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It will house two of Flint's GP practices, as well as dental services and occupational therapists.
The centre will replace services previously provided by sites including Borough Grove Clinic and Flint Hospital, which campaigners fought to save.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said it would bring "health and social services together under one roof".
The centre is one of three being developed in north Wales, along with Llangollen, Denbighshire, and Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd. | Funding of £5m has been announced for a new health centre in Flintshire. | 0.941321 | 1 |
That result allowed Alloa to leapfrog Airdrie into second courtesy of their 2-0 triumph at Queen's Park, while East Fife moved into fourth spot with a 3-2 home victory against Brechin.
Stranraer and Peterhead served up a 3-3 cracker at Stair Park but they remain ninth and eighth respectively.
Stenhousemuir are still bottom of the pile despite a 1-1 draw at Albion.
The battle of the top two at the start of the day proved to be a mismatch as Sean Crighton sent Livi into a 34th-minute lead before Joe Gorman's own goal made it 2-0.
Danny Mullen added a third and former Airdrie kid Nicky Cadden finished off the scoring before Ryan Conroy was red-carded for the home side late on.
Greig Spence scored early for Alloa against Queen's Park and Jordan Kirkpatrick doubled their tally with five minutes remaining.
Kevin Smith's cracker gave East Fife the lead against Brechin and Chris Kane made it 2-0 before Andy Jackson replied. Willie Dyer squared it but a Chris Duggan spot-kick won it for the home side.
Brechin had Alan Trouten sent off before Nicki Paterson also saw red for East Fife.
Peterhead took the lead at Stranraer through Rory McAllister but goals from Ryan Thomson and William Gibson gave the Blues a 2-1 lead. McAllister nodded the leveller and Grant Anderson made it 3-2 but Stranraer earned a point thanks to Gibson's second of the match.
Michael Dunlop fired Albion Rovers ahead at home to Stenhousemuir but Mason Robertson earned the bottom side a point. | League One leaders Livingston extended their advantage at the summit to 12 points with a 4-0 win at Airdrieonians. | 0.872531 | 1 |
Antony Ricketts, 20, was also ordered to pay costs of £186.31 after being convicted in his absence in Carmarthen.
He was also found guilty of putting non-recyclable waste out in blue bags in Barnsfield Terrace.
"Bags of rubbish left littering the streets for days on end will not be tolerated," said Councillor Jim Jones, environment executive member.
Ricketts must also pay a victim surcharge of £20 after the conviction under the Environmental Protection Act.
Ricketts was warned by council officers, but problems continued and they found evidence linking him to black bags and contaminated blue recycling bags on several occasions.
Two people from Llanelli have already been fined £100 after Carmarthenshire Council announced it was getting tough with householders who put out waste on the wrong day.
Mr Jones added: "If a resident continually ignores the council's advice we have no choice but to issue a fine or prosecute them in court.
"I hope residents take notice of this case and act responsibly to reduce the amount of rubbish littering our streets." | A man who continually put his rubbish out on the wrong day has been fined £200 by magistrates. | 1.508608 | 2 |
Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A and B would be built 77 miles (125km) off the Yorkshire coast.
Forwind Ltd said it would consist of 400 wind turbines producing up to 2,400 MW of electricity, enough to power nearly two million homes.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said the development had the potential to support hundreds of jobs.
Mr Davey said: "Making the most of Britain's home grown energy is creating jobs and businesses in the UK, getting the best deal for consumers and reducing our reliance on foreign imports.
"Wind power is vital to this plan, with £14.5bn invested since 2010 into an industry which supports 35,400 jobs."
Forewind said it believed the project could generate between 4,000 and 5,000 direct and indirect jobs.
The offshore farm would connect into the national grid at an existing substation at Creyke Beck, near Cottingham, East Yorkshire, the developers said.
The company has already spent £60m on initial surveys and planning.
Construction on the site is expected to start in 2019. | The government has approved plans for what is believed to be one of the world's largest offshore wind projects. | 1.92779 | 2 |
He was convicted of contesting crimes against humanity.
The former Front National chief was convicted of the same charge in 2012 after saying France's Nazi occupation had been "not particularly inhumane".
France has strict laws against Holocaust denial.
Mr Le Pen told a journalist his remarks "corresponded to my thought that the gas chambers were a detail of the history of war".
Asked if "millions of deaths" could be called "point of detail", Mr Le Pen said: "It is not a million deaths, it is the gas chambers. I'm talking about specific things. I have not talked about the number of dead. I spoke of a system. I said it was a detail of the history of warfare."
As well as remarks about the Holocaust, Mr Le Pen said in 2014 that the Ebola virus could solve Europe's "immigration problem".
He was expelled from the party he founded last year by his daughter Marine Le Pen, the current leader, over his extreme beliefs.
In 2015, Ms Le Pen was acquitted of inciting hatred after comparing French Muslims to the Nazis who occupied France during the war. | Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been fined 30,000 euros (£24,000; $34,000) for calling the Nazi gas chambers a "detail" of World War Two. | 1.779522 | 2 |
Bill Milward "turned up the ball" for the second day of Royal Shrovetide Football in his hometown of Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
The game has been played almost every year since at least the 17th Century.
The match ended in a 1-1 draw after the Down'Ards goaled the ball late on Wednesday evening.
Mr Milward said: "I did practice a little bit - I tried with one hand to start but it over balanced me.
"Every year you look forward to Shrovetide. It's one of them things that gets in your blood."
Day one ended with a goal for the Up'Ards - those born north of Henmore Brook, but Matthew Etherington goaled for the Down'Ards at Clifton Mill, on Wednesday.
Mr Milward added: "Best day of my life - I couldn't have had a better time of it."
He first took part in the sometimes violent game when he was "about nine or 10" and continued to play until the outbreak of World War Two.
The veteran - awarded a Legion d'Honneur last year - drove an amphibious landing craft when the allies launched their invasion of Nazi occupied France in 1944.
The crowd sang happy birthday to Mr Milward as well as the traditional renditions of Auld Lang Syne and God Save The Queen before he threw the ball into the crowd.
Shrovetide Football through the ages | A D-Day veteran who started an ancient game of football on his 100th birthday has said it was one of the best days of his life. | 1.387915 | 1 |
A man in his 20s was found injured by police at a property in Jubilee Court, Banbury, at about 08:00 BST.
He was taken to Horton General Hospital but later died. His next of kin have been informed.
The woman, 26, and man, 22, both from Banbury, are being held in police custody.
Det Supt Chris Ward, from the Thames Valley Police major crime unit, said: "This is not believed to be a random incident.
"We are currently at the very early stages of this investigation and are in process of determining the exact circumstances which led to the victim's death." | A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a stabbing in an Oxfordshire town. | 0.710635 | 1 |
Clinton House Nursing Home in St Austell, Cornwall, which is run by the Morleigh Group, cares for 30 "vulnerable" adults.
Extra qualified nursing staff were put in place "to safeguard the health, wellbeing and dignity" of residents when fears were raised in October.
Cornwall Council said the "unusual and serious" decision to move residents had been taken due to safeguarding issues.
More on the care home closure, and other news
Morleigh, which runs six homes in Cornwall, has confirmed three others are being investigated.
In a letter to relatives, owner Tricia Juleff said the home faced significant challenges and she had therefore decided "the best option" was to close it.
She added a new chief executive had been appointed to work with the authorities to support the transition of residents from Clinton House.
Christine Stewart, whose 85-year-old mother Sylvia lives at the home, said she knew it was under investigation but was shocked at how quickly the authorities had moved.
Ms Stewart, who first raised concerns about the home in 2013, said it was a "heartbreaking" situation and while she "supported and applauded" the authorities' action, she was "appalled" residents had been allowed to suffer.
"I am saddened, but not surprised, that the problems have been allowed to get serious enough to force the complete closure of the home.
"Now they have the added disruption of moving and I imagine it will be extremely difficult for most of them to cope."
An action group involving the council, NHS Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group, Devon and Cornwall Police, NHS England and the Care Quality Commission (CQC), was set up after concerns were raised by a relative on 26 October.
The police force said no arrests had been made, while the CQC said the findings of its recent inspections of four Morleigh premises would be reported "in due course".
Others being investigated include St Theresa's Nursing Home in Callington, Elmsleigh Nursing Home in Par and Collamere in Lostwithiel. | A private care home has closed amid serious concerns for residents' safety. | 1.167771 | 1 |
Saeed Karimian, 45, was shot dead in the Maslak neighbourhood, along with his Kuwaiti business partner.
The vehicle used in the apparent assassination was later found burnt out. Turkish police are investigating.
Mr Karimian had previously been tried in absentia by a Tehran court and sentenced to six years in prison for spreading propaganda against Iran.
It is understood he died immediately after the gunmen - who were reportedly masked - opened fire on the vehicle on Saturday evening, while his business partner died later in hospital.
Gem TV, which dubs foreign and Western shows into Persian and broadcasts them into Iran, has been criticised by Iran for showing programmes that go against Islamic values and has been accused of spreading Western culture.
Family members told the BBC's Jiyar Gol that Mr Karimian had been threatened by the regime the past three months, and as a result was planning to leave Istanbul and move back to London.
However, sources within the Turkish government have suggested the killing may be related to business and gangs, our correspondent says.
Gem Group was initially established in London, but later expanded to Dubai. According to the group's website, it has 17 Persian-language channels, plus one each in Kurdish, Azeri and Arabic. | The founder and chairman of the Persian-language Gem TV company has been killed in Istanbul. | 1.186464 | 1 |
A total project cost of about £1.65m has been attached to the scheme.
It would see the existing Jim Clark Room in Duns expanded and enhanced to let cars and trophies go on display.
A design statement accompanying the planning application describes it as an "exciting opportunity" to raise the profile of the Scottish sporting hero.
Scottish Borders Council has already committed almost £620,000 to the scheme with a similar sum being sought from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
A minimum of £300,000 has been set as a target for community fundraising.
"It is envisaged that the redeveloped museum will attract more tourists and motor racing enthusiasts alike thus contributing to the local economy and the Scottish Borders generally," said the design statement.
"The proposed alterations respect the original design of the building, whilst also addressing issues with the condition of its fabric, by creating a contemporary, fit-for-purpose visitor attraction for the 21st Century."
It is hoped the development could be completed by 2018 - the 50th anniversary of Clark's death at Hockenheim in Germany, aged just 32.
The driver was born in Kilmany in Fife, but raised in the Borders, and was crowned Formula One world champion in 1963 and 1965. He won a total of 25 grand prix races. | Plans have been submitted for a museum in the Borders celebrating the achievements of two-time Formula One world champion Jim Clark. | 1.372802 | 1 |
A French art dealer, who has not been identified by police, filed a theft report after forgetting the picture in the cab's boot on Thursday.
He reportedly became distracted by a call on his mobile and only noticed he no longer had the picture the next day.
The work is Concetto Spaziale (Spatial concept) by Argentina-born Italian artist Lucio Fontana, who died in 1968.
The dealer had been making his way to a modern art gallery in Paris's third arrondissement.
He tried to locate the taxi he had used but was unsuccessful and on Saturday went to police, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
But the driver returned the work on Tuesday, AFP news agency quoted police as saying.
Fontana's picture is one of a series of abstracts he made featuring the piercing of the canvas to create an actual dimension of space and using light.
The artist became known for founding the spacialist movement, which called for the art world to embrace science and technology, according to the Tate Gallery. | An artwork worth €1.5m ($1.6m; £1.25m) has been found after it was accidentally left in a taxi in Paris. | 1.702466 | 2 |
The Saddlers shipped four second-half goals to suffer their heaviest league defeat of the season at Bradford City on Saturday - and Whitney is looking to them to "man up" after the 4-0 loss.
