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Sussex Police applied to the High Court for copies of the interviews, alongside results of tests on aspects of the accident. Both requests were refused. However, footage filmed by onboard cameras was handed over. A Hawker Hunter plane crashed into spectators and motorists on the A27 in August 2015, killing 11 people. D...
Police have been refused access to interviews carried out with Shoreham air crash pilot Andy Hill by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).
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Media playback is not supported on this device Tamim made an unbeaten 103 off 63 balls - his maiden T20 hundred - and Sabbir Rahman a rapid 44 in a total of 180-2. Oman, whose target was revised first to 152 in 16 overs then 120 in 12 after rain in Dharamsala, laboured to 65-9. As winners of Group A, Bangladesh join In...
Tamim Iqbal hit the first century of the World Twenty20 as Bangladesh beat Oman by 54 runs to secure the final place in the Super 10s.
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Jonathan Catchpole, 38, was attacked by three men at his flat in Bury St Edmunds in August 2015. His ex-girlfriend Rebecca Deferia is accused of organising the attempt on his life after their relationship ended. Ms Deferia, 30, denies conspiracy to murder. Ipswich Crown Court heard three men - one armed with a sawn-off...
A man who was shot during an assassination plot allegedly arranged by his ex was told she "wanted him dead", a court has heard.
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Shares in Smiths Group jumped 10.2% after it announced the deal. The company also said that first-quarter trading had been "resilient". At the end of the day, the FTSE 100 index was up 122.38 points, or 1.99%, at 6,268.76. Easyjet shares fell 4.1% despite news of another record profit. Its full-year profits jumped 18% ...
(Close): The London market rose strongly, with Smiths Group leading the way after it agreed a deal to cut its pension contributions.
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Rangers took the lead against the run of play when Bobby Zamora laid the ball off for Austin to lash home from the edge of the area in the 17th minute. The hosts secured victory midway through the second half when Eduardo Vargas raced down the right and crossed for Austin to finish at the near post. Villa have lost fiv...
Charlie Austin struck twice as Queens Park Rangers lifted themselves off the bottom of the Premier League with victory over Aston Villa.
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Daniel Amokachi has been in charge of Nigeria on a temporary basis since December following lengthy contractual talks between Stephen Keshi and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). NFF president Amaju Pinnick announced two weeks ago that a two-year deal has been approved for Keshi to continue but a contract is yet to...
Former Nigeria captain Jay-Jay Okocha urged the country's football authority to swiftly resolve the national team's managerial vacancy in order to prevent further setbacks.
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The pop star won best male, best North American act, best collaboration for Where Are You Now?, with Skrillex and Diplo, biggest fans and best look. One Direction won the prize for best pop, Taylor Swift's Bad Blood won best song and Rihanna was named best female. Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran hosted the ceremony in Mil...
Justin Bieber was the big winner at MTV's EMAs - or European Music Awards - scooping five awards.
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Though Mohammad Barrie's own family has so far been spared the disease, he lost a friend to it, only realising he had died because his phone was switched off. Despite the potential dangers Mr Barrie continues to work, ferrying passengers from the capital Freetown to Lunghi airport but he told the BBC's Tulip Mazumdar m...
A sailor from Sierra Leone has told the BBC how Ebola has robbed his country of joy and says the international community should send "serious help".
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The woman, 27, from Bedford, was left with two fractures to her eye socket when Charlie Mulryan, 33, punched her on 3 June after he had been drinking. Mulryan, who had been living in Cambridgeshire at the time, admitted grievous bodily harm with intent. He was jailed for three years and 10 months at Luton Crown Court. ...
A woman attacked by a Liverpudlian man she met online now suffers panic attacks when she hears a "Scouse accent", a court heard.
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Italian club Roma want to sign Mahrez and the winger, who helped Leicester win the Premier League title in 2016, says he wants to leave. Asked if he expected the 26-year-old to stay - after a thrilling Premier League opener - Shakespeare said: "Who knows? "I think we have all seen the funny business of the transfer win...
Leicester boss Craig Shakespeare praised Riyad Mahrez's focus in Friday's 4-3 defeat to Arsenal, despite uncertainty over the Algerian's future.
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Stephen O'Flynn headed in the opener in the 22nd minute after his initial penalty was saved by Marty Gallagher. Michael McCrudden equalised from the penalty spot four minutes later. John Currie's shot was deflected in off Mark Scoltock on 71 to give his side a lead ahead of Tuesday's second leg. The Mallards ended up i...
Ballinamallard United took a step towards preserving their Premiership status by beating Institute 2-1 in the first leg of their promotion-relegation play-off at the Riverside Stadium.
