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But there are plenty of other options to choose from, including Olympic gold medals, world records and election to Parliament. 1979 - Three world records in 41 days As a young middle distance runner, Sebastian Coe claimed a number of UK records and had already begun to show considerable talents as an athlete by 1979. But the year marked an important milestone when - aged just 22 - he broke the 800m, one mile and 1,500m world records within the space of just 41 days. He was the first person to hold all three records at the same time. He also won Sports Personality of the Year. 1980 - First Olympic medals Coe will always be remembered for his Olympic success. In 1980, amid intense rivalry with fellow British runner Steve Ovett, he won gold in the 1,500m in Moscow. He took silver in his preferred race - the 800m - finishing second to Ovett. 1984 - Second Olympic Gold Despite spending months fighting illness, Coe returned to the Olympic track in Los Angeles four years later and became the first man to win successive 1,500m golds, beating fellow Briton Steve Cram into second (Ovett failed to finish the race). Coe was beaten into second again in the 800m by Joaquim Cruz. 1992 - Enters Parliament After retiring from athletics in 1990, Coe pursued a career in politics and was chosen to fight the Falmouth and Camborne constituency for the Conservatives at the 1992 election. Coe beat the Liberal Democrat candidate by more than 3,000 votes and took his place in Parliament. He lost the seat in 1997 when Tony Blair's Labour Party swept to power. He briefly returned to politics as chief of staff to William Hague, when he was Leader of the Opposition. 2005 - Helps secure Olympics for London Despite London lagging in third place behind Paris and Madrid in early stages, the UK capital secured the games under Coe's leadership. Sports commentators said a speech he made, shortly before the vote, helped turn the race in London's favour. "This is almost entirely on a different planet to winning the gold medals," Coe said at the time. He went on to become Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and is said to have been a key player in organising the Queen's appearance in the James Bond scene in the Games' opening ceremony. 2015 - Elected president of the IAAF Despite one of the most impressive CVs in athletics history, Lord Coe suggested his election as IAAF chief topped all his achievements. He beat Sergey Bubka, a former Olympic pole vault champion, by 115 votes to 92. His first test, and perhaps his biggest yet, will be to deal with the fallout from doping allegations.

After being elected the new president of the IAAF, Lord Coe said taking the role was "probably the second biggest and most momentous occasion in my life" after the birth of his children.

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In the late 1960s/early 1970s, the ice fields slipping down Mont Blanc and the surrounding mountains of the European range covered some 375 sq km. By the late 2000s, this area had fallen to about 275 sq km. The research has been presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists. It mirrors some findings of retreat occurring in other sectors of the Alps which sit across the borders of several nations, but predominantly Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, France, and Italy. The new French Alps glaciers inventory was produced by Marie Gardent, from the University of Savoie, and colleagues. It assessed the roughly 600 glaciers in broad areas incorporating the Ecrins, Belledonne, Vanoise, Ubaye and Grande Rousse Arves massifs, as well as the famous Mont Blanc Massif in the north. The team drew upon map archives, past satellite imagery and aerial photographs. Manual inspection was used to check the automatic delineation methods employed in the pictures was correct. "We use manual delineation to verify the satellite data because there can be a problem with debris cover on a glacier," explained Ms Gardent. "Automatic delineation from satellite data will sometimes say there is no glacier when in fact we know there is one there. Also, deep shadows can hide the glacier margins." The only existing glacial inventory from the French Alps was published four decades ago within the context of the World Glacier Inventory. It found the overall area of ice to be about 375 sq km. By 1985-86, in spite of a short advancing period in the late 70s/early 80s, glacial coverage had decreased to a value close to 340 sq km, the new survey shows. Since then, the withdrawal has accelerated, with the area being reduced to about 275 sq km in the late 2000s. This represents an average loss of some 26% over the last 40 years. The retreat is not uniform across the French Alps, however. The greatest losses have been seen in the southern sectors. In the Belledonne Massif, for example, glaciers have almost completely disappeared; and in the Ecrins Massif, glacial retreat is more than three times stronger than in the Mont Blanc Massif. "The glacier retreat is less important in the northern Alps than in the southern Alps," Ms Gardent emphasised. "We think this is because of the lower elevation of the mountains in the south, but also because of climatic conditions which are different. There is more precipitation in the north and there is also more cloud." The northern region includes the biggest French glacier of all - La Mer de Glace, which falls over a 1,000m in altitude down Mont Blanc itself. Its area today is just over 30 sq km, a shade smaller than the 31.5 sq km in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Efforts to assess and monitor glacier health are going on across the Alpine region. At this very meeting three years ago, Swiss researchers reported that glaciers on their part of the European range were also losing mass at an accelerating rate. Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk

Glaciers in the French Alps have lost a quarter of their area in the past 40 years, according to new research.

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The Labour leader told the New Statesman his party opposed government plans to lower the overall household cap, introduced in the last Parliament. And his spokesman confirmed he was "very much in favour" of getting rid of it altogether. The Conservatives said Labour wanted a return to "unlimited welfare handouts". The BBC's Carole Walker said Mr Corbyn was asserting his authority on what was a "very difficult issue" for the party. After Mr Corbyn told the TUC conference last week he wanted to "remove the whole idea of the benefit cap", Owen Smith, his shadow work and pensions secretary, said it was "very clear" Labour was only opposing plans to reduce the limit of working-age benefits to £20,000, and to £23,000 in London. In an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, Mr Smith acknowledged the principle of a welfare cap had wide public support and it would be "foolhardy" for Labour to set themselves "unthinkingly" against public opinion. But Mr Corbyn told the New Statesman the cap was responsible for "social cleansing" in his Islington North constituency, with people forced to leave their homes because they could not afford their rent. "It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole," he added. His spokesman said Mr Corbyn had "laid out his position" and the policy would now go through a "collective decision-making process". Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Smith said the party leader had "clearly signalled that he wants Labour to review and refresh our thinking on social security, especially in respect of the benefit cap, and that's a challenge I know the entire party will rise to in the months ahead". Before Mr Corbyn was elected leader, the party was split over the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, which will reduce the cap to £20,000 outside of London, and £23,000 in London. In July, 48 Labour MPs rebelled against the decision by the then interim leader Harriet Harman to abstain and instead voted against the bill. The Conservative Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said "chaos and confusion" surrounded Labour's position. "Conservatives believe that nobody should be able to claim more in welfare than the average family earns by going out to work," he said. "By pledging to reverse this position, it's clear that today's Labour Party are simply not on the side of working people. They are still the same old welfare party - wanting to borrow more to spend more on benefits." In his interview, Mr Corbyn also said scrapping the Trident nuclear weapons system would become Labour Party policy if its conference votes for the change next week. Conferences votes are not technically binding on the party leadership. But asked whether scrapping Trident would become party policy if conference votes for it, Mr Corbyn said: "Well, it would be, of course, because it would have been passed at conference."

Jeremy Corbyn has reaffirmed his desire to scrap the welfare cap after differences with his shadow cabinet, calling the policy "devastating".

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Sadiq Khan said Lord Toby Harris of Haringey would review the "capability, capacity and collaboration arrangements of every London agency". Lord Harris, a former Met Police Authority chair and member of the joint committee on the National Security Strategy, said the review was "timely". He will report his findings in summer. Lord Harris said there was a "developing threat picture" and he would look at whether current arrangements could be "even more robust". Mr Khan said Lord Harris would report on "what more could be done to ensure Londoners are kept safe". The strategic review was one of his main manifesto promises.

The Mayor of London has appointed a security expert to assess how well the capital would cope with a major terror attack.

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The gunman fled after opening fire on Annonciate Haberisoni as she was waiting for her hair to be done, witnesses said. Mr Rwasa accused the government of attempting to assassinate his wife. It has not commented on the allegation. Tensions have been rising in Burundi ahead of elections in May and June. Mr Rwasa said at a press conference that his wife was being treated for head injuries at a local hospital, and her condition was not critical. He would not be intimidated by Sunday's shooting, he added. Mr Rwasa accused the government of compiling a hit list of people to be targeted in the run-up to parliamentary elections in May and presidential elections in June. Police said they were investigating the attack. Witnesses were quoted in the local media as saying that Mrs Haberisoni's life was probably saved by her hair dresser who saw the gunman taking aim and pushed her out of the way. Mr Rwasa is a former rebel leader and an influential member of the opposition Forces for National Liberation (FNL) party. He came out of hiding in 2013 and said he would contest this year's election. President Pierre Nkurunziza has not yet indicated whether he will step down or run for a third term. He took office in 2005 following the end of a 12-year civil war, which killed more than 300,000 people.

The wife of prominent Burundian opposition politician Agathon Rwasa has been shot and wounded at a hair salon in the capital, Bujumbura.

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But is the issue the result of local factors or a symptom of a more fundamental issue? The number of teacher vacancies in the north east, Highlands and the Northern Isles is relatively high. In many other parts of the country, there is no significant problem filling most teacher vacancies. Council umbrella body Cosla says the problem is in what it calls particular "pockets" of the country - rather than a national problem as such. In each of the last four years the Scottish government has increased student teacher numbers. It also argues it has addressed teacher unemployment and stabilised teacher numbers in recent years, and has dismissed any suggestions of a Scotland-wide shortage. There are a number of possible explanations for the problems in northern Scotland. For example, the cost of housing in some parts of the north east - an important factor in the overall cost of living - may deter people from moving there if they know their salary would go further in another part of the country. Young people In rural areas, it can be a challenge to find the right person for any skilled job. Young people from rural areas who want to become teachers will usually have left home at 18 to study - many may simply not fancy returning to a rural community, at least while they are in their 20s or 30s. It is important to distinguish between the drop in the overall number of teachers in Scotland in recent years and the all-too-real challenge some councils face filling advertised vacancies. Councils across Scotland are now committed to trying to maintain teacher numbers - the current council funding deal with the Scottish government makes this a formal obligation. But filling vacancies requires, of course, finding the right candidates. Councils in the north have tried a number of ideas - promoting what they believe to be the advantages of living in their area, for instance, or providing free accommodation. Different challenge One contentious issue is over just who can become a teacher. All teachers in Scotland have to register with the General Teaching Council for Scotland, but teachers from outside Scotland have to meet specific requirements. The biggest number of teachers from outside Scotland come, inevitably, from the rest of the UK. However teachers in England who, in effect, learned on the job as graduate trainees through the UK government's Teach First initiative cannot register in Scotland. Head teacher vacancies throw up a different challenge though. Head teachers are often promoted from within their own council area - they may go for a promoted post at their own school or a nearby school. If these vacancies are unfilled, it may beg questions over why some people appear not to want promoted. One recently claimed to BBC Scotland that the amount of bureaucracy and extra work for a relatively modest rise in salary meant that some may not believe the promotion to be worth it.

Plans for a summit aimed at tackling teacher shortages highlight an urgent problem in parts of northern and north east Scotland.

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The prime minister stressed her belief he was committed to advancing the "special relationship" with the UK. But Mrs May told the Financial Times she expects "very frank" talks on areas where their opinions seem to differ such as the EU and Nato. The PM said she hoped for early progress on a US-UK trade agreement. Mrs May said she believed Mr Trump "recognises the importance and significance of Nato", despite him being quoted earlier in the week as describing the military alliance as "obsolete". "I'm also confident the USA will recognise the importance of the co-operation we have in Europe to ensure our collective defence and collective security," she told the FT. Mr Trump also said recently he did not really care if the EU separated. Mrs May, who this week outlined for the first time her plan for Brexit, said: "The decision taken by the UK was not a decision about breaking up the EU. "I want the EU to continue to be strong and I want to continue to have a close and strategic partnership with the EU. It is important for security issues. With the threats we face it's not the time for less co-operation." Mr Trump was sworn-in as the 45th US president on Friday. In a statement issued after the inauguration, Mrs May said: "From our conversations to date, I know we are both committed to advancing the special relationship between our two countries and working together for the prosperity and security of people on both sides of the Atlantic. "I look forward to discussing these issues and more when we meet in Washington." In her FT interview, Mrs May said she was "confident we can look at areas even in advance of being able to sign a formal trade deal". But despite Mr Trump's indication he backed a quick post-Brexit trade deal, there was a heavily protectionist tone in the inauguration speech. Some Labour MPs questioned how the prime minister's aim of a free trade deal with the US would be possible given the "America first" strategy outlined by Mr Trump. David Lammy tweeted: "Every decision on trade will be made to benefit Americans. Hmm - looking forward to this trade deal, then." Chris Bryant said: "I'm not sure a UK trade deal with Trump will be very mutually beneficial." However, speaking to the BBC in Myanmar, also known as Burma, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said there was every reason to "be positive and optimistic" about a trade deal. "I think the new president has made it very clear that he wants to put Britain at the front of the line... and obviously that's extremely exciting and important". Earlier Mr Johnson offered his own "warmest congratulations" to Mr Trump. He said the UK would "work hand in glove for the stability, the prosperity and the security of the world". Meanwhile, Thousands of women are expected to join a march in London later as part of an international protest campaign on the first full day of Mr Trump's presidency. Mr Trump has appeared to make good on a pledge to return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the White House's Oval Office. The sculpture of the World War Two prime minister's face is said to be a replica of one given to President Lyndon B Johnson in the 1960s and first appeared in the Oval Office during George W Bush's administration in 2001. It was replaced by a bust of civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr during Barack Obama's presidency. The presence of the Churchill bust was noticed as Mr Trump signed his first orders as president. A report that the bust of Dr King no longer remained in the Oval Office was later found to be discredited.

Theresa May has congratulated Donald Trump on taking office as US president - and says she looks forward to meeting him in Washington.

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Mr Weah got 78% of the vote for the Montserrado county seat, which includes the capital Monrovia. He beat Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took nearly 11%. Low turnout in the poll, which was first planned for October, was blamed on concerns about Ebola. Strict health controls were in place to try to prevent the spread of the disease. Those who came to polling stations had their temperature taken, were told to stand a metre (3ft) apart and wash their hands before and after voting. Liberia has been one of the countries worst affected by Ebola, with almost 3,400 deaths, the UN says. Other winners in the senate elections include Jewel Howard-Taylor, the ex-wife of the jailed former president Charles Taylor, and the former rebel leader Prince Johnson. Both retained their seats. The National Elections Commission chairman, Jerome Korkoya, called the conclusion of the vote "the end of a crucial journey". Mr Weah won the first round of the 2005 presidential election, losing the runoff to Ms Johnson-Sirleaf. He is the only African to be named Fifa's world player of the year, winning in 1995.

The former football star George Weah has won a landslide victory in Liberia's senate elections, in polls disrupted by the Ebola outbreak.

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Ali Asghar Zarean told state TV that Iran would sign an agreement with China to modify the reactor before doing so. On Monday, the semi-official Fars news agency cited unnamed sources as saying the reactor had been decommissioned. It would represent a final step towards the implementation of July's nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. Iran has agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling sanctions. Iran has for years been building a heavy-water nuclear facility at Arak, the spent fuel from which would contain plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb. The P5+1 group of world powers - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany - had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the proliferation risk. But they eventually agreed that Iran could redesign the reactor so it would not produce any weapons-grade plutonium. Monday's report by Fars, which is close to the powerful Revolutionary Guards, said technicians had removed the core of the existing reactor and poured concrete into the cavity. In July, Iran agreed a landmark nuclear deal with six world powers to limit its sensitive nuclear activities for more than a decade in return for the lifting of crippling sanctions. The US is confident the agreement will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iran says it has the right to nuclear energy - and stresses that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only. Iran will not see the UN, US and EU sanctions lifted until the global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), certifies that it has fulfilled its commitments under the deal. The precise date of the so-called "implementation day" has not been determined. But Iran says it has met those commitments earlier than expected and last week US Secretary of State John Kerry declared: "We are days away from implementation." The sanctions have cost Iran more than more than $160bn (£102bn) in oil revenue since 2012 alone. Once they are lifted, the country will be able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. Iran has the fourth largest oil reserves in the world and the energy industry is braced for lower prices. Iran will also be able to access more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas. But on Tuesday, Mr Zarean insisted that Iran would not decommission the reactor until it had signed a deal with China regarding its redesign - something that is expected next week. "Definitely, we will not apply any physical change in this field until a final agreement is finalised," he said, without making reference to the Fars report directly. Mr Zarean also said that once the modifications were completed and Arak went online, Iran hoped to export excess heavy water produced there to the US for research purposes, via a third country. Iran estimates it will need about 6 of the 20 tonnes a year of heavy water it will produce for medical isotopes. Government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht separately announced on Tuesday that the sanctions on Iran would be lifted "in the coming days". The precise date when the nuclear deal is implemented and the sanctions are lifted by the UN, US and EU has not been determined and depends on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) certifying that Iran has fulfilled its commitments.

Iran's deputy nuclear chief has denied a report that the core of the Arak heavy-water reactor has been removed and filled with concrete.

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The 37-year-old wheelchair racer, who won four gold medals at the London Paralympics, announced his retirement from track racing after an unsuccessful Paralympic Games in Rio last year. He said April's London Marathon would be his final road race. British Athletics says it is puzzled by Weir's comments, which came in a series of tweets on Tuesday. "I have just retired from GB. I will still be at the London Marathon this year," wrote Weir. A six-time world champion, he said he felt like he had been "stabbed in the back" after he crashed out of the marathon in Rio, his last ever Paralympic event. The BBC has attempted to contact him for comment.

Six-time Paralympic champion David Weir says he will never wear a Great Britain vest again, adding he feels "let down".

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The 28-year old Dolgellau-based driver won three out of the 17 stages in the M-Sport Ford Fiesta in his first event since returning to WRC. He and co-driver Daniel Barritt finished in sixth place overall. Evans was more than six minutes behind team-mate Ogier. Toyota's Jari-Matti Latvala finished in second place, with M-Sport's Ott Tanak in third. Evans drove for M-Sport in the top class for two seasons in 2014 and 2015, but was demoted to the WRC2 class in 2016. The second round of the WRC starts in Sweden on 9 February.

Welshman Elfyn Evans was the best-placed British driver as reigning champion Sebastien Ogier won the opening round of the World Rally Championship (WRC) in Monte Carlo.

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The politician, who had secured his 2011 seat through the list vote, beat SNP candidate rival Roderick Campbell by 3,465 votes. Mr Rennie received 14,928 votes, an increase of 15% from 2011. He said: "It feels fantastic to have won North East Fife back for the Liberal Democrats. A big majority of 3,000 against a Nationalist tide." Mr Rennie added: "It's a tremendous result for the Liberal Democrats in North East Fife." In his victory speech, he said it had been a "positive, uplifting campaign" and added: "I've had the time of my life in this campaign." He appeared at the count with two toy pigs in his hand, a reference to a photo opportunity at farm while out on the campaign trail. Alex Cole-Hamilton, of the Liberal Democrats, also won Edinburgh Western from the SNP, with 16,645 votes - a 42% share. The party also comfortably held both Orkney and Shetland.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has taken the Fife North East seat from the SNP.

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Strachan would not be drawn on his future following last week's 3-0 defeat by England. The Scots are second bottom of their World Cup qualifying group on four points after four games. "I'd be amazed if he doesn't," said Motherwell boss McGhee when asked about Strachan continuing in the role. "I think in terms of the performance he got the best out of the players, so I think he's entitled to move on to the next games and see if we can improve on the results." Scotland next play Slovenia at home in March before the return meeting with England at Hampden in June. Double-headers against Lithuania and Malta and then Slovakia and Slovenia later in 2017 complete the qualifying campaign. Group winners progress to the 2018 finals in Russia while the eight best runners-up from the nine European sections will play-off for four further qualification spots. Group F started positively for Scotland with a 5-1 win away to Malta but only a late goal prevented defeat at home by Lithuania and Slovakia then humbled the Scots 3-0 in Bratislava before a repeat scoreline at Wembley. "Everyone has their opinions and they're entitled to those opinions," said McGhee. "Whatever anyone else says, we'll just keep doing what we're doing until someone takes the keys off of us. "If people look at it objectively and properly and see that players are doing their best but we fall short because we're either not good enough or have a bit of bad luck then I think we're entitled to say, 'okay let's keep going because we're still getting the best out of the players that we can get'."

