input stringlengths 86 174k | output stringlengths 1 399 |
|---|---|
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The 34-year-old has been fined £30,000 and warned about his future conduct after being charged with breaking FA rules for placing 1,260 bets on matches between 26 March 2006 and 13 May 2016.
Barton said he is addicted to gambling.
He plans to appeal against th... | Burnley midfielder Joey Barton has been banned from football for 18 months after admitting a Football Association charge in relation to betting. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Mr McKay stood down from the assembly in August over claims he coached a loyalist blogger to give evidence to a Stormont inquiry into Nama.
Nama is the Republic of Ireland's "bad bank", set up to deal with toxic loans after the 2008 property crash.
A Sinn Féin... | The former North Antrim MLA Daithí McKay has revealed he has quit Sinn Féin. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
But I am actually sitting in a New York hotel room, just a few blocks up - and a hundred lines of security away - from the United Nations.
I could be writing this from the press area at the UN on the East River, but to be honest the internet connectivity is wh... | Seeing as this is my first blog post since becoming North America editor, I feel I should be writing this from the midst of some important historic event. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Kelly Turner, 16, from Dover, Kent was diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumour in 2015 and has been told she has two years to live.
Her family is trying to raise £1m to pay for specialist treatment in the US.
The cash was raised at Adams' concert a... | Singer Bryan Adams has helped raise £10,000 for a teenager with a rare form of cancer after a collection bucket was passed round the audience at a concert. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
In future all airlines flying to and from destinations in the EU will have to transfer passenger data to national authorities on request, the plan says.
The US, Canada and Australia already get such data from the EU.
The European Commission proposals will be s... | The EU plans to expand transfers of air passenger data in a drive to prevent terrorism and other serious crimes such as drug trafficking. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
They cater to different audiences and sometimes take conflicting editorial and political stances when reporting the same events.
But today is one of those rare days in which they stand, like the rest of the UK, united in sympathy for the families of the childr... | More often than not the papers in this review have different stories on their front pages. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
John Akinde gave Barnet the lead after just 13 minutes with his 18th league goal of the season, pouncing on Niall Mason's back-pass.
But the league leaders were level almost immediately when Matty Blair split the Bees defence with a low cross and James Copping... | Doncaster came from behind to stay four points clear at the top of League Two, beating Barnet 3-1 at the Hive. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Contador pulled out of the Tour during Sunday's ninth stage and says his recovery will take four weeks. The Olympic road race begins on 6 August.
"To reach them in optimal condition looks like it will not be possible," said Contador.
He is now targeting the Vu... | Spain's Alberto Contador has ruled himself out of the Rio Olympics after injury forced him to withdraw from the Tour de France. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
It follows raids across Conwy county on Tuesday and Wednesday, in an operation led by Dyfed-Powys Police.
The men all face class A heroin and cocaine drug conspiracy offences at Aberystwyth Magistrates' Court.
The police said the arrests were "part of an ongoi... | Two men from north Wales and three from Liverpool are in court after being charged as part of a drug trafficking investigation. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Each member of a household will have to register to vote individually to help cut fraud.
At the moment, the "head of the household" supplies details of other people living at the address.
The Electoral Commission welcomed the announcement by minister Greg Clar... | Individual voter registration for British elections will come into force as planned in June 2014, ministers say. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Smith originally joined Wrexham in 2014 but moved to Gateshead in May 2016 after being released by former Dragons boss Gary Mills.
The 28-year-old scored five goals in 47 games for Gateshead, who have agreed to cancel his contract.
"Fans here know what he's ab... | Wrexham have re-signed defender Manny Smith on a two-year contract from fellow National League club Gateshead. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Callard, who spoke to the BBC as part of the In The Mind mental health season, described collapsing on the soap's set in 2009 after feeling unwell for 18 months.
"I knew I wasn't myself and I knew I wasn't firing on all cylinders," says the actress, who plays ... | Soap actress Beverley Callard has described depression as the "curse of the strong" after revealing she underwent electroconvulsive therapy to treat her own symptoms. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
1 September 2016 Last updated at 09:24 BST
Forty robots entered the competition and after six weeks of battles, just one emerged victorious.
