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But higher fuel costs meant the rise was not as strong as in October, when annual retail sales growth hit a 14-year high of 7.2%. Monthly sales in November rose 0.2%, compared to October's increase of 1.8%. The data showed annual fuel sales hit a two-year low last month as fuel prices rose at the fastest rate since 2011. Figures released earlier this week revealed that rising fuel prices had contributed to a rise in the inflation rate in November, which climbed to a two-year high of 1.2%. Paul Sirani, chief market analyst at Xtrade, said: "The retail sector has been in fine fettle since Brexit and, although [Thursday's] figures are not as strong as October's, there is plenty of reason to believe that shoppers will continue to spend well over the festive period." But he added: "The forecast for rising inflation next year is a big worry for consumers. Prices look set to soar in 2017 and households could be put under huge strain." Kate Davies, senior statistician at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which compiled the retail sales figures, said: "Retailers saw continued growth in the run up to Christmas. "Department stores and household goods stores had a particularly strong month, especially in sales of electronic goods, boosted by 'Black Friday' deals." Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said November's data indicated that fourth quarter retail sales were running 2.1% ahead of the previous three months. However, he warned that falling construction output and industrial production could prevent GDP reaching the 0.5% growth recorded in the third quarter of the year. He also noted that consumer spending is likely to come under pressure. "Evidence suggests that spending is currently being driven at least in part by historically high levels of employment and rising wages. "However, this looks set to change next year, when the combination of higher inflation and weak pay growth are likely to curb consumer spending." Army bomb officers were called to examine suspicious objects in the Waterside on Thursday. At about 10:25 GMT, police discovered what turned out to be a pipe bomb in the front garden of a home in Trafalgar Court. A second bomb was discovered at Jeffrey Avenue, also in the Waterside area of Derry. Army bomb experts were at the scene of both alerts. Area Commander for Derry, Chf Insp Tony Callaghan, said: "Two viable devices have now been recovered for forensic examination and all cordons have been lifted. "Residents who were evacuated earlier are now returning home. I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their co-operation and understanding." DUP councillor Drew Thompson said up to 20 homes had been evacuated at Trafalgar Court. Community centres were opened for those who had to leave their homes.

Retail sales volumes jumped by 5.9% in November compared with the same month last year as shoppers took advantage of Black Friday discounts. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Two pipe bombs have been found in separate security alerts in Londonderry.

Terence Lai, 54, from Seaton, Devon, met his victim through his work as a life coach, Exeter Crown Court heard. He assaulted the girl in his car on 30 July, putting his tongue in her mouth before groping and kissing her breasts, the jury heard. Sentencing him, Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC said Lai had been "infatuated". Following the assault, Lai sent her a series of e-mails over the next 24 hours in which he spoke about forgiveness and appeared to apologise for "breaking boundaries". He also tweeted: "Every 1 made mistakes? Some made serious mistakes at some point? I made a few unintentionally. How to avoid making them again ... make amends? Learn from mistake, Offer sincerely + unreserved Apology, Promise not to do the same mistake +Back to Normal?" The 54-year-old, who appeared in court under his birth name Yuen Lai, denied sexual assault but was found guilty by a jury. Judge Mercer said: "You did what you did because you were infatuated by her. It was very wrong. "In the aftermath you were asking for forgiveness. I am sure that is the proper interpretation of what you were writing." 13 January 2016 Last updated at 16:14 GMT Heavy snow like that might bring normal life in the UK to a standstill but not in Moscow. The locals are used to extreme winter weather and the city has 15,000 snow ploughs and trucks working night and day to keep the city moving. Steve Rosenberg, the BBC's Moscow correspondent, showed us some of the incredible machines keeping Moscow up and running.

A man who appeared alongside his son on the Channel 4 TV show Child Genius has been jailed for three years for groping a 12-year-old girl. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Moscow, the capital of Russia, is currently in the grip of a major snow storm.

Only a late goal from Isma Goncalves saved Hearts from defeat within the 90 minutes, but the Championship visitors won 3-1 on penalties. Even a win in the shoot-out would not have been enough for Hearts, who needed all three points to progress. "Of course things need to improve," Cathro, 31, told BBC Scotland. "It's important that today we just talk about today's game. It doesn't need to be anything that's more grand than that." Don Cowie's opener for Hearts was cancelled out by Joe Cardle's stylish finish. Declan McManus fired the Pars in front before Goncalves' scrambled equaliser. The result means Hearts finish third in Group B behind the Pars and Peterhead, who beat Cathro's side in midweek. That adds to the growing pressure on the former Rio Ave, Valencia and Newcastle coach, who was appointed as Robbie Neilson's replacement in December when the Edinburgh club were third in the Scottish Premiership. They missed out on a place in the Europa League with a fifth-placed finish last season, while a Scottish Cup defeat by city rivals Hibernian also did not endear him to supporters. Cathro has lost half of his 30 games in charge and won just eight of them. When asked if he had a message for the fans who made their feelings known as Cathro headed down the tunnel following the Dunfermline defeat, he said he will "not waste my time making comments or asking for anything". He added: "I don't say anything, I will quietly continue to do my job professionally, believing in the work that we do. "If we had the urgency and intensity that we did when we felt that we needed to push at the end for the entirety of the 90 minutes then we'd be discussing a different situation. "Earlier in the game we were playing reasonably well, we scored a good goal. Dunfermline did well and it's a good individual goal. "After that we started to be below the levels that we needed to be at. John Souttar is involved in an error for the goal but I take responsibility for that. I think John should have come off at half-time." Ross Sloan, 21, from the Newton Mearns area of East Renfrewshire, was killed on the northbound M80 near the Moodiesburn junction on Thursday evening. Police said his red Vauxhall Corsa appeared to go out of control before hitting the central barrier.

Hearts head coach Ian Cathro brushed aside questions over his future following the 2-2 draw with Dunfermline that saw his side exit the League Cup. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A motorist who died after his car smashed into a concrete barrier in North Lanarkshire has been named by police.

The 60kg calf named Bonnie was born at the park, near Stirling, following a 16-month pregnancy. Keepers said the birth marked an important step in the work to save the species from extinction. Southern white rhinos, native to the south of Africa, are currently listed as near-threatened on the IUCN red list of endangered species. The calf is the fifth to be born at the park to mother Dot and father Graham, both aged 16. Animal collection manager Sheila Walker said: "The birth was very straightforward and the calf was up on its feet and suckling in just over an hour. "Dot is a great mum and very experienced, having successfully raised four calves previously. She was even giving gentle nudges, encouraging the calf to its feet - but it managed all by itself, albeit a bit wobbly at first." Despite its endangered listing, the white rhino has fared far better than its northern counterpart, which was declared extinct in the wild in 2008. About 18,000 southern white rhinos remain in the wild. The animal's decline has been blamed on poaching in Africa. Blair Drummond said it was committed to doing its bit to help save the species from extinction. Ailsa McCormick, head keeper of the park's large mammals, said: "The calf is of big importance to the endangered species breeding programme, and I'm delighted to oversee Dot and Graham's continued part in ensuring a strong viable insurance population for southern white rhinos. "This calf is their fifth, and being grandparents at 16 years old, Dot and Graham's latest calf is a big feather in the cap for the ongoing conservation efforts made by Blair Drummond." The park said it had been receiving messages from well-wishers after people viewed the birth live via a webcam. The 31-year-old stopped Clarkson in three rounds to extend her 100% professional record to six wins. Taylor, who won gold at the 2012 Olympics in London, dominated the contest with her Texan opponent. Clarkson had no answer to Taylor's punches and, after the third round, the American's corner called a halt. Afterwards lightweight Taylor said she wanted more fights in America. "There were some nerves. I got caught with a few silly shots but overall it was good," she said. "I hope I made some fans - I loved hearing the Irish in the crowd." Taylor is expected to challenge Uruguay's WBA world lightweight champion Cecilia Comunales later this year after stopping Nina Meinke of Germany in April's Wembley eliminator. The 20-year-old, the son of former Hammers, Newcastle and England midfielder Rob Lee, had a loan spell at Luton's League Two rivals Southend United earlier this season. But he was injured just 95 minutes into a training session with the Shrimpers and returned to Upton Park. Lee has made two substitute appearances for West Ham and was on loan at Colchester United last season. Southend boss Phil Brown had wanted Lee to return to Roots Hall, but he has instead joined their fellow promotion contenders.

A southern white rhino has given birth to a female calf at Blair Drummond Safari Park. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Ireland's Katie Taylor kept her world title ambitions on track by beating Jasmine Clarkson of the United States in Brooklyn on Saturday night. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Luton Town have signed West Ham striker Elliot Lee on loan until 24 March.

The US and countries with competing claims in the area maintain that China is creating artificial islands to use as military bases. The ministry says they are for defence, but also maritime search and rescue, disaster relief and research. China claims most of the South China Sea. Last year, China increased its land reclamation activity prompting the US in May to call for an "immediate and lasting halt" to land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea. There has also been a spike in tensions between the US military and Chinese navy near the Spratlys in recent weeks. In the statement on Tuesday, China did not give a timeframe or identify which of the seven reefs undergoing land reclamation would be finished soon. "China will complete its reclamation project soon as part of its South China Sea construction in parts of the Nansha islands," the foreign ministry said using the Chinese name for the Spratlys. Once the land reclamation is complete, building would begin on facilities that can "fulfil the relevant functions", the statement said. Police were first alerted by reports of a loud bang in the Skeoge Road area at 23:45 BST on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening, officers confirmed it was a "viable explosive device" that had detonated. A police officer said it had "all the hallmarks" of a dissident republican attack. "Those who left this device showed no regard for the safety of anyone in the area," said Supt Mark McEwan. "The device was left in a waste bin, and shrapnel from it could have killed or seriously injured anyone close by." Sinn Féin assembly member Raymond McCartney said: "This was a bomb in a very open space, used by vehicles and pedestrians, and my disgust is shared by many, many people in the area." The Skeoge Road was closed between the Glengalliagh roundabout and the Buncrana Road for most of Wednesday while Army bomb experts carried out tests and the area was searched.

China will complete a series of controversial land reclamation projects in the South China Sea "soon", the foreign ministry says. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A bomb that exploded in a bin in Londonderry was an "indiscriminate attack" with the potential to kill, police have said.

Will it be a weekend of upsets? Or the establishment making their presence count? Catch up with all the latest team news, and find out how to follow the action across the BBC here. Burnley v Lincoln (12:30 GMT) Huddersfield v Manchester City (15:00 GMT) Middlesbrough v Oxford (15:00 GMT) Millwall v Leicester (15:00 GMT) Wolves v Chelsea (17:30 GMT) Fulham v Tottenham (14:00 GMT) Blackburn v Manchester United (16:15 GMT) Sutton v Arsenal (19:55 GMT) Media playback is not supported on this device It's not too late to enter this year's FA People's Cup - as long as you do it by the deadline anyway - and that is at midnight on Sunday. Entry is completely FREE, there are categories for everyone AND you can enter either as a team or an individual player. Find out all the details here. World heritage sites, ancient monuments, cultural traditions, myths and legends will be the focus of the 12 month long programme. VisitScotland said it would throw the spotlight on some of Scotland's greatest assets and its hidden gems. The line-up was unveiled by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop in Edinburgh. It includes: Ms Hyslop said the programme of nine events were being supported by £300,000 in funding. She added: "As well as our history of many well-known stories and famous, indeed some infamous, historical characters, next year will also give us an excellent opportunity to focus on Scotland's world-renowned archaeology, enticing visitors and locals alike to visit not only our known iconic landmarks with their thousands of years of history, but also our many hidden gems." More than a third of Scotland's tourists visit the country for its history, according to VisitScotland. It said ancestral tourism is worth around £101m to the Scottish economy. Malcolm Roughead, the chief executive of Scotland's tourism agency said: "Scotland is the land where great legends were made throughout history, and so it is only apt that we should have such a unique line-up of events and activities for the 2017 Year of History Heritage and Archaeology. "We know for a fact that visitors come to Scotland in their droves to experience its heritage whether that's visiting a castle, exploring a battlefield or tracing ancestral roots. "From World Heritage Sites to ancient monuments, cultural traditions to our myths, stories and legends - the year-long programme will spotlight some of our greatest assets and icons as well as our hidden gems. "We look forward to delving into Scotland's past with visitors and locals alike and coming face to face with history, heritage and archaeology across the country." In addition to the nine events unveiled on Wednesday, a much wider programme will fall under the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology banner. They include Scot:Lands, an adventurous journey across Edinburgh on New Years Day; Celtic Connections; various Burns Night celebrations; and family friendly "moments in time" installation at Edinburgh's International Science Festival in April. A £500,000 fund from the Heritage Lottery Fund will also be used to encourage people across Scotland uncover and celebrate their local history, customs and traditions. The fund's head, Lucy Casot, said: "Our ambition next year is that everyone, young and old, will have the chance to discover something new about the rich tapestry that makes Scotland, Scotland. "The door to fun, discovery and learning will be opened wide welcoming in locals and visitors alike. "Whether its enjoying one of these incredible Signature celebrations, or getting involved in one of the many community-level projects, funded through the National Lottery, 2017 is up shaping up to be an exciting celebration of our shared identity and we are delighted to be a key part of that."

The last 16 of the FA Cup - eight ties, each including a Premier League side up against lower-league opposition. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Scotland's past will be celebrated in a series of unique events to mark the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology in 2017.

Rosa King, 34, died at Hamerton Zoo Park on 29 May. "After extensive consultation with the staff at the zoo, we have decided not to put down the tiger. This decision has been fully supported by Rosa's family," park owners said. An inquest into how Ms King died has not yet taken place and an investigation is still under way. Ms King, whose family home is in Chippenham, Wiltshire, had worked at the zoo for 14 years. A joint investigation by police and Huntingdonshire District Council - which is responsible for licensing the zoo - is continuing and the zoo remains closed. Owners were unable to say when it might reopen but in a statement released on its website, the park said it had taken the decision not to put the tiger down. "We are awaiting the findings of the investigation to fully understand what happened before we take further action on this matter," they said. "If we receive regulatory or professional guidance to the contrary, we will review our position." Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning Media playback is not supported on this device The Briton, 29, triumphed 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (11-9) in three hours and 38 minutes to reach his first season-ending final in London. He will face Serbia's Novak Djokovic with the winner finishing as year-end world number one. Djokovic swept past Japanese fifth seed Kei Nishikori 6-1 6-1 in his last four encounter. The final is live on BBC Two, BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website from 18:00 GMT. It is the first time the battle for the top spot has been fought in the final match of the season. Murray's earlier victory over Canadian fourth seed Raonic extended the Scot's winning streak to a career-best 23 matches, stretching back to September. It was Murray's second lengthy encounter in four days, breaking the tournament record of three hours and 20 minutes he took to beat Japan's Nishikori in the round-robin stage on Wednesday. "I didn't expect to play a long one with someone with a serve like Milos," said Murray. "I'm tired. I've played so much tennis over the last few months. I'll give it my best effort - the best of what I have." Murray was yelling at himself and 17,000 spectators were screaming with every twist and turn before he finally prevailed in an extraordinary contest. He twice failed to serve out the match as the clock ticked past three hours in the final set, and three match points then slipped by in the tie-break. Raonic had lost his past seven matches against Murray, including the finals at Queen's Club and Wimbledon this year, but when his chance came with a match point of his own it was snuffed out by a sharp Murray volley. Finally, at the fourth time of asking, Murray converted a match point to reach his first final at the O2 Arena and remain in control of his number one hopes. "It was an amazing atmosphere," added Murray. "The longer the match went on, the louder the crowd got. This is what we play for. Matches like this and arenas like this. This is one of hardest matches I've played indoors." Raonic took the first set after Murray's second serve had kept him in it for almost an hour, only to double fault on a fourth break point at 5-5. An early break in the second had the Canadian within sight of victory, but only briefly as he followed up with an error-strewn game to hand the advantage back at 2-2. Murray was two points from defeat in the tie-break when he was pegged back to 5-5 but a gorgeous forehand volley edged him ahead again, and a serve levelled the scores. Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide. It seemed he had finally done enough with a break at 4-4 in the decider, but a pumped-up Raonic thumped away a smash to break back, and two games later he repeated the trick when Murray netted a forehand. But with his knuckles bloodied from angrily punching his racquet rings, Murray would not yield. The Wimbledon champion came through a second nerve-jangling tie-break to secure his place in Sunday's final, and a chance to make history once again.

The tiger that killed a keeper at a Cambridgeshire zoo will not be put down, the park has confirmed. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Andy Murray beat Milos Raonic in a gripping semi-final to reach Sunday's final of the ATP World Tour Finals.

Media playback is not supported on this device Their 2-0 win over Sunderland left Hull needed a point at Crystal Palace on Sunday to maintain their survival bid. But the hosts won 4-0, much to Clement's relief. "Credit to the players for showing the form they have over the last four games to pick up 10 points from a possible 12," Clement told Swans' website. "They deserve to be where they are - playing in the Premier League again.'' Clement took over in January with Swans bottom of the table with only 12 points from 19 games. He added: "I am very proud of what we have achieved in the second half of the season, especially when you put into context where we were when I arrived. "It's been a collective effort from everyone connected to the club; so congratulations to the players, backroom staff, club staff and definitely our supporters for their help in getting us over the line." The Welsh club will host West Bromwich Albion on Sunday, 21 May in the season's final round of games. "I honestly thought it would go down to the last game of the season," added Clement. "I'm not complaining it hasn't gone to the last game as I predicted. "And I'm sure the fans will feel the same way after everything they've been through this season. "Our supporters have been amazing. It's been tough for them at times, but they've stuck with us all the way and I'm delighted for them more than anyone. "I'm looking forward to enjoying the last game of the season with them at the Liberty on Sunday. It should be a fantastic atmosphere. "We will be aiming to finish the season strongly and reach 41 points. Then we can look forward and make sure we are stronger next season.'' The SMMT said the traditional annual shutdown started earlier at some vehicle plants. The seasonal pause in production allows for maintenance and upgrades. Despite the dip, Mike Hawes, SMMT's chief executive, said: "The industry remains in a strong position." Last month, the trade association said the British car industry had had its best first half of a year since 2008. More than 911,000 cars have been produced so far this year and domestic demand has grown by 8%. In July, 9,274 UK commercial vehicles were built, increasing production by 46.3% in July, signalling a continued recovery in the sector. It has seen production grow by a third this year. Demand in the domestic market for commercial vehicles was particularly strong, up 137.6% compared with July 2014. Mr Hawes said: "After a difficult year of regulatory upheaval, we're now seeing demand for British-built vans, trucks and buses bounce back, as fleet renewal patterns return to normal and the online delivery market continues to grow." Caramel, aged four months, was taken in a burglary in Harlow, Essex, on 3 June. The sick puppy belongs to Lexie Taylor, 8, who has juvenile arthritis, a condition which improved since she began walking her pet. Mother Tracy Taylor said: "The search reached 13m people on Facebook. A woman saw reports and realised she had bought Caramel. She was returned yesterday." The chocolate-coloured Chihuahua-cross has a lump on her stomach caused by a hernia and also a suspected tumour. She was scheduled to visit the vet shortly after she was stolen. Three days after the theft the family posted Caramel's story on Facebook in the hope she would be recognised and returned. In a little over a week 14,000 people had "liked" the page. A lost pets website has also posted the story, and almost 60,000 people saw that post, Mrs Taylor said. Messages of support came in from as far away as India and Canada. The family had been particularly keen to have Caramel back because of the puppy's positive effect on their daughter's health. "Ever since Caramel was born she and Lexie have been inseparable. It has really helped with Lexie's mobility because she has been walking Caramel so much," Mrs Taylor said. Late on Monday afternoon Mrs Taylor's husband Richard received a call from a woman who said she had bought a Chihuahua puppy, and having seen the publicity, thought it might be the family's pet. The dog is now safely back home. "We are just the happiest family in the world right now," Mrs Taylor said.

Manager Paul Clement says Swansea City's players "deserve" to stay in the Premier League next season after winning their battle to survive. [NEXT_CONCEPT] UK car production fell 11.2% in July compared with last year because of a change in holiday patterns, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A stolen Chihuahua puppy has been returned to its owners after the search for her went viral on Facebook.

The Gold Coast park said it hoped the reopening would begin the "healing process" and that all entry proceeds would go to the Australian Red Cross. A sister and brother, and the brother's partner, were among the dead. The four died when their raft on the Thunder River Rapids ride collided with another raft and flipped over. Dreamworld: Who were the victims? In a statement released on Wednesday afternoon, the park said it would host a "Memorial Day" on Friday, with doors opening at 11:00 (01:00 GMT). It said: "We hope this will be considered the start of the healing process for all concerned. "From the Memorial Day, activities will be limited to smaller rides, animal attractions, and the water park." All entry proceeds will go to the Red Cross, which has been helping the affected families. The owner of the park, Ardent Leisure Group, also revealed that the ride in question had completed its annual safety inspection, carried out by a "specialist external engineering firm", on 29 September. The victims have been named as Kate Goodchild, 32, her brother Luke Dorsett, 35, Mr Dorsett's partner, Roozbeh Araghi, 38, and Cindy Low, a 42-year-old New Zealand citizen who lived in Sydney. A 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, who media say were related to the victims, were also on the raft. They were thrown free and survived. Queensland assistant police commissioner Brian Codd said it was "almost a miracle that anybody came out of that", adding: "If we're going to be thankful for anything, I'm thankful for that." Visitors have been laying floral tributes to the victims at the gates of the park, some 50km (30 miles) south of Brisbane. Kim Dorsett, the mother of Kate Goodchild and Luke Dorsett, told the Courier-Mail newspaper: "I have three children and have lost two of them today - my whole family has been wiped out." Ms Low was visiting the theme park with her two children and her husband, local media said. She decided to separate from her daughter and husband and ride in another raft with her son and four strangers. The Thunder River Rapids ride opened in 1986. Dreamworld says it allows visitors to "travel down a foamy water track" in circular rafts. The Australian Workers Union said it had raised "grave concerns" about safety on rides at the park more than a year ago, though not about the river rapids ride specifically. Forensic police are reviewing CCTV footage and investigating the scene. They will submit a report to the state coroner alongside workplace safety authorities and the coroner will decide if any charges should be filed. Gergana Prodanova, 38, went missing last year from the home she shared with her ex-partner, Kostadin Kostov. Kostov, 42, appeared at Exeter Crown Court accused of murdering her. He denies killing the mother of their three children, whose body was found nearly two weeks after she disappeared. More on the suitcase murder trial and other Devon news Simon Laws, QC, prosecuting, said the couple had been in a relationship for 15 years prior to Ms Prodanova moving to Exeter, Devon, in December 2015. "It was a complex and very troubling relationship," said Mr Laws. "He had used physical violence against her on a number of occasions. "He was a jealous and controlling man. He would lose his temper, especially when he had had a drink, and he would hit her." The jury heard Ms Prodanova moved to England on her own, leaving Kostov and her children at home in Bulgaria and soon formed a relationship with another man. Mr Laws said Kostov flew to the UK on April 21 2016 and moved in with Ms Prodanova in a small flat on Mount Pleasant Road in the city. He said the prosecution case was that she was killed there on the evening of August 4 by Kostov because he was jealous of her new relationship. The court heard Ms Prodanova's colleagues at the Great Western Hotel were surprised at her disappearance. "Then messages were sent by text and Facebook that looked as if they came from her," Mr Laws says. "Those messages were intended to explain her sudden absence. Mr Laws said Kostov told police that Ms Prodanova was alive the last time he saw her, that she had received a phone call from her sister to say that her mother was dead and had left the flat. The trial continues.

The Dreamworld theme park, in the Australian state of Queensland, is to reopen on Friday, three days after an accident on a ride killed four people. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A mother was killed by her "controlling and jealous" former partner who stuffed her body into a suitcase before dumping it near train tracks, a court has heard.

Stephen Power, from Cardiff, is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have 3D printing used at every stage of the procedure. Doctors at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, had to break his cheekbones again before rebuilding his face. Mr Power said the operation had been "life-changing". The UK has become one of the world's pioneers in using 3D technology in surgery, with advances also being made by teams in London and Newcastle. While printed implants have previously been used to help correct congenital conditions, this operation used custom-printed models, guides, plates and implants to repair impact injuries months after they were sustained. Despite wearing a crash helmet Mr Power, 29, suffered multiple trauma injuries in the accident in 2012, which left him in hospital for four months. "I broke both cheekbones, top jaw, my nose and fractured my skull," he said. "I can't remember the accident - I remember five minutes before and then waking up in the hospital a few months later." In order to try to restore the symmetry of his face, the surgical team used CT scans to create and print a symmetrical 3D model of Mr Power's skull, followed by cutting guides and plates printed to match. Maxillofacial surgeon Adrian Sugar says the 3D printing took away the guesswork that can be problematic in reconstructive work. "I think it's incomparable - the results are in a different league from anything we've done before," he said. "What this does is it allows us to be much more precise. Everybody now is starting to think in this way - guesswork is not good enough." The procedure took eight hours to complete, with the team first having to refracture the cheekbones with the cutting guides before remodelling the face. A medical-grade titanium implant, printed in Belgium, was then used to hold the bones in their new shape. Looking at the results of the surgery, Mr Power says he feels transformed - with his face now much closer in shape to how it was before the accident. "It is totally life-changing," he said. "I could see the difference straightaway the day I woke up from the surgery." Having used a hat and glasses to mask his injuries before the operation, Mr Power has said he already feels more confident. "I'm hoping I won't have to disguise myself - I won't have to hide away," he said. "I'll be able to do day-to-day things, go and see people, walk in the street, even go to any public areas." The project was the work of the Centre for Applied Reconstructive Technologies in Surgery (Cartis), which is a collaboration between the team in Swansea and scientists at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Design engineer Sean Peel has said the latest advance should encourage greater use of 3D printing in the NHS. "It tends to be used for individual really complicated cases as it stands, in quite a convoluted, long-winded design process," he said. "The next victory will be to get this process and technique used more widely as the costs fall and as the design tools improve." Mr Power's operation is currently being featured in an exhibition at the Science Museum in London, called 3D Printing: The Future. One of the biggest groups to feel the heat were the thousands arriving at Glastonbury Festival. Elsewhere, people took to pools, parks, fountains and rivers to cool off.

A survivor of a serious motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts. [NEXT_CONCEPT] As the UK basks in the hottest June day in 41 years, people up and down the country have found ways to keep cool.

Complaints against the UK's largest mobile operator related to topics ranging from line faults, service and provision issues to bill problems. Virgin Media had the lowest number of complaints, followed by Sky. PlusNet, TalkTalk, BT and Post Office HomePhone generated an above average number of complaints, according to Ofcom. The report, which covers April to December 2014, shows the volumes of consumer complaints about the UK's biggest providers of telecoms and pay-TV services. EE generated 0.42 broadband complaints for every 1,000 customers, the report found. Issues cited included faults, service and provision problems as well as how it handled complaints and swapping providers. EE was also named as the most complained-about provider of pay-monthly mobile services for the first three quarters, although in the last quarter of 2014 it was overtaken by Vodafone. Tesco was the least complained-about mobile firm. EE is the UK's biggest mobile phone operator and is due to be acquired by BT as soon as the £12.5bn deal receives regulatory approval. In response to the survey, the EE said: "We have a comprehensive programme in place to improve service and reduce complaints - and this is borne out by the Ofcom data from last year. "We know there is more work to do. Through our ongoing, significant investment we want to continue improving, allowing us to deliver the best customer service in the industry." The highest number of complaints about pay-TV services came from BT TV customers, whose average of 0.15 per 1,000 subscribers was five times the industry average, according to Ofcom. Sky had the lowest volume of pay TV complaints - 0.01 for every 1,000 customers. Claudio Pollack, Ofcom's director of content and consumer group, said: "Complaints figures help inform consumers' choices of telecoms and pay-TV services. "There are now more providers included in our report, so people can compare complaints figures for all the biggest companies." "While operators still have room to improve their performance, it's encouraging to see a continuing decline in the total volume of complaints." Ewan Taylor-Gibson, telecoms expert at uSwitch.com, said of the report: "Naming and shaming will encourage telecoms providers to strive to deliver a better service, but it's clear from this report that industry-wide changes could also make a big difference. "Problems with changing provider is mentioned several times as a customer complaint, which shows it's about time telecoms fell in line with other sectors, where the provider you're moving to handles the switch, rather than the provider you're leaving," he added. They say the bulk carriers' heavy chains are destroying crab pots worth thousands of pounds and parts of the sea bed in Mounts Bay. It is legal for the vessels to anchor free of charge in the bay, which is sheltered from the weather. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said there were "ongoing efforts" to address the problem. Cargo ships from as far away as Hong Kong and Liberia have anchored off the coast in between jobs. The rest periods can be more frequent if global trade is down. Jeremy Rowe, a Mounts Bay fisherman, said it "hurts that pristine fishing grounds are being wrecked". He said: "It does put a massive question mark over inshore fishing - a historic way of fishing - in this part of the world." Paul Trebilcock from the Cornish Fish Producers Organisation said there was "genuine conflict" and it was a "serious concern" for some inshore fishermen. In a joint statement, the MCA and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), said they "both recognise that there is an ongoing situation in relation to use of this space, and are both keen to participate in ongoing efforts to identify any further steps that can be taken".

EE is the most complained-about phone and broadband provider, according to regulator Ofcom. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Fishermen say they are "devastated" cargo ships anchoring off Cornwall are wrecking their grounds and equipment.

Only two days beforehand, Mr Costa, who was elected last September in an unprecedented open primary, said the PS would ignore recommendations made by the International Monetary Fund in reviewing Portugal's post-bailout progress. His comments prompted fears outside Portugal that the PS was edging towards the radicalism of Greece's ruling Syriza party - potentially endangering Portugal's eurozone status. The Portuguese have faced years of cuts in wages and pensions. The impact of recession has been immense, and does not show in headline economic statistics. In Portugal, the great majority of those registered as unemployed receive no jobless benefits at all, and hundreds of thousands - many of them young and well qualified - have gone abroad to seek work since the crisis broke. The Socialists' programme was approved on Thursday after several hours of heated debate and key elements remain to be decided. Mr Costa cited several pledges with major spending implications, including an increase in the school leaving age and 100 new health centres with GPs. But he also said the party would respect Portugal's international obligations. The draft manifesto made no mention of an earlier, controversial recommendation by a group of economists for a cut in social security contributions to encourage hiring. Some fear it could sap the system's finances and Mr Costa has insisted it will be in the final manifesto, to be put to a national convention on 6 June. Debate is also still raging on a uniform employment contract. Its aim is to stop short-term contracts gaining ground over permanent ones, but it could also end up eroding workers' rights. Portugal's conservative President Anibal Cavaco Silva has tried to push the Socialists and the ruling coalition to agree to co-operate to ensure the sustainability of public finances. But Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said last week such a consensus was unimaginable. The Socialists have led in the polls for most of the time since Mr Costa took on the leadership of the party, but the gap has now narrowed. And there is a new party that has genuine links with Greece's Syriza party, as well as Spain's anti-austerity party Podemos, which is presenting a major challenge to the mainstream parties. Rui Tavares, the leader of Livre, is pushing for Portugal's debt to be restructured. Livre is unlikely to win more than a seat or two, but with the election on a knife-edge, it could have some clout. So far there is little sign of investors being spooked by the possibility of a Socialist government. And while austerity continues to bite and unemployment is still rising, the finances are looking better. Portugal this week, for the first time in its history, sold debt at a negative yield - auctioning €300m euros (£210m) of six-month bills at minus 0.002%. 15 December 2016 Last updated at 08:30 GMT The Forever Hounds Trust was set up 20 years ago and wanted to celebrate its anniversary by inviting dogs and their owners to the service at St Michael's Without church in Broad Street. The choir's performance included a canine version of the song "The 12 (Dog) Days of Christmas".

Portugal's opposition leader Antonio Costa has ended months of near silence on his party's policies, with proposals that seek to present his Socialist party (PS) as an alternative to the austerity of the right-of-centre governing coalition, ahead of this autumn's general election. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A Christmas carol concert especially for dogs has been held in Bath.

The 24-year-old, who was born in the Netherlands, represented Morocco at the London 2012 Olympics. "Soufian's a player we see talent in. We can see his desire," said Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson. "We spoke to some people in Holland who knew him and played against him, and all the reports were good." El Hassnaoui was with De Graafschap for five years before making the switch to Sparta last year. "The first conversation we had we told him he's coming in here to develop, but also to help us develop the young boys," added Neilson. "He was brought up in the Dutch system so he's got a very good tactical knowledge of the game and he understands the game. He can definitely help our younger players to progress as well. "He can play up front on his own, he can play with a partner or he can play behind the striker. He's very versatile and he's got a lot of talent. He's a good age as well." Hearts, who will play in the Scottish Championship next term after suffering relegation, have signed striker James Keatings from Hamilton and former Dundee United midfielder Morgaro Gomis this summer. The Tynecastle club have also tied up teenage winger Sam Nicholson on a new three-year deal after his contract expired. The refurbished Clinique Pinel will help people aged 65 and over with problems such as depression, anxiety, psychosis and dementia. There are two wards with a total of 28 acute assessment and treatment beds. Health Minister, Deputy Anne Pryke, described it as an "outstanding environment for residents". Beech Ward is suited to those living with mental health illnesses such as dementia and experiencing difficulties living in the community. Cedar Ward specialises in assessment and treatment for other mental health issues which come on suddenly, such as depression, anxiety or psychosis. Deputy Pryke said the new services would be provided in partnership with third-sector organisations including Jersey Alzheimer's Association and MIND Jersey. Castrogiovanni, 33, is alleged to have made unacceptable comments to the media about Leicester and the club's director of rugby Richard Cockerill. Former England full-back Armitage, 30, is alleged to have used offensive words in front of fans. The cases will be heard by an independent Disciplinary Committee. Former Leicester prop Castrogiovanni has been left out of the return fixture in France on Saturday but Armitage has been named on the wing. Media playback is not supported on this device European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) said in a statement: "The misconduct complaint against Martin Castrogiovanni is that after the match he made a number of comments to the media in which he attacked, disparaged, criticised, damaged and/or brought into disrepute Leicester Tigers, the club's Director of Rugby, Richard Cockerill, EPCR, the European Rugby Champions Cup and the sport of rugby union." It added: "The misconduct complaint against Delon Armitage is that during and after the match he is alleged to have conducted himself in an unsportsmanlike manner by making a number of comments to, or within earshot of, spectators using foul and abusive language."

Hearts have agreed to sign Sparta Rotterdam striker Soufian El Hassnaoui on a three-year contract, subject to international clearance. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A mental health clinic for older people has opened at St Saviour's hospital in Jersey, after a £3m redevelopment. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Toulon pair Martin Castrogiovanni and Delon Armitage will face misconduct charges after incidents at the European Rugby Champions Cup match at Leicester.