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Josh Clayton, 23, from Taunton, has been missing since Sunday with teams of coastguards, police with dogs and a helicopter involved in the search. Police urged "untrained and unequipped" searchers to be mindful of their own safety to avoid additional incidents. Mr Clayton's disappearance has been described as "out of c...
Untrained teams of volunteers searching for a missing man on the Isles of Scilly could risk distracting officers from the operation, police have said.
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The Cobblers opened the scoring after four minutes when Diamond headed in from Danny Rose's corner. Joe Piggott could have levelled for the Hatters but he failed to convert Pelly Ruddock's cross from close-range. Marquis capped an excellent Northampton move by latching onto John-Joe O'Toole's delivery, before Sam Hoski...
Goals from Zander Diamond and John Marquis gave League Two champions Northampton victory over Luton.
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German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the vote would be "yes or no to the eurozone". Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has urged a no vote but insists he wants Greece to stay in the euro. Talks between Greece and its creditors broke down last week, leading to Greek banks having to shut this week. Global stock ma...
EU leaders have warned Greeks that rejecting creditors' proposals in a snap referendum called for Sunday would mean leaving the euro.
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Now East Timor has been punished for changing the documents. The players, who have represented clubs such as Palmeiras and Botafogo, helped the nation to its first ever win. But now it has been banned from the 2023 AFC Asian Cup following a joint investigation by the Asian Football Confederation and Fifa. They found th...
Birth and baptism certificates were doctored by football chiefs in a tiny southeast Asian country to allow a dozen Brazilians to play for them.
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The Australia international, 24, last played for the Scottish Premiership leaders on 17 December against Dundee. He came off at half-time of that match, which Celtic won 2-1, and aggravated the injury in training as he sought to get back to full fitness. "His foot stuck in the ground and he did a full twist on it," sai...
Celtic midfielder Tom Rogic faces a "few months" more on the sidelines following an ankle operation.
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Peter Gibbons died last year aged 90 at Ipswich Hospital, following a six-year battle with the disease. Friends, who were executors of his will, told the East Anglian Daily Times they were shocked at the amount of money he left. The hospital said it was the biggest donation it had received and said "thousands of people...
A former second-hand car trader has left £1.5m in his will to the hospital which treated him for heart disease.
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He damaged cartilage in his left knee in a collision with Leighton Baines in a 3-1 home win over Everton. Manager Jurgen Klopp had said Mane, 25, needed surgery, leaving it "pretty much impossible for him to play again this season". Liverpool are third in the Premier League and have six games left. The injury is expect...
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane will have an operation on a knee injury on Tuesday and will miss the rest of the season.
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In atrocious conditions, Falcons survived Guy Mercer's early try to open up the lead through Rob Vickers' score and Craig Willis' eight-point haul. Rhys Priestland kicked Bath back in front but Willis' brace of penalties ensured four precious points. The win lifts Falcons off the foot of the Premiership. Bath's tumble ...
Craig Willis' goalkicking edged Newcastle Falcons to a first Premiership win of the season against last season's runners-up Bath.
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Mr Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are discussing the deal which would allow the presence of US troops after the 2014 Nato troop withdrawal. But disagreements remain over key issues, including how much the US would defend Afghanistan if it is attacked. Mr Karzai has accused Nato of failing to bring stability to...
US Secretary of State John Kerry has begun talks in Afghanistan, which are expected to focus on a stalled security agreement between the two nations.
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Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke star in Antoine Fuqua's retelling of the 1960 western classic. Oliver Stone's film about whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Ewan McGregor's first feature as a director and a film version of children's book A Monster Calls will also screen at the event. The 41st Toronto Interna...
The upcoming remake of The Magnificent Seven has been chosen to launch this year's Toronto Film Festival.
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Seven people were killed when a tram derailed in south London on Wednesday, 9 November with 51 taken to hospital, eight of who were said to be suffering "serious or life-threatening" injuries. Pardew said some of the victims' families would be at Palace's home game against Manchester City on Saturday. "The terrible eve...
Crystal Palace will support those affected by the Croydon tram crash "in any way we can", says boss Alan Pardew.
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The 29-year-old broke his leg in Saints' pre-season game against Widnes, ruling him out for the campaign start. Smith ended a four-season stint at Wigan to rejoin St Helens for 2017. "It's a shame," McDermott told BBC Sport. "For us, Saints and the competition, we want the best players." He added: "I've taken the line ...
Leeds Rhinos head coach Brian McDermott says injury to St Helens half-back Matty Smith has denied fans the chance to see a top player in action for Thursday's 2017 Super League opener.
