Lancashire County Council has earmarked land on the former Glenburn Sports College and Skelmersdale College.
The sports college closed in August, while Skelmersdale College's Westbank campus, owned by Newcastle College, is also unused.
The decision follows a comparative study by Network Rail of both sites and one near the Concourse shopping centre.
Skelmersdale's original railway station closed to passengers in 1956.
The council - which owns Glenburn Sports College - said Skelmersdale could get two direct trains to Liverpool per hour under the plans it has made in partnership with Merseytravel and West Lancashire Borough Council.
County councillor John Fillis, cabinet member for highways and transport, said it was an "exciting step forward".
He said the preferred location was big enough to allow for the possibility of future expansion.
He added: "It has good highway access and good connectivity to the town and the surrounding area."
The authority confirmed it will now start the process of acquiring the relevant land.
Skelmersdale was designated a new town on 9 October 1961..
It is one of the largest towns in the north west of England not to have its own railway station.

Summary: Plans to build a new railway station in Skelmersdale have been approved.

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South Wimbledon and Queensway stations will be the first to see their staff moved from ticket offices into ticket halls and on to platforms.
Transport for London (TfL) said it would save £50m annually as it tries to save £4.2bn by 2020.
But Manuel Cortes, from the TSSA union, said London Mayor Boris Johnson was "rushing through" the closures.
Mr Cortes, leader of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association said: "Talks on the safety implications of closing over 250 stations have not even been concluded.
"The mayor doesn't seem concerned about how millions of tourists will cope with fewer staff to help them on their way."
TfL said all stations would remain staffed and 150 new ticket machines would be installed by April 2016.
It added that new visitor centres would be created at larger stations such as Victoria and King's Cross to help visitors.
Nick Brown, London Underground's chief operating officer, said more staff were being placed "where they can offer the best possible assistance" as only 3% of Tube tickets were bought at ticket offices.
He said: "This forms part of our wider vision for the Tube, which includes a 24-hour weekend service on core parts of the network."
But the changes have led to previous strikes by the Aslef and RMT unions.
Labour's London Assembly transport spokeswoman Val Shawcross said: "When he was elected, Boris Johnson promised Londoners he would protect the capital's ticket offices, but today he starts the process of dismantling each and every one of them.
"Whilst there is obviously a big role for ticket machines to play, there is no substitute for a member of staff."
London Underground said after 100 meetings with unions the number of roles to be reduced had fallen from 950 to 897 with no member of staff facing compulsory redundancy or losing money.

Summary: London Underground ticket offices are set to close with the loss of more than 200 jobs.

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Ryan Walls took pictures of 101 passengers during the Edinburgh Festival in 2015.
The 42-year-old said only two people refused out of the 103 people he asked due to being in a hurry and having a bad hair day.
Now the father-of-three's pictures will go on display at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street, in August.
Mr Walls told the BBC Scotland news website how he took photographs of a hen party, stag do, football fans, a chef, a high court judge and a TV agony aunt from Kuwait.
He said: "Everyone was so nice. One of the pictures is of a passenger who was in such a hurry that he couldn't wait for another taxi when I discovered the central locking system was broken so I had to pull him in and out of the taxi window.
"I also had an elderly former English teacher who had suddenly decided she wanted to go out to a show at the festival at the last minute and she had lots of words of encouragement for me so I really enjoyed chatting with her.
"I also got a Jambo fan and was worried I wasn't going to get a Hibs fan but luckily I did.
"I'm really interested in people and wanted to capture that moment in my cab, I only had seconds to take a few pictures and I'm really pleased with the end result."
The exhibition runs from 31 July until 5 August.

Summary: A taxi driver who took pictures of festival-goers in his cab is to go on display in Edinburgh.

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Aberdeenshire-based Harbro Group saw pre-tax profit increase by £800,000, to £3.5m, in the year to the end of June 2016.
This was despite turnover falling by £1m to just over £100m.
Harbro said international sales grew over the year, both in Europe and in new markets further afield.
The Turriff-based company manufactures and supplies feeds for the beef, sheep, dairy, pig and poultry sectors.
It also has a network of 19 shops across Scotland, operating under the Country Store brand. The stores cater for farming and rural communities with a range of products, including fireside supplies, country clothing and footwear.
In accounts filed with Companies House, the company said: "As always, the outlook for agriculture is difficult to predict.
"We have certainly been experiencing challenging times over the last 12-18 months but the industry is a robust one.
"The impact of Brexit is still to be fully understood, although the board are confident that the group will be well positioned for whatever business challenges this may bring about."

Summary: One of Scotland's largest agri-food suppliers has reported a rise in profits.

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If you leave your mobile phone somewhere do you worry you will not be able to check it?
If any of this sounds familiar, there is a chance you could be spending too much time on social networks.
An exclusive online Newsbeat poll suggests that a quarter of 15 to 18-year-olds in the UK feel happier online than they do in real life.
Dr Radha from The Surgery on Radio 1 has dealt with patients who have displayed "a lot of social anxiety" because they are using social networks too much.
"Being online can provoke a sense of 'I'm not good enough, everyone else is having an amazing life'," she explained.
"It doesn't give us a sense of reality and actually what you will find is most people are probably doing the same thing as you are."
The survey, carried out last month, also suggests a third of 15 to 18-year-olds have met someone in person they originally met through social media.
Dr Radha has said it is important people carefully consider what information they share with the online community.
"What this survey showed is a lot of people go online alone," she said.
"In terms of our personal details and how we respond to messages from other people, we need to make sure we are looking after all of that safely."
Dr Radha was concerned that some people feel safer dealing with people online, rather than in person.
"The more time we spend online, the less we are able to develop our social skills," she explained.
"When you are online you're not getting eye contact with people or perceiving how body language is changing, so as a result what people are saying can be misinterpreted.
"Physical contact, like a hug and a kiss, is really important. You don't get that kind of emotional confidence from being online."
If your online activity is leaving you feeling anxious, Dr Radha has advised that you should "slowly try to wean yourself off it".
She said: "If you are worrying, 'what's going on? What am I missing?' It's a sign that being online too much is quite bad for you.
"Give yourself some rules by saying, 'I'm only going to check things three times a day for this amount of time'."
BBC Radio 1's The Surgery with Aled and Dr Radha is on Wednesday's at 9pm.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

Summary: What do you do if you don't know what's going on in your life?

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Speaking on TV, Maria Zakharova said Jews had told her they donated both to Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton.
She joked that American Jews were the best guide to US politics.
The diplomat's remarks caused shock. Anti-US propagandists in the last century peddled an idea that rich New York Jews controlled US politics.
Ms Zakharova was speaking on a chat show on Russian state TV at the weekend but her comments drew more attention after being picked up by media outlets on Thursday.
She said she had visited New York with an official Russian delegation at the time of the last UN General Assembly, in September.
"I have a lot of friends and acquaintances there, of course I was interested to find out: how are the elections going, what are the American people's expectations?" she said.
"If you want to know what will happen in America, who do you need to talk to? You have to talk to the Jews, of course. It goes without saying."
At this, the TV studio audience applauded loudly.
"I went here and there among them, to chat," she continued.
Imitating a Jewish accent, Mrs Zakharova said Jewish people had told her: "'Marochka, understand this - we'll donate to Clinton, of course. But we'll give the Republicans twice that amount.' Enough said! That settled it for me - the picture was clear.
"If you want to know the future, don't read the mainstream newspapers - our people in Brighton [Beach] will tell you everything."
She was referring to a district of Brooklyn with a large diaspora of Jewish emigres from the former Soviet Union.
Russian opposition activist Roman Dobrokhotov wrote on Twitter (in Russian) that the spokeswoman had "explained Trump's victory as a Jewish conspiracy".
Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Moscow, commented on Facebook, "Wow. And this is the woman who criticizes me for not being diplomatic."
During the election campaign, Mrs Clinton accused Mr Trump of posting a "blatantly anti-Semitic" tweet after he used an image resembling the Star of David and stacks of money.
Mr Trump, whose son-in-law Jared Kushner is Jewish, dismissed the accusation as "ridiculous".
An exit poll by US non-profit J Street suggests an overwhelming majority of US Jews voted for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

Summary: Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman has been accused of trying to link Donald Trump's election victory to a Jewish conspiracy.

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A report by the organisation suggests men, women and children are being abused "to eliminate public protest".
Many are subjected to virginity tests, rape and gang rape after arrest.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said it would not comment until it had studied the report.
The study notes a surge in sexual violence after the Egyptian military takeover in July 2013.
The perpetrators are rarely held to account and the impunity points to a "cynical political strategy aimed at silencing all opposition".
Police, intelligence officers and members of the military are guilty of targeting male and female detainees, according to the report.
Among the victims are student demonstrators, human rights activists, gay people and children.
Student's ordeal
I saw an officer who was grabbing a young woman by the breasts and I said to him: "If you want to arrest her, then arrest her, but you have no right to touch her breasts."
He grabbed me exactly as he had her, before calling two other police officers to come and hold me. They beat me, insulted me.
In the van they insulted me and beat me so much that I could no longer stand up. Two soldiers started to sexually assault me.
The officer from the start got into the van and said to me: "Come here I'm going to show you if I'm a man." He sexually assaulted me, the soldiers laughed, and then he raped me completely. I was paralysed, I started to vomit blood.
My life is ruined. I'm afraid of my son, my husband and even my father.
The authors said they did not have evidence that commanders were giving the orders, but the scale of the violence - and the impunity - suggested there was a political strategy.
They claim that victims who file complaints are systematically obstructed by the justice system, and face threats and reprisals by police officers and prison guards.
Sexual violence has long been a problem within the general population in Egypt, with assaults dramatically increasing in the years since Hosni Mubarak was removed from power.
Last year, President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi ordered police to launch a crackdown amid growing public anger.
He said sexual assaults, were "an unacceptable form of conduct" and called for citizens to "reinstate moral values in society".