"If you don't care, you don't change things," he told BBC WM 95.6.
"There were a few harsh words but sometimes you need to have them."
Whitney, whose side lie six points behind second-placed Burton with a game in hand, added: "Promotion is just words, but you have to turn those words into action.
"They have to man up. They need to show me who's ready for the fight."
Whitney's team selection to face Shrewsbury was going to depend on how his players responded to his immediate post-match inquest at Valley Parade.
"Places are available on Tuesday," said the interim Saddlers head coach. "I'm going to see who wants it. I'm going to see who's hungry.
"I need to make decisions after looking at it with a calm head. But I've asked them: 'Did you really do enough to challenge Bradford City? Did you do enough to want to get promoted? Were you willing to put your head on the line?'
"Sometimes that's what you have to do. It's not always about playing pretty football."
Whitney has the option of bringing back fully fit-again defender Jason Demetriou against Shrewsbury.
He can also bring back 18-goal top scorer Tom Bradshaw, who has started the last two games on the bench, to face his old club.
Whitney is also wary that local rivals Shrewsbury upset another promotion-chasing side on their own ground on Saturday, winning 3-2 at Gillingham.
Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro's fortuitous late winner ended an untimely run of seven games without a win to leave Micky Mellon's side four points clear of the relegation zone with a game in hand.
Victory for Shrewsbury would guarantee League One safety with two games to go.
The Shropshire side expect to have midfielder Ian Black fit after injuring his neck in the final minute on Saturday, but fellow midfielder James Wallace (knee) and defender Jermaine Grandison (hip) are big doubts. | Walsall boss Jon Whitney wants his players to react positively when they host League One strugglers Shrewsbury Town on Tuesday. | 0.926876 | 1 |
In March 2015, officials and historians condemned IS for the destruction of the archaeological site, which dates back to the 13th Century BC.
The UN's cultural body described the act as a war crime.
IS says shrines and statues are "false idols" that have to be smashed.
Nimrud lies about 30km (20 miles) south-east of the major city of Mosul, which Iraqi government forces are attempting to take from IS.
An Iraqi military statement said: "Troops from the Ninth Armoured Division liberated Nimrud town completely and raised the Iraqi flag above its buildings after inflicting loss of life and equipment on the so-called Islamic State."
Meanwhile, human rights activists have accused Kurdish forces in Iraq of demolishing the houses of Sunni Arabs in at least 20 villages and towns in areas which had been under the control of IS.
According to Human Rights Watch, some Sunni Arab villages have been almost totally destroyed. It says this amounts to a pattern of apparently unlawful demolitions of houses and other buildings.
Buildings were marked with a X before being demolished by bulldozers, it says.
A deputy minister in the Kurdish regional government, Dindar Zebari, denied there were policies or instructions given to destroy Sunni Arab homes.
Instead, Mr Zebari told the BBC, the Kurdish region was a safe haven for almost two million Sunni Arabs.
He added that some villagers in the areas which had been destroyed had supported or become members of IS, and the damage to homes was either the result of air strikes or bombs placed in the villages as the militants retreated.
The unrivalled riches of Nimrud | Iraqi government forces say they have captured Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian city overrun by Islamic State (IS) group militants two years ago. | 2.695632 | 3 |
Marian Kotleba won 55.5% of the vote in the run-off against Vladimir Manka from the Smer-Social Democrat party.
Mr Kotleba is a former leader of a banned far-right organisation who now leads the ultra-nationalist Our Slovakia party.
He has previously organised marches against Slovakia's Roma minority.
The now-banned neo-Nazi party which Mr Kotleba formerly led had expressed sympathy for the Nazi puppet state which ruled Slovakia during World War II.
The former teacher has called for Slovakia to withdraw from Nato, which his party brands a "terrorist" organisation.
Of Slovakia's other seven regions, six were won by the social democrats, the party of the Prime Minister Robert Fico, according to AP. | A right-wing extremist has been elected regional governor of Banska Bystrica in central Slovakia. | 1.235733 | 1 |
The two LED lights were taken from St Botolph's Church, known as Boston Stump, on Monday.
The church had planned a special service to mark the switch-on after the original lights were damaged in the 2013 floods.
Church-goer Peter Sherlock said he was "very upset that the church is being persecuted in this way".
"We need to have the Stump as a shining light and a beacon in the area," he said, after offering to pay another £2,000 to replace the lights.
The reward is offered for information leading to an arrest "of the person or people responsible".
Anyone with information about the damage is asked to contact police.
Reverend Alyson Buxton, said: "There is so much hard work goes into it and so much restoration after the floods.
"It was such a fitting thing that two years after the floods we could light the building again."
The lights were due to be switched on in November, the first time since the building was damaged by flooding in December 2013.
The total damage caused by the flooding was estimated to have cost between £250,000 and £500,000. | A £2,000 reward has been offered after new foodlights were stolen from a Boston church. | 1.695914 | 2 |
All of the managerial movements for June will appear below, followed by the full list of each club, league-by-league.
To read the list for July, visit the ins and outs page. | BBC Sport tracks all the manager ins and outs as well as listing all the current bosses in the Premier League, Scottish Premiership, English Football League and National League. | -0.106312 | 0 |
The Trade Union Bill, being debated in the Lords on Monday, would require Labour-affiliated union members to "opt in" to paying a levy to the party.
Labour believes three million fewer members of the biggest unions would agree, impacting on its structure.
Internal party changes are already set to cut union members' contributions.
Labour is also set to lose out by about £1.3m a year when state funding for opposition parties - known as Short money - is cut. Ministers have said political parties should make their contribution to tackling the deficit.
A Labour Party document shared with the Guardian newspaper makes clear the scale of the potential threat from the new bill to Labour's finances.
Unions are said to currently provide 20% of Labour's core funding and according to the Guardian, the estimated fall in funding will make it impossible for Labour to maintain its current structure, staffing or offices.
"With an annual salary cost in excess of over 50% of total costs, it is clear that current staffing levels could not be sustained," the party document is reported to say.
"In addition to a staffing review, all contracts would need to be challenged to remove any discretionary costs and offices considered for sale or sublet."
Members of the 14 Labour-affiliated unions, which includes Unite, the GMB, Unison, the Communication Workers Union and the Usdaw, currently contribute automatically, but can opt out if they wish.
The legislation going through Parliament would see union members having to "opt in" every five years to pay a political levy as part of their fees.
BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins says Labour is facing a considerable financial challenge and it is in the party's interest to highlight the impact the new law would have.
Lord Collins, a former Labour general secretary, tells the Guardian: "These changes are entirely partisan, unfair and going to hit the income of the party and union political funds very hard.
"No balancing measure is being taken to cap the donations of the Conservative Party."
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has said the new bill, which also proposes tighter rules on strike ballots, was "about democracy and accountability" and "not a declaration of war" against unions. | The Labour Party fears its annual income could fall by £6m as a result of legal changes to the way it gets funds from the unions, documents suggest. | 1.494717 | 1 |
Mr Holmes said he lingered outside the cinema for a "moment or two" and called a mental health hotline. He also thought the FBI could have stopped him.
His phone call to the crisis line was disconnected, and the FBI did not come.
Mr Holmes is on trial for carrying out the deadly shooting in June 2012.
He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Prosecutors say Holmes was sane at the time of the shooting and are seeking the death penalty.
Defence attorneys claim schizophrenia distorted his ability to tell right from wrong and he should be sent to the state mental hospital.
Two state-appointed psychiatrists deemed Holmes legally sane but mentally ill at the time of the shooting at the suburban movie theatre.
"At that point, I'm on autopilot," Holmes said in the video, in which he was being interviewed by state psychiatrist Dr William Reid.
He "doubted he could be talked out of it" but called the hotline as "one last chance to see if I should turn back".
When the phone call was disconnected, he knew "it was really going to happen".
Mr Holmes told Dr Reid he would be remembered as a "bad guy" and that he "accomplished what he set out to do".
In the video, Mr Holmes showed a lot of rational thinking, Dr Reid said.
Mr Holmes also told him he was not using drugs in the weeks before the attack. | James Holmes had called a crisis hotline for help before he killed 12 people and wounded 70 others at a Colorado cinema, according to a video interview. | 1.121684 | 1 |
The 21-year-old made just one first-team appearance for the Canaries after joining them from Falkirk in 2014.
He moved to Norwich after scoring eight goals in 82 games for Falkirk, and will move to Stadium:MK on two-year deal when his Norwich contract ends in June.
McGrandles played alongside Dons manager Robbie Neilson during his time with Falkirk.
"When I learnt MK Dons were interested, I knew that it would be a great place for me to come to," McGrandles told the club website.
"I know the ambition of the club is to get out of the league again and that was a big factor. I know the manager and the coaching staff well too so that was another big draw."
McGrandles was among a group of Norwich youngsters released earlier in the month, with the announcement coming shortly after their first-team retained list was published.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side MK Dons have signed midfielder Conor McGrandles on a free transfer from Norwich City. | 0.844931 | 1 |
A 27-year-old woman, who was a pillion passenger on a motorbike, died in the incident on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road between Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale on Thursday evening.
She was named on Friday as Sarah Jayne Jones from the Tredegar area of Blaenau Gwent.
The rider, a 56-year-old man, has suffered serious injuries.
The road remained closed on Friday morning while investigation work continued. | A main route across the top of the south Wales valleys which closed after a fatal accident has reopened. | 0.310828 | 0 |
Rovers were by far the better side in the first half but could not make their pressure count as they failed to score for the third time in four games.
They were made to pay on 63 minutes when Town wide man Whalley's inswinging corner flew in at the near post.
His second goal in successive games leaves Rovers without a win in 10.
Visiting keeper Jayson Leutwiler was Shrewsbury's star man with a string of saves, capped by a magnificent effort to tip away Cameron Stewart's injury-time free-kick. And, when he was beaten, Andy Butler had a header cleared off the line by Ian Black.
Shrewsbury Town boss Micky Mellon told BBC Radio Shropshire:
"It's a massive victory. The questions the lads have been asked were answered with three points.
"It's a vitally important goal. This is what you get at this time of the season and it's always good to get clean sheets.
"I am delighted with our performance. We needed the energy and enthusiasm of the whole squad to get a result. We had desire and commitment." | Shaun Whalley scored a freak second-half winner straight from a corner to stretch Shrewsbury's unbeaten League One run to five games at Doncaster. | 0.971113 | 1 |
Mary Hampton's bicycle was taken while she did her weekly shop in Waitrose.
The 89-year-old from Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire admitted she was "very silly" not to have locked it, but in 85 years of cycling she "never had".
After news of the theft hit social media, dozens offered to buy Mary a new one. Her local cycling club has loaned her one "for as long as I need it".
Mrs Hampton was in the habit of cycling the three miles to the supermarket once or twice a week on her trusty Raleigh Shopper.
But when she went shopping last Thursday, she returned to find her bike gone.
The former primary school teacher said: "It was an old-looking bike, I didn't think anybody would be going to steal it."
Her plight was shared on social media and within 24 hours, dozens of offers of new bicycles flooded in for Mary via Facebook.
She finally accepted a loan of a fold-up bicycle from Berkhamsted Cycling Club.
People also clubbed together to give her money for a new lock and a basket for her new bike.
"I've bought a huge padlock. I've never seen such a big padlock," Mrs Hampton said.
"One bad action happened, but think of the wonderful kindness and caring that's come from it," she added. | An elderly woman whose bicycle was stolen while she was shopping has been overwhelmed by offers of replacements. | 1.287538 | 1 |
Fly-half Morne Steyn, making his first Test start in two years, scored all the hosts' points in Pretoria, kicking four penalties and two drop-goals.