We went to meet the team behind mean-machine Apollo to find out what made it a winner.
Summary (one sentence):
| Robot Wars reached it's epic conclusion on August 28. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
He met shepherds and hill farmers and those who are trying to help find sustainable ways of living high in the fells.
Among them were members of the Herdwick Project - an initiative designed to raise the profile of Herdwick Meat and to encourage wider trade li... | The Prince of Wales has been in Cumbria meeting people who make a living from some of the most remote parts of the county. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
This is what he said. And, to be clear, I gave his remarks prominence here because the Bank of England was wholly unambiguous about the weight we should attach to them.
Admittedly he couched it as the Monetary Policy Committee's meeting in just a few weeks wou... | Mark Carney gave what many would see as a bum steer in July that interest rates would be going up around the turn of the year. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Defence officials said Omar Shishani died from injuries sustained in a recent US air strike in north-eastern Syria.
Earlier reports had suggested Shishani, a Georgian whose real name was Tarkhan Batirashvili, may have survived the attack on a convoy.
Several o... | A senior commander of so-called Islamic State (IS) is dead, the Pentagon has confirmed. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Although there had been previous warnings linking smoking and lung cancer, it was the 1962 study by the Royal College of Physicians, Smoking and Health, that really broke through to the public and politicians.
Attitudes in the intervening 50 years have changed... | Fifty years ago on Tuesday, a key report was published that marked the beginning of a change in our relationship with smoking. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Mitch Claydon caused havoc in the afternoon session on day two with a hostile three-wicket spell as Glamorgan slumped to 137-6.
But Wagg (83) and Meschede (78) launched a counter-attack, adding 160 for the seventh wicket.
Claydon completed his five-wicket haul... | Graham Wagg and Craig Meschede salvaged Glamorgan's innings as they reached a respectable score of 351 against Kent. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Neither the government nor the Irish police had taken "any meaningful steps" to help the inquest, said a lawyer for the group.
Instead, he argued, they had paid "mere lip service" to the idea of handing over information about the murders.
Ten Protestant workme... | Relatives of men killed in the Kingsmills massacre have accused Republic of Ireland authorities of failing them in the search for justice. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
A terrific new exhibition has opened in Washington DC's National Museum of American History, and in it, a section dedicated to the area on the US west coast which is synonymous with cutting-edge technology.
The display details the trailblazing chip companies b... | Silicon Valley didn't happen by accident. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Among other offers, punters at Yarmouth Stadium will be charged just five pence for their first pint of beer at Wednesday's meeting.
The Norfolk stadium has bucked the national trend of greyhound stadium closures over recent years.
The number of venues in Engl... | A greyhound stadium is charging 1946 prices to celebrate its 70th anniversary. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Sections of sites owned by the European Union, the BBC and Wikipedia currently fail the search giant's Mobile Friendly Test developer tool.
"Mobile friendliness" will affect how prominently websites appear in Google search results pages from 21 April.
Criteria... | Google is updating its search algorithms to favour websites that work well on mobile devices. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
With 91% of the vote counted, Vermont Senator Mr Sanders is polling 64%, while former Secretary of State Mrs Clinton has 36%.
In the Republican race, Marco Rubio easily won Puerto Rico's primary, beating billionaire Donald Trump.
Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump remai... | Bernie Sanders has beaten Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses, the latest contest in the battle to be the Democratic presidential candidate. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Both leaders expressed dissatisfaction with UK-Russian relations, and pledged to improve ties, the Kremlin said.
A Downing St spokeswoman said they agreed that co-operation on aviation security was a vital part of efforts to fight terrorism.
The pair will meet... | Theresa May has spoken on the phone to Russia's President Vladimir Putin for the first time since she became PM, Downing Street has confirmed. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Frozen canals, rivers and lakes have transformed the Netherlands into one enormous ice-rink.