Summary: Police in Egypt are carrying out a wave of sexual violence against detainees, according to Human Rights Watch.

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Something Wicked this Way Comes, shown on a Sunday morning, featured the illusionist putting a plastic bag over his head and walking on broken glass.
Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom said children could have imitated Brown's "clearly dangerous behaviour".
It received five complaints about the show, which aired on UKTV's Watch channel on 6 December.
UKTV said the programme was broadcast in error and was unsuitable for a pre-watershed transmission.
In the 14-minute segment, Brown had sought to demonstrate a technique to limit pain and bleeding.   He placed a transparent bag over his head and sealed it while a member of the audience tapped out his pulse rate on a drum.
Once his pulse rate had slowed to a stop, Brown - who appeared to be in a state of semi-consciousness - removed the bag from his head and walked barefoot on a path of broken glass.
At the end of the sequence, the camera zoomed on his feet to show that they had not bled as a result of contact with the glass.
Ofcom said: "Plastic bags are a common household item that children frequently have access to without parental supervision. They also present a widely acknowledged risk of harm to young children.
"Therefore, Ofcom took the view that Derren Brown's use of a plastic bag to asphyxiate himself was likely to be easily imitable by children in a manner that was harmful.
"This was particularly because self-asphyxiation was presented as a way to carry out acts which would not normally be possible because of the bleeding and pain that resulted.
"Further in this programme no negative consequences of self-asphyxiation were identified."
Ofcom also found that Brown's use of swear words during the segment breached the code on offensive language before the watershed.
UKTV said an internal investigation had revealed that "due to human error" the programme was "erroneously labelled" as being suitable for broadcast before the watershed.
It said it had implemented additional safeguards to prevent the same mistake happening again.

Summary: A TV show by illusionist Derren Brown has been censured for being broadcast before the watershed.

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Police in Australia and Europe were aware of a paedophile site called the Love Zone hidden in the so-called dark web.
It was protected by passwords, encryption and specialist software. Users were totally anonymous.
The images and videos there were particularly disturbing - showing the abuse of babies and very young children.
Members had to post increasingly graphic material to remain on the site. There were tens of thousands of accounts.
Officers with Task Force Argos in Australia knew the creator of the site used an unusual greeting - the word "hiyas".
After exhaustively trawling chatrooms and forums in the open internet, they found a Facebook page of a man who used the same greeting.
Although the Facebook page was fake, they identified a picture of a vehicle and that led them to a man called Shannon McCoole - a childcare worker in Adelaide.
When officers went through his door, he was actually online running the site.
They took detailed photographs of McCoole's hands. This is where the freckle comes in - one on his finger matched exactly one seen in many of the images of abuse.
In an unprecedented move, Task Force Argos assumed McCoole's identity and took over the running of the site.
Last year he was given a 35-year prison sentence.
One user who stood out was Huckle - given the number of children he had access to and his aggressive attitude.
Using data gleaned from the site and information Huckle had posted on social media and other open internet sites, they identified who he was and where he lived.
Realising he was coming back to the UK for the Christmas holidays in 2014, they tipped off Britain's National Crime Agency.
As he landed at Gatwick airport he was met by officers from the NCA's Child Exploitation and Online Protection command.
On his computer and encrypted drives they found tens of thousands of obscene images and videos.

Summary: A freckle on one of the hands of one of the UK's most notorious paedophiles has been used to catch him.

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And, on emerging relatively unscathed from the deep space experiment, what Wu Shiyun thought was that he would very much like a hot bath and some seafood.
He was one of four chosen to live inside the capsule, which was designed to mimic being on another planet.
The experiment looked at how food and air could be used and sustained under controlled conditions.
Using technology inspired by China's Shenzhou spacecraft, the three men and a woman grew 25 types of plants - including wheat and strawberries.
But it was also a chance to see how four individuals - picked from more than 2,000 candidates - could live together in a space no bigger than a netball court.
They also had to adjust to "Mars time", which is 39 minutes longer than an earth day.
But it transpires they found one very effective way to relax: Tai Chi.
"According to those of us inside the capsule, it did help in soothing our emotions. But further detailed statistical analysis is needed before we reach a specific conclusion," said Tong Feizhou, another volunteer.

Summary: A Chinese man has become the first person to live inside a space capsule.

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Guido Amsel, 49, targeted law firms that represented him or his ex-wife in a lengthy legal battle, police said.
One bomb exploded at an office last Friday, severely injuring a woman.
Two more explosive devices were found at law firms over the weekend in the city, but they were detonated by police, and no one was injured.
Mr Amsel has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, one count of aggravated assault and a number of offences related to possessing explosives.
Maria Mitousis, the 38-year-old injured by the first bomb, represented Mr Amsel's ex-wife during their divorce and a later case.
She is reported to be in a stable condition at a local hospital but suffered several serious injuries to her upper body.
Friends and family of the lawyer set up a fundraising page to help pay for her medical expenses and have so far raised more than $25,000 (Â£16,000).
They said Ms Mitousis faced "a long road to recovery".
Police said more packages may be delivered to other lawyers or justice officials linked to Mr Amsel and urged "extreme caution" over unusual packages.
Winnipeg city hall was evacuated on Monday after reports of a suspicious package but it was given the all clear after police investigated. There was also a similar false alarm at a Canada Post building.

Summary: A man has been charged in connection with a series of bomb attacks on lawyers in the Canadian city of Winnipeg.

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The 26-year-old midfielder has signed "an initial one-year deal", with Ray McKinnon expressing delight at his first signing as manager at Tannadice.
"He is exactly the type of player we need going into this season," he said.
"Not only is he the right age and a good footballer, but he is a ball winner who is strong in the tackle and will protect our central defenders."
Murdoch had joined County last summer after his departure from Fleetwood Town.
But half of his 34 appearances came as a substitute and he followed fellow midfielder Rocco Quinn out of the Scottish Premiership club.
Murdoch, who began his career with Falkirk and had a loan spell with Northampton Town before joining Fleetwood in 2013, told United's website: "I'm delighted to be joining Dundee United - it was an easy decision to make.
"It's a massive club and I want to help them get back to the Premiership, where they should be."
Following United's relegation from the top flight, 13 players have exited Tannadice along with manager Mixu Paatelainen and his backroom staff.
While Murdoch and Quinn have exited County, manager Jim McIntyre has already recruited three defenders and a goalkeeper, Aaron McCarey from Wolves, this summer.
Christopher Routis has arrived from Bradford City, Kenny van der Weg from Breda and Erik Cikos from Slovan Bratislava.

Summary: Dundee United have signed David Murdoch from Ross County for an undisclosed fee.

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A government spokesman said the bodies were found near the city of Al Bayda, close to the site of the kidnapping.
The crew was taken in August while travelling through territory largely controlled by extremist militants.
Libya has been in turmoil since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and now has two competing governments and numerous militia groups.
Faraj al-Barassi, a district army commander in eastern Libya, told Reuters that militants loyal to Islamic State (IS) were responsible for the killings.
IS-affiliated militants have established a strong presence in parts of Libya, including Derna where the kidnapping is believed to have taken place.
Parts of Libya have descended into lawless chaos following the overthrow of Gaddafi, allowing extremists to gain ground.
A February report by Human Rights Watch said there was a "climate of impunity" in the country that "allowed militias to assault, threaten, kidnap, or even kill journalists".
Libya's internationally recognised government has fled from the capital Tripoli to the eastern city of Tobruk, while a rival parliament has been established in Tripoli itself.

Summary: The bodies of three British journalists have been found in eastern Libya, more than a year after they were kidnapped.

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Lucas failed to complete the first of the 10-race series but recovered to win seven of the next nine.
The 40-year-old is the only confirmed member of the British Paralympic team for the Rio Games.
"It's been a really good regatta and great to start 2016 off with a win," she said.
"We have had some great winds and some good conditions in different directions which has made it a good regatta."
The Sonar crew of John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Stephen Thomas missed out on a medal by finishing fourth.
The trio were second behind Canada going into the final day but three fifth places ended their medal hopes.

Summary: Britain's Hannah Lucas won gold in the Finn class at the IPC Sailing World Championships in Israel.

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The group, a mix of students and activists, were arrested while taking part in a protest two weeks ago against a new education bill.
They face possible jail terms on charges including insulting civil servants and refusing to disperse.
Video of the protests showing people being cornered by police and beaten sparked international condemnation.
President Thein Sein of Myanmar (formerly Burma) has defended the action of officers, telling the BBC that in many Western countries a similar situation might have ended in gunfire and death.
In addition to the 65 people in court in the town of Letpadan on Wednesday, another five have been charged in absentia. Eleven people who were released on bail will be charged at a later date.
All could face jail terms of up to six years.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher, at the court, says relatives and supporters gathered outside the building with flowers, water and food for the detainees. Riot police were deployed to keep back the crowds.
Our correspondent says that while there have been reforms in Myanmar since the end of military rule, the case shows that its laws and legal system remain dated and repressive.
The students began a protest march from Mandalay to Yangon (also known as Rangoon) in January, in opposition to a bill which centralises control over higher education.
They were calling for more power to be devolved to universities and higher education institutions, the right to form student unions, and teaching in ethnic minority languages.
The march was technically illegal as it did not have official approval.  The two sides had been in negotiations, and the authorities had agreed to let the students continue to Yangon.
But the students were angered by police opposition when they reached Letpadan, 140km (90 miles) north of Yangon, and clashes broke out as they attempted to break through police lines.
Scores of students and some police officers were injured, while more than 100 people were arrested.
The government has announced an inquiry into the response of the security services, state media report. Young Burmese have been at the forefront of several protests in Myanmar over the years, including a notorious 1988 uprising against the former ruling junta.

