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The Glasgow Cycling app allows cyclists to submit routes, distances travelled, times taken and average speeds. The anonymous information will be available for free on Future City Glasgow's open data website. It is hoped the data will inform future investment decisions and improvements to the city's cycling network. Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson said: "Cycling has huge mental and physical health benefits for individuals as well as environmental advantages for the city. "The number of cyclists coming into the city has increased drastically but Glasgow City Council is keen to encourage even more people to cycle both for leisure and commuting. "This new app will provide accurate information which will be extremely helpful when decisions are being made on where and how to upgrade or extend cycling facilities. I hope bikers will seize this chance to contribute directly to work to make Glasgow more bike friendly." The free app is currently available from the Apple store. An android version will be available soon on Google Play. Current information about how cyclists travel around Glasgow is limited. There is an electronic counter on the Anderston footbridge and a manual cordon count takes place every year. Victoria Leiper of the Glasgow Bike Station urged cyclists to try the app. She said: "This is our opportunity, as cycle commuters to shape decision-making. "It is perhaps the most pro-active thing we can do and I certainly plan to use the app every day to submit my own journeys and to encourage our customers at the Glasgow Bike Station to use it as well." Keith Irving, Chief Executive Cycling Scotland, urged other cities to follow Glasgow's example. "All councils should be increasing monitoring of cycling levels," he said. "This initiative by Future City Glasgow combines technology with data to develop information about cycling conditions in Glasgow. "We hope it will be successful and could feature in a future Cycling Scotland conference as best practice to be copied across the country." Charisse O'Leary said she was "deeply shocked, saddened and numbed" by the actions of Rachid Redouane. He was one of three men who drove into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in Borough Market on Saturday night. Police said the death toll had now risen to eight. Ms O'Leary said: "My thoughts and efforts now are with trying to bring up my daughter with the knowledge that someday I will have to try and explain to her why her father did what he did." Redouane, 30, was a chef who also used the name Rachid Elkhdar. Police said he claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan. Police named the attackers as Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian who lived in east London, Khuram Butt, 27, from Barking, and Redouane, who also lived in Barking. In March 2016, Italian officers stopped Zaghba at Bologna airport and found material related to so-called Islamic State on his mobile phone. He was then stopped from continuing his journey to Istanbul. Zaghba's mother Valeria Collina Kadhija has said "it's impossible for me to say anything that makes sense". Speaking at her house in Bologna, Italy, she said she believed her son was radicalised in the UK. She said he was under surveillance when he was in Italy and questioned why this was not the case in Britain. An Italian police source confirmed to the BBC that Zaghba had been placed on a watch list, which is shared with many countries, including the UK. "From 2016 there were problems with my son - the fact that he was stopped at Bologna airport," she said. "He would say to me: 'Come on mum, let's go live in Syria. Over there, they have a pure Islam.' "I told him: 'Are you crazy? I have no intention of going to Syria with you or with anyone. I'm fine in my country.'"

Cyclists in Glasgow are being urged to share their routes via a new mobile phone app in a bid to improve the city's bike network. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The ex-wife of one of the London attackers has spoken of how she will one day have to explain to their daughter what her father did.

Cheshire East Council said its agreement with Wilson Bowden Developments for the Silk Street scheme had been terminated "by mutual consent". Anchor tenant Debenhams pulled out of the scheme in March. The council is now planning to develop a site just a third of the size of the original scheme. The authority will offer two alternative areas for sale on Duke Street and Churchill Way, with the aim of developing only one of them. Both areas were part of the original Silk Street scheme. It is hoped a planning application for a leisure-led scheme will be submitted this year with construction beginning in 2016. Officials have suggested a cinema, theatre or bowling alley may feature, as well as housing, restaurants and shops. Leader of Cheshire East Council, Michael Jones, said: "This is a watershed moment for the realisation of a leisure regeneration scheme for Macclesfield town centre and signals a new era." The original £90m Silk Street proposals were announced in 2005 and gained planning consent in 2013. They included a multiplex cinema, restaurants and shops, and were expected to deliver 1,300 jobs. Mr Jones said the authority was "a year too late" with the old scheme, because of economic conditions. The development agreement was terminated at no cost to the council but the authority could not tell the BBC how much money had been spent on the Silk Street plans. Mr Jones said the council had "been very careful" and had exited the agreement "without damaging the reputation of Macclesfield". Macclesfield-based chartered surveyor Nick Hynes, who has led a local "stakeholder panel" charged with advising the council, said the proposals were "extremely good for the town centre". Beverley Moore, of campaign group Wake Up Macclesfield, which opposed the original plans said: "I am very happy that the ill-conceived plans are not coming to fruition and that we've now got a chance to get something that's right for the town."

Major proposals to redevelop Macclesfield town centre have been scrapped.

Figures released by the Welsh Government for 2015-16 show the average farm business income across all farm types fell by £6,800 to £22,200 - a decline of about 23%. NFU Cymru president Stephen James said farmers need "improved returns" from the market place. He also emphasised the need to "remain competitive" in UK and EU markets. Dairy farms suffered the biggest blow, with the average income falling by 53%. Lowland and sheep farms were down by 40%, while less favoured area (LFA) cattle and sheep farms - land with natural handicaps like lack of water or short crop seasons - were down by 1%. Net farm income - the return to the farming family for their labour after costs such as rent, depreciation and interest payments - also fell by about 37% to £11,000. Mr James, a dairy farmer in Pembrokeshire, said: "Unfortunately, these figures come as no surprise to farmers. "The fall in farm gate prices - in particular for milk and lamb over the reporting period - has resulted in this dramatic fall in farm incomes." He said the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments are "as important as ever" in helping to compensate farmers for market failure. The Welsh Government was commended for delivering almost 90% of BPS payments on the opening day of the payment window in December, but was called to make the remaining payments "without undue delay". These are described as a safety net for farmers, with support given to those who produce agricultural products the public want. Mr James also emphasised the need for "favourable government policies post-Brexit". "All our efforts must be focused on developing policies that underpin food production in Wales and also on securing funding arrangements that ensure we remain competitive in UK and EU markets," he said. The Register news site has published a report in which it suggests that a variety of personal data was removed from a database. However, some information, such as users' GPS co-ordinates, gender and date of birth was retained. The "Full Delete" option has been available for several years. It allowed users to pay $19 (£15) to erase "all traces of [their] usage" but Ashley Madison had not issued complete details on how the tool worked. Following the release of the user database by hackers last week, there were several reports suggesting that the pay-to-delete function was flawed. 33m User accounts leaked 500,000 Canadian dollars reward for information on hackers 300 gigabytes Data reported stolen by hackers 197,000+ Emails leaked from chief exec's work account $115m Sales reported by parent company Avid Life Media in 2014 13 years ago Infidelity site founded Although some data does seem to have been retained, the report by the Register implies that a significant amount of information was removed after payment. This included: This matches other evidence seen by the BBC. Previously, Ashley Madison had said that the full delete function would erase photos and messages sent to other users on the site, but that some user profile data could be deleted for free. Ashley Madison could not be reached for comment.

A fall in farming incomes has come as "no surprise" to farmers, NFU Cymru has said. [NEXT_CONCEPT] New details have emerged about the actions taken by hacked infidelity dating site Ashley Madison after users paid to delete their data.

But Joy Dyment, north Wales director of Stepping Stones, said Gordon Anglesea's death on Thursday would also "reawaken" the abuse some suffered. Anglesea, 79, of Old Colwyn, Conwy, died six weeks into a 12-year sentence. Ms Dyment said it was "the end of a very dark era in north Wales' history". Anglesea was arrested in 2013 as part of the National Crime Agency's Operation Pallial investigation into historical abuse across north Wales. He was jailed in November after being found guilty of one charge of indecent assault against one boy and three indecent assaults against another following a six-week trial. The boys were abused between 1982 and 1987 when they were 14 or 15. He had lodged an appeal against his convictions. Anglesea was serving his sentence at HMP Rye Hill in Northamptonshire when it is believed he became ill several days ago and was admitted to hospital. He died at about 09:30 GMT on Thursday. A Prison Service spokesman added: "As with all deaths in custody, the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will investigate." Stepping Stones worked with the Operation Pallial team, the Ministry of Justice and other agencies to support and counsel victims of childhood sexual abuse. Ms Dyment said: "I guess for many victims this will bring some closure and it will be the end of a very dark era in north Wales' history. "But for others it will re-awaken the effect of losing their childhoods through a terrible, sustained sexual abuse that they endured."

The death of a former North Wales Police superintendent who sexually abused two boys will bring victims "some closure", a charity boss has said.

Media playback is unsupported on your device 2 April 2015 Last updated at 03:59 BST Mr Mulholland's company, Pony Access, is based in Devon, and here he explains how it works. Photofilm produced and photographed by Paul Glendell Follow @BBCOuch on Twitter and on Facebook, and listen to our monthly talk show Cambridge University students first posted rules for the game in a city centre park in 1848 with elements later adopted by the Football Association. A granite sculpture inscribed with the original rules in several languages will go on display on Parker's Piece. It will go up next Spring and has been funded by S106 cash from developers. It has been claimed the original rules of football were developed by students playing on Parker's Piece with some people suggesting the park in Cambridge is therefore the birthplace of football. A plaque at the park already celebrates how the "Cambridge Rules" became the "defining influence on the 1863 Football Association rules". Artists Alan Ward and Neville Gabie won a commission from the city council to create a piece of commemorative art, a large stone cut into nine pieces engraved with the original 1848 laws of the game in different languages. The four cornerstones will stay on Parker's Piece, but the others will go to a location in five continents of the world. "It will be a sculpture that is really worldwide, literally," said Mr Gabie. Both the artists have gone to Portugal to see the block of granite to be used for the artwork being cut. In order to explore the international significance of the game, a website, Cambridge Rules 1848, was launched asking for people's football stories from around the world, including personal anecdotes. "I guess what's so exciting about this is that we have a patch of green grass in the middle of Cambridge where those first rules were written but now football is so international and we felt it was really important to recognise that," Mr Gabie said. As well as S106 funding managed by Cambridge City Council, the artwork is also being supported by the National Football Museum in Manchester. The part-timers from Gibraltar host the Scottish champions on Tuesday in the first leg of their Champions League second qualifying round tie. "I think, arguably, it would be one of football's biggest upsets in Europe," the defender told BBC Scotland. "We only became semi-professional three years ago." Celtic in contrast, Chipolina pointed out, had been playing for many years - and "been very competitive" - in European competition. "Everyone is excited," he said. "It is an amazing tie. The only word I can use to describe it is surreal. "It doesn't really get much bigger than Celtic. And it's not just the club - I think the whole of Gibraltar is looking forward to this match." Chipolina captained the Gibraltar side that played Scotland in the recent Euro 2016 qualifiers, his national team shipping 56 goals in 10 matches during the campaign. However, as Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers prepares to lead the club competitively for the first time, the Northern Irishman is taking nothing for granted. "They're always tricky ties," said the former Liverpool boss. "But our players have worked tirelessly over the last 20 days since we've been together and I've been delighted with the improvement of the fitness aspect of it and the tactical aspect of it. "We've still got a long way to go, but this game presents us with an opportunity we have to take." Red Imps defeated Flora Tallinn of Estonia to secure a visit of Celtic to the artificial surface at the 2,000-capacity Victoria Stadium. "We've watched Lincoln play and understand they're very workmanlike," Rodgers added. "They've won over the course of two games to get through to play us. "So we'll give them that respect, but our focus is really very much on ourselves. It's a job that we need to do over two legs. "The pitch and the heat will always make it a little bit more difficult, but we'll be ready for the whistle to blow."

Simon Mulholland and his pony, Obama, offer wheelchair users a chance to go off-road across terrain that would otherwise be impossible for them to access. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Work on a sculpture to mark the first set of rules of football has begun after planning permission was given. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Lincoln Red Imps captain Roy Chipolina believes a victory over Celtic would represent one of the biggest shocks in European football history.

Bar stools and glasses were thrown as 1,500 people opposed to Israel's military action took part in a march. Nicholas Carter, 31, and John James Williams, 32, both of Bargoed, and Ahsan Malik, 56, of Aberdare, pleaded guilty to violent disorder . Daniel Smout, 25, of Oswestry, Shropshire, admitted affray. Prosecutor Huw Evans told Cardiff Crown Court it would be alleged that Smout started off the incident on 26 July by throwing a glass near the Mill Lane area. Four other men pleaded not guilty to violent disorder and will go on trial in June. Smout, Carter, Malik and Williams were told they would be sentenced at the end of that trial. A ninth man was not asked to enter a plea and will make a separate court appearance in May.

Four men have admitted involvement in a major disturbance which erupted as a protest against the Gaza conflict passed by people drinking in Cardiff.

Liverpool fighter Smith, 27, said after his victory over Predrag Radosevic earlier this month that he was hopeful of a bout with the Mexican. Alvarez's last fight was against Amir Khan in Las Vegas, with the 25-year-old winning by sixth-round knock-out. "To headline in America is a dream I've had since I started," said Smith. "This fight will allow me to make a name for myself in the US and show the Americans and Mexicans just how good I am. "My next goal was to make my name across the Atlantic and this is the big stage that will enable me to do that against the biggest name in world boxing." At present no venue has been announced for the fight.

WBO light-middleweight champion Liam Smith will face WBC middleweight title holder Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez in America on 17 September.

McGregor scored the opener and substitute Scott Allan had a hand in Leigh Griffiths' goal, which put the visitors 2-1 up. A scrappy own goal by Danny Devine completed the Premiership leaders' win. "Those two have been unbelievable," said Deila of Scots McGregor and Allan's endeavours to get in the team. "It's always nice to see when people are coming back from being out of the team, or having a bad time. "Scott Allan has worked really hard all the time, been very patient and has shown in training that he's more and more ready. When he gets his chance, he has really showed that he has something to do on this level. Very pleased with him. "Callum has also been working really hard and finds himself back into it again. That makes the whole team stronger. "It's so important when you have bad times that you are humble, go into yourself, look what you can do better to get better and really want to do the hard work." The result got Celtic back to winning ways following a 2-1 defeat by Ajax, which ended the Scottish champions' hopes of reaching the Europa League last 32, and a 0-0 league draw with Kilmarnock last weekend. And another bonus for Deila was the debut as a substitute for former West Ham and England forward Carlton Cole, whose presence in the box led to Celtic's third goal. "I'm very, very happy with three points," Deila said. "It's always very difficult when you have played two-and-a-half days ago. "There's a lot of travelling involved and you play a good team as well - Inverness is always working you, they try to play and they have a lot of energy. Performance was good. "Carlton has not played for half a year, been injured for a while and he needs time to get really going but he needs playing time as well. There's a lot more to see from Carlton." Inverness manager John Hughes described Miles Storey's performance as "exceptional", with the on-loan Swindon Town forward scoring Caley Thistle's leveller. But he added: "He's still got a lot to do. We're live on the television and he's up for it - he needs to come with that mindset every week. "Let the boys down in Swindon [know] this is what you're missing. I understand that but every week you need to go dig it out, dig it out and then he needs to start scoring doubles and hat-tricks. It's one at a time. All the good players keep going back for more. "He was exceptional, he was a handful. His two centre-halves knew they were up against good pace and he took his goal well, really pleased for him. "It's hard to be despondent and frustrated because I felt the boys gave me everything that they've got. It just wasn't to be. You just need to take it on the chin and move on."

Celtic manager Ronny Deila praised the impact of midfielders Callum McGregor and Scott Allan in the 3-1 win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

Jaiyesimi, 19, joined Norwich from non-league side Dulwich Hamlet in January 2016 and spent last season playing for the Canaries' Under-23 team. He scored eight goals in 33 appearances last term and now joins Grimsby having been on Norwich's pre-season tour. Jaiyesimi, who can play as a winger, midfielder or striker, could make his debut against Coventry on Saturday. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. Officers are investigating reports of deer poaching in and around Dunnikier Park Golf Course in Kirkcaldy. The incidents were reported after parts from three deer carcasses were found in the area on Wednesday. Pc Lindsay Kerr, of Police Scotland, said: "Deer are a protected species and the methods used by poachers can cause significant suffering. "These remains were very disturbing for the people who discovered them and we're urging anyone who may have seen suspicious activity in the area recently to come forward." He said methods used by poachers include snares and crossbows. Dr McDonnell's letter is further evidence of his growing interest in the post. It follows an announcement by the SDLP deputy leader Patsy McGlone that he is going to challenge leader Margaret Ritchie in November. Dr McDonnell refused to comment on his letter. The BBC understands that it was sent out in the past 24 hours to around 60 people who chair the party's branches. Dr McDonnell contested the leadership in 2010, but was narrowly defeated by Margaret Ritchie. Earlier this month Mr McGlone confirmed he'll seek the party leadership this autumn. Around the time, Ms Ritchie made clear her firm intention to run. On Thursday night she met with elected representatives at a Belfast hotel to discuss how the party can reverse its difficult financial position. Dr McDonnell was present at the meeting. Mr McGlone was on holiday. Five branch nominations are required to contest the leadership. Just under 350 delegates are eligible to vote in a ballot, which would be held at the annual conference in November.

League Two side Grimsby Town have signed Norwich City winger Diallang Jaiyesimi on a season-long loan deal. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Police are searching for poachers after deer carcasses were found at a golf course in Fife. [NEXT_CONCEPT] SDLP MP Alasdair McDonnell has written to the party's branch chairmen inviting them to nominate him for the leadership in the event of a contest.

Non-domestic rates, also known as business rates, have been under review by an independent group set up by finance secretary Derek Mackay. Ken Barclay, former chairman of the Scottish board of Royal Bank of Scotland, has led a panel considering ways to improve the system. The remit required the five-member board to consider ways in which it could be fairer, while creating incentives for growth, and reflecting changes in the economy. Since the review began, more than a year ago, criticism of the business rates system has mounted. It was already under fire for being linked to inflation while council tax was frozen, and for the absence of any link to turnover, profit or ability to pay. For many businesses, the rates bill is the second biggest cost, after staff pay. Earlier this year, the revaluation - based on notional rental values for commercial property in 2015 - led to sharp increases for some. Bills are based on a "poundage" of roughly 50p, which means businesses pay around half the annual rental value in business rates. However, there are significant exemptions and reliefs, including charities, places of worship and many sports facilities. The five-year revaluation cycle had been delayed, so this year's changes reflected a gap of seven years from 2008. Coming out of deep recession, there had been substantial shifts in property values for different types of firm in different parts of the country. In north-east Scotland, these failed to reflect the regional economic downturn that accompanied the oil price fall between 2015 and 2017. The Scottish government stepped in with a relief package for north-east businesses, and also for the hospitality industry. Since 2008, the Scottish government has also taken thousands of smaller premises out of the reach of business rates, by raising the threshold at which they start to be paid. Most of that has been financed by a supplement on business rates for larger firms, running this year at twice the supplement for businesses in England. The next revaluation is due in 2022, based on prices in 2020. Council tax, for domestic property, has not been revalued since the early 1990s. In addition to Ken Barclay, the members of the review team were business consultant Professor Russel Griggs, former civil servant and local government finance expert David Henderson: lawyer Isobel d'Inverno: and Nora Senior, former president of the British Chambers of Commerce.

Scotland's businesses, charities and public bodies are to learn later of reforms being recommended for their £3bn rates bill.

Kirsty Maxwell, from Livingston, died following a fall from the 10th floor of a hotel in the Spanish resort. A lawyer for Ms Maxwell's family has said the men were in the room when she fell. The 27-year-old had recently got married and was in the resort with a group of friends on a hen party. Following her death, a British man was arrested but then later released by Spanish authorities. Her husband, Adam Maxwell, described her as his best friend and said he will never stop missing her. Residents living along the border with the Palestinian territory were told to evacuate their homes so that they can be demolished, local media reports. Water-filled trenches will also be used to prevent the construction of tunnels. Egyptian media accuses Gaza's Hamas administration of aiding militants in Sinai. Hamas denies the charge. Last week, more than 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a militant bomb attack on an army post in Sinai. After the bombing, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi passed a law authorising the military to protect state facilities - including power plants, main roads and bridges. He also declared a three-month state of emergency in Sinai. Critics of the move said it allows the army to return to the streets and brings back military trials for civilians. The planned buffer zone will reportedly stretch along the length of the 13km (8 mile) border. Officials told the Associated Press news agency that the army had given residents 48 hours to leave their homes, but this ultimatum had been put on hold after protests. Tunnels linking the Gaza Strip and Sinai have also played a vital role in the economy of the Palestinian territory, which has been struggling to cope with a blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt in 2007 as a measure against Hamas. Tooting Fire Station manager Sally Harper's daughter Katie Holloway, 22, joined the same south London station where her mother started in 1988. The service had only seven women firefighters when the Ms Harper joined, compared with more than 300 now. The new recruit was "immensely proud" of the role of women in the brigade. Ms Harper said: "Katie may have joined the same station as me, but it has changed so much since the late '80s. "My locker was in a cupboard, which I had to go through the men's changing rooms to access. "After giving birth to my first daughter, Joanne, I was the first firefighter to come back to station after having a baby and attitudes towards women in the fire service were sometimes very challenging." Ms Harper recalled a teacher's reaction at a school play when her daughter said: "I'm driving a fire engine like my mum." "The teacher tried to correct her and said 'don't you mean your dad?' and Katie came straight back with 'No. Like my mum'," she said. Ms Holloway, who has just completed her first full tour of duty, said: "I'm immensely proud of the work my mum and others have done for women in the fire service, which makes it a completely different experience to when she joined." Her mother will be retiring later this year.

A judge in Spain has agreed to formally investigate five British men following the death of a Scottish woman in Benidorm in April. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Egypt is reportedly planning to create a 500m buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip to block the smuggling of weapons. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A mother and daughter have created history by serving as firefighters at the same time in the 150-year-old London Fire Brigade.

Tulloch Homes said it was putting the "finishing touches" to the plan for its £250m construction project. Homes would be built in phases over 10 years on land at Ness-side which Highland Council has zoned for housing. Scottish Greens MSP John Finnie said homes were needed for people on the region's waiting list, but said they should be spread out across the area. Highland Council's West Link road, which is under construction, is to ease traffic congestion in Inverness. Opening up land for new housing forms part of the overall road-building project. The West Link will eventually connect to a network of roads linking the A96, A9 and A82 trunk routes. The West Link project was opposed by a local campaign, which was set up to fight what was seen by campaigners as the loss of large areas of green space to the route of the new road. Tulloch Homes chief executive George Fraser said the planned first phase of the company's 800-home development would involve 50 affordable properties. He said: "This is, of course, a long-term project but, given a fair wind in the planning process, our intention is to begin construction during 2018. "With the road infrastructure in place, the first phase of 50 affordable homes will commence on receipt of planning permission, helping the council achieve their aspirations in the affordable sector." Mr Fraser added: "We are doing everything in accordance with the council masterplan." Mr Finnie told BBC Radio Scotland there was a need for affordable homes to meet the needs of up to 1,100 people who are waiting for housing. But he said development should not be focused on just Inverness. He said: "The reality is that a small number of houses in many rural locations would have a better social impact than a sprawling suburbia in Inverness."

Eight hundred new homes are to be built on land alongside Inverness' controversial West Link road.

Expecting pupils to go to their local school means poorer children are much less likely to attend high-achieving schools, says the study. It shows that the choice of good schools expands with greater affluence. The "size of your mortgage" should not be the way to allocate school places, say researchers. The study examined how families made choices between state schools - and why children from deprived families were more likely to be concentrated in the worst performing schools. The researchers, from Bristol University's Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Cambridge University and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found that differences were not the result of wealthier families having better-informed, more strategic school preferences. Instead they found the substantial difference was that wealthier families were more likely to live in areas with more high-achieving schools. Even though poorer families might want to send their child to a school with good results, their choice was limited by a system based on prioritising those living locally. The research used information from the Millennium Cohort Study, which tracks the progress of young people born at the beginning of the new century. The research showed that the link between home address, house prices and the allocation of places allowed wealthy families to ring-fence more of the preferred options. "Different families have different sets of schools to choose from. Richer families choose between schools that have on average much higher grades than poorer families," says the research. Ellen Greaves, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said it was "disappointing" to see how parental choice was restricted by admissions rules based on distance, which meant children's education was "affected by the ability of their parents to move close to their preferred school". This inequality worked on multiple levels. Pupils in poorer areas were likely to have fewer high-performing schools in travelling distance. And within local areas, when individual sought-after schools used distance as a tie-breaker, it meant that wealthier families could afford to buy houses to get nearer to the front of the queue. "Poor parents have fewer high performing schools available to them. This will remain true as long as proximity, and hence the size of your mortgage, determines access to such schools," said Anna Vignoles, professor of education at Cambridge University. But the use of proximity as a way of allocating places is very widespread - and the study noted that the idea of sending children to a local school is well established and popular with many parents, particularly at primary level. Along with comparing academic results, the distance to school is an important factor when parents are making their school preferences. The researchers also noted that using a lottery as an alternative has been widely discussed, but in practice is used infrequently. Admissions system such as banding, designed to get a more varied mix of abilities or from a wider geographical area, are still based to some extent on where people live. Prof Vignoles says that "more imaginative school allocation mechanisms are needed". Simon Burgess, director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation, and research leader, said: "Obviously the overall goal for policy is to make all schools excellent. "But until that nirvana arrives we should not ignore the question of how places in the better performing schools are allocated. At the moment, the proximity criterion for admissions means that differences in family income have a substantial and regressive impact on that allocation."

Deciding school admissions on distance between home and school is a major driver of educational inequality between rich and poor, say researchers.