Scotland assistant manager Mark McGhee insists he would be surprised if Gordon Strachan did not carry on as national coach.

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Well, if you're Lorde, you turn up to the VMAs in a half-cocktail dress, half-sweat pants combo and perform an interpretive dance instead. Simple. The New Zealander said she had to be hooked up to an IV drip, referring to herself as a "cute lil propped-up corpse". End of Twitter post by @lorde Her flu explains why she wasn't singing, which is a shame given MTV said her rehearsal was "epic". But as Lorde tweeted, the #showgoeson. Lorde was praised for showing up, comfy trainers and all. The official VMA account tweeted a picture of the singer seeming to jump on the stage and the caption: "The ground is the flu trying to stop you glowing up at the #VMAs." End of Twitter post by @vmas Fans were impressed on Twitter too, with one saying: "If Lorde can perform at the VMAs with the flu, I can definitely make it through this week in one piece." End of Twitter post by @nikki_camm She's not the first star to rock up to a gig when full of the lurgy. So who else has battled on regardless? Fans got a bit more than they bargained for when Justin Bieber was sick on stage - twice - back in 2012. He was performing in Arizona as part of the Believe tour when he vomited twice. He left the stage each time, but came back to finish the show and even did an encore. Bieber later told fans he was "getting better" and that "milk was a bad choice". The following year he had to take a 20-minute break mid-set due to breathing problems - but once again, he insisted on getting to the end of the performance. What a pro. Perhaps Biebs could have shared stories with Rihanna about his experiences - as the same thing had happened to her while she was playing in Portugal. She was at Lisbon's Atlantico Arena when she had to run off during What's My Name to be sick. RiRi tweeted a fan at the time, saying she "made it juuuust in time for RudeBoy", with her dancers covering for her while she was ill. Last year, she had to cancel her Grammys performance though under doctor's orders - she was suffering from bronchitis that time. Haim bassist Este has type one diabetes - which means her body can't control blood sugar levels and that she needs to inject insulin. But when she was playing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2013, she realised her sugar levels were plummeting due to the fact she'd not eaten enough. She came off stage and her manager checked her levels and rubbed chocolate inside her mouth to give her much-needed glucose. After two minutes, she got back on to perform the rest of the set with her sisters. Este admitted she had to do it "sitting down like BB King" however - and that now she makes sure she's had her "fuel for the day". When Dave Grohl fell off stage at a concert in Sweden two years ago, he broke his leg - an injury that led to the Foo Fighters cancelling their headline slot at Glastonbury that summer. But get this. Even though he was in pain, and would eventually need six metal screws put in his leg, he finished the show at the Ullevi Stadium before being taken to hospital. And then, a month after the accident, he took to the stage again. Grohl sat on a throne decorated with guitars for a show in Washington DC to mark the 20th anniversary of the band's first album. He's seen on it above at a gig in Seoul later that month. Bit of a vintage one now. Marillion were appearing on Top of the Pops in 1985 - but the slight problem was that singer Fish had lost his voice. So what do you do in that situation? Cancel? Nope. Instead, Fish decided to take to the stage regardless - and hold up a flip chart with the lyrics to Lavender Blue on, ripping off the sheets as he went along. Luckily, the audience was up for a sing-a-long. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

What do you do when you're booked to play at a show but you're sick and would rather be tucked up in bed?

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Jamie Taggart, from Argyll and Bute, failed to return from a plant-hunting trip to the northern mountainous area. He has not been seen since 2 November, when his rucksack and passport were found at a guest house in Sapa. Mr Taggart, 41, runs Linn Botanic Gardens in the village of Cove on the Rosneath peninsula and serves the area as a retained firefighter. Local police and the British embassy in Hanoi have been informed about his disappearance. Friend and fellow botanist Ian Sinclair, who has been liaising with the search parties, said they had been hampered by horrendous weather. "The snow is continuing to melt, but there is a massive amount of snow damage to the forest such as collapsed trees," he said. "The weather has been horrendous, with snow down to Sapa. This is extremely unusual as Sapa is upper tropical rainforest. "A large group from the national park will be doing an intensive search once the snow melts." A search due to begin on Tuesday will concentrate on four trails inside the forest of Lai Chau and Lao Cai, he said. Family and friends of Mr Taggart in his hometown of Cove have issued an appeal for funds to help cover the cost of the search. A Facebook page - Jamie Taggart Search - has also been set up. Organisations and individuals have so far raised thousands of pounds, including six-year-old Annie Ferguson of Cove who donated her £14.50 savings. The botanist's father, Jim Taggart, found out his son was missing when he failed to appear on a scheduled flight home to Scotland on 29 November. He had arrived at a guest house in Sapa on 30 October and left on a motorbike taxi to explore the hills. On 2 November his rucksack and passport were found at the accommodation. Dr Taggart previously told BBC Radio Scotland that he had received a handful of text messages from his son before contact stopped. "I don't think he had got lost. Either something happened to him on his first day on the hills or there is some explanation we can only guess at," he said. A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: "We are still in close contact with the local authorities and are providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time."

The search for a Scots botanist missing in Vietnam is expected to resume later after being abandoned in heavy snow.

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Firearms officers from the Met Police carried out a stop on a car in High Street shortly before 20:00 GMT on Wednesday. Two men in their 20s were arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition. The operation was not linked to a fatal police shooting at Tracey Court in Luton earlier in the day, police said. Detectives from the Met's serious and organised crime command were supported by officers from Bedfordshire Police during the operation. Local residents were warned by armed police to stay inside their homes during the incident. The arrested men are being held in custody at a police station in north London.

A handgun and ammunition have been seized and two people were arrested during a police operation in Luton.

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A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 January and 10 February. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk or our Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics

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New Healthway, a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, is printed by one of India's leading publishers. Academics have urged the government to exercise greater control. But the authorities say schools should monitor content as they are responsible for the choice of textbooks. "This is poisonous for children," Janaki Rajan of the Faculty of Education at Jamia Millia University in Delhi told the BBC. "The government has the power to take action, but they are washing their hands of it," she said. It is not known which Indian schools have bought the book for their students, but correspondents say what is worrying is that such a book is available to students. "The strongest argument that meat is not essential food is the fact that the Creator of this Universe did not include meat in the original diet for Adam and Eve. He gave them fruits, nuts and vegetables," reads a chapter entitled Do We Need Flesh Food? The chapter details the "benefits" of a vegetarian diet and goes on to list "some of the characteristics" found among non-vegetarians. "They easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes," it says. The chapter, full of factual inaccuracies, refers to Eskimos (Inuit) as "lazy, sluggish and short-lived", because they live on "a diet largely of meat". It adds: "The Arabs who helped in constructing the Suez Canal lived on wheat and dates and were superior to the beef-fed Englishmen engaged in the same work." The publishers, S Chand, did not respond to the BBC's requests for a comment.

Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes", according to a controversial school textbook available in India.

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Media playback is unsupported on your device 16 December 2014 Last updated at 08:58 GMT Dr Andrew Goodall said a choice may have to be made between emergency care and non-urgent surgery. In an extended interview with BBC Wales health correspondent Owain Clarke, Dr Goodall said hospitals might make the decision not to schedule surgery in the first place to focus on "front door pressures" during the peak winter months. Two hospitals, Morriston in Swansea and the Princess of Wales in Bridgend, have already cancelled some surgical procedures until after Christmas.

The new chief executive of the Welsh NHS has told BBC Wales winter pressures could force hospitals to cancel operations.

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It has been hailed as the most comprehensive list to date. About 9,000 names - nearly all German - are on the Auschwitz garrison list, some with photographs attached. The INR hopes the list will prove that Auschwitz was not a Polish-run camp. More than a million people died there. The victims were overwhelmingly Jewish - but Poles, Roma and political prisoners were also murdered. INR head Jaroslaw Szarek said that the creation of the database, the only one of its kind in the world, marked a historic day. It includes information about SS commanders and guards who worked at Auschwitz-Birkenau, their names, place and date of birth, nationality, military service and where possible, a photograph. The information was gathered from Poland, Germany, Austria and the US. Mr Szarek said it would help combat the wholly incorrect practice of referring to Auschwitz as a Polish-run camp. He said the institute hoped to compile similar lists for other Nazi camps in occupied Poland. In cases where a person has stood trial, judicial documents relating to the case are included with the documents. Auschwitz trial: Ex-guard Reinhold Hanning 'ashamed' Virtual reality to aid Auschwitz war trials of concentration camp guards Auschwitz trial: Prosecutor on bringing Nazis to justice (video) Auschwitz medic Hubert Zafke goes on trial at fourth attempt Auschwitz guard Ernst Tremmel dies a week before trial iWonder: Why did ordinary people commit atrocities in the Holocaust? The paperwork relating to camp commander Rudolf Hoess - in charge of Auschwitz from 1940-43 - contains a photocopy of the death sentence he received from a Polish court in 1947. Poland has long complained that death camps are wrongly referred to as "Polish" because of misunderstandings surrounding their geographical location. The new database is being made accessible in five languages and "is a tool to fight lies", Mr Szarek said. "We're not expressing an opinion, we're presenting the cold, hard facts." Soviet forces entered Auschwitz on 27 January 1945. The Nazis had abandoned the camp days earlier, leaving much of it intact.

The names of Nazi SS commanders and guards at the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland have been put online by the country's Institute of National Remembrance (INR).

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He had rejected a move to Birmingham on Wednesday but has now agreed personal terms and passed his medical. Stewart, who was in the final year of his contract at at Dens Park, had scored six goals in three games for Dundee already this season. He could make his Blues debut in Saturday's Championship match at Leeds. Stewart is Birmingham's second signing of the week following the arrival of striker Che Adams from Sheffield United. Birmingham opened their Championship campaign with a goalless draw against Cardiff City and were knocked out of the EFL Cup by League One side Oxford United in Tuesday's first-round tie.

Birmingham City have signed Dundee forward Greg Stewart on a three-year deal for a fee believed to be around £500,000.

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We are aware that this interactive video may not work on some older browsers. You can find a non-interactive version of the content below. In this interactive video, Robert Opie - the founder of the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising in London - outlines some of the main reasons why we change what we buy. The arrival of the domestic freezer, of washing powder, and of cheaper imports all affected the sort of items on sale and popular among UK consumers. The interactive elements to this video also explore how ownership and ranking of some of the biggest brands in the UK is changing. The video works best in full screen Click on the links below to read the extra information used in this video in a non-interactive format: What in the world does China own? Top tips on freezing food, BBC Good Food Annual survey ranking the top 20 consumer brands in the UK Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising

Advancing technology and manufacturing techniques are among the ingredients of our changing consumer tastes.

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Claire Lomas, from Leicestershire, was paralysed from the chest down in a riding accident in 2007. She began the half marathon, which runs from Newcastle to South Shields, on Wednesday and crossed the finish line at about 10:00 BST. The 36-year-old, who is 16 weeks pregnant, said she was "over the moon" to finish the run. Live updates from the Great North Run. Mo Farah wins for a record third year in a row. She broke her neck, back and ribs and punctured a lung when her horse threw her off as she took part in the Osberton Horse Trials in Nottinghamshire. Mrs Lomas has no feeling below her chest and used a ReWalk robotic exoskeleton, which relies on motion sensors to help her move and lift her legs to walk the route. Speaking to BBC Women's Hour before the Great North Run she said even standing in the suit was challenging. "It's taken some learning. It's not just physical work, it's the concentration with every step," she said. "It doesn't just walk for me. I have to use the parts that aren't paralysed to make it walk." She walked about three miles a day with the help of her husband Dan and was met at the finish line by her five-year-old daughter Maisie. She said she had struggled to train because of morning sickness which meant there were times when she did not think she would make it to the start. Other problems were caused by the heat, hills on the course and injuries caused by straps on her suit. "I had quite a lot of morning sickness. I didn't have the lead up I wanted, but I really did not want to lose this opportunity," she said. In 2012, Mrs Lomas completed the London Marathon in last place, inspiring many people with her courage and determination.

A paralysed woman wearing a "bionic" suit has completed the Great North Run, five days after she started it.

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The study, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), added that households actually grew richer during the financial crisis. But it said that the reason for the growth between 2006-12 was the increase in pension values over the period. And the slow rate of growth in overall wealth suggested that young people would lag behind earlier generations. Dave Innes, a research economist at the IFS and an author of the report said: "Despite the financial crisis, household wealth on average increased in real terms over the late 2000s, driven by increases in private pension entitlements." Households aged between 45-54 saw the biggest increases in their pension wealth which rose on average by £38,000 over the period. Mr Innes added: "Even with these increases in average wealth, working-age households are at risk of being less wealthy at each age than those born a decade earlier." The report added that the range of experiences among the study group was vast - for example, a quarter of households aged 45-54 saw wealth fall by more than £69,000, while a quarter say their wealth increased by more than £138,000. The study also looked at people's attitude towards saving and pensions. 30% of individuals reported saving for an unexpected expense, 23% reported saving for holidays or leisure, 15% for planned expenses, 10% for other people and only 10% to provide a retirement income. Among households aged 25-34, nearly one-quarter (24%) did not expect to receive any income from the state pension in retirement. However, one third expected it would be their largest source of income after retirement. Despite new legislation that automatically enrols workers into workplace pension schemes, nearly half (44%) did not expect to receive any income from a private pension. Rowena Crawford, a Senior Research Economist at the IFS and another author of the report, said: "It is striking how many individuals do not expect private pensions to have a role in financing their retirement, let alone be their main source of income." "It will be interesting to see how these attitudes change as auto enrolment into workplace pensions is rolled out."

Young people are on track to be poorer than their parents at every stage of their lives, according to a new report.

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"I thought it was great, fantastic," says Tom, one of the 450 or so full-time workers who work shifts preparing and packaging chilled fish destined for the supermarket shelves. Tom is not his real name. He's too scared of revealing his true identity for fear of losing his job. His employer is about to impose new terms and conditions and the workers aren't happy. "The workforce are up in arms about it. Everybody is really really annoyed with the company the way they've done things... we feel as though they're robbing us," he says. On 1 April, the government increased the minimum wage from £6.70 to £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 and over. Seachill relies on overtime to keep its conveyor belts running. It's a requirement written into staff contracts. On top of a 40-hour week, Tom says workers can end up doing another 20 hours, especially when there's a big order to complete. His employer wants to increase the basic rate of pay to £7.35 an hour but cut overtime payments.. Tom reckons he will earn up to £80 a month less than he was expecting. Workers have to decide whether to accept the new contracts or risk losing their jobs. "Even with the new rate they've offered us at £7.35 an hour, at time and a quarter, it's less than what they would've been paying us at £7.20 an hour and time and a half and double time. "We are losing out big style," he says. The company is part of the Icelandic Group. It made more than £8m in profit last year. In a statement, it says its changes are designed to make it more efficient and says most workers will be better off. Tom disagrees and says he's 100% certain the changes are being made to help offset the costs of the new National Living Wage. "It's not on. As far as all of us are concerned, it's not on. How can they say in one breath that the firm is doing really well, and then expect us to take a pay cut?" Seachill is not the only company that's been reviewing its pay arrangements. At Pennine Foods in Sheffield, owned by the huge food group, 2 Sisters, workers have voted for strike action after the company announced it would cut Sunday and bank holiday pay as part of plans to standardise payments to staff. Elsewhere, staff benefits are also being trimmed. At Caffe Nero, workers are no longer entitled to a free panini whilst staff at Eat will no longer have paid-for breaks. In a recent parliamentary debate on the issue, both companies along with some other household names were in the firing line from MPs; DIY chain B&Q came in for particular criticism. "Companies such as B&Q use the introduction of the national living wage to 'reform their pay and reward structures', as they put it. That is a euphemism for cutting staff pay," said Joan Ryan, Labour MP for Enfield North. "I have found disturbing and, quite frankly, shameful the way in which some large employers in the service sector have used the introduction of a living wage as an excuse to cut basic work entitlements," added Julie Cooper, Labour MP for Burnley and Padiham. More than 130,000 people signed a petition against B&Q's planned cuts to employee benefits. It announced in February that it would be cutting Sunday pay and reducing bank holiday pay and bonuses for some staff, although it raised its basic pay to £7.66 an hour in April. B&Q said many workers would be better off or unaffected by its changes but that it had now extended compensation to staff who would lose out. Caffe Nero said its workers would still get a discount for food. Eat said all employees would be compensated through a pay rate above the current national living wage. In the last year, Morrisons, Tesco and Waitrose have also altered payments but they all insisted that it wasn't anything to do with the introduction of the national living wage. Some aren't surprised that employers are having to make changes. "Increasing the national living wage was the right thing to do but no-one can doubt that there will have to be adjustments," says Simon Walker, the boss of the Institute of Directors. "Companies have to be profitable so they are going to have to make adjustments and cut backs if they have to pay higher wages in order to break even. "They also face a number of other cost increases including the apprenticeship levy and auto enrolment for pensions." The chancellor cut corporation tax to help ease the burden on employers. He's called on companies to follow the spirit of the law. The owners of Seachill say it has a very loyal, long serving workforce and ensuring that they were fairly rewarded, whilst continuing to provide a first class service to its customers, is a priority. But for Tom and many of his colleagues, the cuts to overtime are proving hard to swallow.

When workers at the Seachill fish factory in Grimsby first heard about George Osborne's National Living Wage they were very happy.

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The $5m (??3.2m) prize is supposed to be awarded each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. This is the fourth time in five years there has been no winner. A committee member said the group looked "for excellence in governance but in leadership also". Kenya's Mwai Kibaki met at least one of the criteria, after he stepped down as president earlier this year. However, his 2007 re-election was tarnished by disputes which turned violent, leading to the deaths of some 1,200 people. His opponent, Raila Odinga, said the poll had been rigged in favour of Mr Kibaki, who denied any wrongdoing. Three people have won in the seven years since the prize was launched: Cape Verde's Pedro Verona Pires; Festus Mogae from Botswana and Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano. Sudan-born telecoms entrepreneur Mr Ibrahim launched the prize in an attempt to encourage African leaders to leave power peacefully. The $5m prize is spread over 10 years and is followed by $200,000 a year for life.

The world's most valuable individual prize - the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa - has gone unclaimed yet again.

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The remains of the creatures were unearthed in south west China and are about 190 million years old. They belong to a group of dinosaurs called Lufengosaurus, long-necked beasts that fully grown would have stood about 9m (30ft) in height. The creatures were preserved at different stages of their development, shedding light on life inside the egg. Lead researcher Robert Reisz, a palaeontologist from the University of Toronto Mississauga, in Canada, said: "We are looking at various stages in the embryonic life of this animal, and we can put this together to get a growth trajectory of the embryo itself - something that has never been done before." Reporting the findings in the journal Nature, the international team concluded that the animals would have grown extremely quickly during their incubation period. Short lives Fossil finds have revealed a wealth of information about the dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth, but little has been known about the very earliest stages of their lives. Three years ago, palaeontologists discovered fragments of fossilised bones in China's Yunnan Province. An analysis revealed that these were the remains of about 20 Lufengosaurus embryos, whose lives were cut short by a flood. Prof Reisz said: "The nests were inundated by water and basically smothered, and the embryos inside the eggs died and then decayed. "And then more water activity moved the bones and concentrated them into a very small area. We only excavated 1sq m of the 'bone bed' and we got more than 200 bones." The researchers studied the fossils using a variety of techniques, including histology and infrared spectroscopy with a synchrotron in Taiwan. "The neat thing is that we can get these materials in our hands, we can handle them, cut them, we can look inside the bones - and what we found out is they are growing quite fast, faster than other dinosaurs and faster than a lot of living animals whose embryology we know very well." While the researchers cannot establish how long the incubation period was, this finding does suggest that it was short. The team believes the animals emerged well developed and might have continued to develop quickly. Professor Reisz said: "We are hypothesising if this very fast growth rate we see in the embryos was maintained in the hatchlings and the juveniles, then we have a very fast growth rate in the initial stages of the life of this animal." The Lufengosaurus belongs to a group of dinosaurs called the sauropodomorphs, and is a predecessor of the sauropod, a true giant of the dinosaur world that could grow up to 60m (200ft) in length. You can hear more about this research on the BBC World Service programme Science in Action; a schedule of broadcasts can be found here. Or you can listen anytime here or download the podcast here.