Summary: Dozens of people have appeared in court in Myanmar charged in connection with violent protests.

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Jones, 31, suffered a shin injury while on international duty with Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday.
Cardiff manager Russell Slade said there was no break and Jones will be assessed once he returns to Wales.
"We're hoping he will be in on Sunday," said Slade. "We don't know how long he'll be out for."
This is the second time in the space of two months Jones has been unavailable for Cardiff following international duty.
He missed the opening four games of the season after being deemed unfit following his involvement in the Gold Cup, held in America and Canada in July.
The latest set-back came in his country's goalless draw with Nicaragua in Port of Spain when he was carried off on a stretcher after 73 minutes.
"It's not broken, that's the most important thing, but there is a lot of swelling there. It will be assessed the moment he lands," said Slade.
Jones' injury ends a miserable week for Slade that also saw him lose defender Bruno Ecuele Manga for at least two months to a groin injury sustained while training with Gabon.
"As with Bruno, it's difficult to get the information you require," added Slade of Jones' condition.
Cardiff missed the striker's presence on Saturday in a dour stalemate with Preston.
Slade admitted his side were poor as they registered two efforts on target against a team that started the afternoon on the bottom of the Championship table.
"I didn't think we got going until 50 or 60 minutes into the game and that can't happen," he said.
"Clearly it's not something we designed or wanted. We set out exactly what we wanted to do but we didn't do that.
"It can happen away from home sometimes, but it's dangerous because when you come up against top opposition, they will punish you in those periods.
"We haven't served up too many halves like that so benefit of the doubt.
"We came out for the second half and looked like a team again that wanted to go on and win a football match."
Slade's mood on Saturday evening would not have been helped when one of his discarded strikers, Javi Guerra, put Rayo Vallecano in front against Barcelona in La Liga at the Nou Camp.
Guerra, 33, moved to Rayo on a season-long loan in August after being told he was not in Slade's plans.

Summary: Cardiff City striker Kenwyne Jones could miss Sunday's Championship game against Nottingham Forest.

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sportscotland says it has yet to decide where the cuts will fall amid concerns that elite athletes could suffer.
The cuts are being blamed on reduced government spending and a drop in National Lottery ticket sales - a major contributor to sports backing.
Governing bodies are bracing themselves for potential job losses.
About 60% of funding is made up from Scottish Government money, with lottery sales making up the rest.
In the year ending 2015, total revenue was £65.1m, which is divided up and awarded to 52 sports.
By the end of next year, that figure will have fallen to £51.8m - a cut to the Scottish sporting budget of 20% in just three years.
sportscotland chairman Mel Young said: "It's heartbreaking to me because I know the effort the sport governing bodies and the community that's around it; the volunteers and the mums and dads.
"And, to have to say that we're having to cut some money back is, I believe, not the right way to go."
Former badminton player Susan Egelstaff, a double bronze medallist at the Commonwealth Games [in 2002 and 2006] and an Olympian, fears the cuts will have "a huge impact".
"What that means in the future is that Scotland will be constantly playing catch-up," she said. "It's almost impossible to catch up if you fall too far behind the leading nations."
The Scottish Government said sport and physical activity play a "key role" in a healthy Scotland and that "significant" investment would continue in those areas.
"Having successfully delivered the Commonwealth Games [in 2014] we are now focusing on protecting or raising investment in areas intended to decrease health inequality and improve life chances, and the small reduction in the sport budget allows us to support those priorities," Minister for Sport Aileen Campbell said.
"There is on-going support for active lifestyles through capital investment in cycling and walking, and over the last 10 years we have invested £168m in sport infrastructure - from grassroots to the elite performance which has increased the facilities and opportunities to get people active and achieve on the world stage at both the Olympics and Commonwealth Games."

Summary: Scotland's sporting budget is to be cut by more than a third by the end of next year.

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Broken swords and spearheads were found by archaeologists on the RSPB Scotland nature reserve.
Twelve pieces excavated from several different weapons have been handed over to Kilmartin Museum in Argyll.
RSPB Scotland reserves archaeologist Jill Harden said they had probably been deliberately broken and thrown into a loch as part of a religious ceremony.
"This is the first discovery of this size from Argyll for many years," she said.
"The items were recovered from what had once been a freshwater loch - it seems that they had been purposely broken and cast into the waters as part of a ceremony, most likely as offerings or gifts to the gods or goddesses of the time.
"It is recorded that bronze swords were found on Coll in the 19th Century during drainage works, but their whereabouts today are unknown."
The archaeological investigation was directed by the Treasure Trove Unit, National Museums Scotland and RSPB Scotland.
Trevor Cowie, from National Museums Scotland's department of Scottish history and archaeology, said: "While a fair number of objects from this period have been discovered in the west of Scotland in the past, we generally know very little about the precise places where they were found.
"Archaeological techniques have developed dramatically since those 19th Century discoveries were made, so we have a great opportunity here to resolve many unanswered questions about life on Coll some 3,000 years ago."
The weapons can be viewed at the the Isle of Coll's An Cridhe community centre on Thursday and Friday.

Summary: Ancient weapons dating back more than 3,000 years have been discovered on the Isle of Coll in Argyll.

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British Transport Police said the 15-year-old was attacked by a man and woman in their 40s.
The incident happened at Patterton station at about 23:30 on Saturday 3 October.
The teenager was punched from behind and stamped on as he lay on the ground, suffering facial injuries, including an injury to his eye.
He did not require hospital treatment.
His mobile phone was also stolen.
The boy had been with a group of friends on the 23:05 service between Glasgow Central and Neilston.
Det Con Ryan Tierney, of British Transport Police, said: "This would have been a busy service and I am aware there was an altercation between the group of younger boys and a group of older people shortly before the assault took place at Patterton.
"Anyone who was on the train and has information regarding those involved who remained on until it arrived at Neilston at 23:40 is urged to get in touch as a matter of urgency."

Summary: A teenage boy has been punched and stamped on by two people on a train in Glasgow.

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Spanish police say he had secretly taken photographs of his students as well as having sent images of other children to people on the internet.
The Manchester-born man reportedly had a "special obsession" with a girl he taught.
He was arrested in Valladolid, north-west Spain as part of an Interpol investigation.
Interpol said they discovered illegal files were being sent from an email address in Spain and alerted the authorities.
Police said on Sunday the teacher is suspected of using a cloud storage service to keep and share the pictures between computers and with others.
Officers say they found a large number of sexually explicit files involving minors at the home of the teacher.
He kept photos of one girl in a dedicated folder on his computer but had not shared the images he had secretly taken of his underage students.
Police said they believe he previously lived in the Seville area.
Spanish National Police said: "At the moment, [police are] trying to establish the identity of the victims shown in the images found on the electronic devices belonging to the detained."

Summary: A British teacher has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of possessing and distributing sexually explicit images of children.

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She had the "biggest year of her career", playing 95 shows, bringing in an average $2.4m (£1.5m) per city, according to Forbes.
Endorsement deals with companies like Pepsi and H&M, along with the surprise album she released in December 2013, helped her to the top spot.
The self-titled album was released on iTunes with no prior promotion.
Beyonce has just announced she'll be releasing a platinum version of that album later this month, which will include new songs and a concert video.
Source: Forbes
Taylor Swift came in second on the Forbes list, taking home an estimated $64m (£40m).
Completing the top three is Pink, who played 85 dates during the time period Forbes used to make its estimates.
Her earnings were valued at $52m (£32.5m).
Other artists on the list include Rihanna in fourth with $48m (£30m) and Katy Perry, who took home $40m (£25m), in fifth.
Forbes calculated earnings by looking at income from "touring, record sales, publishing, merchandise sales, endorsements and other ventures" between June 2013 and June 2014.
They also interviewed managers, lawyers and executives and looked at data from organisations such as Nielsen SoundScan.
Some of the high-profile artists who missed out on a spot in the top 10 included Madonna, Nicki Minaj and Alicia Keys.
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Summary: Beyonce has been named the world's highest-paid artist for the second year running.

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The medal - won as a teenager at his first World Cup - was estimated to be worth between £70,000 and £140,000.
The three-time World Cup winner is selling all three of his winner's medals at auction, along with more than 2,000 items of personal memorabilia.
His winning medal from the 1962 World Cup in Chile was sold for £140,800.
The memorabilia, which includes shirts and trophies, is being sold over three days and his winner's medal from the 1970 World Cup, where he was part of the Brazilian team regarded as one of the greatest in history, has yet to go under the hammer.
A one-off Jules Rimet trophy made for the former striker after Brazil's triumph in Mexico in 1970 is the most expensive item being auctioned, with an estimated price tag of £281,000 to £420,000.
On the first day of auction, the boots worn by Pele in the classic football film Escape to Victory sold for £8,025.
Other items sold include L'Equipe athlete of the century trophy with book (£20,480), his 2007 Fifa presidential award (£30,720) and a 1,000th goal tribute crown with book (£162,500).
Pele is the only player to have won the World Cup three times and is regarded by many as being the greatest footballer in history, scoring 1,281 goals in 1,363 matches and appearing 91 times for Brazil.

Summary: A World Cup winner's medal won by Brazilian footballer Pele in 1958 has been sold at auction in New York for £75,000.

