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Media playback is not supported on this device The pair had to wait until the early evening before getting under way, but Murray raced to a 6-2 6-3 6-2 win in one hour and 36 minutes. Murray, 27, heads into round four on a 16-match winning streak at Wimbledon. He will play 20th seed Kevin Anderson in the last 16 on Mon...
Defending champion Andy Murray swept past Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut on Centre Court to reach the second week of Wimbledon without dropping a set.
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Nine people, Protestant and Catholic, were killed when three bombs exploded in the County Londonderry village in July 1972. Mark Eakin lost his sister Kathryn, who was 8-years-old when she died. He said the families remain "broken hearted" while the case remains in "limbo." The Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Jame...
The brother of the youngest victim of the 1972 Claudy bombing has said he has no confidence that the government will deal with Troubles legacy issues.
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Ryan Hinchcliffe's early try put Giants ahead but Ben Roberts, Jake Webster and Mike McMeeken crossed in response to put Tigers 16-4 ahead at the break. Gale and Adam Milner extended the lead before Ryan Brierley hit back. Two more tries from Gale in a 24-point contribution and a Monaghan treble followed as Tigers domi...
Luke Gale and Joel Monaghan both scored second-half hat-tricks as Super League leaders Castleford Tigers thumped strugglers Huddersfield Giants.
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Denbigh Infirmary was given a rating of one star out of five by inspectors, meaning "major improvement" is necessary. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said it was "very disappointed" to receive the low rating. Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Health, Darren Millar AM, said the low score "beggars belief". "...
A Denbighshire community hospital has been criticised following an "abysmal" food hygiene rating.
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The gap, he proclaimed, between his fluctuating side and their rivals along the M8, then-defending Pro12 champions, was no more. Edinburgh were far from brilliant, but with back-to-back 1872 Cup victories seized in fractious dogfights, Solomons reckoned his power-laden pragmatists had gobbled up ground on their inter-c...
Alan Solomons was savouring the succulent taste of a second derby victory over Glasgow in a week when he made one of his bolder statements as Edinburgh's head coach.
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Justice Lowell Goddard was speaking as she opened the independent inquiry, which she said could last until 2020. It will examine how public bodies handled their duty of care to protect children from abuse. Justice Goddard said there were suggestions that one child out of every 20 in the UK had been sexually abused. She...
The sexual abuse of children has left "scars" on victims and society, the chair of an inquiry into historical abuse in England and Wales has said.
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Cyfle arranged workshops, training and placements for students and media professionals, with its partners including the BBC and S4C. Four jobs will be lost as it closes offices in Cardiff and Caernarfon, Gwynedd. Set up in 1986, it arranged placements on the sets of Wales-made productions, such as TV series Da Vinci's ...
A company providing training and apprenticeships for the creative industries in Wales is to close.
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David Cameron urged people to choose their "preferred PM" rather than vote tactically for the Lib Dems or UKIP. Labour leader Ed Miliband said the election was a clash of two visions "about how our country succeeds". Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg argued that it was unlikely either Labour or the Conservatives would win outr...
The leaders of the UK's main political parties are using the last weekend of the election campaign to try to win over wavering voters.
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The Scottish government's introduction of marine protected areas (MPAs) has proved controversial and divisive. Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said there had been "reports of alleged incursions" into MPAs. Fishermen's leaders said crews did not agree with the MPA regulations but insisted they were respecting t...
Fast patrol craft have been deployed to investigate reports of fishing boats operating illegally in marine protected areas, BBC Scotland has learned.
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All the BBC's websites were unavailable for several hours on New Year's Eve after what a BBC source described as a "distributed denial of service" attack. The group, calling itself New World Hacking, said it had carried out the attack as a "test of its capabilities". The BBC has not confirmed or denied such an attack c...
A group that says it targets online activity linked to so-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed it was behind an attack on the BBC's website.
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Lawro's opponent for the midweek Premier League fixtures is The Coral frontman James Skelly. After a five-year break the Merseyside band have a new album coming out and and are about to start a UK Tour. Rehearsals before they hit the road meant Liverpool fan Skelly had to miss a trip to Wembley on Sunday to watch the C...
BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.
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The Cosmopolitan, a two-tower complex located on the Las Vegas Strip, cost more than $4bn to build but has not made a profit since it opened in 2010. Deutsche took over the property after its developer defaulted on a loan. But Germany's largest bank said it moved to sell the development because it was not central to it...
Deutsche Bank has sold the lossmaking Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas casino and resort to private equity giant Blackstone for $1.7bn (£1bn) in cash.
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A judge agreed with a claim by a group of nearly 30 care homes that Torbay Council was paying them up to £70 less per person per week than neighbouring Devon County Council. The Torbay Quality Care Forum (TQCF) said paying too little could cause staffing and maintenance problems. The authority it would reflect on the H...
