A motoring festival which has been running for 30 years is to be cancelled, organisers have said.

Article: Lottery organisers Camelot said the window for claiming the Euromillions winnings closed at 23:00 BST on Sunday.
Camelot said unclaimed money would be added to the money in the National Lottery Good Causes fund.
Leicester's lord mayor Abdul Osman started a countdown timer to the deadline near the Haymarket clock tower last week but the prize went unclaimed.
A spokesman for Camelot said: "Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money.
"I would urge all National Lottery players to check their tickets on a regular basis."

Summary: A lottery player who won £1m on a ticket bought in Leicester has failed to claim their prize.
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Article: But did any of these high-profile, slickly-produced photo calls and big-name speeches have the intended effect - and did they make the slightest bit of difference?
Here's a look at a few of the main ones.
An independent Scotland would have continued to use the pound under a currency union with the remainder of the UK, or so went the Scottish government's argument.
In the wake of the Scottish government's independence White Paper, put out at the end of 2013, UK Chancellor George Osborne made a flying visit north of the border to announce there would be no such deal, declaring: "If Scotland walks away from the UK, it walks away from the UK pound."
Prof John Curtice, of Strathclyde University, said: "The 'No' side was convinced that, because a majority of Scots said they wanted to keep the pound, if they were told they couldn't have it, the uncertainties in their mind that would flow from that would lead them back towards the 'No' side.
"The difficulty they had is that what they were saying to the people of Scotland was, 'vote for us on the grounds that we wish to deny you what you would like to happen if Scotland became independent.'
Prof Curtice said of Mr Osborne: "Unfortunately for him, the opinion polls, which had already began to narrow in the wake of the publication of the White Paper, continued to narrow in the weeks thereafter.
"It is not clear that it had the intended effect."
Edinburgh University's Prof James Mitchell argued the problem may have been the messenger, saying: "To have George Osborne leading on this was probably a big mistake.
"While the argument itself - if it had been articulated by someone else - might have had an impact I think, because of the unpopularity of the Chancellor, it simply didn't have that."
History professor Ewen Cameron, of Edinburgh University, said of the chancellor's declaration: "At the time, I thought, 'wow, that's a huge error on the part of the UK government'.
"But then when Cameron came out immediately after the referendum and talked about English votes for...

Summary: Last year's Scottish independence referendum campaign, as well the as buzz of day-to-day campaigning, was known for a series of key, headline-grabbing events.
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Article: The vessels involved include Dutch and Danish ships lost in Shetland's Out Skerries in the 1600s.
Also listed are what may be the 17th Century Scottish warship the Swan, off Mull, and a boat used to attack Lochaber's Mingary Castle in 1644.
The Scottish government has proposed making the sites Historic Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
The sites are currently safeguarded by the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.
Under the government's plans the wrecks' protection would transfer to the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010. It would be the first time the MPA powers of this Act have been used.
The protection afforded by the Historic MPA designation can be used to safeguard individual wrecks of national importance, or a group of sites such as an important fleet anchorage or a battle site.
Historic Scotland and Marine Scotland worked with other organisations to draw up the list of seven sites.
Public views have now been sought on the proposals which involve the following wrecks:
Culture and External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop said the new protection could help people learn more about the wrecks.
She said: "It is important to safeguard our most important underwater heritage sites in the seas around Scotland so that they can be valued and enjoyed and I am pleased to announce our first Historic MPAs as a first step to achieving that aim.
"Historic MPAs provide protection based on the principle of sustainable use.
"We hope that visitors will have more opportunities to enjoy these sites on a 'look but don't touch' basis, and will also gain a better understanding of the importance of our marine heritage."

Summary: Seven sites of historic shipwrecks off Scotland could be given new protected status.
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Article: Hugh James Rodley, 69, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, was sentenced to eight years in jail in 2009 for trying to steal £229m from a Japanese bank.
In 2012, he was given an additional seven years after being convicted of conning 741 pensioners out of £6m.
He was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
Rodley was ordered to handover £1,236,737 or face an additional seven years in jail in November 2014.
The money had been identified by National Crime Agency (NCA) and City of London Police financial investigators as profits he had made from both criminal enterprises.
Among the assets were luxury cars and his manor house in Gloucestershire.  He bought his title at an auction in 1986.
Acting Det Sgt Melonie Moody, from City of London Police, said his sentence was "one of the biggest" they had seen in recent times.
He said the force hoped to reunite the 741 victims with money they lost to Rodley.
Stephanie Jeavons, from the NCA, said the sentence showed the "seriousness of his failure to pay".

Summary: A self-appointed lord convicted of two multimillion-pound frauds has been jailed for a further seven years after he failed to pay back more than £1m.
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Article: In the video, Abubakar Shekau says his fighters shot down an air force jet that went missing three weeks ago.
Last week, the military claimed a man posing as the Boko Haram leader in videos had been killed and in August 2013 said that Shekau may be dead.
Security analysts have questioned the credibility of the military's claims.
Nigeria journalist Ahmad Salkida, who has good contacts within Boko Haram, said on his Twitter account last week that he had it "on authority that Shekau is well and alive".
Is it is not clear when or where the video, obtained by the AFP news agency, was made.
But the BBC's Hausa Service editor, Mansur Liman, says the man speaking appears to be the same Abubakar Shekau in other Boko Haram videos.
Analysis: Will Ross, BBC News, Nigeria
In the video a heavily bearded man stands on the back of a pick-up truck firing an anti-aircraft gun into the air.
He mocked the Nigerian military for reporting that he had been killed and was surrounded by heavily armed masked gunmen.
The Nigerian military has recorded some recent success against Boko Haram after preventing the town of Konduga, near Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, from falling into the jihadists' hands.
But towns and villages are still under the militants' control and reports that Abubakar Shekau is still alive will once again make it hard for people to believe the information coming from the Nigerian military.
Previous assertions about Shekau's demise have been followed a few weeks later by such video message denials.
Thousands of people have died during Boko Haram's five-year insurgency - and three states in the north-east have been under a state of emergency for more than a year.
The militant group has changed tactics in recent months, holding on to towns in the north-east, where most people are Muslims, rather than carrying out hit-and-run attacks.
In August, Boko Haram declared an Islamic state in areas it controls - which Shekau refers to in the 36-minute video.
"Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my...

Summary: A video has been released showing the purported leader of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram dismissing the military's allegations that he is dead.
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Article: The Coventry Festival of Motoring, which attracted 40,000 visitors in 2014, has had ??20,000 of funding withdrawn by the city council.
However, organisers Culture Coventry said the funding withdrawal was "not the only reason" they had made the decision to cancel the event.
It said events planned for 2015 and 2016 have been axed.
Organisers said they had not ruled out reviving the festival, but it would remain on hold indefinitely.
The free heritage event, which features classic cars, was due to take place in August at Stoneleigh Park.
It is organised by Culture Coventry, a trust set up to manage four of the city's visitor attractions.
Chief executive Gary Hall said he had just found out about the council's funding withdrawal.
"I have to look at the ongoing viability of the show and with cuts coming from the city council and other sponsors, we would not be able to grow it as we have in recent years," he said.
"It is a lot of money and, as a charity running four attractions in the city, we have to look at what benefits we are getting."
He said the charity was reopening Coventry's Transport Museum in June following a ??9m redevelopment.
"Unfortunately, we have to put all of our resources into promoting the museum," he said.
Mr Hall said the charity would run "a number of events" throughout 2015 to bring classic car owners into Coventry.
Coventry MotoFest, a more recent addition to the city's festival calendar, which features car races and displays, will go ahead in May, as planned.

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Australian laws forbidding people working in the country's detention centres from speaking out about what they see have raised grave concerns in the medical community.

Article: There are some 85,000 boxes - the classic pillars and others mounted on walls or posts - across England, and about 115,300 in the UK.
Royal Mail has pledged to conserve them in their existing locations.
Forensic tags are invisible markers, usually liquids, which show up under ultra-violet light in cases of theft.
The new commitments are contained in a joint policy document between Royal Mail and Historic England.
They update the original policy document from 2002 to recognise changes in legislation and allow for recent developments, such as painting 110 post boxes gold to celebrate London 2012 British Olympic and Paralympic champions.
New measures in the document include the use of forensic tags, permanent metal marking and electronic tracking to discourage the theft and damage of boxes.
Permanent metal marking and forensic tagging allows police to identify the origin of a post box if it sold as metal or as a post box.
The Royal Mail said the prevention of crime would "always be the primary objective" and it said every opportunity should be taken to identify areas potentially at high risk of crime and implement the new technology.
Historic England has also renewed its commitment to work with Royal Mail using heritage protection measures to ensure that post boxes are kept and well cared for wherever possible, the organisations said.
The agreement serves as a code and guide for Royal Mail staff responsible for managing the stock of post boxes.
It will be adapted to reflect the individualities of post boxes around the UK, Royal Mail said, with equivalent policies with heritage agencies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Royal Mail already has a rolling maintenance programme of its post boxes to repair those which have fallen into disrepair or become shabby.
The post boxes tend to be repainted, on average, every few years, but this can change depending on if they are near to areas with more corrosive air, such as those near the sea.
The roadside post box was introduced in Britain following the 1840...

