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The Glasgow back-rower will start only his fourth Test as the Scots aim to seal a 2-0 series win in Tokyo.
"We are just looking at keeping calm heads," he said. "In this humidity, the ball gets a bit wetter than you expect.
"The boys are sweating a lot so we have to be clever, play a more structured game, carry hard and not be too fancy."
South Africa-born Strauss, 29, admits he was frustrated at not making the match-day 23 for last week's first Test in Toyota City, which Scotland won 26-13.
But he has been drafted straight into the side at blind-side flanker for Saturday's match, with John Barclay moving to open-side and John Hardie dropping to the bench.
"I want to get my hands on the ball as often as possible, and just be a physical presence," he told BBC Scotland.
"If we can keep the ball and choke the game out, be more clinical when we get opportunities in the scoring zone, that is what we want.
"We have to keep the ball better and be smart about it."
Strauss made his debut against Japan as a replacement in last autumn's World Cup, a few days after he qualified for Scotland on residency grounds.
He started subsequent group games against USA and South Africa before returning to the bench, with only one further start - against France in the Six Nations - until now.
Japan may be lifted by the presence of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the Ajinomoto Stadium, but Strauss believes the visitors will rise to the occasion, too.
"It is great motivation for them but it is a great occasion for us as well, knowing the Emperor will be there and what a big occasion it is for them.
"Japan have shown a lot of growth. I remember watching them at the 1995 World Cup [where they lost 145-17 to New Zealand].
"They have grown so much from then until now, and their performance in the World Cup last year was immense.
"But we always want to improve ourselves and after last week's game there is a lot to improve."
Scotland: Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Matt Scott, Peter Horne, Sean Maitland, Ruaridh Jackson, Henry Pyrgos (capt), Rory Sutherland, Stuart McInally, Moray Low, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray, Josh Strauss, John Barclay, Ryan Wilson.
Replacements: Fraser Brown, Gordon Reid, Willem Nel, Tim Swinson, John Hardie, Greig Laidlaw, Huw Jones, Sean Lamont.
Japan: Matsuda, Sa'u, Bennetts, Tatekawa, Sasakura, Tamura, Shigeno, Inagaki, S. Horie, Hatakeyama, H. Ono, Kotaki, Tui, Kin, Mafi. | Scotland must keep "calm heads" and "not be too fancy" in their tactical approach to Saturday's second Test against Japan, says Josh Strauss. |
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The 25-year-old English left-back goes into Accies' squad for Saturday's league trip to face St Johnstone.
Hamilton have been short of options in that position since Lennard Sowah moved to Hearts earlier in January.
Accies' head of player recruitment David MacKinnon told BBC Scotland: "He's got a good pedigree with loads of experience in the English leagues."
Adams came through the youth ranks at Sunderland and played for Brentford, Northampton Town, Coventry City, Notts County and Mansfield Town.
He switched to League Two Cambridge last summer and made 12 appearances this season.
Accies player-manager Martin Canning has played 20-year-old Scott McMann in the first team and both Louis Longridge and Grant Gillespie have slotted into the left-back role. | Hamilton Academical have signed Blair Adams on a free transfer from Cambridge United on an 18-month deal. |
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The first of the classic AA Milne books beat Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into second.
The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson from 1999, was the most recently written book named and came in fifth.
The YouGov poll was carried out as part of a campaign to promote reading and support vulnerable children in the UK.
The list of favourite titles is dominated by British authors.
It was issued in conjunction with the start of the reading initiative entitled Story Time - supported by children's charity Barnardo's and retailer John Lewis - which was launched by the newly appointed Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi.
"Being read to as a child is something most of us take for granted but for many of the children Barnardo's supports, storytelling and communicating are skills that their parents don't have," said Capaldi.
"I would encourage people across the country to embrace storytelling, bury your head in a good book and donate as much as you can through Story Time in aid of Barnardo's.
"You'll be helping the charity reach out to parents of some of the UK's most vulnerable children and ensuring they build the confidence and knowledge to help their little one thrive."
Winnie-the-Pooh was the first of two books of stories about the much-loved bear and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger and was published in 1926.
Carroll's fantasy novel appeared in 1865.
And the third place book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by US author and illustrator Eric Carle, came out in 1969.
JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, from 1937, came in fourth place.
Roald Dahl featured twice in the top 10, with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG. | Winnie-the-Pooh has been named as the favourite children's book of the past 150 years, in a poll of more than 2,000 adults. |
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As well as talking about it at Dublin's Web Summit event*, the company has outlined a few of the key points in a blog post.
It hopes the technology - a blend of artificial intelligence and machine-learning - will be able to help blind people "see" images by enabling our computers to distinguish what is in a picture.
It's an incredibly sophisticated task. Next month, the company says it will present a paper detailing the progress it has made so far.
"Our AI research efforts - along with our work to develop radical new approaches to connectivity and our work to develop immersive new VR technologies - are a long-term endeavour," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's chief technology officer.
"But if we can get them right we will be able to build systems that are smarter and more useful, enable developers to create immersive new experiences, and make it possible to connect everyone in the world."
I'll look in more depth at Facebook's work when that paper is made public. But first I wanted to share a little anecdote that hints at just how smart Facebook's AI is becoming. Or how scary it's becoming, depending on your point of view.
About a month ago I spent a morning at Facebook's new building in Menlo Park, catching up on various areas of the social network's research - one of which was AI.
My guide showed me the image recognition system by handing me a pile of pictures of dogs. Each was a different breed.
I held up a picture of a Border Collie, and the machine would think for a moment before saying "Border Collie".
Picture of a German Shepherd… a moment's pause... "German Shepherd".
It recognised each dog almost instantly.
OK, very smart. But feeling sceptical, I wondered if the machine was just looking out for the specific picture - which is simple - rather than having a knowledge of dog breeds.
So I loaded up a photo of a friend's bulldog on my phone, to see if the machine was smart enough to figure it out.
I held it up, the computer thought about it for a moment, and then it said...
"Smartphone."
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*This week's Tech Tent is a Web Summit special, so be sure to tune in for that, or subscribe to our podcast. | Facebook has been showing off the latest advancements in its image recognition research. |
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The Celtic manager was the man who first brought the Iceland midfielder to Liberty Stadium on loan from Hoffenheim in 2012, when Rodgers was in charge.
Everton have yet to match Swansea's £50m valuation for the 27-year-old.
"Gylfi is an outstanding player and if he was to go I know it would be with a heavy heart," Rodgers said.
"I took him to Swansea firstly on loan and I know how much it means to him. He's been a great servant there and currently still is until anything changes."
While Rodgers is not sure whether Sigurdsson will leave Swansea - who he rejoined permanently from Tottenham in 2014 - in this transfer window, the Celtic boss is sure that the Welsh club have plans to fill any gap created.
"If Gylfi does go - and it's a big if at the moment - I'm sure the scouting and recruitment team will have the people behind the scenes they want to bring in," added Rodgers, who was back at Swansea for Swans legend Alan Tate's testimonial.
"The strength of Swansea has always been the team. It lost individuals when I was there, players moved on, but the strength of Swansea is it's one team with one club." | Gylfi Sigurdsson would leave Swansea "with a heavy heart" if his proposed transfer to Everton materialises, according to ex-boss Brendan Rodgers. |
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Couch, fifth in the synchronised 10m platform final with partner Lois Toulson, scored 332.80 to finish fifth.
But Barrow, 27, could not emulate her former partner in the 10m synchro and finished 23rd with a score of 277.40, with only the top 18 progressing.
The semi-final starts at the Maria Lenk Centre at 14:00 BST on Thursday.
"It was hard to stay focused for such a long time in a 28-diver preliminary round but it was pretty steady," said 27-year-old Couch from Plymouth.
"Three of my dives were really good so hopefully I can do those again tomorrow and the two that I dropped a little bit hopefully I can step them up.
"I had a shaky start but I had a talking to myself when I got to the handstand and shook things up a little as I was a little bit flat to start off with."
Barrow said: "I wanted to finish with a better score than that. The journey has been really tough but I got here on a good score and I wanted to do that again. There are no excuses for why I didn't.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Britain's Tonia Couch is through to the Olympic diving 10m platform semi-final, but Sarah Barrow failed to qualify from the preliminary competition. |
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But what does Germany owe Greece, if anything, and why?
The Nazi occupation of Greece from 1940-44 was among the most savage - around 250,000 people died, mostly from starvation.
Massacres include the one at Kalavryta where about 500 people were killed. At issue now is compensation for the killing of 218 civilians in Distomo in 1944. In 2000, the Greek Supreme Court ruled Germany should pay €28m (£19.7m; $30m) to the relatives of those killed, although the decision was not enforced, and the dispute effectively reached stalemate in international courts in the following years.
Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos has said he is ready to approve that ruling.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told parliament on Tuesday he had a duty to pursue reparations. He set the tone for his presidency early on by laying a wreath at a memorial to a massacre of Greeks by German soldiers in Athens.
But Greece's wartime enemy is now its major creditor.
Greek relations with Germany have deteriorated in recent years because of the financial crisis, with Germany one of the big contributors to the eurozone bailout that began in 2010.
The new leftist government argues austerity measures should be relaxed, a demand opposed by Germany. It negotiated a four-month extension to its €240bn (£170bn; $255bn) bailout last month after tense talks with creditors.
Berlin paid 115m Deutschmarks to Athens in 1960 in compensation. It was a fraction of the Greek demand but was made with the agreement there would be no more claims. Greece says the 1960 deal did not cover key demands, including payments for damaged infrastructure, war crimes and the return of a forced loan exacted from occupied Greece.
Germany insists the issue of compensation was settled in 1990 legally and politically before Germany reunified and has questioned why Greece did not negotiate when it entered the eurozone.
It is classified but based on previous estimations, Athens could be demanding as much as €162bn: €108bn for destroyed infrastructure and €54bn for the forced loan.
The Supreme Court ruling allowed for German-owned property to be seized as compensation though it was never acted on by then-Justice Minister Michalis Stathopoulos.
Among possible assets are property belonging to Germany's archaeological school and the Goethe Institute, a cultural association. | The Greek government has threatened to seize German property as compensation for World War Two. |
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Police have also charged the 39-year-old accused with improper use of electronic communications.
The charges relate to a hoax bomb alert at Mr Adams's home in the west of the city two months ago.
The man was charged by detectives in Newry, County Down, to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
Police were called to the Sinn Féin leader's home in Norfolk Drive in May after receiving information that a device had been left there.
After a search, nothing untoward was found. | A man has been charged with causing a hoax bomb alert at the home of the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and making threats to kill. |
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A raft of new security measures have been introduced for the Australian Open and warm-up events in January.
Tennis Australia said there is "no evidence of widespread corruption".
A BBC and BuzzFeed News investigation in January uncovered suspected illegal betting, with 16 players reportedly flagged over suspicious matches.
The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) rejected the allegations but subsequently announced a major review into its operations as the news dominated last year's Australian Open.
Leading players were asked about levels of corruption in tennis, with Roger Federer saying it was "super important to maintain the integrity of our sport", while Andy Murray said, "I think we deserve to know everything that's out there".
Tennis Australia has now announced a number of measures "designed to safeguard the integrity of the upcoming summer of tennis", with its own National Integrity Unit boosted by an information and intelligence officer and a safety and risk manager.
Prize money will also be increased at the "lower levels" of the sport, including qualifying and early rounds of the Australian Open, in an attempt to help those more vulnerable to corruption.
Other steps include enhanced education for players and staff, increased security during tournaments, and extending the block on access to gambling websites from Tennis Australia tournaments.
"We made the decision to not just sit back and wait for the IRP (Independent Review Panel) to hand down their findings but to take immediate action," said Tennis Australia president Steve Healy.
"Our sport needs strong measures implemented now and that's exactly what we are doing." | Australia's tennis association will increase prize money and has employed additional full-time investigators in an attempt to stamp out corruption. |
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Colin Pitchfork was given a life sentence in 1988 for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire.
Both victims' families opposed his release.
Barbara Ashworth, Dawn's mother, said "life should mean life".
His case was referred to the Parole Board to review his suitability for release.
A spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that a three-member panel of the Parole Board has not directed the release of Colin Pitchfork but has recommended to the Ministry of Justice that he is suitable for a move to open conditions.
"It is up to the Ministry of Justice whether or not to accept this recommendation. We are unable to comment further on the details of this case."
Ms Ashworth said she was concerned Pitchfork could harm a member of the public if allowed out of open prison on temporary release.
"It's a process whereby he's released more gradually and gradually into the community again," she told BBC Radio Leicester.
"I would far sooner he was still in prison where I consider he belongs.
"I would go down on bended knees to the secretary of state for justice and just beg them not to let this man out again, because we don't know what he's capable of."
The judge who sentenced Pitchfork described him as "a danger to young women" whose crimes were of a "particularly sadistic kind".
He was given a life sentence with a minimum term of 30 years, but in 2009 the Court of Appeal reduced the minimum term to 28 years to take into account the "exceptional progress" Pitchfork had made in custody.
The court said the former baker had sought to address the reasons for his offending, achieved "a high standard of education, to degree level", never been placed "on report" while in custody and was "trusted to help with the well-being" of fellow inmates.
It added that Pitchfork, who's now 55, had become a specialist in transcribing printed music into Braille, work which was used across the UK and internationally.
Once a life sentence prisoner's minimum term has been served, they are eligible to be considered for release by the Parole Board.
The Parole Board is not legally permitted to consider whether the prisoner has been punished enough, instead it must focus solely on how dangerous the prisoner is.
Rebecca Eastwood, Lynda Mann's sister, started a petition demanding Pitchfork is never released.
It gathered 19,222 supporters and was submitted to the Parole Board before the hearing to consider his case. | A child killer who became the first person in the world to be convicted using DNA evidence has been refused parole - but recommended for transfer to an open prison. |
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The group challenged the German-based United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra (UKUO) over the similarity in name.
It argued the German group had copied its format and fans were getting confused between the two.
The judge agreed and said its "passing off" claim had succeeded.
The legal battle kicked off last September when the UOGB filed a claim for trademark infringement as the UKUO was preparing for its first tour of the UK.
In his initial ruling, Judge Richard Halcon sided with the German group, agreeing that it was not in competition and adding the British group should have mounted a legal challenge earlier.
Made up of British musicians, the UKUO was founded in 2009, while the UOGB has been going since 1985.
But in his ruling on Thursday, Judge Halcon said he was satisfied "the United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra' misrepresents to a substantial proportion of the public in this country who recognise the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain' as the trade name of a particular musical group".
He added: "I am also satisfied that this has caused damage to the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain's goodwill, particularly by way of loss of control over the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain's reputation as performers."
The case was brought by the founder of the UOGB, George Hinchliffe, who told the court he was approached in 2009 by a German producer who wanted to franchise the band in Germany.
The request was turned down, but Erwin Clausen, director of Yellow Promotions, set up the United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra, promoting a similar style of musical comedy.
Mr Hinchliffe said: "We have worked hard for 30 years to create a unique show and the court has now recognised that copycat musical performances cannot trade off the reputation of established groups."
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has performed in many venues worldwide, including New York's Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House and London's Royal Albert Hall.
It has also released eight studio albums and performed at music festivals including Glastonbury.
Mr Hinchliffe added: "We have an international and celebrity fan base who have stood by us and who will be very pleased." | The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain (UOGB) has won a High Court ruling against a rival group which it accused of trading off its reputation. |
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21 February 2017 Last updated at 15:01 GMT
Two children in Croatia do exactly that. Ema and Alen both go to school on their own.
They both live in remote areas away from big cities and have started writing to each other in their lessons.
Their teachers have even set up video calls for Ema and Alen and they've arranged to meet up with each other.
More pupils are expected to start at both Ema and Alen's schools in the future so hopefully they won't be alone too much longer. | Could you imagine going to school and being the only child in the whole of your school? |
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Twenty-three years after Giovanna Amati raced in qualifying for the Brabham team at the South African, Mexican and Brazilian Grands Prix, the wait for a woman driver to start a race for the first time since Lella Lombardi in 1976 goes on.
And for Amati, Wolff's retirement indicates it shows no sign of ending soon.
"I cannot see any woman at the moment racing at the top, achieving a seat in F1," says the Italian.
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"I am not saying they are not good enough, just that it takes the right team, a good budget and a lot of passion to go ahead - and a lot of perseverance also."
"What a pity [Wolff retired], maybe she could have done well in other championships, she's a talented woman.
"Sometimes people get tired. If you don't achieve what you want, you quit. It's the easiest decision.
"But it's a personal decision. I hope she will change her mind in one year or two. She is still young enough to race elsewhere, such as in GT or at Indianapolis or Le Mans."
Amati certainly knows all about the challenges faced by aspiring and ambitious female drivers looking to carve out a career in F1.
"First and foremost it's a problem of strength. Everyone thinks it is easy to drive on the circuits, it is not easy at all. The car is very stiff, it is very tough to drive and it takes a lot of stamina to finish the races.
"You can't just wake up one day and say 'I'm a Formula 1 driver', you have to work hard."
The hard work is a given. But there are suggestions more sinister forces are creating a carbon fibre ceiling for women in the sport. Did Amati ever encounter direct sexism on the track?
"Of course, all the time, especially from the media. The media didn't like me, I never understood why.
"Also from the drivers and owners. Basically in their minds they were thinking, 'What is she doing here? This is not her place, this is my place'.
"It is difficult to change this attitude, but I didn't care then and I don't care now."
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Amati's indifference to the hostility she faced was fostered by a deep determination to take her love of motorsport as far as she could, having nurtured an interest from an early age.
"Since I was eight or nine years old, I enjoyed driving anything I could find, even the tractor at our country house.
"It was a passion. When I was practising for my driving test I used to do the drive to school with [friend and future Italian racing driver] Elio de Angelis. He drove me there.
"So, slowly, slowly, I became a racing driver. First Formula 3, then Formula 3000 and then one day I got a call from Mr Ecclestone.
"It sounds easy but it wasn't. I got the call in January and the championship started in March and I didn't know how to get the money needed. I was about to go to the USA to race in the Indy formula so I had just two weeks to find a budget."
Just when it looked as though Amati was going to have to turn down the chance of a lifetime, fate smiled kindly upon her.
"My father was no longer alive but at that time one of his friends had become prime minister of Italy [Giulio Andreotti].
"He gave me an appointment at 5:45am. I couldn't sleep all night, thinking about what I was going to say. I was desperate.
"It was the only chance I had and he helped me. At the last minute, I could meet the budget."
The stroke of good fortune that allowed Amati to realise a lifelong dream came 14 years after she endured a harrowing personal nightmare.
In February 1978, as a climate of lawlessness and extreme political violence engulfed Italy, the 18-year-old Amati - whose father was a highly-successful film producer and cinema-owner - was kidnapped outside her family's villa for ransom by an armed group led by Marseille gangster Jean Daniel Nieto.
Held hostage in a wooden cage for over 70 days, Amati was eventually released, reportedly after her father used box office receipts from the first Star Wars film to help meet the kidnappers' demand of almost $1 million.
Amati is understandably reluctant to revisit that dark period in her life, but she does address the salacious newspaper coverage at the time that speculated on the nature of her relationship with Nieto, suggesting she had fallen in love with him during her captivity and maintained a relationship after her release.
"All the stories that you have read in the newspaper were wrong, completely wrong. When I went out I just wanted to come back to my family and to get all the group arrested.
"These are stories that the media put out."
Nieto was sentenced to 18 years in prison, before escaping in 1989 and going on the run. He was finally recaptured in 2010.
For Amati, the modern images of captives held by the so-called Islamic State cause her anguish.
"When I can see what is going on in the world when ISIS get hostages, I feel so bad for them, I feel so bad.
"You know, of course, sometimes you lose your faith, your hope because you think that everybody has forgotten you, but this is not true, you realise this is not true.
"You just don't have the contact with the rest of the world, but then once you get out you recover."
Possessing natural fortitude and determination to succeed, Amati agrees her inherent resilience was calcified by her traumatic experience.
"For sure it made me stronger. I mean, spending three months in captivity - it makes you stronger. Either you go mad or it makes you stronger, and I got stronger."
Such strength helped propel Amati to a place on three F1 Qualifying grids, with her final appearance coming at the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend in 1992 before she was replaced by Damon Hill.
As the F1 season heads to Sao Paolo for its penultimate race, Amati's reflections turn to her time on that track all those years ago.
"I had all the interest on me because I was the only woman in the championship but I couldn't perform, with that car I couldn't perform.
"Brabham at that time had a lack of sponsors and lack of budget. My engine was leaking oil, water, everything, and when I asked to change it there were no spare parts. So it was difficult, all the other cars were performing much better than ours.
"I couldn't qualify with that car and the problem was that they didn't give me another chance afterwards."
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No other woman has had a chance either since then. Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has suggested that the solution could lie in separate races for female drivers and, although rejected by Wolff and the head of the FIA commission for women in motorsport Michele Mouton, it is an idea that Amati believes is worth considering.
"I think that Bernie's idea is very bright, to make an F1 only for women, because then at least you can race at the top of competition.
"But then who pays for it? It's not easy. I can see you need a lot of money to make it work.
"Right now there are only 20 cars in F1 so I can't foresee any women being in the top 20 drivers in the world. When I drove there were 32 cars, not 20.
"So maybe he should make a formula with the old cars, or maybe the one who wins the race can then race with the men, or something like that - but this is the only chance right now for a woman to race an F1 car."
Whether it is in races against men or not, Amati has some trenchant advice for those women looking to establish themselves in F1 cars in the future.
"Be a women outside the track, not inside the track. Inside the track you must be like a man. Why wear a pink helmet? This is crazy!
"If you want to beat them you have to be like them. Maybe the [kidnapping] experience made me stronger like a male."
As for Amati's own future, the call of the track has lost none of its allure over the passing years.
Ironically, just as the totemic Wolff departs the motorsport scene, one of its female pioneers from a previous generation is plotting a return.
"I have some offers to race again. I will let you know in one or two months, but it definitely won't be Formula 1.
"But I have decided to go back to the track. Nothing else can give you the adrenaline. You feel alive." | Susie Wolff's decision to hang up her helmet last week in frustration at a perceived lack of opportunity reinforced one of Formula 1's perennial questions - where are all the female drivers? |
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Legal & General and Northampton Borough Council had put forward plans to jointly redevelop the former Greyfriars bus station site in 2012.
The council said the agreement had now been "terminated" by mutual agreement.
The authority is now looking for another partner to develop a "major retail and leisure scheme" on the site.
The new scheme will not be an expansion of the Grosvenor Shopping Centre, which is owned by Legal & General, said the council.
The original development agreement committed Legal & General to extending the Grosvenor Centre back onto the site of the demolished Greyfriars bus station.
It also obliged Legal & General to refurbish the Grosvenor Centre. Work on the revamp has started and is due for completion in early 2015.
The agreement was subject to a series of conditions including "occupier commitment and financial viability".
But the Greyfriars development has not moved ahead and was delayed further while the council and Legal & General opposed plans for a £50m shopping development at Rushden Lakes in east Northamptonshire.
When permission for Rushden Lakes was granted in June the council and Legal & General met again and they have agreed to end their commitment to jointly redevelop Greyfriars.
Legal & General will continue with its £10m investment in the Grosvenor Centre, which will see major stores Next and Primark opening in October and November.
In addition, Legal & General is expected to lodge a planning application shortly to remodel both the Market Square and Abington Street entrances.
The council said demolition of the old bus station and office complex has started and the site will be levelled and ready to market to developers and retailers by December. | A £250m scheme to expand the Grosvenor Shopping Centre in Northampton has been scrapped. |
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Celtic take a big lead into Tuesday's play-off second leg in Kazakhstan.
"Having that 5-0 cushion, you can get complacent," the 28-year-old Celtic winger told BBC Scotland when asked about Thursday's group-stage draw.
"But that's where we stay mentally strong and focus on the game in hand and get the job done."
Sinclair, who scored two goals during the first leg at Celtic Park last week, insists he and his team-mates will put that healthy lead to the back of their minds in Kazakhstan.
"There's not so much pressure because of the 5-0 lead, but when we go out there, we can't concede," said last season's player of the year in Scotland.
"We'll keep calm and play our normal game and make sure we go out there to win it as well.
