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Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard knocked down shortstop Alcides Escobar with the first pitch of the game, a 98mph fastball that whizzed past his head.
Syndergaard said he had thrown the ball to "make a statement".
The Mets trail the best-of-seven series 2-1, with the fourth game taking place at Citi Field on Saturday night.
Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas said his team were "upset" by Syndergaard's actions, adding: "All 25 guys in that dugout were pretty fired up."
Escobar added: "The first pitch around my head, that's not good."
The pitch set the tone for the game, in which the teams traded leads in the early innings, before the Mets pulled away.
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The Kansas City Royals were angered by aggressive tactics from the New York Mets as they lost game three of the World Series 9-3.
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The honour recognises those who have made an outstanding contribution to broadcast entertainment throughout their careers.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said "no one is more deserving" of the award than Cleese.
The Rose d'Or awards go to the best online, radio and TV shows from the previous year.
Cleese, who also wrote for Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, joked: "I am delighted by this chance to annoy Terry Gilliam and I'm also very humbled by the offer of an all-expenses-paid holiday in Berlin."
The EBU's Jean Philip De Tender, said: "The EBU believes no one is more deserving of the Rose d'Or Lifetime Achievement award than John Cleese.
"He has been making audiences around the world laugh for 50 years and his writing and instantly recognisable performances have contributed to some of the best and funniest entertainment on television and in film."
Rose d'Or host and BBC broadcaster Paddy O'Connell added: "John Cleese helped invent TV entertainment - but has never forgotten the producers who put him on the screen.
"He knows the business inside out as writer, actor and performer. He's a rare public figure in the English-speaking world for learning German as a young man and told Der Spiegel he only wished it was his first language.
"For these reasons and thousands more, including a dead parrot, he's the perfect fit to pick up the Rose d'Or Lifetime Achievement award in Berlin."
The comic also starred in and co-wrote A Fish Called Wanda and appeared both in the Harry Potter and James Bond films, as well as the BBC programme Frost Over England, which won 1967's Rose d'Or.
Cleese will receive the award next month.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.
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Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star John Cleese is to receive the Rose d'Or Lifetime Achievement award in Berlin.
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Gloucestershire police boss Martin Surl said he was "hugely disappointed" an offer to discuss the idea with the county council was rejected.
The authority has paid about £25,000 to look into the government proposals.
Gloucestershire County Council said the interim report suggested it would cost money to transfer control to the PCC.
The government wants to introduce legislation to allow PCCs to take over responsibility of fire services.
Mr Surl said the council had already dismissed the idea. "They've declared there's no merit in this," he added.
Councillor Nigel Moor, cabinet member responsible for the fire service, said the report showed there were "very few, if any, savings to be made".
"Having the service under our control is a major reason for it being one of the most efficient in the country.
"Moving Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service from the county council to the PCC would cost the fire service, the county council and Gloucestershire Police money - no one would make any savings from it."
A council spokesman said there would be a cost to transfer responsibility to the PCC but the exact amount was not yet known.
The report would be finalised "in the next few weeks", he added.
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A council has rejected plans to give responsibility for the county fire service to the police and crime commissioner, it has been claimed.
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Defender McGee, 29, will now remain with Royals until June 2018.
McGee, who joined Reading from Portsmouth in 2014, made 19 appearances for the club last season.
"I'm really grateful to have been given the opportunity to continue my full-time career," McGee said. "It's a really exciting time to be at the club with the foundations laid last year."
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Reading Women's captain Kirsty McGee has signed a new contract with the Women's Super League One club.
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About 500 armed police officers were involved in the operation.
Dozens of addicts reacted in anger, vandalising cars and looting shops.
Sao Paulo's centre-right Mayor Joao Doria said the operation marked the end of impunity in the area, widely known as Cracolandia or Crackland.
Critics say the move will merely push the problem to other parts of the city.
Mr Doria promised to knock down many buildings and redevelop the streets near the Luz train station that have become an open-air drugs market over the past decade.
"Crackland doesn't exist any more and it won't come back. The government won't allow it," said Mr Doria during the operation.
He also announced that CCTV cameras would be installed in that part of the city.
But he later admitted in a press conference that "it will be difficult to put an end to a historical problem".
"Police will be deployed here permanently and the problem will be reduced," Mr Doria said.
The governor of Sao Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin, said state rehab centres had 3,000 places available for addiction treatments.
The mayor and the governor recently announced a plan to combat drug trafficking in the region.
The previous left-wing mayor of Sao Paulo, Fernando Haddad, had a programme that tried to solve addiction through therapy and without the use of force by police.
But many were critical and felt that something had to be done about Crackland, which became a no-go area for most residents of Brazil's largest city.
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Brazilian police have arrested nearly 40 people for drug trafficking offences in central Sao Paulo where crack cocaine has been sold and consumed freely for years.
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It has taken just over three years to build the facility in Iskandar, Joho, and will house to about 3,000 students.
The campus is made up of two buildings, centred around an atrium known as the 'Heartspace' - a space where students can relax.
Spokesman Trevor Hawkins said the campus would promote research and economic growth in Malaysia.
It joins the University of Southampton, which opened a campus on the same site in 2013.
The opening ceremony was attended by businessman and co-chairman of Reading F.C, Sir Jon Madjeski.
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The University of Reading has officially opened its £25m Malaysia campus.
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Lorenz was preoccupied with the idea that tiny changes to a complex system like the weather could produce dramatic and wholly unpredictable consequences.
But it's unlikely that even Lorenz could have imagined what would happen next when Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta received an email in March notifying him that his Googlemail password had been compromised and advising him to reset it.
Precisely who was behind the so-called spear-phishing mail - a common form of cyber attack familiar to most email users - and what their motive was, are now at the centre of a ferocious argument in the bitter aftermath of the US election.
The stakes could scarcely be higher: a foreign state stands accused of mounting a campaign of hacking and leaking to help get its preferred candidate into the White House.
And whatever the final conclusions of the multiple investigations into the alleged Russian hacking operation, many of Clinton's allies believe the steady trickle of embarrassing emails, drip-fed by Wikileaks through the last crucial weeks of the campaign, may have been enough to deny her the presidency.
Neera Tanden, a former Clinton aide whose engagingly candid emails made her an unwilling star of the Podesta hack, told me the leak had substantially damaged her support among younger voters.
"I believe the leak was a large part of why Hillary had real problems with millennials which is why she did not hit her targets in the three states [Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin]."
I asked her if it could really have made the difference between winning and losing. "Absolutely. And I think people have to live with that."
Dramatic as it is, the hacking of Podesta and other Democrat figures appears to be just the latest manifestation of a disturbing new trend: states combining the techniques of hackers and whistleblowers to mount a new kind of information warfare.
From the hacking of Sony, apparently by the North Koreans, to the dumping of medical records of elite athletes on the internet (Russia the suspect again), the data dump has been weaponised.
It's a development that poses difficult questions for journalists. How should we handle troves of confidential data effectively handed to us by foreign states? Do we risk becoming "useful idiots" when we run precisely the stories that a hostile government wants us to?
It's a question we wrestled with on Newsnight when we ran a series of stories about Bradley Wiggins, based on the medical records of athletes - material widely believed to have been hacked by the Russians in revenge for the banning of hundreds of Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics.
It felt uncomfortable, but the public interest in establishing whether a major sporting figure had broken the spirit of the rules - if not the letter - seemed clear cut.
When it comes to tampering with elections the stakes are rather higher. One prominent victim of another state-sponsored hack told me he thought journalists who feasted on material served up by the Russians with the aim of influencing a US election were committing "something verging on treason".
Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, which has run a string of stories based on the hacking of both Podesta's mail and, before that, material from Democratic National Committee figures, told me the thought that he might be doing Vladimir Putin's bidding sometimes kept him up at night.
"Sure it does. But it would keep me up at night worse or at least longer if I had information from a hack that I knew was accurate, that voters and citizens needed to know. That would make me really uncomfortable... Will I lose a little sleep because I'm being manipulated? Yeah. But I lose a lot more sleep if I sit that stuff in a safe."
In Baquet's view, "the information trumps all" no matter how it has been obtained. But I wonder if the ease of leaking digital information has eased our moral qualms about dealing with stolen material.
I asked Baquet what he would have done if the New York Times had been handed a cache of physical documents burgled from John Podesta's house.
He was at least admirably consistent: "I would go through it. And if it was really significant and important I would publish it. And I'm putting a lot of emphasis on significant and important, but I would publish it."
He compared it to the case of Donald Trump's tax return which the paper published during the campaign, with no knowledge of how it had been obtained.
Some have argued that the wholesale dumping of leaked material on the internet, and the media's willingness to report it, is on the way to destroying any expectation of privacy in our digital lives.
Did discovering that producer Scott Rudin considered Angelina Jolie to be "a minimally talented spoiled brat" justify the ransacking of hacked emails from Sony executives?
"Under the veneer of journalism reporters were totally trafficking in gossip," Tanden told me about her experience of being caught up in the Podesta hack.
Though many questions remain unanswered about the massive leaks of hacked material during the US election, one thing is certain: they are unlikely to be the last.
The German intelligence service has already warned that they fear similar attempts to tamper with elections there next year.
And the man charged with protecting Britain against cyber-attack, Ciaran Martin, director of the new National Cyber Security Centre, told me there was a risk the experience of the US elections would inspire other states to try similar tactics.
One tantalising detail of the great US election hack of 2016 seems to underline the very human frailty that the likes of Martin have to contend with.
When John Podesta received his fateful scam email in March, the New York Times revealed, an aide sent it to his IT department. A staffer replied saying it was "legitimate".
That staffer now says it was a typo - he meant to type "illegitimate".
On such tiny mistakes can the course of history turn. Not so much the flap of a butterfly's wings as a twitch.
Ian Katz is editor of BBC Newsnight. You can watch his full report on iPlayer.
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In 1972, the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz gave a lecture entitled: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"
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The yacht Iolaire was wrecked on a reef called the Beasts of Holm just off the Isle of Lewis in the early hours of 1 January 1919.
The boat was carrying home hundreds of sailors after the end of World War One.
The memorials are planned as part of events commemorating the centenary of the tragedy.
A number of communities in the Western Isles that were affected by the disaster have requested a memorial.
Most of those who died were from Lewis or Harris.
Organisers said the sculptures would be modelled on one planned for Stornoway on Lewis.
That memorial would act as a marker and have information boards about loss of the Iolaire and directions to the memorial site overlooking where the yacht was wrecked.
The last survivor of the Iolaire - which means "eagle" in Gaelic - died in 1992.
The yacht set sail from Kyle of Lochalsh on the west Highlands mainland on New Year's Eve 1918.
Making its final approach into Stornoway harbour on a dark night and in a strong gale, it changed course at the wrong point.
With the lights of the harbour in sight, the ship struck rocks at full speed and immediately began to tilt, filling up with water.
Although the stern of the boat was at one point just six metres (20ft) from land, many of the men onboard were weighed down by their heavy uniforms and were unable to swim ashore.
The next morning the bodies that had been recovered or washed up were laid out for families to identify.
The cause of the disaster was never conclusively determined. A public inquiry was unable to establish the reasons for the accident.
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Every community that suffered losses in the Iolaire disaster nearly 100 years ago could have a sculpture remembering the 205 men who died.
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Ryan Hedges tapped in for the only goal of the game on 36 minutes to leave the Chairboys still in search of their first league victory on the road this season.
Yeovil came close early on when Nathan Smith drilled a low shot from the edge of the area and drew a good save out of Jamal Blackman, before Garry Thompson spurned a good chance by shooting wide when put through on goal.
The hosts were looking the more dangerous of the two sides and got their reward when Alex Lawless' fierce 25-yard drive cannoned into the post and rebounded to Hedges, who was left with an easy finish.
Yeovil nearly doubled their lead before the break after Otis Khan found space to shoot from a narrow angle in the area, but Blackman was equal to his effort.
Wycombe began to grow into the game as the second half wore on but were unable to threaten until Nick Freeman blasted an injury-time shot into the side netting as Yeovil held on for a deserved win.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Yeovil Town 1, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 1, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Sam Wood.
Attempt missed. Paul Hayes (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Nick Freeman (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Ben Whitfield replaces Otis Khan.
Attempt saved. Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Nick Freeman replaces Aaron Pierre because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town).
Paul Hayes (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Hayes (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Matt Bloomfield replaces Dominic Gape.
Attempt missed. Paul Hayes (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from very close range is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Alex Lacey (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Adebayo Akinfenwa replaces Garry Thompson.
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dan Rowe (Wycombe Wanderers).
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Alex Lacey.
Tahvon Campbell (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt saved. Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Alex Lawless (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paris Cowan-Hall (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Bevis Mugabi.
Second Half begins Yeovil Town 1, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
First Half ends, Yeovil Town 1, Wycombe Wanderers 0.
Otis Khan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Ryan Hedges (Yeovil Town) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Dan Rowe (Wycombe Wanderers).
Kevin Dawson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Writing in the Church Times, Bishop North said the Church joined a middle-class "bandwagon of outrage and horror" in its response to Brexit.
But he said it was important the Church stopped "condemning" those who voted for Brexit and listened to them.
The Church said it was considering how to better serve "outer urban estates".
There had been an "almighty cry of anger from a dispossessed and marginalised working class" during the vote for Brexit in June and in Donald Trump's election as US president in November, Bishop North wrote.
He said both groups of people had been "routinely accused of xenophobia" when they expressed concerns about changes in their communities.
In the UK, working class people had felt abandoned by organisations that were set up to represent them, such as the Labour Party and local government, he said.
The Church would not have been surprised by the "revolution" in politics "this anger caused" if it had still been present in the poorest areas, he said.
"But it has become so disconÂnected from many of these communities that it no longer hears what they are saying, let alone amplifies their voices to the nation," he wrote.
Bishop North said there were working-class communities who felt frustration towards those who were perceived to be taking "unfair advantage of the benefits system".
He also said there was "intense anger" from people who, despite working hard, were still unable to feed their chilÂdren.
He said it was vital the Church stopped condemning people who voted for Brexit and instead listened to the reasons for their decision.
But until the Church reinvested in urban ministry by "placing the best leaders in the most deprived parishes" and returned to estates it had left, those voices would "continue to go unheard", he said.
"If, as Christians, we can re-engage, listen to the questions, and offer some answers, we will not just be playing our part in reunifying a nation. We may find that people also start listening afresh to the gospel that we proÂclaim," he added.
A Church of England spokeswoman said: "As part of its wider programme of renewal and reform, the Church of England is actively considering how to better serve those living on outer urban estates."
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Figures from 125 councils in England and Wales obtained by a Freedom of Information request found a huge range in responses to assessment requests.
On average half of all requests by parents to get help are turned down.
The Local Government Association says standards are clearly set to try to meet the needs of each child.
Around one in five children in England and Wales has special educational needs (SEN) and is eligible for extra help at school.
The first step to getting help, over and above what can normally be provided in mainstream schools, is to request an assessment from the local education authority.
A Freedom of Information Request relating to applications for an initial assessment found when parents asked for an assessment they were on average more than twice as likely to be turned down as a school or professional making the request.
BBC 5 live Investigates contacted local education authorities in England and Wales and of the 125 which responded with figures from 2013/2014 - the last full academic year - the refusal rate for schools or professionals was 22%, but for parents it was 50%.
There were wide variations between local authorities. Southampton City Council turned down all 16 parental requests it received.
But the neighbouring city of Portsmouth, which received 13, refused only one.
16 other local education authorities rejected more than 75% of parental requests.
Angi from Southampton asked for an assessment for her 14-year-old daughter, who is on the autistic spectrum.
Both the school and a report from an educational psychologist supported her application, saying she should have dedicated one-to-one support. But she's been refused twice.
"My daughter has not been in school full-time for over a week. She is a bright girl but she is feeling very low," Angi said.
"I firmly think it is down to money. I think the council are trying to squeeze out as many requests as they can."
But while Southampton turned down 100% of parental requests, it only refused 12% of all applications - below the average.
A spokesperson for the council said: "Our processes follow the code of practice, which gives guidance to schools, colleges, local authorities and others on how they must carry out their duties under the new law."
Other authorities such as Liverpool and Southwark turned down more than half of all the requests while Warrington and Wolverhampton refused just 1%.
Southwark Council said: "Southwark is renowned for excellent schools and support for children with special educational needs."
Liverpool City Council insisted each application is carefully assessed by an expert panel and that the authority "operates an early intervention policy to support schools... avoiding the need for parents and carers to go through a bureaucratic and lengthy process."
Very few parents appeal if an assessment is turned down but for those who do the success rate is high.
Eleanor Wright is a lawyer and now works as the co-ordinator for the charity SEN SOS which advises parents on how to get through the assessment process.
She says they are increasingly seeing unlawful reasons for education authorities refusing assessments.
"They will say there was no evidence provided by the school, or the wrong sort of evidence was provided, when it is down to them to get that evidence - they hope they won't be challenged," she said.
"Parents have the greatest struggle, they do not go into this lightly - they are worried about their child being labelled, I do not see frivolous requests."
For those that do get help the results can be dramatic. David Neal challenged North Somerset Council over its provision for his severely dyslexic daughter Grace, 13.
He did all his own legal work and the council conceded before it got to appeal. Grace was given a place at a specialist dyslexia school.
"Before she used to cry about going to school, it was a battle to get her to go, she had no confidence.
"Her new school says she is one of the most profound students it has had. But the school has transformed her. They've made her head girl."
Minister for children and families Edward Timpson said reforms brought in last year ensured support fitted in with the needs of families, "resulting in a simpler and more joined-up system over time".
"We have invested £30m in independent supporters to ensure help is there for families who want an EHC (Education, Health & Care) plan," he said.
"Many families are already telling us they are beginning to notice a positive difference."
BBC Radio 5 live Investigates is on BBC 5live on Sunday 15 March at 11am or download the programme podcast.
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The 27-year-old British number two failed to trouble Babos as the Hungarian claimed victory in just over an hour in Mexico.
Babos, 23, will face second seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarter-finals.
Defending champion Heather Watson takes on Russia's Ekaterina Makarova in her second-round tie at 22:15 BST.
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Britain's Naomi Broady was beaten 6-3 6-2 by fifth seed Timea Babos in the second round of the Monterrey Open.
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There were 67 attacks on postmen in Northern Ireland from April 2016 to April 2017.
That was a rise of 20% on the previous year, whereas throughout the UK the number of attacks dropped by 7%.
Over the last five years, there have been 329 attacks on postmen in Northern Ireland and 14,500 across the UK.
"I was just going into the driveway - the dog's normally locked up to be fair, but for some reason it was in the driveway.
"I backed off and it just attacked me and the first thing it did was grab my leg and shake it - it shook me as if it was a shark or crocodile.
"Even to this day it's still painful.
"I didn't really think much about the attack at the time, but a couple of weeks later I just took a panic attack over it, that's when the trauma really kicked in and I needed counselling after that.
"Since this happened to me I've been wary about going into houses with dogs because of it. It shouldn't be part and parcel of the job, getting attacked.
"Owners have to take responsibility."
In the last year, 71% of dog attacks on postal workers have happened at the front door or in the front garden.
The number of attacks rises during the school holidays and in the summer months when parents and children are at home, says Royal Mail.
Royal Mail says that at these times, dogs are more likely to be unsupervised or not kept under control when the postman or woman knocks on the door.
Paul Sweeney, Royal Mail's general manager Northern Ireland, said some of the attacks have caused life-changing injuries.
"Our postmen and women need to be able to deliver the service they provide to communities across the UK, without the risk of injury," her said.