Juliet Johnson said her father had been "ailing for some time" but "died peacefully" on Christmas Eve. Watership Down, a children's classic about a group of rabbits in search of a new home after their warren was destroyed, was first published in 1972. Adams was 52 when he wrote it, after first telling the story to his two daughters on a long car journey. It went on to become a best-seller, with tens of millions of copies bought around the world. Watership Down was made into a film version in 1978 and enjoyed huge success, but was notoriously frightening for young children, with its graphic, apocalyptic scenes of impending doom. The film's theme song Bright Eyes, sung by Art Garfunkel, spent six weeks at the top of the UK charts the following year. Mrs Johnson told BBC Radio 4 she had a "long talk" with her father on the night before he died. "I assured him that he was much loved, that he had done great work, that many people loved his books," she said. She said an upcoming adaptation, which is due to air on the BBC next year, gave Adams "great composure and comfort". Describing Christmas Eve a "rather a magical night", she said: "It's the night that traditionally the animals and birds can talk. "It was absolutely typical of Dad that he would choose such a night on which to leave this world." Adams, a former civil servant from Newbury in Berkshire, also wrote Shardik, The Plague Dogs and The Girl in a Swing. Watership Down won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in 1972, the year of publication, despite having been rejected by several publishers. A statement on a website devoted to the book said: "Richard's much-loved family announce with sadness that their dear father, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed away peacefully at 10pm on Christmas Eve." The statement marked his death with a passage from his best-known work. "It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses. "You needn't worry about them," said his companion. "They'll be alright - and thousands like them." Adams, a World War Two veteran, was head of animal welfare charity the RSPCA for a short spell. By Nick Serpell, BBC obituary editor The event that changed Richard Adams' life occurred on a car journey with his family to see Twelfth Night at Stratford-upon-Avon. His bored children asked for a story and he began telling them a tale about a group of rabbits attempting to escape from their threatened warren. Adams was persuaded to write it all down, a process that took him more than two years, but he was, at first, unable to find a publisher. Many of his rejection letters complained that the book was too long and his characters did not fit the common perception of cuddly bunnies. Eventually, in 1972, after 14 rejections, the publisher Rex Collings saw the potential and agreed to take it on with an initial print run of 2,500 copies. Read more about Adams' life here A spokesman for Oneworld publications, which brought out a new edition of Watership Down with illustrations by Aldo Galli in 2014, said they were "very saddened" at his death. "His books will be cherished for years to come," the spokesman said. A new animated series of the book, co-produced by the BBC and Netflix, is due to be aired in 2017 with four hour-long episodes. Sir Ben Kingsley, Olivia Colman and John Boyega have been cast to provide voices in the new adaptation.

The author of Watership Down, Richard Adams, has died aged 96, his daughter has said.

The suspect, Brayan Jimenez, had been on the run since last month, when the US issued an arrest warrant for 16 Latin American football officials. He was detained at a block of flats in the capital, Guatemala City. His lawyer said he would not fight the extradition request. "He will prove his innocence in the courts of the United States," said his lawyer, Francisco Garcia Gudiel. Mr Jimenez was head of the Guatemalan Football Federation (Fedefut) from 2010 until last year. US prosecutors say he and former Fedefut Secretary-General Hector Trujillo took a "six-digit bribe" to sell the television rights to qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup. Mr Trujillo was arrested in the US last month. The US has now charged some 40 individuals and entities as part of the Fifa investigation. The Department of Justice said it had asked for the arrests because the alleged offences were "agreed and prepared in the United States" and payments were also processed via American banks. The first charges, against 14 Fifa executives and associates, were brought in May. Some of them have already been convicted. Many others were indicted in the following months. On 3 December, US prosecutors announced new charges focusing on corruption at the South American Football Confederation and Concacaf, which governs the game in North and Central America as well as the Caribbean. The football executives were accused of receiving bribes worth millions of dollars connected to Copa America tournaments. Speaking at a Q&A session at Harvard University, the Fed chair said gradual rate rises would be appropriate. "If the labour market continues to improve, and I expect those things to occur ... in the coming months such a move would be appropriate," she said. The central bank meets on 14-15 June to discuss raising rates. The Fed raised interest rates by 0.25% for the first time in nine years last December and has left them unchanged since. "We saw relatively weak growth last year, but growth looks to be picking up," Ms Yellen said. On Friday, the US Commerce Department revised its estimate for first quarter GDP growth up to 0.8%, from the sluggish 0.5% originally estimated. Unemployment was 5.5% in May - a level the Fed regards as good, although Ms Yellen did acknowledge that many part-time workers were still looking for full-time employment. The Fed also wants to see US inflation rise to 2%.

Police in Guatemala have arrested a former head of the country's football federation as part of a major US corruption investigation into the sport's world governing body, Fifa. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said she expects interest rates to rise in "the coming months" if the US economy continued to improve.

Steve Thomas warned there is a danger the council elections could become "a very large opinion poll" ahead of the Westminster vote. Parties said they would be trying to make the difference between the two sets of polls clear to voters. The local polls take place on 4 May. Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced her decision to call a snap general election for 8 June, which is just over a month later. Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, Mr Thomas said: "I think there is the danger with local elections as well that the local elections inevitably get crowded out by the national election. "It's not surprising, there are huge issues at stake at a national level but that doesn't negate the importance of local elections. "The local elections are about the services people generally care about: education, social care, their local environment - all those issues are massively important." Asked if the increased coverage being given to the UK party leaders could influence the way people vote in the local elections, Mr Thomas said: "It could do, possibly, but when people stand in that polling station with that pencil in their hand, hopefully, they'll think about their locality and what they want to see happen in their locality over the next five years. "Hopefully, people will turn out and they will make a commitment to voting in the local elections because, at the end of the day, this affects you as much as that national election." Wales' Local Government Secretary, Labour's Mark Drakeford, said Theresa May's decision would have a "galvanising effect" on Labour supporters. And the Welsh Conservatives' local government spokeswoman Janet Finch-Saunders said the extra political coverage was "energising politicians and the electorate" ahead of the local elections. Plaid Cymru's local government spokeswoman Siân Gwenllian said the timing of the general election so close to the local elections was "a bit unfortunate". While UKIP's Gareth Bennett suggested the general election could have been called a month later to "avoid some of this overlap". Peter Black from the Liberal Democrats said: "It's my job as a local politician to go out there and persuade people that they have to vote for the right reasons in the right election." Sunday Politics Wales, BBC One Wales, 11:00 GMT, Sunday 30 April

The general election campaign is "crowding out" Thursday's local elections, according to the chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association.

The plane blew a tyre on take-off from Clarksdale, Mississippi, on Saturday. The SJ30 jet made a forced landing in Tunica, about 40 miles (65km) away, where it went off the runway. In a statement, the Shawshank Redemption star said: "Sometimes things don't go as planned and a tyre blew on take-off, which caused other problems." He continued: "But thanks to my excellent pilot Jimmy Hobson we landed safely without a scratch. "I cannot say the same about my plane. I appreciate the concern and prayers for our safety." The 78-year-old has been nominated for seven Oscars for films including Driving Miss Daisy, Street Smart and Invictus, and won in 2005 for his role in Million Dollar Baby. Natalia Martínez has been at a camp on Mount Logan since Monday, unable to move after strong earthquakes triggered large avalanches, according to reports. She is said to be healthy and uninjured. Her campsite is safe but the surrounding terrain is unstable. Storms and high winds have made a helicopter rescue impossible. "There should be a good weather window happening by Friday, hopefully, if the forecasts are correct," her partner, Camilo Rada, was quoted by CBC as saying. Rada has been in contact with the 37-year-old climber by phone and text. In a blog post, he said she had plenty of food and supplies. She was tired, he added, as she had to leave her tent every few hours to shovel snow piled around her camp. The temperatures in the area have reached -20C. But in her latest message, the climber said the wind had eased and that she was preparing a "hot meal". Martínez started a solo ascent of the 5,959 m (19,551 ft) peak last month. The earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck the western Yukon state early on Monday, Rada said. A few hours later, another tremor, of magnitude 6.3, hit. Martínez was woken up by a "tremendous roar" and saw that blocs of glacial ice surrounded her tent. She then moved her camp to a safer area, he said. The Argentine was described as an experienced climber, who had been on Mount Logan before and faced extreme conditions in Patagonia. She was prepared for severe weather and other challenges, Rada added, but did not expect the earthquakes. "These have been very difficult days for her, first by finding her route devastated by an earthquake, forcing her to abandon the dream of the summit, then due to a forced wait in the middle of a serious storm," he said. "However, she is doing extraordinarily well, keeping herself safe even under all this [sic] circumstances." An average of 25 climbers try to reach the summit of Mount Logan every year. Another group was on the mountain but no details have been given, according to CBC.

A private plane carrying Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was forced to make an emergency landing, but the star and his pilot were unhurt. [NEXT_CONCEPT] An Argentine climber stranded on Canada's highest peak will have to wait another day for a helicopter rescue due to bad weather, her partner says.

Media playback is not supported on this device Tipton fired home on 28 minutes, then added his second in first-half injury-time after goalkeeper Peter Burke was sent-off for fouling Matthew Shevlin. Chris Curran pulled one back but David Cushley scored with a left-foot drive. Michael Ruddy and Jim Ervin were then on target, before Tipton slotted in his third spot-kick with six minutes left. Both sides had early chances in a lively start, Caoimhin Bonner seeing a header cleared off the line by Eoin Kane and Cushley rifling a shot narrowly wide. Jay Donnelly crashed a header off the bar, before striker Tipton opened the scoring after Shevlin went down under a challenge from Johnny Flynn inside the area. Burke was shown a red card by referee Tim Marshall after he lost control of the ball and upended Shevlin in the box. Tipton blasted past makeshift keeper Eamonn Seydak, but Curran gave his side some hope when he headed home from a Stephen Garrett cross four minutes after the interval. Cushley waltzed through the Reds defence and rifled low into the net, before Ruddy chipped in the fourth after catching Seydak off his line. Ervin got in on the act with 10 minutes remaining, and Tipton grabbed the sixth, to condemn the visitors to a second successive league defeat. 24 May 2016 Last updated at 17:54 BST Elizabeth Quintana from the military think tank Rusi said swarming drones could be used to take out enemy swarms. But she said the technology was unlikely to be deployed in practice any time soon. The Black Cats are one point above the relegation zone after Saturday's 4-0 home defeat by Aston Villa. "Sadly, we have not made the progress that any of us had hoped for this season," said chairman Ellis Short. Media playback is not supported on this device "We find ourselves battling, once again, at the wrong end of the table. We have therefore made the difficult decision that a change is needed." A Sunderland statement added that an announcement about Poyet's successor would be made "in due course". The Wearsiders face a trip to West Ham on Saturday before a derby against Newcastle on 5 April. Poyet, 47, took training on Monday morning and then met chief executive Margaret Byrne and other board members to learn his fate. Poyet had taken over from Paolo Di Canio in October 2013 with the club bottom of the Premier League. But four victories and a draw from their final six league games helped keep them up - a run that included wins at Chelsea and Manchester United, plus a draw at Manchester City. Uruguayan Poyet, who has managed Brighton, also led the Wearsiders to the 2014 Capital One Cup final, which they lost to City. "I would like to thank Gus for his endeavours during his time at the club, in particular last season's 'great escape' and cup final appearance, which will live long in the memory of every Sunderland fan," said Short. This term, Sunderland have just four wins from 29 league matches and were knocked out of the FA Cup by League One Bradford in February. Following that 2-0 defeat by the Bantams, Poyet wrote an open letter to fans calling for unity to help their battle to stay in the Premier League. Sunderland were 4-0 down to Villa before half-time on Saturday. Some angry fans had to be restrained by security staff as they tried to get close to Poyet in the dug-out, while other supporters left the ground early.

Matthew Tipton scored a hat-trick of penalties as Ballymena moved off the bottom of the table by trouncing 10-man Cliftonville at the Showgrounds. [NEXT_CONCEPT] US Navy researchers are testing drones that can be shot into the sky for rapid deployment. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Sunderland have sacked manager Gus Poyet after a run of just one victory in 12 Premier League games.

Julia Muir-Watt, of the Whithorn Trust, described it as their "most ambitious public archaeology yet". It follows the discovery of the remains of a group of roundhouses at Black Loch of Myrton thought to date back to the fifth century BC. The scheme has already secured £87,000 of Heritage Lottery Funding. A planning application has now been lodged to create a replica roundhouse close to the dig site for use as an educational and performance facility. The Whithorn Trust was the community partner in AOC Archaeology's excavation of a large Iron Age settlement near the town last year. "The settlement is the largest lochside village so far discovered in Scotland and has yielded finds never before seen from the south west of Scotland Iron Age," Ms Muir-Watt said. She said that because it was a wetland site it meant the timber was in a "remarkable state of preservation". "The roundhouse excavated last year was exceptionally large, over 13 metres in diameter, and is one of seven or eight on the site," she said. "The finds are still in post-excavation but should ultimately enable archaeologists to build a much more complete picture of the south west Scotland Iron Age than from any other site." Excavations will continue this summer and plans have now been lodged with Dumfries and Galloway Council to recreate a roundhouse. Ms Muir-Watt said it would be "based entirely on the finds at the Black Loch, and using all authentic materials". "Craftsmen will work with archaeologists and the public, schools and students, to create the massive structure, which has to be floated on a steel subframe to protect the archaeological layers beneath," she said. "This is the design challenge which the architect and engineer have been grappling with over the last couple of months." She said academics from the University of Edinburgh had been debating prehistoric roof structures and the project would allow them to "experiment with prehistoric architectural techniques and tool use". A full-scale working hearth will also allow a "prehistoric cooking experiment" and it is hoped the site can attract school groups, visitors and craft exhibitions and workshops. "Accompanying the construction, a new prehistoric and architectural app will be developed by local young people, to guide visitors round the site, through 3,000 years of buildings," said Ms Muir-Watt. She said the the project would allow the trust to "juxtapose the native wooden roundhouse with the site of the very first Christian church" in the area. If planning permission is secured it is hoped the reconstruction work - also backed the SSE Community Fund - can start in the summer. The tooth was found at Arago cave near the village of Tautavel, one of the world's most important prehistoric sites; it has been under excavation for about 50 years. The owner of the tooth - a very worn lower incisor - lived during a cold and dry period, according to scientists. They hunted horses, reindeer, bison and rhinoceros. "A large adult tooth - we can't say if it was from a male or female - was found during excavations of soil we know to be between 550,000 and 580,000 years old, because we used different dating methods," paleoanthropologist Amelie Viallet told the AFP news agency. "This is a major discovery because we have very few human fossils from this period in Europe," she said. Volunteer Camille, 16, was working with another young archaeologist when she found the tooth last Thursday. They were among hundreds of young trainee archaeologists who come to work in the cave every year to study human ancestors during Lower Palaeolithic times. Older fossils are known from western Europe: remains thought to belong to the species Homo antecessor from Spain are estimated to be 1.2 million years old.

Plans have been submitted to reconstruct an Iron Age roundhouse near the site of the discovery of a major settlement in southern Scotland. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A human tooth dating to around 565,000 years ago has been found by a 16-year-old volunteer in France.

The Tonga international was already the oldest player to have pulled on a shirt in the Pro12 (Now Pro14) before accepting a new one year contract with the Wales region. He should overtake Brad Thorn's Aviva Premiership age record of 40 years and 109 days during the season, making him the oldest top-flight professional player in British rugby history. "I am happy with my contract and I think I have one last year," said Filise, before adding "But this is the last one, 40 is too old for this game!" Filise was born in Malapo, Tonga, on 26 May 1977 during the final years of Welsh rugby's golden era. After growing up in Tonga, he joined the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand and later the Auckland Blues Super Rugby side, where he played alongside former Cardiff Blues number eight Xavier Rush. His 29 Tonga appearances included the 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups before concentrating on the final part of his career in Wales. Filise has made a record 241 appearances for the Blues since his arrival from Bath in 2006, but he says his age doesn't cross his mind. "I didn't think about getting to 40, I just kept going every year," said Filise. "I feel my body is still fit. I have been fortunate on the injury front. I am just training harder and looking after the body. I still feel fresh to go." Age is clearly not an issue for Blues coach Danny Wilson either, with Filise's front-row colleague Matthew Rees - a relative novice at merely 36 - also among six players accepting contract extensions at the region. With prop and captain Gethin Jenkins also 36, this particular regional front-row will have a combined age of 112. Jenkins is recovering from minor knee surgery in the summer and will miss the start of the campaign but could soon be reunited with Filise and Rees. "I feel as if I am the same age (as Jenkins and Rees)," added Filise. "The young Blues props are also full of energy, but I try to compete with them. "I try and look after them because they are the future for the region. I am happy to be playing with them and know they are strong." Wilson insists Filise has earned his new contract on merit after a powerful end to the season typified by his outstanding performance against the Ospreys at Judgement Day at the Principality Stadium. "He is still doing a great job and playing well," said Wilson. "He is our most consistent scrummaging tight-head. "In some of the big high speed intensity games towards the end of last season he delivered really good performances. "We manage him in a certain way and make sure training-wise he does the required amount and no more. "He is in great nick and still making the test scores that are relevant to be a professional rugby player at this level. "He is a popular man in the squad and another part of his role is to impart that knowledge to some of those young props coming through our system."

Cardiff Blues prop Taufa'ao Filise admits 40 is too old for modern rugby, but won't let it stop him enjoying one more season in the top flight.

The International Champions Cup friendly was the first sporting event to be held at the new $1.1bn (£830m) home of NFL side Minnesota Vikings. Bertrand Traore headed the opener for Chelsea before a Giacomo Bonaventura free-kick drew the Italian club level. Brazil midfielder Oscar's brace sealed it for Antonio Conte's side. Kante, who left Premier League champions Leicester for a fee in the region of £30m, came on as a second-half substitute. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. Their frequent breaching has made them well-known to dolphin watchers who regularly gather at Chanonry Point. Whale and Dolphin Conservation field officer Charlie Phillips has been observing the firth's dolphins for more than 25 years. He said: "The Bad Boys Club are some of the young, up and coming males." The Bad Boys Club includes dolphins known to scientists and wildlife watchers by the names Prism, Yin-Yang, Denoozydenzy, Bodhi, Flake and Charlie. The Moray Firth and North Sea provide habitat for the world's most northerly resident population of bottlenose dolphins. The species is protected by European Union rules. From Chanonry Point, where dolphins gather to hunt salmon, and other locations on the firth and also the Kessock Channel, Mr Phillips and others have also observed adult female dolphins and their young. The animals include an adult called Zephyr and her calf. Efforts are being made to confirm the identify of the mother of another calf. Mr Phillips said the calf's mother could possibly be Honey, the offspring of a dolphin called Porridge and a sister to Spirtle, an animal recovering from severe sunburn caused while it was stranded on mudflats of the Cromarty Firth. Hundreds of people were forced from their homes in Sheffield as torrential rain hit the city on 25 June 2007. Sheffield City Council said the plaque, at the Nursery Street riverside park, "provides a permanent tribute in remembrance of that dreadful day". Council Leader Julie Dore said: "It also underlines the strength and resilience shown by communities." More on this and other local stories from across Yorkshire She added that the authority was doing everything in its power to make sure "we protect our residents, homes and businesses from any future devastation". The Nursery Street park forms part of new flood defences along the River Don. The Lower Don Valley flood protection scheme, which is nearing completion, is one of six planned for Sheffield, at an estimated cost of £83m. It involves the construction of more than 60 new flood protection measures along a five-mile stretch of the River Don. Two people who died in the floods were Ryan Parry, 14, who was swept off his feet by the River Sheaf at Millhouses and a 68-year-old man who died when he was washed away as he got out of his car in the Wicker area. Hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes, with villages near Rotherham amongst the worst hit, amid fears the nearby Ulley dam would collapse. Recalling the floods, one caller told BBC Radio Sheffield she remembered seeing "a wall of water" flood her friend's house in a matter of minutes. Another resident, Gemma Aktekin, described it as "like something out of a horror movie". Mrs Aktekin, who spent eight months living in a caravan, said events of the day had a long-term impact, including making it virtually impossible to get flood insurance.

Summer signing N'Golo Kante made his first appearance for Chelsea as two goals from Oscar saw the Premier League side beat AC Milan 3-1 in Minneapolis. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The antics of a group of young male bottlenose dolphins in the Moray Firth have earned them the nickname the "The Bad Boys Club". [NEXT_CONCEPT] The 10th anniversary of floods in which two people died has been marked with the unveiling of a plaque.

The Uefa fine was imposed as a result of fans encroaching onto the playing area during and after the victory over Greece at Windsor Park on 8 October. Northern Ireland won the match 3-1 to secure their place at next summer's Euro 2016 finals in France. The Irish FA has confirmed that it will not be appealing against the decision. The sanction for the pitch incursions was imposed by the Uefa Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body. The victory over the Greeks sparked scenes of wild jubilation as Northern Ireland reached their first major tournament in 30 years. Following the win over Greece, Northern Ireland drew 1-1 away to Finland to secure top spot in Group F. The 0.2% rise in house prices last month was down from a 0.8% rise in December, although that left prices 4.3% higher than at this time in 2016. "The outlook for the housing market remains clouded," said Nationwide economist Robert Gardner. The average price of a house in the UK dropped slightly to £205,240. Mr Gardner said that so far there had not been a negative impact on the economy following the vote to leave the EU. "The economy has remained far stronger than expected in the wake of the Brexit vote. "Recent data indicates that the economy didn't slow in the second half of 2016 and the unemployment rate remained stable at an 11-year-low in the three months to November." However, he added: "There are tentative signs that conditions may be about to soften. "Employment growth has moderated and while wage growth has edged up in recent months, in real terms, earnings growth has already slowed." Even though the Nationwide reckons that house price inflation was 4.3% in January, it still believes the average figure for 2017 will end up at 2%. That implies a fairly dramatic dip in inflation during the months ahead. In fact it looks like house prices could soon be rising at a slower rate than the cost of living as a whole. In the smartest parts of London, prices have already fallen by up to 12% in the last year, according to some analysis. But Nationwide's gloomy outlook for the economy and house prices may be good news for house-hunters. Barnardo's Cymru said professionals can often spot symptoms of abuse among girls, but sexual stereotyping means boys can slip through the net. Negative behaviour among boys tends to be taken at face value, while in girls it is more likely to be explored as a potential response to trauma. The charity wants awareness raised. Menna Thomas, senior policy research officer and co-author of the report, I Never Spoke About It, said boys have "additional barriers which prevent them from being identified and, more importantly, from being able to speak up about their abuse. "For example, boys' negative or criminal behaviour is often interpreted and responded to in a way which overlooks their status as victims of exploitation and abuse. "There doesn't seem to be sufficient awareness of the possibility of boys being vulnerable to sexual exploitation and, therefore, insufficient messaging to boys that they will be believed and offered suitable services." The report also found as the most vulnerable boys move into adolescence, they are at greater risk of mental health problems, substance misuse, homelessness and offending behaviour. It found they were also more likely to be loners - all are factors which can increase the risk of sexual exploitation. It said a high number of professionals who were questioned referred to boys who had run away from home or been forced to live on the streets and exchanged sex for accommodation or food, known as "survival sex".

The Irish Football Association has been fined 7,000 euros following pitch invasions by supporters as Northern Ireland qualified for Euro 2016. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Annual UK house price inflation fell to its weakest level since November 2015 in January, according to mortgage lender Nationwide. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Boy victims of sexual exploitation often miss out on help as they are more reluctant than girls to admit their abuse, a charity has warned.

The military has been in charge since a coup last year and an election was expected in the middle of 2016. But a constitution re-drafted after the takeover is now to be put to the public. Meanwhile, Yingluck Shinawatra, forced to step down as PM before the coup, is on trial on charges of negligence. Thailand has seen almost a decade of divisive political conflict. The military had ruled out a referendum, planning instead to seek opinion from a thousand selected respondents in each of Thailand's 77 provinces. But a referendum has now been agreed. Before it can take place a committee meeting on 6 August needs to approve the draft constitution. Once that has happened it will be at least three to six months before the referendum can take place, partly because 47 million copies of the constitution will need to be distributed to the public. That could mean no election until the second half of 2016. The draft constitution's contentious elements include: Critics say the constitution is aimed at preventing the return of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted in 2006, after being accused of corruption. He now lives in self-imposed exile. Thailand's Constitutional Court forced his sister Ms Yingluck from office in early May 2014 after finding her guilty of abusing her power. Weeks later, the military seized power saying it needed to restore order following months of street protests. The Shinawatras, or parties allied to them, have won every Thai election since 2001. Their opponents accuse them of cronyism, corruption and financially ruinous policies. Meanwhile, Ms Yingluck's trial on charges of dereliction of duty over her role in a controversial rice subsidy scheme has started. She pleaded not guilty. The scheme paid rice famers in rural areas - where her party has most of its support - twice the market rate for their crop, in a programme that cost the government billions of dollars. Ms Yingluck says she was not involved in the scheme's day-to-day operations and has defended it as an attempt to support the rural poor. In January, she was retroactively impeached for her role in the scheme. She was also banned from politics for five years. She told crowds outside the court in Bangkok she would prove her innocence. Ms Yingluck maintains the charges she faces are intended to keep her out of politics. The next hearing in the trial has been scheduled for 21 July. Her brother, Mr Shinawatra made a rare public appearance in South Korea earlier saying he believed "democracy will prevail" in Thailand.

A general election in Thailand is to be delayed following a decision by the military government to hold a referendum on a new constitution.

Or will the picturesque Red Bull Ring in Spielberg play host to round two of the Lewis Hamilton v Sebastian Vettel Baku drama? A year ago in Austria, Hamilton collided with then Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg on the last lap before passing him to win a thrilling contest. As for Vettel, two retirements and a fourth-place finish isn't exactly a glowing record at this circuit. Can the German claim his first victory and get back in F1 good books? Choose your qualifying top three from the list below, then head back over to predict your race winner. Here's the form guide... Pick who you think will master qualifying for Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix

Will the Austrian Grand Prix be alive with the sound of harmonious music?

