it has never sold directly to anyone wanting to use its product to make a political statement.
The artist will now use the donated toy bricks to make a "new work".
"In response to Lego's refusal and the overwhelming public response, Ai Weiwei has now decided to make a new work to defend freedom of speech and 'political art'," said a post on the artist's Instagram account on Monday.
"Ai Weiwei Studio will announce the project description and Lego collection points in different cities. This is the first phase of the coming projects."
Further posts pictured a red car labelled, "the first Lego container", and a photo of Lego bricks inside the car, accompanied by the words, "the morning droppings".
Ai used Lego last year to create portraits of 175 dissident figures who had been jailed or exiled, from Nelson Mandela to Edward Snowden, on the site of the former Alcatraz prison near San Francisco.
He planned a similar work for the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, but a bulk order placed by the museum was rejected by the Danish company.
The Chinese artist said the company told the museum its bricks could not be used for artworks containing "any political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements".
Referring to The Lego Movie's slogan "everything is awesome", Ai wrote on Twitter: "Lego will tell us what to do, or not to do. That is awesome!"
He added: "Lego is giving us the definition of what is 'political', and all the big corporations are telling us what to love or hate. That is awesome."
In an earlier Instagram post, he wrote: "As a commercial entity, Lego produces and sells toys, movies and amusement parks attracting children across the globe.
"As a powerful corporation, Lego is an influential cultural and political actor in the globalized economy with questionable values.
"Lego's refusal to sell its product to the artist is an act of censorship and discrimination."
Lego spokesman Roar Rude Trangbaek would not comment directly on the case but said that, as a principle, Lego "respects any individual's right to free, creative expression".
The artist also linked Lego's stance with plans for a new Legoland in Shanghai.
Lego said the theme park was being built by Merlin Entertainment and not Lego, but that Lego does have some ties with Merlin because it uses the Lego brand.
Ai Weiwei is known for his criticism of the Chinese government as well as for being one of the world's leading contemporary artists.
Many fans have utilised Lego to help show their support for the artist on social media. One used the toy bricks to spell out the words "I support Ai Weiwei", while others offered to let the artist borrow their collection, adding, "we won't be buying more". | Artist Ai Weiwei is setting up "Lego collection points" in different cities after being inundated with offers of donations from supporters. | 34636319 | [
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The champions paid for a lacklustre first half, where they created clear openings for Jamie Vardy and Robert Huth, but surrendered the ball all too easily.
Eddie Howe's side saw 70% of the ball before the break and Marc Pugh scored for the hosts on his first league start of the season with a controlled drive from 18 yards out.
Leicester improved but ran into a stubborn home defence and goalkeeper Artur Boruc produced a key save to deny Leonardo Ulloa from six yards in the final minute.
Relive Bournemouth's hard-earned win
It means Claudio Ranieri's side set an unwanted record as their haul of one point away from home is the lowest total by a defending top-flight champion from the first eight away games of a season.
They remain 14th, four points above the bottom three, while the Cherries move to eighth.
Boruc's late save followed a key block from Steve Cook to thwart substitute Shinji Okazaki. The two interventions epitomised Bournemouth's resilience and Howe described it as a "heroic" defensive display.
His side had conceded nine goals in three games before kick-off, prompting him to call for more solid showings and that is what he got.
Good home possession early on killed any momentum Leicester hoped to carry from Saturday's thrilling victory over Manchester City.
And Bournemouth's reward for a fifth home win of 2016-17 is to be five points better off than they were at the same stage last season.
Pugh added to the positives with an excellent all-round display, showing good technique in keeping a bouncing ball on target for the winner after Benik Afobe's shot was saved.
Howe - who refused to set a target of European qualification after the win - described the match winner as "the model professional" for his patience in waiting for his chance start a league fixture.
The statistics get uglier for Leicester, who have no back-to-back wins in the league since April.
The Foxes have conceded 19 goals on the road, one more than in all 18 away games last season and have managed 21 goals in 16 games - 13 fewer than at the same stage last term.
And against Bournemouth they looked one-dimensional going forward. They mustered 12 shots but many of them arrived in a late flurry. Vardy - a hat-trick hero three days earlier - had 26 touches, the same number as Islam Slimani, who was taken off at the break and just six more than Okazaki, who replaced the Algerian.
Huth's early volley - deflected wide moments before Pugh's winner - could have significantly changed proceedings but with just 37% possession on the night and only 68% of their passes finding a team-mate, Leicester were not good enough.
Their display on the south coast was confused. They were slow from the off and limited in their reaction until it was too late.
Ranieri - who has now managed 200 games in the Premier League - will have to find answers.
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Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "It didn't feel anything like routine. It was dramatic playing the champions, we know their qualities and the lads did particularly well. It was a heroic defensive display. I thought we were magnificent in that respect."
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "The result is too severe against us because we created more chances than Bournemouth. I wanted a little more in the first half. A little more and we can score goals, recover more second balls. The second half was much better. If we continue to fight at this level, sooner or later we will get a good result."
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Bournemouth host their south-coast rivals Southampton at 13:30 GMT on Sunday, while Leicester will look to end their dismal away run by taking points at Stoke City on Saturday (15:00).
Match ends, Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 0.
Second Half ends, Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 0.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luis Hernández (Leicester City).
Substitution, Bournemouth. Tyrone Mings replaces Callum Wilson because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Callum Wilson (Bournemouth) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Vardy.
Foul by Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Harry Arter (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City).
Offside, Bournemouth. Jack Wilshere tries a through ball, but Callum Wilson is caught offside.
Luis Hernández (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Wilson (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luis Hernández (Leicester City).
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Steve Cook.
Attempt blocked. Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt missed. Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Adam Smith.
Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luis Hernández (Leicester City).
Wes Morgan (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City).
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Steve Cook.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Simon Francis.
Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leonardo Ulloa.
Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Robert Huth.
Foul by Steve Cook (Bournemouth).
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Bournemouth. Steve Cook tries a through ball, but Callum Wilson is caught offside.
Substitution, Bournemouth. Dan Gosling replaces Joshua King.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
Hand ball by Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Robert Huth (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Jack Wilshere.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ahmed Musa replaces Marc Albrighton.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Nathan Aké. | Bournemouth moved to the highest league position in their history as Leicester's miserable run away from home continued with defeat at Vitality Stadium. | 38217809 | [
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The Kings, who play in Port Elizabeth, and the Bloemfontein-based Cheetahs are expected to join the league after losing their Super Rugby status.
The Pro12 comprises teams from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Italy.
"A lot of the players at South African teams would prefer playing in the Pro12," van Rooyen told BBC Scotland.
"Most of the guys are really excited to play in the northern hemisphere - it's a new challenge, a new type of game, playing new opposition that you don't know at all."
Van Rooyen, 25, says the players have not been informed of their immediate future after the Kings' exit from Super Rugby was confirmed by the national governing body on Friday.
He hopes a berth in the Pro12 would create opportunities for him to impress Springboks selectors - and carve out a more lucrative career path in Europe.
"Most of the South Africans want to earn their pounds or their Euros and I think playing in Europe, playing against Munster or Ulster, the big teams from Ireland or Scotland or Wales can certainly put your foot in the door a bit," Van Rooyen said.
"The only way people in Europe can see you play is clips and games that you send them, but once you start playing against them week in, week out, they can know more about you as a person and how you play.
"I've got only about four, five, six years left - you have to make your pounds or your Euros. Playing against the European teams week in, week out, should hopefully make a way for us to get overseas just by playing against the teams there.
"We're going to play more of a kicking game against the northern hemisphere teams because it is wet most of the time - maybe that's what the Springboks selectors want for certain games.
"So I think it can really help us to become Boks or to get that big contract in Europe to help you get financial stability for after rugby.
"It can be a huge door to be opened for South Africans wanting to make a few bucks before their time runs out with rugby."
An ankle injury limited Van Rooyen to two Super Rugby appearances this season, with the Kings' campaign coming to a close against the Cheetahs on 14 July.
They have won six of their 14 matches and sit bottom of the Africa 2 conference.
Deon Davids' side are expected to join the Pro12 for the coming season, which should begin in September, and their scrum-half believes that, with a deeper player pool, his team can be very competitive.
"The bodies have taken a few shots now, but the type of game is totally different," he said.
"It's a slower game, so you can manage the bodies a bit better. You just have to get the right squad, with enough guys in specific positions for depth, because it is such a long competition.
"But I think the excitement of the new competition could really boost that. Tiring bodies is one thing, but if you know you can tour Ireland or Scotland, that's a big motivator.
"The first season might get a bit long, but our depth was tested in Super Rugby and we did exceptionally well.
"We've shown this year we're a great running side - I think we can bring something new to the Pro12, more running than kicking, and I think that will be good for the Pro12.
"Talent-wise we've really stepped up and I think we can be a threat. I don't see why we'd have to stand back for big teams like Munster.
"I really think we can make our stamp in the first year and build on that. I think, if you just get through the first year and see how things work, you can build on that. I think we can really be contenders growing into the Pro12."
Van Rooyen insists "there will be big crowds" for Pro12 opposition at the Kings' Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium and admits playing against Munster at Thomond Park would be "a dream come true".
"I watch European rugby week in, week out, and I think a lot of players here do," he added. "For me, the Pro12 is an awesome competition and it's a long competition, so you need a big group.
"The Pro12 has good talent - it's not a watered-down competition, it's very fierce and competitive and that's exactly what you want. I'd love to be part of it." | South African players are excited by the prospect of competing in the Pro12, according to Southern Kings scrum-half Rudi van Rooyen. | 40562458 | [
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They range from extra responsibility for off-street parking, through to tourism.
Potentially, though, the most controversial move will be putting politicians in charge of all but the most significant planning decisions.
Councils will be able to accept or reject developments in their own areas.
Currently, if you want to build a new house or erect an extension, you have to apply for permission to the Planning Service, an agency that comes under the umbrella of Stormont's environment department.
Planning officials refer your application to your local council. The councillors can express their opinion on the merits of your application, but the final say rests with the Planning Service.
From April 2015 that responsibility will shift to the councils themselves, meaning elected politicians will make planning decisions.
So is this a positive move, democratising our planning system?
Michael Corr, the creative director of Northern Ireland's architecture and planning centre, PLACE, is optimistic.
Mr Corr already works with councils and government departments, providing advice on new developments like leisure centres.
He told me the move is "a huge opportunity for the future, which offers local councils an opportunity to develop their own community and development plans".
But do Northern Ireland's politicians have the necessary skills?
Speaking about voters, Mr Corr said: "They really want to choose politicians who have the ability and understand urban regeneration and planning issues, because it's those politicians who will be able to make the biggest difference."
However, not everyone is so upbeat.
Back in the 1960s, local councils in Northern Ireland were accused of discrimination in the allocation of public housing.
Protests, like the one against Dungannon council's allocation of housing in County Tyrone, fuelled the Civil Rights movement.
The environmental group Friends of the Earth warn that a strict code of conduct will have to be rigorously enforced in order to ensure the new councils' handling of planning matters is regarded as fair and transparent.
James Orr, Northern Ireland director for Friends of the Earth, said: "In terms of property deals and in terms of politicking, we could see a situation not too far away from what happened in the 1960s, where certain communities get planning permission more favourably than other communities."
Mr Orr is also concerned about what he describes as a "tradition of close relationships between developers and political parties here".
He said: "It's quite easy to see that continuing, where we get a laissez-faire system which says, 'you look after your community and we won't bother engaging in proper democratic planning' . That is a real danger and that's why we need the nuts and bolts of good transparency put in place."
Friends of the Earth argue that giving politicians more powers with real financial consequences for developers and objectors makes it increasingly important that the public should know who donates to Northern Ireland's political parties.
Some local politicians remain opposed to the move, because they say it could deter donors worried about their personal security.
Others argue that the £7,500 limit for declaring donations is largely irrelevant to Northern Ireland, as the Stormont parties don't attract such large amounts.
Under the terms of a law passed earlier this year, it's up to the Northern Ireland Secretary to decide when the time is right to make an order shedding more light on political donations. | Northern Ireland's 11 new district councils are due to get a range of fresh powers when they take over local government from 1 April next year. | 27493801 | [
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He made more than 40 feature films in a career spanning 60 years.
Many of his films - including Kanal, Man of Marble, Man of Iron and Katyn - were inspired by Poland's turbulent wartime and communist history.
In 2000, Wajda was awarded an honorary Oscar for his contribution to world cinema.
Wajda had been recently taken to hospital.
Unconfirmed reports say he died of lung failure.
Wajda's last film Powidoki (Afterimage) tells the life story of the avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who suffered under the post-war Stalinist government in Poland.
The director said he wanted to "warn against state intervention in art".
The film was recently chosen as Poland's official entry for the best foreign language film at the 2017 Oscars.
Four of Wajda's earlier works had been nominated for that category. Man of Iron won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981.
Wajda once said that "the good Lord gave the director two eyes - one to look into the camera, the other to be alert to everything that is going on around him."
Wajda was born in 1926 in the north-eastern Polish town of Suwalki.
His father was among the victims of the Katyn massacre of Polish army officers by the Soviet Union in 1940.
Wajda tried to follow in his father's footsteps, but was rejected by a military academy, and joined the Polish resistance in World War Two.
During World War Two, Wajda joined the Polish resistance. He later studied to be a painter, before entering the Lodz Film School.
In 1955, he made his feature film debut with Generation, set during the German occupation of Warsaw in World War Two. It was followed by Kanal, and Ashes and Diamonds, which form a trilogy about life in wartime Poland.
Some of his films found disfavour with the communist rulers of Poland because of their trenchant portraits of the wartime Warsaw Uprising and the suppression of the Solidarity movement in the 1980s.
It was only after the fall of communism in 1989 that he was able to make his film about Katyn.
"I never thought I would live to see the moment when Poland would be a free country," Wajda said in a 2007 interview with the Associated Press.
"I thought I would die in that system. It was so surprising and so extraordinary that I lived to see freedom."
Following Poland's first free elections in 1990, he served for two years as a senator in the upper house of parliament. | Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda has died aged 90, the Polish Filmmakers' Association has confirmed. | 37603756 | [
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Mike Peters, lead singer of The Alarm, is encouraging US congressmen and senators to 'Get On The List' on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Three-time cancer survivor Mr Peters co-founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation in 2007 to encourage more people to sign up as potential lifesavers.
The US visit follows a similar recruitment drive in Westminster.
Ahead of the event, Mr Peters encouraged people in the USA to write to their local representative asking them to attend the donor drive at Capitol Visitor Centre.
Potential donors fill out a consent form and have their cheeks swabbed. Their details are then stored anonymously on an international bone marrow registry until they are 61-years-old.
It is hoped the event will grow the number of US donors and improve the chances of finding matches for patients suffering from a blood borne cancer or illness.
Mr Peters said the foundation has been campaigning for this day for many years.
"It is so exciting to feel that all the hard work and effort, made possible with the support of DKMS - We Delete Blood Cancer, and so many others, is finally coming to fruition," he said.
"People are realising that one day it could be someone that they know who needs a bone marrow donor, and the more people that are on the list, the better everyone's chances of finding an unrelated donor area."
The event in the House of Commons in 2013 registered more than 100 MPs and staff members, and MP John Glen became a lifesaving match a few months later. | A Welsh rock star has taken his bone marrow donor drive to Washington DC. | 37286318 | [
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Gareth Southgate's side went out in the group stage in the Czech Republic.
"We made the decision and I back it," Ashworth told the BBC's senior football reporter Ian Dennis.
"Youth teams are there to help develop players and give them experience to get into the seniors."
Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling, Everton midfielder Ross Barkley, Arsenal midfielders Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jack Wilshere and Manchester United defender Phil Jones were among those eligible but not called up.
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Ashworth added: "Those players are established internationals. It's like being a first-team player and asking them to come back and play in the U21s. It's not necessarily the right thing to do.
"The players who hadn't competed in the two-year cycle and lead-up to the European Championship wouldn't be considered.
"The debate will be reopened now but we stand by the decision Gareth and I made. You never know when you drop players into a new group whether it'll be the right thing to do."
England, who had Premier League quality in Tottenham striker Harry Kane, Everton defender John Stones and new Liverpool forward Danny Ings, lost 1-0 to Portugal, beat Sweden by the same score but then lost 3-1 to Italy.
Ashworth had a key role in the FA introducing proposals - the 'England DNA programme' - in December aimed at improving England's prospects at major tournaments.
The plan is to co-ordinate the style, formation and tactics from the under-15 side upwards. And he believes improvements can be seen already.
"I don't want to hide behind the fact we're devastated to have been eliminated in the group stages," Ashworth said. "We're disappointed with the group that we hoped and thought might go a bit further. But there are some success stories.
"In order to win things at senior level, we need to develop players who can deal with the ball in all areas of the pitch. We have to prioritise that in the development teams.
"They're young players and they'll make mistakes - it will cost us games. We have to accept that. We can't after six months say that's wrong, let's just crash it down the other end as quickly as we can.
"We're starting to see a different kind of player come through the system now. Three years into EPPP [Elite Player Performance Plan] we're seeing players more capable with the ball. I believe it will stand us in good stead in years to come. Is it too soon now to see that? Yes, perhaps."
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FA chairman Greg Dyke set a target in 2013 for England to win the World Cup by 2022 and Ashworth is adamant that this remains a realistic goal.
"Yes I do believe that," he said. "I genuinely believe we have a lot of good young players in the system. We have the pathways getting better at clubs and international level.
"We've introduced an Under-15s, 18s and 20s in the past 12 months because we recognise we need to give our players more big-game experience.
"You've seen at this tournament we need players who are able to make decisions at the top level in the big games in order to win tournaments. But that takes time - it doesn't happen overnight.
"We're all doing the right things but we need to sit tight and be a little patient and let it run its course. I'm convinced it will."
Match of the Day pundit Gary Lineker criticised the "exasperatingly amateurish approach" not to select players such as Sterling, Wilshere and Barkley for the tournament.
"We never learn. What a wasted opportunity to gather invaluable international experience," the former England captain added on his Twitter page.
Former QPR midfielder Joey Barton, who won one cap for England, said the "culture is rotten" in English football, and criticised the power of the Premier League clubs.
"There doesn't seem to be the pride there once was at representing England at any level or a major tournament," he told BBC 5 live.
"We have a talent pool to match any nation. It's not the players or coaching staff. It's not one thing, it's an accumulation of many things.
"The culture in English football isn't changing. No St George's Park, no massive spend, no changing coach will change it. The culture is rotten from top to bottom. The England national team will underperform at every single tournament for this reason.
"The players think 'I'm too good for the under-21s, I've been in a senior squad - I don't want to go to a major tournament. I need to rest because I want to play in the Europa League or Champions League next year'.
"Or 'hang on it's better for my career not to go to this tournament'. Or their managers are saying it. That's the problem with the Premier League being stronger than the FA. It's impossible for England to build good teams.
"The FA should say to them if you don't make yourself eligible for the under-21s, then you won't be considered for the national team for however many years.
"I feel for Dan Ashworth, I feel sorry for Gareth Southgate, I feel sorry for Roy Hodgson. What they are trying to do is so difficult until they get the Premier League back in line."
Former England defender Danny Mills has been on an FA commission set up to assess potential improvements to English football.
He said it could take a decade for major improvements to come to fruition, and also suggested English players earning too much is to blame.
"We looked at this as a commission and decided things needed to change. Gareth has only been in the job two years. Things don't change overnight. Changing the way England play and players develop will take 10 years at least. That's what the Germans had to do before becoming very successful.
"Do they get too much too soon? It's very difficult for the coaching staff. Raheem Sterling doesn't want to play for Liverpool - he certainly would have caused more problems for the under-21s than he would have done them good.
"When me and Joey were coming through, playing for the under-21s and national team was massive kudos.
"That doesn't happen now, they're given so much so early in club football that England Under-21s has become secondary. There isn't the same desire to play for them. Spain and Germany still have the desire to play for their Under-21s - they get paid an awful lot less than our players.
"English players are paid too much and clubs put pressure on them not to go to the tournament - 'We want to save you for next season'. We have to change this culture.
"I can't believe players even consider not playing for the under-21s. Those players like Barkley or Sterling could have called Gareth up and said 'I want to be in your side'."
