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The attacker did not want to be part of the regime of Charles Green, who fronted the consortium that bought the business and assets of Rangers Football Club plc in liquidation.
He left in June 2012 and joined Everton as a free agent the following month.
"Nothing changed as a football club and that's where I was wrong," Norwich City's Naismith told BBC Scotland.
"At the time, I was panicking about the legal situation, 'If I say this, they can do that'. I was being guided on what to say.
"I can understand why [Rangers fans weren't happy]. Even some of my mates have chinned me about it.
"You were walking a tightrope, worried about what to say from a legal side of things. But, for me, the club was still the same, everything was still the same.
"It's one of the biggest regrets of my career. I still support Rangers and want them to get back challenging."
Under corporate law, Rangers players had the option of transferring their contracts to the new company, but Naismith, along with several others - including Steven Whittaker, chose to leave.
Naismith and Whittaker held a news conference at which the former said his "loyalty was with Rangers. I've never met anyone from Sevco [the company Green formed to buy the business and assets]".
"As players, we didn't come out of it the way that we wanted because we didn't have our squad the same and we weren't challenging for titles as we wanted," Naismith said.
"Rangers have suffered massively and the club was put into the hands of the wrong people. Everybody else has suffered for that and it's really sad.
"I was 25. To go back to the Third Division with [Green], who'd probably force me out the club to somewhere I probably wasn't keen on going, and I wasn't sure that money would help Rangers - I would have lost my international career.
"Ideally, I would have stayed, but when you take your whole family and everything about it [into account], I couldn't take that risk.
"Maybe if better people had said, 'this is what we're going to do to build this club back and we're going to be challenging', that makes the decision much easier.
"The one thing I can walk away from it and look at is all the people who had part-time jobs, to the tea ladies, who probably worked the hardest and are there, that security for them was the biggest thing that came out of it for us."
Naismith and other senior players took 75% pay cuts in February 2012 when Rangers went into administration, which allowed younger players on lower wages and other staff to take smaller pay cuts.
That process was long and drawn out, though, which left Naismith feeling on edge about events at the club.
"Sad, very sad," he said when asked how he feels about his departure.
"There are regrets on my part on some of the things that were said. As a group of players, from that day we got told we were going into administration, we couldn't have done any more.
"We thought we'd cracked it, take a 75% wage cut and things will recover. We wanted assurances [for the other staff] and what about an 18-year-old just in the squad?
"We were speaking to lawyers and Greegsy [goalkeeper Allan McGregor] came up with a way. But it boiled down to the administrators [Duff and Phelps] saying they didn't want to do it that way. We gave them a viable way to move forward and thought, 'this isn't right at all'.
"It got worse and worse. Things just kept coming out, which you were thinking, 'that isn't right'. Charles Green came in and it was the same thing: 'everything's going to be rosy, don't worry', but what went on from when he came in to when I left, I was thinking, 'I can't trust this guy with my career'.
"If I knew Rangers were going to get [transfer] money, I'd have stayed. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't trust that guy with my career."
Naismith spent five years at Rangers, winning three league titles, two Scottish League Cups and one Scottish Cup.
He looks back on the day that the Ibrox side won the 2010-11 championship at the home of his former club, Kilmarnock, as one of the highlights of his career.
Naismith scored the second goal as Rangers raced into a three-goal lead after seven minutes in the final game of the season, one they needed to win to secure the title, in what was also Walter Smith's final game as manager.
"The best day for me is winning the league on the last day at Kilmarnock, 3-0 up after seven minutes, because it's the perfect day," Naimsith said.
"You need to win, early kick-off, after a minute we're 1-0 up, 2-0 up after four minutes, 3-0 after seven minutes, then you know you've won the league and you can just enjoy the day.
"We won [the league] at Dundee United, Hibs and Kilmarnock, so the bus journey home was incredible. Playing in the Champions League, winning trophies, so many [memories]."
Naismith grew up in Ayrshire supporting Rangers and says he wants to spend the final years of his career in Scotland.
His preference would be to do that at Ibrox or Rugby Park, where his career started, but for now says there is unfinished business for him at Carrow Road.
"I would never say never, because if I was coming back to Scotland then personally I would love it [returning to Rangers]," the 30-year-old said.
"There's a lot of water under the bridge, they've moved forward under a new manager and, at the moment, I feel I still owe Norwich something.
"Last season wasn't a great season and I've probably not played my best football in that time. I want to repay what they've done for me.
"I'll definitely play [in Scotland] before I finish, I love the football, it's where I started. So I will come back and play in Scotland." | Steven Naismith says he "regrets" describing Rangers as a new club when he left Ibrox in 2012. | 40,445,277 | 1,450 | 32 | false |
The teams included former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini and ex-England spinner Ashley Giles.
The game was played at a height of 5,730m (18,799 ft) in a flat crater just below the summit.
They played 10 overs each of a Twenty20 game before clouds stopped play.
"This is absolutely incredible! We are playing cricket on the summit of Africa!" Giles tweeted on Friday morning.
The current record for the world's highest game is 5,165m, played in the Himalayas at Everest base camp in Nepal in 2009.
The "Gorillas" team, led by England women's vice-captain Heather Knight, scored 82-5 to beat Giles' "Rhinos" team, who managed 64-9, the AFP news agency reports.
A man in his 30s was found dead at a property in Hotwell on Friday.
Avon and Somerset Police said a post-mortem examination showed "no assault had taken place" and the death is not being treated as suspicious.
A toxicology report is being sought which could take several weeks. The man has not been formally identified.
A man in his forties arrested on Friday is no longer being held.
Laing, 23, spent three months at Meadow Lane on loan from Nottingham Forest in 2014 and has rejoined the League Two Magpies until 16 January.
Motherwell signed him from Forest last year after he impressed while on loan at the Scottish club.
"I'm really happy to be back here. The last time I was here I played what I felt was my best football," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
He made 12 appearances during his previous stint at the club, during which time Notts kept six clean sheets.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
In the 1980s, El Salvador was ravaged by a bitter civil war stoked by gross inequality between the overwhelming majority of the population and a small and wealthy elite that left around 70,000 people dead.
A United Nations-brokered peace agreement ended the civil war in 1992, ushering in important political reforms, but the country still suffers from the legacy of a divided society.
Violent "mara" street gangs have left El Salvador with one of the world's highest murder rates.
Population 6.3 million
Area 21,041 sq km (8,124 sq miles)
Major language Spanish
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 68 years (men), 77 years (women)
Currency US dollar & Salvadoran colon
President: Salvador Sanchez Ceren
A former rebel leader, Salvador Sanchez Ceren won the presidential run-off of March 2014 by a narrow margin.
As presidential candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), he beat Norman Quijano of the conservative Arena party by less than a quarter of a percentage point, becoming the first former guerrilla to lead the Central American country.
In his inauguration speech, he promised to fight corruption and violence, and "to serve as president of all Salvadoreans".
Press freedom is guaranteed under the constitution, and the media freely and routinely criticise the government and report on opposition activities.
But ownership of broadcasting outlets is concentrated among a small group of private operators, and media owners "often impose controls on journalists to protect their political or economic interests", according to US-based Freedom House.
Some key dates in the history of El Salvador:
1540 - El Salvador becomes a Spanish colony after indigenous resistance is crushed.
1821 - Independence from Spain.
1823 - 1840 - El Salvador forms part of the short-lived United Provinces of Central America, which also includes Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
1859-63 - President Gerardo Barrios introduces coffee growing.
1932 - Some 30,000 people are killed during the suppression of a peasant uprising led by Agustine Farabundo Marti.
1969 - Football War with Honduras; 4,000 die in 100-hour conflict.
1979 - 1992 - Civil war. Between 1979 and 1981 around 30,000 people are killed by army-backed right-wing death squads.
2009 - Former FMLN rebel movement emerges as largest party in parliamentary elections and shortly afterwards former rebel Mauricio Funes wins presidential elections.
2012 - A year-long truce between street gangs. It reputedly saves the lives of thousands but violence rises again in subsequent years. | A group of international cricketers has set a new world record for the highest-ever match by playing at the top of Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in Tanzania.
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Ashe follows Stuart Hogg, Henry Pyrgos and Greg Peterson in extending his stay with the Warriors.
He turned professional with Glasgow in 2011 and played for his allocated club Ayr on Saturday as he continued his recovery from hip surgery.
"It's a brilliant feeling to extend my contract," he told Warriors' website.
"Glasgow Warriors is a fantastic environment and I'm surrounded by great players, great coaches and great fans so it was an easy decision for me to make.
"As a club it is really taking off, we've just had two good wins in Europe [away and home against Racing 92] and it's exciting to be a part of something that is moving in the right direction."
Head coach Gregor Townsend added: "Adam has become an important member of our squad, after coming through our academy system.
"He has a really good attitude and has worked hard to come back from his injuries fitter than ever and we're all excited about seeing him back on the pitch in a Glasgow shirt soon."
The 18-year-old, who can play in defence or midfield, made his full debut last season for the U's.
Carroll started three league games towards the end of the campaign as Oxford finished eighth.
"I've loved my time at the club," he said. "The boss, coaches and players have been fantastic and I want to be part of what's happening here." | Scotland back-row forward Adam Ashe is the latest Glasgow Warriors player to commit his future to the Pro12 side until May 2019.
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Mark Hughes, 23, from Buckley, admitted to the possession of a sawn off shotgun and stun gun last summer, as well as drugs offences.
He said he found the weapons while digging in his grandparents' garden.
But that was dismissed as "utter nonsense" by Judge Rhys Rowlands at Mold Crown Court.
Hughes was found in possession of the double barrelled 60cm (24 inch) shot gun and the stun gun - which gives off an electrical charge - on 31 July 2016.
Both were in working order.
He told the court he had the weapons as he was considering taking his own life.
Judge Rowlands said it was a sad case and it was clear Hughes had suffered a very unpleasant injury.
But he dismissed his claim of finding the weapons in a garden.
He told Hughes: "You are addressing a very keen gardener. I don't come across weapons in my garden and I suspect no one else does either".
Judge Rowlands added that Hughes may well have considered harming himself, but if he persisted with his claims of how he came by the weapons, evidence would have to be called. He would then lose credit in sentencing.
Hughes will be sentenced next month.
The government eventually sold its 40% stake in early 2015 for almost double the estimate by financial advisers.
That was good news for the taxpayer, but it underlined a "repeated tendency" to undervalue assets, the Public Accounts Committee said in a report.
The PAC also criticised delays in publishing data on the HS1 rail line.
MPs said it was "unacceptable" that there was a two-year delay by the Department for Transport in publishing an evaluation of Britain's first high-speed rail line.
It meant that important information that could have been used by Parliament to consider other projects, including the HS2 high speed line, was not available.
The PAC claimed it denied Parliament the ability to use "important information" when considering HS2.
Meg Hillier, the committee's chairwoman, said the issues over the Eurostar sale and the HS1 report "raise serious questions about the government's approach to valuing public assets, as well as its commitment to considering the value for money of public spending on such expensive projects".
She highlighted concerns that the sale of Royal Mail, whose shares soared after its stock market flotation, was also undervalued.
The Treasury, the PAC concluded, relies too much on a "small pool" of financial advisers.
The government's 40% holding in Eurostar was sold for £585.1m to Patina Rail, an investment consortium. But the Treasury, and its advisers UBS, put a price tag of £305m on the stake.
The sale of the government's entire stake in Eurostar has netted £757m, although that is far less than the estimated expenditure on the project of £3bn, the PAC said.
A Treasury spokeswoman said: "The government welcomes the committee's conclusion that the sale of our stake in Eurostar was well-handled and secured a good return for the taxpayer.
"Releasing public assets we no longer need is at the heart of our long-term plan to tackle Britain's debts and boost economic growth, and that's why we've recently identified up to £4.6bn of further asset sales, to help build on the huge progress we've already made."
She said it would be misleading to suggest the government "set out" to undervalue its assets and added that its approach to Eurostar was approved by an independent adviser.
The £3.5m 3T MRI scanner at the Royal Hospital for Children is the first in the south of England; the only other in the UK is at Alder Hey in Liverpool.
The scanner's image-guidance technology allows surgeons to conduct scans during a procedure to track progress.
It means children need undergo only one anaesthetic, reducing distress.
Mike Carter, consultant neurosurgeon at the children's hospital said the scanner was "150,000 times more powerful than the earth's magnetic field", providing "phenomenally accurate 3D images".
"It lets us see abnormalities in the brain - such as lesions which cause epilepsy - that we may not have previously been able to see, and allows us to look at the ways memories are formed and where they are stored," said Mr Carter.
The scanner was paid for by the Wallace and Gromit Grand Appeal and through donations to its Gromit Unleashed arts trail in 2013, as well as major donations from Children With Cancer and Garfield Weston Foundation. | A Flintshire man who shot himself in the foot has been told to expect a long prison sentence.
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The eight-storey Rana Plaza factory building near Dhaka collapsed on 24 April with an unknown number inside.
The authorities say about 2,500 people were injured in the accident and 2,437 people were rescued.
The recovery operation is expected to finish on Friday. The rubble will then be shifted by bulldozers.
On Friday morning, officials said a total of 1,021 bodies had been recovered from the debris of the fallen factory building in Savar. Almost 650 have so far been identified and handed over to families.
Many bodies were decomposed, but could be identified by mobile phones in their pockets or staff passes, Army Captain Shahnewaz Zakaria said, adding that "most are female garment workers".
Bhopal, India (1984): Toxic gas escapes from Union Carbide plant. Official initial death toll put at 3,800; deaths to date thought to be 15,000
Halifax, Canada (1917): Explosion on board French munitions vessel Mont-Blanc in Halifax harbour, and resulting tsunami, kill 1,950 people
Benxihu, China (1942): Explosion destroys Benxihu (Honkeiko) colliery in Liaoning, China, during Japanese occupation, killing 1,549 labourers
Oppau, Germany (1921): Explosion at Badische Anilin chemical works, producing nitrates, destroys plant as well as nearby village, killing 1,500 people
Courrieres, France (1906): Dust explosion at Courrieres mine in Pas-de-Calais department kills almost 1,100 people
Savar, Bangladesh (2013): Eight-storey Rana Plaza, housing garment factories, collapses in suburb of Dhaka, killing more than 1,000 people
In pictures: Recovery operation
The authorities are taking DNA samples from the victims, which can be used in future compensation claims, AFP news agency reported.
Brigadier-General Siddiqul Alam, who is overseeing the recovery operation, said: "We have found a huge number of bodies in the stairwell and under the staircases. When the building started to collapse, workers thought they would be safe under the staircases."
"Each time we moved a slab of concrete, we found a stack of bodies."
Bodies are being taken to a nearby school building where relatives of those still missing are waiting.
Correspondents say the silence is frequently broken by wailing as victims are identified by their families.
The Rana Plaza building had housed a number of garment factories.
A number of people have been arrested and charged with causing deaths by negligence. Protesters have taken to the streets calling for the death penalty for the Rana Plaza's owner, Mohammad Sohel Rana.
Just a day before the collapse, the building was briefly evacuated when cracks appeared in the walls. However, workers were later allowed back in or told to return by the factory owners.
The government has launched an inquiry. Preliminary findings suggest vibrations from four giant generators on the compound's upper floors triggered the collapse.
The Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, wrote in an article published by local newspapers on Thursday that the disaster was "a symbol of our failure as a nation".
"The crack in Rana Plaza that caused the collapse of the building has only shown us that if we don't face up to the cracks in our state systems, we as a nation will get lost in the debris of the collapse,'' he added.
Mr Yunus also urged global fashion brands not to abandon the country, saying that garment factory workers subcontracted to produce their clothing should be seen as de facto employees.
Bangladesh has one of the largest garment industries in the world, and some of the clothes produced in the Rana Plaza building were made for Western retailers.
On Wednesday, Bangladesh announced the shut-down of 18 garment factories for safety reasons, amid growing concerns over the issue of industrial safety across the country.
A fire in a garment factory building in another part of the capital on Thursday killed eight people, including its owner, a senior police officer and a local politician.
The cause of the blaze is not yet known, but it began during the night, after the factories had closed for the day, and sent out smoke and gas that suffocated victims as they ran down stairs, officials said. | The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial accident has passed 1,000 as recovery teams continue to find more bodies in the wreckage. | 22,476,774 | 948 | 28 | false |
Officers were previously told not to shoot drivers of moving vehicles because of the additional dangers it posed, Simon Chesterman said.
But he said the approach had changed in the wake of attacks such as those in Westminster, Nice and Berlin.
He added officers now had ammunition to penetrate doors and windows.
Last month, Khalid Masood killed four people on London's Westminster Bridge when he mounted the pavement in a car and drove into pedestrians.
One of the biggest challenges previously faced by police was the risk of bullets bouncing off the glass on vehicles in such attacks, said Mr Chesterman, of the National Police Chiefs' Council.
"We've seen some very horrible and different tactics lately involving vehicles and lorries," he said.
"Within our policy, we used to talk about not shooting at a moving vehicle because of the danger we might cause if we fired at a driver.
"But if the vehicle is being used as a weapon in the first place, there aren't many tactics available in relation to stopping it, particularly a very large lorry.
"Driving a vehicle in front of it for example is not going to stop it. So you need to shoot the driver," he said.
As part of the change in policy, Mr Chesterman said the tactics of firearms officers were now "far more aggressive".
They are no longer being told to "locate, contain and neutralise" but to "locate and confront", he said.
He also announced that the number of authorised firearms officers available to be deployed across England and Wales is to reach 10,500 by next year - an increase of about 1,500.
In April 2018, there will be about 7,000 armed police from the 43 forces in England and Wales, and 3,500 from other forces, including the Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
The government is funding 1,000 extra armed officers, while forces are paying for 500 more.