A council is facing a seven-figure bill after a court ruled it underpaid private care homes for placements.
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A little over 24 hours after it was announced that Ferrari had re-signed him for 2017, the monotone, mumbling Finn held his usual post-qualifying news conference. "I wouldn't be here if I didn't think I can drive well," he said on the subject of his new contract. "I am very happy about it. It gives me pleasure to see d...
Kimi Raikkonen famously does not show a lot of emotion, but it emerged over the British Grand Prix weekend that he enjoys a bit of schadenfreude.
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The city attorney wants access to four years' worth of data about driver practices and the areas they serve. Dennis Herrera said he wanted to ensure they were complying with local laws on safety, accessibility and not creating "a public nuisance". Uber and Lyft have 15 days to comply or face charges of contempt and oth...
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft have been ordered to hand over details about their San Francisco operations.
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Groove CairnGorm, is being held on 11 and 12 March in conjunction with the CairnGorm Mountain ski centre. The music event will be based at Badaguish Outdoor Centre, near Aviemore, but will also see performances at the ski resort. The Scottish Freestyle Championships are due to take place on the same weekend at CairnGor...
Final preparations have begun for what has been described as the UK's first snowsports music festival.
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Dozens more were injured in the crush at Lilongwe's Bingu national stadium. The stampede happened as thousands of people rushed for seats ahead of a friendly between top sides Nyasa Big Bullets and Silver Strikers. Despite the deaths, the match did go ahead in a packed stadium, although President Peter Mutharika did no...
Eight people - including seven children - have died in a stampede ahead of a football match in Malawi, police say.
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Visa liberalisation was offered in return for Turkey taking back migrants who crossed the Aegean Sea to Greece. But Turkey must still meet EU criteria, and the visa deal needs approval by the European Parliament and member states. The EU fears that without this deal, Turkey will not control migration. The waiver would ...
The European Commission will back visa-free travel for Turkish citizens inside Europe's passport-free Schengen area, sources have told the BBC.
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The Liverpool captain, 25, suffered knee ligament damage against Borussia Dortmund on 7 April, and was expected to be sidelined for up to eight weeks. However, Klopp says Henderson may feature in the Reds' Europa League final against Sevilla on 18 May. "Hendo is in a really good way so it's good for England," Klopp sai...
England midfielder Jordan Henderson will be fit for this summer's European Championship finals, according to Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp.
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"It was quiet in July and August. But since the start of September, I've been taken by surprise by the number of calls we are getting," says AMF secretary-general Benoit de Juvigny. "What they hate most, these businesses, is uncertainty. No-one can tell them what Brexit will look like. So more of them are looking to ke...
Three months after the Brexit vote, the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) - France's financial regulator - is receiving a steady stream of enquiries from London-based companies about the possibilities of relocation.
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Allah Nazar said he was still leading the insurgency. A Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) spokesman said the video was shot this month. Government officials told the BBC they were working to verify the video. The rebels say they will oppose planned Chinese investment in the region. "For quite some time the government has b...
A separatist leader from Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, who the government believed it had killed in August, has appeared in a new video.
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It is part of a silent revolution that is causing a huge shift in the composition of the world's population of graduates. For decades, the United States had the highest proportion of people going to university. They dominated the graduate market. Reflecting this former supremacy, among 55 to 64 year olds almost a third...
China has been building the equivalent of almost one university per week.
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Head coach Warren Gatland has picked a record 10 Welshmen to start and dropped Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll. Bennett feels it is a bold selection but it is "win or bust" for Gatland. "This has been a great tour, happy, players mixing with fans, everything's been lovely and... this morning it's all gone to pieces," s...
British and Irish Lions great Phil Bennett fears the team selected for Saturday's deciding Test against Australia has caused divisions.
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Applegate won three medals at Rio 2016 to add to her gold from London 2012, despite having career-saving surgery nine weeks prior to the Brazil Games. But, as she has not managed a personal best this year, her funding is set to drop from £21,000 per year to £11,000. "That means we can't continue," Applegate's mother Da...
Four-time Paralympic medallist Jessica-Jane Applegate may be forced to retire at the age of 20 after a drop in funding from British Para-Swimming.
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Doctors running the practice in Llanwrtyd Wells have written to Health Minister Mark Drakeford asking him to reconsider the scrapping of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG). They say 1,200 patients will have to travel 13 miles to their main surgery in Builth Wells from August. The Welsh government said there h...
Residents of a Powys town are alarmed that its only GP surgery is set to close due to a cut in NHS funding.