Ian McGaw, 26, from Galston, went berserk as they tried to arrest him for throwing a firework into a play park in the East Ayrshire town. Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard how he hurled five PCs around "like rag dolls" after being sprayed with CS gas and was so powerful he buckled his handcuffs. Dean Stevenson, 19, who also attacked police, was jailed for two years. McGaw admitted culpable and reckless conduct by throwing a firework, punching and kicking two officers, assaulting PC Robert McMeeking to the danger of his life and resisting arrest. Stevenson, who is also from Galston, admitted punching a female officer on the head and assaulting PC McMeeking to the danger of his life. The court heard how police went to a house in Galston, in October last year, after fireworks had been thrown in a local play park. As officers confronted a group of males inside, McGaw showed signs of building aggression and two officers attempted to handcuff him. McGaw managed to pick up a police sergeant and throw him through a closed door into the next room. Stephanie MacDonald, prosecuting, said: "The sergeant got up and saw five officers being treated, as he described it, like rag dolls." McGaw dropped to his knees after being sprayed twice with CS gas, while Stevenson punched an officer in the face. Ms MacDonald added: "McGaw got back on his feet and lunged towards PC Robert McMeeking, grabbed him by the throat with both hands and squeezed his windpipe with both thumbs. "He was held against a wall and lifted off his feet. The officer estimated he was not breathing for 20-30 seconds and described losing the feeling in his arms and legs." PC McMeeking passed out and was freed by a colleague, but McGaw spat on him while being restrained. PC McMeeking was then kicked on the head by Stevenson, while the latter was being handcuffed. Ms MacDonald said the pair were put in a van and taken to Kilmarnock police office, where McGaw's cuffs were removed and "found to be buckled and unserviceable due to the struggle". The court was told that PC McMeeking had since suffered loss of vision which had been linked to post-traumatic stress disorder. Sheriff Alistair Watson said the "terrible and sustained attack on police officers" was so serious he had considered sending it to the High Court for sentencing. He told McGaw: "You are a man with a history of violence and quite obvious size and strength which you used to press home this attack on the officers, and in particular PC McMeeking. "The effects on him will be long-lasting, that's obvious to all. The attack was life-threatening and you show no remorse for what you have done." Sheriff Watson said the sentence should reflect McGaw's "significant risk to the public" and ordered that he be supervised for two years after his release. He told Stevenson his part in the attack had caused PC McMeeking to lose consciousness, although he had shown remorse and written a letter to the court. The incident was the second time McGaw had been jailed over a violent confrontation with police. In 2006, when he was 18, he and co-accused Christopher Quigley, 19, were jailed for a total of seven years after barricading themselves in their burning house and attacking riot police. Media playback is unsupported on your device 19 February 2015 Last updated at 08:50 GMT The 200 million year old fossil was hidden away in the museum store room. It's thought to be the remains of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile. The man who found it says scientists now know it lived in the waters around Britain, and that its last meal was a squid. It is not uncommon to find ichthyosaur fossils in England. The sharp-toothed marine reptiles swam in large numbers in the seas around Britain when the dinosaurs roamed.

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"This is a very special moment, to have a statue of me," the 29-year-old said. The statue is part of Ronaldo's personal museum, housing mementos and awards from his career including his two Ballon D'Or titles, awarded to him as the world's best player in 2008 and 2013. The former Manchester United striker, who lifted the Club World Cup with his current club on Saturday, is favourite to win the 2014 accolade in January. He has scored 34 goals in 27 games for club and country this season. "Ronaldo has never forgotten his origins," added his mother, Dolores Aveiro.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to his hometown of Funchal on the island of Madeira for the unveiling of a statue of himself.

A £11.3m investment will see the creation of three new data hubs in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The hubs will analyse a range of online data, such as customer behaviour or production patterns, which firms can then use to boost productivity. Backers of the plan expect the new labs to play an important part in Scotland's growing digital sector. Up to 345 jobs are expected to be created. The Data Lab, the firm behind the new investment, said part of the aim is to try to build better working relationships and understandings between themselves and the firms who are generating the data. Neil Logan, chairman of The Data Lab, said: "Any organisation can benefit from this. We are going to look to fund over 1000 collaborative, innovation projects between industry public services and their academics. "Data science is the fundamental skill which helps businesses unlock the value of the data they have. The jobs that we are looking at are highly skilled and highly paid." The investment is expected to bring an additional £155m to the Scottish economy but Mr Logan claimed this could increase dramatically in the future. He said: "The Centre for Economics and Business Research estimated that 'Big Data' as an area would be worth around £216bn between 2012 and 2017 (in the UK). If we look at Scotland as 10% of that we could be looking at £20bn." The new lab is being funded by the Scottish Funding Council, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Laurence Howells, Chief Executive of the Scottish Funding Council, said: "Tablets, kindles, mobile phones, online shopping; we all use and generate massive amounts of data each day. "Our £11.3 million investment will support The Data Lab to develop innovative techniques that will improve many aspects of our lives, from efficient energy use, personalised online shopping, through to faster and more effective medical care."

Hundreds of Scottish jobs have been promised with the creation of a new "Big Data" centre.

Gavin Moore, who was 40, died in hospital after the collision with a car on the Newtownards Road in Conlig. Two other riders from the North Down Cycle Club (NDCC) were injured in the incident. Mr Moore's funeral took place on Saturday at the Hamilton Road Presbyterian Church in Bangor. A 59-year-old man arrested at the scene of the crash has been released on bail. Police have appealed for anyone travelling in the area at the time to contact them with any information about the collision.

Hundreds of cyclists rode behind the coffin of a rider who was killed in a crash in County Down on Tuesday.

The pupils come from varying backgrounds, and many different ethnicities, but as he reads from a Bible story, they sit quietly, listening raptly. He is a strong defender of the tradition, and feels it is a time for the children to pause, to worship, and to give thanks. "We always have a Bible story, and that comes through in a very sincere way, also within the context of the multicultural community which we serve," says Mr Morant. "Within our collective worship, we give children time to think - but it's also an opportunity to come together to celebrate and remember that we are a Christian school with a very strong ethos." In non-faith schools, collective daily worship must be "wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character", while at faith schools, the worship must be in accordance with the religion or religious denomination of the school. Yet the legal requirement in England and Wales for daily worship appears to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance at non-faith schools. Many schools no longer do, and several organisations this year have called for the necessity to be scrapped, even though parents who object to their child taking part in such worship have the right to remove the child. In 2011, a ComRes opinion poll for BBC local radio faith programmes found that just 28% of children in England took part in a daily act of collective worship at their school, and that 60% of the adults questioned thought that the collective worship laws should not be enforced. In 2004, Ofsted even stopped asking its school inspectors to enforce the necessity for collective worship, as 76% of secondary schools were non-compliant with the law - either by not having worship every day or not having worship at all. Since then, calls for the law to be scrapped have gathered momentum. In November this year, a study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, undertaken by a group of academics from across the UK, called for a wide-ranging government review into what requirements should be made of schools around providing assemblies. It suggested investigating the rationale behind schools being required to provide daily religious worship, and its authors called on the review to consider what explicit needs of society, schools and pupils should be met through any future requirements. The study itself found the current arrangements to be "incoherent and to infringe upon pupils' freedom of religion or belief". That call followed a separate report in June by the Lancaster University sociology of religion expert, Prof Linda Woodhead, and a former Secretary of State for Education, Charles Clarke. Their report, A New Settlement: Religion and Belief in Schools, noted that the educational landscape had changed enormously over the past few decades, and concluded that the requirement for daily compulsory worship in English schools should be abolished, and replaced with non-statutory guidance on the provision of assemblies. Both the British Humanist Association (BHA) and the National Secular Society (NSS) are also in favour of scrapping the current requirement, with the BHA calling it "unworkable, hypocritical, counter-productive and divisive". The NSS terms it "an anachronism; the legacy of a society unrecognisable from the diverse and pluralistic Britain of today where citizens hold a wide variety of religious beliefs, and increasingly, no religious beliefs". The chair of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, agrees. He says the current legal arrangements do not work. "Not only do they fail to properly respect staff, parents and pupils' autonomy and rights but, because many find the current rules unworkable, a culture has been created where a great many schools rarely provide assemblies, if at all," he believes. "If we are to rescue the opportunity for pupils to communally explore and forge shared values, in a way that is workable and respectful, then the government must show leadership and repeal the collective worship laws as a matter of urgency. "The current laws are repressive and utterly self-defeating. Assemblies can have a positive role as a time of shared values and communal togetherness but should not be a divisive imposition of religious worship." That clamour for change was underlined by recommendations by the most recent report to address daily worship in schools, which concluded that they should no longer face a legal requirement to provide such worship of a Christian character in a Britain that is increasingly multicultural. Earlier this month, the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, which was led by the former High Court judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, called for a radical overhaul of the teaching of belief to make it more realistic and relevant in a diverse and increasingly secular country. It also suggested the repeal of mandatory daily acts of collective worship that are wholly or mainly of a Christian character, saying that the arguments in favour of retaining compulsory Christian worship in UK schools were no longer convincing, and that schools should instead have a more inclusive "time for reflection", which would embrace children of all and no faiths, aimed at contributing to their "spiritual, moral, social and cultural development". The Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales continue to support the mandatory daily act of worship. Rev Nigel Genders, Church of England chief education officer, said: "There is plenty of flexibility in the provision to enable all pupils to benefit without compromising their faith or lack of it. "Where there are real objections it is a parent's right to withdraw their child from worship, and the very few who take up that right demonstrates that schools have found exciting and creative ways of using collective worship to further children's spiritual and moral development. There is no expectation of commitment and the exposure to the range of religious traditions encourages community cohesion." There are individual members of the clergy who believe that reform is overdue, and who suggest that time for some kind of moral and philosophical reflection might be preferable. Although few are likely to be putting their heads above the parapet to suggest that around Christmas time.

Every day at Christ Church Primary School - a Church of England school on Brick Lane in London - pupils sit together for daily worship, led by the headteacher, Julian Morant.

The game trained participants' brains to cut out calories by telling them to avoid pressing on pictures of certain images, such as biscuits and chocolate. They lost a small amount of weight and appeared to eat fewer calories for up to six months afterwards. The 10-minute game was played four times in one week. Forty-one adults took part in the study, published in the journal Appetite. The majority were overweight, and all said they ate calorie-dense snacks, such as crisps, biscuits, cake and chocolate, at least three times a week. The online game, developed by psychologists at the University of Exeter and Cardiff University, used "brain training" techniques to change behaviour - in this case, to resist unhealthy snack foods. It required people to avoid pressing a key when an unhealthy food appeared on the screen. This type of training helps people associate this unhealthy food with "stopping", the researchers said. The results were compared with another group of 41 adults who completed the same training, but involving non-food pictures. The results showed that participants lost an average of 1.5lb (0.7kg) and consumed around 220 fewer calories a day during the week of training. Food diaries in the following six months suggested that the participants maintained their improved habits. Dr Natalia Lawrence, from the University of Exeter, who led the research, said the game had the ability to change some people's eating behaviour, but it was still early days. "This research is still in its infancy and the effects are modest. Larger, registered trials with longer-term measures need to be conducted. "However, our findings suggest that this cognitive training approach is worth pursuing: it is free, easy to do and 88% of our participants said they would be happy to keep doing it." She said this type of training could be used as one element of a weight loss programme or for improving eating behaviour.

A computer game may help some people control their unhealthy snacking habits, suggests a small study from the University of Exeter.

The choir has consisted of boys and men since the cathedral was consecrated in 1887. In September 2015, 20 girl choristers aged 13 to 18 joined the music foundation. At a special service on Sunday the treble section was made up entirely of girls as the boys were given the day off. A cathedral spokesperson said girls are educated at Truro School, where they receive a 25% scholarship which can be supplemented by a means-tested additional bursary to ensure selection is based purely on ability. The spokesperson said girls from any school are eligible to apply, though if successful they have to move to Truro School. The Dean of Truro, the Very Reverend Roger Bush, said: "It was a very significant occasion for us. The atmosphere in the place was really electric." "An aspiration has become a reality and we're all celebrating the fact." David Howman, who chairs the Athletics Integrity Unit, said he could not guarantee August's event in London would be completely clean. But he told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast he would "ensure the best possible anti-doping programme is in place". Howman is also urging athletes to talk to the unit about their concerns. Several British athletes face losing their world records after European Athletics announced it wants historical records rewritten because of the doping scandal. Paula Radcliffe, Jonathan Edwards and Colin Jackson are among those whose records are under threat. The International Olympic Committee has also embarked on a programme of retesting old samples - leading to the disqualification of more than 100 athletes from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. That has led to retrospective medals for Britain's Goldie Sayers, Martyn Rooney and Kelly Sotherton. Howman, a former director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, acknowledged emotions are running high in the sport. "We're going to be talking with all those athletes who are angry - we've started that programme already," he said. "What we are doing in terms of our task is to ensure that the athlete voice is heard and those who do want to come forward to talk to us about any aspect can do that. The first opportunity to do that will be in London." The World Championships will take place from 4-13 August. But Trinidad and Tobago striker Richard Roy is to leave the Scottish Premiership club during December. Player-manager Martin Canning praised MacKinnon after the 31-year-old secured a new deal until May 2019. "In the last six weeks, he has probably been on the best run of form for the club," he said. "He is one of those players who doesn't really play poorly, but I think he has been excelling in the last few weeks and it is something that we have been looking to do - tie him down for a bit longer." MacKinnon, who joined Hamilton from Clydebank in 2012, has made 20 appearances this season. "His attitude is great," said Canning. "I think he is 31 now, but he is as fit as they come. He is a natural athlete. "It is great for the club that we have managed to tie him down again." Sowah, who has made six appearances after joining from Hamburg, has also done enough to persuade Canning to hand him an extension to his short-term contract. "Hopefully that will get sorted in the next day or two," Canning said of his 24-year-old fellow defender. However, Roy will be leaving Hamilton when the 29-year-old, previously of Defence Force in his homeland, comes to the end of his four-month contract this month. The striker, who played six times for his country prior to 2012, made the last of his two Accies appearances in August.

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The company said a "processing error" led to a number of its customers at "some" stores in the Midlands being charged a second time on Thursday for purchases made on 4 and 7 August. Some 4% of all transactions made in the UK on those dates were affected by the technical fault, Aldi said. All affected customers were reimbursed within 24 hours, the supermarket added. When asked if customers would be refunded for any overdraft fees they might have incurred, a spokesman for the company said it was advising customers to contact their bank. Shoppers took to Twitter to complain about money being taken from their bank accounts. End of Twitter post by @ruber21 The company said: "We are sorry for this error and any inconvenience caused to our customers. "The issue is now resolved, but if customers require any further assistance, we advise them to contact our customer services team on 0800 042 0800, or by emailing customer.service@aldi.co.uk." The American assumed control of Villa in 2006 after a £62.6m takeover was agreed with the club's board. "I owe it to Villa to move on, and look for fresh, invigorated leadership, if in my heart I feel I can no longer do the job," he said in a statement. Villa finished the season in 15th position, five points above the relegation zone. Their Premier League status was only secured with victory over Hull City on 3 May and the future of manager Paul Lambert remains uncertain. I don't believe it's going to be that easy to sell Aston Villa to Randy Lerner's satisfaction Lerner, who bought the club in August 2006 from Doug Ellis, had said last month that he would address speculation regarding his own future at the club in the summer. In his statement issued on Monday, the 51-year-old owner said he had engaged Bank of America Merrill Lynch to advise on the club's sale. "I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit," he said. "The last several seasons have been week in, week out battles and having now come through this last season unfortunately limping amidst very meaningful injuries and constant sale rumours, I feel further that now is the time for me to look for new ownership and thus new leadership." He added: "I am appreciative of the support I have received, even in these last years of comparative struggle when criticism was due, and will look on with others - with fingers crossed - for stronger future performance appropriate to our size and heritage." Media playback is not supported on this device News of the sale was revealed by BBC reporter Pat Murphy, who said the likely asking price would be about £200m - which is £100m less than Lerner's estimated total investment in the club. Murphy also disclosed the involvement of investment banker Keith Harris, who did the deal in 2006 to bring Lerner to Aston Villa. "My understanding is Randy Lerner won't sell Aston Villa unless Keith Harris gives him the say-so, such is his respect for Keith Harris," Murphy told BBC Radio 5 live. "I believe this will move fairly quickly. But don't forget, you're looking at £200m, plus in my opinion £100m for players to save Villa from their annual flirtation against relegation and one of these days they will drop off the edge unless this is sorted out. And where are the multi-billionaires around who would go for what is now, a middle-ranking club in the Premier League? "I'm not sure it's that attractive a prospect now. I don't believe it's going to be that easy to sell Aston Villa to Randy Lerner's satisfaction." Villa were sixth three seasons running under manager Martin O'Neill, but have only finished in the top half of the table once in the four campaigns since his resignation. Lambert, who replaced fellow Scot Alex McLeish, joined from Norwich City two years ago and described keeping the club up this season as "an incredible achievement". "It needs investment, it's simple," Lambert said after the 3-0 defeat at Tottenham on Sunday. "It smacks you right in the face what the team needs. That's the bottom line."

Aldi has apologised after customers in some Midlands stores were charged twice for purchases made this month. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner has announced that the Premier League club is being put up for sale.

Amos Yee, 16, posted a video critical of the late PM Lee Kuan Yew days after his death in March, comparing him to Jesus Christ and disparaging both. He also posted an obscene cartoon of Lee and former UK PM Margaret Thatcher. Yee's lawyer said the teenager, who had pleaded not guilty, would appeal against both conviction and sentence. The court sentenced Yee to four weeks of imprisonment from 2 June, which means he can be released immediately having already spent 50 days in remand. Judge Jasvender Kaur said the offences "were not serious in nature but not trivial either". Yee's video, titled Lee Kuan Yew is Finally Dead!, was posted on 23 March. He subsequently posted an obscene cartoon of Lee and Thatcher on his blog in an apparent reference to their close political relationship. Authorities arrested him after at least 30 people filed police reports. Yee was charged with spreading obscene images, offending religious groups and harassment. The latter charge was dropped. Singapore has strict hate speech laws particularly on race and religion. The video also came days after the death of Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, amid nationwide mourning. The case sparked public debate in the city-state about censorship and the reaction by the government drew criticism from human rights groups. Yee was facing a maximum penalty of three years in prison for wounding racial or religious feelings and three months for distributing an obscene drawing.

A Singapore teenager who was found guilty of wounding religious feelings will walk free after being sentenced to jail time already served.

Officials say the move is necessary to enforce security and save lives while tracking down militants from the outlawed Kurdish PKK group. Three Turkish police were killed on Sunday in two separate attacks by militants in the south-east. A car bomb near the city of Sirnak killed two officers. Another died in a rocket attack in the city of Silvan. Violence has surged between Turkey and the PKK since a ceasefire collapsed in July. Security sources said Turkish forces backed by helicopters chased militants responsible for the Sirnak bombing, killing at least five of them. A statement from regional governor Ali Ihsan Su said the new curfew had been put in place to "ensure the security of our people's lives and property" while authorities hunt "members of the separatist terror organisation". The new curfew came into place at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Sunday and would remain in place until further notice, the statement added. The restrictions on Cizre were lifted on Saturday after eight days. The city was sealed off while Turkish troops spent eight days carrying out a counter-terrorism operation against the PKK. Grim reports from Turkish town under curfew Turkey-PKK conflict: Why are clashes escalating? Curfews are also in force in several districts around the south-eastern city of Silvan and another in the region's largest city, Diyarbakir, Turkish media reported. In the Sur district of Diyarbakir, clashes broke out, leaving seven police officers wounded, security sources said. Police also fired tear gas and water cannon at groups of youths elsewhere in the city. In televised comments, the leader of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish HDP party, Selahattin Demirtas, urged a return to peace talks. "We call on all parties to take into account the public's expectations," he said. Civilian casualties were reported in Cizre during the earlier curfew. Images from the city on Sunday showed coffins being carried through the streets. Turkey has described Cizre as a hotbed of PKK activity. But critics accuse President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of renewing violence to curb support for the HDP, whose 14% share of the vote in June elections cost the governing AKP its majority in parliament. The government denies the accusations. Many people fear the clashes will mount as snap elections scheduled for November draw closer.

Turkish authorities have re-imposed a curfew on the mainly Kurdish city of Cizre, just a day after it was lifted.

The annual Guid Nychburris festival takes place in Dumfries on Saturday with various routes shut for horses and riders and a parade in the town centre. Drumlanrig Castle near Thornhill is hosting the Tough Mudder race on Saturday and Sunday which is likely to see extra traffic on the A76. The same road will also be affected by Kirkconnel Gala on Saturday. Langholm is also expected to be busy with the Muckle-toon Adventure Festival involving various outdoor sporting activities running all weekend.

Police have warned of "considerable traffic disruption" due to weekend events in Dumfries and Galloway.

Middlesbrough's mima will receive the money from the Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund. It will allow it to explore the possibility of lending its collections to other museums and non-museum venues, such as schools, shopping centres or town halls, for a fee. Under the scheme, mima will recruit a registrar and conservator. Mima curator James Beighton said: "We hope that this will become a case study that can be used by other museums to justify appointments to these positions in the future."

Collections owned by a Teesside arts centre could be shown at other venues after it was awarded a £68,912 grant.

Spinner Batty, who turns 39 next week, took 41 wickets at an average of 31.21 in the County Championship this year. His form led to a recall to the England Test squad for the two-match series in Bangladesh later this month. Left-hander Harinath, 29, scored 707 runs at an average of 35.35 in 11 Championship appearances in 2016. Batty has also been granted a testimonial year by Surrey in 2017.

Surrey captain Gareth Batty and batsman Arun Harinath have signed new two-year deals, which will keep the pair at The Oval until the end of the 2018 season.

A recent Ofcom report suggested 20% of homes in urban areas struggle with poor 4G phone signal. In rural areas, it's as high as 80%. Little wonder then Britain languishes at 54th place in the global league table of 4G connectivity, behind Albania, Estonia and Peru. The hunt is now on for test beds to develop new 5G technology - Bristol, Kings College London and the University of Surrey are all said to be interested. The government has announced a fresh drive to bring us up to speed for the digital age. It has put superfast connections at the heart of its Industrial Strategy, backed up with investment of £1bn. Inside the Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol - I discover just how much progress they've already made. They've designed a small box that emits 5G. The promise is super-fast, super-reliable connectivity wherever you go. It's an essential component in the driverless car technology they're also working on here. When you're travelling at 60mph in a car reliant on mobile signals for direction, you can't afford to slip into a digital desert. Lab director, Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, said: "5G is a revolution. It's not just about having a faster connection in our mobile phones - it's also about creating a seamless connectivity with the network and it's about having complete reliability." "Often in your home you have great connectivity. Your teenagers might be on YouTube while you're watching programmes streamed on iPlayer. Then you get into your car and you don't even get a 3G service. 5G will stop all of this." As our data demands climb exponentially we need a network that can support them. Now the race is on to design the framework for that digital dream. A bus transporting workers collided with a lorry carrying construction materials in the Zakhir district of the oasis city of al-Ain. According to GulfNews.com, most of the workers were cleaners of Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin. Millions of foreign workers, mostly from South Asia, live in the UAE. The accident took place on the Old Truck Road during morning rush hour. The lorry ended up on top of the bus, Gen Hussein al-Harithi, director of Abu Dhabi traffic police told state news agency WAM. He said the lorry had overturned when its brakes failed and that there had not been a safe distance between the two vehicles. "Twenty-two people were dead at the scene," he said. "There were 24 others injured, and their injuries ranged from minor and moderate to serious." The lorry was reported to be carrying either gravel or sand. The per-capita death toll on UAE roads is among the highest in the world, according to the World Health Organization. The musician, from Dumfries, earned $63m (£51.18m) last year. Chef Gordon Ramsay is ranked 34th on the Forbes celebrity rich list, with earnings of $54m (£43.87m) in 2016. The list is topped by pop star Taylor Swift who earns $170m (£138.17m).

British inventors may have pioneered the telephone and the internet but the reliability of those networks in this country is lagging behind. [NEXT_CONCEPT] At least 22 Asian workers have been killed and 24 injured in a road accident in the United Arab Emirates, police say. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Scottish DJ Calvin Harris has been named the world's 21st highest-paid celebrity.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it is looking into claims the Met's National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit destroyed paperwork in May 2014. The public inquiry into undercover policing was announced in March 2014. The Met said it is committed to co-operating with the investigation. The IPCC said documents should not have been destroyed "without express permission". IPCC spokeswoman Sarah Green said: "While the evidence indicates that a large number of documents were shredded over a period of days in May 2014, the difficult task ahead for our investigators is to determine what the documentation was, why it was destroyed, whether electronic copies were kept and who may have ordered its destruction." The then Home Secretary Theresa May ordered the public inquiry following a number of accusations about the conduct of officers deployed to spy on political groups. The Met said in a statement it had notified the IPCC about the possible shredding of documents by the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit in May 2016, but the allegation was not recorded until December 2016. "The reason why it was not progressed further at that stage is unclear and will also be subject of the investigation by the IPCC," the statement said. "The MPS has briefed the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing regarding the referral." Green Party member Baroness Jenny Jones has alleged records relating to her were destroyed or deleted in June 2014. Her case is "now also subject to independent investigation" and is a separate matter from the May 2014 documents, the IPCC said. The governing body for the sport is calling for a change in the Highway Code to make drivers turning left give way to cyclists going straight ahead on the passenger side of their vehicle. Former cycling champion and policy adviser Chris Boardman said the change "reinforces good behaviour". The Road Haulage Association (RHA) warned it would lead to more accidents. Mr Boardman has been leading the campaign after his mother Carol was killed in a collision with a pick-up vehicle while cycling in Connah's Quay, north Wales, in July. The Olympic gold medallist said Britain should follow the European standard where anyone turning at junctions gives way. "It just creates a duty of care for everybody and it makes it really simple. No-one's quite sure what the rules are," he told the BBC's Breakfast programme. "It compels people to treat others as human beings and not obstacles." The proposed amendment would need to be agreed by the Department for Transport (DfT) as part of an expected update of the Highway Code before being presented to Parliament. Do cycle cameras make the roads any safer? London Cycling Campaign says the vast majority of collisions between all road users including pedestrians happen at junctions. A spokesman for the group, Simon Munk, told BBC News several factors contributed to this: He said while "drivers have a responsibility when pedestrians are crossing to be cautious" it is not this way for cyclists. Duncan Buchanan, RHA's deputy policy director, said the rule change would introduce confusion and sets an "incredibly dangerous precedent". "It is doing exactly the opposite of what we hope which is to ensure the safety of road users," he told BBC Radio 4's Today. He added: "This rule while superficially appearing simple in fact makes it much more complicated - it means that you become responsible as the motorist for someone overtaking you on the inside when they have full visibility of what you're doing." Mr Buchanan said there was a conflict in what was being proposed and what was already written in the Highway Code. The DfT said it had launched a THINK! campaign warning drivers and cyclists of the dangers when turning left and is "determined to keep all road users safe".

An inquiry has been launched into allegations the Metropolitan Police shredded documents months after a probe into undercover policing began. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Motorists should always have to give way to cyclists when turning at a junction, says British Cycling.