Mr Chesterman said the capability of armed officers was "phenomenally different" from previous years following investment in recruitment and training.
But he warned that concerns about the way police are treated after fatal shootings could act as a "tipping point" and discourage people from joining or staying on.
During the raids on 7-8 May and 8-9 May 1941 more than 400 people were killed in the East Yorkshire port.
In all 1,200 were killed, 3,000 injured and more than 150,000 were made homeless by German raids on the city.
A service has been held at Holy Trinity Church and a book about the attacks has been launched.
The book written by a local author, mixes fact and fiction with any profits going to the Hull People's Memorial fund.
Hull suffered numerous air raids because it was a port, easy to find, and German aircraft flew over it to reach other targets such as Sheffield, Liverpool or Manchester.
Alan Bingham, of the Hull People's Memorial, said: "I think it is extremely important to remember the people who lived through the blitz and who survived.
"They have lived through the nightmares for the rest of their lives. Some of the sights they have seen must have been truly horrendous."
Source: A North-East Coast Town - T Geraghty
The Rev Canon Dr Neal Barnes, Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, said: "The city was really traumatised and we wanted to help the people to remember."
The service in the church included popular songs from WW2 to "get into the mood that helped Hull get through those dark days", he added.
Other events and exhibitions to mark the blitz are being held over the weekend.
The US Commodity and Futures Commission (CTFC) alleges it and its former subsidiary Mondelez Global bought $90m (£61m) of wheat futures but had no intention of taking delivery of it.
The CTFC said their huge purchase raised the price of the commodity and earned them a profit of $5.4m.
Kraft recently agreed a merger with Heinz in a move that would create the world's fifth largest food company.
The regulator wants to apply a permanent injunction on future violations as well as to apply financial penalties.
In 2010, Kraft took over chocolate maker Cadbury, but in 2012 spun the firm off as part of its global snacks business Mondelez, which includes brands such as Oreo biscuits and Trident gum. | Police may now have to shoot terrorists at the wheel of vehicles to stop them being used in attacks, the national lead for armed policing has said.
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Common People will showcase a bill of live music and DJs and takes place on 28 and 29 May 2016.
It will run on the same weekend as a twin festival in Southampton, the inaugural event of which ran earlier this year.
Rob da Bank said he was "buzzing with excitement" and called South Park a "stunning setting".
He added: "We have an amazing line up to share with you very soon - from pop stars to underground legends.
"Thanks for having us Oxford."
The DJ is curating the festival with the organisers of Bestival in conjunction with Oxford City Council.
The park played host to a major Radiohead gig in 2001.
Last year a festival at the site featuring Gaz Coombes, Katy B and Klaxons was cancelled because of poor ticket sales.
It happened on the westbound carriageway between junctions 38 and 39 at about 08:20 GMT on Tuesday.
South Wales Police said a 50-year-old man from Cardiff was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
A two-year-old boy was taken to hospital, where he remains.
Both carriageways had to be closed for several hours on Tuesday morning but diversions were lifted in the afternoon.
The crash, involving a BMW, Peugeot and Audi, happened between the Margam and Groes interchanges.
The AnaOno Intimates show was devised by US designer, and breast cancer survivor, Dana Donofree, and introduced by Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino.
Models with different shapes and stories proudly bared signs of surgery.
Nearly half of the models had metastatic, or advanced, breast cancer, according to Ms Donofree.
All proceeds went to Cancerland, an outreach and advocacy charity in the US.
Warning: This article contains images of partial nudity
"I felt sexy, I felt beautiful, and I was proud," Paige Moore, 24, said after taking part in the show.
Five weeks ago, she had preventative double mastectomy after genetic testing.
"I was like these scars are sexy and awesome, and I am here, I am alive and I feel good. That is all that matters," she said.
In the US and the UK, cancer researchers say one in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.
"It is a very important moment for them [the models] to get out there and experience something like this because breast cancer has taken over their bodies," Ms Donofree told Reuters.
Ms Donofree also had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with the disease, aged 27.
She started designing underwear for others who have undergone breast surgery after realising that traditional garments no longer fitted.
Ms Donofree wrote about her story and the inspiration for the show on her website.
"As I slowly rebuilt my own self-esteem and confidence, first by getting a mastectomy tattoo, then by talking to other women about life after acute treatment, and finally trying on my first bra prototype, I wondered why none of this was part of some greater 'What to Expect When You're Expecting a Mastectomy' pamphlet they handed out at your surgeon's office."
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It was ousted from the state coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats.
Meanwhile right-wing anti-migrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) will enter the state parliament for the first time with 14% of the vote.
Mrs Merkel's popularity has waned since her decision last year to allow more than a million migrants into Germany.
The CDU won 17.6% of the vote - its worst-ever result in Berlin.
It is the party's second electoral blow this month, having been pushed into third place by AfD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. AfD will now be represented in 10 out of 16 state parliaments.
Mrs Merkel told reporters that, if she could, she would turn the clock back many years to prepare the government better for the influx of migrants and refugees.
The Social Democrat SPD emerged as the strongest party with about 22%, in spite of losing almost 7% of their voters, and said it would hold talks on forming a coalition with all parties except AfD. It is expected to drop the CDU as a coalition partner in favour of the left-wing Die Linke and the Greens.
AfD co-chairman Joerg Meuthen said the party was strongly positioned for next year's national elections and colleague Beatrix von Storch predicted that it would become the third-largest political force in Germany in 2017.
"We're witnessing in 2017 Angela Merkel's battle for survival," she said.
It's being described as the "Merkel malaise".
For the second time in a month, Angela Merkel's conservatives have suffered a humiliating defeat at the regional ballot box.
Both votes are widely seen as a verdict on Mrs Merkel's refugee policy. But the result also reflects growing disillusionment with Germany's establishment parties. The Social Democrats may have won the election here but they lost voters; their success is being described as the weakest victory of all time.
Germany's political landscape is changing. The anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric of AfD resonates with the electorate. The party is now almost certain to win seats in the national parliament next year which could complicate coalition building. Commentators predict the start of a more complex politics.
And many blame Angela Merkel. For the first time, the chancellor's political future feels uncertain. Don't expect her to stand down any time soon. But, increasingly, her own party views her as irrevocably tainted by her refugee policy. She needs to convince them - and the public - that she's in control.
Angela Merkel acknowledged that the refugee crisis would change Germany. Arguably, the most seismic shift thus far is at political level. And Mrs Merkel is on shaky ground.
Bavarian Finance Minister Markus Soeder, from the CDU's sister party CSU, was quick to call it the "second massive wake-up call" in two weeks.
"A long-term and massive loss in trust among traditional voters threatens the conservative bloc," he told the Bild daily, adding Ms Merkel's right-left national coalition had to win back support by changing course on its immigration policy.
Mrs Merkel appeared to shift her position on migration at the weekend when she distanced herself from a phrase she used at the height of the influx of migrants at the end of August 2015.
"Wir schaffen das" (we will manage it) was at the time an expression of sentiment that many would recognise, she told a business website on Saturday. But she now saw it as dated and too much had been read into it: "so much so that I'd prefer not to repeat it because it's become something of a simplified motto, an empty formula".
Sunday's election in Berlin, a city-state of 3.5 million people, was dominated by local issues including poor public services, crumbling school buildings, late trains and a housing shortage, as well as problems in coping with the migrant influx.
"Protest election turns capital into tatters," proclaims daily tabloid Bild, which describes Berlin's SPD mayor as Germany's "weakest election winner of all time".
The rise of the right-wing AfD is driven by voters who feel "forgotten and marginalised", says Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
On the fate of the chancellor, Spiegel says that while her CDU "crashed", she is likely to be able to blame local factors, rather than anger at her welcoming stance on migrants. Sueddeutsche Zeitung sees a party revolt as unlikely: "No-one knows how things will carry on without her." | Germany's CDU, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has described the party's historic losses in Berlin state elections as a "bitter defeat". | 37,403,542 | 1,021 | 36 | false |
One expert, commissioned by the BBC, estimates it could amount to "somewhere in the region of £1bn".
The customers potentially affected had PPI on credit cards issued by Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, MBNA and Capital One.
All claim to make every effort to pay a correct amount of compensation.
The extent of the shortfall is difficult to assess.
The shortfall in compensation arises because, although these banks all refunded the premiums on their mis-sold PPI policies plus interest as regulators require, they have been failing correctly to refund additional charges which were triggered by the premiums of the mis-sold PPI policies.
Some of those premiums put people over their borrowing limits, meaning they were then charged an additional fee.
This failure to include fees and charges in compensation calculations has resulted in dramatic reductions to the amounts some customers have received.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told the BBC that it is already discussing the issue with the banks involved.
"If there are penalty fees or charges that arise from the mis-sale of the original PPI, then they should be refundable," said Clive Adamson, the FCA's director of supervision.
In February, Mark Pascoe was paid £5,800 of PPI compensation by the large credit card company MBNA. But MBNA's calculations did not include just over £600 in fees and charges Mr Pascoe incurred since taking out his card in 1997.
According to the claims management company advising Mr Pascoe, had those fees been correctly included in the calculations, his compensation payout would have more than doubled - to more than £13,000.
"It's absolutely outrageous," Mr Pascoe told the BBC. "That's almost robbery, isn't it? They should be fined big time."
MBNA said they would not comment on a case still under review.
Martin Baker, managing director of Renaissance Easy Claim, the company advising Mr Pascoe, says his case is by no means atypical.
Mr Baker says he has identified a string of clients with PPI on their credit cards who suffered compensation shortfalls which run into many hundreds or thousands of pounds.
"It was just another way by which the banks and lenders were trying to reduce their compensation bills," says Mr Baker.
All of the banks concerned declined an invitation to be interviewed on how their compensation calculations work and why they are not fully including the effect of fees and charges, as regulators require.
In a statement to the BBC, Lloyds Banking Group said: "When a customer lets us know that they may have incurred other costs because of their PPI policy, we will investigate and make an appropriate refund."
Regulators have told the BBC that such fees and charges should be included in the initial offers that banks make.
Barclays acknowledged that its previous system, which assessed month-by-month whether a PPI premium had triggered a fee, did not fully capture the cumulative effect of fees and charges, as regulators require.
But it said it had compensated customers who were affected.
"Both our current and historic methodologies have been assured as compliant with regulations. In the case of late and over limit fees, where it is possible to identify that fees have been triggered by the customer taking PPI, we have already repaid them and in recognition that we may not have been able to identify all fees, we have paid additional interest to more than mitigate any customer detriment," a spokesperson told the BBC.
MBNA confirmed it currently operates a monthly assessment methodology, but one that excludes most fees and charges. MBNA told the BBC: "Because of this, it is not and never has been our practice to refund these fees.
MBNA said their methodology had been independently reviewed and they were confident it was correct.
"The last transaction to be applied to the account at the end of the statement period is the PPI premium (ie, after the over-limit fee has been assessed) and as such, it can never be the PPI transaction that causes an over-limit fee in that statement period," MBNA said.
Capital One declined to reveal its compensation methodology. In a statement to the BBC, the company said: "We aim to pay redress that puts the customer back in the position they would have been in if they had not had PPI."
However, the BBC has learned that the Financial Ombudsman Service has recently instructed Capital One to recalculate two cases of compensation to include fees and charges.
And it has begun investigating how Capital One recalculates its offers in relation to fees and charges across all cases.
Listen to Michael Robinson's full report on what individual banks have done; how to find out if you qualify for more compensation; and how to get it if you do on You and Yours on Radio 4 at 12:00 BST on Thursday 5 May
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It is difficult to establish how much compensation the banks concerned have so far avoided paying their customers, since only they have access to the detailed records required for an accurate assessment.
So the BBC commissioned Cliff D'Arcy to estimate the size of the compensation shortfall and how much banks would have to pay to make it good. Mr D'Arcy spent 12 years as a banker working in the PPI industry.
Now an independent consultant, Mr D'Arcy has become a prominent critic of how banks had mis-sold the product and dealt with subsequent compensation claims.
Mr D'Arcy said: "I'm confident that the figure will be somewhere in the region of £1bn of extra compensation."
He told the BBC: "It was only when I got deeper into the numbers that I realised the scale of this problem.
"It's because banks were charging very high penalty fees, very high rates of interest on borrowing and some of these claims go back decades. So it just compounds and multiplies to a very big number."
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is the ultimate arbiter of PPI compensation disputes between customers and banks.
Principal Ombudsman Caroline Wayman told the BBC that under the rules, there is no doubt fees and charges triggered by mis-sold PPI premiums have to be refunded to customers.
"If a fee is the result of the mis-sold PPI, it should be given back, and if it's not included, that would be a mistake," said Ms Wayman.
She says she does not how widespread this problem is, but told the BBC: "The first thing is to understand how many times has this has happened and how many times it's had a material impact. That's very difficult to judge."
"Any widespread failure to carry out proper calculations would most definitely be disappointing," she added.
Ms Wayman says credit card customers who suspect their fees and charges were left out of their compensation calculations should go back to their banks to ask what happened.
"If you're not satisfied with the answer, bring it to the ombudsman and we can see what we can do," she said.
FOS has handled about a million PPI compensation cases, with some 400,000 more still in the pipeline. Last year, FOS took on 1,000 new staff to help deal with that backlog.
That caseload is now likely to grow.
But Mr D'Arcy says the Financial Conduct Authority should take the initiative and instructs banks that "charges and the interest on them should be repaid to each and every customer in each and every case".
Listen to Michael Robinson's full report on You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 at 12:00 BST on Thursday, 5 May. | Some leading banks may have underpaid compensation certain customers are due for mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance, the BBC has learned. | 27,679,311 | 1,657 | 27 | false |
Vladimir Putin has been Russia's dominant political figure since his election as president in 2000, serving two terms and then a four-year stint as prime minister, before resuming the presidency in 2012.
Since his re-election against a token opponent, Russia's authorities have further tightened control over the media, marginalised genuine opposition, and adopted a stridently nationalist and anti-Western course to shore up domestic support, in contrast to a previous emphasis on stability and prosperity.
The last process accelerated with Mr Putin's tough response to the toppling of the pro-Russian government in Ukraine by pro-EU protests in early 2014.
Russia subsequently seized Crimea from Ukraine - a move that prompted Mr Putin's domestic approval rating to soar - and fomented a violent rebellion in the eastern provinces on Russia's border.
The following year, President Putin responded to the imperilled state of his ally President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, where Russia maintains its sole Mediterranean naval base, by sending warplanes to bomb the positions of rebel groups.
The president presents himself as a strong leader who took Russia out of the economic, social and political crisis of the 1990s and defends Russia's national interests, particularly against what he portrays as Western attempts to corner and foist cultural values on it.
Critics say that since taking power, Mr Putin has created an almost neo-feudal system of rule that concentrates control over key economic resources in the hands of a narrow circle of close associates, and is smothering economic dynamism, democratic development and a nascent civil society to protect itself.
Several of Mr Putin's rivals and opposition activists have sought safety abroad or ended up in prison, most prominently the former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent 10 years in jail following his arrest on tax evasion and fraud charges in 2003.
Born in St Petersburg in 1952, Vladimir Putin began his career in the KGB, the Soviet-era security police. From 1990 he worked in the St Petersburg administration before moving to Moscow in 1996. By August 1999 he was prime minister.
He was named acting president by his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, and went on to win presidential elections in May 2000, having gained popularity for launching a successful offensive against Chechen rebels, following a mysterious series of deadly explosions in Russian cities. He won again in 2004.
Barred by the constitution from running for a third consecutive presidential term in 2008, he made way for his prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, before the two swapped roles in 2012.
By this time, parliament had extended presidential terms from four to six years, so that Mr Putin - already one of Europe's longest-serving leaders - could potentially stay in power until 2024. | President: Vladimir Putin | 17,839,882 | 624 | 5 | false |
From 2-2 at the break, on-loan Bristol City striker Arnold Garita turned in playmaker Graham Carey's goal-bound 25-yard drive for Argyle's third goal on 54 minutes at Home Park.
Substitute David Goodwillie made it 4-2 in stoppage time with a close-range tap-in, keeping the second-placed side four points behind leaders Doncaster.
Plymouth may have kept a clean sheet at Liverpool but they conceded after two minutes against Stevenage as Matt Godden turned in Luke Wilkinson's nod down from close range.
Argyle levelled on 35 minutes through Jordan Slew, again from close range, as he turned in Jake Jervis' effort from Graham Carey's corner.
Jervis put Argyle ahead for the first time in the 42nd minute, swivelling on Connor Smith's flick-on after Slew's cut-back from the bye-line.
Stevenage restored parity in first-half stoppage time when Steven Schumacher's 30-yard free-kick bounced up to beat Luke McCormick.
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Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 4, Stevenage 2.
Attempt missed. Ryan Loft (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Connor Smith went off injured after Plymouth Argyle had used all subs.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 4, Stevenage 2. David Goodwillie (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Nathan Blissett (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Nathan Blissett replaces Jordan Slew.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Connor Smith.
Substitution, Stevenage. Charlie Lee replaces Ben Kennedy.
Attempt missed. Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Attempt saved. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top left corner.
Tom Pett (Stevenage) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box.
Attempt saved. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Craig Tanner replaces Jake Jervis.
Attempt missed. Ben Kennedy (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Luke Wilkinson.
Attempt missed. Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces Paul Garita.
Attempt missed. Tom Pett (Stevenage) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Ryan Loft (Stevenage) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Jordan Slew.
Ryan Loft (Stevenage) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ryan Loft (Stevenage).
Substitution, Stevenage. Michael Tonge replaces Kgosi Ntlhe.