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Published in The Times, the letter says fans are being "ripped-off by touts who anonymously exploit fair ticket prices via online ticket marketplaces".
It urges the government to put "the public's interests before the touts".
A government consultation on the resale of tickets closes on Friday.
"As artist managers, we deplore the increasing industrial-scale abuse and insider exploitation of tickets for music, arts and sports events by ticket touts," the letter says.
"The consequence in many cases is that fans will attend fewer shows, meaning that the profits made by such immoral practice is also money lost from the industry."
It is signed by managers for the UK's biggest live acts including One Direction, Little Mix, Radiohead, Mumford and Sons, Iron Maiden, Arctic Monkeys and Noel Gallagher.
The letter agrees there is a need for "genuine, transparent ticket resale/exchange" through businesses selling tickets at face value, and urges the review to recommend "all parties in a ticketing transaction should indentify themselves".
Earlier this week concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith told the BBC the issue of secondary ticketing websites was "a national disgrace".
He told Radio 4's Front Row programme that tickets to U2's recent London shows were advertised for up to Â£3,300 on resale sites, despite a face value of Â£182.
"We're asking the government to pass a law which says you cannot sell a ticket for more than 10%  of its face value," Goldsmith told the BBC.
Consumer magazine Which? also called for a crack-down on ticket resale sites earlier this month, arguing consumers face a "stitch-up".
The group spent eight weeks monitoring four of the biggest secondary ticketing websites and said it found "some really unusual behaviour".
Music fans have until 23:00 GMT on 20 November 2015 to make their views known in the consultation.
The industry letter was compiled by Twickets, an online site which allows fans to sell spare tickets only at face value or below. Here is the full list of signatures and which artists they represent:

Summary: More than 100 of the UK's biggest artists have signed an open letter calling on the government to crack down on ticket touts.

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The motorist received a Â£100 fine and three points on their licence.
Dorset Police said when the driver was stopped he said: "I was trying to find that new Sam Smith song on You tube because I didn't have it on my phone."
The singer has released the song Writing's On The Wall as the theme to the new James Bond film Spectre.
Officers were carrying out checks on traffic offences on Thursday and stopped vehicles which had no insurance as well as others breaking the speed limit.
Spectre sees Daniel Craig return as British spy James Bond, aka 007, in a globe-trotting blockbuster named after a sinister criminal syndicate.
Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, French actress Lea Seydoux and Italy's Monica Bellucci also appear in the 24th official entry in the long-running series.

Summary: A driver who was caught speeding on the Isle of Wight was trying to find a Sam Smith song on his phone, police have said.

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Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said the idea was "attractive" and could help tackle poverty and inequality.
Supporters said it would help unemployed people who fear taking a job would lead to cuts in their benefits.
But Patrick Minford from Cardiff University's Business School said it was "not a workable scheme".
Under Universal Basic Income (UBI) everyone would receive the same sum of money regardless of whether they work or not.
There would be no requirements to show an individual is looking for a job either.
In Scotland the policy has support from across the political spectrum, with feasibility work under way ahead of possible pilot schemes in Glasgow and Fife.
Jamie Cooke, head of the RSA think tank in Scotland, told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme: "Moving from a system where you aren't working to a system where you are, you won't face those penalties, you retain your consistent payment.
"You're given the security to be able to choose to work... or training, or to set up your own business in a way that is beneficial to you."
However Prof Minford, who was an adviser to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, told the programme: "This is not a workable scheme because it's far too expensive.
"It creates a tremendous tax, a disincentive for the average person further up the income scale who's paying for it all."
Mr Drakeford told the assembly earlier in January he found the idea of UBI "attractive in the way that it can simplify and support people who currently have to rely on a very complex set of part-time work, part-time benefits and so on".
But he added: "The political world will face a job of convincing the public about the merits of the scheme."
Asked if he was worried by Mr Drakeford's comments, Prof Minford replied: "It's quite worrying for Wales.
"I'm hoping Wales won't go the same way [as Scotland] towards this sort of extremely expensive socialist experiment".

Summary: A leading economist has described the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) as "quite worrying" for Wales.

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Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan had a two-star "improvement is necessary" rating in May in a report warning of major non-compliance with regulations.
Denbigh Infirmary's rating of one star was called "abysmal" by Clwyd West AM Darren Millar.
Both have now achieved four-star grades.
Control measures to combat clostridium difficile (C.diff) have also been stepped up at Glan Clwyd and Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
Three deaths between April and June in north Wales were said to be directly attributable to the infection, while it played a part in two others.
The number of cases of C.diff per 100,000 people was 51 in the Betsi Cadwaladr health board area, compared to 36 in Wales and 25 in England.
Tracey Cooper, the board's assistant director of nursing with responsibility for infection prevention, said in a report that the food-hygiene issue had been addressed immediately and a programme of unannounced kitchen inspections had started.
The board will discuss the report and C.diff and MRSA infection rates during a meeting on Tuesday.

Summary: Two north Wales hospitals have been rated "inadequate" by the Care Quality Commission.

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Two separate reports have suggested it could be an ideal site for a new small module reactor (SMR).
About 300 workers are decommissioning the plant which began in 1995, two years after it ceased operating.
It is due to enter a care and maintenance period in 2016. Ninety redundancies were announced in April.
Darryl Williams from the Unite union said: "We would welcome anything that would keep local skills in the area."
A report by the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has called on the UK government to drive forward the development of SMRs.
Another report by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers also suggested Trawsfynydd as a location for a demonstrator reactor.
If the idea was given the go-ahead, it is thought the reactor could be up and running in 10-15 years.
A Welsh government spokesperson said it was a matter for the UK government, but that it would monitor the situation.
The Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) said: "We are undertaking a programme of work looking at the potential of SMRs."

Summary: The former Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in Gwynedd could be turned into a demonstrator reactor.

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Mr Natzler has served as acting Clerk since the retirement of Sir Robert Rogers last year.
A panel led by Mr Bercow initially recommended that Australian Carole Mills take the role but MPs objected and she has since withdrawn.
News of Mr Natzler's appointment was met with cheers by MPs in the Commons.
The recruitment of a new Clerk, Parliament's most senior legal and constitutional adviser, has been dogged by argument over the past nine months.
MPs said Ms Mills, the original choice of the House of Commons commission who works in the Australian Parliament, did not have the relevant constitutional experience and accused Mr Bercow of a "stitch-up".
Mr Bercow insisted that the appointment must have the confidence of MPs and "paused" the recruitment process before re-starting it.
As part of a modernisation of procedures, the current responsibilities of the Clerk will now be split, with a new post of Commons director-general taking over responsibility for the day-to-day commercial and administrative functions of the Commons.
Announcing Mr Natzler's appointment in the Commons, Mr Bercow said he had been chosen from a field of four candidates.
Welcoming the appointment, David Cameron joked that Mr Bercow had "gone to the ends of the earth" to find the most qualified candidate and he was "very glad he found the right answer right here in Britain".
Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Natzler's appointment was "well deserved".
Before Sir Robert's retirement, Mr Natzler served as Clerk Assistant for many years.

Summary: The new Clerk of the House of Commons has been announced by Speaker John Bercow.

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The 28-year-old Erskine has agreed a pre-contract to sign for Thistle on a three-year deal in June.
Manager Alan Archibald expects to lose Bannigan in the summer.
"We were aware of him being out of contract in at the end of the season and Dundee United hadn't made a move on it," he said of Erskine.
"We have went through the right channels and have that in place and it's a good one to look forward to for next season."
It will be Erskine's third spell with United's Scottish Premiership rivals.
He started his career at Firhill before moving to Tannadice in 2013, only to be loaned back later that season.
But he was a first-team regular with the Tangerines last season.
This term, he missed out during September, October and November through injury but returned to action in December.
Asked if Erskine could join Thistle during the January transfer window, Archibald told BBC Scotland: "That's down to Dundee United.
"He's their player and we have to respect that and we've just put that in place for next season."
Archibald laughed off newspaper headlines suggesting that he had threatened to resign should Bannigan be sold during January.
"It was tongue in cheek what I said in the papers," he said. "But I would be devastated and we'll not let him go.
"It would need to be crazy money to let him go.
"It would not be worth it for us as he is a key player.
"If you let your key player go in January for what would not be a great amount of money would send out all the wrong signals."
However, asked about reported interest by Aberdeen, Archibald said: "It is just paper talk. There have been a few linked with him.
"He's a good player and out of contract and we expect that.
"We know he is going to go in the summer - he will get good offers.
"But there is no bitterness. We won't get a fee for him, but we've had four or five years out of him playing at the top of his game."

Summary: Partick Thistle have agreed a deal to sign Dundee United midfielder Chris Erskine as cover for Barry Bannigan.

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Villa instead appointed Roberto Di Matteo, but he was sacked after 124 days and replaced by Steve Bruce.
"They wanted bigger names I think, they took the lad [Di Matteo] and that is how it goes," Warnock said ahead of Cardiff's visit to Villa Park.
"I thought at the time that's their loss not mine."
The 67-year-old continued: ''There were about five clubs I spoke to. You have to look at that when you get to my age.
"I would not be here if one or two of those things had cropped up, but I am really pleased I am here. It is probably fate."
Warnock had discussions with a number of clubs in the summer, including Nottingham Forest, before joining Cardiff following the departure of Paul Trollope in October.
Trollope has since been appointed assistant manager at Brighton, replacing Colin Calderwood who left to join Bruce at Villa.
After sacking Di Matteo, who lasted just 12 games, Villa opted for former Hull manager Bruce just a week after Warnock had been installed at Cardiff.
Warnock thinks Bruce is the right man to bring success to Villa following their Premier League relegation as he is a similar manager to himself.
''With Steve and myself you get what you see. I was disappointed I did not get a chance with Villa in the summer if I'm honest, because I thought it would have been ideal to sort everything out," Warnock told BBC Wales.
"That is why I am not surprised at all Steve has gone in and done really well.
"I am not saying we are similar types, but we have the same philosophies regarding management.
''I think Steve is the right one now. He knows it's a massive club. He will be looking forward to it.
"We have had some right battles over the years. He knows he's in for a tough game on Saturday.''
Warnock believes Bruce, unbeaten at Villa, deserved a crack at the England job.
''Personally I thought he should have been England manager at the time," he said. "With his experience, playing wise, what he had done and his age and his enthusiasm, it was an ideal position for him in the summer.
''I know Gareth Southgate has done a good job, but I am surprised they have not spoken to Steve again.''