Sports shops have sold out of skates, bike suppliers are swapping their cycles for sledges and all over the country people are having their blades sharpened ready to t... | While much of Europe has been forced indoors by a fierce cold snap, the Dutch have been elevated to a state of euphoria as skating fever grips the nation. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The incident was alleged to have happened after Raheem Sterling's 97th-minute goal gave City a 2-1 win.
Sterling then ran to celebrate in front of the away supporters, and several City fans went on to the pitch.
Aguero was then seen to be involved in an exchan... | Bournemouth say a "misunderstanding" led one of their stewards to allege he was struck by Manchester City's Sergio Aguero during Saturday's Premier League game at Vitality Stadium. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The footage of her water birth in Orange County, California has stunned social media users because the baby seemingly pops out after only a few contractions.
The clip, uploaded to Instagram and Facebook, has had more than 16 million views since it was posted o... | Giving birth is never easy - but for mum Audra Lynn it was a textbook delivery. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
More than £850m has been spent by top-flight sides in the transfer window, which ends on 31 August.
But Tottenham, who sold Kyle Walker to Manchester City for £45m this month, have not made any signings.
"We have a duty to manage the club appropriately," said ... | Chairman Daniel Levy has defended Tottenham's lack of transfer activity this summer and claimed the spending by other Premier League clubs is unsustainable. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The visitors led 17-6 at the break, with Niall Annett and Dean Hammond crossing for tries, while George Ford kicked two penalties in response.
Tries from Anthony Watson, Matt Banahan, Semesa Rokoduguni carried the hosts into a 30-17 lead before Perry Humphreys... | Leroy Houston scored a try on his return for Bath as they fought back to beat Worcester Warriors at The Rec. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
A 42-year-old woman was left with serious injuries after the collision on Captain's Road on 14 July, while a 41-year-old man was also hurt.
Police said that following inquiries to trace a driver involved in the crash, a 30-year-old man had been arrested and ch... | A man has been charged following a serious crash in Edinburgh which left two pedestrians trapped under a car. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The army has been deployed to rescue thousands of stranded people after two days of heavy rain.
At least 188 people are now known to have died in floods in Tamil Nadu state since last month.
A depression in the Bay of Bengal has triggered rains in coastal area... | Fresh rains in the southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras) have caused serious flooding, with flights and trains suspended and hundreds of people without power. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Mother-of-two Mavis Wanczyk, 53, bought the ticket at a Chicopee, Massachusetts, petrol station.
The winner - whose lucky numbers were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and 4 - told reporters she had already quit her job.
The biggest ever US Powerball jackpot was $1.6bn, a... | The winner of the biggest jackpot in North American history - $758.7m (£590m) - has come forward to collect her prize. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
None of three other candidates in Sunday's election achieved more than 5%. The turnout was 86.75%.
But observers from the OSCE security body said it fell far short of the country's democratic commitments.
There were "significant problems" in the counting and t... | Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has won his fifth term with a landslide 83.5% of the vote. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Customers and businesses are becoming more trusting of secure internet connections - and the idea of valuable data being stored and accessed remotely.
Almost nine in 10 financial institutions now run at least one application in the cloud, according to research... | From mobile payments to accounting apps, cloud-based services are changing the financial landscape. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Gwydion Rhys, from Bethesda, made such an impression at a workshop earlier this year, he has been invited back for the main event.
It is the first time Proms in the Park has been held in north Wales.
Tony Hadley, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Amy Wadg... | A 13-year-old boy will conduct the orchestra for part of the final night of BBC Proms in the Park in Colwyn Bay on Saturday. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The increased risk is limited to communities and some emergency workers exposed to radiation after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, analysis shows.
For those living in the rest of Japan there is no health risk, it said.
Experts stressed the increased lifetime ... | People living near the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have an increased risk of developing some cancers, the World Health Organization says. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Three men were arrested following the clash outside the Railway pub, said to have involved about 15 people, and one man suffered serious head injuries.
Essex Police arrested two men on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and one for criminal damage.
The ... | Police used CS spray to break up a fight between rival football fans outside a pub in Southend. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Former British Davis Cup player Jamie Baker, who'd once been ranked number two in the British game, made his decision to quit in June 2013.