Substitution, Stevenage. Ryan Loft replaces Rowan Liburd.
Jake Jervis (Plymouth Argyle) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt blocked. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
David Fox (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Schumacher (Stevenage).
Attempt missed. Fraser Franks (Stevenage) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Stevenage. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Foul by David Fox (Plymouth Argyle).
Tom Pett (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Plymouth Argyle 3, Stevenage 2. Paul Garita (Plymouth Argyle) with an attempt from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Graham Carey.
Foul by Paul Garita (Plymouth Argyle).
Steven Schumacher (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Plymouth came back from a goal down to beat Stevenage 4-2 in League Two ahead of Wednesday's FA Cup third round replay at home to Liverpool. | 38,539,259 | 1,221 | 33 | false |
Newsreaders tell us a story is trending, editors tell their staff they want interviews to trend and activists want their causes to trend.
The goal for many news organisations today is to have their content shared so widely, so quickly and across so many platforms that it takes on a life of its own, achieving a sort of uber-ubiquity and eventually the hallowed status of "viral".
But how did asking "what's trending?" become such a pervasive online trend?
To get to the roots of trending you have to go back to late 2006, when a group of engineers in the US state of Virginia, founded a company called Summize.
At first glance the start-up's website looked like any other search engine. But while Google and Bing focused on facts and figures, Summize was being more touchy-feely.
"We had a premise that real-time summarisation and sentiment analysis were important - looking at how people feel about a given topic," recalls its co-founder and former chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury.
"Often, we can pull out an exact date like when was Abraham Lincoln born - it's very factual - but [not] how do you feel about the weather?
"Or how do you feel about this political topic or that?"
In the mid-noughties, social media sites were still a bit of a novelty, so for answers to those questions Summize first turned to more traditional sources of online opinion including product reviews and blogs.
Mr Chowdhury and Summize's chief executive Jay Virdy soon noticed that when it came to opinions, there was one site that was fast becoming a global repository: Twitter.
They directed their technology at the platform and quickly saw results.
"Within six weeks we were doing over a million queries a day," Mr Chowdhury says.
"The hot thing at that time was the iPhone. You could see everyone's opinion and what they were saying about the iPhone in real-time."
Once it became clear that Twitter's content and Summize's technology were a good fit, a union between Twitter's 12 employees and Summize's six was inevitable, added Mr Chowdhury.
In 2008, Twitter acquired Summize and in the process users finally got the ability to search within Twitter.
Trending and hashtags soon followed.
Mr Chowdhury became Twitter's chief scientist and although he cannot recall exactly when or who coined the term, he remembers well the moment he realised trending was going to be big.
"I was taking the train and I said: 'Let's see if we can put together an algorithm to really figure out what people are talking about,'" he said.
"And so I started pulling out the people, places and nouns that were being discussed on Twitter."
Mr Chowdhury stressed that his original algorithm concentrated on spikes in the conversation.
"People are always talking about Apple or McDonald's or the BBC, but what you really want to know is did that deviate?" he explained.
"Is it way more than expected?
"As I'm taking the train ride and I'm watching the nouns coming out, I start to see Rome, Prague, London, Moscow.
"What I realised is that I was watching the Olympic torch runner run through Europe. It was at that moment I realised that trends - this ability to extract what's new and interesting happening in real-time - was going to be a thing."
Mr Chowdhury welcomes the fact that trending has broken out of Twitter and been embraced by other sites. However, he feels a little of his original vision has been lost along the way.
"Trending today seems like someone looking for interesting content to push up at the top, not necessarily something that the large majority of people want to talk about at the moment," he said.
The columnist and magazine editor Ann Friedman writes about journalism and technology. She says that trending has opened mainstream media's eyes to stories that would otherwise have been missed.
"I'm not so pleased with the trending era that I think every trending topic should be the equivalent of front page news, but I think editors tend to miss some things - they're not the most diverse group and stuff like trending topics and hashtags can really bring something to their attention," she said.
"I like to see reporters pushed by readers. To me that's good for journalism."
In September 2011 Abdur Chowdhury left Twitter after what he called an "amazing experience".
But his contribution has not been forgotten.
Last month, on the day of Twitter's 10th anniversary, Chowdhury got a personal and very public thank you from the man who'd bought Summize eight years previously.
"Thank you @abdur for being the coolest scientist I know and for building Twitter search and Trends," posted the social network's chief executive Jack Dorsey. | It's one of those internet phrases that have seeped into everyday usage. | 36,608,936 | 1,106 | 17 | false |
The fire had been smoking at Alexandra Docks since 20,000 tonnes of wood first caught alight on 5 December.
Residents had been advised to stay indoors and keep windows and doors closed after the initial blaze.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the fire, which was found to be accidental, was put out on Monday.
Participants in the poll were shown six options to replace the current flag and favoured one dubbed "Southern Horizon".
Western Sydney University's Benjamin Jones said New Zealand's flag referendum inspired the study.
He said both the Southern Horizon flag and New Zealand's winning design retained elements of the existing flags, but removed the Union Jack.
The poll comes amid renewed debate over whether Australia should be a republic.
"Several Australian politicians have stated their support for an Australian republic," Mr Jones.
"But certainly no prominent politician is tying their reputation to changing the flag."
All but one of of Australia's state and territory leaders signed a document in support of dropping the Queen as head of state.
Critics said republicans were yet to propose a viable alternative to Australia's current system of constitutional monarchy.
Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut, which includes former President John F Kennedy among its alumni, published the findings following an investigation.
Allegations of abuse dating from the 1960s were handled internally at the school, the report said.
The school acknowledged the findings, adding: "We profoundly apologise."
"The conduct of these adults violated the foundation of our community: the sacred trust between students and the adults charged with their care," the school said.
The apology comes after the boarding school, which US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka also attended, launched an independent investigation into historic reports of "adult sexual misconduct with students".
It said that after asking people to come forward with information relating to the allegations, it "received numerous calls and emails".
The earliest incidents recorded concerned conduct from the early 1960s, with faculty members at the school allegedly abusing students until as recently as 2010.
The greatest number of recorded incidents took place in the 1980s, according to the report.
There were no reports of sexual misconduct involving current members of staff.
In an incident reported in 1999, a Spanish language teacher is alleged to have raped a 17-year-old female student in a swimming pool during a school trip abroad, the report said.
In some instances the school, which dealt with the misconduct internally rather than involving the police, "moved quickly and decisively," the report said. But in other cases, it was "slow to respond" and allowed the accused member of staff to "remain at the school for a considerable length of time".
"Many of the Choate graduates who reported incidents to us did not tell any adult at the school at the time of the incidents," it added.
The school said that some students did not report the abuse because they did not recognise it as such or "did not want the school to find out".
The investigation found that the school knew that faculty members engaged in "intimate kissing" and "intimate touching" with male and female students, but reported none of the incidents to police.
"Our investigation further showed that when reports of sexual misconduct were substantiated by the Choate administration, sexual misconduct matters were handled internally and quietly.
"Even when a teacher was terminated or resigned in the middle of the school year because he or she had engaged in sexual misconduct with a student, the rest of the faculty was told little and sometimes nothing about the teacher's departure and, when told, was cautioned to say nothing about the situation if asked."
The school said that it had released the report to fulfil its "pledge to be at the forefront of the highest standard of care in preventing and addressing adult sexual misconduct". | A wood chip fire which first ignited at a Newport dockyard nearly two months ago has been put out.
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Almost 64% of Australians surveyed in a new poll want the nation's flag changed.
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BBC Radio Nottingham reported on Tuesday that the 28-year-old, who was a free agent after leaving German club Wolfsburg, was discussing terms and he has now agreed a two-year contract.
The Denmark international told BBC Nottingham Sport: "My main goal was to come back to England.
"What happened in Wolfsburg was a sad situation. I have made mistakes in the past, but I am looking to the future."
Bendtner had an unhappy spell in Germany and left the club after several disciplinary issues.
He said the move to a club with a "big history", and the chance to work with Forest manager Philippe Montanier, was the ideal way to make a "new start".
"It is important to prove myself and get back to scoring goals," said Bendtner.
"The coach has given me a great impression of the club and how he wants to do things.
"He cares a lot about football. He wants to play football, he is a nice man and I look forward to working with him."
Forest face Aston Villa on Sunday and Bendtner, who has scored 29 goals in 72 appearances for his country, said he was not quite ready to play.
"I need a little bit of time to settle and adjust but it won't be long," he added.
Bendtner scored 45 goals for Arsenal in 171 games between 2005 and 2014 and also had loan spells at Sunderland, Birmingham and Juventus during that period.
BBC Radio Nottingham's Nottingham Forest correspondent Colin Fray
"Nicklas Bendtner is certainly a controversial figure and has his detractors, but Forest will be hoping that their marquee signing can combine with Britt Assombalonga up front and fire the club into top-six contention.
"He's a player who's proved he's capable of scoring goals in his career - including in the Championship during his loan spell with Birmingham, when he was only 18 and was sent out by Arsenal to gain first-team experience. That spell apart, his entire career has been spent in the top flights in England, Italy and Germany, and he has a wealth of international experience with Denmark, too.
"So, as a free agent, you can see why Forest would be prepared to offer him a deal. At 6ft 4ins tall, he's likely to be handful for Championship defenders, and is the highest-profile signing of 12 this summer."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Nottingham Forest have signed former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner. | 37,296,483 | 544 | 16 | false |
Nicky Wroe volleyed over for the hosts following Marek Rodak's weak punch, before the Welling keeper did well to save from Richard Peniket.
Kingsley James put the Shaymen in front when he reacted quickest after Rodak could only parry Connor Hughes' shot.
But Kadell Daniel curled an effort past Sam Johnson late on to secure a point for Welling. | Welling ended their run of five successive defeats with a draw at Halifax in the National League. | 35,389,748 | 94 | 22 | false |
Former Birmingham City striker Cameron Jerome fired Norwich ahead against his old club with a right-foot shot into the bottom right corner on 15 minutes.
That came 40 seconds after Blues' Lukas Jutkiewicz had headed against the bar.
Timm Klose then headed his first of the season from Robbie Brady's 43rd-minute cross to extend Blues' winless run.
Gianfranco Zola's men have now failed to win in nine games since he took over from Gary Rowett as manager on 14 December.
Blues had Emilio Nsue making his debut at right-back, while Kerim Frei made his first start on the wing, with fellow January signing Cheick Keita left on the bench. They dominated possession for long periods and had their chances, especially in the first half. But a fifth defeat under Zola leaves them still 12th in the table, six points behind eighth-placed Norwich,
Apart from Jutkiewicz's near miss, Norwich had another let-off midway through the opening period when Craig Gardner sent a free header over the top when perfectly placed. But the Canaries should have made it 2-0 when Steven Naismith latched on to Wes Hoolahan's cutback, only to miss from just outside the six-yard box.
And Blues keeper Tomasz Kuszczak made a smart close-range stop to deny Jonny Howson before poor defending from an inswinging Brady free-kick allowed Klose a close-ranger free header at the near post to double the Canaries' lead.
That sealed Norwich's fifth home win in six league games, which might have been by more but for a smart save from Kuszczak to deny Jacob Murphy and an off-target header from Naismith.
Jerome also missed a good chance on the breakaway but the 30-year-old Yorkshireman's earlier effort leaves him now just two short of a century of goals in league football.
Norwich City manager Alex Neil:
"For some time now I have had the feeling that we are now moving forward again after a difficult spell.
"The players are performing better, I have been happier with what I have been seeing and this was a continuation of that.
"It was a good steady performance from the lads. We did the ugly side of the game well and when we do that we have the quality to cause problems at the other end.
"We knew the way Birmingham would play and we made the decision to get in their faces and try and get the ball back off them, not just sit back and let them have possession, which I don't like to see when we are at home."
Birmingham City boss Gianfranco Zola told BBC WM:
"The players are doing everything I have asked but, unfortunately, the results are not coming. I am disappointed by this but I am determined we will come back stronger.
"I am not happy about the situation. Not happy at all, but I am determined to make this club successful. I fully trust the players that they will step their game up.
"We created a lot, maybe more than in other games but we made mistakes and paid for it. There is a lot for me to think about over the next couple of days."
Match ends, Norwich City 2, Birmingham City 0.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 2, Birmingham City 0.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Ivo Pinto.
Foul by Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City).
Ben Godfrey (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Josh Murphy (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Steven Naismith.
Craig Gardner (Birmingham City) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Kerim Frei.
Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Russell Martin (Norwich City).
Attempt missed. Craig Gardner (Birmingham City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Attempt blocked. Craig Gardner (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Norwich City. Kyle Lafferty replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Maikel Kieftenbeld replaces David Davis.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Josh Cogley replaces Nsue.
Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Davis (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Steven Naismith (Norwich City).
Attempt saved. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jonny Howson.
Attempt saved. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ivo Pinto with a cross.
Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City).
Timm Klose (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
Substitution, Norwich City. Ben Godfrey replaces Alexander Tettey.
Offside, Norwich City. Steven Naismith tries a through ball, but Josh Murphy is caught offside.
Corner, Birmingham City. Conceded by Timm Klose.
Attempt missed. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Craig Gardner.
Attempt missed. Steven Naismith (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Cameron Jerome.
Attempt saved. Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jonathan Grounds.
Attempt saved. Steven Naismith (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Robbie Brady with a cross.
Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Murphy (Norwich City).
Attempt missed. Lukas Jutkiewicz (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by David Cotterill with a cross.
Attempt missed. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Foul by Craig Gardner (Birmingham City).
Josh Murphy (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Birmingham City. David Cotterill replaces Robert Tesche.
Kerim Frei (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
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Such words were considered to be harder hitting and carry more emotional impact than "general" swear words.
The study of audience attitudes is the first to be conducted by the broadcasting regulator since 2010.
The results will be shared with broadcasters to help them better understand audience expectations.
Tony Close, director of content standards at Ofcom, said: "People draw the line at racist and discriminatory language - participants felt this was the most unacceptable of all."
"Most people see these words as derogatory and insulting. Many were concerned about them being used in programmes at any time, unless there's very clear justification for it in the programme and how it's presented to the audience."
The study, which was the biggest of its kind ever conducted by Ofcom, looked at 144 words, exploring what people were likely to find unacceptable and why.
As part of the research, the regulator conducted online surveys as well as focus groups and detailed interviews.
Participants were played clips from broadcasts which had been deemed controversial and asked participants how offensive they found the language used.
Recent excerpts from Big Brother and Don't Tell The Bride as well as old episodes of Father Ted and Fawlty Towers were among the clips played to audiences.
The context, intent and tone that offensive language was spoken in were considered important factors to viewers, as well as whether there had been a warning about bad language before broadcast.
For example, a 2014 episode Big Brother was considered acceptable in its original post-watershed slot but offensive when the same episode was repeated in a weekend lunchtime slot.
In the case of Fawlty Towers, audiences also took into account the historical nature of the show and the fact the comedy made fun of the ignorant character using the racist language, but some viewers still took offence.
Sexual terms were viewed as distasteful and often unnecessary, but respondents said they found them more acceptable if used after the watershed, when they would be more prepared.
Another finding of the survey was words which were bleeped out had the power to be as offensive as hearing the word itself.
The research found most people would understand which word was being obscured, especially if repeated.
The survey also suggested audiences felt offensive language was more problematic on radio than TV.
Several participants said they considered radio a "more intimate medium", where offensive language was rarely heard.
As a result, they thought that strong language would feel more intrusive and unexpected on radio than it did on TV.
Radio was also considered more likely to be heard by children, as it was often heard in the background in public spaces.
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Edmund, making only his second Davis Cup appearance, won 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-5) to give Britain, who were without Andy Murray, an unassailable 3-1 lead.
Britain will now play Argentina at home in September as they aim to defend the title they won in Belgium last year.
Following Edmund's win, James Ward lost 6-2 3-6 7-5 to Janko Tipsarevic to make the final score 3-2 to Britain.
Edmund, 21, was playing as Britain's top-ranked singles player after Murray chose to sit out the tie following his Wimbledon success.
It was the first time Britain have won a World Group match in the Davis Cup without their number one player.
Facing Lajovic, the highest ranked player in Serbia's squad following Novak Djokovic's decision to miss the tie, Edmund produced one of the best performances of his career, hitting 27 forehand winners and 39 in total.
The world number 67 served for the match at 5-4 but Lajovic broke back before the Yorkshireman rallied to take the match on a tie-break.
"You want to win for your country," said Edmund. "When you know what is at stake... I'm so pleased that I've won."
Edmund had beaten Tipsaveric in the first singles rubber on Friday to give Britain a 1-0 lead.
Lajovic then beat Ward in the second singles match on Saturday before Jamie Murray and Dom Inglot put Britain in front again with victory in the doubles.
Team captain Leon Smith has now won 14 of his 16 Davis Cup matches since taking the job in 2010.
He was full of praise for Edmund's performances this year and last.
"I have seen Kyle develop a lot," said Smith. "To get your first Davis Cup win is something, to get two in one weekend is something very special indeed."
Former Great Britain Davis Cup captain John Lloyd: "It was a gutsy performance and Kyle had faith in his game. He didn't pull back, he stood firm and withstood Lajovic's best games at the end.
"That will mean so much that Kyle came through in that sort of pressure. What that could do for his career is amazing."
Former Great Britain Davis Cup player Jamie Baker: "He was rock-solid at the end. He's never been in a situation like that before.
"His forehand, in terms of pace and what he can do with it is in the top five, of the world but he can always improve his movement."
Britain will face Argentina in the last four after the South Americans completed a 3-1 away victory against Italy.
France - featuring Wimbledon doubles champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, as well as singles quarter-finalists Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - beat the Czech Republic 3-1.
