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The centre acts as an accommodation hub for refugees waiting to be sent elsewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia. Everyone inside hall 18, where 180 refugees were staying, was brought to safety, according to reports. As the fire raged, a thick, black plume of smoke could be seen across Duesseldorf. The smoke drifted close to the flight path from Duesseldorf airport. The fire department advised those in the north of the city to keep windows and doors shut, reported RP Online (in German). Some 70 firefighters were at the scene. Ben Smith, a former BBC reporter, was waiting for a flight when he saw smoke rising up on the other side of the airport. "The smoke was thick and pretty quickly a column was reaching up and flames started to appear," he said. "It caused a bit of a stir among passengers but it became clear pretty quickly that it wasn't a plane or an airport building. "Flights were continuing to land as all this was going on. The fire wasn't that far from the runway but the smoke wasn't blowing [in the direction of the airport]."
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The force said mental health issues resulted in 141,230 lost days among front-line officers. The Liberal Democrats said the figures showed evidence of a force "being stretched to breaking point". The Scottish government said the welfare of officers and support staff was taken "very seriously". Police Scotland released the figures to the Lib Dems under Freedom of Information laws. The party's justice spokesman Liam McArthur said police officers and civilian staff were not getting the support they needed from the Scottish government. He said: "The savings that were promised by the SNP before the creation of Police Scotland have not materialised. "As a result, officers and civilian staff are being asked to do more and more with less. With the chief constable warning that further cuts are coming, the pressure on staff is only likely to get worse." He added: "We have already seen staff surveys which show morale is at rock bottom. The shortages are affecting the health of officers and civilian staff and these new figures are a huge concern. "Policing is a high-stress profession at the best of times. The changes that the SNP forced through are stretching the mental health of officers and civilian staff to breaking point. "This means giving police management the freedom to put resources where they are needed. "Extra money is also required to plug the hole in the national force's budget and avert the loss of staff which would only put those remaining further under the cosh." A Scottish government spokesman said Police Scotland would be expected to have "robust policies" in place to support staff and manage their health at work. The spokesman added: "They have a number of targeted activities to support wellbeing and occupational health across the organisation. "We have committed to protecting the police revenue budget in real terms, safeguarding policing from Westminster budget cuts and delivering an additional £100m of investment by the end of this parliament, in addition to £55m of reform funding in 2016-17." A Scottish Police Authority (SPA) spokeswoman said: "The SPA recognise and value the contribution of our workforce. We regularly scrutinise absence levels to ensure they are effectively monitored and managed. "We also ensure all officers and staff have access to a range of support options, including an appropriate independent occupational health service which can be tailored to individual needs. "As a responsible employer, we have placed major importance and priority on listening to the police workforce and acting on the issues raised."
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Johnson confirmed his departure and the Scottish Rugby Union announced that he will be available for the June tour to Australia, Fiji and Samoa. "I will not be looking to renew [my contract] at the end of the season," said the 49-year-old Australian. Scotland coach Andy Robinson has been seeking an experienced coach. Johnson added: "When I joined the region I had a remit to help set-up systems that would enable us to bring through home grown talent, coaches and players, a challenge I've thoroughly enjoyed getting my teeth into over the last three years. "I feel that now is the right time for me to move on to other challenges but I remain 100% committed to the Ospreys between now and the end of the season." The real legacy he [Johnson] will leave is the systems and structures he has helped to develop that will allow us to continue leading the way in Wales Johnson's role with Scotland is thought to also include some involvement with Glasgow and Edinburgh. Ospreys chief operations officer Andrew Hore said: "It is a huge disappointment for us to be losing Scott at the end of the season, but we understand that he feels it is the right time for him to move on to other challenges having served the three years he committed himself to us for originally." Hore added: "By informing us of his intentions at this early stage, it allows us to use this time to consider our next course of action and the options available to us as we plan for the future." Managing director Roger Blyth said: "While he has brought silverware to the Liberty Stadium and we hope that will be the case once again this season, the real legacy he will leave is the systems and structures he has helped to develop that will allow us to continue leading the way in Wales." Johnson joined the Ospreys ahead of the 2009-10 season, leaving the role of USA Eagles national coach to do so. He first arrived in Wales as a skills coach during 2011 World Cup winning coach Graham Henry's reign and was assistant coach during the Steve Hansen and Mike Ruddock eras. Wales won their first Grand Slam in 27 years under Ruddock in 2005 and many credited Johnson with playing a key role in that achievement. Johnson became Wales caretaker coach during the 2006 Six Nations following Ruddock's controversial departure. In March 2006 Johnson became one of John Connolly's assistant coaches and selectors ahead of the Wallabies' 2007 World Cup campaign. In 2008 he became USA coach and left the following year to return to Wales with the Ospreys. During his time at the Liberty Stadium, they reached the 2009-10 Heineken Cup quarter-finals where they were defeated 29-28 by Biarritz. A year later they bowed out after a tough pool stage featuring Munster, Toulon and London Irish and this term are struggling in the competition having drawn 26-26 in Treviso and lost back-to-back games against Saracens in Pool Five. In what was the Magners League, the Ospreys' greatest triumph came in Johnson's first Ospreys term, a 17-12 win over Leinster in Dublin in the tournament's inaugural Grand Final. Ahead of the 2011-12 season they lost high-profile players James Hook, Lee Byrne, Jerry Collins, Marty Holah and Mike Phillips and were without a glut of Test stars playing for Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Samoa at the World Cup. But after a strong start in what is now the Pro12 League, the Ospreys lie second to Leinster with eight wins from 11 games. Wasps coach Dai Young and Johnson coached the Barbarians when they beat Wales in June, 2011. Johnson was Wales' observer of Sir Clive Woodward's British and Irish Lions back-room staff during the ill-fated 2005 tour to New Zealand. Scotland coach Robinson was a Woodward assistant on that tour and has sought someone of the right calibre to be his right-hand man. "I am delighted Scott has agreed to join the Scotland coaching team. I have huge respect for him as a coach and a person having coached against him on numerous occasions," Robinson said. At the 2011 World Cup Scotland failed to reach the quarter-finals for the first time and Robinson is keen to emulate the template that brought the All Blacks success at the tournament. Graham Henry had Test-hardened coaches in former Wales coach Steve Hansen and ex-All Blacks head coach Wayne Smith as his assistants. Johnson's solicitor, Duncan Sandlant, of Esportif international, had indicated that Scotland was not his only option, saying: "Scott has a number of options which he is seriously considering." The Australian had been linked in reports in New Zealand with a role as assistant to new All Blacks head coach Hansen. But Ian Foster's appointment as one of Hansen's back-room staff made such a move unlikely for Johnson.
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Mick Schumacher, 18, will drive demonstration laps in a 1994 Benetton car, a family spokeswoman said. His father took his first race victory at the circuit on 30 August 1992 before going on to a further 90 race wins and seven world titles. Schumacher, 48, suffered serious head injuries in a skiing accident in 2013. He has not been seen in public since. He retired in 2006 in after two world titles with Benetton in 1994 and 1995 before five titles in a row with Ferrari from 2000 to 2004 - clinching his seventh world title at Spa. He made a comeback in 2010 with Mercedes but was unable to replicate his earlier success. Schumacher family spokeswoman Sabine Kehm said it was not possible to use the race-winning 1992 Benetton for the demonstration because of mechanical and insurance issues. Mick Schumacher is currently racing in European Formula Three.
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A suicide bomber killed at least 17 people at a bus station in Biu, witnesses say, while a second bomber was caught by a crowd and reportedly beaten to death. In Jos, three bombs thrown from a car killed 15 people at a bus station and the university. February's presidential election has been postponed because of the unrest. The vote is now expected to take place on 28 March. President Goodluck Jonathan, who was visiting the north-eastern garrison town of Baga, insisted that the army was winning the war against Boko Haram. The army recaptured Baga from Boko Haram last week. The group still controls much of the north-eastern state of Borno and more than three million people have fled their homes. Attacks in Kano and Potiskum on Tuesday claimed more than 50 lives. No group has said it carried them out.
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The party said Geoffrey Clark, who is standing for Kent County Council, would not be a UKIP councillor if elected. Mr Clark said on his website he did not endorse the abortion idea but suggested it to cut the national debt. Learning disability charity Mencap said it was disgusted and horrified at Mr Clark's personal manifesto. UKIP said Thursday's ballot paper would still list him as its candidate but, pending an investigation, he would not be a UKIP councillor. Chartered accountant Mr Clark, 66, who is also standing for Meopham North ward on Gravesham Borough Council in Thursday's by-election, says on his website his comments are personal and do not reflect UKIP policy. He calls for a national debate and an urgent government review of the NHS, which he says "risks becoming unaffordable in the future". The review should look at "compulsory abortion when the foetus is detected as having Down's, spina bifida or similar syndrome which, if it is born, could render the child a burden on the state as well as on the family". He says the review should also look at medical treatment for those aged over 80, "which is disproportionately costly to the NHS" and might also include "legalising euthanasia and giving free euthanasia advice to all folk over 80". He told the BBC: "I don't intend to offend. "What I am trying to do is to provoke a debate in the nation because I am so disenchanted with our politicians." Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, said: "Much has been written about the Paralympics this summer changing attitudes towards disabled people for the better. "Yet in the very same year, a council candidate has proposed forced eugenics against disabled people. "It is abhorrent that Geoffrey Clark sees disabled people solely as a burden when people with a learning disability lead full lives and make valuable contributions to their communities and families. "We question if he is fit for public office." Mr Clark, who describes himself as a member of Meopham Parochial Church Council, Rotary International, the Royal British Legion and the Youth Hostels Association, says population, immigration and threats to the green belt are linked issues close to his heart. If elected, he promises to promote the Christian ethic and British culture, roll back Islam, contain UK population growth and restrict immigration. A UKIP spokesman said the party rejected Mr Clark's "abhorrent" views. "The party was not aware of these views when it allowed him to stand under our name," he said. "Mr Clark has been formally suspended as a UKIP candidate and will not be standing for the party again. "We would like to apologise to anyone who has suffered distress as a result of this matter."
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The 49-year-old, who was in a Range Rover, suffered head injuries in the incident near junction 6a in Hertfordshire on 16 May. A Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said he may have faced prosecution for not wearing a seatbelt. She added that in relation to the incident "no further action will be taken". The singer could not be reached for comment. Michael was airlifted to a specialist trauma centre in London following the accident and spent nearly two weeks in hospital before being discharged. Hertfordshire Police said officers were unaware of any damage to the Range Rover and confirmed no other vehicles were involved. The former Wham! star was travelling as a rear seat passenger. In September 2010, he received an eight-week prison sentence after crashing his Range Rover into a shop in north London. He was also banned from driving for five years after admitting driving under the influence of drugs and possessing cannabis. In 2006 he was banned from driving for two years and sentenced to 100 hours of community service after he was convicted of driving while unfit through drugs. He had been found collapsed in his Mercedes.
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The number of children at significant risk of exploitation in the city has more than doubled, new figures show. Trafficking cases across Wales also rose from 34 to 50 in the last year. But experts say the figures are only the tip of the iceberg - with many cases not officially recorded. A task force set up by Cardiff council heard from police and many of the 50 different bodies working on the issue. "The evidence demonstrates that trafficking in Cardiff is increasing, for all types and for all reasons," says its report. The number of children in the city regarded as being at "significant risk" of sexual exploitation has jumped from 12 to 28 between 2012/2013 and 2013/2104, according to the children's charity Barnardo's. The council task force found: The report also points to five court cases in the area in the last three years, including the case in January of a couple jailed for trafficking two Czech women to work as prostitutes. There was another trafficking case which saw women moved around the UK including to two places in Cardiff. Cardiff council has been regarded as leading the field in tackling trafficking but it is looking at what more it can do. This includes raising awareness at spotting signs of trafficking and improving training for staff. Another concern has been a two-year waiting list for those who have been exploited and need help for post-traumatic stress. There are also concerns some victims have been offered unsuitable accommodation and qualified social workers have not been available when cases are first referred. The Black African Women Step Out (Bawso) charity which helps victims of exploitation from ethnic communities, said trafficking has always existed but there is now more awareness from professionals in health and education. Dr Mwenya Chimba, director of violence against women at Bawso, said: "The problem is very big but the referrals don't reflect the extent of it. "More recently it's not just the sex trade but forced labour and other forms of exploitation." Case study - Mary Mary travelled to the UK from West Africa illegally when she was 14. She believed she was travelling to a job looking after children in London which would allow her to go to school herself. But when she arrived in London, after using counterfeit travel documents, she was taken to a house where there were five other girls of various nationalities being forced to work as prostitutes. She spent a year at the house being made to work as a prostitute and her earnings were confiscated. Police spotted her during a raid at the house and she was placed in foster care before being referred to the anti-trafficking team. She was given help and refuge accommodation in Cardiff where it emerged she was pregnant. She is waiting for a decision to be made on her claim for asylum. Mary's name has been changed Yvonne Rodgers, director of Barnardo's Cymru, said closer work between police, councils and the charity had led to more children identified as being at risk of trafficking, more referrals and more protection for victims. "We need to continue this pattern and see the police authorities in Wales using their full range of law enforcement and disruption tactics to arrest and deter the abusers and protect children from this horrific abuse," she added. A large number of cases in UK are from countries like Nigeria, Vietnam, China, Albania and Romania. A council spokesperson said two of its committees had produced a "comprehensive and useful report on this important issue, which takes many forms and which has a profound impact on both children and adults". It said it looked forward to seeing the recommendations implemented soon.
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HS2 Ltd is overseeing the expansion of Euston to cater for passengers using the first phase of the new rail line between London and the Midlands. The revamp was originally scheduled to end in 2026 but the firm now says it will finish in 2033. Camden Council has warned the extended works will "blight" the area, but HS2 says it will be "easier to manage". The station is set to gain six new platforms and an additional concourse, with building works due to start in 2017. In a change to plans submitted two years ago, HS2 Ltd has proposed the construction of five further platforms within the existing station should be delayed. They would be ready for phase two of HS2 which will run from the capital to Leeds and Manchester in 2033. Rupert Walker, Euston development director of HS2 Ltd, said: "It is more construction over a longer period but it's less intense. It will be easier for us to manage." The impact of building all 11 platforms in one go would have caused a reduction in the capacity of trains using Euston every day, he said. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the changes would "dramatically improve the design" of the station. Sarah Hayward, leader of Camden Council, predicted: "HS2 will cause decades of blight in the Euston area - to property prices, to our small business' trade and to our residents' lives." She said the council is "ardently opposed to the scheme", adding it could only be a success with "close collaboration" between the local authority, residents and businesses. HS2 Ltd's new plan will be submitted to Parliament next week in order to form part of the legislation which will allow phase one of High Speed 2 to go ahead. The firm also announced that the budget of the Euston project has risen from £2 billion to £2.25 billion, but said this would not affect HS2's overall budget of £42 billion.
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Glasses, bottles and other items were thrown after a pre-season friendly between Grimsby Town and Sheffield United on Saturday. Four were charged with assault, affray and public order offences following disorder at Blundell Park, Cleethorpes. Two people have been released on bail. Police said CCTV footage was being checked, with further arrests expected. A Humberside Police spokesman said football banning orders may be imposed to prevent fans attending future matches.
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If he does become the next Premier League manager to lose his job, it would not just be unfair, it would be absolutely ridiculous. I cleaned Tim's boots when I was an apprentice at Norwich in the late 1980s, and he was the captain at Blackburn Rovers when we won the Premier League together in 1995. Of course I am not just backing him to succeed at Villa because I used to play with him - the reason is that, since the earliest days of my career, I have always seen him as manager material. When I was a teenager I looked up to him because I liked the way he went about things and how he dealt with me and other people. Even though he was a young man then too, the other players all thought the same. Character is a bit of a buzzword these days, but as a player I looked around for team-mates who had the ability to handle pressure and Tim was always one of them. At 46, he is a relatively young manager now, certainly in terms of experience, but you have to remember he was quite a young captain at Blackburn too - he was 26 when we were champions. We had some pretty big-hitters in terms of personalities in that dressing room, the likes of Alan Shearer, David Batty, Tim Flowers and Colin Hendry. They were never afraid to have their say but, if you speak to them, they will all tell you they admired Tim not just for what he brought to the team as a player but also his contribution to the club's success as captain. For Tim to be skipper ahead of, say, Shearer shows you what the Blackburn boss Kenny Dalglish thought of him too. He always had the leadership qualities you need as a manager and, on top of that, I always thought he was extremely knowledgeable about the game. He comes across as confident or even cocky in some respects, but in the dressing room it doesn't matter whether you are an introvert or an extrovert as long as what you are saying makes sense. Tim always did. So it does not surprise me that, as a manager, he has got the best out of players who had been under-performing - like Emmanuel Adebayor at Spurs or Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph at Villa last season - because he has always had the ability to get people playing for him. At times he might say things that players don't like - because he tells the truth. That ruffles a few feathers but I don't mind it, in fact he should be commended for it. These days I hear a lot of people in football say things with no substance behind them, but Tim certainly is not like that - he can always back his opinions up. Tim earned his right to have a proper crack at being Villa boss with the incredible job he did to keep them up after taking charge in February, when they were in desperate trouble with a dreadful scoring record. Villa have been fighting relegation for a few years now under several different managers so this season was never going to be any different. But, just eight games into the new campaign and at the first sign of adversity, Sherwood already appears to be under massive pressure. You have to take into consideration that he lost his two best players over the summer in striker Benteke and midfielder Delph, who were both inspirational for him last season, and realise he is trying to build a new team with all the signings that Villa have made. Villa's net spend over the summer was under £10m - and a lot of that went on young players with little or no Premier League experience. They have plenty of potential, and also plenty of sell-on value which seems to be a big part of the club's thinking, but it is a gamble whether they work out for Villa now and that is Sherwood's problem. I don't know who had the final say on each deal but from what I understand, Villa's head of recruitment Paddy Reilly and sporting director Hendrik Almstadt play a big part in the process. You cannot blame Tim for the squad not being strong enough if it is not just down to him, but he is the one who is being criticised because Villa have not won since the opening day. I get why the club's owner Randy Lerner might be getting twitchy because of the amount of money at stake if they go down, but the logical thing to do is to give Sherwood more time because he is an intelligent man who has already shown he can improve players - which is exactly what Villa need now. Sherwood has chopped and changed his team and formation a lot so far, but that is only because he is trying to find the right balance between attack and defence while he beds those new signings in and finds a system that works with the players he has got. The choices he has to make with his current forwards is an example of how difficult that is. Like Benteke, Rudy Gestede has tremendous physical attributes and is as good as there is in the air in the Premier League. In an effort to make the most of that, Sherwood has tried to get his full-backs forward to get crosses into the box - Jordan Amavi and Alan Hutton or Leandro Bacuna have all done that far more than any of Villa's midfielders. But what Gestede doesn't have is the ability to link up play, or the pace to get behind defences. In that way, Benteke was much more of an all-round striker. Sherwood can leave out Gestede and play Gabriel Agbonlahor or Jordan Ayew if he wants pace, but then he does not have that same physical presence up front, or any aerial threat. Whoever he picks, he is missing something that Benteke provided on his own. Because he is trying to find that balance between attack and defence, he cannot always play two up front to solve that problem, especially because he is also trying to fit Jack Grealish into his team as an attacking midfielder. Grealish is a young player who has a lot of talent but picking him creates a different issue because winning games is not just down to what happens when you have got the ball. However good Grealish is going forward, he does not always put in a shift going back the other way. When you lose possession, you need to be compact and tight defensively and Villa have lacked that in the games I have seen, notably in their defeat by Leicester when they were hit on the counter-attack time and time again. You really need defensive responsibility when you are in Villa's position near the bottom of the table. That might be one of the reasons why Sherwood has apparently used this international break to try to get Grealish fitter. After trying so many formations and line-ups, maybe we will see Sherwood sticking with just one in the next five or six games. A settled system and some continuity is what Villa need at the moment. Tim knows that and, if he is given the chance, I am confident he will get it right. Chris Sutton was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
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Stephen Port was charged with four counts of murder last year but the new allegations relate to eight living complainants. The 41-year-old from Barking denied the charges during a pre trial hearing at the Old Bailey. He allegedly met the four murder victims on the internet between June 2014 and September 2015. It is alleged he then invited them to his flat on Cooke Street where he is said to have poisoned them with the psychoactive drug GHB. Mr Port faces 29 charges in total and is set to stand trial on 4 October. He was originally charged with four counts of murder and four of administering a poison, but at the Old Bailey on Monday prosecutors added six more counts of administering a poison, seven charges of rape and four of sexual assault. Mr Port now also faces four alternative charges of manslaughter. These are alleged to have occurred between 2011 and 2015. Some of the charges relate to the deaths of: The deaths were not initially linked but after further investigation they were referred to the Metropolitan Police homicide and major crime command in October last year. The force has referred its handling of the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
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New powers have been adopted by Gloucester City Council after complaints of people injecting drugs and aggressive begging. Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO) will be imposed in the city centre, banning people from begging and causing a public nuisance. Some beggars have claimed there is not enough support for them. Cabinet member Jennie Dallimore said some of those causing problems were "housed and in receipt of benefits" which she said "cannot be tolerated". The new powers were given to councils under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. A PSPO was used to stop people taking legal highs around Taunton. If people flout the new rules and refuse to engage with the council or drug charities, they could be fined or prosecuted. Councillors at Wednesday's cabinet meeting also agreed an awareness campaign to raise better understanding of the support available for rough sleepers. Martin, who begs on the streets, told the BBC: "I want to get myself clean but there's no help. "I need help now, not in a few months down the line. At the end of the day they should sit here, then they would understand. "I'm not abusive, I'm polite, I'm only sat here, I'm not going out shoplifting or going and mugging people." But Ms Dallimore said support is available for those who want to tackle their addictions. She said: "We have been working with not only the police but also with a lot of our charitable sector partners including Turning Point who help people with substance misuse issues. "It's welcome news this individual wants help, and the public needs to report individuals they're coming across to us."