Speaking on his television programme, Mr Maduro said "nobody should get obsessed with electoral processes that are not in the constitution". His comment comes a day after the government and opposition groups agreed on a road map to resolve Venezuela's political and economic crisis. Mr Maduro's term ends in early 2019. The opposition blames Mr Maduro and his government for the dire state of Venezuela's economy. The country is suffering from sky-high inflation and there are shortages of many basic goods, including medical supplies. More than three-quarters of Venezuelans are unhappy with Mr Maduro's leadership, according to a recent poll. But an attempt by the opposition to organise a referendum to oust Mr Maduro from office has stalled after the electoral council said that courts in several states had reported fraud in the campaign's preliminary petition. The move caused outrage among opposition groups which then began to call for early elections as an alternative way to remove Mr Maduro from his post. But speaking on his weekly television programme on Sunday, the president asked: "An electoral way out? Way out to where?" Negotiators for the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) and the government met on Friday for two days of Vatican-backed talks on how to end the political and economic crisis. They released a joint statement in which they pledged to "live together in peace" and laid out a road map on how to defuse the situation. While there was no mention of early elections in the joint statement, opposition lead negotiator Carlos Ocariz later announced that the MUD coalition would stay at the negotiating table only until it obtained early elections or a recall referendum. After ruling out early elections, Mr Maduro mocked Mr Ocariz's statement saying that "it makes me very happy that the MUD will continue in the dialogue until December 2018". December 2018 is when the next presidential election is due to be held if no early polls are called. The next round of talks between the opposition and the government is scheduled for 6 December. However, a number of opposition leaders have already called for protests, which had been halted as a sign of goodwill ahead of the talks, to resume. The former opposition presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, said that "the crisis is getting worse every day". "The talks don't mean we have to renounce anything, the rights of Venezuelans can't be bought or sold, we have to fight and fight until we succeed," he added.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ruled out holding early elections amid calls from opposition groups for him to step down.

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has won three of six races and leads Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton by 24 points before this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix. Wolff said: "It's painful but we are not the favourites for this year's championship. At the moment, it's Ferrari. "We need to rise to the challenge to prove we are the team to beat." Ferrari's resurgence following a major set of rule changes for 2017 follows three years of dominance by Mercedes. Although Mercedes have proved to have the fastest car over one qualifying lap, the Ferrari is more flexible, works more easily in a wider range of conditions and has generally appeared to have an advantage in races. Hamilton has won two grands prix, in China and Spain, and his new team-mate Valtteri Bottas one in Russia, which came against the run of play after Ferrari dominated qualifying in Sochi. Wolff said: "This is the reality of the situation now. We have to fight with all that we are worth for every single win, pole position, podium finish and every point. You can no longer expect that when you look at a timesheet the two Mercedes will be right at the top. "We've come into this season with a strong car that has allowed us to win three of the first six races. But it has also caused us more complications than we have seen in previous years. "Everybody at the factories is working absolutely flat out to assess the current difficulties we are facing - to define our objectives, work with the data we have and then come up with the right solutions. "Some of these fixes will be short term, others may take longer. "We've had bruising weekends before and it's about showing resilience and getting up after falling. "I remember the troubles we had in Singapore in 2015, which hurt badly. We gave ourselves a deadline to address that setback before switching our focus to the next race in Suzuka, which we won. "We've done exactly the same thing after Monaco - addressing the problems before turning our attention to Montreal. We know that this season is a marathon, not a sprint." Media playback is not supported on this device Mercedes' fundamental struggles this season revolve around a difficulty in getting the Pirelli tyres to work consistently in their correct operating temperature window. And Wolff admits that the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal might not play to the strengths of the Mercedes car. The circuit is a series of slow corners linked by long straights with a low-grip, low-abrasion track surface. It is exactly the sort of track that could provide difficulties in operating the tyres, lacking the faster, longer corners which work the tyres harder and where the Mercedes' strong high-speed aerodynamics can come into play. Wolff said: "I'm expecting an interesting weekend in Canada. It could be a tricky race for us in terms of the layout of the track. But, equally, it's a circuit that suits both of our drivers. Lewis has won a number of times in the past and Valtteri has always gone strongly there for Williams." Hamilton has won five times in Canada in nine appearances and it has consistently been one of his favourite tracks.

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says rivals Ferrari are favourites to win this year's world title.

A strike on Tuesday has also been suspended, but strike action is still planned for 3 October. The GMB union said a work-to-rule would remain. Refuse and recycling truck drivers walked out earlier this month over pay, staff grading and responsibility. The city council said it was pleased strike action had been suspended. The union is claiming people at the council are doing equivalent jobs to its members, but being paid more. It also said the authority had failed to "consult meaningfully" over new working practices and long-standing issues over round allocation and distribution. GMB representative Mark Turner said the union was planning to hold more talks with the council next Tuesday. In a statement, Brighton and Hove City Council said it was looking at a "full service redesign to ensure we meet the needs of the city and to resolve work-to-rule". It added: "We cannot favour one group of workers over another and increasing allowances for one group of staff would require us to increase it for many others at great cost to the council's overall pay bill. "The agreement we reached with our trade unions and staff last year was to better ensure we were equal pay compliant." A series of strikes last summer led to waste piling up in the streets. The club have been at their current Plainmoor home, which is owned by Torbay Council, for 105 years, but have been approached by an American firm about building a new ground. Under the deal, the developers would pay for the stadium in exchange for council land to build housing on. The new ground would have a synthetic 4G pitch and a capacity of 6,000. "The developers have met the council, it's at an early stage and it depends on what land can be built on," Torquay chairman David Phillips told BBC Sport. "The land for housing would be wherever is available, the council have to build 10,000 houses in the next 20 years." Torquay opened a new stand at Plainmoor in 2012 and have agreed to share their ground with National League South side Truro City next season while the Cornish club builds a new stadium. The Gulls are currently second-from-bottom of the National League, having been relegated from the Football League two seasons ago. The club had to make drastic cuts after lottery-winning former owner Thea Bristow left the club last summer, with a new board taking over the club and being forced to close the academy and slash the playing budget. The planned site for the new stadium would be a 42-acre piece of land in the Barton area of Torquay which has already been earmarked for sport. It is unlikely that Plainmoor would be redeveloped for housing as the land it occupies is deemed to be a community asset for sport. "We could be moving within 18 months or two years, the developers feel the building of the stadium would take no more than six months," added Phillips. Torquay manager Kevin Nicholson has spent the best part of the last decade with the Gulls as both a player and coach. "It would be a massive step forward for the club," he told BBC Sport. "Having your own new stadium, you only have to look at Shrewsbury Town, where they dropped to and where they are now and how their new stadium has played a part in that. "I think the potential there is huge, it really would be a massive thing for the football club's long-term future."

A strike by refuse workers in Brighton and Hove on Thursday has been called off to allow further talks between union leaders and the city council. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Torquay United are in talks about moving to a new stadium on the outskirts of the town.

The company is starting a consultation process with 1,000 of its onshore employees around the UK. Wood Group said it was in response to "continuing cost and efficiency challenges affecting the oil and gas sector". David Kemp, Wood Group's chief financial officer, said: "We are streamlining our structure and our processes to reduce costs." He added: "As ever, our commitment is to act compassionately and sensitively, supporting our people through this consultation process and we will make every effort to minimise the impact on them." Jake Molloy, of the RMT union, said it was more bad news for the industry, and that 300 posts was significantly higher than the union had estimated. Wood Group employs about 6,200 people onshore in the UK. The company announced last week it had won a new $500m (£342.5m) contract to provide services for BP-operated offshore projects in Azerbaijan.

Oil services company Wood Group is looking to cut about 300 jobs.

The remains were excavated from the site of one of UK's earliest known hospitals, near Winchester, Hampshire. Scientific detective work suggests the man was a religious pilgrim who may have caught the disease on his travels. University of Winchester researchers think leprosy may have become common in Europe in the Middle Ages because of the great pilgrimages of the period. Dr Simon Roffey, of the University of Winchester, said investigations of the skeleton have shed light on one of the ways that leprosy might have arrived in England. "From the 11th Century to the 14th Century in Western Europe we get an unprecedented rise in the foundation of leprosy hospitals," he said. "Why is leprosy - which has been around for centuries - suddenly finding its way and impacting so much on Western European society at that time? "This one individual gives us an insight into one of the reasons why this disease found its way into a medieval society." Leprosy is an infection caused by a bacterium (Mycobacterium leprae). It has been a human disease for thousands of years and was recorded in ancient China, Egypt and India. The disease develops slowly and causes skin lesions and deformities. People continue to be affected today in some parts of the world. Researchers performed extensive tests on a skeleton excavated from one of the UK's earliest known hospitals. Radiocarbon dating indicated that the remains were buried during the late 11th or early 12th Century. Scientists believe the man was a religious pilgrim. He was interred with a scallop shell, the traditional symbol of a pilgrim who has made the journey to the shrine of St James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. "We extracted pathogen DNA from the skeleton of this individual to test for the presence of M. leprae, thus confirming that he was indeed suffering from lepromatous leprosy at the time he died," said Prof Mike Taylor, of the University of Surrey. The pilgrim had a strain of leprosy that is found today in central or western Asia. It remains unclear at what point during or following his pilgrimage the man contracted leprosy. "Traditionally the crusades have been seen to be one of the main reasons for the spread of leprosy in western Europe in the medieval period. However, we know from other forms of evidence that hospitals were present a number of decades before the crusades," said Dr Roffey. "Work at Winchester has suggested that pilgrimage may be another conduit for the spread of leprosy because we have the only example of a medieval pilgrim with early stage leprosy in the leprosy hospital cemetery. "And therefore that suggests that pilgrimage may also have been a conduit for leprosy and perhaps even an earlier conduit for the transmission of leprosy in western Europe." The research suggests the genetic make-up of the bacteria that causes leprosy has not significantly changed since the disease peaked in medieval Europe. This might explain why transmission of the disease has slowed in modern times as human populations develop resistance. The minor genetic differences between strains is likely to reflect different origins of the disease through past movements of people or trade from different parts of the world. The research is published in the journal, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Follow Helen on Twitter.

A medieval skeleton found at a UK burial site has revealed clues to the history of leprosy, say researchers.

Officers and firearms specialists were deployed after reports of an incident at the flat in Shaw Street, in the Govan area, at about 04:15. It is understood the three men were arrested at about 06:50. Nearby Govan Road was closed to traffic for a time because of debris on the road. It has since re-opened.

Three men have been arrested following a disturbance at a flat in the south side of Glasgow which saw armed police sent to the area.

Fordyce's header capped a dominant first half from the hosts which saw visiting goalkeeper Scott Gallacher keep out efforts from Shaun Rooney and twice from Stephen Dobbie. Gallacher was called upon again to deny Dobbie. Sons' substitute Calum Gallagher had a second half chance but Queens held on for a win that lifts them up to third. The government had issued a media release on Tuesday about regeneration funding for Glasgow. The Tories contend that the administration should not be making announcements which could have a bearing on Thursday's council vote. A Scottish government spokesman said a response would be issued in "due course". The Scottish government announced more than £8m of funding from the Scottish Partnership for Regeneration in Urban Centres (Spruce) on Tuesday, targeted at Glasgow. Guidance for civil servants issued in January stated that "particular care" should be taken in the weeks preceding elections, noting: "It needs to be borne in mind that the activities of the Scottish government could have a bearing on the local election campaigns". Conservative MSP Ross Thomson raised a point of order following Wednesday's session of questions to the first minister, saying the announcement "looks like a blatant attempt to sway voters in an area that is being targeted by the SNP". He said: "I have written to the Permanent Secretary to the Scottish government asking for an explanation as to how this could be announced just 48 hours before voters go to the polls. "People need to have absolute confidence that public money is not being used for party political ends." The Scottish government spokesman confirmed that a letter had been received by the permanent secretary. He added: "A response will be issued in due course." The club's 1927 victory against Arsenal marked the only time England's showpiece football trophy has been out of the country. A family day at the Cardiff Story museum on The Hayes will celebrate the achievement. An exhibition there with memorabilia, including shirts and winners' medals, runs until 4 September. During 2014/15, marksmen shot 361 boar and the agency has said this figure was exceeded by Christmas, making the cull on course to achieve the yearly target. Deputy surveyor, Kevin Stannard said: "We started the cull in September, by Christmas we had exceeded the cull from the previous year." In 2015 thermal imaging surveys estimated 1,000 wild boar in the area. Wild boar living in the Forest of Dean can cause damage while foraging for food. There can also be a danger, particularly to dog walkers and riders, as they can charge, especially when protecting their young. But there are no plans to eradicate them, just to manage the numbers. "It is impossible to get an accurate figure of the wild population over a large area. "They move, they hide. Feral wild boar don't hold territories so they are constantly moving around the forest, moving out on to agricultural land, moving into the villages," said Mr Stannard. He said the thermal imaging technique nevertheless indicated the population was increasing. Although the Forestry Commission carries out annual culls, it has repeated its warning that it is only responsible for culling boar on Crown land. If the animals stray on to private land, it would be the landowner's responsibility to deal with them.

Defender Callum Fordyce scored again as Queen of the South made it back-to-back wins with victory over Dumbarton. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The Scottish Conservatives have called for an investigation over claims the Scottish government broke purdah rules. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Events will mark the 90th anniversary of Cardiff City winning the FA Cup on Sunday. [NEXT_CONCEPT] The Forestry Commission has said it is on target to cull 575 wild boar by Easter in the Forest of Dean.

The band headlined a show at Cornwall's Eden Project, opening with Paper Gods, the title track of their latest album. They followed it up with a brace of 80s hits - Wild Boys, Hungry Like The Wolf and A View To A Kill. Will Young, Laura Mvula and Shaun The Sheep have also taken part in the UK-wide celebration of music. Choristers Only Men Aloud launched events at 06:50, singing with Amy Wadge - who was singing on a platform atop of the Severn Bridge. The singer, who won a Grammy for co-writing Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud, penned a song specially for BBC Music Day. Called The Bridge, it also marks the 50th anniversary of the Severn Bridge bridge being built. Nile Rodgers, who co-founded Chic and has worked with Prince and David Bowie, is an ambassador for BBC Music Day, and said music had the power to change lives. "I've had some really rough years as of late," said the star, who is currently in remission from cancer, "but the music keeps us going". "When I have my worst times, I just pick up my guitar and I start practicing in my room. And people wonder, 'well, do those songs become hits?'. "And I go, 'I don't care, I just do it because it makes me feel good'. I love to play." Almost 400 events took place across the UK on Friday, including a children's "vegetable orchestra", led by Shaun The Sheep at Bristol's Colston Hall. Rock band Travis played a unique, one-off show with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow's Barrowlands. Birmingham's New Street Station saw a flashmob by singer Ruby Turner and the Town Hall Gospel Choir, who opened their set with gospel classic This Train (Is Bound For Glory). Meanwhile, the Ulster Orchestra performed in the grounds of the Stormont Parliament Buildings in Belfast. Their programme included the theme to TV show Game Of Thrones, much of which is filmed in Northern Ireland. A UK-wide bell-ringing event took place at 19:00 BST, with more than 180 church towers ringing simultaneously, including Bristol and Manchester cathedral and smaller parish churches such as Saint Francis Xavier's in Liverpool and St Mary's in Turville, Buckinghamshire. BBC Radio 2 honoured five "unsung heroes" of music, including Dr Jane Bentley, who runs music groups for people with mental health difficulties, alzheimers and dementia. And children's choirs from around the UK joined forces together to perform a specially-written song for BBC Music Day. Our Song was composed by Sasha Johnson Manning using words provided by listeners to CBeebies radio. At lunchtime, pop star Will Young serenaded workers at Bristol's Pukka Herbs tea factory, marking the 75th anniversary of Workers Playtime - a BBC radio programme which was started to boost morale among workers during the Second World War. Dressed in hygienic scrubs, the singer said he was taking part because music "crosses boundaries" and brings communities together. "I get as much joy singing in the shower as I will singing here today," he added. Under the banner Take It To The Bridge, live music was staged on more than 40 bridges around the UK. A Borders piper and a Northumbrian piper played on opposite sides of the Union Chain Bridge, which unites England and Scotland over the River Tweed, before meeting in the middle. Singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti battled vertigo on London's Tower Bridge - playing his set on a glass-bottomed walkway 42 metres above the River Thames. "I was clenching my eyes together," he admitted after the performance. The Military Wives Choir sang Sailing - as made famous by Rod Stewart - on the bridge of HMS Victory in Portsmouth; while Middlesbrough's Tees Transporter Bridge featured live music throughout the day. In Yorkshire, Rebecca Newman played Bridge over Troubled Waters on a temporary crossing over the River Wharfe. The footbridge was constructed after Tadcaster Bridge crumbled during floods last Christmas. Full details of events around the UK can be found on the BBC Music Day website. Duran Duran's concert will be broadcast live from 21:00 BST on Radio 2, while highlights will be shown on BBC One on Sunday, 5 June. "Can I say thank you to the BBC for Music Day?" said singer Simon LeBon, four songs into their set. "I think it's an amazing thing to bring people together over music."

Pop stars Duran Duran have brought the curtain down on BBC Music Day, which has seen concerts in libraries, on bridges and in bell towers.

Mr Tsarnaev's lawyers called just four witnesses before ending their defence, in a case that could see their client face the death penalty. He has pleaded not guilty to all 30 charges he faces, including one related to the killing of a police officer days after the bombing. The bombings in 2013 were the deadliest terror attack on US soil since 9/11. Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed after two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel detonated in April 2013. More than 260 people were injured, with many losing limbs. At the start of the trial, lawyers stunned the court by admitting his guilt, but said that he was acting under the influence of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in the aftermath. And on Tuesday, they called witnesses to back up that claim, with the focus on data found on the brothers' computers. A digital forensics expert testified that the older brother researched radio transmitters and guns in the weeks before the attack but no such searches were found on the defendant's. The defence team's hope is that he will be spared execution, and the jury will elect instead to put him behind bars for the rest of his life. The prosecution rested its case on Monday, after calling more than 90 witnesses during 15 days of testimony. Those taking the stand included bombing survivors, who described losing limbs in the attack. Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Henry Nields testified that the youngest victim of the attacks, eight-year-old Martin Richard, received injuries to every part of his body. The testimony was illustrated by autopsy photos and the child's bloody, torn clothing. The prosecution also said Mr Tsarnaev, who emigrated with his family from Chechnya, had extremist views and wanted to hit back at the US in revenge for military action in Muslim countries. The brothers set off a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the crowded finish line. Mr Tsarnaev was found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house just outside Boston after a huge police manhunt days after the bombings. He was seriously wounded and taken to hospital. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died earlier during a chaotic confrontation with police when his brother ran him over and dragged his body up to 30 feet down the street. Closing arguments in the case are expected to be held on 6 April. The proposed development would include a 150-bed hotel, 88 flats and 65,000 sq ft of grade A office space. Robertson Construction (Tayside), has submitted a planning application for the development, in partnership with Dundee City Council. It will be the first of 12 separate sites at Dundee Waterfront to be developed. Allan Watt, Dundee Waterfront project director, said: "This is a historically-important planning application for Dundee Waterfront as it marks the start of the first major mixed-use development for the central waterfront area. "We are receiving a lot of interest from investors, developers and business owners in other sites, but there is no substitute for a full planning application being made to underwrite the scale of ambition for Dundee Waterfront." Dundee Waterfront is a £1bn regeneration project to transform 240 acres of land along 8km (5miles) of the River Tay. The £80.1m V&A Museum of Design and a new railway station are currently under construction. Scaffolding at the museum, which is due to open in 2018, was recently removed, revealing the shape of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma's design.

The defence team for accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has rested its case in the first phase of the trial. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Plans have been lodged for a £40m development opposite Dundee's V&A Museum of Design.

Shannon disappeared from her home in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, for more than three weeks in February 2008. Her mother, Karen, was jailed for eight years for her part in the abduction. Prior to the decision, Shannon's father Leon Rose, said publishing a full report would cause her "upheaval". An executive summary of the Serious Case Review into the run-up to Shannon's disappearance was published two years ago. The Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board has been under pressure to publish the full report, especially after the Government made a commitment to getting full Serious Case Reviews into the public domain wherever possible. However, board chairman Bron Sanders said the Serious Case Review overview report, no matter how it was redacted, would allow specific children to be identified and would place details of their private lives into the public domain. "The children in this family are all vulnerable and there is no doubt whatsoever that it would be wrong for us to knowingly cause them harm, " Mrs Sanders said. "The board always made it clear that we would do our utmost to publish the overview report for this Serious Case Review," she added. "A huge amount of work has gone into that process over the last two years because we are an open and transparent body who understand the level of public interest in the Matthews case. "However, Shannon and her siblings are vulnerable children and their welfare must always come first." The board's original intention to publish the full report was fought in the High Court by Shannon's father. In October, his action was adjourned after "powerful" new "welfare material" was produced and the safeguarding board decided to reconsider its position. Shannon's disappearance prompted a massive police operation and she was discovered 24 days later at her stepfather's uncle's home less than a mile away from her house. In January 2009 her mother was sentenced for what the judge described as a "truly despicable" plot to abduct the nine-year-old. Michael Donovan, in whose flat the youngster was found in the base of a bed, was also jailed for eight years. Both have now been released from prison. The safeguarding board did publish some new information relating to Shannon's case. It said the Progress Review of Learning gave a detailed analysis of agencies' involvement with the family and showed how they have subsequently changed their working practices.

A report into abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews will not be published in full because it could put her and her siblings at risk, the Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board says.

Ramsey came off during Arsenal's 2-0 Champions League win over Bayern Munich on 20 October, having played 90 minutes against Watford on 17 October. The midfielder played in Wales' Euro qualifier with Andorra on 13 October. "The fact that he played against Andorra certainly cost Gareth Bale and him [Ramsey] as well," Wenger said. Wenger, speaking to the Arsenal website, said Ramsey could miss Wales' friendly with Netherlands on 13 November. "He had a scan today but he's out. I believe he will be out until after the next international break," Wenger added. If Ramsey's problem is as serious as feared, the 24-year-old will also miss Premier League games against Everton, Swansea and Tottenham, the League Cup fourth-round tie at Sheffield Wednesday and the return Champions League match at Bayern Munich. Wenger had previously confirmed that Ramsey would miss Saturday's game at home to Everton. Ramsey's fellow Wales star Bale has been troubled by a left calf injury for some time. He came off in the La Liga win against Levante at the weekend and sat out Real Madrid's Champions League 0-0 draw at Paris St-Germain on Wednesday. Ramsey's career has been blighted by hamstring injuries and he was sidelined on three separate occasions during the 2014-15 season. Former Wales and Netherlands assistant coach Raymond Verheijen said he believes that the Arsenal squad is prone to injuries. He told BBC Wales Sport: "If you analyse the situation at Arsenal, you see there is this group of young players like Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - Bacary Sagna and Robin van Persie when they were there - Aaron Ramsey and now also Danny Welbeck. "These are players who, every year, are out for numerous weeks or months and that is a big concern. "It tells you something is going wrong at Arsenal in terms of over-training these young players. As a result, their bodies are breaking down. "If you want to know what exactly is going wrong, you have to be there every day to see what they do. "From the outside, you can only draw the conclusion something is going wrong." There was no official response from Arsenal, but manager Wenger will hold his usual media conference on Friday morning.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says Aaron Ramsey could be out for up to a month and suggested that playing for Wales contributed to his hamstring injury.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said Medway NHS Foundation Trust had "made progress" under a new chief executive. But the CQC ruled it should stay in "special measures" for another six months. The trust said patients were now seen and discharged quicker and saw fewer different doctors. The CQC returned to Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham on 29 and 30 March after a previous inspection found the A&E department could not cope when busy. The Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards has sent his initial findings to the health secretary Jeremy Hunt: In her response, the Trust's chief executive Lesley Dwyer said: "We have made the hospital safer, cleaner and more responsive to the needs of patients. "We recognise there is considerably more to do. We need to address staffing levels and recruit more permanent colleagues to reduce our dependency on agency staff." The trust was first put into special measures in July 2013 because of concerns about death rates and care standards. In January the hospital was again rated inadequate and Sir Mike warned the trust's registration could be cancelled without a "clear and coherent improvement strategy".

Emergency patients are being assessed quicker, but safe nursing levels remain a problem, according to the latest inspection of Kent's Maritime Hospital.

The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said Botswana now recognised the spirit as a geographical indication (GI). The move means only whisky that has been made in Scotland can legally be sold as Scotch in the country. SWA said the "legal breakthrough" gave consumers a high level of protection against fakes. Whisky shipments to Botswana increased by 163% last year to reach nearly £457,000, according to SWA figures. The trade body said it expected to see demand for Scotch increase in African countries in future years as economies on the continent grew. Chief executive David Frost said: "Botswana recognising Scotch as a GI - a product that must be made in Scotland - is ground-breaking as it's the first product to be given this status. "It's also the first time Scotch has been successfully registered as a GI anywhere in Africa. "This move will protect consumers and give a boost to the growth of Scotch exports across Africa." According to SWA, Scotch is now officially recognised in the laws of more than 70 countries, including the whole of the European Union. To qualify as a genuine product, Scotch must be made in Scotland from water, cereals and yeast and matured for at least three years. De Zerbi, 37, previously managed Foggia but left the third-division side in August after two seasons with the club. Club president Maurizio Zamparini made eight coaching changes last season. Ballardini was initially sacked as Palermo manager in January 2016 before being reappointed in April as he helped Palermo avoid relegation. Palermo are 15th in Serie A with one point from two games - above Inter Milan. Zamparini, who bought Palermo in 2002, has made almost 60 coaching changes in 29 years as club owner. However, some right-wing European politicians have welcomed the move. Here is some reaction. Key points 'Extreme vetting' sows seeds of panic The 28-year-old made his Munster debut against Connacht in 2010 and has chalked up 84 appearances. Foley, who has won two Ireland caps, follows former Munster players James Coughlan, Paddy Butler and Sean Dougall in moving to the Top 14 club. The lock, from Tipperary, will miss the rest of the season as he recovers from a wrist injury. Foley made his Ireland debut against Georgia in 2014, and has also represented Emerging Ireland on two tours. Nasar Ahmed, 14, who had severe asthma and allergies, was reported ill last Thursday at Bow School in Tower Hamlets. He died on Monday afternoon. A post-mortem examination will take place and the coroner has been informed. The Met said his death was being treated as unexplained. Nasar was in supervised detention with three others in a ground-floor room. His family told the BBC that he complained he felt ill and paramedics were called when it was discovered he did not have his inhaler or EpiPen. Nasar's father, Ashrafu Zaman, arrived at the school before his son was taken to Royal London Hospital and said he thought he had already died. He claimed Nasar would get disorientated so, when the school put him in detention, it did not acknowledge or take this into consideration. The school, however, said there was a care plan in place which addressed Nasar's medical condition. A statement from executive head teacher Cath Smith said: "I am very sad to confirm one of our Year 9 pupils, who was taken ill at school last Thursday, has passed away in hospital. "The whole school community sends our thoughts and prayers to him, and to his family. "We will continue to offer support to the family, his fellow pupils and teachers at this very difficult time. "We will, of course, cooperate fully with investigations into the circumstances of this tragic incident and will also carry out a thorough review of what happened ourselves." Social services have been informed. The school's latest Ofsted report said it was judged to be "good and improving". It said significantly more students were from minority ethnic backgrounds than in most schools, with the largest group of Bangladeshi origin. More than three quarters of students were eligible for the pupil premium, additional funding to raise the attainment of disadvantaged students.

