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Low pressure at sea 'lifts' tides to a level higher that normal and high winds then blow the water in land.
Storm surges are very rare in the UK but people across the east coast of the UK are preparing for the possibility of flooding.
Ricky explains in more detail how a surge is caused and what people are doing to protect themselves. | As parts of the country are battered by high winds and rain, storm surges on the coast are becoming a problem. | 25235498 |
It delves into grassroots football, social media and fan ownership. It looks back at what was and looks forward at what might be.
It examines the rise, and prejudices, faced by women's football and the fantastic irony of, in a male-dominated landscape, Scotland's women's team being closer now to reaching a major championship than their male equivalents.
For a nation that produced so many world-class players down the years, Scotland is now down to just one - and it's a woman, the brilliant Kim Little.
Episode four begins with Paul Lambert in Dortmund and how apt that is, given the events in Barcelona on Tuesday night.
In 1997, Scot Lambert was a Borussia Dortmund player under Ottmar Hitzfeld. He won a Champions League medal after beating Manchester United, home and away, in the semi-final and then overcoming Juventus 3-1 in the final. His job that night was to neutralise Zinedine Zidane - and he was magnificent.
Listening to Lambert makes you wonder when a Scot will elevate himself to a similar position - the cutting edge of the European game, going toe-to-toe with one of the sport's greatest talents and beating him in the biggest final in club football.
The story moves on to Martin O'Neill's Celtic and their thrilling ride in the Uefa Cup of 2002-03. Times have changed so profoundly since then. It's like looking back into another world when a Scottish team travelled more in expectation than hope.
Celtic lost a European final, 3-2 in extra-time, to Jose Mourinho's Porto, a side that would win the Champions League the following year, and O'Neill remains a ball of angst about it.
On Tuesday, Celtic lost a Champions League group game 7-0 to Barca. In the new world of football, where Barcelona can construct arguably the greatest attack in the history of the game and pay them a combined salary of 700,000 euros per week, the new Celtic manager, Brendan Rodgers, had to rationalise it. He had no option.
There was no rationalisation in 2003. Celtic were good enough, and wealthy enough, to compete. Everything is different now.
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The chances are that the next time Scotland qualifies for a major championship it will be the women who take them there. And yet the women's game gets short shrift from the media and the public.
Scotland's Game has a section on what it was like for women footballers in war time. When the men were away, the girls were allowed to play. When the men came home, normal footballing service resumed.
Women were banned from playing matches at men's clubs. Incredibly, the ban remained in place until the early 1970s.
There has been advancement from those sexist days, but sexism remains a factor. That's why the appointment of Shelley Kerr as manager of Lowland League side, Stirling University, in 2013 created such headlines. Kerr speaks with authority; she's broken through, but she does not see a cavalry of women coaches on the horizon.
Ann Budge's arrival as owner at Hearts - and chief executive Leeann Dempster's progression from Motherwell to Hibernian - is something that would not have seemed possible 30 years ago.
Had you said at the conclusion of 'Only A Game', the documentary covering Scottish football's narrative up to 1986, that two women would be calling the shots at two of Scotland's biggest clubs there would have been hilarity and uproar.
And yet there they are. Budge continues to hold a mirror up to the Scottish game, asking people to make sense of some of the things that go on. Budge and Dempster are now on the board of the Scottish Professional Football League. Many bad things have happened in this 30-year journey, but that's some of the very best things.
The passage of time has seen the rise and fall of the fanzine culture, supporters now finding a voice in the digital world where once it was all pen and paper. Social media has changed the game, but has the game changed with it?
John Collins speaks about his time as Hibs manager and that glorious League Cup final day in 2007 when his winning side were serenaded by their supporters singing the Proclaimers' 'Sunshine on Leith'. That scene has lost none of its power to stir the blood. For Collins, there was added poignancy. He had lost his father only a few months before the final.
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Having learned a new philosophy in his two years as a player with Monaco in France, Collins proposed change at Hibs. New ways of training, new diets, new thoughts about sports science, a whole new picture. It caused problems and he left.
At the conclusion of Scotland's Game he's still talking about change and how people are scared of it. "People don't like being outside their comfort zone," he says.
Most people will accept that change needs to happen in Scottish football, but we talk and talk and nothing gets done. Blueprints, commissions, master plans. Summer football, winter breaks, fewer professional teams and bigger top leagues. We go round in circles.
There is a battle to be won for the future of Scotland's game, but one has to wonder who, precisely, is fighting it. Too many in power seem happiest when fighting each other rather than fighting together.
Never, at any point in its history, has Scottish football been more in need of true leaders.
The fourth episode of Scotland's Game airs on BBC One Scotland on Thursday 15 September at 21:00 BST and will be available to view via the iPlayer after broadcast. | The fourth and final part of Scotland's Game, a 30-year social history of Scottish football, is broadcast on BBC One Scotland on Thursday at 21:00 BST. | 37365700 |
Zamalek, keen to seek consolation for their slip in the Egyptian league, were one of three African sides to win their away group games at the weekend.
Mamelodi Sundowns were 2-0 winners at Entente Setif, whilst in Group A Wydad Casablanca won 1-0 at Asec Mimosas in Ivory Coast, as Zesco United shocked Al Ahly with a 3-2 home win in Zambia.
Two-times African champions Enyimba hosted Zamalek in Port Harcourt, with the Egyptians looking to win a sixth African Champions League crown.
Zamalek travelled to Nigeria with a new coach in Mohamed Helmy after former Scotland coach Alex McLeish parted ways with the Cairo giants after just 65 days.
They secured a 1-0 win over the Nigerian side thanks to an 8th minute goal from Basem Morsi and withstood pressure from the hosts to hold on for the victory.
On Saturday night, South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns began their Group B campaign with a 2-0 win away to Algeria's Entente Setif, in a match which was interrupted by crowd disturbance.
Sundowns made the most of their second chance in the competition, after being allowed back in following the disqualification of AS Vita Club.
Goals from Tiyani Mabunda and Zimbabwe's Khama Billiat sealed their Group B victory over the 2014 African champions.
On a bitterly disappointing night for the home side, the supporters failed to hide their frustration in the Setif stadium.
As the final whistle approached, missiles were thrown from the stands, with the referee stopping the game.
Entente Setif must wait to find out if they will face sanctions from the Confederation of African Football following the crowd trouble.
Also on Saturday, Egyptian giants Al Ahly returned to the group stage of the Champions League for the first time in two years with a shock 3-2 defeat away to Zambia's Zesco United.
Ahly, the eight-time winners coached by former Tottenham manager Martin Jol (pictured), were determined to make up for recent disappointments in Africa's premier club competition.
But Zesco United, who have never got beyond the group stage, upset the Red Devils with a famous home victory in Ndola.
Midfielder John Chingandu put the Zambian side ahead with a goal after 27 minutes, only for Ahly to equalise three minutes later through Ghana striker John Antwi.
It took just five minutes of the second half for the hosts to regain the lead, as Clatous Chama scored after 50 minutes and then again after 56 to give the Zambians a 3-1 lead.
Ahly tried to claw their way back in, and they were rewarded with another Antwi goal after 67 minutes.
Despite a nervous finale, the hosts held on to upset the Egyptians and go top of the standings.
In the other Group A match, Wydad Casablanca, who knocked out the defending champions TP Mazembe in the play-off round, carried on their good form by winning 1-0 away to Asec Mimosas of Ivory Coast in their opener.
The Moroccans, who were runners-up the last time they competed in the competition in 2011, secured their victory thanks to a 39th minute goal from Salah Eddine Saidi. | Egyptian club Zamalek put their domestic disappointment behind them to open their African Champions League group campaign on Sunday with a 1-0 victory away to Enyimba of Nigeria. | 36560154 |
Jamie Richards, 18, was worried about having a negative reaction, but 20 people queued for a trim.
Passers-by also donated £30 - which he handed back to his "customers".
Mr Richards, from Aberdare, is now planning to collect money at the salon where he is training and give out clothes and food on his next visit.
"I just thought it was something nice to do. I had a day off work, my girlfriend was in work, so I just thought I'd travel down," he said.
"I always see them [homeless people] around and feel bad as I want to give them money but am not the richest and can't afford it."
His selfless act mirrors that of a London barber, who did the same thing in his home city earlier this year.
The former Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun pupil began cutting somebody's hair on Queen Street and soon there was a queue.
"It went a bit bonkers. A lot of people wanted older styles, like Peter Andre curtains," he said.
"There was also a guy who shaved his head but loved having a beard and didn't know what to do with it.
I gave it a scissor cut and he teared up, running around saying how good he looked."
Over the course of the day, Mr Richards gave cuts to about 20 people, with £30 in coins also left by passers-by who mistakenly thought he was collecting money.
Mr Richards added: "As I was leaving, someone came charging after me, insisting I have it.
"I had left it there for the homeless. That was the bit that really pulled at my heart strings."
Mr Richards, who has been training to be a barber for eight months, now aims to raise money in his Aberdare salon and return to Cardiff's streets on a regular basis to cut hair. | A trainee barber who felt bad about having no money to give to homeless people has been using his skills to give free haircuts in Cardiff. | 37381991 |
The red-footed booby was discovered in "an exhausted state" on the beach at St Leonards, Sussex, on Sunday afternoon.
The seabird, which is related to the gannet and believed to be a juvenile, was washed ashore with its feathers in a poor state and slightly underweight.
It is currently being cared for at the RSPCA Mallydams Wood centre in Hastings.
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The bird was rescued by the East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (WRAS) following a call from a member of the public.
Founder Trevor Weeks said: "It's an absolutely stunning bird.
"It was looking extremely exhausted, just sitting on the beach.
"Hopefully it will be released back to the wild."
He added: "As far as I can tell, one has never been found in the wild in the UK before.
"From what we gather, one did visit Spain a few years ago, but we can't find many other references to these birds visiting Europe at all." | A bird native to the Galapagos Islands in the South Pacific has been found thousands of miles from home. | 37276678 |
The Great Exhibition of the North will get £5m, with "public and private funders" providing any further budget.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said a £15m "legacy fund" to attract cultural investment in the North would also be provided.
The competition will run until June, with the winner announced in October.
A board has been set up to handle applications to host the two-month show, chaired by the chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, Sir Gary Verity.
Sir Gary said he hoped to see bids from the "many towns and cities across the north of England that have what it takes to host the Great Exhibition of the North".
"We will be showcasing our art, design and culture to the world in 2018 and high quality bids are an essential part of ensuring that we deliver an incredible Great Exhibition."
The funding for the exhibition was confirmed in March's Budget, having originally been proposed in 2014's Autumn Statement. | A competition for towns and cities in northern England to host a Government-funded exhibition promoting northern art, culture and design has opened. | 35959524 |
The operation, on 16 May 1943, saw RAF bombers break two large dams in Germany using experimental "bouncing" bombs.
A 1955 film cemented its place as one of the most famous episodes of World War II.
Started as part of the 70th anniversary of the attack in May, the online gallery has been put together by the BBC, helped by Dambusters enthusiasts.
"My first reaction on seeing the Dambusters photo montage was one of both amazement and the realization I was looking at faces of colleagues I last saw previously at RAF Scampton at 'All Crews' briefing on the afternoon of 16 May 1943.
"Having viewed numerous publications on the Dambusters down the years, I must record this [is] the first time I have actually seen photos of all 133 crew who took part in 'Operation Chastise', including 53 brave colleagues who sadly perished on the raid."
The dams of the Ruhr Valley were selected for attack as it was hoped the resulting flood would swamp the numerous factories downstream.
Flying from Lincolnshire across occupied Europe at tree-top height, 19 planes of the newly formed 617 Squadron, with seven-man crews, braved anti-aircraft fire, power cables and mountainous terrain to drop the extraordinary four-tonne skipping depth charge.
But eight planes were lost, 53 men died and three were captured. Another 32 died in later operations.
George 'Johnny' Johnson, one of three surviving Dambusters, thanked the BBC for its work on the online gallery but said any account of the raid would not be complete without the names of Roy Chadwick, who designed the Lancaster bomber used in the attack, and Sir Barnes Wallis, the engineer behind the bouncing bomb.
By Greig WatsonBBC News
The original idea was to show the human face of a story which is now close to mythology.
It is easy to talk about the cost of the raids and the youth of the crews but to see the faces, to almost look into their eyes, really brings home their sacrifice and bravery.
My thanks goes out to all the families and organisations across the globe who have allowed us to publish this lasting tribute to those who took part in one of the most famous and fascinating events of World War II.
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Mr Johnson added: "It is a great privilege for me to add these words of appreciation and thanks, for in bringing together again all 133 men of the Dambusters, 70 years on from the raid, this photo montage and site is a fitting dedication to all who took part in Operation Chastise on 16/17 May 1943, particularly those who gave their lives and failed to return."
David Robertson, chairman of the 617 Squadron Association, said: " We believe this is the first time that there has been such a record of the crews who flew on Operation Chastise.
"It is a most fitting commemoration of the men whose skill, courage, determination and airmanship has gone down in the annals of air warfare as one of the most remarkable operations of World War II."
John Sweetman, author of The Dambusters Raid and The Official Dambusters Experience, said wartime secrecy and the "simplified" story told in the film had led to many myths springing up about the operation.
"But research has made some of the story clearer," he explained. "The inexperience of some crews, the group effort to make the bombs work, the impact on the German war industry.
"Even now, there is lots we don't know, particularly in the frantic last days and hours leading up to the raids, when crucial decisions were made.
"The story, hopefully, will continue to be discovered."
Among the surprises, and challenges, encountered by the project were the large gaps in the official photographic archives.
Curator of photographs at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) Ian Carter explained that 125,000 men flew with the RAF and many lasted just a matter of weeks.
"All this meant that very few individuals were actually recorded by the official RAF photographers," he said.
"Of course, some men took unofficial snaps on their own cameras, and we have examples within IWM's collection, but many more remain in private hands.
"Researching their whereabouts is a far more difficult and lengthy process, as the BBC researchers have found out."
Peter Elliott, head of archives at the Royal Air Force Museum, added that even when photographs were taken, many were lost.
"At the end of the war bases were closing and men were leaving or dead and a lot must have seemed pointless to store.
By Charles FosterDambusters researcher
When I was asked to help with the gallery I thought it was a great idea.
It was a chance to collect the pictures we knew were out there and perhaps find those which were missing.
I knew we could get about 90% of the pictures but the rest were likely to be tricky. So when the last of the photos were located I was just so pleased, it was so exciting.
Having read the names of these men so often, suddenly they had faces.
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"It's always good to be able to put a face to a name, especially if it's something notable like the Dambusters and people ought to be able to commemorate those involved properly.
"But it happens the other way too - many museums have countless pictures with no names to go with them. I've see many, many images of young men, standing next to their aircraft and we have no idea who they were, which is rather sad."
Douglas Radcliffe, secretary of the Bomber Command Association, recalled Dambuster pilot David Shannon was keen to put the raid in context.
"He would talk about the dams but would then slide the conversation towards all the other raids he took part in, some immensely costly.
"And it is important to remember all those other crews, who took part in less famous raids, who also served and also deserve our respect."
Mike Gibson, the nephew of Guy Gibson, who won the Victoria Cross for leading the dams raid, felt the public attitude towards bomber crews had seesawed from admiration to cynicism and back again.
He added: "People have come to appreciate what these men went through, living on bases knowing they would have to fly into terrible danger again and again and again, that the odds were against them. Who could sustain that today?
"To some extent I think the Dambusters have come to represent all of the men who flew. It's hard to envisage the thousands who went out in hundreds of planes but the men of the dams raid can be related to.
"And now we can see them all." | Photographs of all the men who took part in the Dambusters raid have been published for the first time. | 23586144 |
Justine Greening, Theresa Villiers and Philip Hammond will not attend meetings to be chaired by the prime minister.
The Airports Commission recommended a new runway earlier this month but it faces widespread political opposition.
The Cabinet Office said ministers with the "greatest policy interest" in the decision had been asked to attend.
The Conservatives ruled out building a new runway at Heathrow during the last Parliament but it is now back on the agenda after an independent commission concluded last month it was the best option to address the need for new capacity in the south of England.
Speaking on Tuesday, Chancellor George Osborne insisted a final decision on whether to expand Heathrow or to plump for a new runway at Gatwick - also deemed feasible by the commission - will be made by the end of the year.
The make-up of the new cabinet airports sub-committee, which will consider the issue, has been disclosed in a written ministerial statement.
Its terms of reference are to "consider matters relating to airport capacity in the south east of England in the light of the Airports Commission's report".
Aside from David Cameron, other attendees include Mr Osborne, Business Secretary Sajid Javid, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, Environment Secretary Liz Truss, Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd and Chief Whip Mark Harper.
But neither Home Secretary Theresa May, the MP for Maidenhead or foreign secretary Mr Hammond, the MP for Runnymede - both of whose constituencies are under the flight path - have been invited to attend.
Neither Ms Greening, the international development secretary and Putney MP who has been a vocal critic of Heathrow expansion nor Chief Secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands, who represents Fulham, feature on the committee.
The Northern Ireland secretary and Chipping Barnet MP Ms Villiers is not on it either, but Scottish Secretary David Mundell is.
None of the committee members represent London seats or constituencies that would be directly affected by the construction of a new runway at Heathrow or the extension of one of its existing runways.
Conservative MPs who oppose expanding Gatwick have urged the government to bar any cabinet minister with "explicit and expressed constituency interests" connected to either Heathrow or Gatwick from taking part in the decision.
In a letter to Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood last month, they said to do so would breach the ministerial code.
Hacan, an umbrella group of campaigners opposing Heathrow expansion, said critics of a new runway at the UK's largest airport had effectively been "sidelined" from ministerial discussions.
Both Mr Osborne and Mr Javid are believed to be in favour of expanding Heathrow.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "The decision will be based on the evidence. That's why the committee membership is made up of those whose departments have the greatest policy interest in the decision, as you would expect, including the chancellor, the transport secretary, the business secretary and the energy and climate change secretary."
Prominent opponents of Heathrow expansion within the Conservative Party also include London Mayor Boris Johnson and Zac Goldsmith, the Richmond Park MP who is hoping to succeed him. | Campaigners against Heathrow expansion have claimed critics of a new runway have been "excluded" from a new cabinet committee which will decide the issue. | 33629619 |
The car was being pursued along Lennard Road, Penge, when it struck the group at about 14:05 BST, witnesses said.
The woman and boy died at the scene, while three girls were taken to hospital with "multiple injuries", London Ambulance Service (LAS) said.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
The 23 year-old remains in custody in a south London police station, the Metropolitan Police said.
A witness said the car was being chased by two police BMWs when the driver "lost control and ploughed into a family".
"People were trying to lift a car off a little girl," the man said.
Another witness, Venissa Vassell, said about 20 people lifted the car and the girls "crawled out".
One girl who was taken away by ambulance was screaming, "I can't feel my legs", Ms Vassell said.
Ilya Baxter, 23, saw the police chase from a window in his flat.
He described seeing a white man aged between 18 and 25 running across the road around the corner from the crashed car, before police caught him.
He said: "I heard the cars and saw someone pointing to the police where he went. I knocked on the window and pointed."
He said that the man was hiding in the bushes. Police then caught the man, handcuffed him, and then went to help the injured, he added.
The majority of police pursuits in London take place at relatively low-speed and end quickly when the driver pulls over.
But there's been concern about a recent rise in the number of people killed in car chases.
The police watchdog says there were 13 deaths in the UK in 2015/16 - during or after police chases - up from six the previous year.
In London in 2015/16 there were three deaths, up from one the previous year.
The Metropolitan Police philosophy is that no pursuit is worth risking the safety of the public; that travelling through built-up areas at more than 40 or 50 mph is simply not worth it.
With the amount of CCTV on the streets of the capital, tracing vehicles is easier than ever, although watching a suspect get away is clearly galling for officers, and a great worry if the suspect poses an immediate threat.
Sources say it's become increasingly common for a senior officer - monitoring events in real-time in the police control room - to call off a chase if they feel the risk to the public has become too great.
Often, the control room will try to scramble the most highly-trained pursuit officers to take over. They are in the minority, though, and the body that represents rank and file officers, the Police Federation, has said a reduction in specific road policing officers nationally has led criminals to think they can get away.
With fewer specialists on the roads, more chases will be allocated to officers who don't have the daily experience of high-speed pursuits.
The details of what happened in Penge are still not clear. But this crash shows once again how devastating the consequences of police chases can be.
Police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has sent investigators to the scene, and appealed for witnesses to contact them.
Over the last 10 years, 252 members of the public have died following road traffic incidents involving the police in England and Wales, according to the IPCC.
In London there were 498 crashes involving a pursuit by Met officers in 2015-16. | A woman and a boy have been killed after a car being chased by police mounted a pavement and crashed "into a family" in south-east London. | 37234416 |
Guzan had one year remaining on his contract, but has reportedly been allowed to leave on a free transfer.
The 31-year-old made 170 appearances for Villa after joining from American side Chivas USA in August 2008.
He is the second keeper to join Boro this summer, following the arrival of former Manchester United and Barcelona man Victor Valdes.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Premier League newcomers Middlesbrough have signed Aston Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan on a two-year deal. | 36923593 |
Wales have named a 32-man squad containing 13 uncapped players for the June Tests against Tonga and Samoa.
Hibbard, 33, won the last of his 38 caps for Wales in a World Cup warm-up against Ireland in 2015.
"I can't really argue with it - all I can do is keep turning up for Gloucester and keep doing what I love," Hibbard said.
"You always want to be wanted by your country but I totally understand where they are at the moment.
"They've got one eye on performances against these teams and also have one eye on the future."
Hibbard, who toured with the British and Irish Lions in 2013, has refused to call time on his international career.
"Anybody who is truly patriotic would never turn their back on their country," Hibbard added.
The former Ospreys forward has been named Gloucester players' player of the year and the supporters' player of the year.
Gloucester, who finished ninth in the English Premiership, are targeting a third Challenge Cup crown having won the competition in 2006 and 2015.
They face Stade Francais in the final at Murrayfield on Friday and Hibbard said they wanted to make up for a disappointing league season.
"It's important for the boys to get some silverware this season and it breeds confidence and breeds winning," Hibbard told Scrum V Radio.
"That's what we need going into next season.
"It also gives us a back door way into the Champions Cup if we win on Friday, we've got a couple of play-off games."
Victory would keep Gloucester's hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions Cup alive, after their ninth-placed finish in the Premiership ruled out automatic qualification.
An English winner of the Challenge Cup would go forward to May's Champions Cup play-offs instead of the side seventh in the league, Northampton Saints. | Gloucester hooker Richard Hibbard says he "totally understands" why he has been overlooked for Wales' summer tour. | 39888701 |
John Crompton, 31, from Hartlepool, Teesside, was driving with his family near Dijon when the crash occurred on Sunday morning.
