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The company said it has chartered additional P&O Express sailings to assist with "high demand".
Manannan will operate an extra five return trips from Liverpool and an additional four return sailings from Larne.
Bookings for the additional sailings will open at 08:30 GMT on 3 November.
The IOMSPC will also increase capa... | The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (IOMSPC) has announced extra sailings from Liverpool and Northern Ireland during next June's TT races. | 29754769 |
Ralph Clarke, of Birmingham, is accused in relation to alleged attacks on three children between 1974 and 1983.
Mr Clarke, of Holly Lane, Erdington, appeared at the city's crown court to deny 17 charges of indecent assault and 12 of indecency with a child.
He also denies two counts of trying to commit a serious sexual ... | A 101-year-old man who is thought to be the oldest defendant in British legal history has pleaded not guilty to a total of 31 child sex abuse charges. | 36460749 |
Johnson was England boss in New Zealand four years ago when off-field incidents led to heavy criticism.
Raucous behaviour in a bar and Manu Tuilagi jumping off a ferry were among the unwelcome headlines in New Zealand.
"It's not rocket science is it; don't get into trouble," said Johnson, who captained England to victo... | Former captain Martin Johnson has urged England's players not to repeat the mistakes of the 2011 World Cup in the upcoming 2015 edition on home soil. | 33292855 |
The Mi-8 helicopter carrying 22 people, mostly oil and gas workers, went down on Friday in the Yamalo-Nenetsky region.
President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences to relatives of the victims, according to his spokesman.
The helicopter "fell on its right side and the victims could not get out," a military spo... | A Russian helicopter has crashed in north-western Siberia killing at least 19 people, officials say. | 37738915 |
The Rhinos retained the cup on Saturday but for the second year running found a fired-up Saints who prevented them going six points clear at the top.
Saints halves Travis Burns and Luke Walsh were dominant, with the latter scoring 16 of the 32 points.
The win puts the visitors level on points with third-placed Huddersf... | St Helens spoilt Challenge Cup winners Leeds Rhinos' Headingley return, sealing a first win in five games to boost their Super League top-four bid. | 34115824 |
Workers from North Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire, Teesside, Scotland and Wales are among 10,000 people in Europe taking part in the demonstration.
They are demanding cheaper Chinese steel be halted coming into the EU.
Tata Steel announced in April that it looked to sell its UK business, but decided to pause the process... | About 100 UK steelworkers have joined a march in Brussels calling for action to protect the industry and safeguard jobs. | 37922047 |
Officers were called to Springfield Drive just after midnight after the woman's body was found in a bedroom.
The death is being treated as suspicious as officers work to establish her identity and the cause of death.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland confirmed that a man had been detained in connection with the inciden... | Police Scotland have launched a murder investigation after the body of a woman was found at a house in Falkirk. | 30341606 |
In the Republic, energy company EirGrid has yet to seek planning permission with the Republic of Ireland's planning authorities, An Bord Pleanala.
The issue of overground pylons versus underground cabling has become one that may well feature in this year's local and European elections.
Paula Sheridan and her husband Mi... | The north-south electricity interconnector is in the news in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. | 26782147 |
Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) said it would seek to cancel its 25-year private finance initiative deal with Viridor Laing Ltd.
GMWDA, which signed the contract in 2009, faces financial challenges, Viridor's parent company Pennon said.
It indicated the firm would seek compensation over the terminat... | A £3bn contract signed to recycle waste and use some of it as fuel to generate electricity is to be terminated 17 years early over "cost savings". | 39808477 |
The high court deemed laws prohibiting brothels, communicating in public with clients and living on the profits of prostitution to be too sweeping.
The ruling follows a court challenge filed by former and current sex workers.
The justices' decision gives the Canadian government one year to craft new legislation.
All ni... | The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously struck down the nation's anti-prostitution laws. | 25468587 |
The man was hit by a grey Volkswagen, outside Sainsbury's on Bower's Parade, Harpenden, at about 11:30 GMT, police said.
An ambulance service spokesman said the pedestrian in his 60s "had suffered serious head and chest injuries" and was declared dead at the scene.
Two people in the car, one of whom was an elderly woma... | A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car outside a supermarket. | 30799922 |
Ann Barnes, the ??85,000-a-year Police and Crime Commissioner, said she had delivered all her election pledges.
She is also under investigation over a recent car crash.
But, Councillor Craig MacKinlay said the people of Kent "would give her a resounding one out of 10".
Mrs Barnes is currently being investigated by the ... | Kent's police boss has declared the second 12 months of her tenure "a very successful year indeed" despite controversies over her new youth commissioner and a TV documentary. | 29899605 |
Eight-year-old Saros Endris and his sister Leanor, six, died following the blaze at their home on Holland Road, in Hamstead, Birmingham, on 28 October.