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The camp, where teenage diarist Anne Frank was among thousands to die, was liberated by British soldiers in 1945. The UK monarch, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, laid a wreath at a memorial there on the final day of her four-day state visit to Germany. She met British veterans who liberated the camp, and heard stories of the "horrific" scenes that greeted them. More than 50,000 prisoners from all over Europe were killed at Bergen-Belsen or died later as a result of their treatment in the camp. This was a Queen who lived through World War Two as a teenager, coming to learn first-hand about some of the very worst excesses of a former enemy. With Prince Philip she passed the mounds that mark where the mass graves are. There are 13 mounds. They contain the remains of more than 20,000 people. There was no pomp or ceremony; just a couple from the wartime generation taking their time to reflect and to pay their respects. The 89-year-old Queen and her husband, who's 94, walked quite a distance through what remains of the camp, and met a few of those who lived and three of the British soldiers who set them free. The survivors and the liberators told them about their shared experience of horror. At the end the Queen said to one person: "It's difficult to imagine isn't it?" Read more from Peter Hunt Bergen-Belsen liberated 70 years ago Bergen-Belsen survivor reunites with one of the camp liberators The Belsen 'finishing camp' remembered The Queen, who is patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, had not visited a concentration camp before and it is believed she requested the trip. She was taken on a tour of the site - which was razed to the ground and is now a museum and memorial to those who died - with the minimum of protocol. She met with representatives of Jewish and Christian communities, as well as a small group of survivors and liberators. Among them was veteran pilot Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, 96. The Queen asked him what sort of scene greeted the British troops when he first arrived. "I told her this was just a field of corpses," he said. He said the Queen replied: "It must have been horrific really." "She was listening very carefully. I would say she was quite affected by the atmosphere here. You can't avoid it, can you?" he added. The Queen also visited a memorial to Anne Frank and her sister Margot. Millions of copies of Anne Frank's Diary, written during the two years the teenager and her family hid from the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam, have been sold across the world. Dr Jens-Christian Wagner, head of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial who gave the royal couple a guided tour, said the experience of visiting the site had been an emotional one for the Queen. British troops found 60,000 prisoners when they entered the gates in April 1945, suffering from malnutrition, disease and the brutal treatment they had endured. Thousands of corpses also lay unburied on the camp grounds. Another of the first British soldiers to arrive after liberation described the scene to BBC Radio 5live. Corporal Bernard Levy, who was 19 at the time, said: "It was so horrendous that nobody could take it in. "For 68 years I'd shut the whole subject out of my mind. "But we've got to make sure that this particular horror stays in people's minds." The visit to the former concentration camp was the Queen's final engagement before returning to the UK. During her official visit, she also met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visited Berlin and Frankfurt.
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An extensive search operation was launched for Mr Davidson, 73, from Dalkeith, when he was reported missing on 26 April. His body was found by a member of the public in the River North Esk, near Dalkeith, three days later. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances. In a statement, his family said: "We wish to thank the local community and police for their understanding and support at this very sad time." Sgt Stuart Aitchison, of Police Scotland, said: "Our sympathies are with the family of Thomas Davidson and we wish to extend our gratitude to them for their assistance over the course of our search operation."
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The 22-year-old can go straight into the Baggies squad for Tuesday's Premier League game at home to Swansea City. A product of Spurs' academy, he made his first-team debut in 2014 after loan spells at Peterborough and Swindon. Pritchard, who spent last season on loan at Brentford, where he scored 12 goals in 47 games, has played just once for Spurs this season. The England Under-21 international signed a new four-year deal with Tottenham last summer. "It's been a hectic few hours - I was close to going elsewhere," he said. "But when this came about I didn't hesitate to come here." "West Bromwich Albion indicated that they had no intention of changing their stance on selling Saido Berahino in advance of deadline day, and were true to their word, despite endless hyping of the possibility from outside. "However much money Newcastle did offer, it wasn't enough to tempt chairman Jeremy Peace to sell, and that in turn made it much less likely Albion would expand their squad. "The one deadline day signing day they did make was talented young midfielder Alex Pritchard, on loan from Tottenham Hotspur." Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Players and fans clashed in Belgrade after a flag with a political message was flown into the stadium by a drone. Uefa has charged both countries' FAs. In a lengthy and emotive statement, the Albanian FA condemned the "racist violence" of the Serbia players and "negative propaganda" of their FA. "With cuts and bruises and bloody traumas to the head, the Albanian side was understandably emotionally shaken and psychologically distraught, unable to play the beautiful game in such an ugly, ugly situation," read the statement, written by Albanian FA marketing & PR director Gazmend Malo. "Yet the Serbian media has gone into high gear trying to put the blame on our beautiful boys, even contorting such ridiculous stories like the one that involves the Prime Minister's brother as the person controlling the drone. "Some Serbian media went as far as to declare that Olsi Rama was arrested, which he certainly wasn't, but the vile nature of negative propaganda thrives on such lies. "It is disheartening to hear recent statements of the Serbian Football Association, that do not muster the courage to take responsibility for their complete failure at organising a safe international sporting event. "The Serbian side seems unable to condemn the violence, extremism and racism that was displayed at Belgrade, but rather, they seem too busy weaving political statements that do not serve any purpose but to defend the shameful acts of racist violence and the unsportsmanlike conduct of their players, fans and security staff." Serbia defender Stefan Mitrovic attempted to pull the banner down as it was carried over the pitch by the drone, sparking clashes between players and fans that led to English referee Martin Atkinson abandoning the game in the 41st minute with the score at 0-0. Albania's Bekim Balaj attempted to retrieve the flag from Mitrovic and was attacked by a pitch invader with a plastic chair. But the 23-year-old said: "With the players we have no problem. Even the Serbian guys, they tried to stop this situation." The statement from the Albanian FA comes a day after the Serbian FA (FFS) released its own, which accused its counterpart of being part of a political plot "whose sole aim was to force the game to be abandoned". "The incident itself and the behaviour of the Albanian players, coach and staff leaves no room for doubt that they were part of a synchronised plan to stop the match," the statement read. "For the truth and justice we will not and do not want to allow the perpetrators who violated football to present themselves as victims." Uefa has charged FSS with insufficient organisation, crowd disturbance, setting off/throwing of fireworks and missiles, field invasion by supporters and the use of a laser pointer, while the Albanian FA is charged with "refusing to play" and the "display of an illicit banner". The European governing body's Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body will hear the case on 23 October. This is the latest incident in the history of turbulent relations between the Balkans rivals. Much of the conflict relates to the former Serbian province of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 and has a mainly Albanian population. It 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.
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Oshoala won both the Golden Boot and Golden Ball - as Player of the Tournament - at last year's Under-20 World Cup Finals, and becomes the first player from Africa to compete in the Women's Super League. "We beat a number of top American and European clubs to Asisat's signature," said Beard as he welcomed the 20-year-old striker. "Asisat is one of the best young players in the world." In addition to her star performances in the U20 World Cup, Oshoala also collected the Golden Ball award as the senior Nigeria team qualified for the 2015 World Cup by winning the African Women's Championship. And she was named 2014's African Women's Player of the Year and Youth Player of the Year after helping her club side Rivers Angels become Nigerian champions. Beard added: "She's not the finished article yet but she's got pace, power and she certainly knows where the goal is. "I watched her at the Under-20 World Cup, where she was sensational, and we had early dialogue with her about coming to Liverpool. "There's been plenty of other interest in her in the last few months, but she chose to join us and I'm absolutely delighted." Oshoala, nicknamed 'Seedorf' after Dutch legend Clarence, said: "To be able to join the reigning Super League champions is absolutely fantastic. Media playback is not supported on this device "Liverpool Ladies are a massive club with some fantastic players who I believe can help me to develop my game to the next level. "It was also a big incentive to be able to play in the Women's Champions League, which is a huge competition that I'm confident we can do well in." Oshoala is Beard's fourth signing of the window after he also added Satara Murray, Ingrid Ryland and Line Krogedal Smorsgard to his squad. Key players Lucy Bronze and Amanda da Costa have departed, to Manchester City and Washington Spirit respectively. But the manager reckoned: "With the addition of these four new players I believe this is the best squad I've ever put together. "We've won the league for the last two years and we'll aim to do it again, although next season is going to be the most competitive ever. "Clubs like Manchester City and Notts County have recruited really well and I can see four or five teams battling it out for the title. "We can be one of them, especially if we can avoid the dreadful injury problems we had early on last season."
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Mr Varoufakis said Greece was subject to a programme that will "go down in history as the greatest disaster of macroeconomic management ever". The German parliament approved the opening of negotiations on Friday. The bailout could total €86bn (£60bn) in exchange for austerity measures. In a damning assessment, Mr Varoufakis told the BBC's Mark Lobel: "This programme is going to fail whoever undertakes its implementation." Asked how long that would take, he replied: "It has failed already." Mr Varoufakis resigned earlier this month, in what was widely seen as a conciliatory gesture towards the eurozone finance ministers with whom he had clashed frequently. He said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has admitted that he does not believe in the bailout, had little option but to sign. "We were given a choice between being executed and capitulating. And he decided that capitulation was the optimal strategy." Mr Tsipras has announced a cabinet reshuffle, sacking several ministers who voted against the reforms in parliament this week. But he opted not to bring in technocrats or opposition politicians as replacements. As a result, our correspondent says, Mr Tsipras will preside over ministers who, like himself, harbour serious doubts about the reform programme. Greece must pass further reforms on Wednesday next week to secure the bailout. Germany was the last of the eurozone countries needing parliamentary approval to begin the talks. But the head of the group of eurozone finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, has warned that the process will not be easy, saying he expected the negotiations to take four weeks. On Saturday, the Greek government ordered banks to open on Monday following three weeks of closures. But the decree stated that the weekly withdrawal limit should be a maximum €420. Separately, the European Council approved the €7bn bridging loan for Greece from an EU-wide emergency fund. The loan was approved in principle by eurozone ministers on Thursday and now has the go-ahead from all non-euro states. It means Greece will now be able to repay debts to two of its creditors, the ECB and International Monetary Fund (IMF), due on Monday.
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Fu Yuanhui, one of China's swimming stars, became an overnight social media sensation thanks to her frank post-race interviews and exaggerated expressions. Now, she's become a talking point online again - for breaking a sporting taboo by talking about her period. China missed out on a medal in the women's 4x100m medley relay on Sunday, coming fourth. After the match, team-mates Lu Ying, Shi Jinglin and Zhu Menghui were interviewed by a reporter - but Fu was initially nowhere to be found. It turns out she was crouched behind a board, doubled over in pain. When the journalist asked her (in Chinese) if she was OK, Fu said: "I didn't swim well enough this time," and apologised to her team-mates. "It's because my period came yesterday, so I felt particularly tired - but this isn't a reason, I still didn't swim well enough." It was a poignant moment for many Chinese viewers, who took to social media to express their support for her. "I really admire Fu Yuanhui, for swimming while she was on her period - women can be affected during their periods, especially with period pain... she felt guilty for coming fourth, but Fu Yuanhui we're still very proud of you," user TAO wrote on Sina Weibo. It's also sparked a discussion about tampons - which are not widely used in China. According to one industry survey, only 2% of women in China use tampons - compared to 42% of US women. Many women weren't familiar with how to use them, or had not heard of them before, the survey by Cotton Inc said. "Someone accused Fu of lying, asking how she could have gone in the water on her period," weibo user Dvingnew wrote. "Chinese people have prejudices about tampons - women in their 30s around me are ignorant about tampons, and full of fear about tampons." And there may also be cultural factors at play too - some Chinese women have been told to avoid using tampons because it could stop them from being virgins, despite health experts pointing out that the two things are unrelated. One poster defending tampons wrote: "Who told you virgins can't use tampons?...Come on, it's the 21st Century." According to reports, China's first domestic tampon brand may be launched soon - which may encourage more women to swim while on their periods. The subject of competing while menstruating is "definitely a taboo", Georgie Bruinvels, a sports scientist, tells the BBC. "A lot of [elite] sport coaches are men, and that makes it harder for women, who don't want to say 'I'm on my menstrual cycle'. "We need incidents like this to raise the issue" and encourage more research, she says. Ms Bruinvels surveyed over 1,800 sportswomen as part of her work as a researcher at the Female Athlete Health Group - a collaborative project between St Mary's University and University College London. "More than half the sportswomen I surveyed said they felt their menstrual cycle affected their performance." While there is not enough research into the impact of periods on sport, Ms Bruinvels says, one potential factor she was researching was iron deficiency. "Menstruation is the leading cause of iron deficiency in the developed world, but many women are not aware they have it. "There could be an impact on the amount of time you can exercise, and the maximum amount of oxygen" an athlete can use, and she recommends that sportswomen who feel they've been affected get their iron levels tested.
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A huge leap at the last put Enda Bolger's stable star into contention alongside 5-4 favourite Gitane Du Berlais and 25-1 chance Smashing. Gilgamboa then held off The Tullow Tank (9-1), who came from nowhere to finish second by just half a length. Smashing edged out Gitane Du Berlais, with Ruby Walsh riding, for third. McCoy announced he would be retiring this year after claiming his 200th winner of the season at Newbury in February. After ruling out riding at the Punchestown Festival, his weekend appearance in County Meath looks set to be his last as a jockey on Irish soil. On Monday, the 40-year-old will partner Cantlow in his final Irish Grand National. McCoy said: "Fair play to Enda. I am delighted to ride a big winner for him before I retire." Bolger was pleased to win for the first time with McCoy on board one of his horses. He said: "It is great to win a race like this and to have that man on top." McCoy was similarly brilliant earlier in the afternoon when Sir Scorpion justified 6-4 favouritism in the Gleesons Butchers Novice Handicap Hurdle.
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The Mi-8 transporter was brought down by rebels, Russia says, in northern Idlib province. It was returning from delivering humanitarian aid to the besieged city of Aleppo, the defence ministry said. It is not clear which group brought the helicopter down. An alliance of forces, including hardline jihadist factions, is the dominant power in Idlib. Jabhat Fateh al-Sham - formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra - is among those active in the province, and so-called Islamic State has vowed to carry out jihad against Russian forces. The helicopter was carrying three crew and two officers. Pictures on social media, purportedly of the latest Russian helicopter downing, showed burning wreckage and bodies, with armed men milling around. Footage showed at least one body being dragged away. Another is seen apparently being trampled on. This is the worst single loss of life for Russia since it launched its air offensive in Syria in support of President Assad towards the end of last year. Moscow says the helicopter was not involved in a military mission, but was delivering humanitarian aid. Rebel sources appear to confirm this. It may not have been known to those who shot the helicopter down, as most of Russia's airpower in Syria has been used for military purposes to support pro-government forces. But it will further inflame feelings in Russia against rebels in Syria. Moscow has repeatedly said it sees little distinction between the rebels in terms of brutality and extremism. The graphic images of victims posted online of the aftermath of the incident will add fuel to the fire. Russia has previously, though seldom, lost aircraft since it launched operations in support of the Syrian government at the end of September 2015. In July, two Russian pilots were killed when their helicopter was shot down east of the city of Palmyra by so-called Islamic State (IS). Last November, the pilot of a Russian Su-24 fighter plane was killed when the aircraft was shot down by Turkey on its border with Syria. A Russian marine sent on a mission to rescue the pilot was also killed when his helicopter was shot down. Russia is a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and is supporting pro-government forces with air strikes on rebels. Government forces cut off rebel-held eastern parts of Aleppo last month. Russia and Syria announced the opening of what they called humanitarian corridors for civilians and rebels wanting to surrender, but few people are reported to have used them, fearing they would be targeted. The child sitcom star killed in Aleppo Burning tyres to curb air strikes Opposition activists have dismissed as a lie Russian claims that 160 civilians had left rebel-held districts. The United Nations has warned that basic supplies for the around a quarter of a million people who live in besieged areas will last only three weeks. On Sunday, rebel groups south of Aleppo launched a push to try to break the siege, in what observers said was one of the biggest counter-offensives in months.