They will face Croatia, who came from 2-0 down to beat the United States. | Kyle Edmund took Great Britain into the Davis Cup semi-finals with victory over Serbia's Dusan Lajovic in Belgrade. | 36,820,107 | 647 | 30 | false |
The Met Office has issued yellow "be aware" warnings for snow for southern, north east and northern Scotland on Saturday and Sunday.
BBC weather presenter Stav Danaos said -10 was seen in parts of the country with lying snow - with further snow falling on Saturday.
Snow and ice have also been affecting travel in many parts.
Scotland has seen freezing temperatures for several days.
While it has meant challenging travel conditions for some, the weather has also allowed all five of Scotland's snowsports centres to open their slopes for skiing and snowboarding.
Glenshee, Lecht, Glencoe Mountain, CairnGorm Mountain and Nevis Range are preparing to mark World Snow Day on Sunday.
Climbers and hillwalkers, however, have been warned that the risk of avalanches in Scotland's highest hills and mountains has been rated as "considerable".
The Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service has given the rating to the six areas it covers - Northern Cairngorms, Southern Cairngorms, Glen Coe, Torridon, Creag Meagaidh and Lochaber.
Among the least successful films of the year is Snowden, directed by Oliver Stone, alongside Sacha Baron Cohen's Grimsby, according to Forbes.
Sci-fi film Max Steel, which returned 42% of its budget, tops its Hollywood's Biggest Turkeys of 2016 list.
Period drama and horror mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies also features in the top 10.
Snowden, telling the story of whistleblower Edward Snowden's leak of US intelligence, is ranked ninth in the list, which compares worldwide box office totals with the estimated film budgets.
The film, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has received good reviews but made it to ninth on the list, taking 86% of its $40m (£32m) budget. It is yet to be released in the UK.
Free State of Jones, in which Matthew McConaughey plays an American Civil War fighter, returned less than half of its $50m (£40m) budget, making it second on the list.
In fourth position was comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, starring Lily James and Matt Smith, which made back 58% of its $28m (£23m) budget, followed by computer-animated Ratchet & Clank, which took $11.8m (£9.5m), having had an estimated budget of $20m (£16m).
Comedy action film Grimsby - known as The Brothers Grimsby in the US - is estimated to have had a $35m (£28m) budget. It took $28.7m (£23m) at the international box office, making it the worst box office total of Baron Cohen's career. It was eighth on the list.
Natalie Robehmed of Forbes said that "not all movies flopped because they were bad films", noting that several were well received by critics.
She said: "Movies underperform for a number of reasons, be it marketing, release date timing, poor reviews or a combination of several factors."
Forbes only included films that opened in more than 2,000 cinemas and did not look at those released this month.
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The 29-year-old suffered a blow to the head at Ulster in February 2016.
He said: "It has been a frustrating time. When I had the bang I was just sitting around and wasn't able to do a lot really.
"I still don't remember the concussion tests. I think that was half the problem."
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Shingler made his first appearance of the season last weekend against Connacht as Scarlets registered their first win of the season.
He said: "I was suffering from headaches and dizziness for a long time and I was a little bit concerned if it was ever going to get better.
"I thought 'this could be the end'. Luckily it has cleared up itself and here we are."
Shingler says he will not let the threat of another concussion affect his approach.
"It could occur again if I have a bad bang. I'm not too concerned. I'm not holding anything back because of it."
He is now looking forward to Scarlets' trip to Treviso on Saturday as they look to climb from eighth in the table.
"If we lost at home against Connacht we would have been in a tricky situation - it's great to have got that win," Shingler added.
"Again we are under pressure this weekend as we are chasing from quite far behind now."
The National Environment Research Council defended its decision to hold a public poll to suggest names, in which Boaty McBoatface got the most support.
Professor Duncan Wingham said the row had "put a smile" on people's faces.
But MPs asked if he would be made to "walk the plank" by ministers, who named it after Sir David Attenborough.
Prof Wingham was giving evidence to the Commons Science and Technology Committee about the episode, which attracted huge public interest and divided opinion after Boaty McBoatface was passed over.
He said that ministers' decision to name the vessel after the eminent zoologist and broadcaster - the option which came fourth in the poll - while allowing Boaty McBoatface to live on by naming a remotely operated sub-sea vehicle after it was an "eloquent compromise".
Asked by Conservative MP Nicola Blackwood what the episode had done for public engagement in science, the academic said it had attracted "extraordinary attention" which could only be regarded as an "incredible success".
"We could make the claim that we are probably the best-known research council in the world," he said.
"We could make the claim that because of that there are hundreds of thousands of people, not only in the UK but around the world, who know about us and the science that we have done
"In many ways we feel this has been an astonishingly great outcome for us. In addition, it has put a smile on everyone's face."
Prof Wingham said NERC would do the same again in the future, although he said there were no plans for other boats at the moment. | Scarlets and Wales flanker Aaron Shingler feared a concussion he suffered last season could have ended his career.
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Forte struck midway through the first half, while Collins scored with the last kick of the match to up a home tie against Peterborough.
Graham Burke tested Grant Smith early on, with the Wood keeper getting down low to palm his stinging effort out for a corner. From the resultant kick, Adam Campbell's trickery got him into a shooting position, but he fired just wide.
Kenny Davis did well to deflect Stanley Aborah's shot wide, while at the other end, Anthony Jeffrey had the visitors' first sight of goal, curling a 20-yard effort over.
County took the lead when visiting defender Joe Devera misjudged the bounce of a pass and Forte nipped in to intercept before lashing the ball past goalkeeper Smith.
Genaro Snijders blasted wildly over from eight yards early in the second half, while visiting stopper Smith then made a sprawling low save from Campbell.
Bruno Andrade had a couple of chances for the visitors, but failed to test Adam Collin in the home goal, and just after Wood sub Jamie Lucas went close with a header, Collins cracked home a second goal deep into added time.
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Match ends, Notts County 2, Boreham Wood 0.
Second Half ends, Notts County 2, Boreham Wood 0.
Goal! Notts County 2, Boreham Wood 0. Aaron Collins (Notts County) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Stanley Aborah.
Attempt saved. Jamie Lucas (Boreham Wood) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Jeffrey (Boreham Wood) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Stanley Aborah (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Jonathan Forte (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kenny Davis (Boreham Wood).
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Joe Devera (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Stanley Aborah (Notts County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood).
Substitution, Boreham Wood. David Stephens replaces Mark Ricketts.
Attempt missed. Kenny Davis (Boreham Wood) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Notts County. Alan Smith replaces Adam Campbell.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Genaro Snijders.
Delay in match Stanley Aborah (Notts County) because of an injury.
Robert Milsom (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Uchechi (Boreham Wood).
Attempt missed. Bruno Andrade (Boreham Wood) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Foul by Stanley Aborah (Notts County).
Kenny Davis (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Jamie Lucas replaces Morgan Ferrier.
Substitution, Boreham Wood. Danny Uchechi replaces Angelo Balanta.
Genaro Snijders (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood).
Corner, Boreham Wood. Conceded by Haydn Hollis.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Femi Ilesanmi.
Corner, Boreham Wood. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Matt Paine (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Angelo Balanta (Boreham Wood) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Joe Devera.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Matt Paine (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Boreham Wood. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Femi Ilesanmi (Boreham Wood) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Stanley Aborah (Notts County). | Jonathan Forte and Aaron Collins fired Notts County into the second round of the FA Cup as they saw off National League side Boreham Wood in their first-round replay at Meadow Lane. | 37,905,195 | 1,112 | 41 | false |
They parted at 0810 BST on 7 July 2005 on their way to work and Ms Daplyn boarded the Piccadilly Line train. She died in the blast.
The 26-year-old administrator worked at University College Hospital in the neuro-radiology department.
When she was reported missing, her father Michael returned to the country and travelled to London to meet her mother, who lives in Swansea, and sister.
Ms Daplyn was born in Leicester but spent her early years abroad before attending schools in Rochester, Kent.
After an art foundation course, she studied Fine Art at Oxford University.
Graduating with a 2:1, she set herself the difficult task of making a living in the art or publishing world.
But after several unpaid internships, her pragmatic streak surfaced and she began to look for paid work.
In 2002, she moved to London and worked in a number of administrative roles before joining the hospital.
During her short life she moved all over the UK and around the world, from Kent to Lahore and Newport to Nigeria.
This fuelled her love of travel and food, which she shared with others in person and on blogs.
At the inquest into her death five years on, her sister Eleanor Daplyn said in a statement: "From a young age, she had the ability to fit in to almost any location and situation readily, with humour, and with a sizeable appetite for all that was new and interesting."
Her sister went on to say that at the time of her death, Ms Daplyn had been as settled and content as she had ever known her, and was very happy to be living with Mr Brennan.
"When thinking about what she might have done in the future, I honestly have to say I don't know," she said.
"The scope of her intellect and imagination mean that it could have been everything and anything."
Speaking shortly after her death, her uncle, the Reverend Tim Daplyn, in Somerset, said: "She was very bright, and a talented singer who had a lot of friends.
"We didn't realise she had so many until she disappeared." | A talented artist and musician, Elizabeth Daplyn lived in Highgate, north London, with her partner Rob Brennan. | 11,998,821 | 468 | 27 | false |
Zdenko Turtak from Velka Ida, Kosice, pleaded guilty to those offences but denied attempted murder during a video link appearance at Leeds Crown Court.
He was charged in connection with an attack on a woman at a bus stop in Beeston Road on 6 March.
Prosecutors will decide within weeks whether to accept Turtak's pleas.
The scheme was first considered in February 2015 by then-Prime Minister David Cameron.
But an independent review published on Monday warned it would not help people get back into work.
A Downing Street spokesman said "withdrawing benefits from obese people is not under consideration, no."
Before the last election, Mr Cameron said too many people were stuck on sickness benefits because of issues that could be addressed but were not.
"Some have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment," he said.
"In other cases, people have problems with their weight that could be addressed, but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.
"It is not fair to ask hardworking taxpayers to fund the benefits of people who refuse to accept the support and treatment that could help them get back to a life of work."
However, an independent review from Dame Carol Black has come to the conclusion the proposals would not work.
The report said: "We are clear that benefit claimants with addictions should, like all other claimants, do all they can to re-enter work.
"However... we doubt whether mandating addiction treatment - one of the possibilities mentioned in our terms of reference - should be the first response to the evidence problems for the cohorts under discussion."
The review also said making people have treatment could lead to more people hiding their problems rather than seeking help.
"We also heard from health professionals serious concerns about the legal and ethical implications of mandating treatment and whether this would be a cost-effective approach," it said.
The review also did not find evidence that obesity was a causal factor for unemployment or that weight-loss achieved through non-surgical treatment led to employment. | A 21-year-old man extradited from Slovakia has admitted the rape and grievous bodily harm of an 18-year-old woman in Leeds.
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Southern Railway trains from the south coast into London have been disrupted for weeks because of industrial action and high levels of staff sickness.
"The shambles we have seen is turning into a crisis," said Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove and Portslade.
But rail minister Claire Perry insisted services were improving.
Mr Kyle told the House of Commons during transport questions: "I'm getting people writing to me who are being late for work every day and their bosses are giving them written warnings now.
Mims Davies, Tory MP for Eastleigh, described Southern Railway's performance as "shameful" and said it could not be tolerated.
The watchdog Transport Focus has published figures showing passenger satisfaction was lower on Southern and Southeastern services than for any other train operator in the country.
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, urged Ms Perry and the Department for Transport to transfer the Southern franchise into public ownership.
A man who commutes to London from Hove told BBC South East his employer could no longer book early client meetings as he had no idea whether he would turn up.
"I am therefore simply not fit for purpose and there is nothing concrete to suggest that the situation will change," he said.
"His [the boss's] response is entirely rational.
"My options are therefore to live in London during the week, waving my young family goodbye and switching my pension contributions into accommodation costs, or get fired."
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union is in dispute with Southern about the role of conductors.
Ms Perry said investment on the routes meant things were "getting better".
But she added: "If your constituents would like to write to bosses, may I suggest they write to the union bosses involved, who I think are doing their members a grave disservice by bringing them out on completely unjustified grounds.
"This is a dispute about who presses the buttons that operate the doors and the change in the role of the second staff member."
Southeastern and Network Rail said that at the time of the Transport Focus survey, between 11 January and 20 March, factors including the partial collapse of the sea wall at Dover and landslides at Barnehurst affected trains.
Storm Imogen also hit services and there were infrastructure failings around London Bridge.
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Seven out of the 43 blocks of flats due to make way in phase one of the 300-home development at Hendrefoilan site will remain standing temporarily.
The site was sold in 2013 and the university's new £450m Bay campus will house the students.
Another part of the student village will stay open until summer 2018.
Permission has been granted for demolition to take place and an application has been submitted to Swansea council for the first 43 two and three-storey homes to be built. | Commuters have received written warnings for consistent lateness at work because of "shameful" service from Southern Railway, an MP has claimed.
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Oh, who won a Golden Globe for her role as prickly Dr Cristina Yang, was one of the original six cast members, all of whom started the series as interns.
"Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go," Oh told the Hollywood Reporter.
It has not been revealed how the 42-year-old will exit the ABC show at the end of its upcoming 10th season.
Oh added: "It's such an interesting thing to play a character for so long and to actually get the sense that she wants to be let go as well.
"Cristina wants to be let go, and I am ready to let her go. We have to start the process, story-wise, for the Grey's writers to think of why she's going to go."
Oh has received five supporting actress Emmy nominations for her portrayal of Dr Yang, an ambitious and driven doctor who repeatedly puts her career before her personal life.
She told the Hollywood Reporter that she started to consider leaving in May 2012, when she and the show's other stars signed two-year deals, taking them to the end of forthcoming 10th season.
Grey's Anatomy creator, Shonda Rhimes, who also conceived Oh's character, thanked the popular actress for her "collaboration on a character we both love so deeply".
"One of the best days of my life as a writer happened the day Sandra Oh walked in my door to audition and forever changed the course of Grey's Anatomy with her brilliant, nuanced portrayal of Cristina Yang," said Rhimes.
"This year is going to be bittersweet for us - we're both going to savour every moment of Cristina Yang, and then we're going to give her the exit she deserves. And when Sandra walks out of my door, Grey's Anatomy will once again be forever changed."
Oh told her co-stars about her decision on Tuesday, during a reading for the 200th episode.
It is expected that negotiations will take place shortly with the rest of the cast about their future on the show, which has picked up several industry awards since it began in 2005.
In a statement, a spokesperson for ABC said: "It's our intention to have Grey's on the air for many years to come, with as many of the original cast as possible." | Sandra Oh, one of the original stars of the US medical drama Grey's Anatomy, is to leave the show after eight years. | 23,694,622 | 523 | 30 | false |
The Farc has been taking part in peace talks with the Colombian government since 2012, but violence has increased in recent weeks.
The Farc's chief negotiator at the talks in Cuba, Ivan Marquez, said he hoped the ceasefire, starting on 20 July, could lead to a bilateral truce.
The government welcomed the move but gave no sign it would do likewise and said the rebels needed to do more.
"We appreciate the gesture of a unilateral ceasefire by the Farc but more is needed, especially concrete commitments to speed up the negotiations," President Juan Manuel Santos said on Twitter (in Spanish).
For his part, Mr Marquez said the truce would "create favourable conditions in order to advance with the opposing side toward a bilateral and definitive ceasefire."
Four countries helping to facilitate the peace talks - Cuba, Norway, Chile and Venezuela - issued a call on Tuesday for a de-escalation in the violence.
A previous Farc ceasefire was called in December, but clashes resumed in April with the killing of 11 soldiers and subsequent bombing raids on rebel positions.
Farc suspended that unilateral ceasefire on 22 May.
Since the ceasefire ended, several dozen rebels and soldiers have been killed.
In June, the group blew up an oil pipeline, which contaminated water and left at least 16,000 people without supplies in the municipality of Catatumbo in the north.
The talks in Havana, which began in November 2012, are aimed at ending more than 50 years of conflict. More than 200,000 people have been killed since hostilities started in 1964.
Negotiations have continued despite the violence, and agreement has been reached on several points. | Colombia's Farc rebels have announced a one-month unilateral ceasefire. | 33,450,816 | 371 | 19 | false |
The plans would have seen riders timed on 10 downhill sections during the three-week race, with prizes for each day and the overall fastest descender.
Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt died after crashing on a descent during stage three of the 2011 Giro d'Italia.
The 100th edition of the race begins on Friday.
"The spirit of the initiative was to highlight an important skill which is an integral part of a cycle race, without putting the riders' safety in jeopardy," said organisers RCS Sport in a statement on Wednesday.
"Rider safety is, and remains, the priority of the Giro and the race organisers."
After the initial plans were released, Dutch Team Sky rider Woet Poels tweeted that it was a "life-threatening idea", adding: "What about safety?"
Trek-Segafredo's Belgian cyclist Jasper Stuyven said organisers "should be ashamed" and that "riders will take even more risks" causing "more danger to other riders in the bunch".
RCS Sport said that reaction to the proposals suggested the classification, which was to be sponsored by tyre manufacturer Pirelli, "could be potentially misunderstood".
They added that they had therefore "decided to eliminate all such classification and prize money" but make data of descent speeds available to fans.
The Association of Professional Cyclists said it was "very happy" RCS had come to "a solution for the good of the riders".
The Giro is one of three three-week Grand Tours during the cycling season, together with the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana. | Giro d'Italia organisers have abandoned plans for a best downhill rider category after criticism from riders that the idea was "life-threatening". | 39,798,746 | 372 | 37 | false |
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Gatland has handed debuts to four players in an experimental Welsh side.