Morgan Christian Lund, aged nine, and four-year-old Evie-Lily Crompton were also killed.
The children's mother, Makayla Louise Lund, and two-year-old Kyle Lucas Crompton were injured.
Both were taken to hospital, where Ms Lund's condition is described as stable, while Kyle remains seriously ill.
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Facebook tributes have described the deaths as "heartbreaking".
Friends have left messages on a Facebook page for the Hartlepool Billiards and Snooker group, of which Mr Crompton was a member.
Colin Harrison wrote: "Heartbreaking news about one of the league's top players.
"John Crompton and two of his children were tragically killed in a road accident in France.
"Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. very talented and well liked man. RIP mate."
Brian Trueman added: "Tragic tragic news, a family ripped apart far too young. I'm deeply shocked."
The children's school issued a statement.
Lee Walker, headteacher at Hartlepool's Barnard Grove Primary, said the school was in "total shock" and that prayers and thoughts were with the family.
He added: "Morgan was a Year 4 pupil who was an extremely popular member of his class, as well as the school in general.
"His sense of humour, fun and positive attitude brought life and joy to all.
"Evie-Lily was in our nursery and was the most kind-hearted and caring girl you could ever wish to meet.
"The pupils and staff are heartbroken and we are all helping each other to come to terms with this devastating news."
An appeal fund has also been set up for the surviving family members by Laura Austwicke, who urged people to pray for their recovery.
She wrote: "We are aware that there is another GoFundMe page set up in euros; however we'd like to set up another page in the UK for those wanting to donate in GBP."
The family's Nissan may have lost control after the driver fell asleep or became distracted, investigators have said.
In an interview with the France3 TV channel, a member of the emergency services said two of the children were dead when they arrived and Mr Crompton was trapped.
He was said to have died from a heart attack minutes after he was released from the wreckage.
Cleveland Police said it was assisting the French authorities over the collision, and liaising with the Foreign Office. | Tributes have been paid to a British motorist who died along with two children in a crash in France. | 36128372 |
A further 33 people at the Kuehne and Nagel depot in Draycott-in-the-Clay, Staffordshire, were seen by paramedics.
Two men and two women were taken to hospital in Burton-upon-Trent, and a man and a woman taken to Royal Derby Hospital.
The firm said "they are not in immediate danger".
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West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to the site in Ashbourne shortly before 13:00 GMT on Monday after a woman reported feeling ill and it "quickly became apparent" she was suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Ambulance officials said: "A number of other patients then began coming forward. Ambulance staff worked quickly to assess them all in order to establish the severity of their conditions."
A spokeswoman for Kuehne and Nagel said a "thorough investigation" is under way.
She added: "A number of people were given oxygen at the site and six were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure." | A logistics company has confirmed it is investigating after six members of staff were taken to hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. | 38648130 |
The iris-scanner can be used to unlock the phone simply by looking at it, which Samsung says provides "airtight security".
But researchers at Chaos Computer Club had easily tricked the device with a picture of an eye, Motherboard said.
Samsung told the BBC it was "aware of the issue".
The researchers first set up the phone's security by registering a volunteer's eyes using the S8 iris scanner.
They then took a photograph of one of the volunteer's eyes, using a digital camera with an infra-red night vision setting.
After printing the image, the researchers placed a contact lens over the photograph.
The team posted a video showing the S8 smartphone unlocking itself when it saw the false eye.
Samsung said its iris-scanning technology had been through "rigorous testing" to "prevent attempts to compromise its security".
"If there is a potential vulnerability or the advent of a new method that challenges our efforts to ensure security at any time, we will respond as quickly as possible to resolve the issue."
Security expert Ken Munro said the discovery was "another reminder that biometrics is not a silver bullet".
"Personally, I prefer fingerprints to iris unlock. Your fingers are already holding your phone, so why not use prints rather than wave your phone in front of your face?
"If you want to be really secure, choose fingerprints and a secret number. If you must have iris unlock, please walk everywhere with your eyes closed, so your iris can't be photographed."
Galaxy S8 owners have the option of using a password or secret number to unlock their phone, instead of using the iris scanner. | Samsung's eye-scanning security technology, used on the new Galaxy S8 smartphone, has been fooled with a photograph and a contact lens. | 40012990 |
The crash happened on the A39 between Arch Hill and Kea Church in Truro, Cornwall, at about 11:00 BST on Friday.
The man, who had been driving a Vauxhall Corsa, suffered "serious life threatening injuries" and was taken to hospital, police said.
Part of the A39 was shut after the crash, involving a red Vauxhall Corsa, a white Peugeot Motor Caravan, a blue Volkswagen Tiguan and a blue BMW 3. | A man in his 80s has died after being in a car crash involving four vehicles. | 40072887 |
A special meeting of council leaders is due to take place in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
Ahead of that, Cosla president David O'Neill urged Scottish ministers to preserve funding in this week's budget.
The Scottish government said local government had been treated fairly despite cuts to the overall Scottish budget made by Westminster.
The local government revenue settlement funding for councils is due to be announced on Thursday, along with the budget.
Cosla's David O'Neill told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that local government was shouldering more than its "fair share" of cuts.
He said councils were "very adept" at changing the way they worked to cope with budget pressures.
They now need to change how they work with other public agencies, he said.
"Local authorities work better with the health service and other public agencies, but other public agencies are more reluctant to change," he added.
"We need to get other public agencies to come with us."
Mr O'Neill also called for an end to one-year financial settlements, which make it "impossible to plan for the long term".
"We need a long term settlement and a long term solution," he said.
Mr O'Neill said "a cut of the magnitude of last year's £349m would have a disastrous impact on both communities and services".
He added: "All too often when we talk of cuts to local government these are seen in the abstract. The reality is that we are talking about real cuts to services and jobs.
"The simple truth is that a cut to local government means a cut in teaching assistants, a cut in levels of care for all our elderly relatives, cuts for the homeless as a freezing winter starts to bite and cuts to gritting of the roads at a time of freezing temperatures when trains and the wider transport network is struggling to cope.
"Make no mistake, the Scottish government has a political choice here and with additional cash of £418m for next year there should be no cut to local government."
The Scottish government said it remained committed to engaging Cosla in further dialogue on a range of issue.
A spokesman said the finance secretary's Scottish draft budget would "support our economy, tackle inequality and provide high-quality public services for all".
He added: "Local government has experienced the same reduction in funding as was imposed on the Scottish government by Westminster - as outlined in an independent report from Audit Scotland.
"It is therefore clear that local government has been treated very fairly despite the cuts to the Scottish budget from the UK government.
"Local government finance settlements were maintained in Scotland on a like-for-like basis over the period 2012-16, with extra money for new responsibilities resulting in total settlements of £10.8bn in 2014-15 and of over £10.85bn in 2015-16.
"Taking into account the addition of the £250m to support the integration of health and social care, the overall reduction in 2016-17 funding equates to less than 1% of local government's total estimated expenditure in 2016-17."
Meanwhile, a study commissioned by a separate local government umbrella body, has warned council budgets could be cut by £700m by the end of the current Parliament.
The Scottish Local Government Partnership (SLGP) consists of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire Councils.
It commissioned a report by economic think-tank the Fraser of Allander Institute ahead of this week's Scottish budget.
The report said local authorities have suffered more than £1bn of cuts over the past five years and could face further reductions.
Last month, a report from the Accounts Commission said Scotland's councils face "significant challenges" managing their finances in future years.
Auditors found local authorities were generally in good financial health in 2015-16, but faced a difficult future.
The report warned councils needed "to change the way they work" and make long-term plans if they were to achieve the savings needed. | Further cuts to council funding would be "disastrous", according to the head of local government body Cosla. | 38283681 |
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It comes after a spate of positive drugs tests among the country's athletes and fresh allegations of corruption.
Kenya has not been able to provide the assurances that the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) is seeking and will be placed on a 'watch-list' of nations at risk of breaching the agency's code.
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The East African country, whose athletes are dominant in distance running, will be given two months to bring in new legislation and funding, or automatically be declared non-compliant with Wada.
That could mean a possible ban from the Olympics, which take place later this year in Brazil, and other major events.
A Wada statement said while "some progress has been made" with the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya, there is "still a lot of work required".
It said that, following a series of questions to Kenyan authorities, it had not received the assurances it needed.
"This is now a matter for our independent compliance process," it said.
Kenya topped the medal table at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with seven gold medals.
But the country has become mired in doping and bribery allegations.
Since 2011, more than 40 of its athletes have failed drugs tests:
Three senior officials at governing body Kenya Athletics have also been suspended following accusations they were involved in corruption linked to Doha's successful bid for the 2019 World Championships.
Both officials, and the Qatar campaign team, deny any wrongdoing.
The Kenyan government told the BBC it was taking the threat of doping "very seriously" and said its newly established national anti-doping organisation would soon be operational.
For several months, Wada has been trying to persuade Kenya to set up an effective national agency so more drug tests can be conducted, but progress has been slow.
Legislation has yet to be passed by the Kenyan parliament and proposed annual funding of 500m Kenyan shillings (£3.5m) is still to be released.
A taskforce met with Kenyan officials in Nairobi last week and asked for certain assurances by Thursday.
But Kenya has now been referred to Wada's compliance committee.
David Howman, Wada's director general, said "a fully functional" anti-doping agency is "a vital step for a country of Kenya's sporting stature" if it is to "effectively protect clean athletes".
He said it must be established "at the earliest opportunity".
Russian athletes are already banned from international competition after the country was accused of state-sponsored doping.
It must prove it is Wada-compliant before sanctions are lifted.
Kip Keino, head of Kenya's Olympic Committee, said his country was addressing the concerns levelled against them action but admitted time was "running out".
He added: "There is a change. The government is committed. We saw what happened in other countries like Russia and we don't want that."
The two-time Olympic gold medallist said a ban would be "a grave loss" and insisted Kenya "wants to clean its house".
This week, the IAAF expanded an ongoing investigation after fresh allegations from two suspended athletes that the chief executive of Kenya Athletics asked for money in exchange for more lenient punishments.
Isaac Mwangi has denied any wrongdoing, but Wada says it is "most disturbed" by the claims.
The BBC has obtained previously unseen, secretly filmed footage of a Kenyan athlete receiving an injection from an unnamed doctor.
The substance cannot be verified but the athlete, who did not want to be identified, said it was a banned substance and that doping was common.
Another athlete claimed the governing body had given him a two-year suspension because he was unable to pay it 500,000 Kenyan shillings (£3,350) to cover up a failed drugs test.
Kenya Athletics said it could not comment on the claims because of ongoing investigations but asked anyone with evidence to come forward.
With no operational anti-doping agency of its own, testing in Kenya is conducted by a regional anti-doping organisation on Wada's behalf.
But, with limited resources, it was able to carry out just 40 drugs tests in the country in 2015.
There is no Wada-accredited laboratory in Kenya and the regional agency does not have the facilities to carry out blood tests.
All urine samples have to be tested in South Africa.
Over the past two years, the IAAF has conducted 112 blood tests on Kenyan athletes in the country.
A total of 54 athletes were tested, but the samples have to be taken to Europe.
The world governing body is also trying to raise funding for an approved laboratory to be established in Nairobi.
This week, senior Kenyan sports officials held last-ditch talks and agreed draft legislation that would enable its anti-doping agency to become operational.
"We are very serious," said cabinet secretary Hassan Wario. "We have clamped down. We can't compare to Russia at all.
"The government knows the importance of athletics to this nation. It's our number one brand and we can't spoil that."
Wario insisted the country's president was behind plans to clean up the sport, adding: "The athletes you see from now on will be clean."
In a country where resources are limited, the temptation to take short cuts is obvious and the cost of educating and testing athletes a major challenge.
But, at a time when sporting integrity is under scrutiny like never before, Kenya is in a race against time to prove it wins clean. | Kenya has missed a deadline to prove to the World Anti-Doping Agency it is tackling cheating in athletics. | 35551486 |
Holders Chelsea were drawn to play at home and beat City 2-1 in extra time at Staines Town FC's Wheatsheaf Park.
Last year's semi-final between the two sides, which Chelsea also won, was played at a neutral venue - Adams Park.
"An FA Cup semi-final at Staines doesn't sit right with me. It should be a neutral venue," said Houghton, 27.
"I don't understand the reason, how somebody can get an advantage at home.
"We have to congratulate Chelsea and make sure, when it comes to the league games, we're right on it."
England striker Fran Kirby won the game for the hosts in the final minute of extra time, after the regular 90 minutes finished 1-1.
"I think we were the better team. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be," defender Houghton added. "Chelsea brought a lot of fresh legs on and a lot of experienced players.
"The effort levels and the attitude, we were unbelievable. I'm gutted for the staff because I know how hard we work.
"Now we just use this as motivation to kick our season on even more and try to stay top of the league."
Chelsea will now face Arsenal in the final at Wembley on Saturday 14 May, following the Gunners' 7-0 thrashing of Sunderland. | England and Manchester City Women captain Steph Houghton has questioned why Chelsea Ladies had home advantage in Sunday's Women's FA Cup semi-final. | 36076506 |
The online article was published after the four-year-old prince was photographed with his hands on his face in a helicopter in Germany last month.
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party, described the article as "outrageous and sick".
He has written to PinkNews demanding it withdraw the article and apologise.
However, the chief executive of PinkNews, Benjamin Cohen, told BBC News NI he had "no intention" of removing the article at the behest of a politician who opposed the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
He defended the feature, saying it was a "tongue-in-cheek" piece, based on the comments of "hundreds" of social media users.
Mr Cohen added that as a gay man, he was personally offended by some of the "repugnant" remarks contained in Mr Allister's letter of complaint.
The PinkNews website describes itself as the "premier LGBT news outlet in the UK and beyond".
The original article, by Josh Jackman, was published on 25 July with the headline: People think Prince George looks fabulous in this new photo.
It was a commentary on social media users' reaction to one of a series of press photos of the young prince exploring a helicopter during a family tour of an aviation factory.
Mr Jackman wrote: "Prince George has become a gay icon overnight.
"The monarch-to-be has always been cute and well-dressed, but one day before his fourth birthday, a photo of him excitedly holding his face changed everything.
"At least, that's what the people - sorry, his subjects - are saying."
In his complaint, Mr Allister told PinkNews: "Sexualising a young child in this fashion is entirely inappropriate.
"In reality, the photo which prompted the piece shows a four-year-old boy who is smartly dressed and excited about being on a helicopter with his male father and female mother.
"To take an image of a little boy and to fantasise of him being an icon for a life defined by sex is outrageous and sick."
Mr Allister also told the editor that Facebook users' reaction to the piece "should tell you that the piece was misjudged to say the least".
The TUV leader quoted one of the critical Facebook comments which said: "You are using 1970s stereotyping to come up with this nonsense... It is ignorant in the extreme to speculate about the sexuality of any child in such a public fashion."
In the piece, Mr Jackman acknowledged: "There are of course those who say that any discussion of the prince's sexuality is premature."
But he insisted that the discussion "isn't about his sexuality".
"As Madonna, Lady Gaga, the Babadook and yes, even Ariana Grande have shown, you don't have to be gay or even have a defined sexuality to be an LGBT icon."
The article added that children "are born with a sexuality, and should be encouraged to find it without it being assumed that they're straight".
Mr Allister said he was disgusted by the article.
The TUV leader added that he would have referred his complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), but PinkNews had not signed up to its code of practice.
But the publication's chief executive pointed out that PinkNews could not be a member of IPSO as it was a "digital media company", and not a newspaper or a magazine.
Mr Cohen said he was "surprised" that a UK politician was not aware of its membership rules or the regulations governing the media.
He also said that until today, he had "never heard of Jim Allister" and had not yet received his letter, but had read its contents in the press.
Mr Cohen argued that the 25 July feature was a "legitimate" piece of social commentary and rejected Mr Allister's claim that it had "sexualised" a young child.
He said the feature was no longer on the PinkNews homepage as it was three weeks old, but that it would remain available on the internet.
The chief executive added that he was "surprised that Jim Allister is such an avid reader of PinkNews" that he could find the piece online.
Mr Allister founded the TUV in 2007 after quitting the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
He holds a seat at Stormont for the North Antrim constituency and is also a barrister. | An article in PinkNews, speculating that Prince George has become a gay icon, has sparked a formal complaint from a Northern Ireland politician. | 40898218 |
The first half was closely contested, but the Daggers' Corey Whitely put his side in front with a vicious cross-shot that deceived Scott Davies in the home goal.
At the other end, Andy Cook fed James Wallace, who threatened to equalise, but his shot was well saved by Elliot Justham.
After the interval, Dagenham extended their lead inside two minutes. Oli Hawkins cemented his position in the top three of the goalscorer charts when he beat Davies at the end of a fine solo run - his 17th of a productive season so far.
Report supplied by Press Association.
Match ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2.
Second Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Scott Doe replaces Jake Sheppard.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Jordan Maguire-Drew replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Cole Stockton replaces Andy Mangan.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Luke Howell replaces Corey Whitely.
Shaun Donnellan (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Craig Robson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. James Norwood replaces Steven Jennings.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 2. Oliver Hawkins (Dagenham and Redbridge).
Substitution, Tranmere Rovers. Ben Tollitt replaces Jake Kirby.
Second Half begins Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
First Half ends, Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1.
Goal! Tranmere Rovers 0, Dagenham and Redbridge 1. Corey Whitely (Dagenham and Redbridge).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Dagenham & Redbridge's 2-0 victory at Tranmere lifted the visitors above the Merseysiders in the play-off places. | 38701087 |
The deal, announced in 2014, would have seen a $34.6bn takeover by Halliburton of Baker Hughes, creating a powerful rival to global leader Schlumberger.
Halliburton and Baker Hughes are the second and third biggest oil services companies.
That raised concerns about higher prices and reduced competition.
Baker Hughes stands to receive a $3.5bn break-up fee as a result of the deal falling through.
Failure to satisfy regulatory concerns was not the only reason for abandoning the merger.
The fall in the oil price since the proposal was announced changed the financial attractiveness of the cash and shares deal.
The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to stop the merger last month, arguing it would leave only two dominant suppliers in the well drilling and oil construction services industry.
The European Commission also expressed concerns that the deal might reduce competition and innovation.
Both companies have been hit by a fall in business as oil and gas giants rein back on projects and investments.
Last week, Baker Hughes reported a bigger-than-expected first-quarter loss. Last month, Halliburton announced 6,000 job cuts. | US oil services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes have called off their proposed merger after resistance from regulators in the US and Europe. | 36184667 |
Lawyers for Clarkson and the BBC attended a closed-door hearing with Oisin Tymon's legal team at a London employment tribunal on Friday.
The case centres on "verbal abuse" that accompanied a physical attack during which Clarkson struck Tymon in March.
Clarkson, who was dropped by the BBC following an internal inquiry, will front a new show on Amazon Prime.
The inquiry, headed up by Ken MacQuarrie, found Mr Tymon was subject to an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack".
Lawyers Slater & Gordon confirmed on Friday that they had been engaged by the producer.
A statement by the BBC said: "We will be responding to this claim, but will not be commenting further at this time."
Witnesses
The assault took place at a North Yorkshire hotel, after Clarkson was told there was no hot food available at the end of a day's shooting on location.
As part of the inquiry, statements were given by two unnamed witnesses to the incident on 4 March.
The producer, who suffered swelling and bleeding to his lip in the altercation, drove himself to hospital after the incident believing he had lost his job.
BBC director general, Tony Hall, said Clarkson had subjected an "innocent party [to] a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature".
At the time of the attack, Mr Tymon told police he did not wish to press charges.
In the days following the assault, he was the subject of sustained abuse on social media for his involvement in the dispute - prompting Clarkson himself to urge his fans to show restraint.
"I wish people would leave Ois alone because none of this was his fault," the presenter told reporters in March.
Clarkson will be joined by his erstwhile Top Gear co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May on a new show for Amazon Prime, to be broadcast next year. | The Irish Top Gear producer punched by Jeremy Clarkson is suing the presenter and the BBC for racial discrimination. | 34809758 |
The 23-year-old scored made 46 Super League appearances for the Dragons, scoring 10 tries, before returning to Australia this season.
Despite signing a two-year contract with the Panthers, Garcia failed to break into the first team.
"I had a great year down under but I couldn't refuse the contract offered by the Dragons," he told the club website.
"The Dragons has a great season so far and I hope I can bring my contribution to its success."
Catalans head coach Laurent Frayssinous added: "Ben is a talented young player and his qualities and his versatility will help the team to move forward.
"He always kept the club in his heart and, after his experience in Australia, he is really motivated to add his contribution." | Catalans Dragons have re-signed forward Ben Garcia from Penrith Panthers on a two-and-a-half year deal. | 36607495 |
The referendum set out plans for a buyout of the port to stop Dover Harbour Board's privatisation plans.
Ballot boxes were at the usual election points in the town and votes were being cast from 1600 until 2100 GMT.
The count was taking place at council offices with the results, which are non-binding on the government, due to be announced later in the night. | The residents of Dover have taken part in a referendum to decide whether they want it to become a "People's Port". | 12831421 |
Mathew Taylor, chief executive of the Royal Society for the Arts, was appointed last month to lead the review into the impact of "disruptive" businesses such as Uber and Deliveroo.
New technology combined with new business models has led to a rise in workers doing short-term, casual work.
Many are not eligible for the minimum wage, sickness or maternity pay.
The review will address questions of job-security, pension, holiday and parental leave rights. It will also look at "employer freedoms and obligations".
Mr Taylor will be joined by the entrepreneur, Greg Marsh, who founded onefinestay, a company which helps upmarket home-owners let their properties to visitors, Paul Broadbent chief executive of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority and employment lawyer, Diane Nicol.
The team will be talking to businesses and workers across the UK, including in Maidstone, Coventry and Glasgow. It will look into practices in manufacturing and rural economies as well as the "gig" economy.
"The most important part of our process is getting out and about to talk to businesses and workers across Britain about their experiences of modern work," said Mr Taylor, who was formerly the head of the Number 10 policy unit under Labour leader, Tony Blair. His current role at the RSA think-tank is politically neutral.
"As well as making specific recommendations I hope the Review will promote a national conversation and explore how we can all contribute to work that provides opportunity, fairness and dignity," he said in a statement.
Typically workers in the "gig" economy use mobile phone apps to identify customers requiring delivery services or small practical jobs. The Department for Business says 15% of those working in the UK's labour market are now self-employed.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is also set to launch a research project into the scale of the gig economy, which will examine the motivations of those engaging in "gig" work.
"Helping us to understand what impact modern employment practices have on workers will inform our forthcoming industrial strategy and also help us ensure our labour market and wider economy works for everyone," said Business Minister Margot James.