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In his annual report, Douglas Bain is recommending changes to the way complaints are handled. These include the appointment of members of the public to the assembly committee which decides whether MLAs have broken the Stormont rules. Last year, Mr Bain received just 14 complaints about MLAs' behaviour. That was down dramatically from 53 the previous year. He is suggesting MLAs should end what he calls their current "party political approach". He wants a ban on the use of assembly vetoes - or Petitions of Concern - to stop politicians being punished for breaking the rules. Such a petition was used to prevent any sanction against the Democratic Unionist Party's Sammy Wilson last year. Mr Bain also wants Stormont to follow the example of Westminster, where seven members of the public sit alongside seven MPs on the committee charged with maintaining parliamentary standards. Gwent PCC Ian Johnston has been accused of bullying Carmel Napier. He claimed he was made to look like a villain by the Home Affairs Select Committee, which questioned both of them over what had happened. The committee said he had a "disdainful attitude" to parliamentary scrutiny. But Mr Johnston told BBC Wales he believed the MPs had already decided what they were going to write before he appeared in front of them in July. He said: "I don't think they listened at all to the evidence, I think the way the questioning went they had made their mind up about lots of things. "If you look at the way that it was done, I was the villain of the piece before I even went in there and Carmel Napier was this poor unfortunate woman who had been bullied by this new police and crime commissioner. "That was the way they presented it." In June Mrs Napier announced her retirement with immediate effect after a 30-year career in policing, only for it to emerge that she had been forced out after a series of rows with Mr Johnston. It was revealed that Mr Johnston ordered Mrs Napier to "retire or be removed" as he believed her managerial style was "unacceptably dismissive, abrupt and unhelpful". The case highlighted the wide-ranging powers enjoyed by PCCs to dismiss chief constables and prompted an inquiry by the committee. In her evidence to MPs, Mrs Napier accused Mr Johnston of "menacing and bullying" her out of her job. She said he came to her office and read out a document issuing an ultimatum - leave or face being forced out. In a subsequent report, the Gwent PCC was criticised by the committee for what they called "this disdainful attitude towards scrutiny by Parliament, as well as an indication of a clear over-sensitivity to criticism". They pointed out that Mr Johnston had been elected by less than 8% of voters in Gwent and "had managed to side-step the statutory arrangements for local scrutiny of his decision to sack the chief constable". However, Mr Johnston said he believes the commissioners are "not accountable to members of Parliament". He added: "A message back for Keith Vaz [chair of the committee], I did not side-step any procedures, I followed the procedures to the letter of the law."

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In a statement read out by organiser Prince Harry at the closing ceremony, she said competitors had "overcome great adversity just to take part". The prince added that those who had taken part had shown their "unconquerable" character. Wounded servicemen and women from 13 countries took part in the games. Prince Harry read out a statement from the Queen to crowds at a concert in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to mark the end of the games. "Prince Philip and I send our heartfelt congratulations to the organisers and supporters of this competition and most importantly to you men and women of the armed forces who have overcome great adversity just to take part in these Games," the Queen said. "As I have followed the competition over the past four days, I have been deeply moved by your courage, determination and talent. "All of you have used the power of sport to enhance your own recovery and to raise wider awareness of the enormous challenges faced by wounded veterans." The Queen said the success of the games could "be measured not by medals won but by the renewed sense of purpose and confidence in your abilities that you have gained". She added: "I send my warmest good wishes and congratulations to you all." The concert, in front of a sell-out crowd of 26,000, featured acts including rock bands Foo Fighters and Kaiser Chiefs. Prince Harry told the crowd the games had shown "the very best of the human spirit". "These games have been about seeing guys sprinting for the finish line and then turning round to clap the last man in. "They have been about team-mates choosing to cross the line together, not wanting to come second, but not wanting the other guys too either," he said. 'Huge achievement' The games featured more than 400 competitors in track and field events and disciplines including cycling and indoor rowing. Teams have travelled from the US, Afghanistan, New Zealand and across Europe to take part in events at the Olympic Park and Lee Valley Athletics Centre in London. See here for more coverage of the inaugural games Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, has said the games could become a permanent fixture. "What's exciting is that other countries are now coming forward and saying, 'We would like to host an Invictus Games as well,'" he told Forces TV. "And I think there's every chance that this can become a real institution and a huge achievement for Prince Harry."

The Queen has told competitors in the Invictus Games she has been "deeply moved by your courage, determination and talent".

John Moore Museum received £189,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Old Baptist Chapel, thought to be the UK's earliest Baptist meeting house. Curator Simon Lawton said the building was "vital to our local heritage". The work to regenerate the building starts this month and is due to be completed in May 2018. Nerys Watts, from the Heritage Lottery Fund South West, said: "We're delighted to support the John Moore Museum as they bring their historic chapel back into use for the community and visitors to enjoy." Mr Lawton said: "We'll also be opening it up for hire to local groups so that the town gets full use of this important, yet hidden, architectural gem." The museum and the chapel are run by The Abbey Lawn Trust, which owns 23 properties within the precincts of Tewkesbury Abbey. It has lost its previous triple-A rating from the World Energy Council (WEC) - a global body representing the energy sector. The authors of the WEC report said a vacuum in energy policy since the election was deterring investors needed to create new electricity supplies. But the government said it was still a world leader in energy policy. It said it was committed to securing energy supplies through nuclear and shale gas. The criticism from the WEC follows a complaint from the UN's chief environment scientist that the UK was turning away from renewables, just as they were being embraced by the rest of the world in the run-up to Paris climate talks this month. The WEC report ranks countries on their policies to keep the lights on, bills and carbon emissions down. It says the UK has been a leader in these policies. But its says the government's drastic withdrawal of subsidies for wind and solar power has deterred investors needed for new energy supplies. Electricity has become comparatively more expensive, and the UK remains on a "watch-list" over how it will secure its future energy supply. The report warned the UK faced the run-down of nuclear plants and the closure of coal-powered stations, alongside ageing infrastructure - meaning its ranking is set to fall in future assessments. It urged the government to ensure consistent policy to secure and maintain investments while reforms to the energy system are being implemented. Britain still gets an AAB rating from the council and is still in the world's top four. But that may be a let-off, because the report was written before damaging revelations in a leaked letter that the government has misled people over its progress on EU renewable energy targets. The government denies misleading Parliament to believe that it will hit its mandatory 15% renewable energy target in 2020. But the letter makes clear that the shortfall of approaching 25% in renewables has been hidden from the public - and over several summer months in which subsidies were being cut, journalists were consistently told that the EU renewables targets were still being met. Energy Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs the government remained committed to the targets, which will be achieved by greater focus on renewable heat and transport, rather than electricity. She added: "I recognise, as that letter does, that we don't have the right policies, particularly in transport and heat in order to make those 2020 targets, but we have four to five years and I remain committed to making those targets." A spokesman for her department, commenting on the WEC report, said: "We've made record investments in renewables and are committed to lower-carbon secure energy, such as nuclear and shale gas, which will help keep the lights on for future generations." Energy analysts are baffled as to why the government is blocking onshore wind and large-scale solar power, as these are among the cheapest options for hitting the renewables target. The UN praises the UK for its international role on climate, especially in helping developing countries get clean energy supplies like wind and solar. But the head of the climate negotiations said she noted concern among international allies over recent UK policy changes. Follow Roger Harrabin on Twitter @rharrabin Bury-born Johnston, 31, had been without a club after leaving Manchester City at the end of the 2015 season. England youth international Pitman, 22, joins following her return from DePaul University in Chicago. "It is great to bring on board another two fantastic players," said head coach Carlton Fairweather. "Krystle and Rachel have a wealth of experience which will stand us in good stead for the forthcoming campaign."

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It follows claims broadcast on the BBC's Panorama that grants were made to charities in return for electoral support in Tower Hamlets. Three files of material were handed to the police by the Department of Communities and Local Government. The Met said there would be no new investigation into the files. However the Met said there was an continuing investigation by police into alleged irregularity concerning money awarded by Tower Hamlets Council to an organisation within the borough. Panorama had alleged the council, run by directly-elected mayor Lutfur Rahman, had diverted £3.6m of grants to Bangladeshi and Somali-run charities in return for political support. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the files had been reviewed by a team of officers over the past six days. It said: "In addition, officers have liaised with Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PWC) who are conducting a full and wide-ranging audit of financial matters at The London Borough of Tower Hamlets." Tower Hamlets Council insisted it had "seen no evidence" that its processes had been run inappropriately. A spokesman for the council said: "The news from the Metropolitan Police is to be welcomed and Tower Hamlets will continue to work with the auditors and DCLG." Panorama had said it found Bangladeshi-born Mr Rahman had more than doubled funding recommended by officers for Bengali-run charities. In a statement, it said: "We continue to stand by the programme's findings which uncovered serious concerns about the use of public money, which are still being investigated by the government. "Our programme did not say there was evidence of criminality." The inspection by PWC is continuing to look into the authority's payment of grants, the transfer of property, spending decisions in relation to publicity, and other contractual processes, from 25 October 2010. It has been asked to report back to Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles by 30 June. The Met Police said before the three files were handed to officers a report concerning irregularity was made to police by Tower Hamlets Council on 20 March. Tower Hamlets Criminal Investigation Department is currently investigating irregularity concerning money awarded to the Brady Youth Forum in January and April 2013, which was identified in an internal review by the council. There are elections in London on 22 May, including for the directly-elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets. A list of candidates will be published after the close of nominations next week.

There is "no new credible evidence of criminality" in files from an east London borough, to suspect fraud, the Metropolitan Police has said.

The man from Norfolk was walking on the mountainside on Pen yr Ole Wen when he was unable to continue. Saturday's incident happened after the party he was walking with had made a navigational error, according to Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue. The man was winched on board an RAF helicopter and taken to hospital at Bangor's Ysbyty Gwynedd. In a separate incident, Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue escorted two teenage girls to safety after they became exhausted while walking over the Carneddau range towards Bethesda while on a Duke of Edinburgh gold award expedition.

A 67-year-old walker was airlifted to hospital with hypothermia after getting into trouble in Snowdonia.

The force has revealed some of the worst calls it has had to its emergency number, including reports of a hissing cat following someone down the road. It said the number of 999 calls it received had increased by 11% in the past year - an extra 216,000. Christmas and the New Year is normally the busiest time of year for calls. The Met said the 999 emergency number should only be used to contact police in situations when someone was in danger or when a crime was actually taking place. It said the increase in calls was thought to be partly down to an "increasing population and the reduction of some out-of-hours services by other service providers". 5,000 999 calls received 1,300 Require a police response within 15 minutes 1,000 Calls about anti-social behaviour 450 Reports of missing people 300 Burglary reports Some of the 999 calls released by the Met included: Ch Supt Pippa Mills, who leads the Met's Command and Control Unit, said: "Although the majority of people who require police assistance use the numbers correctly, there are still too many calls to emergency lines where the 999 number is being used as an information service. "In many cases a simple internet search would provide the answer to the question posed by the caller."

Complaints about a fridge delivery and a request for a lift home were among the ridiculous 999 calls made to the Met Police over the past year.

The party's Conor Murphy said the DUP has not met Sinn Féin during the talks process to discuss outstanding issues. Mr Murphy also said the government is playing "footsie" with unionist parties. A DUP spokesman dismissed Sinn Féin's claims that the party is not engaged in the talks process. On Thursday, Sinn Féin held talks with the British and Irish governments, whose delegation was led by the Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan. Speaking after the meeting, Mr Murphy said the talks process did not have a firm agenda or timetable. The Newry and Armagh MP said: "Everyone needs to be in the talks process on the same basis", and added there had been no progress on reaching a "credible process of dialogue". Talks began last week to examine a series of outstanding issues including the past, flags, parading, welfare reform, the workings of Stormont and budgetary matters. Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said he hoped he would be able to arrange talks with the DUP "in the not-too-distant future". The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) held talks with Mr Flanagan in Belfast on Thursday, led by the party's leader Mike Nesbitt, and the SDLP and Alliance party also took part in discussions about legacy issues. Alliance leader David Ford said the parties "must get real" about their involvement in the talks, and called for an end to political "grandstanding". The SDLP's Mark Durkan accused the DUP of having a "stand-back, hold-off attitude" to the talks, and said he hoped the presence of US envoy Gary Hart would bring "more pace" to the process. The DUP stayed away from last week's opening session of the inter-party talks because it objected to negotiating with the Irish government about Northern Ireland's internal affairs. On Wednesday, the party met the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, but so far has not taken part in round-table talks. A party spokesperson denied Sinn Féin's claims that the DUP was holding the talks process to "ransom", and said the First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness held a 45-minute discussion on Wednesday in Cardiff. He added that the DUP is also expected to hold further talks on Thursday evening with Ms Villiers.

Sinn Féin has said the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is holding the talks process to "ransom" over the parading dispute in north Belfast.

Media playback is not supported on this device Silva, 39, was appointed until the end of the season on Thursday after Mike Phelan's sacking, with Hull bottom of the table on 13 points from 20 games. "I have confidence in our players, but it's clear we need to improve our roster," said the Portuguese. Hull host fellow strugglers Swansea in the FA Cup third round on Saturday. "They say you need a lot of luck, you need a miracle to remain in the Premier League," added Silva. "It's normal to say this, but sometimes miracles happen - maybe in May the miracle will happen. We'll see." After Saturday's match with Swansea, the Tigers face Manchester United in the EFL Cup semi-final on 10 January before resuming league duties against Bournemouth on 14 January. The club also rejected a bid from West Ham for top-scorer Robert Snodgrass on Friday, and made permanent midfielder Markus Henriksen's loan move from AZ Alkmaar.

New boss Marco Silva says Hull City need to strengthen their squad in January to perform the "miracle" of staying in the Premier League.

In a game of few chances, Terriers winger Jamie Paterson hit the post with a first-half shot. Wolves forward Joe Mason had one effort ruled out for offside and another deflected over after the break. But Wells capitalised on hesitant defending to fire home from close range, before Harry Bunn chipped over with a chance to double the lead. The defeat left Wolves marooned in mid-table and without a win in six games since beating Fulham 3-2 at Molineux last month, a victory which at the time was Kenny Jackett's side's fourth-straight league win. Huddersfield's victory - their 10th in the last 14 meetings with Wolves - followed last weekend's win at Nottingham Forest and lifted them to 15th in the table, 12 points clear of the relegation zone. Both sides only managed one shot on target each during a poor quality game. Wolves striker Bjorn Sigurdarson had a shot pushed away by Jed Steer, with Mason seeing his follow-up deflected over, before Wells tapped in at the far post for the only goal and his third in four games. Huddersfield head coach David Wagner: "Everyone can be very proud of this performance. "Wolves made it very difficult for us, it was very tight and there wasn't much space but there was lots of hard work and we never gave up. "It is easy to play football if you are creating chances and scoring goals but when it is really tight you have to concentrate." Wolves head coach Kenny Jackett told BBC WM: Media playback is not supported on this device "I don't think we deserved to lose. We battled and scrapped on a tough day and to get no points out of it is unfortunate. "Results are the bottom line and we didn't get a result today. We're not happy with losing a tight game, but there is effort and commitment there from the players. "You always want to be winning games. It was a close game and in the second half I thought we were the more likely to win it." Have you added News Alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the My Alerts menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts for your favourite football team, the Six Nations, and more.

Nahki Wells scored a late winner as Huddersfield Town made it back-to-back Championship wins by beating Wolves.

The pilots spotted the sign drawn into sand on East Fayu Island in Micronesia and alerted the US Coast Guard. It followed a week-long search for Linus and Sabina Jack, both in their 50s, who were reported missing when they failed to reach a nearby island. The couple left Weno Island with limited supplies and no emergency equipment, the Navy said. Teams looking for the couple searched 16,571 square miles, deploying 15 boats and two aircraft crews. A helicopter was sent to fly over East Fayu after a search vessel, British Mariner, reported seeing lights on the uninhabited island. "The Search and Rescue Operation for Linus and Sabina Jack has been successfully completed," said the US Embassy in Kolonia, the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia. "They are found and are waiting for a ship to take them home." It is the second such case this year in the region. In April, three men were rescued from the tiny, uninhabited Micronesian island of Fanadik, after their boat capsized two miles from shore. The men used palm fronds to make a giant 'Help' sign in the sand and used their lifejackets to signal. They were rescued by a US Navy search team after three days. Make a sign: Writing in the sand worked in this case, but if there are large palm fronds, tree branches or even trunks, they will be more visible and more likely to survive an incoming tide. Find a water source: Drinkable water is more important than anything else, without it you will die within days. Use any kind of container you can find or make to store rainwater, and large leaves to help catch as much as possible. Inland streams may provide a fresh water source. Find food: A desert island can be a plentiful source of food, as long as you take some basic precautions. Cook seafood and meat thoroughly, and test food that might be poisonous against the back of your hand or outer lip, to see if it produces a reaction. Build a shelter: Staying off the ground is important, to avoid snakes. Build your shelter in a clearing and cover it well - you may be on a tropical island but being soaked by rain can lead to hypothermia. If you can salvage any kind of netting, use it to protect yourself from mosquitoes. Avoid injury: Treating yourself for a wound is usually much harder than avoiding one in the first place, especially if it turns septic. If you can salvage or make shoes, do so. Try to avoid walking around in bare feet or taking unnecessary risks. Armitage saw off competition from poets including Wole Soyinka and AE Stallings, securing 1,221 of the 3,340 votes cast. He will replace Geoffrey Hill in the role. A new poet is appointed every four years. Seamus Perry, Professor of English Literature at the university, said he was "delighted" with the appointment. He said: "Mr Armitage is a distinguished poet and we expect a full house at his inaugural lecture next term. "We would like to thank Geoffrey Hill for his fascinating and entertaining lectures during his five years in the post. He will be a hard act to follow." Previous holders of the post include John Keble, Matthew Arnold, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Christopher Ricks. They have advised residents to stay inside their properties and keep all windows and doors closed. Four fire crews are in attendance at the incident. A number of people nearby are being moved from their homes. The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said on Thursday night it appeared a contractor may have ruptured a gas main. They received a call to attend the incident at Mull Road at about 21:40 BST. "Thankfully it is an unignited leak, so it has not gone on fire," NIFRS Group Commander Dermot Rooney told BBC Radio Ulster. "The police are managing the public safety by a cordon and by asking people to remain indoors and keep their windows and doors closed. "We and Firmus Energy will be using gas monitoring equipment to monitor the concentrations of gas in the atmosphere, we also have fire appliances there in case the gas leak would ignite."

Two people have been rescued from an uninhabited Pacific island after a US Navy helicopter spotted their SOS sign. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Simon Armitage has been appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Police have said there is a "major gas leak" in the Stiles Way area of Antrim.

The 20-year-old scored 314.25 from her five dives at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre to finish 11th in the semi-finals and claim one of 12 places in Sunday's final (20:00 BST). However, team-mate Rebecca Gallantree is out after finishing 20th. "I haven't even thought about what I can do in the final," said Reid. "The main goal again is to enjoy it." Meanwhile, Rio's main Olympic pool will be drained as part of major work to prepare for Sunday's synchronised swimming. The larger pool in the arena turned green on Wednesday, a day after the diving pool had also changed colour. Experts say the painting at Derby Museum is an original by Joseph Wright, one of the UK's most acclaimed artists. Coliseum by Moonlight was painted in the 1780s after Wright toured Italy and will now undergo a year's restoration. Museum staff said it was placed in storage after being badly over-painted by a restorer in the early 1960s. Lucy Bamford, senior curator of art, said subsequent staff did not know about the restoration and the painting was mistakenly re-catalogued as being by a follower of Wright. It was finally uncovered after the museum's conservator, who was working on its companion - Coliseum by Daylight - discovered literature that showed the museum was meant to hold two paintings of the Coliseum by Wright. "We said 'That can't be. There's one in the store but it's absolutely terrible'," Ms Bamford said. "Once we got it out... we realised that there was something behind that painting which was worth investigating." Infrared technology will be used to reveal what is left of the painting and conservator Mark Roberts will use solvents to remove the over paint. Source: BBC Your Paintings Ms Bamford said Wright was "undoubtedly one of Britain's greatest painters". She said placing the two paintings together would show how Wright was thinking about comparing and contrasting different lights sources, effects and compositions. "It's a really interesting insight into Wright's working methods and the way that he thought," she said. Wright was born in Derby and his patrons included Wedgewood and Arkwright. He became associated with the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century but his main interest was the rendering of light. The painting will be displayed mid-way through its restoration process at the museum in the summer as part of the Grand Tour art event in the East Midlands. Buick was unseated as Dante Stakes and Royal Ascot winner Permian, trained by Mark Johnston, broke down after crossing the line in last place. Assistant trainer Charlie Johnston said Permian suffered a broken leg and was put down. Buick, 29, was taken to Northwest Community Hospital for treatment. "I am with William and he is conscious, but complaining of back pain," said Charlie Johnston, who is the trainer's son. Buick is one of the leading jockeys in Britain, and a retained rider for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team. Permian won six of his 13 career starts, including when ridden by Buick to victory in the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.

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The 22-year-old, who initially joined the Bianconeri on a season-long loan in August, was snapped up for $10.9m on a four-year deal, according to the Serie A champions. "The fee could rise by an additional €1 million, depending on whether he meets "performance-related targets," the club added. Lemina, who has made 11 appearances and scored twice for the Italians, has impressed the club during his time there. "Over the course of his year with Juventus, Mario has developed into a multi-talented midfielder, able to launch attacks with the same level of excellence with which he defends, qualities that will continue to make him a highly valuable member of the Bianconeri midfield in the future," the Serie A outfit said. Lemina began his professional career at Lorient and spent eight years at the French club. He left Lorient and signed a five-year deal with Marseille in August 2013 and scored twice in 50 appearances for the club before switching to Juventus on loan with an option to buy. Lemina had initially rejected a call-up to Gabon's 2015 Africa Cup of Nations squad in the hope he would be selected to play for France instead. But the France Under-20 World Cup winner switched his international allegiance to the country of his birth last September. He has made five appearances for the Panthers and scored on his debut in 3-3 friendly draw against Tunisia in October 2015. Gabon will host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations - only five years after they were co-hosts with Equatorial Guinea.

Italian giants Juventus have signed Gabon midfielder Mario Lemina on a permanent deal from Olympique Marseille.

Knight was shot in the leg by an unknown gunman at Miami's Shore Club where West was holding a pre-MTV Awards celebration. At least six shots were fired, but few witnesses came forward and no-one has been ever arrested over what happened. Celebrities like Jessica Alba and the Black Eyed Peas were all at the event. Marion "Suge" Knight, a controversial figure in the hip hop community, helped launch the careers of rappers like Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. The 44-year-old is claiming that Kanye West and the club's owners didn't provide enough security to keep people with weapons out of the venue. Knight's lawyer, Marc Brumer, said: "He had an expectation of security there. How someone came with a gun into a very VIP party, that just doesn't meet the smell test in life." Knight is also seeking more than £650,000 in damages, which includes compensation for a 15-carat diamond earring he says was lost in the chaos. He also claims that he had to pay £130,000 in medical bills due to a shot that shattered his femur. Kanye West and the Shore Club's owners have denied the claims and a trial has been scheduled for 6 December in Miami. The former Death Row boss went bankrupt in 2006, so if he wins the case he'll have to share the payout with the tax man and his bankruptcy trustee. The girl, temporarily named Jade, is thought to be about 19-months-old and is of Afro-Caribbean appearance. Sussex Police said she was taken into care in March although may have been separated from her family before then. Officers said her surname may be Alma or Nakabugo and she could have connections to Crawley or Tooting. The toddler, who is being looked after by children's services, has been described as "affectionate, sociable, bright and happy". The appeal has been jointly launched by Sussex Police, West Sussex Social Services, and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service. Officers said they were particularly appealing to the Ugandan community for help and stressed the parents were not in any trouble. Det Sgt Alexis Witek said: "At this point we really need to find out who this little girl's parents are. "She may have connections to Crawley and West Sussex as well as Tooting or south London more generally." Sussex Police said publicity for the case was ordered by Mr Justice Hayden sitting at the Family Court in Brighton on 20 June. The child fell from a property in Lewiston Drive in the Summerston area of Glasgow at about 17:00 on Thursday. He was taken to the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where his condition was described as serious. Police said inquiries were under way to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident. Officers could not confirm which floor the boy fell from. They are from all over the world, including the US, UK, France and China. Vtech has also suspended 13 websites following the hacking of its Learning Lodge app database. The hacked database included a lot of customer data, including some details about children, and the company was told about the breach by a journalist. It did not contain any credit card information, Vtech said, but it did store the "name, email address, encrypted password, secret question and answer for password retrieval, IP address, mailing address and download history" of customers. "The Vtech breach illustrates one of the major issues facing us today," said Tod Beardsley, security engineering manager at internet security firm Rapid7. "With the Internet of Things, companies of all sorts are rapidly morphing into information technology companies, but without the hard-won security learnings that traditional infotech companies now enjoy. "It's tough to be both a toy manufacturer and a mature technology company with a robust security program. "This is not just a challenge for companies that are just now entering tech, but a challenge for the security industry to communicate effectively, and quickly, to these companies who haven't yet earned their security stripes the hard way." Professor Alan Woodward, cybersecurity expert at Surrey University, said it looked like the Hong Kong-based firm may have been subjected to a simple hacking technique known as an SQL injection. "These breaches are endemic and we have to stop. If that means focusing the minds of these companies through big fines then so be it. It needs to be taken seriously and those responsible held to account," he told the BBC.