Australia's Scott Sio scored the only try as the Wallabies failed to capitalise on a 10-3 half-time lead.
New Zealand, who have already won the competition, beat Argentina 36-17 in Buenos Aires.
South Africa's win means they move above Australia into second place before the final round of fixtures.
"Morne justified his inclusion," said South Africa coach Allister Coetzee.
"He showed he is still a Test match player. He remains proud to play for the Springboks and that showed.
"I am a very happy man and will never underestimate any Test win. For a team that had their backs to the wall, a win like this means a lot and is a definite confidence-booster."
World champions New Zealand made four changes to their starting line-up against Argentina but were still too strong.
They are now just one game away from matching the record of successive wins by top-tier nations - held by themselves and South Africa.
Anton Lienert-Brown, Ryan Crotty, Dane Coles, TJ Perenara and Ben Smith crossed for the visitors, who led 29-3 at half-time. Beauden Barrett converted four of the tries.
Facundo Isa and Joaquin Tuculet got Argentina's tries in the last 22 minutes of the game as the visitors' Joe Moody and Liam Squire were shown yellow cards.
The All Blacks will set a world record of 18 consecutive victories this month with wins over South Africa in Durban and Australia in Auckland.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | South Africa ended their three-game losing streak in the Rugby Championship with an 18-10 victory over Australia. | 0.986894 | 1 |
The 25-year-old midfielder, who began his career at Manchester United, joins the Seagulls on a three-year deal.
"Oliver is another excellent addition to our squad," Brighton manager Chris Hughton told the club website.
"He had a good grounding at Manchester United and has a wealth of Championship and international level."
He added: "He's a box-to-box midfielder and an excellent passer of the ball, so he gives us extra options in midfield and adds further depth to our squad."
Norwood joined Huddersfield in the summer of 2012 before signing for Reading in August 2014.
He made 92 appearances for the Royals, scoring five goals. | Championship side Brighton & Hove Albion have signed Northern Ireland international Oliver Norwood from Reading for an undisclosed fee. | 0.743353 | 1 |
Paul McMullen got them underway when he finished a Billy King cross, and shortly after it was 2-0 when King scored with a long-range shot.
Mark Durnan volleyed in a third to give the visitors a commanding half-time lead against the Highland League side.
The result was marred with United striker James Keatings carried off.
The result at Victoria Park gives Ray McKinnon's men six points out of six following the 2-0 win on Saturday over Raith Rovers. | Three first-half goals moved Dundee United three points clear at the top of Scottish League Cup Group C as they eased past Buckie Thistle. | 0.492425 | 0 |
Richard Maycock, 43, from Walsgrave in Warwickshire, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a school in Coventry in 2013.
The girl told her parents Maycock touched her after a swimming lesson and said she would be in trouble if she told anyone.
He also admitted sexually assaulting a second girl at a school in Redditch.
The Redditch abuse came to light during the Coventry investigation, when a former pupil at a school in the Worcestershire town reported Maycock had abused her between 2005 and 2006 when he was a teacher there.
Det Con Sarah Rose from Warwickshire Police said: "Maycock used his position as a teacher to abuse the trust these two girls had in him.
"I cannot commend them enough for their bravery in reporting what happened to them. We also hope this case shows that we take such allegations extremely seriously and encourages other victims to come forward."
Maycock will also be placed on the sex offenders register. | A PE teacher has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for sexually assaulting female pupils in his care. | 0.492032 | 0 |
Herbalife agreed to pay $200m (£150m) to settle the accusations.
The FTC had been investigating whether Herbalife misled customers about the potential value of reselling its products.
The deal was a blow to activist investor Bill Ackman who was betting against the company.
Herbalife shares climbed over 18% at one point.
Mr Ackman made several public allegations that Herbalife was a "bad" company that relied on a hierarchical structure that focused on recruiting new salespeople rather than selling products.
The FTC investigation also focused on this structure. Herbalife uses a direct sales method where products are bought by distributors to sell to the public and who are also encouraged to bring in new recruits.
The FTC settlement requires Herbalife to reorganise its compensation system to reward retail sales more than recruitment.
The regulator said, only a small proportion of Herbalife distributors earned anything near the amount the company promised.
"Herbalife is going to have to start operating legitimately, making only truthful claims about how much money its members are likely to make," said FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez in a statement.
Herbalife marketing material advertised that part-time sellers of its nutritional products would earn between $500 to $1,500 a month. Many distributors, in fact, lost money.
On Friday, the company also announced it was changing its internal governance to allow investor Carl Icahn to own a larger stake in the company.
Mr Icahn will now be able to own 35% of Herbalife shares.
In a statement, he praised the company's management for the way it handled the investigation. He also said the company should move on and look at possibly acquiring some competitors.
"Now that the company has reached a settlement with the FTC, it is time to consider a range of strategic opportunities, including potential roll-ups involving competitors, as well as other strategic transactions," Mr Icahn said.
His support of Herbalife led to a dispute with Mr Ackman. Mr Ackman has been "shorting" the company - a strategy where an investor borrows stock and sells it hoping to buy it back at a lower price before the date of return.
The two exchanged insults during an interview calling each other a "liar" and a "cry-baby". | Dietary supplement firm Herbalife has reached a deal with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to avoid being labelled a pyramid scheme. | 1.265351 | 1 |
Govinda said on Tuesday that he "respected" the top court and was waiting for its order.
Santosh Ray said Govinda had slapped him "without any provocation" while he was watching a film shoot in 2008.
Govinda, a former MP, was one of Bollywood's top comedy stars in the 1980s and 1990s.
Mr Ray had sought criminal proceedings against the actor, but his lawyer later told the court that his client would be satisfied with an apology, reports say.
"I was just watching the shooting of a movie as I was his fan. But the incident left me shocked and I lost all respect for him," he told The Hindustan Times newspaper.
On Monday, the court watched video recordings of the incident and asked Govinda to apologise to Mr Ray.
"We all enjoy your movies and you are a great actor but we cannot tolerate your action of slapping. You don't need to do in actual life what you do on screen," the court was quoted as saying by The Times of India newspaper.
"You don't need to pay money for it. Even expressing regret is more than enough. Your prestige would not go down by expressing regret. Have a large heart and apologise," the judges said.
Govinda told reporters on Tuesday that he did "not want to hurt anybody" and was waiting for the complete court order before deciding what to do. | India's Supreme Court has told a Bollywood actor to apologise to a fan whom he slapped while he was shooting a film seven years ago. | 0.789316 | 1 |
Conor Paul Montgomery, 26, from Glenkeen, Dunmurry, is accused of stabbing 23-year-old Ryan Conlon.
Mr Conlon remains critically ill in hospital following the incident at Brittons Parade on Saturday night.
Mr Montgomery faces a single charge of attempted murder. At the magistrates court on Monday, he spoke only to confirm he understood the charge.
A detective said he could connect Mr Montgomery to the alleged offence.
A defence lawyer said a bail application would be made at a later stage. Mr Montgomery was remanded in custody until 26 September. | A man has appeared in court in Belfast charged with attempted murder. | 0.412747 | 0 |
Sixty-three people have been rescued, many suffering from hypothermia, according to a maritime rescue centre in Russia's Far East.
The Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler had 132 people on board when it sank.
Seventy-eight of the crew were Russian, with the remainder coming from countries including Latvia, Ukraine, Myanmar and Vanuatu.
The Dalniy Vostok went down in the Sea of Okhotsk, 330 km (205 miles) west of Krutogorovsky settlement, at around 06:30 (20:30 GMT Wednesday).
Drifting ice may have holed the vessel, according to Russian emergency services.
Water flooded the engine compartment and the trawler then sank within 15 minutes, a local branch of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.
The ship did not send out a distress signal before the accident, according to local media.
Some two dozen ships and a rescue helicopter are involved in searching for remaining survivors in freezing waters around zero degrees C (32degF).
The 15 people who are still missing are thought to have been in the ship's hold as the trawler sank, reported Russia's Tass news agency. | A Russian trawler has sunk off the Kamchatka peninsula, with 54 sailors so far confirmed dead. | 1.928676 | 2 |
Colin Penrose, 22, was found bound and strangled in E Hall at Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow in March 2014.
Fellow prisoner John Clark, who was 21 at the time, was found guilty of murder after claiming it was a prank hostage situation gone wrong.
The hearing will begin on 16 December at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Jailing Clark for at least 19 years in November 2014, Judge Michael O'Grady told him: "You acted as judge, jury and executioner quite literally in this case."
The High Court in Glasgow was told Clark was motivated by the fact that Penrose, of Oban, was a convicted sex offender.
Now, the Crown Office has said a Fatal Accident Inquiry will be heard into the man's death later this year.
FAIs are mandatory in the case of people who die in prison. | An inquiry has been ordered into the death of a man who was murdered in prison by his cell mate because he was a sex offender. | 0.895884 | 1 |
25 February 2016 Last updated at 13:10 GMT
The locomotive was halted near St Neots about 09:30 as it made its journey from London King's Cross to York, where it will go on display at the National Railway Museum.
British Transport Police said it had received reports of about 60 people alongside the East Coast Mainline, halting the train's journey by about 15 minutes.
Rail Magazine's editor Nigel Harris, who is on the train, said it was forced to carry out a "big brake" before coming to a "shuddering stop".
No-one was arrested. | A guard on the Flying Scotsman shouted at trespassers on the track after the steam train was forced to a "shuddering stop" in Cambridgeshire. | 1.227175 | 1 |
His memoir Other People's Countries is about his childhood in the town of Bouillon on the Belgian border, where his mother was born.
Mr McGuiness, who also topped the non-fiction category, won the prize in 2012 for his novel The Last Hundred Days.
The Welsh-language award, presented in Caernarfon, went to Gareth F Williams for his wartime novel Awst yn Anogia.
Judge and poet Paul Henry said McGuinness's book was stylistically "brilliant".
"It's a poet's prose at its best - perfectly paced, effortless in its devices," he added.
McGuinness beat Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys, whose book American Interior was shortlisted. It was part of a multi-media project retracing the journey of his distant ancestor, the explorer John Evans.
McGuinness, who is an Oxford professor of French and comparative literature, picked up the award in his home town Caernarfon.
His debut novel, a spy thriller inspired by his experience of the 1989 Romanian revolution, had won the award four years ago and was also long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
The winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award 2015 was Tiffany Atkinson for So Many Moving Parts.
Cynan Jones won the fiction prize in English for his story of a grieving farmer and a badger-baiter, The Dig.
Costa Poetry Prize winner Jonathan Edwards won the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Prize for his debut collection My Family and Other Superheroes. | Writer Patrick McGuinness has won the Welsh Book of the Year award for the second time in four years. | 1.226653 | 1 |
He was seriously injured after being struck by a Ford C-Max car while crossing Dumbarton Road, in Scotstoun, at about 21:25 on Sunday.
Emergency services attended and the man was taken to the Western infirmary.
Police said inquiries into the incident were continuing. The road was closed for several hours following the crash but has since re-opened. | A 39-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a car in Glasgow. | 0.381865 | 0 |
He is the seventh journalist to be killed this year in South Sudan, where a civil war is ongoing.
His killing comes days after President Salva Kiir threatened to kill reporters "working against the country".
A presidential spokesman said the words were taken out of context and police were investigating Mr Moi's death.
Ateny Wek Ateny said a statement would be issued to clarify President Kiir's remarks, made at the airport in Juba before he went to Ethiopia for peace talks to end the civil war.
Mr Moi worked for South Sudan's Corporate Weekly newspaper and was killed at about 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Wednesday night by unidentified gunmen on the outskirts of Juba.