The 60-year-old died suddenly on 17 April, collapsing while walking his dog on the Isle of Man. Mr Lambden represented the island at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and had a personal best at the London Marathon of two hours 43 minutes. He has been descried as a "true ambassador for Manx athletics". A spokesman for the Manx Harriers Athletics Club said he was "not only a fabulous athlete but... a giant of Manx athletics". His sister Margaid Gosschalk is planning to stand with a Manx flag at the five-mile point, where he would have been standing to cheer his fellow athletes on. She said: "As he won't be there, we have ordered a Manx flag and I will be there. It's the least we can do in Murray's memory. "He was proud to represent both the Isle of Man and GB and the incredible tributes I have been reading on so many sites from athletes and friends shows just how much people appreciated all he did to support and encourage others." The married father of two's achievements included winning the 85-mile Parish Walk. In recent years he was an ever-present at sporting events with his camera and administered the Parish Walk website. Pond Park Primary School got the call just after 09:00 BST saying a device had been left there. Police initially asked for the children to be kept in the school while they carried out a search of the grounds. They then evacuated the school and have begun to search inside the building. So far nothing has been found. The 611 children have been moved to the nearby Laurelhill Community College.

More than 100 Manx runners will wear a red bow while competing in the London Marathon, in memory of Murray Lambden who died last week. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Around 600 children have been moved out of a Lisburn primary school after a bomb warning call this morning.

More than 1,500 check-in staff, baggage handlers and cargo crew employed by Swissport are involved in the strike action across 18 UK airports. Those striking are members of Unite the union which said it had six members at Cardiff Airport. The strike, on 23 and 24 December, is part a long-running pay dispute. The venue beat five other buildings to win the honour - the Royal Institute of British Architects' highest accolade. Riba president Stephen Hodder called the Everyman an "exceptional new building". "It is a ground-breaking example of how to build a daring bold and highly sustainable large public building in a historic city centre," he said. The Everyman Theatre - famed for launching the careers of actors including Bill Nighy, Julie Walters and Pete Postlethwaite - first opened in 1964 in the shell of a 19th Century chapel on one of Liverpool's main streets. However over the years it fell into a state of disrepair and architects Haworth Tompkins were tasked with designing a new theatre as part of a nine-year £27m rebuilding project, retaining its theme of being a "theatre for the people". The building's facade features 105 punched aluminium panels portraying life-size images of Liverpool residents. Thousands queued to have their pictures taken, with the successful applicants having digital versions of their pictures etched onto the metal sun shades. "The success of this exceptional new building lies in the architect's close involvement with the local community throughout the project," Mr Hodder said. "Haworth Tompkins have struck the perfect balance between continuity and change to win the hearts and minds of the people of Liverpool with the vibrant new Everyman." The theatre said it was "thrilled" to win the award. "The Everyman was built with humanity at its heart," artistic director Gemma Bodinetz said. "Since we reopened, the warmth of feeling from the public to their much-loved Everyman - given a daring and brilliant rebirth - has been almost overwhelming. "Haworth Tompkins have delivered us a building that is sustainable, technically first rate and with unparalleled levels of accessibility for a theatre." Steve Tompkins of Haworth Tompkins said: "Winning the Riba Stirling Prize is an enormous honour for our project team and our clients, the reward for an intensive collaboration over almost a decade, during which we have grown to love the Everyman and the great city that it serves. "It is also an important endorsement of our studio's ethos and an encouragement to carry on working the way we do, despite the pressures all of us are under to speed up and dumb down. We couldn't be more delighted." The other shortlisted buildings included London's Shard and the Library of Birmingham - which topped the BBC News website readers' poll with 30% of about 90,000 votes. Manchester School of Art, the London Aquatics Centre and the LSE Student Centre were also nominated. Last year's winner was Astley Castle in Warwickshire, a modern holiday home inserted into the walls of an ancient castle. Several other awards were also announced on Thursday with Stormy Castle on Gower Peninsula in Wales winning the 2014 RIBA Manser Medal for the best new private home. House No 7 on Isle of Tiree in Scotland, won the Stephen Lawrence Prize for the best project with a construction budget of less than £1m.

Cardiff Airport has said a 48-hour strike by Swissport workers just before Christmas will not impact on its operations. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Liverpool's newly rebuilt Everyman Theatre has won the Riba Stirling Prize for best new building of the year.

The Ducati rider, who won last week's Italy Grand Prix, was ahead of Repsol's Spanish pair Marc Marquez, in second, and Dani Pedrosa in third. Britain's Cal Crutchlow was 11th. The victory moves second-placed Dovizioso within seven points of Yamaha's Vinales, who finished 10th. Reigning champion Marquez, who crashed four times in qualifying on Saturday as most of the field struggled with grip on a slippery circuit, celebrated his podium finish by falling on the rostrum. "It was a strange weekend for everybody to manage the track, the grip, the temperature, it was very difficult," said Dovizioso. "It was a strange race, we couldn't push any lap because the rear tyre drops a lot, but I had the speed so I was able to manage and stay on the front without pushing." Marquez's younger brother Alex won the Moto2 race, while another Spaniard Joan Mir took the honours in Moto3. 1. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 44:41.518 mins 2. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 44:45.062 3. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda 44:48.292 4. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Ducati 44:51.126 5. Johann Zarco (Fra) Yamaha 44:55.356 6. Jonas Folger (Ger) Yamaha 44:55.439 7. Alvaro Bautista (Spa) Ducati 44:58.281 8. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 45:02.339 9. Hector Barbera (Spa) Ducati 45:05.470 10. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Yamaha 45:05.707 1. Maverick Vinales (Spa) Yamaha 111 2. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita) Ducati 104 3. Marc Marquez (Spa) Honda 88 4. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda 84 5. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 83 6. Johann Zarco (Fra) Yamaha 75 7. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa) Ducati 59 8. Jonas Folger (Ger) Yamaha 51 9. Cal Crutchlow (GB) Honda 45 10. Danilo Petrucci (Ita) Ducati 42 The Korea Swimming Federation (KSF) is suspected of forging documents and siphoning off expenses, South Korea's culture ministry said. One of the KSF's executive officers and other officials have been arrested. Subsidies to other sports federations have been cut, suggesting further investigations could be announced. South Korea's corruption turmoil Video gaming: South Korea's new national sport? The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said it had confiscated computer hard drives and documents on projects supporting the country's sports industry, the Yonhap news agency reported. There were also raids on 20 other organisations linked to the KSF. The raid came after the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism cut subsidies to the KSF over the corruption allegations. Other sports federations, including the Korea Shooting Federation and Korean Equestrian Federation, have also had subsidies cut. The KSF has not yet commented on the raids. Last year, a number of sports company bosses were charged after an investigation into misappropriation of state funds at the state-run Korea Sports Promotion Foundation (KSPO).

Italy's Andrea Dovizioso won the Catalunya Grand Prix in Barcelona to complete back-to-back MotoGP wins and close the gap on championship leader Maverick Vinales. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Prosecutors have raided the headquarters of South Korea's national swimming association over corruption allegations, officials say.

Each said it would withdraw legal complaints against the other and ask for leniency in continuing cases. A war has been raging between the South Korean companies, including a battle over claims that LG staff damaged Samsung washing machines. South Korean prosecutors refused to comment on proceedings against employees of both firms. "Both sides have agreed to avoid legal action and resolve any future conflicts or disputes through dialogue and mutual agreement," the companies said. Their accord raises the prospect of peace between the firms. But it does not officially resolve criminal cases brought by prosecutors. LG appliances chief Jo Seong-jin has been indicted by Seoul prosecutors on a charge of deliberately damaging Samsung washing machines at a retail store in Germany last September. While Samsung employees have been indicted on charges of stealing organic light-emitting diode (Oled) display panel technology from LG. Each company has said, however, that it will withdraw its complaint and ask for leniency on behalf of the other. The two firms have a longstanding and fierce rivalry. The bad feeling escalated when Samsung said that LG executives deliberately damaged its washing machines ahead of a major trade fair. LG accepted that two machines were damaged, but said it was accidental and a result of poor manufacturing. It said its employees examined the goods and that it offered to pay for four machines at one store, even though only two were damaged by them during the inspection. After Samsung asked South Korean prosecutors to get involved, LG published surveillance video footage in an attempt to prove its employees' innocence. Samsung said the video had been heavily edited in the executive's favour. The firms had previously argued over refrigerator capacity and which of the two has the bigger air-conditioning market share. The agreement extends to Samsung Electronics subsidiary Samsung Display and to LG Display Co Ltd. Samsung Display employees were indicted in February on charges of stealing organic light-emitting diode (Oled) display panel technology from LG Display. Samsung Display has said the technology was widely known in the industry and that the indictment was excessive. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' office declined to comment on the case against the LG Electronics appliances chief, and the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office declined to comment regarding its case against the Samsung Display employees. The cycle race begins in Leeds on 5 July and will travel through North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. RICS said the figures showed that £4.5m of the money had been taken from future council budgets. Work includes resurfacing, road strengthening and installing signs. The figures were obtained by RICS from councils in Yorkshire via Freedom of Information requests. They show that North Yorkshire County Council has spent £4.2m. In West Yorkshire, Kirklees Council, Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Leeds City Council have budgeted a combined total of up to £950,000. Calderdale Council has undertaken £600,000 of work, entirely brought forward from future years. The City of York Council made a £200,000 contribution to road maintenance from its Capital Contingency Fund. In Sheffield, the city council has prioritised work on the route as part of its scheduled road maintenance programme. Rob Hindle, chairman of RICS Yorkshire and Humber Regional Board, said he was concerned about the impact of Tour de France spending on future road maintenance. "While we welcome the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire and all the economic benefits it will bring, we certainly hope that by bringing forward so much work on Yorkshire's roads to before the race, the region won't be left without adequate maintenance for years to come," he said. "We don't want a feast today if it means a famine tomorrow." North Yorkshire County Council said that the work carried out on its roads "would have been needed within the next five years anyway". "We have just brought forward that work in preparation for the race," a spokeswoman said. "We haven't reduced future highway maintenance budgets as a result and money hasn't been diverted from elsewhere."

The rival manufacturers Samsung and LG have agreed to seek an end to their long-running dispute. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Roads on the route of the Tour de France have received almost £6m in improvements, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

The bras, signed by stars including Lorraine Kelly and the Bay City Rollers, will be sold at next month's Edinburgh Fashion Week. They proceeds will go to cancer charity Walk The Walk, organisers of The MoonWalk Scotland. Six bras are to be sold at a show on The Mound from 18:30 on 5 March. The fashion show is being organised by Essential Edinburgh. A selection of the bras will be unveiled in the windows of Jenners in Edinburgh from Wednesday before being showcased by models at the fashion show. They will then be auctioned live on the night by Forth One DJ Mark Martin. Tennis coach Judy Murray said: "It's lovely to be able to support such a wonderful cause - and in such an unusual way. "I've had a lot of fun designing this tennis-themed bra for auction at Edinburgh Fashion Week and hope that it will not only raise even more money for Walk the Walk and The MoonWalk, but also help increase awareness for breast cancer." Roddy Smith, chief executive of Essential Edinburgh, said: "We are really excited to be hosting a fashion show this year to raise money for Walk the Walk and are extremely grateful to the Scottish celebrities, designers and sports personalities who have given their time to get involved." Nina Barough, founder and chief executive of Walk the Walk, said: "It is a great honour that in the 20th year of Walking the Walk we are the charity partner of Edinburgh Fashion Week. "Being the organisers of The MoonWalk in Scotland, we are incredibly proud of not only what we have achieved but the support we receive from different sectors of the Scottish communities." Tickets to Edinburgh Fashion Week's fashion show cost £25. The Grade II-listed South Parade Pier in Southsea, Hampshire, was shut in 2012 when Portsmouth City Council deemed it at risk of collapse. Owners South Parade Pier Ltd said work to make the structure safe was completed at the end of last year. An amusement arcade is expected to open at the front of the pier on Good Friday, the company confirmed. South Parade Pier Ltd, which bought the structure in 2014, said it had also agreed terms to open a fish and chip shop in May and a 275-seat restaurant in August, creating 50 new jobs. The amusement arcade is expected to employ 22 new staff. It is also hoped a cafe will open in the summer, with further plans for an ice cream parlour, shop, rides, a "showbar", zip wire and chartered boat trips. South Parade Trust, which previously raised concerns over delays in reopening the pier, welcomed the news. "Everyone in Portsmouth will be delighted to walk out over the sea again," chairman Leon Reis said. Pier owners Tommy Ware said it would bring "much-needed employment opportunities". A dangerous structure order was served on the previous owners. A council spokeswoman said this had now been lifted on the section with buildings on it, as well as 15m (49ft) beyond. The remainder is still considered unsafe. South Parade Pier opened in 1879, but was destroyed by fire in 1904 and rebuilt in 1908. In 1974 it was again wrecked by fire during the filming of the Ken Russell movie Tommy and part of the superstructure was rebuilt. Lynette and John Rodgers, from Holywood, County Down, drowned at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape last Friday. The service was held there on Thursday morning. Their families hope their bodies will be returned to Northern Ireland later this week. Mr Rodgers, who was 28, was originally from Ballygowan, County Down, and worked for a printing company in Holywood. Mrs Rodgers, 26, was a physiotherapist.

A collection of bras exclusively designed and signed by celebrity Scots and fashion brands are to be showcased and auctioned in Edinburgh. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A Victorian pier shut after being deemed a public danger is to partially reopen next week after a £5m revamp. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A wreath-laying service has been held in South Africa in memory of a couple from Northern Ireland who drowned while on honeymoon.

The NSPCC said the reasons were not clear, although greater awareness of sexual abuse, arising from historical cases, may be a cause. It said this showed the Scottish legal system must become more sensitive. It has called for a "bold approach" to reform the way child sex abuse cases are handled. The figures were published as the NSPCC prepared to launch its third "How Safe are our Children?" report measuring the extent and nature of child abuse across the UK. Scottish government figures showed that in 2013-14 there were 3,742 sexual offences against children including rape, sexual assault and grooming - a 10-year high. The charity said that in the following year, 2014-15, the number of contacts to its helpline from adults in Scotland worried a child was being sexually abused rose by 19% from 341 to 407. Almost half (203) were considered so serious they were immediately referred to the police or children's services. The NSPCC said it was not clear why the number of offences had risen. But it said more victims may have the courage to come forward following the reporting of historical cases and the police may also have improved their recording methods. The charity praised the Scottish government for establishing an inquiry into historical abuse in children's institutions. But Matt Forde, NSPCC Scotland's head of national services, said as more children spoke out, the Scottish legal system needed to develop a more sensitive and effective response to ensuring justice was served. He said: "The nation has been horrified by the revelations of decades of horrendous child abuse. But while the Scottish government's inquiry is historical, child abuse is not. "For too many children, our court system adds further trauma to their earlier experiences of abuse. We need a bold approach to reform our legal system." A Scottish Courts Service report "Evidence and Procedure", published in March, agreed changes were necessary. It said: "In recent decades the number of child and vulnerable witnesses being called to give evidence has increased dramatically. "They have, however, been introduced into a system that was ill-equipped to accommodate them, with the result that there have been a series of adjustments to the law and practice that, at best, only partially address their needs." The NSPCC said a Scandinavian system, called Barnehus, had helped free children from further suffering, allowing the therapeutic support they needed to begin more quickly. In specialist centres, designed to be non-threatening and reassuring for victims, a team, including a criminal investigator and prosecutor, a health expert, a senior social worker, a judicial counsellor and forensic expert worked together to support the child. The aim was to help victims through possible trauma and to make sense of official procedures to reduce long-term problems. About 3,000 holidaymakers were inside the leisure complex on Douglas promenade when fire swept through the building on 2 August 1973. The disaster led to changes in fire regulations in the Isle of Man, the UK and around the world. Mayor of Douglas Sara Hackman will lay a wreath during the service at the Summerland memorial at 10:00 BST. A permanent memorial inscribed with the names of all the victims was unveiled in 2013 on the 40th anniversary of the fire. A one-minute silence will also be observed during a separate ceremony at 19:30 opposite the Summerland site. Organiser Tina Brennen said: "The perception is that we have forgotten or don't care and I know that is not the case. "There are thousands of people on this island who remember vividly the fire but the perception is that we have forgotten it because there has been no annual commemorations. "There are headlines in the UK press about 'an island's forgotten tragedy', an 'island's forgotten shame', and it is none of those things, and I feel that very strongly."

The NSPCC in Scotland has revealed a 19% rise in the number of calls to its helplines from adults worried about children being abused. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A short service will be held in Douglas later to remember the 50 people who died in the Summerland fire disaster.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 13 May 2015 Last updated at 19:25 BST They used a microscope to watch neurons firing inside a fly's brain, while it walked on a spherical treadmill. A patch of concentrated activity shifted around a donut-shaped ring of cells, according to the direction the fly was headed. Similar activity takes place in the brains of mammals, where a scattered set of cells report which direction the animal is facing - but this has never been seen in flies before. The work was done by neuroscientists at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and published in the journal Nature. The 40-year-old Englishman has been suffering from arthritic problems in his right foot and missed his last two cuts on the PGA Tour. "I am obviously disappointed to be in this situation, especially during a Ryder Cup year," Poulter said. "Right now, rest and rehab take priority." Poulter has competed for Europe at the past five Ryder Cups, taking 14 points from 18 matches. He is ranked 85th in the world and his last tournament win was the HSBC Champions in 2012. Because of his low ranking, Poulter probably would have had to rely on Europe captain Darren Clarke selecting him as one three wildcard picks. We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter ahead of the Euros and Olympics, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.

US researchers have glimpsed the activity of a "compass" inside the brain of fruit flies. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Ian Poulter's hopes of playing in September's Ryder Cup are in doubt after he said he would be out of action for four months with a foot injury.

The 29-year-old was fatally shot by a police marksman in north London and his death sparked riots in Tottenham that spread nationwide in August 2011. Hugh Southey QC said the coroner had given the jury an "unlawful direction" which made the original verdict unsafe. The Court of Appeal judges have reserved judgement in the case and will announce the ruling at a future date. Addressing the three Court of Appeal judges earlier, Mr Southey QC said: "No verdict is better than one based on an unlawful direction." He said it was important to the family that the previous unlawful killing verdict be overturned and for it to be recorded as unsafe. An inquest jury previously concluded by a majority of eight to two that Mr Duggan had lawfully been killed by armed police. His aunt, Carole Duggan, has always maintained the death was an execution. No gun was ever found on Mr Duggan but a weapon was discovered about 20ft (6m) away from where he died. No date has yet been set for the Court of Appeal ruling. Photos of the banner - which displayed the word "murderers" and the date of the tragedy - were put on Facebook by Jay Cornforth and Ainsley Meanock. It was hung over a bridge in Salford so Liverpool fans travelling to Old Trafford on 17 March would see it. The two men were ordered to carry out 135 hours of unpaid work. Cornforth, 20, of Ashton Old Road in Manchester, and Meanock, 24, of Millbank Close in Oldham, both admitted a crime under the Communications Act 2003 of sending by public communication network a message that was "grossly offensive". Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court heard there was no evidence Cornforth or father-of-one Meanock had made or displayed the banner, which was attached to the bridge above the M602 ahead of the first leg of last season's Europa League clash. Cornforth appeared in court on Friday while Meanock, who has 12 previous convictions including for theft, burglary and GBH, was sentenced last week. District Judge John Temperley told Meanock: "If there was evidence that you had put up this banner yourself, then I would undoubtedly be sentencing you to custody." Meanock's solicitor Charlotte Johnson said: "He fully admits that what he did was a completely stupid act. He is embarrassed and full of remorse." The men were both ordered to pay £300 costs and a £60 victim surcharge.

Mark Duggan's family has urged judges to overturn an "unsafe" lawful killing inquest verdict delivered in 2014. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Two Manchester United fans have been given community service orders over an "obscene" Hillsborough banner unfurled ahead of a game with Liverpool.

Out of 7,500 respondents, 60% said they would be negatively hit by the proposals, which include closing Huddersfield's A&E department. The 40,000 comments received included concerns about the increased distance for travel and hospital waiting times. A decision on the plan, which could save the NHS £31m, is due in October. Demonstrations against the closure have been staged and a petition has been signed by more than 63,000 supporters. Under the proposals, all emergency acute and high-risk planned care would be brought together at Calderdale Royal Hospital in neighbouring Halifax. A new site in Acre Mills, Huddersfield, would be developed as a hospital for planned care, but with no A&E. People in Huddersfield would have to be taken to Halifax, Wakefield or Barnsley for emergency treatment, or across the Peak District to Oldham or east Manchester. The 14-week consultation was organised by the NHS Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Groups. In Huddersfield, 80% of people feared they would be negatively affected, with 33% feeling the same in Calderdale. The Somme was one of the bloodiest battles of World War One with more than one million casualties over 141 days. Among the events will be two memorial ceremonies in County Dublin, while sets of commemorative stamps will be issued. Thousands of soldiers from the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division fought in the battle. Next year is arguably the biggest year in the decade of centenaries, lasting from 2012 until 2022, in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. As well as the Battle of the Somme, the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising is also set to be marked. The Easter Rising was a republican rebellion which lasted from Monday 24 April (Easter Monday) to 30 April 1916. The aim was to end British rule in Ireland. Despite its military failure, the Easter Rising is viewed by many as being a significant stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Republic of Ireland. The Irish events to mark the Battle of the Somme will include: Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, said 2016 was a "very important year for Ireland" as it marked events that "shaped the history of our island over the last 100 years". "We remember the huge losses experienced by the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division and the indescribable impact that this had on the island of Ireland - a loss that has transcended generations," he said. Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said the Republic of Ireland would "join with our neighbours in Northern Ireland and across Europe in remembering the huge losses of lives" in the battle. He added: "[The] commemorative events will help build an understanding of the events of 1916 in all their complexity and diversity, and explore how they have resonated through the years since."

A public consultation into plans for a controversial shake-up of hospital services in Huddersfield and Halifax has revealed its results. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Plans to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, with a series of events next year, have been announced by the Irish government.

The measure, officially known as House Bill 1523, will allow employees to refuse to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. The bill is scheduled to become law on 1 July. The writers said in a letter that the bill has prompted hateful rhetoric that "poisons our political discourse". Grisham formerly worked as a lawyer in a Mississippi practice and was also elected to the House of Representatives during the 80s before becoming a writer. Mississippi is one of about 10 states considering the measure after a US Supreme Court ruling last summer which effectively legalised same-sex marriage nationwide. The measure protects "persons, religious organisations and private associations" from discrimination claims if they refuse to serve anyone based on the belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. Republican governor Phil Bryant signed the bill last week despite objections from big businesses such as Nissan. "It is our policy to prohibit discrimination of any type, and we oppose any legislation that would allow discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals," a statement from the company read. But the Family Research Council, a Christian-based lobbying group, applauded the governor's decision to sign the bill. Tony Perkins, the president of the group, praised the governor for "standing up for the fundamental freedoms of the people they represent". "No person should be punished by the government with crippling fines, or face disqualification for simply believing what President Obama believed just a few years ago, that marriage is the union of a man and a woman," Perkins said. The authors say the legislation is an example of Mississippi's reactionary side. They argue the state also has a humane side that treasures compassion. "It is deeply disturbing to so many of us to see the rhetoric of hate, thinly veiled, once more poison our political discourse," the letter signed by the authors said. The statement was written and organised by Katy Simpson Smith, a novelist who was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. "Governor Phil Bryant and the Mississippi legislators who voted for this bill are not the sole voices of our state. "There have always been people here battling injustice. That's the version of Mississippi we believe in, and that's the Mississippi we won't stop fighting for." National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward also signed the statement calling for the repeal of House Bill 1523. The authors are not the first high-profile figures to raise concerns about the law. On Monday, Bryan Adams cancelled a scheduled concert in Mississippi, and earlier this month Bruce Springsteen pulled out of North Carolina show - both in protest at the law. The company launched its first local service, STV Glasgow, in June, and an Edinburgh channel is to go live in January. Each station is run in partnership with local universities and colleges. The broadcaster says the stations would deliver "local news and current affairs content" while helping media students train in a live TV environment. The Aberdeen application has been submitted in partnership with Robert Gordon University and North East Scotland College, the Dundee bid with Abertay University and Dundee and Angus College, and the Ayr proposal with the University of the West of Scotland. Bobby Hain, director of channels at STV, said: "We have demonstrated our ability to engage with local communities and deliver relevant, local content across STV's multi-platforms, including the current STV Glasgow licence and our apps serving Scotland's largest cities. "STV believes that, working closely with our education partners, we can successfully deliver compelling services in these three additional areas across the 12-year licence." STV Glasgow is run in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University, and reaches a monthly audience of more than 500,000 people.

John Grisham and Donna Tartt are among 95 authors urging state officials in Mississippi to repeal a controversial new religious liberty law. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Broadcaster STV has applied to industry regulator Ofcom to run local TV services in Aberdeen, Dundee and Ayr.

Launched in 1984, the hunter-killer class sub returned to its Devonport base in Plymouth for the last time on 1 June, after 30 years in service. A decommissioning ceremony was held at Devonport earlier. One of the submarine's last duties was helping the search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in April. Commanding Officer, Cdr Hywel Griffiths said: "Although it is sad to consign her to history, Tireless has achieved much in her nearly 30 year career. Our recent involvement in the search for Malaysian Flight MH370 is testament to her valued contribution right up until the end of her distinguished service at the frontline of naval operations. "She gives way now to the modern and world-beating capability represented by the Astute Class and will be replaced by HMS Artful." In 2007 two sailors died in an explosion on board Tireless during an exercise under the Arctic ice cap. Failed air-purification equipment was thought to have caused the explosion. In 2013 she returned to Plymouth after a leak in her nuclear reactor. HMS Tireless joins 11 other former navy nuclear submarines which are waiting to be dismantled at Devonport while the government searches for a site to dispose of their radioactive reactors. Investigators said the 23-year-olds are suspected of killing 11 people in the Iraqi city of Tikrit in June 2014. They arrived in Finland in September, police said, and were arrested in the south-western town of Forssa. Chief Inspector Jari Raty said that in the video the two suspects "were not masked". "The victims were lying on the ground and they were shot one by one," he told Finnish broadcaster YLE. Police said the accused men - who were not named - had been tracked down with the help of the Finnish Security Intelligence Service, but did not give details. Mr Raty would not say whether or not the men had arrived in Finland to seek asylum. The brothers are due to appear before a district court on Friday when police will ask for them to be formally placed under arrest, YLE reported. Footage of the killings was made during the IS massacre of unarmed Iraqi Air Force cadets at the Camp Speicher military base near Tikrit. The jihadists posted the propaganda videos online. It is estimated that up to 1,700 people died in one of the worst atrocities committed in Iraq in recent times. Mass graves were discovered after government forces recaptured the city in a major offensive earlier this year. Billed as a "growth vision", it aims to create at least 120,000 jobs by 2035. The document, also supported by business leaders and colleges, aims to boost the value of the local economy from £12.8bn in 2015 to £20bn by 2035. The plans are in line with those for a Northern Powerhouse in England. Those proposals, from the UK government, involve creating directly-elected mayors. The north Wales plans were backed by the region's six council leaders and chief executives over the summer. Prepared by the umbrella body the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, the report describes the area as being "well placed" to acquire powers from UK and Welsh ministers. After formal approval by council cabinets, negotiations will begin with the UK and Welsh governments for new responsibilities and extra funding, including a possible "Growth Deal" for north Wales. Boosting the energy and manufacturing sectors are at the heart of the proposals, with a planned new nuclear power station at Wylfa, on Anglesey, being central. In a report for senior councillors, Gwynedd's cabinet member for the economy Mandy Williams-Davies said: "If funding is secured to deliver the action plan of projects, the region will experience sustainable economic growth and the value of the north Wales economy from £12.8bn in 2015 to £20bn by 2035. "Such growth rate will generate at least an additional 120,000 new employment opportunities." Council leaders hope to secure a deal similar to the £1.2bn Cardiff Capital Region agreement approved in March.

The Royal Navy's oldest nuclear submarine, HMS Tireless, has been taken out of service. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Police in Finland have detained Iraqi twin brothers suspected of featuring in a video of a massacre carried out by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Devolving powers over employment, taxes, skills and transport to north Wales would boost its economy, jobs and productivity, a report backed by the region's six local councils says.

The University College London (UCL) project found the highest level of NO2 in the areas was in Marylebone in central London. Diesel vehicles are a key source of NO2, which is linked to a range of respiratory illnesses. London's deputy mayor for environment and energy said NO2 was a "problem". The results are part of the social enterprise Mapping for Change's Air Quality Monitoring project. Community groups were given kits to measure the amount of NO2 in July in areas including Marylebone, Soho, Walthamstow, Brentford, Haringey and Ham. The highest reading was on Marylebone Road, in central London, measuring 145 micrograms of NO2 per cubic meter air (µg/m3), which is nearly four times the EU legal limit of 40µg/m3. This was followed by Shaftesbury Avenue, in Soho, at 119µg/m3. Tests in suburban areas like Walthamstow and Brentford also showed nearly double the EU limit. Louise Francis, from UCL and co-founder of Mapping for Change, said the results were a snapshot of the level of pollution in the capital but the actual levels of NO2 could be higher as holiday levels were often lower than other times of the year. She said that the public could make changes to reduce their intake of NO2 by walking down side roads instead of major routes. Matthew Pencharz, deputy mayor for environment and energy, said: "NO2 remains a problem. We have now seen a 12% reduction in measured NO2 across London showing we are making real progress." He added that the introduction of taxi age limits and cleaner buses had also improved air quality, as would the introduction in 2020 of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), which will only allow zero and low-emission vehicles in central London. Public Health England suggests about 3,000 people each year are estimated to die from polluted air in the capital, making it London's second highest cause of death after smoking. The Independent Monitoring Board annual report said inmates at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes were having to spend more time locked in their cells. It also found rehabilitation opportunities were limited. Governor Rob Davis said it was a "true reflection" but the prison had "moved on since the report". The report, which covers 12 months from June 2013, describes Woodhill as a "complex, diverse establishment, very demanding to manage". Staff morale was low, while concerns about safety, control and discipline, which featured in the previous year's report, had not been dealt with satisfactorily. There were shortages of staff at all grades with a high take-up of voluntary redundancy and a recruitment freeze imposed by the National Offender Management Service. Other concerns included shortages of toiletries, toilet paper, towels and bed linen. Repairs to equipment took too long. Rehabilitation was "minimal" with "few opportunities for purposeful activity, be it education or work". Mr Davis said: "We understand the pressures as a prison service we are under but there are some good points in [the report]." Complaints over concerns such as bullying had "reduced considerably" and there were "many dedicated, hard-working staff", he said. Staff had come in from other prisons and inmates could now work for qualifications. "I'm not in charge of a poor-performing prison, I'm in charge of a very good prison, with very professional people working here," he said. "There is always room for improvement and Woodhill has got some ground to make [up] .... I am very confident we will make those changes. "I am confident I have got the team here that can drive the place forward." The IMB has submitted the report to the Justice Secretary.

Community groups recording air pollution in London found eight out of nine areas surveyed breached EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Overcrowding, staff shortages and four deaths in custody have led to a "very challenging" year at a Buckinghamshire jail, a prison watchdog has said.

The corporation, which produces Pobol y Cwm for the Welsh-language channel S4C, conducted a "detailed review" after the Welsh government complained. Ministers claimed an episode about bovine TB broke editorial guidelines and they were denied a right of reply. But BBC Cymru Wales has not upheld the complaint. During the episode - seen last week by 33,000 viewers - one of the characters accuses the Welsh government of not having the "backbone" to cull badgers and of not caring about the countryside. But in another scene, other characters gave an opposing point of view, saying farmers were to blame for the spread of TB in cattle. BBC Cymru Wales said its review had looked at the episode in question and others that have been carrying the same storyline over a number of months. "As a popular soap, Pobol y Cwm always aims to deal with sensitive and controversial issues in an accessible and balanced way," it said in a statement. "Following our review, we are satisfied that a number of different viewpoints about Bovine TB eradication were discussed both within the individual programme and throughout the series run. "We have concluded that our approach to this important issue was both balanced and impartial, complying with the BBC's editorial guidelines. "On that basis we have not upheld the complaint." A Welsh government spokesman said: "We can confirm we have received a letter from BBC Cymru Wales and will be considering their response." In addition to the complaint, the Welsh government had asked S4C to pull a repeat of the episode and remove it from the S4C online service Clic. But it was broadcast as planned by S4C, which said the programme included a variety of viewpoints. Members of the Australian Border Force (ABF) intercepted 71 tonnes of tobacco in three shipments, Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said. Two containers from Indonesia were found in Sydney while the third was seized before it could leave Indonesia. Mr Dutton said a new ABF "strike team" was being set up to target tobacco smugglers. "This tobacco would have cost Australia over A$27m (£13m) in legitimate tax revenue if it had been successfully smuggled into the country and sold here," Mr Dutton said in a statement. The two containers found in Sydney held 47 tonnes of loose leaf tobacco and had come from Indonesia. The third, with 24 tonnes, was seized by Indonesian authorities before it could be shipped out, the statement said. Mr Dutton said a high degree of organisation had been behind the shipments. And he said the seizures - made under Operation Wardite - were the result of co-operation between the ABF and Indonesian Customs. "There are clear links to organised crime and we know that groups smuggling illicit tobacco into Australia are also involved in other illegal activities such as narcotics," he said. "The ABF is determined to disrupt their activities and the new ABF strike team will focus on the organised crime syndicates behind shipments like this and collect intelligence on their operations." Earlier this week, the ABF announced it had seized almost six million smuggled cigarettes in raids in Melbourne. It says it has also recently dismantled two major organised crime groups involved in tobacco smuggling, one in New South Wales and the other in Victoria.

An episode of a TV soap opera which featured criticism of a Welsh government decision not to cull badgers was balanced, BBC Cymru Wales says. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Australia's border protection agency has made its largest ever seizure of illicit tobacco in a single operation.