Mohammed Endris, 46, was found with life-threatening injuries in a fire-damaged car in Staffordshire the same day. He was arrested in November.
He appeared before magis... | A father has been charged with murdering his two young children who died after a house fire. | 38661982 |
The research followed more than 56,000 women from Australia and New Zealand who had undergone IVF.
It found that 33% of women had a baby as a result of their first IVF cycle. By the eighth cycle, the success rate had increased to between 54% and 77%.
The study offers a clearer estimate of the chances of success from un... | Going through multiple rounds of IVF increases the chances of having a baby, a new study has found. | 40701112 |
Up to five wells will be drilled before hook-up and commissioning activity starts on the Mariner A platform next summer.
First oil is expected to be produced from Mariner in 2018.
The pre-drilling campaign is expected to support about 500 jobs in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
Mariner, which lies about 93 miles (150k... | Production drilling has started in the massive Mariner oil field in the UK North Sea, operator Statoil has announced. | 38183045 |
The A563 Palmerston Way in West Knighton was flooded after a "trunk" pipe burst early on Friday.
Severn Trent Water apologised after more than 1,000 homes were affected but said water supplies were now back to normal in the city.
The road is closed between A6 Leicester Road and Welford Road and motorists have been told... | A major road in Leicester could be closed for several days after a water main burst. | 32841435 |
Operation Griffin, involving Scotland Yard, City of London Police and British Transport Police will brief and remind the public to stay vigilant.
The operation will include automatic number plate recognition and high-visibility patrols across all 32 boroughs until 15 June.
Cdr Simon Bray said: "The threat to London fro... | A drive to remind people in London of the "ongoing threat from terrorism" has started. | 27754188 |
8 June 2016 Last updated at 20:48 BST
Pete Ganton regularly uses Great Western Railway (GWR) to transport his bike from Reading to London, but now has to book a space on the train for his bike.
When followed by a BBC reporter on a service he reserved a space on he was prevented from getting on the train because he did ... | A rail company's new mandatory bike reservation policy "discriminates against cyclists", according to a regular commuter. | 36484134 |
It is one of the biggest migrant surges into Melilla in recent years.
Many of the migrants suffered cuts scaling the fence. During the incident, migrants threw stones, sticks and bottles at police, officials say.
This month there have been similar mass break-ins in Melilla and Ceuta - another Spanish city in North Afri... | More than 200 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have broken into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla by scaling the border fence. | 26382589 |
The fine was later cancelled but Dave Hedley started a petition against the policy, to help other parents.
The issue was debated by MPs after the petition attracted 200,000 signatures.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb accepted there was confusion following a recent High Court victory against a fine.
Term-time holidays: What ... | MPs have argued for "draconian" rules on school absences to be changed, after a father was fined for taking his children on holiday as a treat while their mother had cancer treatment. | 36763083 |
Google and its London-based DeepMind division springs to mind. Facebook has hired some of the biggest thinkers in AI. Then there's IBM with its Watson project - and of course China is pouring vast sums into research, as it tries to replace factory workers with robots.
But today another contender is shouting out: what... | Who is doing groundbreaking research into artificial intelligence right now? | 40580897 |
Brian Purcell, chairman of Deeside Liverpool Supporters Club, organised two coaches to take local fans to watch the FA Cup semi final on 15 April 1989.
Ninety-six fans were fatally injured in a terrace crush at Sheffield Wednesday's ground.
Deeside club member John McBrien, 18, from Holywell, was among them.
Mr Purcell... | A Liverpool fan from Flintshire who was at Hillsborough 27 years ago said he understands why a memorial service at Anfield will be the last. | 36047268 |
Mami Karino scored the winner from close range after three minutes.
England had five shots on target from their 12 goal attempts but could not find a way past Japan goalkeeper Megumi Kageyama.
Danny Kerry's team are fourth in Pool A after beating Poland in their opening game and next face Germany on Wednesday at 17:00 ... | England were beaten 1-0 by Japan in their Women's Hockey World League Semi-Final group match in Johannesburg. | 40588194 |
At the time, it was reported that three people with knives threatened a woman before stealing her car in Talbot Street on 24 November 2014.
The 28-year-old accused faces a number of other charges including dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking and driving away and obstruction.
He will appear in court next month.... | A man has been charged with hijacking, having an offensive weapon and failing to stop for police in connection with a car theft in Belfast last year. | 33573495 |
Kensington Palace said the prince is to end his 10-year military career after a four-week secondment to the Australian Defence Force, starting in April.
The fourth in line to the throne said his Army experience would stay with him for the rest of his life.
The prince said he was still considering his employment options... | Prince Harry has said he is looking forward to a "new chapter" in his life after it was confirmed he will leave the Army in June. | 31916393 |
Ten Wirral Cricket Club batsmen were out for ducks, only the number 11 troubled the scorers, with the other runs coming from two leg byes.