Juba-based journalist Jason Patinkin told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that the killing of Mr Moi was a very worrying development for the journalist community in South Sudan, which has seen a steady decline in press freedom since the outbreak of the civil war in December 2013.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says security agents shut down two privately owned newspapers earlier this month as well as a media group that produced a popular radio series.
The media freedom lobby group has also been critical of Mr Kiir's comments, which local journalists believe were connected to media criticism of the protracted peace negotiations.
"The leader of any country threatening to kill journalists is extremely dangerous and utterly unacceptable," the CPJ's Tom Rhodes said in a statement.
Mr Kiir has also been under fire from diplomats for failing to sign a peace deal on Monday.
The US state department has said he has now promised to sign after "a couple more days of consultation".
But the US has submitted draft proposals for a UN arms embargo on South Sudan.
Nearly two million people have been left homeless since conflict broke out in the world's newest state in 2013.
Fighting erupted after Mr Kiir accused rebel leader Riek Machar, his former deputy, of plotting a coup.
Mr Machar signed the accord in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, on Monday - the deadline set by mediators.
Five obstacles to peace in South Sudan | Gunmen have killed South Sudan reporter Peter Julius Moi by shooting him twice in the back in the capital, Juba, his family said after identifying his body. | 1.555993 | 2 |
The result is seen as a victory for President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is accused by his rivals of trying to extend his mandate, which he denies.
He called the referendum after the Senate rejected his proposals to change the constitution.
Turnout was 53.73%, with 85% of voters supporting the change, officials said.
But members of the opposition denounced an "electoral farce which has given way to open-air fraud".
Mr Abdel Aziz, who described the Senate as "useless and too costly", said the move to abolish it would improve governance by introducing more local forms of lawmaking.
He is barred by the constitution from running a third term - he came to power in a coup in 2008, was elected president the following year and won a second term in 2014.
The president is a key ally of the West and neighbouring states in countering Islamist extremist groups.
In the same referendum, held on Saturday, voters also supported a change to the national flag.
The current green flag with yellow Islamic crescent and star will also feature red bands to honour the blood spilt by those who fought for freedom from France. | Mauritanians have voted to abolish the upper house of their parliament, the Senate, in a controversial referendum that was boycotted by the opposition. | 1.486465 | 1 |
Gogol Bordello, Alice Russell and Alabama 3 will feature at the festival which runs from 8 to 11 June.
Last month organisers reaffirmed their commitment to their south of Scotland venue after announcing a "sister" event in Croatia.
Further act announcements for the festival, first held in 2009, are scheduled in the weeks to come. | The Eden Festival has announced its first acts for this year's event on the Raehills Estate near Beattock. | 0.377599 | 0 |
The 32-year-old, from Ely, was released on bail pending further inquiries.
During the incident on Tuesday, Ely Post Office worker Paula Hooper, 52, foiled a knife-wielding man with a baseball bat.
CCTV footage then shows her chasing the man out of the shop from behind the counter. | A man has been arrested following a raid on a Cardiff Post Office. | 0.132737 | 0 |
Several deaths in Northern Ireland have been linked to drugs in the past fortnight.
Dr Michael McKenna said GPs are under pressure.
"The difficulty with the services is they are so overwhelmed that they cannot cope with the deluge of stuff that's coming in," he said.
"The money is one part of the equation, but actually physically the number of bodies on the ground to provide these services is also an issue.
"It can't just fall to GPs, we are already under tremendous pressures."
Dr McKenna told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that the number of his patients who had died due to drug addiction in the last 10 years would be "into double figures".
More people in Northern Ireland die from drugs than those in road fatalities, according to the PSNI.
The latest figures released last month show there were 74 fatalities as a result of road crashes in 2015, but 88 opioid-related deaths in the same year.
Those drugs include heroin, morphine, methadone, as well as prescription drugs such as tramadol.
William Burns' son, Jamie, died last November after taking one pill on a night out.
"Anybody out there thinking drugs are good, if they had have been with me that night and saw my son on that trolley - blood on the floor, he had needles in his arms, he had tubes coming out of his mouth, he had his eyes taped and you could physically see the life draining away from him," said Mr Burns.
He said later a doctor "knelt down in front of the two of us and he just said 'look I'm sorry, I don't know how to tell you this, but he's gone'.
"You want the ground to open and just swallow you up."
Mr Burns is now involved in a campaign called #onepillwillkill to highlight the dangers of drugs.
"You could have taken 10 pills before it, over a period of weeks and been fine, and you could just take this one pill [which could kill you]," he said.
"I'm 110% sure that if my son had realised the consequences of taking one pill, he wouldn't have done it." | A Belfast GP has said that drug addiction services in Northern Ireland are overwhelmed and it is time for a multi-agency approach. | 1.827592 | 2 |
Her comments followed a report about Avon Fire and Rescue that she said "makes grim reading".
She said: "We are looking at exploring options for different ways of governance".
Fire authority chair Donald Davies said "mistakes have been made".
The PCC said the report "left a nasty taste in the mouth".
"Particularly in the light of the austerity cuts that we've all had in the public sector," she said. "To see that firefighters have had a 1% pay rise and then there are some people at the top that have seen big pay rises and increases to their pensions."
The Home office report also found there was a perception that bullying and harassment were "endemic".
Independent investigator Craig Baker examined a period of six years from 2011.
He said the authority had "not exercised appropriate levels of scrutiny for some time" which led to "expensive mistakes" being made.
Councillor Davies, an independent at North Somerset Council and Chair of Avon Fire Authority, said: "Mistakes have been made in the past and they cannot be ignored.
"The biggest frustration to me is that in the past, when our budgets were not as squeezed as they are today, money was wasted.
"Now is the time for the members of Avon Fire Authority to work together and show the leadership which has been lacking in the past." | Avon and Somerset's Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens is considering a takeover of the area's fire service after it was criticised for having an "old boys club" culture. | 1.344474 | 1 |
The five other Scottish Wildcat Action priority areas are Strathbogie in Aberdeenshire and Strathavon in Moray.
Also, Morvern, Strathpeffer and Northern Strathspey' in the Highlands.
Few pure-bred Scottish wildcats survive because of crossbreeding with feral cats and also loss of habitat and disease.
Images of wildcats captured on camera traps are used to identify wildcats from feral cats.
Scottish Wildcat Action is a partnership project involving more than 20 organisations including Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
It is funded by Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish government. | The Angus Glens has the "most quality wildcats" of six areas designated as Scottish wildcat sanctuaries, the project's co-ordinators have said. | 2.957613 | 3 |
The 26-year-old, who joined Widnes from Wigan in 2012, will await a decision on whether he now requires an operation.
Marsh signed a new two-year-deal in April to remain at the club until 2018.
Head coach Denis Betts told the club website: "We're assessing him this week but the early signs mean he will definitely miss the rest of this year." | Widnes Vikings centre Stefan Marsh will miss the rest of the season due to a knee injury picked up in last week's victory over Wigan Warriors. | 0.31263 | 0 |
The bird became entangled in the twine which was stuck on a nest in a remote area above Staylittle, near Llanbrynmair, in Powys.
A rope rescue team cut it free.
RSPCA inspector Phil Lewis said: "The twine was attached to the bird's leg which restricted movement. The bird's mate had been coming back and forth feeding it."
He said fellow inspector Andy Broadbent had abseiled onto a small ledge to cut the raven free.
"As soon as he cut the twine, the bird flew and went into a pine tree unharmed," he added.
He said it was not known if the raven had brought the twine back to the nest itself, or if it was the result of littering.
But the RSPCA issued a warning about the dangers of littering to wild birds and animals.
It said twine or fishing line can wrap around necks, causing deep wounds in flesh and cutting off the blood supply; hooks can pierce beaks or become embedded in skin; and litter like weights can also be swallowed, causing internal injuries and blockages. | A raven entangled in baling twine has been rescued from a 60ft (18m) cliff face in mid Wales. | 2.234274 | 2 |
Declan Donnelly said their win for Takeaway was "brilliant" and Anthony McPartlin said he was "so chuffed."
Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor picked up the Radio Times audience Bafta, the only award of the night chosen by viewers.
And, Coronation Street won the soap and continuing drama gong.
Actress Julie Walters, who played Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films, was given Bafta's highest honour, a Fellowship. She's also starred in movies including; Gnomeo & Juliet, Disney's Brave and Mama Mia.
David Attenborough also won an award for Natural History Museum Alive 3D in the specialist factual catagory. It was screened on Sky and saw him alongside computer-generated dinosaurs, ice age beasts and giant reptiles. | Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway has won best entertainment show and entertainment performance at the TV Baftas. | 0.739994 | 1 |
The 21-year-old east Londoner scored seven goals in 41 appearances on loan at Hull City last season, helping them to promotion to the Premier League.
But he has only played once for Arsenal this term, a 4-0 win over Nottingham Forest in the EFL Cup in September.
"We fought off competition from other clubs to sign Chuba," said boss Chris Hughton, whose side top the table.
"He is a young talent who gained valuable experience with Hull in the Championship last season, will give us really good pace in the forward areas and complement the other strikers at the club."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | Championship promotion-chasers Brighton have signed Arsenal striker Chuba Akpom on loan until the end of the campaign. | 0.763209 | 1 |
However, they remain confident the Games, which start on 7 September, will go ahead as planned.
Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada said he hoped a new advertising push would help with ticket sales.
Rio chiefs also remain in talks with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) over unpaid travel grants to national Paralympic bodies.
Andrada said the organising committee had experienced poor initial sales for the Olympics, too, and he expected growing local interest to boost Paralympic sales "as we have seen with other hosts before".
"We want to stage a very successful Paralympics, and we met our sponsors and broadcasters yesterday to confirm this," added Andrada.
The IPC has cancelled a news conference planned for Thursday, when they had intended to give a progress report on the Paralympics funding crisis. | Rio 2016 organisers say just 12% of available tickets for next month's Paralympic Games have been sold so far. | 1.338634 | 1 |
Joining Holt through the exit door will be Alex Harris, Chris Humphrey, Scott Gallacher, Brian McLean and Jamie Insall as their deals also expire.
Holt, 36, has scored seven goals in 39 appearances this term as the Easter Road outfit clinched the Championship title and promotion to the Premiership.
Harris came through the club's youth ranks and has made 60 appearances.
It was confirmed this week that Hibs striker James Keatings will leave in the summer after signing a pre-contract agreement with Dundee United.
Humphrey joined Hibs in January from Preston but the former Motherwell winger made just eight appearances due to a calf injury and is expected to return to England.
Goalkeeper Gallacher and defender McLean arrived on short-term deals during the season, while Insall - who this week failed a drugs test - spent the vast majority of his two years with the club on loan with East Fife. | Striker Grant Holt will leave Hibernian when his contract ends this summer, the club have confirmed. | 0.83261 | 1 |
The World Economic Forum said that employees should continue working until 70 in nations such as the UK, US, Japan and Canada.
The increase will be needed, as the number of people over 65 will more than triple to 2.1 billion by 2050.
By then, the number of workers per retiree will have halved to just four.
Michael Drexler, head of financial and infrastructure systems at the World Economic Forum, said the expected rise in longevity was the financial equivalent of climate change.
"We must address it now or accept that its adverse consequences will haunt future generations, putting an impossible strain on our children and grandchildren," he said.
In the UK the state pension age is due to rise from 65 in 2018 to 68 by 2046.
A report for the Department for Work and Pensions earlier this year has suggested that workers under 30 may not get a state pension until they are 70.
The Forum's report, We'll Live to 100 - How Can We Afford It, said that governments need to make it easier for workers to save for their retirement and praised recent reforms in the UK.