Summary: Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock says he was "disappointed" not to get a job at Aston Villa in the summer.

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Helmut Oberlander says he was forced to act as a translator for the squad and did not participate in atrocities.
He has fought three prior attempts by Canada to strip his citizenship and won.
His lawyer says Mr Oberlander will also fight this latest citizenship revocation, calling it "persecution".
A spokeswoman with Citizenship Canada said in a statement to the BBC that "we don't take citizenship revocation lightly, but it is necessary in cases of fraud and serious misrepresentation".
Canada says that when Mr Oberlander  applied for entry to Canada in 1954, he obtained his citizenship by knowingly concealing that he had been an auxiliary of the Einsatzkommando, a force that operated behind the German army's front line in the Eastern occupied territories.
The squad is responsible for killing more than two million people, many of them Jewish people.
"We are determined to deny safe haven in Canada to war criminals and persons believed to have committed or been complicit in war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide," said Citizenship Canada's Lisa Filipps.
Mr Oberlander has argued in court that he was conscripted, had no alternative than to work for the Germans, and would have been subject to the harshest penalties had he disobeyed.
Canada has revoked his citizenship three times since 1995.  Each time it was overturned on appeal.
In 2016, Canada's Supreme Court refused to hear the government's appeal of a lower court ruling that Ottawa should reconsider its decision to revoke Mr Oberlander's citizenship.
His lawyer Ronald Poulton says Canada "appears prepared to hound Mr Oberlander and his family to his grave".
"In order to find Mr. Oberlander complicit in war crimes, given his limited and forced participation with the German military, they had attempted to stretch fiction into fact and to rely on an outdated archaic principle known as guilt by association," he said.
Mr. Oberlander was born in Halbstadt, Ukraine in 1924, and he obtained his Canadian citizenship in 1960.
Shimon Koffler Fogel, with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, praised Canada for its "tireless" efforts to strip Mr Oberlander of his citizenship.
"This latest development is an important milestone in bringing a measure of justice to his many victims and their families," he said in a statement.
Mr Oberlander's case is expected to be back before a federal court within the next six months.

Summary: Canada has revoked the citizenship of a 92-year-old man who worked for a Nazi death squad during World War Two.

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The annual Bank of Scotland Business Digital Index assessed small firms in five key skills needed to get the most out of being online.
It found that fewer than a third of small businesses north of the border lacked these basic skills.
This compares to a UK average of 38%. Only London rivals Scotland in terms of this measure.
Experts said the lack of key digital skills was a primary barrier to doing more business online, with 15% of firms across the UK stating this was the main barrier, more than doubling since 2015.
The skills assessed for the current report were managing information, communicating, transacting, creating and problem solving.
The report also noted cyber security was rising in prominence as a reason for small businesses not doing more online.
Almost 60% of Scottish firms said they still needed to invest in cyber security, lower than the UK average of 69%.
Philip Grant, chair of the bank's Scottish executive committee, said: "It's pleasing to see that the Business Digital Index shows digital maturity is increasing for small businesses in Scotland, however, there are still too many without basic digital skills.
"It's clear that being online can open the doors to opportunities, as well as cost and time saving benefits.
"We must do more to encourage small businesses based in Scotland to invest in digital skills, allowing them to make the most out of being online and to reap the benefits."
Two thousand businesses and charities across the UK were surveyed, including 109 in Scotland. The study was developed along with Doteveryone and Accenture.

Summary: More than a third of small businesses in Scotland do not have basic digital skills, according to a new report.

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The Dow Jones rose 78 points, or 0.44%, to 17,918.62.
The wider S&P 500 index was up 11.18 points to 2,099.73, while the tech-focused Nasdaq climbed 36.26 points to 4,859.16.
Data from the Institute for Supply Management showed the US services sector, which accounts for two-thirds of the US economy, picked up in June.
The US trade deficit however increased by 10% as the stronger dollar led to decreasing exports.
Pharmaceutical companies led the market gains. Horizon Pharma climbed 4.7%, while Progenics Pharmaceuticals was up 9.3%.
Biotech firms AbbVie  and Biogen each rose 2.3% after European regulators approved a new multiple sclerosis drug.
Tech firms also had a strong day.
Facebook's shares climbed 2.4%. Google's parent company Alphabet was up 0.6%.

Summary: (Close): Stocks on Wall Street closed higher on Wednesday, boosted by strong economic data.

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Syed Ali attacked the teenager in Sunderland's Mowbray Park on 8 December last year.
Ali, from the city's Barnes area, was found guilty after a trial at Newcastle Crown Court.
Det Insp Phil Bond said Ali had "preyed on his victim, befriending her and quickly gaining her trust before subjecting her to a horrific attack".
He said: "I hope the victim and her family can now move on from what has been an incredibly distressing time and can come to terms with what has happened and rebuild their lives.
"Although we know this sentence will in no way help erase what has happened, we hope there is some comfort in knowing Ali is now in prison."

Summary: A 25-year-old man who raped a 15-year-old girl in a park has been jailed for 12 years.

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Internet service providers had until Tuesday to implement the ban.
The sites now redirect to a message explaining they have been blocked "by decision of public authorities".
In 2015, the authorities banned 11 popular pornography websites, saying many failed to protect children "from information harmful to their health".
Analysis by Vitaliy Shevchenko, BBC Monitoring
The decision was made following two separate court rulings, which said the websites "spread pornography".
Sexually explicit content is not outlawed in Russia, but the law bans "the illegal production, dissemination and advertisement of pornographic materials and objects".
It is not uncommon for Russia to ban websites. The government agency Roskomnadzor maintains a blacklist that now includes thousands of them.
Access is usually blocked for violating the notoriously vague extremism legislation or child protection laws.
Websites critical of the Kremlin have been blocked too, and at one point Wikipedia was blacklisted.
Following the 2015 ban, one woman asked Roskomnadzor on Twitter whether it could recommend an alternative.
The agency replied: "You can meet someone in real life."
On Tuesday, it said its earlier tweet was "still relevant".
However, open rights campaigners have warned that local bans can be defeated.
"Blocking porn is the fastest way to ensure widespread adoption of censorship circumvention in your country," said Eva Galperin, global policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
One of the affected porn sites offered Roskomnadzor a premium subscription to its service, in exchange for lifting the ban.
The government agency said it was "not in the market" for such an offer.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, lead singer from punk band Pussy Riot, joked that the ban was "a blow below the belt".

Summary: Russia has blocked access to more than 100 pornography websites.

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Ms Maréchal-Le Pen, 27, who is an MP for the National Front (FN), had been seen by some as a future leader of the party.
She is the granddaughter of FN founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.
She is one of the best known figures in the party and one of only two FN lawmakers in the outgoing parliament.
Analysts say she takes more of a hardline position than her aunt.
According to Le Figaro, Ms Maréchal-Le Pen will announce on Wednesday her intention not to stand for a new term in parliamentary elections in June. She will also quit her position as president of the FN in the south-eastern region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
It is understood she wishes to spend more time with her young daughter, the newspaper adds.
The party would not confirm the report but senior FN official Bruno Gollnisch told reporters it would not be totally unexpected.
"I think it's in the works, but I will let her announce it if she wants to," he said.

Summary: France's far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Maréchal-Le Pen is to step down, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

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The 24-year-old tight-head is among the starting XV who are given a chance to redeem themselves after the 29-13 defeat by Scotland.
Asked if he was relieved to be retained, the Exeter Chiefs player replied: "Oh yeah.
"Obviously you want to keep your place and after a loss everyone was on edge."
Francis continued: "It's good we've got a good squad and a good depth especially in my position.
"There's Samson [Lee] there's me and there's Rhods [Rhodri Jones] and there's Scott Andrews.
"If you don't have a good game there's someone knocking ready to do anything to take your place."
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Wales go into Friday night's match in Cardiff off the back of defeats by Scotland and England.
Another defeat will mean it would be Wales' worst championship since 2010 and Francis accepts the players have something to prove at the Principality Stadium.
Francis says he has managed to avoid the worst of the criticism aimed at the team in Wales because he plays his club rugby in the south west of England.
"It's a bit like a fishbowl isn't it," he said.
"When the game doesn't go how you want it's quite hard not to take that personally especially if you look at the press.
"I guess I'm lucky in the weeks after the losses I've been back in Exeter.
"I didn't have to stay here and I sort of managed to get away from that and focus on something else and then come back into it.
"It's not a nation is it? It's a little part of the south west and there's only a few papers that will print anything about the rugby, but here it's all over the news."

Summary: Wales prop Tomas Francis says he is relieved to be retained for Friday's Six Nations match against England.