"This is why this campaign is so important. We need to keep raising awareness of this serious issue and ask all dog owners to keep their pets under control and be a responsible dog owner."
Royal Mail's fifth annual Dog Awareness Week runs from 3 to 8 July 2017 in Northern Ireland.
The week aims to raise awareness of the issue of dog attacks on postmen and women and encourage responsible dog ownership.
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That they will now be beaten in both the Test and the series is a result of a first-innings collapse and some really poor bowling.
"Plunkett's dismissal summed it up. We thought the nightmare of Australia was over but it is still here. I don't know where this side go.
"Cook is in terrible form. He will get tenser, it will get harder and I don't know how he is going to get out of it. It's a recipe for resignation. I don't know if he will but it is."
In both matches, England have been in winning positions but, bruised from their 5-0 Ashes humiliation, this developing side simply have not had the confidence to nail them down.
In the first Test at Lord's, a first-innings lead was undermined by a collapse on the fourth afternoon that ultimately left England short of time to bowl Sri Lanka out on the final day.
And here at Headingley, they slumped from 278-2 to 365 all out in the first innings, let Sri Lanka post 457 in their second, then crumbled to 57-5 in their chase of 350.
To take the bowling first, I never thought I would find myself saying that Sri Lanka's pace bowlers had shown England's quicks how to bowl at Headingley, the home of English seam bowling.
Put simply, England's pacers have been outperformed by a nation of spin bowlers. There was some talk about this Sri Lanka attack being no better than a county side. Maybe a county attack would have bowled better than England on that pitch today.
There was seam, swing and the odd hint of uneven bounce to be had on the fourth day. But, Liam Plunkett aside, a pace quartet that also contains James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Chris Jordan has been way below par.
Plunkett has run in hard and bowled with hostility, but Anderson has bowled too short, Broad has taken a hat-trick but nothing else and Jordan will end the Test wicketless.
Some may criticise England's tactics today, and they certainly contributed to their problems. By dropping men back in the hope that Angelo Mathews would surrender the strike to Rangana Herath during the early part of the Sri Lanka pair's eight-wicket stand of 149, England had nowhere else to go when the plan did not work.
Captain Alastair Cook might also have opted to use the spin of Moeen Ali earlier, but he could have justifiably expected his pace bowlers to do the job and they failed him.
None of this should take anything away from the efforts of Mathews, who made a wonderful 160.
1st Test v Sri Lanka, Lord's: Match drawn
20 June: 2nd Test v Sri Lanka, Headingley
9 July: 1st Test v India, Trent Bridge
17 July: 2nd Test v India, Lord's
27 July: 3rd Test v India, Southampton
7 August: 4th Test v India, Old Trafford
15 August: 5th Test v India, The Oval
Not only did he negotiate the strike, but the Sri Lanka captain also hit boundaries with cavalier regularity. It was a serious innings delivered in a calm, patient, assured manner.
In Herath, he found a tail-end ally who made an immense contribution. Herath is clearly no mug, demonstrated by the fact he settled in for nearly three hours. It was quite brilliant.
Their efforts were in contrast to England's performance with the bat, which cracked under the pressure applied by Dhammika Prasad, bowling the sort of line and length of which England were incapable.
Cook's dismissal typifies where his game is at the moment. The image of him staring back at his broken stumps after bottom-edging a pull at such a wide ball encapsulated his predicament.
Gary Ballance was unfortunate - anyone can get a first baller - while Ian Bell got a beauty. In between, Sam Robson played a poor shot to edge to second slip.
But it was all summed up by Plunkett, the nightwatchman, scooping Herath's spin to cover when he should have been blocking out the final over.
It was a hideous end to a hideous day.
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Ms McFarland, an ex-Fox News analyst, has been offered the role of ambassador to Singapore instead, Bloomberg and Reuters report.
It comes days after Mr Trump removed his senior strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council (NSC).
The NSC advises the president on national security and foreign affairs.
Mr Bannon's appointment in January raised fears that the circle of top advisers was being politicised.
Decoding the Trump 'war room' photograph
Bannon loses National Security Council seat
Analysts say the latest moves show Mr Trump's new national security adviser, Lt Gen HR McMaster, reshaping the NSC team appointed by his predecessor.
The previous national security adviser, Lt Gen Michael Flynn, was fired after just three weeks and three days in the job, after it emerged he had misled the vice-president over his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the US.
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President Donald Trump's deputy national security adviser, KT McFarland, has been asked to step down after just three months, US media say.
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Fish will be relocated during the work at Tinsley Locks using electrofishing - when a low voltage stuns them and allows them to be moved.
The 30-year-old gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal will then be removed with a crane and new ones installed.
The work - on locks 5, 6, 10 and 11 - is being carried out by the Canal and River Trust.
The stretch of waterway, which opened in 1819, featured in the opening scenes of film The Full Monty in 1997.
Jon Horsfall, waterway manager for the trust, said: "This is skilled work today so it's simply incredible how the original canal builders created the canal.
"Their legacy lives on and now repairing the lock gates at Tinsley is part of our essential maintenance to enable the local canal and river network to be enjoyed by thousands of people every day."
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So the oil producers' group has agreed in principle to take action to try and lift the price, in the shape of a target for how much the member countries will produce.
A meeting of the group's energy ministers in Vienna will try to hammer out the details. And that is where the devil lies.
Opec currently consists of 14 members, more than half of them in the Middle East and North Africa, including the organisation's biggest player, Saudi Arabia.
The background to what is likely to be a difficult meeting, is an oil price hovering around the mid-$40 a barrel. While that is well up from the lows it hit early this year of around $26 a barrel it is still less than half the level it reached in June 2014.
Perhaps more importantly, it is far too low for the government finances of Opec countries.
It has taken the group a long time to agree that they will try to put some sort of restraint on production.
It has been the rise of the US shale industry in the last ten years that has been one of the main factors driving prices lower. It completely transformed the market in the US for crude oil.
The US now needs to import less oil and this impact has reverberated throughout the international crude oil market.
When prices fell Opec sat on their hands. The group did not cut production as in previous episodes of falling prices in an attempt to reverse what many regard as an unwelcome development.
It is true that some Opec members would have liked to see production cuts - especially if the effort were led by Saudi Arabia as it had often been in the past - but the all-important Saudis were reluctant.
This was partly because they wanted other Opec producers to take more of the burden of cutting, it is thought - and partly to hurt the American industry.
The Saudi strategy was said to be to allow prices to stay low to hurt US shale oil producers and force some out of business. But the strategy of maintaining the price pressure on US shale failed to get the results the Saudis wanted.
Yes low prices have made some difference. Crude oil production in the US (the total including both shale and more conventional wells) is 6% lower this year. The International Energy Agency predicts another modest decline in 2017.
But it has not been enough to get prices to anything like the kind of level that Opec member countries want. And it has taken time for the decline in the US to come though.
The price fall started in mid-2014, yet US production rose in the following year - when prices were sharply lower. In fact, the US is still producing more than it did in 2014.
So now the Saudis have agreed in principle to go along with the more traditional Opec approach of cutting production in response to prices they consider too low, in a bid to drive them higher.
At a meeting in Algiers in September they agreed in principle to a new production target of 32.5 to 33 million barrels a day.
But according to the International Energy Agency the group produced more than that in October - a total of 33.83 million barrels a day.
So Opec would need to make more cuts if they are to actually implement an agreement consistent with this new target. And they appear to be struggling.
Ahead of the minsters' gathering at Opec headquarters in Vienna, officials have been trying to pave the way for a deal.
But reports suggest it is proving difficult. As always with Opec, countries are keen on the higher prices an agreement would yield, but less keen to make the production cuts themselves.
Several have reservations about reducing their own output, including Iraq and Iran - which is reluctant to accept restrictions as it tries to regain a share of the market after emerging from US sanctions.
In addition, Opec would like some non-members, notably Russia, to cooperate and make cuts themselves.
So a deal won't be easy to achieve in Vienna and even harder to implement. Opec members have a history of failing to comply with their own output limits.
Some commentators think they will manage some sort of face-saving compromise that doesn't commit any of them to departing very far from the production levels they were planning anyway.
Some say the danger for Opec is that if they can agree something that pushes prices up, American shale producers will be able to make advance sales, or "hedge" at those higher prices.
That would enable them to keep producing without being hit even if prices do slip back later - which could happen if Opec fails to comply with any production limit to which it might agree.
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The Clydesdale Bank will issue two million of the polymer £5 notes, which it says are more secure and durable than paper notes.
The bank is one of three in Scotland authorised to issue banknotes.
It is releasing the limited edition notes a year before the Bank of England puts plastic banknotes in general circulation.
The new Clydesdale plastic note features an image of the Forth Bridge and has been issued to commemorate the bridge's 125th anniversary.
The note also features a portrait of Sir William Arrol, whose company constructed the bridge among many other landmarks in Scotland.
It is smaller than the existing currency, which is made from cotton paper, but will still fit in cash machines, the bank has said.
Plastic banknotes are said to last 2.5 times longer than paper banknotes. They will survive a spin in a washing machine but will still melt under extreme heat such as an iron.
The note will also feature various new security features.
The limited edition notes will be available from branches of the Clydesdale.
So far, more than 20 countries around the world have adopted polymer notes.
The Bank of England will begin issuing them next year.
In 1999, Northern Bank of Northern Ireland issued a polymer £5 commemorative note celebrating the year 2000.
A plastic note was introduced in the Isle of Man in 1983 but was withdrawn in 1988 owing to problems with the ink.
Other adopters of the notes include Canada, whose last central bank governor - Mark Carney - is now the governor of the Bank of England.
Three banks in Scotland, including Clydesdale Bank, and four in Northern Ireland are authorised to issue banknotes.
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The victory over the visiting Ghanaian side sees the Algerians through to the last four on the head-to-head rule.
A goal shortly after the break from France-born Chadian international Morgan Betorangal proved to be the winner for Bejaia.
It was only the second goal the Algerian side have scored in the six matches of the group phase.
Bejaia will meet FUS Rabat in September's semi-finals after the Moroccan side drew 0-0 with defending champions Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia in their Group B match on Tuesday.
Rabat finished top of the table, one point ahead of Etoile, who also qualify for the last four where they will take on TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mazembe clinched top spot in Group A with a 3-1 win in Lubumbashi over Tanzania's Young Africans.
Jonathan Bolingi opened the scoring for the hosts in the 28th minute, moments before Young Africans' Vincent Chikupe was shown a straight red card for a foul that prevented a goal scoring chance.
Mazembe made the extra man count after half-time with Zambia international Rainford Kalaba scoring two more goals before Burundi's Amissi Tambwe grabbed a consolation.
On Wednesday Kawkab Marrakech of Morocco played out a 2-2 draw with bottom-of-the-table Al Ahly Tripoli of Libya in the remaining fixture, which had no bearing on the final standings.
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The Frenchman fired home his first after being played in by Lewis Grabban, but James Chester soon headed home Conor Hourihane's corner to equalise.
Mendes squandered an easy chance, but made no mistake after the break as he swept home his second of the game.
Grabban sealed the win from the spot after Leandro Bacuna fouled Liam Kelly.
The victory was Reading's first in a league game at Villa Park and put them just one point behind third-placed Huddersfield, but perhaps more importantly six points clear of Fulham in seventh, with just four games remaining.
It was a tremendous turnaround by Jaap Stam's side after a 7-1 defeat by Norwich in their previous game, and the Dutchman left top scorer Yann Kermorgant on the bench as one of four changes.
Villa had won their five previous home games without conceding a goal, but that record was soon ended as Mendes marked his first league start by firing past Sam Johnstone.
Reading keeper Ali Al-Habsi made a superb save from Mile Jedinak, only to let himself down from the resulting corner by failing to get anywhere near the ball as Chester levelled.
Johnstone twice denied Grabban before the interval but he could do nothing about Reading's second just a minute after the restart, as the forward produced a perfect ball for Mendes to restore their lead.
Sub Scott Hogan wasted Villa's best chance of the second half, and they remain 12th in the table after Grabban converted the penalty to make the points safe.
Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce: "I don't like getting beaten and I don't like getting beaten by sloppiness. I thought that was a thing of the past, a performance like that.
"I couldn't fault their effort but it was how they handled making a mistake, if you're going to play for a big club like this you've got to be able to handle that.
"We made more individual errors than we have done in the past three months. We have been punished and given really, really bad goals away."
Reading manager Jaap Stam: "I'm very happy with the character of my team throughout the whole season. Okay, sometimes we get defeats but we're not too worried about defeats.
"We're very confident in how the team can play. You can have an off day - look at PSG against Barcelona - but it's about what you do after.
"For Joseph it wasn't the easiest season because he came from France and had some injuries. He has worked hard in the last couple of months.
"As a player you can respond by talking in the press, by calling the manager certain names, but you can also respond by working hard in the game and scoring goals."
Match ends, Aston Villa 1, Reading 3.
Second Half ends, Aston Villa 1, Reading 3.
Attempt saved. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Conor Hourihane.
Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Evans (Reading).
Attempt missed. John Swift (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Garath McCleary.
Attempt missed. James Chester (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Conor Hourihane with a cross following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Reading. George Evans replaces Liam Kelly.
John Swift (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Swift (Reading).
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Alan Hutton.
Attempt missed. Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jonathan Kodjia.
Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yann Kermorgant (Reading).
Goal! Aston Villa 1, Reading 3. Lewis Grabban (Reading) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Reading. Liam Kelly draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Liam Moore.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leandro Bacuna.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Jack Grealish replaces Nathan Baker.
Liam Moore (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jonathan Kodjia (Aston Villa).
Attempt blocked. John Swift (Reading) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Yann Kermorgant.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Yann Kermorgant (Reading) because of an injury.
Substitution, Reading. Yann Kermorgant replaces Joseph Mendes.
Attempt missed. Scott Hogan (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Mile Jedinak.
Attempt saved. Lewis Grabban (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Garath McCleary.
Attempt blocked. Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jonathan Kodjia.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Jordan Obita.
Jordan Obita (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jordan Obita (Reading).
Alan Hutton (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Reading. Garath McCleary replaces Adrian Popa.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Mile Jedinak.
Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Joseph Mendes scored early in each half as Reading climbed back up to fourth in the Championship by ending Aston Villa's five-match unbeaten run.
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The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) said the general election results gave the leading parties in each nation far more seats than justified by voting share.
In Wales, Labour won 37% of the vote but got 63% of the seats.
The society said the first-past-the-post electoral system could not cope with "modern multi-party democracy".
Its report - The 2015 General Election: A Voting System in Crisis - claimed the poll in May gave the "most disproportionate result in UK history".
For the first time, four different parties were the winners in the four nations of the UK - the Conservatives in England, the SNP in Scotland, the DUP in Northern Ireland and Labour in Wales.
Steve Brooks, director of ERS Cymru, said with "continuing constitutional uncertainty" about the future of the UK, it was more than a matter of being fair to voters.
"Our electoral map is deceptive - it looks like there are whole areas of monolithic blocks of Labour red, Conservative blue, or SNP yellow in the UK," he said.
"But, as we see in Wales, this isn't actually the case. Votes for different parties aren't being reflected in seats won.
"We have seen the benefits of a fairer voting system in the assembly, giving parties a greater voice. It is time Westminster caught up with the devolved nations in this regard."
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The UK is being "artificially divided" by a voting system which exaggerates political differences between the four nations, a campaign group has warned.
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Friends said Trudy Moorhouse, from Badingham, had been at the Co-op in Laxfield for eight years without any complaints about her appearance.
Yolanda Howard said after a shop refit Mrs Moorhouse was asked to "dress more appropriately".
The Co-op said it had a "clear dress code". Mrs Moorhouse would not comment.
Hundreds of people have signed a "Let her be the person she is" petition launched by Mrs Howard, who is also a customer at the Co-op store.
She is calling on the supermarket giant to reverse its decision.
The employers of Trudy Moorhouse, the pink-haired woman who was told to wear a wig and cover her piercings while at work, say they have reached an "amicable agreement".
A Spokesman for The Co-operative Food said: "There is a clear policy in place regarding dress code and how colleagues present themselves in our food stores. An amicable arrangement has been put in place at the store with Trudy."
A petition has been set up calling for the store in Laxfield to change its policy.
She said: "Trudy is being made to change who she is after eight years of working for the Co-op.
"The shop was recently refurbished and afterwards they just wanted Trudy to be more 'normal'."
Mrs Moorhouse chose to wear a black wig as she "did not want to get rid of her pink hair", Mrs Howard said.
She is also wearing long sleeves to cover her tattoos and has put sticky plasters on her face to cover her piercings.
Customers considered Mrs Moorhouse "one of the most caring, helpful, gentle and kind people you could meet," she added.
A spokesman for The Co-operative Food Group, said: "There is a clear policy in place regarding dress code and how colleagues present themselves in our food stores.
"An amicable arrangement has been put in place at the store with Trudy."
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UK landline calls will go up from 7.6p a minute to 7.95p a minute. Line rental prices will also rise, but calls to mobiles will be unchanged.
The changes come after a 10% rise in call charges a year ago, and a 9% increase in April.
But BT said these prices would now be frozen until 2013.
In July, BT group said profits before tax in the three months to 30 June were up 20% to £533m, driven by demand for home broadband products.
Under the changes, the cost of line rental for a customer paying by direct debit will rise by 70p to £14.60 a month.
Evening UK calls will go up from 1p a minute to 1.05p a minute. The call set up fee, which is a one-off charge for a call outside of a customer's plan, goes up from 12.5p to 13.1p.
BT's most popular Anytime calls plan will increase by 20p to £4.90 a month, but various other packages and bundles, some of which include broadband internet, will not be changed.
Calls to O2, T-Mobile, Orange and Vodafone mobiles will stay at 5.3p a minute in the evening, and 11.3p a minute in the daytime.
However, there is no guarantee that these prices will be frozen next year.
The changes come as consumers face rising gas and electricity bills and cuts continue to put a squeeze on family finances.
"We are disappointed that BT is raising its prices on the heels of significant energy price hikes just a month ago," said Michael Phillips, product director at price comparison website Homephonechoices.co.uk.
"While BT's price increases of 5% or less may be in line with inflation, it will prove very unpopular with households who are already feeling the pinch.
"This marks the 10th price rise from a major provider this year alone and it is inevitable that others will further add to this total."
BT said that many of its customers had actually seen their call costs fall because they had moved on to specific packages.
"A report from Ofcom shows the UK has lower prices than the USA, Spain, Germany, France and Italy. The UK market is highly competitive," a BT spokesman said.
He added that many of BT's prices were lower than those charged by other providers.
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Telecoms giant BT is to raise call charges for residential customers by up to 5% on 3 December - the second increase this year.
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The bottles were seized as part of an operation to tackle organised crime within the city's Albanian community, Sussex Police said.
Several premises are being investigated for breaching licence conditions, a spokeswoman added.
Earlier raids also saw eight people charged with drugs offences and 11 people arrested.
Details of the businesses involved have not been released - but police said the pub, two kebab shops, three cafe bars and an off-licence were still being investigated.
They were visited on Thursday by officers from Sussex Police, the Immigration Service, HM Revenue and Customs, and Brighton council licensing, trading standards and environmental health.
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More than 100 bottles of illegal alcohol have been seized from a pub, cafes and other businesses in Brighton.
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Most of these deaths were caused by accidental electrocution, Bijayshree Routray told Press Trust of India news agency.
Over a third of the elephants were killed by electric shock and hanging electricity wires, he said.
There are around 26,000 wild elephants in India where it is a heritage animal.
"The government has set up a joint committee to monitor elephant deaths," Orissa's Forest and Environment Secretary RK Sharma said.