It left Wirral some way short of the 109 they needed to beat Haslington in a Cheshire League Division Three fixture.
While an embarrassing loss, it was not a world record lowest sco... | A cricket team were humiliated after only scoring three runs between them. | 27177518 |
Although some would say that HMV has sold the UK's largest high street book retailer for a knock-down price, and the group's latest trading results are frightful, I have learned that the group expects to reach agreement with its banks on a new £200m (or so) borrowing agreement within the next two weeks.
Or to put it an... | Sometimes good news comes in a form that doesn't really look like good news - and so it is with HMV's statement on trading and the sale of Waterstone's this morning. | 13467846 |
Dyma un cynnig sydd yn cael ei ystyried gan Lywodraeth y DU.
Pe byddai yn cael sêl bendith, fyddai teithwyr ddim yn gorfod talu rhwng 22:00 a 06:00.
Mae'r llywodraeth wedi dweud yn barod ei bod yn ystyried gofyn i geir, faniau a bysiau bychain dalu £3 am groesi'r pontydd erbyn 2018.
Mae gweinidogion hefyd yn ystyried t... | Gallai pontydd Hafren fod yn rhad ac am ddim i groesi yn y nos. | 38622499 |
More recently we've seen the rise of the touchscreen. But other attempts at re-imagining controls have proved vexing.
"It's one of the hardest problems in modern computer science," Michael Buckwald, chief executive and co-founder of Leap Motion, told the BBC.
But after years of development and $45m (£29m) in venture f... | The keyboard and mouse have long been the main bridge between humans and their computers. | 23366059 |
The Bluebirds have been without a manager since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stepped down on Thursday.
Slade, who held talks with Orient owner Francesco Becchetti regarding his own position last week, said he was "proud" to be linked with Cardiff on Saturday.
The 53-year-old has been in charge at Brisbane Road since 2010.
"On ... | Leyton Orient have rejected an approach from Cardiff to talk to boss Russell Slade about the vacant managerial post at the Championship club. | 29314030 |
The event, which showcases Scottish farming, food and drink and rural living, will run until Sunday 21 June.
The event will include the showcasing of thousands of livestock, equestrian shows, forestry events and cooking competitions and demonstrations.
In 2014, the show attracted nearly 180,000 visitors, and had an est... | The 175th Royal Highland Show is to open at the Ingliston showground in Edinburgh later. | 33175649 |
The award is presented for excellence in poetry, with previous recipients including WH Auden, John Betjeman and Philip Larkin.
Agard, who writes for both adults and children, moved to the UK from Guyana in 1977.
He said he was "touched" to be the winner of an award which had been won by such illustrious names in the pa... | Guyana-born poet John Agard has been named as the recipient of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2012. | 20799970 |
Some 40 co-ordinated rescue missions took place about 20km (12 miles) off the Libyan town of Sabratha, it added.
Video footage shows migrants, said to be from Eritrea and Somalia, cheering and some swimming to rescue vessels, while others carried babies aboard.
On Sunday more than 1,100 migrants were rescued in the sam... | About 6,500 migrants have been rescued off Libya, the Italian coastguard says, in one of the biggest operations of its kind to date. | 37216881 |
But turning your "killer app" or web service into a global giant attracting millions of users and stratospheric valuations is much more difficult.
Yes, we've had the likes of Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify, but the reality is that 90% of all early stage businesses fail, whether through lack of investment, ... | Launching your own tech start-up propelled by dreams of becoming a paper billionaire is undoubtedly exciting - and relatively easy these days. | 34731456 |
It said the data included departure times and routes for buses, ferries, trains and trams in England, Scotland and Wales.
It is not the first app to do so. Rome2Rio's UK Transport Search app already provided similar coverage.
But the body supplying the data said that the huge popularity of Google's service meant its mo... | Google has added coast-to-coast public transport information for the whole of Great Britain to its Maps app. | 27394691 |
The British retailer's directors appointed administrators after failing to find a suitable buyer for the struggling clothes business.
Jaeger has 46 stores, 63 concessions, a head office in London and a logistics centre in King's Lynn.
The firm has suffered from intense competition on the High Street and falling sales.
... | The fashion chain Jaeger has gone into administration, putting 700 jobs at risk in the UK. | 39557933 |
The Mail said Cainer was "quite simply, Britain's greatest astrologer" and that his death was a "tragedy".
Cainer was the newspaper's astrologer from 1992 to 2000, returning to write the column again from 2004. His horoscopes were translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.
The Mail said Cainer had died fro... | The Daily Mail's horoscope writer Jonathan Cainer has died aged 58. | 36186391 |
As well as how quickly ambulances arrive, the statistics which come out every three months also tell us how patients were treated, how long it takes for ambulances to be able to hand over patients once they arrive at hospital.