You can listen to BBC Radio 5 live's Dan Ashworth interview and the reaction to the England Under-21s' performance from Joey Barton and Danny Mills here. | England made the right decision to omit some of their Premier League players in the European Under-21 Championship, says Football Association director of elite development Dan Ashworth. | 33276276 | [
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The 26-year-old midfielder has signed "an initial one-year deal", with Ray McKinnon expressing delight at his first signing as manager at Tannadice.
"He is exactly the type of player we need going into this season," he said.
"Not only is he the right age and a good footballer, but he is a ball winner who is strong in the tackle and will protect our central defenders."
Murdoch had joined County last summer after his departure from Fleetwood Town.
But half of his 34 appearances came as a substitute and he followed fellow midfielder Rocco Quinn out of the Scottish Premiership club.
Murdoch, who began his career with Falkirk and had a loan spell with Northampton Town before joining Fleetwood in 2013, told United's website: "I'm delighted to be joining Dundee United - it was an easy decision to make.
"It's a massive club and I want to help them get back to the Premiership, where they should be."
Following United's relegation from the top flight, 13 players have exited Tannadice along with manager Mixu Paatelainen and his backroom staff.
While Murdoch and Quinn have exited County, manager Jim McIntyre has already recruited three defenders and a goalkeeper, Aaron McCarey from Wolves, this summer.
Christopher Routis has arrived from Bradford City, Kenny van der Weg from Breda and Erik Cikos from Slovan Bratislava. | Stewart Murdoch has signed for Dundee United the day after his contract was terminated a year early by Ross County. | 36526041 | [
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India's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 5.3% in the quarter compared with a year earlier, data showed.
That is down from 6.1% in the previous quarter. Analysts were expecting the same figure for January to March.
India is the third-largest economy in Asia but has been struggling with inflation and currency weakness.
Since July last year, the Indian rupee has seen one of the biggest declines among Asian currencies, dropping more than 27% against the US dollar.
"Shocking numbers as growth was even lower than lows witnessed during the financial crisis," said Anubhuti Sahay from Standard Chartered Bank in Mumbai.
The BBC's Yogita Limaye in Mumbai said that just a year ago India was aspiring for double-digit growth.
But a global slowdown has reduced external demand, and high inflation coupled with a weak rupee has made things more expensive within the country.
Domestic demand, which India's economy is largely reliant on, has also slowed in part due to the political upheaval in the country.
India's economy is suffering from "policy incoherence, shifting global risk appetite and a comatose government", said Rajeev Malik, senior economist at brokerage CLSA
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admitted early this month that his government must do more to get the once fast-growing economy moving again.
The Congress-led coalition government is caught up in a slew of corruption scandals.
Key policy reforms, including allowing foreign investment in India's retail sector, have been delayed in parliament for more than a year.
This has worried foreign investors and threatened the country's investment grade credit rating.
"This is definitely a very important signal for the government - this is a make or break situation for India and the government has to step on the panic button," said Rupa Rege Nitsure, chief economist at Bank of Baroda in Mumbai.
"If the government doesn't step in now, India's sovereign ratings may be jeopardised." | The Indian economy grew at the slowest rate since 2003 in the first three months of 2012, due to a widening trade gap and poor investment. | 18275858 | [
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Qatar's Femi Ogunode was also given the same time, but Gatlin got the nod with France's Jimmy Vicaut third in 9.99.
Briton Chijindu Ujah finished eighth in Brussels, in a time of 10.19.
American Gatlin, 33, has run personal bests for the 100m and 200m this season but finished runner-up to Usain Bolt in both events in the World Championships.
The Jamaican opted to end his season rather than run in Belgium.
Gatlin was also due to run in the 200m, but pulled out. That event was won by Ogunode in an impressive 19.97.
In one of the races of the night, Dutch 2015 world champion Dafne Schippers beat Olympic champion Allyson Felix to win the 200m in 22.12.
Briton Jodie Williams was seventh in 23.34.
Williams's compatriot, Paralympic champion Jonnie Peacock, eased to victory in the T44 100m with a time of 10.99. Germany's Felix Streng was second in 11.08, while world record holder Richard Browne was disqualified for a false start.
There was more British interest in the 100m hurdles, with Tiffany Porter taking fourth spot in 12.81 behind winner Dawn Harper-Nelson of the USA who clocked 12.63. | Justin Gatlin was crowned overall Diamond League champion in the 100m after winning the final race of this year's series in 9.98 seconds. | 34228705 | [
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The plan involved buying hacking tools offered by the Shadow Brokers and then protecting computers before they could be targeted by cyber-criminals.
But critics had argued that the Shadow Brokers should not benefit in this way.
One of the researchers behind the plan said the scheme was being abandoned for "legal reasons".
Some critics had warned that paying the Shadow Brokers for access to their hacking tools, even with honest intentions, could be illegal.
The Shadow Brokers previously sold access to hacking tools allegedly stolen from the US National Security Agency - but often released the vulnerabilities for free later anyway.
One of the tools was used to help spread the WannaCry malware that affected thousands of organisations worldwide, including the UK's NHS.
The hacking group currently plans to sell a new batch of security exploits, for a payment via the crypto-currency Zcash, worth about $22,000 (£17,000).
On Tuesday, two security researchers set up a crowd-funding campaign to buy access to the exploits, so the vulnerabilities could be fixed instead.
But the idea divided the cyber-security community.
"There's a 50-50 split on whether it is a good idea and whether it would encourage Shadow Brokers to continue their activities," said Matthew Hickey from the cyber-security firm Hacker House, who set up the crowd-funding campaign.
Others were more outspoken: "Individuals and corps funding criminals is insane," said security researcher Kevin Beaumont.
Announcing the closure of the crowd-funding campaign on 1 June, Mr Hickey said: "If you ever want to hear a lawyer shout expletives at volume down a phone, you need to call him and tell him you have created the first open source crowd-funded cyber-arms acquisition attempt.
"It transpires that should funds change hands from ours to the Shadow Brokers we would certainly be risking some form of legal complications."
Those who have donated to the campaign using Bitcoin can seek a refund, and any unclaimed funds will be donated to online rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Shadow Brokers group has not specified what buyers will get if they pay the $22,000 bounty and has offered no guarantee that buyers will be rewarded at all.
"If you caring about loosing $20k+ Euro then not being for you... playing 'the game' is involving risks [sic]," the group said in a blog post. | Security researchers have cancelled plans to buy potentially undetected software security vulnerabilities from a notorious group of hackers. | 40107099 | [
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Denis O'Brien obtained the injunction to stop RTÉ from reporting details of his personal finances and relationship with former Anglo Irish Bank.
Last week, a judge granted permission for the media to report details about Mr O'Brien's finances made under privilege in the Dáil (parliament).
RTÉ lawyers said as a result there was no need for the injunction to remain.
The media mogul's fortune is estimated to be around £5bn.
Following the granting of the injunction, the purchase of one of Mr O'Brien's companies was discussed in the Dáil.
The comments were made by TD Catherine Murphy under privilege.
She said Mr O'Brien owed the former Anglo Irish Bank, now the nationalised Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), upwards of 500m euro (£362m).
Ms Murphy, an independent left-wing TD, said Mr O'Brien was attempting to pay loans back at an interest rate of just over 1%, when it was arguable that the correct rate should be over 7%.
In response to her comments, lawyers for RTÉ and the Irish Times returned to the high court to seek clarity over whether her remarks could be reported in light of the injunction.
A judge told the media organisations that he never intended nor could he order any interference with what a TD may say under privilege in the Dáil.
The application by RTÉ to have the injunction discharged relates to a planned broadcast regarding certain information regarding Mr O'Brien's relationship with IBRC.
Lawyers for Mr O'Brien said they accepted that following comments made by the Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty in the Dáil on Tuesday evening, there was nothing in the proposed RTÉ script that had been injuncted that warranted further restraint.
The lawyer added that as far as he was concerned, the script in its entirety could be published, as a result of events that had happened outside the courtroom.
On Tuesday, Mr Doherty gave details of what he said were documents related to Mr O'Brien's IBRC loans during a debate in the Dáil.
The Sinn Féin finance spokesman said he had documents which led to questions about the way IBRC was run in the public interest. | Irish state broadcaster RTÉ is trying to get an injunction granted to Ireland's richest man discharged. | 33077317 | [
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The Star Wars superfan made £15,000 selling a single Boba Fett figure, and now he's selling another 15 rare items.
Craig Stevens sold the pristine, unopened bounty hunter toy at auction house Vectis last month.
Now the next batch of his galactic goods are expected to fetch between £28,000 to £40,000.
The most highly valued item this time is a Palitoy FX-7 medical droid from The Empire Strikes Back.
A similar item sold last year for around £8,400.
What makes his profit margins seem more out of this world, is that the Boba Fett figure would have set you back £1.50 in 1980.
If you're reading this thinking it's a no-brainer for Craig, he agrees.
He said: "I'm living in a rented flat in my home town. You think to yourself, 'I'm in a flat and I've got a box of figures worth as much as a house'.
"There's no contest really."
He might even be able to run to a swimming pool - he's got 10,000 more items in his collection of Star Wars memorabilia.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Most collectors would probably tell you they couldn't put a price on their beloved collectables, but Craig Stevens probably had to re-think that one. | 31599368 | [
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Goals from Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke, Luka Milivojevic and Patrick van Aanholt secured Palace's own safety and sent Hull down.
Hull could not afford to lose after Swansea had opened a four-point gap with a 2-0 win at Sunderland.
Swansea's survival marks a remarkable turnaround in fortunes under Paul Clement.
Clement, Swansea's third manager of the season after Bob Bradley and Franceso Guidolin, took over a side in January that was bottom with only 12 points from 19 game.
The former Derby County manager's arrival at the Liberty Stadium saw an initial revival with Swansea winning three of his first five games in charge.
But between the beginning of March and mid-April the Swans claimed only a single point in six Premier League games.
Swansea's 2-0 home win over Stoke City on 22 April was the start of a three-match unbeaten run which boosted their hopes of escaping relegation.
Their 1-0 home victory over Everton saw them leapfrog Marco Silva's Hull, who had lost 2-0 at home to Sunderland earlier on Saturday, 7 May.
And Swansea extended their unbeaten run to four games with a win in their penultimate game at already relegated Sunderland, which opened a four-point gap between the Welsh side and 18th-placed Hull.
Hull's defeat at Selhurst Park sealed the Tigers' fate and ensuring Swansea will remain in the Premier League for a seventh successive season. | Swansea will play in the Premier League next season after Hull were relegated after a 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace. | 39914450 | [
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Alexander sustained a broken cheekbone in the last week's victory over former club Rangers.
And Gallacher twisted his ankle in training, making him a doubt for Sunday's Edinburgh derby with Hibernian at Tynecastle.
Hollis, 28, spent four seasons at Well after a six-year spell with Airdrie.
He became a free agent after leaving Motherwell this summer.
"I said earlier in the week that we would be looking at the situation after Neil's injury," Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson told his club website.
"Lee's an experienced goalkeeper and has spent the last few seasons with Motherwell and has played in Europe for them." | Hearts have signed former Motherwell goalkeeper Lee Hollis on a short-term deal following injuries to Neil Alexander and Scott Gallagher. | 28813645 | [
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Megan Lee, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, died on 1 January, two days after she was admitted to hospital.
Royal Spice has been temporarily closed by Hyndburn Council due to below standard allergen management and a mice infestation.
Two men from the takeaway held on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter by gross negligence have been bailed.
Blackburn magistrates granted the Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order earlier.
The authority said the premises in Union Street, Oswaldtwistle, will remain closed until it was satisfied health risks had been removed.
Police have said a post-mortem examination had been carried out but the full results would not be known "for some time".
The arrested men, aged 37 and 38 and from Rossendale and Blackburn respectively, have been bailed until 7 July. | A takeaway has been shut down following a teenager's death from an apparent allergic reaction to one of its meals. | 38584147 | [
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The Lionesses will face Norway on Sunday 22 January and Sweden two days later with both games in Murcia.
Notts County striker Rachel Williams returns to the squad for the first time since April 2013.
Her team-mates Ellen White and Carly Telford are recalled along with Chelsea duo Millie Bright and Claire Rafferty.
England are preparing for July's European Championship in the Netherlands and Sampson said: "This camp gives us the chance to kick off a massively exciting year for us on the right foot.
"We have a lot of work to do to be the team we want to become at the Euros. Our aim this year is to hit the highest levels we ever have and ultimately to win the Euros,
"As we are in pre-season we may be a little off the pace football-wise but I expect the players to be physically and psychologically ready to compete."
Squad
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Siobhan Chamberlain (Liverpool), Mary Earps (Reading), Carly Telford (Notts County)
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Gemma Bonner (Liverpool), Millie Bright (Chelsea), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Jo Potter (Notts County), Claire Rafferty (Chelsea), Alex Scott (Arsenal), Demi Stokes (Manchester City)
Midfielders: Isobel Christiansen (Manchester City), Jade Moore (Notts County), Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal), Jill Scott (Manchester City), Fara Williams (Arsenal)
Forwards: Karen Carney (Chelsea), Danielle Carter (Arsenal), Rachel Daly (Houston Dash), Gemma Davison (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Nikita Parris (Manchester City), Jodie Taylor (Arsenal), Rachel Williams (Notts County), Ellen White (Notts County) | England head coach Mark Sampson has named an expanded 28-player squad for his side's two upcoming matches against Norway and Sweden in Spain. | 38507545 | [
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Tom Dryden, from Earls Barton in Northamptonshire, described the news as "absolutely outstanding".
Lorna Clarke, from Oxford, took the the women's title. It's the second time she has entered the games.
Organisers said 190 competitors from countries including Russia, the USA and Japan took part in the event in Southwick, Northamptonshire.
Read more about England's events on Pinterest
Since it began in 1965, the event has raised about £400,000 for blind and visually impaired charities.
Ms Clarke, a digital marketing manager said: "Its amazing. The trick was skill, accuracy and a little bit of luck. My colleagues will laugh but will be very impressed."
Mr Dryden, who is a Cub Scout assistant, said: "I never thought I'd win the first time I entered. The cubs will be over the moon."
A new conker is used for every round. StJohn Burkett said preparations had been tough this year because of a shortage of decent conkers.
He said: "We collect a couple of thousand and we have to get the proper Championship-sized conkers. They're quite rare.
"We usually rely on two secret trees but even they haven't produced this year so we've had the whole committee out collecting." | A new king has been crowned World Conker Champion after taking part in the annual games for the first time. | 37586555 | [
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He said that Mrs Clinton would put liberal justices on the Supreme Court if she wins the presidency in November, threatening gun ownership rights.
Speaking at a rally in North Carolina, Mr Trump hinted that gun rights advocates could stop her taking power.
That sparked an online backlash, many accusing him of inciting violence.
He replied that he was only urging gun rights supporters to vote in large numbers.
The remarks that sparked the firestorm were made at a rally in Wilmington on Tuesday afternoon.
The Republican presidential nominee said of his Democratic opponent: "Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.
"But the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."
The Second Amendment enshrines the right to bear arms in the US Constitution.
A man sitting behind Mr Trump as he made the remarks assumed a look of disbelief as he heard them.
Once again, Donald Trump's off-the-cuff style of speaking during his rallies has set the presidential campaign ablaze.
The Republican nominee said that gun rights advocates could do something about Mrs Clinton after she gets elected and tries to appoint judges. What could that be? His campaign's explanation that they would organise and vote simply doesn't track.
In a political environment where Trump supporters chant "lock her up", say Mrs Clinton should face a firing squad or worse, the Republican candidate's open-to-interpretation remarks likely throw gasoline onto a smouldering fire.
Americans often complain about the programmed nature of their politicians. Trump's faithful, in particular, deride polished candidates with their considered answers.
There's a reason why those seeking the presidency are exceedingly cautious about what they say. Every word is closely parsed, both in the US and around the world. A verbal misstep can be devastating.
Mr Trump ignores these rules. And as his poll numbers sink, he and his campaign are taking on a bunker mentality. The media are biased, the elections could be rigged, the polls are skewed, and Mrs Clinton is an unstable menace. It's Trump v the world.
And it's only August.
Twitter users were quick to respond to Mr Trump's comments, criticising the Republican nominee for appearing to encourage gun violence.
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy said that "unstable people" who hate Mrs Clinton could respond.
Robby Mook, Mrs Clinton's campaign manager, said "what Trump is saying is dangerous".
But Mr Trump was quick to respond, tweeting that he was referring to the political power of gun rights advocates.
His campaign said: "Second Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power."
"And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won't be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump."
And former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani backed Mr Trump, saying it clearly was not a threat but the press was involved in a "conspiracy to elect Hillary Clinton".
Some Trump supporters leaving the rally in Wilmington told CNN they were not concerned by the remarks because they were clearly a joke and they liked the fact he spoke off-the-cuff.
The National Rifle Association also backed Mr Trump and warned Mrs Clinton would pick judges that would not uphold the Second Amendment.
Mrs Clinton has made tightening some gun laws part of her campaign but there is no evidence that she wants to abolish the right to bear arms.
A spokeswoman for the Secret Service said the agency was aware of Mr Trump's comments but refused to answer additional questions.
Mr Trump's remarks come after eight days of negative headlines, controversial remarks and some leading Republicans saying they cannot vote for him in November's presidential election.
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Trump v Clinton: Comparing economic plans | Republican Donald Trump has sparked anger by appearing to suggest his supporters could stop his rival Hillary Clinton by exercising their gun rights. | 37029170 | [
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Walter Palmer from the state of Minnesota is believed to have paid about ??32,000 to hunt lions in the wild.
Cecil, the lion he shot, was a massive tourist attraction and famous in Africa for being relaxed around humans.
Mr Palmer said he thought the hunt was legal and didn't know the lion was protected.
Cecil's death has prompted a huge reaction from many on social media, with tens of thousands of people signing a petition asking for Cecil's killer to be punished for what he did.
Hunting lions is not illegal in Zimbabwe, and in many other countries in Africa, but hunters have to have special permits from the government allowing them to kill certain animals.
Some people in Zimbabwe also argue hunting can have a positive impact.
They say the money paid by tourists can be used for conservation and to create jobs for local people.
I don't think people should hunt animals for sport, it's wrong and what did Cecil do to Walter in the first place? Nothing! It's not fair, money can't buy what that lion gave to us, love. If Walter can't see that he should open his eyes and see what really is important in life - money or love?
Daisy, Monmouthshire, Wales
I believe that it is a cruel sport that shouldn't be done anywhere because the killing of animals will increase extinction. Even though the killing of animals is still done in certain countries I believe it is a cruel and unforgiving sport. From what has happened I believe that if anyone spends money to slay an animal they should still be arrested. In my opinion if anyone would want to pay to kill an animal I would consider them 'sick in the head'.
Ellie, Leeds, England
I think it's wrong to hunt animals for sport because the hunter doesn't benefit from it and it's strange that someone gets a buzz from taking an animal's life. I know people that hunt deer but they do it for food and appreciate the fact that they've had to kill an animal to get the meat.
Jake, Essex, England
It's not right to kill animals or hunt them for sport as they have a conscience and mind. They didn't do anything to harm you, so why should you harm them?
Jonnie, Buckinghamshire, England
Sport is about feeling good about yourself but killing the eco-system is not a sport especially when a vital animal is killed.
Honor, London, England
It is certainly not right to hunt animals for sport. How would the hunters feel if a lion chased after them with a weapon (or, of course, without - those teeth can be deadly anyway)? They'd be scared, stressed, and worried. These animals all have a family to go back to, just like us humans do. We can't keep thinking we're the only living things on Earth that matter.
Amy, United Kingdom | A US dentist has killed a lion in Zimbabwe, Africa. | 33719206 | [
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Responsible Travel, based in Brighton, specialises in wildlife holidays and says keeping animals in zoos is inhumane.
About half a dozen tours that involve zoos are being dropped from the firm's roster of 3,500 possible trips.
The firm's boss, Justin Francis, took the decision after watching a BBC TV programme "Should we close our zoos?"
"Having watched the programme my firm conclusion was that these zoos are no longer relevant," he told the BBC.
"They are relics of the past, and the arguments to justify keeping animals in captivity no longer stand up."
Mr Francis argued that most animals kept in zoos were not endangered and that there had been few examples of endangered species being reintroduced to the wild after being kept or bred in captivity.
Most of the zoos involved in the firm's decision are in southeast Asia and none are in the UK.
The travel company markets about 3,500 tours from 350 operators in the UK and abroad.