"We have to make sure we go over there and get the job done and then we can start looking to see who we may face."
Sinclair expects Tuesday's hosts to adopt a more cavalier approach as they look to reduce a heavy deficit and believes the easy way to settle any concerns is to score the first goal.
"In their minds, I'm sure they've got nothing to lose," he continued.
"They're going to come at us. I can't see them sitting in because there would be no point in that.
"So they're going to be attacking us just as much as we'll be attacking them, so I'm sure it'll be an open game."
With Celtic strong favourites to progress, Sinclair believes this season's squad is better equipped to handle the group games after three draws and three defeats last season.
"I think we're a much better team, much more together and obviously the gaffer has brought in a few players and a bit more experience from last year," he added.
"Every footballer around the world wants to play in the Champions League and to get into the group stages, it should be unbelievable and, for all the fans and everyone involved at Celtic, it's a massive thing.
"That's why you play the game, you're always trying to test yourself and play against the best and there's no better place to play against the best players than in the Champions League." | Scott Sinclair is relishing the prospect of playing in the Champions League group stage but says Celtic must first concentrate on beating Astana. |
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The presidential candidate predicted that voters in France, Germany and the Netherlands would follow their US and UK counterparts to reject the arguments of the political establishment.
She said that 2017 would be the "year of the awakening" for European people.
Her comments were echoed by the Dutch politician, Geert Wilders.
"Yesterday, a new America. Today... a new Europe!'' Mr Wilders, the leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (PVV), said while opening the meeting under heavy security in the central German city of Koblenz.
"The people of the West are awakening. They are throwing off the yoke of political correctness," he said.
"This year will be the year of the people... the year of liberation, the year of the patriotic spring."
Ms Le Pen said Britain's vote to leave the European Union last year would have a domino effect across the European Union (EU).
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"We are experiencing the return of nation-states," she said.
The year 2016 was characterised by the "awakening of Anglo-Saxon countries", she added, while 2017 "will be the year of the awakening of the people of continental Europe".
Ms Le Pen denounced German Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy which she said had allowed huge numbers into Europe and was a "daily disaster''.
The conference of right-wing parties comes ahead of key elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany in 2017 in which they hope nationalist and anti-immigrant policies will resonate with the electorate.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Koblenz to demonstrate against the meeting.
Also attending the meeting are Frauke Petry of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), Harald Vilimsky of the Freedom Party of Austria and Matteo Salvini of Italy's anti-EU Northern League.
It takes place a day after the Washington inauguration of Mr Trump, who championed the causes of patriotism and "America first" in his speech. | French National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen has told a meeting of right-wing politicians in Germany that patriotism is the policy of the future. |
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The Irish prime minister was speaking at a Belfast Pride breakfast event in the city on Saturday morning.
The Republic of Ireland's first openly gay leader, said he was attending the event as a "gesture of solidarity".
Northern Ireland is the only place in the UK where a ban on same-sex marriage still exists.
In 2015, the Republic of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a referendum.
Mr Varadkar told crowds outside the Northern Whig in Belfast that he was not "here to unsettle anyone".
"But I am here to state my support and my government's support for equality before the law and individual freedom for all citizens wherever they may reside," he said.
The DUP, which opposes same-sex marriage, has raised no opposition to his attendance at the event, but across the street a group of Free Presbyterians staged a protest.
The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) added: "Difference makes us stronger and that's something I believe in and something that I think can mark Northern Ireland out in the future.
"I totally appreciate that this it is an issue for the Northern Ireland Assembly, but we need an assembly up and running."
Mr Varadkar said he had given his opinion on the issue to former first minister, Arlene Foster.
Thousands of people are expected to attend the Belfast Pride parade on Saturday afternoon, although Mr Vardakar has said he was not able to attend the main event because he had a prior commitment.
Mr Varadkar also said he was pleased that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Gardaà (Irish police) would be marching in the parade in uniform for the first time.
"Doesn't that say something really good about Northern Ireland and the way it has developed as a society in the past 10 or 20 years?" he added.
On Friday, the first day of Mr Vardakar's visit, he called for "unique solutions" to preserve the relationship between the UK and the European Union after Brexit.
During a speech at Queen's University in Belfast he also warned "the clock is ticking" in Brexit negotations and that "every single aspect of life in Northern Ireland could be affected" when the UK leaves the European Union.
On Friday afternoon, the taoiseach met members of Northern Ireland's political parties, including representatives from the DUP, Sinn Féin, the SDLP and Alliance.
His meeting with DUP leader Arlene Foster came days after a row between the party and the taoiseach over the Irish border post-Brexit.
But Mrs Foster told the BBC she had thanked the taoiseach for "discounting" the idea of a border along the Irish sea. | Leo Varadkar has said it is "only a matter of time" before same-sex marriage is introduced in Northern Ireland. |
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Pensioners are now the least likely group to be in income poverty, according to the think-tank.
The IFS report also said that most poor people now live in households where someone is working.
The government said there were record numbers in work, and that wages were rising faster than inflation.
On average, incomes rose by 2% in real terms between 2007/08 and 2014/15, according to the IFS.
However, that figure concealed very different experiences for different generations:
The IFS report acknowledged that the proportion of children living in workless households has dropped, from one in four in 1994/5 to just one in six in 2014/15.
But in two-thirds of cases, children classified as poor now had a parent with a job - households the IFS described as the "new poor".
Increasingly middle income families were now also sharing the experience of poverty, the think tank said.
Half of these families now rented their homes, rather than owning them.
And while poorer families had become less reliant on state benefits, middle income families with children now get 30% of their income from the state.
Twenty years ago, the figure was 22%.
The new Work and Pensions Secretary, Damian Green, said there were record numbers of people in work, and wages were rising faster than inflation, but more needed to be done.
"As our economy grows, we will also be building our skills base, developing a proper industrial strategy and improving education to help everyone reach their full potential," he said.
One reason for the growing income gap between young and old was that pensioners have experienced a "strong growth" in benefits, the IFS said.
Since 2010 the state pension has risen according to the "triple lock" - whichever is the higher of inflation, earnings or 2.5%.
Pensioners are also entitled to non-means-tested winter fuel payments, free bus travel, free prescriptions, a Christmas bonus - and a free TV licence for those aged 75 and over.
Another reason their incomes have risen is because more people over 60 are still working.
By contrast young people have failed to benefit from an improving jobs market as quickly as some other age groups.
Earlier this week research from the Resolution Foundation found that workers born since 1990 typically earned £8,000 less in their twenties than those born in the 1970s.
The insurance company Prudential said that people planning to retire in 2016 expect to have an income of £17,700 a year, the highest number they have recorded.
In its report the IFS also said that living standards were likely to be hit by the Brexit vote.
"Virtually all serious analysis suggests that the uncertainty over the UK's future relationship with the EU will lead to a smaller economy and hence lower living standards over the next few years than we would otherwise have had," the report concluded.
"But precisely how this will feed through into employment, earnings, and tax and benefit policy is impossible to predict with confidence."
However, the report also noted that more people were in work than ever before and that inequality in wages had fallen. | Young people have suffered a drop in income since the financial crisis, but pensioners have enjoyed a big rise, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said. |
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The 26-year-old ex-Rochdale, Watford and Brighton player moves to Blues with a view to a more permanent deal, once he has proved his fitness.
Buckley is a replacement for Demarai Gray, who joined Premier League side Leicester City for £3.75m last week.
But Blues look like having to face the rest of the season without injury-plagued full-back Neil Eardley.
Eardley, 27, who is out of contract at the end of the season, may have to undergo surgery on a cruciate knee ligament injury, less than a month after coming back from a shoulder injury.
"He's had a scan and it looks like a cruciate injury," Birmingham boss Gary Rowett told BBC WM. "I don't know the exact prognosis but I would hazard a guess it would be the season and a little bit more. He's very low. He's been incredibly unlucky with injuries and our hearts go out to him."
Buckley began his career at Rochdale before moving to Watford in January 2010. He signed for Brighton for £1m in June 2011 before following his old Seagulls boss Gus Poyet to Sunderland for £2.5m in August 2014.
But he has not figured this season and spent a month out on loan at Leeds in October, making his debut in a 2-0 home defeat by Blues.
"Things perhaps haven't quite gone for Will Buckley in the last year at Sunderland," said Rowett. "But I look at what the potential is in any signing.
"When he played at Brighton, he was perfect for a counterattacking system, He's very athletic, good pace, two footed, travels well with the ball and has that little bit of Premier League quality in the final third.
"If we can get that out of him and have him enjoying his football again, I think we'll have a really top signing on our hands."
He is Blues' second signing of the January transfer window following the extension of Huddersfield Town striker James Vaughan's loan until the end of the season.
Buckley is expected to figure in Saturday's trip to Derby County for a Blues side who are back up to eighth in the Championship, having now picked up seven points out of nine since losing 3-0 at Sheffield Wednesday on Boxing Day.
"I'm pleased with how we've responded," said Rowett. "This division is all about navigating little blips.
"It is a challenge. You just stay level headed, focused and don't panic." | Birmingham City have signed Sunderland winger Will Buckley on an initial month's loan. |
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She has been named as 64-year-old Janet Gilson, a Salvation Army worker from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
A 29-year-old man was arrested at the city's main ferry harbour and is being questioned by detectives.
Ms Gilson - found at her niece's property on Lamma Island - reportedly suffered head injuries but police could not confirm if she had died from them.
She had arrived in Hong Kong on 6 March and was last seen on Tuesday in the village of Tai Yuen Village.
Her body was found in the flat, three days after she was reported missing by her niece.
The South China Morning Post reported that a witness to the arrest said she saw a handcuffed man with his head covered by a hood escorted by police off the ferry.
She said there had been a strong police presence around the island during the day and that the ferry piers on Lamma Island had also been under heavy guard.
The man, described by the paper as an expatriate, was held overnight for questioning.
A post-mortem examination will be conducted to establish the cause of Ms Gilson's death but police have confirmed that they are treating it as a "suspected murder case".
It emerged that she had retired only recently.
In a statement Major Carol Bailey, who is a regional manager for the Salvation Army, spoke of their sadness and shock at the news.
"She was a deeply spiritual woman and was highly respected and loved by all those with whom she came into contact."
"She was an inspirational person and she will be sadly missed."
A Foreign Office spokesman said it was ready to provide consular assistance to the family if required. | Police in Hong Kong have launched a murder inquiry after the body of a British woman was discovered in a flat. |
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A murder investigation is under way after Frankie Cooper was knifed in Princess Square in Newcastle city centre at about 13:20 GMT on Monday 20 February.
Mr Cooper, who was from the Newcastle area, died in hospital on Saturday.
Two teenagers charged with assault remain in custody pending court appearances. | A 22-year-old man who died five days after being stabbed on Tyneside has been named by police. |
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The visit is part of a series of events taking place to mark Glasgow being the first ever "Partner City to The Open".
The title recognises Glasgow's status as a transport and accommodation hub for the event from 10-17 July.
Organisers of The Open estimate that the championship could be worth up to £100m to the Scottish economy.
Johnnie Cole-Hamilton, executive director of championships at The R&A said: "We are delighted to have Glasgow as the first Partner City of The Open and there is a great deal going on to celebrate the return of one of the world's great sporting events to Royal Troon just down the coast in South Ayrshire."
The Claret Jug, which was won at St Andrews last year by the USA's Zach Johnson, has been presented to the winner of The Open since 1873.
It was received on the runway of Glasgow Airport by airfield operations manager Billy Hill.
It was then placed on public display in The Open shop in the main terminal building.
Francois Bourienne, commercial director at Glasgow Airport, said: "It is an absolute honour to welcome one of the most famous trophies in world sport to Glasgow Airport.
"The Open will attract tens of thousands of visitors from across the world and a number of our airline partners have added extra capacity in order to meet demand." | The Claret Jug that is presented each year to the winner of The Open has arrived in Glasgow ahead of this year's golf championship at Royal Troon. |
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Mae Cynghrair Parciau Cenedlaethol Cymru, sydd yn cynnwys nifer o gyrff cadwraethol, wedi dweud bod yr adroddiad fel ag y mae "yn peri risg i enw da parciau cenedlaethol fel tirweddau gwarchodedig yng Nghymru".
Dywedodd yr RSPB ac Ymddiriedolaethau Natur Cymru nad oedden nhw'n gallu cefnogi adroddiad Tirwedd y Dyfodol - sydd wedi'i lunio gan grŵp dan gadeiryddiaeth yr Arglwydd Elis-Thomas - yn ei ffurf bresennol.
Mae digon sydd i'w gefnogi yn y ddogfen, medden nhw, ond maen nhw hefyd wedi mynegi "pa mor siomedig ydyn ni gyda'r adroddiad".
Ychwanegodd y ddau gorff nad yw'n cynnwys unrhyw argymhellion clir, a bod diffyg cydnabyddiaeth o'r angen brys i daclo colli cynefin o fewn tirwedd warchodedig.
Mae'r adroddiad - oedd i fod i gael ei chyhoeddi ym mis Mawrth, ond fydd nawr yn cael eu rhyddhau yn hwyrach na hynny - wedi ei weld gan Newyddion 9.
Mae'n dweud mai ei "dyhead yw datgloi potensial llawn holl dirweddau Cymru", a bod gan y parciau cenedlaethol ac ardaloedd o harddwch naturiol ran allweddol i'w chwarae yn nyfodol y wlad.
Roedd galwad hefyd ar "gymunedau i gael eu hysbrydoli i ddatblygu eu gweledigaeth a thargedau tymor hir eu hunain ar gyfer y dyfodol, er mwyn creu swyddi a chyfleoedd i bobl ifanc aros a dychwelyd i'w cymunedau".
Ond mae cadwraethwyr yn pryderu nad yw'r adroddiad yn crybwyll 'Egwyddor Sandford' o gwbl, sydd yn dweud mai prif bwrpas parciau cenedlaethol yw gwarchod a chyfoethogi harddwch naturiol, bywyd gwyllt a threftadaeth ddiwylliannol yr ardal.
"Mae'r adroddiad fel mae o yn warthus i fod yn onest. Mae angen ailddrafftio," meddai John Harold o Gymdeithas Eryri.
"Does 'na ddim argymhellion clir, a 'dan ni'n bryderus iawn efo beth sydd ddim yn yr adroddiad. Does 'na ddim sôn am egwyddor cadwraeth yna, ac mae hynny'n bwynt sylfaenol - dyna beth mae parciau cenedlaethol i fod i wneud."
Ychwanegodd Elfyn Jones o Gymdeithas Fynydda Prydain: "Dwi'n siomedig dros ben fod yr adroddiad ddim yn dweud mwy am warchod y parciau cenedlaethol, ac am y cyfleoedd sydd 'na i gael gwell mynediad i barciau cenedlaethol.
"Dyna 'di sail parciau cenedlaethol - fe gawson nhw eu sefydlu yn 1949 er mwyn gwarchod y tirwedd anhygoel sydd o'n cwmpas ni, ac mae'n siomedig iawn gweld bod hynny i'w weld wedi cael ei dilutio yn yr adroddiad yma."
Cafodd grŵp Tirwedd y Dyfodol Cymru ei sefydlu yn 2015 gan Lywodraeth Cymru.
Mae'r Arglwydd Dafydd Elis-Thomas wedi gwrthod gwneud sylw ar y mater, ond dywedodd llefarydd ar ran y llywodraeth: "Mae'n bwysig cofio mai fersiwn drafft o'r adroddiad yw hwn.
Mae Rhaglen Tirweddau'r Dyfodol Cymru wedi bod yn hynod gydweithredol ei natur ac wedi cynnwys amrywiaeth eang o bartneriaid, sydd wedi cyfrannu at y trafodaethau a'r drafftio.
"Mae'r trafodaethau hyn yn barhaus wrth i adroddiad terfynol gael ei baratoi ar gyfer ei gyhoeddi cyn toriad yr haf." | Mae adroddiad drafft ar ddyfodol parciau cenedlaethol Cymru wedi cael ei feirniadu gan gadwraethwyr, sydd yn dweud y gallai wneud niwed i'w enw da yn rhyngwladol. |
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Theodore Silvester was taken ill on Friday at Anlaby Primary School, where paramedics pronounced him dead.
The appeal aimed to raise £1,000, but now has more than £13,000 in donations.
Tributes have been pouring in for Theodore, whose post-mortem examination has yet to take place.
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Brian Andrews, who works as a crossing patrol guard outside the school, said he was "very, very upset" when he heard about Theodore's death.
"A great little guy," he said. "A very happy little chap.
"Absolutely devastated, upset; I felt for his parents and his schoolmates."
One tearful mother taking her child to the school on Monday said everybody was in shock.
"He was such a young little boy and you don't expect it to happen, so we are all very upset," she said.
"We're feeling so sorry for the family."
On Saturday, head teacher Gareth May said the whole school community was "deeply saddened by this tragic event".
Flowers have been left outside the school's gates, with staff and pupils offered support over the coming days.
Anlaby Primary School has about 325 pupils aged between 4 and 11. | A crowdfunding page has raised thousands of pounds towards the funeral costs of a five-year-old boy who is believed to have choked to death during a lunch break at a Hull school. |
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Tina Love, from Dartford in Kent, has been sentenced to six years after previously being convicted of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The assault took place in the concert area of the holiday camp in Bognor, West Sussex, during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in April 2013.
Julie McDonald, from Buckinghamshire, suffered head and facial injuries.
Chichester Crown Court heard Love, 28, of Acacia Road, head-butted Ms McDonald, who was then 47, before biting off part of her nose and spitting it out on to the floor.
The attack in front of 450 people followed a dispute over whose table was whose, the court was told.
Part of Ms McDonald's nose had to be reattached during surgery.
A victim impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Rachel Beckett said the attack left the mother-of-three living a "nightmare".
"The assault on me was unwarranted, unprovoked and has left me scarred for life," it said.
"I was left in the theatre covered in blood with one of my children next to me as I screamed out in shock and pain.
"You can't hide from this. It is there every day staring me in the face when I look in the mirror and I have to deal with this for the rest of my life."
Defending, Neil Guest said Love would lose her local authority home and also be separated from her three children, aged eight, five and four.
In mitigation, he said she had no previous convictions, had not been in trouble since the attack and was at low risk of re-offending.
"She's a true, caring mother who helps strangers and gives to charities," he said.
"What came over her that night we simply don't know."
Sentencing, recorder Mark Milliken-Smith QC said it was a "tragic case" in which everyone had suffered, including Love's own children. | A woman who bit off part of another woman's nose at Butlins during a children's pantomime has been jailed. |
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Dr Stuart MacDonald works in Portadown Health Centre, home to seven surgeries including Bannview Medical Practice.
Bannview is potentially at risk of closure after its last remaining doctor resigned.
Dr MacDonald, from a separate surgery in the same building, said: "Every GP that I speak to is feeling the strain."
The other six surgeries in the town have told the health authorities that they cannot absorb the 5,000 patients from the Bannview practice.
On Wednesday, the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) denied claims that Bannview was set to close within weeks, and said: "No decisions have been made to close the practice."
The HSCB said it was "currently in discussions with a potential contractor to take over" the practice, but patients have complained to BBC News NI about the current level of service being provided by Bannview in the absence of regular family doctors.
Dr MacDonald told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme: "Any time we've had meetings in Portadown to discuss this, I've been very, very struck at the depth of feeling among all the GPs in all the practices."
He said doctors were having difficulty trying to provide a "safe, sustainable service" because of a shortage of GPs to cater for demand.
"Portadown is the first medium-sized town where this situation has become so acute, but I am sure that there are other towns right across Northern Ireland where [surgeries] may be one illness or one retirement away from a very, very similar situation."
Dr MacDonald added: "Bannview must survive. If Bannview falls, then its possible Portadown [GP services] as a whole could fall over and create a domino effect, not just in Portadown but in the underlying areas.
"If that happens in Portadown, it could happen in any town."
Clare McConville-Walker, now 34, has been a patient of Bannview Medical Practice since birth.
The mother of three told BBC News NI that her family has not been able to pre-book an appointment with their own GP "for months" due to the shortage of doctors in the surgery.
Ms McConville-Walker said her grandfather, who is also a Bannview patient, is being treated for cancer and dealing with a "different locum every day" is causing difficulties.
She said she believed that many patients who need to see their GP about important, but non-emergency health issues, will be "put off" because of the current situation.
Wednesday's HSCB statement said: "The board and practice apologise to all patients for the current inconvenience and will continue to work diligently together over the coming days to endeavour to ensure normal cover and the full provision of general medical services resumes as soon as possible."
The last GP to quit at Bannview, Dr Shauna Heanen, wrote an emotive resignation letter saying she "couldn't cope" with 12 to 14-hour working days with no breaks.
Dr MacDonald told the BBC that the health authorities must bear in mind that GPs are "human beings".
"These are people with family lives, they are people with home lives, and many of us are struggling to get the balance right. I'm aware of situations where GPs have given up their job just to be able to have some sort of functioning normal home life again."
Last month, it was reported that hundreds of GPs in Northern Ireland have signed undated resignation letters to the NHS, meaning they could begin charging patients directly for appointments this year.
The British Medical Association's Tom Black said at the time GPs have a "huge workload" and if something was not done about it there would be "no GP services".
Many medical professional have argued that Northern Ireland is not producing enough doctors to cater for its aging population.
Last year, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill announced plans to increase the number of GP training places to 111.
It means there are 12 additional places this year and 14 extra next year. | A Portadown doctor has claimed GP services could "collapse" across Northern Ireland because of the strain and pressures facing general practice. |
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It has been confirmed, although still unofficially, that ministers are seriously looking in that direction for the next education watchdog for England.
Sir Michael Wilshaw's term of office will end this year and the government - it's up to them rather than Ofsted - is casting its recruitment net overseas.
In particular, they are considering candidates who have been involved in the charter school movement, state-funded independent schools, with a similar ideological DNA to academies and free schools in England.
The big impact of charter schools has been in the most deprived urban areas, credited with re-energising schools that had been in a state of chronic decline.
It's a claim rejected by their opponents, particularly in US teachers' unions, who say that the successful glitz and PR around charter schools is not backed up by any significant long-term advantage.
Some charter schools do well, some do badly... like any other type of school, they argue. The current mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has been accused by charter school groups of putting up "roadblocks" to their expansion.
But what kind of candidates are likely to emerge?
The names in the frame so far include Dave Levin, co-founder of the Knowledge Is Power Program, which runs more than 180 schools.
Another name is Doug Lemov, who runs Uncommon Schools - and for anyone reading the tea leaves in such things, he tweeted about Arsenal's game after being mentioned by the Sunday Times as a possible candidate for this London-based job.
Eva Moskowitz of Success Academy is also mentioned, a deeply controversial figure in US education, whose school chain is currently firefighting a viral video of a teacher ripping up an infant pupil's homework in front of them.
A much stronger candidate, so far not mentioned, might be Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone.
Also suggested by other insiders has been Michelle Rhee, who runs an education reform group and is a former head of state schools in Washington DC.
But there are also informed opinions arguing that the idea of a US watchdog might be a smokescreen and there are a lot of practical complications that might make such a transatlantic transfer unlikely.
For instance, the salary might be a barrier. It has to be enough to tempt someone over - but if it's too much it's going to be a constant source of complaints.
It's categorised as one of those "sounds great on paper" ideas.
And a candidate closer to home might be the frontrunner, such as the national schools commissioner, Sir David Carter.
There are also some big differences between the US and England's school systems. First of all, there is no US school system - it's organised at state and city level, with all the variability in standards and resourcing that come with that.
In terms of international education rankings, the US is a pretty unimpressive performer. In the Pisa tests, run by the OECD, the United States is behind the UK on every measure.
This mediocre average conceals an even more depressingly polarised underlying picture.
Academics at Harvard and Stanford have looked at Pisa results for individual US states, comparing them to other countries. It found that some, such as Massachusetts, have standards that would match most other places in the world.
But there were other states, particularly in the south, which had some of the worst results in the developed world.
In individual cities there are also some calamitous problems.
In Detroit, according to the results of US tests, only 4% of 13- to 14-year-olds in the city's state schools are proficient or better at maths. This is a city where teachers have been banned from striking and are closing schools by calling in sick on the same day.