They also tell us how many hours are wasted by ambulances having to stand around waiting to t... | We now have a far more detailed picture of how the Welsh Ambulance Service is performing, thanks to a new set of figures. | 36866152 |
Thirty people escaped just before the Iskcon Temple in Leicester exploded on 3 September 2010.
A Leicester family donated a former bank in Granby Street to Iskcon, and renovation work to the Grade II building has now been completed.
The monks are taking residency on the upper floors.
The space also includes a meditatio... | Hare Krishna monks have finally moved into their new home after an explosion that destroyed their former temple six years ago. | 36935851 |
Maeso is set to return to the Triangle circuit after recovering from injuries sustained in a high speed crash at the Isle of Man TT in 2013.
He has signed for the Ballyclare based Longshot racing team and will compete on their Kawasaki ZX6R machine.
"I cycle, run and ride MX and trial bikes every day to prepare for the... | Spanish rider Antonio Maeso will make his North West 200 comeback this year in the Supersport class. | 35710191 |
Eman Abd El Aty, said to have weighed around 500kg, was flown to India for treatment on a special chartered plane.
She has left for Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, to receive further treatment. She was flying business class on a passenger flight.
Her bariatric surgeon had said it was a "mistake" to move her.
The... | An Egyptian woman who was believed to have been the world's heaviest has left an Indian hospital where doctors claim she lost more than 250kg. | 39805715 |
Murray signed Nicky Featherstone and Dutch winger Schmeltz on Friday, and the latter came on to inspire a second-half comeback against Newport County.
Schmeltz's cross was fired home by Michael Duckworth to seal a 2-2 draw.
"I know what he'll do for the crowd and the other players, getting the best out of them," Murray... | Hartlepool United manager Paul Murray believes Sidney Schmeltz will have a positive influence following his move to Victoria Park last week. | 29879717 |
He is to stand down from the Northern Ireland Assembly later this summer but will remain as MP for South Belfast.
The move is in response to criticism of "double-jobbing" but some grandees within his own party have said he cannot lead the SDLP from Westminster.
But Dr McDonnell said he has "robust" support from grassro... | Alasdair McDonnell has said he is confident he will remain leader of Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) despite giving up his MLA job. | 33121447 |
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The Red Devils twice came from behind, with Marouane Fellaini and Daley Blind, late on, cancelling out Stephane Sessegnon and Saido Berahino strikes.
"I'm disappointed because we played our best match of the season and the result is not good enough," said Van Gaal, 63.
"We... | Manchester United produced their best performance of the season in a 2-2 draw against West Brom at The Hawthorns, according to manager Louis van Gaal. | 29699579 |
28 April 2016 Last updated at 14:32 BST
This year's Wray Scarecrow Festival, which has been running since 1993, features an "explorers" theme.
Straw-stuffed spacemen, space dogs and a scarecrow version of Star Wars character Chewbacca were among the attractions.
Another scarecrow paid tribute to the late pop star David... | Weird and wonderful scarecrows have gone on display at an annual festival in Lancashire. | 36161889 |
The protests seek to persuade sponsors of the event to speak out over Russia's controversial laws on homosexuality.
The gay rights protests were organised in 19 cities around the globe.
The Olympic torch has arrived in Sochi, having visited 135 cities in the 122 days since leaving Moscow.
It will spend three days in an... | Gay rights activists across the world have been holding a day of protests against the Russian government, just two days before the Winter Olympics begin in the southern resort of Sochi. | 26043872 |
Bellevue FC aims to give foreign nationals access to competitive sport, as well as the chance to make friends from other countries.
The team features players from Poland, Romania, Albania, Portugal, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, and some from Wales.
As well as those studying or working in Wales, the team has also welcomed ref... | A new football team has been launched in Wrexham for players from black and ethnic minority groups. | 40290767 |
Emergency services struggled to reach the Shah Noorani shrine in Kuzdar.
Worshippers were performing dhamal - a trance-like dance - when the bomb hit. So-called Islamic State says one of its suicide bombers carried it out.
Sufism, a tolerant, mystical practice of Islam, has millions of followers in Pakistan but is oppo... | An explosion at a remote Sufi Muslim shrine in the Pakistani region of Balochistan has killed 52 people and injured more than 100, officials say. | 37962741 |
Wanderers have been without a full-time boss since Neil Lennon left in March.
It had been thought that former Bristol City head coach Steve Cotterill and ex-Sheffield United manager Nigel Adkins were the frontrunners for the job.
But the League One club have instead turned to Parkinson, 48, who took charge of City in 2... | Bolton will name Bradford City boss Phil Parkinson as their new manager on Friday, BBC Radio Manchester reports. | 36490923 |
One of the first things to strike Staffordshire's incoming PCC, Matthew Ellis, was the escalating cost to his force of dealing with people with mental illnesses.