Phil Shiner was struck off after being found to have acted dishonestly in bringing murder and torture claims against British war veterans. He ran the now-defunct Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) and had 12 charges of misconduct proved against him. The Insolvency Service website states Mr Shiner, 60, from Birmingham, was made bankrupt on Tuesday. Read more news for Birmingham and the Black Country The solicitor had denied or partially admitted the charges, which were found proved against him by a panel of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. He was struck off in February. A property in Birmingham, which the Insolvency Service lists as his address, was transferred to his daughters for £300,000 in January. The service said the sale of the house and any other transfer of assets would be subject to investigation to ensure his creditors recoup as much of the money owed to them as possible. An Insolvency Service spokesman said: "We would want to know what has happened to any money received for the house. The Official Receiver checks all transactions over a five-year period before bankruptcy. We would investigate that sale." In five of the charges, he was found to have acted dishonestly, including agreeing to pay "sweeteners" to a fixer, understood to be Abu Jamal, to persuade him to change his evidence to the £31m Al-Sweady Inquiry. Investigations that originated from Mr Shiner and the PIL law firm would be assessed and a decision reached over which cases should no longer be pursued, the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat) said. Ihat is due to close this summer. It is independent of the military chain of command for the purposes of its investigations, the government services website said. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid out more than £100m on legal costs and compensation linked to the war in Iraq, with a large proportion of this over allegations brought by PIL. An MoD spokesman said: "The evidence we submitted on Phil Shiner's abuse of our legal system saw him struck off and, with his conduct discredited, we announced the closure of Ihat. "We intend to recover as much as possible from defending these claims and await the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal full decision before deciding our next steps." Police raided Pronab Adhikary's house after receiving complaints from real estate developers that he had been demanding bribes for clearing building plans. His wife has denied the allegations, and said her husband was being framed. Mr Adhikary's mid-level job as an engineer in the local government-run municipality involved clearing building construction plans. By the end of the raid, they had recovered cash worth $31m (£20m) from the 15-year-old, six-room, two-storey house in the suburb of Howrah, on the outskirts of the capital, Calcutta. Corruption is rife in real estate in India, where developers and officials often connive in clearing illegal building plans in return for bribes. Also, cash - also called 'black' or illicit money - is often hoarded at home to avoid paying income tax. In November 2014, cash worth more than $15m was found in the house of an engineer in Noida in the suburbs of Delhi. An income tax raid on a bureaucrat couple's house in the central state of Madhya Pradesh in 2010 yielded cash worth $459,770. They were both dismissed from service for "amassing property through corrupt means". In 1996, bundles of currency notes worth $551,724 - money collected in bribes - were seized bags and suitcases from former federal telecommunications minister Sukh Ram's house. He was convicted and sent to prison. Additional reporting by Amitabha Bhattashali in Kolkata

A lawyer who brought false claims against Iraq War veterans has been declared bankrupt. [NEXT_CONCEPT] When anti-corruption police in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal raided a house belonging to a municipal engineer in the city of Howrah on Friday evening, little did they realise they would stumble upon the largest amount of of cash they had ever seen.

Standing more than 132m (433 ft) high, the building south of John Lewis would be home to around 450 students. Developers Watkin Jones said there was "considerable support" for the "iconic building". If approved by Cardiff council, it would be taller than Swansea's Meridian Tower, which is 107m (351ft). Plans include a shop or cafe at ground level, and a "sky lounge" available for hire. The application could be considered by Cardiff council's planning committee in spring or summer 2016 and the building completed in late summer 2018. Mohammed Ammer Ali, 31, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London on Tuesday. He was arrested on Wednesday, when officers from North West Counter Terrorism Unit and Merseyside Police searched five Merseyside addresses. Officers have uncovered no plan or threat of an imminent attack either at home or abroad, police said. The suspect is accused of attempting to have a chemical weapon in his possession between January 10 and February 12, contrary to the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 and the Chemical Weapons Act 1996.

Cardiff could take over from Swansea as the home of Wales' tallest building, as plans for a 42-storey tower in the city centre are unveiled. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A man from Liverpool has been charged with attempting to obtain a chemical weapon, police have said.

The activists, including supporters of the Occupy Central movement, are protesting against China's involvement in how Hong Kong's new chief executive will be elected in 2017. Thousands of protesters took to the streets over the weekend. Martin Lee, an activist and former legislator, is seen below wearing goggles and a face mask to protect himself against the use of pepper spray by the police. Some activists even wrapped their eye-ware in plastic wrap as an added precaution. Umbrellas were also used by protesters to shield them from pepper spray. The protective gear was supplied by volunteers who carried food and water to demonstration areas around the city. Police threw tear gas canisters into the crowd on Sunday evening in a bid to drive them back. The standoff between protesters and police brought parts of central Hong Kong to a standstill. But the tear gas and pepper spray did not deter the protesters... Police arrested dozens of people on Sunday, with more than 25 people hospitalised for injuries sustained in scuffles with police in riot gear. Thousands of protesters remained on the streets into the early hours of Monday, threatening disruption to public transport and school closures. Warrington had come from behind to lead 16-10 with three minutes to play. James Webster's side had to play more than 40 minutes of the game with a man down after James Green's dismissal. The draw, Rovers' second of the season, slightly dents their hopes of reaching the top eight of Super League and avoiding the lottery of the Qualifiers. Four points now separate the east Hull side from Widnes in the last top-eight position, or the tussle between Super League's bottom four and the Championship quartet after the split. It also does bitter rivals Hull FC a favour at the top, with the Black and Whites three points clear of Warrington with three regular season games remaining to decide who finishes top going into the Super 8s. There was no let up in the intensity of a game that showed that there is still much to play for, as the altercation between former team-mates Jordan Cox and Green produced a red card at the end of the first-half. Having led 6-0 at the break through James Donaldson's effort, Thomas Minns added a second out wide for Hull KR after smart play from Albert Kelly to stretch the lead to 10-0. Tony Smith's side showed their mettle to strike three times, Matty Russell showing strength at the corner, Brad Dwyer touching down with a sneak from dummy half and Jack Hughes bursting away on the edge. It looked enough to close out the match but Thornley's late effort ensured the spoils were shared. Hull KR head coach James Webster told BBC Radio Humberside: "I've got to commend our boys for the effort, we played 42 minutes with 12 men against a really quality side. "We had people out of position and it was a gutsy effort but if we were better finishing our sets we might have won the game. "Fighting is one you can't do, the games has changed but saying that there was something in it before in that we got the penalty." Warrington head coach Tony Smith told BBC Radio Merseyside: "We'd have liked to have closed it out. We weren't good enough from the kick-off and they come up with the ball and scored directly after. "If you don't do things well throughout that's what happens. That what happens when you're fraught with danger. We have no one to blame but ourselves. "Their spirit was great and we lacked a bit of that. We lacked discipline. When we went 16-10 I think everyone in the ground thought we had it, but the game is 80 minutes." Hull KR: Cockayne; Sio, Minns, Thornley, Wardill; Blair, Kelly; Tilse, Lunt, Allgood, Clarkson, Donaldson, Mulhern. Replacements: Lawler, Green, Walker, Larroyer. Warrington: Ratchford; Russell, R Evans, T King, Penny; Patton, Sandow; Hill, Clark, Westwood, Currie, Hughes, Westerman. Replacements: Dwyer, G King, Bailey, Cox. Referee: Mike Woodhead (RFL)

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong donned goggles, masks and raincoats to brace for a showdown with police. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Twelve-man Hull KR denied Warrington the chance to move level on points with second placed Wigan in Super League after a late try from Iain Thornley.

The seller from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, had been given the Queen Anne Vigo five guinea by his grandfather when he was a boy. The auctioneers said it was one of 20 made from 7.5lbs (3.4kg) of gold seized by the British in northern Spain on 23 October 1702. Coin specialist Gregory Tong said it was a "record-breaking" sale. The seller, who did not want to be named, said his grandfather would give him "bags of coins" collected from all over the world. He said: "As time passed these coins were forgotten about until I rediscovered them after my granddad passed away. "I looked back through the coins - remembering the stories I made up about them when I was small - and then gave them to my own son to play with and put into his own treasure box. "My little boy has been playing with this coin as I did all those years ago." Auctioneers Boningtons in Epping, Essex, said the Vigo coins were made after the British fleet failed to take Cadiz in 1702. The fleet instead managed to seize gold and silver from Franco-Spanish treasure ships coming back from America. The coins were made to detract attention from the British failure at Cadiz. They were delivered with full pageantry through London and received at the Royal Mint by the Master of the Mint Sir Isaac Newton, the auctioneers said. Mr Tong from Boningtons, said: "The coin is only the sixth example of its type to be offered for sale in the last 50 years. "It has broken Boningtons' house record of £200,000 set by the sale of a painting by Sir Winston Churchill earlier this year." In the first robbery, two men, one armed with a knife, entered the shop at about 20:55 BST on Friday and demanded cash and cigarettes. The second raid happened at about 07:30 BST on Saturday and again two men, one armed with a knife, stole cash and cigarettes. Police said they "strongly believe" the robberies are linked. Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers has said he is concerned by the number of robberies in the area. "The police and the public need to do more to try and prevent these happening," he said. "For those who are suffering, it is desperately serious. "Many of us are working extremely hard to keep businesses in the east of the city and to attract new employers and this isn't helping matters." The MP for East Belfast, the DUP's Gavin Robinson, said he was appalled by recent robberies in the area. "Business and our wider community need reassurance that such lawlessness will not be tolerated," he said. "The dark cloud of crime won't pass without intervention." The men in the Albertbridge Road robberies were described as being of slim to medium build and both were wearing gloves and baseball caps. One of the men was taller than the other, at 5ft 11ins tall. He was said to have been wearing track bottoms, Converse shoes and a blue jacket with a lighter hood. The second man was about 5ft 7ins tall and was wearing dark jogging bottoms, white trainers and a navy zip-up jacket. Police have appealed for witnesses.

A rare coin made of gold seized from a treasure ship more than three centuries ago has sold for £225,000 at auction. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A shop on the Albertbridge Road in east Belfast has been robbed twice in less than 12 hours.

Much of it was targeted against the ethnic Tharu community in Tikapur, whom they blame for violence on Monday in which seven policemen and a child died. Tharu protesters had been at a rally demanding greater rights under a new constitution when the clashes erupted. A man, 18, has died in the south after police fired at a similar protest. In that incident, officers used tear gas and fired warning shots in the air on Tuesday when ethnic Madhesi protesters had entered the town of Gaur, in the southern plains of Rautahat district, where such demonstrations had been banned, the local chief district officer, Madan Bhujel, said. Minority ethnic groups have been demonstrating across Nepal, saying the new constitution, which would divide the country into seven federal states, would discriminate against them and give them insufficient autonomy. In Tikapur town, in north-western Kailali district, protesters attacked a radio station and a guest house, regional police chief Ram Kumar Khanal told the BBC Nepali service. The angry mob also vandalised the home of a lawmaker belonging to the Tharu ethnic group, the deputy inspector general said. Police fired warning shots more than a dozen times to disperse the crowd, he added. In the capital, Kathmandu, hundreds of people attended the funeral for Laxman Neupane, the most senior policeman to lose his life on Monday in Tikapur. The ethnic Tharu protesters had encircled the officers, attacking them with spears and axes and burning one person alive, officials said. According to the Associated Press news agency, many of the protesters fled into the jungle and nearby villages in Kailali district after the clashes. Security personnel, including the army, have been deployed to Tikapur, which is about 400km (250 miles) north-west of Kathmandu, in an attempt to calm the situation. Meanwhile, Nepal's four major parties have met and said they will hold talks with dissatisfied groups to address their political demands, the BBC's Phanindra Dahal reports from Kathmandu. Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said he especially hoped to discuss the reunion of families separated by the Korean War more than 60 years ago. There has been no response yet from Pyongyang. The North has previously seen the South's unification plans as an attempt to take it over. "North and South Korea should meet face to face to draw up a plan for a peaceful unification," Mr Ryoo told a news conference. "For this purpose, we make an official proposal for the North Korean government to have a conversation about mutual concerns between North and South in January next year." The minister said he hoped North Korea "responds positively" to the suggestion. He offered to meet in Seoul, Pyongyang or any other South or North Korean city agreed with North Korean officials. The last formal high-level talks were in February, leading to rare reunions for Korean families. More talks planned in October were dropped after North Korea accused the South of not doing enough to stop activists sending anti-Northern leaflets across the border on balloons. The two Koreas have technically been at war since the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

Residents of a town in north-western Nepal have defied a curfew imposed after deadly clashes, torching homes and vandalising buildings, police say. [NEXT_CONCEPT] South Korea has offered to resume high-level talks next month with North Korea on a range of issues, to prepare for a "peaceful unification".

Quinn Business Retention Company (QBRC) has new backers in its deal to take over the packaging and construction industry supplies (CIS) parts of the business, which is now called Aventas. QBRC was backed by a private equity firm, but will now be financed by three of the institutions that control Aventas. QBRC said it expects the deal to complete in early October. It has not revealed the details of the three institutions which are now backing it. The Aventas businesses were the backbone of Sean Quinn's empire - he lost control of them in 2011 as part of his battle with Anglo Irish Bank. Aventas remains a major employer in the border counties of Fermanagh and Cavan. It is currently controlled by a consortium of financial institutions Liam McCaffrey, chief executive designate of QBRC, thanked the former backer, Endless LLP, for "recognising the potential in this business". "We look forward to working closely with our financiers, the staff and customers of the business as we seek to grow and develop them in the years ahead," he said. In a statement Aventas said: "When the agreement was signed for the acquisition of our CIS and Packaging businesses by QBRC it was originally envisaged that the transaction would complete in Q3. "The work involved is continuing apace and while it is now clear that the proposed sale will not complete within the original timeframe, we remain fully committed to the process and to a successful sale completion as soon as is practicable." The packaging and CIS businesses employ more than 600 people in in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, and Ballyconnell, County Cavan. Alternative arrangements have now been put in place for 7,600 primary and secondary school pupils. The City of Edinburgh Council said accommodation has also been found for 740 nursery children. Seventeen school buildings were closed earlier this week amid safety concerns over structural issues. Pupils at five secondaries, 10 primaries and two additional support needs schools were unable to return to school after the Easter break as a result of the closures. A series of inspections revealed construction defects at all 17 schools built under the PPP1 project. The problems, identified after a school wall collapsed, relate to missing ties used to support building walls. Some students have returned to school this week but most will not be back in the classroom until Tuesday next week. S1, S2 and S pupils at Craigmount High will go back to school on Wednesday - a day later than anticipated. The council has confirmed arrangements for five primary schools and for younger pupils at three high schools. Arrangements at Craigmount High School are slightly different; S1-S3 pupils will return to the classroom on Wednesday. The council said children will be taught in their own class groups, by their own teachers. Primary school pupils from Broomhouse, St Josephs, Forthview, Pirniehall and St David's will also be relocated to alternative venues from Tuesday. Older pupils at Craigmont High School have been using classrooms at Tynecastle High School. Craigmount head teacher Tom Rae said the integration has been going "very smoothly". "All students are now working hard to prepare for SQA exams in classes with their own teachers," he said. "This is a unique situation and ensuring it operates successfully and things go smoothly is down to incredible efforts of both staff teams. "Craigmount is hugely appreciative of the generosity of Tynecastle staff and students in allowing us to share their school." Council Leader Andrew Burns said: "I'm pleased we have now been able to put in place arrangements for all our pupils and I can assure parents and pupils that work will be taking place over the weekend and Monday to ensure the new arrangements are ready their arrival next week. "It's great to hear about how well the integration of pupils sharing schools has been going and how the people of Edinburgh have responded. "We will provide parents with further information on individual school surveys once the full reports are received and assessed."

A group of businessmen say they are a step closer to buying part of the former Sean Quinn group of companies. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Every student affected by schools closures in Edinburgh will be able to return to school next week, the city council has confirmed.

Mr Barra announced his decision to leave China on Monday. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the pair agreed that "virtual and augmented reality will be the next major computing platform". Mr Barra will replace Brendan Iribe, who stepped down as chief executive of the Oculus VR division in December. He previously worked at Google between 2010 to 2013, before helping develop Xiaomi's global strategy. Google is developing its own virtual reality experiences and has announced that Claude Zellweger will be joining the company to develop its Daydream VR products. Mr Zellweger was the vice-president of design at Taiwan's HTC, which manufactures its own Vive VR kit. Nolan, 33, has won seven of his 15 games since joining the O's in January. Orient have taken one point from their last four games but remain two points off the League Two play-off places. "We believe Kevin will be able to make a bigger impact without the distraction of managerial duties," Orient chief executive Alessandro Angelieri said. Nolan became the youngest manager in the Football League when he signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the east London club, who were relegated from League One last season. Speaking after Saturday's 3-0 defeat at Barnet, Nolan told BBC Radio London his side were "playing with a fear" and "suffering from a lack of confidence". The former Newcastle and West Ham midfielder has made 14 appearances for Orient, starting 12 times. "Everyone at the club is fighting hard to make sure we reach the play-offs this season," Angelieri said in a statement on the club website. "Whilst that aim remains within reach, we have decided that Kevin should focus entirely on his playing contribution until the end of the season. Andy will take charge of the first team in the interim." Former Dover and Gillingham boss Hessenthaler, 50, becomes the seventh different man to take charge of the side since Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti bought the O's in the summer of 2014. Earlier on Tuesday, BBC Radio Manchester reported Nolan is being considered for a management or coaching role at his former club Bolton Wanderers. Nolan spent almost 10 years playing for Bolton, who parted company with boss Neil Lennon in March and have since been relegated from the Championship. Howell, 27, is the leading wicket-taker in the T20 Blast in 2016, with 23. Gloucestershire host Durham in the quarter-finals at Bristol on Wednesday. "I love my baseball. I've learnt a few tricks of the trade from the guys there, and bring it into here. I bring it into T20 and it works perfectly," Howell told BBC Radio Bristol. "In baseball it's all about stopping the guys from getting home runs, so they've got to do that by changing their pace and with movement in the air. "I learnt a lot about throwing and also about the different balls that they throw, so I put it into the bowling action, a few knuckleballs, different sorts of change-ups." All-rounder Howell has been with Gloucestershire since 2011 and has hit 11 half centuries in 91 first-class innings.

Facebook has hired Hugo Barra to lead its development of virtual reality products, following his departure from Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Leyton Orient have removed player-manager Kevin Nolan from his managerial role, placing Andy Hessenthaler in charge of the first team. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Gloucestershire's Benny Howell says studying techniques used by pitchers in baseball has helped him improve his bowling in Twenty20 cricket.

The 57-year-old was appointed as Sam Allardyce's assistant in July and kept the role following the manager's sacking and during Gareth Southgate's subsequent time as interim boss. Southgate was given a four-year deal by the Football Association last Wednesday and decided against keeping Lee. "I felt it was important for me to bring in my own support team and Sammy fully respected that," Southgate said. Former Liverpool midfielder and coach Lee had a short spell with the England set-up under Sven-Goran Eriksson and then joined Bolton in 2005, briefly managing the Trotters in 2007 before returning to the Reds as assistant manager to Rafael Benitez. Lee returned to Bolton in 2012 where he was head of academy coaching and development, before joining the Southampton coaching staff in 2014. Chief football writer Phil McNulty Sammy Lee's departure from the England coaching staff was inevitable once Gareth Southgate was confirmed as full-time manager. Lee was very much part of the package that came with Sam Allardyce's appointment, despite the fact he was by Southgate's side for his four games in interim charge, and his future was always in doubt once the manager he worked with at Bolton Wanderers left the job after only 67 days. He is very much an FA loyalist having had a short spell on the backroom staff with Sven-Goran Eriksson but Southgate has formed a close bond with Chelsea coach Steve Holland, who worked with him for England Under-21s and during his temporary tenure. The likelihood is that Holland will continue to serve England on a part-time basis while maintaining his role with Chelsea before moving to join up with Southgate permanently in the international set-up at the end of the season. The website, Slugger O'Toole, published messages from DUP MLA Pam Cameron. She said petitions of concern (poc), like the one used by the party on Monday's same-sex marriage vote, were "signed in advance" by MLAs. This was so that the party "can use (them) strategically", she said. "We are not asked to sign on issue," the message added. Ms Cameron, an MLA for South Antrim, said she suspected all the Stormont parties worked in the same way. On the issue of same-sex marriage, she said: "I have gay friends. I'm not a homophobic bigot. "There are many more of 'me' we will see NI move forward. Promise". The Slugger O'Toole report, which later disappeared from the website, did not make clear the identity of the person with whom the MLA had been exchanging messages However, DUP sources claim it was someone connected to the Alliance Party. The DUP said the private direct message had "been released by someone who has chosen to conceal not only their identity, but their portion of the conversation". The party said the comments had "a date stamp from over six months ago", making them of little relevance to Monday's debate. The DUP pointed out that all their MLAs voted in the same way as they had done on four previous occasions and "perhaps those who changed their position today may wish to explain whether this reflects any pressure applied from within their own party." The measure was designed as a way to safeguard minority rights in Northern Ireland's power-sharing assembly. If a petition of concern is presented to the assembly speaker, any motion or amendment will need cross-community support. In such cases, a vote on proposed legislation will only pass if supported by a weighted majority (60%) of members voting, including at least 40% of each of the nationalist and unionist designations present and voting. Effectively this means that, provided enough MLAs from a particular community agree, that community can exercise a veto over the assembly's decisions.

Sammy Lee has left his position as England assistant manager. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The DUP has accused those who published comments by one of their MLAs about same-sex marriage made during a private online conversation of attempting to "score party political points".

Countries created to suit the imperial designs of London and Paris are being replaced by patches of territory carved out by jihadis, nationalists, rebels and warlords. The border between Iraq and Syria is under the control of the so-called Islamic State; Syrian Kurds are experiencing the kind of autonomy their counterparts in Iraq have had for years; ethnic, tribal and religious leaders are running territories in Libya and Yemen. As some of the nation states disintegrate, once powerful capital cities become ever more irrelevant. The rest of the world may have embassies in the Middle East but, increasingly, there are no effective ministries for them to interact with. The governments in Baghdad, Damascus, Tobruk and Sanaa are now unable to assert their will across large parts of their countries. "The states that exist in the region do not really have a monopoly on the use of force," LSE Professor Fawaz Gerges told Newshour Extra. That means that some central governments are now relying on militants and non-state actors to defend them. Even the most precious Middle Eastern resource of all - oil - is slipping out of government control. The Iraqi Kurds have been creating a legal infrastructure for oil exports for nearly a decade, while rebel forces in Libya and the Islamic State group have both accrued revenues from the oil industry. While non-state actors find it difficult to sell crude oil, smuggling refined gasoline products is far easier. "There is a network which crosses religious and ideological borders where you have people buying and selling petroleum, diesel and gasoline products across the whole region," says oil industry consultant John Hamilton. "And it's very profitable." There are many explanations for the winds of change sweeping through the Middle East. Depending on their point of view, analysts cite the failure of Arab nationalism; a lack of democratic development; post-colonialism; Zionism; Western trade protectionism; corruption; low education standards; and the global revival of radical Islamism. But perhaps the most powerful immediate force ripping Middle Eastern societies apart is sectarianism. Throughout the region Sunni and Shia Muslims are engaged in violent conflict. The two regional superpowers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, both sponsor proxy forces to fight their battles for them. In times past the global superpowers were able to keep the Middle Eastern nation states intact, but it's far from clear that either Washington or Moscow now have the power or the will to reunite countries such as Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq. Looking further ahead, the question most Western diplomats are asking is not whether the old order can be rebuilt but whether still-intact countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and even Saudi Arabia can hold the line. Most of the nation states in the Middle East were created in the aftermath of the First World War. The Sykes-Picot agreement and arrangements made by the League of Nations established the borders that exist today. The biggest change since then came with the creation of Israel in 1948. Israel's borders remain a matter of impassioned debate. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, recently told members of the Israeli diplomatic corps that they should tell the world that the West Bank belongs to the Jews. Some Palestinians also dream of border change - however it comes. "They see the chaos in Iraq and Syria and this hideous machine called IS [Islamic State] as potentially the only game-changer that might ultimately call all the borders into question in a way that might eventually benefit the Palestinians," says Professor Rosemary Hollis of City University, London. "Otherwise they see their future as miserable." The Middle East is facing years of turmoil. Many in the region are increasingly driven by religion and ideology rather than nationalism. For them - whether conservative or liberal, religious or secular - the priority is not to change lines on the map but to advance their view of how society should be organised. For more on this story, listen to Newshour Extra on the BBC iPlayer or download the podcast. The Prime Four Beast Race - a 10km challenge with various obstacles - was held in Banchory on Saturday. The event was being staged for a fourth year. Jono Buckland, director at organisers FireTrail Events, said the response had been "phenomenal".

Nearly a century after the Middle East's frontiers were established by British and French colonialists, the maps delineating the region's nation states are being overtaken by events. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Hundreds of people have taken part in a gruelling race challenge in Aberdeenshire.

They warn of "serious mistakes" in the introduction of changes to tests and say results are too "unpredictable". This year's primary tests also saw a series of leaks and cancellations. But the Department for Education said its reforms would "help ensure all children leave primary school having mastered the basics". Leaders of the National Association of Head Teachers have written an open letter to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan urging her to cancel the public use of any data from this year's primary tests. It would mean there would be no primary school league tables, based on the tests taken by 10 and 11 year olds. The head teachers' union says that individual pupils should be given their results, with warnings to parents about concerns about their reliability, but the results were not robust enough to be used to make comparisons between schools. Heads are complaining about "inadequate" time to prepare for changes, "obscure guidance" and "massive variations" in how schools approached the tests. They say that the outcomes of the tests are likely to be so "skewed" that "comparisons between schools become very risky". The heads' union says ministers need to address the "growing disquiet about assessment". There were further difficulties this year when part of the English test for seven year olds had to be cancelled because questions had been published on a Department for Education website. There were then claims of a "rogue marker" trying to disrupt the exams, when part of the English paper for 11 year olds was put on to a password-protected website the day before it was due to be taken. Baseline tests for reception pupils also had to be scrapped, when it was found that the different types of tests being used did not produce consistent results. A Department for Education spokesman said: "We have reformed the primary curriculum to help ensure all children leave primary school having mastered the basics, and the support and hard work of teachers is key to making this happen. "We are determined to get this right and remain committed to working with teachers and head teachers as we continue with our primary assessment reform. We will respond to this letter in due course." The 7.8 magnitude quake struck about 70km (43 miles) off Kirakira, according to the US Geological Survey. It said it had occurred at about 17:40 GMT (04:40 Friday local time), followed by many aftershocks. Phones and electricity went down in some areas. There were no reports of casualties. In Malaita, an island close to the epicentre, there were reports of collapsed buildings but the extent of the damage was still unknown, Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office director, Loti Yates, told Reuters news agency. A helicopter has been sent to assess the situation in Malaita, which is home to about a quarter of the Solomon Islands population of 600,000, he added. People in many regions moved to higher ground, and users on social media said some places were evacuated. Minor sea level fluctuations may continue in the next few hours, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Social media reports suggested a wave of around 20cm in the capital, Honiara. The Solomon Islands are located in the so-called "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific, a zone of major seismic activity which has one of the world's most active fault lines.

Head teachers are calling on the education secretary to stop the publication of this year's primary school results in England. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A tsunami warning has been lifted in parts of the South Pacific following a powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands.

Harry Studley was taken to Bristol Children's Hospital with a head injury after he was shot at a block of flats in Bishport Avenue, Hartcliffe, Bristol, on Friday afternoon. Police said the shooting was a "potentially negligent act". A man, 24, and a woman, 23, who are not related to the baby, have been arrested in connection with the shooting. Harry's parents Amy Allen and Edward Studley said in a statement issued through the police: "We very much appreciate the help and support of our family, friends and local community at this very difficult time. "We are concentrating our focus on our son Harry's recovery and would appreciate if we could have our privacy respected in order to allow us to do so." Police, who believe Harry received the injury from one pellet, say they are not looking for anyone else. Det Insp Jonathan Deane, from Avon and Somerset Police, said officers were focusing on "unravelling the full circumstances leading up to this tragedy". He added: "Our thoughts are with the child's family and they are being given all the help and support they need. "I'd like to thank the local community for their patience and understanding while we carry out our inquiries and reassurance patrols will be carried out tonight and tomorrow. "If any residents have specific concerns then please speak to your neighbourhood team." The golfer, one of the US's richest and most-admired sportsmen, said he was co-operating with the government inquiry. Mr Mickelson, investor Carl Icahn and William Walters, a high-profile gambler, are being investigated for possible illegal share sales, using information given by Mr Icahn. Mr Icahn has also denied doing anything wrong. Mr Walters has yet to comment. A source familiar with the investigation, quoted by the Reuters news agency, said none of the men had so far been accused of any wrongdoing. The FBI, along with the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in Manhattan, are said to be looking into trading in two different stocks. One line of inquiry is focusing on trades in cleaning products company Clorox. Mr Icahn, a billionaire investor and prominent activist, was mounting a takeover bid for Clorox around the time that Mr Mickelson and Mr Walters placed their trades, the New York Times reports. Mr Icahn's offer to buy the company caused the value of its stock to rise. According to reports in several US newspapers, investigators are examining whether Mr Icahn discussed his bid with Mr Walters, and whether Mr Walters relayed that information to Mr Mickelson. A lawyer for Mr Mickelson, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, said the golfer was not the target of the probe. The statement from Mr Mickelson, denying wrongdoing, said he could not fully discuss the matter "under the current circumstances". Practising before a tournament on Saturday, Mr Mickelson made a jovial reference to the investigation in a conversation with fellow US golfer, Robert Garrigus. "It's been an interesting evening," the Reuters news agency quoted him as saying. "I don't have much to say about it." After his round, Mr Mickelson confirmed he had been approached by FBI agents and said: "It's not going to change the way I carry myself. Honestly, I've done nothing wrong. I'm not going to walk around any other way." Mr Mickelson, 43, has won five major championships and is one of the most popular figures in US golf. Investigators are also reportedly looking into trades that Mr Mickelson and Mr Walters made relating to Dean Foods, the Wall Street Journal reports (pay wall). The New York Times quotes sources saying federal authorities are looking into trades placed in August 2012 just before the company announced quarterly results. Those trades appeared to have no connection to Mr Icahn, the newspaper added. The FBI and other federal agencies have not commented publicly on the allegations.

A one-year-old boy who was shot in the head with an air rifle is in a critical condition. [NEXT_CONCEPT] US golfer Phil Mickelson has denied any wrongdoing after the FBI launched an insider trading investigation.

Despite winning no trophies again last season the Old Trafford club's brand is estimated to be worth $1.2bn (£789m). Six of the top 10 most valuable club brands were English. Barcelona, who won the Champions League final on Saturday, slipped two places from last year to sixth most valuable club, worth $773m. A recent report in Spanish newspaper Sport had suggested that Man Utd's global fan base had fallen because of its couple of barren seasons. But the Brand Finance report said: "Even if recent reports of fan losses are to be believed, United retains legions of followers in India, South East Asia and China, contributing to a total of over half a billion individuals and the news certainly does not appear to have deterred sponsors." They point to the club's lucrative shirt sponsorship deal with Chevrolet and "record breaking" kit supply deal with Adidas, which was signed in 2014 and is worth £750m to United over 10 years. They added that "the huge windfalls that Man Utd can expect, will see both revenues and brand value continue to increase in the coming years". They also say that the club's brand value has increased by 63% since 2014. "The most critical success factor in the Manchester United brand's renewed financial potency has been this year's record-breaking, £5.1bn deal for the UK broadcast rights of the Premier League." Bayern slipped to second in the football brand table, with Real Madrid third, and Paris St-Germain in ninth. There were no Italian clubs in the top 10. American researchers studying the rings of ancient trees in central Mongolia have discovered that his rise coincided with the mildest, wettest weather in more than 1,000 years. Grass grew at a rapid rate, providing fodder for his war horses. Genghis Khan united the Mongol tribes to invade and rule a vast area. It covered modern-day Korea, China, Russia, eastern Europe, India and south-east Asia. The research shows that the years before Genghis Khan's rule were characterised by severe drought from 1180 to 1190, the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said. But as the empire expanded from from 1211 to 1225, Mongolia saw an unusual spell of regular rainfall and mild temperatures. "The transition from extreme drought to extreme moisture right then strongly suggests that climate played a role in human events," study co-author and West Virginia University tree-ring scientist Amy Hessl told the AFP news agency. "It wasn't the only thing, but it must have created the ideal conditions for a charismatic leader to emerge out of the chaos, develop an army and concentrate power. "Where it's arid, unusual moisture creates unusual plant productivity, and that translates into horsepower. Genghis was literally able to ride that wave." Allied to the good weather, Genghis Khan was able to unite disparate tribes into an efficient military unit that rapidly conquered its neighbours. For the oldest samples, Ms Hessl and lead author Neil Pederson, a tree-ring scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, concentrated on an unusual group of stunted Siberian pines found while researching wildfires in Mongolia. The trees were growing from cracks in an old solid-rock lava flow in the Khangai Mountains, according to a statement from Columbia. Trees living in such conditions grow more slowly and are particularly sensitive to weather changes - and as a result provide an abundance of data to study, scientists say. Some of the trees had lived for more than 1,100 years. the experts say, and one piece of wood they found had rings going back to about 650 BC.

Manchester United is the world's most valuable football brand, replacing Bayern Munich, according to a report from consultancy Brand Finance. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The rise of Genghis Khan and the huge Mongol Empire in the early 13th Century may have been helped by good weather, scientists suggest.

Mr Zuckerberg will give away 99% of his stake in Facebook, worth $45bn (£30bn), to fund the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Rather than set up a simple charity, Mr Zuckerberg formed a limited liability company (LLC) to administer the money. An LLC brings certain tax exemptions but also allows investment for profit. Critics have said the structure of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative could provide a way for the Facebook founder to avoid paying tax on the sale of his shares. They have also questioned why he did not set up a not-for-profit charity instead. An LLC allows Mr Zuckerberg to keep hold of the voting and allocation of the shares he puts into it. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Mr Zuckerberg explained his reasons for creating an LLC instead of a not-for-profit organisation and said he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will pay capital gains taxes when their shares are sold by the company. "By using an LLC instead of a traditional foundation, we receive no tax benefit from transferring our shares to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, but we gain flexibility to execute our mission more effectively," he said. "In fact, if we transferred our shares to a traditional foundation, then we would have received an immediate tax benefit, but by using an LLC we do not. "And just like everyone else, we will pay capital gains taxes when our shares are sold by the LLC," he added. The new charitable organisation is aimed at "advancing human potential and promoting equality for all children in the next generation". Mr Zuckerberg and Ms Chan's shares will be donated over the course of their lives. They have already committed $1.6bn to philanthropic causes according to a Facebook statement. A spokeswoman said the situation was brought to an end at 18:30 GMT "with no injuries to staff or prisoners." Maidstone is a Category C men's jail whose prisoners include sex offenders and foreign nationals with more than 18 months left to serve on their sentence. In a separate incident, a protest by about 60 prisoners at Rye Hill prison in Warwickshire has ended peacefully. A spokesman for South East Coast Ambulance Service said it was informed about the incident at 16:00 and had sent two vehicles to the prison in a supportive capacity. The vehicles were "hazardous area response teams". Kent Fire and Rescue service had been on standby at the scene. Prison Officers Association vice-chairman Ralph Valerio said staff shortages at Maidstone may have been a factor. He said: "Prison officers have been warning for some time at HMP Maidstone that because there are less of them available, in order to deliver the regime that the prisoners living in Maidstone prison expect, that there's growing discontent. "If that information is not taken seriously bad things can happen. Bad things did happen at Maidstone today and ultimately the taxpayer bears the burden." Andrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said it could have been linked to a national policy withdrawing some perks from inmates. He said: "It's certainly notable that we've seen a crackdown on so-called prison perks - the fact that, for example, prisoners wouldn't have access as readily to televisions in their cells, also access to things like gymnasiums." Jackie Hipwell, landlady of the Swan Inn opposite the prison, said she heard shouting "like a football crowd chanting". "You occasionally get some disturbances... so we thought that must be what it was, but it usually dies down pretty quickly," she said. "I could hear shouting from inside the prison. Prisoners from one block were calling to prisoners in another block asking them what was going on." Earlier reports had suggested that up to 180 inmates were involved. On the incident in Warwickshire, a Prison Service spokesman said: "There was a passive demonstration at HMP Rye Hill where around 60 offenders refused to return to their cells. This was peacefully resolved within a few hours." Category C prisons are for inmates who cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape. Maidstone, with an inmate population of about 600, is a training prison that predominantly houses sex offenders from Kent and Sussex. The jail has a small number of foreign prisoners and works with the UK Border Agency.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has defended the unusual company structure chosen for the eye-catching philanthropic venture launched to celebrate the birth of his daughter. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A disturbance involving about 40 inmates has been resolved at Maidstone prison in Kent, officials have said.