The government's Autumn Statement earlier this month indicated how the "gig economy" is also beginning to affect budget revenues, as self-employment and casual work reduce the amount of tax being paid.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimated that in 2020/21 it will cost the Treasury £3.5bn.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond indicated he would be looking for more effective ways to tax workers in the shifting labour environment. | A team of four experts is preparing to tour the UK to explore how the "gig" economy is affecting workers' rights. | 38147489 |
Alonso is missing the Monaco Grand Prix this month, where Jenson Button will return to Formula 1 to substitute for him, to race at Indianapolis.
The Spaniard completed his mandatory 'rookie' test before starting his preparations for the event on 28 May.
"So far it is a good experience but now starts the real thing," Alonso said.
"It has been a very helpful day in terms of knowing all this different world and getting up to speed a little bit.
"There's still a long way to go but I am happy with this first step."
Button sent his former McLaren team-mate a good-luck message on social media before the test session.
All drivers who race at Indianapolis for the first time are required to complete an initiation test, no matter what their calibre or experience.
To pass, two-time F1 world champion Alonso had to complete three phases of running - 10 laps each at an average of 205-210mph; followed by 15 at 210-215mph; and 15 at 215-220mph. He completed the requirements in just 50 laps.
Alonso said: "It is a good way to start to build the speed. It was probably a little bit difficult at the beginning to reach the minimum but then in the phases it felt good.
"At the beginning, the right foot has its own brain and it was not connected to my brain. I wanted to go flat-out but the foot wouldn't let me. But after a few laps it was fine."
After passing the rookie test, Alonso began a programme with his Andretti Autosport team to start learning the intricacies of IndyCars on an oval track where each 2.5-mile lap has four left turns that look identical but are each subtly different.
He ended the test with a fastest lap of 222.548mph. Last year's pole position time for the Indy 500 was 230.760mph.
"Everything went fine so far," Alonso said. "The circuit looks so narrow when you are at that speed. I was trying different lines but I was not as comfortable as I probably will be in a couple of weeks' time."
Alonso is racing in his home grand prix in Spain on 12-14 May before flying back to the States to start the official practice sessions for the Indy 500 the next day.
The competitors have a total of 30 hours of practice over five days before qualifying weekend on 20-21 May, with pole position decided on the Sunday.
Alonso's F1 team are fully involved in his Indy programme, with the car painted in the company's historic orange colour and given the McLaren name. It is the first time for 38 years that a car branded McLaren has raced at Indy.
He is taking part because McLaren are struggling in F1 this year as a result of a lack of performance in their Honda engine and Alonso has said one of his ambitions is to win the 'triple crown' of Monaco Grand Prix, which he won in 2006 and '07, Indy 500 and Le Mans 24 Hours.
McLaren executive director Zak Brown said he wanted to give Alonso the chance to win something after three difficult seasons since joining the team in 2015.
"We wanted to see Fernando running at the front because that's where he deserves to be," Brown said.
Brown revealed that Alonso had already watched about 25 Indy 500s in his preparations, including one entirely from an in-car camera on one particular car.
The test progressed so quickly that within four hours Andretti already had Alonso testing fuel saving and techniques for running behind a safety car.
But Alonso said he still had a lot to learn about fine-tuning the car for changing conditions on the track, a key aspect of driving at Indy.
"The guys make changes all the time to the car," he said. "On that aspect I am not up to speed. I am not yet able to to feel the car because at the moment I am not driving the car, the car is driving me around."
Mario Andretti, the 1978 F1 world champion, former IndyCar champion and father of ex-F1 and IndyCar driver Michael Andretti who runs the team Alonso is driving for, said: "He did a perfect job. He's the real deal and I think he's going to be strong this month."
This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser | McLaren's Fernando Alonso said his first experience of Indianapolis was "fun" as he passed his orientation and began testing for the Indy 500. | 39799856 |
Zsolt Suhaj, 25, who raped a 66-year-old, was branded every woman's "worst nightmare" by a judge.
He told Preston Crown Court the woman he raped had consented to sex and requested he enter through her bedroom window - a claim police said was "offensive".
Suhaj was convicted of a string of similar offences after a trial.
These included the sexual assault of a 70-year-old, and several counts of trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence.
The court heard Hungarian national Suhaj entered addresses in the Colne and Nelson areas of Lancashire last year.
He mostly targeted bungalows, entering through insecure windows and doors during the early hours.
In one of the incidents, the boyfriend of a sleeping woman found Suhaj standing over her as she was fast asleep.
He threw his mobile phone at Suhaj as he made his escape through the bedroom window.
The court heard there were further reports of women, aged between 22 and 84, waking to find Suhaj in their homes.
Judge Sara Dodd said it was every woman's "worst nightmare" as she adjourned sentencing until 27 April.
Suhaj was arrested at his home in Barkerhouse Road, Nelson, following the rape after detectives released CCTV images and staff at a local takeaway recognised him.
During the trial, it emerged the defendant had similar previous convictions in Canada from 2012 when he committed a number of offences in Toronto.
It is understood Suhaj was placed on the Canadian sex offender database and was then deported to his home country after he served a custodial sentence.
In May 2013 he was convicted of theft in Hungary and travelled to the UK to stay with family members in east Lancashire.
He was found guilty of rape, sexual assault, trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence at five homes and attempting to trespass with intent at another home. | A sexual predator has been found guilty of breaking into women's homes in order to assault them. | 39438122 |
The visitors took an early lead when Jack Grealish hooked in Leandro Bacuna's cross at the back post.
But after dominating for an hour, the hosts made Villa pay when Pierluigi Gollini parried Lee Tomlin's shot and Tammy Abraham stabbed in.
Minutes later, Abraham set up Joe Bryan who finished in the far corner, before Tomlin's spectacular 20-yard free-kick.
City, who announced the signing of striker Jamie Paterson from Nottingham Forest at half-time, had lost their last two league games and were deservedly behind for much of this one.
Villa should have added to Grealish's second goal in four matches, but Jordan Ayew missed two good chances to double the lead either side of the break, dragging one wide and blazing the other into the stand.
City, without striker Jonathan Kodjia, who is reportedly on the verge of signing for Derby, turned the game around with two goals in as many minutes, thanks to Abraham's fifth of the season and Bryan's first.
Tomlin then curled home from just outside the box to wrap up the victory, which left Villa still searching for a first away league win since August last year.
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson:
"A lot of clubs are interested in Jonathan, but none have yet matched our valuation. We are in a position where we don't have to sell our best players unless a buying club comes up with sufficient dosh.
"I left Jonathan out because of all the speculation, but nothing is signed and sealed yet. If he does leave we have contingency plans in place.
"I was beyond anger at half-time. We were being totally outplayed and outclassed and we played with fear. I was so disappointed.
"At half-time I told the players that I didn't care if we lost 5-0, we had to show the Bristol City spirit.
"Full credit to them because we ended up trouncing a very good side. They are the third relegated team we have played and the first we have beaten, which shows how far we are progressing."
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Aston Villa manager Roberto Di Matteo:
"For an hour we were much the better side and in control. But when they scored we lost confidence and didn't look like a team any more.
"It is not the first time that has happened and we need to work on it. At some point in a game you are going to come under pressure and we have to deal with that better.
"We became like 11 individual players on the pitch and lost the organisation we had for 60 minutes. Conceding a goal seems to cause us to lose confidence and it's a mindset we need to change.
"Bringing in new players will help us, but we also need time to work together as a group. Conceding three goals as we did was not something I had seen from the team in the previous four games."
Match ends, Bristol City 3, Aston Villa 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 3, Aston Villa 1.
Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Leandro Bacuna (Aston Villa).
Scott Golbourne (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City).
Attempt missed. Jordan Ayew (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Jordan Amavi with a cross.
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary O'Neil (Bristol City).
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Jack Grealish (Aston Villa).
Marlon Pack (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Amavi.
Offside, Bristol City. Lee Tomlin tries a through ball, but Aaron Wilbraham is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Wilbraham.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Scott Golbourne.
Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Little (Bristol City).
Goal! Bristol City 3, Aston Villa 1. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top right corner.
Foul by Jordan Amavi (Aston Villa).
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Andre Green replaces Ashley Westwood.
Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marlon Pack (Bristol City).
Attempt missed. Hördur Bjorgvin Magnusson (Bristol City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa).
Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lee Tomlin (Bristol City).
Attempt blocked. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Tommy Elphick (Aston Villa).
Aaron Wilbraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bristol City. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Tammy Abraham.
Foul by James Chester (Aston Villa).
Tammy Abraham (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Libor Kozák replaces Ritchie de Laet. | Bristol City scored three second-half goals as they came from behind to beat Aston Villa at Ashton Gate. | 37138604 |
Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw highlighted serious weaknesses at seven multi-academy trusts in a hard-hitting letter to the education secretary.
He said the trusts were sitting on millions of pounds that should be used to raise standards.
A Conservative party source described the comments as "partial and skewed".
'It is surprising and disappointing to hear Sir Michael attack the academies programme," said a Conservative spokesman.
"His partial and skewed picture is no reflection of the great success of the multi-academy trust model as a whole, which is transforming England's schools and creating the conditions for educational excellence across the country."
The government is pushing for more schools to become academies - and Prime Minister David Cameron has said he would like to make "local authorities running schools a thing of the past".
But in a letter to Nicky Morgan, Sir Michael, a former academy head teacher, said problems at these multi-academy trusts often replicated those of the worst local councils, and were leading to poor results for too many pupils, particularly disadvantaged ones.
"Given these worrying findings about the performance of disadvantaged pupils and the lack of leadership capacity and strategic oversight by trustees, salary levels for the chief executives of some of these MATs do not appear to be commensurate with the level of performance of their trusts or constituent academies," wrote Sir Michael.
"The average pay of the chief executives in these seven trusts is higher than the prime minister's salary, with one chief executive's salary reaching £225,000.
"This poor use of public money is compounded by some trusts holding very large cash reserves that are not being spent on raising standards.
"For example, at the end of August 2015, these seven trusts had total cash in the bank of £111m.
"Furthermore, some of these trusts are spending money on expensive consultants or advisers to compensate for deficits in leadership. Put together, these seven trusts spent at least £8.5m on education consultancy in 2014-15 alone."
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: "Ofsted has identified a number of very serious concerns within these academy chains.
"The lack of oversight, the lack of capacity within the governance structures and failure to deliver improvements are all issues we have been raising for months.
"As the government continues, without evidence, with its agenda to turn all schools into academies and no system of local oversight to spot and challenge underperformance early, these problems will only get worse, impacting on standards."
Across the seven multi-academy trusts, inspectors found:
The seven multi-academy trusts are: School Partnership Trust Academies, E-Act, AET, The Education Fellowship, Wakefield City Academies, CfBT Multi-Academy Trust, Collaborative Academies Trust and Oasis Learning Multi-Academy Trust. The run several hundreds schools in England between them.
Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: "Councils are education improvement partners and not a barrier to change.
"Only 15% of the largest academy chains perform above the national average in terms of progress made by pupils, compared with 44% of councils, while more than 80% of maintained schools are rated as "good" or "outstanding" by Ofsted.
"It's vital that we concentrate on the quality of education and a school's ability to do the very best for all children, rather than on the legal status of a school."
Earlier this week the government signalled that it would further reduce the financial link between local authorities and schools.
A proposed national funding formula for schools, which would be introduced next year, would see budgets going straight to schools, removing local authorities from being a channel for funding. | Top executives at some of England's biggest academy chains are paid huge salaries while pupils are left to get poor results, Ofsted says. | 35775458 |
"The constituent assembly lacks legitimacy and because of that we cannot accept the result," he said.
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro called the vote as protests against his government gained momentum in May.
The opposition sees it as a move towards dictatorship.
The new constituent assembly, comprising 545 members, will rival the National Assembly, currently controlled by the opposition.
"We insist on a peaceful solution for the country's situation," said President Santos.
Earlier on Friday, police in the Venezuelan capital Caracas fired tear gas and rubber bullets against opposition activists who blocked roads. At least two people were injured.
Venezuela has banned protests that could "disturb or affect" the vote.
Prison terms of between five and 10 years could be imposed on those contravening the ban, Interior Minister Néstor Reverol said on Thursday.
The ban on activity will remain in force until Tuesday.
Katy Watson, BBC News, Caracas
When you drive around Caracas at night, you really notice the lack of street lights - it's very dark and it feels unsafe.
A day after the government banned protests ahead of Sunday's vote, the streets of Caracas felt eerily quiet.
There were sporadic demonstrations but what stood out were the blockades or "guarimbas" as the Venezuelans call them. Some barricades are just piles of rubbish, others are made with bricks or barbed wire.
It's a tactic used by the opposition aimed at halting traffic and causing disruption. And it works - finding a straightforward route is hard, dodging cars driving down the wrong side of the road is the norm, it seems, anything to find a way out of the barricades and get home.
More than 100 people have been killed in protest-related violence since April.
The situation has worsened to the point that the United States has ordered family members living at the embassy in Caracas to evacuate the country. It also authorised its staff members to leave if they desire.
Mr Maduro said his opponents should "abandon the road to insurrection" and added that he would be willing to begin a "roundtable dialogue in the next few hours".
On Wednesday, the US imposed sanctions on 13 senior Venezuelan officials, including Mr Reverol.
The sanctions freeze the US assets of those targeted and stop American entities from doing business with them.
President Donald Trump promised "strong and swift economic actions" if the poll goes ahead.
Mr Maduro responded by describing the US as imperialists bent on ruling the world and called the sanctions "illegal, insolent and unprecedented". | Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos says his country will not recognise the result of Sunday's vote in neighbouring Venezuela to elect a new assembly with power to rewrite the constitution. | 40759887 |
Dr Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old father from south London, died on 16 December 2013 while in custody in Damascus.
An inquest jury found he was unlawfully killed and did not commit suicide as the Syrian authorities claim.
The family said they would continue their fight to identify Dr Khan's killers and bring them to justice.
Dr Khan died days before he was due to be released.
The orthopaedic surgeon from Streatham left his wife and two children to travel to the Syrian city of Aleppo.
He was arrested 48 hours after arriving in the country to work in a field hospital in a rebel-controlled area in November 2012.
He entered without a visa and later told his family he was "accused of treating dying civilians, which has been classed as an act of terrorism".
His sister Sara Khan said: "At the moment, there are individuals who wanted my brother dead and as a family we should be able to find out who these people are and why.
"We want to take this to the International Criminal Court in The Hague and claim compensation from the Syrian authorities.
"It is a very complex case and it is not going to be easy, it might take many years."
Dr Khan's mother, Fatima, travelled to Damascus in July 2013 and visited a number of embassies and prisons before she tracked down her son.
Her efforts to try and bring him home were described as "superhuman" at the inquest.
But Mrs Khan said she had failed as a mother because she could not bring her son home alive.
She said: "I blame myself every day, I could not save my son.
"Nothing can ever bring Abbas back, nothing will ever take away my suffering, but now we need justice.
"We want to see the people responsible punished. We will fight for as long as we need to."
You can hear more on this story on BBC Asian Network, or listen back on the BBC iPlayer. | The family of a British surgeon killed in a Syrian prison have told the BBC they plan to take the case to the International Criminal Court. | 30086753 |
She went on to report on conflicts across the world but it was that moment that defined her career.
She was by no means the first female war reporter, but her depth of technical, tactical and strategic insight set her apart.
And, even as she approached her 11th decade, she still kept her passport by her bed in case she should be called to another assignment.
Clare Hollingworth was born in Leicester on 10 October 1911 and spent most of her childhood on a farm. What should have been idyllic years were overshadowed by World War One.
"I remember the German bombers flying over the farm we lived in to bomb Loughborough," she reminisced. "And the next day we got Polly the pony and took the trap into Loughborough to see the damage they had done. "
She had set her heart on a writing career early on, much to the exasperation of her mother.
"She didn't believe anything journalists wrote and thought they were only fit for the tradesmen's entrance."
After school she attended a domestic science college in Leicester, which instilled in her a lifelong hatred of housework.
More interesting to her by far were the battlefield tours that her father arranged to sites as diverse as Naseby, Poitiers and Agincourt.
Eschewing the prospect of life as a country squire's wife, Hollingworth became a secretary at the League of Nations Union before studying at London University's School of Slavonic Studies and the University of Zagreb.
In 1936 she married a fellow League of Nations worker, Vandeleur Robinson, but soon found herself in Warsaw, distributing aid to refugees who had fled from the Sudetenland, the Czech territory occupied by the Nazis in 1938.
She had written the occasional article for the New Statesman and, on a brief visit to London in August 1939, she was signed up by the editor of the Daily Telegraph, Arthur Wilson, who was impressed by her experience in Poland.
In this period of heightened tension, the border between Poland and Germany was sealed to all but diplomatic vehicles. After borrowing a car from the British consul in Katowice and proudly displaying the union jack, she drove through the exclusion zone and into Germany.
While driving back to Poland, having bought wine, torches and as much film as possible, she passed through a valley in which huge hessian screens had been erected.
As the wind blew one of the screens back, it revealed thousands of troops, together with tanks and artillery, all facing the Polish border.
Her report featured on the front page of the Daily Telegraph on 29 August, 1939. Less than a week after becoming a full-time journalist, she had scooped one of the biggest stories of the 20th Century.
Three days later, Hollingworth saw the German tanks rolling into Poland. But when she phoned the secretary at the British Embassy in Warsaw, he told her it could not be true as negotiations between Britain and Germany were still continuing.
"So I hung the telephone receiver out of the window," Hollingworth later recalled, "So he could listen to the Germans invading."
Working on her own, often behind enemy lines, with nothing more than a toothbrush and a typewriter, she witnessed the collapse of Poland before moving to Bucharest, where she realised that her marriage was over.
"I thought that for me - and in a different kind of way for him - my career was more important than trying to rush back home," she reflected later.
Hollingworth spent a busy war in Turkey, Greece and Cairo. When Montgomery - who could not stomach the idea of a woman reporting from the front - captured Tripoli in 1943, he ordered her to return to Cairo.
She decided to attach herself to Eisenhower's forces, then in Algiers.
Though diminutive and bespectacled, Hollingworth was as tough as nails. She learned how to fly and made a number of parachute jumps.
During the latter part of the war, she reported from Palestine, Iraq and Persia, where she interviewed the young Shah.
After the war, Hollingworth, by now working for the Observer and the Economist, married Geoffrey Hoare, the Times's Middle East correspondent.
The couple were just 300 yards from Jerusalem's King David Hotel when it was bombed in 1946, killing 91 British troops.
The attack left her with a hatred of the man behind the attack, the Irgun leader Menachem Begin, who eventually became prime minister of Israel and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
"I would not shake a hand with so much blood on it," she explained.
In 1963 Hollingworth was working for the Guardian in Beirut when Kim Philby, a correspondent for the Observer, disappeared.
She was convinced that he was the fabled "third man" in a British spy ring that already included Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.
After some detective work, she discovered that Philby had left on a Soviet ship bound for Odessa and filed copy to that effect with the Guardian.
But this second huge scoop was spiked by the paper's editor, Alastair Hetherington, who feared a libel suit.
Three months later, the Guardian ran the story, tucked away on an inside page. The following day the Daily Express splashed it on the front page, prompting the government to admit that Philby had, indeed, defected to the Soviet Union.
Hollingworth reported on the Algerian crisis and the Vietnam War. She was one of the first journalists to predict that American military muscle would not prevail and that a stalemate was inevitable.
She made a special effort to speak to Vietnamese civilians, away from the watching eyes of the US PR people, to ensure she accurately captured the views of those who were suffering the most.
Hoare died in 1966, and Hollingworth, who had become the Telegraph's first Beijing correspondent in 1973, retired to Hong Kong in 1981.
She spent her final years in the former colony and was a daily fixture at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, venerated by her colleagues.
Although she lost her sight later in life, Clare Hollingworth, a true journalist's journalist, retained an acute interest in world affairs right to the end.
She was once asked where she would want to go if the phone rang with a new assignment.
"I would look through the papers," she said, "And say, 'Where's the most dangerous place to go?', because it always makes a good story." | Clare Hollingworth was the war correspondent who broke the news that German troops were poised to invade Poland at the start of World War Two. | 13960347 |
Philip Morrison, 40, denies killing 24-year-old Derek Sheerin, in 1994 in Glasgow.
The High Court in Glasgow heard how he gave a police statement hours after Mr Sheerin's body was found near the Celtic Supporters' club on London Road.
In it he said Mr Sheerin was depressed and had talked of taking his own life and making it look like an accident.
Retired police inspector James Wallace, 51, told prosecutor Iain McSporran QC that he was approached by Mr Morrison hours after Mr Sheerin's half-naked body was found by three schoolgirls in September 1994.
Mr Morrison was then taken to London Road police station where he gave a voluntary witness statement.
He had said Mr Sheerin had been badly affected by the recent death of his uncle Pat and had talked about suicide for five or six minutes.
Mr Morrison said to officers: "He went on like that for five or six minutes.
"I told his mother and sister and they were concerned, but didn't think he would do it."
The court heard that Mr Sheerin and Mr Morrison were staying at Mr Sheerin's sister's house.
Mr Morrison had said: "Derek left the house at 6.30pm and said he was going to his mate's.
"When he left I saw him walking towards London Road. That's the last time I saw him."
It is alleged Mr Morrison compressed Mr Sheerin's neck with a belt and robbed him of a watch, tobacco and £20.
The trial before judge Lady Rae continues. | A murder accused has claimed the last time he saw the victim, he was walking off to see a friend. | 39437594 |
Banners calling for David Cameron to quit were carried by protesters as they marched to Trafalgar Square.
The demonstration, organised by the People's Assembly, was also attended by shadow chancellor John McDonnell.
He said that a Labour government would end cuts and "halt the privatisation of our NHS". The government says austerity measures are key to deficit reduction.
Mr McDonnell also pledged that his party would scrap the work capability assessments affecting people with disabilities and target homelessness by building hundreds of thousands of council homes.
The government was "bankrupt" in its political ideas and handling of the economy, he said, and called for Mr Cameron to resign and to "take his party with him".
"On every front now we are seeing the government in disarray - in terms of the economy we are slipping backwards instead of growing," Mr McDonnell said.
Prime Minister David Cameron has previously argued that by making savings over the course of the parliament the government can "prioritise what matters for working families - schools, the NHS and our national security".
Labour's Diane Abbott, a fellow speaker, said that fighting austerity was the "political struggle of our time" and blamed cuts on "forcing people out of work and into zero hours contracts".
Also present at the rally were Len McCluskey, general secretary of the union Unite, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower.
At the beginning of the event, which set off from outside University College London, the National Health Singers sang a song which included the lines "don't let our junior docs be worked around the clock", and "help us keep you safe, don't take our rights away".
Chris Nineham, of Stop The War Coalition, said: "Austerity is not about economic necessity, it is a political choice."