These kind of extremes do not really have a parallel in England.
Another big difference is that much of the talk around charter schools is about rescuing failing schools in places such as New York.
But in England's school system, London is the jewel in the crown, outperforming the more comfortably quilted shires.
The narrative of evangelical educators working in the bleakest urban, violent wastelands doesn't really translate.
An American in Ofsted would be more likely to have to take on the rusting arcades of a rainy seaside town, counting the bookies and pound shops rather than the gang victims.
National Association of Head Teachers' leader Russell Hobby was not enthused by the idea of a US import, saying that "seeking home-grown talent might be wiser".
"Quality of leadership is usually considered higher in the UK, so there's a good pool to draw from. Our unions are nothing like the US unions in terms of restrictive practices."
And Christine Blower, leader of the National Union of Teachers, said: "If the government is scouring the world for a new head of Ofsted they should look to Finland.
"It is universally agreed to have an excellent education system characterised by co-operation, collaboration and trust. A far cry from the charter school ethos of the US."
There is another major dimension to this story. As well as talking about who gets the job, perhaps the more important question is about how the job is going to be redefined.
Sir Michael Wilshaw is probably the most influential figure in England's education system, with his views and rulings often overshadowing education ministers.
Although he has faced much criticism from the teachers' unions, Sir Michael has been a powerful force in defending a comprehensive school system, rooted in public service and the public sector.
The teachers' unions have long complained about the Ofsted head, but they might come to regret his departure.
The more free-market advocates of academies have resented the regulatory, interventionist force of Ofsted - and they would not be unhappy to see its power being cut down to size.
Ofsted's willingness to take on academy chains has been intended to raise standards, but will also have raised hackles.
When Sir Michael steps down, it will be the chance for ministers to decide how sharp they want the teeth to be on their new watchdog. | Is the new head of Ofsted going to come from the United States? |
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The statistics show that 3.94 million procedures were carried out in the course of scientific research - a fall of 206,000 on 2015.
Some 51% of the total figure was accounted for by experiments and 49% relates to the breeding of genetically modified animals for research.
A charity called on the government to curb "out-of-control" animal breeding.
Troy Seidle of Humane Society International said: "We've witnessed this trend toward out-of-control breeding of genetically modified animals developing for more than a decade, and have repeatedly called on the Home Office to take action."
Between 2007 and 2016, the number of procedures increased by 23%.
The rise in breeding of genetically altered animals was largely responsible for the increase.
Of the 2.02 million experimental procedures completed in 2016, the majority involved mice (60%), fish (14%), rats (12%), and birds (7%).
As of 2014, the Home Office statistics contain information on the severity of procedures carried out on animals.
This year, the majority of experimental procedures (46%) were classed as "mild". This compares with 51% of experiments being categorised as mild the previous year.
The proportion of experiments classed as severe (6%) did not change compared with the previous year's figures.
The procedures involving specially protected species, such as horses; dogs; cats; and non-human primates, accounted for 0.9% (18,000) of procedures in 2016.
Dr Sarah Wells, director of the Medical Research Council's mouse genomics facility, the Mary Lyon Centre, said: "The management of colonies of genetically-altered animals is complex but we are developing increasingly sophisticated ways of breeding and genotyping them and preserving their eggs and sperm.
"These efforts are reducing the number animals required for each experiment."
Dr Penny Hawkins, head of the research animals team at the RSPCA, said: "The significant, year-on-year increases in animal procedures after 2000 seem to have ended, and the overall number is now fluctuating around four million.
"But it would be very wrong to allow this level of animal use to become 'normalised', because of the pain, suffering and distress involved."
She said the RSPCA wanted to see "much more critical assessment of the value of various animal 'models' of disease and faster development and adoption of humane, non-animal alternatives". | Home Office annual figures report that animal experiments carried out in the UK fell by 5% in 2016. |
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He will join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton when the new series returns on 2 October.
Clarkson pulled out of hosting the BBC One panel show in April, after being sacked from Top Gear after a "fracas".
He is set to front a new motoring show for Amazon next year, alongside co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond.
Clarkson's appearance on Have I Got News For You will be his first on the BBC since his departure from Top Gear.
He was suspended in March after assaulting producer Oisin Tymon, and the BBC later confirmed his contract would not be renewed.
At the time, BBC director-general Tony Hall said "a line has been crossed" and that "there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another".
Clarkson signed up to present Have I Got News For You on Friday, and his appearance will mark the start of the show's 50th series.
When he pulled out of hosting in April, production company Hat Trick had suggested the presenter would appear on the show soon.
A statement said: "On reflection, Jeremy Clarkson has decided not to host Have I Got News For You. We fully expect him to resume his hosting duties later in the year."
Pointless assistant host Richard Osman will be one of the two guests joining Clarkson for the opening episode. | Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson will return to the BBC to host an episode of satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You next month. |
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The 22-1 chance, ridden by George Baker, triumphed from Ventura Storm and Housesofparliament after the odds-on favourite unshipped Seamie Heffernan.
Epsom-based Mongan said winning the world's oldest Classic, first run 240 years ago, was "surreal".
"I'll go down in history. At least I've done something right," she said.
"It was brilliant. I think I screamed a lot. I'm in shock," added Mongan, who is assisted by her husband, former jockey Ian.
It's brilliant. It's so nice to have a horse like that in the yard
Both Heffernan and Idaho were reported to be fine after the incident.
Harbour Law is the first Classic winner in 47 years to be trained in the town associated with the Derby.
Idaho was bidding to give Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien his fifth Leger victory but appeared to take a false step just under four furlongs out, and left Heffernan on the turf.
"When Idaho clipped heels it made it a very open race," said Baker after victory by three quarters of a length.
"I can't believe it, I'm so happy for Ian and Laura, they had so much faith in him and really deserve it."
Heffernan was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Analysis - BBC racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
"On a day when the 'Leger' was in danger of being severely upstaged by an outstanding Irish Champion Stakes, the famous old race made its presence well and truly felt with a staging that dripeped with history and drama.
"The glass ceiling associated with female trainers in major horse races has long been shattered by the likes of Jenny Pitman and, on the flat, by Criquette Head-Maarek, but Laura Mongan's win is still a notable result for the final Classic.
"That she achieved the success after the stumble and departure of hot favourite Idaho - saving the bookies a £5m pay-out apparently - makes it all the more memorable. Everyone was okay; terrific race." | Harbour Law won a dramatic St Leger as Laura Mongan became the first woman to train the winner, after favourite Idaho unseated his jockey at Doncaster. |
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A mother by the age of 13.
When I meet Eloise what strikes me is how incredibly small she is. Her arms are tiny and she's not very tall either.
The thought of a man - a soldier - raping her seems unimaginable.
But it's not only the trauma of sexual violence Eloise has to deal with - she has a nine-month-old baby to look after too.
We are not using her real name because she is a minor and also for her own protection from possible retaliation.
She says that when she was 12 a Ugandan soldier, deployed to protect her town, attacked her.
"My mother sent me to the market to buy something," she says. "On the way, a Ugandan soldier grabbed me. He dragged me to a nearby lodge [hotel] and raped me."
Uganda has about 2,500 soldiers stationed in the Central African Republic (CAR). The mission, which began in 2009, aims to hunt down Joseph Kony and members of his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The rebel group has been accused of committing massacres, abductions, rape and acts of looting. Kony and his men started in Uganda but went on to wage their war across the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR.
But now the Ugandan army is being accused of committing sexual crimes similar to those carried out by the group it's meant to be fighting.
At a secret location, we meet Marie. She is 14 years old and far more confident than Eloise.
She makes a similar allegation.
"I was going to the field to work and on my way, I was grabbed by a Ugandan. He was violent, he attacked me and he raped me. When I think about this, it hurts me. I didn't expect it at all.
"If I had a knife or machete I would have tried to attack him."
Most of the soldiers from the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), are stationed in Obo, in the far south-west of the CAR.
Dense forest and rivers surround it. But it's also a modern military town. During the day there's the constant sound of helicopters and planes taking off - soldiers coming in and going out, their supplies arriving.
A United States unit of about 100 military advisers is also based in the town, supporting the mission to find Kony.
Uganda operates under an African Union mandate but other countries in the region affected by the LRA, which are meant to be part of the mission, hardly contribute troops because of conflicts back home.
Obo mayor Barthelemy Maickos says: "I'm thankful for the Ugandans being in our locality. If they were not here, Joseph Kony's men would be."
But, with all the allegations of wrongdoing, he wishes his own government would take up the responsibility of protecting its people.
The CAR has faced bouts of instability. The most recent began in 2012 when the mostly Muslim Seleka rebels overthrew the government. To confront them a Christian/Animist group the anti-Balaka was formed. The country is divided and the United Nations stepped in to provide peacekeepers.
But some of these UN soldiers, as well as those from former colonial power France, have been accused of sexually abusing boys, girls and women.
In an effort to be more open about these crimes, the UN has investigated allegations against Ugandan soldiers in and around Obo.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, last July said his office had interviewed 18 women who said they had faced sexual violence and harassment by Ugandan soldiers. Fourteen cases of alleged rape, including cases involving victims who were minors at the time, were also reported, all in and around Obo.
Several women and girls reported they had been taken from their villages by Ugandans and forced to become prostitutes or sex slaves, or to marry Ugandan soldiers, the statement said.
Mr Al Hussein called on Uganda to investigate the alleged crimes itself and ensure that, where evidence was sufficient, alleged perpetrators were brought to justice.
But the man charged with carrying out public prosecutions in Obo, Max Tina, told us he gets little co-operation from Uganda.
"We knew one case where a dog was used to rape a minor," he says. "When we started investigating, the Ugandan authorities decided to clean their tracks and repatriate those who committed this crime back to Uganda."
I put these allegations to Brig-Gen Richard Karemire, the Ugandan military spokesman, who says an investigation was carried out in Obo but no evidence was found.
"A team went on the ground and did a very good investigation and they never found anything really to implicate any UPDF individual for having perpetrated such crimes," he says.
I push him on the fact that such complaints have followed the Ugandan army when it's been deployed in Somalia or the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He answers: "Allegations will always be there. What's important is that when there are allegations, when you investigate and find elements culpable, what do you do? Wherever we find any of our soldiers culpable we take action."
Maria Burnett, associate director at Human Rights Watch, sees the situation very differently.
"We have long-standing concerns about accountability for sexual exploitation and abuse committed by Ugandan soldiers during operations outside Uganda," she says.
"We have discussed our concerns with various officials over many years and each time there are commitments to investigate, mixed with denials that abuses have occurred."
I asked Eloise, still a child herself, what she hoped for her and her baby's future.
"I'm not thinking of anything for us, " she says. "I don't know - I'm not thinking of anything."
Already in a desperate situation, they have barely a fighting chance. | Ugandan soldiers sent to the Central African Republic to hunt for rebels are facing accusations that they have been raping local women and girls. |
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But how does the pay for junior doctors compare with other jobs?
Basic salary for junior doctors starts at about £23,000 but increases in the second year to about £28,000 (Pay for doctors - NHS Careers). For a doctor in specialist training, the basic salary is between £30,000 and £47,000.
Junior doctors get more for working extra and anti-social hours (currently classified as outside 07:00 to 19:00 Monday to Friday) on top of the basic salary, which boosts their income.
According to figures from the NHS Employers Organisation, the average total salary for a doctor in training is around £37,000.
The new contract changes anti-social hours to outside 07:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday, making Saturday between 07:00 and 22:00 part of a junior doctor's normal working week.
The change to Saturday working has angered doctors, who say it will reduce overtime pay and cut salaries. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has indicated he may be prepared to reconsider his plan to reclassify working on Saturdays.
The Department of Health thinks the new contract is a better deal. It says it will increase the basic salary for doctors and improve training so that junior doctors will not get paid less on average overall.
The move is part of the drive towards seven-day working in the NHS.
Working alongside doctors, a fully qualified nurse starts on about £22,000. Hours worked on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and on weekdays between 20:00 and 06:00 receive a pay premium. The Royal College of Nursing says it will challenge any proposal by the government to scrap or undermine unsocial hours payments.
Outside of the medical profession, a teacher starts on about £23,000, according to the teachers' union, the NUT.
Graduates start out on salaries ranging from about £21,000 to £37,000, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR).
At the top of the scale are law and banking, while public sector and retail pay rests at the bottom.
The average starting salary for a corporate investment banker is about £35,000 to £40,000, according to the graduate job website Prospects.ac.uk. After three or more years, salaries may rise above £50,000.
In countries such as Australia, doctors receive tax breaks for a proportion of their income assigned to everything from rent or mortgage to eating out at restaurants.
Some junior doctors in the UK complain about having to pay for hospital parking and what they see as over-priced hospital food, although hospitals may offer subsidised parking and meals.
Other professions boast a range of unusual perks, including free climbing walls for office workers, staying at home on your birthday at a tech start-up and even a dog to pat at an advertising firm.
For doctors, though, rewards come in making a difference to patients' lives and, in the long term, a healthy salary.
Consultants in England earn from £60,000 to more than £100,000, while salaried GPs earn from about £55,000 to £80,000 or more (Pay for doctors - NHS Careers). | Government proposals to change the way junior doctors get paid have triggered anger in the profession. |
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Earlier this week, inspectors said they had safety concerns about inmates at HMP Hewell, with vulnerable prisoners self-harming to address basic issues.
The anonymous officer also told BBC News cells were rarely searched.
A prison spokesman said staffing levels were set using a national benchmark but it was recruiting new officers.
He added that intelligence-led cell searches were now more common practice.
The prison officer highlighted several areas of concern among workers.
"The staff don't feel safe and there's not enough of them," they said.
"We've been cut back. In order to run a prison safely and securely you need the staff, and that's been totally taken away.
"Staff don't feel able to challenge prisoners properly... there's no consequence for bad behaviour.
"They don't feel backed up by management or by other staff around them."
The officer said mandatory cell searches were no longer conducted and they were "rammed" with contraband like mobile phones and weapons.
Use of synthetic cannabis was "rife" and targeted searches were "few and far between", they said.
The prison governor had made some changes but "did not believe he is understaffed", the officer said.
In its report earlier this week, HM Inspectorate of Prisons said there had been one murder and six suicides since its last visit and incidents of self-harming and bullying were high.
It found up to 40% of cells at the prison near Redditch were overcrowded, while access to basic services such as clothing, cleaning materials and mail were all poor.
The report mostly criticised the closed prison, which houses 1,100 inmates, with another 200 at the open section.
The Howard League for Penal Reform said Hewell had seen frontline officers cut from 330 in August 2010 to 170 by the end of June this year.
In a statement, Governor Nigel Atkinson said Hewell did have some job vacancies, which meant that "at times certain aspects of the prison regime may be restricted" but all work was risk assessed.
Regarding cell searches he said they were conducted based on "a more targeted approach", "deploying resources appropriately and proportionately, based on intelligence". | A prison officer at an under-fire jail in Worcestershire says staff are frightened to stand up to prisoners and staffing levels are dangerously low. |
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All O'Keefe's scalps came as India lost seven wickets for 11 runs to be 105 all out - captain Virat Kohli making his first Test duck in 45 innings.
Australia, bowled out for 260 in their first innings, then moved to 143-4 to lead by 298 runs.
Captain Steve Smith, dropped three times, was unbeaten on 59 at the end of day on which 15 wickets fell.
O'Keefe claimed three wickets in one over, first dismissing top-scorer KL Rahul (64) before Ajinkya Rahane and Wriddhiman Saha fell for ducks.
All of his six wickets came in the space of 24 deliveries as the 32-year-old claimed career-best figures in his fifth Test.
Despite Ravichandran Ashwin dismissing David Warner (10) and Shaun Marsh for a duck, Smith and Matt Renshaw (31) steadied the innings to put Australia on top.
Only one team has chased more than 300 to win a Test in India - India scored 387 to beat England by six wickets in 2008. | Left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe took 6-35 to give Australia control of the first Test against India in Pune. |
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Jones, known for TV sitcoms Stella, and Gavin and Stacey, will write and star in the new six-part comedy Splott.
The comedy, set in the Splott area of Cardiff, tells the story of Mandy Ferhat - a school cook and single mum.
When life gets tough, Mandy - played by Jones - turns to her "bonkers" neighbour Val and her "sweet but serial killer-obsessed" colleague Kathleen.
Jones said: "Let's be honest, who can't help but love the name Splott. A name made more loveable by the fact that it's a real place nestled in the heart of Wales' capital.
"I'm so excited to be playing a strong gutsy Cardiffian in what I hope is going to be a refreshingly daft and silly sitcom on Radio Wales."
Colin Paterson, editor of Radio Wales, said: "Ruth is one of the biggest comedy talents of her generation; I couldn't be more pleased that she has agreed to work with Radio Wales." | Welsh actress and writer Ruth Jones is to bring a brand new sitcom to BBC Radio Wales next February. |
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The Right Reverend Libby Lane, 48, was made Bishop of Stockport in front of more than 1,000 people.
The Church formally adopted legislation last November to allow women bishops, following decades of argument over women's ordination.
Archbishop of York John Sentamu, who led the service, said he had been "praying and working for this day".
During the two-hour service Dr Sentamu and other bishops laid their hands on Bishop Lane and prayed. This was followed by lengthy applause.
Writing in today's Yorkshire Post the archbishop said: "It is high time we had women bishops. I have been praying and working for this day.
"In a few years' time when more and more women will be bishops, I predict we shall be wondering how we ever managed without them."
However, in an indication that some Anglicans still oppose women's ordination, the service was briefly delayed by an opponent of the changes.
The Rev Paul Williamson stepped forward shouting "not in the Bible" after the Archbishop of York asked the church if Mrs Lane should be ordained as a bishop.
The second time Dr Sentamu asked the congregation, there was no opposition and the ceremony continued.
A Church of England spokesman said of Mr Williamson, priest in charge of a church in Hanworth, Middlesex: "He's got the right to protest but the contrast was between a lone voice protesting and a sea of voices affirming."
Bishop Lane had said the consecration would be a very "emotional" moment.
She said: "It is a remarkable thing that this happens to me, and people have been very supportive of me personally, but actually this is about a moment in the Church's history."
Speaking after the service her son Benedict said: "We've been building up to it now for a long time and it's satisfying that it has finally happened and we are finally here.
"She's the best person for the job."
Libby Lane has been vicar of St Peter's Hale and St Elizabeth's Ashley, in Greater Manchester, since April 2007.
At York Minster today I've met Anglican women bishops from the US, New Zealand, South Africa, Iceland, Sweden and Germany delighted to welcome her to their ranks.
Retired Swedish bishop Christina Odenberg told me it was inevitable England would catch up.
Meanwhile, long-time campaigner Christina Rees of Women and the Church said that, now the mother church had made this move, she felt other provinces of the Anglican Communion which had been holding back out of "deference" would follow suit.
I was also struck by young journalist Carey Lodge of "Christian Today", who was born the year before the Church of England voted in favour of women priests.
She said her friends were filling her social media space with tweets and updates revelling in what one woman is achieving today. All of them believed others would follow quickly.
Libby Lane's former curate at Hale, Georgina Watmore, told me with a big beam on her face that she looked forward to the day when there would be a female archbishop - and "probably in my lifetime".
Her consecration comes more than 20 years after women became priests in the Church of England.
And it comes after the general synod gave the final seal of approval to the legislation on women bishops following its passage through Parliament last year.
After the change was approved, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said that the Church was entering a "completely new phase of our existence".
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But divisions still remain between Anglicans who feel the change is consistent with their faith and traditionalists who disagree.
Opponents of women bishops include some who place great importance on the laying on of hands by existing bishops in the consecration of new bishops, and wish to be looked after by bishops not affected by the involvement of women in this process.
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A vicar from Blackburn used her service on Sunday to protest at changes being made to the consecration of the Bishop of Burnley next month. The laying on of hands on the Rev Philip North will be performed by other bishops but not by Dr Sentamu (who by then will have laid hands on Bishop Lane). Mr North opposes women bishops.
Dr Sentamu said the changes to Mr North's consecration were made "for prayer, not politics". He pointed to the arrangements within the Church that "a suitable supply of bishops continues" for opponents of women's ordination.
Gloucester, Oxford and Newcastle are among the dioceses where new bishops will also soon be appointed, while interviews for the vacancy as bishop for the Southwell and Nottingham diocese took place at the start of December.
Anglican churches in Scotland and Wales already allow women as bishops, but have not appointed any yet. | The Church of England has consecrated its first female bishop during a ceremony at York Minster. |
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He replaces Archie Norman, who has chaired the broadcaster since January 2010.
The former Endemol UK chairman is already a non-executive director at ITV and will take over from Mr Norman on 12 May.
In January, Sir Peter said he would step down as chairman of the Arts Council England in 2017.
The announcement sparked speculation that he may move to ITV after the FTSE 100 company said last month that Mr Norman would be leaving.
Sir Peter is also president of the Royal Television Society and has enjoyed a long career in broadcasting.
He began as a researcher on That's Life in the 1970s before establishing his own production company that was responsible for programmes including Ready Steady Cook and Ground Force. It was later sold to Endemol.
While at Endemol, Sir Peter brought the formats including Big Brother and Deal or No Deal to UK vierwers. He stepped down as its UK chairman in 2007.
Sir Peter said: "ITV has gone through a remarkable resurgence during Archie's chairmanship and there is still so much more that we can achieve.
"This is an incredibly exciting time for everyone in the media sector with change happening at an unprecedented rate, and I'm absolutely delighted to be working with Adam [Crozier] and the management team. TV is my first love."
Mr Norman said: "The last six years has been undoubtedly challenging but also extremely rewarding and enjoyable, and an experience I would not have missed for the world."
Shares in ITV fell 0.7% to 241.9p in morning trading in London. The stock has risen 180% over the past five years following Mr Crozier's appointment as chief executive. | Sir Peter Bazalgette, the man credited with bringing Big Brother to Britain, has been appointed as chairman of ITV. |
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A little over a year ago, the RNLI lifeboat sailed out of the harbour at St Abbs for the final time.
It brought to an end a service which the popular Berwickshire diving spot had enjoyed for more than a century.
However, local fundraising and a large donation from Boyd Tunnock have seen a new boat officially launched.
It is a day the lifeboat crew could hardly have believed would be possible just 12 months ago.
It appeared then that cover would be provided from the nearby station at Eyemouth.
Nonetheless, people like coxswain Paul Crowe never gave up hope of raising the hundreds of thousands of pounds needed to buy their own boat and run their own service.
"We have had a lifeboat for 112 years and we basically need one," he said.
"We are at the heart of the diving community on the east coast of Britain as far as I'm concerned.
"A fast response is undoubtedly needed here."
A modern lifeboat does not come cheap and a local campaign estimated it would need up to ??500,000 to get one up and running.
The community rallied round at a series of fundraising events and other donations were received to make gradual progress towards the ambitious target.
Then, in November last year, a successful businessman and keen sailor suddenly accelerated matters.
Boyd Tunnock, owner of the famous teacake and caramel wafer makers, sent a donation of ??10,000 which led to further talks with campaigners.
He subsequently agreed to put up ??250,000 if they agreed to name the boat the Thomas Tunnock in honour of both his grandfather and late brother.
It meant the service was able to return to the waters off St Abbs much sooner than expected.
The boat has already been in operation but the official launch took place on Saturday, attended by Mr Tunnock and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
It was the conclusion of an emotional journey for local residents.
"Everybody was over the moon when the new boat arrived," said Mr Crowe. "The whole village turned out."
He said the boat was capable of the swift response necessary for any emergency call-outs in the area.
"It is an animal, for the want of a better description," he said.
"It can do 45 knots without thinking about it."
Mr Tunnock was on hand to see the result of his donation at the special launch and celebration of the boat's arrival.
Without his contribution, it might have taken quite a bit longer for the community's dream to be realised.
As he said at the time of making his commitment, ??250,000 translates to a "lot of caramel wafers".
But what it has brought to St Abbs certainly tastes sweet to those who feared they might never see a lifeboat based in their village again. | A remarkable story of community commitment and business philanthropy has been completed in a small seaside village in the Scottish Borders. |
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The Royal College of Radiologists has described the shortage as "severe" and said it was aware of the potential impact on the care of cancer patients.