The 27-year-old was given the initial punishment by an International Tennis Federation (ITF) anti-doping tribunal. Troicki had refused to give a blood sample during the Monte Carlo Masters in April and will be banned until 15 July 2014. "This decision puts an end to my dreams of being a top player," said Troicki. The reduced ban means the world number 77 will miss the first three Grand Slams of 2014. As a result, he will be unable to defend the points he accumulated in the early part of 2013 and is likely to drop down the rankings. "I have no idea what to do now or where to go," added Troicki, who had called for his suspension to be overturned. "I hope somehow I will be able to fight back." CAS decided that Troicki was not at "significant fault" despite committing an anti-doping violation, with no suggestion he intended to evade the detection of a banned substance in his system. The decision comes 11 days after Croatia's Marin Cilic had his nine-month ban reduced to four months. Cilic, 25, tested positive for banned substance nikethamide in April and returned to action at last week's Paris Masters, where he reached the second round before losing to Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan said he was suspending the acceptance of new arrivals until after a review. Alabama, Texas and several other states issued similar statements but a State Department spokesman said the legality of this action was still unclear. President Barack Obama has urged the US to "step up and do its part" to help those fleeing the civil war. "Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values," he said. "Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security. We can and must do both." The governors' decisions come in the wake of the attacks in Paris which killed 129 people on Friday evening. Seven of the perpetrators died in the attacks, and one of them is thought to have been a Syrian who entered Europe via Greece with migrants. Millions of Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries and to Europe, and the US has promised to take about 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next 12 months. While the state of Alabama has not accepted any Syrian refugees so far, the southern state's governor has said that he "will not place Alabamians at even the slightest possible risk of an attack on our people". In Michigan, where it has been reported that 200 Syrians have been resettled in the past year, Governor Snyder has said he will suspend the acceptance of new refugees until the US Department of Homeland Security "completes a full review of security clearances and procedures". US State Department lawyers are investigating whether governors can legally block Syrian refugees from being settled in their states. While the final ruling has not been made, officials say it appears they can't actually block refugees who come into the country through the resettlement program, but they can make it difficult for the non-profit organisations doing the legwork. A state can tell an NGO handling a file that they don't want to work with them and the NGO would simply go elsewhere. But uneasiness about the vetting process and fear of a similar attack in the US is growing, especially on Capitol Hill. The decision to suspend the acceptance of refugees has drawn the ire of some working to resettle them. "It's vital to keep in mind those who are refugees are fleeing persecution," said Michael Mitchell, with the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, an organisation working to resettle refugees in the US. But several Republican presidential candidates have said it would be wrong to accept any more. Business mogul Donald Trump described it as "insane". The three top Democratic candidates have said they want the US to take more than 10,000 Syrian refugees but only after extensive vetting. On Monday it was reported that a new video released by the so-called Islamic State celebrates the attacks and threatens Washington, DC. Flags on many public buildings across the US are flying at half-mast as an expression of solidarity with France.

Serbia's Viktor Troicki has had his 18-month ban for failing to provide a blood sample cut to 12 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). [NEXT_CONCEPT] More than a dozen US states say Syrian refugees are no longer welcome due to security fears after the Paris attacks.

Writer Neil Gibbons, who helped write the Norwich DJ's first book and the successful Alan Partridge film, revealed the news on Twitter. He promised the book, which is due for release in 2016, would include "new Monkey Tennis revelations". Publishers Orion said the journal would be a collection of diary entries, letters, "think pieces" and programme and business ideas. Orion announced it had bought a book "by Alan Partridge, which will be written 'with help' from Steve Coogan and Rob and Neil Gibbons". Twin brother comedy writers Neil and Rob Gibbons started working with Coogan when he brought back his DJ alter-ego in an online Partridge show called Mid Morning Matters in 2011. They also worked on his first autobiography I, Partridge: We Need to talk about Alan, which was published in 2011 to rave reviews. "An acutely observed mock-memoir, touching on the great man's highs (receiving a Burton's Gold Card) and lows (Toblerone addiction) in equally self-regarding manner," said the Independent on Sunday when it was published. And Time Out gave it four stars: "As a parody of celebrity autobiography, it's sound; but as a sustained piece of comic writing, it's outstanding". Coogan admitted that he decided to write Partridge's life story as a way of getting out of writing his own. "Publishers asked me to do one, but no-one asked me to do the Alan Partridge autobiography - I suggested it as a sort of deflecting device," he told BBC's Front Row. Coogan wrote the book in the same way as the hit TV show, with him and the other writers improvising. But he admitted he did not set out the first Alan Partridge autobiography to be satirical. "We just wanted to do what he would do in trying to write his autobiography. "He wants to make his life more than unremarkable, so every single event in his life he tries to spin into something it's not. "There was an argument between his parents about tax returns that he tries to turn into some kind of nightmare childhood - as if it was torturous for him and he was scarred by it". Kayleigh Rickell, 31, from Burnholme, York, said her dog Larry got into trouble while out for a walk on Sunday. The dog was with her dad on Tang Hall field when the ball blocked its airway and it collapsed. An onlooker called on a police officer who lived nearby and he removed the ball and successfully gave him CPR. Larry, aged six, described by Mrs Rickell as an "average, greedy, nutty, loving dog", has now recovered. Describing what happened, Mrs Rickell said: "My dad took him out to the field with a ball, threw the ball to him and he didn't want to drop it. "So my dad could get him to drop it, he threw him a stick hoping he would grab that instead. "Silly as he is, he picked up the stick as well as the ball, and the ball became lodged in his throat." She said Larry "died" on the field and was brought back to life with the help of the police officer. Mr Hartley then took Larry to the vets where he was given oxygen and was shaken but otherwise unharmed. Mrs Rickell has posted a thank you message on Facebook to the officer and two female onlookers who helped save Larry's life. She has now set up a Facebook group called Larry the Lab initiative, to allow people to share stories about incidents where dogs have got into trouble playing with toys or treats and to warn each other of the dangers. She said the ball was 5cm in diameter, slightly smaller than one the dog usually plays with.

A second volume of Alan Partridge's autobiography is set to be published. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A labrador stopped breathing when it choked on a ball and was resuscitated by an off-duty police officer.

Lee Nolan strangled Katelyn Parker, 24, with her own hair straighteners after she called him "gay" in August 2015. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has now found "significant failings" in the way police handled previous allegations against Nolan. Detectives from Greater Manchester and Kent police received official warnings. The IPCC said Nolan was allowed to "remain at liberty" and went on to kill Ms Parker in Heywood, Greater Manchester, despite two unrelated allegations of rape and one of making threats to kill. The watchdog found the threats to kill allegation was not progressed by either police force. There was confusion over which force would investigate the complaint as Kent Police thought Nolan had been in Manchester at the time, but Greater Manchester Police were unaware of this. Two separate rape allegations were also subject to "severe delays and poor communication", the IPCC ruled. The detectives were found to have cases to answer for misconduct and were subject to "management action". In February Nolan was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum sentence of 18 years. Rachel Cerfontyne, deputy chairman of the IPCC, said a "lack of organisation and inadequate communication" meant "grave offences" were not investigated. "While it is impossible to know the full consequences of this failure, we do know that Nolan remained at liberty and went on to commit murder, albeit unrelated," she said. "It is essential that forces have protocols in place which ensure effective policing nationwide. I strongly recommend an urgent review of current policies and practices and will be taking this forward with relevant policing bodies." After all, when you've made blocking a return for the Tories an absolute priority, then where else do you go? The comments on the weekend by Leanne Wood that Plaid may withhold its support for Ed Miliband if he leads a minority Labour government are a way of trying to deal with that. At the very least it sends out the message that it can't be taken for granted. Plaid's problem is it that it doesn't spell out what the alternatives are if it doesn't support Labour. Unsurprisingly, Labour has been more than happy to try to answer that question by saying it opens the door to a return for the Conservatives, which is explicitly what Plaid has been campaigning against in recent weeks. Of course all of this only becomes relevant in the event of a hung parliament, which is exactly what the polls are suggesting will happen. Despite what the Tories say about the NHS being the main doorstep issue and UKIP saying it's immigration, it is who is trusted on the economy that will decide who gets into Number 10. And when it comes to the economy, a feature of the campaign so far is the striking contrast in the way the parties are describing the situation in Wales. On opposite ends of the spectrum are David Cameron saying there's a jobs miracle underway while Labour and Plaid paint a picture of thousands of people using food banks, claiming what they call the bedroom tax or are on a zero hours contract. What's the truth? The Conservatives say the truth lies in the stats and there were plenty thrown at journalists at the launch of their Welsh manifesto on Friday at the Royal Welsh showground in Builth Wells. The even coincided with the latest unemployment figures, showing 12,000 fewer people unemployed on the quarter. Behind the scenes I was being urged to make sure those figures were reflected in our news bulletins on the day. Conservatives are acutely aware of the dangers of this being a vote-less recovery, or as Plaid one described it a "spreadsheet" recovery. In other words, it's an economic recovery that is not being felt on the ground, which is the central claim of Labour. The economy is the prism for all of the parties. The Liberal Democrats have for the first time based their entire campaign on the prospect of being a moderating coalition partner which would ensure the economy is not jeopardised by too much, or too little, austerity. And UKIP claims that the British economy would perform better if it was freed from the shackles of being a member of the EU. I'm not telling anyone anything new by saying it's down to the economy. How the parties turn it to their advantage? Well that's another matter.

Two detectives have been disciplined after police failed to properly investigate rape allegations against a man who went on to murder a woman. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Plaid Cymru's stance against the Conservatives in this campaign was always going to leave it vulnerable to the claim that when push comes to shove, Labour will always be able to rely on its support.

Dozens of volunteers like Jibrila Sesay are playing a central role in the gruesome clear-up operation after Monday morning's disaster. "We have been collecting corpses and pieces of corpses and bringing them to the mortuary. It does not stop," says Mr Sesay in a break outside the Connaught Hospital mortuary. The volunteers are shuttled at high speed in police trucks and Red Cross vehicles to and from the devastated Regent area. The operation aims to prevent a health emergency - caused by rotting human remains on the hillside - from compounding the impact of the deadly landslide and floods. Inside the rundown city centre mortuary, chief pathologist Simeon Owis Koroma is writing his 350th death certificate since Monday. "There will be more bodies, in smaller numbers in the coming weeks. That's how it is with disasters in Sierra Leone. But we cope. We are lucky because we are prepared," he says, paying tribute to the volunteers like Mr Sesay who were trained in safe burials during the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Death certificates are completed once a body has been identified. At that point family members can choose to remove the body for a private funeral or, in most cases, given that survivors have lost everything, leave the burial to the government. Across the road from the mortuary, bereaved relatives stand lined up along the pavement under umbrellas. Many clutch photographs of loved-ones - curled or faded but priceless now. Sorrie Koroma's daughter was 12. She remains on his phone screen. "I need to see my daughter's body just so my life can continue," he says. He believes his sister died along with her five children and his daughter, who was staying with them for the school holidays. Everyone here has lost several family members. They were asleep in their beds when the watery mud coursing down Sugar Loaf Mountain dislodged giant rocks. These in turn seem to have gathered incredible velocity and crashed through people's homes. Shacks were flattened, concrete houses suffered the same fate. During Wednesday, thanks to the tireless efforts of volunteers such as Mr Sesay, the mortuary became overfull. The stench of decomposing bodies pervaded Lightfoot Boston Street. A decision was taken to bag up body parts and all corpses damaged beyond possible identification. In a new volley of ambulance runs, Mr Sesay and his colleagues began transporting decomposing human remains to a mass grave designated for them at the Ebola cemetery at Waterloo. By now Mr Sesay seemed inured to his gruesome calling. He was just hungry. "We have not been given a meal or a drink or even money for transport. At least during Ebola, international organisations took care of the volunteers," he says. The 28-year-old opening batsman joined up with Essex for eight T20 Blast matches and featured against Kent on Sunday, scoring seven runs. "We wish him all the best and it would be appreciated if his privacy is respected," said an Essex statement. His only previous spell in county cricket was at Nottinghamshire in 2011. Mr Mansfield's body was found in Mill Pond, Pembroke, at 02:40 BST on Monday. His family said he spent the night before celebrating with family and friends. In a statement, they called him a "kind and caring lad". Dyfed Powys Police conducted a search following reports he disappeared after getting into difficulty in the water. A family tribute said Mr Mansfield "adored his nan, helping her care for his grandad, Tom." It added: "He will be missed so much by us and all that knew him." Tyler Warmington's body was found at Bromsgrove Cottages in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, on 14 March. A post-mortem examination found he had been stabbed in the chest. A 40-year-old woman questioned in connection with the death has now been detained under the Act, Thames Valley Police said. She has not been charged but the investigation is ongoing.

At least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Bangladesh international Tamim Iqbal has left Essex with immediate effect for personal reasons, just four days after joining for the T20 Blast. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A man found dead in a Pembrokeshire lake has been named as Robert Mansfield, who had just celebrated his 18th birthday the day before he died. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A woman arrested on suspicion of the murder of a five-year-old boy has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

Three men and a woman were found dead at separate addresses in the Barnsley area on Good Friday. South Yorkshire Police said it was not officially linking them at present but warned drug users to exercise caution. Temporary Ch Insp Ian Proffitt said the force was trying to establish a possible link to the strength or content of heroin being sold locally. "For four deaths to occur in similar circumstances in a small time period and in a relatively small geographical area is unusual," he said. "The public should exercise caution if they come into contact with controlled drugs, particularly heroin, or heroin derivatives. "If you experience any unusual symptoms after taking drugs, seek medical attention immediately." Two men, aged 33 and 40, were found dead at separate addresses in Barnsley on Friday morning, while a 47-year-old woman was found dead at a house in the village of Grimethorpe. A third man, a 31-year-old, was found dead at an address in Barnsley on Friday evening. The force said it was awaiting the results of toxicology tests. A 37-year old man and a 42-year-old man arrested on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs have been released on bail, it added. South Yorkshire Police is urging anyone with information about the illegal supply of drugs to contact them. The men have all been taken by HM Coastguard helicopter to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary. There was no information on their condition. Bobby Thomson, 64, George Crosbie, 73, and 74-year-old Jeffrey Stewart had failed to return from a walk in the hills at Durisdeer on Tuesday. Police and Moffat Mountain Rescue Teams carried out searches overnight in the area north of Thornhill in Dumfries and Galloway. Driving rain and very high winds had hampered the search. The men, who are said to be regular visitors to the Lowther Hills area of the Southern Uplands, left home at 08:30 on Tuesday for a trek and had been due to return at 15:30. Police said the men were "experienced hillwalkers familiar with the area". A post on the mountain rescue team's Facebook page said it had been called out by police at 19:00, with the search continuing until 02:00. The post also described weather conditions in the area as "very wet and windy with very little visibility". The Galloway and Tweed Valley Rescue teams have joined the search along with a coastguard rescue helicopter from Prestwick.

The deaths of four people in the space of a day are believed to be linked to heroin, police have said. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Three walkers in their 60s and 70s who were missing in the Southern Uplands overnight have been located close to Durisdeer, according to police.

Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Dunlop said the government is fully committed to the Agreement. His statement came following the collapse of the Stormont executive over a botched green energy scheme. SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has called for "joint authority" instead of direct rule. He said that joint authority between the UK and Irish governments was the only "acceptable position for the nationalist community" should the Stormont institutions fail to be re-established after the election. On Sunday, the Northern Ireland secretary of state said he was not contemplating any alternatives to a devolved government. James Brokenshire refused to be drawn on the prospect of direct rule or joint authority with the Irish government. Stepanova is in hiding after helping to expose Russian state-sponsored doping. Wada, which had been alerted that its website had been hacked, found the 800m runner's account had been accessed by someone other than the athlete. "Wada is in contact with the relevant law enforcement authorities," a statement said. Wada's Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS) allows athletes to enter information about their whereabouts from anywhere in the world to help the agency co-ordinate testing. "Through regular security monitoring of ADAMS, the agency noted that someone, other than Ms Stepanova, had accessed her account," said the statement. "A subsequent investigation allowed the agency to determine that no other athlete accounts on ADAMS have been accessed." Stepanova and her husband Vitaly, a former Russian anti-doping official, are currently living in a secret location following her evidence to Wada's report into Russian doping. Media playback is not supported on this device The couple, who left Russia after giving evidence, told the BBC last month that they "felt safe" in their new location. "Wada, since the beginning, said they are concerned about our personal safety - they were the ones trying to protect us with the information we have," they said. "In our current location we do feel safe, but unfortunately the reaction to our actions in our home country is not positive, a lot of people in general and athletes as well hate us for what we did and we would not go back to Russia right now. There we would feel unsafe." Russia's athletics team was banned from the Rio Olympics but Stepanova, who served a two-year ban for blood passport abnormalities in 2013, had hoped to be invited to the Games by the International Olympic Committee to compete under a neutral flag. However, she chose not to contest her ban by the IOC.

A Northern Ireland Office spokesman has said "any form of joint authority" would be incompatible with the consent principle in the Good Friday Agreement. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova has had the account that shows details of her location hacked, the World Anti-Doping Agency has confirmed.

While flats have risen by 60% in value over that time period, the average house has only gone up by 34%, it said. Detached homes have seen the smallest price rise, at 21%. At the same time the Halifax said the rise in UK house prices in the year to September slowed to 8.6%, from 9% previously. Between July and September, prices went up by 2% compared with the previous quarter. On a monthly basis, the Halifax said prices in September dropped by 0.9% compared with August. As a result the value of the average house or flat in the UK has fallen to £202,859. Last week, rival lender Nationwide said that house prices rose by just 3.8% in the year to September. It also said that the gap between prices in London and the rest of the UK had reached a record high. The relative popularity of flats has fallen over the past decade, according to the Halifax research. In 2005, 20% of all property sales were flats. Ten years on, that figure has fallen to 17%. Price rises have therefore been driven by flats in the capital. "The national increase in flat prices has been led by London where flats account for roughly one in two property sales; substantially higher than for the country as a whole," said Martin Ellis, Halifax's chief economist. The Rent Smart scheme will require landlords to be trained in their responsibilities and obligations. Latest Welsh Government figures show fewer than 25% had been granted licences by last week. Only 25,353 out of a possible 100,000 Welsh landlords are registered. The Welsh Government wants Rent Smart to help tackle bad landlords who give the private rented sector a bad name. Housing charity Shelter Cymru said nearly a third of its workload came from private tenancies. Although it can take only a few minutes to register, the process of completing the licensing takes about eight weeks and many have not even started it. Back in July, 13,000 landlords had registered with Rent Smart but progress has been slow. The Rental Landlords Association (RLA) fears fewer people will let out houses, meaning there will be fewer houses to rent and that this will push up the cost. RENT SMART FACTFILE: Angela Durrant - who rents out a flat in Cardiff Bay - said she only found out about the Rent Smart changes by chance but is unhappy with the amount of work it involves. "I've actually chosen to go through a letting agent in order to [register] because I was more concerned I'd miss something out or fall foul of the law," she said. "I was really annoyed because we've respectfully rented out the property for 10 years and I understand it might be trying to root out rogue landlords but it's not really taking into consideration people who are trying to do a good job with perhaps one or two properties." The Welsh Government said it would raise overall standards and improve the reputation of private rented housing which had been "damaged by the actions of rogue and even criminal landlords and lettings agents". A spokesman added: "We hope the scheme will ultimately lead to more investment in Wales by improving its reputation". Meanwhile, 96% of those who had completed the relevant training said "it will make them a better landlord."

Over the last decade the price of flats has risen much faster than the price of houses, according to research for the Halifax. [NEXT_CONCEPT] There are fears that thousands of residential landlords in Wales will be breaking the law without realising it, with just six weeks to go until all will have to be registered.

Chinese media claimed it was the first time a fraud suspect had been extradited from a European country. The woman, surnamed Zhang, had been living in Italy for nine years. China last year launched an extradition project codenamed Operation Fox Hunt to repatriate fraud suspects and corrupt officials who had fled the country. Ms Zhang is accused of stealing more than 1.4m yuan ($224,000; £147,700) from clients at a firm in the northern province of Hebei between 2000 and 2005. She fled to Italy in October 2005, and Chinese authorities requested help from their Italian counterparts to capture her. The Italian police detained her in October last year and she landed back in China on Tuesday under police escort. China is pressing other countries for help in the hunt for economic fugitives - many of them Communist Party officials accused of stealing state funds, says the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing. Operation Fox Hunt took place between July and December last year, and led to the extradition of 680 accused criminals back to China from 69 places, according to Xinhua state news agency. Those found guilty of corruption in China can face a death penalty. It is not known what Ms Zhang will be charged with. China's President Xi Jinping launched a crackdown on corruption when he took office in 2012. Since then, authorities have not only gone after party officials and civil servants, but also individuals in the private sector. But a judge has not yet accepted a plea deal for Adel Abdul Bary, 54, that would see him serve 25 years in prison. He was charged with conspiracy to murder and the use of weapons of mass destruction, among other counts. More than 200 people were killed when the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were attacked in August 1998. Bary was extradited from the UK in 2012 along with Mustafa Kamal Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza. He pleaded guilty on Friday to several of the lesser of the more than 285 charges against him, including threatening to kill by means of explosive and conspiracy to murder US citizens abroad. The judge has yet to rule on hundreds of other charges against him, including the murders of each person killed in the attacks and conspiracy to attack US national defence utilities. On Friday, Bary wiped tears from his eyes and shook his head as he made the plea. He admitted to using fax machines and phone calls to deliver messages of responsibility for the attacks to the news media, messages which included future threats against Americans. "I arranged to transmit messages from media personnel to my co-conspirators, al-Zawahiri and Bin Laden,'' he said, reading from a statement. Judge Lewis Kaplan said he wanted to hear further arguments before the more serious charges could be dropped. He gave lawyers for both sides one week to submit arguments on why he should accept the deal, which would see Bary sentenced to 25 years, potentially with credit for time served in the UK. "You can well appreciate why I have questions in my mind," Mr Kaplan said. Bary would be permitted to withdraw the plea and proceed to trial if the judge rejects the deal. Prosecutors told the hearing the US Attorney's office felt the plea deal was "appropriate with regard to this defendant and the role he played in a much larger conspiracy", saying he had no direct role in the killings. Defense lawyer Andrew Patel agreed, saying: "I believe this is a just decision." Bary was originally set to go on trial in November, alongside two others charged in terrorism cases. He was arrested in the UK in 1999. The US requested his extradition soon after, alongside radical preacher Abu Hamza and three others accused in a lengthy terrorism indictment. Councillor Dilwyn Morgan said Bale would be the first person to be granted the honour and plans to pitch the idea to the council. Four signs to the town were altered to coincide with the game against England. The signs will be up for the duration of Wales' time in the competition. "We look forward to maybe one day welcoming Gareth Bale and the rest of the Welsh squad to Bale," Mr Morgan said.

A Chinese woman accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients at a financial firm has been extradited from Italy. [NEXT_CONCEPT] An Egyptian man accused of helping to plan the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York. [NEXT_CONCEPT] After naming itself after Gareth Bale during the Euro 2016 tournament, Bala in Gwynedd could go a step further and give the footballer honorary freedom of the town.

Zdenek Makar, from the Czech Republic, died from head injuries near All Saints DLR station in Poplar on Wednesday night. The 29-year-old was charged on Sunday and will appear before Thames magistrates on Monday. Two others arrested, aged 19 and 16, were released on bail until early October pending police inquiries. Those were the words of the First Minister Carwyn Jones at his monthly news conference in the autumn. It would seem then that there's an inevitability about local government re-organisation. Paul Williams, the former chief executive of the NHS in Wales, is due to publish the conclusion of his review into public services next week. It's widely expected to fire the starting gun on local government re-organisation. Within it will be his thoughts, and those of his commission members, on what should happen to the 22 unitary authorities that were created after the last round of changes in 1996. The big criticism is that there are too many councils and some are too small. There are mismatches. Cardiff for example has a population of around a third of a million, while Merthyr has a population of around 50,000. A number of negative stories about council chief executive pay levels have all contributed to the debate, and added to the calls to reduce the overheads of 22 separate senior management teams. In time, that could free up money to go to frontline services but in the meantime there will be a big bill to pay for the changes. I'd expect one of the first battlegrounds to be around the cost. The consultants Deloitte has looked at the cost of a number of previous re-organisations around the UK and the average cost was above £250m. Much will be taken up with the cost of redundancies. In its submission, the Welsh Local Government Association says that when the NHS in Wales was restructured in 2009, senior managers who were moved to lower-banded positions had their salaries protected for ten years. It says: "Clearly there would be an expectation from the local government workforce and trade unions of fairness in these areas." The other big costs will be IT. Since the 1990's councils have invested hugely in diverse IT systems in areas like payroll and council tax and all of these will have be connected with other systems. There will also have to be job evaluations carried out of every staff member so new HR departments can work out how much everyone should be paid. Critics will question whether now is the right time to carry out such big changes when councils are already facing some of the biggest cuts in years. And are bigger councils better? The WLGA says there needs to be a compelling argument for change. It admits that five of the local education authorities in special measures belong to some of the smallest councils but concludes that overall there's no obvious correlation between population size and performance. It says factors like leadership and deprivation have as much, if not greater influence over relative performance. Another question is how to harmonise council tax rates. If, for example, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire were to come together to form a new authority then the council tax payers in Pembrokeshire could face paying more as their bills are currently more than £200 a year less than in Carmarthenshire. And finally there could be political difficulties for Labour. If there's a dramatic reduction in the number of councillors in Wales, particularly in the south Wales valleys, then many of them will be Labour members who act as grassroots campaigners at the general and assembly elections. It may well be that Carwyn Jones has more difficulty gaining support from within his party than gaining cross-party support at the assembly.

A man has been charged with murdering a 31-year-old after an alleged disagreement at a fried chicken shop. [NEXT_CONCEPT] "I know of nobody now who argues for 22 local authorities."

It marks the biggest cable audience for a non-sports programme in the US, according to television viewing figures tracking company Nielsen. The post-apocalyptic horror, which stars British actor Andrew Lincoln, held the previous record of 16.1m for its fourth season debut last year. The end of the series also set a new benchmark for a finale with 15.7m. Sunday's return to the air also triumphed in the valuable 18-49 age range with 11 million viewers. Its nearest scripted rival was popular comedy The Big Bang Theory, which pulled in 6.9 million people in that key demographic. The serial, which is shown on AMC in the US, is screened on Fox TV in the UK. Variety reported that the show also reached record levels for the number of people obtaining the show illegally, with piracy tracking firm Excipio logging 1.27 million downloads in the first 24 hours after transmission. But the level of piracy for TV series Game of Thrones pushes The Walking Dead into second place, with its fourth series premiere registering 1.86 million illicit downloads. It added that Fox has rushed the show to some 125 markets around the world in a bid to thwart piracy. The hit show tracks the fortunes of sheriff Rick Grimes - played by Andrew Lincoln - as he attempts to survive flesh-eating zombies. It has also featured fellow British actor David Morrissey as The Governor, who wears a trademark eye-patch. The latest episode "ripped up the TV rulebook", according to a review in The Guardian. It was called a "humdinger of an opening episode", constituting a "mini-action movie". Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck feature in McGarry's "Beatrixpotting" line-up. Walking Dead's Charlie Adlard and Hellboy collaborator Duncan Fegredo have also taken part. The artists are supporting a student art competition being held in Cumbria. Fegredo has depicted Peter Rabbit as a spaceman, standing in a secret launch pad hidden in the Lake District. "My aim was to retain the innocence and appeal of Potter's Peter Rabbit, setting him against a dramatic landscape and secret launching pad inspired by The Lakes," Fegredo said. The artists have contributed their works to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in support of the Beatrix Potter Reimagined student art competition. The contest encouraged students to give Beatrix Potter a modern or unusual twist and create new work in a comic style. Writer and illustrator Hannah Berry has created a traditional comic strip which depicts Peter Rabbit story as a criminal who steals vegetables. Festival Director Julie Tait described the entries as "simply stunning". "The creativity, skill and humour of the student artwork is just astonishing and to top it all we now have contributions from some of the most talented comic artists on the planet," she said. "Our festival is not only a celebration of the best of comic art, it's also about encouraging the next generation of artists to explore their creative talents." Students Ian Morris and Ian Fulcher have submitted their own works to the competition - which will see prizes given to the top three entries. Morris's piece sees Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny snub vegetables in favour of playing a games console. The fourth Lakes International Comic Art Festival will run from 14-16 October in Kendal, Cumbria. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. Patrick Clarke, 68, was stabbed several times at Southleigh Community Hospital in Brighton Road, South Croydon, on Tuesday. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as a stab wound to the chest. Jimmy Jedson, 40, of Brighton Road, Croydon, is in custody and due before Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday. A spokesman for Southleigh Community Hospital said: "We are greatly saddened to confirm that a member of staff lost his life following an incident in the hospital. "Our deepest sympathies are with his family, friends and colleagues. He was a valued and respected member of staff who will be deeply missed."

The fifth series opener of US drama The Walking Dead has been watched by 17.3m people, breaking cable viewing records. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Comic artists including Luke McGarry, who created the Trainspotting film poster, have reimagined Beatrix Potter's characters to mark the 150th anniversary of her birth. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A man has been charged with the murder of a nurse at a private hospital in south London.

Honda has decided to change the engine in Stoffel Vandoorne's car on the first day of the final test in Spain after finding an electrical problem. It is the latest in a series of problems with Honda's newly redesigned engine after Honda used at least five in last week's first pre-season test. Vandoorne ended the morning eighth fastest, 2.972 seconds off the pace. A Honda spokeswoman said: "In the interests of maximising lap time, we sped to replace the power-unit and investigate the issue further once it is out of the car. "The PU we are using is the same specification as the one run at the test last week." Follow live text commentary on the first day of the final pre-season test Honda has said it has an upgraded engine that it is planning to use for the first race of the season in Australia on 24-26 March. That latest specification is expected to run at some point this week at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona. The quickest lap of the morning was set by Williams driver Felipe Massa on the super-soft tyres, 0.174secs quicker than Daniel Ricciardo's Red Bull, using the ultra-soft tyre. The soft tyre is calculated by Pirelli to be 0.8secs a lap slower than the super-soft. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton was third fastest, 0.556secs behind Ricciardo and also on the soft tyre. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was fourth quickest, 0.671secs behind Hamilton but using the medium tyre which is said to be 1.3-1.4secs slower than the soft. It is impossible to directly compare the lap times even taking into account the tyre off-sets because the teams do not reveal the fuel loads in the cars or the specification in which they are running, both of which can make significant differences to lap time. Police said children fled from the park in Dover Street, off the Shankill Road, on Thursday and reported that a man was brandishing a shotgun. The man is then understood to have fired a shot into the air, before leaving with a woman. Police praised the actions of residents who, they said, stopped two people in nearby Beverley Street. Ch Insp Gavin Kirkpatrick said: "Two people are now in custody and a firearm has been recovered. "We are at a very early stage in this investigation but at this point I'd like to give credit and thanks to the local people who intervened. "Their prompt actions in detaining the suspects, disarming them and alerting police allowed us to make swift and effective arrests and seize the firearm for investigation."

McLaren and engine partner Honda have suffered another blow in a troubled pre-season programme. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Two people have been arrested after a report of a shotgun being fired in a playground in Belfast.

The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) for services rose to 55.8, its highest level for four months. It has now been above the 50 level that marks the divide between growth and contraction for nine months in a row. However, Markit said prices charged by service sector firms rose at their fastest rate since July 2008. The services sector accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy. Markit said the strong performance from the dominant sector, together with similarly upbeat surveys for construction and manufacturing, suggests the economy is currently growing at twice the pace than that seen in the first quarter of the year. "The three surveys collectively point to GDP growing at a rate of 0.6% at the start of the second quarter," said IHS Markit economist Chris Williamson. However, he warned that rising inflation was likely to eventually curb growth. The UK economy grew by 0.3% in the first three months of the year, according to the initial estimate from the Office for National Statistics, the slowest growth rate since the first quarter of 2016. The weak growth rate was largely blamed on the impact of rising prices on household spending. Inflation has been accelerating in recent months, partly as a result of the fall in the pound after the Brexit vote, which has raised the prices of imported goods. The inflation rate was 2.3% in March, unchanged from February, but above the Bank of England's target of 2% and the highest rate since September 2013. Beavers could one day return to the Cairngorms where they are thought to have been hunted to extinction in the 16th or 17th centuries. The Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) said exploring the idea further depends on the results of a trial reintroduction at Knapdale in Argyll. But beavers are just one animal on a list of 22 creatures assessed for potential reintroduction, or targeted conservation efforts, to Britain's largest national park. Wildlife on the list were either were wiped out because of over-hunting or persecution, or are now rarely seen because of habitat loss. They include rare birds such as nightjar and crested tit, but also brown bears, elk, reindeer and even an animal that is globally extinct. Aurochs, ancient giant European wild cattle, died out almost 400 years ago. It features on the list to highlight the role free-roaming cattle can play in ecosystems. In his report published in February on the potential restoration of the 22 species, CNPA's ecological advisor Dr David Hetherington noted the use of cattle at Belgian, Danish and Dutch nature reserves. Highland cattle also graze woodland managed by Forestry Commission Scotland. The scientist also looked at the pros and cons of bears, wolves and lynx. He described them as "highly charismatic species" with the potential to draw tourists. However, Dr Hetherington concluded that reintroducing bears and wolves was unlikely because of the concerns they would raise about public safety and attacks on livestock. Lynx were seen as a less of a threat. On the big cats, the ecologist said: "Of the three species, wolves and bears are often perceived as dangerous and do have the potential to harm humans, although the risk is small. "In regions of Europe where all three species occur, the lynx is seen as the least damaging to livestock interests and is generally not perceived as a threat to human safety. Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here "Indeed unprovoked attacks on humans have not been recorded while predation on livestock has been shown to be controllable." Dr Hetherington suggests that the Cairngorms may have been the last stronghold of Scotland's native lynx. They could have survived in the mountainous area's forests, one of the last places in Scotland to suffer deforestation, into the late Middle Ages. But for now the beaver is the mammal with the greatest potential of returning to former haunts in the Cairngorms.