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Four people died in Saturday's attack on Istiklal Street, a popular shopping area, while another 36 were injured. Hours before kick-off the Istanbul governor's office said Sunday's match "has been postponed after the evaluation of credible intelligence". "It comes at the request and agreement of the teams," the authori...
The Istanbul derby between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce has been postponed amid security concerns following Saturday's suicide bomb in the Turkish capital.
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A brace from Otis Khan plus additional goals from Tom Eaves, Ryan Hedges and Francois Zoko were enough to see the Glovers move into the play-off places. Yeovil took the lead inside 16 minutes when Alex Lawless' cross-field ball found Khan who cut inside and released a shot which was turned in by Eaves. The home side do...
A dominant display saw Yeovil run out emphatic winners over Crawley in their League Two meeting at Huish Park.
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But Tunisian giants Esperance are out, after a 1-1 draw at home with continental debutants Mouloudia Bejaia. Mazembe went into the second leg with a 1-0 lead but fell to a 2-1 defeat in Gabes, just avoiding a major upset. Gabesien made it 1-0 on the day, and levelled the tie, when Youssef Fouzai scored a 38th-minute pe...
TP Mazembe edged into the Confederation Cup group stage by beating Stade Gabesien on the away goals rule after a 2-2 aggregate draw.
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Local authorities in England could ban rooms smaller than 6.5 sq m from being let as bedrooms in licence applications for multiple occupancy houses. The Department for Communities and Local Government is setting out the plans in a discussion paper. Housing minister Brandon Lewis said some landlords provided "simply una...
A national minimum bedroom size could be introduced under plans to combat overcrowding and rogue landlords.
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Mother-of-three Lorna Moore was jailed for two and a half years after failing to tell the authorities her husband was about to join the militant group. Her husband Sajid Aslam, 34, was part of a large network that heeded the militants' call for volunteers in 2014. Police say 12 people from Walsall went to Syria or trie...
A group of friends from Walsall who planned to bring up their children under so-called Islamic State in Syria have been jailed.
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American companies are now allowed to lend money to Cuban entrepreneurs and to invest in infrastructure projects. The new measures also make it easier for US studios to shoot films in Cuba. The two countries restored relations last year, putting an end to more than five decades of enmity. President Obama has urged Cong...
The United States has eased a number of trade restrictions with Cuba, in President Barack Obama's latest attempt to bypass the US Congress's economic embargo on the island.
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The islands, which are located off Cornwall, are home to breeding populations of 14 seabird species and approximately 20,000 birds. Eradication experts from New Zealand and the UK have been contracted to carry out the work. "Among many challenges our seabirds face, the greatest threat on land is predation of eggs and c...
A project aimed at protecting internationally important seabird populations on two of the Isles of Scilly by killing more than 3,000 brown rats, is under way.
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After bowling out the South Pacific nation for 188, Ireland declared on 244-5 to set a very tough victory target for their opponents. Tim Murtagh dismissed Lega Siaka to put Papua New Guinea on 19-1 but there were no further wickets before the close. Kevin O'Brien was 75 not out with Andy McBrine unbeaten on 40 as Irel...
Papua New Guinea reached 50-1 at stumps on day three as they chased 346 to beat Ireland in the Intercontinental Cup.
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The children died in May 2012 in a fire started by their parents, Mairead and Mick Philpott, and friend Paul Mosley. The alarms at 18 Victory Road in Derby did activate, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said. Officers have carried out research into children and fire alarms and concluded many do sleep through the nois...
The six Philpott children who died in a house fire started by their parents slept through the sound of smoke alarms, according to the fire service.
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The Lost Songs of St Kilda sold out within a few hours of its release and has become the fastest-selling posthumous artist debut in history. The album was recorded on a £3 microphone in an Edinburgh care home by pensioner Trevor Morrison. The tracks have been reworked by a number of leading composers. They include Sir...
An album of lost songs from the evacuated Hebridean archipelago of St Kilda has gone straight to the top of the classical album chart.
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It is all about how young people are affected by their parents' relationship with drink. It tells the real-life stories of three children who have had very different experiences. In the 2010 Children's Bafta awards, the programme won the Best Factual Programme Bafta.
Newsround has made a special programme called Living With Alcohol.
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The officer, named by the rebels as Yuriy Suprun, was seized on 8 April. The UN says talks about his release have reached a sensitive phase. Although a ceasefire is in place, levels of violence have increased dramatically in recent weeks. Almost 9,200 people have died since conflict broke out in April 2014. Large swath...
The United Nations has appealed for the immediate release of a staff member held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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On his first official visit to Northern Ireland, he raised the possibility of a bilateral UK-EU customs union. The taoiseach described Brexit as "the challenge of this generation". In response, the UK Government said it wanted a special partnership with the EU, including an "ambitious free trade agreement and a customs...