In a recent report, the Health and Social Care Board said the regional performance against the 14-day breast cancer standard had "deteriorated".
The Health and Social Care Board confirmed to the BBC that approximately 40 posts remain unfilled.
It said this was despite multiple attempts to recruits doctors.
According to those who work in the area, more money is required to train professionals.
A number of professionals told the BBC that a shortage of radiologists in Northern Ireland is impacting on how quickly patients are receiving cancer diagnosis.
They said more investment is required to train professionals.
In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for the Royal College of Radiologists said: "We are aware of the severe shortages of qualified radiologists in Northern Ireland and the potential impact that this is having on the care of cancer patients."
It added: "This issue has been exacerbated by a combination of additional factors such as inadequate training numbers and the retirement of radiologists."
The role of the radiologist is vital in cancer diagnosis.
A medical doctor, they specialise in diagnosing and treating disease and injury through the use of medical imaging technology such as X-rays.
Dr Anna Gavin, the director of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, said their role is crucial.
"Radiology is a very important area for the diagnosis of many conditions, including cancer," she said.
"If there are delays in the radiologists' workload then we are causing a backlog of patients to be diagnosed and treated."
There are vacancies, however, in almost every health trust especially in the southern area where one radiologist was covering the entire area for almost a year.
Some cancer patients are having to wait longer than they should for diagnosis and treatment.
Paul Hutchinson's cancer returned in November last year. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2013 and underwent surgery and treatment.
However, he had to wait more than three weeks for a scan following surgery.
"The wait is terrible. You aren't supposed to wait that long but the Christmas holidays fell in between and only I kept ringing and hassling the secretary it would have taken a lot longer," he said.
Mr Hutchinson said that his oncologist had told him that they needed the results of the scan before they could organise his chemotherapy treatment.
The BBC has contacted the Belfast Health Trust and is awaiting a response.
The Health and Social Care Board is aware of the staffing problem.
It said that while most trusts are meeting the 14-day target, in the southern area only 39% of urgent breast cancer referrals were seen within 14 days. | Almost 25% of radiologist posts in Northern Ireland are currently vacant. |
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Paul is a pupil at what is, in Northern Irish terms, an unusual school.
He attends Gaelcholáiste Dhoire, one of only two two post-primary Irish medium schools in Northern Ireland.
An Irish language act could see more schools like Gaelcholáiste Dhoire open, as the act would give children the right to an education in Irish if they wanted it.
It would also guarantee services through Irish on a par with those available in English.
Politicians have had their say on an Irish language act through the election campaign.
Nationalists and some other parties want one, many unionists do not.
But how do Irish speakers feel about an act? Is language legislation important to them?
Gaelcholáiste Dhoire was a good place for me to start asking those questions.
The school opened, controversially, in 2015 with only 16 pupils, but that number has trebled since and is expected to rise again this year.
The principal Diarmaid Ua Bruadair said that the school was vital to the local community.
"The Irish language has been spoken in the Sperrin mountains within living memory," he said.
"So there is a seed there and that seed was lying dormant for a while, and the Irish medium education and community sector has enabled that seed to grow again."
He said an Irish language act was essential, and does not understand why it is politically controversial.
"The students at this school have rights, and they should be protected," he said.
"There's a growing recognition across the world that minority languages are valuable, are precious, and should be protected."
Aside from education provision, an Irish language act could also mean some other practical differences.
Irish could be used in courts and in assembly debates with simultaneous translation.
It would be used by state bodies, including the police, and a commissioner would be put in place to make sure the use of the language was facilitated.
Those proposals and others were detailed in a consultation document produced by the Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure back in February 2015.
However, no estimate was put on how much it might cost to implement.
That does not change students' views in another, very different, Irish class.
At Stranmillis University College in south Belfast, Ian Malcolm teaches Irish in the evening to lifelong learning students.
He is a Protestant and a unionist, but is a fluent speaker and Irish language enthusiast.
He wants an act, but thinks that a phased introduction would make common sense.
"I think that would be a more productive approach than some sort of blanket introduction where everything is introduced at once," he said.
"What's the point of an Irish language act if it's going to mean people sitting down and translating pointless documents nobody reads in English into pointless documents nobody reads in Irish."
"A very important move for me would be the appointment of an Irish language commissioner or indeed a languages commissioner for Northern Ireland who would be able to take a look at the overarching questions surrounding Irish in the province."
His students, who come from all backgrounds, also do not see why a language act should be controversial.
Peter Tweed said the act would not force people to learn Irish.
"It's not something that we had the opportunity to learn at school, but I've always had an interest in language in general," he said.
Legislation "would potentially de-politicise the language to some degree," he said.
The Irish News columnist Patrick Murphy said people forget that, at many points in history, it was Protestants who ensured the language survived.
"The Irish language should be taken out of the political arena because in Northern Ireland the political arena is a sectarian arena," he said.
"I think the problem comes from the St Andrew's Agreement which suggests the Irish language is a Catholic language."
"In effect, the Presbyterian church has done more to preserve and protect the Irish language than the Catholic church ever did."
"In the 17th century the Presbyterian church was translating the Bible into Irish - the Catholic church didn't manage that until 1981."
All of the Irish speakers I talked with said they did not want the language to be a political football.
But when it comes to a language act the challenge is still to get the politicians all in harmony. | "I have more friends to talk to in Irish and I'm able to use my language more." |
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It came after the UK defence secretary told BBC Scotland that the SNP should "forget" about holding a second referendum.
But Sir Michael Fallon would not be drawn on reports he had suggested the UK government would block a vote.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that Sir Michael had "seriously backpedalled" on the issue.
A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May later said that the referendum in 2014, when Scotland voted by 55% to 45% to remain in the UK, was "legal, fair and decisive".
She added: "We believe that this issue was settled in 2014. Recent polls don't suggest that there has been a big change in the views around a second referendum."
The Scottish first minister has said another independence referendum was increasingly likely in the wake of the Brexit vote, but she would need the UK government's permission in order to hold a second legally binding vote.
Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, Sir Michael said the SNP "need to forget all that stuff and get on with what they were elected to do."
But he did not directly answer questions on whether or not the UK government would allow a vote.
He said: "We don't see the need for a referendum - this is a diversion.
"What the Scottish government should be focusing on is what it was elected to do, which is to improve schools standards, get to grips with the problems in Scottish hospitals and reverse the serious rise in unemployment."
The minister urged the SNP to focus on their "day job" and "not get into the theology of whether or not a second referendum should be held".
The Herald newspaper said it had asked Sir Michael whether the UK government would facilitate a referendum during the lifetime of this parliament.
It quoted the Conservative politician as replying: "No, forget it. The respect agenda is two way.
"She [Ms Sturgeon] is constantly asking us to respect the SNP government, but she has to respect the decision of the Scotland to stay inside the UK in 2014 and the decision of the UK to leave the EU.
"Respect works both ways."
Sir Michael was speaking ahead of a visit to Midlothian engineering firm MacTaggart Scott designs, at which he said the Treasury had approved the initial business case for a training school for naval crews working on the UK's nuclear submarines.
The submarine school would be built at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, which will be home to all 11 Royal Navy submarines from 2020 in a move which will see the number of people employed there rise from 6,800 to 8,200.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson opposes a second referendum being held - but said last year that she did not believe the UK government should block one.
The UK government White Paper setting out its Brexit plans pledges to "ensure that more decisions are devolved" after the UK leaves the EU.
But while the government will "champion devolution", it stressed there would be a "whole UK" approach to the Brexit negotiations.
Ms Sturgeon tweeted that there had been "serious backpedalling from Michael Fallon on GMS on blocking #indyref2" and that he "must have realised what a disastrous move it would be for Tories."
She later told Holyrood: "If this parliament voted to have a referendum on independence, then absolutely I agree that no Westminster Tory should stand in the way of the voice of this parliament.
"The mandate of this government in relation to this is unequivocal - it was the Tories after all who put us in the position of being taken out of the European Union against our will, and with the support of only one of the 59 MPs in this country.
"Strange is it not that a Tory party that proclaims that it would be so confident of winning a referendum on independence now talks about trying to block it.
"Isn't it the case that the Tories are actually running a wee bit feart?" | The question of Scottish independence was settled by the referendum in 2014, Downing Street has said. |
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The text begins: "Hey there! You found us", and says the firm is looking for "a talented engineer to develop a critical infrastructure component".
It has since been either removed or moved elsewhere.
Cyber-security reporter Zack Whittaker discovered it by chance while analysing some data being sent from iPhone apps - but he is not applying for the job.
"As part of the stream of traffic I could see, it was connecting to this one URL - and there it was," he said.
The page was listed under the web address "us-east-1.blobstore.apple.com" - which now contains an error message.
"Blobstore" is the name of a series of servers that belong to Apple.
Apple has been contacted by the BBC.
Mr Whittaker, who is cyber-security editor at tech news website CNet, said he was excited by his discovery.
"It's remarkable to see these companies taking innovative ways to entice people to work for them," he said.
"A lot of times finding a job is down to chance and luck. This definitely keeps things interesting."
Key qualifications required for the position include familiarity with modern server technology and distributed systems.
Mr Whittaker added that he did not apply for the job.
"Apple is not looking for me," he said.
The use of "hidden" messages in recruitment campaigns has a long history.
During World War Two, codebreaking headquarters Bletchley Park set puzzles in newspapers to attract inquiring minds.
In 2016, British firm Dyson devised a series of four challenges, beginning with a key hidden inside a YouTube video.
And in 2015, GCHQ used a pressure washer and stencil to spray-paint cryptic graffiti on the pavements of various UK cities as part of its recruitment campaign. The department has also used online quizzes.
In the same year, former Google engineer Max Rosett wrote an article describing how after searching for a series of programming terms while seeking a career change, a box appeared in Google's search results asking if he was "up for a challenge". This led to a series of problems to solve - and eventually a job with the firm.
"One of the most important skills as an engineer, and especially a cyber-security specialist, is a mindset that can solve problems," said Prof Alan Woodward from Surrey University.
"Puzzles are a great way to discover that. Technical skills can be taught." | An advert for an engineer at Apple has been found hidden in the tech giant's website. |
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Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire made the comment in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
However, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said the only option he was entitled to take was "to call an election".
"Direct rule is not an option," she said, adding that such a move would amount to "an act of bad faith".
Speaking at Westminster, Mr Brokenshire said in the absence of a devolved assembly, it was up to the government to provide "political stability".
However, he added that the government "did not want to see a return to direct rule".
On Monday, the secretary of state said there was a short window of opportunity for the talks.
He removed the prospect of a second snap election within weeks and told reporters that there was no appetite for another contest.
Mr Brokenshire told Westminster that he would bring legislation to the House of Commons after the Easter recess - on 18 April - depending on the outcome of the talks.
If they are successful, he said he would push forward laws to allow an assembly to be formed.
However, if they fail, he said he would "at a minimum" bring forward legislation to "set a regional rate to enable local councils to carry out their functions and to provide further assurance around the budget of Northern Ireland".
In response, Sinn Féin's northern leader Michelle O'Neill said: "There is only one option which the British secretary of state is entitled to take and that is to call an election."
She added: "There is no legal basis for any other course of action. And while parties may, or may not, want an election the fact is if the British secretary of state brings in new legislation to restore direct rule that will be an act of bad faith and a clear breach of an agreement between the Irish and British governments in 2006."
The talks collapsed on Sunday ahead of Monday's 16:00 BST deadline.
Issues like the Irish language and the legacy of the Troubles are the main sticking points.
In a memo to all his staff, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Sir Malcolm McKibbin has promised to try to maintain a "business as usual" approach during what he describes as "this time of uncertainty".
Sir Malcolm confirmed the civil servants would use the limited powers open to them to keep funds flowing in order to carry out the essential work of delivering public services.
But he added that these powers were no substitute for a regular budget agreed by executive ministers.
The two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, blamed each other for the breakdown in talks.
The political deadlock came after a snap election on 2 March brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority and the DUP's lead over Sinn Féin was cut from 10 seats to one.
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, the executive must be jointly run by unionists and nationalists, with the largest party putting forward a candidate for first minister.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness quit as deputy first minister in January in protest against the DUP's handling of a botched green energy scheme.
The party said it would not share power with DUP leader Arlene Foster as first minister until the conclusion of a public inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
Mr McGuinness, who had been suffering from a rare heart condition, died last week at the age of 66. | The UK government will "consider all options" after Easter, including direct rule, if talks to form a Northern Ireland Executive fail. |
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Fleetwood took a 56th-minute lead when Wes Burns headed in David Ball's cross.
The Sky Blues hit back to level when substitute Marcus Tudgay fired in on 75 minutes from Adam Armstrong's cut-back.
But Ball fired in an 83rd-minute winner from 20 yards to send Fleetwood two points clear of the relegation zone.
Pressley was making his first return to the Ricoh Arena since being sacked in February 2015.
While Pressley's Cod Army climb to 19th, his former club Coventry remain sixth, 12 points adrift of leaders Burton Albion ahead of Tuesday night's trip to Barnsley.
Fleetwood now have four of their next five games at home, but all of them are against promotion-chasing sides, including three of the current top four.
Sky Blues boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire:
"We huffed and puffed and didn't quite blow their house down. They're a decent football team and probably in a false position.
"It's frustrating for us, especially when we got back to 1-1 and we should have gone on to win from there.
"But we have to accept it and put the defeat behind us."
Fleetwood manager Steven Pressley:
"I'm very proud of my players. The only disappointment that I have is that it was only 2-1 in the end, because it should have been much, much more than that.
"It wasn't just the win that impressed me, it was the manner of it. It's difficult as a manager to individualise any player after such a performance, because it was one of real quality.
"The reaction was terrific after the setback we had at Rochdale on Tuesday evening, but to take six points from nine is a good achievement." | Steven Pressley's Fleetwood earned a key win in their battle against League One relegation as he marked his return to the Ricoh Arena with victory over his old club Coventry City. |
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Colum Martin, from Motherwell, was caught with three of the smoke grenades during a search outside St Johnstone's McDiarmid Park last season.
He was banned from attending any SPFL match prior to being sentenced at Perth Sheriff Court on 3 August.
Martin admitted possessing controlled items on 13 December last year.
A second charge of possessing cocaine at Perth police station on the same date was dropped by prosecutors.
Depute fiscal Tina Dickie told the court: "The St Johnstone v Celtic match was due to take place at McDiarmid Park.
"Security staff were standing outside the turnstiles.
"They stopped the accused as he was about to enter because they suspected he was in possession of some kind of controlled item.
"From his coat pocket was recovered a small black container, a smoke grenade.
"Police were called over and they found a further two inside his coat pocket."
Sheriff Fiona Tait continued the case for reports and the bail condition preventing Martin attending any SPFL match was also kept in place. | A Celtic fan has been banned from watching his team after admitting trying to smuggle smoke grenades past security staff at an away tie in Perth. |
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Addiction experts and users have told Newsbeat they feel let down.
But health officials across the UK say there are services and the funding out there to help cannabis addicts.
Lee, who asked us not to use his full name, says his habit got so bad he started dealing and ended up in court.
Here one addict shares his story.
"I was about 13 when I started. Everyone was doing it. It was a social thing. It just escalated there onwards.
"I started smoking more. At around 15. I was then smoking every day.
"Looking back, when I was 18, I realised I had a real problem with marijuana.
"I found myself smoking even though I didn't want to be doing it.
"Physically it drained me, it made me very unhealthy. It made me very yellow in the face, it made me very unwell.
"Mentally it made me feel worthless, I thought everyone was better than me. I didn't want to show that, but inside I was a broken man. It was really bad.
"I wouldn't even be thinking about it and I would be smoking cannabis. I just couldn't stop. My life wasn't worth living without cannabis.
"I tried to quit myself and I thought I could do it. I went to Egypt on holiday to try to quit.
"However within one hour of landing I was sitting on my balcony crying because I'd picked up cannabis in a foreign country, in a dangerous place and I was smoking.
"That was when it hit me that I am really, really, really powerless over my addiction. I am powerless over cannabis. No matter how far I go, where I go, who I am with, it doesn't matter.
"I'd be able to find it in the Antarctic, I really would because I was deep in my addiction and nothing would get in my way.
"My using took me to in excess of £100 a day and it got completely out of control. I would smoke before work, during work, after work, I would lie to people just so I could be on my own smoking.
"I wasn't eating and I was just over five-and-a-half stone. Eating got in the way of my smoking and so would hygiene. I would go a week without having a bath or shower.
"I was dealing. It started off small because my using got to the extent where I couldn't afford it myself. It got bigger to the point where I was dealing an awful lot.
"I was raided by the police for dealing cannabis. That was my rock bottom.
"It was at that point that I really had to look at myself because I couldn't quit cannabis.
"I needed help and so I reached out for help and I got it with the 12 step programme at MA (Marijuana Anonymous).
"I currently stick to that to this day.
"I remember going to crown court every three weeks and the solicitor saying 'pack a bag because it's not looking great'.
"I was thinking I was going to be sent to prison. A very, very scary time for me. I got an 18-month suspended sentence.
"I've had to deal with my consequences and that's fine.
"I go to these meetings to talk about my feelings. It's somewhere I can offload this stuff to people who will not judge you.
"They will simply listen to you and offer you advice and it's your choice. This is a choice that I had to make to get help.
"It hasn't been easy. But my life today standing here with nine months sobriety is an awful lot better than it was in my using. Today I care about things and I care about people."
Cannabis is a Class B drug and carries a maximum prison sentence of five years for possession and up to 14 years for supply and production. You can also receive an unlimited fine for possession, supply or production.
For more on what to do if you're worried about drugs head to the Radio 1 Advice pages..
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | There are claims people hooked on cannabis aren't getting the help they need because the focus is on treating those addicted to class A drugs. |
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Figures obtained by BBC News show that in the past decade 32 councils have settled claims from former teachers, school staff or pupils.
The National Union of Teachers says up to 300 adults die each year because of exposure to asbestos while at school.
The government says it is investing £23bn to improve school buildings.
But campaigners warn that the presence of asbestos in schools continues to put pupils lives at risk.
"My mum Sue was a teacher for 30 years and her life was cut short because of this horrible material," Lucie Stephens said.
"As she was dying she was really angry and concerned about the 900 children that she'd taught during her career. If my mum has been exposed to this deadly substance, how many of those children will have been exposed?"
Using the Freedom of Information Act, BBC Yorkshire has obtained figures from 135 councils in England, that show there are at least 12,600 council-run schools where asbestos is known to be present.
The number of actual schools that contain asbestos is likely to be higher as many have become academies and so are not included in the figures.
It is widely accepted that any school building built before the year 2000 is likely to contain some form of asbestos.
In the last five years local authorities have also recorded 99 instances of significant asbestos disturbances, where people have been put in danger because of potential exposure to the substance.
Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that was commonly used as a building material because of its fireproof and insulating characteristics.
A complete ban on the use of the material was introduced in the UK in 1999.
If left undisturbed the material poses no risk to human beings.
However, if someone breathes in asbestos fibres, it can cause serious illnesses such as asbestosis and a type of lung cancer called mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma kills around 5,000 people each year. By the time it is diagnosed it is almost always fatal.
Source: Health and Safety Executive
Dennis Law, from Sheffield, lost his wife Susan who died at the age of 64 from mesothelioma.
"The end of her life was horrific, she had ulcers and red blotches all over her body.
"For 20 years my wife was a teaching assistant and a dinner lady, and she shouldn't have died because of where she worked".
The BBC's investigation also discovered there is no uniform approach to monitoring the presence of asbestos in schools in England.
Of those that responded, 13 councils said they held no information about which schools in their area contained the hazardous material.
Ten councils also refused to disclose information about the number of asbestos cases it had settled; meaning it is likely that more than £10m has been paid out in compensation to victims.
"This is a ticking time bomb because very few teachers and parents know that there is asbestos in schools. The very least we should do is make sure that this information is available to them," said Rachel Reeves MP, chair of the Asbestos in Schools group.
Speaking to the BBC last month Education Secretary Justine Greening said a recent government review had provided schools with the latest advice in how to keep pupils and staff safe.
"In the overwhelming number of cases we do remove asbestos from schools, but in some cases our experts are telling us its better to leave the material in place. What our review had done though is given us a clear blueprint for how we tackle this issue going forward and that is what we are focussed on doing," Ms Greening said.
A spokesperson for the Department for Education added: "The health and safety of children and staff in our schools is vital - that's why we are investing £23bn in school buildings by 2021.
"This will help ensure asbestos is managed safely and that the amount in school buildings continues to reduce over time."
Additional reporting by Nicola Hudson, Nicola Rees and Ruth Green. | Councils in England have paid out at least £10m in compensation to people who developed illnesses because of asbestos in school buildings. |
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The ivory weighs 110kg, which is more than a baby elephant, and includes tusks, carved bangles and beads.
It was found last month at Terminal 4 in baggage left abandoned in transit from Angola to Hanover, Germany.
Ivory trading is strictly controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and a permit is required by EU law.
The global trade in illegal wildlife products is said to be highly profitable.
It was denounced by the Duke of Cambridge on Chinese television in October.
Phil Douglas, the director of Border Force Heathrow, said: "This is one of the largest seizures of its kind made in the UK and it demonstrates the vigilance of our officers.
"The illicit trade in animal products like ivory is a serious contributory factor in the threat of extinction faced by many endangered species and that is why the rules around it are so strict."
Alexander Rhodes, chief executive of the Stop Ivory Group, said: "Ivory represents dead elephants. Seizing illegal shipments of ivory is a grisly but essential business.
"Border Force and the NCA (National Crime Agency) should be congratulated on this major haul."
The world's largest illegal ivory haul was seized in Malaysia in 2012 - it included 1,500 tusks.
The NCA is investigating the Heathrow seizure. | One of the largest hauls of illegal ivory seen in the UK is found at Heathrow Airport. |
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Russell Luke Bennett, 21 and Benjamin Brian Barrett, 30, from Bristol, pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause an explosion likely to endanger life and burglary at Cardiff Crown Court.
They caused explosions at two Barclays Bank cash machines - one in Treforest, Pontypridd, and another in Bridgend.
Barrett was jailed for eight-and-a-half years and Bennett seven-and-a-half.
Police called the crimes "astounding" and said they were the first of their kind in Wales.
The pair were part of a gang caught on CCTV cameras as they pumped a cash machine with gas and then hid around the corner before triggering an explosion.
The first blast at Barclays Bank in Treforest industrial estate was so powerful that the safe door, which would take around four average sized men to lift, was blown across the foyer.
The external glass window was blown outwards and all the doors throughout the bank - even those along the corridors leading away from the blast - were blown off their hinges.
Police were alerted to the explosion at about midnight on Sunday, 25 October last year by a security guard.
Officers found £45,000 had been stolen and £100,000 worth of damage had been caused.
On 2 November, the Barclays Bank cash machine in Bridgend industrial estate was targeted, with the thieves making off with about £36,000.
The men were eventually caught after DNA was found on a gas cylinder at the scene of the Bridgend raid.
When police went to arrest Barrett at his home in the Bishopsworth area of Bristol they found signs of his new-found wealth, including newly purchased furniture and carpets and an invoice for a new motorbike.
Equipment such as gas hoses which fitted cylinders recovered from the scene were found in the shed at the property.
Barrett pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to cause an explosion likely to endanger life and two counts of burglary.
Bennett, from Totterdown in Bristol, admitted one count of conspiracy to cause an explosion likely to endanger life and one count of burglary.
Det Insp Dan Michel, the senior investigating officer on the case, said the pair's "recklessness and pure gall" was "astounding".
The court heard there have been more than 100 cases of cash machines being blown up by criminals since the first example was recorded in the UK two years ago. | Two men who blew up cash machines at two south Wales banks, stealing more than £80,000, have been jailed. |
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Crowd trouble following the appearance of a drone with a pro-Albanian banner had forced the October tie in Belgrade to be called off before half-time.
Uefa had given Serbia a 3-0 walkover.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled it was the reaction of the home fans and stadium stewards that had caused the abandonment after an appeal.
CAS said it was "the security lapses of the organisers and acts of violence exerted on the Albanian players by the Serbian fans" that had forced English referee Martin Atkinson to call off the match.
Uefa had already deducted Serbia three points and ordered them to play their next two qualifiers in an empty stadium, while both countries were also fined £72,000.