Hip hop star Kanye West is being sued by Death Row Records founder Suge Knight over a shooting at a beach party in August 2005. [NEXT_CONCEPT] An appeal to trace the birth parents of a young girl taken into care in West Sussex has started. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A four-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after falling from the window of a flat. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Electronic toy and educational material seller Vtech has confirmed that about five million customers were affected in the data theft reported on Friday.

He had been suffering from mental health problems for several years. An independent report says his death could have been prevented had he received the care he needed. Here, his mother talks about life with her 'lovely son' and her family's fight to find out why more was not done to help him. Debbie Wood spends her Saturday nights reliving the horror of 26 January 2013 - the night her youngest son Chris died. She agonises about how things might have been different had she picked up the phone and spoken to him. But social workers had advised her not to text and call him too often when he was out, so she resisted the urge. It is a decision she says she will always regret. When she did call, it was too late. "He was a really lovely person. He was very gentle and kind and he was a perfect son," Mrs Wood recalls. "When he was well he was very happy. As a little boy he was always so happy we used to call him our little sunshine. "You can see in photos he was always smiling. He loved sports, music, going to the cinema and he was very close to other family members." But Chris had complex mental health problems. He had borderline personality disorder and made 32 attempts to end his life. Mrs Wood first began to realise something was wrong when Chris was a teenager and became withdrawn and isolated from his friends. "The first problem was about eight years ago when he took his first overdose," she says. "That was closely followed by another and he was taken into the care of the community mental health team." Life with Chris quickly became chaotic. "He could be in the house and he would suddenly just run out and you'd go after him and have to try to find him and bring him back. "Sometimes he would be found on the top of a bridge. "Other times he'd overdose or he'd harm himself in some other way. "He didn't seem to be able to control how he was feeling. "We found that if he was taken into hospital, even if it was just a brief period, that would seem to diffuse the situation and when he'd come out, he would seem a lot better." There was confusion about Chris's diagnosis - first the family was told he had dissociative disorder, later they were told it was borderline personality disorder. "We didn't really have information and we weren't really aware of what was going on, we didn't really fully understand the situation." Chris had regular appointments with healthcare professionals in Cardiff but Mrs Wood says they were often a cause of huge frustration. "Chris was being told that he was fine. "We were becoming increasingly dismayed as time went by that nothing more seemed to be done for him." Requests for more help and advice on how to deal with Chris's problems fell on deaf ears, Mrs Wood claims. "We also asked for someone to chase up an urgent appointment we were waiting on to assess Chris's risk to himself - we thought that was of paramount importance but we couldn't seem to get anyone to chase this up, no matter how hard we tried." A report commissioned by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Mrs Wood's solicitor found that the failings in care arose because of the lack of a care coordinator and specific interventions for his complex problems. To make matters worse, Chris also suffered from fits. In 2010, he was diagnosed with epilepsy but, after further tests, his consultant psychiatrist, Dr Sudad Jawad, reversed the diagnosis. Chris remained on the medication for epilepsy but continued to have fits. "It made a terrible situation even worse," adds Mrs Wood. "We were completely confused about the whole thing. "In the last months of his life, he had 12 fits in 20 days. "At that point he was even too scared to sleep. "We said everything we could to try and get help for him and there was no response." Mrs Wood has raised questions about the care received from Dr Jawad, who treated Chris from 2008 until he died. Dr Jawad has since retired and Mrs Wood's complaints are being investigated by the GMC. Dr Jawad said it would be inappropriate for him to comment while that investigation is ongoing. Despite his mental health issues, Chris did his best to live an independent life. He had worked in a local pub and was training to be the assistant manager but had to leave when his problems became more acute. He also started an IT college course. "His brother always says he was very brave," says Mrs Wood. "Even during the period with all these fits he did manage to keep going and he did quite well, all things considered, in his work life before that." She believes that things could have been very different for him had he had better care and more of an understanding of borderline personality disorder. "We knew very little at the time. "We were just told to look it up on the internet. "People with borderline personality disorders like Chris can be very impulsive and can't manage their emotions in the way that you and I would if anything goes wrong. "He found it very difficult to cope with life and relationships were quite difficult for him to maintain." In 2012, things took a turn for the worse for Chris and his family. Doctors decided that admitting Chris to hospital was making his condition worse in the long run, so they resolved to try to avoid hospitalisation when possible. His family say they were not informed of this decision. "We couldn't understand why there was no response because once again we weren't really aware of the circumstances - even though we were the only ones who were actually caring for Chris in the community. "We didn't really have anyone else to turn to. "Somehow we just coped as best we could. What choice did we have?" Keeping an eye on Chris was a full-time job. Away from home, he would often text his mother and she could gauge how he was feeling. "We'd text him and if he texted back, we'd think oh he's fine, everything's OK. "If we didn't hear anything, then I'd text him again after a while and sometimes it was fine, other times there would be no response and then you would ring and if there was no answer then we got to know that it was likely there was a problem. "In the early days he would quite often text me and say 'Goodbye, I'm sorry, I love you, it's nobody's fault' and then he'd switch his phone off and disappear. Obviously, we'd be panic stricken." Chris's family got to know the places he would be likely to go. "Sometimes we'd get there and you'd find the police were there, they'd found him on the wrong side of the barrier on a bridge. "Sometimes we'd get a phone call and he'd been found on top of a building somewhere." Even at home it was difficult for his family to ensure his safety. "There was one occasion where we were in the living room and all the lights went out. "The next thing we knew, there's banging on the front door and it's the police. "Chris's friend had been murdered and he couldn't cope with it so he tried to electrocute himself. "He'd warned the police about what he was going to do so we didn't find him." Despite repeated suicide attempts, Chris's care did not seem to improve. It was like firefighting, says Mrs Wood. "If a proper care plan had been put in place in the beginning it would never have escalated like this and you can see how things got worse. "I just feel he was let down so badly and so were we. "We were abandoned, there was no one for us to turn to for advice or help because every time we asked, there was no response." On the day he died, Chris had seemed quite upbeat and had arranged to meet some friends at the pub where he had worked. He had arranged for his mother to pick him up at 20:00 GMT but called to say he was going to stay later. "I listened to the background - it was bubbly and it sounded very positive so we said ok," says Mrs Wood. "I texted him at 9.20pm and asked how it was, he said that everything was fine and that he'd be home a bit later. "It got to about 10.15pm and because of our previous experiences, I was anxious and really all I wanted to do was ring him and say 'Look, where are you?' "But we'd had an assessment from a social worker who'd said that it was best not to text him too much in case it stressed him out. "I didn't want to appear not to be taking on board things that they said to us and that's something I'll always regret." When she eventually called, there was no response so Mrs Wood and her husband Robin went to look for their son. They found him in a lane in Cardiff. "At first, I thought we'd arrived in time, we'd found him, he was fine. "We pulled into the lane, then I realised what he'd done - he'd hanged himself on the gates. "We went to the hospital and eventually they came and told us that they'd tried but there was nothing more they could do. "I just couldn't believe it. We had taken him to A&E so many times - and always brought him back with us - that there was a big part of me that really couldn't believe it." Life has never been the same for Mrs Wood and the family. "It's hell, it really is. "Somehow you have to find a way through every day. "I focus on trying to get something done about what happened to my son because it was just disgraceful the way he was treated. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has apologised and said that the findings of its report into Chris's death have been recognised and accepted. A spokesperson said that changes had been made to help prevent this happening again. But Mrs Wood is still concerned for others in similar situations. "If nobody speaks out, then this will continue to happen. "I'm hoping that if people actually realised just how bad the care is for vulnerable, young people in society something might actually be done. "If someone had spoken out before - maybe my son might still be here."

In January 2013, 25-year-old Chris Wood, from Cardiff, killed himself.

While much attention has been devoted to the dramatic Supreme Court move to order the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on charges of corruption and recent large-scale protests led by populist cleric Tahirul Qadri to demand the resignation of the government ahead of elections due in May, the country's financial difficulties have been overlooked. Likewise recent deadly militant bombings have also distracted attention, as have skirmishes with India on the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed Kashmir region. These headline-grabbing events have not only served to obscure the profound economic challenges facing Pakistani society but in many cases have also nurtured and aggravated them. The truth is that the Pakistani people are deeply troubled by the plight of their economy and their own economic prospects. With the government likely to ask the International Monetary Fund this year for a new aid package, the nation's economic plight may soon become topic number one in the global discussion about Pakistan's future. "Deep seated structural problems and weak macroeconomic policies have continued to sap the [Pakistani] economy's vigour," the IMF's executive board concluded in late November. Economic growth over the past four years, after adjustment for inflation, averaged 2.9% annually, and is projected to be only 3.2% in 2012-13. That, says the IMF, is not sufficient to achieve significant improvement in living standards and to absorb the rising labour force. All this at a time when prices are rising about 11% per year. Moreover, the government deficit was 8.5% in the last fiscal year and press reports suggest it may miss its budget deficit target this year by a significant amount. The IMF expects foreign reserves this fiscal year to be half what they were just two years ago, a sign of waning investor confidence and a deteriorating international economic situation. Hardly surprising then that the Pakistani people are extremely downbeat. Roughly nine out of 10 say the economy is bad, including a majority (64%) who think that it is very bad, according to the 2012 Pew Global Attitudes survey. Just 9% rate the economy positively. There has in fact been a sharp decline in economic ratings in Pakistan since the beginning of the global economic recession. In 2007, 59% said the economy was doing well; by 2008, this percentage had dropped to 41% and has continued to fall since then. A plurality (43%) believes the economy will only worsen. For many of them, this pain will be felt personally. Their assessment of their own personal economic situation is down 19 percentage points since 2008, one of the largest fall-offs among the 15 countries for which the Pew Research Centre has comparable data. Only 38% say they are better off than their parents. More than half (57%) say they are worse off than five years ago. And 65% say it will be very difficult for their children to advance economically. Unemployment is one of the public's major concerns. Nine out of 10 people say that the lack of jobs is a very big problem, a more important issue to them than concern about corrupt political leaders or unrest in Kashmir. However because the survey was conducted in the spring of 2012, it could be that concern about Kashmir has risen more recently because of flare-ups in January along the LoC. While it is true that issues of life and death and war and peace will always trump economic news, the dire nature of Pakistan's economic problems could ultimately feed political and social unrest as the regional and global discussion about Pakistan's future moves to centre stage. Polling suggests that the people of Pakistan may say this refocusing is long overdue. Bruce Stokes is the director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Centre.

Pakistan is a country beset with political difficulties, but they could be of secondary importance to its economic woes.

The Nigerian, 25, helped Watford win promotion last season and is thrilled to be in the top flight. "Scoring my first Premier League goal was one of the moments I had waited for all my life," he told BBC Sport. "I can do even better as long as I keep keep working hard, and I think my goal is the first of many to come." Ighalo's 83rd-minute-strike his put his side 2-1 up at Goodison Park and although Arouna Kone's equaliser prevented it from being the wining goal, the 25-year-old is delighted with his first taste of life in the Premier League. "When I was in Nigeria I used to watch the Premier League and hope one day I would play there," he said. "Even though I started the match on the substitutes' bench I was so happy, but when I came on and scored a goal in a game like that against a good side it was such a joy. "I have played and scored in the Italian league and the Spanish league. It's great that I've now done it in England. "As a striker, when you are scoring you gain more confidence. I will keep my head up and keep learning every day so I can do the best for myself and for the team." The opening-day point has also boosted Ighalo's confidence that the Hornets can avoid relegation this season. "It is not going to be easy. We need to keep pushing game by game. But I think we have a team that can stay up," he said. "We have to focus on each game, fight hard and get as many points as we can and then we can survive the drop."

Watford striker Odion Ighalo says he will get even better after scoring a goal on his Premier League debut in Saturday's 2-2 daw at Everton.

It is the work of researchers from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of research institutions. They examined the commitments already made by governments to limit warming. The CAT rated seven of the 15 submitted carbon plans as "inadequate" to keep temperatures below the accepted level of dangerous warming. The analysis was released at a UN climate negotiation meeting in Bonn aimed at advancing a new global treaty. As part of the attempts to tackle global warming, countries have agreed to submit their national plans to the UN before key talks in Paris in December. So far, 56 governments have published their "intended nationally determined contributions," or INDCs in the jargon of the UN. The likes of China, the US and the EU have already submitted their intentions. In this analysis, the CAT looked at the plans of 15 countries that between them account for almost 65% of global emissions. However, seven - including Australia, Canada and Japan - were said to be "inadequate", meaning that they are not considered fair contributions to limiting warming to 2C. Six - including the US, EU and China - were said to be "medium", meaning they are consistent with the target. Two countries, Ethiopia and Morocco, were said to be "sufficient", and in line with the 2 degree goal. "It is clear that if the Paris meeting locks in present climate commitments for 2030, holding warming below 2C could essentially become infeasible, and 1.5 degrees C beyond reach," said Bill Hare of Climate Analytics, part of the CAT group. According to the analysis, the commitments made so far would see temperature rises of up to 3C, with greater impacts on sea-level rise and the frequency of extreme weather events. Many countries with significant emissions of CO2 have not declared their hands so far, including Indonesia and Brazil. Brazilian environmentalists have come up with their own INDC at this meeting in an effort to push their government forward. They claim that the country, the world's seventh biggest emitter, can trim carbon by 35% by 2030 from 2010 levels. They call for an end to deforestation, replanting at least 14 million hectares of native forests and boosting hydropower and biofuels. "We are showing that it's possible for the country to give a fair and ambitious contribution that is both good for the climate and good for the economy," said Carlos Rittl, from the Brazilian Climate Observatory. The overall lack of progress towards meeting the 2 degree target will not come as a surprise to government officials meeting here to push forward negotiations on a new global compact. This week they are attempting to cut down an unwieldy 83-page draft text into something more manageable. There are still major divisions over the shape and content of a new treaty, which will attempt to put long-term ambitions to curb carbon into a legally binding form. Issues of money are never too far from the surface in these talks. In their opening statement, Sudan, on behalf of the African group of countries, affirmed their "strong reservations" over the current text. "The group reaffirms that loss and damage is very critical to the core agreement," pointing to the issue of reparations for damages caused by climate change - something that is anathema to richer countries. It is one of a number of thorny issues that have paralysed progress in this forum. Delegates are aware that they face a very difficult task with just one more week of formal negotiations left after this one, before the parties gather in Paris.

Global plans to curb carbon dioxide are well below what's needed to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees, according to a new analysis.

Owners of the vehicles will have free use of multi-storey car parks after registering with the council. They will also be added to the permit scheme for street level council car parks. The scheme, which goes live on 5 December, includes non-recharging parking bays. The council said hybrid electric vehicles, which are not eligible for the scheme, will still be able to plug in and recharge for free when parked at a designated charging bay. Dundee City Council's city development convener, Will Dawson, said: "Free parking in Dundee can now be added to the growing list of environmental and social benefits of owning an electric vehicle in the city and I'm sure the scheme will prove popular. "The funding for this initiative will be covered through the Smarter Choices Smarter Places programme." Once signed up, the car's registration number will be put into the Automatic Number Plate Recognition system to enable the barrier to lift on arrival and departure. UK Transport Minister John Hayes said: "More drivers than ever are choosing electric vehicles - which are cleaner, greener and cheaper to run and Dundee City Council's electric vehicle free parking scheme is an innovative way of rewarding motorists who have switched to electric vehicles."

Drivers of pure electric vehicles in Dundee will be given free parking at all city council car parks, the local authority has confirmed.

The 2013 champion plays world number 58 Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan in round one on Tuesday. And the Scot has been boosted by his first titles on clay in Munich and Madrid, followed by his fourth on the grass of Queen's Club. "I think in any sport, winning gives you confidence," said the 28-year-old, seeded third. "This year I've won a lot of matches, more than I ever have in my career to this point in a season." Media playback is not supported on this device Murray fell at the quarter-final stage against Grigor Dimitrov when defending his Wimbledon title last year but is widely tipped to challenge again with 41 match wins already in 2015. "I'm certainly not getting carried away," he added. "I know how difficult these events are to win. "I just concentrate on the first match and try my best to get through that one. "I enjoy playing in the high pressure situations. You know, that's really what I play for now. I enjoy these events. I prepare extremely hard for them. "I feel like I'm coming into the event as best prepared as I can be." Two-time champion Rafael Nadal is a potential quarter-final opponent for Murray and the Spaniard feels better placed to challenge than in recent years. Nadal, 29, has lost in the fourth, first and second round over the last three years, but showed he is in good form this year with victory on grass in Stuttgart two weeks ago. "I feel good," he said. "Winning a tournament on grass after five years is a good moment for me and a special one. "I am practising well this week. Let's see if I am able to compete well. I'm just happy to be here healthy, that's the most important thing. "Last year I was better, in 2012 and 2013 I couldn't play well here. I had too many problems with the knees." Seven-time champion and second seed Roger Federer is in the same half of the draw, and says he is benefiting from the introduction of an extra week of grass-court tennis between the French Open and Wimbledon. "It's probably been the best preparation I've ever had for Wimbledon, for obvious reasons, because we have a week more on the grass," said the 33-year-old Swiss, who won the Halle Open in Germany for an eighth time last week. "I'm sure I'm not the only one saying that this year. I'm sure everybody will say the same. "Winning Halle has given me the extra confidence I guess it's going to take me to win this title here." The 23-year-old was part of France's squad at the 2014 Fifa World Cup and helped the side to reach the quarter-finals in Brazil. Griezmann, who had been with the Basque club for 10 years, has signed a six-year contract with the Spanish champions. He joins Mario Mandzukic in signing for Atletico this summer. The French international was replaced by Michel Vorm after 35 minutes of the game at Goodison Park. Spurs conceded after five minutes against Everton when Ross Barkley's free-kick sneaked past Lloris. Lloris, 29, could miss Spurs' next four league games against Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Stoke and Sunderland. Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.

Britain's Andy Murray will head into Wimbledon in confident mood after claiming three titles in two months. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Atletico Madrid have signed winger Antoine Griezmann from Real Sociedad for an undisclosed fee, reported to be £24m. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris will be out for four weeks after suffering a hamstring injury during the 1-1 draw with Everton on Saturday.

Roofe has joined for an undisclosed fee understood to be about £3m, a club-record sale for the U's. The 23-year-old started his career at West Brom, who are owed a share of the transfer fee due to a sell-on clause. Grimes, 20, has struggled to break into the Swansea first team, making only one Premier League start. The England Under-21 international joins up with former Swans boss Garry Monk, who signed him as a teenager from League Two side Exeter City for £1.75m in January 2015. He played 13 times for Blackburn Rovers during a loan spell last season. Roofe scored 18 goals in 40 league games for Oxford last season to help the U's earn promotion to League One, and he also contributed nine assists. The Walsall-born player joined Oxford on an initial loan deal in February 2015, before making the move permanent in May of that year. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. Gary Convie and Eamon Fox were shot as they sat eating lunch in a car at a building site on North Queen Street. Prosecutors told Belfast Magistrates Court current proceedings against Mark Campbell and James Smyth were to be ended on a without prejudice basis. It means the pair remain subject to a future report and could yet go on trial for the May 1994 killings. Legal sources claimed the development was due to the delay in progressing a linked case against a so-called loyalist supergrass charged with more than 200 offences. Mr Campbell, 43, of Canning Place, Belfast, and 49-year-old Mr Smyth, from Forthriver Link in the city, were also jointly charged with attempting to murder a third man, Donal Laverty, in the same attack and possessing a Sten submachine gun and ammunition with intent to endanger life. They were arrested and charged last year by detectives investigating a campaign of murder and serious crime committed by the Ulster Volunteer Force. The case is connected to ongoing criminal proceedings against Gary Haggarty, an alleged UVF commander-turned assisting offender. Mr Haggarty, 43, is facing 212 charges, including five counts of murder, six attempted murders, 31 conspiracies to murder, four kidnappings, six false imprisonments and five hijackings. Around 10,000 pages of evidence has been amassed in the case against him - much of it believed to be based on his own police interviews. Back in January 2010 he agreed to become an assisting offender under the terms of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. But efforts to have Mr Haggarty returned for trial have been repeatedly put on hold as his legal team battles to gain full access to his interview material. At previous hearings a lawyer for Mr Campbell and Mr Smyth claimed their case could be delayed by up to two years due to the reliance on evidence from the supergrass. The two defendants were in court on Thursday as a judge was told of the decision to withdraw all charges against them without prejudice to any future prosecution. The case against them can still be resurrected by the alternative process of an indictable summons. Eamon Fox and Gary Convie were from County Armagh. Mr Fox, who was 44, had six children. Mr Convie was 24 and a father of one.

Leeds have signed Oxford United forward Kemar Roofe on a four-year deal and brought in Swansea midfielder Matt Grimes on a season-long loan. [NEXT_CONCEPT] All charges have been withdrawn against two men accused of the double murder of Catholic workmen 21 years ago.

Jack Clifford, Ollie Devoto and Paul Hill could make their debuts in what will be Jones' first match in charge. Uncapped duo Maro Itoje and Elliot Daly will travel to Edinburgh as reserves. Saracens' Itoje may yet feature in the match-day squad, with Courtney Lawes battling a hamstring injury. Assistant coach Steve Borthwick told BBC Sport that Northampton lock Lawes did not train on Tuesday but was hopeful he would play. "Courtney is working hard on his recovery. He was working well with the physios and hopefully he'll be fit and healthy for Saturday," said the former England second-rower. Sale forward Josh Beaumont, one of seven uncapped players in England's original 33-man squad, is one of the eight to return to their clubs this weekend. Kieran Brookes (Northampton Saints), Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs), Matt Kvesic (Gloucester Rugby), Matt Mullan (Wasps), Sam Hill (Exeter Chiefs), Semesa Rokoduguni (Bath Rugby) and Marland Yarde (Harlequins) have also been freed up to play in the Premiership. England have a new coach, and a new captain in Dylan Hartley, and will aim to atone for becoming the first host nation to fail to progress beyond the World Cup group stages in 2015. The statistics bode well for Jones, as Scotland have not beaten England in their last eight attempts since 2008, with one draw in 2010. Scotland have only won their first game of the Six Nations once, in 2006, and have not scored a try against England at Murrayfield since 2004. Backs: Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Ollie Devoto (Bath Rugby), Owen Farrell (Saracens), George Ford (Bath Rugby), Alex Goode (Saracens), Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby), Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs), Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers). Forwards: Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Jack Clifford (Harlequins), Jamie George (Saracens), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), James Haskell (Wasps), Paul Hill (Northampton Saints), George Kruis (Saracens), Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Billy Vunipola (Saracens), Mako Vunipola (Saracens). The Welsh government said it was "minded to grant" an application to allow the firm behind the plans to take over common land for the Circuit of Wales in Ebbw Vale. It said outstanding issues with the rights of commoners must be resolved before a formal decision was made. The Heads of the Valleys Development Company (HOTVDC) welcomed the move. The development comes after a public inquiry in March examined the firm's request to take over 250 hectares (600 acres) of common land. The HOTVDC said the latest announcement from Rebecca Evans, the deputy minister for farming and food, meant it could now exercise agreements already in place with commoners, which includes providing replacement land. Its chief executive Michael Carrick said: "This is an important step in the process to de-register the common land and we will continue to work towards a successful conclusion in 2015." The development planned for Rassau aims to create 6,000 jobs and is set to host the MotoGP from 2017. HOTVDC has said it has Asian financial backers for the project, which has a £200m private finance target to get it off the ground. The rest of the money is expected to come from Welsh government support and local authorities. Blaenau Gwent council has previously called the racetrack a world class development which could "truly transform Blaenau Gwent and the local economy".

England have sent eight players back to their clubs as coach Eddie Jones confirmed his squad of 23, plus two travelling reserves, for the Six Nations match against Scotland. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Plans for a £325m motor racing track in Blaenau Gwent have moved a step forward.

Despite scoring 15 goals in their previous five games the hosts struggled to break down Bromley before the break. Former Fulham midfielder Keanu Marsh-Brown looked the likeliest for Forest Green, firing several shots just wide, while the lively 24-year-old almost set up Elliott Frear just after the half-hour mark only to be thwarted by Bromley goalkeeper Alan Julian. Bromley hit a post through Rob Swaine just after the break, but Marsh-Brown finally got a reward for his endeavour by turning in Frear's cross in the 74th minute to score the only goal. Report supplied by Press Association. Match ends, Forest Green Rovers 1, Bromley 0. Second Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 1, Bromley 0. Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Christian Doidge replaces Keanu Marsh-Brown. Substitution, Bromley. Adam Cunnington replaces Bradley Goldberg. Substitution, Bromley. Connor Dymond replaces Max Porter. Goal! Forest Green Rovers 1, Bromley 0. Keanu Marsh-Brown (Forest Green Rovers). Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Drissa Traoré replaces Marcus Kelly. Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Kieffer Moore replaces Rhys Murphy. Ben Chorley (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Joe Anderson (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Second Half begins Forest Green Rovers 0, Bromley 0. First Half ends, Forest Green Rovers 0, Bromley 0. Blair Turgott (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

Forest Green are up to second place in the National League after edging out Bromley at the New Lawn.

But electronics giant Panasonic thinks otherwise, and has invested $60m (£49m) in the project. Seven Dreamers has spent a decade working on the 'Laundroid'. Due on the market next year, it claims the machine can fold a shirt in ten minutes. There is still no price tag on the device, which is about the size of a wardrobe and uses artificial intelligence and image recognition technology to fold and stack clothes. However, Seven Dreamers said that the robot has the potential to revolutionise home life. It claimed on its website the device could create more time since the average person spends 9,000 hours, or 375 days, folding laundry in their lifetimes. Panasonic told the BBC it was only funding 10% of the project, saying it was "providing the expertise" for an "all in one" device that can also wash and dry clothes, slated for 2019. Japan's Daiwa Housing is another minor investor.

When a Japanese start-up unveiled the world's first robot that folds laundry some critics called it 'ridiculous, frivolous, and a waste of engineering talent'.