The government has pledged to save £12bn from welfare by the end of Parliament in 2020 but has abandoned planned cuts to disability benefits after Iain Duncan Smith resigned as work and pensions secretary last month over the proposals. | Thousands of people have taken part in a protest in central London against government cuts. | 36063743 |
The 31-year-old was axed from the Carthage Eagles after he criticised the attitude of his teammates and the choice of coach Sami Trabelsi following their group stage exit in South Africa.
The TFF said the player could return to the national squad again "after apologising to the federal government and the country's football authority."
The statement added that the decision to recall the Lokeren striker into the international fold will be at the discretion of the current coach Henri Kasperczak.
Harbaoui, who burst on to the international scene with Tunisia in 2012, scored a brace on his international debut in a 5-1 friendly win at home to Rwanda in May that year.
Five days later he grabbed his third international goal in a 2014 World Cup qualifier against Equatorial Guinea as the Carthage Eagles earned a comfortable 3-1 home win.
He made seven more appearances for his country, started the first two games at the 2013 Nations Cup, but coach Trabelsi's decision to leave him out of the final group game against Togo led to a public outburst.
Harbaoui started his career at Esperance before moving to Belgian side Mouscron on loan in 2008.
He went on to play for Visé, OH Leuven and spent a season at Qatari club Qatar SC.
His biggest success comes across two spells with Lokeren, where he won the 2011/12 Belgian Cup by scoring the only goal in the final against Kortrijk.
Harbaoui won the Belgian Cup again in the 2013/14 season and also finished as the Belgian Pro League's top scorer with 22 goals in 33 games. | The Tunisia Football Federation (TFF) lifted a suspension on Belgium-based Hamdi Harbaoui after the striker apologised for his misconduct at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. | 35951355 |
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is considering the job losses in a bid to save £14.7m over four years following government funding cuts.
Authority chairman David Acton said the service was being "stretched to the limit".
The plans will be discussed by the fire authority at a meeting on Thursday.
Mr Acton said that repeated budget cuts were having a "massive impact" on the fire service's "resilience".
"It puts people more at risk, it puts our businesses at risk and there's no doubt it's a real challenge for us as a fire service to be able to cope," he added.
"We know exactly what we need on the ground and the government are falling short in terms of that."
Mr Acton's concerns were echoed by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) which has urged the service to reconsider the cuts at a time when deaths from fires are rising.
Gary Keary, secretary of the FBU in Greater Manchester, said: "We urge the service and local politicians to think again about these drastic frontline cuts that will undoubtedly lead to lives being lost."
Assistant County Fire Officer Dave Keelan admitted the job losses would "impact on fire cover, response times and our service as a whole".
"The FBU is right when they say fires and deaths from fires are rising," he said.
"It is a challenging time for us and we have been talking to local people in the last few months to consult with them about how we move forward to meet their needs," he added. | Plans to cut about 250 firefighters in Greater Manchester would "put people at risk", the chairman of the region's fire authority has warned. | 36586453 |
Masked men boarded several vehicles carrying the Christians and opened fire at close range, witnesses said.
The funerals of some of the victims were held on Friday night.
Egyptian aircraft struck "terrorist training camps" in neighbouring Libya in retaliation for the attack.
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said six strikes hit the Libyan town of Derna.
President Sisi said he would "not hesitate to strike terrorist camps anywhere".
Announcing the strikes in a TV speech late on Friday, the president promised to "protect our people from the evil".
He called for countries that support terrorism to be punished while appealing to US President Donald Trump for help.
Military sources told Reuters news agency that the militants targeted in Libya were involved in the attack on Egyptian Christians earlier on Friday.
In a statement, IS said the attack in the province of Minya was carried out by "a security detachment of soldiers of the caliphate", who had set up a checkpoint.
The bus was making its way to the Monastery of St Samuel the Confessor, 135km (85 miles) south of Cairo,
It was in a small convoy that was stopped on a desert road near a police station on the border with Beni Suef province.
The gunmen wore military uniforms and used automatic weapons before fleeing in 4X4 vehicles, eyewitnesses said.
Children were among those who died.
IS militants have targeted Copts several times in recent months. The militants killed killed a group of 21 Christians in a bomb attack on a church in Cairo in December 2016.
Two suicide bombings this year at church services in the northern cities of Alexandria and Tanta on 9 April left 46 people dead.
Libya is effectively controlled by a large number of armed militias that have emerged in the chaos since Nato-backed forces overthrew long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011.
But IS has also built a presence in the country during the chaos.
Copts make up about 10% of Egypt's population of 92 million. | So-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed it was behind an attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt that killed at least 29 people and wounded about 25 others on Friday. | 40070612 |
Sir Nicholas Wall, president of the High Court's Family Division, said he could "see no good arguments against no-fault divorce".
Society no longer sees divorce as shameful, so there is no need for one partner to be deemed innocent, he said.
A change in the law was mooted in 1996, but scrapped before it was implemented.
In aspeechto family lawyers, Sir Nicholas said: "I am a strong believer in marriage.
"But I see no good arguments against no-fault divorce.
"At the moment, as it seems to me we have a system - so far as divorce itself is concerned - which is in fact administrative, but which masquerades as judicial."
He said this had its roots in history.
"In the 19th Century and for much of the 20th, divorce was a matter of social status - it mattered whether you were divorced or not, and if you were, it was important to demonstrate that you were the 'innocent party'.
"All that, I think, has gone."
Under current divorce law in England and Wales, a person has to prove in court that the marriage has broken down.
It can have broken down for only five reasons - adultery, unreasonable behaviour, desertion after two years, two years' separation with consent or five years' separation without consent - and these are included in a divorce petition when it is filed to a court.
If the grounds are agreed, and the court sees no reason why there cannot be a divorce, a decree nisi document is drawn up.
A decree absolute is then issued, legally ending the marriage.
Sir Nicholas was on the Whitehall advisory group recommending no-fault divorces in the Family Law Act 1996.
But opponents said it allowed couples to break up too easily, and the plans were scrapped by Tony Blair's Labour government.
The judge made the speech at the annual conference of Resolution - a group of lawyers promoting non-confrontational resolutions to family problems - held in Leeds at the weekend.
Campaign group Fathers 4 Justice agreed with Sir Nicholas - with some reservations.
Campaign director Nadine O'Connor said: "Where children are involved, I would not like to see a fast-track option, because there is a need to consider the rights and responsibilities to children. Where there are no children, a no-fault divorce is a sensible option to have.
"Where children are involved, there are other implications that come into play. But in the majority of cases, people do not sit around a dinner table and compare notes on why they got divorced. There is definitely room for no-fault divorce. Going to the courts should really be a last resort.
"This is where relationship has broken down, it's not a criminal matter, it's a couple that has simply fallen out of love."
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "The government currently has no plans to change the grounds for divorce or any of the reasons used to support irretrievable breakdown of marriage." | Couples should be allowed to divorce without having to blame one or the other, the most senior family law judge in England and Wales has said. | 17522726 |
A total of 41 letters from the comedy legend, who was born in Ulverston, to Nellie Bushby between 1947 and 1965, go under the hammer on 16 September.
Newcastle auctioneers Anderson & Garland expect them to sell for up to £12,000.
Last year, one letter from the star to the wife of a friend, sold for £1,400.
The letters are owned by theatre buffs Rodney and Margaret Hardcastle, from York, who have built up a large collection of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia over the past 40 years.
Mr Hardcastle, a former chair of York Theatre Royal, said the couple were selling the collection because of a decision to downsize to a smaller home.
Mrs Hardcastle said: "We've always valued the letters, not in a financial sense, but through being able to have them.
"We bought them at Sotheby's in the late 1990s. We couldn't go to the auction because of work, so we thought we'd put a bid in and we didn't think we'd get them."
Stan Laurel, who was born in 1890, wrote to his cousin from his home in California, while filming in France and on tour in the UK.
They recall several spells of ill health and his thoughts following the death of Oliver Hardy. One of the letters was written days after his screen partner's death in August 1957.
The collection also includes theatre programmes, play bills, and a copy of Mr Laurel's birth certificate.
Anderson & Garland auctioneer, Fred Wyrley-Birch said: "The letters give a fantastic insight into the personal life of a very public man." | A collection of letters written by Cumbrian-born Stan Laurel to his cousin are expected to fetch thousands of pounds when they come up for auction. | 34145798 |
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn accused the PM of "dodging" a head-to-head showdown and the Lib Dems urged broadcasters to "empty chair" her.
Mrs May sprung a surprise by announcing she would seek a poll on 8 June rather than wait until 2020, promising "strong and stable leadership" if she wins.
MPs are expected to back the early election in a vote on Wednesday.
Live TV debates took place for the first time in a UK general election in 2010, and the experiment was repeated in 2015 using a range of different formats.
Asked about the snap general election, a Number 10 source said: "We won't be doing TV debates."
Mr Corbyn said the PM's stance was "rather strange", adding: "I say to Theresa May, who said this election was about leadership, Come on and show some.'
"Let's have the debates. It's what democracy needs and what the British people deserve."
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron added: "The prime minister's attempt to dodge scrutiny shows how she holds the public in contempt.
"The British people deserve to see their potential leaders talking about the future of our country."
A BBC spokesman said it was too early to say whether the broadcaster would put in a bid to stage a debate.
Drawn-out negotiations were needed between the political parties and broadcasters before the 2015 debates could take place.
They included a seven-way party leaders' TV debate, which was watched on ITV by an average audience of 7 million viewers.
In 2010, 9.4 million viewers tuned in to the first of three clashes between the then Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem leaders.
Broadcaster David Dimbleby, who hosted leaders' debates on the BBC in both 2010 and 2015, said a refusal to take part in TV showdowns with her rivals could be "rather perilous" for Mrs May.
"I don't think other parties will refuse to take part in debates, and I wonder whether Number 10 will stick with that, because it may look a bit odd if other parties are facing audiences and making their case," he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. | Theresa May will not take part in TV debates ahead of the planned general election, a Number 10 source says. | 39633696 |
Five fire appliances and the forestry unit were involved in trying to stop the spread of the grassland blaze on the Glenrinnes Estate.
The fire coincides with warnings that the north east is at an increased risk of wildfires due to the warmer weather and dry conditions. | Firefighters were called out to tackle a major wildfire near Keith in Moray on Thursday night. | 32250433 |
Andrea Woodhead, 52, of Idle Road, Bradford, was also charged with assault and possession of an offensive weapon, West Yorkshire Police said.
One of the victims was pushing a baby in a pram when she sustained her injury on Friday. The child was unharmed.
Ms Woodhead is due to appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Police were called to reports of a woman in her 50s having been stabbed in Scotchman Road, in the Manningham area of the city, just after 09:50 GMT on Friday.
Just 20 minutes later, at 10:10 GMT, a woman in her 30s pushing a pram was found with a stab wound to her back close to the Parkside Centre in Keighley Road, in the city's Frizinghall district
Both victims suffered single stab wounds and were taken to hospital but were later discharged. | A woman has been charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm after two women were stabbed on the same morning in separate attacks in Bradford. | 35740431 |
The Grade-II listed public toilets closed 15 years ago and the new owners can expect to spend more than a penny renovating the concrete building.
Built in 1923, its symmetrical neo-classical facade has earned it its listed status.
It is expected to become a cafe or restaurant for tourists, with a view of the beach and Bristol Channel. | A heritage "loo with a view" has gone on sale in Barry Island and is expected to fetch more than £50,000. | 32651794 |
They include former communications chief of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Gordon Arthur, and former Port of Dover chief executive Bob Goldfield.
The Scottish government bought the struggling airport for £1 in 2013 amid fears it would be forced to close.
It is now being operated under public ownership "on a commercial basis".
The other new appointments to the board are Jayne Maclennan, a group director at transport giant FirstGroup, and Ken Dalton, a former senior executive at professional and technical services firm Aecom Technology Corporation.
Prestwick Airport said the appointments were the latest step in "the process of transforming the business into a successful and vibrant airport".
Airport chairman Andrew Miller said: "I firmly believe the airport has a bright future and it's my team's priority to see it return to profitability and become a strategic anchor for economic growth in Ayrshire and Scotland."
Scottish Infrastructure Secretary Keith Brown said: "This is another important step forward for the future of Glasgow Prestwick Airport, and I welcome the appointment of the four non-executive directors.
"We know there is real potential for growth at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, but it will take strong leadership and vision to drive this improvement and transform the airport into the successful and vibrant business we know it can be."
The airport had a pre-tax loss of £9.77m in its final full year under previous owners Infratil.
Last year, then Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned there was "no quick fix solution for Prestwick" and the airport may not be profitable for several years. | Efforts to revive the fortunes of Glasgow Prestwick Airport have been stepped up with the appointment of four non-executive directors to its board. | 32961234 |
Devon and Cornwall Police began testing the drones with Dorset Police in 2015, but have now established a permanent unit with three full-time staff.
It is hoped the drones could be used to track suspects in firearm incidents as well as in counter-terrorism operations.
The unit's six drones have already been used to find missing people and gather evidence to secure court convictions.
It is aiming to have 40 officers complete their Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) drone training and up to 18 drones in operation by the start of 2018.
Some of the drones have a police livery and are equipped with zoom cameras and thermal imaging.
As well as crime scene and road searches, the drones will help scour the forces' 600 miles (900km) of coastline and extensive woodlands to help combat wildlife crime.
Drones have been trialled by other police forces, including Merseyside, Gwent and Kent for various uses including monitoring drug raids and searching for missing people.
Ch Supt Jim Nye, who leads the new unit, hopes the team will be able to shape how other forces used drone technology in the future.
"The helicopter isn't always available and you want to have it available for life-threatening situations," he said.
"I think the public would expect that if we can get value for money with a drone over a helicopter, that we do so."
In November 2016, the UK's drone code was revised and updated to help pilots ensure they fly the gadgets safely. It is:
UK revises safe flying drone code | The first dedicated police drone unit in the UK has been launched. | 40595540 |
The practice, also known as freerunning, has had its application to be recognised approved by the home country sports councils.
Governing body Parkour UK says participants can "take part whenever and wherever they want".
Minister for Sport Tracey Crouch described it as a "fun, creative and innovative option".
"I want people to get out there and find the sport and physical activity that appeals to them," she added.
"I am pleased that it has been recognised as a sport, giving it the platform for further growth in this country.
"The sport promotes movement and using the great outdoors as a space to get active in and I encourage people to don their trainers and give it a go."
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According to Parkour UK, the discipline was founded in France in the 1980s by a group of nine men and named l'art du deplacement.
The governing body describes it as a physical discipline in which participants "move freely over and through any terrain using only the abilities of the body".
Parkour UK says it "encourages self-improvement on all levels, revealing one's physical and mental limits while simultaneously offering ways to overcome them".
The term "freerunning" was introduced to communicate the sport to an English-speaking audience.
Sebastien Foucan, president of Parkour UK, is most recognisable from his role as Mollaka in the opening scene of James Bond's Casino Royale, where he is chased through a building site by Daniel Craig.
Foucan, who has also appeared music videos for Madonna and stared on Channel 4 documentary Jump London, called the decision a "groundbreaking moment for a discipline which started off as child's play and continues as child's play - for all ages".
"We celebrate activity and playfulness whilst constantly challenging our mental and physical limits. It is more than just jumping, it is a health driven way of life," he added.
Parkour UK chief executive Eugene Minogue said the sport is now in a vast majority of primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, with the UK also boasting 50 Parkour Parks.
He added: "All this in just over seven years , an amazing achievement and testament to the unique and diverse parkour/freerunning community in the UK, which is world leading."
However, parkour has faced some criticism for "potentially jeopardising lives" and encouraging "trespassing".
The UK's freerunning community said it was left "scarred" after the death of prominent freerunner Nye Newman on New Year's Day.
The 17-year-old's parkour group, Brewman, says he died in an accident on the Paris Metro, but denied he was train surfing at the time.
The Council of Europe defines 'sport' as any form of physical activity, casual or organised, aimed at "expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being, forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all levels".
Sport England, UK Sport, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Scotland and Sport Wales refer to this charter when they determine what they officially recognise as a sport.
The national governing body of any activity wishing to become an official sport must apply to the home country sports councils.
Sport England says: "Sports council recognition of a national governing body is not a guarantee of funding and neither does it mean we have approved or accredited the quality of its programmes." | The United Kingdom has become the first country to officially recognise parkour as a sport. | 38567616 |
It will examine a range of issues, including valuations, disposal strategy and conflicts of interest.
Nama is the Republic's "bad bank", established in 2009 in the aftermath of the Irish banking and property crisis.
It took effective control of a huge property loan book in Northern Ireland and formed a committee to advise on that part of its portfolio.
Nama sold its entire Northern Ireland portfolio to Cerberus, a US investment fund, for £1.2bn in 2014.
There have been a series of allegations about impropriety in the sales process.
The decision to set up the commission was agreed by Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny and opposition parties.
A final report is due at the end of 2017 and an interim report is expected within three months.
At Stormont on Wednesday, Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir will be questioned over what he knew about secret contacts between a former Sinn Féin MLA and a loyalist blogger.
Mr Ó Muilleoir is due to appear before Stormont's finance committee, where he will answer questions about Nama coaching allegations. | The Republic of Ireland is to set up a Commission of Investigation into Nama's sale of its Northern Ireland loans. | 37560825 |
Up to 400 new cases are being seen each day, the UN's refugee agency said.
Over 100,000 have left Burundi in recent weeks, escaping violence sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term.
In the latest unrest, at least two people were killed in a grenade attack in the capital Bujumbura.
"Those who did this had the intention to kill, because the grenades were thrown among women selling fruits, in a big crowd," General Godefroid Bizimana, a deputy police chief, told the AFP news agency.
There were fresh protests in Bujumbura on Friday against Mr Nkurunziza's bid to extend his rule, a move critics say is unconstitutional.
A UN spokesman called the cholera outbreak a "new, worrying, and growing additional complication".
The epidemic has killed 31 people - two locals and 29 Burundian refugees, the UN's statement said.
Cholera is a highly contagious disease, causing severe diarrhoea and vomiting, and is caught from contaminated water.
The UN described the cramped, dirty conditions in Tanzania's lakeside Kagunga area, where many of the migrants are staying, as "dire".
It is trying to evacuate refugees from the region but warns the situation may get worse before it gets better.
The refugee agency predicts that the number of people fleeing Burundi could double in the next six months.
10.4m population
50 years - life expectancy for a man
2nd poorest country in the world
85% are Hutu, 14% Tutsi
300,000 died in civil war | Cholera has infected about 3,000 people in Tanzania, the UN has said, where many Burundians have fled seeking refuge from their country's unrest. | 32852977 |
Newly promoted Rangers are at home to Hamilton, while last season's runners-up Aberdeen travel to St Johnstone.
The first Old Firm derby of the season, following Rangers' four-year absence from the top flight, is scheduled for 10 September at Celtic Park.
Inverness Caledonian Thistle host Highland rivals Ross County on the second weekend of the campaign.
County and Caley Thistle meet again in the New Year fixtures, with Celtic travelling to Ibrox and Hearts taking on Aberdeen at Tynecastle.
There will be a winter break after the New Year games, with the action resuming on 28 January.
Celtic were scheduled to face Partick Thistle on 13 August but the champions will use an opt-out option for a friendly with Inter Milan to mark the 50th anniversary season of their 1967 European Cup triumph against the Italians.
The champions are aiming to win their sixth consecutive Scottish title, with Brendan Rodgers the man charged with maintaining their domestic success.
The former Liverpool boss was named as successor to Ronny Deila, who resigned at the end of the season after delivering two Premiership titles during his spell at the club but was undermined by failures in Europe.
Rangers secured their Premiership place by winning the Championship, their third promotion in four years.
Kilmarnock, at home to Motherwell on the opening weekend, retained their top-flight status by winning the play-off final against Falkirk.
Hearts manager Robbie Neilson: "It's a great one to look forward to. It's what we want, big games. It's a great one for the players, a great one for the fans and one for us all to look forward to."
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: "It's exciting, the start of a season always is. It's a chance to get some points on the board but all the clubs will think that. On paper, the second quarter looks a little trickier so it'd be good to get points on the board early if we can."
Weekend of 6 August:
Partick Thistle v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Kilmarnock v Motherwell
St Johnstone v Aberdeen
Ross County v Dundee
Heart of Midlothian v Celtic
Rangers v Hamilton Academical
Weekend of 31 December
Partick Thistle v Kilmarnock
Heart of Midlothian v Aberdeen
Hamilton Academical v Motherwell
Dundee v St Johnstone
Ross County v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Rangers v Celtic
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All fixtures and kick-off times are subject to change.
The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. | Celtic begin the defence of their Scottish Premiership title with a trip to Hearts on the weekend of 6 August. | 36555958 |
The firm - which sponsors British tennis star Andy Murray - forecast revenue for this year would be below analysts' estimates as well.
It also said its finance chief was standing down for personal reasons.
In the final three months of 2016, revenues rose 12% to $1.31bn, but that was the slowest growth for eight years.
Profits fell to $104.9m from $105.6m a year earlier.
Under Armour founder and chief executive Kevin Plank said on a call with investors the company needs to "become more fashionable".
For 2017, the company expects revenues to rise by between 11% and 12% to nearly $5.4bn, but this was below market forecasts of more than $6bn.
Under Armour shares sank 23% to $19.22 on the news, marking its biggest fall in nine years, and wiping out more than $3bn in market value.
The Dow Jones fell 107 points, or 0.5%, to 19,864 by close of trading on Wall Street.
The S&P 500 index dropped 2 points to 2,279, while the Nasdaq pulled back from earlier losses to rise 1 point at 5,615.
UPS shares fell 6.75% after the delivery company predicted full-year profits below market expectations, saying its results would be hit by the strength of the dollar.
Healthcare stocks were among the biggest winners after President Donald Trump said he would cut taxes and regulation in a meeting with pharmaceutical bosses. | Stocks on Wall Street closed lower, with shares in sportswear maker Under Armour plunging by a quarter after its sales and profits missed estimates. | 38812496 |
The firm, formed through a merger of Dixons and Carphone Warehouse in 2014, said profit rose by 10% to £501m.
In the UK, Dixons said demand for electricals was "solid", particularly for computers and white goods.
That helped offset a "more challenging" mobile market, affected by Samsung's exploding Galaxy Note 7 smartphone.
Samsung was forced to recall and axe the handset after faulty batteries caused some to burn or explode.
Commenting on its results for the year to 29 April, Dixons Carphone said that in the UK and Ireland, "the mobile market was more challenging due to product safety and supply issues, limited product innovation and delays in product launches".
Nevertheless, like-for-like sales in the UK and Ireland rose by 4% in the UK and the company hopes to benefit from the release of Apple iPhone 8 later this year. Total sales for the region, which is Dixon Carphone's largest region, rose by 2% to £6.5bn.
Total sales for the entire group rose by 3% to £10.5bn. In the Nordics and Southern Europe, revenues increased by 5% and 4% respectively.