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Shirley Oaks Survivors Association told the BBC it would recommend withdrawing from the Lambeth strand of the inquiry because it was not "truly independent". Ex-inquiry chair Justice Lowell Goddard has said she was prevented from picking her own staff, and that civil servants were prioritised by the Home Office. Home S...
A 600-strong survivors' group has lost faith in the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse, its leaders have said.
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Of several hundred phone calls to one big provider, just 7.7% were inquiries about cashing in a whole pension. Hargreaves Lansdown said the first day of the reforms - Bank Holiday Monday - was relatively quiet. Most calls were about long-term pension plans, such as buying an annuity, or setting up drawdown plans. The g...
Retired people in the UK have responded cautiously to the government's pension reforms, with relatively few opting to withdraw all their cash.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Hibs had the better of the early chances but Jordan White volleyed in the opener for the visitors. After Anthony Stokes missed from three yards, he grabbed his sixth goal in Hibs colours this season with a low drive. Then Martin Boyle thumped a 30-yard screamer into the to...
Hibernian roared back from behind against Livingston and breathed new life into their Scottish Championship promotion campaign.
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The pilots were arrested in 2013 preparing to take off in a plane carrying 26 suitcases of cocaine. They were sentenced to 20 years in jail but during the appeal process fled to the French Antilles and on to France. Christophe Naudin, a criminologist and aviation security expert, is suspected of having planned their es...
Egypt has extradited a Frenchman to the Dominican Republic for allegedly helping two French pilots sentenced in a drug case escape from the island.
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The Sutton Trust education charity report says education is the top area of employment for Oxford graduates. Teach First, which recruits top graduates into teaching, said the profession's status had been raised. Independent schools are three times more likely to have Oxbridge-educated teachers than state schools, The r...
The number of Oxford and Cambridge graduates teaching in state schools has nearly doubled to 11,000 in the past 12 years, a report says.
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The ultrafast fibre will be laid by Openreach to serve properties in Altnaharra and Skerray, near Bettyhill, in Sutherland. Forty-five households linked to the Altnaharra telephone exchange are to benefit, Openreach said. One hundred premises are involved in the upgrade in Skerray. Workers from Altnaharra Estate will d...
People living in small Highland communities are excavating the trenches needed for cables to boost their broadband connections.
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It follows the success of their teams in the 2016 European Championships. Michael O'Neill played 31 times for Northern Ireland, while Martin O'Neill played 64 times. They joined 13 other people being honoured by Ulster University on Tuesday. Those recognised at the university's summer graduations in Coleraine came from...
The Northern Ireland football manager Michael O'Neill and his Republic of Ireland counterpart Martin O'Neill have been awarded honorary degrees for their outstanding contributions to sport.
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The usage level is 22% more than was forecast for the route from Edinburgh to Tweedbank. Transport Minister Humza Yousaf said the passenger numbers further justified the decision to restore rail services to the region after more than 40 years. The multi-million pound route opened in September last year. Mr Yousaf said:...
The latest figures show almost 700,000 people travelled on the Borders Railway during its first six months of operation.
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Gregg, 84, survived the 1958 Munich air crash which killed 23 people, including eight of his United team-mates. "When the story broke I asked my wife if I could sit alone in the television room as I did not want anyone with me," said the Northern Irishman. "I didn't know what way to react. It's very, very difficult to ...
Ex-Manchester United keeper Harry Gregg says the plane crash which killed most of Brazilian club Chapecoense's players has brought back "painful memories".
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Mrs Foster will replace Peter Robinson, who announced his plans to step down as DUP leader and Northern Ireland first minister last month. She is the only candidate for leader. Replacing Mr Robinson became more of a coronation than an election when DUP MPs Nigel Dodds and Sammy Wilson said they would not put their name...
Senior Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politicians are set to formally elect Arlene Foster as their first female party leader on Thursday evening.
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Ellen Higginbottom's body was found at Orrell Water Park, Wigan early on Saturday - a Wigan man, 47, and a man, 51, from Preston are being questioned. Post-mortem tests found Ellen, who was reported missing on Friday, died due to "multiple wounds to the neck". Louise Tipping - principal at Winstanley College, where she...
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an 18-year-old student found dead at a beauty spot.
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The exhibition of popular music opened at the O2 in Greenwich in 2009 but closed last year amid plans to relocate. Plans have now been announced to move the museum to Liverpool's Cunard building and to open at Easter 2016. The museum features hundreds of rare artefacts and manuscripts. Among them are David Bowie's Zigg...
Liverpool is to become the new permanent home of the British Music Experience museum, which is leaving its current home in London.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Couch, 27, scored highly in her third dive after a poor start to finish in 10th place with 318.00 points. Chinese 17-year-old Si Yajiei scored consistently well to finish in first place with 389.30 points. Synchronised 10m silver medallist Pandelela Rinong of Malaysia also...