However, his career earnings over nine years of competition totalled a more modest £360,000.
Both players had battled s... | When Li Na announced her retirement from tennis last September, the two-time Grand Slam champion had banked as much as $24m (£16m) in the 12 months preceding her decision. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The pilot scheme will see 2,000 houses have waste collected every four weeks, with another 2,000 having general rubbish picked up every three weeks.
The council has said the year-long trial will begin in September in locations which have yet to be decided.
A r... | Fife Council has confirmed it will become the first local authority in the UK to trial once a month bin collections. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
1 September 2014 Last updated at 13:07 BST
49 year-old Craig Jeeves said the quick-thinking feline managed to wake him up when the house caught fire.
"She jumped on my head and sort of like was screaming at me and woke me up otherwise I wouldn't have got up," ... | A tabby cat called Sally is being hailed a hero after she saved her owner from his burning home in Melbourne, Australia. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Atkinson, 19, clinched gold in the women's 200m butterfly, adding to the 50m title she won on Wednesday.
Her winning time of 2 minutes 7.06 secs also secured a consideration time for this summer's World Championships and smashed the Manx record.
"I knew I felt... | Manx teenager Charlotte Atkinson has claimed her second British title in as many days at the British Swimming Championships. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Gordon Ross, 67, had degenerative Parkinson's disease and was concerned that anyone who helped him end his life would face prosecution.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh is still to rule on his case to force the Lord Advocate to issue guidance.
Mr Ross died on... | A severely disabled man from Glasgow who tried to force Scotland's top law officer to issue guidance on assisted suicide has died in hospital. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Officers saw a "large bladed weapon" in the man's car when it stopped near the palace on Friday evening.
As they arrested him, both men suffered minor arm injuries, police said.
The 26-year-old man was also treated for minor injuries. He was arrested on suspic... | Counter-terror police are investigating after two police officers were injured while arresting a man with a knife outside Buckingham Palace. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Homeware chain, The Range, which has more than 140 stores across the UK and Ireland, is due to open its doors later this year.
The new store represents an investment of £2m by The Range, as well as a further £1m investment by the landlord.
There had been via... | Eighty jobs have been created by the new anchor tenant of Connswater shopping centre in east Belfast. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The stone is 4.3m (14ft) high and 5.8m (19ft) long, and is reportedly worth an estimated $170m (£140m).
It was found in a mine in the jade-producing Kachin state, in the north of the country.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is the source of nearly all of the wo... | A giant jade stone weighing 175 tonnes has been uncovered by miners in Myanmar. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
It said there were significant differences, between health boards, in the number of people getting essential check-ups aimed at avoiding serious complications.
About 276,000 people in Scotland have been diagnosed with diabetes.
The Scottish government said it ... | There is an "unacceptable inequality" in care for people with diabetes, according to charity Diabetes Scotland. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The sketches were drawn by Dr Felix Rey, the physician who treated Van Gogh's wounds in 1888, and discovered in a Californian archive.
The drawings depict the artist's ear both before and after the self-inflicted injury, and show he sliced almost his entire ea... | Vincent Van Gogh cut off his entire ear rather than just part of it, newly discovered drawings suggest. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
They said fossil fuel emissions should not be allowed in any sector of the economy by the end of the century.
Their targets are not binding - but they send a clear message to investors that in the long term economies will have to be powered by non-polluting en... | The G7 has called for a transformation of electricity generation towards clean sources by 2050. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Media playback is unsupported on your device
29 January 2015 Last updated at 07:23 GMT
The special maps, called Tate Worlds, are based on real-life pictures and sculptures on display at the Tate gallery.
Each world is different, and has many challenges and act... | A famous art gallery has teamed up with Minecraft experts to create 3D worlds inspired by paintings. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
He told the Treasury Select Committee it was still being written and a firm publication date had not yet been set.
But he said it would be made available before the pre-election "purdah" period and his next appearance before the committee, which is on 19 April... | The Treasury is to publish its analysis of the costs and benefits of the UK's EU membership before 19 April, Chancellor George Osborne has said. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The 21-year-old woman was attacked in Union Terrace Gardens early last Thursday.