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Vauxhall's pension scheme is one of the largest in the UK, with 15,000 members. Pensions expert John Ralfe said Peugeot owner PSA would not want to touch it "with a barge pole", saying he thought it had a deficit of about £1bn. Half of the members were pensioners, Mr Ralfe told the BBC's Today programme. The proposed sale will be discussed in the Commons on Monday afternoon after the Speaker granted an urgent question on the matter to the Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, Justin Madders. Meanwhile a Downing Street spokesman confirmed that Prime Minister Theresa May was planning to meet Carlos Tavares, PSA chief executive, but a time and date for the meeting had not yet been fixed. According to company filings to the end of 2014 - the latest available - the Vauxhall pension scheme had assets of about £1.8bn but liabilities of about £2.6bn, leaving a deficit of £840m. Since then record low interest rates have hit the returns on government debt in which big pension schemes invest heavily, so the deficit had probably grown, Mr Ralfe said. Last week it emerged that PSA Group, which also makes Citroen cars, was in talks about taking over GM's loss-making European business, Opel. Mr Ralfe told Today the size of the deficit was a "major issue for the takeover". "At best it's a stumbling block, at worst it could be a deal breaker," he said. He said he was clear that PSA would not want to take on the pension scheme so they would only buy the operating assets, including the plant and the Vauxhall brand, leaving the pensions with General Motors UK. "The trouble with that is that would then be a company with no assets, so what would have to happen ... is that General Motors US would have to issue a guarantee for that UK company," Mr Ralfe said. PSA, which already works with GM in Europe on several projects, said a takeover was among "numerous strategic initiatives" being considered. Any deal would involve Opel's UK arm, Vauxhall, which employs 4,500 staff at plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton. Unite union leader Len McCluskey is also due to meet Mr Tavares this week to discuss the deal and any impact it might have on jobs. Mr Ralfe said he did not think the Vauxhall pensioners needed to be worried about their position, but said that while politicians were "running around all over the place asking about jobs, they should also be running around asking about pensions".
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Charlotte Foster, from Telford, died in January after a thrombosis caused a "massive" embolism in her lungs. A GP who saw her three weeks before noted no signs of thrombosis. Miss Foster's mother told the coroner the GP thought the problem was "mechanical" and recommended a massage. The 23 year old died in hospital three days after collapsing at her workplace. Celia Foster told the inquest at Shropshire Coroner's Court, her daughter had heart palpitations and had messaged her family on New Year's Eve to say her ribs hurt and that she could not lie down or breathe properly. She said she accompanied her daughter to an appointment with GP Sunil Simon at his practice in Newport on 4 January. She said her daughter was angry after the consultation, as he "did not seem to listen to her" and suggested she go for a massage or a spa day, despite her complaining of leg and back pain and tightness in her chest. In his evidence to the hearing, Dr Simon said he had "no concerns" during the appointment that Miss Foster had been suffering from a pulmonary embolism. "When I observed Miss Foster during that day, I did not note any signs of respiratory distress or shortness of breath. She did not display any signs of a pulmonary embolism of a deep vein thrombosis," he said. Miss Foster went into cardiac arrest at work and died at Telford's Princess Royal Hospital on 25 January. She had been given a three-month prescription of Dianette as a contraceptive and to combat acne in August 2015, having advised her GP of a family history of pulmonary embolism and breast cancer. She then returned to see a different GP at her surgery in Newport in October and was given a continuing prescription for the drug, having reported no side effects. Dr Nigel Tuft, a consultant at the Princess Royal Hospital, told the hearing that CT scans had shown she was not suffering from any tumours likely to have caused the pulmonary embolism. He said he had multiple discussions with her family following her death, and had concluded her only risk factor was that she was taking the oral contraceptive. Dr Tuft told the inquest: "The most likely site for the pulmonary embolism to arise is in the veins of the pelvis and the upper leg. These can cause no symptoms whatsoever or they can cause symptoms or deep vein thrombosis." Shropshire coroner, John Ellery, is due to return his conclusion on Miss Foster's death next week.
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The 57-year-old was approached by another man on a footpath in Ferguslie at 07:55. He threatened his victim with a knife and demanded he hand over his money and possessions. Police said that when the man refused, the suspect ran off in the direction of Abbey Nursery and Millarston Park. He was about 6ft tall and was wearing a home-made balaclava. Officers said his blue beanie hat, which had white stripes at the bottom, was pulled down over his face and slits had been cut for his eyes. Det Con Aileen Cunningham said: "I would like to speak to anyone who was in the Ferguslie area this morning and saw anyone acting suspiciously. "In particular, I would like to trace the male driver of an old silver style Polo which was seen driving in the area heading towards Paisley around the time of the incident. "We believe the driver may have witnessed what happened so I would ask him to get in touch."
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The Cavan woman will throw the ball in at the Dr McKenna Cup match between Fermanagh and St Mary's at Brewster Park, Enniskillen. Farrelly has previously refereed in quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Cavan Senior Football Championship. In 2012, she was a sideline official for an Ulster Club Senior Football tie. Last year she became the first female to take charge of an inter-county game when she was in the middle for the Ulster minor Championship fixture between Fermanagh and Antrim. Despite only taking up refereeing in 2008, she joined the Ulster GAA Referee Academy in 2011. Her first final came the following year, when she refereed the Cavan All-County League decider. In 2014, she refereed the county Under-21 final, the All-Ireland Ladies' Senior Final and was named Ulster GAA Referee of the Year.
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Willard Wigan, 57, a micro-sculptor, creates pieces that sit within the eye of a needle or on a pin-head. An exhibition of his works is being held at the Library of Birmingham from 11 January. Mr Wigan, who is also a patron of the £189m library, said the works were borne from his "fantasy world". The artist said he first became interested in micro-sculpture aged five when he began making houses for ants because he thought they needed somewhere to live. His works include miniature versions of athlete Usain Bolt, a hummingbird and cartoon characters Pinocchio and Cinderella. The sculptor was awarded an MBE for services to art in 2007. Explaining his decision to support the library, which opened in 2013, Mr Wigan said: "Literacy and learning initiatives can support, encourage, challenge and enhance [children], whatever their abilities. "These initiatives are even more important in Birmingham where literacy levels are amongst the lowest in the country." Part of the proceeds from the exhibition will support community programmes operated by the library.
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Francee, the fortunate feline, was found and saved by Campbell Baird, who came to check on construction work at his new home. He only noticed the unfortunate cat after hearing "meowing" coming from the walls. "I couldn't believe it at first," said Mr Baird. He used a drill, chisel and hammer to free Francee before posting a video of the unlikely cat rescue on Facebook in an effort to track down the owner. The video has since been shared more than 700 times and Francee has been reunited with her owner, a little shocked but uninjured from her ordeal. According to Mr Baird, the cat got stuck in a tiny cavity space after apparently clambering a ladder to the first floor. "The only way in would have been from above so she must've climbed up and then got stuck down in between the wall. "It's fortunate I came up to the house or the cat would not have been found. "It was a small cavity space in the wall. I was able to pull some of the insulation out and then I got some tools to free her," said Mr Baird. "I'm just happy I was able to get the cat back home again and everything worked out OK." He added, with a laugh: "My phone hasn't stopped since I posted the video. But all I wanted was to find the cat's owner and I'm glad I could do that."
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David Anderson QC said his "central concern" about the proposals first unveiled by David Cameron in early September was: "Where are the courts?" Temporary Exclusion Orders are one of the measures in the counter terrorism bill published by Theresa May. It also includes tougher powers to stop people going abroad to fight. It will include plans to stop some British citizens returning to the UK, and others from leaving the country. In other developments on Wednesday: Analysis by Political Correspondent Robin Brant The government proposes the law, parliament passes it, then David Anderson reviews it - and sometimes makes recommendations. That's the usual sequence of events. But today the independent reviewer was criticising the process before the new Counter-Terror and Security Bill was published. The QC used his customary polite, sometimes understated, tone - but this was a criticism of politicians whom he said hadn't fully thought through some of the proposals announced in early September. Read more from Robin Mrs May's new measures to tackle terrorism come days after she said the UK faces a "greater" terror threat than ever before. The measures include requiring airlines to pass on details of their passengers and changes to the way TPIMs - Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures - work to monitor terror suspects who cannot be prosecuted. But campaigners have condemned it, saying it threatens civil liberties. 'A more sensible way' Mr Anderson - appointed by the government to be its independent reviewer of terrorism legislation - said the new anti-terror legislation was "nothing like as dramatic" as David Cameron had proposed earlier this year. He told the Joint Committee on Human Rights the original plan to block suspected British jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria as "an announcement waiting for a policy". But he said it soon became clear such a move would "neither legally or practically" work and the current plan was now much "closer to managed return". He argued there could be "a more sensible" way of dealing with some people suspected of being involved in terrorist activities. "One could look at it in terms of young, possibly vulnerable people caught up with the wrong crowd in Syria - didn't really know exactly what they were doing," he said. "Do you want to throw the book at them straight away in terms of arrest and charge? Or is there something to be said, even though you do suspect them of having fought, of keeping them under a very light regime where they might have to report daily to a police station? The new Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill includes: "They might have to notify their residence; they might have to go along to meetings with probation or with some similar which perhaps might be for some people be a more sensible way of dealing with them than putting them straight into the criminal justice process." Mr Anderson said the use of exclusion orders would require the cooperation of carriers, such as airlines and of states where these people might find themselves. "But certainly presented with an order at the check-in desk, the person might say: 'I want to come home,' or decide not to come home," he said. "The concern I have about this power and the central concern about it is: where are the courts in all of this? "If the home secretary wants to impose a TPIM she has to go to the court first and if the court says she's got it wrong, it will say so. "One will want to look very carefully to see if this is a power that requires the intervention of the court at any stage, or whether it's simply envisaged as something the home secretary imposes. "If one is abroad when this order is served on you, then it's a little difficult to see in practical terms how a right to judicial review could be exercised." Mr Anderson spoke out as a week-long counter-terrorism awareness campaign enters its third day. 'Changing threats' The UK's terror threat level remains "severe" after it was upped from "substantial" earlier this year in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria. Speaking ahead of the bill's publication, Mrs May said: "We are in the middle of a generational struggle against a deadly terrorist ideology. These powers are essential to keep up with the very serious and rapidly changing threats we face. "This bill includes a considered, targeted set of proposals that will help to keep us safe at a time of very significant danger by ensuring we have the powers we need to defend ourselves." The government wants to "fast-track" the bill through Parliament, citing the need to tackle the direct threat posed by the group calling itself Islamic State (IS) and the increasing number of Britons travelling to Iraq and Syria to fight on its behalf. But shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said more was needed to be done to stop British citizens from being radicalised and to deal with any threat this posed to national security. Amnesty International called the powers "draconian", adding none of the measures seemed "properly thought through". And Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty, said: "Yet again, politicians resort to high talk and rushed legislation in an attempt to look tough in the face of terrorism. Another chilling recipe for injustice and resentment by closing down the open society you seek to promote." The Home Office says communications data has played a major role in "every Security Service counter-terrorism operation over the last decade" but gaps in the UK's access to such information need to be filled. Mrs May has warned that even the new data retention powers will not fully address the threat, reiterating the need for a Communications Data Bill to bring in more wide-ranging web monitoring powers. That bill - labelled a snooper's charter by critics - was scrapped following Lib Dem opposition. Technology firms said there had been insufficient consultation on the more limited proposals in the bill requiring firms to keep information to help the authorities to match internet protocol (IP) addresses to an individual user or a device. The Home Office said it had met internet service providers and other groups to discuss the measures but the Internet Services Providers Association said there had been "a distinct lack of engagement" with the industry. Ministers want to amend legislation passed earlier this year to require firms to retain data, including that "required to identify the sender or recipient of a communication, the time or duration of a communication, the type, method or pattern of communication and the telecommunications system used". However, the bill stresses that the content of messages and details that would "explicitly identify" what websites someone had visited would not have to be stored. On Tuesday a report into last year's killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby raised questions about whether social network providers should have to report details of extremist activity. David Cameron said companies had a "social responsibility" to act on terrorist material posted online after the report detailed how Michael Adebowale, one of two men convicted of Mr Rigby's murder, spoke on Facebook about wanting to murder a soldier. Facebook said it did not allow terrorist content and aimed to stop it.
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Scotland's chief statistician estimated services grew by 0.5% and production by 0.3% between April and June, while construction contracted by 1.9%. UK output as a whole grew by 0.7% over the same period. Over the past year, the Scottish economy grew by 0.7% - a third of the UK rate of 2.1%. In the first three months of the year, there was no growth in Scotland. Scottish GDP per person - which takes population changes into account - grew by 0.3% during the second quarter, compared with 0.4% for the UK. The report indicated that growth in Scottish GDP over the past year was driven by growth in the services industry, particularly in business services and finance. However, that was "tempered" by contractions in the construction and production industries, especially electricity and gas, following the closure in March of Scotland's last coal-fired power station. It was estimated that the closure resulted in a reduction of Scottish GDP of about 0.2 percentage points in the second quarter. The economic report added: "As this was a one-off closure it will not have an ongoing impact on the growth of the Scottish economy." Reacting to the figures, Scottish Chambers of Commerce chief executive Liz Cameron said it was "good news" that Scotland's economic growth rate had increased but added that there was "still a great deal of work to be done". She said: "To put this in perspective, the Scottish economy has grown in a year at almost the same rate that the UK economy has grown in just three months. "These figures underline the fact that Scotland's economic performance has been significantly lower than that of the UK as a whole for a full year and, whilst we are now seeing welcome growth in our production and service sectors, construction has been contracting at a significant rate for two consecutive quarters." Colin Borland, head of external affairs in Scotland for the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "These pre-referendum statistics might feel like a history lesson, but they teach us that Scottish growth was weak even before June's historic vote. "Scotland needs to strive for growth levels at least as good as the UK average. "We look forward to the SNP talking business when they meet in Glasgow this week. "In addition, the UK government needs to put the welfare of the economy at the top of its priority list as it formulates its approach to leaving the EU. "The litmus test for every Brexit policy must be the impact on our high streets, small businesses and local communities."
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Mr Morales said its aim included the study of imperialism and its consequences. He said it would counteract the Army School of the Americas in Georgia which trained US allies during the Cold War. Some of its graduates committed serious human rights abuses in the region. The new academy is based in the city of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia and will initially take 100 recruits. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Bolivia's Defence Minister Reymi Ferreira said: "The School of Anti-Imperialism is a school that seeks to preserve life, unlike the School of the Americas, which brainwashed military officers into believing that the enemy was our people." He said the training centre would seek to help soldiers identify key threats to the country's national sovereignty. Since his inauguration in 2005, President Morales has had a relationship with the US which has been at times very tense. In 2008 he expelled the US ambassador and counter-narcotics agent and more recently he has accused accusing Washington of encouraging "congressional coups" such as the impending impeachment trial of suspended President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil. He has also accused the US of promoting global terrorism through military interventions, citing the rise of the Islamic State group as an example. In Latin America, some officers trained at the US-based School of the Americas went on to commit some of the worse human rights abuses in the region. They include two of the Argentinean military officers who led the junta in the late 1970s. Human rights organisations say the military government killed around 30,000 left-wing opponents during their administration. The former Guatemalan President, General Efraim Rios Montt, also trained at the School of the Americas in the 1950s. Two Truth Commissions documented widespread human rights abuses by his regime including rape, torture, executions and acts of genocide against the populace, including indigenous population through a scorched earth campaign. In 2000, the academy at Fort Benning, Georgia, was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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The Celtic midfielder, 23, hopes the Tangerines, who are 13 points adrift at the foot of the Premiership, can avoid relegation. United chairman Stephen Thompson has challenged his squad to preserve their top-flight status and "redeem" their professional reputations. "It's very sad to see," Armstrong said. "Their future is not looking good in this league." Armstrong was one of three players United sold in to Celtic in 2015. Since his departure - along with Nadir Ciftci and Gary Mackay-Steven - United's form has slumped. Media playback is not supported on this device Mixu Paatelainen's side lost 3-0 to Motherwell at Tannadice on Tuesday and Thompson then apologised to the club's supporters for their "abysmal" display and position in the table. "I was hoping they would get a result on Tuesday night," said Armstrong. "It was not to be. "But you have to remain optimistic and hope they can finish the league strongly and then if they do come down they come back up as soon as possible." Meanwhile, St Johnstone boss Tommy Wright believes no-one should be writing off the Tangerines until it is arithmetically impossible for them to stay up. "I would never say anything is done until it is done." Wright told BBC Scotland. "They are not in a great position, that is an obvious thing for me to say. "What they have got is a difficult position to get themselves out of. It shows the change in Scottish football." Scotland's top flight has lost Rangers, Hearts and Hibernian in recent years, though Hearts have since returned to the Premiership and Rangers and Hibs are trying to get promoted to the top tier for next season. Wright admits it would be "disappointing" for Saints to lose one of their Tayside rivals out of the league. "We always enjoy the derby games with them," added Wright. "Rangers or Hibs would probably be an automatic replacement but everybody wants to see the top clubs in the league on merit." Dundee striker Greg Stewart would also miss local derby matches with United but concedes his own club's supporters may not feel the same way. "Personally I enjoy playing in the derbies but I suppose Dundee fans won't agree with me," said the 25-year-old. "I'm sure they are wanting them down just to get the bragging rights in the city. "The atmosphere in the games is brilliant for players and it makes you more determined and you want to win them. "We have one more at least this season and hopefully we can make the most of it and get the win."
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The 31-year-old half-back joined Widnes until the end of the season after being told he did not feature in Tigers' plans for the rest of 2017. The former England playmaker was dropped at Cas for three games in March after an "internal investigation". Chase has swapped table toppers Castleford for bottom-of-the-table Widnes, who have won twice in 13 games. "It is a great signing for us and I'm excited we've managed to pick up someone of Rangi's quality to come into the side," Betts told BBC Radio Merseyside. "I know he's excited about playing as he wants to be playing regularly - he wants to start games and play 80 minutes. "He comes here, he's got a clean slate and he wants to go again. "He's up for the challenge as he knows we've got our backs against the wall, he knows the situation and he's been told that. He's up for the fight which was really exciting."
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Lawand Hamadamin came to the UK after a year in a refugee camp in France. The family has appealed against the decision to deport them and the case will be heard in the High Court. The Home Office said it would not "shoulder the burden" of other country's asylum claims. Live updates and more from Derbyshire If the appeal is unsuccessful Lawand and his family will be deported to Germany, as the government says this is where they should have claimed asylum, says the boy's school in Derby. The family made it to the UK after they fled northern Iraq when IS threatened to kill disabled children. After travelling via Greece, Germany and France, the family hid in the back of a lorry to get to the UK and ended up in Derby. Lawand now receives specialist education at the city's Royal School for the Deaf. The school's head teacher, Helen Shepherd, told the BBC in December he had made "exceptional progress". "Lawand's family are understandably devastated that they are being deported," she said after the latest decision. A Home Office spokesman said: "It is only fair that we do not shoulder the burden of asylum claims that should rightly be considered by other countries. "Asylum seekers should claim in the first safe country they arrive in. "Where there is evidence that an asylum seeker is the responsibility of another European country we will seek to return them there." It is not yet known when the case will be heard by the High Court.