Great Britain's Tonia Couch has qualified for the women's Olympic diving 10m platform final.
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11 April 2016 Last updated at 14:11 BST The 22-year-old delivery driver was left with a shattered kneecap and broken ankle after she was struck in Sunningvale Avenue in Biggin Hill, south east London. She had left the key in the ignition as she made a delivery at around 13.40 GMT on 21 January. The thief jumped into th...
CCTV footage of the moment a woman was mown down after a thief stole her van has been released in a police appeal.
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Claudia Winkleman was the highest-paid female celebrity, earning between £450,000 and £500,000 last year, its annual report for 2016/2017 says. The One Show's Alex Jones was second, earning between £400,000 and £450,000. BBC director general Tony Hall said there was "more to do" on the gender pay gap. The top seven ear...
The BBC has revealed two-thirds of its stars earning more than £150,000 are male, with Chris Evans the top-paid on between £2.2m and £2.25m.
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The 12 awards include cash for two cemeteries in Coventry and on the Isle of Wight. A spokesman for the Heritage Lottery and Big lottery funds said it would allow the parks, many of them in some of the UK's most deprived communities, to be "transformed". They include £4.5m for Hanley Park in Stoke-on-Trent. One of the ...
Run-down parks in England are to be regenerated thanks to almost £24m in lottery grants.
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The "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) sign was stolen by a gang of Polish thieves acting at the behest of a Swedish far-right-winger. Technicians unveiled the restored sign in the laboratory of the camp museum. More than one million people, mostly Jews from across Europe, were murdered by the Nazis at the camp. ...
Museum officials at the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland have restored the metal entrance sign damaged in a theft 17 months ago.
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A man in his thirties was shot in the stomach at Forum Court near the railway station on Tuesday. He is in a stable condition in hospital. A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and a man, aged 39, was held on suspicion of attempted murder. A man and two women arrested have been releas...
Two further arrests have been made by police investigating a shooting in Bury St Edmunds.
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The bodies of the men, who were aged 25 and 28, were found at the property in Kirkland Street, Maybole, at about 20:00 on Monday. Post-mortem examinations will be carried out in due course to establish how the men died. A spokesman for Police Scotland said that inquiries into the men's deaths were ongoing.
The deaths of two men at a house in South Ayrshire are being treated as unexplained, police have said.
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The initiative - some would say publicity stunt - is the brainchild of a smartphone store based in the city. It says that a significant number of mobile phone breakages happen because of "text walking" collisions. There are now believed to be more mobile phones in the world than people. Figures released by mobile opera...
People sending text messages in the centre of the Belgian city of Antwerp have been provided with dedicated temporary "text walking lanes" so that they do not collide with pedestrians.
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The loose-head, 26, is expected to be out for four to five weeks, and is set to miss England's opener against France on 4 February. Marler has made 46 Test appearances for England since his debut in 2012. He adds to a lengthy injury list for coach Eddie Jones, which includes fellow Quins man Chris Robshaw. Jones led th...
England prop Joe Marler is set to miss the start of the Six Nations in February after sustaining a fracture to his lower leg playing for Harlequins.
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George Gilmore, 44, died after he was attacked while in his car in Carrickfergus on Monday afternoon. A dispute between loyalist factions in the town has been ongoing for months. Det Ch Supt Raymond Murray said a link to the south-east Antrim element of the UDA, is a "very strong" line of inquiry. "At least one of the ...
One of the bullets fired during the murder of a high-profile loyalist missed and could have hit someone else, the PSNI has said.
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It has the potential to revolutionise treatment for one of the biggest killers in the world, says the team at the University of Oxford. It works by analysing the fat and inflammation around arteries to see which are a ticking time bomb. And it could allow high-risk patients to be given more intensive treatment to avoid...
Scientists have developed a new way of scanning the heart that could predict who will have a heart attack.
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said that the community and the police had a "fractured" relationship. A 25-year-old black man, Freddie Gray, suffered fatal injuries when arrested, sparking protests and riots. The US Department of Justice is already investigating whether Mr Gray's civil rights were violated in the incid...
The mayor of Baltimore has asked US investigators to see if the city's police department engages in routine discrimination or excessive force.
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A three-year investigation concluded that "many" of its adult escort adverts involved prostitutes and victims of sex trafficking, including children, the department said. Warrants have also been issued for two controlling shareholders. The site, which operates around the world, is still online. Allegations that the sit...
Carl Ferrer, head of small ads website Backpage.com has been arrested on allegations of pimping, the California Attorney General has announced.