Police Scotland said officers would be carrying out patrols in the area.
Five men and a woman - who may be students - seen leaving Belmont Street about the time of the incident ar... | Police investigating a rape in an Aberdeen city centre park have issued a fresh appeal for information a week after the attack. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Andy Hart is the general manager of Microsoft's Advertising and Online division in the UK. He is responsible for growing Microsoft's online properties, including MSN.co.uk, Bing, Windows Live, Xbox and Windows Phone.
Special Report: The Technology of Business
... | As part of the Technology of Business series, each week we ask an expert in their field for their thoughts. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The car left the motorway near the Milnathort junction at about 12:00, ending up upturned on an embankment.
A man in the car with her was able to leave the vehicle without assistance. Neither of them are thought to have life-threatening injuries.
Police said t... | Firefighters have used cutting equipment to free a woman from a crashed car on the M90 south of Perth. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Shares in the bank opened up almost 4% after it posted profits of £259m in the first three months of 2017, compared with a £968m loss a year earlier.
After stripping out restructuring costs, the core operating business made a profit of £1.3bn, up from £1.02bn.... | Troubled Royal Bank of Scotland has reported its first quarterly profit since the third quarter of 2015. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
She was in English Bay off Ascension Island, part of St Helena, and a source told the Times her husband punched the shark to scare it away.
The woman, who works for the St Helena government, was treated in hospital locally.
St Helena is a British Overseas Terr... | A British woman has been attacked by a shark while snorkelling near a remote island in the South Atlantic. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The NASUWT survey of over 5,000 teachers found 22% had increased their alcohol intake and 21% had consumed more caffeine in response to stress.
The poll found 7% had used or increased their reliance on prescription drugs.
The findings come as the NASUWT's annu... | One in 10 teachers say they have been prescribed anti-depressant drugs to cope with the pressure of their jobs, says a teachers' union survey. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
More than 60 firefighters battled the blaze at the property run by Global Hygiene, an industrial cleaning supply firm, on Astonfields Industrial Estate.
Children evacuated from two nearby primary schools are back in class and neighbours have returned home afte... | A huge warehouse blaze in Stafford is now fully under control, the fire service says. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Geologist Richard Osman, 40, who grew up in Carmarthen, was on flight MS804 en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew when it vanished.
His brother, Alastair, from Swansea, described Mr Osman as warm-hearted.
Egypt's army spokesman said wreckage... | The brother of a Welshman on board the crashed EgyptAir flight says the last two days have been "overwhelming" as the family await more news. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
MP Drew Hendry believes there are plans for the tanker to dock on Wednesday.
The officer trainees, who are studying at City of Glasgow College, are among 2,500 seafarers stranded on Hanjin vessels.
Ports around the world are refusing to let the troubled compan... | Four officer cadets stranded onboard a container vessel in the South China Sea could set foot on dry land later this week. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The man had hoped to purchase some limited-edition trainers - so asked two men to buy them on his behalf.
Greater Manchester Police said he was "briefly distracted" after handing over £260, and the pair left the shop.
"To make things worse", they said, "the vi... | A shopper who tried to bypass a stores's one per customer policy gave his money to two "kind strangers" who fled with the cash, police have said. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The 25-year-old hooker was sent off for a tip-tackle on Dave Attwood in the second half of the Cherry and Whites' 31-25 defeat at the Rec on 1 March.
Lock Lua Lokotui was cited for a similar offence in the same game, but was cleared by a disciplinary panel.
Un... | Gloucester hooker Darren Dawidiuk has been banned for six weeks by the Rugby Football Union for the red card he received against Bath. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The review will examine possible risks, such as hacking or fraud, as well as potential impact on cases of intimidation of union members.
The review has been welcomed by political parties and unions.
It will be led by Sir Ken Knight, former chief fire and rescu... | Electronic voting could become a reality in industrial action ballots, after the government announced an independent review of the technology. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The 71-year-old was targeted as he cleaned his Volkswagon Golf at his home in the Abbeyhill area of Edinburgh at about 17:30 on Friday.