However, retail analyst Nick Bubb said it would be "perhaps churlish" to point out that about two thirds of the revenue growth and almost all of the rise in profits was due to currency movements.
Shares in Dixons Carphone rose 0.5% to 297.4p in morning trading in London, but have fallen 16% this year. | Dixons Carphone's annual profit has surpassed £500m for the first time, following a "good year" for the Currys and PC World owner. | 40427857 |
But the hefty winner's cheque of £85,000 for his Shanghai Masters success may not stretch quite as far as he would have hoped.
Although Wilson's win in China was the perfect gift for dad Rob's 50th, he also plans to give him his car, so that needs replacing.
Then there's a wedding to pay for. And if fiancée Sophie gets her way, that could come a bit quicker than he planned.
"She said to me 'If you win a ranking tournament we will get married straight away', but I am not having that," 23-year-old Wilson joked to BBC Sport.
Wilson and Sophie had postponed their nuptials because of the arrival of son Finley seven months ago.
"We were supposed to be getting married this month but said we would wait a year because of Finley so he's a little bit older and can enjoy it a bit more," the Kettering-based player said.
Needing to save up was also part of the thinking in postponing. But the financial rewards from his win in China, which saw Ding Junhui and Mark Allen beaten en route to a thrilling 10-9 victory over Judd Trump in the final, means that is no longer a major issue.
At least if they do bring the wedding forward, Wilson - who at world number 54 was the lowest-ranked player to win a ranking event since 2005 - will do so safe in the knowledge it is keeping faith with a strongly held family belief to live life in the present.
His dad Rob has multiple sclerosis and Wilson says the way his father has dealt with his illness is "incredible".
"He's my hero," the new world number 22, said. "His MS is under control at the moment but even though life is tough for him, he just gets on with it.
"We have a saying that we follow, which is, 'Don't wait for the storm to pass, learn to dance in the rain'."
Rob was not in Shanghai to see his son: Wilson Sr was itching to be there but the family were on a surprise holiday in Tenerife.
"I had to put him off a fair bit because he kept on at me to come out," Wilson said.
"My mum and dad would have loved to see me win but maybe I will take them next year and they can watch me as the defending champion."
It's a title he really earned, beating four of the world's top 10, and winning a total of nine matches from qualifying through to the main draw.
"I probably could not have had a harder draw and that makes it even more special," he added.
"Knowing you beat such good players on the biggest stage with all that pressure is definitely a breakthrough."
But there has been a downside of spending time away winning tournaments.
"Fatherhood seems to be treating me very well by the looks of it," Wilson said. "But I did really miss Finley while I was away. I managed to miss his first word, seeing him crawl and his first tooth.
"The tour is so hectic and if you do well you are away even longer. He is such a little character already so it's hard being away, but I cannot complain. Playing snooker for a living is great."
Wilson only qualified for the World Championship for the first time in 2014, the same year Stuart Bingham won the Shanghai Masters. The Essex potter then added the world crown in May - perhaps a good omen? | A first ranking event victory, an overwhelming feeling of paternal pride, and giving your "heroic" father the best birthday present possible - it's been a glorious month for Kyren Wilson. | 34324108 |
Triple-digit inflation, a high crime rate and clashes between protesters and security forces have affected the lives of many, including schoolchildren.
"We're not living in normal times," says former professional football player Andrew Páez, 48, who has decided to keep his two sons at home.
Manuel, 12, and Mathias, 10, have not been to school since 19 April. "Our priority at this point is to keep them safe," Mr Páez says.
Mathias and Manuel attend La Salle Education Centre, a private school run by the Christian Brothers Catholic religious order in the western town of Mérida.
On that day, director Javier Ramírez tells me, the school was closed for independence day, but he was in his office doing some grading.
Outside, anti-government protesters were marching.
When Mr Ramírez heard some noise and went to investigate, he found a group of about 40 demonstrators had taken shelter inside the school after police had tried to disperse them.
Some of them had been injured.
Mr Ramírez called the local emergency services, who took away those too badly wounded to walk, and then he asked the remaining protesters to leave, which they did peacefully.
Not long after, however, a group of six people forced the locks on the main gate and broke into the school grounds on motorcycles.
Brother Freddy, one of the Christian Brothers teaching at the school, lives in a house on the grounds.
After helping tend to the wounded protesters, Brother Freddy returned to the house.
There he was with his sister, a school administrator, and her husband, when the motorcycle gang broke through the main gate.
"Some were masked, others not, some had weapons such as bats, others did not," Brother Freddy recalls.
"They broke the windows of all the cars parked here and ripped out their radios and sound systems, bashing the cars as they went."
"Not satisfied with that, they broke down the door to the house, smashing everything in their way."
"It was terrible. I thought, when they get to us they're going to give us a bashing, too," Brother Freddy says.
"I was standing on the top of the stairs, with my hands in the air and my eyes closed as two of them came up the stairs."
The two told Brother Freddy to hand over his phone, which he did, and then one of them gave a signal and they all left.
"They took everything, all the food, and what they couldn't take they destroyed, such as the microwave. "They even overturned the pots with the plants!"
Brother Freddy is convinced that the group was organised and suspects that its members were part of a "colectivo", the name given to pro-government militant groups.
Clashes between anti-government marchers and colectivos are not unusual at marches.
Mr Ramírez thinks the intruders may have been searching for the protesters who had earlier taken shelter in the school, and that when they did not find them they went on the rampage.
He reported the incident to the authorities and police are investigating.
The mayor's office sent three guards to protect the school in the aftermath of the attack and while the main gate was being fixed.
The school re-opened on 24 April.
But Mr Ramirez says that at least 40% of the school's 704 students are not attending class out of fear a similar incident could happen again.
Manuel and Mathias are among those being kept at home.
Manuel says he was very sad when he heard about what had happened. "How can it be that someone would attack a school just because it sheltered some people?" he asks.
A keen footballer like his father, he has been using his free time to train.
His younger brother Mathias is also fed up with the situation in Venezuela.
"It's been two years since I've had any Nutella," he says of the shortages of imported goods.
Their mother, Sara Yépez, says she just does not want to run the risk of them getting hurt in school or on the way there.
But it is not just that, she says. Like her husband, Andrew Páez, she believes that the situation in Venezuela has deteriorated so much, drastic measures are called for.
"Normal life has ceased, and if we want our children to have the opportunities they once had, we need to stop carrying on as normal," she says.
"And if that means that our children may have to repeat a year, so be it."
"At any moment you can get hurt, you can get robbed and your salary does not cover the basics, even if you can find them," she says of Venezuela's rampant crime rate and its hyperinflation.
Lina Contreras, an independent business woman who has a 17-year-old son at La Salle school, agrees.
"We want to send a message to the country that we can't send our kids to school when other young people are giving their lives on the streets," she says referring to the protest in which dozens of people have been killed over the past weeks.
Andrew Páez says that what his sons are missing out on in terms of schooling is made up for by what they are learning as individuals.
"Ethics and values are more important at this point," he says.
They also try to ensure that the children keep up with the curriculum.
After teaching mechanical engineering at the University of the Andes, Sara Yépez rushes home to sit down and study with Manuel and Mathias.
They say they are lucky to have someone to help them look after them when they are both at work.
As owners of their own company, Lina Contreras and her husband have also been able to adapt their schedule enough to make sure someone is there for their son at key times.
All three say it is a sacrifice they are willing to make.
Not all parents agree with the stand Lina Contreras, Andrew Páez and Sara Yépez are taking.
More than half are sending their children to La Salle whenever the roads around the school are not blocked by protests, not wanting them to miss out on their schooling.
Others just do not have anyone who can look after them while they are at work.
But they, too, are worried by the security situation and many have had to leave work to collect their children from school early when a march passed nearby.
With no end to the protests in sight, Andrew Páez and Sara Yépez say they may have to consider leaving Venezuela altogether, as 17 of their nieces and nephews have already done.
Lina Contreras says she is optimistic that the protests will bring about a change of government and that her son may be able to graduate this year as planned. | Venezuela is gripped by an ever-deepening economic and political crisis that has triggered almost daily anti-government protests since April. | 40012642 |
It lasted 103 days, and left an estimated 250,000 British soldiers dead or injured with 400,000 dead, wounded or missing on the German side.
It is claimed that of the one million men killed in World War One, a quarter of them lay in the few square miles around the sleepy Belgium backwater of Ypres.
It was here that the Allied forces dug in deep from 1914 onwards, in a bulge of land known by its military term as the Ypres salient.
It means a location surrounded on three sides by the enemy.
It was a stalemate of constant shelling, poison gas attacks, snipers - and most of all mud.
While the German forces occupied the concrete defences on higher ground, the British troops and their allies were forced to make the best of Flanders' fields - cutting trenches into slabs of bog, scurrying, like the rats that shared their makeshift shelters, on duckboards across the mud and shell craters.
The British were determined to break the stalemate, and break out of the Ypres salient.
On 31 July at 03:50, in darkness, the whistles blew and the men of the 38th Division - the Welsh battalions - went over the top.
The first day of the Battle of Passchendaele saw three Welsh soldiers win Victoria Crosses for their actions - one awarded posthumously.
Cpl James Llewellyn Davies, who was originally from Ogmore Vale in Bridgend county, died from wounds sustained during an all out attack on 31 July.
As part of the 13th Battalion, he took part in the Battle for Pilkem Ridge.
His citation in the London Gazette reads: "For most conspicuous bravery during an attack on the enemy's line, this non-commissioned officer pushed through our own barrage and single-handed attacked a machine gun emplacement, after several men had been killed in attempting to take it.
"He bayoneted one of the machine gun crew and brought in another man, together with the captured gun.
"Cpl Davies, although wounded, then led a bombing party to the assault of a defended house, and killed a sniper who was harassing his platoon.
"This gallant non-commissioned officer has since died of wounds received during the attack."
He is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery, which was a first aid dressing station in 1917.
Before his death, the father-of-three wrote to his wife Elizabeth, stating: "We are about going over. Don't vex, as I hope to go through it all right, and if I do not you will know that I died for my wife and children and for my King and country."
His widow and their eldest son were presented with the medal in October that year by King George V. The medal is now held on display at the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in Caernarfon.
Aged 23 in the summer of 1917, Sgt Ivor Rees from Felinfoel in Carmarthenshire, was already battle hardened when he arrived at the Ypres salient. He had been with the 38th Division at Mametz Wood during the First Battle of the Somme in 1916.
He was with the 11th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, part of the 115th Brigade, which was to form the reserve force in the push to Pilkem Ridge.
By 10:00 they had reached the Steenbeek river, but across the way at a gite the Germans had a reinforced blockhouse and two pillboxes pinning them down.
His citation reads: "For most conspicuous bravery in attack. A hostile machine gun opened fire at close range, inflicting many casualties.
"Leading his platoon forward by short rushes, Sjt Rees gradually worked his way round the right flank to the rear of the gun position. When he was about twenty yards from the machine gun he rushed forward towards the team, shot one, and bayoneted another.
"He then bombed the large concrete emplacement, killing five and capturing thirty."
He was promoted to Company Sergeant Major in September, and survived the war to return home to civilian life in Wales, working for Llanelli Borough Council, dying in 1967, aged 73.
A memorial stone to commemorate his bravery is being unveiled in Llanelli on 31 July.
Sgt Robert Bye was the first of only two VCs ever won by the Welsh Guards. The regiment was only formed in 1915, and the miner from Penrhiwceiber in the Cynon Valley joined in April of that year.
On the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele the Welsh Guards were part of the 3rd Guards Brigade attack on the left flank.
The force encountered heavy fire from a series of blockhouses hidden in wooded areas, and the 27-year-old slipped from shell hole to shell hole to outflank their positions.
He then put three bombs into the pillboxes to silence the guns. It is estimate he was responsible for the death or capture of 70 German soldiers.
His VC citation reads: "For most conspicuous bravery. Sjt Bye displayed the utmost courage and devotion to duty during an attack on the enemy's position.
"Seeing that the leading waves were being troubled by two enemy blockhouses, he, on his own initiative, rushed at one of them and put the garrison out of action.
"He then rejoined his company and went forward to the assault of the second objective. When the troops had gone forward to the attack on the third objective, a party was detailed to clear up a line of blockhouses which had been passed.
"Sjt Bye volunteered to take charge of this party, accomplished his object, and took many prisoners. He subsequently advanced to the third objective, capturing a number of prisoners, thus rendering invaluable assistance to the assaulting companies.
"He displayed throughout the most remarkable initiative."
The soldier survived the war, and later became a Sergeant Major in the Sherwood Foresters, serving in World War Two. He died in 1962.
A memorial service to remember his actions is taking place at the Ynysangharad Memorial Park in Pontypridd, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, at the commemorative paving stone there to his memory.
The Battle of Pilkem Ridge was the opening foray in what became the 3rd Battle of Ypres, or as it is better known - the Battle of Passchendaele.
Within a few short days, the Welsh division had sustained 3,000 casualties and lost hundreds of men.
Among them, the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn - Ellis Humphrey Evans - hit by a shell as the 15th Royal Welsh Fusiliers advanced on a landmark known as Iron Cross.
Back home the newspapers boasted: "No troops, in fact, in all the battle did their job more thoroughly or with greater dash than the Welsh.
"They had a rather trying time in the trenches before the attack, but it only hardened them and made them keener when the attack took place, and the Germans never had a chance."
But the reality was a short lived victory, with a heavy price to pay.
"The British casualties up to noon yesterday were 25,000," General Sir William Robertson told Prime Minister David Lloyd George at the War Cabinet briefing on 2 August.
"We had captured Pilckem Ridge. We had achieved all our objectives and something more on two-thirds of the front, and on the remaining third we had captured the first and second but not the third line."
There were counterattacks to come, and the wettest summer in living memory meant the advance faded away.
On 6 August, the 38th Division was relieved from holding the frontline.
But the 3rd Battle of Ypres still had many more battles to fight - and thousands more lives to claim. | "I died in hell - they called it Passchendaele," wrote the Great War poet and officer in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Siegfried Sassoon. | 40727428 |
The Metropolitan Police said the Ford Mondeo had failed to stop for officers and an authorised pursuit was under way by a marked police car.
The Mondeo mounted the kerb and drove on the pavement on Tottenham High Road, shortly before 15:50 BST.
It hit a woman in her 50s and an eight-year-old boy and did not stop.
The boy's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Police said they were waiting for an update on the condition of the woman.
Officers said the car carried on driving after hitting the pedestrians and went back on the road, before it hit a wall in Park Lane.
The occupants then abandoned the vehicle and fled.
Officers who were in the police car stopped and went back to help the pedestrians until London Ambulance Service arrived.
Collision investigation officers remain at the scene.
The police force said there had been no arrests and inquiries continued. | A woman and a child have been taken to hospital after they were hit by a car that mounted a kerb near White Hart Lane stadium during a police chase. | 34470484 |
Sharon McMurray, from Towcester, sent the messages during eight hours when she thought husband Tony, 46, had died.
Mr McMurray, who was at Everest base camp hours before it was devastated by a landslide, said the experience would "live with me for the rest of my life".
More than 6,000 people are now known to have died in the disaster.
Mr McMurray, who was trekking in the Himalayas to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society, said he was a few hours into his return journey when "one almighty shake hit the mountain".
"There was a loud bomb like a multi-nuclear bomb going off," he said.
"The very place our tents had been two hours earlier was no longer there."
He said he and fellow travellers had slept with their sleeping bags undone and trainers on "ready to run" for the next four days as aftershocks hit the area.
One of them brought down the side of a monastery.
"There were screams, there was crying, there was grief," said Mr McMurray.
He said he hugged locals whose family members had died.
When he finally got to safety he was able to open up text messages and "emails from every corner of the globe," including from wife Sharon.
"Some of the messages Sharon sent, I will probably have a good cry over," he said.
"Basically it was her saying goodbye to me."
Mr Murray said the first thing he would do when he got home was give Sharon a hug and "have a mug of English tea". | A charity climber has revealed how his wife sent him text messages to say goodbye after fearing he had been killed in the Nepal earthquake. | 32550538 |
They are adapting Fey's 2004 film which starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert as a cliquey gang of mean high-school girls.
The film also starred Lizzy Caplan, Amy Poehler and Fey herself as a teacher.
Richmond told Billboard: "We definitely want to see some kind of shape by the end of the summer."
But he said there would still be plenty of work to do once he, Fey and lyricist Nell Benjamin felt they had finished.
"We know that 60 or 70% of that will go away when we start bringing in real singers and actors. We'll do a lot of rewriting," he said.
He added: "The most difficult part of the process is determining what are your best song ideas, and what do you leave alone as dialogue?"
The musical is eagerly-awaited by fans of the film, which won several MTV Movie Awards and Teen Choice Awards in 2005 and has since gained cult status among many.
Some of the film's best lines - such as "fetch" and "you can't sit with us" - have also been adopted into many fans' everyday vocabulary. | The Mean Girls musical by Tina Fey and her husband, composer Jeff Richmond, should be finished this summer, according to Richmond. | 32318126 |
The 21-year-old victim suffered leg, arm and head injuries when he was hit in Guildford by the van driven by Raymond Harms.
Harms pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm, damaging property and dangerous driving at an earlier Guildford Crown Court hearing.
He was jailed for a total of six years and four months.
Harms, of Yew Tree Drive, Guildford, was also banned from driving for eight years and two months.
Two other men from Guildford were also sentenced for their involvement in the attack in Bowers Farm Drive, Burpham on 12 May.
Ian Vase, 29, of Pond Meadow, who pleaded guilty to affray, was jailed for six months.
Shaun Ritson, 31, of Lime Grove, who admitted threatening behaviour, was given a 12-month community order including 120 hours' unpaid work.
The charges also related to incidents that took place in Lawrence Close the same evening. | A 25-year-old man has been jailed after he ran another man over in his van, causing him serious injuries. | 37048701 |
Craig Stewart, 32, from Devon, was treated at hospitals in England but had no movement in his left arm.
After three years of treatment at Morriston Hospital, he can move his previously paralysed arm.
Surgeons from the Welsh centre for burns and plastic surgery have spent 12 years developing pioneering treatment.
Following the accident, which happened soon after he left the Army, Mr Stewart was treated at hospitals in Devon and London.
"My arm was just like a dead weight. I had no control over it. It would just hang down by my side," he said.
Mr Stewart was then referred to specialist consultant plastic surgeon Dean Boyce in Morriston, who took muscle from his thigh to act as a bicep.
After a further year of physiotherapy and hydrotherapy, he was able to bend his arm.
Two months ago, a tendon was switched from his wrist to his hand, allowing him to have limited movement in his fingers.
The fork lift driver said: "It happened and I had to live with it. But starting to get everything working again is great - it's a bonus."
Morriston is one of the few places in the UK that can treat injuries to the brachial plexus - the network of nerves in the neck that control upper limb movement.
Mr Boyce called it "a very complex area of surgery". | An ex-serviceman who severed his arm in a car accident 10 years ago can move his fingers again following pioneering surgery at a Swansea hospital. | 32521126 |
Healthy Harold has, for 37 years, rolled up outside schools in his iconic van to deliver responsible messages to children aged between five and 13 about drugs, alcohol and healthy living.
So when it emerged on Tuesday that Harold's programme, Life Education Australia, would no longer receive government funding, Australians erupted in nostalgia-fuelled ire.
The government had opted not to renew a request for A$500,000 (£290,000; $370,000) in annual funding, explained Life Education Australia chief executive David Ballhausen.
Mr Ballhausen lamented that an estimated 750,000 young people would be deprived of the programme in the next year alone.
He said Harold had become particularly useful in educating school communities about the dangers of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, a drug which has had a devastating impact in Australia.
The backlash grew throughout the day, with the Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, also commenting.
"Of all the things to cut, why would you cut an iconic program that teaches kids how to be healthy? Mindless," he tweeted.
In the face of such public anger, it took less than half a day for the government to reverse track and announce it would fund the programme after all.
"We support #HealthyHarold & will work with Life Education Australia to ensure the funding & the program continues," tweeted Education Minister Simon Birmingham.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr Ballhausen confirmed the government funding would continue.
"Thank you for the extraordinary support we received last night," he said. "It was critical in helping generate this positive response from the Australian Government."
Although the saga came to a swift resolution, discussion of Harold did not, and more people reminisced on social media. | For many Australians, an anti-drug message delivered by a puppet - or sometimes animatronic - giraffe remains a key memory from their childhoods. | 40102332 |
Blair, Scotland's former captain and most-capped scrum-half, will join the coaching team ahead of the summer tour.
He will be joined by assistant coaches Matt Taylor and Dan McFarland, who also work with Townsend at Warriors.
"I'm delighted to take on this role with Scotland at an exciting time in the team's development," Blair said.
"Being a young coach, I feel very lucky to work with coaches of the calibre of Gregor [Townsend] and Dave [Rennie, the incoming Glasgow Warriors head coach] and hope I can contribute to further successes for both Scotland and Glasgow on the pitch."
Townsend takes charge of the Warriors for the final time at Scotstoun against Edinburgh in the last Pro12 game of the season and the second leg of the 1872 Cup.
He will then immediately succeed Vern Cotter as Scotland head coach, before naming his squad for the summer tour to Italy, Australia, and Fiji.
Blair, who earned 85 caps for his country and toured with the British and Irish Lions in 2009, will join the touring party while retaining his duties and responsibilities to the Warriors outwith the test-match windows.
"Mike [Blair] has thrived as a coach since his retirement from playing at the end of last season," said Townsend.
"He's proven to be an excellent addition to the Warriors' backroom staff and I'm delighted to bring that expertise into the Scotland set-up.
"He will perform a similar role with the national team, which will be focused on three areas: assisting with our attack, improving our skills and also working closely with our group of scrum-halves." | Glasgow Warriors skills coach Mike Blair will return to the Scotland set-up as part of incoming head coach Gregor Townsend's backroom staff. | 39804953 |
Rovers seemed set for all three points when Peter Hartley headed them in front midway through the second half but Cox's 81st-minute spot-kick ensured the game ended all square.
The Pirates went close to scoring at the end of an uneventful first half when Ollie Clarke saw a 20-yard shot pushed wide of the left post by Shrimpers goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
After the break, Southend winger Stephen McLaughlin had an effort easily gathered by Steve Mildenhall before Matty Taylor's 20-yard shot was tipped over by Oxley.
Rovers netted from the resulting Chris Lines corner from the left-hand side as an unmarked Hartley headed home from inside the six-yard box.
Southend drew level in the 81st minute when referee Gavin Ward harshly adjudged Ellis Harrison to have handled Jack Bridge's left-wing cross and Cox confidently stroked the penalty past Mildenhall.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southend United 1, Bristol Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Southend United 1, Bristol Rovers 1.
Attempt missed. Jermaine Easter (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Ben Coker (Southend United) because of an injury.
Corner, Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Ben Coker.
Attempt saved. Simon Cox (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers).