Leroy Cudjoe gave the Giants an early lead before tries in quick succession by Junior Sa'u, Rob Lui and Kris Welham put Salford in control. Aaron Murphy reduced the arrears before the break but Gareth O'Brien touched down for the hosts. Sa'u scored his second and Greg Johnson and Ben Murdoch-Masila added to their lead. Kruise Leeming and Darnell McIntosh scored late consolations for the visitors, who slip to eighth in the table. The Giants are now two points above ninth-placed Catalans Dragons with three games to go before the league splits, with the bottom four teams joining the top four Championship sides in the qualifiers. Challenge Cup semi-finalists Salford are now eight points behind leaders Castleford, who they visit on 16 July. Salford Red Devils head coach Ian Watson: "It was a big one for us to win after three losses, especially after the results elsewhere this weekend fell for us. "We worked really hard for each other and our eagerness shone through. They want to work hard and they want to be successful. "Our game management was really good and that's important in the big games." Huddersfield Giants head coach Rick Stone: "Salford were the better team, no doubt. Salford managed the game really well and we didn't. "The first 20 minutes were a bit of a contest but we let them off the hook a bit with a lack of polish with our last plays. "I don't think our offence was our major issue today, it was our defence. As we became more tired we became more vulnerable and they took advantage of us." Salford Red Devils: O'Brien; Johnson, Welham, Sa'u, Evalds; Lui, Dobson; Tasi, Tomkins, Kopczak, Jones, Murdoch-Masila, Flanagan. Replacements: Brinning, Griffin, Hauraki, Krasniqi. Huddersfield Giants: Rankin; McIntosh, Cudjoe, Mellor, Murphy; Gaskell, Brough; Wakeman, Leeming, Ikahihifo, Roberts, Ferguson, Hinchcliffe. Replacements: Rapira, Ta'ai, Clough, Mason. Referee: Phil Bentham An art expert spotted Arab in Black, by Irma Stern, being used as a kitchen notice board in the UK capital. The work was sold for charity to raise funds for Mr Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists in their treason trial, which ran from 1956 until 1961. It is due to be auctioned in September. "I spotted this masterpiece hanging in the kitchen covered in letters, postcards and bills," said Hannah O'Leary, a specialist in South African art at Bonhams auction house in London. "It was a hugely exciting find even before I learned of its political significance." It is thought that the current owner was given the painting by their parents, and brought it to the UK in the 1970s. Mr Mandela and the other defendants were found not guilty in 1961 - but three years later he was sentenced to life in prison for committing acts of sabotage. He spent 27 years in jail before becoming South Africa's first black, democratically elected president in 1994 - ending years of white-minority rule. Ms Stern died in 1966, and her home in Cape Town has been converted into a museum.

Salford Red Devils comfortably beat Huddersfield Giants to move up to second in Super League. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A painting by one of South Africa's leading artists, auctioned to help fund Nelson Mandela's legal defence in the 1960s, has been rediscovered at a flat in London and valued at $1.5m (£1m).

At the height of the Cold War, in 1968, the K-27 met with disaster when radiation escaped from one of its reactors during a voyage in the Arctic. Vyacheslav Mazurenko, then 22, was serving as a chief warrant officer (CWO) on the vessel, which now lies abandoned in the Arctic's Kara Sea. Today he lives in Ukraine and he told BBC Russian what happened. "We were on a five-day trip to check everything was working normally, before a 70-day round-the-world mission without resurfacing," he said. "It was the end of the third day and everything seemed to be going well. The crew was really tired." The mission would be to collect data about Nato and other enemy bases. K-27 had two experimental liquid metal-cooled reactors - a design never tried before in the Soviet navy. Nuclear power enabled the sub to stay underwater for weeks without resurfacing and without having to refuel. "At 11:35 everything was peaceful," he said. "The bulkheads were open. I was in the fifth compartment, next to the fourth compartment with the two nuclear reactors, talking to some crew members there. We suddenly noticed some people running. "We had a radiation detector in the compartment, but it was switched off. To be honest, we hadn't paid much attention to the radiation dosimeters we were given. But then, our radiation supervisor switched on the detector in the compartment and it went off the scale. He looked surprised and worried." They did not understand what had happened immediately because the radioactive gas had no odour or colour. But two hours later, some crewmen came out of the fourth compartment - and some of them had to be carried, because they could not walk, CWO Mazurenko said. He put it down to fatigue, because the crew had spent three days with almost no sleep. The submarine headed back to its base on the Kola Peninsula, by the Barents Sea, which took five hours. As the sub approached, the base's command fled the dockside, because special radiation alarms onshore were emitting a deafening roar, CWO Mazurenko recalled. Soon after, the base commander picked up the captain in a car, but most of the crew had to walk 2km (1.2 miles) back to their barracks under their own steam. Several specialist crew members were left on board the toxic sub for about a day, because they were under orders to keep watch. Some have blamed K-27's Capt Pavel Leonov over the accident, but CWO Mazurenko says the captain faced a life-or-death choice. "When the sub surfaced to make the trip back to the docks, the division ordered it to cut its engines and await special instructions. The captain, however, decided to keep going, because if the sub stopped for several hours nobody would survive long enough to get it back to base." The crew of 144 were poisoned - nine died of radiation sickness soon after the emergency, and the others were ill for years before their premature deaths. K-27 went into service in 1963, about five years after construction had started. It was very expensive and took longer to build than other Soviet nuclear submarines. So the sailors called it the "Little Golden Fish" - or "Zolotaya Rybka" in Russian - after a magical, fairy-tale fish which makes people's wishes come true. "In Soviet times, we were told that our subs were the best, and we had to be different from the 'imperialists'. But the first subs were far from perfect. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said: 'We'll catch up with you and overtake you'. They kept churning out new subs, regardless of the risk to people," CWO Mazurenko said. The crew were part of the military elite. They got lemons and oranges - citrus fruit that most Soviet citizens, battling daily with shortages, never saw. The crew were told that their reactors were extremely safe and could not suffer the breakdowns that had plagued some other Russian submarines in the past, CWO Mazurenko said. "When the assessment commission came round, its members were often afraid to visit the reactor compartment. They always tried to avoid it, but Captain Leonov actually sat on one of the reactors, to show them how safe it was." However, CWO Mazurenko says radioactive particles had been detected aboard the submarine from the very start. He was among 10 lucky crew members to be sent to a Leningrad hospital within a day of the disaster. The fate of the rest of the crew was in the hands of the Communist Party in Moscow. Five days after the accident, the rest were taken to Leningrad - now called St Petersburg. They were each isolated from the outside world. Many Soviet sailors and officers were ordered to donate blood and bone marrow, knowing nothing about the accident, which remained an official secret for three decades. K-27 officers were later warned they should not have children for five years and were given regular check-ups, but there was no proper medical follow-up for the ordinary submariners, according to CWO Mazurenko. Many of them were declared "healthy" by military doctors, despite their illnesses, he added. On the medical certificate they received 25 years after the disaster, it simply read: "Participated in nuclear accident elimination on the submarine. Exposed to radiation." Despite what happened, Vyacheslav Mazurenko told the BBC: "I do not regret that I served almost four years on this submarine, with these people." Of the original 144 crew, only 56 are still alive. Most of them became physically handicapped and they still do not know the level of radiation they were exposed to. In 1981, K-27 was sunk at a depth of just 30m (99ft) in the Kara Sea - far shallower than the depth required by international guidelines.

The Russian authorities are investigating whether a sunken Soviet nuclear-powered submarine, the K-27, can be safely raised so that the uranium in its reactors may be removed.

Annie Maunder worked alongside her husband, Edward Walter Maunder, at the end of the 19th Century. They recorded dark spots that pepper the sun and their name is still well known in scientific circles today. Derry City and Strabane District Council granted funding for a plaque on Monday. More on Annie Maunder and other female pioneers of science: Annie Maunder went on many scientific expeditions to observe eclipses around the turn of the century, often as the only woman. She travelled to Lapland, India, Algiers, Mauritius and Labrador. She even designed her own camera to take spectacular pictures of the Sun, including the first photograph ever of streamers from the Sun's outer layer, or corona. In 1892, the names of Annie Russell, her maiden name, and fellow Greenwich astronomer Alice Everett were put forward to become fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. However, they failed to gain enough of the popular vote in a secret ballot and were rejected. Leo Enright, a space expert, told BBC Radio Foyle: "Annie deserves this recognition. "Her and Alice Everett blazed a light across the sky in the late 1800s as astronomers. They explored the night sky and developed a lot of important theories. "A lot of her work is important for climate change today. "Even though she went to Cambridge they wouldn't give her a degree. Women didn't get degrees and there was a lot of frustration in that time period. "It was a big moment when a crater was named after her." Mrs Maunder married Edward Walter Maunder in 1895. In a separate development, four other plaques will also be erected by the Ulster History Circle over the next five years. They include: Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, EH Doherty, founder of the Féis Dhoíre Cholmcílle , Brigadier General Ambrose Ricardo who co-founded the Londonderry Féis and teacher and composer Dorothy Parke. Thirteen received jail terms of between one and eight years, some suspended, according to Belgian news service Belga. One member of the group was sentenced to community service. The group are said to have made around 2,000 fake documents. The documents were used by Salah Abdeslam, a suspect of the November 2015 attacks in Paris, and Najim Laachraoui, who blew himself up at Brussels Airport in March 2016. The Islamic State group took responsibility for the attacks in both countries. However, the ID forgers were not prosecuted for terrorism as they were not known to have been aware of the intentions of those who bought their work. Abdeslam, the main surviving suspect from the Paris attacks, fled France after 130 people were killed in a series of coordinated suicide bombs and shootings. Following an international manhunt, Abdeslam was arrested in Brussels in March and, the following month, transferred to France, where he has kept silent. His precise role in the attacks is unclear, although investigators believe he may have driven the three bombers who attacked the Stade de France stadium. A passport for a 25-year-old Syrian was found at the stadium after the explosions, and authorities later said they believed it to be a fake. A passport bearing the same name and data - but a different image - was later found on another migrant, suggesting the documents originated from a counterfeiter. It is not clear if these documents were produced by the same gang. The Belgium attacks - consisting of two suicide bombs at Brussels Airport and one at Maalbeek metro station - killed more than 30 people and injured hundreds.

A plaque is to be erected in Northern Ireland to honour a Strabane astronomer who has a crater on the moon named after her. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A Belgian court convicted 14 people on Thursday of falsifying identity documents, some of which were sold to Islamist militants involved in terror attacks in Paris and Brussels.

The measures are outlined in the Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill. Ministers says they want to ensure it is easy for accident victims to claim compensation if a collision occurs when the cars are in automatic mode. Insurers could still try to recover their costs from the vehicles' makers. However, the bill - which applies to England, Scotland and Wales but not Northern Ireland - makes two exemptions. If a vehicle's owner has made unauthorised changes to the car's software or fails to install an update that their policy requires them to, then they become liable. It is proposed the Department of Transport will determine which cars will be classed as self-driving and become subject to the requirements. The suggestions have been welcomed by the insurance industry. "It demonstrates the government's clear commitment to moving forward when it comes to automated vehicles," said Ben Howarth, senior policy adviser at the Association of British Insurers. "As an industry, we want to keep insurance as straightforward as possible, which is why insurers proposed the simple approach which the government is now taking forward." Self-driving cars are already being tested on UK roads. But many car companies predict it will be a decade or more before they begin to sell or rent fully autonomous cars to the general public. Even so, the government believes the country will benefit from having related laws put in place in advance. "It will... enable consumers in the United Kingdom to be amongst the first in the world to reap the rewards that improved transport technology will bring," the bill states. "Putting the United Kingdom at the forefront of the most modern transport revolution will create new jobs and fuel economic growth around the country." Other measures outlined by the bill include powers to: Some businesses may resist being made to invest in the technology at an early stage, but one expert welcomed the fact the government might require them to do so. "When you've got a big transition to a new technology, the market can take a long time to do what's required," said Prof David Bailey, from Aston Business School. "So, I think this is about trying to stimulate things more quickly than would happen otherwise."

Insurance cover for self-driving cars must offer protection for both times when the driver is in control and when the vehicle is in charge, according to new proposals from the UK government.

The details of the legislation are expected to be published later. A meeting of cabinet ministers resumed on Tuesday evening. This followed an earlier adjournment to allow the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to attend a jobs announcement and leaders' questions. Mr Kenny has denied there are problems at cabinet with the legislation. It is believed that three consultants will be required to review a case and all must agree for a termination to proceed. A provision for appeal to three other doctors will be included if it is not approved, but that panel must also be unanimous for a termination to be allowed. At present, at least 11 women leave the Irish Republic every day for an abortion in Britain. Earlier this month, the Irish health minister said pregnant women who feel suicidal would not have to face six doctors. It followed reports that planned abortion legislation would contain that measure. James Reilly denied this was part of draft legislation to amend abortion laws. Irish law prevents abortion unless there is a risk to the life, rather than the health, of the mother. New laws were promised following the death of Savita Halappanavar last October.

The Irish cabinet has reached agreement on a controversial bill on abortion that will include the credible threat of suicide as grounds for a termination.

Steven Haggerty, 27, from Hamilton, abused a 27-year-old woman at a house in the South Lanarkshire town in 2012. He also abused and raped another woman between 26 and 30 December 2014. At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Pentland told Haggerty he would serve a minimum of six years in jail but may never be released. Addressing Haggerty, the judge said: "I formed the strong impression from seeing and hearing both the complainers in the witness box that they were each vulnerable individuals. "The picture which emerges from your criminal record is of a persistent offender who has difficulty in controlling his behaviour. You have a marked propensity to resort to violence. "I am entirely satisfied that the risk criteria are met and that an order for lifelong restriction is necessary and appropriate to protect the public from serious harm." Following conviction, it emerged that Haggerty was convicted of lewd and libidinous behaviour in October 2005 following high court proceedings. The court heard how the offending behaviour on that occasion related to children who were aged between 12 to 14. He also had convictions for violence and knife possession. Det Ch Insp Samantha McCluskey, who led the inquiry into Haggerty, described him as "a dangerous individual who preyed on vulnerable women". "The two victims in this case were previous partners of Haggerty, who were brave enough to speak out about the serious sexual violence they endured at his hands," she said. "He is finally being brought to account for his actions, and I hope that this result brings some form of closure for his victims, who have shown real courage in coming forward and going through this difficult process." 22 November 2016 Last updated at 17:23 GMT Winds of over 80 miles per hour whipped up seas on the coast, and rain caused lots of flooding inland. Angus caused lots of problems, and here's how the storm affected many of you. Check out the video. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake's epicentre was in the northern province of Badakhshan, close to the Pakistani and Tajik borders. It is not clear if there were any casualties in the area itself, but at least 17 people were injured in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Hundreds were killed by a quake in the same area on 26 October. Residents in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, were reported to have run into the streets after feeling the impact of the quake. In Peshawar some old homes and walls collapsed, Hamid Nawaz, the head of Pakistan's disaster management authority, told AP. The region has a history of powerful earthquakes caused by the northward collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. They are moving towards each other at a rate of 4-5cm per year. In 2005, a magnitude 7.6 quake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir left more than 75,000 people dead. In April this year, Nepal suffered its worst earthquake on record with 9,000 people killed and about 900,000 homes damaged or destroyed.

A violent rapist who was convicted of attacks on two women he met through internet dating sites has been given an order of lifelong restriction. [NEXT_CONCEPT] This week The UK was battered by storm Angus, which brought wind, rain and a lot of disruption, especially for schools and people travelling. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors felt as far away as India.

Richard Brindley hit the woodwork early on for Colchester, who took an 11th-minute lead when Brennan Dickenson lashed home after Drey Wright had helped on Tarique Fosu's delivery into the box. Keeper Sam Walker made a fine double stop at his near post to deny Stevenage forward Matt Godden but Colchester doubled their lead just before the half-hour through Chris Porter's deflected shot after Sean Murray had followed up when George Elokobi's header hit a post. It was 3-0 in the 33rd minute when Stevenage's Josh McQuoid turned into his own net after Tom Eastman had helped on a corner. And Fosu's cross was headed into his own net by Charlie Lee seven minutes before half-time for Colchester's fourth. Walker pushed Jobi McAnuff's curled effort over early in the second half for Stevenage, for whom Jack King stabbed just wide. Boro goalkeeper Chris Day denied Dickenson late on but Colchester's win had long since been assured. Report supplied by Press Association. Match ends, Colchester United 4, Stevenage 0. Second Half ends, Colchester United 4, Stevenage 0. Delay in match Tom Pett (Stevenage) because of an injury. Cameron James (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Kaylen Hinds (Stevenage). Tarique Fosu-Henry (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage). Foul by Sean Murray (Colchester United). Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the left wing. Substitution, Colchester United. Lewis Kinsella replaces Brennan Dickenson. Foul by Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United). Jack King (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing. Tommy O'Sullivan (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Dale Gorman (Stevenage). Substitution, Colchester United. Rekeil Pyke replaces Chris Porter. Substitution, Stevenage. Dale Gorman replaces Steven Schumacher. Attempt saved. Mark McKee (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Substitution, Colchester United. Tommy O'Sullivan replaces Drey Wright. Attempt missed. Tom Eastman (Colchester United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a corner. Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Jack King. Attempt blocked. Sean Murray (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner, Colchester United. Conceded by Fraser Franks. Substitution, Stevenage. Mark McKee replaces Jobi McAnuff. Attempt blocked. Tarique Fosu-Henry (Colchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Foul by Chris Porter (Colchester United). Connor Ogilvie (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Richard Brindley (Colchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Steven Schumacher (Stevenage). Attempt missed. Drey Wright (Colchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation. Tarique Fosu-Henry (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Steven Schumacher (Stevenage). Kaylen Hinds (Stevenage) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Richard Brindley (Colchester United). Substitution, Stevenage. Kaylen Hinds replaces Josh McQuoid. Attempt saved. Matt Godden (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Hand ball by Drey Wright (Colchester United). Attempt missed. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Fraser Franks (Stevenage). Attempt saved. Brennan Dickenson (Colchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.

A superb first-half display secured Colchester a thumping 4-0 victory over fellow League Two play-off hopefuls Stevenage.

John Terry and Cesc Fabregas weighed in with the goals that moved Chelsea three points clear of Manchester City. After suffering defeat at the Britannia Stadium last season, Mourinho was happy to get the job done this time. "To win here they must be a really very good team with the capacity to adapt to Stoke's style of play," Mourinho said. "These victories mean more than three points. To win and get three points, the players need the right spirit and mentality. "Only with a great team performance is it possible to be successful against Stoke." The one controversy of the match came when referee Neil Swarbrick elected only to caution Stoke defender Phil Bardsley for a full-blooded challenge on Eden Hazard. Mourinho felt the tackle was worthy of a heavier punishment. "At that time, I felt the tackle was a bad one but if it was a bad one it was the only one," he said. "If the referee decided not to give a red and lost control of the game it is a problem but he kept control and we reacted well. At the end of the day it was a fair game, a typical English winter game." Emerging victorious from a Monday night trip to the Potteries was the first step in a challenging festive programme for the league leaders. In-form West Ham are the visitors to Stamford Bridge on Boxing Day ahead of trips to Southampton on 28 December and Tottenham on 1 January. "Now we have to focus on the three matches we still have until the end of this period," Mourinho added. "The three-point lead we have is a little advantage, it is a little pillow we have to protect us - we go home happy and pleased with what we did."

Jose Mourinho believes Chelsea's 2-0 win at Stoke, which secured top spot in the Premier League at Christmas, was worth "more than three points".

The Scot triumphed at the WGC-HSBC Champions tournament in 2015 then won at the Travelers Championship in 2016. But the world number 44 has not registered a top-10 finish in 2017. "Maybe after last year being so incredible for me, it was inevitable there was going to be a slight downturn," Knox told BBC Scotland. "I haven't played as well, but I don't feel any different, to be honest. I don't feel my game has dropped any. "Golf's a funny old game as everybody knows; the line is so small between playing well and not playing well. Right now I'm just not getting the most out of my rounds. "I'm hitting the ball well, I've maybe just got to take care of a few more putts and avoid the silly mistakes that creep in. I'm very optimistic that things are going to turn around very soon." The 32-year-old is in Paris to compete in the European Tour's French Open at Le Golf National, which is also the venue for the 2018 Ryder Cup. Inverness-born Knox narrowly missed out on selection for Team Europe in 2016 and is determined to do what it takes to be one of Thomas Bjorn's picks next year. "It's exciting to come to Europe for a month," said Knox, who is normally based in Florida. "I won't be playing the Irish Open because we're going to spend a week in Italy on holiday to keep my wife happy. I'm very much looking forward to this week and then the Scottish Open and the Open Championship. It would be great to peak for those events. "It's obviously my goal to make the Ryder Cup team, and with Le Golf National being the venue for it, I thought it would be great to come and give it a go - the course looks really good. "Just standing around at the 18th, it's a nice little area where you can see a bunch of holes and I can just imagine how good the atmosphere will be come Ryder Cup time because there will be so many people around those holes. "They have a lot of water around them so there's going to be a lot of risk-reward, so I think it's going to be a fantastic venue." Hillwalkers are encouraged to leave such details with family, friends or another contact in case they get into difficulty on a walk or climb. But rescue teams and police said they have been involved in searches where this has not happened. In a joint message, they have asked people to enjoy the hills safely. Supt Colin Gough, of Police Scotland, said: "We do not want to put anybody off these great outdoor experiences. "We are all, however, increasingly challenged by searches for people who have left minimal or no information regarding their intentions. "We know that not everyone will want to leave a written route card, but we are asking the hill-going public, and even those on lower level rambles, to make sure that somebody knows where they are going, so that we have a better idea where to look for them if they are overdue." Scottish Mountain Rescue, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), Police Scotland and Mountaineering Scotland have issued the joint statement following what they described as a "spate of mountain rescues". Damien Oliver, assistant director for aviation for the MCA said: "In the last few weeks there have been a number of helicopter rescues carried out in the Scottish mountains in response to people who have become injured, lost and at risk of exposure. "The UK Coastguard helicopters are equipped to fly in the most hostile of conditions in support of the invaluable work of Scotland's volunteer mountain rescue experts. "So it's vital that we get the message out to everyone who's planning to go into the mountains to please check the weather conditions for your area before you go and make sure you're well equipped. "Tell someone your planned route and what time you will be expected back. If you do get into trouble call 999 immediately and ask for the police." Mountaineering Scotland said it has guidance for walkers on its website.

Russell Knox believes playing in Europe over the next month can help him rediscover the form that won him two titles in a year. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Mountain rescue teams are being "increasingly challenged" by searches for people who leave little or no information of their routes.

The Scottish journalist and writer also worked on shows including Tomorrow's World, PM, Today, and You and Yours. On BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme, which first broadcast in 1979, Mr Cooper investigated the culinary world on behalf of consumers. He was appointed OBE in 1997 and honoured at the 2001 Sony Awards for his pioneering work on food. Mr Cooper's broadcasting career began at Radio Malaya in 1950 and he worked at ITN before becoming a familiar voice on BBC radio and television. In the first episode of Tomorrow's World, he voiced a report about kidney dialysis. A tribute posted on The Food Programme's Twitter page said Mr Cooper had "reintroduced a nation to its food culture". He was also the first chairman and president of the Guild of Food Writers, which gives out the Derek Cooper Award for campaigning and investigative food writing and broadcasting. Mr Cooper was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1995. Further tributes to him were paid on Twitter, with food critic Jay Rayner writing: "Farewell to Derek Cooper: a superb broadcaster, but more importantly a standard bearer for a robust, questioning tradition of food journalism." Former Tomorrow's World presenter Maggie Philbin tweeted: "Sad to hear about the death of Derek Cooper who not only brought us @BBCFoodProg but also the first Tomorrow's World." Writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli called Mr Cooper the "comforting voice of a generation".

Former BBC presenter Derek Cooper, who founded the long-running radio show The Food Programme, has died, aged 88.

Medicins Sans Frontieres says new stocks of Fav-Afrique, which neutralises 10 different snakebites that can occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, are desperately needed. The last batch will expire in June 2016 and there is no comparable replacement. Manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur says it has been priced out of the market. Alternatives are available but MSF says they are not as good. Fav-Afrique is the only anti-venom that has been proven safe and effective to treat envenoming from different types of snakes across Sub-Saharan Africa, it says. Sanofi said it will share the anti-venom recipe with others. The company stopped producing the serum last year and has since switched to making a rabies treatment instead. Sanofi is believed to be negotiating for another company to produce Fav-Afrique, but these talks are not expected to be finalised before late 2016. This means that a replacement product could not be expected to reach the market for another two years, says MSF. The absence of a broad, safe and effective anti-venom until then will translate into countless deaths, it says. Polly Markandya of MSF said: "Most people who get bitten by a snake aren't exactly sure what kind of snake it is that bit them and so having an anti-venom that works against a variety of different species is really important. "We are worried that without that anti-venom available, people will die unnecessarily." Alain Bernal, a Sanofi Pasteur spokesman, said the company had offered to transfer the anti-venom technology to others, adding: "Nothing has materialised yet." The World Health Organization says snakebites are a neglected issue that needs more attention and investment. Each year, an estimated five million people worldwide are bitten by snakes, out of whom 100,000 die and 400,000 are permanently disabled or disfigured. In Sub-Saharan Africa alone, 30,000 people die from snakebite every year and an estimated 8,000 undergo amputations.

The world is running out of one of the most effective snakebite treatments, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk, warn experts.

The 18-year-old Forest academy graduate signed his first professional deal with his parent club last season. He impressed on loan with National League Wrexham earlier this season, scoring five goals in 21 appearances. "Gerry brings an added physicality to our forward line," Cambridge United manager Shaun Derry said. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.

Nottingham Forest striker Gerry McDonagh has agreed to join League Two side Cambridge United on loan until the end of the season.

In the video, filmed by car passenger Paul Bent and sent to the BBC, the other man can be seen holding a phone in one hand while driving. Mr Bent said he was "outraged" when he spotted the Nottinghamshire Police van in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on Monday. The force said the driver was a police officer and was being investigated. Updates on this story and more from around South Yorkshire Mr Bent said he captured the mobile phone footage in Centenary Way. "He wasn't trying to be discreet," he said. "He didn't seem to even be looking up from his phone. He was just totally oblivious that we were at the side of him filming him." Paul Murphy, for Nottinghamshire Police, said action was "taken swiftly". "In advance of a formal interview, appropriate action will be taken to refer the officer to our driver training team for reassessment to drive police vehicles. "Nottinghamshire Police officers and staff are not above the law."