The decision leaves Serbia bottom of Group I on one point, while Albania now have 10 points from their first four qualifying matches and are joint-second with Denmark. Portugal top the group with 12 points.
The Euro 2016 qualifier, refereed by English official Martin Atkinson, was suspended in the 41st minute at 0-0.
Trouble flared when a drone appeared above the pitch, carrying an Albanian flag and a map of "greater Albania" showing nationalist claims on neighbouring states, including Serbia.
A Serbia player pulled down the flag and a brawl ensued during which several Albanian players were attacked by fans.
Atkinson led the players off the field and, after a delay of around 30 minutes, Uefa confirmed the match had been abandoned.
Albanian fans had been banned from entering the stadium by Uefa on safety grounds and the match was set against a backdrop of tight security.
Serbia and Albania have a history of turbulent relations, predominantly in relation to the former Serbian province of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008.
Kosovo has been recognised by the United States and major European Union countries, but Serbia refuses to do so, as do most ethnic Serbs inside Kosovo.
The two nations will meet again in the reverse fixture in Shkoder on Thursday, 8 October. | Albania have been awarded a 3-0 victory over Serbia in a reversal of a Uefa decision made after a European Championship qualifier was abandoned. |
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But it comes at a time of huge uncertainty for the sector.
The UK is leaving the EU. Our future trading arrangements with Europe and the rest of the world are far from clear.
The car industry has warned that prohibitive tariffs could result in "death by a thousand cuts".
So why has Toyota decided to make this investment? What kind of guarantees has the government given the Japanese carmaker?
And has Toyota received the same sort of assurances that persuaded Nissan to commit to building new models in Sunderland?
What is clear is that for a quarter of a century the UK has been a key part of Toyota's global operations.
The Burnaston plant was Toyota's first car manufacturing facility in Europe.
The first vehicle produced at the plant - the Carina E - rolled off the production line in 1992.
Over almost 25 years it has produced more than four million cars, many of which have been exported to mainland Europe and around the world.
Today, Burnaston is home to the Toyota Auris, one of the biggest selling British-made cars in the world. Together with the Avensis, the plant produced about 180,000 vehicles last year.
Crucially, the decision to upgrade the plant to take Toyota's New Global Architecture, the firm's new system for producing vehicles worldwide, suggests it sees the UK as part of its long-term future.
But the UK's car industry knows that Brexit is coming, and with it the possibility of tariffs and complex customs arrangements.
That threatens the competitiveness of carmakers that rely upon the kind of just-in-time manufacturing that Toyota pioneered.
And there are signs that the prospect of Brexit is hitting investment too.
In January the industry trade body, the SMMT, said that there was £1.66bn of committed investment announced by the industry in the UK in 2016. That was down from £2.5bn the previous year.
It wants tariff-free access to European markets. And it has warned that reverting to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, with a 10% standard tariff on cars exported to and imported from the EU, would threaten the viability of the industry.
The SMMT says that such import tariffs could add £1,500 to the list price of imported cars.
It could cost the industry and consumers up to £4.5bn, adding £2.7bn to imports and £1.8bn to the cost of exports.
That didn't stop Nissan from committing to expanding production in the UK though.
In October, Nissan announced that it would build two new models - the new Qashqai and X-Trail SUV - in Sunderland after receiving "support and assurances" from the government.
Nissan's boss Carlos Ghosn has since said that it would "re-evaluate the situation" once the Brexit negotiations have concluded.
Those assurances came in a letter to the firm from the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, which has never been published.
Mr Clark has said that the letter contained a number of commitments around making funds available for skills or training, supporting research and development (R&D), bringing more of the supply chain back to the UK and keeping the British car industry competitive.
He also said that the UK would seek to maintain tariff-free trade with the EU.
That's what Toyota and other carmakers want.
Speaking to the BBC recently at the Geneva motor show, Toyota's European boss Dr Johan van Zyl said that the focus for any Brexit deal should be frictionless trade with no tariffs or duties and common regulatory standards.
And he reiterated his commitment to the UK, in the event of a hard or soft Brexit.
"We must prepare ourselves for the worst-case scenario, be as efficient as possible, to still be able to continue with our operations in the UK," he said.
Investing in Burnaston to produce cars using Toyota's New Global Architecture appears to be part of that process. The system allows the company to utilise standardised platforms, systems and components.
Toyota also has a track record in developing lower emission hybrid electric/petrol vehicles. So the firm may have been encouraged by the government's ambition, outlined in its recent industrial strategy green paper, to make the UK a hub for next generation electric cars and battery technology.
But in the end the carmaker may simply have made a pragmatic decision about the future based on almost a quarter of a century of manufacturing in the UK.
It must now hope that both the UK and the EU will see the value in agreeing trading arrangements that will benefit all. | Toyota's decision to invest £240m in its UK operations will be welcome news for the UK car industry. |
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Story of the match:
Spain lived up to their favourites tag by opening the scoring through a Xabi Alonso penalty, but Robin van Persie equalised with an incredible diving header just before half-time and Arjen Robben put Netherlands in front with a cool finish.
Stefan de Vrij forced in a third from Wesley Sneijder's free-kick, Van Persie dispossessed goalkeeper Iker Casillas to make it four and Robben's brilliant solo effort sealed the win.
Spain, looking to win a fourth consecutive major international trophy, were humbled and humiliated in the repeat of the 2010 World Cup final. The last time they conceded five goals in an international match was in 1963.
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Three-time runners-up Netherlands will suddenly find themselves talked about among the leading contenders to lift the title and it is not unrealistic if they maintain this level of display.
It was their first meeting with Spain since the showpiece four years ago in South Africa and the first time the previous finalists had met in the opening round of matches at the next World Cup.
Ear-splitting noise reverberated around one of Brazil's most impressive stadiums as the teams emerged before kick-off.
The Dutch fans have travelled in far smaller numbers than usual - a reflection of their pre-competition hopes - but there were still pockets of orange mixed in with the red of Spain, yellow of Brazil and the colours of various other teams, fitting in this melting pot of a city.
It made for a mighty atmosphere, including boos for pantomime villain Diego Costa - the striker born in Brazil and capped by them before switching allegiances to Spain.
Costa was clattered early on by Ron Vlaar, and there were more heavy challenges as the first half progressed, but any idea that the Netherlands would turn this into an encounter as brutal as their defeat in Johannesburg four year's ago were soon dismissed.
Indeed, it was Louis van Gaal's Dutch side who created the first clear chance when Robben slipped Wesley Sneijder clean through but captain Casillas's one-handed save kept the ball out.
That miss appeared costly when Xavi released Costa into the penalty area and he fell under the challenge of De Vrij. Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli pointed to the spot, although replays showed Costa had stood on the Feyenoord defender's leg.
Alonso slotted the resulting penalty past Dutch keeper Jasper Cillessen but rather than leading to a period of dominance, Vicente del Bosque's men sat back and tried to defend their lead and Netherlands accepted the invitation to get forward and finally enjoyed some possession.
However, it was Spain who came closest to scoring a second when Andres Iniesta played in David Silva with a glorious inch-perfect pass but the Manchester City midfielder's tame chipped effort was turned away by Cillessen.
It was a missed opportunity that would come back to haunt Spain as within five minutes, Van Persie had scored the goal that proved the turning point of the match.
The Manchester United striker escaped the attentions of Sergio Ramos and met Daley Blind's crossfield pass with an astonishing 15-yard header that looped over a despairing Casillas.
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Netherlands left the field at the break embracing each other with wide smiles and they carried that momentum into the second half.
Van Gaal's men deservedly took the lead when Xavi - the heartbeat of Spain's midfield for so long - lost possession and Blind supplied another pinpoint aerial pass from the left, which Robben expertly controlled before eluding Gerard Pique and finishing confidently.
Spain were now rocking and Van Persie smashed a half volley against the bar before De Vrij bundled a third goal over the line after Casillas missed Sneijder's inswinging free-kick from the left.
The goalkeeper protested that he had been impeded by Van Persie - and he had a point - but referee Rizzoli was unmoved and the Netherlands were suddenly in control at 3-1 up.
Silva thought he had given the world champions hope when he scored from close-range but his effort was correctly ruled offside.
And moments later, Netherlands were 4-1 up.
Casillas, who produced a stunning save to keep out a Robben volley, turned villain when he miscontrolled a backpass from Sergio Ramos and was tackled by Van Persie, who slid the ball into an empty net.
Robben then capped a fine individual performance with a fine solo goal. The winger raced from inside his own half to latch on to Sneijder's through ball and outpaced Ramos before taking the ball round Casillas and smashing past two defenders on the line.
Spain were in pieces and continued to be torn apart, substitute Jeremain Lens and Robben going close.
And Spain's torrid evening was summed up when substitute Fernando Torres failed to score from three yards. The Chelsea striker looked certain to register a consolation, only for Blind to arrive with a timely last-ditch challenge.
The full-time whistle was met with scenes of Dutch joy and Spanish woe, on the turf and in the stands. Netherlands embarked upon a lap of honour.
It was a result that will send shockwaves through world football.
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Match ends, Spain 1, Holland 5.
Second Half ends, Spain 1, Holland 5.
Foul by Pedro (Spain).
Georginio Wijnaldum (Holland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Wesley Sneijder (Holland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jeremain Lens.
Foul by Andrés Iniesta (Spain).
Nigel de Jong (Holland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Wesley Sneijder (Holland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Arjen Robben.
Hand ball by Jeremain Lens (Holland).
Corner, Holland. Conceded by Sergio Ramos.
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (Holland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Georginio Wijnaldum (Holland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Andrés Iniesta (Spain) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Joël Veltman (Holland).
Offside, Spain. Gerard Piqué tries a through ball, but Fernando Torres is caught offside.
Andrés Iniesta (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joël Veltman (Holland).
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Ron Vlaar.
Goal! Spain 1, Holland 5. Arjen Robben (Holland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Wesley Sneijder with a through ball following a fast break.
Jordi Alba (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Jeremain Lens (Holland).
Substitution, Holland. Jeremain Lens replaces Robin van Persie.
Substitution, Spain. Francesc Fábregas replaces David Silva.
Substitution, Holland. Joël Veltman replaces Stefan de Vrij.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Spain) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Pedro (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stefan de Vrij (Holland).
Goal! Spain 1, Holland 4. Robin van Persie (Holland) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Offside, Spain. Sergio Ramos tries a through ball, but Fernando Torres is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Robin van Persie (Holland) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Offside, Spain. Pedro tries a through ball, but David Silva is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Pedro (Spain) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by César Azpilicueta with a cross.
Attempt blocked. David Silva (Spain) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Robin van Persie (Holland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Pedro (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robin van Persie (Holland).
Iker Casillas (Spain) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Spain 1, Holland 3. Stefan de Vrij (Holland) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.
Stefan de Vrij (Holland) hits the right post with a header from very close range. Assisted by Wesley Sneijder with a cross following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Gerard Piqué (Spain). | Netherlands produced a sensational second-half performance to annihilate reigning champions Spain in a stunned Arena Fonte Nova. |
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A Westminster source told the Guardian the chances of proposed legislation being unveiled after 23 June were about "80%".
In the Commons on Thursday, Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said he intended to publish the white paper "as soon as is possible".
BBC Trust chair Rona Fairhead said she hoped "we don't have too long to wait".
Delays look likely following the huge public response to last summer's green paper, which drew 190,000 responses to the consultation on the BBC's future.
A spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said they had read all the consultation responses and were currently looking at evidence and responses from other independent reviews on the BBC's future.
The white paper - which sets out the government's legislative proposals regarding the funding and future of the BBC - was originally intended for publication "in the spring", but turning around all the information and creating a draft ahead of local elections in May may be tight.
There is only a short window after the local elections before a political purdah (a period of time when government activity is restricted) is imposed ahead of the EU referendum in June.
There are also concerns over the impact of publication in the run up to the referendum, given the amount of media interest the white paper is likely to provoke.
A spokeswoman for the BBC Trust said publication was "in the gift of the government".
Speaking earlier this week at the Oxford Media Convention, Ms Fairhead said: "I hope we don't have to wait too long for a white paper because I am very conscious of the amount of work that will still need to be done after that - to agree the detail of a new Charter and a plan to implement any changes.
"For the time being, Charter Review hangs over the BBC: A cloud of uncertainty and unease.
"I dearly hope that cloud will have blown over by the end of this year, but that will require some clear decisions to be taken, and quickly." | Proposals for charter renewal may be delayed until after the EU referendum in June, reports suggest. |
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They are threatening to strike over potential changes to working hours and conditions after changes to service providers at the airport.
Up to 18 Unite members will be balloted on whether take action. If they decide to strike a union spokesman said it could be over the Easter break.
The spokesman said the count would be made on 4 April.
The union said the action was over possible cuts to pay and working hours due to the Guernsey-owned airline Aurigny taking over Blue Islands' ground-handling work.
The airlines signed a code sharing agreement on flights between Jersey and Guernsey, with Blue Islands operating the flights and Aurigny taking over ground handling.
Jersey Airport says there were contingency plans for the Easter holidays, if baggage handlers do decide to strike.
Servisair said any disruption to passengers would be minimal. | Baggage handlers at Jersey Airport are being balloted over industrial action, the union Unite said. |
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Fly-half Sexton, 31, has been out since sustaining a hamstring injury in Ireland's defeat by New Zealand six weeks ago.
Sexton took a limited part in training on Tuesday and a Leinster statement said he would be "reintroduced back into the rugby programme this week".
Rob Kearney could also return after returning to training on Tuesday.
Ireland full-back Kearney has been out of action since sustaining an ankle injury in Leinster's European away win over Northampton on 9 December.
Replacement lock Ian Nagle required a head injury assessment after coming on in Leinster's defeat by Munster on Monday and will be assessed further over the coming days.
With Ospreys beating Scarlets on Tuesday, Leinster have dropped to third place in the table while Ulster are in fourth spot.
Meanwhile, Finlay Bealham, Ultan Dillane and Danie Poolman have been added to Connacht's injury worries heading into their home game against leaders Munster on New Year's Eve.
Ireland prop Bealham and utility back Poolman are both undergoing head injury assessments following Friday's 23-7 defeat by Ulster.
International lock Ultan Dillane is also a doubt after suffering an ankle knock late in the Belfast game.
Connacht's already lengthy injury list has them minus 21 players including Jake Heenan, John Cooney, Marnitz Boshoff, Craig Ronaldson, Peter Robb and Stacey Ili. | Johnny Sexton could make a return to Leinster duty in Saturday's Pro12 Irish derby against Ulster at the RDS. |
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In the case of Stephen Adly Guirgis's play, it is because it contains a swear word.
For the purposes of this article we'll refer to it as The Mother with the Hat. The National Theatre prints the swear word on the programme with two asterisks.
Guirgis's play received six Tony nominations on Broadway and opened at the NT's Lyttelton Theatre last week to enthusiastic reviews. It runs until 20 August.
It is directed by Indhu Rubasingham and the cast includes Desperate Housewives star Ricardo Chavira as Jackie, a recovering addict just out of jail who has landed a job to impress his childhood sweetheart Veronica (Flor De Liz Perez).
But things take a turn when he notices another man's hat in their apartment.
On a recent visit to London, Guirgis told the BBC about the play's title, winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and his new Netflix project with Baz Luhrmann.
The reviews have been very good, so how does it feel to have a play at the National?
This is an important season at one of your most important theatres, so the fact they chose to do a play of mine is a real honour and the fact that it is apparently being well received makes me feel a sense of relief that it didn't let anybody down.
Does it bother you that the theatre has put asterisks in the title?
I get it. When I wrote the play originally I didn't think it was going to Broadway or the National. It felt like the right title for this play.
The title is a blessing and a curse. It's a curse because sometimes that's where the conversation begins and ends.
It's a blessing because it's like a disclaimer. You can't walk into a play with this title and be offended.
What I'd hoped for in London and New York is that when you come and see the play you'll have an experience that transcends your experience of the title.
Have producers ever suggested that the title might hurt the play's commercial prospects?
Initially producers didn't have any problem with it, but then they discovered it's difficult to figure out what to call it for the internet.
No-one ever told me to change it, so I didn't.
What sparked the idea for this play?
Some of the play I've experienced, for sure, other parts I haven't.
I'm interested in codes of conduct. When we're younger, our friendships are probably the things that are most prized, We have an organised set of rules built around them that we mostly follow.
But then when we get older, life gets more complicated and those loyalties and codes can be broken.
I'm interested in what is acceptable behaviour amongst friends.
Most of my plays, if you break them down, are about people who are past the age where they should have already grown up still trying to grow up.
How does it feel to have the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on your CV?
It's a little surreal. It's not tattooed on my arm but you're right, it's on my resume, and I figure in the worst-case scenario if I bomb out as a playwright I'll be able to get a job teaching.
If I'm in a plane crash maybe they'll put "Pulitzer Prize winner Guirgis dies".
I'm glad it happened. I have the plaque, I went to the ceremony and I'm grateful - but I've got to get on with what's next.
And that's a Netflix series called The Get Down with Baz Luhrmann about the birth of hip hop?
It's a coming-of-age story of these five kids in the south Bronx in the 70s and the cultural and artistic revolutions that came out of New York: hip hop, punk rock and the graffiti and breakdance scenes.
I grew up in New York, so I know a bit about it, but doing the research has been great.
Has it been a very different experience from writing a play?
I've done some television work before. There's less autonomy.
Working with Baz I learn so much about the execution of story.
We'll be talking about a character like a breakdancer or a drug dealer and he'll reference the Greeks and Shakespeare and connect the story to a continuum that's been going on for thousands of years.
As a Pulitzer Prize winner, what will your next play be about?
It's a boxing play, a period piece that goes from the late 40s to the early 70s.
It tells the story of a boxer who was great enough to become a champion for a minute, but lacked some of the intangibles and good fortune to stay a champion.
Most of my plays are set in New York but in this play there are scenes in the French Riviera and they go back in time; so it might take a little while.
Does it have a title?
Right now it's got the mundane title of Untitled Boxing Play. When you use boxing expressions as titles it either sounds really good or really stupid.
So far I've only been able to come up with the stupid ones. | It's not every day the National Theatre - and the BBC - is unable to broadcast the full title of a play. |
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The 25-year-old Welsh swimmer held off American Leah Smith in the final 50 metres to win Team GB's second medal of the night moments after Adam Peaty won 100m breaststroke gold.
"I can't believe it. I'm on the edge of tears," Carlin told the BBC.
Ledecky dominated to finish in a time of three minutes 56.46 seconds.
Carlin touched home in 4:01.23 and Smith took bronze in 4:01.92.
The British silver medallist added: "It's an incredible feeling and it's definitely not sunk in yet.
I was in the pool room watching Adam and I had goosebumps on the block
"I'm so grateful for everyone's support back home and anyone who got up to watch in the ridiculous hours of the morning - I'm just over the moon.
"I wanted to come here and give it absolutely everything and have no regrets. Sometimes you swim and think I could have a bit left, but I wanted to get myself into the race rather than always having to catch up and then absolutely go for it.
"I could see Katie was a bit in front and having a great swim so I just tried to hang on. I'm gobsmacked to come away with silver.
"I was in the pool room watching Adam and I had goosebumps on the block. To see someone who's your team-mate achieve a new world record and become Olympic champion right before you swim definitely got me pumped up."
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Carlin missed out on selection at London 2012 but bounced back two years later at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she won gold in the 800m freestyle and silver in the 400m event.
She said: "Four years ago I was sat in the stand cheering Team GB on but now I'm actually part of the team and to come away with a silver medal is absolutely amazing."
Winner Ledecky, who won 800m freestyle gold at London 2012, said: "I'm pumped. Swimming 3:56 feels really good. I've been so close before. It's pure happiness.
"I felt good throughout. I had a lot left at the end. I just had more pop on the last lap."
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Donald Trump says he would bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs from Mexico and China. There's a factory that is a symbol of outsourcing.
"You thought you had a job for life," says Gregg Trusty. "As long as you didn't show up to work drunk or punch your supervisor, you thought you could work there until you retired."
A wander around the factory Trusty is talking about gives a stark example of the precarious nature of the American economy today.
The gigantic Western Electric plant in Shreveport, Louisiana was once one of the country's biggest producers of telephones. Now it's abandoned, the machinery silently rusting. Nature creeps in on all sides. Dusty papers sit on desks and lights still blaze on to empty factory floors, as if the people working there were forced to leave in a hurry.
If you want to understand how Donald Trump has tapped into economic insecurity across America, this humid city of 200,000 in northern Louisiana is an excellent place to start. Western Electric was the wholly-owned manufacturing arm of corporate behemoth AT&T, which for most of the 20th Century held a monopoly on the US telephone business.
At its height, the company employed 7,500 people at its Shreveport plant. But long before the rise of Chinese competition, the ubiquity of the mobile phone and the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico - which Trump has called "worst trade deal ever" - the factory's future was clear.
Starting in the 1980s, AT&T slashed its domestic workforce and moved telephone manufacturing to Singapore.
"There was a feeling of disappointment," says Don Corliss, who worked at the plant for 25 years. "We moved from a manufacturing economy to a service economy.
"Did the average worker on the shop floor realise what was hitting them? I don't know."
Several factors led to the factory's closure. In 1984, a lawsuit ended AT&T's monopoly and opened up American telecommunications to competition. And, of course, the last 30 years have seen unprecedented international competition and technological change.
When Trusty moved here from the Midwest in the late 1960s he recalls that big celebrations would be held every time the plant added an additional 1,000 jobs, which in the early days happened every few years.
Later, as part of the company's public relations team, he would face the local media to announce round after round of layoffs.
"One time I was asked a question about how it made me feel," he says. "I told the reporter straight: 'We've lost some damn fine people today.'
"I meant it. It hurt, every time we did it. It was painful."
After years of job losses, the plant, located in the Southern Hills area of Shreveport, closed for good in 2000. The fortunes of the workers themselves varied. Many retired, while others shifted gears with the aid of generous redundancy packages and company-funded education grants. Trusty worked in other jobs in public relations and journalism. Other former employees became small business owners, consultants, care home workers - and in one case, an elected state politician.
Randy Doss started on the factory floor and later became a supervisor. After he left the company in 1995, Doss ran a local transportation business with his wife before retiring earlier this year.
"We all had a sense of security. We thought we were fine," he says. "And we all bit the dust."
Despite that, Doss says he holds no ill will towards the company.
"It's a business decision pure and simple, and they could make phones cheaper elsewhere. That's business."
In Shreveport the absence of manufacturing jobs is palpable. Another iconic American company, General Motors, shut its local factory in 2012. That set off a wave of job losses at local suppliers, and today there's little heavy industry left.
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Harold Sater of the Southern Hills Business Association says the area around the AT&T plant suffered for years and despite rows of busy restaurants, petrol stations and other small businesses nearby, it doesn't quite compare to AT&T's heyday.
"The traffic you see now is just starting to come back to the levels back then," he says.
There were knock-on effects. Richard Corbett, the business association's current president, says crime increased in the area - a trend he saw first-hand in his day job as a local sheriff.
"It's simple. Fewer jobs nearby means fewer people came to the area to shop," Corbett says. "That led to problems and we're still working through them today."
Yet Shreveport does seem different from those Midwestern cities that were strangled by loss of their main industries.
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The economy here shifted and diversified. It's a regional centre for health care. Nearby oil and gas reserves have provided jobs, although that industry has gone through boom and bust. There's a large military base nearby and the city once had a thriving film industry lured in by tax breaks.
Meanwhile, casinos dotted along the Red River have led to a small revival downtown. The city's growth has slowed, but its population is stable - there's been no mass exodus.
Although most of the former AT&T site is abandoned, a couple of companies have moved in. One is even a small-scale manufacturer. Skyrunner is making futuristic recreational vehicles that can both drive and fly. The company is perfecting its designs and aims to ship its products around the world.
What's missing is big industry of the kind that provides that elusive path for the low- and semi-skilled workers.
"We're still working on getting good-paying jobs for those people," says Sater. "There's almost nothing that pays $15 an hour outside of work on oil and gas fields. That's frustrating."
AT&T, meanwhile, no longer manufactures telephones in Singapore or anywhere else. It's a technology and media company. Its latest move is a bid to buy Time Warner, a proposal that both Democrats and Republicans are concerned about.