It stopped offering tours involving elephant rides about 18 months ago.
It will still sell holidays that include trips to rescue centres, animal rehabilitation centres and breeding centres for endangered species.
Mr Francis explained that it had taken two staff six months to research the zoos and other destinations being offered in his clients' holidays.
Identifying the zoos had taken just a couple of weeks, but scrutinising the other animal facilities on offer to travellers had taken much longer.
The decision to weed out trips to traditional zoos was welcomed by a wildlife charity, the Born Free Foundation.
"[Our] investigations have, over the years, demonstrated that few animal species can adapt to a lifetime in captivity, with many individual animals developing abnormal behaviour, not seen in their wild counterparts, in order to cope with captivity's restrictive and often barren environments," said the president of Born Free, Will Travers.
"A global shift in public consciousness, a movement, may see - if not an end - a massive reduction in the exploitation of wild animals in their millions in thousands of zoos worldwide," he added.
Mr Francis said none of the tour operators whose holidays had been dropped had objected to his decision.
"They told us they hadn't thought things through but now they have been presented with the evidence they agree", he said. | A leading marketer of "responsible tourism" has decided to stop selling tours that include visits to zoos. | 39479367 | [
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Four wards were closed to visitors at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, on Monday before the visiting ban was extended on Thursday.
The ban does not affect Wirral Women and Children's Hospitals.
Gaynor Westray, director of nursing and midwifery at the hospital, said the decision was "in the best interests of our patients".
She said: "The safety of our patients is paramount to us and it is never an easy decision to make but this will help us contain the spread of this highly contagious bug."
The hospital has also asked the public to not visit its accident and emergency department if they have symptoms of the bug.
Norovirus - which causes vomiting, stomach cramps, fever and diarrhoea - is easily spread from person to person.
Symptoms usually begin between 12 to 48 hours after a person becomes infected, with most healthy people making a recovery within one to three days.
Arrowe Park has not given an indication of how long the ban is likely to remain in effect. | A hospital has suspended visits to patients on all its wards following an outbreak of the norovirus bug. | 39732208 | [
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Is the PM's EU renegotiation progressing?
How the smaller parties did in 2015
A look back at UKIP's year
A look back at Labour's year
Has 2015 been a good year for the Tories?
Who is 2015's Daily Politics Secret Santa?
Is another recession coming and are we ready?
LGA chief on local government finances
What can we learn from election-themed books?
What do the EU referendum polls say?
Peers discuss Lords reform plans
Edward Docx's pro-EU Christmas poem
John Redwood's 'Brexit fairy tale'
Jon Culshaw's review of the year
Should fracking under national parks be allowed?
Latest on UK's EU renegotiation talks
Should Prince Charles receive cabinet papers?
Panel on final PMQs of 2015
Soapbox: Should motorists over 70 be retested?
Guests discuss retesting for motorists aged over 70
Is Star Wars left or right-wing?
Should there be a Lib-Lab pact? Vince Cable and Chris Mullin discuss
Chris Mullin: 'Jeremy Corbyn should be given a chance'
What lies ahead in EU membership debate?
What action has the RAF taken in Syria?
What are the prospects for Welsh Tories?
Why has Theresa May lasted so long as home secretary?
Peter Bone and Chris Mullin on Theresa May
Cat Smith: 'I don't see Ken Livingstone playing big role'
Peter Hunt goes behind the scenes at Thatcher auction
Is David Cameron's EU renegotiation meaningless?
Craig Mackinlay and Cat Smith on votes at 16
Daniel Hannan: When you know the PM is going to back staying in, why would you make any concessions?
Damian Green: Benefits in terms of jobs and prosperity would be put at risk if the UK leaves the EU
Daniel Hannan on climate deal: 'It's a step in the right direction'
Hannah Stuart: 'We cannot whitewash Shaker Aamer claims'
Full clip: Should voting age be lowered for EU referendum?
Daniel Hannan and Damian Green discuss EU talks
Bradford council toast 'ban' criticised
Burgon: Criticism on Stop the War are proxy attacks on Corbyn
Christmas Corbyn dressed as Santa in archived footage
Who exactly are Stop the War?
What could 2016 have in store for politics?
'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais
Katie Hopkins backs Donald Trump: 'We have lost control of some areas'
Katie Hopkins: 'My friends won't go to London'
Zac Goldsmith on his opposition to Heathrow expansion
Where does Labour stand on new Heathrow runway?
Jeremy Corbyn wins beard of the year
John Prescott discusses climate talks
Does it help to be clever in politics?
Willetts: 'We must get on with airport expansion'
Why do MPs go on political journeys?
David Willetts on the PM's EU renegotiations
Lord Reid: I was a communist 45 years go
How clever is David 'two brains' Willetts?
Conservative MP Stewart Jackson on electoral fraud
Chancellor announces floods funding
PMQs analysis with Laura Kuenssberg
'We have to wait and see what PM achieves' - Andrea Leadsom
Lucy Powell discusses state of the Labour Party
Soapbox: What is being done to tackle knife crime?
Guests discuss knife crime prevention
Dorries: Maybe flooding is part of 21st century life
'I don't think we are so out of step on EU reform' - Laura Sandys
Will Universal Credit make some worse off?
Should third runway at Heathrow be built?
Are moves to deselect Labour MPs fair?
Will Universal Credit make a difference?
Is Parliament too posh?
Tim Farron: 'Questions should be asked on flood defences'
What role does Momentum play in Labour Party?
Giles Fraser: 'Scrap Bishops in the House of Lords'
Before the secret ballot at elections
Unseating a political giant: what's it like?
Ten years of David Cameron as Tory leader
Oldham West by-election result analysis
German MEP on EU reform talks
Are there 70,000 anti-IS fighters in Syria?
Stephen Kinnock on 'intimidation' of Labour MPs
Daniel Hannan on EU reform talks
Activist calls for MP reselection
MP and activists debate Labour intimidation claims
Labour's John Mann on intimidation of MPs: 'This is the mob'
Crispin Blunt on next steps in Syria
Quentin Letts on Syria strikes debate
How should the BBC refer to militants in Syria and Iraq?
Westminster as a setting for fiction
Rifkind and Royall discuss Syria vote
Caroline Flint and John Baron on Syria
Creagh and Lucas debate Syria strikes
The FBU re-affiliates to Labour
MPs discuss EU-Turkey migrants deal
MPs discuss UK's green credentials
Oldham West by-election preview
Moths infest 'dull and dusty' Lords
MPs discuss case for air strikes
Should Labour MPs be whipped on Syria?
Chris Bryant on Syria air strikes
Should government cut party funding?
Fizzy drinks tax moodbox
MPs on sugary drinks tax proposals
Should Tory chairman quit?
What will climate conference achieve?
What does the public think about airstrikes in Syria?
Should Labour MPs back Syria strikes?
Spending review analysis with OBR
YouGov on Syria and public opinion
Andrew Lansley on net migration figures
Spending Review tax credits analysis
Why is NHS reform so hard?
Have NHS reforms been beneficial?
Has the PM persuaded
'Mao would have been horrified'
The main Spending Review measures
BBC editors on the Spending Review
Stewart Hosie: 'He still plans to cut £42bn a year'
Green Party and Plaid Cymru on Spending Review
Lib Dems and UKIP on Spending Review
Experts discuss downed Russian jet
Debate on NHS funding
Johnson and O'Hara debate Trident
Johnson: Defence review not Corbyn's 'finest moment'
Left Unity backs Jeremy Corbyn
Oxford Union debates EU membership
Labour's Syria and Trident policies
Why is the government selling off property?
Is the defence review a good deal?
Will MPs back air strikes in Syria?
Are there more 'rough weeks' ahead for Labour?
Lord Lawson: Osborne should look at raising fuel duty
Caroline Flint: We should look at military action
Political week in 60 seconds
Reid: It is a sad time for Labour
Is Labour at a tipping point?
James Landale reviews Labour's week
Should the hedgehog be the UK's national symbol?
Mood box: men's v women's issues
Livingstone should resign - Labour MP
What is the junior doctors row about?
Alex Salmond on Syria air strikes
Abbott: McDonnell 'doesn't want to disband MI5'
Labour MP: I'll rebel on Syria vote
Should 16-year-olds vote in the EU referendum?
PM and Corbyn clash over police numbers
Corbyn questions PM on security funding
PM: UK 'can't dodge forever' air strikes question
PM: We will not be cowed by terrorists
SNP quizzes PM on Syria sir strikes
Labour MP refuses to back Corbyn
Laura Kuenssberg's PMQs review
Laura Kuenssberg on the state of the Labour Party
Laura Kuenssberg on the government's strategy for a Syria airstrikes vote
What is the UK's counter-extremism policy?
How hard will the police budget be hit?
Cooper: I disagree with Corbyn on shoot-to-kill
MP criticises Stop the War's Paris comment
How to combat home-grown extremism?
MPs 'will vote with conscience' on Syria
'Tackling Islamist extremism ideology'
MP: IS must be defeated by ground troops
IS exploiting migrant crisis - UKIP
Reaction to Sir Nicholas Houghton comments on Jeremy Corbyn
Galloway on the style of Reagan and Corbyn
Welfare spending: Too much or too little?
CBI and UKIP clash on EU and euro policy
Reaction to Egypt plane crash and ISIL
Heidi Alexander: Junior doctor proposal 'bad for patient safety'
How could a Labour leadership challenge take place?
Corbyn 'wrong' on Iraq - Labour MP
Winston McKenzie: 'All of London is becoming a dump'
Winston McKenzie - Ex-UKIP candidate on 'racist abuse'
FILM: Free hugs for some on Million Mask March
Adam Clifford: Mask march showed 'desperation of the people'
No free hugs between Julia Hartley Brewer and Adam Clifford
Iain Watson on Egypt-UK flights
Howarth and Marshall on UK-Egypt relations
Abbott defends Stop The War meeting
Abbott: I was subject of undercover policing
Archer: 'Wonderful' if Corbyn helping book sales
Why are sales of Das Kapital on the rise?
Where's the 'Ed Stone'?
Diane Abbott asked about committee chairs
Norman Smith on Egypt security situation
Abbott: No Corbyn colouring book for me
Introducing Diane Abbott
Does Jack Dromey back Trident renewal?
Virtue signalling: 'It requires little effort and no sacrifice'
Corbyn: No winter crisis in NHS this year?
PM on tax credits: You will find out in three weeks’ time
Government planning to 'imperil' Channel 4?
SNP leader quizzes PM on military covenant
Kuenssberg: A rather strange PMQs to me
Passports designed to celebrate UK's creative and cultural past
Liam Byrne interview: Should Labour re-write its Clause IV?
Nick Gibb interview: Return of school tests for seven-year-olds?
FILM: Stamp duty changes effect on housing market
Crispin Blunt interview: Position in Syria 'much more complicated'
Stamp duty debate: Jacob Rees-Mogg v Owen Jones
John Healey: Starter homes 'non-starter for most families'
Why do we still commemorate Guy Fawkes?
Does the trade union movement need a makeover?
Women and men debate: Phillips v Davies
Moodbox film: Is security or privacy more important?
Keir Starmer: There is a need to update surveillance laws
Keir Starmer: Communication laws need to be modernised
David Davis: 'Judicial authorisation of surveillance warrants needed'
Philip Davis: Men's issues should be debated in Commons
Philip Davies: Why I blocked free parking bill
Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (and will Labour support be needed?)
European political week in 60 seconds
What is UN doing about climate change?
David Shukman on UN climate change report
How migrant numbers are stretching EU services
Has Labour learned from election mistakes?
Meet The Neighbours: Poland
What is going on after the Portuguese election?
Phone roaming charges to be abolished: Honeyball and Nuttall
Laura Kuenssberg: What's going on in Iceland summit?
What will PM get out of Nordic summit talks?
Chris Mason on Chilcot Report publication in June/July 2016
Oborne on Chilcot Report and radio documentary
Who is the top dog at Westminster?
UK population to reach 70m by 2027
Looks at the career in of Lord Bilimoria
The Lib Dem leads to ask PMQs question on migrants and refugees
PMQs: Farron and Cameron on UK and Lesbos refugees
PMQs: Cameron and Corbyn on tax credit cut 'guarantee'
PMQs: Cameron and Corbyn on Karen's tax credit question
PMQs: Jeremy Corbyn's tribute to Michael Meacher
PMQs: Cameron and Burns on bullying in House of Commons
Landale and MPs review PMQs
Matthew Syed: Health service 'should learn from mistakes'
Steve Baker from the VoteLeave campaign
Reynolds and MacNeil: Happiest and most miserable places in the UK?
Tax credits reaction: Owen Smith and David Davis
Tory MP: This is quite without precedence
Bogdanor: 'Very serious constitutional problems'
'Huge mandate to turn around' Scottish Labour
FILM: Speaker starts to speak out on big issues
DEBATE: Why is the Speaker in a bad mood?
Is it time for laws to be recorded on paper?
Wood on Plaid: 'Time now for fresh thinking'
Rob Flello: Let's get rid of the Calais jungle
Oakeshott: 'I told you so' is never a good look
Could boundary changes lead to the deselection of non-Corbynite MPs?
Ken Livingstone: MPs who defy Corbyn should face reselection
Clarke and Farron on tax credit cuts
Was anyone paying attention to Yanis Varoufakis?
FILM AND INTERVIEW: What now for Yanis Varoufakis?
Lords v Commons: Newby v Rees-Mogg
Does it matter what political leaders look like
Scottish lessons for UKIP on EU referendum?
MPs start debating EVEL plans
Peer's bill to limit the influence of Sharia law in UK
Danczuk on Watson's historic sex abuse claims
Tough questions for Nigel Farage?
Nuclear Power: Burke on Hinkley Point, EDF and China
Image makeover in Jeremy Corbyn's wardrobe
PMQs: Corbyn and Cameron clash on tax credits
PMQs: What is government doing for UK steel industry?
PMQs: Cameron to Corbyn: Go back to 1985 and stay there
PMQs: Speaker Bercow rejects question from Chris Philp
PMQs: SNP questions PM on suicide after benefit loss
MPs review Cameron and Corbyn at PMQs
John Hayes on tax credit cuts: What would they cut?'
Security services' new powers to hack into smartphones
Liberty on hacking powers
Hayes and Bryant on powers for security services
Tory MP: Tax credit cuts 'punishing people'
Chris Mason: What's going on with #taxcredits debate?
The end of the steel industry in Scotland?
Warner: Only ethical thing for me to do is leave
Why are international mayors meeting in London?
'David Cameron lied' on tax credits, claims Labour MP
Where do parties stand on tax credits?
What parties are seeing a rise in membership?
Should UK be wary of Chinese 'trap doors'?
Former GCHQ Director-General on Wilson Doctrine and listening to MPs
MP: Corbyn will hold private meeting with President Xi Jinping
Should cabinet members be allowed to speak freely on #EUref ?
Former GCHQ Director-General on Wilson Doctrine and listening to MPs
Mitchell: Osborne will have to 'tweak' fiscal plan
Who is the true anti-austerity party: Labour or SNP?
Was Tom Watson right to make child abuse allegations?
Moodbox: Is Corbyn a turn on or turn off?
Tom Watson's role in sex abuse claims
How falling prices are hitting UK and its oil capital
A tour around the SNP conference venue
SNP deputy leader on oil prices and health record
Protest to be held over new junior doctor contract
Political week in 60 seconds
Nicola Sturgeon is asked about #indyref2 in DP moodbox
DP panellist not so keen on EU talks interview
DP guide to Cameron bid for new EU deal
Health chair wants 'at least £4bn' for NHS this year
Labour MP and SNP MSP on fiscal charter vote
Are 'shared space' roadways safe?
Are grammar schools coming back?
Nicola Sturgeon opens SNP conference in Aberdeen
PMQs: Corbyn quizzes Cameron on Kelly's tax credits
PMQs: 'Work together and get London building to get prices down'
PMQs: Cameron tells Speaker: Hold on a minute
PMQs: SNP leader made ‘so many errors’ in PMQs question
'Policy clear' on tax credits, says Gauke
Gauke and Greenwood review PMQs
£5,000 cheque after naked Whitehall run
Blogger's 'naked' run along Whitehall after election bet
Life for Labour under Corbyn
Labour under Corbyn: Akehurst and Landin
McDonnell 'fingers badly burnt and he needs to learn'
A new flag for New Zealand?
Immigration Bill: Dromey v Bone
Nigel Evans on Tom Watson's claims about Lord Brittan
Damian Green on EU future: Idea of 'a new country' is a fantasy
Labour's Jo Cox: I back humanitarian intervention on Syria
Labour MP: Colleagues have 'nothing to fear' over Momentum group
Should climate change be a government priority?
Moodbox: Should the government make climate change a priority or not a priority?
Paterson: 'Unwise' of lawyers to raise concerns on migrant crisis
Farage: I support both 'Out' campaigns
Left or centre? What position should Labour take?
Farage on EU referendum: I support both 'out' campaigns
Nigel Farage: I support both EU 'Out' campaigns
Mary Creagh: Labour must remain 'firmly' on the centre ground
EU referendum: Battle between the rival campaigns
Should Parliamentarians report historical abuse allegations to the police?
At what point does a protest go too far?
Adam Fleming film on protests
Parliament: Privy Council membership and traditions
Can politicians do comedy?
What political direction for the Conservatives?
Should Tories sit in the middle or move to the right?
How did police cope with 'largest ever demonstration in Greater Manchester'
Where does Labour stand on EU?
Where do Tories stand on the EU?
Gove and Neil on government housing record
Cameron pledges 'Great British take-off'
Cameron talks about equality of opportunity
'Generation Rent to Generation Buy'
Cameron: I was a hooker
Cameron cheered for Corbyn criticism
'A brief moment when I thought it was all a dream'
Cameron recalls election victory
Conference accommodation for £10 a night
Ups and downs for the Conservatives over the last year
“You are one of my favourite pupils” Michael Gove tells Andrew Neil
Testing the environment secretary
What century does Lord Heseltine live in?
Who do Tories want as their next leader?
'The UK is a bright spot compared to many other economies right now'
Fox: I would like to see us reduce the deficit more quickly
'Britain does not need net migration in the hundreds of thousands'
Why are Conservatives not cutting UK net migration?
Who are Osborne's heroes and favourites?
Tory delegates asked: In or out of the EU?
Osborne: We are the builders
Osborne talks 'living wage' and slavery
Osborne: I will work with anyone
Osborne: No 'tombstone' in Downing Street garden
Gauke on Conservative economic policies
Hancock on tax credits and Labour policies
Sajid Javid: We're supporting Redcar workers
Building the official campaigns for and against EU membership
EU Referendum: The battle of the 'In' and 'Out' campaigns begins
Oakeshott: I dish it out, I should be able to take it
Do we know how dozens of Tory MPs will vote in #EUref
Runners and riders for next Tory leader
Taking a ride with the Artist Taxi Driver
Galloway's bid to be mayor of London
Why was Corbyn heckled over Israel?
Tories pick Goldsmith as next mayoral candidate
Raft of elections in May 2016
Former Times sketchwriter Ann Treneman's favourite political moments
Who is your favourite Labour Party leader?
Photo-bomber spider on screen makes it to the web
Cabs v Uber: McNamara v Jenrick
Syria debate: Clarke and Balagadde
Political history repeating itself over the EU?
Would past PMs have authorised nuclear weapons?
Zahawi: UK spending £25m on new Jamaican jail is 'smart aid'
Should members or MPs have the biggest say?
Should there be humour in a party conference speech?
Corbyn: A decent home for everybody
'Two million people could lose their right to vote'
Corbyn: Trident 'not the right way forward'
Corbyn: Where is the security?
Corbyn thanks Miliband and Harman
‘Newspapers have taken a bit of interest in me’
Ashworth: People were fed up with politicians like me
'Not an advocate for QE to print money outside a recession'
Labour delegates asked: Power or principles?
Images of Jeremy Corbyn's career
Ups and downs for Labour over the last year
BBC political editor on Jeremy Corbyn speech
Getting views of Corbyn speech at #Lab15
What do Labour delegates think about Trident?
Labour MP tells presenter: 'You're missing the point'
Hilary Benn asked about Diane Abbott comments
Jeremy Corbyn helps speaker 'stuck' on conference stage
Labour conference: McDonnell message to Scottish voters
Labour conference: MacDonnell on Bank of England review
Leslie: Best for Corbyn to have chancellor on 'same wavelength'
Prescott: Corbyn has 'a bigger mandate than Blair'
What next for UKIP heading towards EU referendum?