Both the man and his wife became embroiled in a struggle with the would-be thief but neither were seriously injured.
Officer... | Police are hunting a man who tried to steal a pensioner's car while he was washing it on his driveway. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
A second loss in three league games leaves Napoli six points behind the defending champions, who are at home to Palermo on Sunday (14:00 BST).
Captain Mauro Icardi put Inter ahead with his 15th goal of the season before Marcelo Brozovic doubled the lead.
Rober... | Napoli's hopes of catching Serie A leaders Juventus were dealt a further blow with a 2-0 defeat at Inter Milan. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The row broke out during a Derry City and Strabane District Council meeting on Thursday over proposed branding that referred to "Derry and Belfast".
The DUP said the name "Londonderry" should be included because of its "cultural significance".
Sinn Féin oppose... | A row has erupted between councillors regarding the joint bid by Londonderry and Belfast to become European Capital of Culture 2023. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
That will follow a bidding process which will see a new contract in place from June next year.
The contract length has been extended to 12 years, taking the service through to 2029.
Bidders will be required to provide a 40m (131ft) boat, up from the 26m (85ft)... | The Clyde passenger ferry between Gourock and Dunoon is to run with a bigger boat designed to operate in rougher weather. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Official figures show that 300 people came off the register in March, putting the jobless total at 31,500.
The Northern Ireland unemployment rate also fell to 5.2% - the lowest it has been since last 2008 - but still above the UK average (4.7%).
Northern Irela... | Unemployment in Northern Ireland has fallen for a twelfth month in a row. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Poppi Worthington, from Barrow, died in December 2012, aged 13 months.
A pathologist had raised concerns but detectives decided she "may have jumped to conclusions", and decided not to investigate until the full post-mortem report was ready.
A family judge has... | A judge has criticised Cumbria Police and the county council over the death of a toddler. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Mr Kerry said there would be "repercussions" if the Syrian government flouted a cessation of violence agreed in February.
A resurgence in fighting, particularly in the northern city of Aleppo, has threatened to derail the partial truce.
More than 250 people ha... | US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the civil war. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Quinn Business Retention Company (QBRC) has new backers in its deal to take over the packaging and construction industry supplies (CIS) parts of the business, which is now called Aventas.
QBRC was backed by a private equity firm, but will now be financed by th... | A group of businessmen say they are a step closer to buying part of the former Sean Quinn group of companies. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The Rt Rev Justin Welby also told the Church of England general synod he would ensure provisions for opponents were "carried out faithfully".
The synod is voting on proposed legislation. Bishops and clergy are expected to achieve the necessary two-thirds major... | The next Archbishop of Canterbury has backed the ordination of women bishops, saying it is "time to finish the job" started with appointing women priests. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Now rugby union is also looking for a blossoming of awareness and investment in the world's most populous nation, where the government has recently embarked on developing domestic sport over the coming decades.
Chinese authorities are making a concerted effort... | Football's growth drive into China has hit the headlines over the past couple of years, with wealthy investors from the country buying clubs both at home and abroad. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The 32-year-old has gone from councillor in Londonderry to party leader in just ten years.
In the course of the leadership contest, Mr Eastwood attracted the support of party luminaries and seasoned MLAs alike, with Brid Rodgers, Alex Attwood, Mark Durkan and ... | Colum Eastwood's ascension to leader of the SDLP marks a meteoric rise. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Last month, Australian media found some of the firm's franchisees had been paying workers around the country about half the minimum wage.
Chairman Russ Withers and chief executive Warren Wilmot will leave their posts immediately, the firm said.
7-Eleven is Aus... | Australia's 7-Eleven Stores' chief executive and chairman have resigned amid a worker exploitation scandal. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
That, though, is what has happened in the past 24 hours.
David Cameron summoned MPs to return early from their summer break in order to vote for British involvement in military strikes against Syria within days.
The timetable was not his. It was President Obam... | It is without modern precedent for a prime minister to lose control of his foreign policy, let alone decisions about peace and war. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The book is the author's personal account of training a goshawk as a way of dealing with grief following her father's death.