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The 28-year-old Englishman, who won his first major at Augusta in April, is preparing for the US Open at Oakmont, which starts on Thursday. Willett will play alongside 2011 winner Rory McIlroy for the first two rounds. He said: "The last couple of months, I can't remember a practice session or a tournament that's not b...
Danny Willett says he has found life in the public eye "tricky" since winning the Masters in April.
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The 36-year-old Cardiff Blues loose-head prop, who captained Wales in their 27-13 win over South Africa in November, has ruptured a bicep muscle. Blues head coach Danny Wilson confirmed Jenkins underwent surgery on the injury on Tuesday. "It's a big blow for us, it's a big blow for Wales," said Wilson. If Jenkins is ba...
Wales prop Gethin Jenkins has been ruled out for at least three months and is in danger of missing all of the 2017 Six Nations.
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A former military ruler known for his no-nonsense style would appear to have little in common with a reality TV show where contestants engage in attention-seeking behaviour. But both subjects were soon generating headlines for the same reason - neither of them were in Nigeria. It turned out that Big Brother was actuall...
As Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was beginning his latest visit to London more than a month ago, a new series of Big Brother Nigeria was getting under way.
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Several members of her group suffered from mild hypothermia after conditions deteriorated near Slieve Beg on Monday. The team was made up of 11 students from two Dungannon schools, the Royal and St Patrick's Academy. The girl who became ill on the mountain was from the Royal School. Members of her group contacted the e...
A Dungannon schoolgirl suffered severe hypothermia and lost consciousness during a Duke of Edinburgh expedition in the Mourne mountains in County Down.
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The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) plans to construct a new station building in Bridgnorth and restore the existing 1862 building. Last month SVR completed a £250,000 refurbishment of the track between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth, including Bewdley Tunnel. The plans for Bridgnorth also include a new information and exhib...
A heritage railway line has announced plans for a £2m revamp of a Shropshire station.
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Kate Hardcastle has achieved many things in her life but could she be the person to propel Bradford Bulls into the future? A little under a year ago, the four-time Super League champions were on the brink of extinction and were forced to appeal to fans to raise £1m to keep the club afloat. In June they went into admini...
Award-winning business woman, founder of a charity, semi-professional singer, guest speaker, "mum of the year" to a three-year-old daughter - and now the only female director in the Super League.
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Wiltshire Police said the blaze at a house in Swindon on Sunday night was a "tragic accident" and the death is not being treated as suspicious. The cause of the fire is still being determined by fire investigators. Two adults and a 16-month-old baby are still in a serious but stable condition in hospital. Emergency cre...
A 30-year-old woman seriously injured in a severe house fire has died in hospital.
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He chose to have the lower part of his right leg amputated and was fitted with an artificial limb. Ben was born with a condition known as fibular hemimelia - giving him a foot with only three toes and a leg that failed to develop. It left him struggling to walk and frequently in pain. Ben was fitted with an artificial ...
At the age of 10, Ben Moore took a brave decision.
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Somerset, already with a home tie in the last eight, made just 250-9 despite an opening stand of 108 between Mahela Jayawardene (55) and Jim Allenby (69). But Hampshire lost regular wickets in the chase as they were all out for 245. With Middlesex or Surrey set to pick up points in their match at Lord's and Kent beatin...
Hampshire went out of the One-Day Cup after a five-run defeat by South Group leaders Somerset at the Ageas Bowl.
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Omar Mateen told his bosses at G4S he responded by making up stories that he had connections to terror suspects. The FBI investigated his remarks but determined he did not pose a threat, the documents show. Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more before being shot dead by police. He pledged allegiance to the so-cal...
A gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club had complained of being taunted for being Muslim while working as a security guard at a court, newly released documents show.
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Customers had until the end of October to register their fingerprints and photographs at their local bank. The bank says messages claiming to help reactivate registration are fraudulent and actually trying to get people's personal information. Huge sums are allegedly stolen from Nigerian banks as a result of forgery an...
Nigeria's central bank has warned that fraudsters are taking advantage of a major crackdown on fake bank accounts.
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Keith Stevenson, 39, was convicted of raping the 51-year-old at his home in Gorebridge on 18 March 2015 earlier. Stevenson was due to be sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on Thursday, but Lord Kinclaven ruled he needed more information. Sentence was deferred on Stevenson until June. Lord Kinclaven told Stevenson: ...
A judge has ordered an in-depth risk assessment on a rapist who attacked a property manager while she was inspecting his Midlothian home.
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Getting a letter of thanks from Judge Dredd is though. Sylvester Stallone has written to the City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit after a man was arrested in Halifax on suspicion of leaking the Expendables 3, which Sly co-wrote and starred in. The man is accused of leaking a series of Hollywood film...