Summary: Forensic tags and electronic tracking are among proposals set out by the Royal Mail and Historic England to preserve the country's post boxes.
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Article: The city council said the new two-week October half-term, to begin in 2017, would help families spend time together without children missing school.
It said the break, from 14 to 29 October, had been designed to give families more flexibility to go away outside the peak summer holiday period.
It follows consultation with parents and carers earlier this year.
Brighton and Hove City Council said it was also responding to national guidelines to head teachers, introduced in 2013, which did not allow them to grant any absence by pupils during term time without "exceptional circumstances".
Councillor Tom Bewick said: "Modern families come in all shapes and sizes and the reduction in the discretion available to head teachers is damaging.
"The introduction of a new week's holiday in term time is a positive step and I hope addresses the behaviour of travel companies who whack up prices."
The changes in school holidays have been made by adjusting the start and finish dates of the three main terms at all primary and secondary schools which come under the authority.
The council, which sets academic year dates for community, voluntary-controlled and community special schools, said it did not reduce the number of teaching days to achieve the change.
The new term dates will be reviewed after a two-year trial period.

Summary: Schools in Brighton and Hove are set to have a new two-week break to allow parents to buy cheaper holidays.
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Article: US researchers studied the sleeping patterns of traditional societies in Africa and South America, whose lifestyles closely resemble ancient hunter gatherers.
They monitored 98 people for 1,165 nights, and found that they slept for an average of 6.5 hours per night.
By comparison, the scientists said that most people in the US get about seven hours, according to a large sleep poll.
The new study, published in the journal Current Biology, also finds that temperature played a greater role than light in shaping sleeping patterns.
Prof Jerome Siegel, from the University of California, Los Angeles, said: "The issue is: what is the data on how sleep has changed?
"And it occurred to me that these groups, which are rapidly disappearing, give the last opportunity to really know what human sleep was like before we all created our various civilisations.
"What is absolutely clear is that they don't sleep more than we do."
No naps
From artificial lights, to late night TV, and now the ever-present glow of our smart phones, modern life is often blamed for ruining our sleep.
To put this to the test, the researchers studied the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia and the Tsimane of Bolivia, fitting their volunteers with wristwatches that monitor sleep.
"All three groups have pretty much the same sleep duration and pretty much the same timing of sleep," said Prof Siegel.
"This gives me reasonable confidence that they reflect the common human biology and they are not a function of their particular situations, which are different."
As well as discovering that the average sleep duration was six hours and 25 minutes, the researchers also found the participants very rarely took naps.
While some European documents suggested that people used to wake up for a while during the night, sleeping in two shifts, the researchers found this was not the case with the hunter gatherers.
Surprisingly, natural light did not have as big an influence as was thought.
Most people fell asleep on average 3.3 hours after sunset.
However, temperature...

Summary: Our ancestors may have got less sleep than we do, a study suggests.
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Article: They say it is the unfortunate but unintended consequence of what have otherwise been very successful efforts to improve air quality.
It turns out the filters put on vehicle exhausts to remove fine particulate material have also unbalanced the chemistry behind ozone formation.
Chemical reactions that would normally remove ozone have been subdued.
The insight comes from a study looking at London's air quality records.
"Peak ozone levels have come down since the 1990s, but we haven't had the gains we expected on ozone," said Dr Erika von Schneidemesser from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany.
"The data we've got from monitoring sites in London, and also the modelling work we have done, has helped us understand why ozone has behaved the way it has - at least in London," she told BBC News.
Dr von Schneidemesser was speaking here at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the world's largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.
Ozone  in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) is regarded as a serious pollutant that can cause respiratory problems, and even damage masonry and agricultural crops.
The principal originating source is the emissions from road vehicles.  These include the exhaust gases such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), and carbon monoxide (CO).
Ozone is the product of these gases' participation in a complex series of chemical reactions where sunlight and heat act as catalysts.  Summer months are generally worse for O3.
Dr von Schneidemesser and colleagues used the data from London's dense network of air quality monitoring sites to try to assess the performance of the ozone-producing reactions over the past 15 years.
They found that although the ozone precursors have been falling, the ratio of two NOx gases in the atmosphere has changed.
In constant conditions, there is a neat cycle in which nitrogen dioxide (NO2) helps to form ozone and nitric oxide helps to break it apart. This cycle appears to have been perturbed by...

Summary: Scientists think they have identified one key reason why ground-level ozone remains stubbornly high in Europe.
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Article: The 11 Plus was scrapped in Northern Ireland in 2008.
However, grammar schools started using new tests to select pupils.
Results of the contentious tests are due on Saturday.
The department has told teachers in the past that they they should not coach pupils for the tests.
The figure of 11 schools being sent letters by the department emerged in a reply to a request by Radio Ulster's Nolan Show.
In a statement, the department said: "The department wrote to some primary schools following reports that these schools may have been involved in coaching pupils for the unregulated tests during core teaching hours.
"This was to provide the school principals with an opportunity to confirm that the board of governors had complied with their legal duty to have regard to the department's guidance, and that the school was meeting its statutory obligation to deliver the curriculum to all pupils.
"The fact that the department writes to a school does not indicate that the school has been engaging in preparing children for unregulated tests, or indeed that the school is failing to deliver the statutory curriculum.
"It is intended to enable the schools to provide the department with the assurance that the pupils' educational needs are being appropriately met."
Mark Langhammer, from the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said the coaching was acceptable outside school hours.
"Many of the schools, either from their own resources or paid for by parents, do offer coaching sessions outside of school either at weekends or after school," he said.
"Our advice to our teachers - some other unions simply tell their teachers not to do it - we say if the school is going to employ you on a secondary contract and pay you, that's fine outside school."
Ulster Unionist Party education spokesman Danny Kinahan criticised the department over the letters.
"I completely abhor the actions of the Department of Education in naming, through the media,  primary schools which they have sent warning letters to over allegedly 'coaching' Year 6 and 7...

Summary: The Department of Education has sent letters to 11 primary schools since May 2012 over concerns at the possible coaching of pupils for unregulated transfer tests.
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Article: When Peter Young was in charge of mental health services at Australia's refugee detention centres, he says it became increasingly clear that authorities wanted to "keep the lid" on health issues that asylum seekers were experiencing.
The senior Australian psychiatrist says immigration authorities wanted details about the high rates of mental illness among children at the centres to be removed from his official reports.
He was asked to delete clinical opinions that made a direct link between prolonged detention and mental health problems.
Dr Young was director of International Health and Medical Services (IHMS) - a private health service contracted by Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) to provide health care to detention centres - a role he held for three years.
Its services covered the country's controversial offshore facilities on the Pacific island of Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, where all asylum seekers who try to reach Australia by boat are sent - never to be resettled in Australia even if their refugee claims are proven.
In advising on treatment, Dr Young argued with authorities who considered acts of self-harm by detainees as "a type of bad behaviour, rather than a manifestation of people in extreme states of hopelessness".
He says he was later refused permission to use data he had collected about health issues in detention centres in presentations or publications.
"They made it very clear this type of information should never get into the public domain," he told the BBC.
Now there is fear that health workers could go to prison for such revelations under new Border Force laws that threaten "entrusted people" with up to two years in prison if they reveal protected information about Australia's detention facilities.
In recent months, hundreds of doctors and nurses have staged public protests in cities across Australia, posing with their hands over their mouths to highlight the risk of being silenced.
Their concerns are shared by Australia's 13 peak medical...

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The Duchess of Cambridge tried her hand at conducting a prestigious symphony orchestra on the final day of the royal tour of Germany.