Delay in match Ben Coker (Southend United) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Rory Gaffney (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Simon Cox (Southend United).
Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Peter Hartley (Bristol Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Peter Hartley (Bristol Rovers).
Attempt blocked. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Rory Gaffney replaces Ellis Harrison.
Foul by Ryan Leonard (Southend United).
Jermaine Easter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Simon Cox (Southend United) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Southend United 1, Bristol Rovers 1. Simon Cox (Southend United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Ellis Harrison (Bristol Rovers) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Stephen McLaughlin (Southend United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers).
Substitution, Southend United. Jason Williams replaces Jason Demetriou.
Attempt saved. Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Chris Lines (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Adam King (Southend United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Leadbitter (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam King (Southend United).
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Jermaine Easter replaces Matty Taylor.
Attempt missed. Simon Cox (Southend United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Adam King (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Jermaine McGlashan (Southend United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Jack Bridge (Southend United).
Stuart Sinclair (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Simon Cox's late penalty rescued a point for Southend as they drew 1-1 with Bristol Rovers at Roots Hall. | 37067462 |
Amanda Walker, 48, from Knaresborough, was admitted to Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Hospital in December 2010 after miscarrying twins.
Her injuries were caused by a medical mask designed to keep her airway open during an operation.
The hospital apologised to Ms Walker, who said the pain was debilitating.
When she woke up from the procedure she had severe pain in her jaw and struggled to open her mouth.
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Her dentist later told her that her jaw was misaligned and there was significant damage to the muscles, tendons and ligaments around it, she said.
"My first MRI scan showed that my injuries were similar to that of a car crash victim they were that severe," Ms Walker said.
She has needed a series of operations to repair the damage, including a partial jaw replacement.
"It changed my diet, left me relying on my family more than ever," she said.
Ms Walker received a written apology from the hospital as well as financial compensation, the exact amount of which has not been revealed.
Dr David Scullion, medical director at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We have apologised to Ms Walker for the impact this injury has had on her, and I would like to reiterate that apology now.
"We conducted an investigation into Ms Walker's care with us in 2010 and want to give assurance that we have learned all we can from this incident." | A woman who suffered a dislocated jaw during surgery following a miscarriage has been awarded a six-figure sum in compensation. | 37229178 |
Celtic Energy is closing the Selar site, near Glynneath, next March, blaming a 40% fall in the world price of coal.
It said it could not keep the site running along with Nant Helen and the soon-to-be expanded East Pit.
Glynneath councillor Eddie Jones called the move another blow to the area.
"It was totally unexpected and came out of the blue," he told BBC Wales.
"My heart goes out to those people who are going to lose their jobs because there's nothing around at the moment.
"This is the second big thump we've had - the Aberpergwm mine was mothballed and now this. It's really, really knocking our village."
Some of the jobs could go to Nant Helen and East Pit, but most staff are expected to take voluntary redundancy.
Will Watson, chief executive of Celtic Energy, said the firm "very much regret the impact" of the closure. | The decision to mothball a Neath Valley mine with the loss of 70 jobs came out of the blue, a local councillor has said. | 34563995 |
Work includes £150,000 on a bus car park at Llanidloes Primary and £125,000 on a new kitchen and roof at Penygloddfa Primary in Newtown.
Crickhowell Primary will have a new boiler costing £66,000, while other toilet and kitchen improvement works will be made at other schools.
In total, 30 projects will benefit from the cash in 2016/17. | More than £1m will be spent on Powys schools over the next year, after the council's cabinet approved funding. | 35612927 |
Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department, told the BBC.
The teenager had been suffering for 18 months and travelled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.
Doctors have described his condition as "very rare" and "a world record".
"Ashik's malaise was diagnosed as a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It's a sort of benign tumour," Dr Dhiware said.
"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out.
"Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth," she added.
The surgery, conducted on Monday, involved two surgeons and two assistants. The team was led by Dr Vandana Thorawade who heads the hospital's ENT (ear, nose and throat) department. Ashik now has 28 teeth.
Describing Ashik's case as "very rare", Dr Dhiware said she had "not seen anything like this before in my 30-year career", but said she was "thrilled to get such an exciting case".
"According to medical literature available on the condition, it is known to affect the upper jaw and a maximum of 37 teeth have been extracted from the tumour in the past. But in Ashik's case, the tumour was found deep in the lower jaw and it had hundreds of teeth."
Ashik's father Suresh Gavai was quoted by the Mumbai Mirror as saying that his son complained of severe pain a month ago.
"I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I brought him to Mumbai," he said. | Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation. | 28437829 |
Mr Farage said immigration, housing, local democracy, schools and public spending were key issues for the party.
He said UKIP offered "plain speaking" in local government and he hoped more of its "free-spirited" candidates would be elected to local councils.
Elections take place across the UK on 5 May.
As well as the local authority elections in England, polls are also being held for the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations as well as to elect a London mayor and police and crime commissioners in England and Wales.
A guide to May's UK elections
UKIP has made big strides in local council elections in recent years, and will be defending about 200 seats this time around.
Mr Farage said UKIP councillors had been "unafraid" to challenge town hall spending and were "free" to represent their constituents as they were not subject to a party whip.
"What you've seen from UKIP is plain speaking from local government. What I hope we see on 5 May are more free-spirited councillors getting elected," he told the BBC.
He insisted UKIP - which has long campaigned for the UK to leave the EU - was not a single-issue party.
"We're the party that believes in border controls... in giving housing priorities to local people... that local people can call a referendum on an issue that really matters to them," he said.
"We're the party that believes every town in the country should have a grammar school opportunity for bright kids that come from poor backgrounds, and we're the party unafraid to deal with excesses of expenditure - be it at national government or local government level."
UKIP came third in the 2015 general election, receiving four million votes - almost 13% of the vote share - but it failed to add to its one MP, Douglas Carswell.
Mr Farage lost in Thanet South, Mark Reckless - who defected to UKIP from the Conservatives - was beaten in Rochester and Strood and the party also failed to win the key target seats of Castle Point in Essex, Great Grimsby and Thurrock. | UKIP stands for more than just leaving the European Union, Nigel Farage has said, as the party launches its local elections campaign in England. | 35989187 |
State-owned Indian Airlines and the private carrier Jet Airways will begin the extra flights from Thursday, a government statement said.
A number of Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.
Indians are the largest group of migrants in Qatar.
The move came after India's Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathy Raju held talks with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, and assured her that additional flights would be operated to allow Indians who had been unable to book tickets, to return home.
The government statement said Air India would run extra flights between the southern city of Trivandrum and Doha from 25 June to 8 July while Jet Airways will operate Mumbai-Doha-Mumbai flights on 22 and 23 June. | Two airlines will start operating extra flights to Doha, the Qatar capital to help stranded Indians return home. | 40364168 |
The tech giant touted the machine's specs, including its ability to run games in 4K ultra-HD, ahead of the E3 games show in Los Angeles.
To be released on 7 November, the Xbox One X will cost $499, or £449 in the UK.
One analyst said Microsoft was keen to keep attracting hardcore gamers.
The system, which also runs games at 60 frames-per-second (fps), was labelled "the most powerful console ever made" on stage by Phil Spencer, head of Xbox.
It is also the smallest Xbox yet.
It joins the Xbox One S - a slimmer version of the Xbox One that supports 4K video streaming - in the roster of consoles that make up Microsoft's latest console generation.
The Xbox One X's name raised a few eyebrows, with some gamers describing it as a "tongue-twister" online.
"I suspect we'll get used to it - the same way we got used to the Wii and Wii U," said Paul Jackson, an analyst at Ovum.
Sony, too, has a console with 4K capabilities - the PS4 Pro - which it released in November last year.
However, the PS4 Pro's specifications - including memory and processor speed - are lower than those of the Xbox One X.
It boasts 12 gigabytes of RAM to the PS4 Pro's 8 gigabytes, for example, and 6 teraflops of graphics processing power compared to 4.12.
Plus, unlike Sony's machine, Microsoft's is able to play 4K ultra-HD Blu-ray discs.
Both consoles can "scale up" games not made at 4K resolution to enhance their visuals.
However, while the Xbox One X is capable of supporting virtual reality gaming, there was almost no mention of this during the presentation and no demonstrations of games that use VR headsets.
"The Xbox One X is targeted at a specific audience, which is at this stage early-adopting Xbox fans - console gamers that want the best device," said Piers Harding-Rolls, a gaming analyst at IHS Technology.
The console will also be immediately compatible with all existing Xbox One games.
This was another point that would play well with the hardcore fans, suggested Mr Harding-Rolls.
However, he added that the broader spectrum of gamers would likely be more interested in new titles exclusive to the console that might tempt them into buying it.
He added, though, that there was not much on offer that appeared targeted at families and younger gamers - but Super Lucky's Tale, a brightly coloured platform game featuring a plucky fox, did fall into this category.
"I didn't really see anything else which was oriented at the family," Mr Harding-Rolls noted.
It was possible that allowing gamers to play visually enhanced versions of Xbox One games on the most powerful version of the console would encourage them to make the jump to the beefier hardware, suggested Mr Jackson.
"It could drive platform preference and earlier uptake of the new device," he said.
Before the Xbox event, the BBC was given a brief look at the new console. With its 4K, 60 fps visuals, it of course looks terrific. But I think there are big questions about Microsoft's strategy.
Xbox wants all the games to be completely backwards-compatible with the cheaper Xbox consoles, and so the only improvements will be visual - no new gameplay experiences making use of that extra computing power. At $499, that's a big additional cost when - to its credit - the Xbox One is still a graphically brilliant console.
You won't notice much difference unless you have the TV and surround system to do the new hardware justice.
When Xbox One X was announced at E3 last year - then codenamed Project Scorpio - it seemed Microsoft was gearing up to tackle the biggest new area in gaming, virtual reality. That's why it needed the extra power, we were told.
And yet there's not a single VR title launching with the Xbox One X. Given that Sony has already shifted more than one million headsets that work with PlayStation, I'm surprised Microsoft still doesn't have a competing offer.
It makes you wonder how enthusiastic developers will be to make use of that extra power if relatively few gamers will get to enjoy it.
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A total of 42 games, 22 of which are exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox One consoles, were shown off at the press show.
"It felt a little bit like they were throwing the kitchen sink at it, just really pounding away at the idea that they were the gamers' choice in terms of the platform," Mr Harding-Rolls told the BBC.
Sea of Thieves, a pirate-themed multiplayer game, and State of Decay 2, a zombie survival sequel, were among the exclusive titles highlighted by Microsoft.
An unusual-looking fantasy game called The Last Night, set in a Blade Runner-like universe, was also teased.
These and many others will be available only on the Xbox One, Xbox One S and Xbox One X consoles and Windows PCs.
A string of other, non-exclusive, titles were also part of the presentation.
These included Anthem, a futuristic multiplayer game where friends can team up to explore new worlds with an arsenal of high-powered weaponry - and jetpacks.
Gameplay footage of Middle-earth: Shadow of War featured, in which the hero assembles a team of wise-cracking orcs to rampage around Mordor.
And there was news about Minecraft - the hugely popular game will be updated to 4K resolution on certain platforms, including the Xbox One X, this autumn.
Read and watch more E3 coverage | Microsoft has unveiled the latest games console in its line-up, a more powerful version of the Xbox One called the Xbox One X. | 40243401 |
Lily the rabbit was spotted by a member of the public, who saw her on the roof of the two-storey building in Vanbrugh Road, Anfield, Liverpool, on Monday.
RSPCA animal welfare officer Matt Brown said she may have been stolen from a nearby house or "picked up by a bird from a garden".
He added it was "incredibly unlikely she'd have... hopped up herself".
Mr Brown said officers initially had "no idea where she came from".
"We knocked on doors on the street but we had no luck in finding her owner."
However, the RSPCA were later alerted to a Facebook post from Julie Galway, who lived nearby and was missing a white eight-month-old rabbit after someone broke into her garden on Sunday night.
Ms Galway said Lily had "definitely had an adventure".
"We'll never know for certain how she ended up on the roof, but thankfully she is fine and is back relaxing in her hutch."
A check by the vet found Lily was unharmed by her ordeal.
Merseyside Police confirmed there had been a report of a rabbit being stolen on Monday morning, which officers were investigating. | A pet rabbit which may have been thrown on a roof by thieves has been reunited with its owner after being rescued. | 38378460 |
A female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a camp for displaced people, killing five men, the army said.
Within 30 minutes, another bomber detonated explosives near a fuel depot.
Boko Haram Islamists are the key suspects, remaining able to stage frequent attacks despite major recent government gains against them.
Nine bodies, including those of the two suicide bombers, were recovered.
Twenty-four people wounded in the explosions were evacuated to nearby hospitals, said Sani Datta, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency.
The agency said the first bomber tried to enter the Bakassi camp, which is estimated to house 16,000 people displaced during the government's seven-year battle against Boko Haram.
A military spokesman said the second bomber was following a fuel tanker "with the sole aim of gaining entry to cause maximum damage and casualties."
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Who are Boko Haram? | Two suicide bombers on motorised rickshaws have killed at least seven people in Maiduguri in the north-east of Nigeria, officials say. | 37811193 |
The twice world darts champion died on 24 March at the age of 62. He had been suffering from the lung disorder chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
About 400 people, including former darts star Eric Bristow, packed Kirkcaldy Crematorium to hear about a "wonderful and loving" dad.
He leaves behind wife Malvina and their three children Anne Marie, John and William, and six grandchildren.
During the service, conducted by Denis Madden, mourners heard how Wilson would have celebrated his 44th wedding anniversary next month.
Mr Madden said: "When it came to the crunch, what this man's life was all about was his wife, his children and grandchildren. That's what mattered.
"He was a lovely, quiet, firm family man."
Mr Madden told how Wilson never sought the fame his success brought him after he first picked up darts in a local pub when the team were a player down.
He said: "He went on to play all over the world. I don't think there's a continent that the man did not play in. But if the truth be told, Jocky Wilson never wanted to become famous or in the spotlight.
"Jocky would be the first to tell you that work in its own right was a means to an end, all he wanted out of it was to provide well for his wife and family."
He added: "Jocky was a wonderful dad. He was full of fun and laughter, and yet I have to say he and Malvina brought their children up well because they have instilled nothing but the best of values, morals and standards in all three of them.
"He has played a huge part in moulding each one of them into the people that they have become today."
From his debut at the World Championship in 1979 until 1991, Wilson managed to reach at least the quarter-finals of the tournament on every occasion.
Wilson also lifted the British Professional Championship four-times between 1981 and 1988, as well as the British Open and Matchplay titles.
He was a founding member of the Professional Darts Corporation and is acknowledged as one of the main forerunners to darts' current popularity. | The funeral of Scottish darts legend Jocky Wilson has taken place in Fife. | 17579011 |
Tonnes of earth and rubble have been excavated by hand from the bunker at Les Landes Common by the Channel Islands Occupation Society (CIOS).
The former anti-aircraft gun station still has German artwork inside.
It could feature as part of a guided history walk planned for 9 May, to mark Jersey's Liberation Day.
The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the war, remaining under German control for five years until they were liberated in May 1945.
The CIOS was given permission to carry out the work by the States of Jersey Environment Department.
The group said the islands were fortified "out of all proportion to their strategic value" because Hitler believed the Allies might attempt to regain the islands.
It resulted in hundreds of concrete, reinforced bunkers, gun stations, anti-tank walls and tunnels being constructed for an invasion that never came.
The bunker at Les Landes Common would have been manned 24 hours a day.
Volunteers have removed about 15 tonnes of earth and rubble from the bunker, which Tony Pike from the CIOS says was filled in by the government "partly for safety reasons and partly to have it buried and forgotten".
"After the war the States tried to destroy the fortifications," he said. "They were considered a nuisance and not regarded as of historical importance, but it was too expensive, so bunkers were filled with rubble and waste."
Mr Pike said he hopes the excavation will be completed in time for it to feature in the history walk he is planning next month. | A World War Two bunker in Jersey will be opened up to the public for the first time since it was filled in more than half a century ago. | 35967051 |
Why might he have done that?
One of the more remarkable things about zero-hours contracts is how little we know about them, starting with what they are.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) refers to them as contracts that do not guarantee a minimum number of hours. It has two measures, neither of which is entirely satisfactory.
The first is based on asking respondents to its Labour Force Survey (the one from which we get the unemployment figures) whether they are employed in their main job on a zero-hours contract.
Between October and December 2014, around 697,000 people said they were, which was up from 586,000 in the same period the previous year. It's about 2.3% of all people in employment.
But there are caveats with this number, because it relies on people knowing whether they are employed under a zero-hours contract.
Remember that 45% of the increase was from people who had worked with such contracts for more than a year. In other words, a year ago they were also on zero-hours contracts but didn't say so.
So there might have been an explosion, or there might be growing awareness.
In order to get round the problem of people not knowing what sort of contract they have, the ONS produced a second figure by asking employers whether they employed people using zero-hours contracts.
It turned out that in the first two weeks of August 2014 employers had about 1.8m zero-hours contracts under which any work was done. But remember that's contracts, not people. One worker could have several such contracts.
The only previous figure for this measure was for January 2014, when there were 1.4m contracts. So the figure may have exploded, or it may be that seasonal industries such as agriculture and hospitality use more zero-hours contracts in August than they do in January.
Watchdog the UK Statistics Authority has been kept pretty busy with complaints about the use of zero-hours statistics.
The latest figures also tell us that, on average, someone on a zero-hours contract works 25 hours a week. People on zero-hours contracts are more likely to want to work more hours - 34% said this, compared with 13% of people not on a zero-hours contract.
What's the truth behind the politicians' claims on the campaign trail? Our experts investigate the facts, and wider stories, behind the soundbites.
Read latest updates or follow us on Twitter @BBCRealityCheck | We were told last night that Ed Miliband would be talking about an "explosion" in zero-hours contracts, although in the event he has changed it to an "epidemic". | 32145946 |
The 23-year-old was named Young Player of the Year in the Welsh Premier League in 2016-17, after netting 14 goals in 32 games and providing 10 assists.
The former Wales Under-21 international and Swansea City trainee joined Europa League qualifiers Bangor in 2016.
He is Fylde's fourth signing, prior to their first season in the fifth tier.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | National League newcomers AFC Fylde have signed Bangor City midfielder Henry Jones on a one-year deal, with the option of a further 12 months. | 40348059 |
Mary Cameron, 81, has put her name to a campaign against plans by Conservative-run Oxfordshire County Council to close a number of the centres, according to the Daily Mirror.
The BBC has seen a petition which shows the signature of Mary Cameron alongside her middle name and post code.
Downing Street declined to comment on the reports or the petition.
Retired magistrate, Mrs Cameron, told the newspaper: "My name is on the petition but I don't want to discuss this any further."
She reportedly signed the petition while visiting her son in Oxfordshire.
Oxfordshire County Council leader Ian Hudspeth refused to comment on Mrs Cameron's signing of the petition or the planned cuts.
Campaigners are trying to stop the closure of nearly all of Oxfordshire's 44 children's centres - the county council wants to keep eight hubs, to save £8m pounds.
The petition describes the proposals as a "false economy", and says the early intervention services provide numerous economic and other long-term benefits.
Campaign organiser Jill Huish said she was "not surprised" to have the Prime Minister's mother's endorsement.
"It shows how deep austerity is cutting our most vulnerable when even David Cameron's mum has had enough," she said.
"While our local authority and our prime minister squabble over who's fault it is that there are 95 separate cuts planned for Oxfordshire, we are the people who will suffer without our frontline services."
Council workers are to stage a 24-hour strike in protest at the plans.
The prime minister previously wrote to the local authority in his capacity as MP for Witney expressing "disappointment" at planned cuts to museums, libraries and day centres for the elderly.
But council leader Mr Hudspeth hit back, saying the cuts were the result of reductions in funding from central government.
Members of Unite employed in early intervention by Oxfordshire County Council will walk out on strike on February 16 after voting overwhelmingly for industrial action.
Unite regional officer Chris Gray said his members were "deeply committed" to the children and families they worked with.
"But they have decided that they cannot sit back and watch while the council denies Oxfordshire's young people a future and destroys its top class children's early intervention service." | David Cameron's mother has signed a petition against cuts to children's centres in his constituency. | 35532047 |
The Shrimpers were initially on top, going ahead on 15 minutes when Jermaine McGlashan played in Marc-Antoine Fortune, who rounded the advancing Conrad Logan before tapping home.
Dale then had centre-back Keith Keane sent off seven minutes later for bringing down Fortune when he was clean through on goal.
Southend midfielder Anthony Wordsworth slammed the resulting free-kick against the crossbar before the Shrimpers were also reduced to 10 men on 34 minutes when McGlashan was shown a second yellow card after bringing down Ian Henderson.
Rochdale improved after the break, Calvin Andrew wasting two headers before Jamie Allen's long-range shot was saved by Ted Smith.
Dale equalised in the 66th minute when Andrew cut in off the right-hand side and netted with a deflected left-footed shot which looped into the top left-hand corner.
But Southend struck back to secure all three points when Cox netted a brilliant left-footed shot from eight yards.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southend United 2, Rochdale 1.
Second Half ends, Southend United 2, Rochdale 1.
Attempt saved. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Southend United 2, Rochdale 1. Simon Cox (Southend United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Will Atkinson.
Attempt missed. Will Atkinson (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Southend United. Zavon Hines replaces Marc-Antoine Fortuné.
Attempt missed. Simon Cox (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Reuben Noble-Lazarus (Rochdale) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Simon Cox (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Anton Ferdinand.
Simon Cox (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ian Henderson (Rochdale).
Attempt missed. Ryan Leonard (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Southend United. Conceded by Reuben Noble-Lazarus.
Attempt blocked. Marc-Antoine Fortuné (Southend United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Ben Coker (Southend United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ian Henderson (Rochdale).
Attempt missed. Jason Demetriou (Southend United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Southend United. Ben Coker replaces Anthony Wordsworth.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Callum Camps (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jason Demetriou (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Callum Camps (Rochdale).
Foul by Will Atkinson (Southend United).
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Ted Smith.
Attempt saved. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Goal! Southend United 1, Rochdale 1. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Ian Henderson.
Attempt saved. Jamie Allen (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Michael Timlin.
Substitution, Rochdale. Jamie Allen replaces Oliver Rathbone.
Foul by Ryan Leonard (Southend United).
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Simon Cox's last-gasp winner handed Southend United a dramatic 2-1 victory over Rochdale at Roots Hall as both sides ended the match with 10 men. | 38539179 |
The employee was working on Monday in a lab with pigs that had been infected with the deadly virus when a tear was noticed in a protective suit.
Officials with Canada's public health and food inspection agencies made the announcement on Tuesday.
They said there is currently no risk to the public.
The unnamed employee is in self-imposed isolation and will be monitored for the next 21 days, which is the incubation period for the virus. The employee was also offered an Ebola vaccine that has been used in clinical trials in Africa.