Arrests for pirating films are nothing unusual.
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The 25-year-old, who has 27 caps, was taken off on a stretcher during the second half and has since had surgery. The Cherry and Whites say Morgan will "commence an appropriate rehabilitation programme over the coming weeks." England's campaign starts against Wales on 6 February and finishes on 21 March. Coach Stuart La...
Gloucester and England number eight Ben Morgan is likely to miss the whole of the Six Nations tournament after fracturing his left leg in his club's 24-23 win over Saracens on Friday.
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The 26-year-old Saracens second row suffered the injury in training on Tuesday and will see a specialist on Thursday to determine its severity. England head coach Eddie Jones said: "We are not ruling him out of the Six Nations at this stage." Courtney Lawes and Joe Launchbury are now expected to pair up in the second r...
Lock George Kruis is out of England's Six Nations opener against France on Saturday with a knee ligament injury.
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Taiwan claims the island - which it calls Taiping but is also known as Itu Aba - in the Spratly archipelago, a chain also claimed by China and other neighbours. Mr Ma, who is seen to be friendly towards China, has less than four months left in his presidency. Incoming president Tsai Ing-wen will not send a representati...
Outgoing Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is to visit a disputed island in the South China Sea on Thursday.
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15 January 2017 Last updated at 10:01 GMT The lamb, nicknamed Skippy because "he looks like a kangaroo", was born on a farm at Chilton Foliat, near Ramsbury, Wiltshire, in 2016 and has to wear a specially-made fleece to keep him warm. He has now started over-eating and is so round he cannot get up unaided if he falls o...
A lamb born weak and thin without its own wool coat is now so podgy he has been placed on a special diet.
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Midfielder Williams headed Reading in front after just 15 seconds. Hal Robson-Kanu found the USA international unmarked as he netted the club's third-fastest ever goal. Nick Blackman made sure of the points with a late penalty with his eighth goal in as many games after he was fouled by Fernando Amorebieta. Boro, five ...
Reading climbed to third in the Championship and ended Middlesbrough's five game winning streak with goals from Danny Williams and Nick Blackman.
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The local authority said the 12-sided coin can be used at its other car parking spaces. It operates 48 meter machines across the Highlands. But the council said 16 are having to be replaced in Fort William and four on Skye, and it could take three months for them to be delivered and installed. The new £1 coin entered c...
Highland Council has said that it is having to order 20 new parking meters because its machines in Fort William and Skye do not accept the new £1 coin.
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A spokeswoman for the Post Office told the BBC that the problem began on Sunday and had affected about 100,000 of its customers. Talk Talk also confirmed that some of its customers had been affected, and it was working on a fix. It is not yet known who is responsible for the attack. Earlier in the week, Germany's Deuts...
Thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office customers have had their internet access cut by an attack targeting certain types of internet routers.
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There are 90 seats to be filled, a reduction from the 108 seats elected in May 2016. With STV, candidates are elected according to the share of the vote they receive, the size of the electorate, and the number of seats to be filled. On ballot papers, voters rank candidates in order of preference, giving each a number. ...
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly are elected using the Single Transferable Vote system or STV.
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The lorry was parked at the Coryton store, junction 32, all day. But tailbacks built up and queued five miles (8km) eastbound along the M4. Travel time between Pontypridd to Coryton along the A470 southbound was approximately 90 minutes. The retailer said sorry after angry drivers took to social media to complain. "We ...
Supermarket-giant Asda has apologised to drivers for traffic chaos in Cardiff caused by the festive Coca-Cola truck.
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The world's biggest fast food chain reported net profit of $1.1bn (£763m), compared with $811.5m last year. Like-for-like sales increased by 6.2%, boosted by an extra trading day because of the leap year. Sales rose by a better-than-expected 5.4% in the US and 6.2% globally. Its established markets including the UK an...
McDonald's profits jumped by 35% in the first three months of the year, boosted by the continued popularity of its all-day breakfast and cut-price offers in the US.
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Presiding Officer Dame Rosemary Butler has questioned why people can join the armed forces, pay taxes and get married at 16 but not cast their ballot. In the Scottish independence referendum, in September, 16 year olds were given the vote for the first time. But the voting age for local council, assembly and general el...
Young people are to be asked whether 16 year olds should be allowed to vote in Welsh assembly elections.
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Users of BBC services can already create an online account - known as a BBC ID - but this is not currently required in order to access iPlayer. From Tuesday, BBC ID holders also have to add a postcode to their account. TV Licensing has access to the information but the BBC says it has no current plans to use it for enf...