Scientists have gained a remarkable insight into some of the oldest dinosaur embryos ever found.

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Leeds had the better of the first half, but the Brewers came closest to opening the scoring when Ben Turner headed Matt Palmer's free-kick against the bar. Wood put the hosts ahead after the break, firing down the middle from the penalty spot after a trip on Doukara. And Doukara sealed the win in injury time, slotting in after being picked out by Wood on the counter-attack. The result ended Burton boss Nigel Clough's perfect record against Leeds, a team he had beaten in all six of his past encounters in his previous role as Derby manager. The Brewers remain without an away win in the Championship, having been promoted to the second tier of English football for the first time in their history last season. Leeds were always likely to provide tough opposition in the first-ever meeting between the two sides, with their unbeaten record at home now stretched to five matches. Garry Monk's side have climbed to ninth in the table, while defeat for Burton sees them slide to 17th. REACTION: Leeds manager Garry Monk speaks to BBC Radio Leeds REACTION: Burton boss Nigel Clough speaks to BBC Radio Derby Leeds head coach Garry Monk: "It wasn't the best of performances, considering the context of the week we have had. We are not overly happy with the performance but are delighted with the desire to get the win. "I was pushing the players to put on a good performance but I knew it would be hard after Tuesday night. "We showed real character and determination to fight to the end. We had to scrap but we knew we would get chances and it was about taking those chances." Burton Albion manager Nigel Clough: "That's what it's been like for us away from home, things are just not falling our way. "Leeds are a good team and this is a very hard place to come. This season is a great learning curve for the players who are learning all the time. "I thought that we defended and battled well today. We stuck in there for a long time and were very close to getting what would have been a valuable point." Match ends, Leeds United 2, Burton Albion 0. Second Half ends, Leeds United 2, Burton Albion 0. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration. Goal! Leeds United 2, Burton Albion 0. Souleymane Doukara (Leeds United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal following a fast break. Attempt blocked. Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Jackson Irvine (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Attempt blocked. Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Substitution, Leeds United. Alex Mowatt replaces Hadi Sacko. Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Matthew Palmer (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Ronaldo Vieira (Leeds United). Kyle McFadzean (Burton Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Chris Wood (Leeds United). Lucas Akins (Burton Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Pontus Jansson (Leeds United). Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Jon McLaughlin. Attempt saved. Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Hadi Sacko. Attempt saved. Tom Naylor (Burton Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Chris O'Grady with a headed pass. Substitution, Leeds United. Ronaldo Vieira replaces Pablo Hernández. Attempt missed. Ben Turner (Burton Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Matthew Palmer with a cross. Corner, Burton Albion. Conceded by Hadi Sacko. Attempt blocked. Stuart Beavon (Burton Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. 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Goals from Chris Wood and Souleymane Doukara gave Leeds victory against Burton Albion in the Championship.

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For 10 days from 29 April 1945, Operation Manna dropped nearly 7,000 tonnes of food over The Netherlands. The country had lost 20,000 people through starvation, with a further 980,000 classed as malnourished. The bulbs were donated by the Dutch government to the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC). A ceremony at the cathedral to unveil the mosaic was attended by representatives from The Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Germany and the US. Bomber Command veterans also met with some who had been helped by the campaign. Nicky Barr, from the IBCC, an education facility being built in Lincoln, said Operation Manna was the difference between "people living or dying". The mission followed a blockade of supplies by German forces in retaliation for Dutch rail companies going on strike in support of an Allied offensive, she said. The winter of 1944/45 was also particularly harsh, compounding the problem of food shortages. David Fellows, who flew missions from RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire as part of Operation Manna, said: "We used to go across to Holland every fifth year and we used to get hugs from young children who would say 'thank you for saving my grandmother', but to meet some of the people who were there at the time is highly emotional." Recalling the missions, he said: "We knew there were thousands of Dutch people dying - and they were in dire straits." He said despite concerns the Germans "could open fire on us, the RAF being the RAF took the decision to fly anyway". He added he was proud to have been part of such an important campaign.

A floral mosaic showing a Lancaster bomber dropping food supplies in Nazi-occupied Holland has been unveiled at Lincoln Cathedral.

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The men, aged 26 and 24, were in a house in Melrose Street when three men armed with a knife, hammer and batons forced their way into the property just before midnight on Saturday. After assaulting the men, the gang left with a sum of cash and personal items. They also smashed a number of windows. The men in the house received medical treatment for their injuries. Police have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.

Two men have been assaulted by an armed gang in south Belfast.

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Sam Cooke, 22, from Manchester, arrived at his house to find two cards on his doormat. One said the parcel had been put through an open window. The second read: "I'm really sorry I think your parcel might have fallen down the toilet...Accidently (sic)". Thankfully, the box, containing printer ink, was "too wide to hit the water". Pictures of the apologetic postie's cards and box in the loo have been shared thousands of times on Twitter since Mr Cooke posted them on Twitter. Royal Mail has apologised but Mr Cooke didn't kick up a stink. He said: "There's honestly nothing to apologise for, the parcel is absolutely fine, gave me and thousands of others a good laugh." Though he has said he will keep the window closed in future.

A shocked sports journalist got home to find a parcel which was posted through his window had landed in his toilet.

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Lights first went off as Ramon Lobo, a pro-government lawmaker, defended the energy policies of President Nicolas Maduro, reports said. Opposition MP Luis Florido quipped on Twitter: "The country's reality has hit them in the face." The session was later suspended. Venezuela faces a severe electricity crisis and shortages are frequent. Reports said other buildings in the same area of the capital, Caracas, were also hit by power cuts, on Wednesday afternoon. Venezuela's National Assembly is controlled by the opposition. Delsa Solorzano, an opposition MP, tweeted a video of the chamber in the dark. MP Freddy Guevara, also from the opposition, said: "What a shame: the parliament session was interrupted because the energy went off. Right on the day we're discussing the energy sector law." Oil-rich Venezuela is in the middle of a deep economic crisis caused by a drop in global oil prices. The country is suffering from a shortage of basic goods, food and electricity. Earlier this year, the government introduced power rationing and a two-day working week for public sector workers as ways to tackle the crisis. It said a major drought, which dramatically reduced water levels at its main hydroelectric dam, was to blame. But the opposition accused authorities of mismanagement. Some of the measures have already been lifted.

A power cut left Venezuela's parliament in the dark as it discussed a law dedicated to the energy sector.

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Glen Evans was left with a broken nose and his bride Georgina was punched at Fanhams Hall Hotel in Hertfordshire, St Albans Crown Court heard. Lee Doyle, 37, of Houghton Regis denied punching the groom. He and Gary Hutson, 46, of Luton, both charged with affray, were guests at another wedding. Both deny affray on 10 August 2014. The court heard an argument broke out when Mr Doyle and Mr Hutson asked Mr and Mrs Evans and their friends to move away from a fireplace. The newly married couple and their group were having drinks at the hotel following their own reception at another hotel. Mr Evans said the two men and the other groom confronted him, saying the area was reserved, although his party had been put there by bar staff. He said the two men hit him, and he was kicked and punched by others who joined in the attack. Mrs Evans was then also punched, leaving her with bruising to the head. However, Mr Doyle told the court he was trying to defuse the situation, which he described as "volatile". He admitted pushing Mr Evans and "grappling" with him as he thought he was going to attack Mr Hutson. Mr Doyle described Mr Evans as "irate and aggressive" but denied hitting him. Earlier this week Mr Evans denied allegations that he had thrown the first punch and had been "aggressive". The trial continues.

A man accused of punching a groom when two wedding parties clashed at a hotel has denied hitting anyone but admitted "grappling" on the floor.

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Orla Galton, from Blackmill, Bridgend county, was diagnosed with leukaemia at three and blood transfusions helped save her life. She endured them for years, but her mother, Sharon, said they were a lifeline. The Welsh Blood Service wants 200,000 more donors to replenish stocks. "When Orla was having chemotherapy her bloods hit so low that she became anaemic, she would have no white blood cells so she couldn't fight any infection," she said told BBC Radio Wales. "It's quite a dangerous time as while their bloods are going down, they can't carry on with the treatment. Orla needed blood transfusions so she could keep having the chemotherapy." Orla, who has now been given the all clear, paid tribute to the donors who helped her. "I would just like to say thank you," she said. "I can't thank you more." The Welsh Blood Service said:

A 12-year-old cancer survivor has urged more people to give blood, as the number of new donors has dropped by 40% over the past decade.

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Many of the new pieces are inspired by the migrant crisis on the Greek island, which is the main European entry point for Iraqi and Syrian refugees. Speaking about his time there, Weiwei said he could "never have imagined conditions like this". The Chinese artist's exhibition, Ai Weiwei at Cycladic, will remain open until October. The exhibition, at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, includes an huge collage of 12,030 small pictures taken on the artist's camera phone, documenting his time in Lesbos. "It is such a beautiful island - blue water, sunshine, tourists - and to see the boats come in with desperate children, pregnant women and elderly people, and they all have fear and they all have it in their eyes… You think, how could this happen? I got completely emotionally involved," he said. Ai Weiwei, who is 59 years old, became well known in 2011 when he was detained by the Chinese authorities for 81 days during a crackdown on political activists. The artist is also planning a feature-length documentary about the refugee crisis. "I want it to be a historic account of the tragedy which years, decades, later people will watch and see how we behaved in this moment," he said. Ai Weiwei at Cylcadic is the artist's first ever exhibition to be displayed in Greece, and closes on 30 October.

Artworks by Ai Weiwei made during his stay in Lesbos have gone on public display for the first time in Athens.

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Total Fitness bosses say they were sorry difficulties over a lease caused them to leave the building on Stansty Road. But now they are working on reopening the facilities in April, complete with new equipment. Facilities include three pools, a family workout area and a cafe.

About 40 jobs are expected to be created when a gym, which closed suddenly in 2011, reopens after a £1m refit.

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It took $36.4m (£26.7m), trouncing Melissa McCarthy's latest comedy, Tammy, which took $21.2m (£15.6m). "This ranks as one of the lowest fourth of Julys ever," said Paul Dergarabedian, from box-office tracker Rentrak. Takings were down 44 per cent compared to last year. US Independence Day weekend is traditionally marked by the release of "tentpole" movies - from Back to the Future to Terminator 2 and Men In Black. Last year's major release was animation Despicable Me 2, which went on to take $368m (£214m), making it the fourth-biggest movie of the year in the US. But this year, there was no major release to coincide with the holiday. Michael Bay's Transformers, the fourth in the series, has a cast led by Mark Wahlberg. It has received generally poor reviews from critics, as has Tammy. The only other major new release was the horror film Deliver Us From Evil, starring Eric Bana. It opened in third place with $9.5m (£6.9m). The box office will be hoping for a boost next weekend with the release of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, starring Andy Serkis and Gary Oldman. It is expected to be one of the summer's big hitters.

Transformers: Age of Extinction has held on to the number one spot at the North American box office on an unusually quiet 4 July weekend.

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Maya Kantengule was found at the bottom of a swimming pool at Waveney River Centre holiday park in Burgh St Peter, Norfolk, on May 1 2016. She was declared dead later that day at James Paget University Hospital. South Norfolk Council environmental health officer Chris Coker said people swam at the centre at their own risk. Maya's father, Livial Kantengule, said in a written statement at the inquest in Norwich that he spoke to Jane Rainer, the mother of his daughter's best friend, as he arrived and decided not to wait at the pool during the party. He returned there with his wife, Glenda, after receiving a message there had been an accident. Maya had already been taken to the hospital near Great Yarmouth. Her parents were at her bedside when she was pronounced dead. Mr Kantengule said he did not ask if there was a lifeguard. "Jane used to volunteer to help with the swimming lessons, so we assumed Maya would be adequately supervised while in the pool," he said. Maya, from Smith's Walk, Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, attended Dell Primary School. Jaqueline Bell, a teaching assistant at the school, said in a written statement that Maya started weekly swimming lessons in reception year. "She was nervous in the water and would use armbands and a woggle," she said. Mr Coker told the inquest the indoor pool at Waveney River Centre could be privately hired. He said it was 1.5m (5ft) at its deepest and signs were up stating there were no lifeguards on duty and that people swam at their own risk. The inquest, expected to last two days, continues.

A seven-year-old girl drowned at her best friend's birthday pool party while there was no lifeguard on duty, an inquest heard.

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According to Russian television, the Ukrainian government has ''unleashed real combat on its own people'', while pro-Russian gunmen in Ukraine are presented as local people bravely fighting for their rights. Official state channel Rossiya 1 TV said that while Kiev labelled the militia and protesters in the south-east as "terrorists", locals strongly disagreed. It showed some civilians insisting that they were not separatists. "Kiev is threatening the citizens of Donetsk Region with psychological attacks from the air. Periodically, military helicopters and planes circle menacingly over the towns of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk," Rossiya 1 TV said. Another strand of coverage by Russia's three main TV channels, though, has been to portray the Ukrainian army as weak, disorganised and suffering from poor service conditions and low morale. One report by NTV - owned by state gas giant Gazprom - reported that Ukrainian troops had refused to take orders from their commanders and sided with pro-Russian militiamen, a presenter for NTV reported. "Many servicemen are clearly confused and don't understand how they could point their guns at Ukrainians, the same people as them," the channel's correspondent says. Russian TV channels have also been showing footage of what they say are local people in Donetsk and Luhansk regions confronting Ukrainian troops. In one instance, locals are seen persuading the crew of a tank not to shoot at civilians. In another, they stop and loot a military truck. In contrast, Ukrainian TV channels have been supportive of what they see as the Kiev authorities' efforts to rein in ''separatists'' and "militants supported by Russia". Ukrainian TV channels say "small groups" of violent protesters demanding federalisation or annexation by Russia do not reflect the true sentiment of residents of eastern Ukraine most of whom, they say, want to live in an undivided Ukraine. They have been broadcasting comments from ordinary people in the streets of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, most of them saying they want their region to stay in Ukraine. The demands of some Ukrainians for action against the separatists also feature heavily. State-owned UT1 TV provided live coverage of a rally in Kiev's Independence Square, where around 10,000 people demanded that the authorities act more resolutely to protect the eastern regions from "Russian aggression". Ukraine's press, meanwhile, is full of doom-laden speculation about Russia's intentions. "If it fails to push through a federation, Russia will bet on splitting Ukraine - all Russian-speaking regions will become unrecognised territories under the imperial protectorate of the Russian Federation," Volodymyr Fesenko writes in Segodnya. Others think Russia's ambitions do not stop there. ''Moscow wants the whole of Ukraine. Entirely. Using any means," navy admiral Ihor Kabanenko says in an article in the Den daily. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.

Ukrainians and Russians have been getting starkly contrasting pictures from their respective media of the growing unrest in eastern Ukraine.

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It happened at a 21st birthday party in the apartment in Berkeley, California. Five of the victims were from Ireland, and some of them were students at University College Dublin (UCD). UCD President Andrew Deeks expressed condolences to their families saying "we are heartbroken at their suffering and loss". Those who were killed have been named as: Several others have been injured, some of them very seriously. Ms Donohoe, who had dual US-Irish citizenship, lived in California while the other five who died all had home addresses in Ireland. Mr Culligan and Mr Schuster were both past-pupils of St Mary's College in Rathmines, Dublin. The majority of the victims were in the US on work visas, on the J1 USA summer work and travel programme. The families of some of the students who died have arrived in the United States from Ireland. In a statement, the UCD president said: "It is with deepest sadness that I speak of the tragic accident involving UCD students and their friends in San Francisco. "On behalf of the entire university community, I wish to extend our condolences to the families and friends of those who died and to those who were injured. "We cannot comprehend the desperate shock and grief they are feeling and we are heartbroken at their suffering and loss." UCD is opening an online Book of Condolence on its website and is offering its counselling and student support services to the bereaved in the US and Dublin. "Our students, like thousands of others across Ireland, head to the US each summer on J1 visas to enjoy the experience," Mr Deeks said. "It is heart-breaking to imagine that such a tragedy would strike these wonderful students when their lives are opening up to discover the world." In a statement on Tuesday night, St Mary's College paid tribute to its past pupils. "The thoughts and prayers of everybody in the St Mary's community are with the families of Niccolai and Eoghan, as well as the other Irish youngsters named by the US authorities this evening," the school statement said. "We also pray particularly for those injured, and their families." Ireland's Consul General in San Francisco Philip Grant said it had been a very traumatic time for everyone involved. "To have this happen at the start of this season is something that has left us all frozen in shock and disbelief," he said. "It touches every single family in Ireland." Mr Grant will lay a wreath at a ceremony near the site of the balcony collapse later. Fr Aidan McAleenan from St Columba's Church in Oakland near Berkeley, and who is originally from Banbridge, County Down, spent several hours with the injured and their friends. "It was very emotional driving out and getting to the hospital and then having to tell some of them that another friend had died," he told the BBC. "It was really hard to know what to say or what to do. We prayed with them. Other people from the Irish community arrived. They are really devastated. That sense you have when you are totally shocked." Fr McAleenan and members of the Irish Pastoral Centre will be working closely with the families of the victims, and there will be a special Mass on Thursday. The national flag with be flown at half-mast at Irish Government Buildings as a mark of respect for those who died. A Book of Condolence will be opened at the Mansion House in Dublin later.

An Irish university has expressed "heartbreak" at the deaths of six young people who died after a balcony collapsed at a US apartment block.

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Damon Smith is accused of unlawfully and maliciously making or having in his possession an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property. North Greenwich station was evacuated last Thursday during the alert. Mr Smith, from south east London, was remanded in custody until 17 November. The station was closed until 18:50, with disruption caused to the Jubilee line throughout the day.

A 19-year-old man has appeared in court charged with making an explosive substance after a suspect device was found on a London Underground train.

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The 23-year-old midfielder was signed a year ago after being released by Hull City, but an ankle injury restricted him to only 13 league starts last term. "It's been a frustrating few months with the injury but I am 100% fit now," he told Crawley's website. "It [the contract] gives me the opportunity to hit the ground running in pre-season and hopefully impress the manager enough to get another one." Henderson, who began his career at Arsenal, played only one first-team game during his year at Hull and was loaned out to Stevenage. "This is a fresh start for Conor," said Crawley manager Mark Yates. "I know he has a lot of ability and he has the chance now to show what he's about."

Conor Henderson has agreed a new six-month contract with Crawley Town.

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It will connect the A4232 at the Queensgate roundabout with the Ocean Way roundabout in Tremorfa. The Eastern Bay Link Road was part of a deal in 2014 between Labour and the Liberal Democrats to pass the Welsh Government's budget. Work on it started in March 2016 and First Minister Carwyn Jones will officially open it on Thursday morning. It is expected to open after rush hour at about 19:00 BST, a Welsh Government spokesman said. When plans were unveiled, then transport minister Edwina Hart said: "Commuters travelling between the east of Cardiff and the bay will also benefit from reduced journey times and a shorter route, while residents in the area of Tyndall Street should see reduced traffic and disruption in their neighbourhood."

A £57m road linking Cardiff Bay and the east of the city will officially open on Thursday.