It will include members from both the forest and environment and energy departments to try and stop the deaths of elephants from accidental electrocutions.
Other causes for the deaths of the jumbos included poaching, poisoning by farmers to prevent them from damaging crops and being run over by trains.
While elephants are worshipped by many in India, shrinking habitat has led to increased conflict with people and the deaths of many of the protected animals.
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Nearly 300 wild elephants have died in India's Orissa state in the past five years, the state's forest and environment minister has said.
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However, sales to the rest of the United Kingdom expanded by 6% to £13.8bn.
Great Britain sales have become relatively more important to Northern Ireland businesses in recent years.
The Republic of Ireland continues to be the single, biggest export market with sales of £3.4bn.
The figures come from the Northern Ireland Broad Economy Sales and Exports Statistics report, an experimental data series compiled by government statisticians.
It shows that manufacturing continues to dominate Northern Ireland exports, accounting for 60% of sales.
However, manufacturing exports fell by almost 4% to £5.5bn in 2015.
Exports to all major markets fell: down by 4% to the Republic of Ireland and by 3% to the USA.
The number of businesses selling outside Northern Ireland fell marginally, down by 67 to 11,467.
A different, more recent, set of figures from HM Revenue and Customs suggests that Northern Ireland's manufacturing export performance is improving at a better rate than any other part of the UK.
HMRC data for the 12 months to September 2016 showed a 6% rise in the value of exports to £7.4bn.
Businesses have been helped by a slump in the pound, which makes their goods more competitively priced in the Eurozone and the United States.
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The value of goods and services exported by Northern Ireland companies fell by 5% in 2015 to £9.1bn.
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Jim Sherrit's restored three-man bunker is 20ft (6m) below ground and only accessible by hatch and ladder.
The Maggie Ewing - a renovated ex-boat wheelhouse - is owned by David Carter and made from one of the last boats ever commercially built in Caithness.
The entries are among a shortlist of 32 from around the UK.
Competition includes a recreation of the Millennium Falcon, a shed built on the back of an Austin J4 pick-up truck and a Wild West "saloon".
The shortlisted sheds will feature on Amazing Spaces Shed Of The Year, on Channel 4, and the public can vote until 8 June for the category winners.
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A nuclear bunker in Brechin and a fishing boat cabin in the Highlands are in the running for this year's coveted Shed of the Year award.
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The Briton, 31, finished second in the last race in Italy, behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, after dropping from pole to sixth at the beginning.
"If you gauge my season, then the championship could be lost by starts," he said. "From a lot of pole positions, I've lost the race from the start."
He leads Rosberg by two points before this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix.
"You do all the work during the weekend, and then two seconds or whatever it is, has determined some of the races for me," added Britain's reigning world champion.
Hamilton has converted only three of his seven pole positions into wins this season, while Germany's Rosberg has managed to do it four times out of six.
In total, Hamilton has five wins and seven poles, while Rosberg has six wins and six poles.
Rosberg said he did not believe starts would determine the result of the championship over the remaining seven races but added: "I am aware it is an ongoing challenge and it will not become easier.
"But I have become feeling good recently and had some good starts recently but I have also had some difficulties - I lost Hockenheim and Hungary due to not very good starts."
The rules were changed this season to introduce more variability in starts. Drivers now have to use only one clutch to get the car off the line - rather than the two they could call upon until the end of last season, which made it easier to control the getaway.
In addition, teams are not able to change the clutch settings once the car has left the garage before the start of a race, nor give the driver any advice over the radio in the car before the start.
Hamilton said: "Would I prefer my clutch to not have inconsistency? Sure. But it is not going to change any time soon."
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Lewis Hamilton says his title chances this year could depend on whether he can end his problems with race starts.
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Adam Lockwood's side took the lead when Will Hatfield netted with an outstanding strike from outside the penalty area, the effort veering past an unsighted Rory Watson.
The visitors refused to buckle though and Reece Thompson nearly equalised early in the second half when his deflected effort hit the post.
The same player did eventually level just shy of the hour with a fabulous long-range lob.
Things went downhill for Guiseley when Danny Lowe was sent off, as Jake Skelton duly capitalised for the away side with a crisp left-footed finish three minutes from time.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Guiseley 1, North Ferriby United 2.
Second Half ends, Guiseley 1, North Ferriby United 2.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Sam Cosgrove replaces Reece Thompson.
Goal! Guiseley 1, North Ferriby United 2. Jake Skelton (North Ferriby United).
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Ryan Kendall replaces Mark Gray.
Substitution, Guiseley. Adam Boyes replaces Jake Cassidy.
Substitution, Guiseley. Elliot Green replaces Jordan Preston.
Substitution, Guiseley. Kevan Hurst replaces Michael Rankine.
Danny Lowe (Guiseley) is shown the red card.
Goal! Guiseley 1, North Ferriby United 1. Reece Thompson (North Ferriby United).
Second Half begins Guiseley 1, North Ferriby United 0.
First Half ends, Guiseley 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Danny Emerton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Guiseley 1, North Ferriby United 0. Will Hatfield (Guiseley).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
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John Fahy, 25, of Groagagh, Grange in County Sligo, was acquitted of two charges of causing death and grievous bodily injury by careless driving.
Nineteen-month-old Ryan Cox died in the crash on Boa Island Road near Belleek in January 2013.
The jury reached a unanimous verdict at Dungannon Crown Court in acquitting the architecture student of the charges.
Ryan's parents cried as the verdict was delivered on Wednesday.
Mr Fahy had been in his final year at Ulster University at the time of the crash, and he now hopes to return to complete his studies.
Both Mr Fahy and Ryan's mother, Katriona Cox, were also badly injured in the crash.
During the trial, prosecutors argued that "either through inexperience or over steering", Mr Fahy had lost control of his car.
Mr Fahy told the court he remembered as he drove around the bend before the crash, he noticed a car "apparently in my lane and I remember flashing my lights".
After Wednesday's verdict, neither Ryan's parents nor Mr Fahy wanted to comment on the case.
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The contract will see 660 "state of the art" carriages built from the Bombardier factory in Derby.
It is part of a £1.4bn boost to rail services for passengers across East Anglia, announced by the Department for Transport.
The DfT said it is one of the biggest ever orders for British-built trains.
Live reaction in East Anglia to Abellio franchise announcement
The investment will be overseen by rail operator Abellio East Anglia, which has been awarded a new franchise running from October 2016 to 2025.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, who announced the contract during a visit to Bombardier in Derby, said: "We are making the biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era.
"By awarding this franchise to Abellio East Anglia we will improve journeys for people in East Anglia.
"Abellio's decision [to use Bombardier as a supplier] will ensure our train-building industry in Derby remains strong."
The franchise will see 1,043 new carriages being used, with the rest being supplied by Swiss firm Stadler Rail.
The franchise will also include:
Bombardier is the only remaining company that both designs and manufactures trains in the UK.
Its trains are used on services throughout the UK, including on the London Underground.
The £1bn contract with Abellio is expected to secure 1,000 jobs into the next decade, the government said.
Des McKeon, UK commercial director at Bombardier Transportation, said the contract was a "great endorsement" of its trains.
"We look forward to working with our customer Abellio UK, to support them in transforming rail services throughout the region and delivering an enhanced customer experience through the provision of new trains," he said.
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One of the UK's last train makers has been awarded a £1bn contract as part of "the biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era".
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Operations director John Stoddard, 41, was killed at the Higher Kings plant at Cullompton, Devon, in 2011.
Exeter Crown Court heard DS Smith Paper had failed to act on 73 urgent safety recommendations from a report compiled 11 months earlier.
The company admitted failing to ensure safe working.
Mr Stoddard died instantly when he was pulled into a production line from an upstairs platform as he tried to smooth down paper which was passing through it.
The father-of-two was killed 11 months after a firm of consultants had made a series of safety recommendations which were not implemented.
These included 33 areas of very high risk which should have been addressed within 24 hours and 40 of high risk which should have been rectified within a week.
Judge Francis Gilbert QC said it was a "serious aggravating feature" that the company had failed to act on the report.
The judge said: "If the company had corrected the hazardous feature which was later described by their own expert, this fatality would not have occurred.
"The Health and Safety Executive concluded that the risk to operators from thin moving machinery was obvious.
"They say the failure to address so many area of high or very high risk was a failure at the highest level of the company."
Mr Simon Antrobus, defending, said the company accepted full responsibility and offered a public apology from chief executive Miles Roberts to Mr Stoddard's family.
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A paper company has been fined £400,000 after a number of "serious safety failings" led to an employee being crushed by a machine.
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Wigan went ahead through Joel Tomkins' try before Luke Walsh replied in an intense first half that ended 6-6.
George Williams scored a fantastic solo try for Wigan, but Adam Swift danced in to reduce the deficit to two points.
Jon Wilkin's high kick was collected by Jones three minutes from time to seal St Helens' comeback.
Saints' Jordan Turner was denied a 100th career try after an obstruction earlier in the play, and the visitors took full advantage.
A great piece of skill from Matty Smith set up Tomkins for his first try since June as he waltzed in under the posts, with Matty Bowen adding the extras.
St Helens hit back when a clever dummy by Walsh saw him sneak in and just ground the ball for his seventh try of the season. He converted to level the scores.
Bowen's 20-metre penalty edged Wigan in front five minutes after the break, before Williams dummied his way through three tackles to run 40 metres and go over. Bowen's kick stretched Wigan's lead.
After Wigan's Joe Burgess had a try disallowed for a knock-on, St Helens broke quickly, Swift jinking his way into the left-hand corner and Walsh's conversion closing the gap to two points.
With the clock ticking down, Jones's leap over the line secured a dramatic victory for the hosts three minutes from time.
St Helens coach Keiron Cunningham:
"The boys played really well. They've had a lot of stuff said about them in the last few weeks and it wasn't very nice about certain individuals. Let's see what they say this week.
"We weren't that great with the ball but we defended like troopers, we just kept hanging in there and finding a way to keep turning up.
"It's that team spirit you can't manufacture, you've got to have that fight and that will. It makes it special when you see players fighting for each other."
Wigan coach Shaun Wane:
"That's hurt me badly, very badly. It will take me a few days to get over this. Unless you concentrate for 80 minutes, you can get burned. That's rugby league. It's a tough sport.
"We controlled the game for large parts but it shows the quality they have. They never go away. I never felt comfortable.
"It was a great game to watch I'd imagine. I'm very proud of the effort of my players but to come away with nothing after doing as much as they did is an absolute heartbreaker."
St Helens: Quinlan; Makinson, Percival, Jones, Swift; Turner, Walsh; Amor, Roby, Savelio, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Greenwood, Wilkin.
Replacements: Masoe, Vea, Flanagan, Richards.
Wigan Warriors: Bowen; Charnley, Bateman, Gildart, Burgess; Williams, Smith; Crosby, McIlorum, Flower, Tomkins, Patrick, O'Loughlin.
Replacements: Gelling, Powell, Clubb, Mossop.
Referee: Robert Hicks,
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Pc Ruth Goldie said she spotted a tied up bundle while searching a cavity beneath a caravan close to one owned by Carol Anne Taggart.
Mrs Taggart's son Ross denies murdering her between 21 December last year and 11 January this year.
He is alleged to have struck her on the head and compressed her throat.
Pc Goldie, a police search advisor, said she was investigating the caravan site in Pettycur Bay, Kinghorn, on 11 January as part of a missing person inquiry.
When she lifted a hatch beneath a caravan two along from the one owned by Mrs Taggart she saw "a bundle of material" and was unsure what she was looking at.
She told the High Court in Edinburgh it was dense to the touch and she looked at the shape and made out what appeared to be the shape of a head, torso and a pair of legs.
The officer said: "The bundle was tied with a green chord in a crisscross pattern."
Ross Taggart, 31, is alleged to have assaulted his mother and repeatedly struck her on the head "by means unknown", seized hold of her neck and compressed her throat using his hands or an unidentified item.
The jury was told in agreed evidence that following a post-mortem examination the cause of death was given as "compression of the neck".
It is alleged Mr Taggart hid the body of his mother in a void beneath the caravan at Pettycur Bay. It is claimed he cleaned the caravan, his mother's house at Hill of St Margaret and the boot of a car to remove blood stains and other forensic evidence.
He is also alleged to have reported his mother as missing to the police and told friends, family and police officers that she had left home on 22 December of her own accord and that he was unaware of her whereabouts.
He denies the charges and the trial continues.
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The ex-Welsh national champion beat Stuart Hardy in the singles final before also winning the doubles.
Le Tocq, 33, has not been beaten at the Senior Closed championships since 2002.
"I've got a decision to make as to whether it's good for me to play until someone beats me or if it's someone else's turn," he told BBC Guernsey.
Despite his long winning record, Le Tocq said he was still nervous when it came to the final.
"For the last four years I've really been working towards 10, and I almost don't know what to do now, it's everything I've wanted," he said.
"I was more nervous than I have been for half of them, it almost felt like the first one again, where I was really worried about getting over the line."
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When I worked with Pietersen in commentary at the World Cup he was very focused indeed. He is absolutely determined to win back his England place, and I am sure Pietersen sees this decision as an extra incentive for him to work on his comeback and what he will see as an even more realistic opportunity now.
The Kevin Pietersen issue has been such a massive part of this year, and one that that was handled badly by the ECB board since they decided to sack him shortly after the 2013-14 Ashes series, which Australia won 5-0.
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There was no need to sack Pietersen. They could merely have decided to move on and not pick him again without a big song and dance. But that is the way they chose to go. It has created such a massive reaction and they only have themselves to blame for that really.
Does the decision to sack Downton from his role as managing director mean Pietersen will definitely come back? There is more to it than Downton just losing his job.
For a start, KP has not faced a red ball in 18 months and there are a lot of things that still need to happen - not least Pietersen scoring some runs in the domestic game having rejoined Surrey - before we see him striding out to the middle in an England shirt again.
The ECB have created a new director of England cricket following Downton's departure and I see my Test Match Special colleague, and ex-England captain, Michael Vaughan has been touted as a possible man for the job.
I will be interested to see if Vaughan can commit himself completely to this job because he would have to give up a lot of other things.
Vaughan would be a great candidate but he loves his media work and he has a lot of other interests that take up his time.
There is no way you could have an England director of cricket doing anything else but focusing on this role 100%.
It has got to be someone who is really in touch with the modern game and the direction cricket is going.
Whoever is appointed needs to have retained an involvement with cricket, and someone who comes into the job with fresh ideas and with a resolve to make specific improvements.
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Two of the names mentioned for the England director role - Alec Stewart and Andrew Strauss - could have a major say in the next instalment of what happens with Pietersen of course.
Strauss, given his history with KP, will probably take a lot of convincing that he should return to the fold. With Stewart, his coach at Surrey, it might be a bit more straightforward.
We have not seen the job description for the position, but you can imagine it needs someone who is in touch with the game.
It needs to be someone who has been out of it just long enough to avoid being too personally involved with the current players.
Downton, who took over from Hugh Morris, was not in a position as MD in which he was solely dealing with the England team; there was much to the role.
Downton had a difficult time of it. He was briefed that his first job must be to get rid of Pietersen. He took responsibility for that, but it was not 100% his call - it was a broader decision.
So perhaps he was an easy person to target with regards to KP. He has taken a lot of flak for that. And likewise he was not directly hands-on with the England team.
You have to question how much responsibility he actually had on England team matters.
The new job, however, is going to be more targeted to the England team. It must be. The new role is probably going to be much more focused on that.
The change to key elements of the administration - the chairman and the chief executive - made it likely that something had to change after England's dismal World Cup campaign and someone be shown the door.
It could have been the coach Peter Moores, it could have the man responsible for selection of the team in James Whitaker.
But instead what they have decided to do is reassess the role Downton has occupied which encompasses many different aspects of English cricket; from everything that is done at Loughborough all the way up to the top of the game and the England team.
However, he was only marginally responsible for the England team itself.
This new director of England role. Will he be a selector? Might he be a cricket supremo and we go back to the days of Raymond Illingworth with a selection committee of captain, coach and the director - for me that looks favourite at the moment.
But if that is the case, James Whitaker would not have a job in the near future either. From the way that it sounds that is where they are going. It all depends on how hands-on this new director of England cricket will be.
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Former UK regulator Sir Alasdair Breckenridge said new cancer drugs could be among those affected.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he did not expect the UK to remain within the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The Department for Health said Brexit offered new opportunities to bring timely access to new drugs.
Sir Alasdair told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The UK market compared to the European market of course is small and they may decide not to come to the United Kingdom.
"So therefore there will be delay in getting new drugs - important new drugs, anti-cancer drugs, anti-infective drugs - for patients in the UK."
What might Brexit mean for medicines?
Will EU bodies stay or go after Brexit?
The EMA authorises drugs for use across the EU and is currently based in the UK, although it is expected to leave after Brexit.
Sir Alasdair - who was the chairman of the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for almost a decade - said companies could be slower to seek permission for Britain alone, as they may need to pay for a separate assessment of their product for use in the country.
His concerns echo those expressed by the current MHRA chairman Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, who said the UK could be at the back of the queue behind Japan, the US and the EU when drugs are introduced.
In previously unreported comments in January, he told peers: "One of the biggest worries I have about Brexit and standing alone as a regulator is that we are only 3% of the world market for new drugs and if we are not careful we are going to be at the back of the queue."
The UK needed to carry out regulation more efficiently to cope, he added.
In January Jeremy Hunt said he did not expect the UK to remain within the EMA but was "hopeful" of being able to continue working closely with the regulator.
"Separate regulatory arrangements" would be put in place, he added.
David Jeffreys, the vice-president of Eisai - a Japanese drugs firm that employs 450 people in the UK - said British patients could face delays of up to two years.
He said: "The early innovative medicines will be applied for in the USA, in Japan and through the European system and the UK will be in the second or indeed the third wave so UK patients may be getting medicines, 12, 18, 24 months later than they would if we remained in the European system."
Mr Jeffreys, who also speaks for the trade body the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), said they wanted the UK to agree a co-operation deal with the EMA, even if it did not remain part of the EU system.
The former chief executive of the MHRA, Sir Kent Woods, said he believed an agreement could be reached between the UK and the EU for drug regulation in the future, but was concerned about the issue getting absorbed in a wider debate about trade terms.
Moving the EMA from London could put its work overseeing the safety of medicines imported from outside the EU at risk, he added.
The Department of Health said ensuring patients have timely access to safe and effective medicines remains a priority for the government.
A spokeswoman added: "In fact, Brexit brings opportunities in this area, and we will be focused on whether we can secure even faster access to the latest innovations for British patients.
"So we are already taking action to ensure the UK continues to be a world leader and our cross-agency Brexit taskforce is considering the future regulatory roles the MHRA could adopt."
The EMA is subject to rulings by the European Court of Justice, and Prime Minister Theresa May has said the UK must be outside the court's jurisdiction.
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Young Muslims were having "poison dripped into their ear" through "foreign-funded" mosques.
Prime Minister David Cameron said liberal values would prevail in what he called a "battle of ideas".
Muslim leaders have condemned the Paris attacks, saying there is "nothing Islamic" about the perpetrators.
French investigators believe that a Moroccan-origin Belgian jihadist masterminded Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed at least 129 people, including one British national.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud is thought to be in Syria now with the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
In response to the attacks, the UK has announced a range of measures, including a review of airport security in destinations in the Middle East and North Africa, intensified security checks at UK borders, a review of responses to firearms attacks, more spending on drones and a refocusing of the aid budget.
Additional funding will also be made available to enable MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to recruit 1,900 extra operatives.