All users of the BBC's iPlayer service will have to log in with a personal account from early 2017.
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Researchers found that in Europe, trees grown since 1750 have actually increased global warming. The scientists believe that replacing broadleaved species with conifers is a key reason for the negative climate impact. Conifers like pines and spruce are generally darker and absorb more heat than species such as oak and ...
The assumption that planting new forests helps limit climate change has been challenged by a new study.
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Harry Pell's own goal and a Reggie Lambe header in the first half virtually settled the issue and defender Tom Miller put the outcome beyond doubt with a second-half strike. Carlisle's first attack produced a fifth-minute goal as Shaun Miller forced a corner and Danny Grainger's inswinger from the right had the Chelten...
Carlisle United cruised to a comfortable win over Cheltenham to register their first home win of the League Two campaign.
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In an NHS staff survey at East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 42% of staff said they were targeted in 2014. The trust, which runs hospitals in Ashford, Canterbury, Margate, Dover, is in special measures. It said it had done work to address the issues found by the survey and identified by the health watchdog. The ...
More than 40% of staff at a Kent NHS trust were victims of harassment, bullying or abuse by colleagues, figures show.
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Pte Michael Heaviside, of the Durham Light Infantry, was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1917 for the rescue of a soldier who had been lying in no-man's land for four days. To mark the anniversary, a stone has been unveiled at St Giles Church, Gilesgate, where he was born. His grandson, Jim Heaviside, said he would "neve...
A memorial stone has been unveiled to mark the 100th anniversary of a World War One hero's bravery.
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The NW200 received £124,000 from Sport NI to carry out improvements. More than 200 new bales and 135 kerb protectors have been added and 1.25 miles (two kilometres) of new fencing erected at the course. A rider was taken to hospital after a crash during a practice session on Tuesday morning, having injured his leg. Pr...
Extra safety measures have been put in place ahead of this week's North West 200 motorcycle races.
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According to dealer and gallery owner Matthew Marks, he died of natural causes at home in New York. Known for vibrant works with geometric shapes and bright colours, the artist had retrospectives at New York's Guggenheim and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art over his career. In 2013, he was presented with the Nati...
Influential abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly has died at the age of 92.
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The school site was to be open by summer last year, but its completion by the local authority's contractor has been delayed several times. The council said that the campus is to be operational on 26 April. The campus includes a new Wick High School, new buildings for the town's Pulteneytown and South primaries and comm...
Highland Council's new Wick Joint Campus looks set to finally open after the Easter holidays.
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Warrants were carried out at addresses in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on Tuesday before further arrests were made on Wednesday. The men were arrested on suspicion of rape and other offences relating to three females between 2008 and 2015. Eight of the men - seven from Banbury and one from Birmingham - appeared before Oxford ...
Ten men have been charged with 56 offences following police raids related to child sexual exploitation claims.
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Juan Mata got the decisive goal for United when he stabbed in from Zlatan Ibrahimovic's flick, but Rostov threatened to take the game to extra time and Sergio Romero made two good saves late on. The United goalkeeper first kept out Sardar Azmoun's flicked header before thumping away Christian Noboa's free-kick. It was ...
Manchester United edged a nervy encounter with Russian minnows FC Rostov at Old Trafford to reach the Europa League quarter-finals with a 2-1 aggregate victory.
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Being active is known to be beneficial but US researchers, writing in the journal Cancer, said they had found many women did too little. Only a third met recommended activity levels. UK breast cancer groups said women here also needed more support to keep active after having the disease. The American study looked at th...
Exercise can aid recovery after breast cancer but many women are not active enough, a study suggests.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Di Maria fired in Messi's pass to clinch a 1-0 win, ending stubborn Swiss resistance and setting up a quarter-final tie against Belgium. "I was nervous towards the end because we couldn't score and any mistake could have knocked us out," said Messi, 27. "The minutes were p...
Lionel Messi said he feared Argentina would be knocked out of the World Cup before he set up Angel Di Maria's late extra-time winner against Switzerland.
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A survey of more than 500 overseas students across 105 institutions showed 52% had a negative perception of the attempts to cut migration numbers. Almost half of North American students in the UK shared this concern. Universities have campaigned to have students counted separately from headline migration figures. Busin...
More than half of overseas students in the UK say they have felt "less welcome" because of policies on migration, a survey suggests.
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Wollaton Hall in Nottingham attracted 175,117 visitors in 2011, the year it was used as Wayne Manor for the filming of The Dark Knight Rises. Numbers have risen each year since then, reaching 291,393 in 2014. The rise has been attributed to the "Batman effect" and other reasons such as marketing and specialised tours. ...