Wales host Ireland on Saturday, before playing them in Dublin on 29 August and hosting Italy on 5 September.
"Joe rang me last week to talk about what we were looking at in the squad," Gatland said.
"I said we were going to have a mixed squad with an opportunity for some younger players.
"He sort of indicated that they were probably going to do the same thing.
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"I think they will experiment with the squad too."
Ireland lock Iain Henderson says head coach Schmidt has given his players no indication of who is likely to face Wales.
New Zealander Schmidt will name his side on Thursday to play at the Millennium Stadium and is then expected to cut three or four players from his provisional World Cup training group of 45 players.
Wales will cut their World Cup training squad from 47 players to between 36 and 38 after Saturday's game against Ireland.
Uncapped Ross Moriarty, Tyler Morgan, Eli Walker and Dominic Day will make their Wales debuts on Saturday.
Gatland said Schmidt had also asked if the Millennium Stadium roof would be shut for Saturday's game.
The Millennium Stadium will host Wales' Pool A matches against Uruguay on 20 September and Fiji on 1 October as well as Ireland 's Pool D matches against Canada and France.
"He [Schmidt] proceeded to ask what was happening with the roof," Gatland added.
"I said: 'Well, it's a bit ironic that you wanted it open during the Six Nations and now you want it closed'.
"He was hoping during the Six Nations that it was pouring down with rain, so we had a bit of a chat about that.
"I think he wants it closed because it's closed during the World Cup. It makes sense to close the roof if it will be closed for the World Cup.
"There was a cynical side of me that did feel like saying we were going to leave it open." | Wales coach Warren Gatland has revealed he and Ireland counterpart Joe Schmidt discussed team selection before naming their sides for Saturday's World Cup warm-up match in Cardiff. | 33,780,165 | 452 | 38 | false |
A letter detailing the plan, known as "Operation Trojan Horse", claims responsibility for leadership changes at four schools.
These schools are Adderley Primary, Saltley School, Park View School and Regents Park Community Primary School.
Saltley's head teacher resigned last year after a critical Ofsted report.
Inspectors said there was a "dysfunctional" relationship between head teacher Balwant Bains and governors which was hindering the school.
The letter, which purports to outline "Operation Trojan Horse", has subsequently been sent to at least another 12 schools in the city - all believed to be vulnerable to takeover.
It states that parents could be encouraged to turn against the leadership team if they are told the school is "corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray Christian prayers and [carrying out] mixed swimming and sport".
Among various claims in the letter is one that the group has "caused a great amount of organised disruption in Birmingham and as a result we have our own academies and are on the way to getting rid of more head teachers and taking over their schools".
The head teachers of the schools met Birmingham City Council on Thursday to discuss their concerns.
The letter, seen by the BBC, was apparently written by someone in Birmingham to a contact in Bradford, and goes on to outline ways and means by which schools can be taken over.
It says: "We have an obligation to our children to fulfil our roles and ensure these schools are run on Islamic principles."
Although the authorities have been aware of the alleged plot since November, the details have only become public now thanks to the letter which has been widely leaked.
We still don't know whether it's genuine or a fake, but that's one of the questions the city council is attempting to answer with its investigation.
It's clearly a sensitive subject and there will be great concerns about the effect on what the authorities euphemistically call "community cohesion".
Finding anyone who is directly involved and prepared to go on the record has also proved difficult.
No-one wants to be called an "Islamaphobe" or a racist, nor do they wish to be labelled a right wing conspiracy theorist.
There's also a sense of fear among potential whistleblowers that speaking publicly will mean an end to their careers.
It is understood that would mean a greater emphasis on religious studies, as well as girls and boys being taught separately in some classes.
The letter implies these methods have already been put into action and urges the recipient to use Ofsted reports to identify schools in predominantly Muslim areas which are struggling.
It adds: ''Operation 'Trojan Horse' has been very carefully thought through and is tried and tested within Birmingham, implementing it in Bradford will not be difficult for you."
It says that Salafi parents should be enlisted to help, because they are regarded as a more orthodox branch of Islam and would be more likely to be willing to help.
It was sent to the city council in 2013 and has led to a number of investigations. Part of the inquiry will focus on whether the plot is genuine or fake.
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson confirmed the letters had been received and that an investigation was ongoing.
The Department for Education's (DfE) Extremist Unit is also involved and the West Midlands Police Counter-Terrorism Unit has also looked into the case after being handed the letter in December 2013.
Supt Sue Southern, head of the unit, said it was decided the allegations in the letter were "not a matter for the police".
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said it had "received some anonymous letters in February which claimed that an extremist religious group was trying to engineer the sacking of head teachers who did not promote the group's ideals".
It said it was working with the police, the Department for Education and Birmingham City Council to investigate the claim.
Russell Hobby, NAHT general secretary, said the union took the allegations "extremely seriously".
Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Hodge Hill, said he had held urgent talks with Ofsted, City Council officials, the office of Michael Gove and DfE officials.
"These are deeply disturbing allegations, which is why Ofsted has been called in," he said.
"I have demanded that the second we have results from those inspections, both the city council and the Secretary of State take immediate action." | An alleged plot to oust some Birmingham head teachers and make their schools adhere to more Islamic principles is being investigated, it has emerged. | 26,482,599 | 974 | 30 | false |
Quoting eye-witnesses, it said that after the raid in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, detainees who had escaped were rounded up and killed.
The army has not yet commented on the allegations but has denied previous reports of abuses.
The conflict has killed some 1,500 people this year, according to Amnesty.
Half of those killed were civilians, the organisation said.
Hundreds of militants were said to have taken part in the 14 March attack on the Giwa barracks in Maiduguri, which BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross described as a particularly brazen assault.
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This report provides shocking detail of atrocities committed by Boko Haram and Nigeria's armed forces.
It is not the first time rights organisations have made such allegations. But Amnesty International sees 14 March as a tipping point - a day when the extra-judicial killings by the security forces reached such a level that the international community can no longer stay silent.
Amnesty believes 622 people were killed by the security forces on that day alone. Most were unarmed Boko Haram suspects who had just escaped from detention after the insurgents attacked Giwa barracks and set them free.
Rather than being re-arrested, Amnesty says they were executed and buried in mass graves. To some analysts it looks like the military chose the easier option and in so doing committed crimes against humanity.
So far the African Union and the UN have been remarkably silent on the situation but Amnesty now wants them to investigate the crimes committed by all sides.
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At the time, the Nigerian military said the attack was successfully repelled and many attackers were killed by the air force and ground troops.
One eyewitness told Amnesty that a self-defence group known as civilian JTF captured some of the hundreds of detainees who had escaped.
"I saw the soldiers asking the people to lie on the ground," the witness said.
"There was a small argument between the soldiers and the civilian JTF. The soldiers made some calls and a few minutes later they started shooting the people on the ground. I counted 198 people killed at that checkpoint."
Amnesty says satellite images have revealed three possible mass graves around the city.
Captured Boko Haram suspects are often detained in Giwa barracks, and human rights groups say hundreds have died or been subjected to torture there - allegations always denied by the military.
Boko Haram has since released its own video of the attack on Giwa, showing crowds of people walking out of the barracks.
Amnesty says all parties are violating international law and wants the United Nations to help investigate potential war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"The scale of atrocities carried out by Boko Haram is truly shocking, creating a climate of fear and insecurity," said Amnesty's Netsanet Belay.
"But this cannot be used to justify the brutality of the response that is clearly being meted out by the Nigerian security forces."
The violence has forced some 250,000 people from their homes so far this year, according to the government's relief agency.
It said more than three million people are facing a humanitarian crisis.
Boko Haram was launched in Maiduguri in 2009, with the aim of setting up an Islamic state.
A state of emergency was declared in three north-eastern states last year to help the military crush the insurgency.
However, the militants have stepped up attacks in recent months. | Nigeria's army killed some 600 people after a recent attack by Boko Haram militants on a barracks, Amnesty International has said. | 26,819,965 | 808 | 36 | false |
The party's acting leader Harriet Harman said the government's rhetoric was "liberated from reality".
She said her party would give "serious consideration" to some measures and be a "different kind of opposition".
She accused the Tories of "ducking" out of a decision on expanding airport capacity and said apprenticeship numbers were "stagnating".
Mr Osborne's first Budget of the Conservative government included a freeze on working-age benefits for four years, a pledge to spend 2% of GDP on defence and a four-year cap on public-sector pay rises.
He also introduced a new National Living Wage which would rise to £9 an hour by 2020.
In her response, Ms Harman said she would resist the temptation to "oppose everything the government does".
She said Labour supported measures including lowering the welfare cap and would have made cuts to unprotected departments had it been in power.
In a reference to the cheering on the Conservative benches when the living wage was announced, she said: "Clearly what honourable members do not understand is that even with the higher national wage that he's announced it will not be enough for a family to live on because of the cuts in tax credits."
She also criticised the government for delaying the electrification of the railway line between Manchester and Leeds, saying: "The great Northern Powerhouse is starting to look like the great Northern power cut."
Labour would support the raising of the 40p tax threshold and the lifting of the personal allowance but would study the detail of both measures, she added.
Speaking to BBC News, shadow chancellor Chris Leslie questioned whether the measures prioritised by the chancellor would boost productivity.
He said "manifesto promise after manifesto promise" was being "thrown out" by the Conservatives.
"They won an election in some respects on a false prospectus," he added. | Working families will still suffer despite George Osborne's Budget pledge of a National Living Wage, Labour says. | 33,446,333 | 417 | 27 | false |
Fresh from the national team's success at Euro 2016, the BSc (Hons) Football Coaching and the Performance Specialist qualification will begin in September.
Students will be based at the university's Colliers Park training facility.
It has been designed for those who want to work as a coach or performance specialist.
Students will work towards the FAW Level 2 (UEFA C) and Level 3 (UEFA B) coaching licenses.
On completion they will have the skills to coach youth and senior football teams at grassroots and a high performance level.
Pamela Richards, associate head of the university's school of social and life sciences, said: "We are honoured to be working alongside the FAW Trust, especially at such a positive and successful time for the Wales team.
"The footballers in the Welsh national side are inspiring future generations of footballers and coaches."
Crowds gathered on the banks of the Thames to watch the 120-metre long model go up in flames.
The inferno in 1666 raged for four days, destroying most of the city, which then was largely of wood.
It paved the way for large-scale reconstruction including the building of today's St Paul's Cathedral.
More than 13,000 homes, businesses and structures, including the old St Paul's, were destroyed.
Following the fire, stone started being used in the capital as a building material and an organised fire service and insurance industry were established.
The burning of the replica of London took place during a festival held to commemorate the Great Fire.
London's Burning, which was held from 30 August to 4 September, featured a series of art installations, performances, talks and tours and was organised by the company Artichoke.
Helen Marriage, director of Artichoke, said: "I feel so relieved that it actually went off, because obviously when you do a live event you never know."
Tim Marlow, the artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts, said it was a unique event.
He said: "I've seen a shed blown up in the name of art, I've seen fireworks, I've seen artists bury themselves, I've seen the trace of an artist shooting himself in the hand or nailing himself to a car, but actually I've never seen anyone collaborate with so many people in such an extraordinary and exciting way, to make a commemorative replica of a skyline 350 years ago and then set fire to it.
"I mean this is spectacle and then some."
An open letter has been published by Pen International as Mr Modi flies into the UK for a three-day visit.
The writers have expressed concern over the "growing intolerance and violence towards critical voices" in India.
They want to urge Mr Modi to "safeguard freedom of expression".
The letter has been signed by hundreds of members and supporters of Pen International's centres in England, Scotland and Wales, including Nikita Lalwani, Henry Marsh, Hari Kunzru, Neel Mukherjee and Owen Sheers.
It urges the British prime minister to raise the "crucial" issue with Mr Modi both "publicly and privately" during his visit, where plans include addressing parliament, visiting the Queen and staying at Chequers.
The letter highlights threats made to writers who have "challenged orthodoxy or fundamentalism in India", and the murders of three intellectuals - Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi, Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar - in the last two years.
Recently at least 40 Indian novelists, poets and playwrights have returned prizes awarded by India's National Academy of Letters in protest over the organisation's silence on the attacks.
They criticised the academy's failure to speak up and challenge the government to "demonstrate tolerance and protect free speech" and the "deteriorating political environment in which those expressing dissent have been attacked by government ministers".
The letter concludes: "In line with the United Kingdom's stated commitment to promoting human rights, we ask that you raise the above issues with Prime Minister Modi and urge him to provide better protection for writers, artists and other critical voices and ensure that freedom of speech is safeguarded.
"Without these protections a democratic, peaceful society is not possible."
Downing Street has yet to respond to a request for comment on the letter. | The Football Association of Wales and Wrexham Glyndwr University have united to launch a new coaching degree.
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A giant wooden replica of 17th century London has been set ablaze on the River Thames in a retelling of the Great Fire of London 350 years ago.
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The white-domed structure in Kathmandu was covered in prayer flags and flowers as monks chanted prayers and burned incense to mark the event.
The prime minister described it as a proud moment for Nepal.
More than 8,000 people were killed by the quake and ensuing aftershocks, causing widespread destruction.
Restoration work on the stupa began in May 2015, has cost $2.1m (£1.70m) and included more than 30kg (66lb) of gold, according to the Boudhanath Area Development Committee.
The stupa was repaired without government funding - the money instead coming from private donations from Buddhist groups and help from volunteers.
The government for its part has been strongly criticised for the slow pace of reconstruction and for the fact that many quake-damaged temples and monasteries remain unrepaired.
But Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was not going to let the criticism interfere with Tuesday's celebrations.
"This is a proud moment for us," he said after traversing the steps of the newly-painted stupa.
"The successful reconstruction of Boudhanath is an inspiration for what we have to achieve in quake-affected areas."
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Nepal has reopened many heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public in a bid to attract tourists after the devastating earthquake of April 2015.
Among them was Kathmandu's historic Durbar Square, or "noble court", which was badly damaged.
Shortly after the quake, Unesco's director-general Irina Bokova described damage to the Kathmandu valley as "extensive and irreversible". | Nepal has reopened one of its most famous monuments, the Boudhanath Stupa, to the public after it was left with deep cracks during the 2015 earthquake. | 38,068,128 | 413 | 40 | false |
The beams could compensate for the dip in light the Earth creates when it passes in front of the Sun, as viewed from far-off worlds, they contend.
A number of researchers have questioned the wisdom of advertising our existence to the galaxy.
They fear that if aliens did visit us they might not be very friendly, and could introduce disease.
The analogy is Europeans arriving in the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. The contact wrought havoc in the health of indigenous populations.
David Kipping and Alex Teachey from Columbia University in New York say that if we are fearful of a similar outcome from an alien encounter then lasers offer a solution.
The team has calculated what would be required to cloak the Earth and published the concept in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
It "perverts" the technique scientists already use now to look for distant planets around other stars. This method relies on staring at these suns, hoping to catch an object passing in front. When such a "transit" occurs, there is a tell-tale decrease in starlight.
The US space agency's Kepler telescope has identified more than a thousand planets this way.
If intelligent civilisations are out there, it is safe to assume they too will be looking for other worlds - like ours - using the same idea, believe Kipping and Teachey.
According to the pair's calculations, emitting a continuous 30-megawatt laser for about 10 hours, once a year, would be enough to distort the characteristic dip in light when Earth transited the Sun, as viewed from an alien Kepler telescope.
"It doesn't have to be one huge laser; it could be an array positioned around the Earth. Or you could put it in space as a satellite, and we've calculated that the International Space Station already collects exactly the amount of energy we would need," Prof Kipping told BBC News.
This is true for a laser system working in visible light. Prof Kipping concedes, however, that a laser cloak that covers all wavelengths, not just the visible colours, would need a very large array of tuneable lasers with a total power of 250MW.
But an alternative might be to use a laser simply to disguise the interesting aspects about Earth - features in its atmosphere that betray the fact that life exists here. These are a suite of gases that include oxygen, ozone and methane.
"If we just cloaked out those biosignatures then another civilisation might detect our planet through a transit, everything would add up, but Earth would appear as a dead world and they'd soon lose interest," Prof Kipping added.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) is the collective term used to describe positive efforts to detect and contact alien life. A number of experiments are currently under way that are trying to see if aliens are actually signalling us with lasers.
But just as with the attempts to detect the radio transmissions from aliens, this "optical Seti" approach, as it is known, has also found nothing of interest among the stars… yet.
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Chris Gard and Connie Yates lost their final legal bid to take their son to the US for treatment.
Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital believe Charlie has no chance of survival.
The court agreed, concluding that further treatment would "continue to cause Charlie significant harm".
Charlie is thought to be one of 16 children in the world to have mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a condition which causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.
His parents had previously seen a Supreme Court challenge to continue Charlie's life support fail.
European Court judges have now concluded it was most likely Charlie was "being exposed to continued pain, suffering and distress" and undergoing experimental treatment with "no prospects of success... would offer no benefit".
They said the application presented by the parents was "inadmissible" and said the court's decision was "final".
The court "also considered that it was appropriate to lift the interim measure" which had required doctors to continue providing life support treatment to Charlie.
BBC health correspondent Fergus Walsh said it is likely Charlie's life support machine will be turned off within a few days following discussions between the hospital and his family.
Charlie's parents, from Bedfont, west London, raised £1.3m on a crowdfunding site to pay for the experimental treatment in the US.
Ms Yates had already indicated the money would go towards a charity for mitochondrial depletion syndromes if Charlie did "not get his chance".
"We'd like to save other babies and children because these medications have been proven to work and we honestly have so much belief in them.
"If Charlie doesn't get this chance, we will make sure that other innocent babies and children will be saved", she said.