He tells us: "When you get a couple of police officers taken off an entire shift simply to look after an individual who hasn't committed a crime and is simply... | Almost a year since the new-style directly-elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) came into office, some of them are clearly making their mark. | 24523310 |
The Welsh region had a bonus point in the bag within half an hour with two tries by Steff Evans and one each for Johnny McNicholl and Liam Williams.
Craig Ronaldson's score for improved Connacht after the break was answered by DTH van der Merwe's 78th-minute try.
It was not the send-off the home team would have planned... | Scarlets secured their place in the Pro12 play-offs with a dominant first-half against a much-changed Connacht. | 39744451 |
Moore's last game in charge was a 2-1 loss to Stevenage at Victoria Park on Tuesday, a result that leaves the club four points above the bottom two.
"This is an extremely difficult decision but one we feel is right," said chairman Gary Coxall.
The 63-year-old was appointed manager in December 2014, and saved the club f... | League Two strugglers Hartlepool United have parted company with manager Ronnie Moore by mutual consent. | 35541540 |
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Thirteen out of the 20 sides are failing to provide the required number of wheelchair spaces, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
It says only seven clubs have larger, fully equipped toilets, while seven clubs are breaking Premier League rules on providin... | Premier League clubs have made limited progress on improving access for disabled fans, campaigners have said. | 39643089 |
Labour is backing the Remain campaign, and Mr Corbyn - who has often been critical of the EU - has been urged to make a more high-profile case.
At a meeting of MPs, he was told the referendum could be "lost" unless the party made a more "passionate" case.
His spokesman said he would be making a "big" speech on the EU "... | Jeremy Corbyn has defended Labour's campaigning on the EU referendum, saying his party is pushing for "a social Europe". | 35755732 |
Glasgow City, who have won 10 Scottish titles in a row, launched a purple and white kit featuring the words "You can't be what you can't see".
Club manager Laura Montgomery said more women on sports pages would create role models for the next generation.
She said female athletes were too often consigned to media lifest... | A lack of media coverage of women's sport has been highlighted in a message on a new away kit for Scotland's most successful women's football team. | 39501938 |
But successive defeats by South Africa and Bangladesh have left the Scots with an uphill task to progress to the Super Six stage in Colombo.
They would need to beat Pakistan on Monday by a big enough margin to overtake Bangladesh on net run rate.
Rachel Scholes top-scored with 35 as Scotland made 169 in their 50 overs.... | Scotland recorded their first win of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier tournament with a seven-run victory over Papua New Guinea. | 38944110 |
He was speaking after Prime Minister Theresa May refused to be drawn on whether she believed in the "principle" of a fresh vote.
The focus on Scotland's constitution comes on the day the UK government formally began the Brexit process.
Mrs May has insisted "now is not the time" for an independence referendum.
However, ... | Scottish government minister Mike Russell has said a date for a second independence referendum "will have to be negotiated". | 39435541 |
The numbers raise "serious concerns about the accountability" of the system, said Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
More than half of England's secondary schools are run by self-governing academy trusts.
The government said financial oversight of academies was "more robust than in counci... | Debts run up by 113 academy trusts in England amount to almost £25m, figures obtained by the BBC suggest. | 37589921 |
Visits to university websites also spiked in the weeks following the election.
Some attribute this rise to fears over Donald Trump's looming presidency.
But others say it has more to do with recruitment strategies and the growth of international education, than any political development.
While many celebrities had thre... | Canadian universities have seen a rise in applications from US students since the election, school administrators say. | 38511372 |
Kenya said sprint coach John Anzrah "presented himself as an athlete" and "even signed the documents" for the doping test.
"We cannot tolerate such behaviour," said Kip Keino, chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya.
Anzrah is the second Kenyan official to be sent home over doping issues after track and fie... | A Kenyan athletics coach has been sent home from Rio after allegedly posing as an athlete and giving a urine sample. | 37053928 |
In programme notes being released before the U's match on Saturday, Dave Doggett said problems had occurred since promotion to the Football League.
He said the club had identified 10 troublemakers, some aged in their 50s and 60s, and was working with police.
Cambridgeshire Police said it had seen a rise in football-rel... | Football hooligans from the 1980s are out of retirement and encouraging the next generation to join their "gangs", Cambridge United's chairman has said. | 32246440 |
Alfred Rouse tried to fake his own death by leaving a man to burn in his Morris Minor in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, in 1930.
DNA testing based on people with an unbroken maternal line back to a relative from the time have so far failed to identify Rouse's victim.
Techniques that do not require this link will be us... | The identity of a man who was burned to death 85 years ago could be revealed through a new batch of DNA tests. | 35165038 |
Giulio Regeni, 28, disappeared on the evening of 25 January, after leaving his home to meet a friend.
His body was found beside a road in Cairo's western outskirts on Wednesday.