Annual visitors to an Elizabethan mansion have increased by more than 100,000 since a Batman movie was filmed there.
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The figure puts annual growth in the 19-country bloc at 2.1% since a year ago. First-quarter growth was revised down slightly from 0.6% to 0.5%. Other figures released on Monday showed unemployment in the zone was at its lowest since 2009, building on the picture of improving economic health across the area. On Friday,...
The eurozone notched up growth of 0.6% in the second quarter of the year, official Eurostat figures showed.
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It follows mounting criticism of the social media firm for not doing enough to root out fake news on its platform. It has also just launched a new feature in four countries that will publish alternative news links beneath problematic articles. But several experts said the measures did not do go far enough. "Presenting ...
Facebook is to step up its efforts to fight fake news by sending more suspected hoax stories to fact-checkers and publishing their findings online.
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Stephen Thomas Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, are jointly accused of murdering Owen Creaney in July 2014. On Monday, the trial heard extracts from a pre-prepared statement Ms Boyle gave to police. The victim was assaulted in the hallway of Hughes's Moyraverty Court home in the early hours of 3 July, 2014. It took...
A woman jointly charged with murdering a Lurgan man told police she played no part in the fatal attack and grabbed a knife from her co-accused.
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The Great British Tennis Weekend (22-23 July) provides free tennis sessions across the UK and you don't even have to bring equipment - racquets and balls are provided by participating clubs. It's effectively a nation-wide open day for tennis clubs and centres, so if you or your children have been inspired by events in ...
Wimbledon may be over but that's not the end of the summer's tennis action - now you can get to play for free!
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Peter Williams, 62, knocked over Esmé Rose Weir in Cheshire in January 2016 as she rode a scooter on the pavement. Mr Williams, of Poulton Road, Wallasey told the jury at Liverpool Crown Court that despite checking his mirrors he had not seen her as he mounted the pavement to park his van. He said he had not driven sin...
A delivery driver has been cleared of causing the death of a four-year-old girl by dangerous driving.
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She said five months of escalating bullying has had a "terrible effect" on her daughter. The school said it took the attack "very seriously" and had expelled the pupil concerned and apologised to the girl's parents. Greater Manchester Police confirmed it was investigating the shooting. The woman told BBC Radio Manchest...
The mother of an 11-year-old transgender girl who was shot with a BB gun claims her school has not done enough to stop the bullying.
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The incident happened at about 15:50 BST on Saturday between junctions 36 and 37, leaving one lane closed and traffic slow, South Wales Police said. Road authorities said the lane had since reopened and traffic had returned to normal. The woman, who was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, suffered non-life...
A woman has been airlifted to hospital after a car spun off the eastbound M4 near Bridgend.
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Team news and match previews for Thursday's three Europa League games involving English and Irish sides.
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Money Advice Trust (MAT) said it helped 150,000 people with household bill debts last year - up 140% since 2007. But fewer people reported problems with traditional credit products, such as loans and overdrafts, MAT said. Meanwhile, a BBC survey has found that the most adults in debt have not asked for advice on manag...
More people are falling into debt because they cannot afford basic household bills, such as energy, water and council tax, a charity says.
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Jolie has co-written the script with Loung Ung, adapted from Ung's harrowing book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. The film will premiere on the streaming service in 2016. Jolie's son Maddox - who was adopted from Cambodia in 2002 - will also be involved in the production. The actress-turn...
Angelina Jolie is to direct a film about children caught up in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime for Netflix, based on a memoir by a former child soldier.
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The 25-year-old has joined for the Segunda Division club after scoring 13 goals in 39 appearances last season at Tynecastle. Head coach Robbie Neilson told the Hearts website: "Juanma has expressed a desire to play regular first-team football. "So we decided a loan move would be the best solution for both parties." Jua...
Spanish striker Juanma has moved to his homeland to sign for Murcia on a season-long loan from Hearts.
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The image was captured the day after the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic, killing more than 1,500 people. It comes with a previously unpublished statement from the photographer, who describes seeing scrapings of red paint on the side. The estimated guide price is between £10,000 and £15,000. The photograph was take...
A photograph purporting to show the iceberg that sank the ill-fated Titanic is expected to fetch over £10,000 when it is sold at auction.
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A faltering Premier League title challenge has led to increased speculation about the Frenchman's future, with some Gunners fans calling for him to leave. Ancelotti believes Wenger should be praised for the job he has done. "He built a strong identity and a good style of football," said the Italian. "Wenger has the exp...
Bayern Munich boss Carlo Ancelotti has spoken of his "respect" for Arsene Wenger and backed the Arsenal manager to deal with recent criticism.
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