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The local development plan is looking at how the area will grow after 2016 and the potential for 14,000 new jobs being created. Consultation is expected to start in December on 100 sites which could be earmarked for development. However, final details will not be decided until Spring 2015. The plan proposes development areas: Developments in the past have involved transforming the maritime quarter, the docklands for the SA1 housing and the lower Swansea valley. But the council admits that regenerating existing sites would not provide for all the city's future needs and it will need "significant additional - primarily greenfield - land for development". As well as "strategic" development sites for more than 500 homes and in some cases up to 1,000 homes, some existing housing areas will be expanded with up to 400 new homes. The city currently has a population of around 240,500 supporting 107,000 jobs. It expects over the next 10 years to be the economic hub and main driver of the new Swansea Bay City Region, which held its first meeting this week. Robert Francis Davies, cabinet member for enterprise, development and regeneration, said: "Swansea is a city which is constantly developing. "We know that the population will increase significantly in the coming years and we need to ensure that this city can develop in the right way, providing adequate space for housing and for economic growth." Councillors will be asked to put the next stage of the Local Development Plan (LDP) out to a month-long consultation.

Residents in Swansea are to be given their say on plans for more than 17,000 new homes across the city.

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Jahed Choudhury, 24, married Sean Rogan at Walsall Register Office and shared his story on YouTube. However, he told the Victoria Derbyshire Show he had been threatened online and in the street. But the couple said they had also received messages of support and would continue to share their story. Since their ceremony Mr Choudhury said the couple had received death threats online and abuse on the streets. "The worst [messages] say 'the next time I see you in the streets, I'm going to throw acid in your face'. "Even if I walk down the streets, I have people spitting on me and calling me pig - all the nasty stuff. I just keep walking." The couple said they had not yet reported the incident to police and were considering whether to do so. Mr Choudhury said he had also received "amazing" support from his online followers, including people who said the couple had inspired them to come out. "I've been brought up Muslim and the Koran mentions you cannot be gay and Muslim. But this is how I have chosen to live my life. I will never get rid of my faith." Mr Choudhury said he had attempted suicide in the past but added his family had been "really supportive" since he came out. He has now set up a YouTube channel where his story received more than 5,000 views, and says he was motivated to speak out online to encourage support for gay people from religious backgrounds.

A man thought to be one of the first UK Muslims to have a same-sex marriage said people have threatened to throw acid in his face since the ceremony.

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But the design, for a new apartment complex in South Korea, has sparked a furious response from critics who say it resembles the collapse of New York's World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. The design, by a Dutch architectural company, is part of a flagship project to develop a major new site in central Seoul. The PR chief at the Yongsan Development Company, Seo Hee-seok, said the accusation was a shock. "When I heard that, I was totally surprised, and bewildered," he told me. "It felt like something out of a novel. And because this is just one of many buildings in the new development, I even wondered whether it was a conspiracy." The symbolism and spiritual impact of buildings is important in South Korea. Feng shui experts are often consulted on the best possible position of a new construction, and just a few years ago, the vast front gate to Seoul's main Gyeongbok palace was moved and rotated, to erase changes made by Korea's former Japanese colonial rulers. Mr Seo says this latest dispute is not a matter of insensitivity but of different cultural perceptions. "If I'd been living in New York at that time, and been part of that experience," he says, "I might agree it looked like it. But to me, at the moment, it doesn't resemble the World Trade Centre attacks at all." On the streets of Seoul, though, some people do make the connection. "Even if it does remind people of 9/11, there's no law saying it can't be built," one man told me. "It might even remind people of the tragedy that happened back then." "I know there's been some criticism of this," another commuter said, "because it looks like the 9/11 attacks, but in my view it's a piece of architecture and I don't think there's a problem with it - I think it's a fantastic design." The development company say they were offered two versions of the design. The chaotic pixelated style was chosen because it was seen as "trendy". A second version, with a smooth, undulating bridge snaking round the two buildings was dismissed as "too old-fashioned". The design will not be finalised until next year, with construction due to begin in 2013. But as of now, the company says there has been no decision to alter their plans to appease the critics.

It is what developers are calling a "pixelated cloud" - a profusion of box-like extensions jutting out from the middle of two tower blocks, and fusing them together.

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The Iron have lost three of their last six league games, but are still second in League One. The home defeat by Shrewsbury on 11 February ended a run of 26 league games without losing at Glanford Park. "Let's get real, we are second in the league and that is after playing probably our worst football of the season," Swann told the club website. "Do you honestly believe that when a player doesn't control the ball with his first touch of the game we should be on his back?" He added: "The rumours of contract disputes, unrest in the team, a not-bothered attitude, is so far from the truth it hurts when I read it and certain people just want to derail our success whether knowingly, or not, which is even more annoying. "We ask passionately that you all get behind them and give them that chance to recapture their form and yes, do not panic, because we can do it, we can get promoted and we can be proud of them." The Iron were top of the table when they last won, against Port Vale on 28 January, but are now seven points behind leaders Sheffield United and level on points with third-placed Fleetwood. Scunthorpe host the Cod Army on Saturday.

Scunthorpe chairman Peter Swann has urged fans to keep faith in the team and "not get on players' backs".

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A police source told BBC Radio WM a passenger was seen pouring a liquid into a box, which then started smoking. The 48 passengers on the Megabus Preston to London service were led off the coach and forced to sit apart in a cordon on the opposite carriageway. Police said a report of vapour escaping from a bag which led to the security alert was caused by "a health improvement aid for smokers". The motorway was closed between junctions T3 and T4 near Lichfield before police said they were no longer treating the incident as suspicious, but it has now reopened. Staffordshire Police said the coach stopped on the hard shoulder "of its own accord" at 08:20 BST. About four hours after armed officers arrived, police confirmed the scene as safe. Shortly before 1500 BST the M6 Toll reopened. The passengers have been allowed to continue their journey to London, although some have chosen to return north, to Manchester. A police spokesperson said: "We received a report from a genuinely concerned member of the public about suspicious activity on a coach travelling on the M6 toll at Weeford, near Lichfield. "Given the nature of the report we responded swiftly and proportionately, treating the information as credible and extremely seriously. "The M6 Toll carriageways were closed in both directions, the coach was directed to the hard shoulder of the motorway and armed officers calmly evacuated passengers with their full support and co-operation. "Following an initial assessment, we can confirm that no-one has been injured and that there is no danger to passengers at the scene or any other travellers who were on the motorway at that time. "We are also not treating anyone as a suspect." A Megabus spokeswoman said the coach had left Preston at 05:10 and was due in London at 10:55. Earlier, armed police officers could be seen next to the single-decker coach on the southbound carriageway, as passengers were led off one by one. Passengers were made to sit on the northbound carriageway, apart from one another, while surrounded by officers. Sniffer dogs and forensic officers were also brought in to aid the search, as officers in forensic suits and others in military fatigues checked the area. The Ministry of Defence confirmed military personnel were assisting police, at their request, under routine procedure. One of the passengers on the bus told the BBC that she had no idea what was going on, that she didn't see anything supsicious, and wasn't told why they were pulled over. She was made to sit cross-legged on the tarmac and still was not told what was happening. She said the whole experience had been very "scary and frightening". The fire service, police from the West Midlands and Staffordshire forces and ambulance crews were all involved in the operation. Nick Jones, a sales manager from Cambridge, said he was about four vehicles behind the coach when police stopped traffic. "I've never seen so many ambulances turning up, also armed police, helicopter and dozens of police cars. "We were told to stay in our cars, keep windows up and not put air conditioning on. "Police were looking in hedgerows and verges on the northbound carriageway. "It all just took off, ambulances left right and centre and armed police in black caps." Another eye-witness Barry Jarvis told the BBC that cars were cleared from toll booths. He said: "It was very puzzling as to what was going on at first as there weren't that many police there. "It was only after 20 minutes or so when all these unmarked cars [were] coming through that we thought something major was happening. "As we were diverted, we could see armed police at the toll booths, and the fire brigade." Motorists on the M6 itself are experiencing delays of up to two-and-a-half hours. In a statement, Staffordshire Police said: "We would like to apologise for any inconvenience and hope that the public understand that we have our duty to safeguard public safety."

Armed police swooped on a coach on the M6 Toll motorway in the West Midlands.

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Staff were told on Tuesday that the city centre business had gone into liquidation with the loss of 53 jobs. It was opened by Thomas Austin in 1830 and is thought to have been one of the oldest stores in Europe. One worker, Toni McNally, has been employed by the business for her entire working life. In November 2014, the building was sold to the City Hotel Group. The receiver then sold the trading side of the business. "I'm there from I was 14 and I'm just absolutely devastated," Ms McNally told BBC Radio Foyle, "We laughed everyday, we had great customers, our colleagues were great, our bosses were great. "Even for the management themselves it was just horrific." Toni has two children and believes it will be difficult to adjust to being unemployed. "I don't have a clue, I've never even been to the unemployment centre. "The liquidators have set up a clinic for us to go on Friday so we can discuss what we're entitled to and all the rest of it," she said. "We were all like brothers and sisters. I loved everybody that I worked with." Another worker, Jackie McCormill, described how she arrived at the store to find the shutters pulled down. "We pulled the shutter up and stood inside to wait for one of the managers to say that the shop was closed, that the liquidators were in, and that it was all over for us really. "The other girl I was with was actually physically shaking, it's like someone hit you over the head with a hammer, but this has been coming. "Everybody was crying, women all red faced. People's faces were just drained." Jackie said management had done their best to keep the business afloat. "It seems like ten years this recession's going on and it just seems to be going deeper and deeper down. "They tried their best to keep that store and I think they kept it a lot longer than most people would."

Some workers at Austins, in County Londonderry, say they have been left devastated by the closure of the department store.

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Bakewell man Stephen Downing was convicted in 1974 for killing Wendy Sewell but that was overturned in 2002. Chris Clark said he has uncovered a crucial pathology report showing she was strangled, which was never told to the jury. The Home Office said it would send any new criminal evidence to the police. Evidence of police misconduct would be referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, the Home Office added. Derbyshire police said the case was closed after a reinvestigation in 2002. Mr Clark, a retired Norfolk police officer, said he has sent his findings to the Home Office after obtaining the original pathology report last month. He said he believed the report showed Mrs Sewell had clear signs of being strangled. She was found battered in a Bakewell cemetery in 1973 and died in hospital two days later. Mr Downing admitted beating her with a pickaxe handle but later retracted that statement, only to be found guilty by a jury. "I'm reporting the facts as I see them. The pathologist had evidence in his report that could have exonerated Stephen Downing," Mr Clark said. He said the pathologist's report showed bruising on her neck consistent with a "knotted ligature" used to garrotte her and a rash in her lungs and airways, possibly caused by strangulation. Mr Clark said none of this was used in Mr Downing's trial. He added the evidence may mean her death was linked to the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe. Mr Downing was 17 at the time of Mrs Sewell's murder but was assessed as having a mental age of 11. His father Ray Downing and Matlock Mercury editor Don Hale campaigned for his release and in 2002 the Court of Appeal found his conviction unsafe because of "procedural reasons". Mr Hale said the pathology report directly conflicted with the evidence the police presented at the time and called for an independent investigation into the murder. "This information was available within two or three days of Mr Downing being arrested and it completely contradicts this so-called confession," he said. But Derbyshire police said the murder was reinvestigated following the quashing of the conviction and it considered the matter closed. "All possible lines of inquiry were exhausted during the re-investigation. Twenty two people were ruled out of the enquiry but officers were unable to eliminate Stephen Downing as a suspect," a spokeswoman said. She added there was no evidence to suggest Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper - was involved.

A retired police officer has reported Derbyshire police to the Home Office over claims they withheld evidence in a 1973 murder case.

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The Tykes went ahead inside the opening 10 minutes when Roberts converted Conor Hourihane's corner. Fletcher doubled the lead following another Hourihane set-piece, smashing home after an error from Coventry goalkeeper Reice Charles-Cook. Barnsley are now seventh in the table, level on points with Coventry in sixth. Having endured a run of nine successive league defeats earlier this season, the Tykes have lost just once in their last 12 matches. Coventry have now lost two on the spin going into this Saturday's home game with Rochdale, when Barnsley will be at fourth-placed Walsall. Sky Blues boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire: "We needed the players to turn up and not enough of them did. My standards are high and they did not do enough all night long. "Barnsley are a powerful side. Their two centre backs were colossus tonight. They played like men. "Everyone is down on confidence. The players have been great all season but we need them to get back to the high levels they have shown."

Marc Roberts and Ashley Fletcher scored either side of half-time to help Barnsley to victory over fellow League One play-off-chasers Coventry City.

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The goal is to see if a computer can beat four of the best players in the variant of poker known as no-limit heads-up Texas hold 'em. In a similar tournament in 2015, the humans won. The algorithm could be adapted for use in medicine, cybersecurity, business and the military, its creators said. The matches - dubbed Brains v Artificial Intelligence - are being held over 20 days at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. The four human players are matched against Libratus, an artificial intelligence program developed at Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) school of computer science. It uses algorithms built over 15 million core hours of computation at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre to analyse the rules of poker. Viewers can watch the entire event live on video-streaming games site Twitch, where there will be a stream for each of the human players: The players are vying for shares of a $200,000 (£162,000) prize, while the CMU scientists are hoping to set a new benchmark for artificial intelligence. "Since the earliest days of AI research, beating top human players has been a powerful measure of progress in the field," said Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. "That was achieved with chess in 1997, with Jeopardy in 2009 and with the board game Go just last year. "Poker poses a far more difficult challenge than these games, as it requires a machine to make extremely complicated decisions based on incomplete information while contending with bluffs, slow play and other ploys." A similar contest in 2015, with a computer program dubbed Claudico, failed to beat the humans, with scientists concluding that the 80,000 hands it had played had proved too few to establish its superiority. This time around, there will be 120,000 hands. Claudico also made some obvious bluffs that they had been able to exploit, the players said. This time around, the AI will be able to bluff with precisely calculated values to balance risk and reward. It will also be able to deploy random moves in a way that human players would have great difficulty doing. The scientists hope that it could baffle human opponents, with unusual strategies such as making tiny bets or massive over-bets. Player Jason Les said of the new contest: "I'm very excited to see what this latest AI is like." "I thought Claudico was tough to play; knowing the resources and the ideas that Dr Sandholm and his team have had available in the 20 months since the first contest, I assume this AI will be even more challenging." Solving the complex game of poker had many real-world applications, Dr Sandholm said. "Extending AI to real-world decision-making, where details are unknown and adversaries are actively revising their strategies, is fundamentally harder than games with perfect information or question-answering systems," said Nick Nystrom, senior director of research at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center . "This is where it really gets interesting."

An unusual poker game is taking place in Pittsburgh, pitting human players against an artificial intelligence program.

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Officers received a report of an attack on a woman, 19, at Gorsedd Gardens near Cardiff Civic Centre at 04:30 BST on Thursday. Police said the man, 23, from Cardiff, had been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. He has been taken to Cardiff Bay police station.

A man has been arrested in connection with an alleged sex attack at gardens in Cardiff city centre.

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The twin-engined CN235 transport plane came down in a rural area near the town of Codazzi, in Cesar province, having reported engine difficulties. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos described the victims as heroes. An investigation into the cause of the crash has been ordered, says the commander of Colombia's air force, Gen Carlos Bueno. Colombian media reported (in Spanish) that local residents said the plane had been struck by lightning. All of those killed were members of the Colombian air force. The CN235 is manufactured by Airbus, who said in a statement that the plane concerned was produced in 1998 in Seville.

A Colombian air force plane has crashed in the north of the country, killing all 11 of those on board.

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23 January 2017 Last updated at 07:17 GMT Well, the Kanneh-Mason family are very special - they all play an instrument to a very high level. Their house can get pretty loud with all six bothers and sisters practicing at once. Why are all the siblings so into playing musical instruments? Ayshah has been to meet them.

After school some of you might like to play musical instruments, but can you imagine coming from a home where everyone is a top musician?

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The next public consultation in the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) scheme was due in September but may not be published until summer 2018. Regional mayor Andy Burnham promised to revise the plans following protests from affected communities. The revised plans will be announced "in due course", the mayor's office said. The GMSF scheme identifies sites for housing developments that may be built over the next 20 years. The area's combined authority, which brings together 10 councils, published a joint plan last October to allocate land for development. Due to the scale of development required to meet expected population growth, it outlined plans to make swathes of protected greenbelt land available for new homes. The authority received more than 25,000 responses to the consultation while community groups protested against the plans. Mr Burnham, who was elected as metropolitan mayor in May, promised to "radically re-write" the plans, calling them "unfair and disproportionate". The BBC understands council leaders are not expecting the next consultation to take place until next year due to the work involved. Matthew Collinge from the Save our Slattocks group, which is opposed to homes being built on greenbelt land between Middleton and Royton, said the delay was "disappointing". He said: "It stretches out the fear of the unknown and us. It's very easy for people to lose interest and we've been working towards this September deadline. "We now have to keep people aware of what's happening for longer and that makes it harder for a small community group like ours." Matthew Good, a spokesman for the House Builder's Federation said: "It's important for everybody that we have some certainty on this. "Councils need to invest in infrastructure. They need to know where those developments are going to happen. "Without a plan it's going to be a lot more piecemeal because investors will have to take chances on where they can get development and the councils may not be in control of that." A spokesman for Mr Burnham said the mayor had appointed Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett to lead a "radical" rewrite of the plans. He added: "This re-write is currently underway and details on the next round of consultation will be announced in due course."

A plan earmarking sites for 225,000 new homes in Greater Manchester is set to be delayed amid a "radical rewrite" to help protect green belt land.

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It's the fifth coin portrait to have been created during the Queen's reign. It was unveiled in a special ceremony in London and coins carrying the new design will also begin being made from today. But it may take a little while for the coins to get into your pockets - new coins tend to go to cash centres and banks first.

A new picture of the Queen to appear on coins has been unveiled.