Senior prosecutor Ahmad Nagi said the cause of death had yet to be determined but Mr Regeni's body had bruises, knife wounds and cigarette bur... | The body of an Italian student who disappeared last week in Cairo has been found and shows clear signs of torture, a senior Egyptian prosecutor has said. | 35490825 |
Harlequins flanker Robshaw was captain throughout Stuart Lancaster's reign and in 42 of his 43 England games.
Joe Launchbury of Wasps has been tipped as a future skipper, but it is thought Jones wants a more confrontational character to lead the side.
Hartley was dropped from the World Cup after being banned for a head... | Chris Robshaw will not continue as England captain under new head coach Eddie Jones, with Dylan Hartley a leading contender to replace him. | 35116844 |
The city went from Liberal Democrat yellow to Conservative blue in 2010, but that's only part of the story.
The Conservatives are still the biggest party on Herefordshire council but they've lost their overall majority to a combination of independent candidates.
When voters go to the polls on 7 May, they'll have a wide... | Our general election 'market stall' pitched up in Hereford this week. | 32343401 |
Gray originally had until Wednesday to reply to the Football Association, but now has until 5 September.
One tweet from the 25-year-old striker's account appeared to condone killing gay people.
The tweets from four years ago were posted when Gray was playing for non-league Hinckley United.
Gray, who is charged with bri... | Burnley have been given an extension for Andre Gray to respond to his misconduct charge over homophobic posts on Twitter in 2012. | 37237194 |
Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, made the comments on Monday during a speech criticising business regulations.
"Let them decide" such issues, the newly elected lawmaker said.
His argument was that restaurants which did not require workers to wash their hands would quickly go out of business.
"But I thi... | A US senator has suggested that restaurants should not have to make their employees wash their hands after toilet visits. | 31127704 |
The 21-year-old made his Premier League debut against Burnley in October.
He made his first Saints start against Inter Milan at the San Siro in the Europa League four days later and has now agreed new terms until 2021.
"The last couple of months have been amazing for me and this new contract really just rounds that off... | Southampton defender Sam McQueen has signed a new four-and-a-half-year contract with the club. | 38213422 |
A licensing system will be in place for the 10th year running, which limits the number of people allowed to gather cockles.
Recent surveys show "very good stocks" which Natural Resources Wales said was "due in part to the way the fishery was managed last year".
There are 53 licensed cocklers on the Dee.
Before licensin... | Fishermen in Flintshire are preparing for the reopening of the Dee Estuary cockle beds on 1 July. | 40404021 |
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They are one point above the drop zone after Sunday's 2-0 defeat at Swansea.
Foxes boss Ranieri, who was given a vote of confidence by the club's board last week, is now considering changes.
"It is difficult when you achieve something so good you want to give them one chan... | Claudio Ranieri says he may have been too loyal to his Leicester players as their Premier League title defence has descended into a relegation battle. | 38951901 |
"Not many people know that lots of our clothes are made of plastic," says Imogen Napper, a PhD student at Plymouth University, "polyester, acrylic."
Ms Napper and Prof Richard Thompson study marine microplastics - fragments and fibres found in the ocean surface, the deep sea and the marine food chain.
And in a recent l... | In an indoor "Manchester-drizzle-simulating" rain room at the University of Leeds, and in a laundry lab in Plymouth, research is revealing the unexpected environmental cost of the very clothes on our backs. | 40498292 |
It happened at about 23:50 BST on Sunday after a fight began on the dance floor.
The suspect is believed to have left in a taxi outside James Street South. He was with a female at the time.
He is described as being 5ft 7in (173cm) tall with short dark hair and a tattoo on his neck.
Police are appealing for anyone with ... | A man in his 30s has had part of his ear bitten off in a bar on Amelia Street in Belfast city centre. | 41007210 |
Olive McIlroy and Elaine Holmes, who both suffered severe complications following mesh implant surgery, claimed the final report had been watered down.
It follows claims that an entire chapter has been removed from the report ahead of its publication.
Scotland's Health Secretary Shona Robison has said she will meet wit... | Two patient representatives have quit the independent review group looking at the safety of mesh implants. | 39157683 |
The French quartet of Philippe Rozier, Kevin Staut, Roger Yves Bost and Penelope Leprevost gave France their second equestrian title in Rio after team success in eventing.
The United States were second and Germany third after they beat Canada in a jump-off for bronze.
Defending champions Great Britain failed to reach t... | France's show jumpers won Olympic gold in the equestrian team event at the Rio Games. | 36690448 |
Tiler, 18, finished 10th at Rio 2016, but UK Sport cut all funding for British Weightlifting as they did not believe they possessed a 'credible' medal chance for Tokyo 2020.
"I want to prove to them I can still be the best," Tiler told BBC Sport.
The championships run from 1-9 April, with Tiler competing on the fifth d... | Rebekah Tiler aims to show UK Sport were wrong to doubt her Olympic medal credentials, beginning with the European Championships in Croatia. | 39444285 |
The 53-year-old took temporary charge of the top-flight newcomers after Steve Bruce left the club on 22 July.