Farron, Osborne and Corbyn in 60 seconds
Montage: Highlights of the year for UKIP
UKIP leader Nigel Farage warns of EU 'open-door policy'
UKIP leader Nigel Farage: 'We want our country back'
UKIP leader Nigel Farage uses speech to make case for EU exit
Theresa May 'was hard as nails'
What is EU doing about migrants at its borders?
Labour has to come across as ‘party of the future’
FILM: Have migration images changed UK attitudes?
FILM: UKIP gathers for its annual conference
UKIP's lessons from general election result
Tim Farron: From activist to party leader
Do Lib Dem voters prefer Cameron or Corbyn?
Lib Dem conference: Tim Farron on Charles Kennedy
Lib Dem conference: Tim Farron invokes Joni Mitchell
Lib Dem conference: Farron's first leader speech
Dan Hannan MEP on resettling migrants
How the Lib Dem conference has changed
Could there be another SDP in UK politics?
Should Lib Dems accept or reject a peerage?
Could new contracts see a lack of junior doctors?
Archive images of Vince Cable's political career
Vince Cable on student fees and losing his seat
NHS 'can't cope with scale of funding gap'
Lib Dems on Clegg: Hero or zero?
Artist's images of the general election campaign
'Why would you create one when Lib Dems already exist?'
Can Labour renationalise the railways?
Will blogger finally carry out naked run pledge?
Lord Falconer: Labour 'should not apologise' for Iraq
Getting the views of Lib Dems at their conference
Jeremy Corbyn's first week as Labour leader
MPs hold their own Rugby World Cup match
Dodds: McDonnell played 'no role whatsoever' in peace process
What could trigger a second Scottish referendum?
Why a town is revelling in political misery
Left or right? Libertarian or authoritarian?
Corbynomics author backs 'modest amounts of inflation'
Do English Democrats back shooting of rioting migrants?
Dodds to keep 'very close eye' on new Labour leadership
Nuclear weapons debate: Jenkin v Hudson
Mood box: Do voters want to retain Trident?
How easy is it to impersonate Jeremy Corbyn?
One or two Andrew Neils in the studio?
Sex worker Charlotte Rose on brothels and prostitution
PM: They should be ashamed of themselves
Corbyn: I thought I would do it in a different way
‘I had more than 1,000 questions on tax credits’
Political editor on first Corbyn-Cameron PMQs
Past leaders making their PMQs debut
Welfare and tax credits: Smith v Gauke
Blue collar voters: Labour MP Jamie Reed
Blue collar voters: Tory MP Robert Halfon
New Labour leader has a love of manholes
Blue collar voters: Labour MP Jamie Reed
What do MPs make of their behaviour at PMQs?
Will Corbyn help change PMQs?
Livingstone: We are not going to repeat that mistake
Trades Union Bill proposals: Serwotka v Hancock
Reaction to the first Corbyn shadow cabinet
Backbench views of new Labour shadow cabinet
Lamb and Davies on the Assisted Dying Bill
Looking back on the Labour leadership campaign
EU reaction to Juncker calls to help 160,000 migrants
London Mayor 2016: Sadiq Khan to be Labour candidate
EU politics: Putin, Juncker, Farage, seals and sheep
Israeli PM in London for talks with Cameron
More shops to charge for carrier bag use
Lucas and Young on UK help for Syrian refugees
FILM: Who will take in Syrian refugees?
Voting closes in Labour leadership race
Last PMQs for Harman as Labour leader
Harriet Harman's last DP interview as Labour leader
Cameron tribute at Harman's final PMQs as Labour leader
Why some won't celebrate royal milestone
PMQs: Abrahams and Cameron on sickness benefit claims
PMQs: Cameron on Northern and Great Western rail works
PMQs: Cameron and Cox on Syria and public opinion
PMQs: Robertson on Intelligence and Security Committee
PMQs: Dodds and Cameron on Northern Irish security
Reviewing first PMQs after the recess
Why did Labour change its leadership election rules?
Davis: They were trying to rig the referendum
Danczuk: Corbyn supporters 'need to be less suspicious'
Miliband spin doctor: Ed Stone was not our finest hour
Zahawi and Robertson on UK use of drones in Syria
Will a new leader unite the Labour Party?
EU Referendum debate: Mitchell, Hunt and Carswell
How migrants and refugees dominated the summer news
Is it right for the UK to accept more Syrians?
Labour MP: Voting against welfare bill was 'a very difficult decision'
Hancock: Progress being made on manifesto commitments
'Sensible' Twitter guide for MPs?
A look inside the Serjeant at Arms' office in the Commons
Politicians and their 'weighty issues'
Timms on welfare bill: Labour will fight 'tooth and nail'
Labour has a 'narrow view of what is realistic'
Martin Vickers: Delays to rail electrification 'disappointing'
Maajid Nawaz: 'Change in attitude' needed towards Islamist extremism
Labour leadership debate
Corbyn for shadow cabinet - any takers?
Jeremy Corbyn: Vote for me because...
Andy Burnham: Vote for me because...
Liz Kendall: Vote for me because...
Yvette Cooper: Vote for me because...
TUC Chief: Strikes 'always the last resort'
Mahmood on Labour and Crabb on EVELL
Should the government do more to ban 'pro-anorexia' websites?
PMQs: PM quizzed on scrapping maintenance grants
PMQs: Harman presses Cameron on Greece
PMQs: Cameron and Harman on National Living Wage
PMQs: Cameron on migrant controls
PMQs: Cameron on strike action
James Landale and MPs review PMQs
Iain Stewart MP: SNP are 'playing politics'
Angus Robertson: Tories trying to make SNP MPs 'second class'
Powell on child tax credits: There are 'complex cases'
'One Nation' is why Conservatives are still around
Anyone but Jeremy Corbyn?
Whose fault is the gender pay gap?
Stephen Kinnock: Greek referendum was a mistake
Frank Field: Labour leadership contenders 'offering the same'
SNP MP Pete Wilshart: EVEL plans 'a shambles'
Mood box vote: Are our strike laws tough enough?
Harman: 'No blanket opposition" to Government welfare proposals
Nick Clegg not 'eyeing up some cushy Brussels job'
Britain's 'lagging' infrastructure is holding up the building of more homes
Mark Field MP on the 'importance' of building more homes
Can the UK remain pre-eminent in financial services?
Louise Cooper: Banks an 'easy political target'
Is fox hunting laws a party-political issue?
Lord Lawson: Budget was 'radical'
Shabana Mahmood: Osborne is 'putting the cart before the horse'
RMT's Steve Hadley: 'Tube strike about industrial dispute, not politics'
Budget 2015: We need a 'lower taxes & higher pay' system
Danny Alexander: I had a 'good run' as MP & 'may' stand again
Banned Sexy MP website 'was a bit of a joke', says founder
'No' vote is 'no victory' for Greece
Nusrat Ghani MP: It's right that we cap welfare
Budget: What should the Chancellor do?
A 'new look' Westminster
What will the boundary change review mean for us?
Salmond: An aerial campaign in Syria would need ground support
Political week in 60 seconds
Students fees in England to rise again?
Martin Lewis: 'Staggered and angry' over David Willetts
Can, and will, UK take part in Syrian air strikes?
Is the 72-word referendum question all Greek to you?
English Votes for English Laws (EVEL)
Could UK take part in air strikes against so-called Islamic State?
Looking back over last year for the SNP
Looking back on #GE2015 & #indyref with John Nicolson
Budget: Willson on petrol prices and fuel duty rise
PMQs: Cameron and Skinner on miners' pensions
PMQs: Cameron and Chishti on Islamic State and Daesh terms
PMQs: Cameron and Harman on help after Tunisia attacks
PMQs Harman and Cameron on Heathrow Airport expansion
PMQs: Cameron and Robertson on Scottish powers and votes
PMQs: Nick Robinson and MPs review Cameron v Harman
PMQs: Harman on Women's World Cup semi-final
PMQs: Cameron on Women's World Cup semi-final
Tory MPs on Cameron 2009 Heathrow pledge
Mary Creagh on air strikes in Libya
The battle between music and noise
Leslie and Lucas on Greek and Eurozone finances
FILM: A 60-second guide to fracking
Fracking debate: Lilley and Lucas
Does Lucas want to be Green leader again?
Blunt and Ashraf on UK reaction to Tunisia attacks
Cooper and Rigby: What now for Greece?
Pride march's sex toy symbols confused for ISIS support
Tunisia attack: IS see Ramadan as 'a month of war'
Nigel Farage: Migrant crisis is 'flooding Europe with jihadists'
Hilary Benn: 'Honest debate' needed on surveillance powers
Week Ahead: What lies ahead for Greece?
Syed Kamall: PM will push for treaty change before 2017
UKIP's David Coburn: 'I'm gay, you can't get more gay then me'
Should UKIP be banned from gay pride?
SNP MP: All parties 'should work together' to end cyber abuse
Is 'welching' really an offensive word?
Mediterranean migrants debate: Davies v Moraes
Will it be harder to make a FoI request?
Why does Sadiq Khan think he would be a good mayor of London?
How immigration has been a key issue for decades
Lord Green on the work of Migration Watch
Yes or no: Eustice asked about #EUref
What can go in the recycling bin?
No gender pay gay for MPs appearing on DP
Film: Should women be paid as much as men?
Debate: Should women be paid as much as men?
PMQS: Robinson, Flint and Eustice on Cameron v Harman
PMQs: Cameron and Harman on action over Calais migrants
PMQs: Cameron and Harman on tax credits and pay levels
PMQs: Cameron and Robertson on Scotland Bill powers
PMQs: Cameron and Bradshaw on bike deaths and lorry ban
Europe debate: Elliott and Blunkett
Copyright protection for some images of European landmarks?
Gibb: ‘Coasting schools’ definition out next week
Greek finances: Halligan and Blunkett
Blunkett: Labour 'ought to have been much louder '
Prefer to travel via a black cab or a phone app?
Welfare debate: Sunak, West, and Brake
Immigration and NHS staffing debate
Offering £1,000 to attend a job interview
Macintosh: We have to offer something different
Diane Abbott: Corbyn will 'shock' people
Liam Fox: PM could get 'different cabinet' if collective responsibility is enforced
UKIP's Steven Woolfe: Farage 'not' divisive character & will lead 'No' campaign
What's going on with Conservatives and the EU campaign?
Bloom: You've got to understand how UKIP works
Brant: UKIP have frozen out Suzanne Evans as they see her 'as a bit of a threat'
Political week in 60 seconds
Can we ever trust the polls again?
Reaction to Jeremy Hunt new deal for GPs announcements
Greek debate and eurozone future: Odendahl, Heath and Evans
Film: Farage resignation and future of UKIP
Suzanne Evans on UKIP future and EU referendum
Papal encyclical on climate change: Cafod and Delingpole
FILM: Papal encyclical on the environment and past messages from Rome
Evans and and Evans on Parliamentary repairs
Ex-Minister wants estates turned into 'city villages'
PMQs: Osborne takes first question on London housing
PMQs: Robertson and Osborne on Chilcot Report delay
PMQs: Osborne and Lucas on fossil fuels and pensions
PMQs: Hilary Benn questions George Osborne on extremism
PMQs: Speaker suggests yoga to MP after hot curry
Reviewing Osborne and Benn at PMQs with Landale and MPs
Bulgarian Foreign Minister on David Cameron and new UK-EU deal
EU referendum debate: Jenkin and Benn
Dugdale: Time for a new generation of people
Where's the betting money going on the Labour leadership races?
Hodges and Jones: Who will be next Labour leader and deputy?
Robin Brant on UKIP staff changes and 'another unresignation'
Ken Clarke claims public do not understanding purdah
James Landale explaining EU referendum bill
Prof David Nutt on Psychoactive Substances Bill
The theatre of Westminster select committees
Salmond on EU referendum and future Scottish referendum
MPs and historians talk Magna Carta and human rights
Corbyn: 'Two minutes to spare' to get on Labour nomination
What does it take to be select committee chairman?
Who is the right person to become the next Labour leader?
Leslie: Labour didn't have a 'strong enough economic message'
EU referendum: Should we stay or should we go?
Week Ahead: Labour leadership, George Osborne and British spies
European political week in 60 seconds
200 years since the Battle of Waterloo
Meet The Neighbours: Ireland
Rogers: I don't talk about relations with any member of Parliament
Hosie on OBR report and Scottish economics
EU postpones vote on TTIP
Why do some oppose the TTIP trade deal?
A Question Of Trust: government report on surveillance powers
New MP: Normal people applaud, they don't make that weird grunting noise
Cameron negotiations about 'unity of the Conservative Party'
Rogers: I don't talk about relations with any member of Parliament
CLIP: John Prescott tells David Miliband to 'shut up'
FULL INTERVIEW: Prescott on Labour leadership race and Miliband comments
Tory MP Nigel Evans wants anonymity for rape suspects
PMQs: Cameron and Harman on EU referendum voting age
PMQs: Cameron on Jenkyns winning Ed Balls' former seat
PMQs: Cameron and Huddleston on Cotswold line trains
PMQs: Cameron and Shah on Bradford and Northern Powerhouse
PMQS: Robinson, Smith and Hancock on Cameron v Harman
Andrew offers MP some tips after 'gobbledygook' claim
MP challenged over Swedish surplus claims
Eagle: I am the unity candidate, I am not in a faction
Referendum debate: Davies and Grady
Explaining the Human Rights Act and a possible British Bill of Rights
Falconer and Davies on human rights and a bill of rights
Falconer and Fletcher on the Assisted Dying Bill
Tatchell on London Pride ban for UKIP
Mood box vote: In or out of the EU?
Referendum debate: Reckless and Campbell Bannerman
Scotland Bill debate: Hosie and Stewart
Farron apology over Tatchell comments
What do the Germans think of the Brits?
Stella Creasy: I can work with anyone
Do MPs deserve a pay rise?
Tim Farron: You don't rule out any coalition
How bad are things for the Lib Dems?
Baker: At some stage there will need to be an EU 'out' campaign
Kawczynski on 'increasing frustration with the government'
Why I started the Milifandom campaign
Economy debate: Field and Mahmood
Decision due on airport expansion in south east England?
Cutting £250,000 scheme into gull research 'frankly daft'
Reviewing the political week in 60 seconds
Bradshaw: Only candidate not from the north or London
'Of course' MPs should take £7,000 pay rise says former cabinet member
Revelations about the Labour election campaign
Union 'in grave danger' says Forsyth
Tory MP v Stop the Cull on badgers and dairy farmers
John Read: You're paying the obscene cost of litter
Can we trust opinion polls again?
Lords v Commons in a real tug of war
PMQs: Cameron and Robertson on Mediterranean refugees
PMQs: Cameron and Harman on child benefit and tax credits
PMQs: Cameron and Harman on home ownership figures
PMQs: Cameron and Abbott on more powers for London
PMQs: Cameron and Smith on AAA rating and Labour leadership
PMQs: Landale and MPs review Cameron v Harman
Campbell on Kennedy: Relations between himself and myself were a bit cool to begin with
Who else could analyse the Scottish referendum dressed as a Christmas elf?
Will a Tory-dominated Commons struggle with the Lords?
Why do councils own golf courses, restaurants, pubs and hotels?
SNP won't share referendum platform with Conservatives
Pre-School Learning Alliance: '£250m shortfall' over child care plan
'We're extending the current offer by 15 hours, specifically for working parents'
British Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act?
Time for electoral reform? Talking PR, AV and FPTP
177 new faces in Parliament
German MP says 'the earlier the better' for UK EU referendum
EU referendum debate: Sandys and Hopkins
Ken Clarke on EU: PM is not asking to repatriate any powers
PM 'not ambitious enough' in EU talks
Tom Watson: I have got a reputation for being a tough campaigner
George Galloway on London mayoral campaign
What is the secret to running a good referendum campaign?
Will SNP MPs continue to clap in the Commons?
A new view inside the House of Commons
Hatton bidding to rejoin the Labour Party
'We did not do enough, there are things we could have done differently
'Those of who who have followed the Fifa saga for a while have seen this day coming'
A one-minute video guide to the political week
Betting on new Labour top team
New MPs finding their feet at Westminster
Carswell: I was incredibly frightened
Steve Hilton steps in front of the cameras
Mary Creagh: Labour 'needs a fresh voice'
Roger Helmer MEP: Media has built some 'really minor issues' in UKIP
Norman Lamb: 'I think the Lib Dems are needed more than ever'
Carswell: Farage should take a break...as leader, not from being leader
Bradshaw: Umunna quitting race 'tragic'
EU week: migration, TTIP, Russia, eurozone and Greece
European Union views on UK bid for EU renegotiation
Irish Republic referendum over legalising gay marriages
UK referendum on EU membership: Lambert, Arnott and Fox
Hosie on Cameron-Sturgeon talks
4m UKIP voters 'expect something better and different from this'
Who will be the new Labour leader?
Is Cameron modernising the Conservative Party?
Should union strike laws be toughened up?
Time for a Lib Dem rebrand?
New MPs in Commons: McLaughlin, Arkless, Huq, Cleverly
Naked bloggers on the run: Dan Hodges and Stephen Tall
Bremner talks Cameron, Ashdown, Hague and polar bears
Should UKIP accept 'Short Money' from Westminster?
Could Zac Goldsmith MP stand down over Heathrow Airport expansion?
Kennedy, Lester and Dobbs on Lords' role in new government
Election 2015: Bedford voters' views on Labour policies
IDS, Churchill, Mandelson, Salmond and Farage return
How many billions extra does the NHS need?
Fears for BBC future under new culture secretary?
Milburn and Creasy: Where next for Labour?
Why is David Lammy not standing for Labour leadership?
Carswell on UKIP calls for political reform
Former Lib Dem MP on 'complete disaster'
Election night: Behind the scenes
Election 2015: Liz Kendall: We didn't set out a positive enough alternative
Election 2015: How much say will the unions have over the Labour leadership?
Election 2015: 'Radical, popular capitalism' is what UKIP should offer, says Carswell
BBC Election index
Election 2015: Daily Politics campaign highlights
Election 2015: Reporter heckled in live TV report
Election 2015: Final day of campaigning
Election 2015: Key count and overall result timings
Election 2015: Sailors in Medway Yacht Club in Kent
Election 2015: On campaign trail with George Osborne
Election 2015 smaller parties: Above and Beyond
Election 2015: Politicians on trust in politics debate
Election 2015: Napoleonic Association team on voting
Election 2015: New look for results swingometer
Election 2015: Cameron, Miliband and Clegg campaigns
Election 2015 smaller parties: Respect George Galloway
Oldest conservative think-tank suggests voting UKIP
Evans and Hitchens: Time for electoral reform?
Election 2015: Battleground constituencies and seats
Election 2015: Debates and speeches in campaign final days
Election 2015: English local council seats contested
Election 2015 smaller parties: Communities United
Just a Minute (two 30-second pledges)
Hague: Child benefit under Tories "would stay as it is now"
Swinney: It's clear "some senior Labour figures" want to deal with SNP
Leslie: Don't think there will be a minority Labour government
Election 2015: Meet the leaders...in 24 hours
Election 2015: Jo Coburn on Question Time interviews
Election 2015 smaller parties: British National Party (BNP)
Election 2015: Workers at Lincolnshire flour mill
Election 2015: Suspended candidates on ballot papers
Election 2015: Party leaders faces on cakes and gnomes
Election 2015: Views of Scottish forestry workers
Election 2015 smaller parties: Alliance for Green Socialism
Election 2015: Adam Fleming Thursday campaign report
What happened to the Green Surge?
Coalition tensions over tax and welfare claims
Can you see the resemblance with a certain blond bombshell?
Election 2015: Adam Fleming's Wednesday campaign report
Election 2015: Is it similar to the 1992 general election?
Election 2015 smaller parties: Animal Welfare Party
Election 2015: views from wheelchair basketball players in Carlisle
Election 2015: Daily Politics debate on health
Election 2015: Jeremy Hunt on £8bn NHS funding
Election 2015 health debate: UKIP on park smoking ban
Can music and TV choices on social media explain your voting intentions?