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He said the UK government would make a recommendation to the British people on which way to vote in the referendum. But he told MPs "it will be open to individual ministers to take a different, personal decision while remaining part of the government". The referendum on whether the UK stays in the EU will be held before 2018. A number of cabinet ministers are thought to favour an out vote, with Mr Cameron expected to campaign for Britain to remain in the EU, although he has said he rules nothing out if he does not get what he wants from his renegotiations. If the PM had decided to insist on collective cabinet responsibility, he would have been forced to sack ministers who disagreed with him. Mr Cameron told MPs: "Ultimately, it will be for the British people to decide this country's future by voting In or Out of a reformed European Union in the referendum that only we promised and that only a Conservative-majority government was able to deliver." Asked by Labour MP Emma Reynolds why it was not possible for him to persuade his own ministers to back him, he said: "The entire government is signed up to the position of having a successful renegotiation and having a referendum and everybody backs that plan." But he added: "There are people who have longstanding views about the European issue and... it's never been my intention to strongarm people into voting for a position that they don't agree with". Analysis by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg Much of the running here, and perhaps all along, has been made by Eurosceptics in the Conservative Party. In the words of one minister "they are framing it all", and David Cameron's reversal of his position from 12 months ago when he ruled out a free vote has been forced by pressure from those who want to leave the EU. Read Laura's full blog "We don't yet know what the government's recommendation will be - we don't know when the deal will be done. I hope February but it could take considerably longer." Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Cameron had "never wanted to hold" a referendum and other European leaders could see that his negotiating demands were "a bluff, a fig leaf for Conservative Party politics". The SNP's leader at Westminster, Angus Robertson, demanded a guarantee that the people of Scotland would not be "taken out of the EU against their will". Mr Cameron said Scotland had voted to remain part of the UK. Former Chancellor and veteran Europhile Ken Clarke told BBC Radio 4's The World at One Mr Cameron had been forced into a "most unfortunate" decision and any ministers that disagreed with the PM's position should resign and argue for withdrawal from the backbenches. Former deputy PM Lord Heseltine - who last month warned of a Tory "civil war" if ministers were allowed to openly defy the prime minister and suggested Mr Cameron would be seen as a global "laughing stock" if he allowed it - declined to comment on the PM's decision. But the move was welcomed by those campaigning to get Britain out of the EU. Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave, said: "The referendum could be as little as 170 days away, so ministers should be allowed to campaign openly as soon as the renegotiation is complete - and certainly no later than the end of the European Council in February. "The British people deserve to hear where their elected representatives stand on this vitally important issue. We've had lots of useful meetings with government ministers and look forward to working with them much more closely now." Brian Monteith, of Leave.EU, said: "We welcome the news that ministers will be allowed to campaign with their conscience in the referendum. "However, this is not about them. It will be ordinary people such as nurses, taxi drivers and small business owners that need to have their voices heard in this debate." UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the PM's decision was a short term solution to "hold together" the Conservative Party but as the referendum approached cabinet differences could become "irreconcilable." He said David Cameron would be "surprised" at the number of Conservatives who will campaign with UKIP to leave the EU. Will Straw, executive director of Britain Stronger In Europe, said: "We are confident that after the prime minister's successful renegotiation, the majority of Conservative ministers will continue to make the case that the benefits of being inside Europe... clearly outweigh the costs." Alan Johnson, who chairs the Labour In For Britain campaign, said: "While the Tories are divided on Europe, Labour is clear that Britain's national interest is best served by campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU." Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who is campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU, accused Mr Cameron of "putting his own internal party strife above what's best for Britain". "The government should take a collective position on this issue, and if ministers disagree with the prime minister they should resign." Speaking before news of Mr Cameron's decision emerged, London Mayor Boris Johnson told LBC radio: "I think we've got to be prepared to walk away, but at the moment I am backing the prime minister to get a great deal for this country and for Europe." He rejected the idea that Mr Cameron would have to stand down as prime minister if he lost the referendum and denied Tory MPs were at war over Europe. "We're not. Glutinous harmony prevails. We are backing David Cameron. I think he's doing a brilliant job," he added. Q&A: What Britain wants from Europe Guide to the UK's planned in-out EU referendum BBC News EU referendum special report

David Cameron is to allow ministers to campaign for either side in the referendum once a deal is reached on the UK's relationship with the EU.

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Talks have been ongoing for the past couple of weeks about the Northern Ireland international, with City having had two offers turned down for a player that West Brom say is not for sale. Evans, who had nine years at Manchester United before joining Albion in 2015, has two years left on his deal. West Brom have also turned down a £10m bid from Leicester for the 29-year-old. Evans joined United as a schoolboy before going on to win three Premier League titles and two League Cups while making 198 appearances. He joined West Brom after being told he did not figure in former United manager Louis van Gaal's plans. Twelve months ago, Arsenal showed an interest in signing Evans but West Brom rejected the approach for their captain. City manager Pep Guardiola said last month he was still hoping to sign another central defender before the transfer window closed. His fourth choice in that position is Eliaquim Mangala, who is not thought to have any long-term future at City. Former Everton winger Pat Nevin speaking to BBC Radio 5 live: Everyone knows Manchester City have a weakness at centre-back. Virgil van Dijk would be the perfect fit but if you don't get him then Jonny Evans, at 29, is probably coming in at his peak. He's comfortable in a two, comfortable with three at the back, and he's not bad on the ball either. I am struggling to find a negative. Just look at the Premier League at the weekend, centre-backs are really hard to find. People say he's not worth it, but there are so few of them around - so of course he is worth it.

Manchester City have had an £18m bid for defender Jonny Evans rejected by Premier League rivals West Brom.

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The lowest is Knowsley which could fall to zero as the last school teaching A-levels is closing its sixth form. In a further seven authorities there are less than 20% of students taking A-levels in schools in their boroughs. Nick Timothy of New Schools Network, which carried out the research, said it was a "glass ceiling" on ambition. But a Department for Education spokeswoman said the figures were "misleading", because pupils could be studying A-levels in schools in other local authorities. The analysis shows the wide differences in the numbers of young people taking A-levels in state schools and colleges in their council areas and getting qualifications that would help them apply for university places. Source: New Schools Network In 27 authorities, fewer than a quarter of pupils in this age group are taking A-levels in their council area. In contrast, Harrow has 74% of pupils studying for A-levels in schools in the borough, and it's 71% in Darlington. Teenagers might be travelling to take A-levels in schools and colleges in neighbouring local authorities. But the study found that the authorities neighbouring these areas of low A-level take up were themselves likely to have below-average provision, so that students would have to compete for limited numbers of places. The study warns of a "deep-seated problem" in ensuring that young people in poorer areas are able to take A-levels, saying that "access to A-levels is closely linked to deprivation" - with consequences for higher education and jobs. But it shows that there is nothing inevitable about poorer areas being linked to low A-level take up and lower levels of university entry. It highlights St Helens and the London boroughs of Lewisham and Islington as examples of authorities with both higher levels of deprivation and higher levels of young people taking A-levels. Highest proportion of students taking A-levels Source: New Schools Network The analysis has been produced by the New Schools Network, which supports the opening of free schools, and it argues that these cold spots in A-level provision show the need for more schools serving this age group. "Gaps in A-level provision are creating a glass ceiling for the poorest pupils by limiting access to A-Levels - which still offer the best chance of access to higher education and good employment prospects," said the organisation's director, Nick Timothy. Leon Riley, who will become head of New College Doncaster, says that it will support students who at present have to go elsewhere. "Currently 1,200 students travel outside Doncaster to access post-16 education. This cannot be right: we want to make a difference by providing local young people with access to top quality post-16 education," he said. The analysis by New Schools Network follows the decision by the last school in Knowsley to offer A-levels, Halewood Academy, to close its sixth form. The authority, which already has the lowest rate of A-level students and one of the lowest university entry rates in the country, will have no one taking A-levels in schools in the borough from next year. As an academy, Halewood can decide to stop teaching A-levels without the local authority having any powers of intervention. Parents at the school had campaigned to keep the sixth form, but the academy said that it was not financially viable. "This is letting down the children of this community. There are people who want to go to university, lots of kids who want to do well," parent Vanessa Pointon said about the closure plans. Knowsley council says the loss of A-levels in the borough is "not a council decision". The regional schools commissioner, appointed to oversee academies by the Department for Education, has so far not set out any response to the withdrawal of A-level provision in Knowsley. The Department for Education has not commented on plans for A-levels in Knowsley, but a spokeswoman rejected the analysis by the New Schools Network. "These figures are completely misleading - they do not reflect those young people who study A-levels in a neighbouring borough, the actual levels of participation are far higher because many will choose to study in other areas. "The primary reason the uptake of A-levels differs from area to area is because demand varies across the country. Where there is demand, provision is always available."

The stark regional differences in the proportion of pupils studying A-levels in local state schools in England has been revealed - ranging from 2% to 74%.

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Mr Pistorius says he mistakenly shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through the door, believing she was a burglar, then broke it down with the bat. The prosecution says he tried to beat down the door and then fired the gun. Mr Pistorius denies intentionally killing Ms Steenkamp in February 2013. Forensic expert Police Colonel Johan Vermeulen also said he thought Mr Pistorius had hit the door with the bat from a low angle, indicating he was not wearing his prosthetic legs at the time. By Pumza FihlaniBBC News, Pretoria A big day in the Oscar Pistorius murder case. The defence worked tirelessly to disprove a finding by Colonel Johan Vermeulen, a decorated forensic expert in the South African Police Service (SAPS). Oscar Pistorius's toilet door stood obtrusively in the courtroom, held up by a white frame, behind it a toilet cubicle. Col Vermeulen, a state witness, told the court that based on the marks on the door and their level Mr Pistorius was on his stumps when he struck the door with a cricket bat. The defence strongly challenged his version, adding that they will present their own expert witness who will prove Mr Pistorius was in fact wearing his prosthetics. Defence lawyer Barry Roux also introduced another dimension to the case, suggesting that the police recklessly handled the crime scene - he pointed to police shoe prints on the door. The forensics from the scene are a make or break for either side. Mr Roux's plan seems to include discrediting the integrity of the evidence collection process. He has already hinted at the possible contamination of the crime scene, placing the SAPS under a rather embarrassing spotlight. This contradicts the athlete's claim that he had been wearing his artificial limbs. Correspondents say whether or not the athlete was on his prosthetic limbs is important because it could match parts of his story that he accidentally shot Ms Steenkamp, or expose inconsistencies in it. The damaged toilet door, with four bullet holes, was examined in the courtroom along with a replica of the toilet cubicle. Forensic evidence on the location from which shots were fired, how they were grouped and their trajectory were presented to the court on Wednesday. Cross-examining, Mr Pistorius' defence team asked forensic expert Col Vermeulen to kneel and lift his feet, which caused him to wobble. The defence team claimed that Mr Pistorius therefore would not have been able to balance on his stumps and break down the door using a cricket bat. Defence lawyer Barry Roux also alleged that police had contaminated the crime scene by stepping on the door. Col Vermeulen argued that if Mr Pistorius was balanced enough to fire a gun, he could also break down a door with a bat. The forensics expert argued that the angle and location of the marks on the door suggested that they had been caused by someone much shorter than him. The defence team argued that a mark on the bottom of the door showed where Mr Pistorius had tried to kick open the door using his prosthetic legs. Col Vermeulen agreed that this was possible. "The marks on the door are actually consistent with him not having his legs on and I suspect they must be similar to the height that he was when he fired the shots," he told the court. The prosecution argues that Mr Pistorius hit the door with the cricket bat before the shots were fired, but the defence claims it was the other way round. The trial is now halfway through its second week. Earlier on Wednesday, a friend of Mr Pistorius claimed that the star had driven at 200 km/h (124mph) and that he had taken a picture of the speedometer to prove it. The defence team alleged that Darren Fresco was himself driving at the time and had therefore fabricated evidence. On Tuesday, Mr Pistorius' defence team questioned a pathologist's finding that his girlfriend had eaten less than two hours before he killed her. This contradicts the athlete's account that the pair had been in bed for several hours before the shooting. The state is seeking to convince the court that Mr Pistorius and Ms Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model, and reality TV star, had an argument before the athlete fired the shots that killed her. There are no juries at trials in South Africa, and his fate will ultimately be decided by the judge, assisted by two assessors. If found guilty, the 27-year-old, a national sporting hero dubbed the "blade runner", could face life imprisonment.

A forensics expert has swung a cricket bat at a toilet door erected in the courtroom at Oscar Pistorius' murder trial in South Africa to demonstrate key pieces of evidence.

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The commission had barred Mr Shafiq on Tuesday under a law that prevents senior officials from the era of President Hosni Mubarak from standing. However, on Wednesday the commission upheld Mr Shafiq's appeal. Mr Shafiq was the last prime minister to serve under Mr Mubarak, who was ousted by protests in February 2011. "The decision to accept my client's appeal proves that the electoral committee functions as an independent body according to the rule of law," Shafiq's lawyer, Shawqi Sayyid, said, according to Reuters. The law under which Mr Shafiq was originally disqualified bars from the presidency anyone who served in senior positions in government and the former ruling National Democratic Party under President Mubarak. The law had been rushed through the Islamist-dominated parliament and ratified by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) on Tuesday. However, in his appeal Mr Shafiq challenged the measure's constitutionality and the commission has now referred the law to Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court. The commission is due to announce the final list of candidates on Thursday. Mr Mubarak's former vice-president and spy chief, Omar Suleiman, has also been disqualified for different reasons, along with two Islamists - Khairat al-Shater of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist Hazem Abu Ismail. The front-runners among those left in the race are considered to be former Foreign Minister Amr Moussa, the independent moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and Mohammed Mursi, the chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). The first round of voting is scheduled on 23 and 24 May, after which there is expected to be a run-off between the top two candidates in June. The ruling Scaf, which assumed presidential powers after Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, is due to hand over to the new president on 1 July.

Egypt's election commission has reinstated former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq as a candidate in the country's forthcoming presidential election.

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National Lottery operator Camelot said that, subject to validation, the prize could be paid out on Monday. It was the eighth ticket in the UK to take the top Euromillions prize so far this year and the fourth this month. A £19.7m jackpot was shared by three tickets from the UK on 2 September. Friday's winning numbers were 5, 8, 14, 22, 32, and Lucky Stars 2 and 11. When jackpots are paid, winners can decide whether to reveal their identities or stay anonymous. A family syndicate from Monmouthshire won more than £61m in the Euromillions jackpot in August. UK ticketholders also won jackpots of £24.6m and £24m in February this year, and £51.8m in April. The biggest lottery prize in UK history is the £161m Euromillions jackpot won by North Ayrshire couple Chris and Colin Weir in 2011. Tickets for Euromillions are sold in nine countries - the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, the Irish Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland - with ticket-holders in all each country trying to win a share of the same jackpot.

A UK ticketholder who won a £34m jackpot in Friday's Euromillions draw has come forward to claim the prize.

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In the longer term, the average cost to households could be up to £6,400, according to the Centre for Economic Performance. It says a decline in trade would cost the economy "far more" than would be gained from lower EU contributions. But Vote Leave described the claims as "ridiculous" and lacking "credibility". The Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) is a think tank based at the London School of Economics. In reaching its conclusions, the CEP starts from the standpoint that about half of the UK's trade is with the EU and that as a member of the EU the UK benefits from there being fewer barriers to trade. It says post-Brexit the UK would do less trade with the EU because there would be higher tariffs on goods. But also there would be other non-tariff barriers to trade, such as British exporters to the EU having to prove their goods were made in the UK. Also in the longer term the UK would get less benefit from future market integration within the EU. According to the researchers, in the best case scenario the UK negotiates a deal with the EU similar to Norway's. Norway is a member of the European Economic Area and has a free trade agreement with the EU, so there are no tariffs on trade between the two. However, there are some non-tariff barriers to trade. After deducting the savings that would be made by the UK no longer having to make contributions to the EU budget, the researchers say there would be a fall in UK income of 1.3% - which equates to £850 a year per household. Analysis: Anthony Reuben, BBC Reality Check The problem is that any such predictions involve making big assumptions about what would happen in the event of the UK leaving the EU. The conclusions are extremely sensitive to such assumptions. For example, the losses double if you move from the "optimistic" to "pessimistic" conclusions about what sort of trade deal a post-Brexit UK would reach with the EU. Read more here: Would Brexit cost every household £850? In the worst case - the researchers assume that the UK cannot negotiate a new trade agreement with the EU and all trade between the UK and EU is governed by World Trade Organization rules. This they say would mean bigger increases in trade costs. It would mean a fall in UK income of 2.6% - or £1,700 per household, according to the CEP. "In the optimistic scenario where incomes shrink by only 1.3% we would - like Norway and Switzerland - have to pay into the EU budget and accept EU regulations that we had no say in deciding," says Thomas Sampson, one of the report's authors. "What's more there would still be free migration of labour. "Given the politics, this makes the pessimistic outcome more likely," he adds. Longer term the report says the fall in trade experienced by the UK outside the EU would lower productivity. That would translate into a fall in GDP of between 6.3%, or £4,200 per household, and 9.5% or £6,400 per household. However, the CEP's findings have been strenuously rebutted by Leave campaigners. "These ridiculous claims lack credibility as they come from the same economic sages who said we would be better off scrapping the pound," said the chief executive of Vote Leave, Matthew Elliott. Among the points Vote Leave takes issue with is the report's assumption that trade would be reduced as a result of leaving the EU. This it says is wrong. "It's principal claims are based on leaving the EU 'reducing trade'. Even pro-EU campaigners admit that the UK would have little difficulty striking a free trade agreement with the EU following withdrawal," it goes on. It says the assumptions about non-tariff barriers to trade in the report were "extremely pessimistic". It also attacks the CEP for having received funding form the European Commission. The CEP says less than a 10th of its income comes from that source. Earlier on Friday, the co-founder of stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown told the BBC the "unknown" of leaving the EU could help stimulate Britain". Peter Hargreaves, who backs the UK's withdrawal from the union, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a fresh start could help Britain innovate. Demand for UK fashion and cars, as well as the attractiveness of the UK as a market for the EU, would ensure good trade deals, he said.

If the UK leaves the European Union, British households could be on average as much as £1,700 a year worse off, a think tank has said.

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Andrea Lewis, 51, was found dead at a home in Fairyland Road, Tonna, Neath, on 30 January 2016, with 43 injuries including to her skull and torso. Rhys Hobbs, 46, of Tonna, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in July and was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court. On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal upped his sentence to 12-and-a-half years. A statement from the Attorney General said the case was returned to the courts by the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. Speaking after the hearing, he said: "Hobbs has a history of violent abuse and has shown very little remorse or regret concerning the incident. "It's important we send a message that violence in a domestic setting is completely unacceptable and I'm pleased the court has agreed Hobbs should spend longer in jail for his crimes." During the original sentencing, Swansea Crown Court heard Ms Lewis had been stamped on following a drunken row. In the weeks running up to her death, she was covered in bruises and had a black eye - but told friends she had fallen. After Hobbs attacked her in his home, Ms Lewis was dragged outside while half-dressed. She was found dead the next day.

A man who was jailed for killing his ex-girlfriend in a "violent and protracted" attack has had his eight-year sentence increased.

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Fire crews were called to the property in Lon Tanyrallt, Alltwen, near Pontardawe, at 01:40 BST on Wednesday. Jac Davies was rescued from an upstairs bedroom but died at the scene. His three-year-old brother was also rescued and taken to Swansea's Morriston Hospital along with his sister, six, an 11-month-old brother and their mother who had all managed to escape the blaze. They were all suffering from suspected smoke inhalation which is not thought to be life-threatening. In a tribute, his mother, Jennifer Davies, said in a statement: "My big, handsome blue-eyed boy - you're my life, my world, my everything and will never, ever forget you. "Go ride your train up to heaven and wait for me. "Kelsey, Riley and Andrew will always remember you." Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said Ms Davies, called for help and neighbours tried to get in to help the stranded children. The cause of the blaze is being investigated by the police and fire service. Chris Margetts, senior operations manager for the fire service, described the blaze as "very severe" but said smoke detectors may have raised the alarm. He added: "It is a very close community, and specialist teams from the fire and rescue service will be working with the community in the coming days." Outside the family home, visibly shocked neighbours stood in the street with their hands over their mouths, trying to make sense of the tragedy. One woman was consoled by a police officer as she laid a floral tribute at the scene along with two teddy bears. A card left with some flowers said: "To Jack. So sad to hear you are sadly gone. Harry will miss you, seeing you smile and playing with you at school. Gone too young." South Wales Police Det Ch Insp Esyr Jones, of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot CID, said: "I would like any witnesses or anyone involved at the scene who have not yet spoken to police to come forward with any information they may have."

A four-year-old boy has died following a fire at a house in Neath Port Talbot.