Among the firm's former employers in Shreveport, faith in Trump and his economic plan is decidedly mixed. Some, like Corliss, say they'll vote for him but only because they dislike Hillary Clinton more.
Doss is a staunch Trump supporter. He says he believes the Republican candidate when he says he can bring back manufacturing jobs to the US, even though he's thin on specifics. For Doss, like for many Trump supporters across the country, voting for Trump is a leap of faith.
"I don't know how he's going to do it," Doss says, "but I think that he can."
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Yoda and bounty hunter Boba Fett could also get their own prequels, and there's even chatter on fan sites about a Jabba the Hutt film. Who knows what he might have looked like when he was younger...
But are we reaching saturation level with all these prequels and spin-offs?
Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry is said to be poised to take on the Obi-Wan film, although it hasn't had the green light yet.
"Talks are at the earliest of stages and the project has no script," the Hollywood Reporter said.
But the prospect of an Obi-Wan movie has, not surprisingly, caused a flurry of social media excitement.
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Not everyone is entirely delighted, though, with some fans questioning whether the world needs more revivals of old characters.
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Star Wars films are, of course, box office and social media gold, feeding fans' love of nostalgia, along with their appetite for anything related to the franchise.
Last year was all about the much-anticipated prequel Rogue One starring Felicity Jones, and in December the next Star Wars film The Last Jedi is released. Ron Howard's Han Solo spin-off movie is due out next May.
A film about Obi-Wan would add to what is already a fairly crowded market. So will the Force be with it? (sorry, couldn't resist).
Originally portrayed by Sir Alec Guinness, a younger Obi-Wan was played by Ewan McGregor in the first three prequels.
But although the enigmatic Jedi was key to the story and a crucial father figure for Luke Skywalker, does he honestly merit a standalone film?
Film critic Rhianna Dhillon has reservations about an Obi-Wan spin-off, not least because Ewan McGregor has already starred as him in three prequels.
"When he did it, it was not the best of him - frustratingly, it was a wasted opportunity. We've had him three times already, and it now feels like flogging a dead horse," she told the BBC.
As for the possibility of McGregor reprising his role, she's not sold, declaring: "He's had his day, unfortunately."
Dhillon is way more positive about Rogue One, which starred Felicity Jones as part of a rebel group battling to steal the plans for the destructive Death Star.
"It was the ultimate prequel, this was the one people were interested in because it felt like an apology for the other Star Wars prequels - we needed a war movie. It wasn't the best in terms of character development but it was the best in terms of action and visuals.
"An Obi-Wan Kenobi film would be much more character-driven," she adds. "If Daldry does become the director, he's known for human dramas, so it's likely to be slower, more methodical, more philosophical."
Dhillon thinks the Han Solo spin-off is a better bet as "he's got attitude, he's more fun, there's more scope around his character".
But she'd really like to see some more new characters rather than reviving old ones. "It's braver to have a brand new character - what about another Rey? [played by Daisy Ridley in The Force Awakens]. Why not get behind someone else?"
She adds that she doesn't think Sir Alec can be bettered.
"He was the pinnacle of what the whole universe centres around - he nailed that - he was also the only one to get an Oscar nomination, which says it all. Why keep trying?"
Film journalist Helen O'Hara says she doesn't object to films about Obi-Wan and maybe Yoda - but she balks at the idea of Jabba the Hutt getting his own film.
"He's a horrible space slug," she says, adding: "He's such an unattractive character, so I don't see why anyone would want to make a film about him."
For anyone who hasn't seen Return of the Jedi, Jabba the Hutt is a crime lord who captures Princess Leia, forces her to wear a gold bikini and keeps her chained up next to him. She gets her revenge by strangling him with his own chain, but you get the idea.
O'Hara is "all for the idea of more Star Wars films", saying it's a "fascinating universe to explore, there's lots you can do with it".
Saying that, she's not keen on a Boba Fett spin-off either.
"Fans are obsessed with him because they remember the [70s and 80s] toy of him had a jetpack," she says.
The bounty hunter worked for both Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt - and let's face it, neither of these look very good on his CV.
"I don't see the point in exploring his life story," she adds.
She also makes the point that Marvel has taken a very successful approach to spin-offs.
"They're all different in tone - they're sci-fi, thrillers, comedies - they're aware of the need to mix it up," she explains.
The Star Wars film-makers are aware of the importance of varying the tone, she believes, adding that the Han Solo film is likely to be more of a "comedy, a caper, a heist movie", while Rogue One was a "war movie".
Film journalist Emma Jones prefers the idea of "shorter spin-off stories working for mobile or online-only content".
She says: "Personally I think there's only so far they can go with big-budget spin-off films from the Star Wars universe.
"Obi-Wan feels like flogging a dead horse, Jabba the Hutt, though he can fill a screen, can't fill a whole movie plotline.
"As far as the cinema experience goes, they've drawn us into a whole new world of wonderful new characters [played by Daisy Ridley and John Boyega] and I just wish they'd get on with telling those stories well."
She loved Rogue One, however. "What really worked about it was that it felt like a self-contained story and it wasn't essential to have a fan's in-depth knowledge of Star Wars, you could appreciate it as a cinematic spectacle in itself."
And Emma Jones hails Felicity Jones and Daisy Ridley, who played Jyn and Rey, as the new stars of the franchise.
"I'd be particularly excited to see what [producer] Kathleen Kennedy could come up with in terms of new female action heroines.
"Jyn and Rey truly transformed the female landscape in terms of blockbusters."
When Disney bought Lucasfilm and the rights to make more Star Wars films for more than $4bn, some wondered whether it was a wise purchase. Now, after the success of The Force Awakens and Rogue One, it's looking like something of a bargain.
The two films made over $3bn at the box office. DVD/Blu-ray sales and merchandising will have swelled that total by hundreds of millions more.
Disney naturally wants to keep exploiting the huge popularity of Star Wars. They are able to keep doing that on two fronts. The episodic Saga films, which follow on directly from the original trilogy, are likely to continue for some time.
But the breadth of the Star Wars universe means they can also keep making an impressive range of standalone films that concentrate on favourite characters or events. As long as they keep making money, more will follow.
It's not dissimilar to what the company has done elsewhere. Thanks to advances in computer-generated imagery, it's been able to revisit in different ways existing parts of the Disney empire - most notably the hugely successful live action remakes of The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast, with Aladdin, The Lion King and more on the way.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Star Wars spin-offs are landing in a galaxy near you, with Obi-Wan Kenobi said to be next in line. |
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The alarm was raised at about 11:20 and the Stornoway Coastguard helicopter was called in to help.
The sailor was flown to a hospital in Glasgow.
Ships, aircraft and personnel from Europe and North America have been arriving in and around Scotland for a major Nato exercise.
Joint Warrior is held twice a year, in April and in October.
The exercise is one of Nato's largest training events and involves thousands of army, navy and air force personnel.
For the first time, this October's Joint Warrior will see exercises using unmanned vehicles. This event is called Unmanned Warrior. | A French sailor has been airlifted off a military vessel off the south west of Barra after falling and suffering a back injury. |
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Alexis Tsipras, whose bloc came second in Sunday's vote, said Greek voters had "clearly nullified the loan agreement".
He has three days to reach a coalition deal and has told the two major parties to end their support for the austerity terms if they want to take part.
The European Commission and Germany say countries must stick to budget cuts.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday: "What member states have to do is be consistent, implementing the policies that they have agreed."
But, after French voters chose a new president on Sunday in Francois Hollande who has advocated greater focus on growth, EU leaders are to gather on 23 May for an informal meeting at which his proposals will be discussed.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has written to Mr Hollande, saying that it is "up to us... to prepare our societies for the future and protect and advance prosperity in a sustainable way".
The financial chaos has sparked huge social unrest in Greece and led to a deep mistrust of the parties considered to be the architects of austerity.
On Monday the leader of the centre-right New Democracy (ND) party, Antonis Samaras, abandoned attempts to form a coalition.
ND came first in the polls but, in common with the centre-left Pasok - the other traditional party of power - saw its share of the vote dramatically reduced.
In March, both parties backed the terms of the second EU/IMF deal agreed by technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos.
In return for its two bailouts - worth a total of 240bn euros (£190bn; $310) - Greece agreed to make deep cuts to pensions and pay, raise taxes and slash thousands of public sector jobs.
Their votes drained away in Sunday's elections in favour of smaller parties on the left and right, with Syriza picking up almost 17% of the vote. But because ND came first, it was awarded a 50-seat bonus in parliament according to Greek rules, and was initially asked to form a government.
Twenty-four hours later it was Mr Tsipras who was given a mandate to form a coalition during a meeting with President Karolos Papoulias and immediately he began talks with prospective partners.
Greek media said he had enlisted the support of a smaller left-wing party, Democratic Left, but had failed to persuade the communist KKE to back him. He is likely to talk to all the party leaders, except the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn.
If the 38-year-old Syriza leader hopes to obtain the 151 seats needed for a majority in parliament, it is already clear he will need the backing of at least one of the two major parties.
He told reporters "the pro-bailout parties no longer have a majority in parliament to vote in destructive measures for the Greek people" and urged them to write to the EU and IMF saying they were taking back earlier promises of co-operation made as a condition of the bailouts.
Mr Tsipras made his position clear to reporters in a five-point plan:
Under Greece's current bailout plan, billions of euros in further austerity cuts will have to be found in June - and the country is also counting on a 30bn euro (£24bn; $39bn) instalment in EU/IMF funds. | The leader of Greece's left-wing Syriza bloc has said he will try to form a coalition based on tearing up the terms of the EU/IMF bailout deal. |
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Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has won three of six races and leads Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton by 24 points before this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix.
Wolff said: "It's painful but we are not the favourites for this year's championship. At the moment, it's Ferrari.
"We need to rise to the challenge to prove we are the team to beat."
Ferrari's resurgence following a major set of rule changes for 2017 follows three years of dominance by Mercedes.
Although Mercedes have proved to have the fastest car over one qualifying lap, the Ferrari is more flexible, works more easily in a wider range of conditions and has generally appeared to have an advantage in races.
Hamilton has won two grands prix, in China and Spain, and his new team-mate Valtteri Bottas one in Russia, which came against the run of play after Ferrari dominated qualifying in Sochi.
Wolff said: "This is the reality of the situation now. We have to fight with all that we are worth for every single win, pole position, podium finish and every point. You can no longer expect that when you look at a timesheet the two Mercedes will be right at the top.
"We've come into this season with a strong car that has allowed us to win three of the first six races. But it has also caused us more complications than we have seen in previous years.
"Everybody at the factories is working absolutely flat out to assess the current difficulties we are facing - to define our objectives, work with the data we have and then come up with the right solutions.
"Some of these fixes will be short term, others may take longer.
"We've had bruising weekends before and it's about showing resilience and getting up after falling.
"I remember the troubles we had in Singapore in 2015, which hurt badly. We gave ourselves a deadline to address that setback before switching our focus to the next race in Suzuka, which we won.
"We've done exactly the same thing after Monaco - addressing the problems before turning our attention to Montreal. We know that this season is a marathon, not a sprint."
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Mercedes' fundamental struggles this season revolve around a difficulty in getting the Pirelli tyres to work consistently in their correct operating temperature window.
And Wolff admits that the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal might not play to the strengths of the Mercedes car.
The circuit is a series of slow corners linked by long straights with a low-grip, low-abrasion track surface.
It is exactly the sort of track that could provide difficulties in operating the tyres, lacking the faster, longer corners which work the tyres harder and where the Mercedes' strong high-speed aerodynamics can come into play.
Wolff said: "I'm expecting an interesting weekend in Canada. It could be a tricky race for us in terms of the layout of the track. But, equally, it's a circuit that suits both of our drivers. Lewis has won a number of times in the past and Valtteri has always gone strongly there for Williams."
Hamilton has won five times in Canada in nine appearances and it has consistently been one of his favourite tracks. | Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says rivals Ferrari are favourites to win this year's world title. |
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He said that all exam boards operating in Northern Ireland must give their results using the letters A* to G.
In 2017, English examining boards will give their results in the form of numbers, where nine is the highest grade and one the lowest.
Around one in four GCSEs in NI is studied through an English examining board.
There is currently an 'open market' for GCSEs where schools can choose which examining board to use.
If schools in Northern Ireland want to continue operating through English boards like AQA and OCR, those boards will have to agree to operate a separate alphabetic grading system for Northern Ireland.
There is no indication yet that they will agree to do so.
The local examining body, CCEA, will continue to award GCSEs from A* to G only.
Mr O'Dowd said the decision he had made would present "challenges" for awarding bodies.
"I believe that it will be in the best interests of learners here to continue with the established practice of awarding using letters, and I believe we must avoid unnecessary complexity as far as possible," he told the assembly.
"I appreciate that there is anxiety around the perceived risk to our young people going out into the world with a GCSE certificate that is anything other than a string of numbers like their English counterparts.
"I have confidence in our education system, and I have confidence in the hard work and attainment of our young people."
However, the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), which represents many grammar school principals, criticised the minister's decision.
ASCL President Stephen Black said that Mr O'Dowd was relying on the English examining boards following his plans.
"He is saying we can have an open market for GCSE qualifications, but he is totally reliant on the English boards accepting they will have different grading systems for England and Northern Ireland," he said.
"There's no precedent for this, so there's a real danger that we might lose a raft of qualifications which our young people are currently able to study for."
However, the chief executive of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools, Jim Clarke, backed the minister.
"It's a statement that our education system is for Northern Ireland," he said, "and meets the needs of young people, our higher education providers and our employers". | Education Minister John O'Dowd has decided there will be no change in GCSE grades in Northern Ireland. |
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Bravo was making his debut after being brought in from Barcelona to replace Joe Hart, who joined Torino on loan.
But, with City leading 2-0, the Chilean dropped the ball for United to score and almost cost his side further goals.
"We played good in the first half because of Claudio," said Guardiola, whose side held on to win 2-1.
"I like the keepers to attack the ball and after what happened with the goal, the second half he continued to play and that's a good thing about his personality."
Manchester City were the better side in the opening 45 minutes and looked comfortable after goals from Kevin de Bruyne and Kelechi Iheanacho.
But Bravo, 33, who arrived in a £15.4m move from Guardiola's former club, dropped Wayne Rooney's free-kick to allow Zlatan Ibrahimovic to score before the break.
Guardiola, who likes his sides to build from the back, had brought in the keeper for his ball-playing skill.
But he was caught in possession by United midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan to give Ibrahimovic a chance to equalise and also had to make a recovery tackle on Rooney after a heavy touch.
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho believed that strong challenge on Rooney warranted a penalty and a red card.
And he also thought referee Mark Clattenburg should have awarded a spot-kick for a handball by Nicolas Otamendi, although the ball appeared to hit the City defender on the back.
"Mark made two big mistakes. Claudio Bravo is a penalty and a red card - if one of my players do that in the middle of the park -if [Marouane] Fellaini or Rooney do that in the middle of the park - it's a red card and a free-kick," the Portuguese said.
"In the box it is more difficult to give and he didn't want to give it.
"The second one is a handball by Otamendi - some pundits will say 'no' because it's the back of the arm but he knows. He's looking at the ball. We are not happy with these decisions."
City, who maintained their 100% winning record in the Premier League, host Borussia Monchengladbach in the Champions League group stage on Tuesday.
It is a competition the Etihad club have yet to win since being transformed in 2008 by the wealth of owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
And despite a notable change in City's style this season under Guardiola, playing the ball out from the back at every opportunity, the Spaniard has played down the club's European hopes.
"We are not ready to compete with the best clubs in Europe. We are creating well but we need more in front," said Guardiola, who won two Champions League trophies during his four years as Barcelona boss and claimed three German titles in his last job at Bayern Munich.
"But if we want to play against the best clubs in Europe we are not able to compete the way we are playing.
"But we have only been together two months so we have time to get better."
Asked if his insistence on playing the ball out from the back was risky, Guardiola said: "Yes. If you lose the ball they will score. But you can control the game.
"Until my last day in England I will try to play with the ball as much as possible. I know it's impossible for 90 minutes but I'm sorry, I will not negotiate that."
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United suffered their first defeat of the season, after winning their first three Premier League games.
Wingers Anthony Martial and Juan Mata had started all of those games but were replaced by Jesse Lingard and Henrikh Mkhitaryan on Saturday.
With City dominating possession in the first half and 2-0 up after 36 minutes, Mourinho said he would have liked to have made substitutions.
"I didn't change it at 20 minutes because I didn't want to destroy the players," said the Portuguese, who brought on Ander Herrera and Marcus Rashford for Lingard and Mkhitaryan at half-time.
"I didn't want to make three changes at half-time because it would have been a long 45 minutes. With a free number of changes, like basketball, I would do after 20 minutes.
"In the next big game in the Premier League I know who can accept the dimension of the game well."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has defended keeper Claudio Bravo despite numerous mistakes in Saturday's derby win over Manchester United. |
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Prince Charles said he was one of those who warned many years ago that there would be rising conflict over scarce resources if the issue was not tackled.
In Syria, the prince said, a drought lasting several years meant that many people were forced off the land.
His comments come in a television interview to be shown on Monday evening but recorded before the Paris attacks.
Prince Charles told Sky News: "We're seeing a classic case of not dealing with the problem because, it sounds awful to say, but some of us were saying 20 something years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of climate change, which means that people have to move.
"And there's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land."
Asked if there was a direct link between climate change, conflict and terrorism, he added: "It's only in the last few years that the Pentagon have actually started to pay attention to this. It has a huge impact on what is happening.
"The difficulty is sometimes to get this point across - that if we just leave it and say, well there are obviously lots of, there are endless problems arising all over the place therefore we deal with them in a short-term way, we never deal with the underlying root cause which regrettably is what we're doing to our natural environment."
Prince Charles will travel to Paris next week to deliver a keynote speech at the opening of the COP21 United Nations climate change conference.
The summit will attempt to reach a new international agreement to help limit global warming to no more than two degrees.
Asked in the interview whether the world could afford to deal with climate change at a time of austerity, the prince said: "The trouble is if we don't, this is the awful thing, if we don't it's going to get so much worse, then life will become very, very complicated indeed, and what we're experiencing now will be as nothing to the problems.
"I mean the difficulties in 2008 with the financial crash - that was a banking crisis.
"But we're now facing a real possibility of nature's bank going bust. If you see it like that, we've been putting so much pressure on the natural systems and all those aspects of nature that we take for granted." | The Prince of Wales has said climate change may have been a factor in the emergence of civil war in Syria. |
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The team won six medals, including three golds - Mo Farah (5,000m and 10,000m) and Christine Ohuruogu (400m).
Sprinter Adam Gemili, heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson and 1,500m runner Chris O'Hare also impressed.
"We can see where the future medals are coming from," Black told BBC Sport.
"I saw the disappointed look at Hannah England (fourth in the 1500m), Chris O'Hare (1500m finalist) killing himself and (800m runner) Jessica Judd really making progress. We've got a programme that can help develop medallists."
Gemili, 19, recorded the second fastest time by a Briton - 19.98 seconds - in the 200m semi-finals before finishing fifth in the final.
Johnson-Thompson, 20, took fifth in the heptathlon.
Paula Radcliffe, the 2005 world marathon champion, said she was also encouraged by the performances of the young members of the GB squad.
"I think there were 17 top-eight places," added the 39-year-old.
"I was especially impressed seeing Johnson-Thompson coming through. She's built such a great platform. The likes of O'Hare making a 1500m final - that's not happened in quite a while."
Meanwhile, Radcliffe does not believe that Farah will not choose to run the marathon in future major competitions. The double Olympic and world champion plans to compete in the London Marathon next year, having completed half of the distance in 2013.
"Mo will be trying the marathon, but won't be leaving the track," she continued.
"I wouldn't surprised if he ran the 1500m in the Commonwealths. He has the range and ability to do that. If you're a runner and British you will want to run the London Marathon at one stage.
"I reckon he'll come back and run faster on the track and produce times he is capable of."
Elsewhere, Usain Bolt, who won his eighth career world title on Sunday by leading the baton home for the victorious Jamaica 4x100m team, said his memories of the championships were "not the best".
The 26-year-old said his views were influenced by the fact the Luzhniki Stadium was not once full during the nine days of competition.
"I must be truthful, it's been a different championships," Bolt said. "It's not been the best. Over the days it got better.
"They changed a few things and people got more relaxed, more people started smiling and there were more people in the stands.
"It picked up at the end so I will have to say seven out of 10 . I'm just being real. I'm used to seeing the stadium rammed and absolutely packed." | The performances of Great Britain's young athletes at the World Championships bodes well for the future, according to UK Athletics performance director Neil Black. |
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A debated decision in the 53rd minute shattered any hopes of the Gunners becoming the first side in Champions League history to overturn a four-goal deficit, having also lost the first leg in Germany 5-1.
They led through Theo Walcott's stunning 20th-minute goal, before Bayern were awarded a penalty that also resulted in the sending off of defender Laurent Koscielny.
The France centre-back was initially shown a yellow card by referee Anastasios Sidiropoulos for his foul on Robert Lewandowski inside the area - but it was upgraded to a red once he decided Koscielny made no attempt to win the ball.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger looked perplexed by the sudden change of heart by the official.
Lewandowski placed his spot-kick beyond the reach of David Ospina to give Bayern a 6-2 aggregate lead and effectively kill off the tie.
The home side then folded as Bayern scored four goals in 17 minutes. Arjen Robben robbed Alexis Sanchez of the ball and beat Ospina, before Douglas Costa made it 3-1 with a stunning solo goal.
Fellow midfielder Arturo Vidal grabbed a late double, first with an impudent chip before slotting in from Costa's square pass.
If this was to be Wenger's final outing in the Champions League with Arsenal then what an embarrassing final act.
Few expected the Gunners to perform a miracle, but they did at least expect to take the fight to the German giants.
Aside from the goal, Walcott also went close when Manuel Neuer saved his effort and Olivier Giroud hit the base of the post with a header.
Walcott was also denied a penalty after it appeared that Xabi Alonso had fouled him.
But Bayern rarely looked stretched and bided their time before punishing an error-strewn second-half display by the home side.
Some might debate whether Koscielny deserved a straight red but, under new laws regarding penalties, the referee was right to amend his initial decision to award the defender a yellow.
The Gunners' similarly folded when the Frenchman came off injured in the first leg with the scores 1-1.
Arsenal's initial target of scoring four goals would have still taken the contest into extra time. Any chance of that happening ended when Robben nipped in to take the ball away from the feet of Sanchez, who was inexplicably trying to play the ball on the edge of his own area.
The team lost heart thereafter and allowed Costa to run 50 yards before the Brazilian cut inside and curled in a brilliant 20-yard strike.
Vidal's double came late and in quick succession. First an error by Shkodran Mustafi was punished with a cheeky dink, before the Chile midfielder tapped in Costa's pass.
The final whistle could not come soon enough for Wenger and his team.
While Bayern carried out their own protest against ticket prices by throwing toilet rolls on to the pitch, the main attention was on the 'Wenger Out' demonstration before kick-off.
A large gathering of fans made it known outside the ground that they did not want the Frenchman in charge of the club.
Wenger has yet to decide whether to accept the contract extension or leave the club he has managed since 1996.
This week's saga surrounding Sanchez, the protests and finally now this heavy defeat might have brought the 67-year-old closer to making up his mind.
Match ends, Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 5.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 5.
Attempt missed. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Foul by Renato Sanches (FC Bayern München).
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 5. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Douglas Costa.
Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 4. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Xabi Alonso with a through ball.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Joshua Kimmich replaces Thiago Alcántara.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Renato Sanches replaces Franck Ribéry.
Granit Xhaka (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 3. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rafinha following a fast break.
Attempt saved. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Lucas Pérez.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Douglas Costa with a cross.
Foul by Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München).
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Franck Ribéry tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.
Substitution, Arsenal. Lucas Pérez replaces Alexis Sánchez.
Substitution, Arsenal. Mesut Özil replaces Olivier Giroud.
Substitution, Arsenal. Francis Coquelin replaces Aaron Ramsey.
Foul by Rafinha (FC Bayern München).
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Douglas Costa replaces Arjen Robben.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal).