Article: Coed Felinrhyd is a place where geography and legend meet, and was named in the 12th Century Mabinogion Welsh myths.
Much of the woodland dates from the last Ice Age.
Now the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) has created a trail through one of the UK's "most magical" ecosystems.
Hidden off a lay-by near the picturesque village of Maentwrog, this 221-acre pristine woodland is home to flora and fauna scarcely seen elsewhere, including otters, bats, and rare birds.
"You'd associate most rainforest with central or south America - but this wood has a lot of similar processes going on," explains Jo Kemp, project officer with the RGS's Discovering Britain project.
The wood's sheltered gorge setting, together with the streams and waterfalls that cross the landscape, have created an ecosystem where plant life thrives.
"There's an oak tree canopy which maintains the moist humidity you can really feel here, and it remains sheltered from the hard frosts of Snowdonia and the strong winds of the coastline," Jo says.
"There are elements of this wood that potentially remain untouched since the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago - which makes it particularly unique not only in Wales, but in the whole of Britain."
As soon as you enter the rainforest, it immediately looks different to any other Welsh woodland.
The oak at the walk's entrance is covered in tree lungwort, a lichen now limited to only a few wild areas of Britain.
"It only likes less acidic bark," Jo explains. "As oak trees get older, their bark becomes less acidic.
"So its presence tells us that this bit of woodland is quite special and particularly ancient."
A rare Ice Age species of lichen was identified in Wales for the first time at Coed Felinrhyd in 2015, evidence that the forest dates back to a time when trees first re-colonised the country.
As we move further through the woodland, Jo points out the filmy fern plant growing from a tree base. "It's just one cell thick - and it's really quite scarce," she says.
"The fact it is here demonstrates just how unique an...

Summary: There may not be monkeys swinging from the canopy - but Snowdonia's 10,000-year-old Celtic rainforest shares other links to its Amazonian cousins.
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Article: Cecil's head and skin were removed, according to the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF), a local charity.
Walter Palmer, the US dentist who shot the animal, believed the hunt was legal but could still face charges.
The removal of the head of a hunted animal is not unusual - one wildlife charity says 665 lions are killed as trophies in South Africa alone every year.
In the last day, three US airlines - Delta, United and American Airlines - have said they will no longer transport the trophies of big-game animals such as buffalo, elephants, leopards, lions and rhinos.
All of which leads to one question: how can the remains of some of the world's most valuable animals end up being transported on commercial airlines?
Not so fast - that should become more clear later.
No - as long as it was not killed illegally, as Cecil allegedly was.
Hunting trophy animals is not illegal in many African countries. In Zimbabwe and South Africa, hunting is regulated, and hunters must obtain permits to kill certain animals in certain places.
Erica Kock, of Trophy Service Tannery in Pretoria, said export of trophy animals was tightly controlled in South Africa.
All legal hunters and hunting farms are registered, and anyone wishing to export a trophy animal needs to submit an export application via the taxidermist to the government.
"If we don't produce all the required documentation, we can't export - it's that simple," Ms Kock said.
The UK and the US, for example, demand import licences on top of export permits issued by the countries where hunting takes place.
In the UK, all applications must be made to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha)  - who can still refuse the application.
A spokesman for Apha said licences to import trophies had been issued to 61 people in the year up to 30 July. Only 16 of those have so far been used, the spokesman said.
But if the animal is classed as endangered, extra permission has to be given by the origin country.
Endangered animals such as some tigers and elephants are listed under Appendix...

Summary: When news emerged of the illegal killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe on 1 July, one detail stood out for many online commentators.
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Article: Lord Macdonald QC said it was of "great regret" that regional Crown Prosecution Service lawyers had failed to refer the case to him in 2007.
He said he would have given the allegations his "close attention".
Cardiff-born peer Lord Janner, 86, has always denied any wrongdoing.
The abuse allegations against the Labour peer relate to children's homes in Leicestershire in the 1970s and 80s.
On Thursday, current Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders announced that there was enough evidence to bring charges against Lord Janner but that this would not happen because he was now too sick to stand trial. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2009.
Ms Saunders also said the CPS had been "wrong" not to prosecute following investigations in 1991 and 2007.
On Saturday, speaking to the BBC on a visit to North Cornwall, Home Secretary Theresa May, said she was "very concerned" over the decision not to prosecute the former Labour MP.
She said: "It's not my decision, it's an entirely independent decision for the director of public prosecutions.
"I've been very clear, in everything I've said so far about the child sex abuse issue... that I expect to see justice done."
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday, Lord Macdonald said he had never been notified about the 2007 police investigation, for reasons which he "did not understand".
"It was apparently a serious police investigation, and it should have been absolutely clear to the lawyers in Leicestershire that this case should have been sent to London.
"I would have undoubtedly taken a look at it personally, and would have undoubtedly myself have considered the question as to whether or not Lord Janner should be charged, and I very much regret that that didn't happen."
The decision on whether or not Lord Janner should now face charges was "reasonably finely balanced", he said, adding: "I think you could justify a decision going either way frankly."
He said he had not seen all the material relating to the case, but that "in the light of the obvious...

Summary: A former director of public prosecutions has said he was "never informed" about an investigation into historical child sex allegations against former Labour MP Lord Janner.
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Article: The idea is one of a number aimed at helping Highland Council to cut carbon emissions and save money in a report sent to councillors.
Officers said the local authority could "promote use of warm clothing rather than supplementary heating".
A council spokesperson said it was not suggesting turning heating off.
"There are legal minimum temperatures for working conditions," the spokesperson said.
"We are not suggesting we reduce heating below the legal minimum. However, we often heat our buildings by several degrees warmer than this.
"By reviewing our practices, we could save thousands of pounds and, in the light of the budget savings required, we cannot afford to ignore this potential saving."
Highland Council has been working for several years to reduce its carbon footprint by trying to use less electricity and fuel.
Other suggestions in the new report include switching off computers when they are not in use, turning lights off where they are not needed and changing to more energy efficient LED lighting.

Summary: Wearing warm clothing has been suggested as way council staff could help reduce the need to turn up heating where they work.
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Article: Organisers think schools could play a big part in tackling discrimination and bullying.
Several speakers addressed a rally before the parade set off from Glasgow Green.
The theme was Be Yourself, with participants encouraged to wear whatever they wanted.
Section 28 was repealed 15 years ago, but campaigners claim there is still not enough being done in schools to highlight issues that affect the LGBTI community.
Jordan Daly from the Time for Inclusive Education campaign told BBC Scotland: "I think it is quite important that as much as pride is a celebration of the contribution of the LGBTI community to our history, society, culture and literature, it's also a lot more than that.
"Pride is historically a protest. It's a movement for change and I think that one of the biggest risks that we have here in Scotland in particular is that we all fall into a certain trap of complacency and think that LGBTI rights are there now that we have marriage equality.
"One of the key things that we have always spoken about throughout this campaign is that after marriage equality there is not a full stop, but a comma for the advancement of LGBTI rights, and we believe that the next big domino that has to topple is the education system."
The Scottish government is considering updating gender recognition legislation law to bring it in line with the international best practice for people who are transgender or intersex.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance, who spoke at the event, said: "Pride Glasgow is an opportunity to celebrate LGBTI communities and to present a unified front by standing and marching together against hate crime.
"Showing this solidarity is even more important in the wake of recent atrocities in Orlando and the persecution LGBTI people in other parts of the world face on a daily basis."
Director of the Equality Network Tim Hopkins said: "The event today is themed around the vital importance of making our education system LGBTI-inclusive, to address prejudice and ensure that LGBTI young people know that their...

Summary: This year's Pride Glasgow festival has featured a campaign calling for schools to introduce mandatory teaching of LGBTI issues.
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Article: Her Royal Highness took the baton at the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra's new home, the Elbphilharmonie concert hall.
It was part of an event where 250 schoolchildren were introduced to music in front of the Duke and Duchess.
The Royal party are due back in the UK on Friday evening, after a five-day tour that began in Poland on Monday.
On the last day of the tour, the Duchess, who comes from a musical family and played the flute at school, took the musicians through the first notes of Beethoven's fifth symphony.
The royal couple then listened to a performance of a symphony especially adapted for young people, and then went on stage to learn more about the orchestra.
Earlier, Catherine and William walked around the stage accompanying six children trying out different instruments, including a violin, flute, timpani [kettle drums] and trombone.
Later the Duke of Cambridge gave Prince George and Princess Charlotte a guided tour of a helicopter at the Airbus factory in Hamburg.
Prince George tried on a pilot's helmet while Princess Charlotte played with buttons in the cockpit.
The Duke flew helicopters when he was an air ambulance pilot.
Antoine van Gent, head of flight testing at Airbus, said: "The Duke was very relaxed showing his children the professional aircraft he uses.
"George was excited, with the first helicopter he wanted to sit in the cockpit and then he wanted to sit in the next one, he already knew there was a difference between them."
Charlotte was less impressed after taking a tumble on the concrete after leaving the aircraft but Mr van Gent said she enjoyed playing in the pilot's seat.

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A man has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after being convicted of "a horrendous catalogue" of abuse against a woman for more than a decade.