Labour on Tory ‘panicky gimmicky response’
Hague: We are in a very different situation now from five years ago
Hanson on Labour immigration plans
Election 2015: Ellie Price's Tuesday campaign report
Election 2015: Harriet Harman and the Labour pink bus
Election 2015 smaller parties: Class War Party
Election 2015: Voters views from Shropshire gliders
Election 2015: Daily Politics debate on defence and security
Election 2015: Vernon Coaker on Labour Trident policy
Election 2015: Jo Coburn's Monday campaign report
Election 2015: Voters in Thurrock on EU referendum
Election 2015 smaller parties: The Whig Party
Election 2015: Daily Politics debate on home affairs
Gauke challenged over pro-Tory names in newspaper letter
American view of the British general election
UKIP and Tories hurting each other and risking referendum?
Reynolds and Gauke on rent increase controls
Election 2015: May on Conservative migration target
Tessa Jowell: Three year leases 'not compulsory'
Sajid Javid: 'No apologies' for economy focus
Laws: 'Not interested' in SNP & UKIP government
Election 2015: How is poll data conducted? - -
Election 2015: Adam Fleming's Friday campaign report
Election 2015: Voters views from Oxford knitters
Election 2015 smaller parties: Socialist Labour and Scottish Socialist
Hague: Libya has gone seriously backwards
Coaker on Miliband's foreign policy comments
Hague: English flag 'lying in the dirt'
Economy debate - Round 2: Gauke v Leslie
IFS' Gemma Tetlow on party manifesto claims
Election 2015: Jo Coburn's Thursday campaign report
Election 2015: Voters views in Northamptonshire
Election 2015 smaller parties: English Democrats
Election 2015: Daily Politics debate on education
Election 2015: Tristram Hunt on unqualified teachers
Election 2015: How confidence-and-supply can work
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Wednesday campaign report
Gyimah and Smith on party offers for parents of pre-school children
Is Milifandom real?
Election 2015: Voters views in Sheffield
Election 2015 smaller Parties: We Are The Reality Party
Election 2015: Daily Politics debate on the economy
Election 2015: Leslie and Hosie on Salmond budget claim
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Tuesday campaign report
Election 2015 smaller Parties: Yorkshire First
Election 2015: Daily Politics debate on foreign affairs
Jamie Reed asked: How would Labour fund NHS plans?
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Monday campaign report
Election 2015 smaller parties: North East Party (NEP)
Election debate on environment and climate change
Election 2015: Parties' stances on rural fuel duty
Kezia Dugdale: Not surprised of a Tory-SNP deal
John Swinney: To end austerity, vote SNP
Do manifestos matter?
Nigel Farage blames Cameron 'fanaticism' for Libya migrant crisis
Eagle: Labour will speak to any party to 'build a majority'
Election 2015: Reaction to BBC leader debate
Election 2015: Funny moments on the campaign trail
Election 2015: Voting views of hunters in Warwickshire
Election 2015 smaller parties: Socialist Party of GB
Curran: I would not write us off yet
Election 2015: Vine on leader ratings ahead of debate
Election 2015: Andrew Neil previews leaders' debate
Election 2015: Voting views of rafters in Snowdonia
Election 2015: Alan Hope on Monster Raving Loony plans
Election 2015: Devon pigs in race to Downing Street
Scottish Conservatives launch campaign manifesto
Brennan on Labour education policy
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Wednesday campaign report
Election 2015: Cheshire musicians on how they will vote
Polish prince challenges UKIP's Nigel Farage to duel
Election 2015 smaller parties: Liberal Steve Radford
O'Flynn on UKIP manifesto launch
Election 2015: Political views of Yorkshire blacksmiths
Election 2015: Green Party leader Natalie Bennett
Election 2015 smaller parties: Pirate Party
Election 2015: Housing dominates Tuesday campaign report
Election 2015: Plaid Cymru wants elected head of state
Truss: Vitally important we help more people own their own home
Reynolds: They just simply don't know where this money is going to come from
Alexander on Tory and Lib Dem housing policies
Green plans to hit tax avoiders and introduce 60p tax rate
Election 2015 smaller parties: Davie Nellist on TUSC plans
Election 2015: Manifesto launches from history
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Monday campaign report
Greens finally launch election poster campaign
Chuka Umunna on Labour election launch
Sajid Javid on Tory and Labour manifesto launches
Election 2015: Cuts and spending - what the Lib Dems are offering
Election 2015: What are the polls telling us?
Election 2015: Inheritance tax is the wrong priority, says Danny Alexander
Election 2015: Week Ahead - The unveiling of manifestos
Election 2015: Expenditure on the NHS will be a priority, says David Gauke
Election 2015: Voting issues for Bristol prop makers
Election 2015 smaller parties: National Health Action (NHA)
Election 2015: Northampton voters offered political mug
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Friday campaign report
Rail fares debate: Eric Pickles v Jack Dromey
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Thursday campaign report
Thatcher's armoured bus from Northern Ireland for sale
Election 2015 smaller parties: Liberty GB
Election 2015: Voting issues for Somerset stonemasons
Election 2015: Games and online sites about voting
Election 2015: Ed Balls talking about non-dom status
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Wednesday campaign report
Election 2015: Voting issues for Cornwall cheese-makers
Election: Christian People's Alliance and Christian Party
Mahmood on Labour bid to abolish non-dom rules
Election 2015: Tory and Lib Dems on coalition taxes
Election 2015 smaller parties: Peace Party policies
Election 2015: Voters at National Aquarium in Plymouth
Election 2015: Opinion polls and role of focus groups
Election 2015: Priti Patel and Chris Leslie on Europe
Election 2015: Priti Patel and Chris Leslie on health
Election 2012: Market affected by hung parliament results
Election 2015 smaller parties: Community Party of Britain
Election 2015: TV viewers asked about leaders' debate
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Thursday campaign report
Election 2015: How union members could affect vote
Election 2015: Labour or Conservative choice on economy
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's Wednesday campaign report
Election 2015: Trader on Labour's zero hours contract policy
Election 2015: Independence from Europe Party
Election 2015: Rat, hedgehog, James Bond and Joey Essex
Zero hours contract debate: Javid, Cable and Leslie
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's campaign Morning Report
Election 2015: Tax levels in UK and other countries
Election 20105: Voters views on political campaigns
Election 2015: Plaid leader Leanne Wood at party launch
Election 2015: Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol Party
Election 2015: Andrew Neil's campaign Morning Report
Election 2015: What the UK and Scottish polls predict
Election 2015 smaller parties: Mebyon Kernow
Election 2015: Issuing 650 writs to get voting started
Lucy Powell: Labour government would ban exploitative zero hour contracts
Peter Kellner: There is a "real Labour bounce" in latest poll
Alan Duncan: Cameron's third term decision 'not unwise'
How will the general election campaigns pan out?
Was it wrong for Tories to try and oust Commons speaker?
Labour's Lucy Powell clashes with presenter Andrew Neil
Famous faces: MPs retiring and leaving political stage
BBC News Timeliner hosts election archives
How many archive election broadcasts can you remember?
How does Big Ben cope with the change to summer time?
Burnham: NHS is going backwards on this government's watch
What happened to coalition predictions?
La Reine le veult: What is prorogation in Parliament?
MacKenzie: "White poor thickos" claiming the benefits
Would you want to do these jobs?
When should Prince Charles’ letters be published?
Secret ballots for future Speaker elections?
Hancock and Mahmood: Tax and national insurance pledges
Election 2015: Artist Adam Dant drawing the campaign
PMQs highlights 2010-2015: Cameron, Miliband and MPs
London Marathon bid in election run-up by Dan Jarvis MP
PMQs: Cameron on British deaths in A320 Alps air crash
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on post-election VAT rises
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on national insurance and taxes
PMQs: Cameron on Connarty 'standing down' at election
PMQS review: Patel and Umunna join Landale and Neil
Election: Speechwriters Collins and FinkelsteinDaily Politics highlights of 2015
Election 2015: DUP's Donaldson on hung parliament talks
What do UKIP and Green councillors think?
Brian May on Common Decency campaign
Chris Leslie on Labour election VAT pledge
Why did Cameron announce future plans?
UKIP plans: NHS, defence, HS2, foreign aid and Scotland
Farage pub protest: Dan Glass and Patrick O'Flynn
Stewart Hosie on post-election SNP Labour deal
Election archive moments of politicians and public
What will be the fate of Afzal Amin?
Jim Murphy MP: Scottish Labour is re-energised and determined
Red box, yellow box: The Lib Dems' 'alternative budget'
Norman Lamb: There's a complete imbalance in the NHS
Week Ahead: What are the polls telling us?
Budget 2015: Voters' reaction to Osborne announcements
Political week: Shapps, coalitions, and two Budget boxes
Life in Politics: Speaker and Labour MP Betty Boothroyd
Budget: Don Foster money to deal with aggressive gulls
Any Budget affect on the polls yet?
Hawkins: Oddest morning after a Budget that I can remember
Budget buzzwords and jargon: Debt, deficit, and deeds
Alexander heckled on Lib Dem 'Budget' by Labour MPs
Budget debate: Gauke, Leslie and Flanders
Budget overview from Stephanie Flanders
Budget 2015 Index (to text and clips)
PMQs: Watson calls for whistleblower protection
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on the NHS and kitchens
What are UKIP's policies?
Budget debate: TaxPayers' Alliance and TUC
Budget Preview: Hancock and Perkins
UKIP and Nigel Farage clips: damp rag, weather and golf
UKIP history: From Sked to Kilroy Silk and Farage
Election 2015: Farage on Thanet South and UKIP future
Nigel Farage on NHS and paying for private health care
Former MP Michael Brown on finances after losing seat
Dawn Primarolo and Hugh Robertson standing down as MPs
Election 2015: SNP's Stewart Hosie on Labour coalition
Caroline Flint: We are in touching distance of winning this election
Ed Davey: I am fighting every day to make sure I'm re-elected
What could be in the Chancellor's Budget?
Week Ahead: Is it time for the BBC to stand up to Jeremy Clarkson?
Pub Landlord Al Murray campaigns in South Thanet
European Union army proposal from Jean-Claude Juncker
Estonia: Government services are paperless and online
European week: Waterloo, 2 euro coin and French budget
Budget 2015 mood box: George Osborne or Ed Balls choice
Labour bid to change energy markets and cut fuel bills
Tom Brake on Lib Dem 'right to own' home plan
Election 2015: UK political map based on seat and bets
Historians David Abulafia and Mary Beard on Europe
Election 2015: National Heath Action on NHS policies
Political betting debate: Harry Cole and Tom Mludzinski
Farage race comments reaction: Sunder Katwala and Mark Littlewood
Budget 2015: Cut spirit tax to help whisky industry
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on TV election debate plans
PMQs: Carswell and Cameron on UK immigration figures
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on general election campaign
PMQS: Sutcliffe asks Cameron about retirement plans
PMQs: Speaker warns 'smirking' chief whip Michael Gove
PMQs: Cameron and Lucas on NHS spending priorities
Eurosceptic and Europhile sides on EU referendum in UK
United Nations job for Conservative MP Stephen O'Brien
Politicians taking over the airwaves?
Rudd and Elliott on European arguments
What do the polls say for the political parties?
Johnston Press wants new BBC and local media relations
59 days until the general election
Should MPs engage on twitter?
Candidate hands back £1,000 donation from Blair
Selling off the Westminster family silver?
Curran: I don’t think we should get into 'back room deals'
What goes on at the Green Party conference?
IS: Making inroads into Libya
Discussion: The battle against Islamic State
Week Ahead: What will become of the TV debates?
English Democrat Robin Tilbrook on 'independent state'
Bob Stewart on UK defence spending and Tory policy
Green conference: Scott Cato on welfare and housing
Douglas Hurd: Bosnia, PM bid and advice to Cameron
Plaid conference: Leanne Wood on Wales independence bid
Political week: Cornwall, immigration and TV debates
Adonis: Opinion in Scotland is volatile
Droning on about rules for flying drones
What's in a party political name?
Flynn: Worst ever prime minister's questions?
'Britain now gives away an eye-watering £12bn a year'
PMQs: Cameron and Fox on Trident, Labour and SNP deal
PMQs: Cameron and Gardiner on missed cancer targets
PMQs: Miliband challenges Cameron on immigration pledge
Cameron and Miliband on TV leader election debates
PMQs: Cameron and Gardiner on missed cancer targets
PMQs review: Claire Perry, Hilary Benn and Nick Watt
Delingpole on obesity and paying for health care
Union jack & 'funded by UK government' plaque for public projects?
Where should MPs go when Parliament is repaired?
Margaret Beckett on UK national security
Lammy: serial under-reporting of crime in the UK
Can political commentators do comedy?
PM to announce prison sentences for those who do not act on child abuse allegations
Generation Rent: Move Parliament, MPs and peers to Hull
Mood box: Personality or policy choice for voters
Mood box reaction: Is the prime minister a marshmallow?
Where do parties stand on housing figures?
Nigel Evans on red and yellow cards for errant MPs
Liam Byrne MP: Labour's tuition fee cut 'fully costed'
Liam Fox: Maintain NATO spending target
Farage on immigration: My predictions have proven to be right
The worst 'car crash' political interviews
Week Ahead: How will the Green Party do in the elections?
Have UKIP peaked too soon?
Why has the name of the so-called 'Jihadi John' been revealed?
Political week in 60 seconds
Will UKIP follow Conservative spending plans?
Willetts on university funding and fees
Labour student fees plan 'very distinctive'
Pollster: Don't bring US attack-style ads to UK
Jenrick: ISIS looting, destroying and selling art
What could we ask Conservatives about migration?
Labour and UKIP on immigration figures
Who could be the next mayor of London?
Massow: I'm running ahead, but not nearly enough at the moment
Are gay men secretly Tories?
Second jobs ban would attract 'obsessive crackpots'
PM 'not ruling out' changes on MPs' second jobs
Bethnal Green MP urges inquiry into radicalisation
David Cameron wishes Ed Balls a Happy Birthday
Robinson and MPs review PMQs
How important is an arts education?
Should MPs' seconds jobs be banned?
Ed Vaizey: Government 'passionately in favour' of supporting arts funding
Mary Creagh: Women are 'turned off' by politics
Bennett apologises to Green members for 'bad' interview
British economy has 'underlying problems'
Is the House of Lords too old?
Electoral polls: What do they really show??
Bennett 'sorry' to Greens for 'bad' LBC interview
Is the House of Lords out of date?
Daily Politics meets Gogglebox's Michaels family
Sir Malcolm Riftkind: I am livid
Harper: Conservative government will 'keep' pensioner benefits
Starmer, Frazer and Smart on NHS funding
Gogglebox's Andrew Michael: UKIP 'struck a chord with me'
Who would want to be an MP?
Malcolm Rifkind: 'I'm not sorry, I'm absolutely livid'
Labour donors 'not dodgy'
Ken Clarke: Row over tax avoidance is "bogus"
Week Ahead: Will Ed Miliband's confrontation with tax avoiders pay off?
Tax avoidance and evasion: Toby Young v Owen Jones
The Co-operative group: Schools, shops and politics
European week: traffic offences, Ukraine and Greece
Hungary's future links to Russia and the European Union
Passenger Name Record: Sharing airline passenger details
Were you thinking what he was thinking?
Kevin Brennan on Miliband and Fink
Party election campaigns getting underway
Taking a ride in a driverless car
Is the Labour bus pink or magenta?
SNP's Stewart Hosie on George Osborne and UK austerity
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on HSBC and Tory donors
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on HSBC and tax claims
PMQs: Cameron announces free train wi-fi from 2017
PMQs: Cameron and Blomfield on NHS pay rises
PMQs review with Robinson, Neil, Gibb and Eagle
Why could the sun be setting on the Union Jack in Fiji
Lamb: There will be no hiding place for poor care
What are hedge funds, and does anyone understand them?
Mahmood and Garnier on HSBC tax claims
Who did go to Tory Black and White ball?
Labour policies on paternity leave and childcare
HSBC 'helped clients dodge tax'
Jewish reaction to increased security
Hazel Blears on anti-Semitism report
Prof Curtice on election lottery
Stewart: We should not be dragged into a ground war
What does business think about Labour's economic policy?
Leslie v Hancock on business policies
Protests stop Nigel Farage Rotherham appearance
Full Nigel Farage interview
CLIP: Sarah Champion on Nigel Farage Rotherham office tweet
Full Sarah Champion interview
Why was Beyonce played in cabinet?
Political week in 60 seconds
North Korea claims and de-selections in Redcar
Chuckle Brothers: From me to you and PMQs!
What's the extent of homelessness in Britain today?
Alexander: No need to increase income tax, national insurance, VAT
Why don't people register to vote?
Robinson: The policies are right, the mood music is wrong
Rotherham Council child abuse report
Alison Wolf on feminist help for women in low-paid jobs
PMQs: Cameron's swipe at Balls' memory lapse
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on hedge funds and economy
PMQs: Robertson and Miliband on Scottish devolution
PMQs: Rotheram and Cameron on election promises
PMQs: Cameron announces medal for UK Ebola workers
PMQs review: Robinson, Neil, Mordaunt and Coaker
Ex Doncaster mayor Martin Winter on Ed Miliband book
Houses of Parliament shop: Books by men and women
X Factor style contest to allow Commons documentary
MPs to vote on 'three person' babies: Ridley and Mogg debate
How would English Votes for English Laws affect the UK?
Why do parties use negative political adverts?
Where parties stand on education policy in England
Jones: Creating a mood music which vilifies business
Magna Carta copies brought together for first time in London
Magna Carta's place in history
'Voters are not ready for the general election yet'
What to expect when the election campaign really gets underway
Javid: We need to do a better job of getting our message across
Why Churchill's grandson missed the statesman's funeral
Political week in 60 seconds
Did you know there's a by-election coming up?
Labour MPs call for personal approach to health services
Will social media get young people interested in politics?
Chilcot Report: Norman Baker on Iraq War report delay
Dry January: Nigel Farage and Iain Wright on no alcohol
Fracking and shale gas plan hold-ups across the UK
EU 'moving very much along UK lines' says ex Sweden PM
Nigel Farage on Greece, Italy, euro and EU economics
Bakewell on Miliband press comments
What parties do NOT want to talk about in election campaign
Election questions for Flint and Willetts
All women shortlists to select new MPs in Parliament
PMQs review: Landale, Flint and Willetts on NHS clashes
PMQs: Skinner and Cameron on food banks and contacts
PMQS: Cameron and Miliband on NHS in England and Wales
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on 'weaponise' NHS claim
PMQs: MPs calls Cameron and Miliband clowns and jokers
Lords try again on Communications Data Bill powers
Voice of the Balls offers voiceover tips to Paddy Ashdown
Why Manorial Rights means your home might not be all yours
Mood box: Are Lib Dems going up or down in voters' opinions?
Sarah Wollaston on Conservative housing benefit policy
Full debate: 100 days to go to general election
Jagger on fracking: Are we prepared to risk our way of life?
Carswell on Bashir defection and NHS claims
Nick Robinson on online voting
What do the Greens stand for?
CLIP: Natalie Bennett: 'Leader does the election TV debates'
Full interview: Natalie Bennett
'Scottish Labour Party has not been good enough in the recent past'
Shapps: Seven-party TV debate plans 'look more sensible'
Shirley Williams: Opera to Labour, SDP and Lib Dems
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Election 2015: George Galloway on Respect in TV debates
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Is there a Green 'surge' in the polls?
Powers for Scotland: Redwood, Wishart and Murphy
Carmichael on additional powers for Scotland
Plain packets on cigarettes: Williams and Evans debate
Misprint sends UKIP calls to photographer
MPs on fixed term or 'zombie' Parliament at Westminster
Labour MPs Johnson and Abbott on mansion tax proposals
PMQs: Tapsell claims Blair falsified Iraq evidence
PMQs: Abbott and Miliband on Chilcot Report delay
PMQs: Reckless and Cameron on TV election debates
PMQs: Jenrick and Cameron on Blunt and Bryant spat
Blogger Sunny Hundal on Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia
Labour MPs Johnson and Abbott on mansion tax proposals
Trident debate: Williams and Johnson
Chickens leave the coop to go free range on election trail
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Grayling on early automatic release for prisoners,
Harman on Labour plans to ‘cap’ or ‘freeze’ power bills
Labour's bid for the younger and lost voters
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Scottish Energy minister Fergus Ewing wants oil tax cut
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EU neighbours: Trade and logistics in the Netherlands
Red meat day: Neil Parish MP and Peta's Mimi Bekhechi
Front National's Le Pen on Charlie Hebdo shootings
Election 2015: Yarmouth's Tory, UKIP and Labour candidates
Hancock and Portes on Osborne's 'surplus fetish'
'People are fed up with everything being a bit too packaged'
English Spelling Society's chairman on word phonetics
PMQs review with Robinson. Neil, Reeves and Lewis
PMQs: Cameron and Gale on BBC's Tony Hall before MPs
PMQs: Cameron and Perkins on ambulance death claims
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband on election leader debates
How broadcasters have used the 'empty chair'
Church of England role on UK political issues
Islamic terror attacks: France, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq
What is a Charter of Budget Responsibility?