Activity in the UK's service sector accelerated in April, with new work growing at its fastest pace this year, according to a closely-watched survey. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The Cairngorms National Park Authority says beavers could potentially be reintroduced to the area, but what else has the organisation considered bringing back?

It is thought to have been flown in from outside HMP Manchester, formerly known as Strangeways, on Friday before being "successfully intercepted". Police believe it was carrying mobile phones, SIM cards and drugs. A Prison Service spokesman said: "All contraband was seized and handed to the police to investigate". "Incidents involving drones are rare, but we remain constantly vigilant to all new threats to prison security," he added. "We are strengthening our powers to ensure those found using drones to smuggle material into prison are punished." Anyone convicted of the offence faces a prison sentence of up to two years. Further inquiries are expected to be carried out later, said a police spokesman. The MoJ reported nine attempts to use drones to infiltrate prisons in England and Wales in the first five months of 2015 - among them was a drone carrying mobile phones and drugs into Bedford Prison which was caught by prison officers. It is already a criminal offence to throw drugs and other items over a prison wall. HMP Manchester is a high security prison, which houses around 1,200 inmates. The site, which is also close to the Inverness Campus, had not previously been available to SPS. A site at Milton of Leys was considered last year. The new HMP Highland would replace 112-year-old Inverness Prison, which is close to Inverness city centre. It is one of the smallest and oldest jails in Scotland. SPS said the new proposed site has been deemed suitable for development as a prison. Colin McConnell, chief executive of SPS, said: "An agreement has now been concluded with the site owners and SPS intend to pursue a planning application for the site in due course. "The application for the site will of course include the normal community consultation processes." "SPS do not intend to pursue any further interest in the site at Milton of Leys." The proposal to locate the prison on farmland on the edge of Milton of Leys had faced strong opposition from residents of the large suburb. Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "I'm pleased that SPS have now reached this stage and look forward to the development of a new fit for purpose prison which can provide suitable accommodation for people in custody from the Highlands and Islands - keeping them closer to their families and their communities."

A drone being used to smuggle contraband into the grounds of a prison has been recovered by guards, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has proposed building a new Inverness prison on a site behind the Inverness Retail Park on the A96.

Media playback is not supported on this device The 29-year-old France international has regularly been linked with a move. It is understood the Hammers recently turned down a £19.1m bid for Payet from his former side Marseille. "We have said we don't want to sell our best players but Payet does not want to play for us," Bilic said. "We are not going to sell him." Payet joined West Ham from Marseille for £10.7m in June 2015. He excelled in his first season with the London club, scoring 12 goals and earning a nomination for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award. In February 2016 he signed a new contract to tie him to the Hammers to the summer of 2021. Payet has scored five goals so far this season, and the Sun reported last week that Bilic had ordered him to improve his attitude. "I expect from him to come back and to show commitment and determination to the team like the team has shown to him," Bilic said on Thursday. "We aren't going to sell him. It's not a money issue or anything. We want to keep our best players. "I spoke to the chairman and this is not a money issue. We gave him a long contract because we want him to stay." Payet was left on the bench for Friday's 5-0 FA Cup defeat by Manchester City. "He's probably been tapped up by some clubs or whatever," added Bilic. "That is usual at this time of year. "But until he changes his attitude he is out of the team and he's not going to train with us." West Ham are 13th in the Premier League, seven points above the relegation zone, and host Crystal Palace on Saturday. Cambridge United supporter Simon Dobbin, 42, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, was brutally assaulted after his team played at Southend United on 21 March. He suffered a head injury and is critically ill in hospital. His sister Victoria Forsythe said she and her family were "not in any way upset or angry" at Southend fans. She said that in fact, they felt "much the opposite" as Southend supporters had "supported us through this tough time and continue to do so". "As a family, we are hopeful and are holding on to the miracle that Simon will wake up." The grandfather remains in a medically-induced coma at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He also sustained a broken hip and broken nose during the attack in the Essex town's East Street. Police said Mr Dobbin and his friends had left the Blue Boar pub when they were assaulted by a group of men who had come out of another pub. The fight was broken up by police using CS spray. Det Ch Insp Martin Pasmore said: "He is a decent family man who was simply enjoying a day out. "It is my intention to identify everyone involved in this sickening attack and bring them to justice." A fundraising appeal has made nearly £10,500 to help Mr Dobbin's family. Four men, aged 19 to 33 and all from Essex, have been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and released on bail. The 22-year-old's brother, Wigan and England centre Liam, 25, also spent time on loan at Widnes in 2010. Farrell has also had loan spells at Workington and South Wales Scorpions. "He's still young, he's got a great desire to be successful and he's very solid defensively," said Vikings head coach Denis Betts. "He's got some good characteristics and he's always performed well against us. "He knows a couple of our players already and he's ready to step up and push the likes of Setaimata Sa, Chris Houston, Chris Dean and Matt Whitley in the back-row." Farrell is also younger cousin of former Andy Farrell who will take up a position as Ireland's defensive coach after the Six Nations following his dismissal by England. "Liam always had good things to say about Widnes and I've spoke to Dom Crosby, Logan Tomkins and Willie Isa - and they all said it's a great club," he said. "I'm 22 now and I need to get more game time in Super League."

West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic says forward Dimitri Payet no longer wants to play for the Premier League club - but they will not sell him. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The sister of a football fan who is in a coma after being attacked by up to 15 people following a match has praised rival supporters for their concern. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Second-row Connor Farrell has signed a new deal at Wigan Warriors until 2018 and has immediately joined Super League side Widnes on a season-long loan.

Lafarge Tarmac was planning to sell the £1.4m site at Eastgate in Weardale at auction on Thursday. But the company has now confirmed it withdrew the property from public auction after entering private talks. Meanwhile, Durham University hopes new owners will continue to explore the site's geothermal potential. A spokeswoman for Lafarge Tarmac said: "We can confirm we are no longer putting the Weardale site up for public auction. "We are in exclusive talks with a private buyer. We cannot comment further at this stage." The former cement works closed in 2002 with the loss of nearly 200 jobs. Subsequent plans for the creation of homes, business and leisure facilities powered by five forms of renewable energy at Eastgate halted after funds dried up. The 431-hectare (1,065-acre) site contains two of the most recent deep geothermal boreholes to be drilled in the country. Dr Charlotte Adams, research manager for BritGeothermal at the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, said: "The boreholes at Eastgate are an important resource for understanding the UK's geothermal potential. "Geothermal energy can help the UK become more self-sufficient and resilient with respect to energy in the future. "We therefore hope that any subsequent site owner will view the boreholes as an asset and continue to support their use for Research and Development purposes." The site's quarry is currently being used by ITV for filming of a series based on Beowulf. Lise Grande told the BBC residents were in grave danger as so-called Islamic State (IS) was directly targeting families. Many people in the city are already facing severe shortages of water and electricity. Iraqi forces said they made gains in a new assault on IS there on Saturday. Troops say they made progress in a few hours as they tried to drive the militants out of the last remaining strongholds they still control in Mosul's Old City. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled the northern city since the offensive to reclaim it was launched in October last year. Ms Grande said that the next part of the assault was going to be the hardest. "...Civilians are going to be at the most extreme risk they have been during the entire campaign," she said. "We know that ISIL [IS] is directly targeting families as they try to escape, we know that there are very limited stocks of food and medicines, we know that there are severe shortages of water and electricity. "All of the evidence points to the fact that the civilians who are trapped in these neighbourhoods and districts are in grave danger." The government announced the recapture of eastern Mosul in January but the fight for complete control of the western half continues. Thousands of Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen, assisted by US-led coalition warplanes and military advisers, are involved in the offensive. Earlier this month, coalition officials estimated the number of militants in Mosul to be fewer than 1,000 - compared with 3,500 to 6,000 militants in and around the city before the offensive began last October. The UN has said the battle has left more than 8,000 civilians dead or wounded, but that figure only comprises people transferred to medical facilities. Iraq's military does not release casualty figures, but US Gen Joseph Votel told a Congressional hearing at the end of March that at least 774 Iraqi security personnel had been killed and 4,600 wounded. More than 580,000 civilians have also been displaced by the fighting, among them 419,000 from western Mosul, the Iraqi authorities say.

The owner of a former cement works earmarked for a renewable energy village has confirmed it is in exclusive talks with a private buyer. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Civilians are being hit hardest as Iraq's military assault on Mosul enters its final phase, the country's UN humanitarian relief co-ordinator says.

The 37-year-old Belgian assisted Jose Riga at the end of the 2013-14 season when he helped the Addicks avoid relegation from the Championship. Fellow Belgian Wim De Corte will assist him on a temporary basis after Luzon's backroom team also left the Valley. Charlton are in the relegation zone in the Championship and without a league victory since 22 August. Luzon was sacked on Saturday after a 3-0 home defeat by Brentford left Charlton 22nd in the second tier having lost seven of their last nine league games. The 40-year-old had won just 12 of his 36 matches in charge since taking over in January. Scientists say beauty products containing plastic microbeads pollute water supplies, harm sea creatures and leave tiny particles in human food. The beads are added to hundreds of skin care products to help remove dead skin cells. Concerns have now been raised that microplastics are entering human food via cosmetic pollution in Welsh waters. Marine biologist Dr Andrew Davies, from Bangor University, said researchers have noticed the tiny spheres accumulating inside the guts and gills of plankton. He said they can cause "major problems" and scientists have been trying to understand the "ecosystem effect" of microplastics as they pass through the food chain. Once washed down the sink, the beads pass through sewers before flowing into water systems. Campaign group, Beat the Microbead, says sea creatures can "absorb or eat" microbeads, which they are unable to distinguish from organic food. Microbeads, which are 5mm wide or less, are usually made of plastics such as polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate or nylon. Scientists say they can also act like tiny sponges, absorbing dangerous chemicals such as pesticides and flame retardants, before they are swallowed by fish. Microplastics are non-biodegradable and are difficult to remove once they have entered a marine environment. The Beat the Microbead campaign group says it "is likely" humans absorb the miniature plastic particles present in seafood caught in affected areas. Unilever announced in 2012 that it would remove synthetic scrub beads from all of its products by 2015, with many major cosmetics providers following suit since. In June, 2014 Illinois became the first state in the Unites States to ban cosmetics containing the controversial microspheres. 16 November 2015 Last updated at 11:04 GMT The company's Zune players and digital music service were launched in 2006 to rival Apple's iPod and iTunes. But they never made a considerable impact and Zune hardware was discontinued in 2011. On Sunday, the Zune music download and streaming service was quietly retired. Any remaining Zune players will still work as an MP3 player, but will no longer be able to stream online music. Microsoft said the last remaining Zune subscribers would be switched over to its Groove music platform.

Charlton Athletic have appointed Karel Fraeye as interim head coach following Guy Luzon's sacking at the weekend. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Cosmetic face scrubs may smooth people's skin but research shows they are also damaging Welsh marine life. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Microsoft has pulled the plug on its failed music service, Zune.

The encounter is thought to be the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and a member of Donald Trump's inner circle. A special prosecutor is investigating whether Trump associates colluded with alleged Russian efforts to influence last November's US election. Both Mr Trump Jr and the lawyer say the campaign was not discussed. Mr Trump Jr was accompanied by the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign head Paul J Manafort, meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya at New York's Trump Tower on 9 June, two weeks after Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination. Mr Trump Jr said in a statement that they discussed a suspended programme for Americans to adopt Russian children. He said it "was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow-up". Mr Kushner's lawyer said he had previously disclosed the meeting on security clearance forms. President Vladimir Putin suspended the adoption programme in 2012 after the US Congress voted in a law to allow the US to withhold visas and freeze financial assets of Russian officials thought to have been involved with human rights violations. Ms Veselnitskaya, who played a key role campaigning against the law, said "nothing at all was discussed about the presidential campaign. "I have never acted on behalf of the Russian government and have never discussed any of these matters with any representative of the Russian government." Last week Mr Trump said interference in the election "could well have been" carried out by countries other than Russia and interference "has been happening for a long time". Media playback is not supported on this device The Spain striker missed the 3-0 win at Leicester, citing a back injury after a disagreement with a coach, amid reports of Chinese Super League interest. However, he scored the opener on Sunday as the Blues went eight points clear. "I am pleased for him and for the fans and club. Today finished all types of speculation," Conte told BBC Sport. The Italian had been consistently questioned about Costa's future in the aftermath of the Leicester game and during the week. He repeatedly insisted the striker had told the club he could not train in the build-up to the Foxes game because of a back problem, and also denied any bid from a Chinese club. "In this situation I told always the truth," Conte added. "I am happy for him and to finish this speculation. He played and played very well. "A lot of people asked me about his form, his attitude, and I said I took the best decision for the team. I think I made the best decision after this performance." Costa's celebration of his 15th Premier League goal of the season involved moving his hands to imitate speaking, which may have been aimed at the media for discussing the reasons for his absence. Conte said: "Honestly, I was very happy to see his celebration because I was celebrating the goal on the bench. The most important thing was he scored." Defender Gary Cahill, who scored the Blues' second goal, said: "He is delighted to come back. There has been a lot of talk. "If he misses one game you are hearing about all the different stories. It gets a bit tiring and the best way to respond is to get a goal. We are delighted to have him back in the team."

The US president's son, Donald Trump Jr, has admitted meeting a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer last year. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said he was happy to see the rumours about Diego Costa come to an end after his goal in the 2-0 win over Hull City.

They say letters found at the scene may be an attempt to trick people into thinking there was an Islamist motive. But they said it may have been the work of political extremists - from the left or right - or violent football fans. Two people received medical treatment after three bombs exploded near the team bus, shattering glass. Spanish footballer Marc Bartra underwent wrist surgery and a police officer was treated for shock. Following the attack, Borussia Dortmund's Champion's League match against Monaco was rescheduled a day later, which led Dortmund fans to open their doors to stranded away supporters. On Wednesday, a 25-year-old Iraqi "with Islamist links" was arrested. But the three identical letters found near the scene - which said the attack was done "in the name of Allah" - may be fakes, intended to pin the blame on radical Islamists. The developments came to light when two German state broadcasters - NDR and WDR - together with the Suedeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported the study on Friday. When asked to comment, state prosecutor Frauke Koehler agreed the media reports were "accurate". They highlight that "many things" from the letters are "untypical" for groups like so-called Islamic State (IS). These include a claim that sportspeople and other famous figures were in danger unless the Ramstein Air Base is closed and German warplanes withdrew from Syria. IS normally does not negotiate in such a way, Mr Koehler added. The Ramstein Air Base in southern Germany is a US base and a centre of drone operations. Anonymous security experts quoted in the Sueddeutsche piece (in German) say the text of the letters was likely written by a native German speaker who built in mistakes to make it look like it was written by someone for whom German was their second language. Investigators were still not clear about what kind of attacker might have wished to frame Islamists for an attack, but said the explosives used in the attack were professionally-made. And another German newspaper, Tagesspiegel, said it had received an email from someone with right-wing motives, who said the attack was a warning and made racist threats. The authorities are taking that email seriously, the newspaper reported. A Ford Fiesta and Mitsubishi Lancer collided on the B803 Coatbridge Road, near Glenmavis, at 19:50 on Thursday. Four people in the Mitsubishi were hurt - a man, aged 36, a woman, 33, and two boys, aged 13 and two. The man is in a serious but stable condition. Two males, aged 17, and two girls, aged 14 and 15, suffered minor injuries in the Fiesta. Police said that the man who was a passenger in the Mitsubishi had suffered a serious head in the crash which caused extensive damage to both vehicles. The woman and children who were in the car with him were released from hospital following treatment. The occupants of the Fiesta were treated for minor injuries at Monklands Hospital. The road was closed for several hours as crash scene investigators examined the site. Police have appealed for witnesses. Eight-month-old Derek was rescued from his mother's pouch after she was hit by a car. He is being cared for by wombat experts on Flinders Island, between Tasmania and mainland Australia, and will eventually be returned to the wild. The contest was created by Tourism Tasmania, which promotes the region. Derek is being looked after by Kate Mooney, known as the "Wombat Lady of Flinders Island", who has cared for the island's orphaned wombat joeys for two decades. Despite the promise of being "chief wombat cuddler", Tourism Tasmania's Phil Souter told the BBC that access to Derek would be entirely "at the discretion of the handler" and would be "very carefully monitored by his handler and carer". As "potentially rambunctious little creatures", much would also depend on Derek's mood, he said. "He's still fundamentally a wild wombat." But whether Derek feels like playing or not, the eventual competition winner will still get three days on Flinders Island - an area known for its natural beauty.

Investigators in Germany say there is "significant doubt" that Tuesday's attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus was the work of radical Islamists. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Eight people have been injured - one of them seriously - after a two car crash near Airdrie in North Lanarkshire. [NEXT_CONCEPT] An online competition to become the "chief cuddler" of a baby wombat in Tasmania, has made the tiny marsupial an online celebrity.

Although only residents of Scotland can decide the outcome of the referendum, a "Yes" vote will mean changes for the whole of the UK - and one of the greatest will be to do with the physical size of the country itself. So an already busy country would suddenly become much more crowded, statistically at least. Economy Scotland contributes some £106.3bn of goods and services in "Gross Value Added" (GVA) - the key measure by which the Office for National Statistics records regional economic output in the UK. The UK's total GVA, which was some £1,383bn in 2012, according to ONS figures. The effect of Scotland - and its population - leaving the UK would be a small increase in GDP per head of some £117. The value of Scotland's exports to the rest of the world, excluding that to other UK nations, accounted for some 7% of the UK total in 2012. Scotland's 59 seats in Westminster would disappear if the country votes "Yes" in September, and this could have a drastic impact on future governments. Modelling the result of the 2010 general election minus Scotland's 59 Westminster seats would have seen David Cameron secure a modest but workable majority of 21. Labour would lose their 41 seats north of the border, while the Lib Dems would drop by 11. In this alternate 2010 universe, the House of Commons would have looked like something like this. Life expectancy Scotland has long suffered lower life-expectancy rates than other parts of the UK, with social problems and pockets of severe poverty cited as factors. Current UK figures show that men can expect to reach 78.7 years and women 82.6 years. But if Scotland left the effect would only be a small statistical shift, with men gaining a potential extra 0.4 years (4.8 months) and women 0.3 years (3.6 months). By comparison with the EU; life expectancy for men is highest in Sweden, where men can expect to reach 79.9 years, while women live longest in Spain (85.1 years). Despite this, recent statistics for Scotland appear to show an improvement. [Click here] An earlier version of this article misrepresented some data on life expectancy, GDP and exports. This has been amended. Formerly known as Caithness Heat and Power (Chap), the district heating scheme was run by a community-run enterprise to help tackle fuel poverty. Highland Council later took over the running of it and spent £11.5m trying to make it work before scrapping it in 2009. Now run by a private firm, the scheme provides heat to about 200 homes. NHS Highland said the hospital would be supplied with "low-cost renewable energy" by the heating plant's operator Ignis. Eric Green, the health board's head of estates, added: "Connection of Caithness General Hospital to the district heating produces the best combination of security of supply, cost and environmental benefit. "Not only does the proposal from Ignis have the added advantage of being more efficient, and will therefore save us money, but it is also much more environmentally friendly and will reduce our carbon emissions." Energy Minister Fergus Ewing welcomed the move. He said: "When I visited the biomass energy centre in Wick, I was delighted to hear that almost 200 houses were seeing a significant reduction in their fuel bills after switching to the heat network." Craig Ibbetson, of Ignis added: "We are delighted that NHS Highland has approved our proposal to connect Caithness General Hospital to the district heating scheme. "We are looking forward to working with them, and believe that this is a good development for the NHS and Ignis, and the wider community in Wick." Last year, Highland Council was criticised for its handling of Chap. In a report for the Accounts Commission, Audit Scotland said a "lack of good governance" when Chap was affected by technological and financial problems led to an "expensive lesson" for the local authority.

If Scotland votes for independence on 18 September, what would it actually mean for the rest of the UK? [NEXT_CONCEPT] Caithness General Hospital in Wick is to be warmed by the town's wood-fuelled heating scheme.

Tim Atkins, 48, from Southsea, was pronounced dead at the scene, outside the Harvester pub at the junction of Eastern Road and Burfields Road on Friday evening. The second male cyclist involved in the crash suffered minor injuries and the man driving the van was uninjured. Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward. A statement, released by police on behalf of Mr Atkins' family, said: "You could never hope to meet a man with as big a heart as him. "A devoted father, son, brother, and uncle, taken far too soon, we as a family are heartbroken and ask to be left to come to terms with our loss." Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the crash "remain on-going at this time", Hampshire Constabulary said. Government officials and residents said fighters from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were among those who seized Zinjibar, in Abyan province. But opponents said President Ali Abdullah Saleh had given up the town to stoke fears of a militant takeover. He is resisting calls to step down, despite months of popular protests and growing opposition from a key tribe. At least 124 people died in recent days in the capital, Sanaa, in clashes between government forces and fighters loyal to Hashid tribal leader Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar. A ceasefire was eventually agreed on Saturday and a deal reached to withdraw troops from Sanaa, though the timing remains unclear. Official reports emerging from Zinjibar suggested the town was seized by force. The AFP news agency reported that 16 people had been killed during Friday and Saturday during fighting in and around Zinjibar. But other reports made no mention of violence. One resident of Abyan province told the BBC that the town was chaotic and there was widespread looting. "About 300 Islamic millitants and Al Qaeda men came into Zinjibar and took over everything on Friday," a Zinjibar resident told Reuters. However, one military unit was reported to have refused to surrender and was now surrounded, reports said. There are conflicting accounts of the loyalties of the armed men, reflecting the complex nature of military loyalties in Yemen. While government officials said the men were AQAP, one analyst told the BBC they were in fact an older, more established group of fighters loyal to President Saleh and his now-rival, the defected army officer Ali Mohsen (who is also Mr Saleh's brother-in-law). The government has blamed previous attacks in southern Yemen on al-Qaeda, but the country's opposition has accused President Saleh of stoking fears of an Islamist takeover. That pattern was quickly repeated as news emerged from Zinjibar. Opponents accused the president of allowing the town to fall to the armed men in order to claim that AQAP were becoming a major threat to Yemen's stability, the AFP news agency reported. AQAP is known to be active in southern Yemen, but the region is also home to a long-running separatist insurgency. The group is described by the US as one of the world's most active al-Qaeda cells. However, it usually operates from mountainous areas away from towns and cities. Yemen is beset by problems, including dwindling oil supplies and a growing water crisis as well as grinding poverty, political unrest and the presence of al-Qaeda and separatist rebels in the south.

A cyclist who died in a crash involving two bikes and a van in Portsmouth had a "big heart", his family has said. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Armed men are reported to have taken control of a provincial capital in the unsettled south of Yemen.

Forward Porter, 24, and defender Johnson, 21, both joined the club at the start of the season and have agreed extensions after helping secure a 10th-place finish in the National League. "I'm delighted to have Daniel on board for next season, he's had a fantastic season," manager Neil Smith said. "George has been brilliant in every position we've asked him to play, he gives 100% and deserves his new deal." Alan Dunne, Jack Holland and Jordan Higgs are the other players to remain contracted to Bromley for the 2017-18 season, but Connor Dymond and Lee Minshull have left the club. Officers at HMP Holme House in Stockton, Teesside, have also complained of feeling dizzy after entering cells where inmates have been smoking the drug Spice. The Prison Officer Association said the drug is also increasing violence. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said it is investigating. Andy Baxter, chairman of the Prison Officer Association at Holme House, said officers have inhaled the synthetic cannabis when visiting cells. He told BBC Tees: "They report smelling a sweet smell, something like a floral disinfectant, after a couple of breaths they start to feel dizzy and get headaches. "A couple have reported being hysterical, their emotions just run away with them. "We had an officer who we believe was exposed to it, during the night he said he got a fierce burning sensation in his head which felt like his head was covered with nits and spent the night tearing at the top of his head." Mr Baxter also said officers had been injured by inmates high on the drug. He said: "They can become very aggressive, we have had a couple of cases where prisoners get super human strength. "We have incidents where it has taken seven or eight staff to restrain one slightly built prisoner." Mr Baxter said some former prisoners are deliberately getting themselves returned to prison so they can smuggle drugs inside in body orifices to pay off debts. One former inmate said: "I've seen lads going berserk on it, turning on their best mates and fighting over it. "I've also seen it where lads have dropped down dead, had heart attacks, gone into comas, gone loopy and ended up being sectioned because of it." An MOJ spokesman said drug searches are regularly carried out, with offenders punished. He said: "However, it's clear we need to do more. "The Justice Secretary has asked the Ministry of Justice to look at how we can ensure prisons have the right tools in place to tackle this problem."

George Porter and Daniel Johnson have signed new contracts with Bromley. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Staff at a prison have suffered hallucinations and become hysterical after inadvertently inhaling so-called legal highs, officers have claimed.

Officers were contacted at about 09:30 GMT on Thursday by the ambulance service who were treating a 19-month-old baby at an address in Lostock Hall. She died at the Royal Preston Hospital a short time later. A post-mortem examination is due to take place. A woman aged 18 and two men aged 18 and 19, from Lostock Hall have been arrested and are being questioned. Police said they were called following reports of the car being driven erratically on Groathill Road North at about 08:10. The car, believed to be a Mercedes, then crashed into a caravan in a garden on the same road. The driver fled the scene. Nobody was in the caravan when the car crashed into it. The car has now been removed from the scene. A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in Edinburgh responded to a report of a car driving erratically on Groathill Road North around 8.10am on Wednesday 14 September. "The vehicle was subsequently involved in a collision with a stationary caravan on Groathill Road North. "Inquiries are ongoing to trace the individuals believed to have been inside the vehicle. "The search activity is being supported by colleagues in the air support unit."

The "suspicious" death of a baby girl is being investigated by police in Lancashire. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A helicopter is being used to search for the driver of a car which ploughed into a caravan in an Edinburgh garden.

The three Tests the world champions will play in the International Series will be in New Zealand. "To be the best we have to play the best," coach Simon Middleton said. The match against New Zealand in Rotorua on 17 June will be followed the British and Irish Lions taking on the Maori All Blacks. England Women fixtures: 9 June: v Australia (Porirua Park, Wellington) 13 June: v Canada (Rugby Park, Christchurch) 17 June: v New Zealand (Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua) Meshack Yebei's decomposed body was discovered in western Kenya after he was reportedly abducted on 28 December. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said he was offered protection in a safe location but returned home. Mr Ruto denies charges of crimes against humanity over violence which erupted after the 2007 election. He is the most senior government official to be tried by The Hague-based court since its formation more than a decade ago. The ICC dropped similar charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta last month, alleging that prosecution witnesses had been intimidated and had changed their testimony. Mr Kenyatta maintained he was innocent, saying the prosecution had no case against him. Kenya's Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko has ordered police to carry out a "speedy and thorough investigation" into Mr Yebei's murder. His family said over the weekend that he was killed to prevent him from appearing at The Hague, but there was no official confirmation at the time of his involvement in the deputy president's trial. Mr Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan has now written a letter to the head of Kenya's Criminal Investigation Department, saying Mr Yebei had been a "critical witness" who had been referred to the ICC's Victims and Witness Unit for protection. "It's our strongly held view that an attack on any witness constitutes an interference with the proper administration of justice and indeed an attack against William Ruto," Mr Khan said. "The news of his abduction and murder is both shocking to us and a matter of grave concern." The ICC's registrar, Herman von Hebel, said Mr Yebei had been offered safe residency in a new place, but he returned to Eldoret - a town in western Kenya which had been badly hit by the violence which following the disputed 2007 election. "We express our profound condolences to the family," he said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that he was not a prosecution witness. Mr Yebei's body was found on Saturday near a bridge on the road between Eldoret and Kisumu town. The post-mortem showed that he had been hit on the head with a blunt object, Kenya's privately owned Standard newspaper reports. Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta were on opposite sides of the 2007 election, but formed an alliance for the 2013 election which propelled them into power. Some 1,200 people died and 600,000 fled homes in the conflict - the worst in Kenya since independence.

England Women will play Australia, Canada and New Zealand in June as they prepare for the World Cup in Ireland in August. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A man found dead in Kenya over the weekend was a key witness for Deputy President William Ruto at his trial in The Hague, his lawyer has said.

The rock band join Foo Fighters and Kanye West at the top of the bill for the sold out festival next month. Roger Daltrey said The Who would "close this year's event with a bang". The band will also headline the British Summertime Hyde Park festival with a show on Friday 26 June, supported by Paul Weller, Kaiser Chiefs, Johnny Marr and Gaz Coombes. Paul Weller will also play before The Who at Glastonbury, in the penultimate Sunday night slot on the Pyramid Stage. The band said they would take the audience on an "amazing journey" through The Who's back catalogue, including classic albums such as Who's Next, Tommy, Quadrophenia and My Generation. "It's great to be ending this part of a 50-year career at the most prestigious and respected music festival in the world," said Daltrey. "We'll do our best to close this year's event with a bang, unless of course the fireworks get wet!" The Who made their first and only Glastonbury headline appearance in 2007, when they also closed the festival. They ended their set with a five song medley from the concept album Tommy, starting with Pinball Wizard. At the time Daltrey likened the band's performance, "after three days of horrendous weather", to the Battle of Passchendaele during World War One "The conditions were horrendous and you think no one is going to stay to the end. It was like the 70s when the crowds got bigger," Daltry told The Sun. Glastonbury confirmed 2015's final headliner on Twitter on Wednesday, writing: "We're delighted to announce that The Who will headline Sunday night, with Paul Weller playing the penultimate slot." The Who are currently performing a career-spanning set on their world tour, The Who Hits 50. Just one child in five told a survey for the National Literacy Trust they wrote daily outside of school in 2015, compared with 27.2% in 2014. And that writing was dominated by social network posts and text messages, the survey of 32,500 pupils suggests. The trust warned the development could have a negative impact on pupils' results. Those who write outside school daily were five times more likely to have writing skills above their age group, it added. And those who enjoyed writing were seven times more likely to have advanced writing skills. The report said: "Since we started measuring writing frequency as part of the annual literacy survey, in 2010, the percentage of children and young people who write daily outside of class has remained relatively stable, with just over a quarter of people saying that they write something outside of class daily. "However, in 2015, there was a significant change in the frequency with which children and young people write outside class, with fewer children and young people in 2015 writing as frequently as their peers did in 2014." The survey did not just focus on children putting pen to paper, but instead included writing on technology-based formats. Text messages were the most common form of writing children indulged in, followed by emails, social network site messages and instant messages. Children most commonly put pen to paper in the form of notes, with a third of children writing them at least once a month. Letters were the next most common form of writing, with a quarter of children writing letters at least once a month. Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, said: "Without solid writing skills, young people will have fewer opportunities open to them, ultimately impacting on their social mobility and indeed on the UK economy. "If we don't act now, the futures of children who cannot write well when they leave school could be cut short before they've even started." The charity is calling for a renewed focus on writing for enjoyment.

The Who have been confirmed as Glastonbury Festival's final headliner, closing the event on Sunday 28 June. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A quarter of eight- to 18-year-olds rarely or never write something that is not for school, a report says.

Microsoft researchers have found a way to stabilise films and speed them up to make them more watchable. To fix the images, the software analyses footage and creates new frames to smooth out camera jumps. The team is currently working on ways to turn the research into a Windows application. First-person videos shot on wearable cameras such as the GoPro were becoming more popular, said the researchers, but could be "dead boring" to watch at normal speed and almost unwatchable when sped up, because of the exaggerated camera-shake that caused. While image-stabilisation software was already available, such programs typically did a poor job of coping with sped-up footage of any significant length, said the computer scientists in a webpage documenting their work. To solve the problem, the "hyperlapse" software, developed by Johannes Kopf, Michael Cohen and Richard Szeliski, subjects footage to a three-stage process. The first analyses a video to spot significant features in each scene and create a very approximate reconstruction of the part of the world the camera travelled through. The second stage involves working out the smoothest path the camera could take through this virtual reconstruction. The third part of the process renders a film in which the camera travels this smoother path. At this stage, extra frames are generated and added to remove jumps in the original footage and to fill in around the smooth path of the camera. The visitors added 143 runs before lunch as Ross Whiteley hit 45 off 36 balls, before declaring on 324-8. Set 454 to win, Worcestershire's New Zealand paceman Matt Henry claimed 5-36 as Northants were bowled out for 142. Joe Leach also chipped in with 2-49 to become the leading wicket-taker in either division with 38 victims. Henry's first five-wicket haul of the season came in his final game for Worcestershire, with South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott set to replace him. Worcestershire debutant George Rhodes, who hit an unbeaten 31 earlier in the day, also took his maiden first-class wicket when he had Ben Sanderson caught behind. Despite Essex having a game in hand, back-to-back four-day victories for Worcestershire have seen them emerge as one of the main challengers for the single promotion spot. Steve Rhodes' side, who now hold a 17-point advantage over third-placed Kent, travel to Chelmsford at the end of August. Northamptonshire, who have struggled with the bat throughout the season, are still looking for their first Championship win of 2016. Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester: "We are in the promotion race. I'm very proud of the guys here this week. They've got points to prove and want to play for each other. Our approach and attitude was outstanding. "Our running between the wickets and ground fielding was testament to where some of the lads are in their careers. "We showed great character to come back from 54-5 on the first morning. We showed we can bat all the way down and dominated the game from that first afternoon onwards. "Matt Henry has been an outstanding member of the dressing room. He's bowled well this year and not quite got the rewards - but here he has." Mr Berlusconi arrived at the gathering in a square in the town of Segrate, outside Milan, with his bodyguards. He asked someone for the name of the candidate, and then encouraged people to vote for him. "Vote Paolo," he said - only to be told the man was standing against Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia candidate. Paolo Micheli, a leftist who is running for mayor, later joked on his Facebook page that Mr Berlusconi's endorsement meant he was sure to win. Mr Berlusconi quickly left after being made aware of the mistake by his aides. Forza Italia's mayoral candidate, Tecla Fraschini, was holding a campaign event at a nearby hall. People across Italy are going to the polls on Sunday to elect regional governors town mayors. Mr Berlusconi, 78, was prime minister three times between 1994 and 2011. He announced plans for a political comeback earlier this year, after the country's highest court upheld his acquittal on charges of underage sex and abuse of office in March. However, several cases against him are still slowly advancing in Italian courts. Mr Berlusconi remains banned from running for office and Forza Italia faces growing challenges for conservatives votes.