Article: And when it is in a cutting edge sport like Formula 1, then teams such as Williams Martini have to make sure every penny they spend is put to best inventive use.
The UK-based team's IT director Graeme Hackland says they spend about Â£100m ($154m) a year in F1, compared with what he says is Mercedes' outlay of Â£300-350m, and Ferrari's of Â£250-300m.
But despite the spending disparity, the UK-based team, which has won the constructor's table nine times, hopes that technology, rather than splashing cash, can help them close the gap.
"We believe we can take them on," the 48-year-old South African, who has worked in F1 for 18 years, tells the BBC.
"We can't follow what Mercedes do. We want to beat people who are out-speeding us.  If you can innovate, and not just follow what other people out there are doing, then you give yourself a chance."
And Mr Hackland, who is in his second year at Williams, says that he has seen an improvement over the past 18 months, as the team has cut the lap time difference between itself and Mercedes from 1.6 seconds, to 0.8 seconds.
The team - preparing for this Sunday's US Grand Prix - now has hopes of halving that figure again, and believes the power of technology, including working with outside experts, can help shave off further tenths of seconds.
"The challenge is finding partners - those that have digital technologies that will help us get back to the front of the grid - to come and work with us," Mr Hackland says.
Whereas at one time an F1 team's mechanics were armed with nothing more than a bag of spanners and an oily rag, nowadays there are dozens of team technicians, all keenly looking at banks of screens churning out a stream of race and car data.
There are 200 sensors on the Williams F1 cars, pouring out information on things like fuel levels, oil, water, exhaust and tyre temperatures, as well as speed, engine revs per minute (RPM), clutch fluid pressure, and G-force.
However, F1 regulations mean that there can only be a certain number of team members at race trackside, so...

Summary: When your closest sporting rivals are running a business with an annual team budget worth more than three times your own, then you need to be innovative in sustaining a challenge.
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Article: If all goes as planned, the hope is it will usher in a second industrial revolution - and hundreds of new jobs.
In a high-ceilinged atrium, a faded banner cheerily welcomes visitors "to our grand opening" while signs in bright shades of lime green and purple proclaim "the future is now".
It's a clean, quiet, and largely vacant 94,000-sq-ft (8,700-sq-m) space - not unlike the factory of the future, according to its tenants, the University of Illinois Labs' Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII).
"It's not going to be a dark and dingy shop floor," Jason Harris, DMDII's director of communications, tells me as he gestures towards half a dozen machines that have been donated by the Institute's corporate partners, including large firms like General Electric and Lockheed Martin.
With a mix of $70m (Â£46m) in federal funds and over $200m in private investment, the goal of DMDII is to apply research from the consortium's university lab partners in real-world factory settings in order to create a series of software programs and private networks that will usher US manufacturing into the digital age.
The question is whether this initiative, and others like it, will one day lead to the creation of the 200-plus jobs that were lost after Republic Windows drew down the shutters - or whether the factory of the future will be spotless, advanced - and empty.
Unveiled last month, DMDII is just one of a planned network of 15 manufacturing hubs championed by US President Barack Obama as part of his National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).
The idea is that by investing in research into applied technologies, the US can give American manufacturers a competitive edge, which will lead to more demand for goods - and more jobs.
"Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs and manufacturing," he said in his State of the Union speech in 2013.
That's crucial, as US manufacturing jobs tend to be higher paying and have a "multiplier" effect. This means that the economic impact of each...

Summary: Nestled in the cavernous former site of Republic Windows, where over 200 workers staged a sit-down strike in 2008 to protest against the window manufacturer's decision to shut the plant, around three dozen people are working on an initiative that could transform the future of US manufacturing.
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Article: PC Jamie Wallis, of Dorset Police, was charged with common assault after allegedly attacking a 30-year-old man at Bournemouth Police Station in April.
Bournemouth Magistrates' Court heard the case against the 40-year-old officer had since been discontinued.
The officer was removed from front-line duties during proceedings and this will now be reviewed, the force said.
A spokesman for Crime Prosecution Service (CPS) Wessex said it had concluded there was "insufficient evidence to have a realistic prospect of conviction".
Supt Pete Windle, head of professional standards at Dorset Police, said: "Dorset Police expects the highest standards of professionalism and integrity from its staff.
"We have a duty to thoroughly investigate criminal allegations against our staff, as we have done in this case, the details of which were then passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for their consideration and decision."
PC Wallis, who is based at Winton Police Station, had been due to appear before the court on Friday.

Summary: A case against a police officer who was charged with assaulting a man at a police station has been dropped.
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Article: Abdeslam has been charged with terrorism offences in Belgium a day after he was seized in a dramatic raid.
Abdeslam will fight extradition to France  but has been co-operating with police, his lawyer says.
The Paris attacks in November left 130 people dead and dozens injured.
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the bombings and shootings.
Abdeslam is charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told a news conference: "Salah Abdeslam today during questioning by [Belgian] investigators affirmed that, and I quote, 'he wanted to blow himself up at the Stade de France and that he had backed down'."
Abdeslam's assertions should be treated with caution, he added.
The 26-year-old French national, born in Belgium, is in custody following his arrest in Brussels on Friday after four months on the run.
Investigators hope Abdeslam, who was shot in the leg during his arrest, will reveal more information about the IS network behind the Paris attacks, its financing and plans.
They believe he helped with logistics, including renting rooms and driving suicide bombers to the Stade de France.
Abdeslam is believed to have fled shortly after the attacks, returning to the Molenbeek district of Brussels.
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Interpol has meanwhile urged "extra vigilance" at borders following Friday's Brussels raid, saying more accomplices may try to flee Europe.
The subject of a massive manhunt, Salah Abdeslam was arrested about 500m (1,600ft) from his home in Molenbeek.  His brother, Brahim, was one of the Paris attackers, who blew himself up.
Another man arrested at the same time as Salah Abdeslam on Friday, Monir Ahmed Alaaj, has also been charged with participation in terrorist murder and the activities of a terrorist group, the Belgian prosecutors say.
Friday's raid also saw three members of a family...

Summary: Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has admitted he wanted to blow himself up but then changed his mind, a French prosecutor says.
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Article: The Cancer Research UK study said this contrasted with a rise of just 6% in the rate for women over the same time.
However, bowel cancer survival rates are improving with half of all patients living for at least 10 years after being diagnosed.
It is not known why there should be such a large difference in the increase in rates between men and women.
Rising rates of bowel cancer may be linked to obesity and diets high in red and processed meat and low in fibre, as well as the increasing age of the population.
The disease is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK after lung cancer.
Cases of bowel cancer for men have increased from 45 per 100,000 in 1975-77 to 58 per 100,000 in 2008-10, a rise of 29%.
The figures for women were 35 per 100,000 rising to 37 per 100,000 in the same timescale.
The age group with the biggest rise is those in their 60s and 70s, who experience 23,000 new cases a year.
Professor Matthew Seymour, of Leeds University, who is director of the National Cancer Research Network, said: "We know the risk of bowel cancer increases as we get older and, since we're all living longer, it's no surprise to see that the number of people getting the disease is rising.
"But when we look at these figures and take people's age into account, we still see that the risk of bowel cancer has gone up in men in the last 35 years.
"It's important to find out what's behind the rise and what we can do about it.
The figures are released to mark bowel cancer awareness month and the launch of a new campaign by the Bobby Moore Fund charity.
The Make Bobby Proud campaign aims to spread the word about the disease, especially among men involved in the football community.
Stephanie Moore, whose footballer husband Bobby Moore died of bowel cancer in 1993, said it was encouraging that bowel cancer survival rates were improving.
But she added: "However, it's vital we continue to fund research to fight this disease as these new statistics show."
Dr Julie Sharp, senior science information manager at Cancer...

Summary: Bowel cancer rates among men have increased by more than a quarter in the last 35 years, a report has suggested.
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Article: Michael Pepper, 67, from Glasgow, raped the woman on various occasions between 1986 and 2001.
He also hit her with a baseball bat and bottle, cut off her clothes, struck her with a knife, kicked her on the body and caused her to fall downstairs.
Pepper was also placed on the sex offenders register.
Jailing him at the High Court in Glasgow, judge Johanna Johnston QC told Pepper: "Your actions blighted this woman's life. You now accept your guilty, albeit at a late stage.
"However, this woman had to come to court and give evidence of a very private nature.
"This was a horrendous catalogue of offending."

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The SNP will chair two House of Commons select committees at Westminster, it has been announced.