Leslie and Hancock on the Charter of Budget Responsibility
Religion and violence: Dawkins, Ramdani and Fraser
Counter Terrorism Bill debate: Field, Johnson and Hughes
General election: Coalition or majority government?
General election 2015: Children on voting and MPs
General election hash tags, tweets and social media role
Harry Cole and Atul Hatwal on tweets in election campaigns
Election campaigning debate: Mitchell, Brinton, Carswell and Denham
Patrick McLoughlin on terror threats to UK transport
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Does Miliband want to 'weaponise' the NHS?
Clifford Mann on English hospital A&E waiting times
Greens and UKIP on TV leader election debates
Bennett and Nuttall on TV leader election debates (full version)
Eurozone debate: Pryce and Hannan
Political week in 60 seconds
Changing Labour view on British military action aboard
Regulating hairdressers: Nia Griffith and Nicky Clarke
Paris shootings: UK terror threat and security issues
RT's Going Underground broadcast from London
Abbott and Powell on UK military intervention
Reaction to Paris attacks: Murray, Nawaz and Powell
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PMQs: Cameron says Miliband wants to weaponise NHS
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UK PM David Cameron condemns French magazine attack
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NHS and health policies: Jowell, Campbell, Gillan and Nuttall | The Daily and Sunday Politics are on-air six days a week for much of the year reporting the political news from Westminster and beyond. | 12620805 | [
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Neil Aspin's promotion-chasing hosts have not lost in nine National League matches while Adam Lockwood's side are unbeaten in five.
Guiseley went ahead on 15 minutes against the run of play when a throw-in found James Hurst who squared to Jake Lawlor to stroke into an empty net.
Gateshead defender Liam Hogan superbly blocked Jordan Preston's effort and Guiseley keeper Jonny Maxted then saved well from Wesley York's shot just before the break.
The hosts, who started the second half well, levelled on 62 minutes when a slip by half-time substitute Derek Asamoah let York curl sweetly into the top-right corner from the edge of the box.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Gateshead 1, Guiseley 1.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 1, Guiseley 1.
Substitution, Guiseley. Michael Rankine replaces Jordan Preston.
Substitution, Gateshead. Luke Hannant replaces Gus Mafuta.
Gus Mafuta (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Guiseley. Adam Boyes replaces Jake Cassidy.
Goal! Gateshead 1, Guiseley 1. Wes York (Gateshead).
Substitution, Guiseley. Derek Asamoah replaces Kevan Hurst.
Second Half begins Gateshead 0, Guiseley 1.
First Half ends, Gateshead 0, Guiseley 1.
Simon Walton (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Gateshead 0, Guiseley 1. Jake Lawlor (Guiseley).
First Half begins.
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Eric Bikubi, 28, and his partner Magalie Bamu, aged 29, have been convicted at the Old Bailey of killing Kristy Bamu after accusing him of being a sorcerer who practised witchcraft.
The couple, who live in Newham, acted after accusing Kristy of controlling and adversely influencing a young boy, the jury was told.
They originally came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where witchcraft is called Kindoki, and exorcisms are carried out in some churches.
In 2010, Unicef reported 20,000 children accused of witchcraft were living on the streets of DR Congo's capital Kinshasa.
In the DR Congo, accusing a child of being possessed is a criminal offence, a law that has been in place for several years.
But in 2008 I travelled to Kinshasa to see if it was making any difference and, at that time, the answer was not at all.
Which is why I found myself in one of the city's slums late at night knocking on the door of tin-roofed shack that doubled as a church.
Pastor Tsimba let me in and showed me three children who he had diagnosed as having Kindoki.
The youngest was probably six, the oldest no more than 12. They had been in the church for days, deprived of food and forced to work. Their parents were paying for the privilege.
The only light came from flickering candles and storm lamps. The pastor began to shout and pray.
One by one he brought the children up to the front of the church. He ordered them to lie down and, still shouting and chanting, began slapping their stomachs, one, two, three times. Each harder than the last.
Then he took a candle and poured burning hot wax on them, leaving them grimacing and squirming but making almost no sound. Their eyes were wide and staring.
Finally, as a bizarre conclusion to the ritual, Pastor Tsimba produced a length of pipe and held it hard against their belly buttons.
One after another, he made a play of sucking hard on the pipe and in triumph then spat a lump of meat he claimed to have sucked out of them into a bowl.
The meat he claimed had been been fed to them by a witch, infecting them with Kindoki. The children, bewildered and quiet, were now in his words "delivered".
I alerted a social worker to the plight of the children. An extraordinary and dedicated man, he said he would do all he could to help them.
But his unit had not paid him for months, there was no money for petrol or even a bus fare. So he did his work on foot.
He walked miles each day, visiting as many churches as he could, in this sprawling city of nine million people. | An "obsession" with witchcraft and sorcery led a couple to brutally murder a 15-year-old boy at a flat in east London. | 17073332 | [
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22 May 2017 Last updated at 07:13 BST
A team of researchers say they've come up with a new exercise that cuts the risk of kids getting hurt when playing rugby.
The exercise could now be introduced in schools.
Watch Jenny's report for more. | Rugby is not the most gentle of sports and it's been hitting the headlines because of some bad head injuries. | 39993077 | [
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Marcel Lazar, known online as "Guccifer", pleaded guilty in May on charges of aggravated identify theft and unauthorised access of a computer.
Lazar, who targeted former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Bush family, was arrested on hacking charges in Romania in 2014 and given four years.
He was extradited to the US to face charges in March 2016.
The 44-year-old inadvertently uncovered Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's private email account in 2013 after hacking the account of her former political adviser, Sidney Blumenthal.
Two years later, it was revealed that Mrs Clinton exclusively used her personal account, which was connected to a private server at her New York residence, while serving as secretary of state.
Mrs Clinton's use of private email while at the State Department became the subject of an FBI investigation and has dogged her on the campaign trail.
Earlier this year Lazar claimed he had hacked into her private server, but the Clinton campaign has denied there was any such breach.
The FBI also has said there is no evidence to prove he had hacked her.
Lazar, a former taxi driver in Romania, is believed to have hacked into about 100 US email accounts between 2012 and 2014.
In June, a hacker who goes by the alias "Guccifer 2.0" claimed data breaches on the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
US intelligence officials have said they believe Guccifer 2.0 is linked to Russian intelligence services, suggesting that the hack was state-sponsored.
There is no known connection between Lazar and Guccifer 2.0. | A Romanian hacker who targeted high-profile US politicians has been sentenced to 52 months in prison. | 37250907 | [
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Having won the toss and chosen to bat against the pink ball, the hosts got through the opening session untroubled.
But Craig Overton (2-35) struck, removing Jimmy Adams (47) and Rilee Rossouw in quick succession, before Jack Leach (2-54) and Tim Groenewald (2-27) hastened the decline.
Hampshire then put Somerset in to face six overs, but they closed on 18-0.
Overton, who was unused by England in last week's three-game T20 series with South Africa despite being called up to the squad, bowled a crucial spell to turn the tide.
With Liam Dawson (53) and Adams going well in their patient opening stand, the fast bowler found the latter's outside edge before Rossouw top-edged through to Steven Davies to go for a fifth duck in his last eight County Championship innings.
Dawson fell lbw soon after to Lewis Gregory (3-51) and, despite James Vince's 47, Hampshire's batting fell apart as Leach's accurate left-arm spin gave nothing away.
With a batting point secured, Hampshire captain George Bailey declared, but Marcus Trescothick (10 not out) and debutant Eddie Byrom, who was unbeaten on one, had no troubles reaching stumps under the floodlights.
Hampshire all-rounder Liam Dawson told BBC Solent:
"The crowds haven't changed. We haven't had any more people in. But it is early days and it is something that might work.
"From my first experience of it, they need to have a good look at what balls they are going to use. If you are going to keep on using those balls then you are going to get some pretty boring cricket.
"It was fine to see. It just goes very soft, very quickly."
Somerset fast bowler Craig Overton told BBC Radio Bristol:
"The ball was strange. It swings and then goes really soft. It didn't really do much maybe a little bit in it for the bowlers but because it is so soft and slow it is tough to score on.
"We knew it was going to be tough batting after lights so it is perfect to be nought down with Tres and Eddie.
"It was nice to be with the England boys and see how it all works. I've had a couple of experiences with it now and hopefully next time I'll get a go." | Hampshire collapsed from 84-0 but then declared on 211-9 as Somerset took control on day one at Southampton. | 40403998 | [
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The move would reverse a long-held policy of not naming alleged war criminals in the Syrian conflict.
Investigators said on Friday there had been an "exponential rise" in atrocities committed in Syria.
UN figures show that more than 220,000 people have been killed during Syria's four-year civil conflict.
The investigators - from the UN's Commission for Inquiry on Syria - said they had prepared five lists of names including "a variety of perpetrators from different groups".
The Commission refused to say how many suspects were named, but diplomatic sources told the BBC there were approximately 200.
The Syrian government has carried out innumerable air strikes on rebel-held territory throughout the conflict, and has been accused by human rights organisations of killing thousands of innocent civilians in the process.
The UN's High Commissioner for Refugees says more than nine million Syrians have been displaced as a result of continuing fighting.
Speaking after a briefing of the UN Security Council on Friday, a spokesperson for the Commission said that they were "weighing the pros and cons" of publishing the lists of suspects.
The BBC understands that if they decide to publish the lists it will coincide with the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on 17 March.
In a report published on Friday, the Commission stressed that both the Syrian regime and the main Islamist militant groups active in Syria - Islamic State (IS) and al-Nusra Front - had committed atrocities, as well as other smaller factions.
The report warned that despite the Commission's "long-standing position" not to name suspects, maintaining that policy would "reinforce the impunity" of alleged war criminals.
Speaking on Friday, investigators said that they had increasingly been sharing information with countries to enable them to prosecute their own citizens for crimes committed in Syria.
They revealed that four of the lists of names of alleged war criminals had been passed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a fifth would be handed over in March.
The five lists, compiled since the Commission began investigating in 2011, are understood to contain approximately 30 to 40 names each.
The death toll for 2014 from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is just the latest grim statistic from years of war.
Syria's refugee crisis
Conflict in numbers
Noting the rise in atrocities over the four-year conflict, the Commission's report said the scale of war crimes in Syria "raises questions about the inadequacy of the response of the international community".
A spokeswoman for the Commission said that the UN Security Council "was not acting" despite damning evidence of human rights abuses.
"We expect really after four years that something must be done," she said. | United Nations investigators are considering revealing the names of an estimated 200 individuals suspected of committing war crimes in Syria. | 31557395 | [
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Research on 1,500 women aged 64 to 95 found those who spent many hours sitting and exercised for less than 40 minutes a day had cells that were biologically eight years older.
As people age, their cells age, causing DNA protectors to shorten and fray.
But health and lifestyle factors may speed up the process, researchers from California said.
Even in old age, it was important to keep active and avoid sitting for more than 10 hours a day, they said.
During ageing, tiny caps on the ends of DNA strands naturally shorten.
These telomeres - which have been likened to the plastic tips of shoelaces - are there to prevent chromosomes from deteriorating.
Telomere length is one indicator of biological age, which does not always match chronological age.
Shortened telomeres have been linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and major cancers.
How much regular exercise people do now also appears to be a factor in their length.
To track the women's movements in the study, they wore wore an accelerometer on their right hip for seven days in a row, during the day and night.
They were also asked to complete questionnaires on their activity.
Dr Aladdin Shadyab, lead study author, from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, said: "We found that women who sat for longer did not have shorter telomere length if they exercised for at least 30 minutes a day.
"Discussions about the benefits of exercise should start when we are young, and physical activity should continue to be part of our daily lives as we get older, even at 80 years old."
The study is published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
NHS Choices advises older adults to break up long periods of sitting with light activity because "sedentary behaviour is now considered an independent risk factor for ill health".
It says adults aged 65 or older who are generally fit and mobile should try to do:
Older adults at risk of falls, or with poor balance, should also do exercises to improve balance and co-ordination at least twice a week. | Women who lead a sedentary lifestyle have faster-ageing cells than those who exercise every day, research suggests. | 38665668 | [
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Bowe, 32, played in the first half of the game in Naas and came through unscathed before being replaced at half-time as had been the plan.
The Lions star had been out since sustaining a knee injury in Ireland's World Cup defeat by Argentina.
Bowe suffered posterior cruciate ligament and meniscal damage.
His return is a timely boost as the Belfast club attempt to secure a place in the Pro12 play-offs.
Les Kiss's men are currently fifth in the standings and have three matches left, against Zebre, Leinster and Ospreys.
Darren Cave captained the Ulster A team as they earned a 38-31 win in Thursday's game. | Ireland winger Tommy Bowe played his first match since October in the Ulster's A game against their Munster counterparts on Thursday. | 35987857 | [
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The 46-year-old succeeds Ronnie Moore, who parted company with the club by mutual consent earlier on Wednesday.
This is a first managerial role for Hignett, who had a spell as Hartlepool assistant manager under Colin Cooper in 2013-14.
Hartlepool are one place above the relegation zone having lost three of their past four league matches.
Hignett, whose 19-year playing career began at Crewe and ended at Hartlepool, will take charge of the team for the first time when Pools host Yeovil on Saturday.
"We immediately identified Craig as our number one target and we believe he has all the right qualities to help instil confidence back in to the players and help us move up the table," said chairman Gary Coxall.
"He has a wealth of experience in football and has been looking for an opportunity to move in to management so we're delighted to give him that chance here at Victoria Park."
Sam Collins, who worked alongside Moore, will remain at the club but in a new role focusing on the club's under-21 players. | Former Middlesbrough player Craig Hignett has been named as the new manager of League Two side Hartlepool. | 35546240 | [
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Officials say 108 tons of corn will be delivered by the end of the weekend.
Last month, eight people were killed in Oaxaca in clashes between the demonstrators and police.
The protesters oppose reforms that allow the federal authorities to remove teachers who fail evaluation exams.
Members of the CNTE union, which has a history of radical activism, have been blocking roads in Oaxaca and other states ever since the union leaders were arrested in early June.
The roadblocks have prevented food deliveries to some remote areas in the region, the government says.
"There are no products," says Araceli Hernandez Ramirez, manager of a grocery store in Puente de Coyula.
She says she has no rice, corn or flour to sell to her customers. "They go home empty-handed," she said.
In a strongly worded message on Friday, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said the unrest had hurt millions of people and "the blockades and damages to the citizenry must end".
"The time is up," he said, warning that "the necessary decisions will soon be taken to allow transit on strategic roads".
The CNTE union opposes education reforms introduced by President Enrique Pena Nieto in 2013.
The changes include new measures to assess teachers' performance. | Mexico's air force has been flying tons of grain into Oaxaca state in the south of the country to deal with dwindling food supplies caused by roadblocks set up by protesting teachers. | 36692269 | [
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A foul smell led residents to the site in March.
The government says all the bodies were buried in a single night and include stillborn babies and unclaimed bodies.
But Human Rights Watch says they must check to see if any of the people killed during anti-government protests in January have been buried there.
Dozens of demonstrators died in protests over a proposed electoral law change which would have required a national census to be held before the presidential election could take place.
The US-based watchdog Human Rights Watch (HWR) has said that bodies went missing during the protests and also during government crackdowns on criminal gangs in the capital last year and in 2013.
Human rights workers first became aware of the burial site after residents of Maluku in Kinshasa reported a terrible smell near the local cemetery more than two weeks ago.
A woman working in the field then discovered a limb sticking out of the ground.
The DR Congo government has said that the bodies were all buried in individual graves on 19 March.
A spokesman said on Monday that there would be no exhumations of the bodies. | The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been urged to investigate at least 421 bodies found in an unmarked burial ground in the capital, Kinshasa. | 32197742 | [
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In the first World Series game at Wrigley Field since 1945, Coco Crisp was the Indians' match-winner.
The 36-year-old outfielder came off the bench for a pinch-hit single that scored Michael Martinez from third base in the seventh inning.
The fourth game in the best-of-seven series takes place in Chicago on Saturday.
The Indians are seeking their first World Series title since 1948, while the Cubs are trying to win their first crown since 1908 to end America's record longest sports title drought.
"It feels good," said Crisp, whose sister nicknamed him "Coco" after a cereal box character.
"You want to do something that can help the team. Fortunately enough for me it was the hit." | The Cleveland Indians edged 2-1 ahead in the World Series with a 1-0 victory at Chicago. | 37809632 | [
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About 1,000 athletes, aged between 14 and 18, will participate in the event, scheduled for 27 July to 1 August.
Boxers Carl Frampton and Michael Conlan, and swimmer Sycerika McMahon are among Northern Irish athletes to have previously competed at the Games.
NI Commonwealth Games chairman Robert McVeigh described it as a hugely significant day for local sport.
"This is the result of many years of lobbying and hard work," said McVeigh.
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"It offers a great opportunity for children to strive towards being part of the largest ever Team NI at a Commonwealth Youth Games."
More than 60 nations were represented at the last Youth Games, staged in Samoa in September, with Northern Ireland finishing eighth in the medal table.
The next Youth Games will take place in the Bahamas in 2017, after which it will revert to a four-year cycle.
The formal announcement of Northern Ireland's hosting of the 2021 Games will take place at Belfast City Hall on Monday, with Commonwealth Games NI patron Dame Mary Peters in attendance.
It is expected the swimming competition will take place at the Aurora complex in Bangor, with the Mary Peters Track in Belfast hosting the athletics, and the gymnastics being held in Lisburn.
Northern Ireland were the only bidders for the 2021 Games, after Jersey and Botswana withdrew. | Northern Ireland has been chosen to host the Commonwealth Youth Games in the summer of 2021. | 35457804 | [
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Gordon Smith, 44, was found dead on Lake Road about 400m (0.2 miles) from his home on Church Street on 1 July.
Mark Russell, 27, previously of Holly Terrace, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter at Carlisle Crown Court.
He was was given conditional bail ahead of trial on 14 March. It is expected to last up to five days.
Judge Paul Batty QC said one of the conditions is that he does not enter Windermere or Bowness-on-Windermere.
A 31-year-old man from Millom, a woman aged 48 and a 15-year-old girl, both from Kent, previously arrested on suspicion of murder, have been released with no further action, Cumbria Police said. | A man has denied the manslaughter of another man who was found lying in a street in Windermere close to where he lived. | 34648182 | [
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The aircraft, nicknamed "Bette" after one of its pilot's girlfriends, was built in 1941 from donations from the Borough of Lambeth Spitfire Fund.
It was stationed in Cornwall, Hampshire, Norfolk and Shropshire during the war but crashed in 1944.
Bidding stalled below its £120,000 to £150,000 valuation.
The aircraft saw service with four RAF squadrons between 1941 and 1944 and was flown by author Alec Lumsden, who gave it the name Bette and added a character from the Daily Mirror cartoon strip 'Just Jake' to the paint work.
After it crashed in Shropshire in September 1944, killing its Australian pilot, its wreckage was taken to Ibsley museum, Ringwood, Hampshire and displayed.
The aircraft was later passed to a collector who showed it at events. It has also been immortalised by modelmakers Airfix and Revell.
John Tomlin, from Historics at Brooklands, said: "The historical side of war birds is an up-and-coming market. There are now about 42 flying Spitfires and this seems to be increasing ever year.
"The rarity, the history and the provenance of all these aircraft make them very investable items and they're investments that can be used and enjoyed by a lot of people."
Experts believe it would cost about £1.8m to fully restore the plane. | The fuselage of a World War II Spitfire that has spent the last few years in a garden in Oxford has failed to reach its asking price at auction in Surrey. | 17086036 | [
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Karl and Donovan Demetrius, both 29, Jaydene Parsons, 23, and James Ireland, 23, were charged with assisting an offender earlier.