But Mr Farage said there was a deeper reality that could not be ignored, suggesting there was a "fifth column" of terror-sympathisers in the UK and Europe, and that some places of worship and educational institutions were a breeding ground for radicalisation.
Speaking to journalists in Hampshire, he said it was apparent a minority of young Muslims in the UK had "conflicted" loyalties.
"On the one hand, they want to get on in the world, get on with people and enjoy life," he said.
"On the other, they are having poison dripped in their ear. Some of that is coming through the internet and that is tough to tackle.
"But much of it is coming in through the mosques. And I am very struck that Saudi Arabia, who pose as a friend of ours in the war of terror, are frankly anything but.
"That is where the funding is coming from for mosques, for British universities. I would like all churches and all faith organisations from now on to be forced by law to declare publicly where their funds come from so we can stop money coming in to preach extremism."
In a speech in the City of London on Monday night, Mr Cameron said Islamist extremism was underpinned by a "diseased view of the world which has become an epidemic infecting minds from the mosques of Mogadishu to the bedrooms of Birmingham".
Such "poisonous ideology" had to be stamped out before it took root in people's minds, he said.
Countering it, he said, required greater social integration, shutting down institutions teaching intolerance and getting moderate voices to speak out and promote an alternative world view.
"It means tackling the violent and non-violent extremism in all its forms," he said.
"Because, unwittingly or not, those who promote extremist views, even if they are non-violent themselves, are providing succour to those who want others or want to get others to commit violence."
He added: "We cannot stand neutral in this battle of ideas. We have to back those who share our values with practical help, funding, campaigns, protection and political representation."
Haras Rafiq, from the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank, said the answer to young Muslims being "brainwashed" was to "build civil society coalitions, alliances to actually deconstruct the ideologies and the narratives, countering it and promoting our alternatives".
"It is really a problem for the whole of the community," he added. "Muslims, people like me, need to play more of a part as well and get over this victim morality."
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Faith institutions should have to declare all sources of funding as part of efforts to counter radicalisation, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said.
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The three-span cable-stayed structure that will stretch between Castletown and Pallion is supported by a 115m (379ft) A-frame pylon.
This was manufactured on the continent and has been transported from the Port of Ghent in Belgium.
It travelled on a massive barge which docked at the Port of Sunderland.
Over the next few weeks it will travel up the River Wear to the site in Pallion, where it will be raised vertically into position.
The bridge is due to open in 2018
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Part of a new road bridge being constructed over the River Wear has completed a two-day journey across the North Sea.
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The charges relate to an attack in the North Seaton area which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday.
Northumbria Police said 40-year-old Munawar Hussain, from Ashington, had been charged with two counts of rape and one of assault by penetration.
A force spokesman said Mr Hussain was due to appear before magistrates in Bedlington on 23 June.
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Police have charged a man in connection with a rape in Northumberland.
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Jim Sharp, 66, suffered multiple injuries in an accident at Newbigging Walls farm, near Lauder, in March.
A fatal accident inquiry heard that his shoe lace became entangled in a rotating blade inside a grain silo.
NFU Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive have reminded farmers to use the safe stop procedure when working with any agricultural machinery.
The guidelines include:
They added that farmers should never enter a grain silo when the auger is running as several accidents have been caused when someone has become entangled in the sweep auger by a boot lace or clothing.
In addition, farmers were urged not to enter grain silos to clear blockages of any kind unless the power is isolated and there is no chance of bridging in the grain.
HSE inspector Hazel Dobb said: "The tragic death of Mr Sharp has once again brought home the dangers involved in the farming industry, particularly when working with agricultural machinery."
Mr Sharp was a former livestock convener of NFU Scotland and a prominent breeder of Blackface sheep.
NFU Scotland vice president Allan Bowie added: "Farming remains one of the most hazardous industries to work in and the loss of an important industry figure like Mr Sharp simply strengthens the union's resolve and commitment to work with others to improve our sector's health and safety record."
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Safety guidelines have been issued following the death of a sheep farmer from the Borders.
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Police told the BBC the bomb was detonated at the gate of the New Kabul Bank branch in Lashkar Gah.
The Taliban say they planted the explosives.
Members of the security forces are reportedly among casualties, as well as shoppers preparing for the Eid religious festival.
Earlier, Tolo News reported that armed attackers had entered the bank and engaged in a gun battle with security forces.
"It happened at a time when civilians and officials had lined up outside the bank to collect their salaries," a police spokesman, Salam Afghan, told AFP news agency.
Bank buildings have been repeatedly attacked in recent years in Afghanistan as civilians and military personnel receive their monthly salaries from them.
A spokesman for Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah tweeted that most of the victims were "innocent souls who were shopping for Eid".
"Their joyful moments turned into nightmare," Javid Faisal said.
There has been a series of attacks in Afghanistan in recent weeks, since the Taliban launched its so-called spring offensive.
On Sunday, five police officers were killed and about 30 people, most of them civilians, were injured in a suicide bomb attack in the eastern city of Gardez.
On 31 May, a huge bombing in central Kabul killed more than 150 people, the deadliest militant attack in the country since US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in 2001.
Earlier that month another New Kabul Bank branch was attacked in Gardez, killing at least three people.
The insurgents control swathes of Helmand province, whose capital is Lashkar Gah.
In March the crucial district of Sangin fell to the militants after a year-long battle. Musa Qala was captured last year.
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EnQuest will secure 25% of BP's Magnus stake, and a 3% share of the Shetland facility.
It is expected that about 100 BP staff linked with Magnus, and about 240 at Sullom Voe, will also transfer to EnQuest.
The company will have future options to take full ownership of Magnus and a larger Sullom Voe stake.
The deal also includes 25% of BP's interests in several associated pipeline systems.
Magnus is the UK's most northerly field, located 160km (100 miles) north east of the Shetland Islands.
The sale price of $85m is expected to be met from Enquest's share of future cash flows from the assets. The agreement will not include any upfront payment to BP.
BP said EnQuest's record of extending the life of mature assets made them a natural operator for the interests.
BP North Sea regional president Mark Thomas said: "Sullom Voe and Magnus have been great businesses for BP, but to maximise the economic life of these important assets, we believe this deal will offer them a better long-term future."
The union Unite said there should be no change to the terms and conditions of any worker moving over to EnQuest.
Regional officer John Boland said: "When transfers like this happen, there is often a concern about potential job losses.
"We strongly hope that is not the case here, and we will be talking with BP and EnQuest to get a clear idea of their plans for the future so our members are fully informed."
Industry body Oil and Gas UK welcomed the deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval.
Chief executive Deirdre Michie said: "This is an innovative deal which will open a new chapter in the life of Sullom Voe and the productive life of Magnus, an iconic North Sea oil field.
"It also sends a very positive signal on the opportunities available in the North Sea and is an indication of confidence that, even after producing oil for more than 30 years, this mature field still has more to give."
She added: "The transfer of assets and infrastructure builds on a long-term trend to see 'the right mature assets' move into the right hands of established UK mature field operators and sees a fresh commitment to exciting development opportunities by established incumbent companies."
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Exit polls suggest his coalition will win most of the 121 seats in contention, increasing its majority.
If he secures a two-thirds majority to match that in the lower house, he could hold a vote on constitutional change, easing constraints on military action.
But Mr Abe says it is too early to talk about this controversial review.
Half of the 242 seats of the upper house were up for grabs.
Public broadcaster NHK said Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner, the Komeito party, would between them take 67 to 76 of the seats available.
The coalition already controls 77 seats of the other half of the upper house.
The prime minister fought his campaign on his economic record, but the sub-text of the election was the power to amend the constitution, the BBC's Stephen Evans, in Tokyo, said.
Mr Abe is thought to want to change Article 9, the so-called pacifism clause which forbids Japan from fighting wars abroad. It was imposed by the US after Japan was on the losing side in World War Two, 70 years ago.
Some in Japan view the constraint as unfair, our correspondent says, and the rise of China has reinforced the view on the right that the clause should go.
But, in a TV interview as the votes were still being counted. Mr Abe said he was in no hurry to address the issue.
"I have two more years to my term [as LDP president] and this is a goal of the LDP, so I want to address it calmly."
The opposition has asked voters to reject any adoption of a more assertive military role.
Mr Abe also said the election result was a vote of confidence on his economic policies, although he has admitted himself that his Abenomics, aimed at ending debilitating deflation, are only "half done".
"We were given approval for our mandate to powerfully pursue Abenomics. We would like to continue with our efforts to achieve what we have promised," he said.
This was the first nationwide election since the voting age was lowered from 20 to 18.
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But a new invention could provide the answer to cleaning up the ocean - by sifting off all the rubbish.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area of ocean in America between California and Hawaii, where loads of plastic waste gathers.
But now a Dutch company hope they've come up with an idea that will make cleaning up the rubbish here a much quicker and easier job.
Millions of tonnes of rubbish ends up in the oceans every year, and most of it comes from the land.
For example litter gets swept into drains, and ends up in rivers - so that plastic straw or cup lid you dropped could all end up in the sea.
And because most plastic isn't biodegradable - meaning they can't easily be broken down - they may be stuck there for many years.
The plastic is carried by currents and goes into one of the world's five revolving water systems.
These water systems are called gyres, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the most famous one - half way between Hawaii and California.
It also has another name - the Pacific Trash Vortex.
Not everyone agrees on it's size, but it has been called the largest rubbish dump on Earth.
The main idea behind The Ocean Cleanup is to let the ocean's currents do the work.
U-shaped floating barriers are attached to the ocean floor by anchors, but fish and animals can still swim underneath it without getting trapped.
The barriers will move more slowly than the plastic and act as "artificial coastlines," picking up rubbish as they go.
Then the floating plastic is forced to a collection point, where it can be taken out and shipped to shore for recycling, into things like sunglasses and car bumpers.
The idea came from Boyan Slat, a 22-year-old from the Netherlands, who created The Ocean Cleanup back in 2014.
Back then he said he hoped to clean up 42% of the ocean's rubbish in 10 years.
Since then he's developed his original idea into this one, which he says will cost less and make the clean up much faster.
His new aim to is to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just 5 years.
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Plastic rubbish dumped in the sea causes big problems for sea life, and can pollute the water we drink.
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Statistics from July show 75.3% of vehicles responding to life threatening "red calls" arrived within eight minutes - exceeding the target of 65%.
It comes as the average number of calls handled by the ambulance service each day went up by 3.4% in a month.
But Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said there was more work to do.
July was the second successive month that the service met its target in all local health boards areas.
The current targets were introduced last October as part of a new clinical response model pilot, which prioritises the most critically-ill patients.
The decision meant ambulance response time targets for all but the most serious calls were scrapped.
Previously the eight-minute target applied to about 40% of the 999 calls the ambulance service received but now applies to only to fewer than 10% - only those judged to be immediately life-threatening.
For all other calls - categorised as amber or green - the ambulance service is given more time to judge the most appropriate response.
Mr Gething said he was "proud" of the work done to ensure the target was met.
"It is very encouraging to see that all LHBs in Wales have surpassed the national target for red calls for the second consecutive month, despite steadily rising demand," he said.
"In July there were over 39,500 emergency calls made to the Welsh Ambulance Service - an average of 1,277 calls per day.
"We have much to be proud of here in Wales, however we will not be resting on our laurels.
"The Welsh Ambulance Service - and the wider health and social care system - is already planning for the coming months and the difficult winter period.
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The Care Quality Commission said there were 3,500 beds in locked facilities across the country, but it believes more people could and should get care in residential settings close to home.
The report said safety on mental health wards was another major concern.
NHS England said progress was being made with higher funding for care.
Claire Murdoch, head of mental health for NHS England, added that while there were reasons for optimism, improvements - in line with the priorities set out by the NHS five-year plan - were needed.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) looked at all specialist mental health services across England - inspecting NHS care and NHS services provided by the independent sector.
It said almost all services were rated as good or outstanding for having caring and compassionate staff and that there were many examples of excellent care.
But the report found several areas of concern.
CQC chiefs said in particular that locked rehabilitation wards (of which two thirds are managed by independent providers) did not provide the right model of care for the 21st Century.
They said some patients spent too long on these wards - with an average length of stay of 341 days.
And this leaves patients at risk of being institutionalised, with the end goal of being rehabilitated back into the community being missed, the report warns.
Dr Paul Lelliott, lead for mental health at the CQC, said: "We weren't expecting to find this many [locked rehabilitation beds].
"We can't say exactly how many of the people on these wards don't need to be in locked facilities, but we do suspect that quite a high proportion of people in these services could, and should be, moved back to be much closer to home and be cared for in residential settings that provide much more independence, and also be supported by community services rather than being in hospital."
Inspectors also said about a third of services needed improvement when it comes to safety.
And one in 20 were deemed inadequate for safety, meaning real and sometimes immediate concerns for patient safety, according to CQC chiefs.
Inspectors pointed to "old and unsuitable buildings" - for example buildings with blind spots in corridors where patients at risk of self harm could not be observed.
Adding to safety concerns were nurse shortages - with a 12% drop in mental health nursing staff between January 2010 and 2017.
Commenting on the report, Brian Dow, from the charity Rethink Mental Illness, said there was a huge level of commitment from people in the sector to deliver a high level of care but that there was an "awful long way to go".
He added: "There is fairly large number of services that the CQC says need improvement and that raises big questions about what is happening in this system.
"Is there enough money in there? Do we have the right kind of people able to deliver the care? Are people involved in their own care and are people supported and trained to deliver the care?"
Meanwhile, Ms Murdoch told the BBC she thought the report was a "really fair" assessment of the state of the nation's mental health services.
She added: "It sets out the fact that most providers of mental health care are now either moving towards the good category or are good and moving towards outstanding - so it is showing improvement. But quite rightly it also looks at what needs to improve next."
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The craze of real life escape rooms, or exit games, has really taken off in the past couple of years.
Less than two years ago there were only seven of them in the UK. Now there are nearly 100, and new ones are opening almost every week.
A bit like the fondly remembered TV programmes The Adventure Game and The Crystal Maze, the idea is for teams of people to complete challenges and accomplish tasks to reveal the code or locate the key to escape.
Chris Dickson, who runs the Exit Games UK website, says people like puzzles "because they like surprising themselves".
"A good puzzle will look impossible at first, but is designed to be solved. If you find a way to solve it you'll feel good about yourself.
"And perhaps you can crack other problems in your life that look impossible at first glance as well."
James Sweetnam, who owns City Mazes in Bristol, thinks the craze has taken off because people "get the bug".
"People love playing games. It's something you can do with friends and it's great fun.
"Once you've done one, you want to go and do another," he says.
After opening its first escape room just a month ago, the company already has three more planned - in Cardiff, London and Dubai.
Exit games are popular with adults, teenagers, families and even couples on dates.
And because they require teamwork and communication skills they are also popular as team-building exercises and corporate training events.
When the BBC visited City Mazes, a team of solicitors from Bristol was in action, trying to escape from an old abandoned office scenario.
One of them, Ben Scaffee, said the experience was "really interesting and challenging".
"We were looking for something to do on a Christmas night out, and we thought this would be something a bit different.
"We all work together so it was a real team bonding exercise - it was interesting to see people's different strengths."
Another participant, Jenna Shipsey, said: "It's different. I've never done anything like it before and never even knew it existed. I think we worked well as a team."
But James Overy was not so impressed: "It was a good team activity, but I didn't really enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
"There were too many people doing one thing at once. It was frustrating that we didn't get out."
Escape games are thought to have begun in Japan about a decade ago, and one in Hungary, which opened in 2011, is believed to have been the first in Europe.
"Budapest is one of the world's hubs for the genre and is thought to have 80 of them," says Chris Dickson.
Other examples can now be found in the USA, Canada, France and Spain, as well as in the UK.
"If the idea sounds like fun at all, you're very likely to enjoy them in practice," said Mr Dickson.
"Games vary, not just in their themes, but also in their emphases.
"Some are puzzle-heavy, some are searching-heavy, some have greater physical demands than others.
"It's clear from the way that the most popular sites have been selling out in advance for many months that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have enjoyed the genre over time in the UK, and the level of quality of the rooms is only getting better and better."
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Katie Redford was due to play the 14-year-old granddaughter of Gail McIntyre later this year.
Producers were led into believing the actress was 19-years-old. Her real age is 25.
A press release sent out by the ITV soap last week revealed Katie would take up the role in what she described as a "dream come true".
"It wasn't [Katie's] idea to audition as a 19-year-old," Katie's agent Joanne McLintock told Newsbeat.
"People in the industry do it regularly and she sort of went along with what we said.
"I'm feeling really stressed and so sorry for Katie. It's her first real job and she's a star in the making - she's a very talented young actress.
"I had to have a conversation with casting who said they were very disappointed. Katie is upset but she understands."
Katie was unavailable for comment.
It's thought producers of Coronation Street already have someone else in mind for the role.
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The teams have to officially close their factories down for two weeks and are not allowed to do any work on their cars, or even use work email.
But team bosses and drivers have mobile phones, and there is a lot to sort out in the coming weeks.
Driver contracts need to be sorted out for 2018, some teams could change engine suppliers and while they may be relaxing on the beach, or wherever, senior figures will be plotting how to maximise the second half of the championship.
Not least those at Ferrari and Mercedes, with the title battle between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton finely poised.
So let's take a look at what could change before the Belgian Grand Prix on 25-27 August - and what could happen next.
Eleven races into the world championship fight, a clear pattern has emerged in the performance of the Ferrari and Mercedes cars.
While they are closely matched everywhere, there is a trend in terms of which car performs best on which types of track.
Tight and twisty tracks, such as the last race in Hungary, favour Ferrari. The red car is already an easier car to work with, with a wider operating window. On top of that, it has a more effective high-downforce package.
In trying to match the Ferrari on these types of tracks, the Mercedes runs up against its performance limits, and as the drivers push to try to match the Ferrari, the car becomes difficult to drive, prone to snaps at the rear in some corners, understeer - a lack of front grip - in others.
As Hamilton said in Hungary: "When you drive it to a certain limit the car feels fine, but then you see Ferrari's time, you think you need to push further. So you drive 100% and the car is more on a knife edge. You are taking it into places you don't want to go."
The Mercedes, by contrast, excels on flowing, high-speed tracks, such as Silverstone, where Hamilton dominated. This is because it has better aerodynamic efficiency.
So how might this pan out over the next few races?
Mercedes should have the edge at the next two races in Belgium and Italy, on the classic Spa-Francorchamps and Monza tracks, giving Hamilton a golden opportunity to head into the Asian part of the season with an advantage.
But then comes Singapore, where Ferrari are likely to be pretty much unbeatable. Malaysia is hard to call, but might edge towards Mercedes. Japan's Suzuka is very like Silverstone and clearly a Mercedes track. Rain is common in Japan and Malaysia. The cars' relative performance in the wet is unknown, but they are conditions in which Hamilton excels.
That leaves the final four races in the USA, Mexico, Brazil and Abu Dhabi, all very hard to call.
It is, in other words, going to be tight - very tight. All the more reason for Hamilton, who admitted on Sunday he has given away more points than Ferrari, to focus over his holidays on how to stop doing that.
An unusually large number of top drivers are out of contract at the end of the year - both Ferrari drivers, Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas and McLaren's Fernando Alonso.
If it was only about performance, both Ferrari and Mercedes would be looking at Alonso, still at the peak of his considerable powers even though he had his 36th birthday over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend.
But there is too much history there, and they are not.
Nothing is set in stone yet, but it is highly likely that both top teams will retain the same driver line-up.
The key is Vettel. There have long been rumours that he has some kind of pre-contractual arrangement with Mercedes, negotiated when he was doubting Ferrari's potential towards the end of a difficult 2016 season. But as far as this writer can ascertain that is not true.