Article: The European Commission said Britain had agreed to "modify significantly" the financing for the project, reducing the burden on British taxpayers.
In total 16 commissioners voted in favour of the project, just ahead of the 15 votes needed for approval.
EDF Energy is due to build the plant, the first in the UK in almost 20 years.
The Commission had been examining whether the funding for the project broke state aid rules.
However, it said the changes agreed by the British authorities would cut the subsidy by more than £1bn, meaning that state aid would remain "proportionate to the objective pursued, avoiding any undue distortions of competition".
The Commission said these changes made meant gains generated by the project would be better shared with UK consumers.
It estimated the project would now cost £24.5bn to build. The updated figure, much higher than the government and EDF's original £16bn forecast, includes the impact of inflation as well as interest costs for the 10 year construction period.
This is the first time that the European Commission has approved significant state aid for a new nuclear power plant - and as such, it is a big step forward for the European nuclear industry.
The decision will serve as a precedent for other countries, such as Poland and the Czech Republic, that want to know how much public money they can offer to companies as they look to expand their nuclear industries.
But the legal fight over the funding for Hinkley Point C is almost certainly not over. The European Court of Justice will be asked for an opinion.
Austria says the Commission's decision is supported by neither economic nor ecological sense.
And other member states are concerned that it flies in the face of the EU's stated aim of promoting renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.
The government had already agreed that French firm EDF will be paid a so-called "strike price" of £92.50 for every megawatt hour of energy Hinkley C generates. This is almost twice the current wholesale cost of electricity, but this...

Summary: A new £24.5bn nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset is to go ahead after it received final approval from European Union regulators.
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Article: When the camera is disabled via the Nest smartphone app, the device's light-emitting diode (LED) turns off but the camera continues to function.
The discovery was made following analysis of the camera's power consumption.
Nest Labs said no video data was transmitted when the camera was off.
A team at ABI Research found that even when in "off" mode, the camera on the Nest Cam continued to draw a current of 340 mA, indicating that it was, in fact, still operational.
"When a device goes to power down mode, you expect the current drain to drop quite a bit," said Jim Mielke, a senior analyst at ABI Research.
"In this case, the current drain only changed slightly when given the turn off command, reducing from 370 mA to 340 mA. Typically, a shutdown or standby mode would reduce current by as much as 10 to 100 times."
The Nest Cam is the latest product from Google-owned Nest Labs. It allows users to see a live video feed of their home remotely, via their smartphone.
The device also has automatic motion and audio sensors, which can detect unusual activity and then alert the user via a notification.
"When Nest Cam is turned off from the user interface (UI), it does not fully power down, as we expect the camera to be turned on again at any point in time," said Nest Labs in a statement.
"With that said, when Nest Cam is turned off, it completely stops transmitting video to the cloud, meaning it no longer observes its surroundings."
The statement added that the Nest Cam used 128-bit secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption, perfect forward secrecy and a 2,048-bit RSA key unique to each camera - security measures intended to ensure that video data is not accessible, even over the local wi-fi network.

Summary: Researchers have discovered the camera in the Nest Cam security device is always operating - even when turned off by the user.
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Article: The Investing in the Teaching Workforce programme aims to allow some teachers over the age of 55 to retire early.
Teachers who have qualified since 2012 will then be eligible to apply for the jobs their retirements create.
It will cost £8m, which is being made available through the public sector transformation fund.
It was originally announced last December by Mr Weir's predecessor John O'Dowd, who wanted to spend £33m to enable 500 teachers to retire and be replaced.
But the scheme was delayed due to lack of agreement over some of the criteria, including the definition of the term newly-qualified - and it has also been scaled back.
The scheme will initially run on a pilot basis for the 2016-17 academic year, but may be renewed in 2017-18 if funding is available.
A number of experienced teachers in temporary posts had expressed concern they would not be eligible to apply for the jobs.
Mr Weir said he was aware some teachers who did not meet the criteria would be disappointed.
"However I must stress that without this scheme these employment opportunities would not exist," he said.
"As well as helping to refresh the teaching workforce, it will provide up to 120 job opportunities for recently qualified teachers who have been unable to obtain permanent teaching posts."
The Department of Education (DE) said that any jobs created under the scheme are unlikely to be advertised until 2017.
The move was welcomed by Irish National Teachers' Organisation Northern Secretary Gerry Murphy.
"INTO recognises the pilot scheme falls short of what many teachers not in permanent posts would have wanted," he said.
"However, as a teacher's union, we welcome any move that secures full time, meaningful employment for teachers."

Summary: A scheme to replace 120 older teaching staff with newly-qualified teachers has been launched by Education Minister Peter Weir.
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Article: The education minister has written to councils advising them head teachers should instead exercise discretion.
Pupils are allowed to have up to 10 days away, but schools are judged on absenteeism rates.
Campaign group Parents Want a Say said the advice was a "terrific result".
Nearly 2,000 people signed a petition after hundreds of parents were fined over term-time holidays.
In his letter to councils on Wednesday, Huw Lewis said he was concerned some councils were advising "head teachers should not exercise their discretion and should instead refuse all requests for term-time absence as a matter of course", regardless of the circumstances.
"This is contrary to the regulations which allow a margin of discretion for the school in such matters so that each request can be considered fairly and on its merits," the minister wrote.
A BBC Wales Freedom of Information request in 2015 found wide variations in policy of imposing fines.
While Cardiff council issued 370 fixed penalty notices between January and May, 10 other councils did not issue any.
After receiving the petition in December, petitions committee chairman, William Powell AM, wrote to Mr Lewis saying some parents may have been dealt with unfairly and unlawfully.
He welcomed the minister's response, saying some councils had been "engaging in a cynical game of 'pass the parcel' on this issue".
"It is clear that the minister's intention, contrary to what applies in England, is for the discretion of individual head teachers to be respected," Mr Powell said.
"The Minister's response to the petitioners, in the light of compelling evidence received, is, in my view, a victory for common sense."
Craig Langman, chairman of campaign group Parents Want a Say, said it was a "terrific result" for parents in Wales.
"We hope this will encourage Westminster to reconsider its position on the policy in England," he added.

Summary: Campaigners who petitioned against parents being fined for taking term-time holidays are claiming a victory after it was agreed a blanket ban breached regulations.
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Article: The sabre-toothed cat lived alongside early humans, and may have been a fearsome enemy, say scientists.
Several feline teeth - and a chunk of arm bone - were uncovered at a site in Germany known for the oldest discovery of human spears.
The 300,000-year-old animal fossils are described as "spectacular".
Several types of sabre-toothed cat - once known as the sabre-toothed tiger - lived for over 40 million years, before becoming extinct about 12,000 years ago.
The predator had enormous teeth, which it used to rip through flesh.
Dr Jordi Serangeli, of the University of Tubingen, Germany, said the remains proved for the first time that the sabre-toothed cat was living in Europe alongside early humans.
"We can say that the humans - and the sabre-toothed cat - were living 300,000 years ago in the same area, in the same landscape," he told BBC News.
"The humans were hunters but they were not alone; they had to defend themselves from all the big carnivores."
Homo Heidelbergensis was among the first type of early human to use wooden spears.
Scatterings of animal bones found in their camps suggest they used the spears to hunt animals like the horse and deer.
The latest find of five teeth and a bone from two individual sabre-toothed cats at a former coal mine in Schoningen near Hanover gives a new insight into the perils faced by early humans.
"The discovery illustrates the possible day-to-day challenges that the Schöningen hominins would have faced and suggests that the wooden spears were not necessarily only used for hunting, but possibly also as a weapon for self-defence," Dr Serangeli, and colleagues at the University of Leiden, report  in the Journal of Human Evolution.
The cat's humerus bone - worked by humans into a rudimentary hammer- is the first example of its kind anywhere in the world, he added.
Dr Mark Roberts of UCL, London, is an archaeologist at the Boxgrove site in southern England, which was home to one of Britain's oldest known human occupants, Homo heidelbergensis, 500,000 years ago.
Evidence shows...

Summary: Our ancient human cousins may have fought off big cats with spears, according to archaeological evidence.
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Article: Nationalist MPs will take control of the UK Parliament's energy and climate change select committee and Scottish affairs select committee.
The SNP won 56 of the 59 Westminster constituencies at the general election two weeks ago.
That resulted in the party being the third largest, behind the Conservatives and Labour.
Parliamentary convention dictates that the official third largest party at Westminster gets to chair a number of select committees.
SNP chief whip Mike Weir said both committees were especially important to Scotland in this parliament.
He said: "We will be seeing one of the major bills coming forward in the Scotland Bill on more powers for Scotland, and of course the energy and climate change committee is of particular importance with our oil and gas sector and renewables industry.
"The SNP chairing these committees will allow us to make progress on these important issues, and will help us get the best deal for Scotland."

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A Sydney police officer and huge Star Wars fan has become a local hit after creating a Darth Vader costume painted with the Australian flag.