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The Blues, who sacked Mourinho for a second time last year, led after just 30 seconds when Pedro capitalised on slack defending to roll in. Gary Cahill smashed in the second after United allowed Eden Hazard's corner to bounce in their box. United offered little sign of making a comeback, falling further behind when Hazard drilled in a precise 15-yard strike. N'Golo Kante skipped around a static defence to slot in and seal victory as Chelsea moved within a point of Premier League leaders Manchester City. The comprehensive win lifted the Blues above Tottenham into fourth, with just one point separating the top five. United stay seventh as the gap between them and the early pacesetters widens to six points, with almost a quarter of the season gone. Analysis: Why it is too early to write Man Utd off Relive how Chelsea ruined Mourinho's return Mourinho was making his first return to Stamford Bridge since he was sacked in December 2015, leaving when the defending champions were 16th in the Premier League. The Portuguese boss said before the match he was unsure - and also unconcerned - about the reception he would be given by the home fans. Unsurprisingly, for a man who delivered seven trophies in his two spells at the club, it turned out to be largely positive. Hundreds gathered to greet Mourinho as he walked off the United team bus, while he received a warm embrace from former skipper John Terry before kick-off. That is where the Blues' hospitality ended. Instead, it was his United team who provided the generosity. And the home fans could not resist a cheeky dig at their former boss - chanting "you're not special anymore" to the self-proclaimed Special One. Mourinho said before the game he would not "celebrate like a crazy kid" if his new team scored at Stamford Bridge. Unfortunately for him, there was little sign of that resolve being put to the test as Chelsea capitalised on his side's defensive deficiencies. United were ragged at the back, ripped open by Pedro's opener without even having a touch and left flapping from then on. And the severity of the scoreline was emphasised by some startling statistics: The tone was set when Chris Smalling hesitated in dealing with a long ball, allowing Pedro to nip in and round David de Gea - and United never recovered. The basic ability to defend a set-piece eluded them for Chelsea's second, two deflected touches helping the ball on to the unmarked Cahill, who lashed in. United, without the injured Wayne Rooney, looked unrecognisable from the side that dug in to keep a clean sheet at Anfield on Monday. They looked unrecognisable from any Mourinho side, always expected to be well organised and difficult to break down. A stony-faced Mourinho watched his static defenders allow Hazard and then Kante to skip into space and score after the break, leaving new Chelsea manager Antonio Conte lapping up the acclaim of a home crowd revelling in their former boss's misfortune. "We made incredible defensive mistakes," said Mourinho. "And then you pay for that." Former Italy manager Antonio Conte was tasked with restoring Chelsea's fortunes after a chastening season, which started under Mourinho's leadership and ended in the defending champions finishing 10th. Conte's start has not been smooth, however. Back-to-back league defeats against Liverpool and Arsenal last month led to some criticism, forcing him to laugh off rumours of his imminent sacking. But, after making a tactical switch to a 3-5-2 formation following those defeats, Conte has seen his team flourish. Three successive victories have pushed the Blues back among the frontrunners, with the Stamford Bridge crowd showing their appreciation for the new manager as he urged them to make more noise during the second half. "It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team," said Conte on his team's recent revival. "It was not a good situation when Chelsea conceded in every game - we change and now we are playing good football." Chelsea manager Antonio Conte: "We made a fantastic start. We scored the early goal but we continued to play good football, intensity and possession, create many chances. Today we didn't concede, which was important. It was a type of win that increases the confidence. "We wanted to show our ambition and give the satisfaction to our fans and show last season was very bad." Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho: "You come with a strategy, you cannot concede a goal in the way we did. "We were coming to have an offensive approach. We wanted to create chances; we showed that after the 1-0. The second and the third were counter-attack goals. "It is one of those days when you give the advantage to opponents by doing nothing. "In terms of points, we got zero points, we lose three points. We are six points from the top, three from the top four, we now need to win matches. We need to win our matches now, which are not easy. "We need to win to close that gap - after these last three matches, we made two out of nine. We now need points." Next comes the not-so-small matter of midweek derby matches for both teams. Chelsea travel across London to face West Ham in the EFL Cup fourth round on Wednesday (19:45 BST), while Manchester United host neighbours City at Old Trafford in the same competition on the same day (20:00 BST). Match ends, Chelsea 4, Manchester United 0. Second Half ends, Chelsea 4, Manchester United 0. Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United). Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Thibaut Courtois. Attempt saved. Marcos Rojo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ander Herrera. Attempt blocked. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcos Rojo. Attempt saved. Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by N'Golo Kanté. Offside, Chelsea. Marcos Alonso tries a through ball, but Michy Batshuayi is caught offside. Attempt blocked. Victor Moses (Chelsea) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian. Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United). Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United). Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Anthony Martial (Manchester United). César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial. Foul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United). César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea). Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Thibaut Courtois. Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Juan Mata. Foul by Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United). David Luiz (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Chelsea. Michy Batshuayi replaces Diego Costa. Substitution, Chelsea. Willian replaces Eden Hazard. Foul by Anthony Martial (Manchester United). Nemanja Matic (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half. 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Jose Mourinho was humiliated on his return to Chelsea as his former club blew away his Manchester United side at Stamford Bridge.

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The 33-year-old former Scotland Under-21 cap, who arrived from Yeovil Town in 2012, has signed until May 2017, with a further one-year option. MacLean has scored 11 goals in 23 games for the Premiership outfit this season. He started out with Ranges and also spells with Scunthorpe United, Sheffield Wednesday, Cardiff City, Plymouth Argyle, Aberdeen, Oxford United and Cheltenham Town. Meanwhile, St Johnstone have sent two youth players on loan for the rest of the season, with defender Neil Martyniuk joining Montrose in League Two and striker Greg Kerr spending time with Whitehill Welfare in the Lowland League.

St Johnstone have secured striker Steven MacLean on a contract extension.

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The staff who would be relocated would be those who already process payments made in euros for HSBC in Canary Wharf. Thursday's referendum result means the UK will need to renegotiate its trade relationship with the European Union - including whether it remains part of the single market. HSBC declined to comment. Chris Cummings, chief executive of financial lobby group TheCityUK, said it was focused on securing continued access to the single market and warned of the risk of "prolonged uncertainty" while a new relationship with the EU was negotiated. Eurozone leaders have warned that without unrestricted access to the EU, London's big finance firms could move operations outside the UK. The head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said limited access to the single market would be the "price" of the UK leaving the EU. If the UK was not in the single market or the European Economic Area (EEA), it would mean the loss of "passporting", which allows banks to operate without restriction in all EEA countries. The EEA comprises the 28 members of the EU, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. EEA rules allow those non-EU countries to be part of the EU's single market, as long as they allow full freedom of movement of people. The head of France's central bank, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, also warned that London's banks would lose their "financial passport" outside the single market or EEA. John Cryan, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, said he thought London would lose some of its status as a financial hub. "The financial centre won't die, but it will get weaker," he told German business newspaper Handelsblatt. Mr Cryan did not comment on the possible impact of the leave decision on Deutsche Bank, which employs at least 11,000 staff in the UK. Meanwhile, sources at Standard Chartered told the BBC it was unlikely that the Asia-focused bank would move any staff from London. Leave campaigners have dismissed concerns of widespread job losses, saying Britain should focus on developing trade relationships with non-EU countries. Gerard Lyons, a UK economist who backed the Leave camp, said London would not be displaced as Europe's financial centre. "We have the depth of skills, knowledge and experience that's hard to replicate," said Mr Lyons, an economic advisor to Boris Johnson. Passporting for finance firms is a "negotiable issue" with the EU, he said, particularly as several European banks also use those rules to access the UK. HSBC already has more than 10,000 staff working in Paris. The London-based bank has about 48,000 UK workers across its retail and investment banking operations. A year ago, it said it was planning to cut 8,000 jobs in the UK to reduce costs. Earlier this year, the bank said it would keep its global headquarters in London, following a review. On Friday, sources told the BBC that up to 2,000 jobs at the US investment bank Morgan Stanley could be moved from London to Dublin or Frankfurt. Morgan Stanley denied that jobs will be moved. Banks and other financial companies can be authorised to do business in one member state of the EU, or the slightly wider European Economic Area (EEA), and then ply their trade across the region without having to be separately authorised in each country. The EEA is a grouping made up of the EU, plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein who have access to the EU's single market. A bank using this system can provide services by offering them from its home base to a customer in another country, or it can establish a branch abroad. It is widely used by financial firms (not just banks) in the EU. It is also used by companies from outside the EEA, such as Switzerland and the US. They establish themselves in one place in the EU, typically in London as the continent's dominant financial centre, and use that as their headquarters for selling services across the single market. If the banking passport is no longer available to British-based firms, then some operations would clearly have to shift to a location inside the EEA. What is impossible to judge is just how much business, and how many jobs, would be affected. Would any shift be narrowly focussed on those functions serving EEA customers? Or would firms find it more cost effective to move other parts of the business as well? Read Andrew's full analysis on passporting.

HSBC would move up to 1,000 staff from London to Paris if the UK left the single market, following Britain's vote to leave the EU, the BBC understands.

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The girl, aged 15 at the time, had met a man called David Ayrton in a Portsmouth garage in the autumn of 2004. The defendant, now 34 and called Davina, denied the charge. She will be sentenced on 4 March. Judge Ian Pearson remanded her into custody and said it was likely she would be held at a male prison. He added: "If I were to release on bail there are substantial grounds to believe she would be a risk to herself and a risk of failing to attend for whatever reason. "I will therefore have to remand in custody. It will have to be a male prison in Winchester but it will be an issue for the prison service." He also told the jury at Portsmouth Crown Court: "It's been a slightly unusual case and it's not been an easy case." The court heard that Ayrton, who has learning difficulties, attempted to commit suicide last summer. Protocols have been put in place for her detention at the prison, a court officer explained. During the trial Ayrton spoke about her sexuality, and said she she had not "made any physical changes or enhancements" to her body or taken any medication. She changed her name in 2012. Portsmouth Crown Court was told she raped the teenager while two others were asleep in the garage. The victim said she shouted and swore at Ayrton to stop the attack, but her friends had not woken up. She had "only drunk a can and a half of Foster's" and clearly recollected the events. The court heard that in 2014 Ayrton told a worker at the care home where she lived in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, about the attack.

A transgender woman has been found guilty of raping a girl when still living as a man.

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His comments follow a row between Ed Miliband and No 10 after the Labour leader said PM David Cameron was "wrong" not to oppose Israel's attacks. No 10 said it was shocked Mr Miliband would "play politics with such a serious issue". Thirty Palestinians have been reported killed on Sunday and militants have continued to fire rockets into Israel. The Foreign Office confirmed that Mr Hammond had spoken to the Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman and Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni on the telephone on Sunday. During that call Mr Hammond said he reiterated the UK's "need for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire". He said: "I welcome indications that Israeli forces may begin to withdraw from Gaza within the next few days." Mr Hammond also told the Sunday Telegraph the crisis in Gaza could become "an endless loop of violence". "The British public has a strong sense that the situation of the civilian population in Gaza is simply intolerable and must be addressed - and we agree with them." In a strongly worded statement on Saturday, Mr Miliband said Mr Cameron had previously been "right to say that Hamas is an appalling terrorist organisation". "Its wholly unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli citizens, as well as building of tunnels for terrorist purposes, show the organisation's murderous intent and practice towards Israel and its citizens," he said. "But the prime minister is wrong not to have opposed Israel's incursion into Gaza and his silence on the killing of hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians caused by Israel's military action will be inexplicable to people across Britain and internationally." On Sunday Mr Miliband reiterated that criticism, telling the BBC the government needed to send "a much clearer message to Israel that its actions in Gaza are unacceptable and unjustifiable". "What I want to hear from David Cameron is that he believes Israel's actions are wrong and unjustified and we haven't heard that from him." He said rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants "cannot excuse the scale of the loss of life of innocent Palestinian civilians including children that we are seeing". The aim should be to "force both sides to have a ceasefire and the long-term solution we need", he said. Downing Street said: "The PM has been clear that both sides in the Gaza conflict need to observe a ceasefire. "We are shocked that Ed Miliband would seek to misrepresent that position and play politics with such a serious issue." Some 1,700 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since the conflict began more than three weeks ago. A total of 66 Israelis have died, all but two of them soldiers. A Thai worker in Israel also died. A UN-brokered humanitarian ceasefire, intended to last 72 hours, ended on Friday after less than five hours, with each side blaming the other. Israel says it is defending itself from attacks by Palestinian militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths in Gaza, saying fighters deliberately operate from civilian areas. Critics of Israel's actions say Gaza is so densely populated any conflict there will inevitably affect civilian areas and cause civilian casualties.

The situation in Gaza is "simply intolerable and must be addressed", Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says.

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Members of the RMT union will walk out at 11:00 BST on 26 April and at the same time on 10 and 12 May. The union is against plans for a new grade of on-board supervisor and proposals for drivers to operate doors. Govia Thameslink said there would be no job losses or cuts in salary and the changes would make staff more visible. Members of the union were 306 in favour of walkouts and 14 against. A total of 320 votes to one backed other forms of industrial action. The RMT said it was fighting to keep the conductor grade and the changes were "nothing short of bullying and harassment". RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the "reward" for the "loyal and professional service" of members was having their "role and responsibility reduced and their hard-earned terms and conditions attacked". "These trains are desperately over-crowded and the conductors are the eyes and ears preventing a major tragedy on the platforms and carriages," he said. He added the company had already axed catering services, "threatened" ticket offices and delivered "appalling levels of customer service in their drive to milk these routes for every penny they can". A spokesman for Southern, which is run by Govia Thameslink, described any possible strike action as "unnecessary and damaging". He added: "The changes we are making to the conductor role mean there will be no job losses and no reduction in salary for any staff, whilst passengers will benefit from having more visible staff on trains. "We are preparing contingency plans in case a strike does go ahead, but in the meantime we urge the RMT to return to the negotiating table." Southern operates in Sussex, Surrey and parts of Kent and Hampshire.

Conductors on Southern railway are to stage three 24-hour strikes in a dispute over changes to their role and the introduction of driver-only trains.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stripped the three of their gold medals, won in Beijing in 2008. They were among eight athletes sanctioned for doping - the latest to be caught under a retesting programme. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) last year ruled any nations with three or more positive tests would be banned for a year. The IOC is retesting hundreds of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, using new techniques to uncover cheating that went undetected at the time. Cao Lei, 33, took gold in the women's 75kg weightlifting event at Beijing, Chen Xiexia, 34, won the women's 48kg and Liu Chunhong, 31, was successful in the women's 69kg. All will now have to return their medals. The failed retests were uncovered last year but the sanctions - announced by the IOC on Thursday - will clear the way for the IWF to act. The IWF issued new measures before last year's Rio Olympics to crack down on doping in the sport. Its executive board decided "national federations confirmed to have produced three or more anti-doping rule violations in the combined re-analysis process of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games shall be suspended for one year". Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia and Belarus have already been banned by the IWF. The other five athletes to be sanctioned by the IOC are: "The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the IOC," a spokesperson said,

China faces a ban from international weightlifting competition after three of its athletes failed doping tests.

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Instead, it was her namesake, Irish politician Joan Collins, who was arrested at a protest against new water meters in Dublin yesterday. The former Dynasty star tweeted: 'No I am not the Joan Collins Who was a rested (sic) yesterday At a Dublin protest meeting !!! The very idea !!" United Left TD Ms Collins said she was taking part in a "peaceful protest". She later tweeted that she should not be confused with the British screen icon. "For the record I'm not @JoanCollinsOBE as I'd never take an honour from a monarch nor did I wear shoulder pads in the 80s. The very idea!" Veteran actress Joan, 81, was made a dame in the Queen's New Year's honours list last year. She is famous for her roles in films like The Stud and The Bitch, and more recently starred in the TV series The Royals. She was previously a patron of UKIP, but said that does not mean she would vote for them, and has declared herself an admirer of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Irish parliamentarian Ms Collins sits on the opposite end of the political spectrum. She was among 13 people arrested at the demonstration, which was part of continuing protests against the introduction of water charges in Ireland.

Actress Joan Collins has taken to Twitter to deny that she was arrested in the Republic of Ireland.

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But co-operative housing schemes are little known in Wales, the study for the Wales Co-operative Centre warns. The research was commissioned following the Welsh government's own decision to back such projects as a way to build affordable homes. Currently, co-operative housing accounts for less than 1% of UK homes. In Estonia, nearly 10,000 co-operative housing organisations own 60% of the country's houses while they account of one in five homes in Sweden and Poland. Under co-operative housing models, groups of like-minded people can come together and buy land to provide housing, and members of that co-op group can then buy shares in the new homes. It is an alternative to renting properties, and gives those in the new homes a financial stake in the housing, without resorting to heavy mortgage debt. "Wales has a long tradition of co-operation and a government with a strong commitment to co-operative approaches," said Keith Edwards, from the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru (CIHC), which was one of the report's authors. "The housing crisis we face demands imaginative responses and co-operative housing is at the forefront of new thinking," he added. The study was commissioned by the Wales Co-operative Centre, and carried out by the CIHC and the Confederation of Co-operative Housing (CCH). They spoke to nearly 300 people in Wales, most of them living in the private rented sector at the moment and what the researchers termed "reluctant renters". All of them expressed an interest in what such schemes could offer them but 67% had never heard of co-operative housing before. "It was really exciting that so many of the ordinary people who came to the sessions had never heard of co-operative housing before but immediately got it," said Nic Bliss, chair of the CCH. "And that they were particularly into it for community reasons. "The potential for co-operative housing in Wales is great and there are several different models being explored which meet different needs." At present, there are 836 co-operative and mutual housing societies registered in the UK - but just 3% of those are in Wales. Dave Palmer, project manager of the Welsh government funded Co-operative Housing Project within the Wales Co-operative Centre, said it was clear that schemes in Wales "are at an early stage in development". "But the pioneer projects that we are working with are getting ready to deliver a number of co-operative homes," he said. The report, which is being presented at the Co-operative Congress in Cardiff on Saturday, says there are already 10 potential schemes in the pipeline, including a 50-home site in Cardiff, an estate redevelopment in Newport, an expansion of a community land trust at Rhyl in Denbighshire, and even an artistic community housing project in the Vale of Glamorgan. "The Wales Co-operative Centre and Welsh government are keen to continue supporting and encouraging this positive start, by empowering the pioneers to deliver these much needed homes," Mr Palmer added.

Housing owned and built by groups of people could help turn "reluctant renters" into home owners, a new report suggests.

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Dockery, who plays Lady Mary in ITV's hit period drama, will play Madame de Tourvel in the production, heading up the London theatre's autumn season. Janet McTeer and West co-star as ruthless former lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont. Artistic director Josie Rourke will helm Christopher Hampton's play. Les Liaisons Dangereuses is based on the scandalous 1782 novel by Choderlos de Laclos, which told of sex, intrigue and betrayal amongst aristocrats in pre-revolutionary France. Its first theatre production 30 years ago starred Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson and Lesley Manville and won both the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for best play. Hampton went on to win an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for the 1988 film version starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer. "I have long wanted to direct Christopher Hampton's superb Les Liaisons Dangereuses," said Rourke, "and the cast we have drawn together is a testament to the brilliance of his play." Along with his stage work, West has appeared in TV dramas The Wire, The Hour and The Affair, while McTeer was recently seen in acclaimed drama The Honourable Woman and The White Queen. Other highlights at the 250-seat theatre this autumn include the first major London run of Abi Morgan's early play Splendour, which will star Zawe Ashton, Sinead Cusack, Michelle Fairley and Genevieve O'Reilly. Morgan has since gone on to write films such as The Iron Lady, Shame and the forthcoming Suffragette. Splendour tells the story of a photojournalist at the heart of a coup in an eastern European state and will be directed by associate director Robert Hastie. "One of the things that most excites me about this season is the strong leading roles for women," said Rourke. "It is a thrill to announce a season of work that features, in plays by living writers, women of the calibre and power of Zawe Ashton, Sinead Cusack, Michelle Dockery, Michelle Fairley, Genevieve O'Reilly and Janet McTeer, who returns to the Donmar and the London stage." The Royal Court's former artistic director Dominic Cooke will direct the UK Premiere of Teddy Ferrara, Christopher Shinn's play about a student tragedy which sends a campus into turmoil. This autumn will also see the transfer of Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Henry IV to St Ann's Warehouse in New York. Lloyd has just been announced as the theatre's new associate director. Theatre fans who missed out on Rourke's award-winning production of Coriolanus, starring Tom Hiddleston, will have the chance to catch it on screen in UK cinemas as part of the National Theatre Live Encore screenings.

Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery and actor Dominic West will star in a 30th anniversary revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse.