And while Hamilton is at Mercedes - he has a contract to the end of 2018 - it is hard to imagine Vettel going there, too. Partly because Vettel would be unlikely to fancy taking him on in the same team; and partly because Mercedes would be wary of putting two big beasts together (part of the reason why Alonso is not going there). And that's without considering the mammoth salary bill it would create.
Insiders close to Vettel say there is no chance at all he won't stay at Ferrari. He has gone there to emulate his friend and childhood hero Michael Schumacher and rebuild them into title winners, and they may even do it this year. He even admitted himself in Hungary, when asked whether he wanted to stay with the team: "I don't see why not."
If Vettel stays, so does Raikkonen - Ferrari, sources say, have already offered the Finn a new one-year contract on that basis.
At Mercedes, team boss Toto Wolff has strongly implied he wants to keep Bottas alongside Hamilton, but that he just wants time to think it over - which he says he will do over the break.
The reason is not so much this year's market as next year's - when both Red Bull drivers might be getable. Daniel Ricciardo's contract expires at the end of 2018, like Hamilton's. And while Max Verstappen's runs to 2019, it does contain clauses that could potentially mean he was free, depending on certain performance criteria which are not publicly known.
Outside the top three teams, much will have depended on Robert Kubica's test with Renault in Hungary - where he was setting apparently competitive times, and giving "excellent" feedback to the engineers.
The 32-year-old Pole and his former team are assessing his ability to come back to F1 more than six years after the horrific rally accident that left him with only partial use of his right arm.
If Kubica and the team are happy he can perform as before, there is no obvious reason why they would not sign him for 2018 - he's surely too good to turn down. Kubica could even race this year in place of Jolyon Palmer, who continues to struggle alongside team-mate Nico Hulkenberg.
The word is that Renault have offered Palmer a pay-off settlement, but it remains to be seen how this situation plays out.
The Kubica comeback would be one of the greatest sporting stories ever were it come off. But if it does not, Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz is said to be top of Renault's list.
The Spaniard would need to be bought out of his contract, but that could be facilitated by a potential engine swap for the Red Bull junior team, more of which in a moment.
At Williams, they face a choice of whether to continue with Felipe Massa, who missed Hungary because of illness, or choose someone else to partner Lance Stroll. And the question then is, how good a driver do they go for?
Stroll is young and raw. He has the potential and talent to be a solid and deserving F1 driver over and above the 10s of millions he brings to the team, but he is not there yet.
So there is a temptation not to aim too high and set a difficult standard for him to match. In terms of the team's overall performance, though, that approach has to be questioned - and is being by many, outside the team at least.
Alonso? He does not appear to have a lot of choices. He says he wants a competitive car next year, but with Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull not available, his realistic options are only Renault and McLaren. And Renault are not going to pay him the sort of money he commands at McLaren - $40m a year for the last three seasons.
McLaren want him to stay, and would be prepared to pay him significantly more than anyone else, but whether he re-signs may depend on which engine is in the back of the car next year. Which brings us on to…
It is no secret that McLaren's relationship with Honda is strained, following three seasons of poor performance.
Honda started the season with worse performance than they finished last year, despite a major engine redesign, and reliability has been shocking.
Only with the latest 'Phase Three' development, introduced competitively at the Austrian Grand Prix in early July, has the Honda matched the performance level it had at the end of 2016.
Unsurprisingly, then, McLaren have been casting around for a customer engine deal. First it looked like they would get a Mercedes, but that chance has now gone, as has Ferrari. That leaves Renault.
No-one wants to see Honda leave F1, though, and the Japanese company are in talks with Red Bull about supplying junior team Toro Rosso.
Red Bull's motorsport boss Helmut Marko was not even bothering to deny this last weekend. "Let's see," he said, smiling, when I asked him whether Toro Rosso would have Honda engines next year.
Red Bull's strategy is clear - get the Honda in the Toro Rosso, the overall performance of which does not really matter, as the team exists to blood young drivers, and if and when Honda get their act together, switch it to Red Bull and become the Japanese company's works partner.
At McLaren, they have lost faith Honda can do the job. And while it might not seem such a bright idea to swap the worst engine in F1 for the second worst, and give up a net $100m a year in the process, performance-wise it might make sense.
The Renault is said to be 10-15kw (13-20bhp) off a customer Mercedes engine in race trim. The Honda is just over 60kw down (about 80bhp). That's a 60bhp power jump. Which as an average is about a second's worth of lap time.
That would have put Alonso on the second row in Hungary and the third row at Silverstone. And that makes selling sponsorship deals - all but impossible for McLaren at the moment - much easier. And it would probably be enough for Alonso to feel it was worth staying in F1.
McLaren are said to be optimistic a Renault deal can be done - and some senior figures also believe it is close. However, there are others who suspect that McLaren's Renault option will go the way of Mercedes and Ferrari - why, they argue, would the French manufacturer give engines to another team besides Red Bull who might beat them?
If that happens, McLaren would be stuck with Honda.
And Alonso? Well, a year in IndyCar and a second shot at the Indy 500 might suddenly take on a new appeal.
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Four lanes of traffic will be reduced to two while repairs to the Bromley Heath Viaduct on the Avon Ring Road take place, starting in the summer.
A South Gloucestershire Council report projects queues back to the Dramway roundabout beyond Emersons Green, almost three miles (4.8 km) away.
Traffic is also predicted to queue back to the M32 and possibly the M4.
The council said essential repairs, including pier strengthening, parapet replacement and concrete repairs, are needed on the westbound viaduct over the River Frome, which was built in 1968.
A council spokesperson said it was a "major scheme which would involve bridge strengthening and road resurfacing, as well as improved provision for cyclists and pedestrians".
They added that councillors would consider a range of options, including phasing the work over a number of years or doing the work in one go starting this summer.
The issues are due to be heard by the council's Environment and Community Services committee later.
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"Your father is ruining the country," the man shouted as the aircraft prepared for departure from JFK airport in New York, a passenger told TMZ.com.
Witnesses said Ms Trump ignored the man and distracted her children with toys.
JetBlue airlines said in a statement that "the decision to remove a customer from a flight is not taken lightly".
"If the crew determines that a customer is causing conflict on the aircraft, the customer will be asked to deplane, especially if the crew feels the situation runs the risk of escalation during flight," it said.
Shortly before the Palm Beach, Florida-bound flight's departure, a New York university professor tweeted that mother-of-three Ms Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were aboard the plane "flying commercial".
"My husband chasing them down to harass them," Matthew Lasner tweeted.
According to TMZ.com, Mr Lasner's partner, Dan Goldstein, shouted: "Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private."
But Mr Lasner tweeted that "my husband expressed displeasure in a calm tone, JetBlue staff overheard, and they kicked us off the plane".
JetBlue's statement added that its "team worked to re-accommodate the party on the next available flight".
Palm Beach is home to Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, where he plans to spend the coming holiday season with his family.
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An airline has thrown a passenger off a flight after he accosted Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of President-elect Donald Trump, on a plane from New York.
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The arrest was made on Thursday as part of a joint operation between Wales Extremism Counter Terrorism Unit and West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.
The man is being questioned at a police station in the West Midlands.
A warrant for further detention was granted by magistrates on Friday which gives detectives a further seven days to question him.
West Midlands CTU said the investigation "does not concern any immediate threat to public safety."
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"I think we should've done better to try and get the game on," he said.
Mark Jones, head of operations at Rodney Parade, was "disappointed" by Sheridan's comments.
"The pitch was in a playable condition... It then started raining heavily at 12:45," said Jones.
Newport had been confident earlier in the week that the match would go ahead but referee Charles Breakspear called it off after heavy rain on Saturday.
League Two side County and Newport RFC had games postponed last weekend due to a waterlogged pitch at the same ground.
The FA Cup fixture could be rearranged for the week starting Monday, 18 January.
"I feel as though we should've prepared a little bit more for the weather," Sheridan told BBC Radio Wales.
"We knew it was a massive game for us and it was important we got the game on.
"It's not me who's going to be chatting with him [Jones] but I feel as though we should've done our best to get the game on, and I don't think we did."
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Newport County manager John Sheridan criticised the club's ground staff after their FA Cup third-round tie against Blackburn was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch at Rodney Parade.
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The blast hit a train at Taipei's Songshan station before midnight leaving some passengers badly burned.
Police told local media they found a broken tube with explosive material inside that looked like a firecracker.
Premier Lin Chuan told media it appeared "malicious" but police have not ruled out an accident.
Police bomb squad chief Lee Tzu-wen told local media that investigators found "a 15cm-long, broken metal tube stuffed with explosive material inside a black backpack" that they believe could have caused the blast.
"There was a blast and the carriage went dark. People were panicking and screaming," one passenger is quoted as telling a local news channel.
Other eyewitnesses cited in local media reported seeing a man carry a rectangular object onto the train carriage shortly before the explosion.
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An explosion ripped through a busy commuter train in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, late on Thursday injuring at least 24 people, police say.
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The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Simon Johnston subjected the 71-year-old woman to a violent ordeal which lasted for several hours.
The attack happened at a property in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in June 2015.
Judge Lady Stacey told Johnston she considered him to be a "very serious risk to public safety".
The court heard that Johnston, from Kirkcaldy, had grabbed the woman by the hair and forced her from her kitchen to a bedroom.
He was convicted of assault with intent to rape at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.
Last month, the court heard from Johnston's victim how he had ordered her to shut the windows and instructed her to be quiet.
He ignored her pleas for him to stop and threatened to kill her before restricting her breathing by placing a pillow over her mouth.
He then took a knife from the woman's kitchen, held it to her and told her he wanted sex.
The court was told that the pensioner suffered 28 injuries - and medical experts concluded that the nature of the injuries suggested she had been assaulted.
Johnston was arrested when he contacted the police after reading a story about the attack on the BBC Scotland news website.
The description of a man police were seeking in connection with the attack matched Johnston.
He got in touch with police and claimed the woman was lying.
Giving evidence, he said: "I was disgusted at what I read. The description matched me with regards to everything - right to the jeans I was wearing and I was upset because it wasn't true."
He admitted touching a knife in the woman's house but said it was because the blade was green.
"Being a Celtic fan, I just like the colour green," he said. "It was an accidental touch."
Lady Stacey ordered Johnston to be placed under supervision by the authorities for two years following his release from custody and he was put on the sex offenders register for life.
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A spokesman for the heavyweight told the Tass news agency the 36-year-old returned "low concentrations" of the substance in a blood sample in April.
Povetkin's promoters say the WBC will now decide whether the 21 May fight with Wilder in Moscow can go ahead.
The World Anti-Doping Agency said in September it was adding meldonium to its banned list from 1 January 2016.
Andrei Ryabinsky, the head of Mir Boksa promotions, described the situation as "ambiguous".
"He consumed it in September last year. He has not taken it since 1 January," he added.
"We have been in contact with the World Boxing Council, which is to decide if Povetkin's boxing bout against Deontay Wilder will take place or not."
Povetkin's fight against American Wilder, the reigning WBC heavyweight champion, is due to take place at the Megasport complex in the Russian capital.
Povetkin is the latest among several Russian athletes to fall foul of the new meldonium ban.
Tennis player Maria Sharapova was the first high-profile athlete to test positive for the Latvian-made drug - in a test taken at the end of January - but since then leading Russian athletes from boxing, skating, swimming and winter sports have all failed tests for the substance.
Recent Wada figures showed there had been 172 positive tests for meldonium this year - 27 of those involving Russians.
Wada says it is aware of the possibility of the drug remaining in an athlete's system long after taking it, as is claimed by Povetkin's management.
The organisation admitted last month there was "a lack of clear scientific information on excretion times".
It said that athletes might be able to show that they "could not have known or suspected" meldonium would still be in their systems having taken it before it was banned.
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Evans, who was convicted in 2012, was released from prison in October and saw a move to Oldham collapse this week.
The 26-year-old has been refused the right to appeal, but the Criminal Cases Review Commission is studying his case.
"I might be upsetting people but there is a question of the rape and how he's been convicted by a jury," said Bruce.
"When you look at the evidence, it is there for appeal.
"It has divided opinion of course. When you look at the case in detail - and I don't think most people have really, because they have just seen Ched Evans as a convicted rapist - but when you look at the case and the evidence then certainly Ched has got a case."
Bruce said he had spoken to Latics chairman Simon Corney and offered his support before the League One side ended their attempt to sign the Welsh striker on Thursday.
"I spoke to Simon. In my mind he has looked at the case and evidence and he was of the opinion to give the kid a chance," added Bruce. "I'm a big believer that if you have done your time, you've done your time. Everyone deserves a second chance."
Evans served half of a five-year sentence - the normal point of release - for the rape and was released on licence, which runs until the end of the five years.
League One side Oldham had said there was an "80% chance" of signing the former Wales international, before negotiations ended after death threats were made to club employees and sponsors threatened to withdraw their support.
Evans's former club Sheffield United also retracted an offer for him to use their training facilities following criticism from fans and sponsors.
Read BBC Newsbeat's article on the definition of rape and consent.
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Crews were called to a kitchen blaze at a house in Edmonton, north London, at about 12:20 GMT on Christmas Day.
After making sure the fire was out, they took the family's dinner back to the station to finish cooking it.
Watch manager Adam Baker said the family had had a "lucky escape" because they had no working smoke alarm.
London Fire Brigade posted a picture of the family on its Twitter page: "It's a #Christmas miracle! Firefighters save #Edmonton family's Christmas after oven fire."
Mr Baker said: "The oven fire was already out when we arrived. The turkey had only been in the oven for an hour, we saw the table was laid out with all the crackers and asked: 'Do you know anyone else nearby or have any neighbours that could cook the turkey for you?' But they said no.
"We were cooking our turkey back at the station so we offered to take theirs and put it in our oven and told them they could come and collect it in a few hours."
It was vital that everyone had at least one working smoke alarm, he added.
The fire is believed to have been caused by lack of maintenance and a build-up of fat in the oven.
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Viktor Sedov, 65, a veteran of the opera house's orchestra for four decades, played in the second violins.
Bolshoi spokeswoman Katerina Novikova confirmed the incident happened on Tuesday and Sedov died of his injuries in hospital on Wednesday.
She added Sedov was much loved in the theatre for his "sense of humour and extraordinary erudition".
The exact circumstances of the incident remain unclear.
His death is the latest tragedy at the Bolshoi, considered one of the world's greatest theatres.
Anatoly Iksanov, the former head of the Bolshoi Theatre, was removed from his post earlier this month, following a series of scandals including an acid attack on the ballet company's artistic director, Sergei Filin.
The Russian government appointed a new general director, Vladimir Urin, who previously headed Moscow's highly-regarded Stanislavsky Musical Theatre, in an attempt to lead the Bolshoi out of its crisis.
Soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko and two alleged accomplices have been charged in connection with the attack on Filin and are in jail awaiting trial.
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Clashes occurred after counter-demonstrators flocked to oppose rallies called by right-wing groups Reclaim Australia and United Patriots Front.
One anti-racist campaigner declared victory "against the racists".
But police said the violence meant the message from either side was lost.
Dozens answered the nationalists' call to protest near Parliament House for the state of Victoria, against what they claim is the "spread" of Islam, halal food and "non-white immigration" in Australia.
Police encircled the protesters and were in turn surrounded by hundreds of counter-demonstrators, a small number of whom tried to break through the police lines to reach the nationalists, reports said.
Bottles were thrown and protesters occasionally managed to punch or kick their opponents.
Police deployed capsicum spray and mounted officers to force back the crowds. Four people were arrested.
"[Police] were at significant threat of having their lines overrun and it was a tool we had to use at the time," said Assistant Commissioner Stephen Leane.
He claimed the message of both sides had been drowned out by "violence against our police members and police horses".
But some anti-racist campaigners accused the police of "brutally attacking anti-racist demonstrators with pepper spray".
Nonetheless, they declared victory in their confrontation with the nationalist demonstrators.
"If this was the best the 'master race' could muster, it was pathetic," said Campaign Against Racism and Fascism spokesperson Jerome Small.
"Their national mobilisation could only get out around 120."
More nationalist rallies and counter-demonstrations have been called for Sunday, including in Sydney.
The opposition Labor Party criticised a plan by government MP George Christensen to speak at a rally in Queensland state, saying it was "extraordinary" that Prime Minister Tony Abbott was allowing it.
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The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found.
There is also evidence that this group was widespread in Eurasia.
A study in Nature journal shows that Denisovans co-existed with Neanderthals and interbred with our species - perhaps around 50,000 years ago.
An international group of researchers sequenced a complete genome from one of the ancient hominins (human-like creatures), based on nuclear DNA extracted from a finger bone.
According to the researchers, this provides confirmation there were at least four distinct types of human in existence when anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) first left their African homeland.
Along with modern humans, scientists knew about the Neanderthals and a dwarf human species found on the Indonesian island of Flores nicknamed The Hobbit. To this list, experts must now add the Denisovans.
The implications of the finding have been described by Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London as "nothing short of sensational".
Scientists were able to analyse DNA from a tooth and from a finger bone excavated in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia. The individuals belonged to a genetically distinct group of humans that were distantly related to Neanderthals but even more distantly related to us.
The finding adds weight to the theory that a different kind of human could have existed in Eurasia at the same time as our species.
Researchers have had enigmatic fossil evidence to support this view but now they have some firm evidence from the genetic study carried out by Professor Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
"A species of early human living in Europe evolved," according to Professor Paabo.
"There was a western form that was the Neanderthal and an eastern form, the Denisovans."
The study shows that Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of the present day people of the Melanesian region north and north-east of Australia. Melanesian DNA comprises between 4% and 6% Denisovan DNA.
David Reich from the Harvard Medical School, who worked with Svante Paabo on the study, says that the fact that Denisovan genes ended up so far south suggests they were widespread across Eurasia: "These populations must have been spread across thousands and thousands of miles," he told BBC News.
One mystery is why the Denisovan genes are unique in modern Melanesians and are not found in other Eurasian groups that have so far been sampled.
Professor Stringer believes it is because there may have been only a fleeting encounter as modern humans migrated through South-East Asia and then on to Melanesia.
"It could be just 50 Denisovans interbreeding with a thousand modern humans. That would be enough to produce this 5% of those archaic genes being transferred," he said.
"So the impact is there but the number of interbreeding events might have been quite small and quite rare."
No one knows when or how these humans disappeared but, according to Professor Paabo, it is very likely something to do with modern people because all the "archaic" humans, like Denisovans and Neanderthals disappeared sometime after Homo sapiens sapiens appeared on the scene.
"It is fascinating to see direct evidence that these archaic species did exist (alongside us) and it's only for the last few tens of thousands of years that is unique in our history that we are alone on this planet and we have no close relatives with us anymore," he said.
The study follows a paper published earlier this year by Professor Paabo and colleagues that showed there was interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals as they emerged from Africa 60,000 years ago.
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The front-runner is a former state governor and Dalit (formerly untouchable) leader, Ram Nath Kovind.
He is being challenged by opposition candidate and India's first woman speaker Meira Kumar who is also a Dalit.
Indian presidents are not elected directly by the people but by an electoral college made up of members of parliament and state assemblies.
The results of the poll are expected to be announced on 20 July.
The winner will replace Pranab Mukherjee, a political veteran of the main opposition Congress party, who has held the post from 2012.
Polling began in parliament in the capital, Delhi, and state capitals, at 1000 (04:30GMT). Voting is expected to end at 1700 hours.
A total of 4,896 lawmakers - parliamentarians and legislators - are expected to vote in Monday's election.