All were remanded in custody after a short hearing at Bristol Magistrates' Court.
Becky's stepbrother, Nathan Matthews, 28, appeared in court earlier charged with her murder.
Karl and Donovan Demetrius, and Ms Parsons, all of Barton Court, Bristol, and Mr Ireland, from Avonmouth, will appear at the city's crown court on 26 March.
They all face a single charge of disposing or concealing Becky's body parts with the intent "to impede the apprehension or prosecution of Nathan Matthews".
A fifth person - a 23-year-old man also arrested on 2 March - was released without charge.
The 16-year-old's stepbrother, of Warmley, Bristol, appeared at the city's crown court via video link earlier, charged with her murder.
He was also remanded in custody to appear at crown court on 26 March.
Mr Matthews' girlfriend, Shauna Hoare, 21, appeared alongside him at Bristol Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with perverting the course of justice.
She will appear before the crown court on 2 April.
Becky was last seen on 19 February and was reported missing the following day.
The discovery of her body came after an extensive search of various locations across Bristol. | Four people have appeared in court accused of helping to hide or dispose of teenager Becky Watts' body parts. | 31765767 | [
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Rodgers' men thrashed Partick Thistle 5-0 on Thursday and must avoid defeat by Hearts on Sunday to finish their title-winning campaign without defeat.
"We matched 33 wins, which is the most wins in the history at Celtic," Rodgers told BBC Scotland.
"We go one behind in the record for goals. Now we're on to 104. So, we've got everything to play for."
Celtic are looking to become the first team to go a 38-game Scottish Premiership campaign unbeaten.
They have gone unbeaten in a season once before, in 1897-98, winning 15 of the 18 games played. Glasgow rivals Rangers followed suit a year later, winning all 18.
Leigh Griffiths, who would later appear to question being substituted, scored Celtic's opener at Firhill from the penalty spot after Patrick Roberts was fouled by Callum Booth.
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Tom Rogic netted Celtic's second from a low Griffiths cross, and Roberts swept in their third before the break.
Strikes from outside the box by Callum McGregor and Roberts followed in the second half.
"It was a joy to watch the team," said Rodgers. "Five special goals and, fundamentally, the players worked very, very hard. It was an outstanding team performance.
"If you go 38 games of a season [unbeaten] with all the games we've had, the level of games, perform like we have done then it's a truly remarkable achievement relative to the time that we're playing in."
Asked if there was any chance of keeping Roberts, who is due to return to parent club Manchester City this summer, Rodgers replied: "I don't know. You have to respect he is a Manchester City player.
"The only thing I would ever say is if there ever is a possibility that he's going to leave Manchester City then of course Celtic would be certainly there to want to bring him here.
"I still think he's got a lot of development left in him. At 19 years of age, he still needs a lot of education, a lot of training. He's getting a wonderful education here with the club, the size of the club.
"He's a wonderful talent. He's very much a part of the team structure and that's great to see.
"When he has the ball, especially in the final third, he truly is a little magician. He was one of a number of outstanding team performers.
"He took his goals absolutely brilliantly. He's always a threat in the penalty box - gets the penalty and scores two other wonderful goals."
Partick Thistle boss Alan Archibald accepted his side had been outclassed and said of the gap between Celtic and the other top-flight clubs: "It's huge and you need to get everything right to get anything off them. The worry is the gulf could get bigger.
"They were miles ahead of us tonight and they have been all season and miles ahead of most of the league.
"We stood off them and I think Celtic could smell that fear in some of our individual battles and if you do that against a good side, they'll certainly hurt you and we gave them a gift with the opening goal, which didn't help." | Brendan Rodgers says it would be a "remarkable achievement" for Celtic to complete an unbeaten league season. | 39966693 | [
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The Scream (1892), by Edvard Munch, depicts a figure holding its face, which is making an agonised expression.
But look above this individual and the sky is full of colourful wavy lines.
The 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.
"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.
"As an artist, they no doubt could have made quite an impression on him."
Dr Muri was speaking here in Vienna at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly.
From Munch’s diary notes, 1890-1892
"I went along the road with two friends – the sun set
I felt like a breath of sadness -
The sky suddenly became bloodish red
I stopped, leant against the fence, tired to death - watched over the
flaming clouds as blood and sword the city - the blue-black fjord and the city
- My friends went away - I stood there shivering from dread - and
I felt this big, infinite scream through nature"
The unusual sky formation in The Scream has previously been ascribed to volcanic effects.
Just nine years before Munch's first rendering of The Scream, Krakatoa famously blew its top.
This 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.
But 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.
Their rarity comes from the very particular conditions needed in their formation, at altitudes between 15km and 20km.
These requirements include not only very cold winter air, down at minus 80-85C, but a good degree of humidity as well.
Atmospheric 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.
"That's when you can get very small ice crystals of about one micrometer," explained Dr Muri.
"These clouds are very thin and are best seen just before sunrise and after sunset, when the sun is below the horizon.
"You get these very distinct colourings, from the combination of scattering, diffraction and internal refraction of the sunlight on these tiny ice crystals."
Dr 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.
Such phenomena could have taken Munch completely by surprise, she believes.
The 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.
He managed to take a series of stunning photos, and then started delving deeper into the story.
Some very rare cloud types are reported to be increasing in frequency and distribution, perhaps due to climate change.
An 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.
It is conceivable similar trends might occur with Nacreous Clouds, Dr Muri said, although no statistics can justify such a statement yet.
"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. | Norwegian scientists have put forward a new theory to explain the inspiration behind one of the most famous works of art ever produced. | 39697256 | [
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His team defeated the Kiwis 20-14 to clinch the series 2-1 in the last game before his current deal expired.
"We will sit down, assess it and look at it," said McNamara, who has been in charge since 2010.
"These are the sort of things you deal with post-tournament, there is a process and I'm in no rush."
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The former Bradford Bulls boss, 44, is also out of contract with club side Sydney Roosters, where he is attack coach.
It has been reported that McNamara has agreed a new two-year deal with the Australian National Rugby League side.
McNamara initially coached England on a full-time basis but has combined the position with his job at the Roosters since 2013.
He went into Saturday's match with a record of only two wins in 11 matches against the world's top two sides - New Zealand and Australia.
Former Great Britain international Garry Schofield - now an outspoken columnist - claimed before the game that there was "no debate about it, he has to go".
But the series win strengthens McNamara's prospects of a deal that will take him through to the 2017 World Cup.
The last significant series win against either the Kiwis or Australia was Great Britain's 3-0 triumph over New Zealand in 2007.
Since then there have been numerous near misses, including a 20-18 World Cup semi-final defeat against the Kiwis at Wembley in 2013 and two narrow Four Nations defeats in 2014.
England took the lead in the current series with victory in Hull but they were defeated 9-2 at the Olympic Stadium to set up Saturday's thrilling conclusion.
"It's an incredible feeling," added McNamara. "The players completely deserve it after working tirelessly.
"Success hasn't until this point come for the team, but thankfully they've finally got what they deserve.
"New Zealand are the number one team in the world and have dominated international rugby league in a physical sense. We've been able to match that in three consecutive games.
"We've got quality and experience to add to our group.
"We've got a good, young bunch that is ready to play for a number of years so the signs are pretty strong for us moving forward, particularly now we've got across the line."
The England team that competes in the 2016 Four Nations could be significantly stronger - with Sam Burgess, George Burgess, Sam Tomkins and Jack Reed all missing from the current series.
Canterbury Bulldogs prop James Graham was in the GB team that defeated the Kiwis in 2007 but many in the current England side had never experienced a major series win.
"The pressure has been released," said the former St Helens player.
"The win will help breathe confidence into the less experienced lads but we cannot get carried away. The big thing for the England team is to kick on and win a major tournament."
And the 30-year-old was one of numerous players to back McNamara to continue in his role as England coach.
"It is a no-brainer," he said when asked whether the coach should stay on. "If he wants the job, then I see no reason why not. There is no need to change it."
McNamara made two changes to his side for the final Test, bringing in winger Jermaine McGillvary and Wigan scrum-half Matty Smith, who won the man-of-the-match award.
"I think Steve has been building something good," added Smith. "I do not see any reason why we need to change the coach now.
"We have been building nicely and now we have won something."
New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney was gracious in defeat - praising the quality of England over the three games.
But he also acknowledged how the number of Englishmen playing for Australian clubs in the NRL had helped the national team.
Gareth Widdop, Graham, Josh Hodgson, Thomas Burgess and Mike Cooper all played in the NRL last season - and Kearney said: "It is certainly of benefit.
"For 26 rounds in the NRL it is survival of the fittest, high-intensity football. That is helping to condition the Burgess lads and Widdop, those types of players, for sure." | England coach Steve McNamara refused to discuss his future after his team defeated New Zealand in the crucial series decider in Wigan. | 34823603 | [
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Walter Oakley received a letter from the Russian and US leaders thanking him for his help in televising the meeting.
No agreements were signed at the summit but it was said to mark the end of the Cold War.
Mr Oakley from Low Fell, Gateshead, was holidaying when CNN asked him to help organise filming.
Newcastle auctioneers Anderson and Garland said the value is impossible to know.
Mr Oakley came across the letter again while researching a book about his family and has decided to sell it so more people can see and enjoy it.
His wife Diane said the letter has meant a lot to the family but it belongs in a collection or museum.
She said: "No matter how busy they were, they had the time to sit down and write the letter.
"He was Walt to both of them. He said they were both very nice guys, very easy to get along with. You wouldn't think they were the presidents of the two most powerful countries in the world."
Auctioneer Fred Wyrley-Birch said: "It's impossible to say how much the letter is worth because something like this has never been up for sale before to my knowledge.
"We'll start the bidding at £1,000 and see where it goes from there.
"Looking at the political situation between the US and Russia at the moment, it's a very interesting glimpse back to 27 years ago when there were increasingly friendly relations."
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London 2012 Olympian Andrew Lawrence scored 14 points while NBA player Ben Gordon added 13.
Coach Joe Prunty's team led for most of the first three quarters before being overhauled by their guests in the last 10 minutes of a well-contested game.
GB now begin their Eurobasket qualifying campaign with a game in Hungary in midweek.
"The key to the qualifiers will be completing on every play. We have to make sure that we're going as hard as we can on both ends of the floor," Prunty told BBC Sport.
"I think at times tonight we lost a little of our fire."
Prunty turned to his strongest line-up in the final warm-up match before he cuts the roster for the six-game qualifying programme.
GB led 35-24 on Lawrence's three in the second quarter but the Dutch took the lead early in the third. Gordon then hit three threes in a row - his first points of the game - to restore GB's advantage.
Netherlands, who were led by 18 points from Worthy De Jong, scored the first 10 points of the fourth quarter to lead 71-60 and held on to win despite the hosts' comeback in the last six minutes.
Prunty was pleased with the contribution of Gordon, a player who has joined the team despite missing out on the place available to him for London 2012.
He said: "You're always trying to find to your rhythm as a player and with one another. I thought he [Gordon] had a good showing tonight, he certainly had a very good stretch in the third quarter." | Great Britain lost to the Netherlands in Manchester for the second time in two days, going down 79-68. | 37207414 | [
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A review of research for the Reading Agency says reading for pleasure does much more than boost educational outcomes among adults and children.
One recent study quoted - of 4,000 UK adults - says reading for pleasure can help them enjoy social occasions more.
It can also boost children's emotional understanding, the research adds.
In general, the study found reading was associated with enjoyment, relaxation and escapism.
The research involving a poll of 4,000 people that is cited by the report looked at how mental and physical health can be boosted by the enjoyment of reading.
It said those who read regularly for pleasure:
It also cited research carried out in Germany, with children aged seven to nine, that looked at possible links between literacy and emotional understanding.
The report focused on the impact of after-school literacy sessions in which children's books with emotional content were read and discussed by the group.
It found the scheme enhanced the children's emotional vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of emotions.
It also found boys were more "positively influenced in their capability to recognise masked feelings than girls".
The report concluded that: "Reading is closely linked to increasing understanding of our own identities and can also play a large part in relating to others, understanding their world views and so forth."
Sue Wilkinson, chief executive of The Reading Agency, said the findings of the report showed that "everything changes when we read". | Getting stuck into a good book can boost people's ability to relate to each other and increase their empathy, a report suggests. | 33733356 | [
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In an email thanking his campaign team after voting closed, Mr Burnham said getting this far was "a real achievement".
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said this was seen by some of his supporters as a concession of defeat.
But a campaign source said this was "categorically not" the case.
The winner of the leadership election will be announced on Saturday.
Mr Burnham is up against Jeremy Corbyn, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper in the contest.
In his email, he told supporters the campaign had "tested us all on every level".
He said: "But we have coped with the inevitable ups and downs with good humour and run a strong, positive and professional campaign of which you can all be very proud.
"Most importantly, we have stayed true to our values and competitive right to the end of the race.
"We end it with an outside but realistic chance of winning. That is a real achievement."
Mr Burnham added that "thousands of ordinary, decent party members are now worried about where we are heading".
Mr Corbyn only made it on to the ballot paper at the last minute when nominations were finalised in June but has become the bookies' favourite.
On Twitter, he said it had been "an inspiring summer" regardless of the outcome of the election.
This is it. The last minute phone banks, panics over missing ballots, final pleas from the candidates are done.
The vote is over and now Labour's wait begins. Before the result though it seems that already the party has been changed, possibly forever by these extraordinary last few months.
An unexpected candidate has done the unexpected and Jeremy Corbyn has put himself into the most likely position to win the contest. Strikingly, that is against the better judgement of nearly every single senior figure in the Labour Party, and crucially nearly all of its MPs.
Read Laura's blog in full
One of Mr Corbyn's supporters, Leeds East MP Richard Burgon, said many people would be "pleasantly surprised" at his leadership style if he won.
"It will be a more collegiate and a more collectivist leadership which will include people," he said. "It will include MPs who don't agree with some of Jeremy's politics."
Speaking to the BBC at Mr Corbyn's final rally in his Islington North constituency, Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey said the left-wing MP had already won in his eyes.
He said Mr Corbyn had "lit up our movement in a way that I didn't think was possible" after the general election, adding: "That's a victory in itself."
"Jeremy, in that calm fashion seems to have touched a pulse, and that pulse is about people rejecting the constant downbeat austerity message that's been coming out of politics for thirty five years," Mr McCluskey added.
Angela Eagle, who is running for the deputy Labour leadership, told the BBC she would serve whichever leader is elected, adding that the party needed to capitalise on the "enthusiasm for politics" and "hope" the contest had generated.
The contest has been plagued by internal rows over Labour's direction and concerns that non-party supporters have tried to influence the outcome.
Labour has said efforts to weed out non-party supporters would continue up until results day.
In the closing speech of her campaign, Ms Kendall - who has stressed the need for Labour to appeal to a broader section of the electorate - said she may have been "too blunt" at times.
She added: "But my view is that in politics, as in life, you cannot deal with problems by ignoring or avoiding them."
There have also been claims from some people that they did not receive their ballot papers in time to vote.
London mayor hopeful David Lammy said 20% of supporters who his team spoke to had received nothing.
Labour said ballots had been emailed and posted out correctly to everyone entitled to vote.
The party said everyone who had not voted or said they did not have a ballot had received a final email reminder on Tuesday.
Labour's new deputy leader will also be unveiled at the leadership conference on Saturday, and its London mayoral candidate will be announced on Friday. | Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham has told supporters he has an "outside but realistic chance" of winning the contest. | 34215015 | [
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The Commons' Home Affairs Committee said the UK Border Agency should challenge unacceptable behaviour by some of its contractors.
The report comes 15 months after a deportee died on a flight.
A spokesman for the UKBA said that all private security escorts are trained in approved restraint techniques.
Jimmy Mubenga, 46, fell ill and collapsed on a British Airways plane bound for Angola on 12 October 2010.
The MPs did not comment on the case, which is still being investigated by the police, but said that Mr Mubenga's death had triggered their own investigations into the way that the UK Border Agency managed the deportation of people on flights from the UK.
The UKBA contracts out the job of escorting people to their deportation flight. The contract has been held by Reliance since May 2011 and previously by G4S.
The MPs said found:
"It is a matter for serious concern that contractors should use racist language among themselves," said the report.
"That they were content to do so in front of not only UK Border Agency staff but also inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Prisons is shocking. It is possibly the result of a relationship between the Agency and its contractors which had become too cosy."
Restraint techniques
The MPs said that the UKBA's own staff should feel that they can properly challenge any bad behaviour by contractors - but it also criticised the practice of taking "reserves" to airports - people who may then find that they are not being removed from the UK after all.
It called on the government to allow independent monitors, people allowed into prisons and removal centres, to board removal flights.
The MPs said that they were not convinced that a potentially harmful head-down restraint position was never used, even though it was not authorised.
A recent expert report found that such techniques could lead to death.
"We recommend that the Home Office issue urgent guidance to all staff involved in enforced removals about the danger of seated restraint techniques in which the subject is bent forwards.
"We also recommend that the Home Office commission research into control and restraint techniques which are suitable for use on an aircraft. The use by contractors of unauthorised restraint techniques, sanctioning their use, or failing to challenge their use, should be grounds for dismissal."
Keith Vaz MP, chairman of the committee, said: "The UK Border Agency must not wash its hands of responsibility for detainees just because the service is contracted out.
"People who are not entitled to remain in the country must be removed and there may be occasions when it is necessary to use physical force, but this must always be done only when absolutely necessary, and with proper respect for the dignity of the detainee."
A UKBA spokesman said: "All escorts on flights are trained to use restraint techniques approved by the Prison Service.
"We have no evidence contractors use head-down restraints and would take strong action against them if their conduct does not meet our standards.
"We are currently working closely with Noms (National Offender Management Service) to develop specific techniques appropriate to confined spaces." | Private security guards employed to forcibly remove people from the UK have used racist language and inappropriate force, a report by MPs has said. | 16733390 | [
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A 52-year-old woman died and a 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital following an incident in Penilee Road on Friday.
Police had earlier released an image of a 54-year-old man they wanted to speak to.
A spokeswoman said he had been located in the Dumfries and Galloway area.
An area of Penilee Road has been cordoned off and forensic officers have been carrying out investigations. | A man police said they wanted to trace in connection with a murder and attempted murder in Paisley has been arrested. | 40140182 | [
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Ross, 39, has agreed a deal that runs initially until the summer of 2016.
The former St Mirren defender has coaching experience from stints at Dumbarton and Hearts, where he departed in October.
Ross will be in the dugout for Saturday's home match against the Buddies.
Alloa are bottom of the Championship, three points adrift of Livingston, who they beat 1-0 on Saturday. | Scottish Championship strugglers Alloa Athletic have appointed Jack Ross as their new manager following the resignation of Danny Lennon. | 35099616 | [
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After a nervous start, the Gulls grew into the game and started to apply pressure, which nearly paid off in the 14th minute when a powerful shot from Brett Williams struck a post.
Luke Young forced a good save from Owen Evans and later went close with a couple of first-half free-kicks.
The Gulls started the second half purposefully and finally breached the visitors' defence in the 58th minute when skipper Aman Verma headed home a free-kick after Jordan Lee had been brought down by Mark Gray.
Giancarlo Gallifuoco had a goal disallowed in the 65th minute, but the Gulls ensured they will be back in the National League next season when Myles Anderson headed home two minutes from time.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Torquay United 2, North Ferriby United 0.
Second Half ends, Torquay United 2, North Ferriby United 0.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Jordan Douglas replaces Owen Evans.
Substitution, Torquay United. Shaun Harrad replaces Brett Williams.
Goal! Torquay United 2, North Ferriby United 0. Myles Anderson (Torquay United).
Substitution, Torquay United. Sam Chaney replaces Jordan Lee.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. George Bell replaces Reece Thompson.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Jordan Cooke replaces Taron Hare.
Substitution, Torquay United. Dan Sparkes replaces Jamie Reid.
Goal! Torquay United 1, North Ferriby United 0. Aman Verma (Torquay United).
Second Half begins Torquay United 0, North Ferriby United 0.
First Half ends, Torquay United 0, North Ferriby United 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Torquay guaranteed another season in the National League with a well-deserved victory against relegated North Ferriby at Plainmoor. | 39676552 | [
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The new brand, Arket, will provide "simple, timeless and functional designs" including clothes for adults and children, and household products.