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The report focuses on the impact of sea level rises on the Dawlish to Teignmouth line which connects Cornwall and Devon to the rest of the UK.
The line was closed for two months in 2014 after it was destroyed by storms.
Network Rail said the study would be "key" to long-term developments.
The report, published in the Journal of Transport Geography, said that 10% of journeys on the line, which was rebuilt and reopened in April 2014, could be affected by 2040.
The report said adverse weather disrupted the line about 10 days per year, but according to sea-level predictions that could rise to almost 40 by 2040 and up to 120 by 2100.
Academics from Plymouth University, the University of Leeds and the University of York identified a link between sea-level change and rail incidents over the last 150 years.
The academics said there could be similar implications for other vulnerable stretches of railway throughout Wales, south-east England, the Cumbrian coast and Scotland.
Dr David Dawson, from the University of Leeds, said the long-term future of the line was "really worrying".
The report predicts diverting routes could potentially cost billions of pounds.
Network Rail said it hoped to develop "long-term interventions" to "secure the future" of the line.
The Department for Transport said it had invested Â£31m into improving the resilience of the route and was "exploring the potential for longer-term improvements in the area".
In January, the prime minister backed a new Okehampton railway route as the "most resilient" alternative to the vulnerable Dawlish line.

Summary: The long-term future of one of the UK's most vulnerable railway lines is "worrying", according to a new report.

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The train firm said it would refund the difference in cost between mainline and high speed fares - to compensate for the loss of direct high speed trains.
Southeastern will also give season ticket-holders from five stations a backdated 20% refund on mainline fares.
Dover MP Charlie Elphicke, said the line still needed repairing quickly.
He said it had been a difficult time for rail users and it was right passengers should be compensated after the problems were caused when cracks appeared in the sea wall.
Mr Elphicke said an emergency peak-time high-speed rail service between Dover and St Pancras to help commuters had made a difference.
"We now need Network Rail to confirm how long it will take to repair the sea wall," he said.
Steve Kilby, from Network Rail, said the team was working hard to get a final design in place for repairs.
But, he said: "This week has been very stormy on the beach and our guys have been working through tough conditions."
He said 15,000 tonnes of rock had been placed on the shingle to protect the railway from heavy seas and eventually more than 70,000 tonnes would be in place.
The stations where passengers will be compensated are Sandwich, Deal, Walmer, Martin Mill and Dover Priory.
Compensation claim forms are available for people at the station.

Summary: Southeastern has announced compensation for rail passengers affected by damage caused by Storm Desmond in Kent.

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He complained that Dawn Bowden referred to "Goebbels-like propaganda from the right-wing media" in a recent debate.
He claimed Eluned Morgan "trivialised suicide" when saying Brexit would "slit the wrists of the Welsh economy".
Mr Davies has written to Presiding Officer Elin Jones asking her to remind AMs to use more appropriate language.
"There is a danger that the aggressive nature of debates on the subject of Britain's vote to leave the European Union is likely to worsen any tensions which exist in Welsh society," Mr Davies said in his letter to Ms Jones.
"Whatever we may feel individually and collectively about the result we all have a responsibility to conduct that civic discussion in a rational manner and with respect."
An assembly spokesman said the presiding officer had "received this correspondence on Friday afternoon and will reply to the Leader of Welsh Conservatives soon".
In response, Ms Bowden said she stood by what she said, criticising the way the "right-wing press" has portrayed recent issues such as immigration.
She added: "If he [Mr Davies] has a problem with that then my view would be, he is being over sensitive."
Ms Morgan have been asked to comment.

Summary: Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has called for an end to "aggressive" debates on the EU referendum.

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Joel Andresier, 39, from Southampton, said the pushchair had been covered in "pretty much every bodily fluid known to science" by his three children.
At one stage the highest bid for the three-wheeler stood at more than £150,000, after the advert went viral.
He reset the price after admitting he did not expect the bidder to pay up.
In the listing's description, Mr Andresier, of Sarisbury Green, said: "This was purchased against my wishes many years ago as I never wanted any children and a buggy signified my wife's intent to have children.
"We argued much and this buggy signifies everything that ended my happy carefree low cost child free life."
It prompted six pages of questions which led the advert to exceed the number of customer enquiries allowed by the online auction site.
Mr Andresier wrote: "Looks like I have hit the eBay limit for shared responses to all your wonderful questions. It doesn't look like the last 50 or so replies from today have been added to the listing. Sorry people - looks like you have broken eBay."
On the comments pages, one user described Mr Andresier as a "marketing genius", while another did not see the funny side and said he was "pathetic".
He said he would use the proceeds from the sale to "help me recover from children".
Mr Andresier's wife Susan, 36, had said she found the listing "hilarious", and added the couple had been amazed by its popularity on social media.
'Green monster' for sale: Highlights from the eBay listing
"I have bought cars that cost less than this buggy. My dad once bought a house that cost less than this buggy.
"Anyway as you can tell I hate the buggy. I now have 3 children, and a Labrador and am forced to endure the school run where women I dont know try and discuss the price of centre parc holidays, and the benefits of the micro over the mini micro scooter. To summarize my life is over and this green albatross needs to go round some other poor sods neck.
"All of my children are now walking (often in completely the wrong direction) but someone else deserves to give this a good home. Over the years I have collected spare bits from other zombified fathers who were once full of life and I will throw these in as well."

Summary: A father who put his "green monster" pushchair up for sale on eBay has sold it for £12,000.

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The England Knights player made his Tigers debut as a 16-year-old in 2008, and went on to make 44 first-team appearances for them, scoring 16 tries.
"I'm looking forward to a new challenge and something a bit different," Arundel told Hull's club website.
"I'm really excited and also a little nervous as it's a big club and that will put a bit more pressure on me."
Hull FC's director of rugby Shaun McRae added: "We have said since day one that we're trying to build a culture and winning mentality at this club, one that isn't only about now but also about the future.
"That's why we're looking at players of Joe's calibre that are not just showing immense promise now but look to have ever greater years ahead of them in their career, not just with Hull FC but England too."

Summary: Hull FC have signed full-back Joe Arundel on a two-year deal following his release by Castleford Tigers.

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The 32-year-old's first World Series win since 2012 ended the 13-event winning streak of Gwen Jorgensen.
The Welsh triathlete also beat British rival Jodie Stimpson.
"Helen has put a very strong case forward," said Stanford, who has already qualified for Rio along with Vicky Holland.
With an official announcement due in June, two-time world champion Jenkins and England's Commonwealth champion Stimpson are competing to be part of Britain's female triathlon contingent in Rio this summer.
"Personally, I can't see how they can't pick Helen," said Jenkins' Welsh compatriot Stanford.
"British Triathlon were saying that you had to display potential to medal for Rio and she's absolutely done that.
"She's gone out there and won the race and not only that she's beaten Gwen Jorgensen, who is the hot favourite to win gold in Rio, so if you beat her you've shown you have potential to medal so I'd be very surprised if she's not selected."
Stimpson made a strong start to the season, winning the opening World Series event in Abu Dhabi and the sprint distance World Cup in Australia.
But she trailed in 12th, more than three minutes behind the winner, at the Gold Coast.
"Jodie had a fantastic start to the season," added Stanford, the 2013 world champion.
"But sadly she didn't quite have the race she wanted at the Gold Coast which was the actual selection race.
"That was the day they had to really perform and show what they were capable of doing, but she presented a strong case earlier in the year and you never know what the selectors are thinking and which way they will go."
After winning the race in Australia, Jenkins said: "The team is not announced yet but I think I have probably done enough today.
"Our team is so strong and it is so unfair that Jodie might not be going to the Games."

Summary: Helen Jenkins should be selected for Great Britain's triathlon team for the Rio Olympics, says former world champion Non Stanford.

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It will also investigate claims about money contained in an Isle of Man bank account.
It is understood the PSNI asked the NCA to take the lead because of the complexity and scale of the investigation.
It is the NCA's first major investigation since it began operating in Northern Ireland in May.
Investigators from the agency are expected to meet the PSNI shortly.
In a statement on Thursday, the NCA, the UK equivalent of the FBI, confirmed it had agreed to investigate the sale of Northern Ireland assets owned by the Republic of Ireland's National Assets Management Agency (Nama).
NCA deputy director of operations Graham Gardner said: "The NCA has considered a request from [the] PSNI and has agreed to lead an investigation, calling on support as necessary from PSNI officers.
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This takes the investigation to a new level.
The NCA has a level of expertise and resources not available to the PSNI.
They include a specialist economic crime unit and a financial intelligence unit.
Those units contain specialist investigators like forensic accountants and technical experts.
The NCA also has an international reach and works with other agencies throughout the world, including Interpol, whose members include the Republic of Ireland and the United States.
"We will not be providing a running commentary on our progress but will provide updates as and when appropriate."
Earlier, an Irish parliament (Dáil) committee was told a former Nama adviser was in line for a £5m payment after the sale of Nama's property loan portfolio in Northern Ireland.
US investment firm, Pimco, pulled out of the tender bidding process after discovering the fee arrangement to Nama's former adviser, Frank Cushnahan.
The revelation came during a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
It is examining Nama's sale of its 850-property NI portfolio last year.
The National Assets Management Agency (Nama) is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank", set up to deal with toxic loans during the Irish banking crisis, and the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland portfolio is known as Project Eagle.

Summary: The National Crime Agency (NCA) is to investigate the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland property loan portfolio.

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Andrew Steele, from Dunfermline, turned at a police station and confessed to and raping one girl and touching another between 1996 and 2005.
He was initially released pending further investigations but was detained months later. He then said he been hallucinating when he made the confession.
Sentence was deferred for background reports.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Steele, aged 49, told officers his mother was "up in the sky" urging him to confess to the sex crimes when he made his revelations.
Police traced the girls and took statements from them. Both victims were aged seven when the abuse began.
Steele admitted rape, indecency offences and failing to turn up for an earlier court date, when he appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Advocate depute Mark McGuire said: "On 28 December in 2014 the accused voluntarily attended at Kirkcaldy police station and disclosed that he had interfered with the girls."
"On 3 March in 2015 the accused was detained. Under caution he told the officers that he was having hallucinations on the day that he confessed. He told them that his mother was up in the sky telling him to confess. He maintained this position throughout the interview."
The prosecutor said before his first appearance at the police station Steele had gone to hospital and claimed he was hallucinating.
"He was assessed by three medical professionals who concluded that he was suffering from alcohol withdrawal. He was deemed fit to be discharged," said the prosecutor
Steele was remanded in custody and put on the sex offenders register.