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has called for "unique solutions" to preserve the relationship between the UK and the European Union after Brexit.
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The England midfielder, 24, made his debut from the bench in Saturday's 1-0 home win against West Bromwich Albion. Wilshere played only three games for the Gunners last season after fracturing his leg - the latest setback in a career plagued by injuries. "If there is any question mark about me, I know it's about my fit...
Jack Wilshere says his loan move from Arsenal to Bournemouth is about proving he can stay free of injuries.
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Instead of just voting for one candidate voters could rank candidates in order of preference, and these preferences could be used to decide the outcome in places where no candidate wins more than 50% of votes cast. Use this guide to find out more. The public will be asked whether they want to replace the existing first...
A referendum on 5 May 2011 will ask UK voters whether they want to change how MPs are elected in General Elections.
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The Lion Theatre has been operating in the Red Lion Hotel, in Horncastle, for about 30 years. The pub was boarded up in June after it closed to the public, prompting fears that performances would end there. Horncastle Theatre Company's chair Shirley Moffat said it had made an offer of £80,000 but needed to raise more m...
A theatre group has put in a bid to buy its pub-based venue following concerns it would be evicted.
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Reports from France have suggested that 30-year-old Armitage is keen to go back to England after five years in France. "We would certainly be interested in bringing somebody like Steffon back," Young told BBC Sport. "But we have had no contact with Toulon at all and, until that becomes a reality, we've nothing to comme...
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young has confirmed his interest in bringing back exiled England international forward Steffon Armitage from Toulon.
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Official results are expected on Monday but exit polls suggest the billionaire confectionary magnate has won the election with about 56% of the vote. He said his first step as president would be to visit the eastern Donbass region where pro-Russian separatists have seized control in many areas. He also said Kiev would ...
Petro Poroshenko, who looks set to win Ukraine's presidential election, says he wants to "end war and bring peace".
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Newport council rejected plans to split the existing Duffryn High School site and create a new facility alongside it. The school would have benefitted from a new building, but now has "virtually nothing", said head teacher Jon Wilson. Newport's chief education officer James Harris said there were still plans for "subst...
Rejected plans to build a Welsh language secondary school in Newport have been called "a mess" by the head teacher who was due to share the site.
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The 20-year-old has been involved in Killie's first team over the past four seasons, debuting at 16 in 2012. He has also been capped at Under-21 level for Scotland. "He is a player that fits the bill perfectly," Dundee manager Paul Hartley told his club website. "Mark is at the right age and is someone we think we can ...
Dundee have signed defender Mark O'Hara from Scottish Premiership rivals Kilmarnock.
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The first minister had called for an independence referendum to be held in the autumn of 2018 or spring of 2019. But Ms Sturgeon told Holyrood she would now delay her plans to introduce legislation for a referendum. However, she later said it was still "likely" a referendum would be held by 2021. Ms Sturgeon has been c...
Nicola Sturgeon has put her independence referendum plans temporarily on hold after announcing a "reset" of her proposed timetable.
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Danny Nardiello, Chris Eagles, Rob Lainton, Kiel O'Brien, Marcus Poscha and Reece Brown will be released. The Shakers, currently 15th in League One, have also activated a clause in captain Craig Jones' contract for a new one-year deal. Bury have also offered reported Crewe target Ryan Lowe a one-year deal and are in di...
Bury have announced six players will be leaving Gigg Lane this summer.
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8 January 2016 Last updated at 03:30 GMT Real name Matthew Taylor, he would push the volume up loud so that he could listen by feeling the bass vibrations in his body instead. Determined to become a rapper because of his love for hip-hop, he set out to follow his dream, communicating his lyrics to the crowd through sig...
MC Geezer from London grew up listening to Bob Marley and Natty King, but he couldn't listen to it in the same way as his peers because he is deaf.
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She walked to work in Dhaka even during Bangladesh's never-ending general strikes, political violence and labour unrest. But now she fears her livelihood is in danger because of the recent jihadist violence. "What will happen to us if the buyers are not going to come to Bangladesh?" says Shirin, a mother-of-two who wor...
Nothing has stopped Shirin Begum from going to work every day at a garment factory for more than 10 years - but last month's deadly attack by Islamic militants in the capital, Dhaka, could change that.
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The coalition won 88 seats to Labor's 57 in the 150-seat parliament. Liberal leader Tony Abbott, who will be prime minister, promised a competent and trustworthy government. Outgoing PM Kevin Rudd earlier admitted defeat and said he would not stand again for the Labor leadership. The main election issues were how to ta...
Australia's opposition has crushed the governing Labor party in a general election that has returned the Liberal-National coalition to power for the first time in six years.