Goal! Arsenal 1, FC Bayern München 2. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Arjen Robben with a cross following a corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Olivier Giroud.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by David Ospina.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by David Ospina.
Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Arturo Vidal with a through ball.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Granit Xhaka (Arsenal).
Attempt missed. Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Attempt missed. Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Xabi Alonso.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Héctor Bellerín.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal).
Offside, FC Bayern München. Rafinha tries a through ball, but Arjen Robben is caught offside.
Offside, Arsenal. Theo Walcott tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside. | Ten-man Arsenal were knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the seventh successive season following a second-half capitulation against Bayern Munich. |
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that the £55m merger would not cause a "substantial lessening of competition".
It said customers would not face a "reduction in choice, value or quality of service as a result of the merger".
The CMA's ruling was provisionally published in August.
Both Poundland and 99p Stores sell fast-moving general merchandise, normally for a fixed single price.
The CMA believes supermarket chains and other discounters, such as Poundworld, will counterbalance any effect caused by the merger.
Poundland said it would now complete the takeover of its rival, announced in February, by the end of the month.
It plans to create a network of 800 shops. | The UK competition regulator has granted permission for discount retailer Poundland to acquire its biggest rival, 99p Stores. |
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Ms Carmichael, 61, was found dead on the shore of Lough Neagh on Wednesday.
She was last seen near her home in Hillside, Antrim, on Monday night.
Alan Norman Foster, from Hillside, Antrim, spoke only to confirm his name and said he understood the charge. No application for bail was made and he was remanded back into custody.
A police officer told Coleraine Magistrates Court she believed she could connect the accused to the charge.
Mr Foster will appear again in court in March. | A 37-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of County Antrim woman Pauline Carmichael. |
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Joe Allen's goal denied United victory in what Mourinho described as his side's best performance of the season.
"It could have been one of these fat results," he told BBC Sport. "It could have been 5-0 or 6-0.
"We had big chances, with amazing saves and big misses. We will play worse and win games for sure."
United dominated possession and had 24 shots - nine of which were on target and 16 from inside the box.
Anthony Martial gave them the lead on 69 minutes but Allen capitalised on a spill from United goalkeeper David de Gea to punish the hosts' lax first-half finishing.
Paul Pogba rattled the bar with a header as United mounted a late siege on the Stoke goal, but Mark Hughes' side clung on.
Mourinho said his team played better than they had during last weekend's 4-1 victory over champions Leicester and the 2-0 home win over Southampton on 19 August.
"You can have sometimes draws where what you do does nothing to change the result," he said.
"The players and I did everything. I made changes, everyone was giving more and more but we could be here all day without winning the game.
"We had 90 minutes of control, we had 90 minutes of ambition. We played really well and it was a good home performance and we created lots of chances."
The former Chelsea and Real Madrid boss praised goalkeeper Lee Grant for a series of fine saves which were instrumental in ensuring Stoke moved off the bottom of the table.
"In the first minute, their goalkeeper made an unbelievable save and he kept doing that until the end of the game," he said.
"Stoke fought like they do every game. They came for a draw. They were lucky but luck is part of football and my tribute to them is that they're not guilty of our bad luck."
United midfielder Ander Herrera agreed with his manager's assessment.
"It should be 7-0," said the Spaniard. "That's why we cannot be happy but we played fantastic, created a lot of chances and controlled the game from kick-off to the end." | Manchester United's "beautiful" football against Stoke should have been rewarded with a big win rather than a 1-1 draw, said manager Jose Mourinho. |
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The constable's statement was read to the jury at Belfast Crown Court on Thursday.
Stephen Thomas Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, are both jointly charged with Mr Creaney's murder in 2014.
The pair blame each other for the attack that led to the 40-year-old's death in Craigavon, County Armagh.
The officer told the court he found the blue wheelie bin at the rear of Mr Hughes' property at Moyraverty Court in Craigavon on 5 July, 2014.
When he opened the lid of the bin, he said that it was "overflowing with cardboard and paper''.
After moving some of the material out of the way, the constable said: "I saw a human foot and I saw a human hand with a silver wedding band on one of the fingers.
"I removed more rubbish and a human torso come into view. The body appeared to be compacted in.''
The court heard that the officer's statement was put to Stephen Hughes during the course of his police interviews.
He was asked by a detective: "Did you squash his body down into the bin?''
Mr Hughes replied: "The two of us did. We just pushed him in.''
Asked if they "forced him down'' into the bin, the suspect replied that he was "pushing with [his] two hands''.
Hughes was asked: "Did you at any time get into the bin?'' He replied: "No. Just pushed him down.''
Under further questioning, Mr Hughes said he helped Ms Boyle to dispose of the body as "I wanted to protect her as I know what it is like to lose your children. I just freaked out. I didn't know what to do. I was telling her to phone an ambulance.''
The court heard that after police were alerted by a witness that Mr Creaney was dead, officers called at the house, where Mr Hughes took time to answer the door. When he eventually opened it, his hands were covered in paint.
During police interviews, he said that he was painting over "speckles of blood'' from a wall.
The detective told Mr Hughes that the police could smell the bleach from outside the front door.
He asked the defendant: "Were you not at least concerned for your friend Fonzie, who was lying upstairs - an alcoholic disabled man? You denied him healthcare, you denied him a chance to recover from the injuries he received in the assault. Why was that?''
Mr Hughes made no reply.
The detective asked: "Did you shower the deceased? Did you give him a shower because he was stinking the place out? Did you give him a shower because he was smelling the place out because he had wet himself?''
Again, Mr Hughes made no reply to the question.
He then asked Mr Hughes if he "just snapped", but received no response.
Earlier, the jury heard that Mr Hughes' mobile phone was examined by an expert, who found that during the 20 hours he claimed to be sleeping, his phone was active with text messages and phone calls.
Two of the text messages were from his co-accused, Ms Boyle. One read: "Is he still alive?'' Another asked: "Where is Fonzie's phone?''
Mr Hughes would not say if he remembered the texts.
Both Mr Hughes - whose address was given as HMP Maghaberry - and Ms Boyle, from Edenderry Park in Banbridge, County Down, were remanded back into custody. | The trial of a man and woman accused of murdering Owen 'Fonzie' Creaney have heard from the policeman who made the discovery of his body in a recycle bin. |
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Care worker Saima Khan, 34, was found with serious injuries in Overstone Road on 23 May and died at the scene.
Police said a woman from Luton was arrested shortly before 09:00 BST and remains in police custody.
Mrs Khan's husband, Hafeez Rehman, said their children had been deprived of their mother and the family's hearts had been "torn apart". | A 26-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a mother-of-four who was killed at her Luton home. |
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Two restaurants in the north-west are thought to have been targeted by the group of up to 160 people in February.
Bills adding up to 12,000 euros were not paid, and police are investigating whether the cases are linked.
The arrested man, reported by media to be Romanian, could face fraud charges as well as a claim for damages.
In the first case, the group, purporting to be celebrating a baptism, paid a deposit of €900 ($950; £770) to eat at the El Carmen restaurant in Bembibre, in the north-western Castile and Leon region.
They consumed €2,000 of food and drink before running away, it was reported last week.
It then emerged that El Rincon de Pepin, a restaurant 10km (six miles) away in Ponferrada, fell victim to a similar trick in mid-February.
Restaurant owner Laura Arias said the group told her they were celebrating a wedding and ordered a fairly basic menu. They paid €1,000 as a deposit, but consumed €10,000 of food and drink.
"There were 160 of them and they all disappeared. Suddenly. Within five minutes," Laura told the BBC.
The arrested man posed as the godfather of the baptised child and the father of the groom when he made the bookings, the Diario de Leon newspaper reported (in Spanish). | Police in Spain are questioning a man suspected of being the ringleader of a gang that eats thousands of euros of food at restaurants before fleeing. |
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As prices have been rising consistently, the typical value is likely to reach the half a million mark in October.
Property values across England and Wales rose by 5.3% in the year to the end of September, the data reveals.
The Land Registry values the average home at £186,553.
Earlier in the week, the Centre for Economics and Business Research said a lack of properties for sale was pushing up prices.
Prices in London recorded the fastest annual rise in September, at 9.6%, the Land Registry said. Values rose by 1.8% between August and September.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, house prices in the North East of England fell by 0.3% from a year earlier, pushing down the average price in the region to £99,559.
That means the house price gap across England and Wales is £400,438.
"That average prices in the capital are just a whisker off half a million pounds reinforces how buying in the capital has become a pipe dream for most first-time buyers," said Rob Weaver, director at Property Partner. | The average price of a home in London rose to £499,997 in September, according to the latest figures from the Land Registry. |
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Matthew, 34, won an absorbing contest 11-9 8-11 11-5 6-11 11-5.
With Peter Barker taking bronze, it is England's second successive Commonwealth podium clean sweep after they also dominated in Delhi.
Five weeks ago I was on a hospital bed, throbbing pain in my body
England's Laura Massaro took silver after losing to Malaysia's world number one Nicol David in the women's final.
Matthew's clash with Willstrop, 30, was a repeat of the 2010 final in Delhi.
Then Matthew had won in three games but this time he was made to work much harder as Willstrop pushed him every step of the way.
An exhausting rally on the third point of the match set the tone as both men covered the court in tireless fashion while producing some top quality squash.
World champion Matthew - who carried the England flag at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony - took the opening game before Willstrop hit back.
Sheffield's Matthew, who won gold in both the singles and doubles in Delhi four years ago, went 2-1 ahead as he breezed through the third game but Willstrop hit back in impressive fashion in game four to take it to a decider.
But Matthew, who had won the last 24 meetings between the pair, went ahead early in the fifth game and maintained his advantage throughout to take it.
Matthew's victory was all the more impressive as his hopes of competing in Glasgow were threatened by a knee injury which required surgery last month and left his participation in doubt.
"Five weeks ago I was on a hospital bed, throbbing pain in my body," said Matthew.
"How the medics have done it… it is incredible. They need to retire now because it can't get better than that."
England's Peter Barker took bronze after beating Saurav Ghosal 11-5 6-11 11-5 11-6 in 53 minutes to leave the Indian player in fourth place for the second Games in a row.
In the women's final David, 30, produced a superb performance to beat Massaro 12-10 11-2 11-5.
Like Matthew, it is back-to-back Commonwealth golds for David, who did not drop a single game when she won in Delhi in 2010.
She has been world number one for 99 months and has won the World Open title a record seven times.
But Massaro, 30, is the world number two and went into the Commonwealths full of confidence after winning both the World Open and British Open titles in 2013.
Massaro, based in Preston, began quickly and looked to be controlling the opening game, but David showed why she has been the dominant figure in women's squash for so long by fighting back to pinch it 12-10.
The second game was much more one-sided as David played some brilliant shots and displayed her trademark athleticism around the court to breeze through 11-2 with little trouble.
Massaro fought hard in the third - and required treatment after being accidentally caught in the face by David's racket - but it was not enough.
New Zealand's Joelle King claimed bronze as she beat England's Alison Waters 11-7 11-7 11-5 in the third-place play-off. | Nick Matthew became the first man to retain the Commonwealth Games singles squash title after beating fellow Englishman James Willstrop in Glasgow. |
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Seeking to become the first team to win 73, they won at the San Antonio Spurs, who last lost at home in March 2015.
"We're competitive, we're hungry," said Steph Curry, who scored 37 in the California-based team's 92-86 victory.
Victory over the Memphis Grizzlies at home on Wednesday would surpass the record set by Chicago Bulls in 1995-96. | The Golden State Warriors can make NBA history in their final regular-season game after equalling the record number of wins with their 72nd on Sunday. |
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It is looking for volunteer "bricklayers" to help construct the model, that will be 6ft 6in (2m) in height and 13ft (4m) in length.
The project is expected to use 350,000 pieces - each of which can be purchased for £1 to be included in the model.
Cathedral officer Helen Barber said it would "help us to reach new audiences".
Simon Warburton, cathedral director of operations, said: "The unique thing about Chester cathedral is that our architecture spans nearly 1000 years of history.
"The model will recreate each style and so is a really effective way of telling the story of our building."
It will be split in two so the cathedral's interior, including its organ, will also be replicated.
Durham Cathedral started its Lego replica, that is also expected to use 350,000 bricks, in 2013. | Chester Cathedral has embarked on a four-year project to build a scale model of the landmark in Lego. |
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Now, HBO has confirmed his co-star will be Vince Vaughn.
Eight episodes will be made with Farrell starring as a detective and Vaughn as a criminal.
First time around, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey took centre stage, earning them critical plaudits and award nominations.
That series focussed on the intense relationship between Harrelson and McConaughey's flawed but determined detectives.
Without revealing any spoilers, HBO has revealed some early details about series two.
It says the plot will revolve around three police officers and a career criminal who must "navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder".
Farrell plays Ray Velcoro who HBO describe as "a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him".
As for Vaughn, he'll play Frank Semyon who is a "career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner".
And that's it.
There's no word on any appearances for Harrelson or McConaughey and no word on where the second series will be set.
Justin Lin, who's directed the last four Fast & Furious movies, will direct the first two episodes.
Production will begin later this year.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Earlier this week, Colin Farrell told an Irish newspaper that he'd got a spot in the second series of True Detective. |
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Vardy, 29, remonstrated with referee Jon Moss after he was shown a red card in Sunday's 2-2 draw with West Ham.
The FA has also charged Leicester with failing to control their players after West Ham won an 83rd-minute penalty.
Vardy and Leicester have until 18:00 BST on Thursday to respond.
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Vardy, the Premier League's joint leading scorer with 22 goals this season, was shown a second yellow card early in the second half for diving.
He appeared to confront Moss - who was criticised for his performance by Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer - before leaving the field.
The England international receives an automatic one-match ban for his dismissal, but that looks likely to be increased following the FA charge.
Chelsea striker Diego Costa was given an additional one-match ban and was fined £20,000 after admitting a charge of improper conduct last month.
The 27-year-old was punished for his reaction to his sending-off against Everton in an FA Cup tie on 12 March.
Arsenal defender Gabriel was also banned for one match, and given a £10,000 fine, after admitting the same charge in September.
Premier League leaders Leicester need eight points from their final four matches to guarantee the title.
Their final four matches are against Swansea (home), Manchester United (away), Everton (home) and Chelsea (away). | Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy faces an extended ban during the Premier League title run-in after being charged with improper conduct by the Football Association. |
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She has been named as 20-year-old University of Birmingham student Hannah Bladon.
Ms Bladon was stabbed several times in the chest while she travelled on a tram in Tzahal Square and died in hospital. A 57-year-old Palestinian man was detained at the scene.
She had been on an exchange at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which expressed "deep sorrow" over her death.
Ms Bladon had been taking classes in bible studies, archaeology and Hebrew at the Rothberg International School, part of The Hebrew University.
The school said: "Her friends described her as an inquisitive and adventurous student who made the most of her opportunity to learn and experience life in Israel."
The University of Birmingham also paid tribute to the 20-year-old saying it was "deeply saddened" to hear of Ms Bladon's death and that it would provide support to its students.
Police say the suspect, a resident of Ras al-Amud in east Jerusalem, was recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Jerusalem police chief Yoram Halevy told the AFP news agency that the man was "very mentally disturbed".
An off-duty policeman travelling on the tram pulled an emergency brake and then tackled the attacker, with the help of another passenger.
He told the AFP news agency: "I was travelling with my family when I heard the cries of 'attack, attack'.
"I sounded the alarm then rushed to the scene of the attack. We overpowered him."
A 30-year-old pregnant woman and a 50-year-old man were also injured in the attack.
BBC Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman said the pair, who were much less seriously injured than the British woman, were either hurt when the tram came to a sudden stop or in the panic to get away.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm the tragic death of a British national in Jerusalem.
"We are providing support to her family at this difficult time and are in touch with local authorities."
There will continue to be heightened security in Jerusalem after measures were brought in ahead of the Jewish Passover Festival and Easter celebrations.
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin said he was "filled with sadness about the attack" and that his thoughts and prayers were with the family of the victim.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld tweeted a picture of the knife used in the attack. | A British woman has been stabbed to death on a tram in Jerusalem. |
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Four key House of Commons committees wrote to Nicky Morgan last month, pressing for sex education to be made statutory in primaries and secondaries.
In response, Mrs Morgan now says the government "will continue" to keep the subject's status "under review".
But the National Aids Trust said it was "extremely disappointed".
The trust's chief executive Deborah Gold said the decision meant the subject "will continue to be delivered according to the whims of individual head teachers rather than the needs of young people".
Last month, the chairmen of the education, health, home affairs and business committees wrote to Mrs Morgan saying personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), which includes sex education, was a "crucial part of preparing young people for life".
"It can provide them with the knowledge and confidence to make decisions which affect their health, wellbeing and relationships, now and in the future," said the joint letter.
"It can... help protect young people from abuse in many forms."
But Mrs Morgan said while she agreed PSHE was crucial, making it statutory "would do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject".
In a letter to Neil Carmichael, chairman of the Education Select Committee, she said these problems "are to do with the variable quality of its provision, as evidenced by Ofsted's finding that 40% of PSHE teaching is less than good".
"As such, while we will continue to keep the status PSHE in the curriculum under review, our immediate focus will be on improving the quality of PSHE teaching in our schools."
Under the national curriculum, sex-and-relationship education is compulsory from age 11 - but parents are allowed to withdraw their children from parts of it.
Mrs Morgan had previously failed to meet a deadline to respond to the Education Committee's call a year ago for the government to make a work plan for introducing age-appropriate PSHE and sex-and-relationships education (SRE) as statutory subjects in primary and secondary schools.
Lucy Emmerson, co-ordinator of the Sex Education Forum, described the subject as "every child's right".
"Yet the government has ignored the views of parents, teachers and pupils and failed to guarantee that all children, in all schools, get this vital learning for life," she said.
"SRE must begin in primary school and build year-on-year to enable young people to understand a wide spectrum of issues, including the difference between acceptable and abusive behaviour, consent and sexual health."
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the decision was "short sighted".
"When report after report following the tragic sex abuse cases in Rotherham and Oxford point out that PSHE keeps children safe, how can Nicky Morgan refuse time and time again to make PSHE mandatory in all schools?" asked Dr Bousted. | England's education secretary has rejected MPs' calls to make sex-and-relationship education compulsory in all schools, infuriating campaigners. |
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Nicholas Churton, 67, was found dead at an address in Crescent Close on Monday.
On Thursday, officers from North Wales Police were given a further 36 hours to question 25-year-old Jordan Davidson in connection with the death.
A post-mortem examination showed Mr Churton died of significant head injuries.
North Wales Police said Mr Churton, former owner of Churtons wine bar in Rossett, lived alone at the property and was a "vulnerable man".
A 27-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, a 19-year-old women and a 51-year-old man arrested on suspicion of robbery and assisting an offender, have been bailed pending further enquiries. | Three people have been released on bail after being arrested in connection with the death of a man in Wrexham. |
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Ciarán Maxwell, now 31, was injured in a sectarian attack in his hometown of Larne, County Antrim, when he was 16.
He has admitted offences including bomb-making. The Old Bailey heard he bought bomb-making materials online and sent them to his grandmother's house.
The London court hearing will determine the length of his jail sentence.
Maxwell was not in court, but appeared by video link from Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes.
On Thursday, a defence barrister said Maxwell "feared violence" on a daily basis as he grew up as a Catholic in his hometown of Larne.
In 2002, he was "beaten by golf clubs, iron bars and hammers" and "left for dead in a field".
The court was told that a doctor's report said Maxwell had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the immediate aftermath of the attack, and that condition had persisted into his 20s.
But earlier, a prosecutor said there was "no direct evidence" that Maxwell's offending was motivated by the beating he was subjected to by loyalists.
Instead, he was "motivated by dissident republican sympathies and a hostility broadly to the United Kingdom", prosecutor Richard Whittam QC said.
The court was told that in later years, Maxwell feared that being identified as a member of the British military would put his family in Larne under threat from republicans, and that they may even be killed.
Maxwell now fears for the safety of his family because he has co-operated with police since his arrest, the defence added.
"He was in over his head and the PTSD presented some difficulty in dealing rationally with the situation," the barrister said.
The case was one of "contradictions", he added.
"He was Marine by day and it would seem republican bomb-maker on leave."
The court also heard that Maxwell had once given a presentation to other Royal Marines on the security situation in Northern Ireland.
He was due to be promoted to the rank of corporal before his arrest, and was described in court as someone who would have been thought of as a "successful member of the military".
"He was an obsessive in his planning, someone who was a record keeper, organised and he liked to be tidy and made copious notes," the defence barrister said.
The prosecution revealed the marine had set up 43 weapons hides across England and Northern Ireland.
More than half of those hides were discovered in or near Maxwell's hometown of Larne, while another 19 hides were found at Powderham New Plantation, close to his home in England.
Two of the pipebombs he constructed were used by dissident republicans after his arrest in August 2016 and had "clear potential to cause death and injury".
Maxwell stole items from his military base, including a detonation cord and detonators, the prosecution added.
Some of the items "must have been taken by him from England" when he travelled home to Larne by ferry, said Mr Whittam.
He cited bullets as an example of that and suggested it may have been easier for Maxwell as he would have been able to show military identification.
"There is concern he might have found it easier to travel between England and Northern Ireland because of the ID he would have had," the prosecutor said.
Other materials for making the explosives, including chemicals and equipment, had been bought online and sent to his late grandmother's house, Mr Whittam told the court.
The defence said Maxwell started making explosives as "a rather unusual hobby" with a man in Larne who was later jailed for explosives offences.
Niall Lehd had known Maxwell since their days as pupils at the same school and the Marine had gone for a drink with him while on leave.
The court heard Lehd told Maxwell he was a member of the dissident republican paramilitary group, the Continuity IRA.
During the drinking session, the Marine "ended up saying a little bit too much" and was identified as "being of use" to dissident republicans.
"Lehd was the instigator, enthusiasm and driving force, a very sinister figure indeed," the defence barrister told the court.
"Maxwell has made some very bad decisions that will haunt him and members of his family for a significant amount of time to come."
During Wednesday's hearing, the court was told that Maxwell had drawn up a list of targets and address of police officers, military staff, an MI5 member and loyalists.
Maxwell lived in Exminster in Devon, and was based with 40 Commando in Taunton, Somerset.
His arrest came after a search near Exeter found hides with a range of explosive substances, as well as ammunition, weapons and tools for making bombs.
He has also pleaded guilty to drugs and fraud charges. | A Royal Marine who made bombs for dissident republicans suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after a 2002 sectarian beating, a court has heard. |
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Two bombs hit a convoy of buses carrying graduates from a ceremony on the city's western outskirts.
Paghman District Governor Musa Khan told the BBC that all but two of the dead were police cadets.
The bombing was claimed by the Taliban and follows an attack on a bus just over a week ago that killed 14 people.
A Taliban spokesman said that in Thursday's attack, the first bomber attacked one bus and when rescuers began to arrive the second drove an explosives-laden car into their vehicles.
The cadets were returning to Kabul from a training centre in Wardak province and were about to go on leave.
The Taliban's main targets are the Afghan government, international organisations and foreign military, but in particular the Afghan army and police force.
There have been numerous attacks on the Afghan police, even when the officers are unarmed. They are perhaps a softer target than the army, using un-armoured vehicles and lighter weapons.
The Taliban have tried to increase their attacks recently, especially after the appointment of their new leader.
Big attacks make headlines, but there have been many foiled attacks that are not widely publicised.
Taliban violence normally increases at this time of year, but this year there is an unusual upsurge in several provinces.
On top of that, the authorities have also for the first time engaged in several stand-offs with the Islamic State group in the east, which has forced hundreds of families to flee their homes.
Why are the Taliban resurgent in Afghanistan?
The attacks were immediately condemned by President Ashraf Ghani, who called the incident a "crime against humanity".
"While Muslims are busy praying during this holy month of Ramadan, the Taliban keep committing reprehensible crimes by killing innocent people and spreading fear and terror," he said in a statement.
BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the latest violence in Afghanistan - just a few days ahead of a Nato summit in the Polish capital Warsaw - underscores the need for a continued Western engagement in Afghanistan where local security forces are having only limited success in restoring order.
The US and Nato combat mission in Afghanistan ended in December 2014.