Great Ormond Street Hospital said the decision marked "the end of what has been a very difficult process" and its priority was to "provide every possible support to Charlie's parents as we prepare for the next steps".
"There will be no rush to change Charlie's care and any future treatment plans will involve careful planning and discussion," a hospital spokesman said.
In April a High Court judge ruled against the trip to America and said Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity.
Three Court of Appeal judges upheld the ruling in May and three Supreme Court justices dismissed a further challenge by the parents. | Judges at the European Court of Human Rights have rejected a plea from the parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard to intervene in his case. | 40,423,371 | 492 | 34 | false |
BBC England contacted 160 authorities responsible for highways in England, 64 of whom had bus lane cameras.
Motoring organisation, the RAC, said the cameras had become a "cash bonanza" for local authorities.
Councils say cameras are clearly signed and they expect income to fall as drivers learn to stay out of the lanes.
In total, the local authorities revealed an estimated combined income of £31m for 2015-16. The figure is likely to be higher as some councils were unable to break down figures by individual cameras or lanes.
The most lucrative bus lane in England is on the northbound section of John Dobson Street in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The council revealed that between 23 February and 31 October 2016 it resulted in 62,975 penalty charge notices, making a total of £1.5m, equivalent to £5,960 a day.
About 5,100 drivers caught in the first two months were then given refunds after it was found that signs were "inadequately lit" during the hours of darkness.
Drivers and opposition councillors have said the road layout is "confusing".
However, Newcastle City Council stressed bus lane cameras were not there to make money and the number of fines had dropped "dramatically" over the past year.
A spokeswoman said the bus lane was correctly signposted.
She said: "Each year, nine million bus passengers travel along John Dobson Street, where services have seen a 14 per cent improvement in journey time reliability since enforcement started.
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"We would firmly stress that bus lanes are not there to generate income - they are there to help us to manage our road networks efficiently."
In Wolverhampton, a camera installed to stop people using a bus lane as a short cut was making on average £4,750 a day.
The council said people had been misusing the lane when coming in and out of the rail station but that it expected the number of fines to fall following a recent change in the road layout.
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RAC spokesman Simon Williams said: "Bus lane cameras are fast becoming a new 'cash bonanza' for councils. The amount of money being raised by them in fines is frightening.
"Rather than just rubbing their hands together and taking the money councils should be asking questions as to why so many motorists are being caught driving in bus lanes."
Kevin Lau, the former chief editor of the Ming Pao newspaper, was attacked with a meat cleaver in the street.
The two attackers, Yip Kim-wah and Wong Chi-wah, showed no emotion as they were sentenced.
The assault prompted street protests by thousands of people complaining about media intimidation.
Justice Esther Toh told the court that the assault was "a brazen attack on the rule of law in Hong Kong."
The two assailants told police they had each been paid HK$ 100,000 (£8,220; $12,900) to attack Lau.
However, they have always refused to say who ordered the attack.
Shortly before the attack, Mr Lau had been replaced by a Malaysian editor viewed as pro-Beijing, sparking fears among staff that the paper's independence was under threat.
Ming Pao is a respected Chinese-language Hong Kong paper known for its investigative reporting. | Almost 4,000 motorists a day are fined for driving in bus lanes, with the most lucrative camera making £6,000 every 24 hours.
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The Newham Free Academy, a mixed secondary school, was preparing to open in east London in September.
But the school has now been withdrawn from the free schools programme.
The Department for Education (DFE) confirmed: "Newham Free Academy unfortunately did not progress sufficiently for it to proceed."
Free schools - semi-independent state-funded schools - are meant to prove evidence of parental demand before winning approval to set up.
The group behind the proposed academy described itself as an "ordinary group of people, parents and families who wish to open a new secondary school in Newham".
Newham Free Academy is yet to comment on the collapse of its proposal.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said: "There are real concerns about the quality control being exercised on free schools."
"If there is no demand from parents, why is the government wasting money on pet projects when they should be addressing the crisis in primary school places?
"At a time when education funding is being cut by the biggest amount since the 1950s, the government must explain how much money has been spent on failed projects like these."
A DFE spokesman said: "All free school applications go through an extremely rigorous process before being approved.
"Setting up a free school is not an easy task; securing a site can be particularly difficult and all groups deserve credit for the hard work that they put in at every stage of the process."
The DFE confirmed two new free schools - School 21 and the London Academy of Excellence - will be opening in Newham in September. | Plans for a free school in east London have collapsed weeks before it was due to open because there was too little demand from parents. | 18,905,718 | 328 | 29 | false |
Mohammed al-Ajami's sentence was reduced to 15 years, his lawyer said.
The Supreme Court is due to make a final ruling on his sentence within the next 30 days.
Human rights groups have condemned Mr Ajami's conviction, saying his trial was marred by irregularities, with court sessions held in secret.
The case against Mr Ajami is said to be based on a poem he wrote in 2010 which criticised the Emir, Sheikh Hamad al-Thani.
But activists believe the authorities were angered by a 2011 poem he wrote about authoritarian rule in the region.
In the poem Tunisian Jasmine, which he recited and then uploaded to the internet in January 2011, Mr Ajami expressed his support for the uprising in the North African state, saying: "We are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive elite."
He also denounced "all Arab governments" as "indiscriminate thieves".
Mr Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, had previously recited a poem that criticised Qatar's emir and was posted online in August 2010.
He said the recital had taken place in front of a small, private audience at his home and not in public, challenging the grounds for being charged with incitement.
Mohammed Ajami, a father-of-four, has never disputed that he is the author of the poem, but has said it was not meant to be offensive or seditious.
As he was led away after the hearing, Mr Ajami shouted "There is no law for this", Reuters news agency reported.
Freedom of expression is strictly controlled in Qatar, which has escaped the kind of unrest sweeping other parts of the Middle East,
Its human rights record has long been been criticised by campaigners and is a thorny issue in relations with its ally the United States, for whom it hosts a major military base.
Reading Borough Council said it had written to Network Rail and Great Western Railway (GWR) demanding action following complaints from residents.
People in Cardiff Road had complained of trains parked in sidings with engines idling.
GWR has previously said the introduction of electric trains in 2019 will reduce the problem.
An online petition set up by residents living close to the GWR depot complained about "low-frequency noise" from trains idling in the early hours of the morning.
The council said it has warned GWR and Network Rail it could face an abatement notice.
Deputy council leader Tony Page said the responses form the companies had so far been "inadequate".
"The council is fully supportive of the huge benefits the realignment of rail lines in and around Reading has brought.
"By the same token, the concerns local residents have [about] noise and air pollution are very real and the council is lobbied on these issues regularly.
"We hope that escalating local concerns to senior management will prove more effective."
Earlier this year, GWR said the noise was within safe levels and it had changed the way it operated trains on the sidings.
Jonathan Dart, chairman of the Bell Tower Community Association, said he warmly welcomed the council's announcement to "put an end to the nuisance being caused to the residents of Cardiff Road".
However, he criticised the time it took the authority to investigate the issue.
"It took nine months and a press campaign for the council to release an officer's report stating that being in part of Cardiff Road at 03:29 was akin to being backstage at the Reading Festival," he said. | A Qatari poet sentenced to life in prison for inciting the overthrow of the government and insulting Qatar's rulers has had his jail term cut.
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The government of the western state of Maharashtra has announced a memorial for the cartoonist, who was cremated with state honours.
Laxman died in hospital of multiple-organ failure, aged 94, on Monday.
He was renowned for chronicling Indian daily life and politics. His daily cartoon appeared in The Times of India for more than 50 years.
He was best known for his iconic "Common Man" character, an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of which was unveiled in Pune in December 2001.
"Laxman was not just a cartoonist. What he said through his cartoons will inspire future governments. Though he is no more, the Common Man he created will live forever," Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, while announcing the memorial for the cartoonist.
Top political leaders and media personalities attended the cremation.
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Laxman's daily cartoon in Times of India was known for lampooning political leaders, sparing no-one.
One of those caricatured by Laxman, former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, surprised the cartoonist by ringing him up, not to complain, but to request a signed copy of the cartoon to frame.
In 2005, the government honoured Laxman with the Indian civilian award Padma Vibhushan.
The youngest of six sons, Laxman began drawing as a boy but was turned down to study at Bombay's prestigious Sir JJ School of Art because, it said, he lacked talent.
He began working as a cartoonist in the 1940s, working for The Times of India from 1947 just as the country gained independence from Britain.
The meeting comes after a public outcry over the murder of a former beauty queen and actress, Monica Spear, who was shot dead on Monday.
Mr Maduro urged all politicians to put their differences aside and work together to end rising violence.
Venezuela has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Ms Spear, 29, was murdered along with her British-born ex-husband Thomas Berry, 39, in their car.
Their five-year-old daughter, who was shot in the leg, is reportedly in a stable condition.
The attack, thought to have been a botched robbery, has highlighted Venezuela's skyrocketing murder rate.
Ahead of the meeting, the president announced he would act "with an iron fist," saying that the full weight of the law would be brought to bear on the perpetrators of the crime.
"The event has undoubtedly touched us all," Mr Maduro said at the presidential palace in the capital, Caracas.
He called on all politicians to find a joint solution to the "key problems of our society".
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, who is the governor of Miranda state, also met and shook hands with the president.
It is the first time the two men have met since last year's disputed presidential election. Mr Capriles has never conceded victory to Mr Maduro.
The president's meeting with governors and mayors was announced on Tuesday by Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez.
"The fight against violence has to involve all the authorities so the criminals know they'll face the full rigour of the law, because we've had enough already," he told a news conference.
He said five people had been arrested on suspicion of committing the "vile killing" of Ms Spear, and promised to "use everything we have, the police, the army, against those who will not go down the path of peace".
Armed robberies and kidnappings are not unusual in Venezuela, but the death of the former beauty queen, who was a popular actress after being crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004, has been condemned across the country.
Fans of Ms Spear, actors and others in the entertainment, rallied in Caracas on Wednesday to demand more be done to fight crime.
Mr Capriles posted a message on Twitter addressed to the president calling for a nationwide drive against violence.
"Nicolas Maduro, I suggest we put aside our deep differences and get together to fight the lack of security, as one bloc," he wrote. | The funeral of legendary Indian cartoonist RK Laxman has been held in the western city of Pune.
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WBA and WBO champion Fury called fellow Briton Joshua, 26, "useless" and said boxing was not just about "bodybuilding".
Fury also predicted Joshua would be "knocked out" on Saturday by defending champion Charles Martin when they fight for the IBF title Fury was stripped of.
"They're hating on my beach body," said Olympic champion Joshua.
"If they want, I'll give them some sessions. They can come train with me."
Joshua overcame Dillian Whyte with a seventh-round stoppage in his last fight in December to claim the British heavyweight title.
The bout against American Martin, who beat Vyacheslav Glazkov for the vacant IBF belt in January, will be his 16th fight as a professional. He has won by knockout in the first 15.
Fury was stripped of the IBF title in December after he opted for a rematch against Wladimir Klitschko, rather than face mandatory challenger Glazkov.
Joshua added he had "no comments" on Fury's physique.
"This is just how I am. There's a lot of jealousy, a lot of negativity, so that's why I shut it down and just focus on myself.
"I don't search for their attention. I'm not worried if he backs me or not, because I'll still handle my business. He's not supposed to back me realistically, so I expect no different."
The FCA said it was concerned that many retail investors buying "contract for difference" products did not understand them adequately.
It also noted that 82% of clients lost money on the products.
In the FTSE 250, shares in both CMC Markets and IG Group Holdings sank by more than 30%.
Meanwhile Israel-based Plus 500 saw its shares drop 35% after it said the FCA proposals would "have a material operational and financial impact" on its UK regulated subsidiary, which accounts for about 20% of the group's revenues.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index was up 13.86 points at 6,760.69.
Banking shares helped to lift the index, with shares in HSBC climbing 3.2% after Morgan Stanley upgraded its rating on the company to "equal-weight" from "underweight".
Shares in Drax Group jumped 15% after the power producer said it planned to buy energy supplier Opus Energy for £340m. Drax also announced it would buy four gas turbine projects.
On the currency markets, the pound edged up 0.1% against the dollar to $1.2737, and rose 0.5% against the euro to €1.1883. | Anthony Joshua says Tyson Fury is jealous of his physique and has offered his heavyweight rival help in training.
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The annual Care of Police Survivors (COPS) service was held at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.
A roll of honour of police officers who have died on duty over the past year was read out, along with readings by family members.
Force representatives laid remembrance wreaths.
Jan Berry, chairman of COPS, said: "The Service of Remembrance is a chance for us all to remember those no longer with us - and also to celebrate the memories we have of them.
"It is a culmination to a weekend of 'healing, love and life renewed' and is all part of the COPS mission - to help rebuild shattered lives."
Peter Colwell, from Capel Uchaf near Clynnog Fawr, was found at the Ship Inn in Llanbedrog at 00:15 GMT on Sunday.
North Wales Police Det Supt Iestyn Davies said the results would help them work out what happened that night.
Four men, who were Mr Colwell's friends, have been bailed and a shotgun was recovered from the scene.
On Monday, Det Supt Davies said while the death was being treated as a murder investigation, "we are keeping an open mind as to the circumstances". | Hundreds of people gathered for a service of remembrance for police officers who have died on duty.
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But what does the Finns Party stand for, and how might its involvement in government change the Nordic country's relations with other EU states?
Anti-immigration rhetoric is one of the signature themes of the Finns Party, formerly known as the True Finns.
The party says immigration to Finland from outside the EU should be permitted only in cases where it brings economic advantage.
It says social and health care should be primarily for Finns, and it dismisses some EU immigrants such as the Roma as "criminals" and others as people seeking to take advantage of Finland's welfare services.
Refugees should flee to, and remain in, countries neighbouring their own and not come to Finland, it says.
The country's aid budget should be abolished entirely and the money handed over to voluntary organisations.
In an earlier manifesto, from 2011, the party suggested how demand for labour might be met without immigration.
Young women should be persuaded not to study and instead give birth to Finnish babies who would eventually fill the demand for workers, it said.
Several Finns Party MPs are active members of nationalist organisations campaigning to change bilingual Finland (where Swedish is an official language) to a unilingual citadel of Finnish.
Much of the rhetoric on this issue is highly charged.
One of the campaigners' aims is to end mandatory teaching of Swedish in Finnish schools.
An initiative to make Swedish voluntary was voted down in parliament during the winter.
However, a new policy, supported by the Finns Party, is being tested in municipalities close to the Russian border, where instead of mandatory Swedish, Finnish pupils will have mandatory lessons in Russian instead.
The move has been applauded by Moscow, but it sends odd signals to the rest of the EU.
The party's origins lie in a split in the Centre Party (then known as the Agrarian League) in 1959, when charismatic former cabinet minister Veikko Vennamo resigned in protest at what he saw as Finland's too-friendly relations with the Soviet Union.
After a period of instability and several name changes, he established the Rural Party in 1966.
Basing its appeal on defending "forgotten" small-scale farmers, the party jumped from one seat to 18 in the 1970 election.
After another split, triggered by a dispute over Mr Vennamo's leadership style, the party bounced back in 1983, winning 17 seats.
Led by the founder's son, Pekka, the party criticised its established rivals as mired in bureaucracy and corruption.
Policy focused on providing care and support for the poor and unemployed, with a dose of nationalism mixed in.
But joining the government proved to be disastrous for the party.
It was unable to keep its promise to abolish unemployment within months and fell into another political downturn.
By 1995, the party was in ruins, and the True Finns Party was established from its ashes.
With only one MP in parliament and the party in severe financial difficulties, Timo Soini took over as chairman in 1997.
For three successive elections, the party failed to win significant support.
But opportunity came in 2008 with EU economies in crisis.
Mr Soini repeatedly accused the government of perpetrating a fraud on the Finnish people, above all for, as he saw it, bailing out spendthrift countries of southern Europe.
Beneath the strong Euroscepticism lies a brand of Finnish nationalism that targets refugees, immigrants and the Swedish population in Finland.
The 2011 election was a triumph for Mr Soini, whose party won 39 of the 200 seats in parliament, becoming the third biggest party but refusing to join a pro-bailout coalition.
In last month's election, the party dropped one seat to 38, but emerged as the second largest party.
Mr Soini, whose masters thesis was on populism, is a skilful speaker, talking in a way that appeals to many ordinary Finns.
The Finns Party is set to form part of a new coalition government, along with the Centre Party of the likely next Prime Minister, Juha Sipila, and the conservative National Coalition Party. Mr Sipila has begun coalition talks and hopes to announce a new government by the end of the month.
With Mr Soini in government, the Finns Party's opposition to any fresh bailout for Greece could complicate Helsinki's relations with Brussels.
Whether Mr Soini's party, with its history of splits, will hold together when the next government announces inevitable spending cuts is another story. | Results from Finland's parliamentary elections last month have focused attention on the populist and Eurosceptic Finns Party, which won the second largest number of seats and may join talks with the Centre Party about forming a coalition government. | 32,627,013 | 988 | 51 | false |
Adi Taviner and Kerin Lake replace Dyddgu Hywel and Elinor Snowsill in the backs while forwards Catrin Edwards and Rebecca Rowe make way for Amy Evans and Siwan Lillicrap.
Robyn Wilkins moves to fly-half while Meg York switches from tighthead prop to loose head.
Sioned Harries has been given more time to recover from illness.
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Should she fail to recover, Alisha Butcher will replace the Number eight, who missed Wales' defeat against England.
It was their second defeat of a campaign which has seen them beat Scotland and France.
Wales are currently fourth in the table and head coach Rhys Edwards has been pleased with his side's progress.
"We have shown some excellent attacking intent, and some ruthless defence. We were unlucky not to win last week against England," Edwards said.