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Many parents in the country find it difficult to keep up with the amount of homework their children get. And in order to help them, they've gone back to school to attend special workshops on some of the subjects. Teachers say the sessions are not for parents who are bad at mathematics or English. Instead, they are ther...
Some parents in Singapore have gone back to school so they can help with their children's homework.
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Conservative MP Anne Main advocated the method during a Westminster debate as a way of reducing the number of plastic bags blighting the countryside. Mrs Main says better signage is needed at the entrance of parks and open spaces so dog owners know what to do. She said the practice of hanging poo-filled bags from trees...
Dog walkers are being urged not to bag up their pet's poo in the countryside - but to use a stick and flick it into the undergrowth instead.
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Left-arm spinner Simon Kerrigan took 5-59 as the visitors were bowled out for 253 to lose by an innings and 94 runs. Adam Wheater (47) and Will Smith (45) resisted but after Wheater fell, the last five wickets fell for 45 runs. Lancashire have won two of their opening three Championship matches - the same amount of the...
Lancashire completed victory over Hampshire to move into second place in County Championship Division One.
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Lord Hain told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme he had never been as concerned as he was now about the party's prospects. He said it was "much more serious" than the "early 1980s strife". Jeremy Corbyn has been urged to stand down as Labour leader by most of his MPs, with Angela Eagle and Owen Smith considerin...
Labour is in "a major crisis" and has lost touch with its voters, a former Welsh Secretary has warned.
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Alun Cairns, the Vale of Glamorgan MP, was reappointed as Secretary of State for Wales on Monday in Prime Minister Theresa May's Tory cabinet. Mr Bebb urged Mrs May to undertake a cross-party approach to Brexit and consider the Welsh Government's views. Mr Bebb's Aberconwy majority was reduced from just under 4,000 to ...
Guto Bebb, the Conservative MP for Aberconwy, has been reappointed as a Wales Office minister.
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Agnes Oluoch, head of the country's Paralympic committee, told the BBC that in contrast "the government supported the able-bodied athletes 100%". The games are one of the last chances for athletes to qualify for the Paralympics in Rio in 2016. Kenya came top of the medals table at the Olympic qualifiers this summer. An...
Kenya's para-athletic team has failed to travel to the World Championships in Doha as government funding was pulled at the last minute, an official says.
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The British and Irish Lion, 32, had to go off after only six minutes and was not allowed to resume as he did not pass a head injury assessment. Blood was coming from the number eight's mouth as he came off. Defending Six Nations champions Ireland open the defence of their title against Wales in Dublin on 7 February. He...
Jamie Heaslip could be a fitness worry for Ireland's Six Nations campaign after taking a bang to his head in Leinster's Pro12 win over the Ospreys.
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The women were sexually assaulted by London taxi driver John Worboys and claimed their treatment by police caused mental suffering. At the Court of Appeal, the Met argued it was not a pre-determined right the women should have received damages Worboys was jailed for life in 2009 after committing more than 100 rapes. Sp...
The Met Police have challenged a ruling that led to two victims of a rapist being awarded more than £40,000 over failings in its inquiry.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Britain's quartet of Nigel Levine, Delano Williams, Matthew Hudson-Smith and Rooney won their semi-final in two minutes 58.88 seconds. However, Hudson-Smith, who ran the third leg, was ruled to have had part of his foot out of the takeover zone when he began running. Team ...
Martyn Rooney tells BBC Sport he is even angrier after seeing a replay of Great Britain's controversial disqualification from the 4x400m relay for the first time on BBC television.
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Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former minister William Ruto addressed thousands of supporters in western Kenya to seal their pact. The ICC has indicted the two over the violence that hit Kenya after the disputed 2007 elections. Their case is due to start after the March election. At a joint rally in the Rift ...
Two bitter political rivals in Kenya facing trial at the International Criminal Court have confirmed their alliance for next year's election.
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Slocombe denied U's top scorer Luke Berry 14 minutes from time, diving to his right to repel the spot-kick after Tom Aldred had been shown a straight red card for pulling back Conor Newton as he ran through. The visiting stopper had twice denied George Maris in the first half, after defender Leon Legge had seen a heade...
Sam Slocombe's penalty save helped preserve a 0-0 draw for Blackpool at Cambridge.
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Its candidate Jim McMahon secured a 10,835 majority from UKIP's John Bickley and a 62% vote share that was higher than at the general election. The Conservatives came third in the poll, triggered by the death of long-serving Labour MP Michael Meacher. Mr McMahon said he had "delivered a result that Michael would be pro...
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hailed a "vote of confidence" in his party after it comfortably won the Oldham West and Royton by-election.
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The firm, which famously started life in a Palo Alto garage in California in 1939 and which is credited with founding Silicon Valley - the beating heart of the hi-tech world - has now declared a new era: that of the nimble start-up. By 2014, when Ms Whitman announced HP's decision to separate its computer and printer b...