US forces have taken on an advisory role since then, while also carrying out counterterrorism missions against so-called Islamic State and remnants of al-Qaeda. | Taliban bombers have attacked an Afghan police convoy outside the capital Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50 others, officials say. |
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Thomas struck an unstoppable 25-yard curling effort past goalkeeper Artur Krysiak having earlier drawn the visitors level after Matt Butcher had given the Glovers the lead.
Yeovil were booed off at full time following a fifth straight league defeat that leaves them in the League Two relegation zone.
Having dominated possession, Yeovil took a deserved lead after 56 minutes when Butcher found time and space in the box to turn and shoot past Trevor Carson from Matt Dolan's corner.
Pools responded and equalised 11 minutes later when Carson launched a long kick upfield that somehow evaded the Glovers defence and left Thomas through on goal and with an easy finish.
The game looked as though it was petering out into a draw entering time added on, but Thomas had the final say as he decided the match with a superb strike.
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Match ends, Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 2.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 2.
Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt saved. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 2. Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nicky Featherstone.
Foul by Matt Butcher (Yeovil Town).
Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nicky Deverdics (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nicky Deverdics (Hartlepool United).
Foul by Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town).
Carl Magnay (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Nicky Deverdics replaces Lewis Hawkins.
Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town).
Corner, Hartlepool United. Conceded by Nathan Smith.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Ben Whitfield replaces Alex Lawless.
Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Laurent (Hartlepool United).
Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United).
Foul by Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town).
Nicky Featherstone (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town).
Liam Donnelly (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Hartlepool United. Bradley Fewster replaces Padraig Amond.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Tahvon Campbell replaces Otis Khan.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Izale McLeod replaces Tom Eaves.
Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town).
Lewis Alessandra (Hartlepool United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high.
Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aristote Nsiala (Hartlepool United).
Goal! Yeovil Town 1, Hartlepool United 1. Nathan Thomas (Hartlepool United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Trevor Carson.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Scott Harrison.
Attempt missed. Nathan Smith (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Aristote Nsiala.
Foul by Liam Shephard (Yeovil Town). | Nathan Thomas scored a dramatic stoppage-time winner as Hartlepool came from behind to beat Yeovil. |
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Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw told the BBC News Channel that Welsh education is "paying the price" for abandoning standard assessment tests.
The Pisa tests are taken by 15-year-olds every three years.
The Welsh Government said a "radical overhaul" of education was under way.
Welsh students ranked below the average of 72 countries taking part in the tests in science, reading and maths.
For the fourth time running, they also did worse than their counterparts in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Scotland's schools recorded their worst ever Pisa results, with all three subject areas being classed as "average".
Sir Michael Wilshaw said: "England's results are, I think, pretty good. The focus of Pisa this year was science and we've improved our position from 21st to 15th.
"We're doing better than the other home nations - Scotland and Wales. Their results are dragging the UK performance down a bit."
He added: "I remember when the Welsh Government took away all the accountability measures that we have in England - Sats, testing and so on - and that was disastrous, absolutely disastrous and Welsh education is paying the price for that.
"We didn't do that in England. We kept the testing at [ages] seven, 11, 14 and we kept accountability and that's what the Welsh system lost."
Wales abandoned Sats and school performance league tables in 2004.
National reading and numeracy tests were introduced as part of a raft of reforms brought in following the 2010 Pisa results.
First Minister Carwyn Jones admitted in a heated session of the assembly on Tuesday that the results make for "uncomfortable reading".
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams said Wales could do better, adding that plans - including a new curriculum - were in place.
Scottish Education Secretary John Swinney said the results showed that "radical reform" was needed if Scotland's education system was to become world-class again.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are currently engaged in a radical overhaul of our education system to raise standards and the aspirations of our learners.
"This includes introducing a new curriculum, numeracy and literacy tests, categorisation and more robust qualifications to give pupils the skills they need to succeed in life." | Wales and Scotland's results in a major study of educational performance are "dragging the UK down", the chief inspector of schools in England has said. |
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He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 after being found guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter.
He shot Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door but said he thought she was an intruder.
The prosecution has appealed, saying he should instead be convicted of murder.
That case is expected to be heard on 3 November.
Pistorius has spent 12 months in jail and will now spend the rest of his sentence under what is termed in South Africa "correctional supervision", the parole board said.
An earlier decision to release him in August was blocked by South Africa's Justice Minister Michael Masutha, who said it had been made "prematurely".
At the time, Ms Steenkamp's family had said that 10 months behind bars was "not enough".
Responding to Thursday's decision, a lawyer speaking for the Steenkamp family said her parents had expected the early release even though they opposed it, adding that nothing could bring back their daughter.
The Pistorius family have said they have received the news of his planned release, but are not making any further comment.
During his house arrest, Pistorius is likely to face restrictions in terms of gun ownership and may have to continue getting psychotherapy, reports the BBC's Nomsa Maseko from Johannesburg.
The making and unmaking of Oscar Pistorius
The double-amputee rose to global fame after competing for South Africa at both the Olympics and Paralympics in London in 2012.
Subsequently, the killing of his girlfriend, who worked as a model, in February 2013 attracted worldwide attention.
His trial was broadcast live both domestically and around the world | Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, jailed for killing his girlfriend, is to be freed from prison to house arrest next Tuesday, a South African parole board says. |
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The 19-year-old beat 2014 champion Italian Matteo Fissore 6-4 in the recurve final.
Olympic hopeful Huston, a former junior World champion from Belfast, had equalled his personal best score of 588 qualifying for the knockout stages.
The indoor circuit also visits Bangkok and Nimes with the final in Las Vegas. | Great Britain's Patrick Huston claimed his first World Cup gold medal at stage one of the 2015-16 Indoor Archery World Cup circuit in Marrakech in Morocco. |
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Birth of the Dragon follows the kung fu star's early years in the US and showcases his controversial fight with master Wong Jack Man in 1964.
Directed by George Nolfi, the movie debuted at the Toronto Film Festival.
But many fans have protested against Lee's portrayal, saying the star took "a subdued role in his own biopic".
"Is this a joke? I was here to see Bruce Lee but they put the focus on some white guy," wrote IMDb user ticklegear in a scathing online review.
"Instead of celebrating what a beast Bruce Lee was, they made him out to be some insecure and jealous loser. Seemed more like a character assassination, rather than a biopic."
He added: "A terrible film - I wouldn't recommend it as it tarnishes Bruce Lee's true history with half-baked lies."
Others who caught early previews criticised Hong Kong actor Philip Ng, describing his portrayal of Bruce Lee as "a dumb-ed down, one-dimensional character".
Many said US actor Billy Magnussen, who played fictional friend Steve McKee, became the "unfair focus" of the movie instead.
One said: "The plot was terrible and the casting choice was even worse. How is it possible that the main character became a sidekick to a Caucasian man?"
Another user said the film "disrespected the legacy of Bruce Lee", and recommended boycotting it.
"The movie serves to perpetuate negative stereotypes regarding Asian women, men and culture."
The film is the latest to court controversy over "whitewashing" in Hollywood. US actress Scarlett Johansson caused a stir by taking on the lead role in the Hollywood remake of the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell, which was traditionally an Asian character.
Director George Nolfi has defended his film.
"To be able to watch this white guy become a fully formed man, with Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man becoming these surrogate father figures to him, even though they were about the same age… I thought that was very unusual in Hollywood filmmaking," he told Deadline.com.
But Lee's daughter Shannon has distanced herself from the biopic and has announced plans for a second Bruce Lee movie, currently in the works.
She told a UK newspaper: "There have been projects out there involving my father but they've lacked a complete understanding of his philosophies and artistry.
"They haven't captured the essence of his beliefs in martial arts or storytelling. The only way to get audiences to understand the depth and uniqueness of my father is to generate our own material."
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen in Singapore. | Fans of Bruce Lee are criticising a new biopic of the late martial arts legend, accusing it of "whitewashing and burying" his legacy. |
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Despite what he calls the "massive blow" of losing captain Greig Laidlaw to injury, Hastings believes Vern Cotter's side can win next Saturday.
And the Scots will be aiming to recover from the defeat by France in Paris.
"It's a big match and I think home advantage might be just about enough to get them over the line," said Hastings.
Scotland began this year's tournament with a 27-22 win over Ireland but fell short away to France on Sunday, losing 22-16.
Over the same period, Wales have enjoyed a 33-7 triumph in Italy and endured the pain of a 21-16 home loss to England.
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"It's an interesting game, with both teams having lost by the narrowest of margins last weekend," Hastings told BBC Sport.
"I just hope we see a game played with the same level of intensity that we saw in Cardiff and Paris at the weekend.
"It's going to be a cracker."
Hastings lamented the absence of Scotland's "great leader" Laidlaw, the influential scrum-half who will miss the rest of the campaign with ankle ligament damage.
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"He's got a cool head, his kicking is immaculate and he leads by example and I think he'll be a big loss to Scotland," said the former British and Irish Lion.
"But Scotland did a pretty good job against Ireland and came close to France but they will have to keep it up against Wales because they are a very fine team."
Another former Scotland captain, Al Kellock, told BBC Radio Scotland that the absence of Laidlaw's skills both as a scrum-half and as a captain "would be a loss to anybody".
On who might replace the Gloucester number nine as skipper, Kellock said: "I think they'll have to wait and see who is in good shape after the weekend.
"John Barclay took over as captain, closely followed then by Jonny Gray. Ryan Wilson will come back to fitness, who I would imagine will have his hat in the ring. Henry Pyrgos has already captained Scotland; he might be somebody who could come in and take over from Greig."
The former Glasgow Warriors lock praised Ali Price for his contribution from the bench against France, as he replaced Laidlaw, and predicted the kicking duties against Wales would fall to fly-half Finn Russell, with full-back Stuart Hogg taking the long-range penalties. | The Murrayfield crowd can help Scotland get their Six Nations campaign back on track against Wales, says former Scotland captain Gavin Hastings. |
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The France international superbly kept out Javier Hernandez's close-range shot, and pushed away low drives from Charles Aranguiz and Admir Mehmedi.
Dele Alli should have done better at the other end when he powerfully headed wide from six yards out.
Team-mate Vincent Janssen hit the bar and, from the rebound, Erik Lamela had an effort tipped over by Bernd Leno.
Spurs will be thankful to man-of-the-match Lloris for keeping a clean sheet in a match in which they had more of the possession but their hosts had the better chances.
The former Lyon player made six saves at the BayArena, three of which were high quality:
Mauricio Pochettino's side remain second in Group E, and have conceded just seven goals in 11 games in all competitions this season. Their only defeat came in the opening group game against Monaco last month.
Tottenham are playing in European football's elite competition for the first time in five seasons, and - three games in - they have struggled to find their best form.
A draw is by no means a poor result away from home, but they will need to improve significantly in the final third if they are to progress.
Spurs had six shots, none of which were in the second half, and worked goalkeeper Leno only once. In contrast, Leverkusen had 13 shots in the second 45 minutes.
In the continued absence of Harry Kane, lone striker Janssen lacked service, while former Leverkusen man Son Heung-min, who scored 21 goals in 62 games for the Bundesliga side, barely had a sniff.
But among the positives was the performance of full-back Kieran Trippier, who was playing for only the third time this season. The former Burnley man made more tackles (four), clearances (seven) and interceptions (three) than any of his team-mates.
Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris: "You need a bit of luck in that kind of action and this time I saved (from Javier Hernandez).
"It was a key moment but it was not the only one. We should have scored in the first half and then the game would have been much different."
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "I am not disappointed. After the game, I think it is a good point for us.
"It was a very tough game. In the first half we deserved more and in the second they got better. I am pleased with the point.
"In the second half I think they played better than us and started to dominate the game. We need to be positive - it is in our hands to go through to the next round."
Tottenham are back in Premier League action on Saturday as they travel to Bournemouth (kick-off 12:30 BST). Their next Champions League match is on Wednesday, 2 November when they welcome Leverkusen to Wembley (kick-off 19:45 BST).
Match ends, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0, Tottenham Hotspur 0.
Second Half ends, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0, Tottenham Hotspur 0.
Attempt saved. Julian Brandt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Josh Onomah replaces Son Heung-Min.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Charles Aránguiz.
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Julian Brandt replaces Chicharito.
Attempt missed. Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Kevin Kampl with a cross.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Kevin Kampl.
Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Julian Baumgartlinger (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Hand ball by Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur).
Substitution, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Tin Jedvaj replaces Lars Bender.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur).
Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Ömer Toprak (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Dele Alli.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Moussa Sissoko replaces Erik Lamela.
Foul by Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur).
Charles Aránguiz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Charles Aránguiz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lars Bender (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Attempt saved. Ömer Toprak (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin Kampl with a cross.
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Kevin Kampl with a through ball.
Foul by Mousa Dembélé (Tottenham Hotspur).
Julian Baumgartlinger (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Mousa Dembélé replaces Vincent Janssen.
Erik Lamela (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Charles Aránguiz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Hugo Lloris.
Attempt saved. Admir Mehmedi (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Stefan Kießling.
Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefan Kießling (Bayer 04 Leverkusen).
Corner, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Conceded by Danny Rose.
Attempt blocked. Chicharito (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Julian Baumgartlinger with a headed pass. | Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris made a string of saves to secure a Champions League draw against Bayer Leverkusen. |
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Work started on the Gloucester Road site in August 2012 to build a library, health centre and flats after the baths closed in October 2005.
Chatsworth Homes said the project had been "beset with problems" but is now "very close to being fully resolved".
Bristol City Council has invested more than £3m in the project.
For many years community groups had called for the run-down site to be refurbished.
The authority lent Chatsworth Homes more than £3m to develop the site but halted the project amid concerns about the quality of work.
It brought in consultants but would not make the findings of their £40,000 report public.
But the BBC understands the document identified several "failings" relating to fire risks, access problems and structural issues.
The report said some of the "substandard work" had been covered by ceilings or concrete and could have gone unnoticed.
Chatsworth Homes described the report as "half accurate" and "half smoke and mirrors".
Assistant mayor, Simon Cook, said all the issues raised by the consultants have been or are being resolved at the developer's cost.
"While we appreciate there are concerns over the development, the appointment of contractors, advisers or staff by Chatsworth Homes is a matter over which Bristol City Council has no direct control." | A redevelopment of the troubled Bristol North Baths complex will be finished "within the next 10-12 weeks", the project's developers have said. |
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The 20-year-old helped the U's end their 19-game winless league run with a 2-1 victory at Bradford on Tuesday.
"The only centre-half I've modelled my game on is Rio Ferdinand - he's come from 20 minutes down the road from me in south London," said Chambers.
"He's come through West Ham's academy and we have sort of similar playing styles."
Former England Under-19 international Chambers added to BBC Essex: "If I could be half the player he was, I'll be alright.
"I've watched his game closely and one of the things he does is bring the ball out and is comfortable."
The centre-back, who had about two years out of the game with injury, has helped League One's bottom club earn four points from two matches since he joined on a one-month loan.
That started with a first clean sheet since former Hammers coach Kevin Keen took charge as manager for the Football League's worst defence - having conceded 79 league goals - against Shrewsbury on Saturday.
And 6ft 1ins Chambers, who says he is not "the typical centre-half" because of his height, says taking on Bradford forward James Hanson was a tough test.
"In under-21s football you're either playing against people your age or younger so you can get away with the extra touch because you can put your arm there or something," he said.
"But in this league, as I found on Tuesday, you take an extra touch and there's a big hard man there. Sometimes you just have to get one step ahead and do the simple thing." | Colchester United's West Ham loanee Leo Chambers says he models himself on former England defender Rio Ferdinand. |
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It works by releasing fluorescent dye from tiny capsules when toxins are given out by bacteria in a wound.
This allows doctors to identify bacterial infections and treat them more quickly, particularly in children with burns.
Researchers said it could help to save lives.
Children with burn wounds are particularly susceptible to bacterial infections because of their immature immune systems.
These infections can slow the healing of wounds, leading to longer stays in hospital and sometimes permanent scarring. In severe cases, infections can kill.
Doctors find it very difficult to diagnose infections quickly and easily without removing the dressing, which can be painful and create more scarring.
Because of this, antibiotics are often prescribed as a precaution before the infection is confirmed.
However, treatment with antibiotics when there is no infection can lead to bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics - and antibiotic resistance is a major health concern.
Dr Toby Jenkins, reader in biophysical chemistry at Bath, leading the project, said "it could really help to save lives."
The team has been awarded almost £1m by the Medical Research Council to test the responsiveness of the prototype dressing to samples taken from the wounds of burns victims. | A medical dressing that changes colour when it detects infection could cut the unnecessary use of antibiotics, say scientists at Bath University. |
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Problems seen by BBC Wales include broken fire alarms, leaking plumbing, damp, and broken electrical sockets.
Clearsprings Ready Homes which provides all asylum accommodation in Wales declined to comment.
The Home Office said it was committed to providing safe, secure housing.
According to the latest statistics, there are 2,495 people in Wales currently seeking asylum.
While their claims are being processed, they are not allowed to work but can receive somewhere to live.
Sohail Ahmed, 25, who fled Pakistan in 2012, has been seeking asylum in the UK since June and has been housed in Cardiff for the past two months.
BBC Wales' Sunday Politics programme visited where he lives and saw issues including a defective mains powered fire alarm, a window that did not close properly, damp carpets, a leaking kitchen sink and bath and broken furniture.
Mr Ahmed said: "When I came here and then see all this situation, I call them [Clearsprings Ready Homes] many times, they are making promises but since that time nothing has happened.
"At the end of the day we are still human. I'm standing here not only for myself.
"I do believe that if I'm suffering hard from these things, there are many thousands of people who are suffering from these things."
Clearsprings Ready Homes has a £119m contract with the UK government to provide all asylum accommodation in Wales.
It is due to expire next year but the Home Office is considering an extension.
The company was criticised earlier this year over concerns about a policy which required people at its Lynx House centre in Cardiff to wear wristbands to allow them to get food.
The bands were later scrapped.
AM Bethan Jenkins, who is a member of the assembly's equality, local government and communities committee, which is conducting an inquiry into refugees and asylum seekers, said she was aware of the issues.
"There are other families across Swansea, some of whom I've visited, who are experiencing the same things," the Plaid Cymru South Wales West AM said.
"They're coming into houses that are very old, very damp, with numerous problems and really they should be fit for purpose before the asylum seekers are housed here."
Speaking on behalf of the Welsh Refugee Coalition, Hayley Richards, said there had been problems with the quality of asylum housing in Wales for many years.
"Asylum seekers are some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. And the standard of housing these people are expected to live in, you wouldn't see any other publicly funded housing in Wales of that condition," she said.
"There are serious issues in terms of health and safety, so it's just an accident waiting to happen before something awful happens within asylum accommodation," she said.
Clearsprings Ready Homes declined to comment but in a response to inquiries made by Ms Jenkins, the firm acknowledged that "clearly there is an issue that needs urgent investigation".
A Home Office spokesperson said it was "committed to providing safe and secure accommodation" and if problems were not resolved by contractors it could impose sanctions. | The sub-standard condition of some housing for asylum seekers in Wales is "an accident waiting to happen", according to the Welsh Refugee Coalition. |
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Officers at HMP Holme House in Stockton, Teesside, have also complained of feeling dizzy after entering cells where inmates have been smoking the drug Spice.
The Prison Officer Association said the drug is also increasing violence.
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said it is investigating.
Andy Baxter, chairman of the Prison Officer Association at Holme House, said officers have inhaled the synthetic cannabis when visiting cells.
He told BBC Tees: "They report smelling a sweet smell, something like a floral disinfectant, after a couple of breaths they start to feel dizzy and get headaches.
"A couple have reported being hysterical, their emotions just run away with them.
"We had an officer who we believe was exposed to it, during the night he said he got a fierce burning sensation in his head which felt like his head was covered with nits and spent the night tearing at the top of his head."
Mr Baxter also said officers had been injured by inmates high on the drug.
He said: "They can become very aggressive, we have had a couple of cases where prisoners get super human strength.
"We have incidents where it has taken seven or eight staff to restrain one slightly built prisoner."
Mr Baxter said some former prisoners are deliberately getting themselves returned to prison so they can smuggle drugs inside in body orifices to pay off debts.
One former inmate said: "I've seen lads going berserk on it, turning on their best mates and fighting over it.
"I've also seen it where lads have dropped down dead, had heart attacks, gone into comas, gone loopy and ended up being sectioned because of it."
An MOJ spokesman said drug searches are regularly carried out, with offenders punished.
He said: "However, it's clear we need to do more.
"The Justice Secretary has asked the Ministry of Justice to look at how we can ensure prisons have the right tools in place to tackle this problem." | Staff at a prison have suffered hallucinations and become hysterical after inadvertently inhaling so-called legal highs, officers have claimed. |
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"[Skybox's] satellites will help keep our maps accurate with up-to-date imagery," said Google in a statement.
It also said Skybox's satellites could be used to help expand internet access.
Founded in 2009, Skybox's satellites offer video images and stills at a resolution of just over 1m per pixel - which can track single cars travelling along a road.
The firm sent its first high-resolution satellite, SkySat-1, in to space last December.
It circles the Earth around 16 times a day, relaying 90-second black-and-white clips, permitting analysis of movement on Earth.
Skybox has said it plans to launch a total of 24 satellites.
Google's purchase of the satellite maker follows its acquisition of solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace in April.
The search engine giant and other technology firms, such as Facebook, are currently engaging in efforts to improve internet access globally through drones, balloons, and satellites.
The deal is still subject to approval and closing conditions. | Google confirmed it has purchased satellite firm Skybox Imaging for $500m (£300m). |
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The hosts took the lead in the second half when debutant Nicky Deverdics' shot proved too hot to handle and Joe Healy slammed home.
However, John Rooney shrugged off his contract row to cross for Jordan White to level at the second attempt.
Dover remain fifth in the final play-off berth. Wrexham are up to 10th and are seven points off the top five.
Wrexham boss Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales Sport:
"I think in the end we are happy with a point.
"That is as good as we have played this season.
"I am proud of the lads, they showed great character to get back into it and at the end, we were the team pushing to win the game."
Match ends, Dover Athletic 1, Wrexham 1.
Second Half ends, Dover Athletic 1, Wrexham 1.
Substitution, Wrexham. Rob Evans replaces Oliver Shenton.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Wrexham 1. Jordan White (Wrexham).
Connor Essam (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Wrexham. Jordan White replaces Mitchell Lund.
Substitution, Wrexham. John Rooney replaces Izale McLeod.
Goal! Dover Athletic 1, Wrexham 0. Joe Healy (Dover Athletic).
James Jennings (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Dover Athletic 0, Wrexham 0.
First Half ends, Dover Athletic 0, Wrexham 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Wrexham maintained their faint hopes of a National League play-off berth by levelling late against Dover Athletic. |
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The body of Sylvia Stuart's husband Peter was found in a stream close to their home in Weybread, Suffolk, on 3 June 2016. Her body has not been found.
Ali Qazimaj was found guilty of killing them in March.
Suffolk Police said they are no longer actively searching for Mrs Stuart, 69, but they will follow up any information which assists in locating her.
Qazimaj, 43, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, was convicted at Ipswich Crown Court, after claiming during his trial he was actually called Vital Dapi.
He was jailed for a minimum of 35 years.
Suffolk Police said officers carried out one further search after the conviction.
Det Ch Insp Andy Guy said: "Although our active searching has stopped, as I said after the conviction of Qazimaj I have promised the family that I will continue to follow up any information that assists in locating Sylvia and this remains the case."
Mr and Mrs Stuart were last seen alive at a farm shop in Pulham Market, Norfolk, on 29 May.
They were reported missing on 3 June 2016, the same day that 75-year-old Mr Stuart's body was found stabbed.
Qazimaj told his trial that he was 44-year-old Dapi, and he had never been to the UK until he was arrested in Luxembourg in July and extradited here.
Suffolk Police believe Qazimaj originates from Albania and had been in the UK since 1999, when he claimed to be from Kosovo and was granted asylum.
The court heard Qazimaj, who worked as a carer for a relative of the couple's son-in-law, killed them for money.
He then fled the country, catching a ferry from Dover, the court heard. | Police have stopped searching for the body of woman who went missing a year ago and is presumed murdered. |