"We have one more opportunity to go out and put on a good show in front of another big home crowd."
Wales women: Adi Taviner (Ospreys/Skewen), Bethan Dainton (Dragons/Bristol), Hannah Jones (Scarlets/Penybanc), Kerin Lake (Ospreys/Skewen), Elen Evans (Scarlets/Caernarfon), Robyn Wilkins (Ospreys/Llandaff North), Keira Bevan (Ospreys Skewen); Megan York (Dragons/Ynysddu), Carys Phillips (Ospreys/Skewen), Amy Evans (Ospreys/Skewen), Shona Powell-Hughes (Ospreys/Skewen), Siwan Lillicrap (Ospreys/Skewen), Rachel Taylor (Dragons/Caernarfon - captain), Sian Williams (Dragons/Worcester), Sioned Harries (Scarlets/Whitland) or Alisha Butchers (Scarlets/Pen y Banc)
Replacements: Amy Price (Ospreys/Skewen), Cerys Hale (Dragons / Pontyclun), Catrin Edwards (Scarlets/Llandaff North), Rebecca Rowe (Dragons/Richmond), Sioned Harries (Scarlets/Whitland) or Alisha Butchers (Scarlets/Pen y Banc), Elinor Snowsill (Dragons/Bristol), Gemma Rowland (Dragons / Wasps), Dyddgu Hywel (Scarlets/Pontyclun)
The woman, who is in her 80s, was struck by the bus in Church Hill Place just after 08:00.
The road was closed but reopened at about 08:45. | Wales Women have made four changes and two positional switches for Sunday's final Six Nations game against Italy.
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The 21-year-old arrived on a one-month emergency loan and has made seven league appearances for the U's.
The extended deal makes Waring eligible for all competitions, including Oxford's Johnstone's Paint Trophy final against Barnsley on 3 April.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed my time here," he told the club's website.
The proposal with The Silvertown Partnership includes an avenue of "brand pavilions" and 1,500 homes.
It is hoped the plans for the Newham site, owned by the Greater London Authority, could create 9,000 jobs and add £6.5bn to the economy by 2038.
A planning application will be submitted over the next year.
As part of the plans a new bridge will be built, connecting the area to the ExCel and providing access to a new Crossrail station.
Mr Johnson said: "The confirmation of this deal to return Silvertown Quays to its former glory will bring thousands of new homes and jobs back to east London."
Elliot Lipton of The Silvertown Partnership said: "Stand-alone brand pavilions have been built for the last decade around the world but this will be the first time that a brand park has been developed.
"These pavilions will also allow global brands to influence the online spending decisions of customers, which will be worth up to a total value of £221bn by 2016."
Sir Robin Wales, mayor of Newham, said: "This proposal will help to unlock future developments and investment."
If approved it is hoped work will begin in 2014-15 and first businesses will move in by 2017.
Police were called to a property in Rectory Road, Sittingbourne, on Thursday, following concern for the welfare of an elderly woman.
Jean Robertson, 85, was pronounced dead on the way to hospital, Kent Police said.
Stuart Lay, 44, of Homewood Avenue, Sittingbourne, has been charged with murder and remains in custody.
Officials say the police will patrol the Stade de France stadium as well as the Fan Zone near the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysees boulevard.
But there will be no victory parade if France win, the officials warned.
Police and the army have been patrolling Paris since last November's attacks in which 130 people died.
Jihadist gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a number of venues, including the Stade de France.
French officials say about 1,900 police officers will patrol the Fan Zone, while another 3,400 will be deployed at the Champs Elysees - some of them will be moved from the stadium, just north of Paris, after the final kicks off at 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
"We have the extremely favourable ratio of one officer for fewer than 50 spectators. So it is an extremely high standard," said Mathias Vicherat, the Paris mayor's chief of staff.
But officials have said that there will be no victory parade on the Champs Elysees in the event of a French win because of security concerns.
More than one million people celebrated France's 1998 World Cup victory there.
Police and security forces have already successfully patrolled 11 matches played so far at the Stade de France and at another Paris stadium, the Parc des Princes.
However, the authorities have been criticised for their inability to prevent clashes between rival fans at a stadium in Marseille and also on the streets of the southern city.
The 28-year-old Israel international, who is recovering from surgery on an ankle injury, will remain at the Amex Stadium until the summer of 2019.
Kayal has scored three goals in 72 appearances for the Seagulls since joining from Celtic in January 2015.
"It is important to us that we keep hold of our key players," Albion boss Chris Hughton said. | Oxford United have completed a deal to keep on-loan Stoke City striker George Waring at the League Two club until the end of the season.
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Silvertown Quays in London's Royal Docks could be "transformed" into a shopping destination in a £1.5bn deal, mayor Boris Johnson has said.
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A man has been charged with murder after an 85-year-old woman died on her way to hospital.
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More than 5,000 French police will be deployed at key venues in and around Paris ahead of the Euro 2016 football final between France and Portugal.
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The Bulls announced in March they needed £1m to stay afloat and are thought to owe over £600,000 now.
Joint-administrator Brendan Guilfoyle said: "We have just 10 working days to save the club from liquidation because there are no funds to carry on longer.
"If anyone is interested in buying the Bulls we need to hear from them, this club is on the brink of extinction."
He added: "The directors made every effort to try to save the club within the 14-day timescale issued by the courts, but the moratorium ended on Monday without any potential buyer coming forward."
The position of the staff is that their wages were paid for June but there may be redundancies
The Bulls, who are currently ninth in the Super League table, are one of the most decorated sides in English rugby league.
They have been crowned Super League champions four times, with their last victory coming in 2005, and won the Challenge Cup on five occasions.
Administration means the Rugby Football League is now likely to hand them a points deduction and this would almost certainly scupper their hopes of making the play-offs for the first time since 2008.
Guilfoyle admitted that the meeting he had held with the club's staff prior to the public announcement about going into administration had seen tempers flare.
"The position of the staff is that their wages were paid for June but there may be redundancies," he told BBC Radio Leeds.
"The meeting I held with the staff was very difficult and the longer it went on the greater the feeling of animosity there was towards the directors who were there.
"There's a general feeling of unhappiness but I hope they realise that by binding together they can demonstrate what a fantastic club this is."
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Former acting chairman Stephen Coulby revealed the club was in a worse predicament when he came in in the middle of May than had been thought and this has put potential investors off.
"Within 24 hours of getting through the door we found the situation was worse than we had previously assumed," he said
"We ultimately came to a figure of £1.2m to keep the business running to next year.
"What people have been saying to us is why would they put in money now when they can't see the club benefiting to the extent they want."
It is understood Bradford currently owe £196,000 in PAYE tax for May and June, plus an outstanding VAT bill of £250,000 from the sale of the lease of Odsal to the RFL, while the monthly wage bill is over £200,000.
On 14 June it was revealed that the club could be forced to go into administration after being served with a winding-up petition by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs over unpaid tax.
Bradford shocked the rugby league world in March when they announced that they needed to raise £1m to stay afloat after an impending tax bill and a changed banking lending arrangement left them short of money.
World Club Championship - 2002, 2004, 2006
Super League champions - 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005
Minor Premiers - 1999, 2001, 2003
Grand Finalists - 1999, 2002, 2004
Challenge Cup winners - 1943-44, 1946-47, 1948-49, 2000, 2003.
Having asked supporters to pledge £100 and carrying out a number of fundraising activities they were able to raise their initial target of £500,000.
Attempts to pull in further investments were unsuccessful and chairman Peter Hood stepped down last month after a series of disagreements with majority shareholder Chris Caisley.
Coulby admitted the club were at serious risk of going into administration at the start of June.
The Bulls become the third Super League side in three seasons to enter administration after Yorkshire rivals Wakefield faced similar difficulties last year and Welsh outfit Crusaders in 2010.
Crusaders were then liquidated in 2011, with Widnes Vikings taking their place in Super League.
Bulls forward Ian Sibbit said on Twitter: "Super League wouldn't be the same without Bradford Bulls. Let's hope our great club can be saved."
Current Super League licences are not up for renewal again until 2014 so the Bulls' place in the elite of the sport should be safe, assuming they can sort out their financial problems. | Bradford Bulls have entered administration and face "extinction" if a buyer is not found within 10 days. | 18,554,519 | 932 | 24 | false |
Jonathon Brown, 37, of Holywell, Flintshire, denies causing the death of Andrew Green, 39, by driving carelessly.
The incident happened at Ffynnongroyw, about five miles east of Prestatyn, Denbighshire, in June 2015.
Mr Brown told Caernarfon Crown Court he was still haunted by the collision.
The court has heard that the bin wagon was stationary and had lights flashing when the coach passed taking children to school, going in the same direction.
The prosecution said on Monday Mr Green crossed the road ahead of the lorry and the bus driver was unable to stop before hitting him.
The court heard how Mr Brown was driving at 33mph in a 30mph zone.
However, on Tuesday, he denied being distracted.
He told the jury: "I don't understand why he ran, that's the bit that haunts me."
The trial continues.
That does not include multiple Wales internationals across both rugby codes.
Webb's selection continues the fine sporting record of the Bridgend school.
"I used to look at the board and see how many British and Irish Lions were on it," Webb told BBC Scrum V Radio.
Webb joins Jack Matthews, JPR Williams, Gareth Williams, Mike Hall, Rob Howley, Dafydd James and Gavin Henson as Lions to have attended the school.
"I knew some of them because they were in my time but some of them I hadn't really heard of, but you always used to count them. It shows what an immense school and breeding ground for talent it is," Webb continued.
"There's still a good rugby base there and a lot of young talent coming up through the ranks, so it's great."
Brynteg is not the only school to celebrate former pupils being called up to Warren Gatland's Lions squad. Wales pair Dan Biggar and Liam Williams both attended Gowerton School in Swansea.
Adam Rosser, head of physical education at Brynteg, says instilling a positive philosophy into the pupils contributes to their success.
"The children have got a good background of what the game is all about and we just tweak it slightly, and encourage them to take part," he told BBC Scrum V Radio.
"We're fully aware that not everybody has got to play rugby union but everybody has got to go to school and when they get to us in September, they know through family of the contribution Brynteg has made."
As well as breeding future talent, Rosser says the school and its students are aware of the impact they, and the wider community, have made.
"We're extremely proud of what the school has done. We know that it's not just the school in isolation. We're supported by the local club game as well," Rosser continued.
"The local clubs in the Bridgend district work their socks off and we're extremely grateful for the contribution that they make."
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Whereas some players have uploaded their joyous reaction to their Lions call-up on social media, Webb says that his own discovery was an experience he went through alone.
"I shot home from training. We had the option to watch it in training but I knew I'd have the house to myself so I put it on pause, gave myself time to have a coffee and a chocolate bar and watched it then," Webb said.
"Then if there was disappointment then I could pout in the house on my own. I made it, so I fist-pumped in the house on my own and give it a big scream. I was over the moon.
"I had no one to hug or high five. Everyone was out and about. Lucky enough my mate called over and we celebrated, and two-and-a-half hours later my mum and dad decided to answer the phone." | A school coach driver whose vehicle was in a fatal collision with a binman has denied being distracted and taking his eye "off the ball".
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The Save Farm Terrace Allotment group has asked for a judicial review into a decision to allow land behind Watford Football Club to be developed.
Campaigners say the historic allotments could be part of the plan.
Mayor Dorothy Thornhill said that would lead to an "inferior scheme".
Developers behind the Watford Health Campus project on a 30-hectare site say it is designed to regenerate land between the club and the hospital.
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust plans to move key clinics and some surgery there from other parts of the county.
The overall scheme would include shops, a school, new homes and affordable housing, Watford Borough Council said.
Allotment holders won an appeal against the council's first plan last August, when Communities Secretary Eric Pickles reversed his original decision to grant permission to close the allotments.
But this was overturned in December, when a revised scheme was accepted by Mr Pickles.
Sara Jane Trebar from the campaign group said it was challenging this decision on the grounds the secretary of state was "misled" about the allotment land being "critical to the viability of the project".
It believes the allotments could be included "without risking the development".
"The allotments have supported communities throughout centuries and it is very important it stays the green land that it is," she said.
Elected Liberal Democrat mayor Ms Thornhill said the decision to include the allotments in the development area had been taken with "regret and sadness" but the area contributed to the health campus project's "viability".
"[Experts told us] if you want the quality scheme you want, if you want the best shot for the hospital to stay in Watford in the future then we have to include the allotments," she said.
"[If not] it actually means there is a financial risk to the scheme and we would then lose the ability to give the hospital the flexibility it needs to plan its future," she said.
"You would have a completely inferior scheme."
The government's target is 95%, however, figures from September showed only 45% were being seen.
Children's mental health in Kent is handled by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. In Sussex the trust has met the government target.
Clinical Director Dr Saqib Latif said services in Kent were "stretched".
Children are treated for a range of mental health problems including depression, anxiety, ADHD and autism.
Dr Latif said: "We are able to achieve the targets in Sussex, which shows it is achievable... but we are currently stretched beyond our capacity in Kent.
"The number of referrals we're receiving in Kent is much higher than expected by about 25%.
"And the number of emergency referrals in one month is equivalent to what we were expecting to receive in the whole year."
He said extra funding had been agreed to help reduce waiting times.
The Sussex trust took over from Kent and Medway Partnership Trust in 2012, because some patients in West Kent had waited 18 months for an initial assessment.
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of children should be seen within six weeks of referral, according to NHS guidelines
45% of children are seen in Kent within six weeks
Lucy Russell, from the charity Young Minds, said services were underfunded, adding that half of mental health problems start before a person is 16 years old.
"They are under incredible pressure and there's been a number of funding cuts and young people being referred to theses services is increasing," she said.
"Having targets like that is a good thing but it doesn't look good when those targets aren't reached." | If a legal fight by a group opposed to building a new health campus on 118-year-old allotments continues it will put the whole plan at risk, a council has said.
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Original cast members Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche and Ramona Marquez are all set to reprise their roles as the children - Jake, Ben and Karen.
Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner will return as parents Pete and Sue.
"The first reaction will probably be, 'My God, the kids are huge now!'" creator Andy Hamilton told the Telegraph.
Drew-Honey is now aged 20, while Roche is 16 and Marquez is 15.
Hamilton continued: "The second reaction will be the one the writers have been getting since the series started in 2007: 'I reckon you must have cameras in our house.'"
The last series of Outnumbered aired in 2014.
The BBC sitcom follows the Brockman family, in which the three boisterous children outnumber the parents.
The series is known for its improvisational dialogue and has previously won three British Comedy Awards.
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The 28-year-old, who returned in January after more than a year out with a knee injury, has made more than 250 appearances for Forest.
"Since I first started playing football I always wanted to stay at a club for 10 years," he told Forest's website.
Winger Oliver Burke, 18, has also extended his stay, signing a new four-and-a-half-year deal.
Academy product Burke has made 13 appearances this season, scoring two goals. | Outnumbered is set to return for a one-off Christmas special, the show's creators have confirmed.
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The report, which was compiled by Birmingham City Council's licensing team, contains police allegations that up to £93,042 was taken from customers of Legs 11 on Broad Street.
The council has suspended the club's alcohol licence, pending a full review.
Legs 11 has not responded to a request for a comment.
In the council report Supt Andy Parsons said two men had claimed they were drugged, with one testing positive for methadone with a home testing kit.
The force is also investigating claims large amounts of money was taken from people's bank accounts without their knowledge.
Some customers had paid for dances "in a private area" but additional transactions were taking place that they had not authorised, he said.
One victim claimed he had lost as much as £19,417.
"In this year alone, four fraud offences have been reported totalling £23,965 with two of the victims reporting they had been drugged," he said.
"One of the victims went as far as getting a home drug test kit which indicated he was under the influence of methadone. This victim had £9,000 taken from his credit card."
The club was being investigated over 17 fraud-related allegations since 2013, West Midlands Police said.
Supt Parsons added "intelligence checks" suggested the club was linked to "organised crime groups from Albania".
"These premises are involved in serious criminality and serious offences are being committed at the premises," he said.
The report also contained details of an undercover trading standards investigation, during which officers were offered sexual services in a locked room for a fee of £1,000 and were "rubbed" by naked dancers, contravening the club's licence.
The 30-year-old Germany midfielder is believed to have told Bayern he did not want to extend his contract, which runs until 2016.
United announced in a club statement on Saturday that they had reached an agreement to sign him.
"I hope you understand my decision," Schweinsteiger told fans on Twitter.
The World-Cup winner said he was moving to United to "gain experience at a new club".
"No one can take away the incredible journey we had together. The decision was very hard to make because you and Bayern have, are and will always be an extremely important part of my life," he added.
The Old Trafford club hope to complete the medical to enable Schweinsteiger to be involved in their tour of the US.
Louis van Gaal's men fly out to America on Monday afternoon and will be based in Seattle for their first game against Mexican team Club America on Friday.
Bayern's chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: "It's regrettable because Bastian meant a great deal to the club.
"He achieved great things but he wants to do something new at the end of his career. He asked that we meet his wishes."
Schweinsteiger has made 536 appearances for Bayern since his debut in 2002 and played under Van Gaal while the Dutchman was in charge at Bayern between 2009 and 2011.
He helped his country win the 2014 World Cup and has one Champions League, eight Bundesliga titles and seven domestic cup triumphs to his name while at the German club.
Bayern defender and former German captain Philipp Lahm said: "We have to simply respect and accept his decision. He's looking for a new challenge, but for me it's an absolute pity he is going."
United identified Schweinsteiger earlier this summer as a high-profile player they were interested in, along with Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos.