Article: Many popular courses at universities in the Republic are inaccessible to Northern Ireland students.
This is due to a system that compares A-level results with the Republic's Leaving Certificate qualification.
Now, Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University say they want to change entry requirements for NI students.
Sixth-form pupils in Northern Ireland sit A-level exams, whereas students in the Republic sit Leaving Certificate exams.
Most pupils in Northern Ireland study for three A-levels, whereas pupils in the Republic study for least six Leaving Certificate subjects.
In 2005, a points system was devised to help universities on both sides of the border compare the results of pupils taking the different exams.
However, that has meant that many Northern Ireland pupils cannot apply for popular courses in the Republic unless they do four A-levels.
In the 2011/12 academic year - the most recent for which there are figures - only 925 out of almost 7,500 pupils in Northern Ireland took four A-level exams.
Under the current points system, the top A-star grade at A-level is worth 150 points, whereas the top A1 grade in a Leaving Certificate subject is worth 100 points.
Therefore a student getting six top grades at Leaving Certificate level will get 600 points, whereas a student getting top grades in three A-levels can only achieve 450 points.
Most popular courses at Irish universities - such as law, maths or psychology at Trinity College Dublin - require a pupil to get well over 500 points to apply for entry.
Janet Goodall, a senior teacher at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, says that this means some of their brightest pupils cannot apply to southern universities.
"I have one student who is likely to achieve an A-star in A-level maths and an A-star in further maths."
"Because he is not doing four A-levels, he will have no access to study maths at Trinity."
Prof Brian Walker of Queen's University Belfast is a Trinity graduate. He says that it is vital that the admission procedures are changed.
"Trinity...

Summary: Two of the Republic of Ireland's leading universities are considering an increase in their intake of students from Northern Ireland.
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Article: These are skills such as communication, initiative, interacting with customers and team working.
Research commissioned by the campaign suggests such skills are worth £88bn to the UK economy.
McDonald's is backing the campaign and wants to challenge the idea that a soft skill is a woolly concept with no clear economic value.
It is working alongside firms such as Barclays and organisations including the CBI.
Jez Langhorn, from McDonald's, says soft skills are vital for employers, but they have a "reputational problem" in terms of how they are valued.
The Development Economics research group says they are worth £88bn per year, particularly in businesses that rely on "face-to-face human interaction".
The economic impact is based on factors such as increased workplace productivity and looking at what would be lost with a lack of soft skills.
These negative factors include:
The study says that unless such skills are improved, over half a million UK workers will be "significantly held back" in their job opportunities by the end of the decade.
The campaign is launching a three-month consultation and will publish recommendations later in the year.
Mr Langhorn, chief people officer for McDonald's in the UK and northern Europe, said abilities such as communication, inter-personal skills and time management, were "essential skills" for employees.
"I can't think of any job where those skills wouldn't be important... but they are not recognised as much as they should be," he said.
Many employers valued such practical skills more than academic qualifications, said Mr Langhorn, but they were worried that there were not enough people with such abilities.
"Businesses think they are important, they are massively important to the UK economy, but they are not recognised to the extent that they should be.
"Maybe it's because of the terminology or maybe it's because people haven't defined what those soft skills are or people are not sure how to articulate those skills when they're talking to their boss about promotions."
Mr...

Summary: "Soft skills" need to be taken much more seriously as factors for business success, says a campaign by employers.
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Article: Conservative Mark Hawthorne said while Gloucestershire County Council knew of a number of issues, it "wasn't hearing what was happening on the frontline".
Ofsted rated children's services as "inadequate" and said standards had "deteriorated significantly".
Mr Hawthorne said it needed to make sure it "doesn't happen again".
The report, published in June, highlighted "serious and widespread failures" in the service, and said "too many children" were being left in situations of "risk of significant harm for too long", because dangers were not recognised.
It rated children's services as inadequate and said standards had "deteriorated significantly" since it was last classed inadequate in 2011.
The director of children's services and three of her deputies have since been removed from their posts and the authority has pledged an independent review.
"Part of rebuilding the confidence of frontline staff...  is by replacing the senior management team who will now be reviewing everything everything we do in children's services to make sure we have a culture that is about putting children at the very heart of the decisions that we take," Mr Hawthorne said.
"We're also setting up an independent whistle-blowing process - that didn't work in the past.
"Those who were highlighting issues and concerns on the frontline, their voices weren't being heard at the top of the organisation.
"What we weren't hearing... was the concerns on the frontline from social workers... the issue around case drift, and some of those decisions not being taken in a timely manner," he added.

Summary: "Serious and widespread" failures in children's services identified in an Ofsted report were not dealt with, a council leader has admitted.
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Article: For some, they represent the pursuit of excellence and the opportunity for bright children to be challenged to excel, and for others, the entrenching of advantage and privilege at the expense of the majority of children.
And for the first time in years they are controversially firmly back on the agenda, with a grammar school educated Prime Minister who has expressed sympathy for demands for one in her own constituency.
Lifting the ban on grammar schools would have a huge symbolic value for some within the Conservative party.
But it would be a strange signal on social mobility from a new Prime Minister who has promised to govern for those who feel shut out of opportunity.
And it is social mobility which Education Secretary Justine Greening has been told to put at the centre of education policy.
The research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Cambridge University in 2013 found some striking social differences in grammar school intakes.
If you look just at the children gaining the top level in their end of primary tests, the chances of a child receiving free school meals going to grammar school are lower than their better off classmates.
So take two children who are at the top of their class, and the poorer child is less likely to end up in the academically selective grammar school.
Some schools and counties have tried to mitigate this effect in tests, but they are up against the buying power of parents willing to invest in tuition.
But nothing softens the fact that grammar schools do nothing for the majority of children who don't go to them, apart from skim off the pupils it is easiest to help to do well.
So any decision about grammar schools will have to be weighed politically against other pressing priorities in education.
While the attempts to force the pace of the academy programme were dropped earlier this year, there is no reason to believe the incremental shift towards more academies will do anything but continue.
Both Theresa May and Justine Greening have supported both academies and free...

Summary: There are few subjects as controversial in education as grammar schools.
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Article: Ofcom is proposing to cut the price that BT's infrastructure arm, Openreach, can charge operators for its popular superfast broadband service.
The regulator said it would expect these savings to be passed on to consumers through cheaper bills.
It is also planning new rules for Openreach to fix and install lines more quickly.
Openreach operates the wires and cables that power the UK's broadband network, leasing out the lines to BT's rivals such as Sky and Talk Talk.
Under the regulator's plans, Openreach's price for 40 Mbit/second broadband would fall from £88.80 a year to £66.28 next year and £52.77 by 2020.
"We would expect much of this reduction to be passed through by retail providers to their customers, resulting in lower bills," Ofcom said.
But it will not cap prices for even faster broadband, hoping that this will spur operators to install their own lines in competition with Openreach.
Jonathan Oxley, Ofcom's competition group director, said: "Our plans are designed to encourage long-term investment in future ultrafast, full-fibre networks, while promoting competition and protecting consumers from high prices."
Other rules would force Openreach to complete 93% of fault repairs within two working days, compared with 80% currently.
Openreach would also need to install 95% of connections on the date agreed with the telecoms operator, up from 90% today.
BT was issued with a record fine of £42m by Ofcom on Monday because of delays by Openreach in installing high-speed lines.
Ofcom has forced BT to legally separate Openreach into a distinct business, in another move aimed at boosting competition.

Summary: Households could see the price of superfast broadband fall under plans by the UK telecoms regulator.
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Article: The 39-year-old, who goes by the name Mick Fett, was born the year the first film in the series came out.
Since the 1990s, Fett has amassed a vast collection of action figures, costumes and other merchandise.
His collection fills the five-bedroom home he shares with his girlfriend and is estimated to be worth A$500,000 (Â£300,000; $370,000).
"I mentioned that I had some Star Wars stuff when we first got together," he told the BBC. "She was a bit overwhelmed at first and then she sort of adapted."
The suburban house is filled with a life-size Han Solo carbonite statue, priceless vintage toys and a vast collection of creatures from across the galaxy.
There's an entire room dedicated to arcade games and even a pod-racer in the backyard. Only one room does not have Star Wars memorabilia in it - the main bathroom.
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"When I'm not dressing up in Star Wars costumes, I wear a uniform," he said.
"It's two different worlds. The guys at work can't believe what I do in my Star Wars time and all my Star Wars friends can't believe I'm a police officer."
The idea to redecorate the Darth Vader costume began when he attended an overseas Star Wars convention.
He originally intended to attend the event as a Stormtrooper with an Australian flag cape. But at the suggestion the idea evolved.
"One of my mates said: 'Why don't you go out and spray paint the entire costume?' I thought - instead of doing a Stormtrooper why not Vader?"
The Down Under alter ego of the Sith Lord has since become a huge hit - at home and abroad.
"I don't know whether Aussie Vader is a villain or a Rebel," he laughed. "I'm a bit of a Rogue One myself."
"One of my favourite sayings is 'May the Force be with you, mate,'" he said.
"The cape is an Australian flag. I've got beer cans on my belt and blue flames airbrushed onto my helmet and chest piece. I've even made a custom light-sabre with a didgeridoo handle."
He has already...