Phelan held lengthy talks with Hull vice-chairman Ehab Allam on Monday. Radio Humberside reports the agreement is for one game but could be extended.
A host of names have been linked with the Hull vacancy, incl... | Caretaker boss Mike Phelan will take charge of Hull in their Premier League opener against Leicester on Saturday. | 37012892 |
The area around Nuns Street, Derby, has been sealed off after the business reported the mistake at 17:30 BST.
Derbyshire police have erected a cordon and evacuated the area while they wait for the bomb squad to arrive.
The University of Derby's Nunnery Court halls of residence is one of the evacuated buildings.
Buildin... | Hundreds of students have been forced to leave their halls of residence after a potentially explosive chemical was accidentally prepared nearby. | 29319465 |
The Bletchley Park Trust has put a "roll of honour" online, with details of over 10,000 people who worked at the Government Code and Cypher School.
Now the museum wants more veterans, whose identities were closely guarded secrets, to add pictures and stories about their work.
A trust spokeswoman has assured them, "you ... | The home of the World War II codebreakers is trying to name every person who worked there. | 24378091 |
The distressed woman was outside the Shropshire Arms pub in Chester when the grey squirrel began to drive her nuts.
Det Con Nigel Thake attended and managed to send the persistent animal on its way.
Police in Chester later Tweeted from an official account: "Welcome to the varied day of a police officer."
The unusual dr... | A mischievous squirrel was the unlikely subject of a bizarre call to police - after the rodent jumped into a woman's handbag and refused to leave. | 27634553 |
Floyd Ayite's low cross spun in off Norwich captain Russell Martin's heel to put the hosts ahead at the break, in a really open half.
Neeskens Kebano hit the post as Fulham chased a second to finish the game off.
It proved costly, as Oliviera tucked Wes Hoolahan's ball past David Button to snatch a share of the points.... | Striker Nelson Oliveira came off the bench to earn Norwich City a point at fellow pre-season promotion favourites Fulham, who wasted a host of chances. | 40760773 |
French police said the arrests had been made throughout Wednesday - adding that 16 people had been taken to hospital.
On Wednesday night, riot police used tear gas and charged at hundreds of England fans, as flares were set off.
Uefa this week threatened to disqualify England, - who play Wales later - from Euro 2016 if... | At least 36 people have been arrested in Lille following clashes between French police and football fans at the Euro 2016 tournament. | 36543468 |
The one-tonne, £2,000 animal was lost for 48 hours in the storm drain on peatland near Ben Aketil Wind Farm on the Isle of Skye.
The bull vanished from the place it was kept last Friday before being found on Sunday.
Firefighters and local crofters took 20 minutes to free the animal, which was hungry but unharmed.
Fift... | A bull has been rescued from a deep, muddy hole it fell into while roaming around looking for cows. | 36748510 |
Interim chief executive Bill Barron said the unnamed officials believed they had been unfairly treated in a controversy embroiling the commission.
This year has seen the body involved in a public row with groups of crofters.
Its board has made a public apology for its handling of this row and sought the resignation of ... | Two senior officers at the Crofting Commission refused to attend a meeting of the public body in Inverness. | 38314711 |
It started out in 1995 as a maker of rechargeable batteries with just 25 employees. Its batteries soon became standard parts for a large number of the world's mobile phones, and it rapidly expanded into cars and solar energy.
By 2009, founder Wang Chuanfu was China's richest man with a net worth estimated at $5.8bn (£... | Chinese firm BYD, short for Build Your Dreams, has a particularly apt name. | 29697973 |
A search operation was launched after a fishing vessel saw the kayak floating about three miles offshore with no-one on board at 17:45 on Friday.
A man was subsequently spotted in the water off Musselburgh, close to where the River Esk flows into the Firth.
Aberdeen Coastguard said that a search and rescue helicopter r... | A man's body has been found after an empty kayak was spotted in the Firth of Forth, police have said. | 31881419 |
Andy Haldane told BBC Newsnight that businesses had not invested enough to give the productivity improvements necessary to push up pay.
Low pay had contributed to low interest rates, which will remain relatively low for "a pretty long time", he added.
Earlier he told BBC Wales the Bank needed to look at raising rates.
... | People in the UK feel "frustrated and squeezed" because their pay has flatlined for a decade, the Bank of England's chief economist has said. | 40451454 |
In 2013 a five-year plan was announced to electrify the route from London to Sheffield through the East Midlands.
The government has now said it can be improved in other ways while the electrification project "is paused".
Experts said the decision will widen the north-south divide and damage the regional economy.
The S... | The halting of a £500m project to electrify the Midland Mainline is potentially "very damaging" to the economy, experts said. | 33269779 |
More than 30 firefighters tackled the blaze at the site near to Rosary Road in Oldham, Greater Manchester, at about 16:45 BST on Sunday.