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The 31-year-old Fiji international, who plays on the wing and at centre, has been with the Tigers for four years. He has made 78 appearances for the Welford Road club, scoring 32 tries in all competitions for them. "He will bring another dimension to our back-line firepower from next season onwards," director of rugby Dean Richards told the Newcastle website. Goneva has scored 15 tries for Fiji and won 39 caps, the most recent against Uruguay during last year's World Cup. "It says much for the current standing of the Falcons that we can attract a player of his calibre," Richards added. "We are getting not only a world-class player with Vereniki, but also somebody who has consistently proven they can thrive in the Premiership."
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Eight hundred of the plants, as well as electrical equipment, were seized at a workshop in Millisle on Friday. Police said it was one of the biggest and most sophisticated production operations they had uncovered recently. Insp Andy Dunlop said there were "young plants, the remnants of a previous harvest, space for drying the product and space for waste products". He added: "No arrests were made this morning but our enquiries will be continuing over the coming days."
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The team's technique involves building a 3D image of a patient's brain in a matter of minutes. Strokes occur about 152,000 times a year in the UK, according to the Stroke Association. In Scotland, NHS Scotland considers strokes to be the third commonest cause of death. When a stroke happens speed is of the essence. First in diagnosing what kind of stroke it is, then treating it. That is because there are two main types - ischemic and haemorrhagic - and two very different ways of treating them. Both MRI and CT scanners can provide an image of the brain and the damage done, but are big and expensive. Patients have to come to them. The mathematicians envisage a new type of detector small enough to ride in an ambulance. It will be a helmet containing microwave antennae, and will fire the microwave through the patient's brain and receive the resulting signals. The results will be sent to a supercomputing centre, which is where the maths comes in. The techniques developed at Strathclyde and on the continent can produce a 3D image of the brain - and its injury - within 15 minutes. The sensor hardware is being developed by the Austrian imaging company EMTensor. At the moment it exists as two prototypes in a hospital in Vienna. Each is a cylindrical chamber consisting of five rings, each of 32 antennae. The next step will be to make the device portable. One of the mathematics team is Dr Victorita Dolean, a Reader in Strathclyde's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. "Our aim will be to produce a portable and less expensive device that can detect strokes in real time," she says. "The idea would be that we'd send these electromagnetic waves into the brain and then the properties of the tissues - which will be healthy or sick - will be detected by measurements of the data on this helmet. "The data will be sent to a supercomputing centre. "We have designed some open source software that is able to reconstruct, precisely and in real time, an image of the brain and then send it back to the doctors to interpret this data and make the diagnosis." The team's mathematical approach has already won the team the Bull-Joseph Fourier Prize for excellence in numerical simulation and data processing. "We could not have done this a few years ago because we needed powerful advances in electronics, in computer science, in algorithms, in mathematics," Dr Dolean says. She now expects the sensor helmets to be in the field in two to four years - not just in ambulances, but anywhere they might be needed. "They'll be cheap and portable and able to act as an emergency device," she says. And that quick, on the spot diagnosis could mean survival for stroke victims.
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In the court filings, the organisations said that there was "no adequate justification" for the FBI to continue to withhold the information. They added that they did not seek information that would jeopardise national security. The groups sued the FBI last year. Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett, the parent company of USA Today, are seeking to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the event. The FBI has never named the security firm or group of hackers who helped unlock the phone, which was used by killer Syed Rizwan Farook. The process would have involved finding a way to bypass the passcode on a locked phone. In normal circumstances, if 10 incorrect attempts at the code are made, the device will automatically erase all of its data. "While it is undisputed that the vendor developed the iPhone access tool, the government has identified no rational reason why knowing the vendor's identity is linked in any way to the substance of the tool, much less how such knowledge would reveal any information about the tool's application," lawyers for the news organisations wrote in the filing to the US District Court in Washington. "Release of this information goes to the very heart of the Freedom of Information Act's purpose, allowing the public to assess government activity - here, the decision to pay public funds to an outside entity in possession of a tool that can compromise the digital security of millions of Americans." Farook and his wife killed 14 people in the Californian city in December 2015. In February, a court order demanded that Apple help unlock the phone, something which Apple resisted, saying it was unable to do so. It added that it hoped that the government would share with the company any vulnerabilities of the iPhone that might come to light. There was speculation that the FBI paid at least $1.3m (£1.05m) to break into the phone, based on calculations following comments by FBI director James Comey who said that the agency had paid more to get into the phone than he "will make in the remaining seven years" in his post. He added that it was worth it, even though no details of what was found have been released.
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The women were taken into police custody last week in the run-up to International Women's Day on Sunday. Activists said that the detainees were planning to hold public campaigns against sexual harassment. Correspondents say the police appear to be holding at least one of them for an unusually lengthy period, as she was taken into custody on Friday. Police in China usually release or charge a detainee within three days of their arrest, and Li Tingting, also known as Li Maizi, was detained on 6 March. Chinese activist Feng Yuan, speaking from New York where she was participating in a UN women's issues events, said lawyers for the five in custody had not been able to reach them since their arrest. "We're worried that they're still detained," Ms Feng told AP news agency. "We don't understand how this has to do with public safety. And this goes against what the Communist Party and the government says they want to do to build a safer, crime-free society." This year's International Women's Day coincided with China's top political meetings and observers say Chinese authorities often detain activists before the start of major political or international meetings. Eight women's rights activists were taken to police stations on Friday and Saturday, and three were released after a few hours. One of those released told the BBC that the police told her to warn people not to take part in planned events. Among the activities which the activists had planned were a march in a Beijing park where participants would wear stickers advocating safe sex and action against sexual harassment; and gatherings in Beijing and Guangzhou calling for awareness of sexual harassment on buses. She added that the five who are still in detention are either members, or founders, of women's rights and gay rights groups in Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou. The irony is that the activists were detained for trying to promote women's rights to mark International Women's Day. One of the activists - who did not want to be identified - told the BBC the police detained her for two hours over the weekend. She had planned to take part in a protest at Beijing's Olympic Park to raise awareness about sexual harassment. The campaigners held similar activities to mark International Women's Day in the past and faced no troubles. But this year's event coincided with China's annual parliamentary session, during which security is tighter than normal. The police routinely detain people organising protests on vague charges of disturbing the public order. Women's rights are high on this year's agenda - with the legislative session expected to pass a landmark domestic violence law. But increasingly the authorities are cracking down on non-governmental organisations pursuing their own agendas. China is currently holding what is informally known as the "two sessions" - the keenly watched annual meetings of its legislature, the National People's Congress, and its advisory group, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The sessions began last Thursday and are due to end on Sunday. Over the weekend, female representatives of the congress held a news conference on gender equality and women's rights issues in China. Official celebrations of International Women's Day were also held last week.
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Powys council's cabinet said the loss of £1.6m over the next three years has affected the number of classes it could afford and it was launching a review. It will look at whether its sixth forms are financially viable and educationally sustainable. The Welsh government said it is working with Powys to minimise the impact of cuts to learning. The council launched a similar review three years ago but eventually decided not to shut any sixth forms in the county. Since then, the council has backed the takeover of the struggling John Beddoes School in Presteigne by Newtown High School, meaning the number of sixth forms in the county will drop from 13 to 12 from April. Council cabinet member for learning Myfanwy Alexander said: "Changes to the way post-16 funding is delivered and a decline in pupil numbers have had a severe impact on Powys sixth forms. "Learner choice will be hit hard and the sustainability of Powys sixth forms will be seriously affected." In September 2012, the council was able to fund 232 further education classes across the authority area. But according to the council, the decline in pupil numbers and changes to post-16 education budgets means only 181 classes will be funded in September 2014. Ms Alexander said she feared a "reduced menu of subjects" for pupils, leading to some students travelling outside of Powys to study. She said the education authority had made "strong representations" to the Welsh government on the funding changes, and had asked for a rethink on funding levels or risk "damaging changes in Powys". Responding to the council's comments, the Welsh government's deputy minister for skills and technology Ken Skates said: "We have been open about the stark reality of the financial challenges ahead and the difficult decisions that we are facing. "The post-16 sector remains a key priority for this government and we are working closely with colleagues in Powys and across Wales to minimise the impact of any reductions on learning." Controversial plans to save around £20m was approved by councillors in Powys last week. The decision also means about 400 posts will be lost at the authority.
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The 23-year-old has had surgery for what the Pro12 club describe as "an ongoing shoulder complaint". Edinburgh estimate that the former Scotland Under-20 and Scotland Sevens player will be sidelined for up to six months. Kennedy, who had loan spells with Glasgow Warriors and London Irish, is under contract until summer 2016. His last appearance for Edinburgh came as a replacement during the 38-20 European Challenge Cup win over Bordeaux-Begles on 23 January.
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The three-day extravaganza of farming, food and family fun celebrates many aspects of agricultural life. The Balmoral Show is run by the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) and dates back 148 years. Last year, it attracted more than 90,000 visitors to its recently-adopted home outside Lisburn in County Antrim. It was traditionally staged at the RUAS's headquarters in south Belfast, but the show moved to a larger venue on the site of the former Maze prison in 2013. The Maze venue, re-named Balmoral Park, is now hosting the show for the fourth consecutive year. The 2016 event coincides with Northern Ireland's Year of Food and Drink, and local produce features prominently in the exhibitions. One of this year's highlights is an "edible garden", in which visitors can see their food growing in the ground before it gets to their plates. The aim of the garden is to encourage people to grow their own food at home. The event will also showcase the best of local livestock, with prized pigs, cattle, poultry and ponies all lining up in bid to be the stars of the show. Their owners will also get a chance to shine, with horse riding and show jumping displays along with sheep shearing competitions and awards for the best livestock breeders and handlers. For younger visitors, there is a family fun area hosting displays from the Northern Ireland School of Falconry as well as a gun dog skills demonstration and a performance from balloon artist Bruce Airhead. BBC News NI are covering the event live on social media on Wednesday on Twitter at @BBCNewsNI, on Snapchat at bbcnewsni, and on BBC Newsline's Facebook page.
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The 19 were freed following mediation by South Sudan's government, it adds. This is the first group to be released since about 125 children were abducted in the cross-border raid. Members of the Murle community carried out the attack. They have previously been accused of stealing livestock and children to raise as their own. More than 200 people from the rival Nuer community in Ethiopia's western Gambella province were killed in the 15 April raid. Ethiopian forces crossed into South Sudan, encircling villages where the children were held. However, the children were freed without any fighting after South Sudanese officials entered into negotiations with the abductors, the Ethiopian News Agency reports. Negotiations would continue to free all the children, it reports. "The children must be rescued and be reunited with their families. The cattle that was taken should also be handed over to the right owners," South Sudan's ambassador to Ethiopia, James Pitia Morgan, is quoted as saying. Ethiopia shares a long border with South Sudan and cross-border raids involving the Murle and Nuer communities are not uncommon. However, the scale of the 15 April shocked many people in both countries, and led to protests in Ethiopia's Gambella region with parents demanding greater protection for their children. Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said "primitive and destructive forces" carried out the raid.
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The government accepted recommendations by the Senior Salaries Review Body, saying pay restraint was one of the "difficult choices" it faced. The award comes amid a row over the 1% cap on public sector rises. After the general election, some ministers suggested a rethink, putting pressure on Chancellor Philip Hammond. The government says its policy has not changed, and last week teachers were told they faced another year of 1% rises. Most public sector pay is set by ministers after receiving recommendations from different pay review bodies. These bodies have to take into account government policy, which since 2013 has been for a 1% increase across the public sector, although in theory they are able to recommend higher increases. The Senior Salaries Review Board covers the senior civil service, senior military officers, the judiciary and senior managers working for arm's length bodies of the Department of Health. For each group, the board recommended a 1% rise, which has been accepted by ministers. In a written statement, Cabinet Office Minister Damian Green said the government "greatly values" public servants' work and understands the need to recruit, retain and motivate staff. He added: "However, there is a trade-off between pay and jobs in many public services, and pay restraint is one of the many difficult choices the government has had to make to help put the UK's public finances back on track. "Senior public sector workers, like everyone else, will have to continue to play their part to ensure we deliver job security for working people across the country." Naomi Cooke, of senior civil servants' union the FDA, welcomed a government promise of a review of senior salaries, but added: "What should be abundantly clear is that this cannot be achieved within a 1% straitjacket. "Reform of senior civil service pay needs to be fully funded and it needs to happen soon - the current government pay policy is failing and is doing so in a way that costs civil servants and costs the public dear."
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The 22-year-old barber, from Newtownabbey, County Antrim, has not been seen for almost a week. He was last seen in the Carnmoney Road area of Newtownabbey shortly before 13:00 BST on Thursday, 13 July. Officers have also revised details of what they believe he was wearing on the day of his disappearance. Det Insp Chris Millar said: "It has now been established that Dean was wearing a short-sleeve maroon shirt, denim knee-length shorts and dark-coloured canvas shoes. "He was wearing a gold watch on his right wrist." Mr McIlwaine is 5'8" in height and of medium build. He has dark hair, a beard and sleeve tattoos on both arms. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact police by calling 101, quoting reference number 121 of 14/7/17.
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Since 2005, he has worked from home on Wednesday mornings and then taken the rest of the day off. Simmons and Simmons offers flexible working to all staff and makes this clear in recruitment ads. It is a stance employers' organisation the CBI wants other firms to emulate, arguing it will improve diversity. In a report aimed at encouraging employers to hire a broader range of people from varied social backgrounds, age groups, races and gender the CBI suggests advertising flexible working at the outset. Just one in ten job adverts mention flexible working, despite more than half of employers offering it, meaning they miss out on a wider pool of applicants, according to the report. The CBI also suggests that firms remove candidates' names from job applications in a bid to reduce "unconscious bias" in hiring decisions. The organisation argues that firms with a broader pool of staff will perform better. CBI president Paul Drechsler says: "Inclusive workplaces give firms the chance to get ahead of their competitors by making better decisions, through diverse teams which draw on a wider range of ideas and experiences." Since 2014, Simmons & Simmons has allowed almost all its staff to work remotely one day a week of their choice without having to request permission from their boss. It says the move was aimed at making "flexible working a right rather than an exception" and has seen a "significant increase" in the number of people who have taken up flexible working. Mr Taylor says in 2005 when he asked to work flexibly it was "quite unusual", but said he was granted permission in just three weeks. Being at home one day a week has enabled him to spend more time with his three children now aged 14, 12 and 9. "At the time [when I asked] I was a relatively new partner and also a relatively new dad and had two young children and was worried i was not seeing a huge amount of them during the week." Now the children are older, he says he can pick them up from school as well as drop them off at activities. "I haven't done anything particularly dramatic with the time, but it's nice to be there day-to-day and talk about what's going on at school." The change has also enabled Mr Taylor's partner to work later on a Wednesday, helping her progress at work, as well as make him feel loyal to the firm. It is these sorts of factors that the CBI wants companies to be aware of. Mr Drechsler argues that flexible working should no longer be seen as "a bonus for staff", but instead as something that also has clear benefits for employers. Other recommendations in the report include: The report said data from earlier this month showing the UK's productivity still lags well behind other major economies meant employing a broader range of people was now more crucial than ever, and would help create more engaged employees. "The economic and social challenges that the UK faces have been thrown into sharp relief by Brexit, in particular around issues like productivity, inclusion and opportunity," Mr Drechsler says. "As businesses, it is up to us to seize the opportunities that exist to make some positive changes, becoming firms that will be competitive into the middle of the 21st century. If we get it right, business growth and greater opportunity will go hand in hand."
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Francis Thomas Mooney, 60, died at the scene of the crash in Fernhill Road on the outskirts of Glasgow on Tuesday. The incident, which also involved five other cars and a bus, happened close to Castlemilk and Fernhill at about 11:05. The 25-year-old man who was driving the agricultural vehicle remains in a stable condition in hospital. No-one else was seriously injured in the crash and the other cars and bus were not badly damaged. Sgt Alison McAuley, of Police Scotland, said: "Inquiries are ongoing to establish the exact circumstances of this tragic incident and I would continue to appeal to anyone who witnessed what happened to get in touch. "Anyone with information is asked to contact officers."
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6 August 2016 Last updated at 13:57 BST Spectacular fireworks, a parade of nations from around the world and the lighting of the famous Olympic torch launched the Games in Brazil. Ricky was there for Newsround. Check out the video to get a taste of the excitement.
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The hosts led 21-0 after 22 minutes, with Matt Smith, Lachlan McCaffrey and Owen Williams all touching down. Tries from Teimana Harrison, George North and Jamie Gibson wrestled Saints back into it, before Burns and Stephen Myler traded kicks to make it 27-27. But Tigers, boosted by the return of Manu Tuilagi, stole it at the death. England centre Tuilagi, who ended speculation linking him with a move away from Leicester by signing a new contract last month, had not played since October 2014 because of an ongoing groin problem. But the 24-year-old came on for the final 29 minutes against Northampton, demonstrating his trademark physicality as Leicester eventually broke their resistance with the final kick of the game. Richard Cockerill's side, comfortably beaten by Saracens last week, had looked to be cruising to victory when tries from Smith, McCaffrey and Williams, who was later taken off with a suspected broken jaw, put them in command after a dominant opening quarter. But Harrison's score following a line-out catch-and-drive moments before half-time gave Saints hope, and North ran from deep inside his own half to drag them to within four points early in the second period. Shortly after Northampton had a further try through Paul Hill ruled out for a high tackle, two Burns penalties stretched Leicester's lead back to 10 points - only for Gibson's touchdown against his former club and Myler's penalty with five minutes to go to leave the scores tied. However, Burns, who had already missed one drop-goal attempt, split the posts from the tee to send Tigers up to fourth in the table, seven points above their fifth-placed local rivals. Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill: "Credit to them for getting back into it, but credit to our players for the first 30 minutes and then for digging themselves out of a hole they probably shouldn't have got themselves into. "Good sides win when they do some average things, and we did some average things today but we found a way to win, however fortuitous that may or may not have been." Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder: "My reaction is clearly one of disappointment. I spoke to Courtney Lawes afterwards, and he said he tripped (in the incident that led to the last-minute penalty being awarded). "In the first half, we had a terrible 20 minutes - they were good, but we were terrible for 20 minutes - and you should not go 21-0 down at Welford Road." Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Betham, Tait, Smith, Thompstone; Williams, B Youngs; Ayerza, T Youngs (capt), Cole, De Chaves, Kitchener, Fitzgerald, O'Connor, McCaffrey. Replacements: Thacker, Mulipola, Balmain, Pearce, Croft, Harrison, Burns, Tuilagi. Northampton Saints: Foden; Elliott, North, Burrell, Collins; Hanrahan, Dickson (capt); Waller, Haywood, Hill, Lawes, Matfield, Gibson, Harrison, Dickinson. Replacements: Williams, Waller, Denman, Day, Wood, Kessell, Myler, Mallinder. For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.