The auto-enrolment scheme means more than six million British workers have now been signed up automatically to a pension savings scheme, but fears remain over how much is being set aside.
The WEF said the retirement savings gap was forecast to rise from $70tn to $400tn by 2050 in the eight countries studied: Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Netherlands, the UK and the US.
The gap is the amount of money required in each country to ensure a retirement income equal to 70% of a person's pre-retirement income.
Jacques Goulet, president of health and Wealth at Mercer, which worked with the Forum to produce the report, said the issue was at a crisis point.
"There is no one 'silver bullet' solution to solve the retirement gap. Individuals need to increase their personal savings and financial literacy, while the private sector and governments should provide programmes to support them," he said.
The Forum also says that countries should aggregate and combine pensions data to give workers a full picture of their financial position.
It cites Denmark, where an online dashboard collates pension information to give individuals details of their different pension savings accounts. | The retirement age should rise to at least 70 in rich countries by 2050 as life expectancy rises above 100, according to a new report. | 2.457091 | 2 |
The Sussex Seniors team have sponsored cricket in Gambia for seven years and have raised up to £70,000.
This summer, they wanted to bring two players to Sussex to experience village cricket, but visas were refused.
Spokesman Andrew Shanks said he was "hopping mad". The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.
Mr Shanks said Sussex Seniors invited the Gambia cricket team's captain and vice-captain with all expenses and accommodation provided, and he had sponsored their applications.
But immigration officials said they believed the players had no intention of returning to Gambia and advised the team to invite two players from the EU, he said.
Mr Shanks, from Uckfield, said: "They're almost insinuating we're liars.
"They've said they don't think they are coming for cricket, they don't think they are going to be accommodated and looked after, and in all probability they have no intention of returning to Gambia.
"We just thought we would love to invite their captain and vice-captain over purely to play village cricket in Sussex for the summer - but the government has decided they can't come."
Captain Mbye Dumbuya said it was disappointing.
He said the players had wanted to visit their sponsors to develop their game and have more playing time, then return to Gambia to develop their team and their programme.
"All this was just the agenda," he said.
"There was nothing like going there and absconding. It has never been our intention." | Two cricketers from Gambia have been refused sports visas to visit Sussex this summer, sparking anger from amateur players in the county. | 1.045058 | 1 |
Davis, 25, has made exactly 100 Championship appearances for Blues since signing from West Midlands rivals Wolves in August 2014.
He spent five years on the books as a professional at Molineux,
During that time he played 61 times, as well as being loaned out to Darlington, Walsall, Shrewsbury Town, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Chesterfield.
Davis's new deal, tying him to St Andrew's until the summer of 2020, follows the re-signing of Craig Gardner from West Bromwich Albion, ending a busy week of activity for Blues boss Gianfranco Zola in his midfield department.
The Italian is open-minded about the future of Diego Fabbrini, who was signed by predecessor Gary Rowett from Watford in a £1.5 million deal a year ago.
Despite being brought in for only his second start of the season against Newcastle last Saturday, Fabbrini is prepared to move on in the hope of regular first-team football.
"In his mind he wants to go and maybe try somewhere else," Zola told BBC WM. "But he has a future here if he is willing to work at his game and work hard at some issues."
"I know where he could be. But I cannot do anything unless he wants to do that. Then he can be a player who, wherever he goes, he plays."
Zola is close to abandoning his plan to bring in Slovenia international Rene Krhin from La Liga side Granada.
Although Blues had agreed a £2m fee with the Spaniards, Krhin returned without signing after attending last weekend's FA Cup third-round 1-1 draw with Newcastle United.
"It's gone very quiet," said Zola. "We wanted the player, but the player is taking too much time and we need to move. We have waited more than we should.
"To be fair that, position was not a priority. Stephen Gleeson and Robert Tesche have done well so far." | Birmingham City midfielder David Davis has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with the Championship club. | 0.94875 | 1 |
South Africa opener Elgar (158) made his second ton of the season, while Gregory made 137, his maiden first-class century as the pair added 249 for the sixth wicket.
Josh Davey made 47 and Jamie Overton a swift 37 as Somerset declared on 443-9.
Middlesex openers Nick Gubbins and Nick Compton survived a few scares to reach the close on 42-0.
Gregory and Elgar had come together with Somerset struggling on 80-5, but they turned the game on its head, both batting deep into the afternoon session as Middlesex's bowlers toiled under blue skies.
Elgar, who has reached 50 in eight of his past 10 innings for Division One's bottom side, was finally removed by James Franklin (2-34) as the pair fell just 16 runs short of the county's record sixth-wicket stand, set in 1961 by Bill Alley and Ken Palmer.
Gregory, who was dropped by Ollie Rayner on 31, easily surpassed his previous best first-class knock of 73, before Toby Roland-Jones had him caught at long leg by Tom Helm shortly before tea.
Davey beat the bat of Gubbins and Compton as Middlesex began their reply, but the openers saw the hosts through to the close with all wickets intact.
After also bagging his first-ever five-wicket return at Lord's in 2013, to also post his maiden Championship century there led to Gregory labelling the Home of Cricket as his lucky ground.
Lewis Gregory told BBC Radio Somerset:
"It's clearly a lucky ground for me. It's been a special day. It felt really good to do it here. I've always known the ability was there and I was capable of this.
"But I really have to give a lot of credit to Dean. He kept me calm and didn't let me get carried away with the situation.
"We weren't in a great place when I went out to bat and, at first, Dean and I just had to scrap things out.
"We just kept trucking along, took each 30 minutes as it came and went and tried to stay out there as long as we could."
Middlesex's Tom Helm told BBC Radio London:
"If you got the ball in the right areas there was a little something.
"But fair play to Lewis and Dean, they both played really well.
"That's the first time I've gone for 100 runs, which wasn't great, but overall I was fairly happy.
"It's looking like a draw from here but that's by no means definite." | Centuries from Dean Elgar and Lewis Gregory helped Somerset into a strong position against Middlesex at Lord's. | 0.970482 | 1 |
Harry Maceachen, from Shrewsbury, was born with a rare liver disease. He received the transplant from his father Simon in March.
The pair have just spent their first Christmas together since the operation.
And nine months on, Mr Maceachen said there had been "no problems at all" after the surgery.
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Harry was born with biliary atresia which meant he had blocked bile ducts.
His infectious laughter and excited energy captured hearts following a show-stealing appearance on BBC Breakfast in December last year.
Mr Maceachen was a living donor as no suitable match could be found from the organ donor register.
He said: "It took a little while to recover from the surgery. Harry bounced back a lot quicker than I did, but he's a bit younger than me so he heals a bit quicker than I do."
While in hospital, the pair wore matching gowns specially made by volunteers called the Wrap Pyjama Fairies, who make pyjamas and surgical gowns for children in hospital.
And the family spread some festive cheer by delivering gowns to youngsters at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.
Harry, who took part in the British Transplant Games in July, said he now feels "super better" and added that since the operation he can now "run really fast". | A five-year-old boy who was given part of his father's liver says he feels "super better" nine months after the operation. | 1.168439 | 1 |
The 26-year-old, who had a year left on his contract, was also a target for the Potters' Premier League rivals Swansea, whom he left to join Liverpool in 2012.
"It's been a whirlwind 48 hours for me but I am delighted to have finally been able to put pen to paper," said Allen, who has signed a five-year contract.
"I was really excited as soon as I heard of the club's interest and it wasn't a difficult decision to make."
Allen was Stoke's second signing of the day after Egyptian winger Ramadan Sobhi joined the club from Al Ahly for a fee that could rise to £5m.
Despite starting only eight league games for Liverpool last season, Allen was named in the Euro 2016 team of the tournament after helping Wales reach the semi-finals.
Liverpool rejected an £8m offer from Swansea in June but Allen will now link up with Stoke's Welsh manager Mark Hughes.
"Joe is a player that Mark has admired for a considerable amount of time," said the club's chief executive Tony Scholes.
"We have had to act swiftly to conclude the deal but we are delighted that we have managed to get it over the line." | Stoke City have signed Wales midfielder Joe Allen from Liverpool for £13m. | 0.816588 | 1 |
There has been speculation the Malaysian businessman is pursuing offers for the Welsh club he bought in 2010.
But reacting after reports re-emerged that he was seeking to off-load the Bluebirds, Tan has reiterated he will only sell at the right price.
Asked if he was looking to sell, Tan said: "No, I always say this.
"You don't fall in love with your businesses. If somebody offers the right price, yeah we'll sell.
"People approach us and we have a look, we talk. But that doesn't mean we're selling.
"If the right offer comes, an offer we can't refuse, sure we'll sell. It's business."
Tan watched from the stands as Cardiff beat Aston Villa 3-0 on Saturday to go top of the Championship table after two games of the season.
He had not been to any home games in the previous two campaigns, fuelling rumours he was losing interest in the club.
Speculation that he was actively looking to sell the club intensified in July when reports highlighted a brochure for prospective buyers put together by WMG, a company belonging to Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman.
However, Tan says he is committed to Cardiff and watched the win over Villa at Cardiff City Stadium, which saw an attendance of 23,899 for the game.
He received a warm welcome from supporters, though his tenure has been controversial.
The decision to change the team's home colours from its traditional blue to red led to a fans revolt, but Tan financed the club's promotion to the Premier League in 2013, albeit for only one season.
Tan agreed to a return to blue shirts in 2015 and, after three campaigns of mid-table mediocrity in the Championship, he is hopeful manager Neil Warnock can help the club mount another promotion challenge this term.
"We have a good manager, he has made some good transfers," said Tan.
"We supported him with the transfers, but we have paid good value for money - not like the way we paid £10.5m for [Andreas] Cornelius [a striker signed by former manager Malky Mackay].
"Oh I will never forget that.
"We have paid good value for these transfers. Neil has done a great job. They are reasonable transfers with support." | Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan insists he is not actively looking to sell the Championship club. | 0.981975 | 1 |
Local Orange Order lodges marched past the Ardoyne shops in north Belfast early on Saturday morning.
Loyalists are now due to dismantle their protest camp at Twaddell Avenue. It was set up in July 2013 after the Parades Commission ruled Orangemen could not walk along the route .
600 police officers were involved in the security operation.
The Orange Order were allowed to march along the route after an agreement between Orangemen and the nationalist residents' association the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents Association (Cara).
Several dozen protesters from the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (Garc), who reject that deal, gathered at the Ardoyne shops as the parade got underway.
They chanted "walk of shame" but dispersed peacefully after the march passed.
A protest against the parade passed off peacefully on Friday evening. Over 200 people took part. | One of the most bitter parading disputes in Northern Ireland in recent years has ended. | 1.339962 | 1 |
Wagner sprinted to join his players in celebrating their late winner on 5 February before clashing with Monk.
He will be in the stands for the FA Cup replay at Manchester City and the home Championship game against Newcastle.
Monk has been given a one-match touchline ban and fined £3,000, while both clubs have been fined £10,000.
The Leeds boss, whose side are fourth in the Championship table, will serve his ban at Birmingham City on Saturday.
In a statement, the FA said Wagner admitted breaking the rules by going onto the pitch but had "denied a further breach that his behaviour upon his return to the vicinity of the technical area amounted to improper conduct".
The Terriers held Premier League Manchester City 0-0 in the FA Cup fifth round earlier this month and travel to Etihad Stadium on Wednesday for the replay.
They are currently third in the Championship table, four points ahead of Leeds and five points behind second-placed Newcastle, who travel to leaders Brighton on Tuesday. | Huddersfield boss David Wagner has been given a two-match touchline ban and a £6,000 fine after his altercation with Leeds counterpart Garry Monk. | 1.021637 | 1 |
The plan is to connect the grids using 138km of overhead lines between County Meath and County Tyrone.