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Turkey processing firm bosses have been jailed after leaving large amounts of meat defrosting in dirty water before selling it, Newport council has said.

Article: The Office for National Statistics is to devise questions for a household survey, to be carried out up to four times a year.
This follows calls by David Cameron, when leader of the opposition, to look at "general wellbeing", arguing there was "more to life than money".
Downing Street promised an announcement "reasonably soon".
Happiness measuring is expected to begin as soon as next spring with the results published regularly, possibly on a quarterly basis
Such a move has been proposed by two Nobel Prize-winning economists and is being considered by the governments of France and Canada.
After becoming Conservative leader in 2005, Mr Cameron said gauging people's wellbeing was one of the "central political issues of our time".
He said: "It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB - general wellbeing."
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In its recent Spending Review, the government said there was "widespread acknowledgement that GDP is not the ideal measure of well-being".
A Downing Street spokesman said: "There is a huge literature on this issue and it's something that the prime minister spoke about in opposition and it's something this government says it is going to look at.
"But as to precisely what we are going to do and when we are going to do it, you should wait and see."
Almost 30 MPs have signed a Commons motion, proposed by Lib Dem Jo Swinson, arguing that "promoting happiness and well-being is a legitimate and important goal of government".
Ms Swinson said: "This is a positive and forward-looking move by the government, which will give us a much better idea of the health of UK society.
"Relying solely on GDP to track the nation's progress excludes many of the things that we all know to be important, but that can't be measured by money.
"What gets measured gets done.  While it's not government's job to make people happy, regular measures of wellbeing will at least make sure it is taken into account."
Existing surveys suggest Britons' happiness has...

Summary: The government will attempt to measure the happiness of UK citizens, it is expected to announce later this month.
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Article: Up to 80 people have been sleeping rough on land by the Old Civic Theatre since 19 November in a bid to "highlight the plight of the homeless".
Doncaster Council said it had taken action as the site was "unsafe".
Campaigner Paul Hartley said the camp had been a success and "the people it was there to help have been helped".
The protesters have until 10:00 GMT on Saturday to leave.
An application for an injunction banning the protesters from setting up a similar camp in the town was, however, rejected.
Council chief executive Jo Miller said: "I think it's a good outcome.
"We've secured possession of the site and we've made sure that everybody who needs to be housed has been housed so, working together with the organisers, we've achieved the result we needed to.
"I do not think we will need the [injunction]. We are consensually taking the site down because the job has been done by the organisers and the council."
She said of the 80 people on the site "just over half" had been re-housed while "of the other half some of them were not homeless and some did not want any help".
Mr Hartley said the authority had been "amazing" at engaging with those in need of shelter since the makeshift camp was set up.
"They have worked tirelessly with us to get a positive solution to the problem," he said.
"They are tackling homelessness differently now."

Summary: Homeless protesters living in a "tent city" in Doncaster are to be evicted after the council was granted a court order.
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Article: Neil McEvoy said the party should have a vote on the "compact" between the two parties.
But Adam Price told the BBC that Wales needed a "united front" to "steer the ship" after the June EU referendum vote for Brexit.
Plaid leader Leanne Wood told her party conference on Saturday that there would be no coalition.
But she had earlier said the party was "genuinely torn" over going into coalition with Labour.
Mr McEvoy told Plaid's autumn conference the party's poll ratings improve when Plaid opposes Labour.
He also criticised Plaid's assembly election performance, saying it only had good results in a "handful of seats" in May.
Mr McEvoy said Plaid needs to take a "serious look at ourselves" and challenge Labour "at every opportunity."
The Compact To Move Wales Forward was an agreement Plaid made with Labour in May to allow Carwyn Jones to return as first minister, a week after he and Leanne Wood were deadlocked in a vote to take the top job.
It included commitments on policies the parties agree on like free childcare, a new NHS treatment fund and an infrastructure commission.
But Neil McEvoy, the party's sports spokesman, said the agreement has been broken because Labour AMs voted against creating legislation on autism and suggested voting on it.
"We should have absolutely nothing to do with that party," he said.
"The public want robust opposition and that is what we should give them.
"If we go into coalition with Labour we will lose support and will never have the power to really change Wales."
Adam Price, Plaid finance spokesman, told BBC Wales: "My opinion changed after the Brexit vote because I feel... we needed a kind of a united front in Wales, in order for us to, can steer the ship through a difficult time."
He acknowledged he was in a minority on the issue.
"I think where the majority of our members and supporters are at the moment is somewhere in the middle, which says look that we can be a responsible opposition, a constructive opposition.
"We saw that through with the compact, with the deal on the...

Summary: Plaid Cymru should have "absolutely nothing to do" with Labour, one of the party's AMs has said.
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Article: Officers said they have "drawn a blank" since finding the body in woodland off Peartree Avenue, Southampton, on Monday.
The man was wearing a sweatshirt from Zimbabwe, Hampshire Constabulary said.
He also had a tattoo on his upper right arm, drawn in "blue/black" ink, of an eagle's head with its mouth wide open.
The man was 6ft 3in (1.9m) tall, of "proportionate build", aged between 40 and 60, with a full head of greying hair.
His sweatshirt, described by police as grey, sports a badge showing a bird next to the words Mahenye Safari Lodge, Cona-re-zhou, Zimbabwe.
He was also wearing tracksuit bottoms bearing a Monster logo, and a pair of trainers.
It has not been possible to determine the man's ethnicity, and he does not match the description of anyone reported missing, the force said.
Launching an appeal for the public's help, Det Con Mark Blake said: "We are hoping that someone must know who this man is - someone must be missing him.
"He could be from anywhere, we just don't know."

Summary: An unusual sweatshirt logo and "distinctive" tattoo could hold the key to a dead man's identity - after police were unable to establish who he was.
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Article: Junior Binyam, Caf's media spokesman, confirmed to BBC Sport that the new ruling was approved at Thursday's Extraordinary General Assembly.
It is a major change for the governing body, whose incumbent president Issa Hayatou has been in power for 28 years.
The limit will also apply to the members of Caf's Executive Committee.
In February, football's world governing body Fifa limited its presidency to three terms in office as it aimed to recover from a corruption crisis.
Binyam told BBC Sport: "The main reason of this amendment of Caf statutes was to align them with Fifa ones. But more reforms and amendment can be expected."
In 2015 Caf voted to change the statutes which previously stopped officials serving past the age of 70, which paved the way for Hayatou, who turned 70 in August, to stand in the next presidential election.
The latest change to the statues means Hayatou could extend his tenure by a maximum of 12 years - each term is four years - when he would be aged 82.
He has yet to announce if he will contest the election.
However, he appears to be in a strong position to remain his post following the rejection on Thursday of Djibouti Football Federation's proposal to end the rule that restricts potential candidates for the Caf presidency only to members of its 15-man executive committee.
That rule was introduced just four years ago and critics have argued it allows Hayatou to continue unopposed and also to handpick his successor when the time comes.

Summary: The Confederation of African Football president will be limited to three terms in office from next year's election in March 2017.
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Article: Severnside Provisions, of Leeway Industrial Estate, was also ordered to pay £400,000 at the city's crown court on Friday.
Directors Anthony O'Sullivan, 47, and Martin Lincoln, 46, were given 24-week terms after admitting 12 offences.
An investigation was launched in December 2013.
In a statement, Newport city council said the pair were warned in 2010 that their company was not permitted to carry out turkey processing.
However, it said records showed that large quantities of meat was sold by Severnside Provisions in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
After an investigation started, environmental health officers found large quantities of turkey defrosting outside in dirty water and being processed in a garage in "unhygienic conditions".
Items seized were destroyed but the Food Standards Agency launched a national recall after finding turkeys had already been sold to butchers' shops and restaurants.
The council said O'Sullivan and Lincoln had admitted 12 food hygiene offences, including that they sold food that was unsafe and failed to keep equipment clean.
As well as being jailed, the two directors were ordered to pay a confiscation award of £271,815 under the Proceeds of Crime Act and council costs of £35,185.
The company was also fined £100,000.
Newport councillor Bob Poole said: "This company was putting people's health at serious risk for the sake of profit."