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East Sussex Healthcare Trust which runs the Conquest Hospital in Hastings and Eastbourne District General Hospital is currently rated as "inadequate". However, BBC South East Today has learned the trust has failed to improve and is likely to be placed into special measures at a meeting on Friday. The trust said it was awaiting a report to be published and would not comment. The other trusts currently in special measures include East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Medway NHS Foundation Trust. Medway's Maritime Hospital was forced to turn away ambulances earlier, and on Wednesday, to help ease the burden on its A&E department. The East Sussex trust was rated as "inadequate" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in March, after failing to meeting government targets. In May, it was criticised by Eastbourne Borough Council, which passed a vote of no confidence in its management. And in July the chief executive resigned while the trust had to apologise after patients' details were found in the street. Leadership would appear to be the big problem at this trust. In its March report, the CQC described a "disconnect between the trust board and it's staff" and a "culture where staff were afraid to speak out". The trust's problems have been well documented but what has apparently been lacking is any real progress in putting things right. It's my understanding the CQC feel very little has improved in the last few months. Friday's meeting between all the stakeholders will be a chance to discuss the way forward but many people I have spoken to in the wider NHS believe special measures will be imposed on the trust. A spokesman for the trust refused to comment on whether it would be put into special measures. He said: "We are waiting for the publication of the CQC report next week and until it is published and they have made any recommendation we are unable to make any further comment."
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Police said Alexandria Hollinghurst, 17, and Brandon Goode, 18, wrote what appeared to be suicide notes. The notes were recovered before the pair were found dead in undergrowth on Saturday. The head teacher of Miss Hollinghurst's former primary school in Derbyshire said she was a "talented pupil". Her family had emigrated to the US six years ago. Orange County Sheriff's Office said the couple had been reported as "missing endangered due to the suicidal notes" in the hours before the shooting. A police spokesman said: "Goode and Hollinghurst are now officially considered suspects in the homicide of Officer Robert German. "While Goode and Hollinghurst died of what is believed to be gunshot wounds from apparent suicide, we are awaiting the medical examiner's findings for the exact cause of death." The shootings took place in the early hours of Saturday in the suburb of Windermere, Orlando. The sheriff's office said Windermere Police Department Officer German had reported stopping "two individuals" on foot at 03:57 local time, and had then radioed for backup. When colleagues arrived they discovered Officer German "mortally wounded" with a gunshot injury and he was later pronounced dead at Orlando Regional Medical Centre. At the same time, gunshots were heard nearby and the bodies of Miss Hollinghurst and Mr Goode were discovered a short distance away, police said. Miss Hollinghurst and her family previously lived in the Derbyshire village of Hadfield. Tony McMylor, who lived next door to the family in Hadfield, believes Miss Hollinghurst was murdered. "He shot her and then shot himself. That's what I believe," he said. "I can feel for the parents. It's just horrendous." Andrew Cartledge, head teacher of St Andrew's Church of England Junior School in Hadfield, said: "Alex Hollinghurst was a pupil at St Andrew's until she was 11 years old. "She was a talented pupil who it was a pleasure to have in school. "Alex was sociable with many friends and an outgoing personality. Our thoughts are with her family at this tragic time." Police said the contents of the apparent suicide notes "will not be revealed at this time as the investigation is active and open". The sheriff's office said the pair's vehicle was recovered from the car park of a bank in the Kissimmee area of the city, several miles from where the couple are believed to have crossed Officer German's path. Detectives said they would examine the vehicle for further clues.
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Police had attended the alert after a suspicious object was discovered at Butcher Gate shortly after 23:30 BST on Friday. It was later declared a hoax. During the clearance operation, fireworks and petrol bombs were thrown at police in the Fahan Street area. There were no injuries reported. Police said it was also reported that the windscreen of a van was smashed in Fahan Street shortly after midnight.
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Buffon, making his 620th appearance in the league, denied Diego Farias after referee Fabio Maresca used VAR to award the spot-kick for an Alex Sandro foul. Juventus were already leading at that point through Mario Mandzukic's volley. Paulo Dybala swept in a second for the hosts before Gonzalo Higuain struck. Juventus are looking to record a seventh straight Serie A title this season. Match ends, Juventus 3, Cagliari 0. Second Half ends, Juventus 3, Cagliari 0. Attempt missed. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Stephan Lichtsteiner. Foul by Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus). João Pedro (Cagliari) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt blocked. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Blaise Matuidi. Foul by Mario Mandzukic (Juventus). Marco Andreolli (Cagliari) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Blaise Matuidi. Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Marco Andreolli. Attempt blocked. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Douglas Costa. Hand ball by Nicolò Barella (Cagliari). Attempt blocked. Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Douglas Costa. Substitution, Cagliari. Daniele Dessena replaces Luca Cigarini. Substitution, Cagliari. Marco Sau replaces Duje Cop. Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Paolo Faragò. Foul by Miralem Pjanic (Juventus). João Pedro (Cagliari) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Artur Ionita (Cagliari). Foul by Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus). Artur Ionita (Cagliari) wins a free kick on the left wing. Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus) is shown the yellow card. Foul by Stephan Lichtsteiner (Juventus). Artur Ionita (Cagliari) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Juventus. Douglas Costa replaces Juan Cuadrado. Substitution, Juventus. Blaise Matuidi replaces Gonzalo Higuaín. Corner, Juventus. Conceded by Alessio Cragno. Attempt saved. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Juan Cuadrado. Goal! Juventus 3, Cagliari 0. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Alex Sandro. Offside, Juventus. Juan Cuadrado tries a through ball, but Stephan Lichtsteiner is caught offside. Attempt blocked. Artur Ionita (Cagliari) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Substitution, Cagliari. João Pedro replaces Simone Padoin. Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus). Diego Farias (Cagliari) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Juventus. Sami Khedira replaces Claudio Marchisio. Attempt missed. Paolo Faragò (Cagliari) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus). Diego Farias (Cagliari) wins a free kick on the right wing. Foul by Alex Sandro (Juventus).
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Mr Trump also said Republicans were coming at him "from all sides" and their disloyalty was harder to fight than the Democrats. Mr Ryan is the latest Republican not to back Mr Trump after a 2005 video emerged showing him making obscene comments about groping women. However Mr Trump has been strongly supported by running mate Mike Pence. "You have nominated a man for president who never quits, who never backs down. He is a fighter, he is a winner," Mr Pence said at an event in Iowa, praising him for apologising during Sunday's debate for his lewd comments. The renewed party divisions over Mr Trump come as a new PRRI/Atlantic poll suggested Mrs Clinton holds a 49-38 lead over her opponent. A video released on Friday revealed Mr Trump describing how he had sought to have sex with a married woman and making other sexually aggressive comments about women. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama's spokesman said Mr Trump's remarks were "repugnant" and amounted to sexual assault. Nearly half the 331 incumbent Republican senators, House members and governors have condemned Trump's lewd remarks on the video and about 10% have called for him to drop out of the race, Reuters news agency reports. On Monday, Mr Ryan told fellow House Republicans he would focus on congressional elections to ensure Republicans could maintain legislative control. Mr Trump fired back in a string of tweets, saying the "shackles" had been removed, allowing him to "fight for America the way I want to". He also attacked Senator John McCain, who has denounced Trump's conduct and faces a close re-election battle, as "foul-mouthed" Though the latest revelation underscores a widening divide within the Republican Party, some members insist they are sticking by Mr Trump. Donald Trump isn't going gently into that good night. If the Republican Party, led by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, follows through with its promise to abandon his campaign in hopes of preserving its congressional majority, he appears willing to burn it to the ground and salt the earth. That was the takeaway from the Republican standard-bearer's unprecedented Tuesday morning Twitter storm. Reportedly delivered from the confines of his eponymous tower in New York, Mr Trump lashed out at a party establishment that never really wanted him as its nominee and only grudgingly backed him in the hopes that he was a force they could control. That was a misguided belief. Mr Trump sees himself as bigger than the party whose primary voters he courted, and now he will open fire on perceived enemies who surround him. Democrat Hillary Clinton, in a new television advert, lacks the "stamina" to lead. Mr Ryan, he tweeted, is "weak and ineffective". Mr Trump, in his own words, is "unshackled" at last. In 2008 Republicans fretted that their vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, had "gone rogue" and was woefully off-message. Eight years later, an entire presidential campaign has become unmoored and is threatening to rage against the fabric of their party. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he was "really disturbed" by Mr Trump's comments about women but still planned to support him, saying the election was "about bigger issues than that". Texas Senator and former rival Ted Cruz also said he would still cast his ballot for Mr Trump, telling a Texas TV station that Mrs Clinton was an "absolute disaster". Another rival from the primaries, Senator Marco Rubio, said he would also back Mr Trump. Meanwhile, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus held an emergency call with members on Monday to declare the party would stand behind Mr Trump despite recent turmoil, US media reported. Who is ahead in the polls? 48% Hillary Clinton 44% Donald Trump Last updated October 10, 2016 How does the US election work? A-Z guide to political jargon Key issues - where candidates stand Why this election will make history
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Several thousand cannabis plants with an estimated street value of £1m were seized in a raid on RGHQ Chilmark. Five men and a teenager were arrested on suspicion of cannabis production after the midnight raid on Wednesday. There are 20 rooms in the building with almost every one converted for the wholesale production of cannabis plants, police said. The former Ministry of Defence bunker was built in the 1980s to protect local dignitaries and government officials in the event of a nuclear attack. Described as "almost completely impenetrable", Wiltshire Police had to wait for the suspects to leave the bunker before they could gain access. Det Insp Paul Franklin, said it was only after getting through the nuclear blast doors, that the "enormous set up" was discovered. "There are approximately 20 rooms in the building, split over two floors, each 200ft long and 70ft wide," he said. "Almost every single room had been converted for the wholesale production of cannabis plants, and there was a large amount of evidence of previous crops." He added that he was convinced it was "one of the largest crops ever discovered" in the county. A teenager and two men, aged 15, 19, and 37, all of no fixed abode, were arrested on suspicion of cannabis production. A further three men, aged 27, 30 and 45, all from Somerset, were arrested on suspicion of cannabis production and human trafficking offences.
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The hosts almost caught Torquay napping with a simple ball over the top in the first minute, but Woking loanee Delano Sam-Yorke was unable to get his shot on target. Maidstone continued to force the issue, with Nana Ofori-Twumasi and Jamar Loza also going close before the break, and they got their rewards when Loza found Sam-Yorke in space to fire home from 10 yards in the 53rd minute. Substitute Brett Williams briefly levelled things up for Torquay after 63 minutes, but Jack Paxman sealed the win which took Maidstone out of the drop zone six minutes later. Report supplied by the Press Association Match ends, Maidstone United 2, Torquay United 1. Second Half ends, Maidstone United 2, Torquay United 1. Substitution, Maidstone United. James Rogers replaces Jack Paxman. Seth Nana Ofori-Twumasi (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card. Substitution, Torquay United. Sam Chaney replaces Ben Gerring. Substitution, Maidstone United. Alex Flisher replaces Jamar Loza. Goal! Maidstone United 2, Torquay United 1. Jack Paxman (Maidstone United). Goal! Maidstone United 1, Torquay United 1. Brett Williams (Torquay United). Substitution, Torquay United. Jamie Reid replaces Luke Young. Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Shaun Harrad. Goal! Maidstone United 1, Torquay United 0. Delano Sam-Yorke (Maidstone United). Second Half begins Maidstone United 0, Torquay United 0. First Half ends, Maidstone United 0, Torquay United 0. First Half begins. Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
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Katie was found with serious injuries to her neck and upper body on a playing field in Woodthorpe, York, on 9 January and died later in hospital. The 15-year-old, who cannot be named, appeared before Leeds Crown Court via video-link as her solicitor confirmed the not guilty plea. She also denies a second charge of possession of an offensive weapon, namely a knife. The girl did not speak during the 20-minute hearing but nodded as Judge Peter Collier QC asked if she understood the court proceedings. Live updates and more news from Yorkshire Family members were in court as Judge Collier, the recorder of Leeds, announced the trial would take place on 3 July. She will remain in "local authority accommodation" until the trial, he said. Katie's funeral was held earlier this week at York Minster, led by the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu. An inquest into her death has been opened and adjourned.
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Six world powers - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - and Iran are meeting in Istanbul in Turkey. Iran says its nuclear programme is peaceful, but critics suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Israel has hinted in recent months that it may carry out a pre-emptive strike. Michael Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said of the talks: "There is a positive atmosphere... contrasting with the last time." The BBC's James Reynolds, in Istanbul, says the envoys had earlier set the bar pretty low - saying they did not expect detailed, substantive proposals from either side. What they wanted to see, he says, was whether Iran was ready to seriously engage and, if that happened, there might be another round of talks in four to six weeks time. After a two-and-a-half-hour morning session, there was general agreement among the six world powers, known collectively as the P5+1, that there had been progress. Mr Mann said: "The principles for future talks seem to be there." One diplomat told Associated Press that Iran appeared ready to discuss its uranium enrichment programme and that the Iranian team had referred to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's "fatwa" on nuclear arms. Another session later in the day involves bilateral meetings, possibly including a rare US-Iran encounter. Ahead of the talks, Baroness Ashton said she hoped they would be "the beginnings of a sustained process". "What we are here to do is to find ways in which we can build confidence between us and ways in which we can demonstrate that Iran is moving away from a nuclear weapons programme." Chief Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili said the talks would "serve the dignity of the Iranian nation". US President Barack Obama earlier described this as a "last chance" for diplomacy to work. The P5+1 hope eventually to persuade Iran to reduce its enrichment of uranium and fully open up its nuclear facilities to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). There are suggestions that the stringent sanctions on Iran could be reduced if it complies with the requests. The last series of international talks broke down in January 2011 after the parties failed to agree on any issues. Since then, the IAEA expressed concern that Iran had failed to co-operate with its inspectors and had carried out activities "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device". Israel, which believes a nuclear-capable Iran would be a direct threat to its security, has warned that time is running out to prevent that outcome. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he would never allow Israelis to "live in the shadow of annihilation", and hinted his country is ready to strike Iran's nuclear facilities if diplomacy does not work soon. President Obama has warned against "loose talk of war", while stressing that all options remain open.
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The collision happened on the westbound carriageway between junction 23, Magor, and junction 24, Coldra, at about 15:25 BST. Gwent Police said four people were believed to have been injured but the extent of their injuries is not known. Earlier on Saturday, two people were taken to hospital following a crash at the same junction between a vehicle towing a horsebox and a motorbike. That crash saw motorists face delays of up to 60 minutes as the exit slip road was closed - it was later reopened at 13:45. The delays were not helped by the closure of the M48 Severn Bridge in both directions, which has been shut all weekend for maintenance work.
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The warning comes after Johnny Sexton took a number of heavy tackles in France's 10-9 win over Ireland. Sexton was eventually forced off, and France lock Yoann Maestri was warned by the citing commissioner. "I think these boys have to realise they're in the firing line in today's game," said Jenkins. "There's no hiding place and he's just got to get on with it and front up." Sexton was under fire throughout the the game, with one television replay clearly showing Maestri striking the Leinster fly-half in an off-the-ball incident. Biggar was himself forced off in Wales' 16-16 draw with Ireland in Dublin, but his injury was the result of turning on his ankle. He played most of the 27-23 win over Scotland, but had his foot strapped after being replaced in the 76th minute. "He (Biggar) is tough, so let's just hope he keeps going and doing what he has been doing," Jenkins told BBC Radio Wales. "We need him to keep playing as well as he has. If sides target him, that is a positive for us, because it shows how well he has been playing. "We can't hide him. Wherever he plays, unless we get him a seat near the posts, he will be targeted, (as) he was against Ireland and Scotland. "If they want to target him, he is good enough and strong enough to deal with that and he should take it as a compliment." Jenkins also says Biggar's Ospreys half-back partner Rhys Webb needs more game-time before he is considered for a Wales recall. Webb made his Ospreys comeback against Munster last Sunday after being out since September with a foot injury. But the scrum-half suffered a knock to the head which looks set to rule him out of the region's match against Edinburgh on Friday.
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Mr Adams, who joined the company from Singapore-based Tiger Airways in 2013, said that for personal reasons it was the right time to go. He will remain in the post until April. Loganair has started the process of finding his successor. Chairman David Harrison said: "Stewart has been an extremely hardworking chief executive and he has provided strong leadership." The Scottish airline flies under Flybe livery and operates 31 routes across the Highlands and Islands as well as other parts of the UK.
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Liver disease deaths have more than doubled in the past 20 years, largely due to an increase in obesity, alcohol misuse and blood borne viral hepatitis. The plan, backed by £1m Welsh government funding, hopes to increase clinical expertise in the disease. It will also encourage people to take more responsibility for their health.
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He is approaching the end of his 10th year in charge and thinks it is the right time to seek a fresh challenge. Cricket Scotland chairman Keith Oliver said: "There is no doubt that the governing body of cricket in Scotland is unrecognisable from where we were in 2004. "And the credit for this must go to Roddy and his staff." During Smith's time as chief executive, his management team have increased from eight to 25 and turnover has quadrupled. I am delighted that I leave an organisation in good health with a growing game and after a year of exceptional on-field performances by national teams at all levels Cricket Scotland reported a rise in participation figures for players, coaches and umpires during those 10 years. And the national side have secured a place at next year's World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand by beating Kenya in a qualifying event. Oliver, who has worked with Smith during that whole period, said: "Back then, we could not have imagined we would have won global qualifying events, played in world cups at youth and senior level, played One Day International games in front of thousands, run a fully professional national team as well as winning numerous development awards at a European and Global level. "I and all at Cricket Scotland wish Roddy every success in his next role." Cricket Scotland will start the recruitment process to find Smith's successor with the aim of having a replacement in place early in the new year. Smith said: ''I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with Cricket Scotland and it's hard to believe it has been nearly a decade. "I am delighted that I leave an organisation in good health with a growing game and after a year of exceptional on-field performances by national teams at all levels. "Ten years is a long time for a chief executive of a national governing body and now feels exactly the right time to move on to my next challenge. "With a Cricket World Cup to look forward to early next year and a number of newly-appointed quality staff to work with, I am looking forward to handing over to my successor an organisation that is very well placed to succeed in the future." Cricket Scotland announced in June that it plans a new "world class" base in Stirling, relocating from Edinburgh, with a new pavilion at the home of Stirling County Cricket Club designed to host international matches.
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11 May 2017 Last updated at 06:56 BST After two years of training together, the Oxford Bulls have finally played their first game. The boys are all football-mad, but they also have something else in common. They all have a condition called Down's Syndrome. Find out more about what this means here. Ayshah went to meet the boys to find out more about why they love football - and see if her skills were up to their standard!