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Media playback is not supported on this device The Frenchman was one of the most promising of a new generation of Formula 1 drivers. Bianchi, who was part of the Ferrari young driver programme, lost his battle on the night of Friday, 17 July - nine months after the crash. The accident that led to Bianchi's death came in an unfortunate combination of circumstances in a difficult wet race at the Suzuka track. During the lap before Bianchi's accident, Sauber's Adrian Sutil had crashed at the fast, uphill Dunlop corner. A recovery vehicle headed out to pick the car up and that section of track was put under double waved yellow caution flags, meaning a hazard bad enough that drivers should be prepared to stop. On the next lap, on worn tyres, Bianchi arrived at the corner and lost control, and the car speared off the track and collided with the recovery vehicle, which destroyed the Marussia's roll hoop, a device that protects the driver's head. Bianchi suffered massive head injuries. After an operation, he was placed in intensive care but he succumbed three quarters of a year later. In only 34 races he had done enough with the back-of-the-grid Marussia team to suggest he had a bright future in the sport. It is never easy for a new driver in a struggling team to prove his worth, but Bianchi had done so by producing performances that would not normally be expected of the car, and outclassing his team-mate, Englishman Max Chilton. There were a number of impressive drives from Bianchi, but the most high profile was his taking ninth place in the Monaco Grand Prix in May last year. In doing so, he scored Marussia's first and only points, as the team folded at the end of 2014. They now race as Manor. It was too early in Bianchi's career to judge his ultimate potential, and whether he could have gone on to become a race winner and even world champion. But the signs were there that he was set for a significant career at the highest level of the sport. Ferrari signed four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel to replace the departing Fernando Alonso in 2015, but they had earmarked Bianchi as the man who would probably drive a third car for the team, should they be required to run one if the grid dropped below 20 cars. Ferrari's former president Luca Di Montezemolo said: "This boy was born with us, and we thought of him as our driver of the future... he would have been perfect for the coming years." Bianchi came from a racing family, and it is the second time they have been touched by tragedy. His grand-uncle Lucien Bianchi competed in 19 F1 grands prix, with a best finish of third at Monaco in 1968, and won the 1968 Le Mans 24 Hours, before being killed testing for the race the following year. Bianchi's career in F1 started in 2011, when Ferrari signed him up to be their test and reserve driver, although he had had a relationship with the team for at least two years before that. Ferrari loaned him out to fulfil the same role for Force India in 2012, before they facilitated his move to Marussia, to whom they supplied engines, for his debut season in 2013. Then Ferrari decided against promoting Bianchi to partner Alonso in 2014, preferring to sign for a second time Finn Kimi Raikkonen, who won the world title for the team in 2007. Media playback is not supported on this device His death has led to a period of introspection in a sport that had never stopped trying to improve safety since the triple world champion Ayrton Senna was killed at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the last F1 race driver to lose his life. Alonso, a two-time world champion and close to Bianchi, said: "This is a reminder for us that this is very dangerous, for the spectators as well. We are here because we like our job and we are ready to take the risk because we need the adrenaline somehow as well. But we cannot make mistakes." His colleagues acknowledged Bianchi's misfortune, at the same time expressing a belief that he would want them to go on, and a hope that F1 can apply whatever lessons emerge from the inquiry into his death to make the sport that will always be dangerous safer again. As with Senna's death, safety changes have already been put in place, aimed at ensuring such an incident can never happen again.

Jules Bianchi has died aged 25 as a result of head injuries sustained in a crash during the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.

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It’s rare that the company delves too far into how the “magic” - as they call it - works. Their logic is a magic trick doesn’t get better if you know how it’s done. On Saturday, Disney - quite uncharacteristically - gave us a bit of an insight into how they plan to use technology to bring their much-loved brand of storytelling to new forms, by using robotics and artificial intelligence. Jon Snoddy, the company's senior Vice President for research and development, explained how soon you’ll be able to interact with story-telling robots at Disney parks. “I think AI [artificial intelligence] and machine learning is going to be very important for what we do,” he told the BBC. "Things like characters that can move around among our guests. They’re going to need to understand where they’re going, have goals, and they’re going to have to know how to navigate in a world with humans. "All these emerging technologies are going to be key to the next generation of entertainment.” Robotic Pascal During a panel discussion, the company shared footage - which unfortunately we’re not able republish here - of a robotic Pascal, the cute lizard from 2010 movie Tangled. It’s a terrific recreation of the digital character, but the real challenge for Disney will be to avoid the so-called “uncanny valley” - the theory that if something is very lifelike, but not exactly right, it can be slightly creepy or disturbing. "Obviously we’re not the business of scaring kids!” Mr Snoddy said. "That won’t be part of what we deploy. We go and do tests in our parks to gauge the reaction and try and understand what kids find entertaining about these things. Our ability to build these characters at a fidelity that looks like the films is really growing.” When these technologies are fully deployed in Disney parks, and perhaps as toys, Mr Snoddy said Disney will do everything it can to hide the inner technological workings. "Every new technology that’s come along for the last 60, 70 years we have adopted and co-opted and made it into a story telling medium,” he said. "This won’t be different. We’re not going to put up a sign that says 'Look! Artificial intelligence', because no-one would come to see that. They really come to be moved emotionally, that will not change.”

Ever since Steamboat Willie, the iconic animated clip from 1928 featuring a mouse that would later become Mickey, Disney has had a proud record of innovating with new technology.

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The camera on a 30mph limit junction of Newport Road is catching an average of 71 speeding drivers every day. A survey last year found a camera on the M60 in Greater Manchester caught about 26 speeding drivers per day. The GoSafe partnership, which runs the Cardiff camera, said 99.5% of drivers at the site met the speed limit. It said: "Motorists should comply with the relevant speed limit, which is there for a reason." The body also insisted that placing cameras at a location was always "a last resort". "The revenue from speeding fines is returned back to the government and not the partnership," said Chris Hume from GoSafe. "There is a simple message - cameras are in place to save lives not to make money." The camera was installed in 2012, but only went into fully commissioned operation earlier this year. It has now notched up a staggering 13,624 penalty notices for speeding - and a further 146 drivers were caught for red-light offences.

A speed camera in Cardiff is the busiest in Britain - catching almost three times as many drivers each day as one on a busy Manchester motorway.

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SP Manweb was granted permission to run 10.5 miles of overhead cables between two wind farms in Clocaenog Forest to a substation near St Asaph last year. But local action group Pylon the Pressure won the right to a judicial review. It claims the double wooden poles would be a blight on the countryside. Part of the cables would pass near the 16th Century Berain Farm, Llannefydd, which was home to Catrin o Ferain, the granddaughter of Henry VII and a prominent member of the Tudor gentry in Wales. At Monday's hearing in Llangefni, Peter Dickson, the barrister representing the appellant, argued that the cables should be placed underground near the farm. He said the option was not considered by SP Manweb and that the Secretary of State, Greg Clark, should not have granted permission. Counsels on behalf of SP Manweb will present their submissions later on. The judge has said he will reserve judgment.

A High Court hearing has begun into plans to erect a 17km line of pylons along the Denbighshire and Conwy border.

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More than 20 people are being treated in hospital with burns and other injuries after the incident in the village of Hitrino, local media say. The authorities ordered an evacuation as firefighters battled the blaze. At least 20 buildings were damaged in the derailment and explosion, spokesperson Nikolay Nikolov told Bulgaria's Nova television. Two tanks hit an electricity line and exploded when the train derailed near the village station at about 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT), according to several reports. "Two blasts have caused a serious fire and ruined at least 20 buildings," Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Georgi Kostov told Reuters news agency. "There are many people injured... many with burns." Hitrino, a town of around 800 people, is located in Bulgaria's north-eastern Shumen province, about 60 miles (100km) from the Black Sea. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said he was travelling to the village. In a post on social media, he said the regional hospital needed blood supplies to cope with the causalities, and appealed to people in the region to donate blood. Transport Minister Ivalyo Moskovski also said he was travelling to the village. In a brief statement, he said he had ordered both the head of the railway accident investigation task force and a representative of the rail infrastructure company to attend the scene.

A train carrying liquid petroleum gas has derailed and exploded in Bulgaria, killing at least four people.

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There were about 19,000 diagnoses in 2015, compared to about 17,300 in 2006. Public Health Wales (PHW) said the main reason for the increase was an ageing population. The organisation's Dr Dyfed Wyn Huws said there was "good news" by way of significant reductions in smoking rates in recent decades. There was a year-on-year decrease from about 19,800 cases in 2014, but the 2015 figure of 19,088 is likely to increase as statisticians revise the numbers. Once age factors are taken into account, the rate decreased by more than 5% in men, but increased by more than 5% among women between 2006 and 2015. This is partly due to the rate of lung cancer going down in men, but up among women. Historically, smoking rates peaked far earlier among men than women. Breast, prostate, lung and bowel cancers remain the most common. According to PHW, cases of liver, mouth, throat and melanoma skin cancer saw the biggest percentage increases. The rates of stomach cancer and prostate cancer decreased, while mesothelioma rates increased by almost a third. Dr Huws said: "We know that up to four in 10 of cancers in the population may be preventable. "With an increasing number of cancer cases each year, cancer control is possible and important for future generations and for keeping rising health service demand in check. "The good news is that we have seen significant reductions in smoking rates in recent decades. "This is already bringing cancer rates down in men."

The number of cancer cases in Wales has risen by almost 10% over a 10-year period.

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Wales wing Hallam Amos scored two fine tries in the second half while Dorian Jones kicked five points for the hosts. But Hamish Watson's touchdown, plus eight points from Sam Hidalgo-Clyne and a penalty from Blair Kinghorn, proved enough for the visitors. Edinburgh move to within four points of rivals Glasgow in sixth, though the Warriors have a game in hand. The Dragons had 20-year-old Wales centre Tyler Morgan and fly-half Dorian Jones back from long-term injuries, while Taulupe Faletau returned from Wales duties. Edinburgh scrum-half Hidalgo-Clyne was making his 50th appearance while the visitors also paraded their Scotland front row. On a muddy surface, the first half produced only penalties, with two from Hidalgo-Clyne and one from Kinghorn on target for the visitors, while Jones kicked one for the Dragons. Flanker Watson wasted a golden chance for the Scots after 24 minutes as he went for the line rather than using the men free outside. The Dragons started the second half at a higher tempo and after barely a minute, Amos sprinted through a gap to score with Jones' conversion giving them the lead. But Edinburgh struck back in their next attack as Watson wrestled his way over from a line-out drive and Hidalgo-Clyne put over the angled kick. Amos then produced a superb finish from 30 metres out when given an overlap from man-of-the-match Faletau's pass. But that unconverted score after 53 minutes proved to be the last of the match. Edinburgh kept the Dragons pinned in their own half in the final quarter but Hidalgo-Clyne was off target with two more penalty attempts as they failed to make their pressure pay. It was the Welsh side's ninth losing bonus point of the season, including five in the last six matches. Dragons host Ospreys on Friday in their final game at Rodney Parade this season, before their European Challenge Cup quarter-final at Gloucester on 9 April, while Edinburgh host Zebre on Friday. Newport Gwent Dragons: Carl Meyer; Ashton Hewitt, Tyler Morgan, Adam Warren, Hallam Amos; Dorian Jones, Sarel Pretorius; Phil Price, Thomas Rhys Thomas (capt), Brok Harris, Cory Hill, Rynard Landman, Lewis Evans, Nic Cudd, Taulupe Faletau. Replacements: Hugh Gustafson, Boris Stankovich, Lloyd Fairbrother, Matthew Screech, Ed Jackson, Charlie Davies, Angus O'Brien, Adam Hughes. Edinburgh: Blair Kinghorn, Damien Hoyland, Michael Allen, Sam Beard, Tom Brown; Phil Burleigh, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne; Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford (capt), WP Nel, Anton Bresler, Ben Toolis, Jamie Ritchie, Hamish Watson, Cornell Du Preez. Replacements: Stuart McInally, Rory Sutherland, John Andress, Alex Toolis, Magnus Bradbury, Sean Kennedy, Chris Dean, Dougie Fife. Referee: George Clancy (IRFU) Assistant referees: Sean Brickell, Simon Rees (both WRU) Citing commissioner: Aurwel Morgan (WRU) TMO: Tim Hayes (WRU)

Edinburgh moved up to seventh place in the Pro12 with a hard-fought win at Newport Gwent Dragons.

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HS2 Action Alliance says a paper by HS2 Ltd shows engineering work will mean closing parts of some passenger lines for 133 weekends, and some freight lines for 50 weekends. It would also mean 19 weekend closures at Euston station, the group said. HS2 said any closures would be carefully planned. On the Derby to Birmingham lines for example, the document says 32 weekends will be hit between 2017 and 2022, 13 of them for just a day and 19 for the entire weekend. The CrossCountry rail firm and freight services would both be affected. For the Coventry to Leamington Spa route, it says four whole weekends will be lost in 2018, with passengers asked to catch a replacement bus instead. Part of the busy West Coast Mainline will close for 31 weekends in 2018-19, as they build a new flyover junction in the Handsacre area, with trains diverted via Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Richard Houghton from HS2 Action Alliance said: "It is clear that once again HS2 is being less than honest with the travelling public. It is planning a huge number of weekend closures which will impact the travelling public. "Combined with this its arrogance continues. It is planning to issue £7bn of supplier contracts before the Hybrid Bill passes through Parliament and now we discover it will start closing Euston before they have the legal go-ahead for the new line." The document does say that the number and length of the closures are just estimates at the moment, and that work will be tied in with everyday engineering projects wherever possible, to minimise disruption. But it does warn that "HS2 phase one will need to recognise the cumulative effect on passengers and operators of disruption". Train operators could also be compensated for the impact on their services. HS2 Ltd spokesman David Meechan said: "Our railways are becoming increasingly crowded. Britain desperately needs this new high speed rail network to boost rail capacity and improve links between our biggest cities. "There will be times when construction impacts on the current railway, but this will be carefully planned with Network Rail and the train operators. "HS2 Ltd will do all it can to minimise disruption to passengers. Compensation to the train operators for any such disruption will be drawn from the existing budget for the HS2 project." Two years ago a government commissioned report said that the alternative to building HS2, basically beefing up what is already there, would cause 14 years worth of weekend problems across the network.

Building the proposed new High Speed Two (HS2) rail line will mean years of weekend "misery" for rail passengers, according to a campaign group.

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The raiders drove into the Metro Bank branch at Babbage Gate, Oakgrove in Milton Keynes at 04:20 BST, police said. The cash machine was put in a dark 4x4, and the thieves drove off in that vehicle and a white VW Golf. Police are appealing for anyone with mobile phone footage of the raid to get in touch. Ray Cardy, who walked past the bank shortly after the raid, said: "The dumper truck had been driven through the front doors, turned round and smashed the ATM from behind. "The remains of it were on the footpath - the dumper's engine was still running." A Metro Bank spokeswoman declined to reveal how much money had been taken.

Four balaclava-clad men smashed a dumper truck into the front of a bank and escaped with its cash machine.

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Dyke, appointed in 2013, had intended to stand for a further year. However, he said that opposition to proposed reforms from some FA councillors and a minority of board members had made him reconsider. When he succeeded David Bernstein, Dyke, 68, said England should aim to reach the semi-finals of Euro 2020 and win the World Cup in 2022. He believes football is in a better place financially, administratively and from a coaching standpoint than when he took over in 2013. However, he said it would be a "fight" to convince the FA Council to see through other "much-needed, significant reform". Media playback is not supported on this device In a statement, he added: "I had already decided that if no reform was possible I was going to leave anyway this summer, a position I had shared with a number of colleagues. "What I now see is that even if we get the reform through, I am probably not the best person to pick up the pieces following the inevitable discord." Dyke, a former director general of the BBC, has pursued policies aiming at modernising the FA and increasing the number of English players in the Premier League. He made headlines by making a throat-cutting gesture when England were drawn in the same 2014 World Cup group as Italy and Uruguay. Earlier this month, Dyke, an outspoken critic of Fifa under Sepp Blatter, said "we should shoot ourselves" if England failed to make it out of the group stages at Euro 2016 in France. Listen to reaction to Dyke's announcement on BBC Radio 5 live's Football Daily podcast. Berstein said he was "not particularly surprised" by the decision, claiming neither he nor Dyke had made "any substantial change" because pushing reforms through is "extremely difficult". "I can understand his frustration, which matches my frustration," Bernstein told BBC Radio 5 live Sport. He suggested only "outside intervention" from the Government or a regulator would make a significant difference. Media playback is not supported on this device BBC Radio 5 live's sports news correspondent Richard Conway answers questions raised by Dyke's decision. Q: Why is Dyke frustrated? A: Back in 2014, Dyke called the FA Council "overwhelmingly male and overwhelmingly white" and believes its members, who are drawn from the professional and amateur ranks of the game, do not represent the modern English game. However, they help decide major policy issues and a significant number of the 120 that make up the council will lose their positions if the changes being put forward are adopted. Q: What will happen now? Dyke has a reputation as a political bruiser. Given he will now be leaving in June, he may feel liberated to try to push through the changes that he and the majority of the FA board believe are vital without needing to tiptoe around the sensitivities of FA members. Q: Where does this leave the FA? A: The FA are prepared for change because Dyke turns 70 in 2017 and would have been forced to step down any way, but this is a period of intense change for the FA. There have been significant redundancies and cost cutting in an attempt to reshape the organisation's focus and provide the necessary finance for the proposed 150 football hubs due to be built across 30 English cities with FA and government funding. Q: Who will succeed him? A: There's no question that Dyke revels in his reputation as being outspoken. He is almost the exact opposite of his predecessor, the quiet and reserved Bernstein. It's anyone's guess at this stage which direction the FA will seek to go in this time, but they have six months to find his successor.

Greg Dyke will not seek re-election as Football Association chairman when his term ends in June.

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Brunon Kwiecien, 48, was convicted of planning a terrorist attack, illegal weapons possession and inciting two students to carry out an attack. He suggested he had been manipulated by Polish intelligence agents. Kwiecien was said to be fascinated with Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. Right-wing extremist Breivik killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in July 2011. Kwiecien, a former professor at Krakow's University of Agriculture, was arrested in 2012. Investigators believe he wanted to target parliament with four tonnes of explosives while then-President Bronislaw Komorowski and former Prime Minister Donald Tusk were due to attend, the trial heard. "If Brunon Kwiecien hadn't been stopped, we would be talking amid the ruins of the state today," said judge Aleksandra Almert, according to the AFP agency. While admitting he planned to carry out the attack, he also said he was subject to "provocation" by the intelligence services. Kwiecien is the first Pole to be accused of terrorism, Polish media reported. He has no known links to established extremist groups.

A Polish university lecturer has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for plotting to ram a car packed with explosives into parliament.

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PC Gareth Browning, 33, was on foot in Whitley, Reading on 30 November when he was hit by a black Mazda Aerosport driven by Luke Haywood, 28. Haywood admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and dangerous driving at Reading Crown Court. PC Browning was critically injured and remains in hospital in a serious condition. Haywood, of no fixed address, had previously admitted aggravated vehicle taking and one count of going equipped to burgle. He is currently serving a prison sentence for separate burglary offences. PC Browning was attempting to stop the stolen vehicle, driven by Haywood in Shinfield Road, when he was injured. Det Supt Chris Ward said: "No sentence can ever reflect the injuries that PC Browning received as a result of Haywood's reckless actions. PC Browning was doing what thousands of police officers do every day - protecting the public from dangerous criminals. "I hope that today's sentencing can allow Gareth's family to begin to come to terms with what has happened. We all wish Gareth a full recovery."

A man has been jailed for nine years for knocking down a police officer who tried to stop a stolen car.