The £30,000 prize aims to honour outstanding books by authors based in the UK and Ireland and was previously called the Whitbread award... | Helen Macdonald's memoir H is for Hawk has been named Costa Book of the Year. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Philip Spriggs, 52, formerly of Oxford, was charged following a reinvestigation by the Thames Valley Police major crime review team.
He is accused of an attack on a teenager near Pullens Lane, Oxford, in January 1986.
Mr Spriggs appeared at Oxford Crown Court ... | A man has pleaded not guilty to the attempted rape of a girl 30 years ago. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
12 August 2016 Last updated at 08:36 BST
The warning comes on World Elephant Day, 12 August.
Tusk say more needs to be done to stop the poaching of the biggest land animals on Earth.
Ayshah has been looking into the threat facing elephants around the world.
S... | Conservation charity Tusk has told Newsround that "If poaching is not stopped, then there is every chance that elephants will become extinct in a number of African countries within the next decade." |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The week-long meeting of 195 countries in Lima - aimed at preparing for a new global climate pact in 2015 - comes after China and the US, two of the world's top polluters, pledged last month to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The official news agency Xinhua says... | As a key UN climate change conference opens in Peru, Chinese state media contrast their country's approach to what they cast as the United States' reluctance to shoulder its share of the burden of emissions cuts. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The work showed that women who had a particular version of the BCAR1 gene were more likely than other women to have heart attacks and strokes.
In contrast, men who had the gene were not at increased risk.
Researchers say this adds to mounting evidence that the... | Scientists have identified a gene that puts women at higher risk of heart disease, an early study suggests. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Riot police needed to intervene to keep Manchester United and Ajax fans apart when they met in Amsterdam in 2012.
Ticketless fans are expected in Sweden, having missed out on both club's official allocations of 9,500.
"You would be naive to think you are not g... | A senior Manchester police chief says it would be "naive" to think Wednesday's Europa League final in Stockholm will be trouble free. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
David Rowlands asked the Welsh first minister to "explore the possibility" of the M4 improvement scheme being part-funded by the Irish government.
The assembly member for South Wales East said it was a serious request as "three quarters of all Irish exports to... | A UKIP politician has asked if Ireland could help pay for a motorway in Wales using EU funds. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The MP balloted voters in his Richmond Park constituency, in South West London, to ask for their consent.
Some 15,802, or 79% of those who took part said "yes", with just 3,569, or 18%, saying "no."
The MP sent out 77,071 ballot papers and received 19,890 back... | Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith has received the overwhelming backing of his constituents to make a bid to be the next London mayor. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
In December 1980, there were reports of phenomena in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk near a United States Air Force base.
The Forestry Commission has created a metal interpretation of a UFO to add to its trail which commemorates the alleged sightings.
The commissio... | A 'UFO' has been built to mark the spot where an alleged landing took place in one of the UK's biggest UFO mysteries. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
But in the knowledge the Prime Minister was about to tell the party conference about a shift to the centre ground, an appeal to "ordinary working class people", I left Birmingham the night before the speech to find out what some real voters, in the Labour stro... | They have had a Labour MP in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, since 1922 - so it's hardly natural Tory territory. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The father of two from Perth has more than 15 years' experience with a number of humanitarian agencies.
He has worked on projects in Libya, South Sudan and the former Yugoslavia.
He was taken hostage alongside an Italian aid worker in Syria last March - barely... | The British man being held hostage by self-styled Islamic State fighters in Syria is 44-year-old David Haines. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
But the rest of Europe has been caught short too.
There's been a cacophony of contradictory political statements across the EU since Friday morning.
There have been demands the UK must give immediate official notice to the EU that it is leaving; except it does... | Much is being made at the moment of the apparent unpreparedness of both the UK's Leave campaign and of David Cameron's Remain camp for the day after an eventual Brexit vote. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Armed men opened fired on an aid vehicle as it travelled from Gao to Niamey in neighbouring Niger to pick up medical supplies.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement that it was "profoundly dismayed" by the killing.