The project was due to have been completed by next year and now has a target date of 2019.
The regulator Jenny Pyper told the BBC's Inside Business programme it needed to be a priority for government.
"Frankly the second interconnector is a total no-brainer in terms of addressing our security supply issues and trying to make sure we have a much more efficient market," she said.
"I need to have this at the top of my agenda as does the department and the minister.
"We're interested to see how the planning debate plays out, we're confident that we'll have a way forward this year, but if there are problems, if there are serious hurdles, then I think there are serious decisions to be made." | The utility regulator has said serious decisions must be made if any more hurdles are put in the way of a new north-south electricity interconnector. | 1.509295 | 2 |
The previous record, $525m (£352m), was set by Jurassic World in June.
The seventh instalment of the nearly 40-year-old space saga opened with a record-breaking $248m (£167m) in the US and Canada.
JJ Abrams' film has also achieved the largest four-day weekend total in British and Irish cinemas with £34m.
That sum is almost 28 times more than its nearest rival, the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy Sisters with £1.2m.
The Force Awakens' takings were almost £15m more than the £19.3m that saw Jurassic World claim the record for the largest four-day weekend in the UK and Ireland earlier this year.
But it cannot claim to have had the biggest opening ever in British and Irish cinemas - a record currently held by the most recent James Bond film, Spectre.
That film's £41m first-week tally, however, was based on seven days of takings as the film opened on a Monday.
The new Star Wars film also set a new opening night record in the US and Canada.
The Force Awakens made $57m (£38.3m) on Thursday night, beating the previous record of $43.5m (£29.2m) held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Analysts say the space saga could become the biggest-selling movie of all time.
The latest film returns to "a galaxy far, far away" some 30 years on from the action of 1983's Return of the Jedi.
It sees original trilogy stars Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher reprise their Han Solo and Princess Leia roles alongside younger franchise newcomers.
"Our sole focus has been creating a film that delivers that one-of-a-kind Star Wars experience, and director JJ Abrams, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and the Lucasfilm team have outdone themselves," Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said. | Star Wars: The Force Awakens has smashed the record for the biggest box office debut weekend globally, with ticket sales of $529m (£355m). | 1.17409 | 1 |
Net income for the first three months of the year was €559m, down by a half on a year earlier. Revenue rose by almost a quarter to €10.4bn.
The bank had already disclosed it had set aside the €1.5bn.
The results come just days after the bank was fined €2.3bn for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending rates.
The sharp jump in revenue to "near record levels" reflected a "strong performance across businesses and a favourable impact of foreign exchange movements", the bank said in a statement.
Revenue at the bank's asset management division was up 30% at €1.4bn, while revenue at the corporate banking arm rose 15% to €4.7bn.
The $2.5bn fine by US and UK regulators related to Deutsche's attempts to manipulate the Libor and Euribor rates. At the end of March, the bank had €4.8bn set aside in "litigation reserves".
It is a record penalty for such misconduct because Deutsche tried to mislead regulators. The bank said it "deeply regretted" the matter.
Deutsche said it had "disciplined or dismissed individuals" involved and tightened governance controls. However, US regulators are demanding the dismissal of more senior management. | Deutsche Bank has reported a sharp fall in profits after setting aside €1.5bn ($1.6bn; £1.1bn) to cover legal costs and regulatory fines. | 1.094452 | 1 |
The FA is also expected to contact the Hammers about the events in the stands at their new London Stadium home.
West Ham promised a "zero tolerance" approach to any fans found guilty and said they would be banned for life.
"We will request courts serve banning orders to prevent these individuals attending any football," the club said.
West Ham's first season at the London Stadium in Stratford, formerly the Olympic Stadium, has been marred by unsavoury incidents involving their fans at the last three matches, with criticisms being made over stewarding and segregation arrangements.
At the first league match at the venue - against Bournemouth last month - some fans arrived with tickets for seats that did not exist, while fighting broke out between rival supporters outside the stadium.
Some of the disturbances are believed to be over persistent standing during matches, with some fans ejected at the Watford match, which West Ham lost 4-2.
Before the game, West Ham co-chairman David Gold tweeted that the club was "trying to achieve harmony" between fans who want to sit and those who wanted "to stand and increase [the stadium's capacity] to 66,000".
On Sunday he wrote: "I want to assure everyone that the club is working flat out to solve the sitting/standing issue." | The Football Association will assess reports of crowd trouble at West Ham's match with Watford on Saturday before deciding if further action is required. | 1.292524 | 1 |
Campbell was killed instantly on Coniston Water when the craft flipped over while travelling at more than 300 MPH during a 1967 record attempt.
Divers recovered the wreckage in 2001 and it is now being restored.
About a third of the boat is being moved to the Ruskin Museum in Coniston, where it will be shown in a wing dedicated to Campbell.
It includes two massive spars, originally clad in lightweight aluminium fairings to give Bluebird her sleek shape, which have been fully restored.
There are also replicas of the boat's four-metre long outer hulls, or sponsons, from the original drawings.
The originals were ripped away in the accident, and recovered floating but subsequently scrapped.
A team of volunteers at a workshop in North Shields will now fit the centre hull with its engines and systems.
Vicky Slowe, curator of the Ruskin Museum, said: "There's about one and a half tonnes of Bluebird going on show.
"We have a life-sized footprint of the Bluebird on the floor of the Bluebird wing, where the complete boat will go in due course, and the idea is to display these pieces on top of that so people can see how they fit together."
The parts will be fully reassembled at the Ruskin Museum and Bluebird will then be taken for a run on Coniston Water, before going on permanent display at the museum. | A large part of Donald Campbell's Bluebird is set to go on display at a museum in the Lake District. | 2.014129 | 2 |
Littergram invites people to share pictures of rubbish on their smartphone and report it to their council.
Danny Lucas, of Wrotham, Kent, has been asked to change it to a "unique name that does not call to mind" Instagram.
Facebook, which owns the US photo-sharing giant, said it was "obliged to protect its brand".
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Lawyers for the US photo-sharing giant Instagram, which was bought by Facebook for $1bn (£629m) in 2012, said the name was "not acceptable".
Mr Lucas said he thought the case had been closed in May.
"We agreed to not trademark it... they agreed to us trademarking it for t-shirts, bags," he said.
Mr Lucas said he was then given until the end of April to confirm a change in name.
He then assumed the matter was closed when Facebook said in May "they were merely taking steps to stop us trademarking".
Facebook said it had been talks about how to find a way for them to have an app which was different enough to Instagram, but ultimately Littergram was a photo-sharing app which operated in a similar way.
The company said it had therefore asked them to change their name to avoid infringing the Facebook trademark, but so far had merely taken steps to object to their registration of the name as a trademark.
Facebook added they were obliged to take reasonable measures to protect their brand.
In response, Mr Lucas said: "It's exactly not what they're saying now, because they're saying change your name.
"We're not trademarking it. We'd already agreed not to do that in November 2015."
He added he was happy to discuss the matter further with Facebook.
"Don't go to the courts because we've not got the money for that," he said. | The owner of an anti-litter app says he has been told he has until Friday to confirm with solicitors for Instagram and Facebook he will change its name. | 1.462637 | 1 |
"It wasn't the performance we'd hoped for. It was disappointing in a number of areas, I won't lie," Croft said.
"But the will is there and the effort will be put in this week ahead of the next match."
Glamorgan face Worcestershire in Cardiff from Friday, 14 April.
The Welsh county were beaten by an innings and 22 runs as they slumped to a third consecutive heavy loss in matches against Northants.
"I'm trying to balance out (my assessment), but I am very disappointed," Croft told BBC Wales Sport.
"The preparation you put into the game, you don't envisage the result at the end of it.
"What I and the players will be looking to put right is to rebuild the confidence, and ensure there's full commitment to a better performance.
"We've got a week of preparation where we'll be doing all we can to ensure a much improved performance."
Glamorgan were without Will Bragg, Timm van der Gugten, Michael Hogan, Graham Wagg and Ruaidhri Smith through injury, while David Lloyd was unable to bowl because of a hamstring problem.
Number three batsman Bragg, Glamorgan's top run-scorer in the 2016 Championship, is scheduled to play a second team game at Northampton after back trouble, to see if he has a chance of facing Worcestershire.
"It's in his best interest, he hasn't played any cricket for a long period so just to get back into the middle and see if his back flares up," said captain Jacques Rudolph.
"He was one of our best batters last year."
Hogan (sore hip) is the most likely of the seam bowlers to have a chance of returning.
Worcestershire will be without England all-rounder Moeen Ali, who is rested from their opening game on ECB instructions and will return the following week against Northants.
"They've got a pretty decent batting line-up as it is, and (Joe) Leach has done well for them with the ball, they're going to be a competitive team to play against" added Rudolph.
"But after this loss, it's important to work on what we can and not focus too much on the opposition."
Glamorgan won by five wickets at Worcester in 2016, after being on the wrong end of a rain-ruined draw in Cardiff. | Glamorgan head coach Robert Croft says his team will not lack for effort as they attempt to recover from a two-day defeat at Northampton in their first Championship match of 2017. | 0.826974 | 1 |
Elsewhere, defending champions Leicester were well beaten at Chelsea, while Sunderland are now the only top-flight side without a victory after they went down 2-0 at Stoke.
Read match reports for all of Saturday's Premier League matches here:
Chelsea 3-0 Leicester City
Arsenal 3-2 Swansea City
Bournemouth 6-1 Hull City
Manchester City 1-1 Everton
Stoke City 2-0 Sunderland
West Bromwich Albion 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Crystal Palace 0-1 West Ham United | Premier League leaders Manchester City were held at home by Everton on Saturday, allowing Arsenal to move level on points at the top with a win over Swansea at Emirates Stadium. | 0.373859 | 0 |
The Queen will have the final say as it will be owned by the Crown. The prison at Wrexham Industrial Estate will house 2,000 inmates.
Work began last September on the £250m complex which is due to open in 2017.
A newsletter updating local residents on the construction said the name should embrace the history and culture of north Wales and the Welsh language. | Schools and community groups have been invited to come up with names for the new-build "super-prison" in Wrexham. | 0.903933 | 1 |
Shares in defence technology firm QinetiQ jumped more than 4% after it announced a deal to buy a targeting systems business from Meggitt for £57.5m. Meggitt fell 1%.
Crude oil prices pushed higher in early trading. North Sea Brent crude was 0.7% higher at $55.69 per barrel.
Oil shares were mixed, with BP trading 0.3% higher, but Shell down 0.4%.
"On Wednesday, UK stocks lost some ground with light profit taking headed into year-end," said Jasper Lawler, senior market analyst at London Capital Group.
"A finish for the year above 7,000 might just be the psychological boost required to presage a fresh record high in 2017," he added.
Connor Campbell, financial analyst at SpreadEx, described the session as "another drab day of pre-Christmas trading".
"Hopefully tomorrow can bring with it something a bit more interesting. Investors may have to wait until the afternoon, however, when the final US third-quarter GDP figure is released," he said.
The pound was down 0.13% against the dollar at $1.2351. It was 0.45% lower against the euro at €1.1849. | (Close): London's FTSE 100 drifted lower after Tuesday's two-month high, closing down 2.54 points at 7,041.42. | 0.988627 | 1 |
The 28-year-old Brazil midfielder agreed a new four-year deal in October but has only started seven Premier League games this season.
Jiangsu finished ninth in China's top tier in 2015 and are managed by former Blues defender Dan Petrescu.
Ramires has helped the Blues win the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League.
He made 251 appearances for Chelsea, scoring 34 goals, after joining from Benfica for about £17m in 2010.