Mr Kovind, 71, a trained lawyer, has been a two-time BJP MP and governor of the Bihar state. If elected he will be India's second Dalit president.
Congress veteran Meira Kumar, 72, a former lawyer and diplomat, is also from the Dalit community. She has been elected to parliament five times and holds a seat in the state of Bihar.
She is the daughter of the late Babu Jagjivan Ram, a prominent Dalit leader and former deputy prime minister of India.
The Indian president's position is largely ceremonial, but presidents do play decisive roles in in determining who forms the government when national elections do not produce clear results.
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Voting is being held in India to elect a new president.
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The 54-year-old left Mercedes in January and a move to Williams has been mooted since December, but the deal took longer than expected to complete.
Lowe, one of the most highly regarded technical leaders in Formula 1, will have responsibility for the engineering side of the entire Williams business.
This includes the F1 team but also the Advanced Engineering commercial arm.
Lowe, who started work at Williams on Thursday, will also be on the board of directors and take an undisclosed shareholding in the company.
Lowe was executive director (technical) at Mercedes from 2013, and led the team through three consecutive drivers' and constructors' championship doubles from 2014-16.
But he was put on gardening leave by Mercedes this winter after a difference of opinion with F1 boss Toto Wolff about the future direction of the team.
Lowe has been replaced by James Allison, who has been given a different title of technical director, having left that position at Ferrari last year.
For Lowe, it means a career coming full circle. He started work in F1 at Williams in 1987 and played a central role in the development of the active suspension system on the dominant FW14B car with which Nigel Mansell won the 1992 world title, and its successor the FW15C, with which Alain Prost was victorious in 1993.
Lowe joined McLaren in 1993 and stayed there until moving to Mercedes, rising to the position of technical director.
Lowe said: "I've always had a deep respect for Williams - my first team in Formula 1. It is a huge honour to return in this leadership position and to have the opportunity to become a shareholder. I am extremely motivated to play my part in bringing success back to the team."
Deputy team principal Claire Williams said: "Having someone of Paddy's calibre and engineering competence is not only a morale boost for everyone at Williams, but I know it will also significantly support our efforts to return this team back to the front of the grid.
"Our ambitions at Williams are unwavering, we want to win races and championships, but to do that you need the best talent in the business. In Paddy we believe we have just that as well as a leader who will drive change. This is a game changer for us."
Lowe joins Williams after a season in which they slipped from third to fifth in the constructors' championship.
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There is no clear link between infection with Xylella fastidiosa and the dessication symptoms affecting trees in the area, authorities claim.
Ten people in Puglia have been placed under investigation over their handling of the outbreak.
Italy is the EU's second biggest producer of olive oil.
Disease 'major threat' to EU olives
"We have found trees not affected by desiccation which tested positive for Xylella, and dried-out trees which tested negative," Lecce prosecutor Cataldo Motta said.
Those accused are being investigated for violations including spreading a plant disease and the destruction or disfigurement of natural beauty.
The European Commission says Xylella is one of the biggest disease threats to plants worldwide.
There is no effective treatment for infected plants and Commission regulations say the only solution is to destroy them and establish Xylella-free buffer zones around them.
In July the bacteria was found in southern Corsica, prompting emergency measures there.
Xylella has previously ravaged vineyards in California and citrus groves in Brazil. The disease is believed to kill plants by dehydration, as it blocks the delivery of sap in the xylem tissue.
The EU Commission says the bacterium found in Italy is believed to be a new genetic variant, "for which the range of host plants is still unclear". It is being spread by the meadow froghopper bug, which feeds on the sap of olive trees.
The EU tightened measures to contain the Xylella threat in May. They include a ban on all imports of coffee plants from Costa Rica or Honduras, though coffee seeds can still be imported.
The updated EU rules say Xylella has been detected in numerous coffee plants imported from the two Central American states.
The EU ordered Italy to demarcate the whole of Lecce province as an infected zone and create a 10km (six-mile) buffer zone around it. Lecce is the southernmost province in the Puglia region.
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The rebels carried out the attack in the central region of Cusco - the same area where they kidnapped a group of gas workers in April.
The Shining Path has been severely weakened since it started its insurgency in the 1980s.
However remnants continue to be active in parts of the country and have allied themselves with drug traffickers.
The attack in the early hours of Saturday happened at the airfield in Kiteni, in the jungle region of Cusco, close to the only natural gas pipeline in the country.
No-one was injured or abducted, the military said. It is not clear why the rebels attacked the airstrip.
Local media said the rebels may have been trying to ambush a military patrol, and when they failed, decided to attack the airstrip instead.
Following the incident, the consortium Transportadora de Gas del Peru (TGP) said it would suspend all maintenance work in the region.
"We trust that the state will provide the resources and take the steps necessary to reestablish security in the area," TGP said in a statement.
In April, a group of 36 gas workers was briefly kidnapped by the Shining Path in the same area.
The rebels had reportedly demanded a "war contribution" from the gas workers' employer.
The Peruvian army has sent reinforcements to the area to protect the airfield.
The Maoist Shining Path rebel group posed a major challenge to the Peruvian state in the 1980s and early 1990s, but is now reduced to small gangs involved in cocaine trafficking.
More than a dozen members of the security forces have been killed in clashes with the rebels so far this year.
And while the government says it has defeated the rebels in their stronghold in the Alto Huallaga Valley, the guerrilla group has mounted a series of successful attack in Peru's south-eastern Apurimac and Ene valleys, where much of the country's coca is grown.
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Speaking at the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report on Tuesday, he said he wants the government to accept responsibility.
The report found a school system for indigenous children separated families and tried to weaken their culture.
Over 3,000 children died while at the schools over the last century.
Six years in the making, the nearly 4,000-page report found they died at a higher rate than the general population and many were buried in unmarked graves.
Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologised to survivors in 2008, but some critics saw the apology as hollow.
Mr Trudeau said the final report builds on Mr Harper's apology and "sets us squarely on a path to true reconciliation".
"Our goal, as we move forward together, is clear: it is to lift this burden from your shoulders, from those of your families and communities," said Mr Trudeau, speaking to survivors of the schools in Ottawa. "It is to accept fully our responsibilities and our failings, as a government and as survivors."
Government-led policy amounted to cultural genocide, the report found.
The commission found the policy was enacted because the country "wished to divest itself of its legal and financial obligations to Aboriginal people and gain control over their land and resources."
From 1840 to 1996, more than 150,000 First Nations, Metis ands Inuit children were separated from their families and placed in the government-run schools, in an attempt to rid them of their "Indian" culture.
Many endured emotional, physical and sexual abuse, with the final report detailing cases of rape and malnutrition.
The schools were run by Christian churches. Many survivors are still recovering from having their families separated for decades.
Mr Trudeau has set up a government inquiry to investigate missing and murdered indigenous women.
He said last week the Canadian government must renew its relationship with indigenous peoples.
"It is my deepest hope that this report and its findings will help heal some of the pain...The Government of Canada sincerely apologises and asks forgiveness of the Aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly," Mr Trudeau said.
"We have a plan to move towards a nation-to-nation relationship based on rights, respect, cooperation and partnership, and we are already making it happen."
He pledged that the government would enact all of the report's recommendations, beginning with the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The government will also work with indigenous leaders on a "national reconciliation framework", he said.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged "full reconciliation" with Canada's indigenous peoples after a report detailed decades of abuse.
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The Samoa scrum-half, 33, has been with Northampton since joining from the Ospreys in 2013 and was part of their Premiership title-winning side in 2014.
Ford said that the signing of Fotuali'i will add experience to his side.
"We've got some great youngsters but we're going to get that experience, Luke Charteris in, (Taulupe) Faletua in and Kahn Fotuali'i in," he continued.
"That's the experience that we need."
Bath finished the Premiership season in ninth place following a 38-27 win over Leicester on Saturday in their final game.
Fotuali'i told BBC Radio Northampton: "I've enjoyed my time here. I'm sad to be leaving a big club.
"I've got another big challenge in front of me and I'm pretty excited about it."
Last week it was confirmed that South African scrum-half Nic Groom will join Northampton from Super Rugby side Stormers ahead of next season.
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The 29-year-old only joined Atletico last summer from Bayern Munich and scored 20 goals in 43 games for the Spanish side.
He has agreed a four-year deal with the beaten Champions League finalists, who said the fee could rise to £15m.
"I like Juventus and I like the city [Turin]. I hope I will be happy here. I will fight for my new team," he said.
It is the third time in four years Mandzukic has joined a side straight after they lost the Champions League final, following his 2012 move to Bayern and last summer's switch to Atletico.
Juventus striker Carlos Tevez, their top scorer last season with 20 Serie A strikes, has been linked with a move away from the Italian champions.
Argentine legend Diego Maradona hinted recently he could rejoin Boca Juniors.
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Juventus have signed Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic from Atletico Madrid for £13.6m.
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Ministers are due to publish draft laws modelled on Irish legislation introduced in 2010, with prison sentences of up to seven years.
However, a senior Irish drugs officer has admitted the law can leave police powerless to prosecute.
The Home Office said the UK system would be "flexible and proportionate".
The Irish Psychoactive Substances Act says it is illegal to buy or sell substances that are "psychoactive".
But a BBC investigation has found that Ireland's drugs squad is unable to act against a range of legal-high type drugs because of problems with the legislation.
To bring a prosecution, police must scientifically prove that a substance has a psychoactive effect. So far, there have been only four successful prosecutions in five years.
One form of synthetic cannabis linked to a number of deaths is being openly traded in some Irish towns, obtained on the internet and marketed as Clockwork Orange or Happy Joker. It costs about 10 euros a gram, or £10 a gram in the UK.
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One of Ireland's top drug squad officers, Det Sgt Tony Howard from the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, said: "Unfortunately a prosecution cannot be taken."
"There are problems. It's not perfect legislation."
Police scientists have examined samples of the drugs but have so far been unable to prove that they are technically "psychoactive", he said.
"We are relying on scientists to assist us with these prosecutions and, unfortunately, they haven't been able to provide the evidence to us."
The admission has prompted calls for the UK Home Office to postpone similar legislation in Britain.
"The comments raise serious doubts about the likely consequences of the government's legislation," said Baroness Meacher, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Reform.
"I believe that, given these concerns, the government should pause the bill and call for a full impact assessment of the Irish psychoactive substances ban".
Despite Ireland's ban on legal-high type drugs, two young men on one estate in Monaghan recently died after using the synthetic cannabis.
"It killed them. It killed both of them," synthetic cannabis addict David O'Leary said.
"It killed my brother Michael in December and it killed my best friend two months before that. He took his own life."
David is also addicted to the drug, which he describes as more addictive and dangerous than heroin.
"It's a dirty, dirty drug. You want to cut yourself to pieces or cut your throat or hang yourself.
"Last week I had a plan to hurt my own brother. I had a plan in my head to get up and stick a knife in his stomach and twist it because he had money and I hadn't."
A public meeting was called after the body of one young man, PJ McQuaid, was found hanging from a tree in the middle of the Monaghan estate last October. He had been trying to beat his addiction to the synthetic cannabis.
The meeting turned angry after the local police chief explained that, even with the blanket ban on psychoactive drugs, Clockwork Orange was legal and his officers could do little to stop it.
"I blame the Garda (Irish police)," PJ's mother Sharon McQuaid said.
"They know who the dealers are but they just turn a blind eye."
Det Sgt Howard said the police had interviewed a number of people, but had to "act within the legislation that we have".
"I am aware of those cases where unfortunately we have had fatalities," he added.
A local community worker says whole families are addicted to the legal-high type drugs, empty packets are scattered like leaves across the Mullaghmatt estate.
"It is an epidemic, that's what it is," Packie Kelly said.
"The legislation doesn't seem to be working here. The availability of it seems to be endless. It's as easily got now as cigarettes."
Most of the supplies of the drug are obtained via the internet. David O'Leary says a large delivery arrived in Monaghan last week.
"It comes in a box and you open the door and sign for it and the smokes are in your hand. And that's it."
Another young man from a different Irish town had a similar story: "It is in every town. There's loads of it online," he said.
"One time it did my head in that much I took an overdose and ended up in hospital. I very nearly died."
A blanket ban on legal highs, which are often sold online or on the High Street, was in the Conservative Party's election manifesto and featured in the Queen's Speech.
The Psychoactive Substances Bill will apply to "any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect", the government has said.
What are legal highs?
Alcohol, tobacco and caffeine will be excluded, and there are also exemptions for food and medical products, while controlled drugs will continue to be regulated by existing laws.
Home Office Minister Lord Bates recently confirmed that the proposals are based on Ireland's legislation.
"As with the legislation in the Irish Republic, we have designed the enforcement framework so that the police, local authorities and other law enforcement agencies can adopt a flexible, proportionate response," he told the House of Lords.
Some brands of synthetic cannabis have already been classified as Class B drugs in Britain under the Misuse of Drugs Act, but the government says the blanket ban on all psychoactive substances is required to deal quickly with new products as soon as they emerge.
"We need a system that is nimble enough to be able to nip problems in the bud before they escalate," Lord Bates explained.
An amendment to the legislation has now been tabled calling on the UK home secretary to "conduct an impact assessment" of Ireland's Psychoactive Substances Act before the blanket ban is introduced.
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The referendum over whether to remain as five states or form a single region runs until Wednesday.
It is being held amid ongoing insecurity and many displaced people have not been registered to vote.
The US has said the vote will not be credible but President Omar al-Bashir insists it will be free and fair.
Bashir defiant on Darfur tour
"If held under current rules and conditions, a referendum on the status of Darfur cannot be considered a credible expression of the will of the people of Darfur," said US State Department spokesman Mark Toner.
The referendum is the last step in a peace process negotiated in Doha. Rebels have long requested more regional powers to end what they see as Khartoum's interference in land ownership conflicts.
If Darfur chose to form one region, it would carry more weight within Sudan, they believe.
But the BBC's West Africa Correspondent Thomas Fessy, who recently visited Darfur with Mr Bashir, says many of those who initially wanted this referendum will be likely to boycott the vote because they say it will not be fair.
More than 2.5m people remain displaced in Darfur and 130,000 more have fled renewed violence this year, the UN says.
Some 300,000 people have been killed since conflict broke out in the troubled region in 2003.
Janjaweed militiamen riding horses spread terror in a multi-layered conflict after rebels took arms against the central government, feeling marginalised.
The Janjaweed were used by the government alongside bombing campaigns. Today, many have been integrated into the Rapid Support Forces, currently fighting in the Jebel Marra region.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has indicted President Bashir on counts of genocide and war crimes committed in Darfur.
Mr Bashir - who has told the BBC he will step down as president in 2020 - has dismissed the ICC as a "political tribunal".
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The western Sudanese region of Darfur is to vote on its administrative status, 13 years after the start of a conflict which has left 300,000 dead.
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But there is something about this picture of Richard Keble - the Keeper of the Great Seal under Cromwell - that has recently led to a few MPs performing double takes when they pass it in the Smoking Room.
Has the Parliamentarian and Judge, who was banned from public office after the Restoration and the return of King Charles II, been reincarnated to lead the Labour Party?
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There are so many portraits of parliamentary titans of the past on the walls of the Palace of Westminster, that MPs and Peers almost tune them out.
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His wife greeted him at their home in Toronto, Canada, and he was seen on the estate grounds by 14:00 (16:00 GMT).
Black, 67, who controlled an empire including the Daily Telegraph in the UK, and US papers including the Chicago Sun-Times, left prison early on Friday.
Earlier, Canada said he would be allowed to live there upon his release.
Black was born in Canada but renounced his citizenship in 2001 to accept a peerage in Britain's House of Lords. He is a British citizen.
The move to grant Black a one-year temporary residence permit stirred debate in Canada's House of Commons.
Tom Mulcair, leader of the New Democratic Party, said Black had received special treatment.
"No-one else has ever been in that situation, of being still in jail, having his dossier marched around all the offices of the minister and getting his approval before even getting out of the slammer," Mr Mulcair said, according to CBC News.
But Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney countered that approval of Black's application had been processed by "highly trained, independent members of our public service" and had not been subject to political interference.
In 2007 Black was convicted of defrauding Hollinger International shareholders of $6.1m (£3.8m), by paying himself a tax-free bonus from the sale of newspaper assets without the approval of the company's board.
He had been forced out of the company by shareholders in 2003.
After his conviction, Black was sentenced to 78 months in prison. He was released two years later while he pursued a partially successful appeal, in which a judge cut his sentence down to 42 months, including the 29 months he had already served.
Black reported to prison in September to complete the remainder of his sentence but was released after eight months on good behaviour.
Upon his release, Black was transferred to the custody of US immigration authorities before he travelled to Canada.
As a British citizen, he could have returned to Britain.
Black, who became Lord Black of Crossharbour, was known for his extravagant lifestyle.
It was reported that he had two apartments on Park Avenue in New York - one for himself and his wife, writer Barbara Amiel, and one for his domestic staff.
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Former media mogul Conrad Black has been released from prison in Miami after serving just over three years for defrauding investors.
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The 26-year-old Swede, who has played 25 times for the Championship promotion chasers, will undergo surgery on his left knee.
He suffered the injury in Saturday's 1-0 loss to Ipswich.
"The feeling for this type of injury is around the nine months mark to get back," said Hornets head of medical Richard Collinge.
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Watford defender Joel Ekstrand is expected to be out until December with a cruciate knee ligament injury.
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Gareth Pugh, 29, from Glynnaeth, Neath Port Talbot, was found in the water at Peterstone Lakes Golf Club, Newport, in February 2016.
Dale Pike, 25, of Glynneath, and Jonathan Pike, 47, of Aberdare, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court accused of manslaughter by gross negligence.
They did not enter a plea and were bailed to appear again on 10 February.
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Two men have appeared in court on manslaughter charges following the death of a golf club greens keeper.
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If some teachers interpret their new role as propagandists for this kingdom's existing system of governance, that would be a shame, because right now our democracy is not serving this country particularly well.
Far from providing the stability and legitimacy it promises, our peculiar democratic system has served to expose and deepen social divides.
It has contrived to leave our country perilously vulnerable at a critical moment in its history.
Rather than seeking to close down critical challenge of our form of democracy, we need a serious and urgent conversation about how we can improve matters.
No-one voted for a country led by a wounded prime minister, without a clear negotiating position on Brexit with days to go before the talks on our country's fate begin, having to do humiliating backroom deals to get even the most routine domestic legislation through Parliament.
The rest of the world looks on bewildered at Britain's capacity to turn a huge political challenge into a potential catastrophe.
Yes, turnout was the highest since 1997, and there are signs that young people may have participated in larger numbers than in previous elections.
These must be encouraging signs for the democratic process.
But almost a third of the electorate still didn't bother to exercise their democratic right.
And for nine out of 10 of those that did last week, the victorious party in their constituency didn't change.
In many seats, that has been the case for decades.
The overall result may have been unexpected and even "extraordinary", but for the vast majority of voters, the local outcome could be construed as suggesting people were quite happy with the status quo.
"No-one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise," Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in 1947.
"Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Most people would probably agree with that, and David Cameron was surely right to argue that democracy is a keystone in the curtain wall that defines our nation's character, a feature of British life that must be defended.
But a democracy's strength is not measured only in its ability to withstand external attack. It must be loved and cherished by those within.
Talk to people the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, and you will hear the argument that the system ignores ordinary people, that their voice is not being heard by the distant elites.
Democracy, they say, is failing them.
At a time in world history when power is shifting further away from the ordinary citizen to international institutions and global corporations, this sense of democratic deficit is felt even more keenly.
National and local democratic structures need to be more responsive, but in Britain people feel they are increasingly remote.