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The Official Chart Show is being moved from Sunday to Friday evenings, as part of a big shake-up of the music charts.

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Bobsleigh was first created in the late 19th Century when Swiss pioneers paired together two skeleton boards, along with a steering mechanism, to create a toboggan for use in the resort town of St Moritz.
This form of toboggan allowed for multiple passengers - and later team members as bobsleigh became a highly competitive international sport, harnessing the latest in aerodynamics technology.
Bobsleigh, like sister-sport skeleton, relies on the start for much of what follows. You need to push the sled down the track before jumping in - logic dictates that the faster you push it, the quicker you'll go once you're on-board.
That means the push-start is vital and bobsleigh athletes train hard to be exceptionally strong and quick. Current GB bobsleigh athletes have set faster 100m times than many dedicated 100m runners, for example. So if you sign up for bobsleigh, you can expect an intense workout alongside sitting in a technologically advanced barrel while plummeting down an ice slope.
British Bobsleigh is the governing body in charge of the sport and provides access to facilities and training, centred around the GB team's complex at the University Of Bath.
British Bobsleigh offers a membership package which gives members the chance to compete at the British Championships, alongside a Try it! page with more details.
Tourists in continental Europe, many of them British, first made the sport of toboggan - and later bobsleigh - both practical and popular. The first bobsleigh club was opened in the resort town of St Moritz in 1897.
According to the International Olympic Committee, the name 'bobsleigh' comes from the effect of the sleigh on competitors as they bobbed along the track.
The importance of a decent start in any bobsleigh race was soon recognised and, as competitions became more organised and professional, a weight limit was placed on a whole team in an effort to help teams get a good start without gifting any other team an unfair advantage.
In 1924,...

Summary: Although sledding has been around for many hundreds of years, the bobsleigh is a fairly new invention.
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Article: Nationwide's study of 2,000 over-18s found more than one in 10 did not think of themselves as fully fledged grown-ups until they reached the age of 27.
Lisa Daisy, 34, told the BBC: "Even after a career, two children and being together with my partner for 10 years, it still took being married to make me feel grown up."
But 42-year-old Carole Lutringer said she felt like an adult when she was very young.
"I had to cook from an early age, because my mother worked as a head teacher," she said.
"My mother came back home late, and my father was pretty useless in the kitchen.
"I had to be autonomous from really early on, and that's probably what made me feel grown up earlier than most of my peers."
Sana Khalid Khan also had adulthood thrust upon her.
She said it had been the death of her father that had made her grow up, at the age of 17.
"Being the eldest sibling and child, a lot of responsibility was poured on my shoulders," she wrote on the BBC Family and Education News Facebook page.
Join the conversation at the BBC Family and Education News Facebook page.
Some people came to the realisation of adulthood in more prosaic fashion.
Londoner Sam Nichols said a saucepan had made her realise how grown up she had become.
"I got excited about buying a new saucepan," she said.
"If that doesn't scream 'adulting', I don't know whatever will."
Nationwide study
Of those 2,000 people asked did feel they were adults, the transition happened for half in their 20s, while a fifth said it happened in their 30s.
One in 20 respondents felt they had not grown up until their 40s.
Of those questioned, 55% said being an adult was dependent on major life events, for example having children, moving out of the parental home or getting married.
For others, such as Elaine Smith, in London, adulthood is merely a state of mind.
"I still don't feel grown up," she said.
"I can't believe I have full responsibilities of looking after a four-year-old. How did that happen?
"I'm 44 this year, so it may happen soon."
Commenting on Facebook, Sophie...

Summary: Many of the current generation of recent over-18s do not feel like an adult, according to a survey by building society Nationwide, and those commenting on the BBC News Facebook page seem to agree.
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Article: The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) said Botswana now recognised the spirit as a geographical indication (GI).
The move means only whisky that has been made in Scotland can legally be sold as Scotch in the country.
SWA said the "legal breakthrough" gave consumers a high level of protection against fakes.
Whisky shipments to Botswana increased by 163% last year to reach nearly £457,000, according to SWA figures.
The trade body said it expected to see demand for Scotch increase in African countries in future years as economies on the continent grew.
Chief executive David Frost said: "Botswana recognising Scotch as a GI - a product that must be made in Scotland - is ground-breaking as it's the first product to be given this status.
"It's also the first time Scotch has been successfully registered as a GI anywhere in Africa.
"This move will protect consumers and give a boost to the growth of Scotch exports across Africa."
According to SWA, Scotch is now officially recognised in the laws of more than 70 countries, including the whole of the European Union.
To qualify as a genuine product, Scotch must be made in Scotland from water, cereals and yeast and matured for at least three years.

Summary: Scotch whisky has been given protected geographical status in Africa for the first time, according to industry representatives.
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Article: Kimberley Taylor, from Blackburn, told BBC News she had joined Kurdish forces known as the YPJ in March last year.
The 27-year-old, who is on the front line in Raqqa, said fighting IS was for "democracy and freedom from extremism".
She is the first known woman from the UK to successfully travel to Syria to join the fight against IS.
Despite fighting in a war zone, she said: "I really don't want to scare my family."
Anti-IS forces have been trying to recapture Raqqa since it became the group's de facto capital in 2014.
Ms Taylor, a former maths student at the University of Liverpool, said she had spent 11 months learning Kurdish and studying regional politics, weaponry and battlefield tactics at the Kurdish Women's Protection Units' (YPJ) dedicated military academy.
"Everyone here sees the YPJ as leaders of the revolution, they're women that we can't compare with anything in the world," she said.
By Emma Vardy, the BBC correspondent who interviewed Ms Taylor
For Kimmie Taylor, joining the Kurdish women is about much more than picking up a gun.
She sees the YPJ female fighters as a beacon of hope for the world.
Strong female comrades, battling for freedom, democracy, and equality, in the midst of a terribly troubled region where women have been raped, kidnapped and held as sex slaves.
It is easy to see how one can be inspired. This is a revolution, she tells me.
As I interviewed her, she spoke in Kurdish to her comrades. She has clearly earned their trust and respect.
She is now trying to shine a spotlight on their struggle.
Ms Taylor, who is also known as Kimmie and by the name Zilan Dilmar, said she went the front line with the YPJ in October.
Like their male counterparts in the affiliated YPG, the YPJ has women who fight on the front line.
"The [women] are young, 18, 19, 20, they're taking on this power which seems uncontrollable," she said.
Although willing to risk her life for the cause, she said: "I don't want to die. I have too much work to do."
"It's a necessary thing," she added. "This is for the...

Summary: A British woman who has travelled to Syria to fight so-called Islamic State has said she is willing to die in the battle against the militant group.
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Article: The South Ayrshire airport is developing plans for a spaceport that could see the first satellites and rockets launched from the UK.
The length of the runways and coastal take-off routes are said to be in Prestwick's favour.
A feasibility study indicated it could be operational with Â£1m of investment.
Leaders of Glasgow Prestwick Airport Spaceport met with a delegation from Houston Spaceport and the Rice Space Institute on Tuesday to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will allow both parties to share best practice for commercial space launch activities, operation, safety and environmental standards.
Houston Spaceport was granted a launch site licence last summer to operate horizontal space launch from its site at Ellington Airport in Texas, making it the 10th commercial spaceport in the US.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), UK Department for Transport and UK Space Agency still have to set out the regulatory framework before UK spaceports can be established.
Arturo Machuca, general manager of Houston Spaceport, said: "The pioneers who first made inroads in space travel and space exploration began as contestants in a race, but soon realised that any hope of safely and efficiently reaching those goals would require productive and valuable partnerships.
"As we begin the next steps in this ambitious endeavour, partnerships like this with the Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport will benefit everyone, and will strengthen not only our assets and technology but also our resolve to make commercial space travel a viable and valuable tool for the future."
Glasgow Prestwick Spaceport said it would benefit from Houston's existing agreements with Nasa, which enable them to use Nasa technology, research and resources in a commercial environment.
The partnership could also lead to customer referrals between the two spaceports, with Prestwick customers who have requirements for equatorial/tropical launches referred to Houston, and Houston customers looking for polar launches referred to Prestwick.
Glasgow Prestwick...

Summary: Glasgow Prestwick Airport has signed an agreement with Houston Spaceport as it continues its bid to become the UK's first launch site.
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Article: Every week BBC Radio 1 plays a countdown of the week's top songs, based on downloads and online streaming.
In May, the programme will move from Sunday to Friday evenings.
CBBC will also launch a TV version of the Official Chart Show, presented by Cel Spellman.
The new programme will be broadcast live from the Radio 1 studios and presented by Greg James and will play the top 20 songs of the week.

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