"The future belongs to the fast," is how Meg Whitman explains her radical decision as chief executive to split up technology giant Hewlett-Packard.
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The Afghan government has called for three days of mourning, during which flags will be flown at half-mast. Marshal Fahim was a leader of the Tajik ethnic minority and a former warlord. He was part of the alliance that ousted the Taliban in 2001 and served first as defence minister, before becoming vice-president in 20...
One of Afghanistan's two vice-presidents, Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, has died of natural causes aged 57, a government spokesman has said.
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'Veterans enraged at PSNI injustice' is the headline in the News Letter. The paper reports that former soldiers have criticised a decision by police not to investigate IRA attacks on them during the Troubles. Ex-soldier Mike Harmson claims the decision "only highlights the terrible injustice that we veterans have been ...
A miniature horse, sapphires and budgies are just some of the stories featured in Monday's papers.
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Thirty-two people were killed in the three bomb attacks at Brussels airport and Maelbeek metro station and many more were injured. The toll was reduced from 35 after Belgian authorities found some victims had been counted twice. The casualties came from a wide variety of countries including Belgium, Colombia, Peru, Fra...
Most of the people killed in the terror attacks in Brussels on 22 March have now been identified.
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On average, 10 million people tuned in to see 19-year-old Flora Shedden leave the show after her showstopper cocoa carousel failed to win over the judges. The audience peaked at 11.2 million shortly before the end. On average, Bake Off drew 43% of the TV audience. Tamal Ray, Ian Cumming and Nadiya Jamir Hussain will do...
The semi-final of The Great British Bake Off recorded its highest ratings of the series so far.
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The Stags let slip a two-goal lead in Steve Evans' return to one of his former clubs. Mansfield, needing to win and needing four of five other results to go their way, made the perfect start when Danny Rose slotted them in front after only 12 minutes. Rose found the bottom left-hand corner for his 10th goal of the seas...
Mansfield's slim League Two play-off hopes ended with a draw at Crawley in the final game of the season.
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The footpath to Durdle Door on the Jurassic Coast was damaged in a series of winter storms. Work to rebuild the steps was carried out amid a row between Natural England and owners the Lulworth Estate over who was responsible for maintaining them. Repairs were funded from car parking charges at the Door and Lulworth Cov...
Steps leading down to one of the UK's most famous coastal landmarks have reopened - more than two years after they were removed.
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Swatted, warded off with smelly repellent or twisted out with tweezers from where they have burrowed into skin, midges and ticks usually get short shrift by people they encounter. Midge bites can cause irritating red itchy sores while those of ticks can result in serious, long-lasting medical problems. But to raise gre...
They are Scotland's most notorious bloodsucking pests, but the Mountaineering Council of Scotland is highlighting the benefits of midges and ticks.
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He was best known for presenting BBC's Play School for 21 years from 1964, and Play Away from 1971 to 1984. His agent said he had been living with Parkinson's disease and died at Denville Hall, a retirement home often used by those in the entertainment industry. A statement from the family said: "He lived courageously ...
Children's presenter Brian Cant has died at the age of 83.
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These are on top of about 1,200 already lost in high-profile company failures. The Solar Trade Association surveyed more than 200 solar firms - estimated to be fewer than 10% of the total. It said if its findings were reflected across the industry, some 6,500 jobs may already have been lost and a a further 18,500 could...
Some 576 jobs in the solar power industry have been axed and 1,600 more are at risk because of planned cuts to subsidies, a trade body has found.
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The Italian singer was given just 30 minutes to reach the venue and take the stage when Domingo succumbed to a cold. He had no chance to review the score before his performance in Verdi's Ernani, which went out live on radio. The 40-year-old had last sung the role in Rome in December 2013, with conductor Riccardo Muti....
Baritone Luca Salsi found himself in a race to fill Placido Domingo's shoes at New York's Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon.
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In a letter to parents, Plymstock School in Devon says although "some girls leave their homes with their skirts at a reasonable length", they "roll them up for school". From September, all students will have to wear dark grey trousers. The letter said "time wasted addressing skirt issues would be better spent focusing ...
A school has completely banned pupils from wearing skirts because they have become too short.
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The King's College London team says leg power is a useful marker of whether someone is getting enough exercise to help keep their mind in good shape. Exercise releases chemicals in the body that may boost elderly brains, say the scientists, in the journal Gerontology. But they say more research is needed to prove their...
Older women who have strong legs are likely to fare better when it comes to ageing of the brain, a decade-long study of more than 300 twins suggests.