Help is at hand for anyone who has shot a shaky video while cycling, climbing, kayaking or engaging in any other high-speed sport. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Worcestershire closed to one point behind Division Two leaders Essex with a thumping 311-run win over Northants inside three days at Wantage Road. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accidentally lent his support to an opponent, after turning up at the wrong political rally.

Hundreds of events are scheduled in the Dumfries and Galloway town until 2 October. Organisers said it was the largest ever festival they had staged with a wide range of talks, performances and exhibitions. This year's proceedings will include both a writer and an artist in residence. The main theme of the festival this year is "islands" although there will also be a political feel with a look at the implications of the Brexit vote. Among the speakers on the opening day are former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind and ex-Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis. The busy programme also includes comedian Susan Calman, long-distance cyclist Mark Beaumont, journalist Sian Williams and chef and broadcaster Prue Leith. Adrian Turpin, artistic director of the festival, told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that the event was generating about £3m a year for the local economy. He explained its appeal: "A good festival, and I think we are a good festival, is about creating a specific atmosphere for a specific period of time. "It's slightly different from ordinary life, where you can lose yourself in that. "I think that's one of the things that people come down here for. It gets them away from the centre in a way, cares slip away and there are people standing in queues, and instead of talking about their shopping or whatever, they'll be talking about books. It's a really lovely atmosphere." The community-led Stove Network wants to see more buildings brought under local control and create new housing and services on the High Street. Nearly 500 people have backed their vision of a Midsteeple Quarter in the heart of the town. It follows an online survey which asked the public for its views on how to improve the area. Melissa Gunn, of the University of the West of Scotland, who are members of the community partnership leading the project, said they had been "overwhelmed" by the response. "Online surveys often bring out more negative responses, but here the opposite was true," she said. "We were particularly surprised by 40% of people saying they themselves would be keen to live in the town centre." The survey found backing for a "populated town centre" in order to make the area more vibrant. There was also "strong support" for a mix of accommodation from affordable tenancies to student accommodation and private flats available in the upper floors above shops. Matt Baker of The Stove Network said: "Everyone in the team is just delighted by the progress to date - this feels like a very different approach for the town with a diverse mix of local people and groups leading the project. "Everyone is bringing their own expertise and experience and being respectful of what others have to contribute. "We have had excellent support from right across the council - this really could be the beginning of the long-hoped-for turnaround in the fortunes of Dumfries town centre."

A 10-day celebration of literature is under way in Wigtown, Scotland's national book town. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Hundreds of people have signed a "Dumfries pledge" to support plans to regenerate its historic town centre.

Rodgers, who has won the League Cup and Premiership title in his first season in Glasgow, signed a new four-year deal on Friday. And Forrest says the news has further boosted the feel-good factor at Celtic. "It's been a pleasure to work with him and hopefully we can continue it for years to come," the winger said. "We just heard on Friday about the manager's new contract and all the boys are delighted. "He didn't tell us, we only heard as we left training. But all the boys are happy and so are the staff. "A few of us have signed a new deal this season so for him to sign up for the same length of time, it just continues the buzz about the place right now. "We don't want to stop now, we want to keep going. It's exciting what we can achieve under him, now that he's committed long-term. "Since he came in, it's been perfect up until now. But he's always working on us, he doesn't want to stop. That's great for the players and the fans." Rodgers watched his Hoops side extend their unbeaten domestic run since the start of the season to 39 games with a comfortable 3-1 home win over Kilmarnock on Saturday. Kilmarnock's Jordan Jones had levelled after Stuart Armstrong gave Celtic the lead, but Scott Sinclair popped up with Celtic's second before Forrest nodded in the third - the first headed goal of his career. The win took Celtic on to 90 points in the Premiership, with a final game before the split away to Ross County next Sunday before their Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers on 23 April. The 90-hectare refuge has been created by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust in response to a crashing hedgehog population. The aim is for it to be the model for hedgehog conservation across the whole of Britain. In the 1950s, 36 million of the animals used to snuffle in UK gardens. There may be less than a million now. Funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, the conservation area stretches across a nature reserve, a public park and the surrounding streets. More than 100 "footprint tunnels" have been created to show where the hedgehogs have been. Not only will they be placed in the wide green spaces, but also in the gardens of willing local people. Hidden cameras are being installed and volunteer "wildlife guardians" will help to protect the spaces. According to the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, the most important part is involving the community. Simon Thompson is the organisation's hedgehog officer: "We're asking the local people to really get involved with the scientific survey. "We're going to be looking at distribution using the footprint tunnels and abundance via a capture, mark and recapture scheme. "Hedgehogs will be trapped overnight and in the morning we will give them a unique colour code. We'll aim to recapture them again, and from the results we will be able to estimate the population numbers in the area." Hedgehogs need to roam to forage for worms and insects and to find shelter. An adult male can cover more than three kilometres a night. More often than not, their path is blocked by solid garden boundaries. At the request of the conservationists, some Solihull residents within the reserve are also now starting to adopt the most simple and effective way of helping a hedgehog. They are creating wildlife corridors by making a small hole - no bigger than the size of a CD - in their garden walls or fences. Brian Llewellyn has just cut the reserve's first new wildlife corridor - in his garden fence. "I have been living on housing estates for many years now and I had never seen a hedgehog until recently. I would just love to be able to allow them to travel around the back gardens here, which they need to be able to do. It's so simple. Anyone can do it, you just need a saw." Sally Marjoram runs the Solihull Happy Hogs Hedgehog Rescue. She commented: "This is a double-edged sword. I think it's really sad that we have to go to these lengths, and that people go around their daily business without realizing how they are affecting wildlife. "Because once it's gone, it's gone. At the moment the future is very very bleak, but it's not too late to turn it around. People only need to do little things to make a big difference. This reserve is an amazing start."

James Forrest says the Celtic players have taken a huge lift from the news that boss Brendan Rodgers has committed his future to the club. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The first large-scale hedgehog sanctuary in the UK is being opened today in Solihull, West Midlands.

The undercover operatives were recruited by the Army, MI5 and Special Branch and many were involved in criminality and murder. Ex-Met Police commissioner Lord Stevens said the agents caused huge problems in Northern Ireland. The government says collusion with paramilitaries should never happen. Lord Stevens led three government investigations into the security forces in Northern Ireland and has revealed the scale of the counter-intelligence operation for the first time. Lord Stevens also told BBC Panorama that thousands of agents and informants were recruited during the Troubles, and that just one of the agents - Brian Nelson - may be linked to "dozens and dozens" of murders. Nelson, who was a paid army agent, provided assassination targets for the three main Loyalist paramilitary groups - the Ulster Freedom Fighters, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Red Hand Commando. During his investigations in Northern Ireland, Lord Stevens and his team arrested 210 paramilitary suspects. He says that 207 of them were agents or informants for the state. Baroness Nuala O'Loan, who was Northern Ireland's first police ombudsman, also found evidence that state agents were involved in murder. She tells Panorama that the security forces failed to control their undercover operatives. "They were running informants and their argument was that they were saving lives, but hundreds and hundreds of people died because these people were not brought to justice," she said. "There was impunity really for these people to go on committing their crimes. Many of them were killers, some were serial killers." One Special Branch agent in north Belfast has been linked to 20 murders. Mark Haddock, who ran one of the Ulster Volunteer Force's most notorious terror gangs, was paid at least £79,000 for his work as a police agent. The police ombudsman of Northern Ireland is currently investigating 60 murder cases where the state has been accused of involvement. These investigations were delayed because the police refused to hand over crucial evidence to the ombudsman. But following a court challenge last year, the new Chief Constable George Hamilton agreed to hand over the intelligence files. He told the programme that he was willing to work with the ombudsman, but the information needs to be handled carefully. "There is a need to understand the sheer magnitude of what we are dealing with. We are talking about rooms full of material. "Some of it is very sensitive, some of which if it is released in the wrong circumstances would be outside of legislation, some of it if released in the wrong circumstances could put lives at risk." The government says that the vast majority of those who served in the security forces did so with distinction. It says collusion with paramilitaries should never happen and the government has apologised where it did. Panorama: Britain's Secret Terror Deals is on BBC One at 21:00 BST on Thursday 28 May 2015 and available later via BBC iPlayer. Scientists said the burst of radiation and magnetic energy could also disrupt communications equipment. The phenomenon is caused by charged gas particles that flow away from the Sun as a "solar wind" interacting with the Earth's magnetic field. The particles "excite" gases in the atmosphere and then make them glow. The colours depend on the type of gas - a red or green glow is oxygen and the blue and purple colours are produced by nitrogen. Dr Martin Hendry, senior lecturer in astronomy at Glasgow University, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Sometimes the aurora can be a little bit indistinct but on other occasions it can be a very vivid colour. "In fact the different colours reflect the different chemical elements in our atmosphere being affected and they then interact with the discharge from the sun. He added: "So if it is a bright one, and the evidence suggests that this might be, it is a large solar flare. It really should be unmistakeable."

British security forces had thousands of agents and informants working inside Northern Ireland paramilitary groups, the BBC's Panorama has learned. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The possibility of seeing the Northern Lights in Scotland on Thursday and Friday night has increased after the sun unleashed a giant solar flare.

Kompany, 30, suffered the injury against Real Madrid on 4 May. City manager Pep Guardiola says the defender is close to full fitness but not in time for Saturday's Premier League game against Bournemouth. "The players must compete with each other," said Guardiola. "We'll see on the pitch what is best for each game." Kompany has been an automatic choice since his arrival from Hamburg for around £10m in 2008. He replaced Carlos Tevez as City captain following the 2011 FA Cup final victory over Stoke and in his 298 appearances for the club has led them to two Premier League titles and two League Cup final victories. In recent seasons though, he has suffered a number of muscular injuries. Last year he was missing for over a month on four occasions prior to the injury that ended his season and meant he was not able to play for Belgium at Euro 2016. His highest number of Premier League appearances in the past four full seasons was 28 in 2013-14 and he only played half that number of games last term. So, with City chasing an eighth successive win - which would be a club record from the start of the season - against Bournemouth this weekend, and £47.5m new signing John Stones excelling alongside Aleksander Kolarov and Nicolas Otamendi in defence, Kompany cannot take his return for granted. "I know Vincent's quality," said Guardiola. "I need him to put pressure on John Stones, Nico Otamendi and Kolarov. "They have to know if they don't play good that there's another one beside me and the next time he is going to play." Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. Some have been enjoying the snow, especially in areas where it has been thick enough for skiing and sledging, but for others it's caused disruption. But scientists from the Met Office, who monitor the weather, say that snow isn't actually that unusual at this time of year. It's often a chilly month - between 1981 and 2010, the UK had an average of 2.3 days of snow in April. That means it's more common to be able to build a snowman in April than it is in November! And in 1981 it was particularly dramatic - on the 25th of April that year more than 29 centimetres fell in Sheffield. The current cold temperatures can be blamed on air coming to the UK from the freezing Arctic. The teal was found on 28 December in an area out of bounds to the public and its body was sent away for tests which showed it had the H5N8 strain of the infection. It follows cases in south Wales but Public Health Wales has previously said the public health risk was "very low". The Welsh Government said the latest finding was "not unexpected". A spokesman added: "It follows increased surveillance and calls for the public to notify any finding of dead geese, ducks and swans to the Defra helpline".

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has not been given any guarantee over his first-team place when he finally recovers from his groin injury. [NEXT_CONCEPT] It's almost May, but this week lots of parts of the UK have been surprised by flurries of snow and hail, and wintry weather. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A wild duck has died from avian flu at an RSPB reserve in Conwy, it has been confirmed.

His family said he had been admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego last week, but had failed to recover fully from surgery. Shankar gained widespread international recognition through his association with The Beatles. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described him as a "national treasure and global ambassador of India's cultural heritage". In a statement quoted by Reuters, Shankar's wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka said he had recently undergone surgery which would have "potentially given him a new lease of life". "Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the surgeons and doctors taking care of him, his body was not able to withstand the strain of the surgery," they said. "We were at his side when he passed away. "Although it is a time for sorrow and sadness, it is also a time for all of us to give thanks and to be grateful that we were able to have him as a part of our lives. He will live forever in our hearts and in his music." Anoushka Shankar is herself a sitar player. Shankar's other daughter is Grammy award-winning singer Norah Jones. George Harrison of the Beatles once called Shankar "the godfather of world music". He played at Woodstock and the 1967 Monterey Pop festival, and also collaborated with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Shankar also composed a number of film scores - notably Satyajit Ray's celebrated Apu trilogy (1951-55) and Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) - and collaborated with US composer Philip Glass in Passages in 1990. Talking in later life about his experiences at the influential Monterey Pop festival, Ravi Shankar said he was "shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly". He told Rolling Stone magazine that he was horrified when Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire on stage. "That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God," he said. In 1999, Shankar was awarded the highest civilian citation in India - the Bharat Ratna, or Jewel of India. Life in pictures: Ravi Shankar Tributes pour in Western musicians praise Shankar On Wednesday morning, shortly after his death, the Recording Academy of America announced the musician would receive a lifetime achievement award at next year's Grammys. The Academy's President Neil Portnow said he had been able to inform Shankar of the honour last week. "He was deeply touched and so pleased," he said, adding, "we have lost an innovative and exceptional talent and a true ambassador of international music". Born into a Bengali family in the ancient Indian city of Varanasi, Ravi Shankar was originally a dancer with his brother's troupe. He gave up dancing to study the sitar at the age of 18. For seven years Shankar studied under Baba Allauddin Khan, founder of the Maihar Gharana style of Hindustani classical music, and became well-known in India for his virtuoso sitar playing. For the last years of his life, Ravi Shankar lived in Encinitas, California, with his wife. The right-arm seamer, 20, was joint leading wicket-taker in Division Two of the County Championship, along with Mark Footitt of Derbyshire. Curran, born in Cape Town, qualifies for England at the end of October. "It's great news that Tom has been recognised by the ECB for his efforts this season," said Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart. "The huge potential and skill levels he possesses, I'm sure will see him wearing an England shirt in the near future" Curran took 76 County Championship wickets at an average of 23.07, and also took 29 in the NatWest T20 Blast and Royal London One-Day Cup competitions. He will join the EPP squad in Loughborough before flying to Potchefstroom, South Africa, for a 10-day training camp under the guidance of fast-bowling coach Kevin Shine. The fast bowlers will then join the EPP batting and spin-bowling group in Dubai for more training in sub-continent conditions.

Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar has died in a hospital in the US, aged 92. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Surrey's South Africa-born bowler Tom Curran has been called into the England Performance Programme squad.

Biggar, 26, has established himself as Wales' first choice fly-half and starts in the Six Nations opener in Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday. The Ospreys player is well aware of Wales' fly-half heritage. "A lot more is expected of you. The pressure is difficult because the focus on 10 in Wales is 10 times more than any other position," he told 5 live. "It's nice when things are going well and it's a pretty difficult position when you lose or don't quite fire on all cylinders. "When I was younger I would go in on days off and look at kicking and extra patterns but as I've got a little bit older those days are so important to relax and get away from rugby." Media playback is not supported on this device Biggar follows in a distinguished line of Welsh fly-halves including the likes of Cliff Morgan, Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies and Neil Jenkins. Biggar made his senior debut as a 19-year-old against Canada in November 2008 but did not cement his place as Wales' first choice fly-half until six years later. His performances at the 2015 World Cup, in which Wales reached the quarter-finals, enhanced his growing reputation. During the tournament Biggar's kicking routine became an internet sensation that gathered a cult following during the tournament. While Biggar's pre-kick routine differs from Jonny Wilkinson's trademark cupped hands, bottom out stance and stare, the Welshman revealed he learned a lot from the former England fly-half, who's late drop-goal helped England beat Australia in the final of the 2003 World Cup. "He started that obsessive routine of kicking and hours spent on the training field," Biggar added. "Every boy wanted to be him and every boy wanted to stay out last and come in last. "There's definitely a side of that in me but I'm also a little more laid back than what Jonny was in terms of being able to switch off a little bit. "As much as I'm a believer of you have to put the all the work in, you have to take a step back as well." The threat was made by the Dutch data protection agency (DPA), which said Google had broken local laws governing what it could do with user data. The search giant has been given until the end of February 2015 to change the way it handles personal data. Google said it was "disappointed" by the Dutch data watchdog's statement. "This has been ongoing since 2012, and we hope our patience will no longer be tested," Dutch DPA chairman Jacob Kohnstamm told Reuters. The row has blown up over the way that Google combines data about what people do online in order to tailor adverts to their preferences. Information about keywords in search queries, email messages, cookies, location data and video viewing habits are all used by Google to build up a profile on each of its millions of users. Dutch laws said Google should tell people about this data-gathering activity and get permission from them before it was combined or analysed, said Mr Kohnstamm. A Google representative said "We're disappointed with the Dutch data protection authority's order, especially as we have already made a number of changes to our privacy policy in response to their concerns. "However, we've recently shared some proposals for further changes with the European privacy regulators group, and we look forward to discussing with them soon." The Dutch DPA was one of a group of six European data regulators that looked at Google following changes made in early 2012 to unify its privacy policies around the world.

Wales fly-half Dan Biggar says he is learning to cope with the pressure of wearing the famous number 10 jersey. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Google has been threatened with a fine of up to 15m euros (£12m) if it does not do a better job of protecting the privacy of Dutch citizens.

Pujara, 26, part of India's well-beaten side in this summer's Test series against England, was not named in the squad for the forthcoming one-dayers. He has since returned to India and is not currently due to join up with Derbyshire until early September. That would leave him free to make his debut against Glamorgan on 9 September. "Pujara joining us at this stage of the season is a real boost for the lads," said Derbyshire elite performance director Graeme Welch. "We're an ambitious team and have an exciting group of players who are developing fast. "With Shivnarine Chanderpaul now back in the West Indies preparing for Test match action and Marcus North focusing on our one-day campaign, Pujara will bring an added dimension to the side as we look to finish our Championship season strongly." Pujara has made 24 Test appearances for India, averaging 49.26, and scored centuries in successive Tests (206 not out at Ahmedabad and 135 at Mumbai) against England in November 2012. But his form went downhill this summer as, after hitting a half century in the first Test at Trent Bridge, he averaged only 22.00 from 10 innings in the five-match Test series. However, he impressed against Derbyshire in the tour game prior to the Test series, making 81, Derbyshire, relegated a year ago, currently lie seventh in Division Two, with promotion hopes extremely slim as they stand 62 points adrift (with a game in hand) of second-placed Hampshire. They are 35 points ahead of bottom club Leicestershire, who they play in their final game. The Scottish Veterans Fund helps projects provide services in areas such as employment, housing, and wellbeing. Veterans Secretary Keith Brown said the Scottish government had pledged £360,000 - its largest contribution yet. The fund will open for applications this autumn. The boost includes a three-year £240,000 contribution from Edinburgh-based investment company Standard Life for employment schemes. Mr Brown said: "For the past eight years, the Scottish government's Scottish Veterans Fund has been a source of help for projects that make a vital difference to people's lives. "I am delighted to announce our largest contribution yet, with the fund to be supported by £360,000 of Scottish government money over three years. "This will ensure it continues to help small, one-year projects - while, for the first time, applicants can bid for two or three-year funding for more strategic projects. "I'm particularly grateful to Standard Life for their commitment, bringing the total available to £600,000 over three years. "This investment will enable charities and other organisations to provide even more support to veterans leaving the armed forces and settling in Scotland each year." Since 2008, The Scottish Veterans Fund has invested more than £830,000 and supported 125 projects that provide support to veterans.

Derbyshire have signed India Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara on a short-term deal for their final three County Championship fixtures of the season. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Organisations in Scotland supporting veterans will be able to apply for a share of £600,000 funding, delivered over the next three years.

Both goals came late on to condemn the visitors to a fourth league defeat of the season. Saraiva struck from 25 yards out to open the scoring. Kandi came off the bench to profit from a rebound of Gozie Ugwu's shot and seal the win. Match ends, Woking 2, Wrexham 0. Second Half ends, Woking 2, Wrexham 0. Goal! Woking 2, Wrexham 0. Luke Chike Kandi (Woking). Substitution, Wrexham. Bradley Reid replaces John Rooney. Substitution, Wrexham. Rob Evans replaces Tyler Harvey. Goal! Woking 1, Wrexham 0. Fabio Saraiva (Woking). Substitution, Woking. Luke Chike Kandi replaces Delano Sam-Yorke. Joey Jones (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Substitution, Wrexham. Gerry McDonagh replaces Shaun Harrad. Keiran Murtagh (Woking) is shown the yellow card. Tyler Harvey (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Dennon Lewis (Woking) is shown the yellow card. Second Half begins Woking 0, Wrexham 0. First Half ends, Woking 0, Wrexham 0. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up. Durham County Council has designated six areas in Teesdale along traditional routes to Cumbria. The sites, which will include toilets, refuse collections and, in some cases, water supplies for animals, will be open between 26 May and 23 June. The council said it hoped they would reduce unauthorised encampments. The fair will be staged from 8-14 June. A royal aide asked the government if the Queen was eligible for part of a £60m energy-saving fund in 2004, the Independent newspaper said. The aide was told grants were aimed at families on low incomes and a handout could result in "adverse publicity". A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman has declined to comment. According to documents which were obtained by the Independent under the Freedom of Information Act, the Queen's deputy treasurer wrote to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, saying the cost of the Queen's gas and electricity bills - which had doubled in 2004 - stood at £1m a year and had become "untenable". The Royal Household also complained that the £15m government grant to maintain the Queen's palaces was inadequate. It said the grant request was to replace four combined heat and power units at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. In an apologetic e-mail to the Palace, the government said the handouts were aimed at schools, hospitals, councils and housing associations - for heating programmes to benefit families on low incomes. The official also expressed concern that if Buckingham Palace were given money from the fund it would lead to "probable adverse press coverage". The e-mail, which was written in August 2004, said: "I think this is where the Community Energy Funding is directed and ties in with most allocations going to community heating schemes run by local authorities, housing associations, universities etc. "I also feel a bit uneasy about the probable adverse press coverage if the Palace were given a grant at the expense of say a hospital. Sorry this doesn't sound more positive."

Fabio Saraiva and Luke Kandi secured Woking's second successive National League win amid their battle to clime out of the National League relegation zone. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Final preparations are being made to temporary stopover sites for travellers heading to next month's Appleby Horse Fair. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The Queen was refused a heating grant because Whitehall officials feared a public relations backlash, it has been reported.

Some opened early to allow those with the condition to shop in an environment with lower lighting and no in-store music. Stores offered personal shopping sessions and some offered sensory rooms. The organisers, autism charity Sparkle Sheffield, said it was understood to be the first such event in the UK. Major chains such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, Primark and Starbucks joined the initiative from 07:30 BST to 10:00 as part of World Autism Awareness Week. Myra, who has a son with autism, said that shopping with her boy can be a "belittling" experience. She said: "The judgmental stares... assuming that a child is naughty. "It's about a child having sensory overload. The mum's already in panic mode trying to get that child to calm down." The 27-year-old midfielder was one of Palace announced that Ledley had signed "for an undisclosed fee, subject to final confirmation from the Premier League." He penned a three-and-a-half year deal at Selhurst Park. Ledley had been offered a new deal at Celtic Park, with his current contract running out this summer. Tony Pulis tried to sign me at Stoke and it didn't happen and I am delighted to be working with him now as he's a fantastic manager And Celtic preferred to sell now rather than allow him to leave for nothing and accepted a bid from the London club. Ledley had trained with Celtic in the morning before heading to the south of England. He said: "It's been a whirlwind day and I am just looking forward to a new challenge. "It's been a fantastic few years at Celtic, but I spoke to manager Neil Lennon and made my decision to come down." Palace also secured the signatures of Blackpool winger Tom Ince, Blackburn Rovers defender Scott Dann, Southampton midfielder Jason Puncheon and Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey. Scottish striker Stephen Dobbie was allowed to return to Blackpool on loan in exchange for Ince. Ledley was looking forward to working under Palace manager Tony Pulis. "He tried to sign me at Stoke and it didn't happen and I am delighted to be working with him now as he's a fantastic manager," said the Welshman. Ledley moved to Glasgow under freedom of contract in 2010, following six years at hometown club Cardiff City. He helped Celtic win three league titles and last year's Scottish Cup. The Wales international was on target in Wednesday's 4-0 win over Kilmarnock, taking his tally for the season to five goals. His former club said in a website statement: "Everyone at Celtic would like to thank Joe for his fantastic contribution to the club over the past three-and-a-half years and we wish him every success in the future."

Fifteen stores in Sheffield city centre have provided special shopping sessions for people with autism. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Crystal Palace completed the signing of Joe Ledley from Celtic but with only minutes to spare before the closure of the January transfer window.

The German was only 0.041 seconds quicker than Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was third with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes behind him. We have hopefully closed that gap a little bit Vettel's session was interrupted when his car shut down out on the track as he was began his race-simulation run. But after managing to crawl back to the pits, Ferrari fixed the car and he was able to complete his work. The four-time world champion said: "It was not the best day for us, we still need to improve the car. The car feels good. On one lap it was OK. Long run we might be quite a bit behind, but I am sure we can improve for tomorrow." It was the second technical problem for Ferrari, after Raikkonen broke down with a turbo overheating problem in the first session. The Finn needed a new internal combustion engine to be fitted as well ahead of the second session. Hamilton's true pace was not seen - he had a messy session and set his lap when his tyres were older than his rivals'. Hamilton aborted his first lap, was blocked by Renault's Nico Hulkenberg on the next and finally nailed a time on his third attempt, when the edge would have gone from the rubber. He and Vettel are tied on points at the top of the championship after a win and a second place apiece in the first two races of the season in Australia and China. The pattern of the season so far in qualifying has been Hamilton on pole by a small margin, with Vettel and Bottas second and third separated by thousandths of a second. Conditions are very different in Bahrain compared to Melbourne and Shanghai and Hamilton is concerned that Ferrari will be faster in the desert as a result of what he expects to be their lighter demands on the tyres. On the race-simulation runs, Hamilton appeared to have a small advantage over the other drivers on the super-soft tyres and the soft tyres - other than two very quick laps by Raikkonen on the softs right at the end of the session. But Hamilton said he had been told Ferrari were quicker than Mercedes in race pace. "I didn't get to finish my lap. I would hope I would be in amongst [the top three if I had]," he said. "Ferrari's race pace is a couple of tenths faster than ours. We have to work out how we are going to close that gap. "The car did not feel spectacular on the long run. There are some things we have to work on just with the tyres. But it could all be different on Sunday." The stage seems set for a very close race between Mercedes and Ferrari, with Red Bull much closer on raw pace in the dry than they have been so far this season. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner told BBC Sport the team had made some changes to the car and it had been "a positive day", especially for Ricciardo. "We have hopefully closed that gap a little bit. Hopefully we can build on that through the weekend," he added. Behind the big three, Hulkenberg was an impressive sixth fastest for Renault, ahead of Felipe Massa's Williams. Hulkenberg's team-mate, Englishman Jolyon Palmer, was a second off the German in 13th place, just ahead of the McLaren of Fernando Alonso. Red Bull's Max Verstappen was only eighth fastest but on his qualifying simulation his floor was damaged by a small wing that had come off Bottas' Mercedes. The Dutchman looked relatively competitive on his race runs. It is thought the three-storey building at Bishop's Gate, Thorntonhall, was so badly damaged it may have to be demolished. Scottish Fire and Rescue said the fire on Friday evening was originally tackled by eight firefighters inside the building. However, they were withdrawn over fears the building might collapse. Efforts to fight the fire continued externally using a specialist appliance. The blaze was extinguished, but the roof of the building has gone and the third storey is completely destroyed. Residents of Bishop's Gate were given teas and coffees at the nearby Thorntonhall Tennis Club. A spokesman for South Lanarkshire Council praised the "community spirit" and said all of the residents had been given alternative accommodation by relatives.

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was fastest in second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix with the Mercedes and Red Bull teams close behind. [NEXT_CONCEPT] About 20 residents had to be evacuated from a block of flats after a major fire in a South Lanarkshire village.

Passengers will be able to take the so-called "Night Tube" on Fridays and Saturdays. Transport for London (TfL) said the service would cut journey times by an average of 20 minutes. The RMT union said the plans had "not been properly thought through and are a disaster waiting to happen". There will be six trains per hour through central London on the Jubilee, Victoria and most of the Piccadilly, Central and Northern lines, TfL said. On the Northern Line, there will be eight trains per hour to meet demand at busy stations between Leicester Square and Camden Town, it added. The service will be launched in time for England staging the Rugby World Cup, which will be hosted in 13 venues around the country, including three in London - Twickenham Stadium, Olympic Stadium and Wembley Stadium. Today we learnt the start date and not much more that wasn't already known about the 24-hour weekend tube. There's no doubt it's a popular policy with Londoners. But what is surprising is the unions have been left out of the loop - they found out the date via the media. It's probably indicative of the poor state of industrial relations. The 24-hour plan was initially linked to another project to cut 950 jobs and close all ticket offices. That dispute is still rumbling on. RMT Union members are now taking industrial action - short of a strike - by not doing overtime. What's also of note is that the current pay deal for staff comes to end in April. This 24-hour Tube plan will no doubt affect those negotiations. With this date now set, the pay deal could be another flashpoint in a period of relatively rapid change on the Tube. London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "London is a bustling, 24-hour global city and by this time next year we'll have a 24-hour Tube service to match. "As well as creating vital new jobs and giving a huge boost to our economy, the Night Tube will help millions of people to get around our city more easily and quickly." Mike Brown, managing director of London Underground, said: "The new service will boost jobs and will benefit the economy by hundreds of millions of pounds." RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "This proposal is now being bulldozed through without any proper risk assessment or agreement on core issues. "To make this plan work we need more tube staff not less if we are not going to be risking disaster at three o'clock in the morning when the West End is flooded with thousands of people fresh out of the pubs and clubs. "As it stands at the moment the night tube plans are not properly thought through and are a disaster waiting to happen." Gynaecologist Dr Anthony Madu, 46, secretly carried out locum work at hospitals while firstly suspended and later on paid sick leave from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. He was found guilty of six counts of fraud in 2014 but was spared jail on condition he paid back the money. But Swansea magistrates heard he had not done so. Nigerian-born Madu, of Woolwich, London, continued to work for other health boards while on paid leave, including in Manchester, Yorkshire, and the Midlands. The cost to the four hospitals he defrauded was said to be £240,000 and his 2014 trial at Newport Crown Court heard he had transferred £95,000 to a Nigerian bank account. Speaking at the time, prosecutor Christian Jowett said Madu, a specialist registrar, had not told his employers about his additional work, or his two locum agencies about being on sick leave, which he was legally obliged to do. "He continued to work and receive payment from both Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and his work in England," he added. Madu was suspended and put on extended leave by the health board in 2009 over allegations about his conduct towards other staff and claims he had falsified his training record. From January 2010, he submitted sick notes on three different occasions, saying he could not work because of stress. But the doctor, who earned close to £100,000 a year, went on to do locum work worth about £69,000 with three NHS trusts in England while still earning more than £29,000 from his employers in Wales. In June 2016 Madu was ordered to pay £73,000 back to the NHS within six months, an order which he appealed. After he failed to repay it he was jailed for two years.

The Tube is to run a 24-hour service at weekends from 12 September 2015, it has been announced. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A disgraced doctor who failed to pay back more than £70,000 he swindled from the NHS has been jailed for two years.

Poppy Widdison collapsed at her home in Grimsby and later died in hospital from a cardiac arrest in June 2013. Her mother Michala Pyke, 37, of Ladysmith Road, and her former partner John Rytting, 40, of Frederick Street denied giving her drugs in the months before her death. The pair will be sentenced in January. More on this and other North East Lincolnshire stories The jury at Hull Crown Court heard Pyke and Rytting encouraged the young girl to eat sedatives because they felt she was an inconvenience to their relationship. Text messages between the pair talked about Poppy having a "blue Smartie", believed to be a reference to the sedative diazepam, and going to sleep, the court heard. David Gordon, prosecuting, told the jury: "We say Pyke and Rytting are just wanting to get on with their love life, wanting to enjoy each other's company and it may be this young girl was something of an encumbrance." A post-mortem examination could not establish a cause of death but toxicology tests carried out on her blood and hair found various drugs and showed the young girl had been exposed to and had ingested significant amounts of heroin and methadone for a period of between two and six months before her death, the court heard. The drugs did not contribute to Poppy's death but experts agreed there was a "long period of ill-treatment and neglect by the grossly inappropriate administration of various drugs to the child by the defendants", the jury heard. Speaking after the verdicts, Det Supt Umberto Cuozzo, said: "Poppy was betrayed by the very people who were entrusted to keep her safe from harm. "They put their relationship, lifestyle and drugs before her and I hope they now come forward and tell the truth about the events that led to Poppy's death in June 2013." In a pilot project, South East Coast Ambulance delayed sending help for certain 111 calls and transferred them to the 999 system, thus gaining an additional 10 minutes to respond. Health regulator Monitor said it had not fully considered patient safety. The trust has defended the project but acknowledged the "serious findings". South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Seacamb) covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Brighton and North East Hampshire. As part of the pilot from December 2014 to February, the trust transferred some calls between systems to re-assess what type of advice or treatment patients needed and whether an ambulance was really required. How call handling was changed Secamb provides NHS 111 services across the region and responds to 999 calls. Some NHS 111 calls were transferred to the 999 system to give Secamb more time for more urgent calls. The calls affected were in the second most serious category - Category A Red 2 - which covers conditions like strokes or fits but which are less critical than where people are non responsive. Under NHS rules, calls designated as life-threatening are supposed to receive an ambulance response within eight minutes. The trust allowed itself an extra 10 minutes to deal with some calls by "re-triaging" patients in the 999 system. Monitor said the project was "poorly handled" and there were "reasonable grounds to suspect that the trust is in breach of its licence." It has added a condition to Secamb's licence, so that if insufficient progress is made the leadership team could be changed. Paul Streat, regional director at Monitor, said: "It is understandable that trusts want to explore better ways of delivering the best possible care but this was poorly-managed and done without the proper authorisation and without enough thought given to how it might affect patients." The trust said it had faced "unprecedented call volumes" and "serious hospital handover delays" last winter. Chief Executive Paul Sutton said it had wanted to make sure the most ill patients were responded to promptly, but acknowledged that it had not acted in the right way. "These are serious findings," he said. "We have already begun to take steps to address Monitor's concerns and as part of this process, independent reviews will assess how decisions are made within the trust, governance processes and our approach to patient safety."