The employee was working in a high-security "level four" laboratory with six pigs that had been experimentally infected with the virus. The lab worker noticed a split in the suit seam after leaving the containment lab during decontamination.
The risk to fellow employees and the community "is expected to be low," said Dr John Copps, director of the Winnipeg laboratory with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
People with the Ebola virus are not infectious until they show symptoms and the virus is spread through direct contact of bodily fluids, officials noted.
The National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease is part of a federal facility that does research on dangerous and contagious disease-causing agents.
The research being done with pigs on the Ebola virus at the facility was to help understand the immune reaction in swine. | An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus. | 37915439 |
The hosts had led 14-6, Colin Wilkie scoring two tries with Terry Campese converting both and kicking a penalty.
Anthony Walker's try just before half time brought Wales back into the match with Andrew Gay edging them ahead before Ben Morris' second decisive try.
"I'm glad we've got there and it does give impetus to the work that is going on in Wales," said coach John Kear.
"I was absolutely delighted. I'm really pleased with what the players demonstrated in the second-half with regards to the collective spirit, unity and determination.
"There's no doubts they fully deserved that. It was tough to come here. We've played an Italy team of which 15 of the 17 are heritage players - Australian-based.
"It's been a tough old afternoon, but it's been a rewarding afternoon." | Wales have qualified for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup after coming from behind to beat Italy in Monza. | 37796739 |
The Dutch needed to win and for Iceland to beat Turkey to earn a play-off spot, but Van Persie's error saw them go 3-0 down despite Mark Suchy seeing red.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Van Persie replied to goals from Pavel Kaderabek and Josef Sural but instead it was Turkey who secured third place.
Fatih Terim's side beat Iceland 1-0.
Turkey had Gokhan Tore dismissed in the 78th minute as their match appeared to be heading for a draw, but Selcuk Inan's last-minute goal saw them claim a dramatic victory.
That result means Turkey qualify for next summer's tournament in France as the highest ranked third-placed team out of all nine qualifying groups.
Ukraine and Norway both finished third in their respective groups and had more points than Turkey.
But results against the sides finishing bottom in their respective groups do not count - leaving Turkey with the most points.
"As a country we really needed this win to feel happy, even for a few hours maybe," said Terim.
"We are so happy to have offered some happiness to our people."
Netherlands coach Danny Blind took over at the start of July after Guus Hiddink left after 10 months in the position.
He has lost three of his four matches in charge but says he has "no intention" of stepping down.
"I'm going to carry on with my work because I'm under contract until 2018 and I believe in this team," Blind added.
"I haven't achieved my goal. The aim was to qualify automatically or via the play-offs and I haven't done that.
"Am I the one to blame? I now have to analyse that. The results weren't good."
Against the Czechs, Van Persie's cushioned header past his own goalkeeper was the low point - and seemed to spark a reaction from the home side as they scored twice in quick succession afterwards.
But they still failed to capitalise on their numerical advantage, with Suchy having been dismissed for a last-man tackle on Manchester United forward Memphis Depay late in the first half.
The Netherlands, who finished third at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, were crowned European champions in 1988 and were third in 1992, 2000 and 2004.
The last time they failed to qualify for a major tournament was the 2002 World Cup. Before that, they were absent from the 1982 and 1986 tournaments and from the 1984 European Championship.
Reaction to the Euro 2016 qualifiers.
Match ends, Netherlands 2, Czech Republic 3.
Second Half ends, Netherlands 2, Czech Republic 3.
Corner, Netherlands. Conceded by Tomas Kalas.
Theodor Gebre Selassie (Czech Republic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jeremain Lens (Netherlands) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Theodor Gebre Selassie (Czech Republic).
Foul by Robin van Persie (Netherlands).
Vaclav Prochazka (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands).
Tomas Kalas (Czech Republic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Tomas Kalas (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Milan Skoda.
Substitution, Czech Republic. Milan Skoda replaces Jaroslav Plasil.
Foul by Bas Dost (Netherlands).
Michal Kadlec (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Robin van Persie (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card.
Robin van Persie (Netherlands) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Goal! Netherlands 2, Czech Republic 3. Robin van Persie (Netherlands) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Bas Dost with a headed pass.
Corner, Czech Republic. Conceded by Kenny Tete.
Foul by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands).
Michal Kadlec (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jeremain Lens (Netherlands).
Theodor Gebre Selassie (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands).
Michal Kadlec (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.
Attempt missed. Robin van Persie (Netherlands) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Bas Dost.
Foul by Daley Blind (Netherlands).
Tomas Kalas (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jeffrey Bruma (Netherlands) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Tomas Kalas (Czech Republic).
Attempt saved. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Memphis Depay.
Substitution, Czech Republic. Tomas Kalas replaces Josef Sural.
Goal! Netherlands 1, Czech Republic 3. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wesley Sneijder with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Netherlands. Conceded by Michal Kadlec.
Substitution, Netherlands. Jeremain Lens replaces Anwar El Ghazi.
Own Goal by Robin van Persie, Netherlands. Netherlands 0, Czech Republic 3.
Foul by Daley Blind (Netherlands).
Jiri Skalak (Czech Republic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Netherlands. Bas Dost replaces Virgil van Dijk. | The Netherlands' bid to qualify for Euro 2016 ended in failure as Robin van Persie scored an own goal in a home defeat by the 10-man Czech Republic. | 33544119 |
Local drivers will test cars on public roads in "everyday conditions", according to a company press release.
The move was announced at an event in Beijing on 7 April, though details of a start date were not provided.
One analyst said he thought China was at the forefront of the development of autonomous cars.
Volvo is owned by a Chinese firm, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co.
According to a report from the Reuters news agency, Volvo is now determining in which city to conduct the trials.
"Autonomous driving can make a significant contribution to road safety," said Hakan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo.
"The sooner [autonomous] cars are on the roads, the sooner lives will start being saved."
"I think people probably don't realise quite how much China's putting into advanced technology in cars," Prof David Bailey of Aston Business School told the BBC.
"Google has had a far smaller number of cars in tests as far as I can work out, so it is significant."
Prof Bailey added that China was both the biggest producer of, and market for, cars in the world.
The country is certainly no stranger to self-driving car tests - in December a driverless car completed a test on public roads in Beijing.
It had been developed by Chinese tech giant Baidu.
Silicon Valley tech giant Google simultaneously announced that it would expand testing of its self-driving vehicles to Phoenix, Arizona.
This will make it the fourth city to host trials of Google's autonomous cars.
"The Phoenix area has distinct desert conditions, which will help us better understand how our sensors and cars handle extreme temperatures and dust in the air," Jennifer Haroon, head of business operations for the Google Self-Driving Car project, told Reuters.
Google recently suffered a hiccup with one of its self-driving cars in California, after it crashed into a bus.
No-one was injured during the incident on 14 February. | Swedish carmaker Volvo has said it plans to launch a self-driving experiment in China involving up to 100 cars. | 35988935 |
It followed tests on panels from a high rise that suffered a fire last August.
The insulation panels were made up of polystyrene and plywood, and tests concluded they were the likely cause of the fire spreading up the outside.
The fire brigade urged councils to review their use and "take appropriate action to mitigate the fire risk".
External cladding has been identified as a potential factor in the rapid spread of the fire at Grenfell Tower, which is thought to have left at least 79 people dead.
It was also highlighted at the coroner's inquest into a fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell in 2009, which led to the deaths of six people, including three children.
The fire brigade's letter followed a blaze which broke out on the seventh floor of Shepherd's Court in Shepherd's Bush, west London, on the afternoon of 19 August 2016.
The cause was a faulty tumble dryer. The fire spread up six floors along the outside of the building. No-one was injured but some people suffered from smoke inhalation.
The BBC has seen documents relating to Shepherd's Court, including a report commissioned by the fire brigade, which highlighted the external panels attached to the windows of the 1970s tower block as a probable cause of the fire's spread on the outside of the building.
The report - first obtained by Inside Housing magazine - was compiled by fire specialists Bureau Veritas which tested the panels beneath the windows.
The fire experts found that panels withstood initial contact with fire but as it developed further, the polystyrene foam under the thin metal sheet began to melt. The metal sheet could then fall away exposing the foam and plywood beneath.
In its letter last May, following that report, the fire brigade urged councils to consider carefully the arrangements for specifying, monitoring and approving "all aspects of future replacement and improvement of building facades" including insulation panels and in-fill panels.
The letter also stated councils should ensure the works complied to building regulations "to secure public safety and minimise fire losses".
Councils were "strongly" urged to make sure information on all replacement windows and facades was made available to fire risk assessors, and to undertake mitigation measures to "ensure any potential fire spread does not pose a risk to health and safety".
Hammersmith and Fulham Council which owns Shepherd's Court is currently conducting further tests on the panels.
The BBC asked Kensington and Chelsea Council - the council responsible for Grenfell Tower - what action it took in response to the letter and received the following reply.
"The Council is committed to co-operating fully with both the public inquiry and the criminal investigation.
"We do not think it is right to make comments relevant to the inquiry or subject to the investigation until this issue has been discussed with the police and the solicitors to the public inquiry once they have been appointed."
Meanwhile, two leading fire experts have described as "complete garbage" the current system for checking fire safety in buildings, and said it had failed to prevent tragedies including the Grenfell Tower and Lakanal House fires.
Prof Arnold Dix and Arnold Tarling said the fire risk assessment system was "atrocious" and "garbage."
Mr Tarling, who has repeatedly warned about tower block safety, said the assessments can be carried out by "inexperienced and unqualified people".
He said the responsibility for fire risk assessments had been taken from fire brigades in 2005 and turned into a self-certification exercise that could be carried out by anyone.
"I see garbage day in and day out on these reports. Some of them are not fit for burning. They're complete rubbish and people's lives are depending upon reports that are totally utterly worthless, that lead to a false sense of security.
"They're done by privately employed people or maybe in-house people and are required under the fire safety order.
"The parts of the building that they cover will be all the places where a workman would work or a postman would go, including staircases, landings and boiler rooms. It excludes everything inside the flat; it excludes the external walls."
Experts have also told the BBC the risk assessments do not take account of the outside of tower blocks, including cladding.
The Fire Brigades Union described the mandatory forms as "not fit for purpose" and said that anyone could set themselves up as a fire risk assessor and that no training or qualifications were necessary.
David Sibert, an experienced fire fighter and qualified fire engineer who advises the union, told the BBC the government had failed to respond to demands from the fire industry to reform the system following the Lakanal House blaze.
"There are no controls on who can be a fire risk assessor or the competence or the skills that they should have," he said.
"Following the fire at Lakanal House the fire industry pushed the government very hard to require fire risk assessors to have certain qualifications or to be on certain registers but we didn't get any traction from government at all."
A fire risk assessment for Shepherd's Court conducted in October 2015 - before the blaze -identified the external panels as a possible fire risk.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which owns the block, insisted that the fire risk assessor was "trained and qualified".
But in its response to the London Fire Brigade in November 2015, the council admitted it did not know there was any probable risk with the panels.
"We are surprised to hear of any fire risk associated with façade," the council wrote, "as we had no knowledge of this prior to your letter."
A spokesman for Hammersmith & Fulham Council said: "A fire risk assessment of Shepherd's Court was carried out in 2013 by CS Todd & Associates Ltd, who are generally considered to be leaders in the field of fire safety management.
"This was still current at the time of the successfully contained fire in the tower block in 2016, which was started by a faulty tumble dryer, and resulted in no injuries or fatalities.
"The London Fire Brigade has subsequently made recommendations, including the testing of some building materials at Shepherd's Court, and we are fully complying with their directions."
Prof Arnold Dix, a disaster specialist at the University of Western Sydney, described the letter to councils as "about the strongest warning you could get".
He said: "This is yet another example of an informed authority - in this case a fire brigade - and the best thing they can do is make a warning about something that they are obviously really, really concerned about.
"It's no different in substance to what the coroner did after the 2009 fire at Lakanal House.
"The coroner made a whole lot of recommendations that weren't acted on.
"It's just another example of the toothless nature of the administration of fire safety in the UK."
A statement from the Home Office said the law clearly sets out that the person responsible for the building has a duty to undertake a fire risk assessment and put in place adequate and appropriate fire precautions or "bring in a competent fire risk assessor to undertake it". | London Fire Brigade warned all 33 councils about the potential risks of external cladding on tower blocks in May this year, the BBC has learned. | 40422922 |
Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw says elite public schools have been opening up branches abroad, leading to a boom in international schools.
More people left the UK (18,000) to teach than trained (17,000) on English post-graduate routes, he adds.
Ministers cited figures saying just a tiny fraction of teachers left the UK.
The Department for Education also said it was disingenuous to suggest its approach to teacher recruitment was not working.
Why are teachers quitting the UK to work abroad?
But Sir Michael's claim comes after the government missed its teacher trainee recruitment targets for the past four years.
This has led to shortages of teachers in most subject areas, and many schools are finding it hard to recruit staff.
Sir Michael said it was not surprising that the demand for UK-trained teachers was soaring as English was the most common language used in the estimated 8,000 international schools, many of which follow a British-style curriculum.
He added that the demand for UK-trained teachers was only likely to increase as the number of international schools is projected to nearly double to more than 15,000 by 2025.
He quoted International School Consultancy figures which suggested 18,000 people had left the UK to teach abroad in 2015, although he acknowledged not all of these would have been fully qualified teachers.
Recruitment agencies were actively targeting newly qualified teachers, he claimed, as well as more experienced classroom professionals - with "enticing offers of competitive, usually tax-free salaries, free accommodation and often the prospect of working in warmer, sunnier climes".
He added: "Shouldn't we also ask the question: at what cost to our own state education system?
"Are we in danger of overlooking one of the consequences of this expansion - a teacher 'brain drain' from this country just when the supply issue is reaching situation critical?
"At a time of well-documented shortages, should we not be putting more effort into holding on to those who have gone through their teacher training in England?"
And he called for policy makers to consider financial incentives, often referred to as "golden handcuffs", to retain teachers working in the UK state system.
Sir Michael also said there was a need to "talk up" the profession and highlight the "nobility of teaching" and how it can transform lives.
"The idea of 'golden handcuffs' to keep teachers in this country for a period of time is an interesting one which deserves more examination."
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Despite the challenge of a competitive jobs market, the proportion of trainee teachers with a top degree has grown faster than in the population as a whole, and there are more teachers overall.
"But we are determined to continue raising the status of the profession.
"That's why we're investing hundreds of millions in teacher recruitment, backing schemes like Teach First and the National Teaching Service to get great teachers where they are most needed, and why we've given schools unprecedented freedom over staff pay, to allow them to attract the brightest and the best.
"The number of former teachers returning to the classroom has increased year on year - further evidence of the popularity of the profession. Recent research shows that the number of teachers leaving the profession to work abroad is 1%."
This percentage is based on separate figures from research based on England's Labour Force Survey. Wales does not compile figures on teachers leaving the country.
A teacher training certificate in British education has always been a passport to rewarding work in interesting parts of the world.
What is worrying is that this alleged "brain drain" comes amid a growing teacher recruitment crisis in England.
Because of high staff turnover, the equivalent of an entire British Navy of teachers has to be recruited every year, just to stand still.
So financial incentives or "golden handcuffs", that might staunch the flow of those leaving may well tip the balance.
A scheme to attract and retain teachers in challenging schools began in 2009 but was axed in 2010.
Official "golden hellos" or cash bonus schemes, to attract teachers into shortage subjects and tough areas, were used by the Labour administration.
These were scrapped in 2011 and new bursary schemes giving trainee teachers money off their higher university tuition fees became the key incentive.
But teaching unions say, fee-waivers do little to address the low starting salary for teachers - £21,000 outside London - and the pressures of increasing workload and accountability.
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: "Whilst ministers continue to deny the crisis in teacher shortages, we are seeing more and more evidence that this serious issue is threatening standards. Sir Michael Wilshaw is right to highlight the detrimental impact this is having on schools right across the country."
Leora Cruddas, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "Our view is that more needs to be done to incentivise teaching as a career.
"We would suggest that government undertakes to write off, over a period of time, the undergraduate tuition fees of students who become teachers, as long as they remain in the state system in this country during that period.
"This would help with both the recruitment and retention of newly qualified teachers."
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said performance-related pay and an "utterly punishing" workload that leaves little time for family or friends is driving teachers out in droves.
"Add to this the punitive and often pointless accountability system overseen by Sir Michael Wilshaw alongside his regular disparaging comments about the profession, it is no surprise teaching in England has become an unattractive option." | Thousands of teachers are being lured abroad with lucrative pay packages as England's schools grapple with a recruitment crisis, Ofsted warns. | 35660457 |
Westley (93) and Alastair Cook (39) put on 102 runs together before Liam Dawson (2-40) bowled Cook to leave them 103-2.
Varun Chopra (26) and Adam Wheater (30) made contributions before Ashar Zaidi smashed 72 not out off 40 balls to give Essex a competitive score of 304-7.
James Vince (68) and George Bailey (63) gave Hampshire a chance, but they lost regular wickets to end on 279.
Hampshire beat Kent to open their One-Day Cup campaign with a win on Thursday and started perfectly when Reece Topley bowled Nick Browne with his third ball, but Essex made progress through former England Test captain Cook and Westley.
The duo gave them a platform but the away side fought back to reduce Essex to 195-6, when Gareth Berg ran out captain Ryan ten Doeschate for just two runs.
That brought Zaidi to the crease and the all-rounder counter-attacked to great effect, hitting four sixes and six fours to push Essex's total beyond 300.
Essex top scorer Tom Westley told BBC Radio Essex:
"That's the beauty of Ash. It was a game-changing innings. He is made for those situations.
"Him and Tendo (ten Doeschate) coming in with 15-20 overs to go is very dangerous for the opposition but brilliant for us.
"The wicket of Bailey was crucial and Ravi getting Vince out was key as well because they had a nice partnership going."
Hampshire captain James Vince told BBC Solent:
"We weren't at our best. The main difference was we didn't have someone to go on and get a big score. Ideally you go on and get 80 or 100.
"I don't think 305 was a lot to chase. The way the boundaries are here, and it was a pretty good pitch, at the halfway stage we would have taken that.
"With the boundaries as small as they are, a few were leading edges went for six. That can happen. e'll take this one on the chin and hopefully bounce back against Middlesex on Wednesday." | Tom Westley starred as Essex clinched a first One-Day Cup win of the season by beating Hampshire by 25 runs. | 39745668 |
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers joined the first and deputy first minister in a tribute at Stormont.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Arder Carson, marked the silence at Belfast City Hall with Honorary French Consulate, Regine McCullough.
The Europe-wide, one-minute silence, was held at 11:00 GMT on Monday.
It was also observed at military bases across Northern Ireland as a mark of respect for the dead and injured.
A book of condolence was opened at Belfast City Hall on Monday, while another was opened at the Guildhall in Londonderry on Saturday.
Sinn Féin assembly member Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said he had received an running commentary on Friday night from his daughter who lives in Paris.
"My daughter was down the street from the Petit Cambodge, the first restaurant attacked," he said.
"I want to thank those who gave her group shelter that night close to the restaurant.
"In the hours since that, she has been able to tell me about the atmosphere in Paris, how frightened people are, but also how resolute they are.
"And today I know that in her boyfriend's circle, one young man was killed in the Bataclan concert hall and in her place of work one friend there has a close friend still missing."
PSNI chief constable George Hamilton said security at Northern Ireland's air and sea ports had been "hardened up" following the attacks in Paris.
First Minister Peter Robinson described the attacks as "an evil bloodbath".
"This was an attack upon innocent, defenceless, harmless citizens," he said.
Passengers flying into Belfast International Airport from Paris have described the fear in the city during Friday night's attacks.
The president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, signed a book of condolences at at the French Embassy in Dublin after attending the tribute.
A crowd, which was gathered outside the embassy on Merrion Square, sang the French national anthem before breaking out in applause after the minutes silence.
One hundred and twenty-nine people were killed in a series of shootings and bombings in the French capital.
One Northern Ireland man who had travelled over for Ulster's Champion's Cup rugby game against Oyonnax - which was postponed - said it had been "quite scary".
"The Thursday night before we were sitting round the same area in a bar, so it's very, very easy thing to do," he said on Sunday night.
"It can happen to anybody."
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Another man said he had been on a shuttle bus outside the Stade de France "probably between the second and the third bomb".
"We had no idea that that was all kind of kicking off," he said.
A woman said there was "a sort of eeriness" in the city after the attacks, and that she and her husband had been told to stay indoors for at least 12 hours.
"Our taxi driver, she cried the whole way round. She passed the three restaurants that had been hit. I think when she saw the blood it frightened her and then she saw the bullet holes," the woman said.
Meanwhile, Paris resident Tom McGeehan, who is originally from County Down, said he would not be leaving the city.
One of Mr McGeehan's friends was wounded on Friday night: "I tried my best to stay with the close friends and the people who were affected to try and keep a bit of optimism.
"I think especially coming from a background of Belfast that we have unfortunately kind of grown accustomed to dealing with extreme violence.
"This isn't enough to make me leave it's just enough to make me really cherish the people that I know here."
Coleraine man John Lynn travelled to Disneyland Paris on Friday night with his wife and children, aged five and two. However, the park has been closed since the attacks.
"How do you explain it to kids? I just basically said there was a pile of bad guys and something had happened in Paris and that's why Disneyland was closed," he said.
"Looking at the hotel car park, there's very few cars about it - I've noticed that there's a lot of British people and Irish people left that are stuck here till their flights go home. But there's probably very few other French people coming here - any that were here have checked out, so it has got a lot quieter.
"Yesterday there wasn't a lot to do and we thought we'd maybe go into Paris, but they [the hotel staff] basically said no, don't, everything is closed.
"At the railway station that comes into the Disney village there were three armed soldiers there on Saturday morning, but it was pretty low-key, it's not like there were soldiers walking about Disneyland."
Former Belfast priest Fr Aidan Troy, who now lives in Paris, said people in the city were offering to do what they could in the wake of the attacks.
He said: "I saw the lines of blood donors who are going to the hospitals and saying: 'You are short of blood, can we give blood?'
"Tourists are going and doing it.
"There has been a tremendous outpouring, almost like saying: 'Evil will not win, good is going to come out on top.'"
Belfast City Hall and other local government buildings in Northern Ireland were lit in the colours of the French national flag on Saturday evening in an act of "solidarity" with the French people.
Some Belfast-based French nationals said they were "scared" to go back to Paris after the terror attacks. | A minute's silence has been marked across Northern Ireland in honour of victims of the Paris attacks. | 34830008 |
Rooney, 31, has missed the last four United games with a minor leg injury and does not make the trip despite training on Tuesday morning.
Timothy Fosu-Mensah is included in the 20-man squad but full-backs Luke Shaw and Matteo Darmian miss out.
Jose Mourinho's side have a 3-0 advantage after the first leg.