Summary: A man who admitted raping and sexually abusing two young girls in Fife told police his mother was "up in the sky" urging him to confess, a court has heard.

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At least one bomber blew himself up outside the mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi, which was then stormed by gunmen, reports say.
Another bomber is said to have blown himself up among fleeing worshippers.
Meanwhile the death toll from Sunday's suicide bombing in Baghdad has again been raised, from 281 to 292.
Amid growing public anger over the truck bombing, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi fired the three top security officials in Baghdad on Friday.
They were the head of Baghdad's security command, the head of interior ministry intelligence for Baghdad and the official responsible for Baghdad in the national security adviser's office.
IS said five of its members had carried out the raid on the site in Balad. The militant group follows an extreme form of Sunni Islam and often targets Shias, who it regards as apostates.
About 50 people were injured in the attack, police and medical sources said.
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Worshippers were marking the Eid al-Fitr festival, celebrating the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when the site came under mortar fire.
The first bomber then struck a market at the entrance to the shrine.
A third bomber was shot dead before he was able to detonate his explosive vest, reports say.
It came four days after IS carried out the deadliest bombing in Baghdad, 45 miles (70km) south of Balad, since the 2003 US-led invasion.
That attack target a shopping complex in the mainly Shia Muslim district of Karrada.
IS militants overran large parts of northern and western Iraq two years ago, but government forces have since regained much of the territory.
In response to the battlefield setbacks, including the recent loss of the western city of Falluja, the militants have stepped up their attacks on civilians.
The Iraqi government has been accused of not doing enough to protect its citizens and has stepped-up security in Baghdad in response to the latest violence.

Summary: So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it carried out a suicide attack on a Shia shrine in the northern Iraqi city of Balad, killing at least 20 people.

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The mural, called Slave Labour, disappeared from a wall in Wood Green, north London, in February and appeared in a Miami sale.
But it was removed from the lot after protests by Haringey Council.
It is now up for auction in June in Covent Garden by the Sincura Group. A local councillor and the local Trades Union Congress have attacked the sale.
The mural, which depicts a boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, appeared on the side of a Poundland store last May, just before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
A spokesman for the auctioneers Sincura said the mural "has been sensitively restored under a cloak of secrecy", and will go on show alongside pieces by Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Mario Testino and Russell Young.
But Wood Green councillor Alan Strickland said: "This is a piece of art given to the community for public enjoyment, and people will find it galling that you can only view this work at an expensive champagne reception, when it belongs with the people of north London, not a private owner.
"We saw the level of public anger last time, as the story went around the world, and I expect the same this time."
And Keith Flett, secretary of the Haringey Trades Union Congress, said: "The Slave Labour Banksy belongs to the people of Haringey not to a wealthy private client."
When the mural was up for auction in Miami, it was expected to fetch up to Â£450,000.
There was suspicion it had been stolen when it disappeared but the Metropolitan Police said there were "no reports of any theft".
Slave Labour will go on sale at the London Film Museum on 2 June.

Summary: A mural by street artist Banksy is to be sold at auction next month.

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Official numbers showed revenues down 32.2% for the period to 16.4bn Macau patacas ($2.05bn; Â£1.36bn).
Expectations were for a fall in revenues of just over 31%.
Macau is the world's largest gaming centre - ahead of Las Vegas - and the only place in China where casinos are allowed.
A special administrative region of China, Macau's economy relies heavily on gambling and shopping - especially by big spending tourists from the mainland.
But Chinese President Xi Jinping's campaign against corruption and luxury spending, which began in December 2012, has seen officials and others from the mainland more wary of gaming and spending in the city.
China's Communist Party prohibits officials from gambling, but until the 2012 crackdown, officials had reportedly visited Macau's casinos to gamble and spend.
China has emphasised Macau's need to diversify its economy away from gambling. The city's build up of new resorts and hotels is expected to help drive general tourism, however, analysts have said Macau will be hard-pressed to build up non-gaming streams of revenue in the near future.
Official numbers released on Monday showed the city's economy shrank by 24.2% year-on-year during three months to September, the city's Statistics and Census Service said.
"Economic contraction in the third quarter was attributable to the continuous decline in exports of services, of which exports of gaming services decreased by 37.4% year-on-year and exports of other tourism services dropped by 15.3%," it added.
Once a Portuguese colony, gaming has taken place in Macau for more than 300 years. For many years it was referred to as the Monte Carlo of the Orient. The city was returned to Chinese rule in 1999.

Summary: Casinos in the Chinese city of Macau have reported a sharp fall in revenues for the three months to September.

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It came as 100 writers protested outside the council, demanding it take measures to protect freedom of speech.
Several writers have returned their awards to the council in recent weeks, protesting against what they call rising intolerance in India.
The Akademi has condemned "any atrocity against any writer" in India, and urged writers to take back their awards.
In recent weeks, growing numbers of writers have been protesting against book bans, the silencing of writers like Perumal Murugan following attacks by right-wing groups, and the killings of rationalists such as Malleshappa Kalburgi and Govind Pansare this year.
The Akademi had been criticised for not speaking out against the attacks sooner, with over 40 writers returning their awards to protest the institution's "silence" on the "attacks against dissent".
Akademi president Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari had earlier called the protest "illogical", but accepted a memorandum on Friday from the writers, who held a silent march to the institution's headquarters.
The Akademi then later issued a statement condemning "any atrocity against any writer anywhere in the country in the strongest of words".
It also condemned the killing of rationalist Kalburgi "and other intellectuals and thinkers", and called on "governments at the centre and in the states to take immediate action to bring the culprits to book and to ensure the security of writers now and in the future".
Speaking to the BBC, Githa Hariharan of the Indian Cultural Forum, made up of a number of writers who returned their awards, said that the Akademi statement was welcome although "late".
However she said that the issues that had prompted the protests in the first place remained a matter of concern for writers.
"The silence of the Sahitya Akademi was a tipping point for the pain and anguish felt by many of us who are struggling to recognise the India we grew up in. It became a symbol for our frustrations. But now it's time to move on to to addressing these larger issues as well," she said.
The writers' protest was seen as unprecedented in India.
Some of the writers who returned their awards included two of India's most highly respected writers, Nayantara Sahgal, and Krishna Sobti. Other writers like Shashi Deshpande, K Satchidanandan and PK Parakkadavu also returned awards and resigned from the Akademi's councils.

Summary: India's Sahitya Akademi, the country's top literary body, has issued a statement condemning attacks on writers.

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It comes after Ruskin College's governing body agreed to cut two of its six BA programmes and one of its three MA courses to save money.
College principal Chris Wilkes said the decision was related to "low student numbers rather than any other reason".
He said it would continue to focus on adult education.
Famous Ruskin College alumni include former deputy prime minister John Prescott and Dennis Skinner, MP for Bolsover in Derbyshire.
BA English Studies, BA History with Social Sciences and MA Women's Studies are being discontinued.
Anne Hughes, 63, from Thame in Oxfordshire, has been studying BA English Studies part-time at the college for two years.
She said she was "absolutely distraught" it was being cut.
She is physically disabled and has depression, and said she chose to study at the college because it worked with "disadvantaged, disabled and mature students".
The college also offers bespoke timetables, unlike some other places of higher education, she added.
Online petitions have been set up in a bid to save the English faculty and the Women's Studies course.
One signatory, Jenny Lewis, wrote on the first petition: "[Tutors] Helen Kidd and Tom Sherry are carrying on the great Ruskin tradition of bringing opportunities to those that otherwise would not have them."
Student and activist Saskia Ritchie, who set up the second petition, said Ruskin had been set up for "people who would traditionally be excluded from academia" and gives "access to truly excellent learning opportunities".
Mr Wilkes said the college would lose about 25 students as a result of the cuts.
He added degrees had been on offer at the college for about 10 years and were "relatively new" considering the college's 116-year history.
"Our focus will continue to be on educating adults and I think what we're doing is just renewing our offer but doing it in a different way, fulfilling our mission in a different way, to perhaps how we've done it in the past," Mr Wilkes added.
The college previously lost funding from the Skills Development Agency.

Summary: More than 1,000 people have signed a petition to save two degree courses at a Oxford college.

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South Wales Police said David Ellis, 40, his lodger, has been arrested in Ireland.
Officers are liaising with Garda officers in connection with his extradition back to the UK.
Retired telecoms engineer Mr Warburton, 59, has not been seen since 31 July.
Police launched an appeal for information after he went missing; they said his M-reg Peugeot 205 had been spotted in north Wales before returning to Swansea.
The car was found abandoned at Birkenhead port some days later.
Police said Mr Ellis, who had been Mr Warburton's lodger in Sketty, had stepped off a ferry in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 6 August.
That discovery prompted a fresh appeal for information and led to Welsh officers being sent across the Irish Sea.
South Wales Police said Mr Warburton's family had been informed of the latest development in the investigation and continued to be assisted by family liaison officers.
Mr Warburton's body has not been found; detectives have previously said they are treating the incident as murder.

Summary: A man wanted in connection with the disappearance of Swansea man David Warburton has been arrested in the Republic of Ireland.