A mother and her ex-partner have been found guilty of child cruelty after feeding drugs to her four-year-old daughter. [NEXT_CONCEPT] An NHS ambulance trust is being investigated after it dodged national response targets to gain more time to assess some seriously ill patients.

Ideoba is run by former Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price and American financial services expert Andrew Auerbach, who met at Harvard university in the USA. Support comes from Harvard professor Harry Lewis, who taught billionaires Bill Gates of Microsoft and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg. Mr Price said Wales was "moving from coal mining to data mining." The company has won financial backing from the Welsh government, whose economy minister Edwina Hart was opening Ideoba's research and development centre on Tuesday. The company aims to create website search engines giving financial investment organisations access to advice from 300 million experts across the world, while existing businesses use smaller scale, manually-generated databases. Mr Auerbach said although the company's main markets were in London and New York, support from the Welsh government and "Adam's passion for Wales" were two of three factors which had persuaded him of the suitability of the location. He added: "There's a lot of very talented people around the area who ready to work and are accessible." Mr Price said the Bridgend area already had companies working in a similar field, adding that Sony's Raspberry Pii device was produced just down the corridor from them. "We've already got a cluster of hi-tech companies serving global markets and that's very positive news for us going forward," he said. "We're moving from coal mining to data mining." The company will start with just nine employees, but Mr Auerbach said they were confident that their model would allow them to grow to around 100 employees in the next three years. Ms Hart said: "This an extremely exciting development with huge potential and I am delighted Ideoba chose to locate in Wales. "It sends out a very strong message that Wales is a key centre for both financial services and ICT - two of our priority sectors that are fully supported by the Welsh government." The mobile phone giant's chief executive, Vittorio Colao, told the BBC it was "important" Britain remained part of the EU. He also ignited a row with BT over broadband speeds, saying people outside the UK had much faster rates. Separately, Vodafone shares closed up 3.9% after it reported higher revenues. Underlying revenues rose 1.2% in the three months to the end of September, up from 0.8% in the previous quarter. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Colao said: "Let me separate the political decision from the business situation. "The political decision is clearly for the voters, it's clearly a British citizens' decision. "For our business, if you think about it, we are a digital business. We have more than 50% of our revenues and profits in Europe. We want a single digital market, and we want to be part of that single digital market. "So from our point of view for the business, it's important that Britain remains as part of the single European market because it's good for our customers, it's good for our shareholders, and it's good for the company itself, that can be more competitive and have lower costs. So, in that sense, yes, it is better if we remain in Europe." Unveiling Vodafone's half-year results, Mr Colao said the company had reached an "important turning point" as organic service revenues - a closely-watched measure of sales - in the three months to the end of September rose 1.2% compared with a rise of 0.8% three months earlier. The mobile phone operator reported a 1.9% rise in underlying earnings for the six months to the end of September to £5.8bn, although statutory pre-tax profits for the half-year fell to £232m from £406m a year earlier. Vodafone also upgraded its full-year underlying profit outlook to between £11.7bn and £12bn compared with a previous forecast of around £11bn. While the overall sales picture was an improved one, Vodafone once again saw declining revenue in Europe - its most developed market - where revenues fell 1%. But its falling sales in Europe were offset by a 6.7% increase in its fast growing Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific division. Shares ended the day 8.3p higher at 222.8p, valuing the company at almost £60bn.

A hi-tech firm is creating 100 new jobs in Bridgend developing specialist web services for the financial sector. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The boss of Vodafone has backed the UK remaining part of the European Union on the day the Prime Minister set out his four key demands to reform the EU.

Bath have ruled out surgery for the 24-year-old, who suffered medial ligament damage against Northampton. Wales play Australia on 5 November before games against Argentina, Japan and South Africa. "He's had a scan. It's anything from six to eight weeks," said Bath director of rugby Todd Blackadder. Faletau, who joined the Premiership club from Newport Gwent Dragons this summer, was replaced 12 minutes into the 18-14 win at Northampton Saints. He is one of seven Welsh exiles who will have to rely on being picked as wildcards for international selection during 2016-17. George North, Jamie Roberts, Rhys Priestland, Dominic Day, Nicky Thomas and Rhodri Williams are the others. The Welsh Rugby Union's senior player selection policy means only three players who play outside Wales can be picked. Interim Wales head coach Rob Howley announces his squad for Wales' November Test matches on Tuesday, 18 October. Set around the clashes between rival gangs in 1960s Brighton, the original starred Sting, Ray Winstone, Phil Daniels and Toyah Wilcox. Reports of a sequel surfaced in The Mirror last month, with Wilcox among those rumoured to reprise their roles. But Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey have denied involvement, calling the project "a blatant attempt to cash in". In a strongly-worded statement, they said: "For the avoidance of doubt, this project isn't endorsed by The Who, Who Films, Universal or any of the other rights owners of the original." Bill Curbishley, the band's manager who produced the original film, added: "Quadrophenia is a significant and influential film based on The Who's music, not some Carry On franchise. "Any follow-up could only be made by the authors of the original and would need to be worthy of the name. This karaoke sequel announced recently would be totally ridiculous." Curbishley added the new film would star neither Sting nor Winstone. Furthermore, the production will not be permitted to use any lyrics or music from The Who. The Mirror's report, which ran on 27 May, said the follow-up would be set in the present day and based around events in the book To Be Someone, by Peter Meadows, which was inspired by the original movie. His book picks up where the narrative of The Who's album (rather than the film) ends, following the hero, Jimmy, through the punk era as he becomes a drug dealing gangster. Director Ray Burdis - who previously produced The Krays, starring Gary and Martin Kemp - claimed Townshend had given Meadows' book the seal of approval, suggesting this counted as an endorsement for his film. Meanwhile, Wilcox said she would reprise her role as the sexually promiscuous party girl Monkey. "The natural journey for my character, nearly 40 years on, has seen her become a sexual predator, working in the sex industry as a madam. She's married to one of the other main characters and they're swingers." Curbishley responded that he, "found it hard to understand why any of the original cast would lend themselves to this crass attempt to cash in on the excellence of the original when this quite clearly isn't a sequel".

Wales number eight Taulupe Faletau is a doubt for the autumn internationals as he faces up to eight weeks on the sidelines because of a knee injury. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Rock band The Who have attacked plans to make a sequel to Quadrophenia, the cult film based on their rock opera.

Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead has held meetings with the US Department of Agriculture in a bid to get a decades-old ban lifted. Food products containing sheep lungs - a key ingredient in haggis - have been outlawed since 1971. Mr Lochhead said he had a positive response, with new draft rules on imports set to be published next year. Ahead of his trip to the US, the rural affairs secretary had suggested producers in Scotland were "up for tweaking the recipe" in order to get around the ban on imports. But he vowed US customers would "still get as close as possible to the real thing". Mr Lochhead had a series of meetings with Under Secretary Lisa Mensah and the US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. He said: "I was pleased to hear from Under Secretary Mensah and the animal and plant health inspectorate service that they will publish the draft rules next year to pave the way for the return of Scotch lamb and haggis onto US plates. "We know that around 10 million US citizens claim Scottish heritage so we have a ready-made market with them and with Scots at heart. "Of course exports to the US will also be a real boost for producers and farmers and benefit our economy." Rob Livesey, vice president of the National Farmers Union Scotland, travelled with Mr Lochhead to the US. "The work done here in the past few days should speed the entry of Scottish beef and lamb onto the US market," he said. "The opening of this market will be a real shot in the arm for our primary producers, who need every market opportunity available to give much-needed confidence to make positive breeding decisions now in anticipation of an upturn in demand for our top-quality product." James Macsween, of leading Scottish butchers Macsween of Edinburgh, said: "We are very excited about the prospect of exporting haggis to the US within the next 24 months. It will be a massive opportunity for us and the industry." Shaun Watkinson's BMW motorbike crashed into the back of a Citroen car driving in the same direction at about 42mph on the A18 Mountain Road, the court heard. Mr Watkinson, 55 and of Bolton, Greater Manchester, was thrown over the the car and on to the road in front. The project manager was pronounced dead at Noble's Hospital in Braddan after the collision on 2 June. A police investigator told the inquest, sitting at Douglas Court House, that Mr Watkinson's motorbike struck the back of Citroen, which was being driven by a local man, in an area of the Mountain Road known as Hailwood's Rise. Both the driver of the Citroen and his sister, who was a passenger, were taken to hospital but later released. The inquest heard that during the TT festival the Isle of Man government operates the Mountain Road as a one-way system. The scheme was introduced as a safety measure and is thought to avoid the potential for head-on collisions in the derestricted route. Coroner John Needham said: "This is a very tragic accident - if there had been a speed limit in place there is good reason to believe that this accident would not have happened and Shaun would still be with us. "This road should be governed by a speed limit while it is a one-way system during the TT festival. Without it fatalities are inevitable. "I will be writing to the [Isle of Man] department of infrastructure to make this recommendation, for the second time." Mr Needham recorded a verdict of accidental death. Excavations at Beckery Chapel near Glastonbury aim to accurately date buildings of an early Christian chapel. During an open day on Sunday visitors will be able to see remains which were last excavated in 1967-1968. The trenches will then be filled in and the position of the chapel will be marked on the ground in the field. Archaeologist, Dr Richard Brunning, from the South West Heritage Trust, said: "Previous excavations in the 1960s suggested that a Saxon monastery may have been present on the site before it became a chapel. "The present research aims to get new scientific dating samples to precisely date the monastic cemetery for the first time." The chapel is connected to legendary visits by King Arthur, who is said to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus there. The Irish saint Bridget also reputedly visited it in AD 488 and left some possessions at the site, which later became a place of pilgrimage.

Haggis could be back on the menu in the US by 2017, according to the Scottish government. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A motorcyclist who died in a crash on the Isle of Man was travelling at about 150mph, an inquest has been told. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Remains of a medieval building which, according to legend, King Arthur visited, have been uncovered for the first time in almost 50 years.

Nigerians are increasingly worried about Mr Buhari's health, hoping that he does not die in office like President Umaru Yar'Adua did in 2010, after a lengthy illness which saw him fly to Germany and Saudi Arabia for treatment. The latest concerns have been fuelled by the fact that Mr Buhari, 74, missed the last two cabinet meetings and failed to attend Friday's Muslim prayers, even though the mosque is about a minute's walk from his office and residence. The government has shared little information about his health, and a journalist with a leading newspaper was thrown out of State House by the president's chief security officer after he reported on the latest concerns. Mr Buhari's media aides distanced themselves from the officer's actions, and got a more senior security officer to overturn the ban on the reporter attending State House press conferences and other events. "The president has cut down on his official engagements and no longer ventures out of State House" The incident showed that the president's aides are finding it difficult to deal with questions about the health of the former military ruler. Unfortunately for them, the issue is not about to go away. After returning from a seven-week medical trip to the UK in early March, Mr Buhari said he had never been "so sick" in his life and hinted, without giving details, that he had had a blood transfusion. Since then, there have been credible reports that his UK doctors have been to Nigeria to treat him, although these have not been confirmed. The president has also cut down on his official engagements and no longer ventures out of State House. 19 January: Leaves for UK on "medical vacation" 5 February: Asks parliament to extend medical leave 10 March: Returns home but does not resume work immediately 26 April: Misses cabinet meeting and is "working from home" 28 April: Misses Friday prayers He used to chair the weekly cabinet meetings and attend Friday prayers - an opportunity for his close allies to shake hands with him. But after failing to attend Wednesday's cabinet meeting, Information minister Lai Mohammed told reporters that on the advice of his doctors, Mr Buhari would spend the day working from home and asked for all files requiring his attention to be sent to his official residence. While many Nigerians are heeding the minister's appeal to pray for the president's speedy recovery, some, like Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka, are asking the president to give more details about his health. "Guarding your state of health like Donald Trump is guarding his tax returns is not what we expect from a Nigerian president," he said in a statement. It is unclear whether Mr Buhari will be more transparent about his health, but people are hoping that the president, who is halfway into his term, gets better soon so that he can devote himself to tackling the tough challenges facing Nigeria, including the biggest economic downturn since the end of military rule in 1999. More from Mannir Dan Ali: Hospira, which made the Symbiq Infusion System pump, had already discontinued the product for business reasons. The devices were previously revealed to be hackable by an independent researcher. The manufacturer told the BBC at the time that it was working with the FDA on a more secure system. The FDA is urging healthcare facilities to switch to alternative infusion systems "as soon as possible". Although no known instances of hacking have occurred, Hospira said in June that vulnerabilities discovered by security researcher Billy Rios were being investigated by the firm, in co-operation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FDA. Mr Rios recently published a blog post in which he claimed the security flaw had gone unfixed for over a year. The FDA's statement said that the agency was continuing to investigate the issues but advised hospitals to take action now. "FDA strongly encourages health care facilities transition to alternative infusion systems, and discontinue use of these pumps," it said. In a statement, Hospira said it was continuing to work with the DHS and FDA regarding the security issues with their pumps. In 2007 there were more than 400,000 Hospira pumps in use in hospitals around the world, according to the company's website. Hospira was acquired by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in February 2015 in a deal worth $17bn (£11bn).

In our series of letters from African journalists, the editor-in-chief of Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper, Mannir Dan Ali, writes that President Muhamadu Buhari has been accused of being as secretive about his health as his US counterpart Donald Trump has been about his tax returns. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The US Food and Drug Administration is now "strongly encouraging" hospitals not to use a leading brand of drug pump over hacking fears.

Roma defender Anthony Rudiger was repeatedly subjected to racism from Lazio fans during the first half. The chanting died down after the stadium announcer warned that the tie would be interrupted if it continued. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Ciro Immobile scored as Lazio beat their rivals for the first time since 2013. Lazio went ahead when Felipe Anderson burst down the right and pulled the ball back for Milinkovic-Savic to fire into the roof of the net. Italy forward Immobile then tucked home their second from close range. The second leg takes place on 5 April. Juventus beat Napoli 3-1 in the other semi-final first leg. "Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate," said one of the tweets. The posts by Badlands National Park in South Dakota were widely shared but had all been removed by Tuesday evening. The National Park Service shut its own Twitter operation briefly on Friday after an apparent clampdown. Trump's 'control-alt-delete' on climate The park service had retweeted photos about turnout at President Donald Trump's inauguration. But the accounts were reactivated the next day after an apology for "mistaken" retweets. Since then the park service tweets have been about park news and scenery, but on Tuesday afternoon, the South Dakota park started posting tweets about climate science data. President Trump has previously called climate change a hoax and the White House deleted the climate change policies on its website on the day of the inauguration. The park service could not be reached for comment. Meanwhile, a media blackout has been introduced at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the Associated Press news agency. It bans staff from awarding new contracts or posting on any of the agency's social media accounts, The main EPA account has not posted anything since 19 January, a day before Mr Trump's inauguration. The new president angered environmentalists on Tuesday with two executive actions that advance two controversial pipelines. But Mr Trump said the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines were important because they would create thousands of construction jobs.

Lazio established a two-goal advantage in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final with Roma in a derby marred by racist chanting. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A US national park has posted a series of tweets about climate change that were later deleted.

Striker Pointer started his career at the Clarets in 1957 and was part of their 1959-60 First Division title-winning side. Pointer went on to score 132 goals in 270 games for the club and is Burnley's second highest goalscorer of all-time. He made his England debut in September 1961, going on to score in a 4-1 victory over Luxembourg and ended with a total of two goals in three caps. Pointer went on to play for Bury, Coventry and Portsmouth and returned to Turf Moor as youth-team manager in 1978. Waqass Goraya, one of five activists who disappeared in early January, told the BBC he was tortured "for pleasure". The activists were freed after several weeks - but until now none of them has said who was behind their mistreatment. Pakistan's army has previously denied any involvement in the case. There were vocal protests seeking their release. Pakistan is one of the the world's most dangerous countries for reporters and human rights activists, and critics of the powerful military have been detained, beaten or killed. Waqass Goraya - who now lives in the Netherlands - told the BBC he had been tortured "beyond limits". He described being punched, slapped and forced into stress positions during the three weeks he was held. He worried he would never be released. "We knew it was over… We will die under torture," he told the BBC. He also spoke at a side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva about his experiences. Mr Goraya believes he was detained because he ran a satirical Facebook page critical of the influence of the Pakistani military in the country's political system. The page has also criticised military policy in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province. Mr Goraya strongly denies breaking any laws. "I hadn't done anything criminal - otherwise I would've been in a court not in illegal detention," he told the BBC. At a press conference in January, a spokesman for Pakistan's powerful military said it had had nothing to do with the disappearance of the bloggers. Pakistan's interior minister had previously said the government did not tolerate "enforced disappearances". After Waqass Goraya and the other activists disappeared, a campaign demanding their release sprang up around the hashtag #recoverallactivists. But a counter-campaign both online - and backed by a number of TV anchors - accusing them of blasphemy also began. Blasphemy is an emotive issue in Pakistan - and can legally be punishable by death. Mr Goraya says the allegations of blasphemy are false, and that alleged blasphemous postings have been fabricated. Following a court petition by an Islamist leader, on 8 March legal proceedings were begun calling for the prosecution of those behind a number of social media pages allegedly run by the missing activists. All of them are now believed to be outside Pakistan. Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has previously raised concern about the blasphemy allegations against the activists - but following the court ruling threatened to block "all social media websites" that had blasphemous content. Mr Goraya believes the blasphemy allegations are an attempt "to shut us down - to threaten our families - to build pressure on us". A protest was held in Islamabad on 8 March by religious groups calling for action against the activists and criticising the government for letting them leave the country. Mr Goraya says he believes that by speaking to the UN, he can help build pressure in Pakistan to pass a bill currently before parliament that would force the security services to provide information on a "missing person" in their detention within three days of a request. He also wants accountability for what happened to him. "The government should investigate it. We have evidence - strong evidence - it will directly lead to the persons responsible." Mr Goraya still has nerve damage in his hands and feet, as well as problems with his hearing - but says he is determined to continue activist work. "They are still picking people, more and more people are being harmed - our friends, our colleagues - so how can we stop? Someone has to stand up."

Former Burnley and England striker Ray Pointer has died at the age of 79. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A liberal Pakistani activist who went missing earlier this year has said a "government institution" with links to the military held him and tortured him.

The team that developed the test says it could provide valuable leads in cases where perpetrators cannot be identified through DNA profiling. The Hirisplex system could allow investigators to narrow down a large group of possible suspects. Details appear in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics. Predicting phenotypes - outward traits such as hair colour or eye colour - from DNA information is an emerging field in forensics. An important current approach, known as genetic profiling, involves comparing crime scene DNA with that from a suspect or with a profile stored in a database. But this relies on the person either being among a pool of suspects identified by the police or having their profile in a DNA database. Tools such as Hirisplex could be useful in those cases where the perpetrator is completely unknown to the authorities, said Prof Manfred Kayser, who led the study. He said the test "includes the 24 currently best eye and hair colour predictive DNA markers. In its design we took care that the test can cope with the challenges of forensic DNA analysis such as low amounts of material." Prof Kayser, from Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, added: "The test is very sensitive and produces complete results on even smaller DNA amounts than usually used for forensic DNA profiling." He told BBC News that the journal article described everything needed to establish the test in a forensic lab, but that the team was also in touch with industry regarding their knowledge about hair and eye colour prediction. The test system includes the six DNA markers previously used in a test for eye colour known as Irisplex, combining them with predictive markers for hair. In the study, the authors used Hirisplex to predict hair colour phenotypes in a sample drawn from three European populations. On average, their prediction accuracy was 69.5% for blonde hair, 78.5% for brown, 80% for red and 87.5% for black hair colour. Analysis on worldwide DNA samples suggested the results were similar regardless of a person's geographic ancestry. The team was also able to determine, with a prediction accuracy of about 86%, whether a brown-eyed, black haired person was of non-European versus European origin (excluding some nearby areas such as the Middle East). The findings were also outlined at the sixth European Academy of Forensic Science conference in The Hague this week. Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk The lively TV scene is dominated by free-to-air networks ABS-CBN and GMA. Some Manila-based networks broadcast in local languages. Cable TV has extensive reach. Films, comedies and entertainment shows attract the largest audiences. There are more than 600 radio stations. With around 100 outlets, Manila Broadcasting Company is the largest network. The private press is vigorous, comprising some 500 newspaper titles. The most popular are Filipino-language tabloids, which can be prone to sensationalism. Press freedom is guaranteed under the constitution. But violent attacks and threats against journalists are serious problems, says NGO Freedom House. "The government has allowed unpunished violence against journalists, most of it politically motivated, to become part of the culture," the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. By 2016 there were 44.5 million internet users (InternetLiveStats). Facebook and Twitter are the most popular social media platforms. Rhian Robinson, 32, attacked Cheryl Robinson in Pontardawe in April. Robinson, from Pontardawe, pleaded guilty to one count of wounding with intent at an earlier hearing at Cardiff Crown Court. On Friday, Recorder Eleri Rees sentenced her to a hospital order after a psychologist told the court she was making good progress in hospital. When she was arrested, Robinson was transferred into the care of Glanrhyd Hospital in Bridgend under the Mental Health Act. Ms Robinson, 63, suffered multiple wounds in the assault.

Scientists have developed a forensic test that can predict both the hair and eye colour of a possible suspect using DNA left at a crime scene. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Powerful commercial interests control or influence much of the media. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A woman who stabbed her mother in the head at her home in Neath Port Talbot has been given a hospital order.

EU law enforcement agency Europol said the gang purchased football clubs and then used them as a front for an opaque network of holding companies. It said four major football clubs were searched along with houses and offices, resulting in three "key" arrests. Third division club Uniao de Leiria was among those raided. Leiria's owner Alexander Tolstikov has been detained, along with two other club officials, Portuguese media report. They are all due to appear in court on Thursday morning. Uniao de Leiria was a top-flight club, at one point managed by Jose Mourinho, but it fell out of the Primera Liga in 2012 and dropped to the third division before going bankrupt and being bought by Mr Tolstikov in 2015. It is currently fighting for promotion to the second division. Europol said the searches and arrests were carried out on Wednesday as part of Operation Matrioskas (Russian dolls), which had been going on for more than a year. Links were found with serious and organised crimes carried out in the UK, Germany, Moldova, Austria, Latvia and Estonia, it said. Three other clubs were searched, top sides Sporting Lisbon, Sporting Braga and Benfica - but Portuguese media said they were not under suspicion and were only linked to the investigation because of football transfer negotiations conducted with Leiria. Several Russian players have been on Uniao de Leiria's books in the past two years, but only one has been in the main squad, Reuters reports. The gang behind the alleged club takeovers was "thought to be a cell of an important Russian mafia group", the agency added. According to Europol, the group adopted a particular method: Due to the use of front-men, the real owners who ultimately controlled the club were unknown, it said. The investigation was triggered due to suspicions raised by "strong red flag indicators" - mainly the "high standards of living suspects enjoyed". Michael McDermott, 68, from Waterford, Ireland, was found guilty of trying to import over a tonne of cocaine, with a street value of about £80m. Two other men, David Pleasants, 57, from Grimsby, and Gerald Van de Kooij, 27, from Amersfoort, Netherlands, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing. All three will be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court next month. More on the cocaine court case and other news from Devon and Cornwall Thirty-eight bales of cocaine were found hidden under bags of sand and gravel in the boat's fish hold, in what is believed to be the third biggest-ever haul of the drug in British waters. The trawler was intercepted as it entered UK territorial waters off the coast of Cornwall and brought into Falmouth on 18 August 2016. The Border Force had tracked the vessel for more than 24 hours, acting on intelligence from the National Crime Agency (NCA). It is believed to have taken the drugs on board from another boat south of Ireland before turning back to the UK. Both Pleasants and Van de Kooij admitted drug importing offences, but McDermott denied the charge, claiming he had been forced into shipping them. Mark Harding, senior investigating officer from the NCA's border investigation team, described McDermott as "a crucial link in a chain that leads from cocaine manufacturers in South America to drug dealers in the UK". "In stopping this consignment we have prevented further criminality by the gangs who bring violence and exploitation to our streets," he said. Mike Stepney, director National Operations Border Force, said the prosecution of "this crooked captain and his criminal crew" underlined how close partnership work with the NCA was helping to keep UK communities safe.

European and Portuguese police say they have dismantled a mainly Russian criminal gang laundering money through football in Portugal. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The skipper of a fishing boat has been convicted of one of Britain's biggest-ever cocaine smuggling operations.

The Roman practice of augury was the study of the flight of birds to interpret the will of the gods, not the flight of fixed-wing aircraft. Still, the unscheduled descent from the skies to a runway lined by fire crews and the subsequent blocking of the runway at Luton airport so soon after taking off from RAF Northolt on Sunday afternoon must have meant something. It undoubtedly meant Mr Johnson was late for his evening meeting with Federica Mogherini, the EU's foreign policy chief. This morning, she was gracious. They "had a good exchange on the main issues on the agenda... and we will welcome him as a new member of the family". But a member for how long? Heading to a working breakfast with his 27 fellow foreign ministers early on Monday morning, the new foreign secretary did not duck the inevitability, as he sees it, of Britain leaving the European Union, but he also took care to stress once again his central message - that British exit from the EU is not the same as Britain leaving Europe. The trouble is that many of his EU counterparts do feel those two are the same, and it is awkward for the man who led the Brexit campaign to victory that some of his campaigning rhetoric still haunts him. Comparing the EU's alleged ambitions - the creation of a superstate - to those of Hitler, as Boris Johnson did in May, even if he said their methods were different, was judged spectacularly offensive. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has said Mr Johnson "lied a lot" to turn British public opinion against the EU. He vowed to speak to the new foreign secretary "with the greatest sincerity and frankness.'' Later, he told a news conference that Mr Johnson had behaved with "a certain modesty" at his first EU meeting. Mr Ayrault also called for a quick start to formal talks on British exit to end what he called "the current situation of uncertainty". That is a phrase on many lips. It was also used in Brussels by US Secretary of State John Kerry. His presence at the gathering was also awkward for Mr Johnson. It marked another symbolic first: the first participation by a US secretary of state in an EU Foreign Ministers Council. Mr Kerry specifically explained his attendance as a demonstration of the level of enthusiastic US support for the EU and European integration - even if he balanced it slightly by stressing his and President Barack Obama's concern for Britain's prospects after the EU divorce. Mr Johnson's own verdict on his debut at the European high table? "Very good, long, productive day." There will be lots more, probably far longer and far more difficult, days to come. The 42-year-old was banned for his behaviour during the 37-17 Premiership final win over Northampton in May. His suspension will start on Saturday after the club made an unsuccessful appeal against the length of it at a disciplinary hearing last month. "Was I disappointed? No. I probably got what I deserved," Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester. "If you look at it in the cold light of day, I shouldn't have done what I did. There are reasons in and around that with what happened on the field." Tigers chief executive Simon Cohen has been critical of the treatment of his director of rugby and warned there is more "fallout" to come. And Cockerill echoed Cohen's remarks of the tribunal process. "It has already been said that there were issues with the process and how some things were handled," he added.

As a classical scholar, Boris Johnson must surely have wondered if his plane's diversion and emergency landing on the way to Brussels - his first international foray as foreign secretary - was an omen. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill has admitted his nine-game suspension was warranted.

Rower Ms Glover won the women's pair in Rio with partner Heather Stanning, defending the title won at London 2012. Mr Backshall, who lives with Ms Glover in Buckinghamshire, took the medal to Bourne End Jewellers. Richard Bull, the firm's head gold and silversmith, said he helped get Mr Backshall out of "a sticky situation". LIVE: For more on this and other Buckinghamshire stories The couple, who met in 2014, are due to get married later this month. Ms Glover, originally from Cornwall, revealed how Mr Backshall had damaged her medal during an interview with BBC Breakfast and later tweeted an apology for "dobbing" on him. Mr Bull, who repaired her medal said: "It was brought in to me and I could see it had been dropped obviously and I said to Helen's fiancé (Steve Backshall) who brought it in that it looked like it had been dropped on concrete and that's pretty much what had happened. "He admitted to having dropped it himself. "It was damaged on two edges - on one edge quite badly and the other less badly. But it was quite a mission to restore it. "They are pretty heavy and bigger than you think. They are about 4in in diameter and must weigh half a kilo and they are solid silver in actual fact and gold-plated on the top so they are a very special piece of jewellery really. "I feel very honoured to have been trusted with restoring such a priceless object. "I am very pleased with the way it came out and I think Helen Glover is very pleased as well." Ms Glover, who is due to have a victory parade through her home town of Penzance on Sunday, has won three world championships as well as two Olympic golds and is unbeaten in 39 races over five years alongside Ms Stanning. Mr Backshall has presented CBBC show Deadly 60, the Really Wild Show and Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge on BBC Two and was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2014. Anthony Ferrie was being taken back to jail in a G4S vehicle following a visit to Livingston's St John's Hospital. One officer was knocked unconscious and another suffered an arm injury during the escape at about 14:15. A spokeswoman for the Scottish Prison Service said: "We are aware that an individual has escaped from the custody of G4S while on a hospital escort." She added: "We are assisting Police Scotland to apprehend them." Willie Galloway, head of operations for G4S's custody transport in Scotland, said: "Two members of our crew were injured during the incident which left one unconscious and the other with an injury to their arm. "While they both remain in hospital, their injuries do not at this stage appear to be life-threatening and we are supporting them and their families. "We are assisting Police Scotland's inquiry to recapture this prisoner and are working with the Scottish Prison Service to understand the events leading up to this escape." Ferrie, 33, was being held at Addiewell Prison in West Lothian. He is described as white, 6ft tall and of slim build. He was wearing a blue sweater, jeans and trainers. Ferrie, who police said should not be approached by members of the public, is believed to have links to Bellshill, Motherwell and Grangemouth.

TV nature presenter Steve Backshall has had to take fiancee Helen Glover's Olympic gold medal to be repaired after he dropped it on a concrete floor. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Two security guards were injured as a prisoner jumped from a private security firm's van in West Lothian.

The conger eel, which is about 7ft (2.1m) long, was accidentally caught in the nets of the trawler Hope. As it was dead when it was hauled in, the fishermen brought the creature back to Plymouth where it sold for £40. Plymouth Fisheries said it was 131lb (59kg), just under the UK line-caught record of 133lb 4oz (60kg). Manager Pete Bromley, manager of Plymouth fisheries, said: "It just happens to be a very unlucky big fish." The eel was brought in to the fish market on Wednesday where it was caught on camera appearing to be about 20ft (6m) long and dwarfing the fishermen behind it. But Mr Bromley said the photos were deceptive and the fish was actually about 7ft (2.1m) long. "It was certainly very large and very unusual for our market," he said. "Conger normally live in deep water wrecks, so it is unusual to catch them on open ground. "There's not a great deal of commercial value in them. Due to the economic downturn prices of conger have dropped. "But it is a very impressive fish and would have made any anglers' day." Fisherman Scott Govier was unable for comment. Source: Plymouth Fisheries/BBC Autumnwatch The threats follow two killings in a gangland feud in Dublin in the past week. The journalists have been "formally notified" by police that their safety is at risk from organised criminals. Mr Kenny said "journalists must be afforded the freedom to go about their jobs without fear of reprisal". In a statement, Independent News and Media (INM), which owns the Irish Independent newspaper, said it was working with police to increase security around its reporters. Its Editor-in-Chief Stephen Rae said they "would not be deterred". He added: "This is an outrageous threat to the freedom of the press in Ireland and we are taking the threats with the utmost seriousness. "Our media group will not be deterred from serving the public interest and highlighting the threat to society at large posed by such criminals." Group managing editor of the INM, Edward McCann, said the "people in question" had been "formally notified" by Irish police that their safety was at risk from organised criminals." 5 February - One man, is shot dead and two others are injured when masked gunmen open fire at a boxing weigh-in event at Dublin's Regency hotel. The dead man is later named as 33-year-old David Byrne. 8 February - A group purporting to be the Continuity IRA, a dissident republican faction, claims responsibility for the hotel shootings. However, hours later a second statement, also claiming to be from the Continuity IRA, denies any involvement. A second shooting takes place in inner city Dublin on Monday evening in what police believe could be a reprisal for David Byrne's murder. The second victim is named as Eddie Hutch Snr from North Strand. 9 February - Irish police say they are to establish a permanent armed support unit for Dublin in the wake of the gangland feud. Mr McCann said the paper was well aware of the dangers that journalists faced. "INM has lost two journalists in the last 20 years," he said. "Veronica Guerin and then there was Martin O'Hagan in Northern Ireland so we're well aware as a group of the dangers posed to journalists." The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Irish secretary, Seamus Dooley, said he was "gravely concerned at the development". "Journalists and media organisations will not be intimidated by such threats, which have no place in a democratic society," he said. On Tuesday, Irish police said they were working to set up a permanent armed support unit for Dublin in the wake of the gangland-style shootings. BBC News NI reporter Lisa McAlister, who is in Dublin, said gardaí could not comment on individuals or the threats facing them, but said they do have processes in place and take all threats seriously.

A massive eel caught by fishermen off the coast of Devon narrowly missed the British record. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has condemned the threats made against a number of journalists in the Republic of Ireland.

Ouseph, 29, beat Japan's Sho Sasaki 21-15 21-9, dominating throughout in a promising display. Compatriot Kirsty Gilmour failed to progress in the women's draw however, losing 21-12 17-21 16-21 to Linda Zetchiri of Bulgaria. "I hope I'm only at the start of my career and I've got many more lessons to learn on the way," she said. Shy Keenan, who founded The Phoenix Chief Advocates Consultancy, received 415 tweets in five months. Penelope Mellor, 53, of Coven Mill Close, Coven, Wolverhampton, was convicted of aggravated stalking at Chelmsford Crown Court last month. She was also given a 12-month community service order. Ms Mellor was told to do 200 hours' unpaid work, pay £2,000 in costs within two months and pay a £60 victim surcharge. During her trial, the prosecution said Mellor also sent material to Ms Keenan's associates and posted material online "which was considered unacceptable as criticism and personal in nature". Simon Newell, senior prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Mellor sent "insulting and abusive" publicly-visible comments to Ms Keenan's Twitter account. She also emailed Ms Keenan's book publisher and literary agent, and sent messages to The Sun newspaper, for which Ms Keenan wrote a regular column. "Ms Keenan was concerned private information about her family was being put into the public domain by Ms Mellor and threatening their safety, in particular, that it might be used by other people with grudges against her," he said. Despite being warned by police about her behaviour, Mr Newell said, Mellor continued to send emails and mount attacks via Twitter.