This snap election will have done little to restore people's faith in the democratic process.
There were few if any winners, no clarity, no sense of national purpose on the eve of battle.
If people felt their voice was irrelevant before, they are unlikely to think the system is any better now.
Our two main political parties were founded and evolved to deal with the social and economic challenges of the industrial revolution.
Conservative and Labour, left and right, capitalism and socialism - these ideological movements were a response to the economic and cultural challenges of power moving from the field to the factory.
But power is moving again, from the national to the multinational.
How citizens think we should respond to that shift is the new divide in our politics.
It is less about left v right and more about nationalism v globalism.
The 9.5% increase in the vote share for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party and the 6% increase in Theresa May's Conservative support might be held up as evidence that the British electorate is once again becoming more "tribal" in left-right terms.
But I suspect old-fashioned political tribalism is actually on the wane.
Frustrated by the profound limitations of a first-past-the-post electoral system, voters are striving to get their voice heard as best they can.
On the cost of living, on trade, on public services, on climate change, on our future prosperity - we are living in dangerously uncertain times.
Smaller parties that face no realistic chance of power, however attractive, get squeezed out at such moments.
Protest votes can seem like a luxury.
The Corbyn-May manifestos were hardly notable for their ideological purity either.
Labour proposed protecting rich pensioners, while the Tories pointedly did not.
The Conservatives proposed taxing businesses for using foreign workers, the Labour party promised to work with business to identify skill shortages.
You will hear commentators suggesting that the result of this election sends a clear message to our political leaders.
But the idea that the final electoral arithmetic gives effect to some silent national consensus on what Britain wants is just absurd.
A weakened government exclusively wooing one small party's MPs, politicians that 99.4% of the public didn't vote for - to imagine that this somehow reflects the "will of the people" is self-evidently fanciful.
So what is the will of the people?
Analysing what happened last Thursday reveals all kinds of contradictory and opaque views within the voting patterns.
There are deep divides between young and old, town and country, north and south, rich and poor.
There was no definable message from the electorate last Thursday.
A British general election is a very blunt democratic tool.
The nuanced opinions that the country and, indeed, every voter holds are impossible to explain from a simple "X" in a single box.
And the diminution of local government in England, the weakening of the trade union movement, the impotence of political protest movements, the increasing centralisation of overarching authority to one house in Downing Street - these add to the sense that the "demos" (people) are increasingly excluded from the "kratos" (power).
The defining feature of our democracy, this cornerstone of British values, is that citizens have a participatory role in political and civic life. The people have a voice.
The debate we must have now is how to convince the populace that the United Kingdom does have a democracy that allows that voice to be listened to, understood and acted upon.
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Evans, 25, was convicted of rape in April 2012 and jailed for five years. He is due to be released in October.
The Blades have refused to comment on a possible return for the striker they signed for £3m in 2009.
However, Alan Smith from the official Sheffield United supporters' club said: "I've been told he will be back."
He added: "I think that for most supporters it's good he's coming back because of what he did for us before. I think that he's served his time."
However, Nicky, who is among the signatories to the petition, told BBC Radio 5 live's Victoria Derbyshire: "I appreciate he's done his time in prison but there's an argument about rehabilitation and many of us who have signed the petition do not feel Ched has been rehabilitated."
She added: "He continues to protest his innocence and for him to walk back into a high-profile job where he's seen as a role model as if nothing has happened is just really appalling."
Nacro, the crime reduction charity, said gainful employment was critical in helping people put their criminal past behind them.
Graham Beech, director of strategic development at the charity, said: "It is the police, probation and other relevant agencies' responsibility to protect the public and it is the employer's responsibility to assess any risks that are involved in employing the individual. Both need to put appropriate safeguards in place.
"This includes the risk of harm to employees and the general public and any business and reputational risks to the employer no matter how high profile that job or that employment may be."
Evans, a Wales international, denied raping the 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in Rhyl, in north Wales, but was found guilty by a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court.
He has tried to have his conviction overturned and, in July, asked the Criminal Cases Review Commission to examine the case.
The footballer's girlfriend, Natasha Massey, told BBC Radio 5 live: "Ched will forever maintain his innocence and we will continue to appeal.
"Anyone who is released from prison, part of their rehabilitation is to return to work.
"Ched's work so happens to be a professional footballer so I think he should be allowed to return to his job.
"Ched would love to play for Sheffield again. He loved his time there."
Evans scored 42 goals in his 103 appearances for Sheffield United, who are among the favourites to gain promotion to the Championship this season.
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In 1983, The Conservative MP wrote he "would not rest" until the Paedophile Information Exchange was outlawed.
Lord Brittan wanted to see if existing laws proved adequate first.
Before his death in January this year, the Tory peer had faced questions over his handling of child abuse allegations during his time in office.
The letters between Lord Brittan and Mr Dickens, who died in 1995, have been made public after a Freedom of Information request from the BBC.
Notes of a meeting at which Mr Dickens urged the peer to ban the exchange (PIA) have also been released.
At the heart of the controversy facing Lord Brittan before he died was a so-called dossier on alleged high-profile paedophiles handed to him by Mr Dickens, a long-standing campaigner against child abuse.
Lord Brittan always insisted the proper procedures had been followed.
The BBC submitted the FOI request for these documents to be made public last summer, when the story of the "Dickens' dossier" made national headlines.
In the first letter, dated 17 August 1983, Mr Dickens, then MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth, asked for PIE to be banned, and called for the law protecting children from sexual abuse to be toughened up.
Mr Dickens wrote: "I shall not rest until we outlaw such organisations and it will not embarrass me to put our front bench under tremendous pressure on this subject because this time I shall carry the House of Commons and the country with me - be in no doubt."
On 23 November 1983, Mr Dickens met Lord Brittan, junior Home Office minister David Mellor and three others, believed to be civil servants.
On the question of banning PIE, the official taking the meeting notes wrote that the home secretary was of the view that it would be important to see if existing laws proved adequate first.
Lord Brittan is also said to have raised "the fundamental objection to banning an organisation that if members of the organisation were doing a mischief, it was the mischief which ought to be banned, not the organisation".
Mr Dickens introduced a Paedophilia (Protection of Children) Bill to make membership of PIE and similar organisations illegal in June 1984.
The Bill did not proceed but PIE is believed to have disbanded later that year.
The meeting minutes also confirm that Mr Dickens handed over two letters, one of which concerned allegations of paedophilia in the Civil Service.
In response Lord Brittan is reported to have told Mr Dickens that "he was prepared to ensure that any evidence of such activities which had substance to them would be investigated".
"He would certainly ensure that the letters which Mr Dickens had handed him were looked into."
Mr Dickens also reiterated calls for the law to be toughened up on dealing with pornographic material involving children.
According to the meeting notes, Lord Brittan is said to have considered the law on incitement of sexual activities with children to be "not so clear" and a matter he would "want to look at" in the future.
Lord Brittan also advised Mr Dickens on what to say to the press about their conversation.
Following the meeting, Mr Dickens wrote what appears to be a cover note to the home secretary on 17 January 1984, enclosing more cases for investigation and enquiring about the progress made on the cases previously handed over.
He also thanked Lord Brittan for his "splendid support".
An independent review of Home Office files from 1979-1999, produced in April 2013, confirmed that the Home Office did receive information from Mr Dickens in November 1983 and January 1984 about alleged child abuse.
The subsequent Wanless Inquiry into the Home Office's handling of child sexual abuse claims in the 1980s failed to uncover the "dossier".
The material obtained by the BBC was examined during the course of these investigations but was not made public.
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Station F cost 250m euros (£212m) to renovate and its central section will be able to seat more than 3,000 entrepreneurs.
The site will open later in 2017.
BBC Click finds out more.
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A former railway station in Paris is being turned into the world's largest incubator for tech start-ups.
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The NSPCC responded to 691 NI contacts over a 12-month period in 2011/2012.
More than half of the calls (353), resulted in referrals to police or children's services.
The NSPCC said one third of callers from NI had child protection concerns for six months before speaking out.
A further 21% delayed reporting their concerns by between one and six months.
The NSPCC operates a telephone helpline and an online service for adults who are concerned about the welfare of a child or young person.
The calls that were referred to local authorities in Northern Ireland involved a total of 717 children.
Margaret Gallagher, campaigns co-ordinator for the NSPCC in Northern Ireland, said delays in reporting concerns could contribute to the distress and suffering of a child experiencing abuse or neglect.
"We understand that it's incredibly difficult to pick up the phone, and we are really grateful to those people who do take action when they have concerns," she said.
"People clearly have the desire to act but are unsure how or when to do it. What we would emphasise is that trained professionals assess the information given and either give advice and support to the caller or make a referral to children's services or police if required."
The charity has launched a local campaign to encourage the public to report their concerns at an early stage.
Ms Gallagher said most of the referrals from helpline concerned "neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse" and many of the children identified by callers were not known to existing services.
"The majority of contacts leading to referrals came from members of the public, not from family members or professionals.
"While many of the contacts to the helpline simply result in our counsellors providing child protection advice and guidance to parents, relatives, friends and members of the public, the key message we want to send is 'don't wait until you're certain'," she said.
The NSPCC has also signed up to a memorandum of understanding with the Health and Social Care Board (HSCB), that aims to establish a "seamless interface" with health and social services.
Neil Anderson, head of NSPCC services in Northern Ireland, added:"The important thing for everyone to know is that this an around-the-clock service where adults can report, or seek advice on, child protection concerns.
"We will continue to work with colleagues in the statutory and voluntary sectors, and the general public in Northern Ireland, to raise awareness of the helpline."
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A child protection helpline has reported a 58% rise in the number of calls it received from Northern Ireland last year, compared to the previous year.
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Wolff admitted to phoning the 19-year-old's father, Jos Verstappen, but said: "I didn't say to move out of the way, nor to race in any different way."
Verstappen starts Sunday's Brazilian GP fourth with Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg on the front row.
Wolff said the phone call was "a complete non-story".
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said he was "surprised" to hear Wolff had "called another team's driver's father".
But Wolff said he had known the family for years and that, in a wide ranging conversation, he had offered some advice about the teenager as a friend to Jos Verstappen, who drove in F1 between 1994 and 2003.
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Wolff said: "First of all, I felt that unfortunately for Max there was a negative spin in some of the media around his driving, which I said was unjustified in my eyes and which I felt needed to be countered somehow.
"And I did it only out of sympathy for Max and Jos and nothing else, and I said I felt (Jos) being at the races was an important factor.
"It was the set-up of the Verstappen family for 20 years since go-karting and that's why I felt Jos being present was important for Max. It was my personal opinion, not as somebody from Mercedes but as part of a personal conversation I would have with him regularly. And he acknowledged that.
"And number two was: it's two races from the end of the season and if an accident would happen with Lewis or Nico, that would add to some of the negative spin in the media, and this can be avoided."
Verstappen has been in the spotlight this season for some controversial driving, which has led to a new rule being written to define how drivers can defend their position.
And the Dutchman was involved in a small collision with Rosberg at the first corner of the last race in Mexico, from which both cars continued with no damage.
Wolff added about Verstappen: "I said I think he's a great driver, he has incredible skill, he is refreshing as a character, he is spontaneous, he is intelligent.
"Outside the Red Bull team, I am a really big fan and he is just what the doctor ordered for F1. The last thing I want, and the last thing he will do anyway, is change his approach."
Hamilton, who starts the race 19 points behind Rosberg and must prevent the German from taking the win that would seal the title, said: "I wouldn't expect anything less than 100% from any other driver."
Rosberg said: "As a race driver, you don't treat anyone differently because he's fighting for the championship. At least that's the way I used to do it."
Both Verstappen and Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo have said they will race as normal, but would "respect" the fact Hamilton and Rosberg were title contenders.
Ricciardo said if he saw an opportunity to overtake a Mercedes driver, he would go for it if he felt he could make the pass stick without risking damaging either car.
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Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has denied claims he asked Max Verstappen's father to tell the Red Bull driver not to interfere in the title fight.
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A tweet on Mr Gandhi's timeline addressed his "haters" and was retweeted by the official account of the Congress party.
The new message appeared shortly after a series of abusive tweets on both accounts were deleted.
Mr Gandhi has said the hacking reflects badly on India's digital security.
He also used the incident to question the government's push to get people to bank online.
Online payments and digital wallets have been pushed as alternatives to cash transactions ever since India banned 500 and 1,000 rupee notes last month in a bid to curb corruption.
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The party has lodged a complaint with the cyber cell of the Delhi police which is investigating the incident. The police have said that they are asking Twitter for information.
While the first batch of tweets were deleted within 30 minutes, the new message leading Mr Gandhi's timeline has been up for five hours, indicating that the party has still not managed to regain control of the account.
Meanwhile, the attacks have generated much reaction on Indian social media.
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The Twitter account of India's main opposition Congress party and its leader Rahul Gandhi have been repeatedly targeted by hackers.
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The Shen Neng 1 hit a shoal in April 2010, leaking tonnes of heavy fuel oil.
Conservationists have described the settlement, which is less than a third of the full clean-up cost of $105m (£80m), as "woefully inadequate".
The clean-up operation will begin mid next year.
The 230m (750 ft) ship had ground against a coral shoal for more than a kilometre, turning coral into dust.
Shenzhen Energy Transport, the firm behind the carrier, refused to accept responsibility for the damage for six years.
They argued the reef was self-healing and the company should not have to pay the bill.
On Monday, the two sides reached an out-of-court settlement.
The settlement showed Australia would "use every available means to pursue ship owners who are negligent in causing damage to the reef", Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said.
The funds will allow the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to remove toxic anti-fouling paint and rubble, allowing the reef to be restored.
However, Greenpeace Australia called the settlement "disappointing".
"The government has said the full clean up will cost more than $105m so to settle for such a small figure is disappointing," Greenpeace's Pacific reef campaigner Shani Tager told news agency AFP.
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The Australian government has agreed a $29.6m (£22m) settlement with the owners of a Chinese coal carrier that caused significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef more than six years ago.
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The man, 72, and his 71-year-old wife have not been named.
An investigation was launched after a suitcase with some of the woman's body parts was found by a man walking near Traunsee lake on Sunday.
A day later, the German man's body was found in 5m (15ft) of water, with his wrists weighed down by bags of stones.
Investigators on Tuesday said the head of his wife, encased in concrete, was found near the man's body in the lake near the town of Gmunden, 80km (50 miles) east of Salzburg.
The couple were reported to be from Frankfurt.
Authorities believe the woman was strangled sometime between 25 December and 1 January but have not confirmed when the drowning occurred.
They believe he put her body parts in two suitcases. The second was found later on Sunday by a police dog.
The man's body showed no signs of a struggle, leading state prosecutor Birgit Ahamer to say: "We believe first and foremost that [the man's death] was suicide."
The bags tied to his hands contained personal belongings as well as rocks.
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A German man strangled and dismembered his wife before encasing her head in a concrete block and drowning himself in an Austrian lake, police say.
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Robert and Christianne Shepherd, from Horbury, Wakefield died in Corfu in 2006.
The brother and sister were on holiday with their father and step-mother at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel, booked by Thomas Cook.
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The coroner at an inquest into the death of two children from carbon monoxide poisoning on holiday has told jurors the conclusion must be unlawful killing.
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Fifa's taskforce was set up in 2013 to help tackle the issue of racism.
Fifa general secretary Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura said: "It had a specific mandate, which it has fully fulfilled."
Blake said: "It's almost turning a blind eye. It's almost justifying it [racism], saying 'we've done that and moved on' because it's never going to go away'."
He added: "To say we've got a mandate and completed that mandate is a nonsense for me."
He wants players from groups who have - and continue to - suffer racism to be heavily involved in future decision making.
"I think you have to have the experience to understand it," he said.
Blake also says that fears the 2018 World Cup in Russia could be marred by racism ignore what is a global problem.
Earlier this year, football anti-discrimination group Fare documented more than 100 incidents of racist and discriminatory behaviour linked to Russian football over two seasons.
And Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure suggested that black players might boycott the World Cup, following the racist abuse he received during his side's 2013 Champions League game in Moscow.
Blake said: "I wouldn't make it a Russian thing. I look at America and see black people getting shot. Racism is racism wherever it is in the world so whether the World Cup is in America or Russia is immaterial to me.
"It's down to people and individuals and a way of thought.
Blake says "things are better" than during his playing days, adding: "The difference now is the man who sits in the seat, you will still get the odd person coming out with a racist jibe, but it's frowned upon more.
"But if you were racist 10 years ago going to football, chances you're not racist today is highly unlikely so it's just that you're not able to say it now."
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Former Wales striker Nathan Blake has branded Fifa's decision to scrap an anti-racism taskforce as "shameful".
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Iyengar was credited with his own brand of yoga and taught author Aldous Huxley and violinist Yehudi Menuhin, among other celebrities.
He died in 2013 in the western city of Pune, aged 95.
Iyengar yoga is now taught in more than 70 countries and the guru's books have been translated into 13 languages.
The Google doodle shows an animated figure practicing some of the yoga poses or "asanas" made famous by Iyengar.
One of yoga's finest teachers, he practised what he called an "art and science" for more than eight decades and ran one of India's top yoga schools in Pune.
He continued to practise - once telling a correspondent that "practice is my feast" - in his old age and could still do the sirsasana - or the headstand - for half an hour until just before his death.
He used around 50 props, including ropes and mats, to align and stretch the body.
"When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens," Iyengar told the Mint newspaper.
"When I still find some parts of my body that I have not found before, I tell myself, yes I am progressing scientifically... I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around."
When he first met Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist complained that he never had time to relax and never got a good night's sleep.
"Within one minute Iyengar had him snoring happily away. But Guruji did warn me: 'Relaxation doesn't mean yoga is a soft option. It's a disciplined subject - a casual attempt only gains casual results'," Mark Tully, former BBC correspondent in India, wrote after meeting Iyengar in 2001.
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Google has honoured Indian yoga guru BKS Iyengar with an animated doodle on his 97th birthday.
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Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell says schools face "chronic shortages" of teachers and blamed the government for "talking down the profession".
Last week head teachers warned MPs of deepening recruitment problems.
The Department for Education said Labour's claims were "misleading".
"The number and quality of teachers is at a record high," said a spokeswoman for the education department.
Labour has highlighted figures showing the upward trend in spending on supply staff, which it says reflects the growing difficulties faced by schools trying to recruit teachers.
The amount across all schools has risen by 27% between 2011-12 and 2013-14 with schools on average spending about £59,000 per year on supply agencies.
There are updated figures for 2014-15 for local authority schools which show a further increase.
Labour says the government needs to "get a grip" on making sure schools have enough teachers.
"Ministers have mishandled teacher training, putting applicants off and constantly talked down the profession, causing thousands of teachers to quit," said Ms Powell.
"As a result, half of all schools had unfilled positions at the start of this year and are being forced to turn to unqualified staff, temporary supply teachers, non-specialists, and larger class sizes to try to plug the gaps."
But the Department for Education said: "It is completely misleading to suggest there are chronic shortages of teachers or that a record number of teachers have 'quit' the profession - our increased spending on supply teachers simply reflects our increased total spending in response to rising pupil numbers.
"The overall teacher vacancy rate is 0.3% and has remained under 1% for the past 15 years. The 49,120 that left the profession between November 2013 and November 2014 includes those that left through death or retirement."
The government has been offering bursaries of up to £30,000 per year to attract graduates in shortage subjects such as maths and science.
There will also be a National Teaching Service, with a pool of 1,500 teachers, which will target underperforming schools which can struggle to recruit staff.
Last week the education select committee took evidence in its investigation of teacher shortages.