United have made two other signings this summer - £31m-winger Memphis Depay arrived from Dutch club PSV Eindhoven in June - and on Saturday Italian defender Matteo Darmian signed for an undisclosed fee from Torino.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | A lap dancing club allegedly drugged customers and charged thousands of pounds of unauthorised transactions to their credit cards, a report claims.
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The vandals appear to have used red spray paint to write "[expletive] law" early on Tuesday morning, the National Park Service said in a statement.
Crews are removing it with a "gel-type architectural paint stripper that is safe for use on historic stone".
US Civil War memorials have become a lightning rod in the US race debate.
Other "undecipherable graffiti" was found written in silver paint on a nearby sign directing tourists to the Smithsonian Institution on Washington's National Mall public park.
President Lincoln led the northern Union government to defeat the secessionist Confederacy and ordered African-American slaves to be freed in 1863.
He was assassinated in Washington only five days after southern General Robert E Lee surrendered, effectively ending the war.
The statue of General Lee became a flashpoint over the weekend, when white supremacists clashed with anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, over that monument's removal.
A protester died after she was run over, and President Donald Trump was widely criticised in US media for failing to immediately lay blame for the violence on the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups.
Statues to Confederate leaders have been targeted for removal by many cities across the US, including Charlottesville, following a 2015 hate attack by a man in South Carolina who used the rebel flag to espouse his racist views.
After Saturday's violence several more cities announced plans to remove their monuments to the Confederacy.
Baltimore, Maryland; Lexington, Kentucky; Memphis, Tennessee; and Jacksonville, Florida have all announced proposals to remove controversial monuments.
On Monday, protesters in Durham, North Carolina, toppled a bronze statue to a Confederate leader as police filmed the crowd.
Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews later issued a statement saying police are reviewing the video in an effort to identify and prosecute those responsible for bringing down the 1924 statue. | The memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, who led the US through the Civil War, has been vandalised in Washington DC. | 40,942,428 | 435 | 27 | false |
A silver Peugeot 107 came off the B4291, Birchgrove Road, Birchgrove, at about 20:30 BST on Saturday and hit a tree.
The man who was driving the car was taken to the city's Morriston Hospital after being seriously injured.
Passengers in the car also required treatment, but their injuries were less serious.
The crash happened about half a mile north of the junction with Heol Las. | A man has been seriously injured after the car he was driving hit a tree in Swansea. | 34,237,336 | 95 | 24 | false |
Dale Williams and Larkin Cen set up their business Hokkei on Crwys Road, a year after reaching the final of the amateur cooking show in 2013.
Hokkei failed to reopen after Christmas and the company website has been taken offline.
A meeting of creditors will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Newport on 1 February.
Their venture had been covered in a four-part BBC Wales documentary called Larkin and Dale's Takeaway Revolution.
Mr Cen remained the sole director after Mr Williams resigned last summer and another director, Alan Heycock, resigned late in 2015.
CVR Global has been appointed to deal with the insolvency. | An Asian takeaway business founded by two Masterchef finalists in Cardiff has gone into administration. | 35,385,242 | 147 | 21 | false |
Islington Council said the move was necessary to improve air quality in the borough.
The authority said pollutants in diesel exhausts had been linked to heart and lung disease.
But a motoring group said drivers were confused by the penalising of one fuel over another as today's diesel cars were the "cleanest ever".
Mike Hawes, from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said: "Bans and parking taxes on diesel vehicles therefore make no sense from an environmental point of view.
"The allegations against diesel cars made in recent months threaten to misguide policy-making and undermine public confidence in diesel. It's time to put the record straight."
The surcharge, which will be imposed by Islington Council from Monday, coincides with an increase in its parking permits.
The cost of an Islington resident's permit depends on the emission or engine size of their vehicle with the highest priced at £444 for a year from Monday. This was found to be the highest charge for some drivers in the capital, according to a recent survey carried out by Churchill Car Insurance.
Claudia Webbe, the council's executive member for transport and environment, said diesel fumes were the "major cause of pollution."
She added: "Pollutants in diesel exhausts have been linked to heart and lung diseases, which are major causes of serious and long-term health issues and even death in Islington, and the surcharge will encourage a move away from diesel."
In 2014 the council threatened to hand out £20 fines to drivers who refused to switch off their diesel engines while parked. | A London council will be charging residents with diesel cars an extra £96 for their parking permits. | 33,126,725 | 347 | 20 | false |
The 18-year-old was dragged from a bus stop in Beeston and bludgeoned with a stone before being sexually assaulted.
Police have already visited 1,000 homes and taken swabs from 250 men since the attack on 6 March.
Officers are testing anyone broadly fitting the description of the offender.
Det Supt Nick Wallen, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "The offender's movements on the night of the attack strongly suggest the attacker has a link to the Beeston area.
"This mass swabbing operation is just one aspect of the investigation but it is vitally important for us to be able eliminate as many potential suspects as possible.
"The fact that we have a full DNA profile for the offender means that nobody has anything to fear about being wrongly implicated or telling us about anyone they have suspicions about."
Detectives previously released images and a description of the attacker, who is thought to be in his early 20s and of Pakistani or Middle Eastern origin.
On the night of the attack, he was wearing a green Puma hooded top and white trainers.
An image of a footwear mark recovered from the victim's clothing has now been released and is thought to be from a Nike 'Huarache' shoe.
"These types of trainers are mass produced and widely available, but I would ask people to consider it alongside all the other elements of description and consider whether it points to a particular individual," Det Supt Wallen said.
It recently emerged three other women were stalked by the suspect prior to the attack on Beeston Road.
Police have warned women on the city to be on their guard.
Welshman Bale, 25, has been jeered by fans of the Spanish club in recent weeks.
He was also criticised by some sections of the media following Saturday's 4-0 defeat by local rivals Atletico Madrid.
"He can handle that no problem at all," said Coleman.
"I'm not worried about him. If you go to Madrid for that amount of money and you know that the spotlight is on you then you can either handle it or you can't handle it."
Bale has been jeered by some Real supporters in the past few weeks for not passing the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo
'Disaster', 'irrelevant' and 'listless' were some of the words the Spanish media used to describe his performance in the European champions' worst derby defeat since a 5-0 loss in 1947.
"In [Bale's] first season they won the Champions League, which was their holy grail - and he was a huge part of that campaign," said Coleman.
"It's his turn now to get some criticism.
"It won't bother him. He'll be fine. He'll get through it."
Coleman is also confident the criticism will not affect his star man before Wales' key Euro 2016 qualifier against Israel in March.
Wales remain unbeaten and second in Group B, one point behind leaders Israel.
The Wales manager believes that the international break next month will work in Bale's favour.
"He can come away with us and forget about [the criticism] and block it out," said Coleman.
"He'll be focused on [European qualification] when he'll be with us. No doubt about it." | Detectives investigating the rape and attempted murder of a woman in Leeds are conducting a mass DNA swabbing operation in the hunt for her attacker.
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Wales manager Chris Coleman says Real Madrid's Welsh winger Gareth Bale can handle the "unfair" criticism he is getting. | 32,332,119 | 734 | 68 | true |
Officials say in 2016 there were around 240 incidents of verbal and physical abuse, compared to 180 the year before.
One examiner was told to "start running... because I'm going to mow you down" when he failed a driver.
Two-thirds of all attacks on agency staff in Britain, including roadside enforcement, were against examiners.
A trial of body cameras for some front-line staff could be extended to include driving examiners in future.
The cameras are currently being used by officials testing commercial vehicles at roadsides or authorised centres.
The DVSA said test examiners also faced death threats while a lorry driver tried to run enforcement cars off the road.
In March, a learner from West Yorkshire was asked to stop the car after making a number of serious errors.
The candidate swore at the examiner and drove "wildly" across a dual carriageway forcing the assessor to use their dual controls to stop the car.
Another driver made a false claim against one of the DVSA's traffic officers, the agency says it was one instance of the bullying they receive.
Source: DVSA
DVSA Chief Executive, Gareth Llewellyn, said: "I am immensely proud of my colleagues at DVSA, all of whom work incredibly hard to help you stay safe on Britain's roads. We do not tolerate anyone abusing, threatening or assaulting them.
"Our message is clear - whatever has happened, don't take it out on our staff. If you do, we'll press for the strongest possible penalties."
The agency has also promised to refer all threats and assaults to the police and to make any candidate, who is being abusive, take their next test at a different location.
The DVSA said in some extremely rare cases, driving instructors have tried to change the outcome of the test by harassing or threatening examiners. They face being taken off of the approved driving instructor register. | Driving examiners are increasingly being threatened and sworn at by candidates who fail their tests, the Driving Vehicle Standards Agency says. | 40,886,319 | 425 | 28 | false |
Sale have complained to the Rugby Football Union that confidential team information was passed to Bristol before their Premiership fixture at the AJ Bell Stadium on 1 January, which the visitors won 24-23.
Sharks director of rugby Steve Diamond confirmed wing Tom Arscott has been suspended since 4 January.
Diamond also told BBC Radio Manchester that there was "no suggestion" from Sale that Bristol, who deny any wrongdoing, had asked one brother to obtain information from the other.
The Sharks have lost their past 10 matches in all competitions.
Tainton, who has been in interim charge of bottom-of-the-table side Bristol since November, said: "We are aware of Sale contacting the RFU with regards to a complaint.
"We have yet to hear from the RFU about this. From what we are aware, we are entirely confident that Bristol Rugby has done nothing wrong and we have not acted in a way that is against the spirit and values of rugby.
"Tom and Luke met on New Year's Eve at the team hotel - which is not unusual for families living in different parts of the country.
"However, following the conversation between the brothers, nothing was said or passed to the Bristol coaches of any sporting value, nor did it change the strategy in which we approached the game in any way, shape or form."
Diamond explained: "For us to do our internal investigation and disciplinary, we have to inform the governing body of what we're doing, and that's where we're at. It is now in the hands of the RFU.
"When you sign a professional contract, team information is sacrosanct to the team's performance and that can't be discussed with opposition teams, that's the top and bottom of it.
"In the contract, the passing of information is forbidden."
Neither Sale's Arscott, who signed from London Welsh in 2013, or Bristol's Arscott, who has previously played for clubs including Exeter Chiefs and Bath, entered the field during the match.
"Luke has carried on training," added Tainton. "We believe that he has done nothing wrong or that jeopardises Bristol rugby."
Alex Hales added just five runs to his overnight score of 136 before he was bowled by Andre Adams (3-93).
The away side benefitted from a last wicket partnership of 47 between Jake Ball and Sam Wood to end on 371.
Hampshire reached 167-4 in response with with Jimmy Adams (61) the top scorer before bad light forced the sides from the pitch early.
The day began well for the home side, with the in-form Hales, Vernon Philander and Will Gidman (34) all falling in quick succession.
However, Ball and Wood's tenth-wicket partnership gave the visitor's some momentum which Philander continued to bowl Liam Dawson in the third over of the reply.
Luke Wood (2-44) then accounted for Michael Carberry (30) and Adams before James Vince was run out trying to push for two.
Will Smith (25 not out) was joined by Adam Wheater before the light closed in and play was brought to a close.
Hampshire all-rounder Andre Adams:
"I think before Vince got out we were nice and poised. We are one partnership away from parity.
"After yesterday's toil it was nice to get a bit of reward from a bowling point of view. I think we bowled very nicely and if we continue, it will stand us in good stead.
"For us we were thinking about how to stop Hales from scoring and dominate today's play, so to get him out early was a bonus."
Nottinghamshire bowler Luke Wood:
"It was a good day for us. We feel like we are on top and can maybe force a win in the next couple of days.
"We bowled well as a collective on a decent wicket but we still have some work to do in the morning.
"It was tough losing Jake Ball early but I think we worked hard and covered for him. It is never easy when you are a bowler light but we dealt with it well."
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust said its former patient records setup was labour intensive and in need of replacement.
The new £7m computerised system means patient details will be accessible on screen to all health professionals.
It has been two years in the planning, and comes into effect on Monday.
Lynne Hodgson, from the trust, said "a massive amount of training has taken place" but they were "still expecting some teething problems".
"We're just asking at this time that patients and relatives bear with us while the new system is bedding in," she added. | Sale's Tom Arscott met Bristol back and brother Luke Arscott before their teams played, but "nothing of any sporting value" was passed on to the coaches, according to Bristol boss Mark Tainton.
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Hampshire and Nottinghamshire fought hard on an even second day to leave the game well poised at the Ageas Bowl.
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Patients on Teesside are being asked to bear with the health trust while a new electronic records system comes online. | 38,652,688 | 1,017 | 99 | true |
Philip Spence, 33, was convicted at Southwark Crown Court in October of three counts of attempted murder.
Spence attacked the sisters from the United Arab Emirates at the Cumberland Hotel in Marble Arch on 6 April.
He hit one of his victims with such force that she lost part of her brain and can no longer speak.
Spence, from Harlesden in north-west London, had admitted the attack, but denied attempted murder.
He hit one of his victims, Ohoud Al-Najjar, 34, with such force her skull split open as her nine-year-old nephew cowered under the sheets beside her.
She survived the attack but was left with just 5% brain function, lost sight in one eye and can no longer speak.
Her sisters Khulood, 36, and Fatima, 31, were both left with life threatening injuries and still require medical treatment.
In victim impact statements read to the court, Fatima Al-Najjar said the injuries to Ohoud had left her with a "living dead sister".
Sentencing him to life with a minimum term of 18 years, Judge Anthony Leonard QC said: "It is nothing short of a miracle combined with the finest medical attention that led to Ohoud surviving the attack.
"You used deliberate and gratuitous violence over what was needed to carry out the robbery."
"The ferocity of that attack was such you left one woman so badly injured she will never walk again unaided."
Earlier, prosecutor Simon Mayo QC said: "Spence's intention, as the jury concluded, was to kill them."
He fled the scene with a suitcase containing iPads, gold jewellery and mobile phones. He dumped the claw hammer just outside the hotel in Marble Arch, the court heard.
Mr Mayo said CCTV footage captured Spence on a bus as he examined the stolen items.
"Bearing in mind that less than an hour earlier he had carried out a vicious and sustained attack with a hammer on three defenceless women, his concern appears to have been the profit that he might make from his awful crime, rather than the plight of his unfortunate victims," the prosecutor said.
Judge Leonard said it was relevant that Spence carried out his attack in front of Khulood's three children, aged seven, 10 and 12.
"It is impossible to say what long-term affect this incident will have on the children," the judge said.
"Hardened police officers and paramedics who attended the scene said what they saw was horrendous and the worst they had seen across their careers.
"I'm sure you represent a significant risk to the public of serious harm."
Following the sentencing, Det Ch Insp Andy Chalmers said: "The level of violence Spence chose to use was extraordinary and completely unnecessary for him to steal, as he had set out to do that night."
Spence has 37 convictions for 62 offences going back to 1993 including theft, drug offences, grievous bodily harm, robbery and burglary.
In October, he was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary during the attack.
Neofitos "Thomas" Efremi, 57, from Islington, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary.
He was sentenced to 14 years and told he would serve half of his term before being released on licence.
James Moss, 34, of Hanley Road, north London, who pleaded guilty to handling stolen goods, was sentenced to 21 months, suspended for two years. | A man who bludgeoned three sisters with a claw hammer in a London hotel while their children slept alongside them has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years. | 30,074,385 | 789 | 44 | false |
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stacked-xsum-1024
a "stacked" version of xsum
Original Dataset: copy of the base dataset
Stacked Rows: The original dataset is processed by stacking rows based on certain criteria:
- Maximum Input Length: The maximum length for input sequences is 1024 tokens in the longt5 model tokenizer.
- Maximum Output Length: The maximum length for output sequences is also 1024 tokens in the longt5 model tokenizer.
Special Token: The dataset utilizes the
[NEXT_CONCEPT]token to indicate a new topic within the same summary. It is recommended to explicitly add this special token to your model's tokenizer before training, ensuring that it is recognized and processed correctly during downstream usage.
updates
- dec 3: upload initial version
- dec 4: upload v2 with basic data quality fixes (i.e. the
is_stackedcolumn) - dec 5 0500: upload v3 which has pre-randomised order and duplicate rows for document+summary dropped
stats
dataset details
see the repo .log file for more details.
train input
[2022-12-05 01:05:17] INFO:root:INPUTS - basic stats - train
[2022-12-05 01:05:17] INFO:root:{'num_columns': 5,
'num_rows': 204045,
'num_unique_target': 203107,
'num_unique_text': 203846,
'summary - average chars': 125.46,
'summary - average tokens': 30.383719277610332,
'text input - average chars': 2202.42,
'text input - average tokens': 523.9222230390355}
stacked train:
[2022-12-05 04:47:01] INFO:root:stacked 181719 rows, 22326 rows were ineligible
[2022-12-05 04:47:02] INFO:root:dropped 64825 duplicate rows, 320939 rows remain
[2022-12-05 04:47:02] INFO:root:shuffling output with seed 323
[2022-12-05 04:47:03] INFO:root:STACKED - basic stats - train
[2022-12-05 04:47:04] INFO:root:{'num_columns': 6,
'num_rows': 320939,
'num_unique_chapters': 320840,
'num_unique_summaries': 320101,
'summary - average chars': 199.89,
'summary - average tokens': 46.29925001324239,
'text input - average chars': 2629.19,
'text input - average tokens': 621.541532814647}
Citation
If you find this useful in your work, please consider citing us.
@misc {stacked_summaries_2023,
author = { {Stacked Summaries: Karim Foda and Peter Szemraj} },
title = { stacked-xsum-1024 (Revision 2d47220) },
year = 2023,
url = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/stacked-summaries/stacked-xsum-1024 },
doi = { 10.57967/hf/0390 },
publisher = { Hugging Face }
}
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