Britain's Rajiv Ouseph won his second pool game to progress to the last 16 of the Rio men's badminton. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A woman who stalked an anti-child abuse campaigner by "bombarding" her with Twitter messages has been given a restraining order for five years.

A BBC Freedom of Information request has found the city council has paid £430,000 into the attraction since it opened in April 2012. Southampton City Council said the figures were "disappointing" but added it was not unusual for attractions to see a revenue dip in their second year. It said a renewed effort would be made to increase takings. Visitor numbers at the £15m museum were 10,000 short of its target of 250,000 in the first two years. Its income was projected to be £2,035,200 but only £1,566,857 was generated. With running costs of £2,003,181, the project has cost the council more than £430,000 since it opened. Control of the council has changed from Conservative to Labour since the opening of the museum. Current deputy leader, Labour's Stephen Barnes-Andrews said the planning had been "horribly wrong". "That figure will have to be worked on - the business model it was set up on has not achieved the results it has meant to," he said. Conservative John Hannides, who held the council's leisure and culture cabinet post when the museum was built, said: "While the figures are disappointing, there is a lot we can do to boost those figures." He said the Conservative administration had always planned to investigate outsourcing to a specialist commercial operator. He also insisted a free ticket giveaway to Southampton residents had been "factored in" to the initial income projections. Mr Barnes-Andrews said no options were ruled out but the council would try and boost attendance. "We need to increase the footfall and make the marketing more focused. It's my responsibility to reduce that revenue gap." He added research showed the museum was having a wider benefit within the city centre's economy. He said Moscow had never extradited anyone before and "has no intention to do so", adding Mr Snowden was free to go if granted asylum elsewhere. Edward Snowden, 30, is believed to be holed up in a Moscow airport hotel. The US wants to prosecute him over the leaking of thousands of classified intelligence documents. The leaks have led to revelations that the US is systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data. At the weekend, Germany's Der Spiegel newspaper and Britain's The Guardian newspaper publicised allegations that the US has been spying on its EU allies. The revelations have angered many EU countries which are demanding a response from Washington. French President Francois Hollande has warned that negotiations over a major EU-US trade deal planned for next week could be threatened unless Washington can guarantee the spying stops "immediately". "Russia never hands over anybody anywhere and has no intention to do so," Mr Putin told a news conference in Moscow. "If he (Snowden) wants to remain here there is one condition - he should stop his work aimed at inflicting damage on our American partners no matter how strange this may sound coming from me." This is the clearest indication yet, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow, that Mr Putin is keen to avoid damaging relations with Washington over the Snowden case. The Russian president also stressed Mr Snowden "is not our agent and does not co-operate with us", and Russian secret services "never worked with him and are not working with him now". Earlier, senior Russian official Nikolai Patrushev said both President Putin and his US counterpart, Barack Obama, had told the chiefs of their security services to seek a resolution to the stand-off over Mr Snowden. Mr Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Security Council, told Russian media that the FSB and the FBI had been told to "keep in contact and find solutions", but warned there was no simple solution to the situation. The FBI refused to comment. Mr Putin was speaking at the same time President Obama confirmed to reporters that Washington had held "high level" discussions with Russia about Mr Snowden. "We don't have an extradition treaty with Russia," he told reporters while on a visit to Tanzania. "On the other hand, Mr Snowden, we understand, has travelled there without a valid passport and legal papers. And we are hopeful the Russian government makes decisions based on the normal procedures regarding international travel and the normal interactions law enforcement have."

Southampton's council-run SeaCity Museum is failing to meet its projected visitor numbers and income targets. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Russian President Vladimir Putin has told fugitive former CIA-analyst Edward Snowden to stop leaking US secrets if he wants to remain in the country.

Full-back Josh Adams went over to give Warriors the lead but Teimana Harrison and Haywood scored to put Saints ahead. Hooker Haywood touched down from a rolling maul to increase their lead before Bryce Heem scored a consolation try for Worcester. Stephen Myler kicked nine points for the hosts to seal the result. It was a first win in three league matches for Saints while Worcester slipped to their 11th defeat of the season, but remain six points above bottom club Bristol. The visitors went ahead inside the opening 10 minutes when Wynand Olivier's break was finished by full-back Adams. Northampton drew level through Harrison's first try of the season and Myler's penalty put Saints ahead after 30 minutes. Saints extended their lead on the stroke of half-time as Nic Groom began a move that was finished by Haywood, and the hosts did not let Worcester get close enough to really threaten the outcome after that. Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder told BBC Radio Northampton: "I'm all about getting a performance and winning; you want to play entertaining rugby but I'd rather win than lose. "I think the players are all trying, there are some tired bodies but we're working hard and we're back in the top six. "We're not playing as well as we could be, but we've got a combination of young and old and should be better next season." Warriors director of rugby Gary Gold told BBC Hereford and Worcester: "You lose games of rugby in two ways - you're either beaten by a better team or you create the problems yourself, and today I think we largely created the problems for ourselves. "It's frustration, it's a second week in a row that we've had that - we need to be more clinical in our execution. "I think Northampton are a very accomplished driving team and we neutralised them very well today and stopped them from exerting pressure." Northampton: Tuala; K Pisi, Tuitavake, Mallinder, Foden (capt); Myler, Groom; Waller, Haywood, Brookes, Paterson, Day, Gibson, Clark, Harrison Replacements: Clare, Waller, Hill, Ratuniyarawa, Dickinson, Dickson, Wilson, Estelles Worcester: Adams; Heem, Olivier, Willison, Humphreys; Mills, Hougaard; Bower, Annett, Schonert, O'Callaghan (capt), Spencer, Dowson, Lewis, Potgieter Replacements: Bregvadze, Leleimalefaga, Alo, Cavuabti, Mama, Baldwin, Lamb, Pennell For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. Unite members at Cardiff Bus suspended pay row strike action earlier this month after a revised deal was offered to the union, but it has now been rejected in a workplace ballot. A 48-hour strike will begin on Thursday - the day Wales takes on Fiji at the Millennium Stadium at 16:45 BST. New Zealand v Georgia, at 20:00 on Friday, will also be affected. The union, which has 540 members at the firm, initially rejected a 5% deal at the start of September but later suspended three days of planned industrial action after Cardiff Bus made what it called an "improved" offer. On Monday, the firm said it had been rebuffed and, as a result, a "limited" service would be in operation on Thursday and Friday. Cynthia Ogbonna, managing director of Cardiff Bus, said: "We have continued to work tirelessly to reach a positive resolution for all parties involved and are extremely disappointed that this has not been achieved." Customers were advised to check the company's website and social media feeds and to call its customer service helpline for further updates. "We are extremely apologetic for again inconveniencing our customers, and we will do our best to ensure that we keep Cardiff moving during this time," Ms Ogbonna added.

Mikey Haywood scored two tries as Northampton moved back into the top six of the Premiership with victory over Worcester at Franklin's Gardens. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Planned strikes by Cardiff bus drivers are set to go ahead while the city hosts two Rugby World Cup fixtures.

The mayor said the Republican candidate's message showed a "lack of understanding". Mr Khan was addressing a global progress summit in Montreal with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. Mr Khan was involved in a row with Mr Trump earlier this year over Mr Trump's call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US. Mr Khan told the assembled audience at the summit: "Donald Trump said that Muslims from around the world - I'm paraphrasing - would not be welcome into the United States of America. "Not only does that show a lack of understanding and awareness of the great country that is the USA and its history and legacy, it's also inadvertently playing into the hands of Daesh and so-called Isis because it implies it's not possible to be a Western liberal and mainstream Muslim. "I think it's important that the USA maintains her role as a beacon for tolerance, respect and diversity." While the name "Daesh" does not mean anything in Arabic - it merely represents the letters that make up Isil (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in Arabic (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil Iraq wa al-Sham) - it sounds similar to an Arabic verb that means to tread underfoot, trample down, or crush something. As a result, politicians have taken to using it to refer to the so-called Islamic State group. Later Mr Khan said he would be open to meeting Mr Trump during his trip, along with any other presidential candidate. He also said the UK should follow Canada's lead and do more to help Syrian refugees. Canada accepted 25,000 Syrian refugees between November 2015 and February 2016, while the UK has pledged to resettle 20,000 by 2020. The mayor's north America tour is intended to show London is "open for business" in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the European Union. He will make further trips to Chicago and New York as part of a five-day visit. The owner of the handbag, a Taiwanese art collector, was stuck in traffic in a tunnel when the thieves smashed her car window. It was not clear whether it was a targeted attack or if the thieves simply got lucky. The 1.3km (0.8 mile) long Landy Tunnel is notorious for smash-and-grab thefts. Some reports suggested the jewellery collection, which included a ring worth €1.7m, was due to be donated to the Paris Museum of Modern Art but the museum later denied the claim. The unique and numbered items would be very difficult to sell on without a specialised network, a police source told France's AFP news agency. The source said thefts in the Landy tunnel are often the work of petty crooks. "They aren't afraid of anything, know the area and escape through emergency exits," it added. In February 2010, Christina Chernovetska, the daughter of the then-mayor of Kiev, fell victim to a similar robbery when a handbag containing jewels worth €4.5m was stolen from her. The theft in Paris comes two weeks after thieves pulled off a daring heist in London's Hatton Garden, stealing jewels and other valuables from safety deposit boxes worth as much as £200m. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Akiry.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has accused US presidential candidate Donald Trump of "playing into the hands of Daesh". [NEXT_CONCEPT] French police are searching for three thieves who stole a handbag containing five million euros (£3.6m; $5.4m) worth of jewels in a daring Paris raid.

Amiram Ben-Oliel, 21, has been charged with murder, and a second suspect, a youth, as an accessory to murder. At least two others have been charged over attacks on Palestinians. The killing of Saad and Riham Dawabsha and their 18-month-old son, Ali, in the village of Duma last July sparked international condemnation. Another son, four-year-old Ahmed, is still being treated for his wounds. The Dawabsha family were sleeping in their home when it was firebombed early on 31 July, and daubed with slogans in Hebrew, including the word "revenge". Investigations have focused on young Jewish extremists, based largely in the occupied West Bank. According to the indictment, Mr Ben-Oliel carried out the attack in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli settler in a drive-by shooting one month before the Duma attack. Saad's brother Naser was unconvinced by Israel's commitment to the prosecution. "We have no trust in the Israeli judiciary. They would not have launched an investigation were it not for the international pressure on them," he said. The arson case has been cited as a factor in a spate of attacks by Palestinians on Israelis across Israel and the occupied West Bank. It also prompted the Israeli government to approve the use of administrative detention - a procedure under which a military court can order suspects to be detained indefinitely without charge or trial - for suspected Jewish terrorists. Lawyers for some of those detained over the arson attack allege their clients were tortured to extract confessions but this has been denied by the Israeli authorities. His arrest followed that of a 30-year-old woman in connection with the attack at North Walkden Primary School on Friday afternoon. Both were being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder, Greater Manchester Police said. The victim was stabbed in the chest as parents waited to collect their children in Whittle Drive, Walkden. The 30-year-old was linked with a move to French side Pau but Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac said he was not expecting his captain to leave and Owens has confirmed he will be staying with the Welsh region. "I signed with the Scarlets back in December and I am happy to be playing my rugby in Wales for the foreseeable future," said Owens. Owens is preparing for the Six Nations match against England at the Principality Stadium on Saturday but wanted to address his club future. "I want to put it to bed so I can concentrate on the rugby," Owens told BBC Wales Sport. "I am not sure where the rumours have come from that I was possibly moving to France next season. "I will be competing to keep my spot in the number two down in West Wales and doing the same with the Welsh squad as well." He has played 46 times for Wales after making his Test debut in the 2011 World Cup against Namibia. Jon Daniels, Scarlets General Manager of Rugby, said: "It is inevitable that players of Ken's quality get linked with other clubs - indeed, I am sure there are many clubs that would love to have him. "However, he has been a loyal and committed Scarlet for many years and we are delighted to announce that he will remain with us into the foreseeable future. "The experience and leadership Ken brings to the environment will not only be vital to our on field performances but also in bringing on the younger players in the group."

Israeli prosecutors have charged two suspects over an arson attack on a Palestinian family's home in the West Bank last year that killed three. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A 37-year-old man has been arrested over the stabbing of a man outside a Greater Manchester primary school. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Wales hooker Ken Owens has signed a new contract with the Scarlets.

The small West African nation joins South Africa and Burundi in withdrawing from the court. The ICC was set up to try the world's worst crimes but has been accused of unfairly targeting African leaders. Gambian Information Minister Sheriff Bojang said the court had ignored Western war crimes. He said the ICC, for example, had failed to indict former British Prime Minister Tony Blair over the Iraq war. Speaking on state television, he said the ICC was "an International Caucasian Court for the persecution and humiliation of people of colour, especially Africans". The ICC's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, is a former Gambian justice minister. President Yahya Jammeh has ruled The Gambia since taking power in a coup in 1994. Elections are due in December, but opposition leader Ousainou Darboe and 18 others were jailed for three years earlier this year over an unauthorised protest. The country has been unsuccessfully trying to have the European Union indicted by the court over the deaths of thousands of African migrants trying to reach the continent by boat. The ICC and global justice: What is the International Criminal Court? South Africa said last week that it had formally begun the process of withdrawing from the ICC because it did not want to execute arrest warrants which would lead to "regime change". Last year, a South African court criticised the government for refusing to arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the court. Burundi has also said it will leave the court, while other Africa countries like Kenya and Namibia have said they might. All but one of the ICC's 10 investigations have been Africa-based. The motive for the killings in the early hours of Sunday in the south-eastern town of Imatra is unclear. A local man aged 23 and with a criminal record has been arrested. Police said it appeared the victims had been chosen at random. The local politician was named as Tiina Wilen-Jappinen, the chairwoman of Imatra's town council. A rifle was used to carry out the shootings, police said, and the alleged perpetrator was detained almost immediately. The victims had all been shot in the head and torso, Finland's national broadcaster YLE reported. Two of the victims, including Ms Wilen-Jappinen, are reported to have been in their 50s and one in her 30s. Crime levels are relatively low in Finland, but the country has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, with hunting a popular pastime. Offaly held an early lead but Cavan finished the first half strongly to go in 0-11 to 0-9 ahead at the break. Cavan won the game early in the second half with a Gearoid McKiernan goal and five unanswered points putting the Ulster visitors in control. Offaly tagged on late points with the outcome already settled while Cavan had James McEnroe sent off in added time. There was little to choose between the teams in a tight opening 35 minutes at O'Connor Park on Sunday evening. Nigel Dunne's double gave the Leinster men a 0-4 to 0-2 advantage but both sides would enjoy a first-half lead with midfielder McKiernan firing over four Breffni points. Cavan's burst of 1-5 without reply started with Niall McDermott and Ciaran Brady scores before the break. Gerard Smith, McDermott and Liam Buchanan slotted over the opening three points of the second half before McKiernan's goal on 43 minutes. Buchanan burst through and passed to Dara McVeety, who set up McKiernan to blast into the net from eight yards. That left it 1-14 to 0-9 and a close encounter suddenly became a one-sided affair. Cavan substitute Thomas Corr was shown a black card minutes after entering the fray while Offaly cut the gap by registering the final four points of the game. Breffni defender McEnroe was dismissed for two yellow cards but it mattered little as Cavan remained in the championship.

The Gambia says it will pull of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after accusing the tribunal of persecuting and humiliating Africans. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Three women - a local politician and two journalists - have been shot dead in Finland as they left a restaurant. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Cavan cruised into the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers second round thanks to an impressive win over Offaly.

The claim: The government's increase in National Insurance contributions is a breach of its 2015 manifesto. Reality Check verdict: The government did promise in its manifesto not to raise National Insurance contributions, and this is an increase, so it has broken that pledge. It has not broken the law that enshrined its pledge as this applies to employees only, not the self-employed. But in the Conservative Party's manifesto for the 2015 general election, it promised: "We will not raise VAT, National Insurance contributions or income tax". Currently, self-employed people pay two types of National Insurance: Class 2 and Class 4. George Osborne announced in 2016 that Class 2 contributions would be abolished from April 2018. Philip Hammond has now announced that at that point, Class 4 contributions will increase from 9% to 10%, going up to 11% the following year. Above profits of £43,000 a year, Class 4 contributions will still stand at 2%. The overall effect of abolishing Class 2 and raising Class 4 will be to raise an extra £145m per year by 2021-22, so it clearly is a tax rise. The government did pass an act of Parliament in 2015, called the National Insurance (Rate Ceilings) Act, which prevented it from raising National Insurance rates, although that will not be breached because it referred to Class 1 National Insurance only, which is paid by employees, not by the self-employed. The Institute for Fiscal Studies argued before the Budget that the fact more tax was paid on the earnings of employees than those of the self-employed was not justified. And the chancellor argued that the "dramatically different treatment of two people earning essentially the same undermines the fairness of our tax system". Read more from Reality Check Ben Ashworth, 38, from Preston, was diagnosed with the disease in 2012 and told he only had months to live. Since then he has run marathons, including four ultras, to raise money for charity and combat the stigma of bowel cancer. His wife Louise said his family was "heartbroken" but "in awe" of how he "defied the odds". The former librarian, who has three daughters, started his charity runs in April 2014 in Blackpool. While undergoing chemotherapy he ran other marathons including Windermere, Wakefield, Northampton and the Isle of Man. His final few marathons, Greater Manchester, Temple Newsam and London, were completed last year, taking his final tally to 24 in 24 months. A statement written by his wife Louise was posted on his Facebook page, Ben's Bowel Movements: "This is the hardest post to write. Ben found peace early this morning. "With myself and his mum holding his hand, he drifted away to meet our Heavenly Father. "We are heartbroken, but we are also in awe of the time we have been blessed with. "How he has defied the odds. The way he won every race. We are grateful this wasn't a marathon and his last days were spent surrounded by those he loves and we were able to keep him at home." Before he became ill Mr Ashworth had completed the Great North Run and a half-marathon, but said it was his dream to conquer a full marathon. It was carried out by two independent consultants and strongly criticised the NILA and NINA tests Several factors were said to have contributed to the problems. These included the test being brought in too quickly, with too little consultation with schools. The aim of the review was to identify the factors that had contributed to the problems associated with the implementation of the tests. It said there was little evidence of checks being carried out to see if schools had enough computers to run the tests successfully. The review also said that when technical support was needed, it was very slow in coming, almost 18 months. The report also said there was resistance and concern in schools because principals and teachers feared the tests would be used for selecting pupils for grammar schools, when the 11-plus was scrapped. The assessments were introduced in 900 primary schools in September, 2012, but hundreds of primary schools complained about the online tests. The Department of Education paid almost £1m in that year to run the tests, which were designed to check on pupils' literacy and numeracy progress. Oakley, 21, was given his first-team debut by the Dons in 2014 as a late substitute at Northampton Town. A hamstring tear and a broken leg, which he sustained in training in January 2016, kept him out for much of last season. He went on loan to National League South club Welling United in November and scored four times in seven games.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced increases in the rate of National Insurance paid by self-employed workers. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A man who completed 24 marathons after being diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer has died. [NEXT_CONCEPT] New computer-based assessments of primary school pupils between 2012 and 2013 were fraught with problems, according to a review. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Maidstone United have signed striker George Oakley on a month-long loan deal from AFC Wimbledon.

Robert Wright, 92, from north Belfast, was a teenage soldier serving in a Welsh regiment at the time. More than 300,000 Allied troops were rescued from the port of Dunkirk in northern France in the mass evacuation in the summer of 1940. A flotilla of small boats, most of them privately owned, sailed across the English channel to help. Mr Wright described the scenes on the beaches as "a shambles". "They were going down to the shore and if they spotted a boat coming in, anybody would be dashing out," he said. "There were people there supposed to organise, but half of them just wanted to get out themselves. "Most of the regiments there tried to keep their men together, but towards the end - when they saw boats coming from England to pick them up - they weren't waiting on the boat docking. They were trying to meet it halfway." Altogether, about 338,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk's beaches between 26 May and 4 June, 1940 in what was known as Operation Dynamo. The troops, who included French, Canadian and Belgian soldiers as well as British service personnel, were rescued after they had been driven back to the coast of northern France by the German army. Mr Wright said troops were relieved to see the rescue boats. "Everybody was glad to see them. I got back, that was the main thing," he said. "The spirit was quite good. Everybody was saying: 'Thank God we are out of that lads.'" The 75th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation is being commemorated in a number of ways over the coming days in the UK. On Thursday, a flotilla of 60 ships will leave south coast ports to head for a service in France. The main commemorative event will be an official service at the Allied Beach Memorial - Digue des Alliés à Dunkerque - on Saturday. A grant of £10.4m (€12.4m) will be spent on a rail "chord" at Ipswich to allow freight trains to travel directly from Felixstowe to the Midlands. This will create a link to the west coast mainline near Birmingham. Grants also will help deepen ship channels off the Suffolk coast and contribute towards port cranes. Vicky Ford, MEP for the East of England, said it would help to get freight off the A14 and onto the railway. "I have been supporting upgrades for the freight rail links from Felixstowe to Nuneaton route since 2008," she said. "Getting the money back from Brussels also frees up the UK's own funds which can then be used for more smaller-scale, local projects." Siim Kallas, European Commission vice-president for transport, said: "Seaports like Felixstowe are vital gateways. "We need to keep them and better connect them to Europe's major transport networks." Russell, 38, appeared to aim a blow with his right hand while on board Kings Dolly, after the horse pulled up at a pre-race 'show' hurdle. The incident took place at the Mares' Handicap Hurdle at Tramore on Friday. "We will examine whatever footage is available," said Denis Egan, chief executive of the Irish Turf Club. "We will then decide then whether or not any rules have been broken." The race-day stewards were not aware of the matter but footage appeared on social media. Russell won the 2014 Cheltenham Gold Cup with 20-1 outsider Lord Windermere. "I am not sure everyone on social media quite understands how a thoroughbred racehorse handles at race time but I am happy to speak with the Turf Club about this," Russell told the Irish Daily Star. "The situation with Kings Dolly was an ordinary enough situation and I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. "I ride every horse to win, no matter what, and would never do anything to hamper its chances."

A World War Two veteran from Northern Ireland has been reliving memories of the Dunkirk evacuation 75 years ago. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Rail links from east coast ports to the rest of England are to benefit from a further £12m (€14.8m) of grants from the European Union. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Jockey Davy Russell is under investigation after footage appeared to show him striking a horse on the back of the head moments before a race.

He called his visit to the USS Theodore Roosevelt "a symbol" of America's stabilising presence in the region. Mr Carter said any concern over his visit was due to "tension in this part of the world", blaming China for "most of the activity over the last year". His visit clearly irritated Beijing, a BBC correspondent in China says. A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman warned against "waving the banner of freedom of navigation to push forward the militarisation of the South China Sea and even provoke and endanger other countries' sovereignty and security interests". "In this aspect, we hope the relevant actions and intentions of the US can be made open and above board," she said before Mr Carter's visit. The US defence secretary flew on Thursday with his Malaysian counterpart to the Theodore Roosevelt, which was sailing some 70 miles (112 miles) north-west of Borneo. His visit comes a week after a US Navy destroyer sailed inside the 12 nautical mile radius that China claims as its territorial waters around one of its recently reclaimed islands. Countries in and around the South China Sea have wrangled for centuries over control of the ocean areas and its, largely uninhabited, islands. But tensions have increased in recent years as China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and navy patrols. The US alleges China has reclaimed almost 3,000 acres of land in the past 18 months, and fears the dispute could turn into one with global consequences. Captain Mithali Raj took her runs total for the tournament to 356 with 109 from 123 balls as her team posted 265-7 having been asked to bat at Derby. New Zealand lost both openers inside three overs and were all out within 26 overs, slow left-armer Rajeshwari Gayakwad taking 5-15. India will face defending champions Australia at Derby on Thursday. Raj, who had made three half centuries earlier in the competition, came to the crease in the fourth over and remained until the 50th. The skipper shared 108 in just 13 overs with Veda Krishnamurthy, who fired the only two sixes of the match in her 70 from 45 balls. New Zealand were already three wickets down when Gayakwad, making her first appearance in this year's tournament, came on to bowl the 12th over. The 26-year-old's first three overs went without success but she struck in each of her next five, wrapping up the match in style by knocking back Leigh Kasperek's middle stump. Australia had hoped to wrestle the title of group winners but England's emphatic victory over West Indies kept them in second place - despite a 59 run win over South Africa - which means a semi-final with Raj's team. Nicole Bolton struck 10 fours in her 79, compiling an opening stand of 114 inside 22 overs with Beth Mooney. All-rounder Ellyse Perry recorded her fifth fifty of the competition, hitting the only six of the match by dispatching a full toss over mid-wicket in the 35th over before departing for 55 from 58 balls. The Australians lost their final two wickets in consecutive deliveries and were all out for 269 with nine balls unused. Perry, who is only six runs behind England's Tammy Beaumont at the top of the tournament chart, then added two wickets to take her overall tally to nine, and was awarded Player of the Match. Laura Wolvaardt made her third half century in four matches but was caught at deep mid-wicket for 71 in the 33rd over as the South Africans were all out for 210. The fourth match of the day pitted two sides seeking their first win and after a delayed start at Leicester, Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 15 runs. Wicketkeeper Dilani Manodara made her first fifty of the competition with 84 from 111 balls as Sri Lanka posted 221-7 having chosen to bat. Slow left-armer Chandima Gunaratne then opened the bowling and captured a career-best 4-41 as Pakistan were all out for 206 in the 47th over. Kathy Cross and Sue Redfern were the umpires at Grace Road, the first time this century that two female officials have taken charge of an international match.

US defence secretary Ash Carter has visited an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea's contested waters, in what is seen as a signal to China. [NEXT_CONCEPT] India claimed the remaining place in the Women's World Cup semi-final after dismissing New Zealand for just 79.

Media playback is not supported on this device The Swans were bottom of the Premier League table when Clement took over in January, but survived with a game to spare. Sunday's 2-1 win over West Brom meant ending the season in 15th place. "We have to build and look forward. The potential of this current squad as it is can get even better," said Clement. "I don't envisage massive changes. We want to keep our best players and strengthen, not get weaker. "We're not a club that needs to sell. "I look forward to meeting the owners in the next 24-48 hours to discuss how they think we've done and what needs to be done moving forwards." Clement's appointment was the turning point of a turbulent season for Swansea. Americans Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan bought a controlling stake of 68% in the club last summer and, by January, there had been two managerial dismissals with Francesco Guidolin and Bob Bradley both getting sacked. The Swans mustered just 12 points from their first 19 games but, in their subsequent 19 fixtures after Clement's arrival, they collected an impressive 29 points. Central to their revival have been playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson - with nine goals and 13 assists - and striker Fernando Llorente, who struck his 15th goal of the season against West Brom. Sigurdsson has long been linked with a move to Everton, but has said he is "very happy" at Swansea, while champions Chelsea have shown an interest in Llorente. Clement hopes Swansea's strong end to the campaign will help convince both players to remain at the Liberty Stadium. "He [Sigurdsson] has to think about whether his future is here or he wants another challenge," said Clement. "It's very clear for us. We don't want to sell him or any of our best players. Media playback is not supported on this device "We want to keep them here, we want to strengthen and I think he, Fernando and the others have enjoyed the second half of the season. "They can see this is a club that shouldn't have been fighting relegation, they should have been doing a lot better." Swansea's remarkable end-of-season turnaround had echoes of previous great escapes from relegation, such as Leicester's in 2015. The Foxes carried that momentum into the next campaign, which culminated in arguably the most improbable Premier League title triumph in history. After beating West Brom, Clement was asked if it would be worth putting a bet on Swansea to match Leicester's feat by winning the league next season. Grinning, he answered: "Why not? Don't count on it, though." The Rhinos completed the treble for the first time in their history as legends Jamie Peacock, Kylie Leuluai and Kevin Sinfield departed the club in style. McDermott said: "It was a weird emotion when we won the Grand Final. It was more relief than anything because it would have been such a shame to have got there and not won it. "Everyone loves a fairytale and looking at those three after that game I just thought 'this must be absolutely brilliant for them'." Media playback is not supported on this device The end-of-year special will be hosted by Tanya Arnold and will look back on all the big stories in 2015: There is also an interview with Lizzie Jones, widow of Keighley Cougars player Danny Jones, who died from a heart problem in May aged 29. Lizzie sang an emotional rendition of Abide With Me before the Challenge Cup final in August. Media playback is not supported on this device

Head coach Paul Clement will aim to strengthen Swansea City's squad this summer and says he does not have to sell his best players. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Leeds Rhinos coach Brian McDermott and some of the club's stars of 2015 will look back at their sensational treble-winning year on the Super League Show on Monday, 14 December.

According to a company filing, Dorsey will also stay on as CEO of his own company Square, Inc. One of Twitter's directors, Peter Currie, also tweeted that the board's decision to appoint Dorsey was unanimous. Read more about the announcement Here, then, are 11 facts about Dorsey - in 140 characters or fewer. Click here to read the first tweet. Dorsey has been tweeting about the appointment himself. Click here to read his own thoughts about becoming CEO of Twitter for the second time. The Welsh government is more than halfway through a £4.6m five-year programme to immunise badgers in north Pembrokeshire. Infection rates have fallen across Wales, but Christianne Glossop said it was too early to say whether it has had "additional benefit". Dr Glossop was speaking ahead of a worldwide conference on TB control. It will be held in Cardiff on Monday. "The programme is for five years," she told BBC's Sunday Politics Wales. "We've completed two years and we're now well into year three, and so the results are by no means available yet." TB infection rates fell across Wales over the last 12 months, she said. "The reduction in north Pembrokeshire is in line with the national reduction, so right now, we have no evidence that the vaccination programme in badgers is delivering an additional benefit - and we wouldn't expect to see any evidence at this stage either," she said. In 2012 and 2013, 2,776 badgers were trapped and vaccinated in the Intensive Action Area (IAA), which also takes in parts of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, at a cost of more than £1.8m. But Dr Glossop said that the wider TB eradication programme cost £28m last year alone, most of which was spent on testing cattle, biosecurity and compensating farmers. "You've always got to have the balance here between all the different elements of the programme, making sure that you're tackling all sources of infection," she said. The vaccination programme was announced by Labour ministers in 2012 when they abandoned the previous coalition government's intention to cull badgers in the IAA.

Jack Dorsey has been voted in as the permanent chief executive of Twitter by the firm's board. [NEXT_CONCEPT] It is unclear whether vaccinating badgers in west Wales has cut TB in cattle, the chief vet has said.

Meschede, 24, has targeted a place in the second-string England Lions team since joining Glamorgan from Somerset. But Derrick feels the South Africa-born player, who was on loan with the Welsh county in 2015, can aim higher. "He could be the next guy from Glamorgan that actually plays for England in any sort of cricket. I liked what I saw last year," said Derrick. Meschede played in all but one of Glamorgan's matches while on loan last season, across all three formats, scoring 655 runs in first-class cricket and claiming 43 wickets. He hit the headlines by claiming the wicket of Kevin Pietersen on the former England batsman's county comeback. But Derrick, who left as Glamorgan coach in November, 2006, believes the Welsh county did not make the most of Meschede's talents. Fast bowler Simon Jones was Glamorgan's last England player, memorably helping them to win the 2005 Ashes series against Australia. But Alex Wharf was the last Glamorgan player to play international limited-overs cricket and Derrick sees Meschede as filling a similar role for England. "Glamorgan started a couple of games with him opening up in T20 stuff," said Derrick. "But I would have persevered with that and I think looking back to someone like when Wharfy got into that England side and he batted at three and bowled a heavy ball. "And someone like Meschede can probably look to follow that. "So I think that's a very, very good signing for Glamorgan and if I was a betting man I think he would be the one I would be looking at to push on for England honours in the next couple of years." Police said the first woman was found seriously injured at a house on Mapleton Crescent in Redcar at about 20:45 GMT on Wednesday. A short time later officers received reports that a second woman was being attacked in nearby Byland Close. Both women subsequently died, said a spokesman for Cleveland Police who have now arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of two counts of murder.

Former Glamorgan coach John Derrick has tipped all-rounder Craig Meschede to be the county's next England player. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Two women have been killed in separate attacks on Teesside.

The 24-year-old, who went on loan to Rotherham this term after injury, has played eight times since his return. "We've got a (12-month) option on him (in the summer) and clearly I'm going to take that up," said McCarthy. "We are in negotiations with him about a new contract. Whether he's happy with what we've offered him I don't know - Marcus (Evans) is dealing with it." Hyam, who has made 105 league appearances for Ipswich, played in Tuesday's 2-1 victory over Reading which lifted Town into the Championship play-offs, with Brett Pitman's 89th-minute winner securing the Portman Road win. "We worked unbelievably hard and scrapped and fought for everything," McCarthy told BBC Radio Suffolk of his side's performance. "That was one of our hardest games all season, physically. We didn't play particularly well but we were playing against a really good team full of quality Championship players. "All the things I talk about, resilience, determination and endurance, that is sometimes much maligned because people and I want sexy football - but it's not always a league you can do it in. "As I've found over my 24 years doing it, you tend to get more out of it with all those physical, tough qualities than you do with just wanting to be a nice football team." It is understood the incident happened at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh on Monday and involved two teenagers, aged 13 and 15, with a ball-bearing gun. Police Scotland said the teacher was not seriously injured and that inquiries were ongoing. A spokeswoman for Argyll and Bute Council said "appropriate disciplinary action" had been taken against those involved. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Police were made aware of an incident involving a BB gun being discharged at a teacher within a school in Helensburgh on Monday. "The teacher was not seriously injured and inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident." The spokeswoman added that the two teenagers were the subject of a report to the early and effective interventions co-ordinator in connection with the incident. The school, which has about 1,350 pupils and 100 teachers, is one of two secondaries in the area. A spokeswoman for Argyll and Bute Council said: "An incident took place in the school on Monday. We have thoroughly investigated this and taken the appropriate disciplinary action against those involved. "We have hard working staff and pupils who are together achieving often award-winning success. Their well-being is paramount and we take any action required to ensure this." The Premiership club have re-signed the 31-year-old to provide cover, with Tom Cruse and George Edgson both injured. Shervington came out of retirement to join Bristol in October, but did not make a first-team appearance. The former Worcester Warriors, Ospreys and Leinster player was previously at Wasps for two seasons, making 32 appearances for the club between 2014 and his initial retirement in May.

Ipswich are in talks with midfielder Luke Hyam over a new contract, according to boss Mick McCarthy. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A teacher has been shot with an airgun at a school in Argyll and Bute. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Welsh hooker Edd Shervington has re-joined Wasps on a three-month contract.