Midfielder Ander Herrera is suspended and defender Phil Jones is absent with a hamstring injury.
Following the trip to France in the Europa League, United will face Southampton on Sunday in the EFL Cup final at Wembley Stadium. | Striker Wayne Rooney has been left out of Manchester United's squad for Wednesday's Europa League last-32 second-leg tie against Saint-Etienne. | 39044463 |
The cause of the blaze, which broke out early on Wednesday at the 11-story Anson House in Thornaby-on-Tees, is being investigated.
Police said they were also trying to piece together her whereabouts in the run-up to the fire.
Ms Bolam was described by her brother, Malcolm, as "a loving sister" who would be "greatly missed".
Det Insp Matt Hollingsworth, from Cleveland Police, said: "Our thoughts and sympathies are with Teresa's family.
"It's extremely important that we are able to pinpoint the cause of the fire, and whilst there is no current suggestion that Teresa died as a result of criminality, we do need to piece together her whereabouts as part of the investigation.
"I'm appealing for anyone who may have seen Teresa in the days prior to her death to contact me." | A woman who died in a fire at a Teesside tower block has been named as Teresa Bolam. | 39658090 |
Think of "eco-friendly" homes and images of green-roofed hobbit-style houses nestled in woodland might first spring to mind.
But in fact, typical "traditional" houses are becoming more green in their design and build.
At Pentre Solar, in Glanrhyd, Pembrokeshire, six timber homes face south towards the sun.
They have been built by a small start-up business, Western Solar Ltd, and use just a fraction of the energy of a traditional house.
The average two-bedroom house uses 12,500 kWh of gas and 3,100 kWh of electricity each year, costing up to £1,500.
But compare this to Pentre Solar, where residents will only have to pay £200 annually on bills.
The homes only use electricity, 4,000 kWh of it, but generate 6,000 kWh a year with any leftover electricity sold to the national grid.
They will now house people on Pembrokeshire council's waiting list and were designed to tackle the problems of energy poverty.
In Wales, a household is in fuel poverty if it spends 10% or more of its income on energy costs.
The most recent figures from September 2016 showed there are about 291,000 households living in fuel poverty in Wales - equivalent to 23% of households.
Dr Jo Patterson, research fellow at Cardiff University's Welsh School of Architecture, said energy efficient homes could help residents save cash.
"To be able to reduce energy bills significantly could cut the number of households in fuel poverty in Wales," she said.
"In our retrofits [refurbishing houses], we have reduced energy bills by 80%. This makes it much more affordable while also reducing carbon emissions."
Another example is the "impossible" zero-carbon house, designed by Cardiff University and supported by SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre at Swansea University, which exports more power to the grid than it uses.
The property near Bridgend, known as Solcer House, took just 16 weeks to construct and was built in 2015.
Its technology includes insulated render on the outside, air heating systems that rely on the sun, and solar generation and battery storage used for heating and hot water.
These buildings offer a blueprint for future housing, so why are we not seeing even more developments of this kind?
Finance seems to be a key issue.
Pentre Solar has taken more than four years to finish and needed £2m of private investment.
Some government incentives have also been cut, such as subsidies for small scale solar panels on homes being reduced by 64%.
"There is very little financial incentive [for developers] at all, which is holding the market back," Dr Patterson, who was Solcer House project manager, said.
"We have had over 1,000 people visit Solcer House. We carried out analysis and out of those, 35% have been representing social housing. They are massively enthused and keen to move this forward.
"If there was funding available to make that change then progress would be significant."
However, Solcer House was built within the budget of a typical social housing cost, £1,000 per sq m, which she added showed it was possible to keep costs down.
Much of Wales' current housing stock is also old, and while Dr Patterson estimated homeowners could retrofit the average home for about £20,000, they would need to have the money to do so.
Yet as new technology is developed, costs are coming down.
Gill Kelleher, policy and engagement manager for SPECIFIC, said it was "brilliant" that technology was "moving forward", allowing new and existing systems to be "incorporated" into homes.
To do this, issues within the supply chain need to be overcome.
"We know that we have the technology, we know that we have the skill set there to deliver these, but we need to improve some of the process of that delivery," Ms Kelleher said.
"Not only are we looking at the cost of the house, but also the cost of energy storage systems which is completely separate. At the moment it means you have to be across different cost sectors and go to different industries to get what you want."
She said there needed to be a "benchmark" so houses are built "to the optimum energy efficient standards".
Despite these barriers, it seems the benefits of energy efficient homes are striking a chord with people.
The One Planet Council is an independent voluntary body which advocates One Planet Development, a Welsh Government policy supporting sustainable developments.
Erica Thompson, acting secretary of One Planet Council, said applications were increasing and it had seen 23 approved to date.
While the majority have been for single rural properties, she said there was "massive opportunity" for larger "edge-of-town" developments.
"It would be less about individual self-sufficiency, it would be about contributing to the nearby town," she said.
"This could be allotments, community facilities, an energy generator for the wider area; things that contribute to the economic or social sustainability of the town as well as the environmental sustainability."
On Monday, the Welsh Government announced it would invest an extra £40m over the next four years to improve the energy efficiency of up to 25,000 homes.
It will be targeted at low income-households or deprived communities to help people heat their homes at a more affordable cost.
It will also support other energy and carbon saving projects.
Recent changes to building regulations in Wales will also make sure all new builds are energy efficient, preventing costly upgrading in the future. | After a new housing development which claims to be Wales' first solar village was officially opened last week, how commonplace will energy efficient homes become in the future? | 38523043 |
The auditor general for Wales says welfare system changes are having a greater impact than in England and Scotland.
Levels of rent debt rose by nearly a quarter in the first six months after the spare room subsidy ended and the benefit cap came in.
The UK government says the changes are "absolutely necessary".
Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) said its welfare reform programme - which started in April 2013 - will reduce annual spending on housing benefit by around £26m a year in Wales.
To help do this, payments have been reduced for claimants with spare bedrooms - this has been dubbed the "bedroom tax" by critics.
A benefit cap has also been introduced restricting the amount people can claim.
The Auditor General for Wales Huw Vaughan Thomas wanted to see how councils and housing associations were dealing these changes.
His officials visited nine councils, five housing associations and surveyed more than 400 tenants in Wales.
Among his findings:
Mr Thomas said councils and social housing providers need to work together more closely to help reduce the risks to tenants from the reforms so far and those still in the pipeline.
But Ryan Bourne, head of public policy for the Institute of Economic Affairs, told BBC Radio Wales: "It's important that we have fairness for tax payers as well, because ultimately this money is coming from other people.
"The question then is, is the reform feasible and is the reform deliverable? And the difficulty we've got is in terms of alternative accommodation, we know we've got a bit of a shortage so people being able to downsize is perhaps not as easy as it should be."
Welsh Local Government Association spokesman and Caerphilly councillor Keith Reynolds said the report showed the "disproportionate impact" the welfare changes would have in Wales and the "significant social and economic" consequences for "vulnerable households and communities".
The DWP added: "Ending the spare room subsidy was absolutely necessary to return fairness to the system and make better use of social housing stock.
"We made over £15m in discretionary housing payments available to Welsh local authorities so that vulnerable people can receive additional support.
"And we continue to spend £94bn a year on benefits to provide a safety net so that no-one need struggle to meet their basic needs." | Rent arrears are rising and debts mounting as welfare reforms hit home in Wales, an official watchdog has warned. | 30715234 |
The 33-year-old victim was shot in the hip at a house on Normanton Avenue, Weaste, Salford, at about 18:15 BST on Wednesday. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Police are exploring a possible link to the death of Paul Massey, found dead outside his home on 26 July.
No arrests have been made.
Ch Supt Mary Doyle, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "We are looking into the possibility that this incident is connected with the murder of Paul Massey.
"I believe that the answer to what happened to Paul Massey, and now this incident, lie within the community and I would like to urge anybody with information to come forward."
Police patrols have been increased in the area to prevent further incidents and reassure the public, she added.
Massey died from a gunshot wound to the chest after being shot four times outside his home, about four miles away from the scene of the latest shooting.
Once dubbed "Mr Big", he was jailed in 1999 for 14 years over a stabbing, unsuccessfully stood to be Salford mayor in 2012.
Read more. | A new shooting may be linked to the death of a convicted criminal nicknamed "Mr Big" who was gunned down outside his home last month, police have said. | 33901736 |
The Brics grouping - involving Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - is likely to announce the opening of the bank at its annual summit in Brazil.
The bank could become a new challenger to the World Bank and the ranks of other similar regionally focused agencies, reports say.
Zhang Haibing, an expert in international economy with the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, tells the Beijing News that the new bank will bring "economic as well as strategic benefits for China", and supporting the bank "is a good opportunity to show that China is a responsible big nation".
Echoing similar sentiments, several media outlets are hoping that Shanghai or Hong Kong will be selected as the new bank's home.
Experts tell the Chinese Enterprise News that Beijing has a "bigger say in the Brics and the headquarters of the new bank is likely to be in Shanghai".
An article in the Shanghai Securities Times agrees that Shanghai has an advantage over other Brics cities because "it is an international financial centre".
The Qianjiang Evening News notes that Hong Kong is also a likely candidate to host the bank. "Hong Kong has a more open capital market, and has a better banking, judicial as well as financial regulatory system," it says.
However, Yukon Huang, senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Programme, points out that some Brics countries have concerns of being "over-reliant on China" and may prefer a Latin American city to host the bank.
He adds that Japan is the largest contributor to the Asian Development Bank, but its headquarters is based in the Philippines.
Elsewhere, papers doubt Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's sincerity as he called for a summit with President Xi Jinping during the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation) meeting later this year.
Mr Abe made the proposal on Monday amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over territorial disputes.
Experts tell the China Daily that Mr Abe is using a "media ploy" to "give the impression of a diplomatic initiative".
Zhou Yongsheng, a professor of Japan studies at China Foreign Affairs University, says initiating media campaigns regarding such meetings is a "cunning strategy".
"Mr Abe feels that he has gained more bargaining chips with such a proposal. If the meeting is not held, he will blame China," he tells the daily.
Agreeing with the view, Liu Jiangyong, vice-dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University, believes that Mr Abe is "only faking the move to create an illusion of improving international relations".
The pundit also notes that Mr Abe's popularity in Japan is "slipping since his decision to end the country's ban on collective self-defence early this month".
"Mr Abe is only 'passing the ball' to China by showing fake willingness to improve relations to the international community, while he knows very well that China will not accept the request with unsolved problems," he tells the Global Times.
And finally, teachers have been banned from accepting monetary gifts from students or their parents in what is seen as another effort by the government to curb corruption.
The Ministry of Education released a statement on Monday prohibiting teachers from receiving gifts including securities and payment vouchers, reports say.
The ministry has also prohibited teachers from attending banquets arranged by students or their families.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Media analyse the possibility of a Chinese city hosting the headquarters of a proposed Brics development bank. | 28305410 |
The blaze broke out between the exit and entry slip roads at J23a (Magor services) and congestion tailed back to junction 23.
One lane was closed for safety because smoke was blowing across the carriageway, Traffic Wales said.
No-one was injured. | A vehicle fire causing severe disruption on the westbound carriageway of the M4 in Monmouthshire has been cleared. | 31866724 |
Jurors at St Pancras Coroner's court ruled Henry Hicks was trying to get away from officers who were pursuing him in unmarked cars.
A police driver previously denied he had been in pursuit of the 18-year-old.
Members of Mr Hicks' family burst into tears as the narrative verdict was read out at an inquest into his death.
Mr Hicks' speeding and swerving were contributing factors to the crash on Wheelwright Street, Islington, the jury ruled.
The carpenter died from blunt force trauma to the head in December 2014.
A police driver, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the inquest he had been following the teenager with the intention of pulling him over as he suspected he had been dealing in drugs.
The jury ruled Mr Hicks was aware "that plain clothes officers were in unmarked vehicles driving at whatever distance behind him and wanted him to stop".
"This was a police pursuit as defined by the Metropolitan Police Service standard operating procedure."
Mr Hicks, who had been described in court by his older sister Claudia as "our family's glue", was found with seven bags of skunk cannabis and multiple phones.
Senior coroner for inner north London Mary Hassell said she would send a prevention of death report so that lessons may be learned.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has called for four Islington police officers to face gross misconduct hearings in relation to the death.
After the hearing Mr Hicks's family - including his father David, 54, mother Dione, 52, and sister Claudia, 23 - said they welcomed the ruling.
In a statement, they said: "Henry was 18 when he died and, as the police themselves said in the course of this inquest, he was a nice boy, polite, well brought up and from a good family.
"We are completely heartbroken and miss him every day. Today confirms what we always believed had happened on that night." | The "heartbroken" family of a teenager who died when his moped crashed into a minicab have welcomed a ruling which said he was being pursued by police. | 36648805 |
Jamaica's Aaron Jones-Bishop scored his third try with two minutes left, but Jy-Mel Coleman missed the conversion that would have won the game.
Wales trailed at half-time with tries by Rhodri Lloyd and Courtney Davies going unconverted.
Davies took over the kicking and converted Lloyd White's try and kicked a penalty to edge Wales ahead 16-12 with six minutes remaining.
Wales squad: Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams, Dai Evans, Christiaan Roets, Courtney Davies, Gil Dudson, Lloyd White, Craig Kopczak, Rhodri Lloyd, Steve Parry, Joe Burke, Jake Emmitt, Anthony Walker, Andrew Gay, Matty Fozard, Morgan Evans, Ian Newbury, Connor Farrer, Ben Morris
Jamaica squad: Wayne Reittie, Richard Barnett, Alex Brown, Lewis Bowman, Aaron Jones-Bishop, Danny Thomas, Jy-Mel Coleman, Jode Sheriffe, Joel Farrell, Jordan Andrade, Mo Agoro, Danny Bravo, Corey Hanson, Ross Peltier, Jamel Goodhall, Keenen Tomlinson, Kadeem Williams, Josh Hill | Jamaica held Wales to a thrilling draw in a friendly in Wakefield. | 37718708 |
Shaun Walmsley was sprung from custody by two armed men in February as he was getting into a cab with prison officers at Aintree University Hospital.
Merseyside Police have detained four people from Anfield - women aged 33 and 65, and men aged 38 and 66.
They are all being held on suspicion of assisting a person unlawfully at large and money laundering, police said.
After executing warrants in Anfield and Kinmel Bay in Conwy, officers also seized a "significant quantity of cash" and two vehicles, which will now be forensically examined.
Fourteen people have now been arrested in the investigation - the 10 people held previously have been released pending further inquiries.
Walmsley is one of four men serving life sentences for murdering Anthony Duffy in 2014.
Police have offered £20,000 of Walmsley's own money - seized by officers following his conviction - as a reward for information leading to his capture.
Detectives are appealing for information but have advised people not to approach Walmsley, who they describe as "highly dangerous". | Police hunting a "highly dangerous" convicted murderer who escaped custody in Liverpool have arrested four people. | 39723104 |
The Aberdeenshire station was once used by the Royal family when they travelled to nearby Balmoral.
Although no longer used as a rail station, it housed a tourist centre, retail units and a restaurant - all of which were destroyed by the blaze.
Plans have now been submitted that would see the station recreated.
Parts of the Royal Waiting Room were salvaged from the fire and a replica Royal carriage which had been on display was relatively undamaged.
The new planning application would see the station building reinstated - including the VisitScotland information centre, public library and restaurant - as well as the waiting room and carriage.
There would be a new exhibition space extending along the old platform and over the tracks, taking the form of railway sheds.
A new public square is proposed in front of the station, linking it to the nearby Victoria and Albert Halls and creating a destination point for the Deeside Way.
The plans have been submitted to the Cairngorms National Park Authority by Aberdeenshire Council, Historic Environment Scotland and a firm of architects.
It is hoped that work could start in November, with the station and exhibition space expected to be open towards the end of 2017.
Originally built in 1866, the station underwent a complete refurbishment in 2001 and was leased by Aberdeenshire Council to VisitScotland. | A £3m plan has been unveiled to reinstate the historic Old Royal Station building in Ballater that was devastated by fire last year. | 36413732 |
Mr Jones oedd Aelod Seneddol Môn o 1987 i 2001, a bu'n Aelod Cynulliad rhwng 1999 a 2013.
Albert Owen o'r blaid Lafur yw AS presennol yr ynys, wedi iddo gael ei ethol gyda mwyafrif o 229 o bleidleisiau dros ymgeisydd Plaid Cymru, John Rowlands, yn etholiad cyffredinol 2015.
Mae Mr Owen wedi cadarnhau y bydd yn sefyll eto ar 8 Mehefin.
Roedd Mr Jones yn wreiddiol yn un o saith oedd yn ymgeisio ar gyfer enwebiad y blaid ar gyfer yr etholaeth, ond mae tri o'r rheiny bellach wedi tynnu 'nôl.
Cyhoeddodd John Rowlands fore dydd Llun ei fod wedi tynnu ei enw'n ôl rhag ceisio cael ei enwebu er mwyn cefnogi Mr Jones.
Mae Iwan Huws ac Ann Griffith hefyd wedi penderfynu peidio ymgeisio yn dilyn cyhoeddiad Mr Jones.
Dyfrig Jones, Elliott Riley-Walsh, a Vaughan Williams yw'r tri ymgeisydd arall.
Bydd hystings lleol yn cael eu cynnal ddydd Mercher os bydd mwy nag un person yn parhau i ymgeisio am yr enwebiad.
Bu Mr Jones yn arweinydd Plaid Cymru o 2000 i 2012, ac ef oedd Dirprwy Brif Weinidog Cymru rhwng 2007 a 2011.
Gadawodd ei rôl fel AC yn 2013 i arwain Parc Gwyddoniaeth Menai.
Roedd sedd Ynys Môn yn nwylo'r Ceidwadwyr rhwng 1979 a 1987. | Mae Plaid Cymru wedi cadarnhau bod y cyn-arweinydd, Ieuan Wyn Jones, yn ymgeisio ar gyfer enwebiad y blaid ar Ynys Môn er mwyn brwydro am y sedd yn yr etholiad cyffredinol. | 39692942 |
Medical teams are operating in the worst-affected areas and US helicopters flying aid to isolated settlements.
The UN says it and its partners hope to provide enough aid for six months.
Haiyan, which hit eight days ago, has killed more than 3,600 people and left about half a million homeless.
Patrick Fuller of the International Federation of the Red Cross told the Associated Press news agency: "At the moment we are ramping up a major relief effort and the supplies are coming in."
Mr Fuller - who is in Tacloban, one of the worst-hit areas - said: "We're setting up an emergency response hospital here, water and sanitation units." However, he added that people in affected areas would need long-term "support with rebuilding".
Both the Red Cross and the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said they would have mobile surgical units up and running in Tacloban by the end of the weekend.
US Navy helicopters have been dropping food, water and other supplies from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, which arrived off the coast on Thursday.
The carrier is also expanding search-and-rescue operations. The US military said it would send about 1,000 more troops along with additional ships and aircraft to join the aid effort.
Britain will give an extra £30m ($50m) in emergency aid, bringing UK assistance to £50m, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. The UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said donations from the public had reached £33m.
Although a huge international aid effort is under way, widespread infrastructure damage is hampering efforts to distribute it to some areas.
Desperate survivors are still trying to leave the coastal city of Ormoc, 105 km (65 miles) west of Tacloban, Reuters news agency reports.
Philippine Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Soliman acknowledged in a radio interview that the national relief response had been too slow to reach many areas.
"We will double our efforts to distribute relief goods because we've been hearing complaints that a lot of people have yet to receive relief goods," she said.
About 11 million people have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan, according to UN estimates.
It was one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on land, with winds exceeding 320km/h (200 mph) unleashing massive waves. Tacloban's airport was left in ruins.
Health experts have warned that the worst-affected areas are entering a peak danger period for the spread of infectious diseases.
The Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that as of 10:00 GMT on Saturday, 3,637 people had been reported dead, 12,501 injured and 1,186 missing. The death toll is expected to rise as further assessments are made. | The international aid effort in parts of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan is starting to have a major impact, with tens of thousands of victims receiving supplies. | 24972707 |
The Team Sky rider, one of race leader Chris Froome's key helpers in the mountains, came off on a descent.
Welshman Thomas, who was second overall at the start of the stage, suffered a broken collarbone after being brought down by Polish rider Rafal Majka.
"I'm just thinking of the devastation of leaving the Tour and another Grand Tour," Thomas told Team Sky's website.
Thomas also crashed out of the Giro d'Italia in May - caused by a police motorbike - on stage nine, when he was Team Sky's race leader.
His absence will be a blow to Froome, who is trying to win a third successive Tour de France and fourth title in five years.
"I crashed at the Giro on stage nine, and it's stage nine again here. I was lying second overall on both days as well. It's just so disappointing." Thomas continued.
"Everyone was nervous, everyone wanted to be at the front and a few people were battling to get between myself, Froomey and the rest of the boys.
"I let Majka in and then he came down right in front of me on a straight bit of road. I had nowhere to go, went over the top of him, and landed on my collarbone.
"Team doctor Jimmy [Juan Mercadel] said he thought it was broken but I got back on the bike and carried on down the descent, but when I got on the flat I knew something was wrong.
"Then the race doctor said exactly the same so I ended up stopping then, went for a scan, and it's broken."
Thomas won stage one of this year's race and wore the leader's yellow jersey until Froome took it after stage five.
The 31-year-old crashed on the damp descent of the Col de la Biche, just under halfway through the mountainous 181.5km stage from Nantua to Chambery.
It was Thomas's fourth crash of the Tour, having also gone down on the second, fourth and eighth stages.
He was not the only rider to crash out with Richie Porte, one of the race favourites, a notable casualty. | Britain's Geraint Thomas has been forced to abandon the Tour de France after crashing on stage nine. | 40549428 |
A statement from prosecutors said: "The Swiss bank is suspected of having directly, and not via its Belgian subsidiary, approached Belgian clients to convince them to set up constructions aimed at evading taxes."
UBS said it would "defend itself against any unfounded allegations".
It is the latest in a series of probes into malpractice by banks.
The prosecutors' statement said the judicial investigation came after "excellent" help from French authorities, who had been looking at allegations that UBS had been encouraging clients to open accounts in Switzerland to avoid tax between the years 2004-12.
The US has also been looking into whether the bank allowed its US customers to hide their wealth from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to avoid paying full tax.
In 2014, Belgian police carried out raids both at the bank and at the homes of UBS Belgium chief executive Marcel Bruehwiler and a client.
Mr Bruehwiler was also charged at the time.
UBS denied that its Belgian division had ever supported tax evasion.
UBS's small Belgian subsidiary, which employed around 60 staff including 20 private bankers, has since been sold to Belgian private bank Puilaetco Dewaay. | Swiss bank giant UBS is being investigated over money laundering and serious organised tax fraud in Belgium. | 35666994 |
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