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Linda Norgrove, from Lewis, had been working in Afghanistan when she was seized by rebels in September 2010. She was killed during a rescue attempt by US special forces. Linda Norgrove Foundation is helping Ascend, a project that teaches mountaineering skills to young women in Afghanistan. Last year, Ascend supported a team of 13 women climbed three peaks over 16,000 feet, including one previously unclimbed mountain which they subsequently named. As they did not have enough boots for everyone, the women climbed in two teams, one getting use of the boots before swapping over so the others could go up. Linda's mother, Lorna Norgrove, said: "We were hugely impressed by what this project is doing for women's empowerment in Afghanistan. News of their achievements has already reached more than 4 million Afghan women and the project is changing the lives of these young women for ever. "I think the project particularly resonated with us because as a family we are all keen hillwalkers and climbers. "We know Linda would have loved this project and we're sure that it will appeal to the many people in the UK who enjoy climbing the hills and mountains. We take for granted the freedom to climb the hills, but this is something which can change lives for these young women in Afghanistan." The Lewis-based foundation raise funds for projects that benefit women and children in Afghanistan.
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Here's a look back at some of the show's most memorable moments: The birth of one of pop music's biggest beefs all started when Kanye West jumped on stage in the middle of Taylor Swift accepting her award for best female video. When Swift's video for You Belong With Me beat Beyonce's Single Ladies, the rapper headed for the stage and took Taylor's microphone. He said: "Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish... but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time." Kanye was booed by he audience, and when Beyonce herself accepted the award for video of the year later in the ceremony, she invited Swift back onstage to finish her speech. Although Britney Spears was already a global superstar, this moment cemented her status as a pop culture icon as she performed her hit song I'm a Slave 4 U whilst draped with a seven-foot Burmese python. Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and several other animal rights groups weren't too thrilled about this. Recalling the performance last year, Britney said: "Oh my goodness, why did I do that? That was so dumb," adding that she would "never" do it again. Lady Gaga is no stranger to shocking the world with crazy outfits, and this one surely topped the list. In 2010, the pop star accepted her video of the year award in a dress made from raw beef. The dress was condemned by several animal rights groups but went on to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. In an interview with American news anchor Anderson Cooper, Gaga explained that her dress was in protest against the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, a rule that banned open homosexuality in the armed forces. Beyonce announced her pregnancy with Blue Ivy in the most Beyonce way ever. After delivering a killer performance of Love On Top, she unbuttoned her blazer, dropped her microphone on the floor (we're sure the sound engineers were big fans of that) and began rubbing her tummy. The audience (and her fanbase) went suitably crazy. Madonna isn't a stranger to delivering crazy performances - from hanging on a crucifix to rocking up in a ball gown as a French royal, we've seen it all. And whilst her 1984 performance at the VMAs would be considered quite tame by today's standards, at the time it was pretty groundbreaking. From her wedding dress costume, to the massive cake she emerged from to her hip thrusting on stage, critics suggested Madonna had set the standard for other artists performing at the VMAs to match. Britney and VMA stunts go hand-in-hand, so it's perhaps unsurprising she features more on our list than anybody else. The singer started her 2000 performance in a tuxedo whilst singing I Can't Get No (Satisfaction). All very formal and elegant. But then the whole world watched Britney rip off her clothes to reveal a skin-tone, bedazzled body suit as she began to sing Oops... I Did It Again. Critics cited this moment as a turning point for Britney's career - between the song and the costume, she did a pretty good job of trying to shed that Mickey Mouse Club image and show the world she was growing up. One of the most jaw dropping moments of VMA history was when Nicki Minaj called out Miley Cyrus. It all started when the rapper criticised MTV for leaving Anaconda out of the video of the year category, implying that she would have been nominated if she was white. Taylor Swift took this as a jab directed at her and responded on Twitter, after which the two engaged in a war of words. And then Miley weighed in on the topic. "What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj, is not too kind," Miley said. "It's not very polite. I think there's a way you speak to people with openness and love. You don't have to start this pop star against pop star war." As Nicki accepted her award on stage and handed back to Miley, who was hosting the ceremony, she said: "And now, back to this [girl] that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press. Miley, what's good?" Nicki later explained to The New York Times Magazine: "I saw [Miley] just looking at me, with her face screwed up, and I thought, 'What the...?'" "The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls." And while we're on the subject of Miley Cyrus... After finishing her performance of We Can't Stop in 2013, the singer was joined on stage by Robin Thicke and that's when things got a little... R-rated. As Thicke began singing the controversial Blurred Lines, Cyrus began stroking him with a foam finger and doing her own interpretation of "twerking" in her latex beige bikini. After Twitter melted, the singer defended it and claimed that she wanted to make history (mission accomplished) - but now it seems she regrets it. Natia Kirkland - commonly known as Lil Mama - seemed to have got caught up in the moment when Jay-Z and Alicia Keys were performing their ode to New York, Empire State of Mind. As the song came to a close, Kirkland who is also a native New Yorker, jumped on stage and posed next to the two superstars with Jay-Z trying his hardest to ignore her. In the middle of performing a mash-up of hits in 2003, Madonna surprised the world by kissing Britney Spears onstage. After cutting to the confused look on Justin Timberlake's face, Madonna then kissed Christina Aguilera. At a time where both Spears and Aguilera were still trying to shake off their innocent teen-idol images, the kiss was an unforgettable VMA moment. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]
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A family statement announced the Canadian singer's death "with great sadness... after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease". Vickers' career spanned three decades and saw him sing some of opera's most challenging roles. His distinctive voice was described by one reviewer as holding "100 colours and inflections". His family paid tribute to "his ringing laughter, warmth, and generous spirit". Born in rural Saskatchewan in 1926, Vickers was described as "a deeply religious and private man". At 24, he won a scholarship to the The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he studied for five years. He was invited to audition for London's Royal Opera House in 1956, where he made his debut the following year. Motivation In 1958, he debuted at the Bayreuth Festival as Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walkuere (The Valkyrie), which launched his international career and become one of his signature roles. The same year he starred opposite Maria Callas' Medea at Covent Garden. He achieved his greatest fame in the 1960s, as part of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with his critically acclaimed performances of Tristan in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and the eponymous Peter Grimes. "The meeting of character and singer," critic Leighton Kerner said of Vickers' Grimes, "has proved to be one of the mightiest collisions in 20th century opera". Vickers claimed that his approach "hung on the music, absolutely - everything I do as an actor I find a motivation for in the music". His deep faith - he was once dubbed "God's voice" - saw him refuse to perform some roles on moral grounds, specifically, Tannhauser. A recipient of many honours and awards, including two Grammys and a Companion of the Order of Canada, Vickers announced his retirement in 1988. He leaves a sister, five children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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The Cube in Corby, which has cost £48m, now has its fourth floor office space completed and available for rent. The rest of the building includes Corby Borough Council offices, a library, theatre and register office. Tom Beattie, the council's Labour leader, said: "There was a cost over-run, but we held our hands up and accepted responsibility." The Cube opened in November 2010, but it had issues, which included a leaking roof. Building inspectors said the helical staircase was "dangerous, like a helter skelter" and it was described by the then Conservative opposition leader David Sims as a "poorly managed, waste of taxpayers' money". Work to bring it up to scratch has now been completed, the council said. Mr Beattie said: "We know it's taken a while, but we've got a building which is functional, people have got used to it and it makes a statement about Corby's ambition. "As you see the developments taking place around the town centre, I don't think any of that would have happened without this building being here - it's acted as a magnet to attract further business." Rob McKellar, current Conservative opposition leader, said: "The Cube is a building Corby can be proud of and it represents Corby's ambitions. "It was controversial and there are multi-million pound overspends. "The public did punish the Labour administration at the ballot box in May and Labour has apologised, but now it's time to look to the future and Corby's is certainly a bright one." Earlier this year, council officer Steven Redfern, reached an out-of-court settlement after launching a £1m damages claim after he turned whistle-blower over the spiralling costs of the project.
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The 36-year-old started his career with the Shrimps and helped them win promotion to the Football League, scoring in their play-off final win over Exeter in 2007. "I'm absolutely buzzing to be honest. I'm so glad to be back," Thompson said. Morecambe have also re-signed 34-year-old midfielder Michael Rose on a one-year deal. Rose made 50 appearances for the Shrimps last season after joining on a one-year deal in August. "I spoke to the manager last season and there was never really any doubts in my mind that I would re-sign," he said. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Pippa McManus, 15, weighed about 4st (25kg) when she was being treated at The Priory in Altrincham. She was released in December 2015 and later died after stepping in front of a train near Stockport. A lack of support available to her family contributed to her death, Stockport Coroner's Court heard. The jury returned a conclusion of suicide but found the care plan when Ms McManus was discharged was inadequate and there was not enough communication with the family about her suicide risk. Inadequate community care and specialist support and a lack of cohesiveness amongst agencies were also contributory factors to her death, the court heard. Speaking after the conclusion, her mother Marie said there should have been more help available and "too many of our children are dying from this terrible illness". "Effective treatment is needed more quickly and if this had been available to our beautiful daughter, maybe she would still be alive today, maybe we would not have needed this inquest," she said. Paula Stanford, hospital director at The Priory, said: "Our heartfelt sympathies are with Pip's family and we will now carefully consider the findings of the jury." During the inquest, the hospital said her anorexia was one of the most severe cases it had seen. The coroner, Andrew Bridgman, said he will write to all of the agencies involved in her care. The inquest heard Ms McManus had a history of self-harming and had previously written a number of goodbye notes to her family, doctor, and The Priory hospital. By the age of 13, she had been diagnosed with severe anorexia and was obsessed with diet and exercise and in September 2014, was sectioned and treated at The Priory. She was released in December 2015, by which time she was not considered high risk, though she remained under hospital care. But following a family row five days later, the teenager walked to Gatley train station near her home and killed herself. Her father, Jim, said his daughter's anorexia "had too strong of a grip." "She used to say she had bad thoughts and wasn't allowed to do things - she couldn't even lick an ice-cream. She'd turn around and say I'm not allowed. "Whatever was going on in her head was so strong she just couldn't comply." Her mother, Marie, said it "was just horrific" and "a nightmare." "[Pippa] hated herself. She thought she was the ugliest person in the world. Whatever you said, it didn't make a difference because that's what the anorexia was telling her. "We needed some trained mental health workers to work with us but they weren't there to do that... We were let down by everybody I think. Everybody had a part to play." Deborah Coles, director of INQUEST, a charity that supported the family during the court process, said her parents' "concerns were dismissed and minimised throughout". "Pip's death has exposed a mental health system which pushed through the discharge of a highly vulnerable child without any of the support or care in place to make sure she would be safe," she said.
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Joan Edwards passed away in September 2012, aged 90, and left her estate to "whichever government is in office at the date of my death for the government in their absolute discretion to use as they may think fit". This wording however caused some confusion. The executors of the will interpreted this to be a donation to the political party in power, and both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats accepted the donation. The public outcry that followed caused both parties quickly to hand back the money so that it could go to the Treasury. Miss Edwards had been a nurse, so it was argued by many, that her intention must have been for it to go to the NHS. It may never be clear what her true intention was - but what is clear is that the wording used in the will was ambiguous. The second case that has hit the headlines involves an anonymous £500,000 legacy made also to the government in 1928, which came with the strict stipulation that it "could only be used to reduce the national debt to zero". Eighty-five years later and the fund is estimated to be worth £350m, but because the national debt stands at about £1.2 trillion, it cannot be touched. It would in this instance have been helpful for the will to have contained a clause that covered this scenario, or if the wording was a little more clear. When the courts have to rule in cases interpreting a will, there is the "armchair principle" in England and Wales. The court will endeavour to discover the intention of the deceased (the "testator") and by looking at extra evidence submitted. It would therefore place itself in the "armchair" of the testator and consider the circumstances that surrounded them when they made their will, to assist arriving at their intention. The law in Scotland and Northern Ireland may differ and separate legal advice should be sought. Homemade wills need to be very carefully drafted. It can be a false economy to make a homemade will, if your beneficiaries then face a costly legal battle to prove your intentions in court. Strict rules governing the way a will is made and executed mean that errors can be made very easily which can invalidate it. These errors often include not signing the will or having it witnessed correctly. Source: Susan Midha The wording of a will can also be problematic as words and terms have specific meanings in law, which may be different to their use by the testator in their will. There are regularly problems with the naming and the identification of individuals in wills. Referring to people by nickname, or an abbreviated name, may cause confusion. Also be careful if you have family members of the same name. If you are related to two John Smiths but only want one to be a beneficiary, then make sure you specify which one is the true beneficiary. Don't forget to include substitute beneficiaries if someone you name as a beneficiary dies before you - and don't assume that the children of a deceased beneficiary will (or will not) take their parents' share - there are special rules which can apply. Altering your will by crossing out sections or making amendments after it has been signed will usually mean the alterations will be invalid and can lead to conflict within the family which can end up in the courts. And it is worth remembering that your will when proved after your death becomes a matter of public record - which means that any one can look at it and obtain a copy. So references to, for example, "that waste of space who is my son" may be worth avoiding. If your will is judged to be invalid then your estate would be distributed in accordance with an earlier valid will or by the intestacy laws. Your intention may not be for the government to benefit, but if there are no family members to inherit and no will, your estate will usually pass to the Crown, ultimately funding the Queen's activities as head of state. The opinions expressed are those of the author and are not held by the BBC unless specifically stated. The material is for general information only and does not constitute investment, tax, legal or other form of advice. You should not rely on this information to make (or refrain from making) any decisions. Links to external sites are for information only and do not constitute endorsement. Always obtain independent professional advice for your own particular situation.
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Mr Bannon, formerly the head of the populist right-wing, Breitbart News website, will join high-level discussions about national security. The order was signed on Saturday. The director of national intelligence and the joint chiefs will attend when discussions pertain to their areas. Under previous administrations, the director and joint chiefs attended all meetings of the NSC's inner circle, the principals' committee. The National Security Council (NSC) is the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. It is led by retired lieutenant-general Mike Flynn, who was one of Mr Trump's closest advisers and most ardent supporters during the campaign. "The security threats facing the United States in the 21st century transcend international boundaries," Mr Trump's executive order said. "Accordingly, the United States Government's decision-making structures and processes to address these challenges must remain equally adaptive and transformative." Last week, Mr Bannon described the US mainstream media as "the opposition party", saying it should "keep its mouth shut". The site he once managed, Breitbart News, serves up an anti-establishment agenda that critics accuse of xenophobia and misogyny. Under Mr Bannon, it became one of the most-read conservative news and opinion sites in the US. Mr Trump also ordered a restructuring of the Homeland Security Council. In two separate measures, the president ordered:
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The 25-year-old batsman died from a haemorrhage in the brain two days after being hit on the neck during a match in Sydney on 25 November 2014. The five-day hearing was convened to examine if his death was avoidable. Some players giving testimony at the inquest have been accused of dishonesty for saying they could not recall many of the events of the day. The inquest, which began on Monday at New South Wales Coroner's Court, heard evidence from players including Brad Haddin, Doug Bollinger and David Warner. The court examined whether Hughes, batting for South Australia in a Sheffield Shield game against New South Wales, had been targeted by short-pitch bowling, or had received unsettling comments from opponents. Questions were also raised about whether a bowler told Hughes "I'm going to kill you" before he was fatally injured. Hughes' parents walked out of the inquest as the counsel representing the family, Greg Melick SC, criticised the players for repeatedly answering many questions by saying "no recollection" or "I can't recall". "At the end of the day, there was a plan, there was sledging, and short-pitched balls were bowled at Phillip Hughes, which increased the risk of an injury," Mr Melick said. "Nine consecutive short-pitched balls from the one bowler aimed at leg stump or the body of the batsman was going too far." Suggestions of fabricated evidence were denied by the counsel representing Cricket Australia and its players. Hughes' brother and sister later exited the inquest as the sworn statements from the players were defended. The counsel assisting the coroner, Kristina Stern SC, said concerns about sledging and short balls were "unnecessary" and should not form part of the findings. NSW State Coroner Michael Barnes will deliver his finding from the inquest on 4 November. A previous report, commissioned by Cricket Australia, said protective helmets should be compulsory for batsman facing fast- and medium-paced bowling. But it said helmets meeting the newest safety standards would not have saved Hughes' life.
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Scott Falconer, 20, Bruce Owens, 19, and Cameron Henry, 17, caused £40,000 of damage at the city cemetery between 15 and 17 July 2011. They were caught after police received pictures showing the vandals at work. At Glasgow Sheriff Court, all three men were ordered to carry out 126 hours of unpaid work. Passing sentence, Sheriff Alayne Swanson branded the damage they caused in the Necropolis "absolutely disgusting". At an earlier hearing, Falconer, from Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, and Henry from Carluke, South Lanarkshire, pleaded guilty to maliciously spray painting racist remarks and slogans on various headstones. Owens, from Cranhill, Glasgow, admitted the same offence as well as kicking over and damaging headstones. The court heard how two gardeners discovered the damage at the cemetery on 17 July 2011. Swastikas were sprayed on some headstones, along with slogans such as "white power", "dubba", and "punks dead ha". Some headstones had been kicked over and damaged and there was also smashed glass from broken bottles. The court was told that on 27 July police received an anonymous email with photographs showing people at the Necropolis that linked them to the case. Pictures were circulated and Owens was identified as one of the people in the photographs. Further investigations through Facebook identified Henry as one of the accused and subsequently Falconer.
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It means BP will have to make the payments that stem from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. BP argued that the deal meant it could fall prey to inflated or bogus compensation claims. BP agreed to the compensation deal in 2012, but argues it has been misinterpreted. Shares in BP fell 1.7% in London on Monday. BP asked the Supreme Court to consider whether people and businesses seeking payments under the settlement included individuals who had not actually suffered any injury as a result of the oil spill. The Supreme Court's rejection of this appeal by BP is the latest in a series of setbacks for the oil firm. BP is trying to limit payments over the environmental disaster, which claimed the lives of 11 people and became the largest US offshore oil spill in history. The settlement agreement has no cap, but BP initially estimated that it would pay roughly $7.8bn (£6.1bn) to compensate victims. It now says it can no longer give a reliable estimate for how much the deal will cost. BP has already paid out $2.3bn in so-called business economic loss claims out of a total of $4.25bn in compensation claims to individuals and businesses, according to Patrick Juneau, the administrator appointed by the courts to handle claims. The settlement process is also separate from other court proceedings relating to the spill, including environmental and criminal penalties. BP has set aside $43bn to resolve all claims. In September, a US judge ruled BP was "grossly negligent" in the lead-up to the 2010 oil spill. The New Orleans judge Carl Barbier also found BP subcontractors Transocean and Halliburton "negligent".