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The Chinese firm said it was pursuing its South Korean rival in two courts - one in California, the other in Shenzhen.
According to Huawei, several of its cellular communications and software inventions had been used in Samsung's phones without its permission.
Samsung told the BBC it would defend its business interests.
The specific patents involved have not been disclosed.
However, Huawei has said at least some of them are classed as Frand - an acronym referring to "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory".
This means the Chinese company has committed itself to offering anyone a licence so long as they agree to a non-excessive compensation.
This kind of agreement is common in the tech sector as it makes it possible for different companies' products to communicate and share data formats with each other.
Huawei's intellectual property chief indicated it was seeking permission to use some of Samsung's technologies in return rather than seeking a payment.
"Thus far, we have signed cross-licensing agreements with dozens of our competitors," said Ding Jianxing.
"We hope Samsung will respect Huawei's R&D investment and patents, stop infringing our patents and get the necessary licence from Huawei, and work together with Huawei to jointly drive the industry forward."
A Samsung spokesperson responded in an email to the BBC saying "we will thoroughly review the complaint and take appropriate action to defend Samsung's business interests".
The action comes at a time when Oracle and Google are waiting for a jury to come back with a verdict in a copyright trial that has pitted the two giants against each other in the US.
But such clashes have become less common since Apple and Samsung's high-profile courtroom battle in 2011, which led to both firms revealing secrets about their inner workings and racking up large legal bills.
One expert noted that just because papers had been filed in the latest case did not mean Huawei and Samsung would necessarily fight a similar battle in public.
"Huawei may have initiated litigation as lever to get a settlement," commented Ilya Kazi from the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.
"We don't know if it intends to go all the way through. Most cases do settle."

Summary: Huawei has filed legal papers in the US against Samsung over alleged patent infringement.

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West Midlands Ambulance Service said the car was discovered on Sunday at 09:35 GMT by two cyclists in Crakemarsh near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.
A spokesman said the black Ford Fiesta appeared to have hit a tree in very foggy conditions on the B5030.
The girl, in the back of the car, was treated at hospital for minor injuries.
The man, who was 25 and from the local area, has not yet been named.
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An ambulance service spokesman said: "This was an extremely difficult incident for all involved including the two cyclists who made the discovery."
Staffordshire Police appealed for witnesses to the crash, and said specially trained family liaison officers were working to support the family.
A spokesman added: "At this early stage of the investigation it is not known at what time the collision occurred."

Summary: A man has died and a seven-year-old girl has been injured in a car crash.

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He was responding to reports Beijing has deployed surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the region.
China dismissed the reports as "hype", but said it had the right under international law to defend itself.
Several nations claim territory in the resource-rich South China Sea, which is also an important shipping route.
A spokesman for Mr Kerry said satellite images appeared to confirm China had deployed anti-aircraft missiles on Woody or Yongxing Island in the Paracels.
The island is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam and the presence of missiles would significantly increase tensions.
Mr Kerry said the US expected to have a "very serious conversation" with China over its presence.
"There is every evidence, every day, that there has been an increase of militarisation from one kind or another. It's a serious concern," he said.
The latest images of Woody Island were captured by ImageSat International.
A picture dated 3 February shows a beach on the island empty. By 14 February it contains several missile launchers and support vehicles.
But the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said reports were a Western media invention.
He defended "the limited and necessary self-defence facilities" on islands inhabited by Chinese personnel as "consistent with the right for self-preservation and self-protection.... under the international law".
China has been carrying out extensive land reclamation work in the region, which it says is legal and for civilian purposes.
But the work has angered other countries which also claim the territory, and there is growing concern about the implications of the area becoming militarised.
The South China Sea dispute has been a topic of debate at a meeting of South East Asian regional leaders in California.
US President Barack Obama said the members had discussed the need for "tangible steps" to reduce tensions.
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
Its islets and waters are claimed in part or in whole by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and naval patrols, while the US says it opposes restrictions on freedom of navigation and unlawful sovereignty claims - by all sides, but seen by many as aimed at China.
The frictions have sparked concern that the area is becoming a flashpoint with global consequences.

Summary: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said China's militarisation of territory in the South China Sea is a "serious concern".

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The 32-year old, who has won 12 caps for his country, has been signed to provide injury cover.
Ospreys tight heads Dmitri Arhip and Ma'afu Fia are currently sidelined and Rhodri Jones is in the Wales squad.
"Brian has proven quality at the top level and will add so much experience to the squad, particularly over the coming weeks," coach Steve Tandy said.
Mujati has played in Super Rugby with Lions and Stormers, in Top 14 in France with Racing Metro, and in England with Northampton Saints and Sale.
At Northampton Mujati was a losing Heineken Cup and Premiership finalist, and an Anglo-Welsh Cup winner.
Ospreys Head Coach, Steve Tandy, said he is expecting Mujati to make a big impact.
"This is an important signing for us given the injury situation with Dmitri and Ma'afu. Our performances this season have put us in a really strong position but we still have eight PRO12 games to go, and a Challenge Cup quarter-final in April," he said.
"In Rhodri Jones and Daniel Suter we have two young men who will be heavily involved but we can't go through such a big run of games with only two fit pro tight heads on our books, particularly with Rhodri still a part of the Six Nations squad and potentially away on Wales duty. It's a critical position and we felt that we had to act now."

Summary: Ospreys have signed South Africa prop Brian Mujati on a deal until the end of the season.

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Aiden Webb, 22, from Norwich, was climbing Fansipan mountain alone on Friday when he fell down a ravine and lost his way, his girlfriend Bluebell Baughan said.
Mr Webb, described as an experienced climber, was last heard from on Saturday when his phone went dead.
The Foreign Office confirmed it was assisting his family.
Mr Webb and Miss Baughan were on a four-month trip when he injured his arm and knee in the fall on the 3,100m (10,300ft) high Fansipan mountain in the north of Vietnam.
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"He went to the mountain alone without a guide at 06:00 and aspired to climb it in one day," Miss Baughan said.
She was in touch with Mr Webb by phone when he informed her he had fallen and could not find his way back to the trail.
"He was sure he could make it back but by nightfall it was apparent he wasn't going to," she said.
"Aiden said a rock had cut his arm open and he had hurt his knee. We were in touch all night.
"He said no-one would be able to find him, but by 6am on Saturday he finally agreed to me getting help."
Miss Baughan, who is helping co-ordinate the search from the town of Sa Pa, said rescuers had been on the mountain since Saturday morning.
"Thirty-two men spent last night on the mountain, a mixture of military police, forestry workers and local police.
"There is only one police officer here in Sa Pa who speaks English, but everyone has been very helpful," she said.
Miss Baughan said conditions on the mountain were "very cold and wet".
"Aiden is a very good climber, but he is injured," she said.
Mr Webb's father and uncle are expected to arrive in Vietnam this evening although they will not reach the north until Tuesday.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman said: "We are supporting the family of Aiden Webb, a British man reported missing in Vietnam. We are working closely with the local authorities leading the search."

Summary: Rescuers in Vietnam are searching for a British man who went missing while climbing one of the country's highest mountains.

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She was artificially inseminated earlier this year after attempts to bring her together with male partner, Yang Guang, failed.
The zoo said new scientific tests had given a "strong indication" of pregnancy, but were "too new to be definitive".
Tian Tian also conceived last year, but the pregnancy failed.
Iain Valentine, director of Giant Pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said: "The latest scientific data suggests Tian Tian the giant panda is now pregnant and that implantation has taken place, therefore she may give birth at the end of the month.
"This is all very new and complex science and we still have a bit of time to go yet.
"As like last year, the late loss of a cub remains entirely possible."
The zoo said it had been able to confirm that Tian Tian did become pregnant last year.
However, it said it was most likely that she had reabsorbed the foetus late term.
The two pandas arrived in Scotland from China in 2011.
Tian Tian has had cubs in the past in China, before she came on loan to Edinburgh.
If she does have a successful delivery, it will be the first time a giant panda has been born in Britain.
The panda enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo is due to close to visitors from Saturday ahead of a possible birth.

Summary: Edinburgh Zoo has said its giant panda, Tian Tian, may give birth at the end of the month.

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The 25-year-old man reportedly calls himself Harald Hitler.
The man, sporting a side parting and a trademark moustache, had been seen having his photograph taken outside the house in Braunau am Inn in which Adolf Hitler was born.
The lookalike had recently moved to the town on the German border, police spokesman David Furtner told the BBC.
Mr Furtner said this was not a joke or a piece of performance art.
"The young man knows exactly what he is doing," the police spokesman said.
He said the man had also been spotted in Vienna and Graz.
Pictures of the man were published by Austria's Heute.at news website on Monday.
Glorifying the Nazi era is a crime in Austria.
Last October, the Austrian authorities decided to demolish Hitler's birthplace house to stop it becoming a focal point for neo-Nazis.
Hitler was born in a rented room on the top floor of the building on 20 April 1889.
During Nazi rule, the house was transformed into a shrine to Hitler as the town drew in a wave of tourists.
But as the Nazis began to lose control in 1944, it was shut.

Summary: Police in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn have arrested a man who looks like the Nazi leader.

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The Hammersmith and City Line has been suspended between Edgware Road and Hammersmith over fears debris could fall on to the tracks.
The Circle Line is also closed partly due to the fire and partly because of planned engineering work.
Transport for London (TfL) said the move had been made "at the request of the London Fire Brigade".
The fire broke out at the 24-storey block, which contained 120 one and two-bedroom flats, early on Wednesday morning.
Police presume 58 people have died but have warned the figure could grow.
A sign at Ladbroke Grove station said "owing to the safety of the Tower" the lines had been partly suspended.
The London Fire Brigade confirmed it had requested the lines be temporarily closed because of a "short-term risk of some debris falling on to the tracks".
A spokesman said teams were working to secure the debris so the lines could be reopened as soon as possible.

Summary: Two London Underground lines have been temporarily closed due to the Grenfell Tower fire.

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