The driver of a police van caught apparently texting behind the wheel has been confirmed to be a police officer.

Firefighters and police officers were involved in the rescue on Rivergate, close to the police station, shortly after 20:00 BST on Sunday. The mucky ducklings were scooped out of the water using a jug and put in a box. A Cambridgeshire Fire Service spokesman said all the birds were fine and were released "to a safe location in the wild". Saudi's General Authority of Civil Aviation also ordered its offices to to be closed within 48 hours. In a statement, the authority also said licences granted to Qatar Airways' employees would be withdrawn. Saudi Arabia had already suspended flights to and from Qatar on Monday, amid a diplomatic row between the kingdom and Qatar. Qatar Airways is wholly owned by the Qatari government. The airline group employs more than 40,000 people worldwide. The chief executive of Qatar Airways, Akbar al-Baker, is also a non-executive director of Heathrow Airport Holdings, which operates London's biggest airport. Saudi Arabia and several other countries have cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism in the Gulf region. Other neighbours, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have closed their airspace to Qatari planes. Six countries - Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and the Maldives - cut diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have given Qatari nationals two weeks to leave and banned their own citizens from travelling to Qatar. Doha, Qatar's capital, is a major hub for international flight connections. Other airlines affected by the airspace restrictions include Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Emirates. When avoiding Saudi Arabia, their massive - and only - neighbour, Qatar's planes are having to take more indirect routes, leading to longer flight times.

Ten ducklings had to be rescued after becoming trapped in a drain on a busy Peterborough road. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Saudi Arabia's aviation authority has formally withdrawn Qatar's licence to land and fly in the country.

A man was walking on High Street in Cheadle towards Ashfield Road when he was struck by a silver A-Class Mercedes at about 19:50 GMT on Boxing Day. Greater Manchester Police said the injured man was in a serious but stable condition in hospital. A 32-year-old man from Cheadle Hulme is due to appear at Stockport Magistrates Court later.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after a 41-year-old was hit by a car in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

On the frozen ground, a little way off, was a yellow construction worker's hard hat that looked like it had been crushed in a vice. And behind me were two very large polar bears. Fortunately Arktos and Walker were watching from a securely locked area of their enclosure at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore. They were also more interested in the treats their keepers had for them than my guided tour of their paddock, and their toys - hard hats being among their favourites. The park has been home to Walker since 2010 after arriving from Rhenen Zoo in the Netherlands. For a time he shared the enclosure with Mercedes, an aged female who had been relocated to the Highlands after 25 years at Edinburgh Zoo. She grumpily ruled the roost over the then two-year-old boy bear. Mercedes first arrived in Scotland after being captured rather than being shot in Canada in 1984. During her years in Edinburgh, she reared two cubs, both sired by her partner Barney, who was born at Whipsnade Zoo. After the death of Barney in 1996, Mercedes lived by herself and was moved to the Highland Wildlife Park's larger enclosure in 2009. Shortly before Mercedes' arrival, the park saw visitor numbers soar following the public unveiling of three rare Amur tiger cubs. In the space of six months in 2009, the site had a record-breaking 80,000 visits. In the whole of the previous year it had 65,000 visits. Polar bear cubs will surely have a similar effect on entries. In April 2011, at the age of 30, Mercedes died. The following year Vienna Zoo's Arktos arrived at the park as a companion for Walker. A year older than Walker, Arktos is seen by park staff as a potential mate for a female. Following a process, a female has been selected. Victoria is an 18-year-old bear from Aalborg Zoo in Denmark. She previously gave birth to cubs in 2008. Victoria and her first cub, Milak, could be viewed online via a webcam set up in the maternity den. Last December, Milak was transported to a zoo in Quebec as part of an exchange scheme designed to raise numbers of captive polar bears in Canada. Now the Highland Wildlife Park is pushing ahead with its plans to raise its own cubs. If successful, the park could have some much smaller, and less formidable, paw prints in the snow. Bomb disposal experts were called to Sackers in Great Blakenham after staff found three devices at about 12:00 GMT. Suffolk Police said the bombs, believed to be used for training exercises, did not contain explosives. David Dodds, Sackers managing director, said he was "gobsmacked" as to why someone would take the bombs to a scrap metal site. "It's thanks to the vigilance of the staff that they were spotted," he said. "As soon as they saw one everything was quarantined and the police were called. "It was a bit daunting." More bombs were discovered at about 15:00. Police said the bombs posed no threat to members of the public. Mr Dodds said: "We think they were tracer bombs which were used during World War Two for training purposes. "They held a very small explosive, so on impact the bomb would let off a puff of smoke so the pilot could see where it landed."

The paw print in the snow was bigger than my head. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Several bombs thought to be from World War Two have been found among scrap metal at a recycling site near Ipswich.

The city is hosting the event on Friday for the fourth time. This year marks the 21st anniversary of the awards, which were established by Kanya King MBE in 1996. Thousand are expected to attend the show at the SSE Hydro to celebrate the best in urban music from the past 12 months. Organisers said the event would recognise the achievements of artists in musical genres ranging from soul and reggae to hip hop, grime and Afrobeats. Craig David, whose appearance marks a major comeback to the awards for the singer is nominated for Best Male and Best Song. He said: "I first performed at the Mobo Awards 16 years ago and walked away with three awards that night. "I'm back with new music and it's only right that I celebrate this by joining Mobo as they celebrate their 21st birthday." Laura Mvula, the Birmingham soul singer, has four nominations for Best Female, Best Album for The Dreaming Room, Best R&B/Soul Act and Best Video for Phenomenal Woman. She said: "I'm so thrilled to be back in Glasgow performing on the Mobo Awards stage. "The Mobos are one of the few music events that have really championed and supported urban music from gospel to grime, so it's an honour to be taking part once again." Also nominated is rapper Tinie Tempah for Best Male and Best Song for Girls Like, featuring Zara Larsson, and Lady Leshurr for Best Female Act, as well as Popcaan who is up for Best Reggae Act along with Alkaline, Kranium, Protoje and Spice. Artists who have previously performed at the awards include Rihanna, Amy Winehouse, Grace Jones and Scotland's Emeli Sande, who won both Best Female and Best Album in 2012. Pole vaulter Anzhelika Sidorova, sprinter Kristina Sivkova and hammer thrower Aleksei Sokirskii all met the "exceptional eligibility criteria". Russia's athletics federation remains suspended from international competition after claims of state-sponsored doping. Sidorova, Sivkova and Sokirskii would compete as neutral athletes. Their participation in competitions is still subject to approval by the organisers of individual events. The three could compete in the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and European Throwing Cup next month. Long jumper Darya Klishina and sprinter Yulia Stepanova had previously been declared eligible and will remain so. The IAAF has received 48 applications from Russian athletes to compete independently, 28 of which were endorsed by Russia's athletics federation. In a statement, the IAAF said six applications had been declined, but did not give the names of the athletes in question. Russian officials say they do not expect any more of their athletes to be cleared for the European Indoors as they expect the remaining rulings "no earlier than the middle of March". IAAF president Lord Coe said: "The application process to compete internationally as neutral athletes is about our desire to support the hopes and aspirations of all clean athletes including Russian athletes who have been failed by their national system. "While prioritising applications based upon the entry deadlines of the competitions concerned, the primary responsibility of the doping review board must always be to safeguard the integrity of competition." Before last summer's Olympic Games in Rio, the governing body outlined "strict criteria" any Russian athletes must meet if they wanted to take part in the Games. Only US-based Klishina was able to meet the criteria - and she entered as a neutral.

Artists including Craig David, Laura Mvula and Tinie Tempah are set to take to the stage in Glasgow for the annual Mobo Awards. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Three Russian athletes have been cleared to return to competition by the IAAF's doping review board.

At least four cats have been killed in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, since February. Some were shot, kicked and two had body parts cut off. Peta has warned that an animal abuser is a serious threat to the community and their behaviour could escalate. Police investigating the attacks have described them as "twisted and evil". Five cats have been attacked in the town between 12 February and 11 March. In what officers believe may be an initiation test for a local gang, animals have either been shot with an air gun or attacked "with a sharp weapon". Kirsty Henderson, from Peta, said: "We need to do everything we can to bring these people to justice." Ms Henderson, said the acts were not only "very violent" but criminal. "Animal abuse is not just a result of a minor personality flaw but is a symptom of deep mental disturbance and the person who did this could require some serious psychological help," she said. "Research shows us that people who commit acts of cruelty towards animals often don't stop there and a great many do move on to violence against humans."

A £2,000 reward has been offered by an animal rights group to catch those behind a series of cat killings.

Typically, civilian staff carry out roles that assist front line policing, but are not themselves PSNI officers. Such staff are expected to follow the Civil Service Code of Ethics, and can be suspended while potential misconduct allegations are investigated. The details of the suspension costs are contained in a Freedom of Information request, seen by the BBC. It shows how the suspensions, which happened between April 2014 and September 2015, cost a total of £519,623. That total includes salaries, national insurance and pension contributions. A PSNI spokeswoman told the BBC: "Examples of issues where a member of staff may be suspended include alcohol and substance misuse, theft or fraud, assault or threatening behaviour, or misuse of computer systems." She added: "Suspension, in itself, is not regarded as a disciplinary action and does not involve any prejudgement, or imply that any misconduct has taken place. It is regarded as a neutral act to enable an investigation of the allegation to be made." UUP Policing Board member Ross Hussey described the cost as "quite a considerable amount of money". "I would rather see that invested in policing, rather than having people sitting at home not actually doing anything," said Mr Hussey. The document also says that "at some point" within the same time frame, a total of 51 ranked PSNI officers were also suspended on full pay. The most senior officer was a chief inspector, who remains suspended. Others included four inspectors, seven sergeants and 39 constables. It does not detail how much those suspensions have cost the force. In terms of the total bill, Mr Hussey estimated that it would be about £1,500,000. "We can't have police officers suspended for in excess of six months or seven months a year. That just can't be the case and nor can we afford it any longer." Assistant Chief Constable Martin Hamilton told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme the PSNI make every attempt to prioritise these cases. He said the cost of suspending staff was so high because they received full pay, national insurance and pension contributions in their absence. "There's a big emphasis on clearing these cases as quickly as possible, but there is also an emphasis on dealing with other crimes", he told the BBC. He said, in many cases, staff were re-deployed and were only suspended where gross misconduct was suspected. He is believed to have been walking along the carriageway at about 02:00 BST when he was hit by a car travelling northbound. He was then struck by three other cars travelling southbound, police said. The motorway was closed in both directions for several hours between Ramsbottom and Bury junctions but has now fully reopened. Emergency services have been at the scene overnight and investigation work is being carried out. Police said the victim had been identified and his family had been informed. A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and remains in police custody. Officers are appealing for witnesses and anyone with dash cam footage to contact them. The Royals have now received clearance from the Football Association and US Soccer Federation. London-born Stobbs played for Chelsea Ladies before enrolling at university in New York in 2012. "Amber is a player we believe can compete in WSL 1 and score goals," boss Kelly Chambers told Reading's website.

The suspension on full pay of 16 civilian PSNI staff has cost the force more than £500,000. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A man has died after being hit by four cars as he walked on the M66 motorway near Bury. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Women's Super League One newcomers Reading have completed the signing of forward Amber Stobbs from US club Washington Spirit.

The excellent Eden Hazard opened the scoring when he burst forward from halfway early in the first half before finishing low into the corner. Willian then added a second just before the break with a clinical strike. Scott Arfield shot wide for Burnley, but substitute Victor Moses wrapped up the win by sliding home a late finish. Victory means Chelsea are currently top of the table, level with Manchester United on nine points from three games, but ahead on goals scored. Media playback is not supported on this device Two seasons ago, Hazard was arguably the best player in the Premier League as his 14 goals and nine assists helped Chelsea to win the title. However, he was a shadow of his former self last season, failing to score in the Premier League until the end of April. Under Antonio Conte, he appears to have rediscovered his best form. His goal against Burnley - the Belgium international's second in four games - was reminiscent of those he scored in 2014-15, charging at the defence before despatching a perfectly placed strike beyond Tom Heaton's dive. The Clarets had no answer for Hazard, whose clever runs and tricky feet caused the visitors' defence, and in particular full-back Matt Lowton, problems throughout. If Chelsea are to win the title this season, they will need the winger at his best. On his showing so far this season, that appears to be the case. Conte has favoured either a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-2-4 formation since taking over at Chelsea and both require a lot of work from his wingers. In order to be effective, they need to stay wide and both Hazard and Willian were hugely successful at doing this. Such a tactic forced Burnley to stretch their defence, so when either winger cut inside there was space for them to work with. The outcome was a goal apiece for Hazard and Willian. When the two went off, their replacements - Pedro and Moses - picked up from where they left off, combining for Chelsea's third. Burnley produced arguably the result of the season so far by beating Liverpool 2-0 in their previous Premier League game. They had just 19% possession against the Reds but made the most of their limited time on the ball, while their disciplined two banks of four frustrated Jurgen Klopp's side throughout. That was not the case in this game. Burnley failed to work the ball quickly to forwards Andre Gray and Sam Vokes, allowing Chelsea to regroup and cut off their attempts to counter. In the end, they never looked like getting anything from the game. However, they will rarely face tougher tests than this one. They next face Hull City and with Premier League survival their target for this season, getting a result in that game will be a truer test of what they can achieve this season. Media playback is not supported on this device Chelsea boss Antonio Conte: "I am pleased to see the team play well and create a lot of chances. After 13 games where we have conceded at home, we didn't this time and that is very important. Now we must continue. "I want Hazard to be decisive at the beginning and I am pleased because I saw this today. However we must continue with his work and the work of the whole team. "I am pleased to work with these players but if we find a right solution, we want to improve this squad." Burnley boss Sean Dyche: "They were far too good today. They are too strong in all areas. We want to take on the challenge and I think the lads got too sucked in with the result from last week. "We did not use the ball at all. There were too many sloppy passes and you just cannot do that against teams like this one. "They were never in trouble, but we have to learn from these games. This is not really our market, there is a big gap from where they are and where we are. "We were not close to getting a result today." After the international break, Burnley entertain Hull on 10 September, while Chelsea travel to Swansea the following day. Match ends, Chelsea 3, Burnley 0. Second Half ends, Chelsea 3, Burnley 0. Attempt saved. César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Pedro. Corner, Burnley. Conceded by César Azpilicueta. Foul by Pedro (Chelsea). Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing. James Tarkowski (Burnley) is shown the yellow card. Goal! Chelsea 3, Burnley 0. Victor Moses (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro with a cross. Victor Moses (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley). Attempt missed. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by César Azpilicueta. Attempt blocked. Sam Vokes (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Foul by John Terry (Chelsea). Sam Vokes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Offside, Burnley. Sam Vokes tries a through ball, but George Boyd is caught offside. Substitution, Chelsea. Pedro replaces Eden Hazard. Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Diego Costa. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick. Foul by James Tarkowski (Burnley). Substitution, Chelsea. Victor Moses replaces Willian. Attempt missed. James Tarkowski (Burnley) header from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a corner. Corner, Burnley. Conceded by N'Golo Kanté. Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Branislav Ivanovic. Corner, Burnley. Conceded by César Azpilicueta. Attempt missed. Ben Mee (Burnley) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson with a cross following a corner. Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Branislav Ivanovic. Attempt blocked. Aiden O'Neill (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Johann Berg Gudmundsson. Substitution, Burnley. James Tarkowski replaces Dean Marney because of an injury. Foul by César Azpilicueta (Chelsea). Stephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Delay in match Dean Marney (Burnley) because of an injury. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Matthew Lowton. Attempt missed. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Eden Hazard. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Aiden O'Neill. Attempt blocked. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian. Attempt saved. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Willian. Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Oscar following a corner. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Michael Keane. Substitution, Burnley. Aiden O'Neill replaces Steven Defour.

Chelsea continued their perfect start to the season with a comfortable victory over Burnley at Stamford Bridge.

Macrae Burnet's 19th Century-set novel His Bloody Project has put him in the running for the award. It tells of the murder of three people in a crofting community in Applecross in the Highlands and the trial of the young man accused of the killings. The winner of the fiction prize will be announced on 25 October in London. Previous Man Booker Prize nominee Deborah Levy, Paul Beatty, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay and Madeleine Thien have also been shortlisted. Macrae Burnet, who has degrees in English Literature and International Security Studies from Glasgow and St Andrews universities, won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013. His first first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, was longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award. The writer, who lives in Glasgow, said: "I'm so thrilled to be on the shortlist, especially when you consider the calibre of authors that were on the longlist. "As a writer, all you want is for readers to have the opportunity to discover your work, and a Man Booker nomination propels your book to a wider audience than I could ever have dreamed of. It's quite astonishing." Sara Hunt, of the book's Scottish publisher Contraband, said: "We are so very excited, both for Graeme and the book - we couldn't be happier."

Kilmarnock-born writer Graeme Macrae Burnet is among six authors shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

They say they received the plan late on Thursday - just two hours before a midnight deadline. They will now study it ahead of EU meetings at the weekend. Greece's lenders had demanded tax and pension reforms in return for funds. The indebted country needs a third bailout to avoid a default and a possible exit from the euro. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the 19-member eurozone group of finance ministers, confirmed that he had received the Greek proposals. Earlier, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spent the day seeking agreement on the reforms from his government partners. On Friday, the Greek parliament will vote on Mr Tsipras' proposals. The plan will be then considered by eurozone finance ministers on Saturday, and by EU leaders at a summit in Brussels on Sunday. Crisis triggers memories of World War Two All Greek to you? Debt jargon explained Greek voters decisively rejected previous austerity proposals from the country's lenders in a referendum on Sunday. According to Greek media reports, the measures submitted on Thursday involve tax rises, pension reforms, privatisation and spending cuts. These include: €320bn Greeces debt mountain €240bn European bailout 177% countrys debt-to-GDP ratio 25% fall in GDP since 2010 26% Greek unemployment rate Although reforms rejected in the referendum will now be conceded, this is no capitulation by Mr Tsipras, the BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels reports. He is asking for far more in return than was on offer last month, our correspondent adds. Greece is reportedly seeking €53.5 as part of a new bailout package and restructuring of its huge debt burden. Earlier on Thursday, European Council President Donald Tusk said creditors would need to respond to Greece's reform plans with a "realistic proposal on debt sustainability". European Stability Mechanism explained Mr Tusk's comments could be seen as supporting calls to reduce Greece's debt burden. But the German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out debt reduction, saying she was against "the classic haircut". Greek banks have been closed for nearly a fortnight with limits placed on cash withdrawals. Tsipras, Greece's high-stakes gambler Why Greece sees France as last hope How easy is it to swap currencies? Full coverage of Greek debt crisis West Ham now play their football at the Olympic Stadium, in Stratford, east London, but Drinkwater has continued to record both the demolition of the old stadium and the businesses that remain in the surrounding area, this time in black and white. "Now the stadium is halfway through demolition and the songs are no longer being sung in Upton Park, many businesses are feeling the strain," says Drinkwater. "West Ham's decision to up sticks and move over three miles west has left a big hole in the community, a hole being filled with 842 'luxury dwellings'. The flats are estimated to be completed by 2022 so it could be a little too late for the local business owners in the area." Drinkwater feels that the story of Upton Park, known as the Boleyn Ground in latter years, is the story of London today. He says: "Profits overshadow people and property developers are shaping our city. Another one of London's iconic areas is being gentrified and local people, for now, will have to learn to adapt regardless of the loss of income and loss of community." Here are a selection of Marcus Drinkwater's pictures from his ongoing project. You can see more work by Marcus Drinkwater on his website.

The Greek government has submitted economic reform proposals to try to secure a further bailout from its creditors, eurozone officials say. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Last year I ran work by lifelong West Ham fan Marcus Drinkwater who had been documenting the final year of the football club's time at the ground they called home for 112 years - Upton Park.

The infusion of the legal supplement L-carnitine, given to Farah in 2014 before a major race, is being looked at by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) to determine whether rules were broken. Dr Robin Chakraverty carried out the treatment on the instruction of Farah's American coach Alberto Salazar. He will appear before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 19 April. MPs have also asked to speak with UK Athletics' head of endurance Barry Fudge as part of their ongoing investigation into doping in sport. Fudge works closely with Farah and Dr John Rogers, a medic for the British athletics team who reportedly raised concerns about Salazar's methods. Salazar has been under investigation by Usada and UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) since 2015, following claims of doping and unethical practices made in a BBC Panorama programme. Both Salazar and Farah have strongly denied breaking any rules.

The doctor who treated Mo Farah with a controversial infusion has been summoned to give evidence to MPs.

Matthew James Cassidy, 19, from Merseyside, died at Bethel Place in Connah's Quay, on 29 May. The woman, 19, and from Connah's Quay, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. A 19-year-old man from Liverpool has already been charged with Mr Cassidy's murder and has been remanded in custody. Police officers are continuing to search properties in the area following the latest arrest. The incident happened on Tuesday at St John and St Columba's Church in Rosyth. Police Scotland said they were investigating the incident. Last July, a visiting priest in Broxburn, West Lothian, called in police after both he and parishioners were subjected to anti-Catholic chants by youths standing outside a church. Police also had to be called in May 2015 after St Andrew's parish in Livingston was extensively spray-painted with anti-Catholic graffiti. Father Kevin Dow, St John and St Columba's church priest, said: "It's dreadfully sad that in today's Scotland we still have young people who seem to be brought up or encouraged from elsewhere to be anti-Catholic and to do so in an open, intimidating and violent way." A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Police in Fife received a report of a disturbance outside St John's Church in Rosyth on the evening of Tuesday 17th January. "Officers are following a positive line of inquiry." 9 January 2015 Last updated at 08:46 GMT Adventurers visit Yosemite National Park in the United States to conquer the steep rock face. Free climbing means Tom and Kevin will use just their hands and feet to climb, rather than pulling themselves up on ropes. But they will be attached to a safety rope to stop them from falling. The two climbers will try to free climb the steepest part - the Dawn Face. Young adventurer Ella has climbed El Capitan and visited Newsround to describe her experience. A man and a woman, both aged in their 40s, were found unconscious and not breathing when firefighters arrived at the scene in Maghull late on Saturday evening. They were taken to University Hospital Aintree, but both were pronounced dead. An investigation is now under way to establish the cause of the fire on Bridge Farm Drive near Deyes Lane, said Merseyside Fire and Rescue. It opened its first bricks and mortar store in Seattle in 2015, with a second to follow this summer in San Diego. Speaking at its annual shareholders meeting, Mr Bezos also promised new services for Amazon Prime members. He said he wanted Amazon users to feel "irresponsible" for not signing up to the membership service. Mr Bezos gave no details about the new services, although it has been rumoured that Amazon plans to launch its own-label food and home products. Currently users who belong to Amazon Prime, which has an annual fee of £80 ($99), can get unlimited next-day delivery at no extra cost as well as access to a video and music streaming service and e-reader Kindle's lending library. "Our goal with Amazon Prime... is to make sure that if you are not a Prime member, you are being irresponsible," he said. "We're definitely going to open additional stores, but how many we don't know yet," he added. "In these early days it's all about learning, rather than trying to earn a lot of revenue." As Amazon mulls expansion into the real world, struggling clothing retailer Gap has said that it would consider allowing its clothes to be sold on Amazon. "To not be considering Amazon and other would be - in my view - delusional," said chief executive Art Peck at the company's annual investor meeting in San Francisco. According to a Morgan Stanley report, Amazon is the second-largest clothes retailer in the US, with only supermarket giant Walmart ahead of it.

A woman has been arrested by police investigating the fatal stabbing of a man in Flintshire. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A priest and parishioners at a Fife church have been attacked with eggs and subjected to anti-Catholic abuse as they made their way into Mass. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Climbers Tom Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are hoping to break a world record today by free climbing part of El Capitan. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Two people have died following a house fire in Sefton, Merseyside. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Amazon's chief executive Jeff Bezos has confirmed that the online retailer plans to build more real-world book stores.

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 Norah Elliott, 90, died after climbing out her bedroom window and falling from the conservatory below at Parkview care home in Seaton Carew in October 2012. Owner Matt Matharu was accused of failing to fit window restrictors on Mrs Elliot's room, which he denied. Judge Michael Taylor said he had shown a "reckless disregard" for health and safety and jailed him for eight months. Teesside Crown Crown heard Mrs Elliott, who had dementia, was taken to James Cook University Hospital with "serious head injuries" following the fall and later died. The prosecution argued the evidence suggested there was not a restrictor on one window of the room Mrs Elliott shared with her husband Bob and the case "boiled down to a failure in the duty to protect someone who could not protect themselves". Matharu, of Elwick Road, described the fall as an "awful accident" and denied the charges. He claimed one of them "must have removed" the security chain before the fall. The 50-year-old was found guilty of two breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act following a trial in 2014. Kelly Mahon, 41, was arrested with another woman after the baby disappeared on Wednesday afternoon. He was located safe and well about three hours later. Ms Mahon, of John Broad Avenue, Arleston, was remanded in custody at Telford magistrates on Friday. She will appear at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Friday 25 March. A 53-year-old woman was released without charge. Welsh Government buildings and councils observed the silence and the assembly's health and equality committees suspended proceedings for a minute. Monday's bomb attack at the Manchester Arena killed 22 people and injured a further 64 after a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. Eight men are in custody following the attack, carried out by Salman Abedi. Councils across Wales also fell silent as did Swansea University. Silences were also held in Cardiff, Carmarthen, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Conwy, Prestatyn, Haverfordwest and at the Hay Festival, which started on Thursday. Proceedings also came to a halt at Mold Law Courts as barristers, solicitors, CPS prosecutors, staff and probation officers were joined by other court users including jury members in the national mark of respect. Judge Rhys Rowlands said that the minute's silence was to remember those who lost their lives so tragically on Monday night, their families and all those who suffered dreadful injuries. "Targeting the young, and the very young, is beyond comprehension," he said.

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. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A Hartlepool care home boss has been jailed for failing to protect an elderly resident who fell to her death. [NEXT_CONCEPT] A woman has appeared in court charged with kidnap after a nine-week-old boy was reported missing from his home in Telford. [NEXT_CONCEPT] Wales fell silent for a minute at 11:00 BST on Thursday to remember the Manchester attack victims.