Nearby residents were told to keep their windows and doors closed as there was suspected asbestos in the derelict building.
The fire service is "damping down" and an investigation int... | A major fire has gutted a disused school. | 39842404 |
The company is being spun off from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The firm did not reveal the expected price range or number of the common shares.
UBS Investment Bank, BofA Merrill Lynch and Santander are underwriting the flotation, the company said.
Ferrari intends to list its common stock with a fundraising target of $10... | Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari has applied to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. | 33635839 |
Williams, who played a starring role in New Zealand's Rugby World Cup win, was in Lebanon as a Unicef ambassador.
On Tuesday night he tweeted graphic images of two bodies, adding, "What did these children do to deserve this?"
But the UN children's agency objected to his use of the images, and said Williams had not cons... | Rugby union star Sonny Bill Williams has posted graphic images of dead children on Twitter after a visit to Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon. | 35192055 |
A couple of weeks after using the Royal Prerogative to appoint a new press secretary, was it really the executive's considered media strategy to reveal important correspondence from Downing Street live on Radio Ulster's Nolan Show?
And only in the event that an SDLP MLA happened to ask a DUP MP whether the letter from ... | The way Theresa May's letter on Brexit to Stormont Castle emerged raised a few eyebrows around the assembly. | 37697715 |
Ritchie Sutton's first half header from Jeff Hughes's free-kick proved to be the only goal of the game.
Jordan White should have levelled for Wrexham before the break but his header was acrobatically saved by Scott Davies.
Former Wrexham midfielder Jay Harris could have scored a second in stoppage time but he fired ove... | Tranmere Rovers progressed to the FA Trophy second round with victory at National League rivals Wrexham. | 38253323 |
The Greens and Conservatives campaigned about transport infrastructure, while SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon continued her tour of the northern isles.
Elsewhere, Labour and the Lib Dems promoted their financial policies on education and council tax ahead of the election on 5 May.
Ruth Davidson got behind the wheel at the K... | Scotland's party leaders have focused on finance and transport during a busy day of Holyrood election campaigning. | 35968353 |
The city-state transformed itself from a British colonial outpost into the country with the third highest average income in the world within a matter of decades.
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Not only that, it has become an international financial centre attracting expatriates f... | Singapore has achieved what only a handful of countries have - joining the so-called First World from the developing world. | 24339815 |
The visitors made the brighter start and almost went ahead in the fifth minute, with Gus Mafuta freed by Danny Johnson to win a corner that James Bolton narrowly put wide.
The Silkmen were having the best of the possession but they were struggling to convert it into chances until two minutes before the break. Chris Hol... | Gateshead's six-game National League winning run was brought to an end as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Macclesfield. | 39035538 |
The runner-up is a similar-looking red, white and blue design.
The final result will be announced on Tuesday after late and overseas votes are counted, and may change as the winning margin is narrow.
A second referendum will be held in March to decide whether to adopt the new flag, or keep the existing one.
New Zealand... | New Zealanders have picked a blue and black design with the silver fern as the preliminary winner in a referendum on a possible new national flag. | 35059898 |
The 42-year-old, the former coach of Cagliari and Bologna, replaces Eugenio Corini, who resigned on Tuesday.
The Sicilian side have only managed two wins in 21 matches and are one point above last-place Pescara in Serie A.
Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini has overseen about 60 coaching changes in 30 years as a club... | Struggling Serie A side Palermo have made their 11th coaching change in two seasons by hiring Uruguayan Diego Lopez. | 38761572 |
Gerald Laing, who spent a large part of his life in the Highlands, created the artwork shortly after the shooting of the US president 50 years ago.
Laing's New York dealer refused to exhibit it and it was put in storage.
The pop artist, who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, had been living on the Black Isle when he died... | Lincoln Convertible, the only known contemporary painting of the assassination of John F Kennedy, has gone on display at Tate Britain. | 25032180 |
It said Tian Tian's hormone levels have returned to normal and a reabsorption of the foetus may have occurred.
The zoo said data gathered since conception took place indicated she was expecting and likely to carry to full term but this did not happen.
Tian Tian is said to be in good health and the outdoor viewing area ... | Edinburgh Zoo has confirmed its female giant panda is no longer pregnant, having warned something was "amiss". | 29309307 |
The Hong Kong dollar is fixed against its US counterpart and hit a high of HK$7.75 on Friday, the upper limit of its trading band.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority sold HK$4.67bn ($603m) of foreign bonds.
The Hong Kong dollar acts as a proxy between the US and Chinese markets.
Because of its status as a Chinese financi... | Hong Kong has moved to weaken its currency for the first time in three years as demand from investors fleeing Western markets has caused a sharp increase in its value. | 20020936 |
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