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Rates were first cut to 0.5% in March 2009 as the Bank sought to lift economic growth amid the credit crunch. Recent growth in the economy has prompted speculation that rates will start to rise again in the near future. However, continuing low inflation, now at 0.3%, gives policymakers little reason to raise the cost o...
UK interest rates have been kept unchanged again by the Bank of England, meaning they have now been at their record low of 0.5% for six years.
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Ex-Bolton and Watford man Sordell joins on an initial contract until June. Striker Beavon, 32, moves on an 18-month deal, while midfielder Reilly, 23, is on loan until the end of April. Sordell, 25, who has netted seven times in 26 games for Coventry, leaves six months into a year-long deal. Burton will be the forward'...
Coventry City leading scorer Marvin Sordell has joined Championship club Burton, while Stuart Beavon and Callum Reilly have moved the other way to sign for the Sky Blues.
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The 46-year-old, who is playing in his 11th event, has been part of a "task-force" set up to build a long-term US programme for the biennial tournament. "Players, past captains, vice-captains and caddies have been involved in the process - like the model Europe have had tremendous success with," he said. "From this we ...
The United States have adopted Europe's approach to the Ryder Cup to end a run of three defeats, says Phil Mickelson.
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Paris St-Germain have reportedly triggered the forward's 222m euro (£199m) release clause, although Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu told BBC Sport the 25-year-old is not for sale. Neymar did not speak to reporters after the pre-season win in New Jersey, but Valverde did address the speculation. "We want Neymar wit...
Coach Ernesto Valverde reiterated his desire to keep Neymar at Barcelona after the Brazilian scored twice in a 2-1 friendly win over Juventus.
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Rome's Mayor Virginia Raggi, from the populist Five Star party, had said the city had to prioritise matters such as rubbish collection and corruption. It means only Paris, Los Angeles and Budapest are left in the running after Boston and Hamburg also abandoned bids. The International Olympic Committee is due to make a ...
Italy's Olympic Committee has officially withdrawn its bid to stage the 2024 Games in Rome after the city council voted to oppose the candidacy.
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2 December 2015 Last updated at 00:09 GMT Matthew Stockdale captured the moment on a dashboard camera. He said the driver repeatedly attempted to cut him up and shunted him twice as he drove along the M1 on the night of 11 November. Mr Stockdale has criticised police for failing to attend the incident for three hours. ...
This is the moment a car driver was "repeatedly and deliberately" rammed by a lorry on a busy motorway.
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The hoard was discovered in Bedale, North Yorkshire, in 2012 and includes a gold sword pommel and silver neck ring and collar. The Yorkshire Museum launched an appeal in January to raise the funds to buy the hoard, which was valued at £51,636. It has since received enough public donations and grants to keep the treasur...
A museum's campaign to buy a Viking hoard worth more than £50,000 has been successful.
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Neil, 35, helped the Canaries earn promotion to the Premier League after joining the club in January 2015, but they suffered relegation last season. City had failed to win in five games under the former Hamilton boss, leaving them nine points outside the top six. First-team coach Alan Irvine will take charge of the tea...
Norwich City have sacked manager Alex Neil after just over two years in charge at the Championship club.
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The Big Butterfly Count - an annual survey by thousands of volunteers - recorded an average 12.2 per count, compared with a 2013 high of 23. Numbers were even lower than a previous slump in the wet summer of 2012, despite far warmer weather. Butterfly Conservation, which organised the count, said the cause was still a ...
A huge drop in the number of butterflies in the UK is causing confusion among wildlife experts.
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The decision comes two days after the US Treasury announced fresh plans to prevent deals known as "inversions", where a US firm merges with a company in a country with a lower tax rate. The Pfizer-Allergan deal, valued at $160bn (£113bn), would have been the biggest example of an "inversion". It would also have been t...
US drugs giant Pfizer has scrapped a planned merger with Ireland's Allergan amid plans to change US tax laws.
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Alun Cairns made the comments on the BBC's Question Time programme. During the fractious exchange with Ms Wood he said it "wasn't so long ago" that "cottages were being burned down". Ms Wood called for the "outrageous" comments to be withdrawn. The Wales Office declined to respond to her criticism of the secretary of s...
The leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood has accused the Welsh secretary of peddling "myths and smears", after he claimed members of her party had broken the law over migration into Welsh-speaking communities.
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Ian Ruddock repeatedly shook baby Olivia at their home in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, in 2011, causing her to suffer fatal injuries. He was accused of murdering the infant but a jury convicted him of a reduced charge of culpable homicide. The 34-year-old was also found guilty of the attempted murder of a baby boy in ...
A man has been jailed for 12 years for killing his five-week-old daughter and attempting to murder a baby boy.
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A specific "thirst circuit" was rapidly activated by food and quietened by cooling down the animals' mouths. The same brain cells were already known to stimulate drinking, for example when dehydration concentrates the blood. But the new findings describe a much faster response, which predicts the body's future demand f...