Listen - Why is Ramires moving to 'horrendous' Chinese league?
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Chelsea's Ramires has joined Chinese side Jiangsu Suning in a deal believed to be worth about £25m. | 0.944009 | 1 |
Placards reading "save our A&E" and "Our NHS is here to stay" were waved along the route from Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (HRI) to Greenhead Park.
Under the proposals, all emergency acute and high-risk planned care would be brought together at Calderdale Royal Hospital in neighbouring Halifax.
NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG said no decision had been made on the plans.
The proposals, which could save the NHS £31m, would see a new site developed in Acre Mills, Huddersfield, as a hospital for planned care, but with no A&E.
A public consultation recently revealed 60% of 7,500 respondents felt they would be negatively hit.
Karl Deitch, from the Hands off HRI group, said the march was to show the town "won't take it lying down".
"We're not stopping, they need to take a look and think - we have to go to a plan B, we need another alternative," he said.
Speakers at a rally at Greenhead Park included Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, and Jason McCartney, Conservative MP for Colne Valley.
Several demonstrations against the proposals have now been staged, with a petition signed by more than 63,000 supporters.
A spokesperson for NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG said: "The CCGs' governing bodies will make the decision on the outcome of the consultation and next steps regarding the proposed changes to local hospital and community health services at a meeting in parallel on 20 October." | Hundreds of people have marched in Huddersfield against the proposed closure of the town's A&E department. | 1.267317 | 1 |
The 28-year-old striker scored four goals in eight National League appearances after during his two-month loan from Woking earlier this year.
He has previous Football League experience with Cambridge United and has also played for Forest Green Rovers, Lincoln City and Boreham Wood.
He is Maidstone manager Jay Saunders' first signing ahead of next season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Delano Sam-Yorke has joined Maidstone United on a permanent deal after a successful loan spell this season. | 0.696701 | 1 |
Middlewich station closed 55 years ago, leaving the Sandbach to Northwich line as freight only.
Campaigners claim reopening the passenger service would "link communities in Cheshire back together".
Cheshire East Council will begin consulting on which area to allocate a new station. Network Rail said a "solid business case" was needed.
Middlewich railway station closed to passengers in 1960 and was subsequently demolished.
The 8.5 mile (16.7 km) line remained open for freight services.
In 1999, a council-backed feasibility study estimated 750 passengers per day would use the route and claimed the cost of reopening it could range from £970,000 to £2.2m.
Samantha Moss, from the Middlewich Rail Link Campaign, said: "Our train line is there, it's a viable train line.
"If people all over Cheshire got to use it, the benefits it would see to the education of our children and the economic community would be huge."
Cheshire East Council said it "supports the aspiration" of reopening the line but warned "as the line is a freight line, a new station is not straight forward".
The Department for Transport said: "We are aware of the aspirations to open up the Middlewich freight line to regular passenger services and build a station at Middlewich.
"We would look to local authorities in Cheshire and the rail industry to judge whether there is a business case for reopening the route."
The council is launching the consultation as part of its future Local Plan so the area can be protected from planning applications for other developments. | Land for a new railway station in Cheshire is being earmarked by a council following a campaign. | 1.599962 | 2 |
The prize was awarded at the World Travel Awards in Antalya, Turkey, which are described by organisers as the "Oscars of the travel industry".
Yorkshire is the first location other than a major city or country to have won the Leading Destination title in the 17-year history of the awards.
Tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire said the award was a "major coup".
The awards are intended to highlight and reward locations and travel brands considered to have made the greatest contribution to the tourism industry over the past twelve months.
Tourism is worth about £7bn annually to Yorkshire, with 216 million visits made to the county each year, said Welcome to Yorkshire.
The award comes less than a year after Yorkshire won the right to host the start of the Tour de France in July next year, with the race's Grand Depart taking place in Leeds.
Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said the award was a "real validation" of the efforts put in by the county's tourism industry.
"It's fantastic to see Yorkshire taking its rightful place as one of the top holiday destinations in Europe," said Mr Verity.
Previous winners of the Leading European Destination award include Istanbul, Paris, London and Barcelona. | Yorkshire has beaten Berlin, London and Madrid to win the title of Europe's Leading Destination in 2013. | 1.47894 | 1 |
More than 400 members of the service across 86 stations and three contact centres will be working on Sunday.
The restaurants will deliver lunches to the stations on Christmas Eve or Day, depending on the area, as a gesture of goodwill.
The Ambulance service said it would meet the cost of supplying extra meals so all staff are fed.
Meanwhile, some councils and restaurants have said they will provide free lunches for homeless people and the elderly. | About 30 pubs and restaurants in Wales have agreed to feed Welsh Ambulance Service staff working on Christmas Day. | 1.101222 | 1 |
The review follows pressure from civil rights groups to investigate the death of Mario Woods at the hands of police.
His shooting in a hail of bullets in December sparked widespread outrage.
The force is the latest in the US to face attention over fatalities involving African-Americans.
However the review will only provide recommendations, not court-enforceable reforms.
"We will examine the San Francisco Police Department's current operational policies, training practices and accountability systems, and help identify key areas for improvement," US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.
When the review is completed the Justice Department will give San Francisco police a list of procedures it can follow to insure more fairness in its dealings with citizens.
Local residents and citizen groups had been calling for the federal government to examine video footage of San Francisco police gunning down Woods, who was suspected of carrying a knife.
Videos of his death under intensive fire went viral in December.
San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee wrote to Ms Lynch asking her to launch an investigation in the interests of openness and maintaining good relations between police and the city's population.
Police in cities throughout the US have been subjected to intense scrutiny for using excessive and lethal force against suspects, many of them black.
Other American police departments such as Baltimore have asked the Justice Department to conduct similar inquiries following allegations of discrimination.
In Baltimore's case a review of police practice was already under way when black detainee Freddie Gray was killed in April.
Gray's death quickly became a flashpoint in a national debate over police use of force - especially against black men.
Protests raged for several days and at one point turned violent, forcing officials to declare a state of emergency and to deploy national guard troops across the city of 620,000 people. | The US Justice Department has announced an investigation into the San Francisco police force, eight weeks after the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old black man provoked fury in the city. | 2.024106 | 2 |
The 33-year-old Racing 92 player is Wales' most-capped scrum-half having played 99 Tests - 94 for Wales and five for the British and Irish Lions.
Phillips won 66 of his Wales caps during Gatland's reign, with the New Zealander praising his passion.
"Mike has been a huge part in Wales' success and an integral part of the squad since making his debut," he said.
"His passion and dedication for Wales has always shone through and he ends his international career with Six Nations titles, Grand Slams and a Lions series win to his name and that is a great honour.
"We would like to thank Mike for his service to Wales and to wish him well for the rest of his playing career."
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Phillips played in every game during Wales' Six Nations Grand Slam wins in 2008 and 2012, and when they won the title in 2013.
Gatland also turned to Phillips when he was coach of the British and Irish Lions on their 2013 tour of Australia, picking Phillips in the first and third Tests as the Lions won the series 2-1.
Phillips' last game for Wales was a World Cup warm-up game against Ireland in August 2015.
Gatland left him out of the initial squad for the 2015 World Cup, but recalled the former Scarlets, Blues and Ospreys player following an injury to Rhys Webb.
However, Phillips did not play during the tournament as Wales were knocked out in the quarter final by South Africa. | Wales coach Warren Gatland has praised Mike Phillips following his retirement from the international game. | 1.120085 | 1 |
The 23-year-old, from Kentucky, saw his five-shot lead cut to one in the space of two holes along the back nine.
But he recovered to close on four-under 69 and win a third PGA Tour title.
Matsuyama carded 70 for second place while American 2016 champion Jordan Spieth closed on 65 to share third with compatriots Pat Perez and Ryan Moore.
"It's a great feeling," Thomas told Golf Channel after his victory, which saw him jump 10 places to 12th in the world rankings.
"I obviously stumbled a bit more than I would have liked to on some of those holes but I think it really shows where my game is at right now.
"I had some lows there in the second part of the nine but I stuck it out to still get it done." | American Justin Thomas held off a challenge from Japan's Hideki Matsuyama to claim a three-shot victory at the Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. | 0.792877 | 1 |
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Jorge Mendes said the 29-year-old forward was the "best player ever" and the "best sportsman ever".
Mendes added: "You can't compare him with anybody else."
Ronaldo was voted the world's best player for a third time last month, beating Barcelona rival Lionel Messi to the prestigious award.
Asked how much he was worth, Mendes said: "Cristano Ronaldo? One billion. His buyout clause one billion, so it is one billion.
"If, for any reason, the club decide to sell him tomorrow for 300 million, someone will pay."
However, Mendes insisted his countryman, who cost Real Madrid a world record fee of £80m in 2009, would stay at the Bernabeu, despite his "love" for supporters of former club Manchester United.
"He will not leave Real Madrid," Mendes told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.
Mendes, who is reported to have brokered more than £1bn worth of transfers, has been described as the most powerful figure in the game.
"People have the wrong idea about agents," said Mendes.
"Being an agent means many different things. I'm someone normal, I'm working hard every single day. I have ambitions, determination and being honest, doing the right things... this is most important."
He described football as the "most important sport in the world" and defended the wages players now command, saying they "deserve the maximum possible".
Mendes compared working with his players on contracts as "like a family".
"It is like when you talk with your son, with your family... always to try to find the best way to support them," he said.
Mendes also described the ban on third-party ownership of players as "illegal" and "catastrophic" for clubs.
"Fifa and Uefa are not the police," he said. "I think that's it's very important to establish rules, the right rules, but not to stop it."
Mendes, a former DJ and nightclub owner, also represents Jose Mourinho, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Radamel Falcao, Angel Di Maria, James Rodriguez, David De Gea, Victor Valdes and Diego Costa. | Cristiano Ronaldo would sell for £300m if Real Madrid decided to let him leave tomorrow, the Portuguese superstar's agent has told BBC Sport. | 1.023477 | 1 |
IBF world champion Selby says he was willing to take less than 75% of the purse and to fight in Warrington's hometown, but talks have broken down.
"This is a simple case of one fighter, Josh Warrington, losing his bottle at the thought of facing me," said Selby.
"The fact is the fight was there to be made, but this is the end of the saga."
Selby, who made a second successful defence of his crown last month with a unanimous points win over American Eric Hunter, had told the BBC he thought a fight with Warrington needed to be made "now or never".
"There is surely nothing worse than a boxer talking the talk, telling all his fans this is what he wants to happen, then pulling out?" Selby said.
"It has happened many times before in boxing and unfortunately it has happened again as Josh Warrington is running scared.
"The excuse is he wants to get married towards the end of August and needs to concentrate on that. I've heard some pretty feeble reasons before for running away from a fight but that's a new one even on me."
Selby, who won the IBF title a year ago, has already defended his title in the US against Fernando Montiel and was seeking a UK test this summer. His rivalry with Warrington heated up after the Yorkshire boxer described Selby as 'boring.'
"I was more than happy to give Warrington a better than 25% stake of the purse as he would not have been my mandatory challenger, but even that didn't bring him to the negotiating table," he said.
"I was looking forward to the challenge of silencing Warrington's Leeds fans. I would have taken him apart because I belong on a different level to him.
"To all the Warrington fans in and around Leeds, I can only say I'm sorry the fight isn't going ahead, but the blame for that isn't mine.
"I was happy to come to Leeds to fight their man, but Josh Warrington doesn't want anything to do with me in a ring. Those are the simple facts. Warrington's supporters can draw their own conclusions.