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Police arrested Reuben Stretton, 20, of no fixed address, on Friday and charged him with the murder of 20-year-old Isaac Williams. Mr Williams, who was found injured in Cropthorne Avenue, Evington, on 21 April, died in hospital on Monday. A second man, Devan Garner, 19, of Octon Close, Hamilton, Leicester, has also been charged with his murder. Charlotte Ford, 22, also of Octon Close, Hamilton, was charged with perverting the course of justice. Mr Williams has been described by friends and family as a "quiet, polite lad". Former coach Jon Whike said: "He was easy to coach, always smiling, with a big grin on his face." A tribute on the Railwaymen's Boxing Club's Facebook page said: "Rest in peace Isaac a polite talented young man - our thoughts are with family and friends."
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Media playback is not supported on this device But the West Midlands team have come a long way since their formation in 1991 and can make history on Saturday by reaching the first round of the FA Cup for the first time. It will not be easy against the relative giants of FC United of Manchester but, whatever happens at the Aspray Arena, it will be another chapter in a remarkable story. Sporting Khalsa are fifth in the Midland League Premier Division, the ninth tier of the English football pyramid. On Tuesday, they won at Brocton. The attendance was 87. On Saturday, in excess of 2,000 supporters are expected for the visit of National League North side FC United, who play three tiers above Khalsa, in the FA Cup fourth qualifying round. The winners will earn £12,500 and enter Monday's first-round draw alongside 2008 winners Portsmouth and Wigan, who lifted the trophy by beating Manchester City at Wembley in 2013. "Preparations started on Sunday because we had to clear an access route for vans to bring in the marquees we are having to use because our bar is not big enough," said Inder Grewa, one of Sporting Khalsa's 12 owners, who also acts as treasurer. "We have never before had to think about marquees because we normally only have 50 people here. "There was a load of old metal and chairs that needed shifting. Grass verges had to be dug and stone had to be put down to level it off. "At our level we can't afford to pay people to clear the site. We rely on volunteers. "We sent one email out and had around 20 people turn up, including the manager and some of the players." Prior to this FA Cup run, Sporting Khalsa had never had an attendance in three figures, but there were 750 at the Aspray Arena for the visit of Spalding in the third qualifying round. On Saturday, a combination of local interest and FC United's healthy away following - many of whom are intent on making a trip to nearby Dudley to see the statue of legendary Manchester United and England player Duncan Edwards - could see three times that many turn up. Normal home match plans have had to be altered at a club where stadium and bar manager Bal Gacha is the only full-time member of staff. "We usually print the programmes ourselves on a colour printer," Grewa told BBC Sport. "But we have not been able to do that this weekend because instead of 20 we have had to get a thousand done. "We have gone up from two stewards to 30. "We have brought the marquees in because we simply could not accommodate the numbers we are expecting in the bar. Food will be available, though." Ah yes, the now famous curry house, located within the 4-4-2 bar adjacent to the ground, open on match and non-matchdays. "We just thought it would be an add-on," said Grewa. "We feed the players but football comes first. Everything here is working towards improving the football side." It is safe to assume neither Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger nor Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood were required for landscaping duties before last season's FA Cup final. But that was one of the jobs keeping Sporting Khalsa manager Ian Rowe busy this week after answering the call to help create the access route. Building is nothing new for this Black Country club, sandwiched between Wolverhampton and Walsall, whose story of traversing one side of Noose Lane, where it all began in 1991, to the other, where the Asprey Arena is located, is a compelling one, even if it comes with a sad reminder that some racial stereotypes still run deep. Sporting Khalsa emerged from a group of a dozen Sikh lads who would meet on Willenhall Memorial Park for a kickabout at weekends. Playing standards varied. Passion for the game was in them all. Sporting Khalsa entered the local Walsall and District Sunday League, then moved into Saturday football, pushing the boundaries of what could be achieved. In 2004 they joined the West Midlands Regional League. Three promotions have taken them to the upper echelons of the Midland League. Decisions now, as they always have, are achieved through discussion and consensus, sometimes in the car as they travel to away games. Sporting Khalsa's architects were Asian. Their official website calls them a semi-professional Asian club. But it has always been open to all, regardless of religion, skin colour and gender. They bought a pitch at Bloxwich Town but when Aspray Arena became available after Willenhall Town went into administration in 2009, the opportunity to relocate to a stadium barely 400 yards from the Sunday league pitches where the Sporting Khalsa concept first emerged was too tempting to reject. "There is a group of 12 who you could say are the core of the club," said Grewa. "We were always aware some of us could not play at a good standard. But we just love the game - and we wanted to see how far we could push ourselves. "You still get the odd comment. We were at an away match recently and someone said, 'I thought you lot only played cricket', so that stereotype is still there. "It makes me angry that something like that still happens because it is absolutely not true. "We just love football. It doesn't matter to us if you are black, green or yellow. We welcome anybody. "We have kids teams from under-6s upwards and four ladies teams. We are a community club - and the community is everybody." The club have ambitions of climbing higher up the football pyramid, but there is also a conflict about how progress could permanently alter the identity of the club. "We want to get to the National League," said Grewa. "Once you go into the Football League, it becomes a business. I don't know whether we want that. "The founders of the club have never fallen out. That only happens if there is money involved. As it is, everyone is treated equally. "Up to the National League, we could still do our jobs and handle it." At 15:00 BST on Saturday, the dreaming must stop. By any logic, Sporting Khalsa do not stand a chance of bridging the gap to FC United, akin to a League Two side taking on a Premier League team. They do have an international, central defender Tes Robinson, who plays for St Kitts and Nevis. They also have a forward, Craig Bannister, who has scored nine times in this season's FA Cup. Saturday's match is Sporting Khalsa's seventh FA Cup tie of the season, more than Arsenal played in lifting the trophy in 2014-15. The players share lifts to away games. Many still play Sunday football in addition to Saturdays. And it was not known for certain until less than 24 hours before they left for their replay against Spalding last week that their goalkeeper and winger would be able to play because of work commitments. "I am a Manchester United fan," said manager Ian Rowe, who was appointed at the start of the 2014-15 season. "I have followed the FC United story from the start. Next to having my kids, this will be one of the proudest moments of my life. "But let's not kid ourselves. The chance of us reaching the level we will need to win this game is probably one in a hundred. "AFC Fylde are in the same league as FC United. They beat a team in our league 9-0. I don't want that to happen to us."
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A 1-1 draw away with South Africa in Nelspruit on Friday night ensured that Mauritania finished runners-up to Cameroon in their group for the 2017 African Nations Cup finals. They missed out on a place at the tournament in Gabon but Martins said their group, which also included South Africa and The Gambia, was "one of death". The former France international, whose team had a slim mathematical chance of grabbing a Nations Cup finals berth if they had won the match, said they had always set out their stall to finish second in the group standings. It's not easy to be a national team coach - you suffer a lot on the bench "For a country that does not have a lot of experience in international football, we have gone forward and progressed a lot," the ex-Auxerre midfielder said. "Over the last two years, we have had the opportunity to take on some of the big powers in African football and learnt a lot from the experience. It has been rare for Mauritania to have that kind of chance to play the big teams. "Doing well against them has given us the necessary confidence. We only lost by a single goal twice to Cameroon, we were narrowly beaten by Tunisia in the World Cup qualifiers and we took four points off South Africa. I think we can continue getting good results." Mauritania have long been regarded as one of the continent's lightweights but after Friday's draw they are set to climb into the top 100 of the Fifa world rankings for the first time in 20 years. "We've really been working hard to increase the potential of this team and I think we've progressed very quickly," Martins said. But the 47-year-old, who started his job with Mauritania in October two years ago, says he does not know whether he will be offered a contract extension when his deal runs out in December. "I was very happy in the job, people were very good to me and I had good relations with the administrators. Of course, it's not easy to be a national team coach - you suffer a lot on the bench," he joked. "But I don't know what will happen now." Mauritania lost only two of their six Group M games and finished on eight points. In previous qualifiers they have usually finished bottom of the table, and they have never qualified for the Nations Cup or the World Cup.
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The 25-year-old, who had been with Reading since leaving Huddersfield in 2014, started all four of Northern Ireland's matches at Euro 2016 in June. The former Manchester United trainee joins on a three-year deal at Brighton. "He's a box-to-box midfielder and an excellent passer of the ball," manager Chris Hughton told the club website. "He has a good grounding, coming from Manchester United, and gives us extra options in midfield and adds further depth to our squad." Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Henry Ramos Allup, 72, will be the first opposition politician to lead the National Assembly in 16 years following a landslide victory in legislative elections on 6 December. Mr Ramos said he would ensure the assembly would act "as an autonomous power." The newly elected lawmakers will take up their seats on Tuesday. Mr Ramos Allup was chosen by opposition lawmakers in a secret ballot with 69 votes out of 111 cast, defeating 46-year-old Julio Borges of the Justice First party. He is expected to be formally confirmed in the post when the lawmakers take up their seats. Mr Ramos Allup is the secretary general of the social-democratic Democratic Action party, which has long been opposing the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor in office, Hugo Chavez. The government says Mr Ramos Allup is a member of Venezuela's "old guard". His Democratic Action was one of two parties that alternated in power for four decades before President Hugo Chavez was elected president in 1998. But his supporters say the 72-year-old has the experience and political savvy to turn the National Assembly into a counterbalance to President Maduro's executive branch. Mr Ramos Allup said the MUD opposition coalition, which won a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly, would show Venezuelans "a more democratic way forward". Known for his sometimes confrontational style, he struck a surprisingly conciliatory note after his election. "We represent an alternative. We are not going to be anti-establishment, rather an autonomous legislative power," he said. "We ask people to watch us, to demand more of us, and keep an eye on what we do to make sure we honour our commitment," he added. Nevertheless, the first session of the assembly is expected to be tense after the opposition coalition said all of its 112 members would take up their seats even though three have been suspended by the Supreme Court pending investigations into alleged voting irregularities. Tension is also expected to be high around the National Assembly building, as both the opposition and the governing Socialists have called on their supporters to converge on the building.
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Internet searches from the week before the crash were found on the tablet computer used by Andreas Lubitz, Meanwhile, the second "black box" flight recorder from the plane has been recovered. There were no survivors among the 150 people on board the A320 on 24 March. The German prosecutors said internet searches made on the tablet found in Lubitz's Duesseldorf flat included "ways to commit suicide" and "cockpit doors and their security provisions". Spokesman Ralf Herrenbrueck said: "He concerned himself on one hand with medical treatment methods, on the other hand with types and ways of going about a suicide. "In addition, on at least one day he concerned himself with search terms about cockpit doors and their security precautions.'' Prosecutors did not disclose the individual search terms in the browser history but said personal correspondence supported the conclusion Lubitz used the device in the period from 16 to 23 March. Lubitz, 27, had been deemed fit to fly by his employers at Germanwings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa. The first "black box", the voice recorder, was recovered almost immediately at the crash site. Based on that evidence, investigators said they believed Lubitz intentionally crashed Flight 9525, which was travelling from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, taking control of the aircraft while the pilot was locked out of the cockpit. The second "black box" recovered is the flight data recorder (FDR) which should hold technical information on the time of radio transmissions and the plane's acceleration, airspeed, altitude and direction, plus the use of auto-pilot. At a press conference, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said there was "reasonable hope" the recorder which was being sent to Paris for examination, would provide useful information. The "completely blackened" equipment was found near a ravine and was not discovered immediately because it was the same colour as the rocks, he said. He said: "The second black box is an indispensable addition to understand what happened especially in the final moment of the flight." He told the media 150 separate DNA profiles had been isolated from the crash site but he stressed that did not mean all the victims had been identified. As each DNA set is matched to a victim, families will be notified immediately, he said, He added 40 mobile phones had been recovered. He said they would be analysed in a laboratory but were "heavily damaged". Also on Thursday, Germanwings said it was unaware that Lubitz had experienced depression while he was training to be a pilot. Lufthansa confirmed on Tuesday that it knew six years ago that the co-pilot had suffered from an episode of "severe depression'' before he finished his flight training. ``We didn't know this,'' said Vanessa Torres, a spokeswoman for Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings, which hired Lubitz in September 2013. She could not explain why Germanwings had not been informed. The final minutes Lubitz began the jet's descent at 10:31 (09:31 GMT) on 24 March, shortly after the A320 had made its final contact with air traffic control. Little more than eight minutes later, it had crashed into a mountain near Seyne-les-Alpes. What happened in the last 30 minutes of Flight 4U 9525? Who was Andreas Lubitz?
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Media playback is not supported on this device The Dons took the lead when Jonny Hayes' corner landed at the near post, with Caley Thistle's Gary Warren deflecting in Ash Taylor's shot. Greg Tansey headed wide for the visitors, while Hayes, Kenny McLean and Niall McGinn all missed for the Dons. Miles Storey should have made it 2-0 but somehow got the ball caught under his feet on the goal line. The result moves Aberdeen 13 points clear of third-placed Rangers, with the two sides set to meet on Sunday at Pittodrie. Aberdeen may have been unable to mount a serious title challenge this season, but they are still on course for a record points tally after surpassing the run of home wins set by Sir Alex Ferguson's side in 1986. They now need 12 points from the last seven matches to do that, but an overall run of 12 victories in their last 14 Premiership matches suggests they are up to the task. Aberdeen impressed with their pace, intensity and variety of movement going forward in the first half, but the defence remains equally effective as they have now gone 531 minutes without conceding a goal. Of course this was another painful night for Caley Thistle manager Richie Foran in what has been a steep learning curve for the Dubliner in his first season in the job. No team in British senior football have won fewer league matches than the Highlanders this season and, while they are not yet entirely cut adrift at the bottom, time is fast running out to turn things around. The sight of five former Caley Thistle players in such an impressive Dons squad was compounded by the knowledge that current top league marksman Greg Tansey is moving to Pittodrie in the summer. The midfielder is desperate to leave with the club still in the Premiership, but he missed one of their best chances of the evening when he headed a Henri Anier cross over the bar from six yards in the first half. The real disappointment for Foran, though, will be that the goal they conceded was a gift for Aberdeen. It was poor marking by the Caley Thistle defence as Dons pair Taylor and Andrew Considine contested a Hayes corner, the ball eventually deflected in by captain Warren off Taylor's strike. Despite a battling performance, Caley Thistle simply could not find a way back into the match. They did have a late let off, though, when former Inverness player Storey had an incredible miss when he failed to convert from point-blank range after a Hayes shot came off the post. Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes: "We didn't have the same rhythm or flow to our game as we normally have, but there were a number of factors for that as we had the game in our pocket but didn't know whether to stick or twist. "We are delighted to get the 10th home win on the bounce for the first time since that great Aberdeen side in 1986 with so many top players and a top manager in Sir Alex Ferguson. "That keeps the distance between us and Rangers and we just look forward to playing them here on Sunday now but we have a lot of hard games left." Inverness CT manager Richie Foran: "We had chances to go one up but we didn't take them then we give a goal from a set-piece which was really disappointing. "We work hard on defending those so it was a sloppy goal to give away and Aberdeen looked more confident than we did. "We are not going to be judged on games against Aberdeen though. We have seven must win games left and I believe we can still get enough points to get out of trouble." Match ends, Aberdeen 1, Inverness CT 0. Second Half ends, Aberdeen 1, Inverness CT 0. Attempt blocked. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Alex Fisher. Hand ball by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT). Substitution, Inverness CT. Alex Fisher replaces Kevin McNaughton. Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Andrew Considine. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Gary Warren. Attempt blocked. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Substitution, Aberdeen. Ryan Christie replaces Niall McGinn. Substitution, Aberdeen. Miles Storey replaces Adam Rooney. Attempt missed. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by David Raven (Inverness CT). Attempt missed. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Attempt blocked. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Attempt saved. Larnell Cole (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Owain Fon Williams. Attempt saved. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Andrew Considine. Substitution, Inverness CT. Dean Ebbe replaces Henri Anier. Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing. Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Carl Tremarco (Inverness CT). Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Kevin McNaughton. Attempt blocked. Ryan Jack (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Substitution, Inverness CT. Larnell Cole replaces Ross Draper. Foul by Andrew Considine (Aberdeen). Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Gary Warren. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Kevin McNaughton (Inverness CT). Attempt missed. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT). Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Joe Lewis. Attempt saved. Liam Polworth (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT). Attempt blocked. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
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Thousands of commercial vessels from around the world enter UK waters every year, bringing a chance for international criminal gangs to surreptitiously move drugs over water and on to shore. If illegal substances are being smuggled, it is the job of the National Deep Rummage Team (NDRT) to find where. But vessels are vast structures with many hiding places - some are capable of carrying 14,000 containers, equal in length to a 44-mile long train. Drugs could be concealed anywhere from under a cabin bed bunk to the harder to reach places like tanks filled with liquid or buried deep within the bulkhead. Paul Tunney, the team's senior officer, said: "It's like a giant game of hide and seek but there's no-one to tell us if we're getting warmer. "You've got to go on board with imagination and with the mindset that you are going to find something." Working vessels are hostile environments and with it brings the risk of danger to rummagers. They have to climb in and inspect tanks, crawl into the vessel's inner structure or scale the hull walls of the cargo holds. Because of the specialised nature of their work, they also have to be trained in immediate life support first aid and self rescue, rather than rely on other emergency services. "When we're on a vessel it is working, it is discharging and loading cargo so there are lots of things on the move," said Mr Tunney. "If we're going into a confined space it needs to be aerated, there could be gases or a lack of oxygen in it. "If we're going into a tank, we have to check the atmosphere of the tank and go in wearing breathing apparatus. "People have died in accidents on vessels and we don't want that to happen to our officers." As crucial as hunting out and searching the confined spaces is, the 'bread and butter' of rummage work is talking to those on board. "We talk to the captain and crew, monitor their body language, see how they feel about us being on board and take all those factors into account," said Mr Tunney. "There are clues, it's just recognising them. It may be that the captain says no-one has been in a particular area but you notice footprints or you see some new piece of construction. "Vessels don't smuggle, it's people that smuggle." The Border Force's NDRT formed in 2004. There are now four specialist teams based at Liverpool, Immingham, Felixstowe and Southampton. Since its launch, the teams have found some 777 kilos of class A drugs with a street value of approximately £155m. The teams are responding to an ever-changing shipping world. Crew previously made their fortunes smuggling tea, silk and brandy into UK ports. Now highly organised international crime groups are able to bring drugs, cigarettes and illegal immigrants into the UK. Mr Tunney said: "Often we find people involved in smuggling are going on diving holidays thinking they can learn to dive and then collect drugs attached to the hull of vessels over here. "Diving in water near ships is totally different to swimming in the Red Sea. "It's an unforgiving environment and people can very quickly get disorientated." The team works closely with other maritime authorities, the police dive teams, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and other government departments. Vessels are selected for searching by an intelligence-driven method, with those presenting the highest risk targeted. Much of the team's success comes down to having access to the MV Altea - a ship that was impounded after being caught attempting to smuggle 17 tonnes of cannabis into the country in 1989. It was agreed by the Treasury to let the rummaging team use it as their training facility and the vessel is now permanently moored in Liverpool Docks. Mr Tunney said: "At the end of the day we're stopping illegal goods onto the streets of the UK, we're protecting our families and communities and that's where we get our buzz."