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, reported that more than three-quarters of heads had struggled to recruit when they had advertised for teachers or had completely failed to find anyone.
Mr Hobby also warned of the extra cost, saying that agency fees and "finders' fees" to source teachers can cost £10,000 for a single appointment.
Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governors' Association, said there was a "phenomenal cost" from recruitment fees, when schools were already "constrained by cost".
The National Union of Teachers says schools are being charged recruitment fees of up to 20% of a teacher's salary - and that across a year, schools could face extra costs of up to £100,000.
"This is all money which should be spent on increasing the supply of qualified teachers," said the NUT head, Christine Blower.
John Howson, an expert in the teachers' job market, told MPs that the problem was most acute in London and the home counties. Prof Howson has warned that the current shortage is the worst since 2001-02.
Responding to the supply teacher figures, Chris Keates, leader of the Nasuwt teachers' union, said: "There cannot now be any doubt that schools are in the midst of a serious teacher recruitment and retention crisis, driven by the adverse impact of the government's policies on the school workforce."
An analysis from the National Foundation for Educational Research concluded that there were record numbers of teachers and that rates of staff leaving the profession were not unusually high.
But the research argued that the system of recruiting and retaining staff was failing to keep pace with the rapidly increasing demand for extra teachers, as rising numbers of pupils have seen schools expanding.
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Schools in England struggling to recruit teachers are spending £1.3bn per year on supply staff, an increase of more than a quarter over two years, says the Labour Party.
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Jason Demetriou deflected Adam Hammill's shot past his own goalkeeper after Winnall's pass as Barnsley took the lead on the stroke of half-time.
Winnall got the second from the edge of the box before ending a 50-yard run with a classy finish two minutes later.
No side has ever overturned a three-goal first-leg deficit to make a final in the history of the play-offs.
That means Jon Whitney's side have it all to do going into the second leg at the Banks's Stadium on Thursday.
Barnsley are aiming to become the first side since Grimsby Town in 1998 to do the double of winning promotion via the play-offs and lifting the Football League Trophy in the same season.
The Tykes dominated the tie and should have broken the deadlock midway through the first half when Lloyd Isgrove had a goal incorrectly disallowed.
Assistant referee Mark Duncan - who was replaced at half-time because of a calf injury - said Isgrove was offside, but replays showed he was three yards onside when the ball was played.
Tom Bradshaw had a golden chance to put Walsall ahead five minutes before the break, but screwed his shot wide.
Barnsley took full advantage as Winnall's fantastic pass from the byline took four Walsall defenders out of the game and allowed Hammill to shoot home via Demetriou's leg.
In the final 20 minutes, after Winnall's double, Walsall's Anthony Forde saw a driven low cross flash across the face of goal while Sam Mantom missed badly from close range as the Saddlers tried to get back into the match.
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Walsall interim manager Jon Whitney told BBC WM 95.6: "I'm hurting. I don't think it was a lack of effort from the players, it was just our decision making.
"We allowed them to execute their game plan a bit too easily. The second goal was a bit fortuitous but our reaction was very disappointing.
"The third goal makes it such an uphill task, but it's one that we can climb - I truly believe that."
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Sam Winnall scored two and made a third as Barnsley took hold of their League One play-off semi-final with Walsall.
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Governor Takeshi Onaga ordered work to stop at the site in northern Okinawa last week pending a wildlife survey.
But the central government strongly backs the controversial project and has ordered preliminary work to continue.
Okinawa, Japan's southern-most prefecture, is home to about 26,000 US troops and several bases.
The row centres around the long-delayed plan to relocate Futenma airbase, which sits in a heavily populated area of central Okinawa.
Residents want the base closed and the Japanese government has proposed moving it to a more remote northern part of Okinawa's main island, on reclaimed land off a US military base called Camp Schwab.
But many local residents reject this, highlighting the area's rich offshore environment. Opponents want the base moved off Okinawa altogether, arguing that the island hosts far more than its fair share of the US military presence in Japan.
Many residents also associate the US bases with accidents and crime, and the 1995 gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl by US troops hardened local attitudes on the issue.
Mr Onaga won the Okinawa gubernatorial election in November 2014 on an anti-base platform.
Both Tokyo and Washington, however, are pushing strongly for the relocation, which has been stalled for years, to go ahead. Preliminary site work began in August 2014.
Last week Mr Onaga ordered local defence ministry officials to stop underwater survey work - approved by his predecessor - over fears it was harming coral reefs outside the permitted work area.
The central government described his move as "very regrettable" and, on Monday, Fisheries Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi suspended Mr Onaga's stop-work order.
He said delaying work on the base risked "great damage to diplomacy and defence policy by having a negative impact on the Japan-US relationship, as well as affecting residents near Futenma".
Mr Onaga said he would study the minister's position and then hold a press conference, Kyodo news agency reported.
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Japan's fisheries minister has overruled an order by the Okinawa governor suspending work on a new US military base, in a growing stand-off.
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The Guardian gave the 1930s set crime caper four stars, while Variety praised its "sly intelligence and depth of feeling".
A notable absentee from Berlin is the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died on Sunday of a suspected drug overdose.
He had been due to attend the festival to promote his film God's Pocket.
Instead, a screening of his Oscar-winning performance in the film Capote will be screened in tribute on Tuesday.
"He was one of the greatest actors we had in the world," festival director Dieter Kosslick told the Reuters news agency.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, stars British actor Ralph Fiennes as the famous concierge Gustave H, who woos octogenarian blonde widows at an Alpine hotel.
When one dies in mysterious circumstances and leaves him a valuable painting, it sets in motion a chain of murder and mayhem.
It co-stars an enviable line-up of actors including Anderson regulars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law and Tom Wilkinson.
Wes Anderson is a European festival favourite. His last film, Moonrise Kingdom, opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and earned him an Oscar nomination for best screenplay.
His previous films include Fantastic Mr Fox and The Royal Tenenbaums.
In the Telegraph's five-star review, Tim Robey described The Grand Budapest Hotel as "the most intensely pleasurable curtain-raiser in recent history, if not ever".
He added: "It's like a magnum of house champagne. You might get light-headed on the pure fun of it, which unleashes fresh waves of fun-within-fun at every point where you worry it could dry up."
The Hollywood Reporter called the film "an idiosyncratic period comedy that will delight connoisseurs more than the wide public".
In its review, the publication said "its sensibility and concerns are very much those of an earlier, more elegant era, meaning that the film's deepest intentions will fly far over the heads of most modern filmgoers".
However, in a rare negative review, Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice called the film "a marzipan monstrosity".
It was, she wrote, "a meticulously appointed dollhouse of a movie" which "went on and on, making me want to smash many miniature plates of plaster food in frustration".
The film is screening in competition alongside films from US director Richard Linklater and French auteur Alain Resnais; and '71, an upcoming British film set in Northern Ireland.
The eight-member jury, chaired by Brokeback Mountain producer James Schamus includes Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz and US actress Greta Gerwig.
It will announce the winner of the prestigious Golden Bear and other prizes on 15 February.
Other films screening out of competition include Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac and Calvary, a black comedy drama starring Brendan Gleeson and Chris O'Dowd.
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Wes Anderson's latest movie The Grand Budapest Hotel has opened the Berlin Film Festival to rave reviews.
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Emergency services were dispatched to meet the BE851 flight from Birmingham at about 19:00 on Tuesday.
A Flybe spokeswoman said the aircraft landed safely and the passengers disembarked as normal.
The technical fault is the third which the airline has experienced in five days.
On Thursday 23 February, a Flybe plane from Edinburgh was evacuated after its landing gear collapsed during touchdown at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
Earlier in the same day a flight between Glasgow to Birmingham had to return to Glasgow when one of its propeller engines was shut down by the pilot as a precaution.
In the latest incident, Flybe said emergency services were dispatched as a precautionary measure.
A spokeswoman said: "Flybe can confirm that the above flight landed without incident at Edinburgh Airport following a technical fault with the aircraft.
"The pilot followed all required procedures and the aircraft landed safely and was towed to stand.
"As is standard procedure the airport put its emergency vehicles on standby as a precautionary measure.
"The safety of its passengers and crew is the airline's number one priority and Flybe apologises for any inconvenience caused."
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A Flybe flight with 60 passengers sparked a full-scale emergency response at Edinburgh Airport after it had a problem landing due to a wheel fault.
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This is slower than the 7.5% growth recorded for the previous quarter, and lower than expected.
India and China - which also posted 7% growth in the second quarter - are now the joint fastest growing major economies in the world.
But some economists have expressed concerns that India's official figures do not accurately reflect true growth.
"At face value, today's GDP figures for [the second quarter] suggest that India matched China as the world's fastest-growing major economy last quarter," said Shilan Shah at Capital Economics.
"But the GDP data remain inconsistent with numerous other indicators which suggest that, at best, the economy is in the early stages of recovery after three years of tepid growth.
"The official GDP data are overstating the strength of the economy, most probably by a significant margin."
With concerns about slowing growth in China, some investors are starting to turn to India as the next driver of global growth.
Some were expecting stronger growth than 7% - in two of the previous three quarters, the Indian economy grew faster than China.
"The GDP number is disappointing but, overall, going ahead we expect India's economic growth to be driven by domestic demand," said Madhavi Arora, from Kotak Mahindra Bank in Mumbai.
"With commodity prices falling, there should be a boost to corporate margins going ahead and household spending should also go up."
Analysis: Simon Atkinson, editor, India Business Report, Mumbai
There will be plenty of people disappointed with this number. Some economists I've spoken to recently thought GDP growth would be closer to 8% - streaking ahead of China's.
Digging into the detail - it looks like growth in Indian manufacturing has slowed from a year ago - a bit of a blow given this is one of the Modi government's main initiatives.
And whether pace picks up in the July-September period will largely depend on the weather. This is the monsoon season and when rains are good and harvest plentiful, rural consumption goes up as people working in agriculture have more money to spend.
But, so far, many parts of the country have seen less rain than you'd expect.
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India's economy grew at an annual rate of 7% between April and June, official figures have shown.
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The incidents both happened at the Ladywell Pharmacy, Fernbank, Livingston at 16:40 on Saturday 7 September 2013 and at 10:10 on Saturday 14 June 2014.
Police are appealing for people who can identify him to come forward.
He is white, 5ft 7ins, of medium to heavy build, with short dark coloured hair and has a Scottish accent.
Det Supt Pat Campbell, of Police Scotland, said: "These robberies have been terrifying for the staff inside the pharmacy and our officers have been making extensive enquiries to find the man responsible.
"It is of particular concern that this man appears to have targeted these premises on two separate occasions."
"The fact that a significant amount of medicine has been stolen and is in the wrong hands is an obvious concern, and we would urge anyone who may recognise the man pictured or is able to provide any information that might help our investigations to get in touch immediately."
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CCTV images have been released of a man police wish to trace in connection with two robberies in West Lothian.
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The charity says that in the year to March there was a 14% increase in the numbers getting into financial difficulty, as a result of having to pay the money back.
But HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has denied that people are being harassed to repay what they owe.
The overpayments happen when people's income rises unexpectedly.
They are then asked to pay back money they have received from Child or Working Tax Credits.
In some cases people have been asked to repay £7,000, after their circumstances changed.
Maureen Grosvenor was asked to repay £2,600 in tax credits, after her husband left her. HMRC admitted it had made a mistake, and eventually cancelled the demand.
But the experience was very stressful.
"I was devastated. I was depressed," she told the BBC.
"I couldn't afford to pay them back. I thought they were going to have to send me to prison," she said.
Citizens Advice said it handled nearly 30,000 such cases last year.
"For thousands of families, Whitehall calculations are leading to household debt," said Gillian Guy, the chief executive of Citizens Advice.
"Tax Credits are there to make sure people get a decent standard of income, but the sharp rise in debts from overpaid tax credits suggests this policy is having the opposite effect."
In total, more than £1.5bn was overpaid to claimants in the year 2012-13.
But HMRC has hit back at the claims, saying underpayments and overpayments are a necessary part of the system.
Releasing new figures, it said there were 1.5 million overpayments in 2012-13, down from 1.6 million the previous year.
It said it was targeting people who refuse to pay the money back, after being asked repeatedly to do so.
"Most people pay their taxes on time, but a minority do not, and some refuse to engage with us at all," said a spokesman.
"It is wrong that this should hand an advantage to those who simply dodge their obligations, and it is unfair on the vast majority who pay their taxes in full and on time," he said.
HMRC now uses private debt collection agencies to help recover the tax credits it is owed. Last year, it made 215,000 such referrals.
People who owe money are sent text messages and called on the phone, but are not visited by bailiffs.
From 2015, HMRC will be given the power to take money directly from people's bank accounts, providing they are left with £5,000 in the account.
It's thought that around 17,000 people could be affected by the new powers.
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There has been a sharp rise in debt problems caused by tax credit overpayments, Citizens Advice has said.
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The study, involving 10,000 mothers and their babies and in journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, says that may be because of the make-up of breast milk.
Or, it says, breastfeeding may lead to better mother-baby interaction.
Breastfeeding is already associated with other health benefits for babies, including lower rates of infection and less obesity in later life.
Researchers looked at the feeding habits of 10,037 mothers and their babies involved in a large study known as the Millennium Cohort Study.
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The mothers were asked to assess problems in their children by the age of five, including anxiousness and clinginess, restlessness, and lying or stealing.
Only 6% of children who were breastfed showed signs of behaviour problems, compared with 16% of children who were formula-fed.
Mothers who breastfeed tend to be older, better educated, and from a higher socio-economic background, which may contribute towards fewer problems in their children's behaviour.
But even after the researchers, from the Universities of Oxford, Essex, York and University College London, adjusted their figures to take that into account, they still found there was a 30% greater risk of behavioural problems among formula-fed children.
"Our results provide even more evidence for the benefits of breastfeeding," said Maria Quigley of Oxford University, who led the research.
She said breast milk contained large quantities of a particular type of fatty acid, as well as growth factors and hormones, which were important for the development of the brain and nervous system.
But mothers who breastfeed also tend to interact with their children more, which could mean the babies learn more about acceptable ways of behaving.
Breastfed children also get ill less often, which may affect their behaviour.
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"We just don't know whether it is because of the constituents in breast milk, or the close interaction with the mum, or whether it is a knock-on effect of reduced illness in breastfed babies," said Ms Quigley.
"But it does begin to look like we can add fewer behavioural problems as another potential benefit of breastfeeding."
The Royal College of Midwives welcomed the findings and said they added to the evidence that breastfeeding was better for babies.
Janet Fyle from the RCM said it was vital women had enough help and support from midwives to help them keep breastfeeding.
But she said it was important not to over-emphasise the study's results.
"We must not send a negative message to mothers that they have failed, or make then feel guilty because they bottle-fed their babies," she said.
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A YouTube video marketing the game's November release shows a Rhyl street submerged in December, 2013.
The town's former mayor, councillor Andrew Rutherford, told the Daily Post it "put people's misery into a game".
Activision, which publishes Call of Duty, has been asked to comment.
About 400 people were forced from their homes after streets in Rhyl were flooded with sea water caused by a storm surge in late 2013.
Footage of a waterlogged Garford Road during the upheaval appears in a montage of dystopian images in a story trailer for the game's multi-console release.
"Whilst I can see it is a brief two-second clip, in amongst many other real destruction clips, I think it's a shame they chose to use it," town councillor, Mr Rutherford, told the Post.
"It's terrible to put people's misery into a game. It certainly wasn't a game for the those affected by it."
The floods left hundreds of homes without power and rail services delayed, with some residents needing to be rehoused.
Those marketing the game were also recently criticised for using a fictional terror attack in Singapore as part of a web campaign.
The Call of Duty series of first-person shooting games, which is available on platforms such as Xbox and PlayStation, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
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The makers of computer game Call of Duty: Black Ops III have been criticised for using images of a flood-hit Denbighshire town in a promotional video.
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Kim Wall was last seen alive on Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen's submarine on 10 August.
He initially said he had dropped her off safely near Copenhagen, but has since said she died in an accident and that he had "buried" her at sea.
The body has been sent for forensic analysis, but is yet to be identified.
Ms Wall, 30, was reported missing by her boyfriend after she failed to return from what should have been a short trip to research a feature about the inventor and his submarine.
The submarine sank hours after the search for the journalist began, and Mr Madsen was charged with negligent manslaughter.
Danish police believe the 40-tonne vessel was deliberately sunk by Mr Madsen, who was rescued before being arrested.
The inventor, 46, told police that he had left Ms Wall's body somewhere in Koge Bay, south of Copenhagen.
The torso was found on the shore by a passing cyclist.
Copenhagen police spokesman Jens Moller said: "It is clear that the police, like the media and everybody else, are speculating whether this female body is Kim Wall, but it is way too soon to tell."
The police say they cannot release any more information at this time.
Peter Madsen's lawyer, Betina Hald Engmark, said her client has not admitted any wrongdoing. She said he had given evidence to the police during preliminary questioning and "information from this" had now emerged.
"My client has not confessed to anything, my client still pleads not guilty to the charges against him," she said.
The court case is being heard behind closed doors, but part of his explanation of what happened was released after a request from the defence and prosecution.
In a statement, Copenhagen police also said that maritime authorities had determined the route the submarine travelled in Koge Bay and the Oresund strait before sinking.
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Police said four youths in Crosshill Street in Moss Side were attacked by a gang at about 20:30 BST on Tuesday.
The teenager died in hospital while two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old remain in hospital with serious injuries.
Police said there was no evidence to suggest it was linked to the conviction of a gang earlier that day for a separate murder in Moss Side.
A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said parts of Moss Side have been cordoned off while officers conduct their investigation and there would be extra patrols in the area over the next few days.
Supt Dave Pester said: "We completely understand that the community will be concerned after waking up and hearing this tragic news this morning.
"I want to assure you we have had officers on the ground working solidly through the night trying to get to the bottom of what has happened."
He said the force was in the "very early stages" of the murder investigation and trying to "understand the motive behind this attack and who is responsible".
Supt Pester added: "I want to make it clear, at this stage, there isn't any information to suggest this stabbing is linked to a murder trial which finished at Preston Crown Court yesterday."
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An 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a "large fight" in Manchester, prompting a murder investigation.
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The rules, which were not meant to be made public, say children living with a gay parent cannot be baptised until they are 18 and only when they renounce homosexuality.
The new rules also say members can be expelled from the church if they enter into a gay marriage.
Both liberal and conservatives Mormon groups have criticised the the changes.
"The surprising impact has been the amount of people who are confused and troubled and disturbed and, frankly, repulsed," Mormon scholar Patrick Mason told Reuters.
"And these aren't just progressives and LGBT advocates. ... They are saying: 'This doesn't feel right. This doesn't square with me.'"
It is a departure for the church, which recently has softened its approach on gay issues and backed a Utah state law that provided legal protections for gay people.
The new policies appear in an internal church handbook, but the changes were leaked to the public this month.
They appear to be in response to a US Supreme Court ruling that made gay marriage legal nationwide in June.
Church officials have not commented on the changes, but Mr Mason said the backlash has been so great that church officials may be forced to revise the rules.
More than 1,000 people plan to attend the "mass resignation" rally on Saturday at a park across the from the church's headquarters in Salt Lake City.
However, it is unclear how many of those people have already left the Mormon church.
Church member Sarah Epperson plans to resign at the rally on Saturday.
"Any church that wants to claim itself as a Christian organization that uses Jesus Christ the savoir to somehow exclude any group of people is not anything that I want to be a part of," Ms Epperson told the New York Times.
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A group of Mormons have planned a "mass resignation" after leaders changed church policies regarding gay people.
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