"As far as I'm concerned that's the end of the Selby v Warrington saga. I will now move on to the big fights and biggest tests in the featherweight division. His only chance of facing me is to get into my mandatory position and then he can take his 25% split of the purse." | Lee Selby says potential opponent Josh Warrington is "running scared", after the pair failed to find an agreement for a summer fight. | 1.025776 | 1 |
The festival showcases films on climbing, mountain biking, skiing, kayaking and adventure travel.
The tour's Scottish destinations are Edinburgh on Saturday, Inverness on 12 and 13 February, Pitlochry on 14 February and Glasgow on 10 May.
The films include The Ridge - featuring Skye-born cyclist Danny MacAskill - Sun Dog, Touch, All My Own Stunts, Arctic Swell and Wild Women: Faith Dickey and Into the Empty Quarter. | Canada's Banff Mountain Film Festival is about to begin its latest world tour, which includes dates and venues in the UK and Ireland. | 0.718178 | 1 |
The CQC report highlighted the "positivity and compassion" shown by staff at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre and praised a programme which allows patients to be treated at home.
However, inspectors found some improvement was needed in safety procedures and outpatient services.
The centre's chief executive said it would "learn from all of the feedback".
Andrew Cannell said he was "very proud of the hard work and dedication shown by all our staff and volunteers", adding that they "fully deserve" the outstanding rating.
Inspectors made an unannounced visit in June and found a need to improve staffing in the radiology department. There were also issues with locating documents, some of which were found to be out of date.
However, the leadership of the NHS trust which runs Clatterbridge and the support given to patients was praised.
These included visits from a therapy dog which "offered comfort and support" and a hand bell on each ward which patients rang to celebrate the end of their treatment.
Professor Sir Mike Richards, the chief inspector of hospitals, said Clatterbridge was "a centre of excellence delivering state of the art care". | A specialist cancer service in Wirral has been rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). | 1.213448 | 1 |
Police said they received a report of a 35-year-old man injured in Baldragon Road at about 13:10 on Saturday.
He had suffered stab wounds and was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary where his condition is described as stable.
The taxi driver had picked up two men - aged 18 or 19 - from Dunpahil Road and was due to drop them off in Lochend Road, where they attacked him.
Following the assault, the two suspects ran off towards the Bishop Loch area.
The two men are described as white with local accents with dark hair and wearing blue jackets. One of them is described as having bushy eyebrows.
Det Con Alan Watt said: "This despicable attack took place just yards from local shops in Lochend Road. It's imperative we trace the two men responsible.
"I am appealing to local people in the area who may have seen something to contact us. Were you in one of the shops, did you see the two men running off?
"If you have any information or knowledge regarding the suspects or the crime then please do get in touch."
Anyone with information is asked to contact officers at the robbery unit in Pollok on 101. | A Glasgow taxi driver has been stabbed and robbed by two men he had picked up as a fare. | 0.567787 | 1 |
About 20 people threw bottles and wood causing one man a head injury and two officers minor injuries, police said.
Five people were arrested on suspicion of disorder-related offences and remained in custody on Sunday morning.
The planned event had been approved by the Met to take place in Camden High Street on Saturday from 19:00 BST.
On their Facebook page, event organisers said: "The heart of Camden is being ripped out, pubs are being converted to luxury flats no-one can afford, venues are under threat, the market is flogged off to be a casino.
"Camden is a unique place and worth defending against this onslaught of dog-eat-dog economics."
Scotland Yard said within two hours of the event starting some of the protesters had moved into the road, forcing officers to close Camden Underground Station.
Additional officers, including the Territorial Support Group and Dogs Unit, were brought in to help disperse the crowd. | A man has been hospitalised and two police officers injured by protesters throwing debris during an anti-gentrification event in north London. | 0.834942 | 1 |
Paul Tonner said his petition, which gathered 1,800 signatures, was a "social media experiment", and said he found the pies "pretty disgusting".
The pies were discussed at First Minister's Questions on Thursday.
Mr Tonner said campaign supporters should "reassess their priorities" and instead champion foodbanks.
In a video posted on his change.org page, Mr Tonner said he had just wanted to "see how far a silly wee petition" could get.
He said: "As you know, there are people in this country who don't have macaroni pies, who don't have anything. And they're relying on foodbanks to give them food every day.
"I'd also like to call on politicians, celebrities and newspapers who jumped on the macaroni pie bandwagon to reassess their priorities.
"There are far more important things in the world than macaroni pies, which to be honest are pretty disgusting."
The issue gained traction in national newspapers, and was discussed at First Ministers Questions on Thursday, when Nicola Sturgeon admitted she was "not a lover of the macaroni pie", but said she had been lobbied by her father to join the campaign.
High street baker Greggs insisted it was sticking by its decision to stop stocking the pies, saying they were "the smallest selling line" in their shops. | The man behind a popular campaign to prevent Greggs from axing the macaroni pie has revealed he does not even like the pastries. | 1.348865 | 1 |
Mr Obama is expected to meet lawmakers as well as business and civil society leaders and youth on his trip.
The 26 June - 3 July visit will be Mr Obama's second to sub-Saharan Africa as president. He spent less than a day in Ghana in 2009.
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush both visited Africa during their second terms in office.
Mr Clinton visited six countries while Mr Bush went to five.
"The president will reinforce the importance that the United States places on our deep and growing ties with countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including through expanding economic growth, investment, and trade; strengthening democratic institutions; and investing in the next generation of African leaders," the White House said in a statement.
"The trip will underscore the president's commitment to broadening and deepening cooperation between the United States and the people of sub-Saharan Africa to advance regional and global peace and prosperity."
Analysts say such trips are common for US presidents after they are relieved of the pressure of domestic campaigning.
Meanwhile, a developing threat of Islamist militants in the west African country of Mali has raised the region's profile in Washington.
First Lady Michelle Obama is due to accompany Mr Obama on his trip. | US President Barack Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in June, the White House has said. | 1.907417 | 2 |
1 April 2013 Last updated at 13:13 BST
In a strong attack, Communities and Tackling Poverty Minister Huw Lewis accuses the UK government of "coming for ordinary Welsh people".
He also claimed the coalition was setting out to "make the poor pay the most" for the banking crisis.
But the UK government says the changes are needed and are fair.
Guto Bebb, Conservative MP for Aberconwy, said Mr Lewis' comments were "completely unacceptable".
"These welfare changes are happening because the previous Labour government was responsible for creating the biggest bust in Britain's economic history," he told BBC Radio Wales.
Mr Lewis was interviewed by BBC Wales Political Editor Betsan Powys.
Devastation claim on benefit changes
Welfare reforms fair - Duncan Smith | Changes to welfare and benefits will have a "destabilising, damaging and devastating impact on communities", a Welsh government minister has claimed. | 1.331478 | 1 |
Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey discussed on Sunday's Andrew Marr Show how Labour would raise money to pay for £63bn of extra spending.
But Mr Corbyn told BBC Radio 4's Today: "I don't recognise the figure.
"Our programme is not complete... the figure that was used on the Marr programme is not one we recognise."
During her interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Ms Long-Bailey was repeatedly challenged over how her party would raise the £63bn to pay for promised extra commitments if it got into government.
She said independent research showed that reverses to a series of tax cuts would raise £70bn by 2020: "We certainly wouldn't have made the decisions that this government has, for example, slashing taxes for the most wealthy in society - inheritance tax, capital gains tax, the bank levy, corporation tax."
During an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Corbyn rejected suggestions that Labour would spend £60-70bn more than the Conservatives paid for by taxation, stressing: "I don't recognise the £60bn figure.
"Corporation tax was 28%, it's now dropping and is due to drop to 17% - and indeed both the prime minister and chancellor threatened to drop it even further if Brexit didn't work and they would go down to an Irish figure of 12%.
"On a calculation of OBR figures, [it] shows that by 2022 £70bn will have been given to corporations and the very wealthiest by tax breaks and tax cuts - we would reverse the corporation tax cut, yes, and put corporation tax up."
Mr Corbyn said some of the cash would come from inheritance tax and the threshold for higher paid earners.
"But our programme is not complete - I fully concede that - it could not be, we're still working that out," he said. "So the figure you gave and was used on the Marr programme yesterday was not one we recognise." | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said his party's spending plans are not complete, and appeared to contradict his business spokeswoman. | 0.996493 | 1 |
It uses similar hardware to the firm's earlier Shine - which was already waterproof - but adds new algorithms to its firmware, which were developed with sportswear-maker Speedo.
Garmin, TomTom and Timex are among firms that already sell watches that can count swimming laps.
But the Speedo Shine stands out from the other "mainstream" activity trackers in offering the facility.
Industry leader Fitbit warns that its current line-up of devices are not designed to "withstand the force associated with swimming strokes," while Jawbone had originally marketed its Up3 wristband as being suitable for the pool but had to announce a U-turn after it failed to make them as water resistant as hoped.
California-based Misfit claims its own tests suggest its algorithms provide "industry-leading accuracy" at counting laps and swimming distance.
However, the Speedo Shine cannot count the individual number of strokes or identify stroke types, which some of the more expensive swimming watches can do.
"Swimming has come late to wearable tech, partly because it's not as popular an activity as running," commented Ben Wood from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.
"But this is a good brand partnership and for Misfit it's a good way to keep its product fresh and broaden its appeal to new users."
Like earlier models of the Shine, the new device can also track steps, overall calorie burn and sleep states.
Because Misfit is a private company, it does not publicly reveal its earnings.
However, the firm recently told the South China Morning Post newspaper that it had shipped more than two million trackers over the past 18 months and was outselling Fitbit in China.
The Speedo Shine will cost $80 in the US and £60 in the UK when it is launched next month. | Misfit's latest activity tracker counts swimmers' lengths as they exercise. | 1.494611 | 1 |
The Northern Irish player, who has slipped to 78th in the world rankings, carded four birdies in his two-under round at a windswept Castle Stuart.
"I'm really happy with that round - it was a battle out there at times," said the 2010 US Open winner.
"It would be great for my confidence to play well here."
McDowell, who won the event in 2008 at Loch Lomond, has struggled this season and missed the cut at the recent French Open.
He spent last weekend playing two practice rounds at Royal Troon, where he will compete next week at the Open.
"Those two days at Troon have been a big help and prepared me well for the wind," added McDowell.
"It it continues to blow it's going to be a real grind so I need to hang in there.
"It's been a funny year for me. It has looked volatile from a results point of view but I've felt I've played better than that.
"I'm just trying to stay relaxed and to enjoy it."
Meanwhile, Belfast man Michael Hoey started his challenge with a 74. | Graeme McDowell was pleased with a first-round 70 at the Scottish Open, which left the former champion just one shot off the lead. | 0.851108 | 1 |
The headgear was spotted at a gift shop at the Tatton Park estate in Cheshire, prompting derision on social media.
Laura Goss tweeted the trust: "This stupid hat is for sale at Tatton Park. Your young female visitors deserve better merch (+ better grammar)."
Cheshire East Council, which runs the estate, said the hats were a "genuine mistake".
A spokesman said they had been "removed immediately from the shelves as we would obviously not want to upset or cause offence to anyone".
Su-Lin Garbett tweeted: "Unacceptable to promulgate sexism anywhere but especially upsetting from a national treasure like the @nationaltrust."
Wendy Pillar wrote: "How about just 'Future footballer'? England women's team wins more than the men."
The council spokesman said: "Our gift shop receives a bulk supply from our supplier, which includes a number of children's hats.
"Unfortunately, we don't know how this has exactly happened, but we have put the hats out on the shelf as part of that bulk supply without thinking whether they were appropriate for the shop and our visitors."
The National Trust said it had shared the feedback with Cheshire East Council, which had removed the product from sale. | Hats bearing the slogan "Future Footballers Wife" have been removed from sale at a National Trust property. | 0.932771 | 1 |