Scientists have glimpsed activity deep in the mouse brain which can explain why we get thirsty when we eat, and why cold water is more thirst-quenching.
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Estate agent Connells Group confirmed Pondtail Wood near Hurstpierpoint will be sold at auction on 12 September. Protesters were appalled at the destruction of ancient woods by landowner Wineham Properties Ltd earlier this year. The Forestry Commission ordered the trees be replanted by 30 April 2017 and looked after fo...
A landowner who felled hundreds of protected trees in the South Downs without permission is selling the site.
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Barack Obama's outgoing administration announced the contribution of $500m (£406m; €468m) on Tuesday, bringing the total funds to date to $1bn. Mr Obama pledged in 2014 to give $3bn to help tackle the effects of climate change in the poorest countries. Mr Trump has previously called global warming a hoax. The presid...
The US government has given half a billion dollars to the UN's Green Climate Fund, just three days before Donald Trump takes office.
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A bloodied Omran was filmed after what activists said was an air strike on a rebel enclave that killed his brother. On Sunday, he was photographed at his new home in the city, which is now under full government control. In interviews with pro-government journalists, Omran's father complained that he had been used as "p...
New pictures have emerged of Omran Daqneesh, the young Syrian boy who became a symbol of civilian suffering in the city of Aleppo last year.
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The club said it was "satisfied" there was no short term need for the funding the share issue would have generated. It has published a statement on its official website. It also said Dave King, Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor would provide further loans if required. The statement said: "The board is satis...
Rangers Football Club is to postpone a share issue and listing on the ISDX market until criminal proceedings against Craig Whyte, Charles Green, Imran Ahmed and others are concluded.
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Last week a coroner ruled soldiers were not justified in their use of lethal force against Bernard Watt. Teresa Watt said her husband was a good man, who was just "looking after his home, like everyone else". The 28-year-old died after being shot by the Army during a riot in Ardoyne, Belfast, in February 1971. The coro...
The widow of a man shot dead by the Army during a Belfast riot has expressed relief his name his finally been cleared 46 years after his death.
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The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill would allow the home secretary to impose temporary exclusion orders on British terror suspects. There have been calls for ministers to change the proposals to allow judicial oversight of the orders. In other measures, universities and councils would be required to take steps to c...
Peers are to debate the government's counter-terrorism bill, which will give new powers to the security services.
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The competition held by the Scottish Surf Federation finishes on Sunday and involves the national championships for surfing and bodyboarding. The sea off Thurso offers some of the best surfing in Europe and some of the conditions have even been described as "world-class". In recent years, a stage of the international O...
The Scottish Surf Championships are taking place in Thurso in Caithness.
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Drivers in the firm are seeking a pay rise of 15% over the next three years. Dublin Bus has said it cannot exceed an increase of 8.25%, recommended by the Labour Court. It also said the dispute has cost more than 4m euros (£3.4m) so far, and will leave the firm in a loss-making position by the end of 2016. The National...
Up to 400,000 commuters in Dublin are facing travel disruption as strikes by Dublin Bus drivers enter a fifth day.
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Sadie Bale, 33, made no plea or declaration at Greenock Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody. Police had been called to Glen Avenue in Port Glasgow just after midnight on Tuesday, where they found a seriously injured woman in a common close. She died a short time later at Inverclyde Royal Hospital in Greenock.
A woman has appeared in court charged with murder following the death of a 63-year-old woman in Port Glasgow.
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The Briton was beaten 6-7 (7-5) 6-3 6-4 in what was the second semi-final of his career. The world number 45 won the first-set tie-break but Harrison took the next two sets, winning eight of the final nine points to wrap up victory. He will meet three-time Atlanta champion and fellow American John Isner in Sunday's fin...
Kyle Edmund failed to reach his maiden ATP Tour final as he lost to American Ryan Harrison at the Atlanta Open.
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The 31-year-old central midfielder did not travel to Germany on Cardiff's pre-season tour and manager Paul Trollope has confirmed Dikgacoi can leave. Adam le Fondre and Federico Macheda have already been told they can go and Trollope: said: "He's in a similar situation to Le Fondre and Macheda." Dikgacoi has played 17 ...
Cardiff City have told South African international Kagisho Dikgacoi he is free to leave the Championship club.
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It follows a court case in March which found Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan (BMAP) planning policy had been adopted unlawfully. BMAP restricted future expansion at Sprucefield to bulky goods only - an obstacle to a John Lewis department store. However, the restriction has now effectively been lifted. On Friday, a judge...
A High Court ruling has paved the way for a John Lewis store at Sprucefield near Lisburn, County Antrim.
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