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Koukash's club were docked six points and fined £5,000 for breaching the salary cap in 2014 and 2015 by the RFL. Before that ruling, he said he would go to "all-out war" with the RFL if they were found guilty. "I am in talks with a number of other chairmen to set up a meeting to bring a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the RFL," said Koukash. "They are not fit for purpose. We invest millions into rugby league and want what is the best for the sport. "I have been in the sport for four years and commercially the game has gone backwards in that time." Millionaire racehorse owner Koukash would need six of the 12 Super League clubs to call an emergency meeting and bring a no-confidence motion. In a statement, the RFL responded: "As an organisation, we are here to work for the clubs and all those with an interest in rugby league. "Our governance ensures that there is an established democratic process that a club can follow to make their voice heard and we will always listen to what they have to say. "Whilst we will continue to work hard to improve the fortunes of all clubs, a recent independent benchmarking report has demonstrated that, as a sport, we are generally in a stronger financial state than we were two years ago." Koukash will hold a press conference on Wednesday, 18 May where he is expected to discuss the recent salary cap charges further.
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The winning film, I Daniel Blake, marks the 13th time that Loach, the director of more than 50 movies, has competed at the event. It's also exactly 10 years since he won the same prize for his 2006 Irish drama The Wind That Shakes The Barley, starring Cillian Murphy. Loach uses I, Daniel Blake to expose the welfare system in the UK, and says he wants the film "to break audience's hearts, but also to make them angry". Daniel Blake, played by stand-up comedian Dave Johns, is an older man living in Newcastle who, because of a heart attack, can no longer do his job. However, a mobility test by the Department of Work and Pensions declares him fit for work and while he waits for his appeal, Daniel Blake can only claim Jobseekers Allowance. His inability to take any work offered means his money is stopped, and he begins to go hungry. Loach, a social campaigner for most of his career, believes the current criteria for claiming benefits in the UK is "a Kafka-esque, Catch 22 situation designed to frustrate and humiliate the claimant to such an extent that they drop out of the system and stop pursuing their right to ask for support if necessary". "The state's attitude is not an accident," he claims. "The poverty, the indignity, the humiliation people go through is consciously done. "The state is knowingly inefficient or cruel, knowing that people will be driven to frustration, despair, hunger and possible suicide. "Claimants are portrayed as 'scroungers' in the media but research has found that less than 1% of claims for benefits are fraudulent. "That's certainly less than the figures for tax evasion, for example. "But there's an attitude that suggests that if you're poor, it's your fault. If you are out of a job, it's your fault. It's done to get the numbers down and the most vulnerable in our society are suffering as a result." Half a century ago, Ken Loach wrote the screenplay for the BBC play Cathy Come Home, which examined homelessness in Britain in 1966, and the director says his latest film "is a snapshot of how life can be lived in Britain in 2016". "We wanted to explore the human consequences of welfare policy in terms of relationships, and who people become through these policies." Loach and his long-time collaborator, writer Paul Laverty, spent several months visiting British cities such as Stoke, Newcastle, Liverpool and Glasgow, meeting people seeking work, or on low-paid or zero-hour contracts. "We started in my home town of Nuneaton and met a young lad there who was sleeping on a mattress in a charity home. "He was doing the odd bit of work on zero-hour contracts, he'd given up on benefits - he said it was too humiliating. "He hadn't worked for a couple of weeks, and the week before he hadn't eaten for four days. "I opened his fridge and there was nothing in it - nothing at all. And this was one of the first people we encountered." Loach and Laverty say they also based a pivotal scene in the film, where a mother arrives at a food bank having not eaten for days, on a real anecdote from one of the centres they visited in Glasgow. "Food banks have been praised by the state without any sense of shame at all and yet it's appalling in 2016 that people are having to make the choice between food and heating, which is common. "After the war in 1945, we were desperately poor in Britain, but there is no way people would have been starving, their communities wouldn't have let them. "That we now have this situation is testament to the policy of individualism that successive governments have pursued. "It's shocking that we are apparently such a wealthy nation with such grotesque wealth at the top and such desperate poverty and fear at the very bottom." The film has won widespread acclaim from critics, with Variety magazine calling it "one of Loach's finest films, a drama of tender devastation, a work of scalding and moving relevance". But despite its concentration on the UK welfare system, Loach, who will be 80 next month, insists that the movie also applies to an international audience. "There is a conscious cruelty in the way we organise our lives now which means the most vulnerable people in society, such as the disabled, are caught in this unfair situation. "They are often unable to live with dignity, and instead suffer pain and deep despair. "It's deeply shocking that this is happening at the heart of our world." I, Daniel Blake will be released in the UK later this year
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The former business secretary said the lack of an alternative to Chancellor George Osborne's Northern Powerhouse was a "huge political mistake". He said Labour did not have election policies to "rebalance both the economy and the political system". In May, Mr Osborne said northern England would get more powers. He laid out plans to transfer powers on housing, planning, transport and policing. Lord Mandelson said Labour's proposals had not been "radical enough". "We stepped back and passed the ball to the Conservatives and the coalition," he told BBC's Sunday Politics North West. "And what did they do? They ran with it... and it was a strong part of their appeal both in the North West but also nationally. "And the Labour Party, I'm afraid, has a long way to catch up. But catch up, it must do." He added: "I think George Osborne got it. I think he got it because he saw an electoral advantage in it... and we let him do so. And that was a huge political mistake." Lord Mandelson, a key figure in the governments of former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, is currently running for the position of University of Manchester chancellor. He has been nominated alongside writer Lemn Sissay and Sir Mark Elder from the Hallé Orchestra. Lord Mandelson said he wanted the post "because the city of Manchester is becoming the most exciting, edgy place to be around in England". "Let's be honest, something very exciting is happening in this region as part of the Northern Powerhouse." The new chancellor will be announced on 22 June. Sunday Politics North West, BBC One North West, Sunday 7 June 11:35 BST During the General Election campaign Labour told voters its policies on devolution were more radical than George Osborne's "Northern Powerhouse". But the trouble was nobody could point to a coherent strategy. Lord Mandelson has become the first senior Labour Party figure to admit it simply did not exist. The former business secretary was clearly frustrated policies he began to formulate in government were not developed by Labour in opposition. He clearly believes the party handed a political advantage to the Tories, something he describes as "a huge political mistake". No wonder so many North West council leaders have been willing to work collaboratively with the government, despite the substantial cuts they have endured. It is difficult to imagine how Labour lost the political initiative in its own regional heartland. Labour will fight hard to win it back but that will become increasingly difficult if the Northern Powerhouse strategy starts to bear fruit.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Three-time Olympic eventing medallist Fox-Pitt, 47, has been named in a 12-strong Team GB equestrian squad for this summer's Games. He suffered a head trauma when he fell from his horse at the World Young Horse Championships in France in October. "I felt maybe Rio was selfish but it gave me a kick into action," he said. "I did think I'd been doing it for 32 years, did I need to carry on doing it?" he told BBC Sport. But Fox-Pitt, who won Olympic team silver in Athens 2004 and London 2012 and team bronze in Beijing in 2008, said "an individual title would be marvellous". "I think if I did win a medal my wife would make me give up. Media playback is not supported on this device "I've been around a long time, I'm 47 and I'm hoping my wife thinks this will be my last Olympics. I'm not ruling myself out for Tokyo, if it happens brilliant. "The Rio goal was a great drive personally, it gave me a good reason to get back", before adding of his ride: "I didn't want to let Chilli Morning down, I put everything into getting selected." Fox-Pitt was competing at Le Lion-d'Angers when he fell from Reinstated, which was unharmed. "I've come off a lot of times in my life, and in being knocked out my memory has been very selective and I've been able to put it behind me." He said the fall "affected my sight, my judgement and made me more dozy, in the beginning it was all a little bit of a dream". "It's been an incredible journey, I've had incredible support." Meanwhile world, European and Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin will ride with fellow 2012 gold medallist Carl Hester in the dressage. London gold medallist Nick Skelton goes to his seventh Games in the jumping. Another gold medallist in London, Ben Maher, joins Skelton in the jumping team along with Los Angeles 1984 silver medallist John Whitaker, who will be competing in his sixth Games. Younger brother Michael Whitaker, who also won silver in 1984, is heading to his fifth Olympic Games. Fox-Pitt is joined in the eventing team by three Olympic debutants in Kitty King, Izzy Taylor and Gemma Tattersall. There are two Olympic debuts in the dressage as Spencer Wilton and 2015 European team silver medallist Fiona Bigwood earn selection. Squad: Eventing: William Fox-Pitt, Kitty King, Gemma Tattersall, Izzy Taylor, reserve: Pippa Funnell MBE Dressage: Fiona Bigwood, Charlotte Dujardin OBE, Carl Hester MBE, Spencer Wilton, reserve: Lara Griffith Jumping: Ben Maher MBE, Nick Skelton OBE, John Whitaker MBE, Michael Whitaker, reserve: Jessica Mendoza
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Tries from Kotaro Matsushima and Yoshikazu Fujita helped them into an 18-8 half-time lead, with Takudzwa Ngwenya crossing for the US. Amanaki Mafi burst through for Japan's third try before Chris Wyles crossed to give the United States hope. But Goromaru's third penalty late in the game gave Japan a clear lead. After their thrilling opening win against South Africa, Japan went on to add the scalps of Samoa and the US, but their heavy defeat by Scotland left them third in the group, and they miss out on a place in the last eight. The Eagles finish having lost all four of their matches. Japan, who left Kingsholm to a standing ovation after a lap of honour, host the competition in four years' time and will go into that tournament buoyed by an excellent World Cup on English soil. They had only ever won one match at a World Cup before, and their three victories in England represent a significant improvement. Japan are the first non-tier-one team to win three matches at a single Rugby World Cup. Full-back Ayumu Goromaru is the first player to score more than 50 points in a single RWC campaign for Japan. At the end of the pool stage, only Greig Laidlaw (60) has scored more than him in 2015 (58). Eric Fry became the seventh player to get a yellow card for the USA in a RWC match. Japan's win brought to an end a highly-competitive and entertaining pool stage. The quarter-finalists are now known as the 2015 tournament reaches the business end. USA: Chris Wyles; Takudzwa Ngwenya, Seamus Kelly, Thretton Palamo, Zach Test, AJ MacGinty, Mike Petri; Eric Fry, Zach Fenoglio, Titi Lamositele, Hayden Smith, Greg Peterson, Al McFarland, Andrew Durutalo, Samu Manoa. Replacements: Phil Thiel Thiel for Fenoglio (63), Cam Dolan for Smith (31), John Quill for Peterson (77). Japan: Ayumu Goromaru; Yoshikazu Fujita, Harumichi Tatekawa, Craig Wing, Kotaro Matsushima, Kosei Ono, Fumiaki Tanaka; Keita Inagaki, Shota Horie, Hiroshi Yamashita, Luke Thompson, Justin Ives, Michael Leitch, Michael Broadhurst, Ryu Koliniasi Holani. Replacements: Karne Hesketh for H. Ono (73), Masataka Mikami for Inagaki (59), Takeshi Kizu for Horie (77), Kensuke Hatakeyama for Yamashita (41), Shinya Makabe for Ives (68), Hendrik Tui for Broadhurst (73), Lelei Mafi for Holani (41). Attendance: 14,578 Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand) For the latest rugby union news, follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter.
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Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa drugs cartel, was captured on Friday after escaping from a prison in Mexico last year, the second such breakout he's managed to pull off. Guzman had been charged with drug trafficking and murder. US prosecutors have said he's helped to bring more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US over the last several decades. He has operated a vast drug empire that has a fleet of trucks, aeroplanes and submarines, as he told Penn in the interview, conducted while Guzman was still in hiding. Actor Penn has been secretive about the circumstances around the interview, which was conducted while Guzman was being pursued by Mexican and American authorities, and how he managed to secure it in the first place. He says he was put in touch with the drug lord through the Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who was in talks with Guzman about a biopic. In his Rolling Stone piece, Mr Penn talked about the use of burner phones and other methods used to escape detection by authorities. Many people have wondered whether Mr Penn broke the law with his reporting - and whether or not he could be prosecuted. But legally, it is OK to talk to someone when they are a fugitive from justice? "Simply having contact with a known narco-trafficker is not the basis of prosecution," said Daniel Richman, a professor of law at Columbia University and a former federal prosecutor. But if Mr Penn had helped Guzman in some way to avoid capture - or interfered with the authorities' efforts to find him - he could be prosecuted. There don't seem to be signs that Mr Penn is guilty of that, or that authorities in the US or Mexico will file criminal charges against him. In the past, authorities have decided not to go after journalists or former officials who have interviewed notorious figures. Osama Bin Laden spoke to journalist Robert Fisk for a series of interviews, and to former US justice department official John Miller in 1998 for an ABC News report. Neither Mr Fisk nor Mr Miller was prosecuted. A senior intelligence official told the BBC that in a similar way it's unlikely that Mr Penn will be. Yet his interview has made people uncomfortable, especially given Guzman's history of violence. "It may be immoral," said Stanford Law School's Robert Weisberg, describing Penn's journalistic work. "But it's not illegal." Caleb Mason, a former federal prosecutor who used to work on drug-smuggling cases, said Mr Penn was unlikely to be prosecuted in Mexico, either. "He was just doing an interview," said Mason. "Mexican law is pretty protective of journalistic rights." Still, Mexican authorities have made it clear they would like to talk to Mr Penn - though they haven't said anything publicly about prosecuting him. As Cesar Diaz, a former senior special agent who worked on investigations of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug trafficker, said: "If I was a Mexican authority, I would want to know: How in the heck did Sean Penn know where El Chapo was and we didn't?"
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Award organisers posted on Facebook: "We have some really sad news. Calvin Harris has taken ill and will not be able to perform at tomorrow's show. "He sends his sincere apologies. Get well soon, Calvin!" On Twitter, the 30-year-old DJ is reported to have said: "No EMAs for me this weekend. Got some heart problems. Heading home to see if it can be fixed x."
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The 29-year-old former Billericay, Peterborough United and Gillingham man scored nine goals in 24 appearances for Boro last season. "There were a couple of players at Stevenage that stood out last season and Chris was one of them," Dons boss Neal Ardley told the club website. "His goalscoring record from midfield has been exceptional over the years." Whelpdale becomes AFC Wimbledon's third signing of the summer following their promotion to the third tier via the League Two play-offs. The Dons have not disclosed the length of his contract at Kingsmeadow. Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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The papers were presented to a meeting of health board chief executives and civil servants last month. They suggest the NHS is facing a £400m funding gap, and sweeping changes will be needed for boards to break even. The Scottish government said it was committed to "protecting and increasing the NHS budget". The papers were passed to the BBC and The Herald by a senior NHS whistleblower, who said they had become frustrated by the argument of the "Yes" campaign that the biggest threat to the NHS comes from the UK government. The documents state: "The status quo and preservation of existing models of care are no longer an option given the pressing challenges we face." The whistleblower has alleged that pressures on the NHS come from Scottish government policies. The confidential documents relate to a meeting held by NHS bosses on 6 August 2014. As part of an initiative to transform care by 2020, legislation has been passed by the Scottish government to encourage more community care. However, the papers say this has been undermined by "continued commitments" which are "directly in conflict" with the 2020 vision and increase the cost of expensive hospital care. The documents say new obligations are "not fully funded". The documents conclude that the "status quo in terms of service and workforce planning is not an option". The papers outline a funding gap of £400-£450m in the next two financial years, 2015-17, which is described as "a level significantly in excess of that previously required". The documents suggest that health boards will have to consider centralising hospitals and closing services - a measure which the SNP vowed to stop when it was elected in 2007. The Scottish government reversed the closure of Accident and Emergency departments at Monklands and Ayr hospitals, but the papers suggest such dramatic measures may be back on the table. "Radical and urgent decisions need to be made regarding the shape and configuration of services," the document states. But it also points out that boards are "without the mandate and authority to implement the scale of change and redesign required". "We need to commit to these priorities and accept that significant changes require to be implemented," the papers conclude. The whistleblower told the BBC: "Services are unsustainable right across Scotland from three emergency centres in Lanarkshire, to emergency care at the Vale (of Leven) to paediatrics at St John's (in Livingston), and with particular issues for more rural boards, hence the problems at Grampian. "The current pattern of services is underpinned but short-term money and fixes won't stack up going into next year. "There is a complete gap between policy announcements about care in the community and more money for primary care, and the announcements and commitments which continually increase the cost of acute care." The Scottish government said the paper was "part of the regular discussions among NHS leaders to plan for NHS Scotland's future". Health Secretary Alex Neil said: "We've protected Scotland's NHS from the Tories' cuts, and with independence we can ensure that it is never again under threat from Westminster's dangerous obsession with austerity. "Despite Scotland's budget being slashed by 7.2% by George Osborne between 2010/11 and 2015/16, our increases in health spending means that the NHS is receiving record high funding, with a budget increase of over £1bn between 2010/11 and 2015/16." He added: "To ensure we can continue to develop the NHS, it's important that NHS boards regularly discuss their future plans to inform budget discussions with Scottish government officials, and to identify how we will continue to deliver quality care and treatment. "We continue to develop our health service to meet the changing demands of the people of Scotland, and that's why we've already legislated to integrate health and social care from April next year. "This integration of services is particularly important to ensure our elderly population is kept well and provided with care in the best setting for their wellbeing."
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The South African was the fastest qualifier for Saturday's final with a time of one minute 57.67 seconds. "Caster Semenya is one of the contenders," Mutola, who won the 800m Olympic title at the 2000 Olympics, told BBC Africa. "Pamela Jelimo from Kenya and the Russians are also very, very capable. I'm looking forward to a good final." Mutola, 39, set the benchmark for women's 800m running until her retirement in 2008, winning three world titles and the Olympic title in Sydney. Semenya, who won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships, asked her "idol" Mutola to be her coach at the end of last year with the sole purpose of helping her win Olympic gold. The 21-year-old looked comfortable in the semi-finals, producing a burst of speed down the back straight to move to the front of the pack and take the line two metres clear of her rivals. "In 800m you need to be able to run a fast race, and you need to be able to win a tactical slow race," explained Mutola, who is in London to fine-tune Semenya's preparations. "You [need to] combine those two things - so if the race is slow you can win anyway and if the race is fast then it's even better, [as in] the final they'll have to dip under two minutes. "Since I've got here I've focused more on my athlete Caster Semenya as I know she has to do well, so I'm just enjoying being a coach for the first time." Semenya became global news when she was asked to take a gender test by athletics' governing body the International Association of Athletics Federations in the aftermath of winning her world title. Doubts were raised over her gender because of her muscular physique, running style and sudden improvement in times. Semenya was suspended for 11 months by the IAAF but was cleared to return to the track in July 2010. She won silver at last year's World Championships in Daegu despite a back problem.
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