It will sit in a slightly higher price segment than the main H&M brand.
The move comes as competition online and on the High Street is squeezing profits at the fashion giant.
After London, more Arket stores will follow in Brussels, Copenhagen and Munich, and the new brand will be launched online.
The new stores will also stock external brands, and some outlets will include a cafe offering Scandinavian-style food.
Bernadette Kissane, apparel and footwear analyst at Euromonitor International, said on paper the plan looked "promising".
"The company's results have been falling short of expectations recently, consistently outpaced by key rival Inditex," she said.
"Rather than adopt a faster sourcing strategy to compete, the company has opted to introduce new brand Arket to effectively cater to shifts in consumer behaviour."
H&M already operates a range of High Street brands including Cos, & Other Stories, Monki, Weekday and Cheap Monday. But the firm said market conditions were difficult for fashion retailers as digitisation is changing both shoppers' behaviour and the way fashion companies operate.
H&M pioneered fast fashion alongside Zara's owner Inditex. But Inditex has overtaken H&M in recent years to become the world's largest fashion retailer.
The company's profits are also being squeezed by online competition from retailers such as Asos, which offer a fast turnover of fashion styles in response to customer demand.
"Retail is going through a challenging period of change in which customers' shopping behaviour and expectations are changing at a fast pace as a result of growing digitalisation," said H&M's chief executive Karl-Johan Persson in a statement accompanying the firm's latest financial results.
"For fashion retail in general, market conditions were very tough in many of our large markets in central and southern Europe and in the US, and this was reflected in our sales," he added.
H&M reported a 3.4% drop in net profit to 2.45bn kronor ($275m; £220m) for the December to February period, the first quarter of the company's financial year. | Swedish fashion company H&M will launch its eighth fashion brand later this year, with the first outlet opening in London this autumn. | 39443663 | [
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The Richmond Park and North Kingston MP said he was "honoured" after winning 70% of the 9,227 votes cast using an online primary system.
He beat London Assembly Member Andrew Boff, MEP Syed Kamall and London's deputy mayor for crime and policing Stephen Greenhalgh.
Mr Goldsmith's main rival is likely to be Labour's Sadiq Khan.
Mr Khan beat former cabinet minister Tessa Jowell and a number of other current MPs to win the Labour nomination last month.
Caroline Pidgeon is the Lib Dem candidate, Sian Berry will contest the election for the Greens and UKIP has chosen its culture spokesman Peter Whittle. Former Respect MP George Galloway is also running.
Mr Goldsmith, who was the favourite for the Tory nomination, balloted his constituents earlier this year to seek permission to stand.
At the very point of his entry into the race for London mayor, Zac Goldsmith's decision revealed two big characteristics.
Only a politician with an acute sense of accountability would have sought permission to stand through a ballot of his constituency members in Richmond and North Kingston.
Only someone with his personal wealth would have been able to afford the estimated £60,000 cost of doing it.
Both characteristics could come to feature heavily in the months to come.
Read the whole article
He won Friday's vote comfortably, getting 6,514 votes, more than the other three candidates combined.
Syed Kamall came second with 1,477 votes ahead of Stephen Greenhalgh (864) and Andrew Boff (372).
Mr Goldsmith - who first entered Parliament in 2010 - told the BBC's Daily Politics that he hoped his environmental record would appeal to Green and Lib Dem voters and he also hoped to "reach out" to UKIP supporters frustrated with politics as usual and the UK's relationship with the EU.
Mr Goldsmith, who has confirmed he would stand down from Parliament if he became mayor, triggering a by-election, said he wanted to build on current mayor Boris Johnson's achievements.
But he said anyone who attempted to replicate Mr Johnson's style of leadership would be "deluded" as he was a "unique figure" in British politics.
"If people are in the market for a 'Boris mark two' are going to be very disappointed," he said, adding that people wanted someone who "will bend George Osborne's ear and get a good deal for London".
He also told the BBC News Channel that high-polluting vehicles should be "phased out" of the capital's streets and that his biggest priority would be housing.
Both Mr Khan and Mr Goldsmith oppose a new runway at Heathrow airport, a fact described by the British Chambers of Commerce as "depressing".
Mr Goldsmith is also promising more transport investment to prevent London "grinding to a halt" and to "protect, enhance and improve access" to green spaces.
Current mayor Boris Johnson will step down next year after two terms in office. He is also currently the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, having been returned to Parliament in May.
Some Conservatives have called for an inquiry into the mayoral election process after only 9,227 people voted - compared with a 87,884 turnout for the Labour contest.
In an attempt to open up the contest to people who weren't Conservative members, anyone on the electoral roll was able register to vote for £1.
But one of the campaign teams told the BBC earlier this month the process "looked chaotic".
Speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics, Mr Galloway dismissed Mr Goldsmith as a "Great Gatsby figure" who could not relate to most Londoners' lives and Mr Khan as "a very boring man".
He revealed policies including compulsorily purchasing any house left vacant for more than a year and having 50% of all homes in the capital as social housing. | Zac Goldsmith will contest the 2016 London mayoral election for the Conservatives, it has been announced. | 34423007 | [
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Verheydt, who had been with Maastricht since 2015, has signed a three-year contract with Harry Kewell's side.
The 25-year-old scored 13 goals in 43 appearances in all competitions last season.
Meanwhile, Watford winger Dennon Lewis, 20, has joined the Reds on a loan deal until 31 December.
Lewis, who made 29 National League appearances on loan at Woking last season, played under Kewell when the Australian was coach of Watford's under-23 team.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League Two side Crawley Town have signed striker Thomas Verheydt from Dutch second-tier side MVV Maastricht for an undisclosed fee. | 40523815 | [
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Police said the rockets had landed in open areas, without causing damage or injury. The Israeli military said they were fired from Sinai in Egypt.
Warning sirens went off just before the rockets hit. The city's airport has been closed and security tightened.
Eilat, a popular tourist destination on the Red Sea, has previously been hit by rockets fired by militants in neighbouring Egypt and Jordan.
The Egyptian military said it was investigating the incident.
Hours after the attack, a small militant Salafi group, the Mujahedeen Shura Council, said it had fired two Grad rockets at "occupied Eilat", in a statement carried on jihadist websites.
About 50,000 people live in Eilat, and tens of thousands of holidaymakers visit every year.
The Israeli military said an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery - designed to intercept short-range missiles - which was positioned near Eilat earlier this month was not deployed in the latest attack.
There were several rocket attacks on the city last year, though no injuries were caused.
Most of the rockets were fired from Sinai, which has become increasingly lawless since the revolution which toppled former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
Islamic militant groups have grown in strength there and have used it as a base from which to target Israel across the lengthy shared border. | At least two rockets have hit the southern Israeli city of Eilat. | 22179770 | [
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The American company replaced Reebok as the kit supplier for all Wales international teams in 2008.
Whereas the original Under Armour contract was worth roughly £2.5m a year, the new deal will see the annual fee rise to around £3.7m.
This renewal will be the first major deal overseen by new WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips.
His predecessor, Roger Lewis, stepped down after Wales' exit from the 2015 World Cup having held the role since 2006.
It was announced in September that Wales' home ground, the Millennium Stadium, will be renamed the Principality Stadium in a 10-year sponsorship deal beginning in January 2016.
Under Armour's other high-profile clients include Tottenham Hotspur, American football player Tom Brady and golfer Jordan Spieth. | The Welsh Rugby Union is set to agree a new nine-year contract with kit manufacturer Under Armour worth £33m. | 34629373 | [
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Research suggests women will not earn as much as their male counterparts until 2069, nearly 100 years after the Equal Pay Act was introduced in 1970.
Holyrood's economy, fair work and jobs committee will examine why women working in Scotland still earn an average of 6.2% less than men.
Ministers said they were committed to removing the barriers faced by women.
The difference between men and women's median hourly earnings for full-time work in Scotland fell from 7.7% in 2015 to 6.2% in 2016.
Studies show fewer women work in higher-paid sectors like technology, IT and engineering, and continue to be under-represented in senior management and leadership roles.
Despite 51% of workers in finance and insurance being female, it is the sector with the highest pay gap, at 29.9%. The committee cited UK government figures as showing that "equalising women's productivity could add almost £600bn to the economy" across the country.
Convener Gordon Lindhurst said much had changed in the labour market since the 1970 legislation.
The Conservative MSP told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the inquiry aimed to be "open-minded" about how closing the gap could affect the economy.
He said: "The committee wants to hear from businesses and individuals who may be affected by this issue and we want to take their views and experiences on board, and look at how we can weave that into policy recommendations for the Scottish government.
"We want to encourage companies to look at the issue in perhaps a more positive way than sometimes is thought, and to see how this can be of benefit not just to the employees but also to the companies themselves.
"The committee is open-minded about this. We're interested in seeing how this can affect the economy - it's not a matter of presupposing the answer. It's a very complex matter - work patterns have changed since the 1970 Equal Pay Act was brought in, we've got remote working, internet working, we have flexitime, we have all sorts of things in which the world has moved on, and it's important to review matters and see how this all fits together."
Mr Lindhurst said the education system and the way people were brought into the workplace "may be key" to the inquiry.
Tricia Nelson, a partner at professional services firm EY, told the programme that it was "such a good thing" that the issue was being discussed.
She said: "In my own experience, you don't set out in your career thinking 'gosh, is there a gap?'.
"But the more experienced you become and as you progress through the years, you do start to think, 'is everything fair? Am I getting treated the same as everyone else?' And without the data and without the conversation we can't be bold for change and move the agenda forward.
"There is empirical evidence that the economy works better when women are a massive contributing factor to the workforce. And the more we can encourage organisations to look at the data and understand how they can proactively drive change the better.
"Certainly the work my colleagues and I do is about men and women having the conversation and being really open about this - there is a degree of unconscious bias, we know that, and in my experience when you start to talk about that things do change."
The Scottish government has said equality is "embedded" in its economic strategy and "at the heart of ambitions for a socially just and inclusive Scotland".
Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn told the BBC that the gap was "a long-standing issue", adding that "we still have some way to go despite having had an equal pay act for a considerable amount of time".
He said: "We have to start with the fundamentals. One of the things we're embedding in the school environment is the developing young workforce agenda.
"One of the things we can try and do through that is tackling some of the gender norms in terms of subject matter and in terms of areas of study that we see in schools, and going on into colleges and universities, which leads to gender segregation in the workplace.
"We know if we can better remunerate people in the workplace, if people are better respected in the workplace, then it's going to boost innovation and it's going to increase levels of productivity, which is a win for individual companies and a win for our overall economy." | MSPs are to examine the gender pay gap in Scotland and how tackling it could boost the economy. | 38978755 | [
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In particular, she likes fancy china and plates, and is happy to show off her latest purchase.
She ordered a platter online, and took it out of the bubble wrap excitedly.
She bought that item, and some more china, toiletries and a bike, on a cashback website so she is expecting about £14 to be paid back to her.
But Ms Sen might have to be patient. It will take up to four months for her to be paid.
Cashback sites are a simple idea. Instead of going directly to a shop, you access a retailer's online store through a link from a cashback website.
You still receive your item directly from the retailer, but you also get some money from the cashback website.
It is often a percentage of the total price you paid.
The sites have links to retailers of everything from groceries and toiletries, to insurance policies and broadband deals.
But Ms Sen has not actually had any money back yet.
"I thought it was going to be as easy as one-two-three, just make the purchase to the website and get the cash back the next day," she said.
"But that didn't happen. It's been well over a month and I'm still waiting for it."
Ms Sen thinks the website is not clear enough about how long that wait will be.
"I have no idea how long it's going to take me to get the cash back," she said.
She went through one of the biggest cashback sites, Quidco.
It says it has more than 2 million members in the UK, and that the average user can make £262 a year.
That is small change for its more committed users. Quidco says more than a hundred of them have made over £10,000.
But, like all cashback websites, its customers can face long waits for their money to start coming in.
Andy Oldham is the company's managing director and said every attempt is made to be clear and transparent.
"That's the whole ethos of the site," he said.
"On every single merchant page, we've got statistics that show the time it takes for those transactions to be paid out."
For example, with the bike Ms Sen bought, the information about the length of time is displayed underneath the deal.
We pointed this out to Ms Sen, who said she had never noticed the warning before.
She thinks that four months is too long to wait for her money.
"It's right down the bottom of the page," she said.
"Look how light the shade of the font is. It's just not prominent enough. They need to make it clearer," she added.
Despite all this, she says she will carry on using cashback websites.
"My attitude is, it's better than getting no money back at all," she said.
Quidco's Andy Oldham said he would take Ms Sen's feedback on board.
He admitted there was "quite possibly" an argument for rethinking how this information is shown on the website.
Mr Oldham maintains that it is impossible to give an average waiting time, because it depends on different retailers and products.
So, if you are buying something like food, that will be consumed quickly, you should be paid relatively quickly.
On the other hand, if you book a holiday six months in advance, you will not be paid until after you come home.
Mr Oldham says it was important that customers realised that cashback arrangements do not pay out immediately.
"We're very much dependent on the retailer paying us the advertising commission before we pay it back to the consumer," he pointed out.
Another site, TopCashBack, says it works hard to manage consumers' expectations about how long it takes to get their money.
But on average, those customers may have to wait 12 weeks for their money to clear into their accounts.
There are other things to be aware of if you sign up to a cashback website.
Some, like Quidco, charge an annual fee while others take a cut out of your commission.
Personal finance expert Sarah Pennells, from the website Savvywoman, says there are dozens of sites to pick from, so it is important to shop around to find the best one for you.
"The first thing is to look at how much cash you're going to get back on the various deals and secondly, look at how they're going to pay you," she said.
"Some pay by cheque, others by bank transfer, some ask you to set up a PayPal account.
"The last thing, and possibly most important thing, is don't just focus on the cashback deal. It's got to be the right deal or buy in the first place," she added. | Swagata Sen likes her home to look good. | 18207304 | [
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Mr Sarao, who traded from his parents' home in Hounslow, west London, is accused of market manipulation that caused a 1,000-point fall on the US Dow Jones index in 2010.
US prosecutors allege he made about $875,000 (£600,000) from the move.
He faces 22 charges in the US, including fraud charges, all of which he denies.
The charges include "spoofing" - the practice of buying or selling with the intent to cancel the transaction before execution.
He was arrested in April after being charged by the US Justice Department.
After spending four months in custody in the UK, he was released on bail last year.
The "flash crash" on 6 May 2010 sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunging by more than 1,000 points before recovering.
Mr Sarao, 37, is accused of using software to "spoof" markets by generating large sell orders that pushed down prices.
He then cancelled those trades and bought the contracts at the lower prices US authorities allege.
They claim he made roughly £27m in profit over five years from illegal trades.
Mr Sarao has denied doing anything wrong and previously told the Westminster court in May he was simply "being good at my job".
The hearing, at Westminster Magistrates' Court, continues on Friday. | A hearing into whether Navinder Sarao, the so-called "flash crash" day trader, can be extradited to the US has begun. | 35492251 | [
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Thanet District Council said it was considering a 2% rise in the authority's part of the council tax.
Councillor Rick Everitt, cabinet member for finance, said the council had seen a 28% reduction in government funding over the past two years.
"Further cuts to the council purse are really unwelcome," he said.
The council said figures from the Department of Communities and Local Government showed the council was likely to be left short of £580,000 for the next financial year.
Mr Everitt said: "Having already suffered a reduction of 28% in government funding over the past two years, resources are stretched to the absolute limit.
"This additional reduction of over half a million pounds has forced us into a corner."
From Monday, the council will be asking for residents' views on which services should be a priority.
The council said final figures were expected in December and would be debated at a meeting in January. | A Kent council claims it is being "forced into a corner" as proposed cuts to government grants could leave a shortfall of more than £500,000. | 20109550 | [
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Culture Secretary Maria Miller said "decriminalisation of the licence fee should be on the table" during the BBC's charter review before 2017.
The BBC said changing the law could lead to more people failing to pay.
In 2012 about 155,000 were convicted and fined for not paying the £145.50 fee.
In total 180,000 people were prosecuted for not paying their licence - which is needed to watch or record live broadcasts on any device - accounting for more than one in 10 criminal prosecutions that year.
In October 2013 Huffington Post reported that in response to a Freedom of Information Request the Ministry of Justice had revealed that 107 people were jailed between January 2011 and March 2013 for failing to pay fines related to not having a TV licence.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has now told the Daily Telegraph "serious work" would be done on the proposal to make non-payment a civil offence and that it could ease the pressure on criminal courts.
He said: "The culture secretary and I both agree that this is a really interesting idea - particularly given the pressure on our courts system.
"Our departments will be doing some serious work on the proposal."
Ms Miller said: "This is an interesting idea but timing is crucial and decriminalisation of the licence fee should be on the table during charter review, not separate to the process.''
The BBC's current Royal Charter, which expires in 2016, sets out how it should be funded, what it does and how it is managed.
A spokesman for the culture secretary added: "Maria will put decriminalisation of the licence fee on the table during charter review discussions, but to do it before makes no sense.
"She has made clear that the BBC needs to get its house in order, particularly when it comes to governance and transparency, having decriminalisation on the table during the negotiations will focus the BBC's minds."
But Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen is seeking to introduce the change through an amendment to the government's Deregulation Bill.
It would make non-payment of the licence fee a civil matter, with a fine for offenders set by the government.
He told the Daily Telegraph: "It is outrageous that so many people are brought in to the criminal justice system through this means.
"I believe that non-payment should be treated in the way that parking tickets are.
"It is absurd that the courts are being clogged up by such a minor offence."
The newspaper reported that the amendment had been backed by 101 cross-party MPs.
A BBC spokesman said: "Legislation is a matter for the government, however changing the law could lead to higher evasion.
"Just a 1% increase in evasion would lead to the loss of around £35m, the equivalent of around 10 BBC local radio stations." | Not paying the TV licence fee could become a civil offence, rather than a criminal one, under plans being considered by ministers. | 26492684 | [
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Derby City Council wanted to shut Moorways Pool from April in a bid to save about £350,000 a year.
The Labour-led authority, which needs to save £79m over the next three years, said it had found the savings by making cuts in other areas.
Campaigners who gathered more than 4,000 signatures on a petition said they were delighted at the news.
Ranjit Banwait, leader of the authority, said the council had committed to keep it open for a year.
He said the council had identified savings "in back-office areas" and a restructuring of management jobs, which had been "untouched" since 2010.
However, he stressed if the authority failed to get a "fair deal" from central government in the future, the pool would still have to close.
Campaigners had accepted the pool, which is 33m in length, was in need of repair.
There are plans for a new 50m pool to be built by 2018 to replace it.
However, closing it would have left only one other public pool in the city - the Queen's Leisure Centre, they said.
Doug Whitlam, of the Derbyshire Amateur Swimming Association, said: "One of the main things for me would have been the loss of teaching.
"Twelve hundred young people use this facility every week and that would be lost forever." | A Derby swimming pool threatened with closure is to remain open for another year, council bosses have confirmed. | 31313726 | [
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Italian artist and sculptor Maurizio Cattelan created the fully functional 18-carat gold lavatory, which he has titled America.
The, ahem, interactive exhibit has been installed in one of the Guggenheim's public bathrooms, reports the New Yorker.
The Fifth Avenue museum describes the piece as "a bold, irreverent work".
The lavatory replaced one of the Guggenheim's porcelain toilets in a one-person, unisex restroom.
Visitors who pay museum admission will be able to use it as they wish.
The Guggenheim said the piece is "ultimately reminding us of the inescapable physical realities of our shared humanity".
The exhibit is aimed at "making available to the public an extravagant luxury product seemingly intended for the 1 percent", according to the museum.
"Its participatory nature, in which viewers are invited to make use of the fixture individually and privately, allows for an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art," said the Guggenheim.
Cattelan, a Milan-based artist and a truck driver's son, hinted earlier this year that his creation had been inspired by economic inequality.
The exhibit has also drawn comparisons with Marcel Duchamp's avant-garde "Fountain", the porcelain urinal he exhibited in New York in 1917, causing a sensation in the art world.
Cattelan, 55, is known for his provocative sculptures, including La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), which depicted Pope John Paul II floored by a meteorite. | Members of the public are being invited to spend a penny in a solid gold toilet at New York City's Guggenheim Museum. | 37370109 | [
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