Islamist mi... | A Red Cross employee has been killed and another injured in a gun attack by suspected Islamist militants in Mali, the aid organisation says. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Cannons from the merchant vessel, La Juliana, have been found in the sands off Streedagh, County Sligo.
Timbers from the exposed wreck began washing ashore in April.
The guns date back to 1588, but are said to be in excellent condition. Two have been taken off... | Severe winter storms over the last two years are believed to have led to the recent discovery of relics from the Spanish Armada off the Irish coast. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The minke was spotted on a beach west of Elie by a passer-by just before 16:00 on Friday.
A team from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) led the operation to refloat the mammal at high tide.
An initial attempt failed when the whale re-beached itself, bu... | Wildlife experts have refloated a 20ft (6.1m) whale that was found stranded on a beach in Fife. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
SNP MP Richard Arkless and Conservative MSP Finlay Carson recently had talks with the region's medical director Dr Angus Cameron.
Mr Arkless said urgent action was needed to tackle an "impasse" in recruitment.
However, Mr Carson said it was the SNP that needed... | Two politicians have called for action over GP recruitment problems being faced in Dumfries and Galloway. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Over recent days, Tripoli's airspace has been intermittently closed to stop the Presidency Council, which has been based in Tunisia, from arriving by air.
Libya's UN envoy called for a "a peaceful and orderly handover".
But hardliners in the coalition that con... | Leaders of Libya's new unity government have arrived in the capital, Tripoli, by boat in an attempt to take control. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
TEDxStormont has just been announced for the 28 March.
At the annual TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference, the world's brightest minds meet and share ideas.
The independently-organised Stormont event was launched with the aid of Snow Patrol sin... | Big ideas for Northern Ireland are to be explored at a local take on one of the world's most imaginative events. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Det Insp Paul Rowland said the weapons were found in a house in the Norglen area on Saturday.
No arrests have been made.
Officers have appealed for information but have released no further details about the operation.
Summary (one sentence):
| Four suspected guns and a quantity of ammunition have been seized by police in west Belfast. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
This is a side which, Robert Huth apart, have no top-flight title-winning experience, has players drawn from lower leagues such as Riyad Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and N'Golo Kante, and have narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League last season.
While the w... | Pressure can do funny things to players as the battle for a title goes down to the wire, particularly if you have never been in that situation before, but Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri has proven that his mastery of psychology should be enough to avoid any slip-ups with three games to go. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
In the three months to September, revenues rose 8% to $616m. That was better than forecast, but lower than the 20% rise in the previous quarter.
The number of average monthly active users rose 3% to 317 million.
Last month, Twitter hired bankers ahead of a pos... | Twitter is cutting 9% of its workforce - about 350 jobs - after reporting a sharp slowdown in revenue growth. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The much-travelled lower league defender, 33, the son of Chelsea legend David Webb, has been placed in charge until the end of the season.
He becomes the 10th man to take charge of the East London-based League Two club since the summer of 2014.
The struggling ... | Leyton Orient have appointed Danny Webb as manager following Andy Edwards' decision to take up a youth coaching job with the Football Association. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water's RainScape initiative will reduce the amount of rainwater which flows into local public drainage systems in the Llanelli area.
It will see a swale - a shallow, vegetated channel - installed on a local playing field.
Llanelli currently ha... | A total of £15m is being invested in a Carmarthenshire town as part of an innovative scheme to manage surface water and help reduce flood risk. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
The government has until midnight to deliver the latest round of Common Agricultural Policy payments to farms.
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has said 90% of payments should be made by then, with an application made for an extension to the deadline.
Howe... | The Scottish government is unlikely to be fined over late payment of farm subsidies, BBC Scotland understands. |
Here's the text and it's short one-sentence summary.
Text:
They are one place outside the play-offs after a 2-0 Severnside derby win at Bristol City.
Lex Immers and Stuart O'Keefe struck for the Bluebirds.
"We're trying to keep the momentum going. We believe that we have an opportunity and we don't want to waste it," ... | Manager Russell Slade says Cardiff City believe they have chance to challenge for promotion to the Premier League and "don't want to waste it". |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.