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Are those voices being heard when it comes to the election? Courses to help young people get into work are held at the Spectrum Centre on the Shankill Road in Belfast. Among them is 18-year-old Donna Rennie who said she would "love to get a job". "I've applied for loads but it doesn't work, there's always somebody better," she said. "It's not a nice feeling." It's a feeling Marc Young knows only too well. "I went to school, got my GCSEs and A-levels and I thought I would walk into a job but I haven't," he added. "I've applied everywhere and just haven't heard back which is really frustrating." So what is the answer? What should the politicians be doing? William Glass has been in and out of jobs for the past two years since leaving school at 16. "Why not spend the time, the four years in school, training for a job or career that you want to be in? "Then more people are going to have the skills they need for the job. "I want a career, I don't want to be going from job to job." Thomas McKeown is looking for a job in youth work and he feels frustrated when he watches what happens at Stormont. "I feel the politicians today are just so bitter-minded about wanting to get one up on each other," he said. "How long do we actually want this to go on? It's been going on long enough." William agrees: "I believe there are people in Stormont who are stuck in the past and fighting. "For me, that era is truly over. "I want to see people using legal highs to get help and I want to see drug reform and better health care." And Dylan Bell believes the politicians need to be more visible when it isn't election time. "You see the politicians round your door every day for a month and a half," he said. "Then the rest of the ten and a half months you see them on the news and that's it - they're more worried about being on the big screen."

Almost one in five young people are unemployed in Northern Ireland, according to latest figures.

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The crackdown began last month when Turkish ISPs were told to cut off the virtual private networks people use to hide where they go. Many people are changing the way they connect to Tor to avoid the block. Activists said the block moved Turkey's net censorship policies from "moderate" to "severe". Tor, also known as The Onion Router, aims to conceal where people go online by using encryption and randomly bouncing requests for webpages through a network of different computers. The system has become popular in many nations, such as China and Turkey, where governments are known to watch what people do and say online. Now Turkey Blocks, which monitors internet censorship in the nation, said its regular monitoring of Tor showed that it was being widely blocked across the country. The organisation started to investigate after many people in Turkey reported having problems reaching the Tor network. It added that the Turkish government had put in place sophisticated systems at ISPs to spot when people were trying to connect to Tor. These inspect packets of data and can pick out the distinctive signature of those that are destined for Tor. Turkey Blocks said the Turkish government ordered firms to start blocking VPNs and Tor in early December, and has increased the pressure on firms to act by asking for weekly updates about the success of the measures. The monitoring group said that while direct access to Tor was not working well, many people were reporting that they could still access the network if they used a bridge. These are unofficial entry points to the Tor network which, because they are not listed in the software itself, can survive when blocks are imposed. Turkey has a long history of cutting off access to websites and services - particularly during periods of social unrest.

Turkey has blocked direct access to the Tor anonymous browsing network as part of a wider crackdown on the ways people circumvent internet censorship.

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Pedro Sanchez has been trying to secure support for a coalition government with the centre-right Ciudadanos party following inconclusive December polls. In an often acrimonious debate, acting PM Mariano Rajoy said a Socialist-led coalition would be a threat to Spain's national interests. Another vote will be held on Friday. If that vote is also unsuccessful, parliament will have a further two months to choose a government. If it is unable to do, fresh elections will be held on 26 June. Blame game begins in earnest Strain of Sanchez's bid to rule Kiss that showed real political passion Mr Sanchez needed an absolute majority in Wednesday's confidence vote but lost, with 219 votes against, 130 in favour and one abstention in the 350-seat lower house. Mr Rajoy - leader of the incumbent conservative Popular Party (PP) - called Mr Sanchez a "fictitious, unreal candidate". He told Mr Sanchez the PP's 122 deputies would vote against him "because you plan to eliminate what was achieved in Spain throughout these past four years which prevented this country from needing a bailout, created jobs, improved its competitiveness and caused it to grow economically". Conversely, Mr Sanchez was also under attack from the left. "You want to consolidate the main policies of the PP," said Pablo Iglesias, the pony-tailed leader of the far-left Podemos party, which represents 69 seats. However, he did not rule out a united front with the Socialists entirely, urging Mr Sanchez to "write the future of Spain together with us" - but leaving aside Podemos's ideological foes, Ciudadanos. On Friday, Mr Sanchez will have another chance in a vote that requires only a simple majority. However, correspondents say that now looks doomed too - leaving the country in limbo at a time when the economy is growing but still suffers serious weaknesses, primarily an unemployment rate of nearly 21%. In an address to parliament on Tuesday, Mr Sanchez called for the formation of a coalition based on common interests. He said a Socialist-led government would enact a series of progressive measures such as a minimum wage increase and a gender wage-gap law. Between them, the Socialist PSOE and partner party Ciudadanos command only 130 seats in the lower chamber. The Popular Party gained most votes in the 20 December election but Mr Rajoy was unable to secure enough backing to form a government. The PSOE performed badly, hit by the emergence of Podemos and Ciudadanos, and the fragmented political landscape has eluded efforts to agree a governing coalition.

Spain's Socialist leader has lost a bid to form a government after both main rival parties voted down his attempts to form a coalition.

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US markets had finished higher on expectations that job figures for February, due out later on Friday, will show a strong pace of growth. Asia's biggest market, Japan's Nikkei 225 closed 0.3% higher at 17,014.78. Shares in the embattled electronics firm Sharp rose 9.4% on new reports it was close to a deal with Taiwan's Foxconn. The jump came after the Nikkei business daily reported that Sharp and Foxconn parent company Hon Hai Precision Industry were continuing talks, with both sides seeking to conclude a takeover deal by Monday. Earlier talks had been delayed when Foxconn said it had received new information from Sharp which needed to be clarified. In Australia, the ASX 200 index finished the day up 0.2% at 5,090.02. Shares of commodity giant BHP Billiton rose 2.4%, with investors unfazed by a downgrade by credit ratings agency Moody's. Moody's cut its ratings of the Anglo-Australian firm to "A3" from "A1", citing the deterioration in the company's earnings and cash flow as reasons. The ratings agency also said it expected low commodity prices and softer demand to continue to affect BHP. In China, the mainland benchmark Shanghai Composite index closed up 0.5% at 2,874.15. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended up 1.2% at 20,176.70. Samsonite shares rose 1.3% as the company confirmed that it was taking over US luxury rival Tumi. In South Korea, the Kospi index finished down 0.1% at 1,955.63.

Shares across Asia traded mixed on Friday, failing to pick up the positive lead from Wall Street.

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The Labour politicians, representing Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Liverpool, say northern motorways are reaching "saturation point". And they say train capacity in what has been dubbed the Northern Powerhouse economic region is "at the limit". The Treasury says an extra £1.3bn will be spent UK-wide to tackle congestion. The chancellor will give an update on a number of government spending projects during his Autumn Statement on Wednesday, including transport upgrades. The Northern Powerhouse idea is aimed at ending the UK's economic reliance on London. Earlier this year the Conservative government said it was spending £13bn on transport for the Northern Powerhouse over the course of this Parliament "including dramatic improvements to our roads and railways in the North". But the Labour figures, who include Greater Manchester mayoral candidate Andy Burnham, say there is now an added need, following the "wake up" call of the Brexit vote, which will see changes to the economy once the UK leaves the EU. They say investors could lose confidence in the region - and the concept of a "Northern Powerhouse" - if there is not a realignment of how money is invested in regional transport. "Decades of unfair allocations from the transport budget have left the North with an inadequate rail system and motorways that are at saturation point," said Mr Burnham. "If people in London and the South East had to put up with the North's transport system, there would be protests in the streets. It is our turn to come to the front of the queue for transport investment and that must start this week." In the 2016 Budget, the-then chancellor, George Osborne, announced £60m would be allocated to develop plans to cut journey times to around 30 minutes between Leeds and Manchester, as well as improving transport connections between other cities in the north. It was Mr Osborne, in a speech in 2014, who said: "I'm here to talk to you today about what we can do to make the cities of the north a powerhouse for our economy."

Politicians in northern England want Chancellor Philip Hammond to prioritise transport links in the region to make it more attractive to investors.

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Martin McCauley was seriously wounded and a teenager was killed when police opened fire on a hayshed in County Armagh in 1982. It later emerged that the security services had secretly recorded what happened. The evidence was not made available to the court during his trial. The 52-year-old, from Lurgan, County Armagh, was arrested along with Niall Connolly and James Monaghan in Colombia in 2001 and accused of IRA training of rebel FARC guerrilla forces. They were initially cleared of the charge, only to be convicted on appeal and sentenced to 17 years in jail. But the three men avoided imprisonment by fleeing Colombia in 2004, turning up in the Republic of Ireland a year later. Even though Mr McCauley faces extradition to South America if he returns to Northern Ireland, the Court of Appeal in Belfast is examining a weapons conviction for which he received a two-year suspended jail sentence. Police claimed Martin McCauley confronted them with a rifle at a hayshed 32 years ago during the so-called RUC shoot to kill incident. He was seriously injured and Michael Tighe was killed when RUC officers opened fire. In 1985, Martin McCauley was convicted of possession of three rifles found inside the shed and given a two-year suspended sentence. He had insisted he and Michael Tighe, had not been armed and that the police opened fire without warning. The police told the court that was not true. Years after his conviction, it was revealed that MI5 had a listening device hidden inside the hayshed at the time of the shooting that recorded what happened. That recording could have re-established whether the police issued any warnings or made any reference to Mr McCauley being armed before they opened fire. The existence of the recording was not made known to the court at the time of his trial. Its existence was discovered by the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Sir John Stalker, as part of his investigation into allegations that the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was operating a shoot to kill policy. He also discovered that the recording was later destroyed. Last year, the Criminal Cases Review Commission referred his case to the Court of Appeal, on the basis that potentially significant material had been withheld from the judge. In a dramatic development on Wednesday, Gerald Simpson QC told the court he had been instructed to read a statement on behalf of the prosecution service. It said material relevant to the decision to prosecute Mr McCauley was withheld from the director of public prosecutions at the time, from the court and from the defence in the trial. The statement said this served only to undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system and to bring it into disrepute. The lawyer told the three Appeal Court judges that the prosecution service would not be making any submissions to uphold the conviction and invited them to exercise their discretion to quash it. The judges will sit next week to decide whether to do so. Mr McCauley's lawyers will argue that the conviction should be quashed on the basis that vital evidence was not available to the trial judge. The contents of John Stalker's investigation into the incident have never been made public. The lawyers hope that will change during next week's hearing. "Mr McCauley was tried in public, and he was convicted in public and it's his fundamental right that these documents be opened in the public court, so that he and the general public are aware of what actually occurred," Mr McCauley's lawyer, Fearghal Shiels, said. Mr McCauley was not in court to hear the prosecution statement on Wednesday as he faces extradition to south America if he returns to Northern Ireland.

The Public Prosecution Service has said it will not oppose an appeal by one of the so-called Colombia Three against a weapons conviction.

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Early figures from the Official Charts Company show the single has been downloaded 156,000 times, with the rest of the total derived from streaming. The star is also set for a US number one, after selling roughly 450,000 downloads in 48 hours. The song's video, which also premiered on Friday, has been watched more than 70 million times on YouTube. Directed by Canadian film-maker Xavier Dolan, the video sees Adele raking the coals of a faded relationship. Her ex-boyfriend is played in flashback scenes by Tristan Wilds, a former child actor from acclaimed crime series The Wire, who released his own Grammy-nominated album, New York: A Love Story, in 2013. According to Entertainment Weekly, it is also the first music video to be shot with large-format IMAX cameras. Hello is the lead single from Adele's third album, 25, which is due out on 20 November. Reviews for the single have been overwhelmingly positive. The Guardian called it "striking, witty and lovelorn"; while the Telegraph described it as "a beautiful song of loss and regret". Following its release on Friday, it topped the iTunes chart in 102 countries, and the album topped the pre-order chart in 93 countries. In the UK, Hello is expected to have the biggest opening week of the year, beating Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do, which achieved 173,000 combined sales and streams in February. The star could also smash a US record for selling the most downloads in a single week - set in 2009 when Flo Rida's Right Round was bought 636,000 times. Such figures emphasise the importance of Adele's career in an ailing music industry. She is one of the remaining few artists - others include Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Ed Sheeran - who can convince fans to pay for their records. Her last album, 21, sold 30 million copies worldwide, and it is hoped that its follow-up, 25, will mirror that success. If so, it could help reverse figures from the first half of this year, which showed that sales of both CDs and digital albums had fallen in the UK. But, speaking last Friday, Adele told the BBC she was not feeling the weight of expectation. "I feel like every album I'm ever going to write is always going to be following 21," she said. "No matter what this album does, my next record's going to be following 21. "It's phenomenal what happened with that - but it is a phenomenon. I can't really include it in any expectations of anything I ever do again."

Adele's comeback single, Hello, looks set to top the singles chart, after selling 165,000 copies in three days.

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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.

A Hitler lookalike has been arrested in Austria on charges of glorifying the Nazi era, local officials say.

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Alex Gray, from Perth in Tayside, is awaiting sentence after being convicted earlier this month of burglary and harassment. The singer said she was not angry with Gray and claimed "the system has failed him", a view echoed by his mother. The 30-year-old started pursuing the star by sending abusive rants and accusations in letters. He progressed to banging on her door and spending nights in her back garden. Gray was eventually charged by police after an incident last October when the singer was awoken by him bursting into her bedroom in the early hours. Allen said she was made to feel like a "nuisance rather than a victim" by police, adding that the experience had left her "a changed person". Gray's mother Michelle said she had tried to get help for her son from the authorities for years. Speaking on the Good Morning Britain programme, she said: "I had no idea that he had been stalking Lily Allen and putting her through these years of torture. "We knew he had a fixation with her but not that he had actually been anywhere near her. "We just thought he had a fantasy in his head." What's the difference between a super-fan and a stalker? It's not the first time a celebrity has received obsessive attention, but what are the stages that lead to somebody becoming a dangerous stalker? Lily Allen was relaxing in her flat last year when a stalker broke in and confronted her in her bedroom. "I'm lying in bed and I can see the door handle moving and then he steams in, starts screaming and shouting... I could see he was really agitated and upset," she told the BBC's Newsnight. Alex Gray, from Perth, was charged and found guilty of harassment and burglary and is awaiting sentencing. It was the culmination of an ordeal that started back in 2008 when Gray first contacted Allen on Twitter. Over time he began turning up at her house and office, left abusive notes and made suicide threats. READ MORE She added: "We knew he had a mental disorder and he had been diagnosed with paranoid delusional schizophrenia two years ago and he was meant to be on medication for this, but nobody was ensuring that that was happening. "It escalated after his dad died. He got worse and we knew he was getting worse. We tried to get him help and nobody would help us at all." His sister Kaylie Gray said: "I don't think it's going to be good for either party - for Alex, for us, for her (Allen) - if he just goes to prison because he's not going to get any help. "He's just going to continue to get worse and then he's going to get released without any help and we are just back to square one again." Asked if Gray had shown any remorse, his sister replied: "No, Alex is a very closed book. "He doesn't like to talk about anything and because of his disorder he thinks people are tapping phones, so he won't talk to me about things like that over the phone." His mother added: "He finds it hard to... separate what's real and what's not real, it's part of his illness, I think." Kaylie Gray said the family has not had any contact with Lily Allen. She added: "We are really sorry that it got this far. It's horrendous what her and her family have had to go through and obviously we feel so horrible for her." In an interview with The Observer, Allen said: "Until he gets the right treatment and the right help he needs, then I'm not safe. "You can throw the book at him, put him in jail, but he'll still be coming out. And the victim is never safe." A Metropolitan Police spokesman would not comment on Allen's case but said they took stalking and harassment "extremely seriously".

A man who stalked singer Lily Allen for seven years "needs help, not jail", according to his family.

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Rovers made a positive start and took the lead in the seventh minute thanks to Liam Noble's deflected free-kick, but the hosts were soon back on level terms. Miller was in the right place to convert a cross from Aswad Thomas, and the striker added a second early in the second half with a coolly-taken penalty. The see-saw nature of the contest continued as Rovers equalised through Rhys Murphy before Ross Lafayette restored Dover's advantage with a smart finish in the 68th minute. Christian Doidge looked to have rescued a point for the visitors in the 85th minute, but there was still time for Miller to complete his treble and clinch victory with a fine strike. Report supplied by the Press Association. Match ends, Dover Athletic 4, Forest Green Rovers 3. Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card. Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 4, Forest Green Rovers 3. Charlie Clough (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card. Goal! Dover Athletic 4, Forest Green Rovers 3. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic). Goal! Dover Athletic 3, Forest Green Rovers 3. Christian Doidge (Forest Green Rovers). Substitution, Dover Athletic. Loui Fazackerley replaces Sammy Moore. Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Kieffer Moore replaces Rhys Murphy. Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Elliott Frear replaces Drissa Traoré. Substitution, Dover Athletic. Tyrone Sterling replaces Sam Magri. Goal! Dover Athletic 3, Forest Green Rovers 2. Ross Lafayette (Dover Athletic). Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Christian Doidge replaces Matt Tubbs. Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card. Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Forest Green Rovers 2. Rhys Murphy (Forest Green Rovers). Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Forest Green Rovers 1. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic) converts the penalty with a. Second Half begins Dover Athletic 1, Forest Green Rovers 1. First Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Forest Green Rovers 1. Dale Bennett (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card. Drissa Traoré (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card. Aarran Racine (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card. Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Forest Green Rovers 1. Ricky Miller (Dover Athletic). Goal! Dover Athletic 0, Forest Green Rovers 1. Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers). First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

Ricky Miller scored a superb hat-trick as Dover made it two wins on the bounce with a thrilling victory over National League leaders Forest Green.

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More than 110 members of the Unite union, based in Weymouth and Bridport, are set to walk out from 04:00 on Monday until 03:59 BST on Saturday. Unite said it is angry at a 2.3% pay offer from First Group while it says drivers for the firm in Bristol have been given a 13% increase. The operator said the action was "totally unnecessary". The union says Weymouth and Bridport drivers earn £8.80 an hour while drivers in Yeovil are on £9.50 an hour and those at rival firms in Bournemouth and Poole earn nearly £2 an hour more. Unite regional officer Bob Lanning said: "What we have here is a situation where the drivers in Weymouth and Poole are the poor relations, when compared with the pay of other drivers working for First Group. "Our members regret the disruption to the public that will be caused by this strike, but they have been pushed against the wall with years of insulting pay increases for the responsible job that they do." First Dorset, which is part of the First Group, said it had been in discussions with Unite for several months and an offer to use resolution service Acas is still on the table. Marc Reddy, managing director of First Dorset, said: "This action is totally unnecessary and will cause great hardship to our customers who rely on our services daily to get them to work, to school or college, to attend hospital and doctors' appointments or job interviews." The operator said contingency plans were being put in place but urged the union to "get back round the table".

Passengers are facing disruption as bus drivers in Dorset prepare to stage a five-day strike over "poverty" wages.

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John Biggadike died when he fell while in the hoist and was impaled on a metal post at Boston Pilgrim Hospital. At Lincoln Crown Court, the prosecution alleged hospital staff were not adequately trained and had wrongly removed a knee support pad. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust denies breaching health and safety regulations. Mr Biggadike was receiving physiotherapy at the hospital ahead of being discharged in April 2012 when the incident happened. More stories from around Lincolnshire The defence suggest Mr Biggadike's death was not caused by failings in training, but by a failure to act after a previous "serious incident" with a hoist at a hospital in Leicester in 2007. Jurors heard evidence from Sarah Vincent, representing the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Mrs Vincent admitted the Leicester incident was "serious" but conceded the subsequent MHRA investigation was limited to questioning the hoist manufacturer's own investigation and making sure the hospital trust had instructions for using the hoist. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust denies breach of health and safety regulations by exposing non-employees to risk by failing to train, supervise and monitor its employees in relation to the safe use of the lifting hoist on dates between July 2001 and April 2012. The trial continues.

Instructions for a hoist involved in the death of a hospital patient were not comprehensive, a court has heard.

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