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He is the first American Secretary of State to visit the city.
In a meeting with Somalia's president under tight security at the airport, he said: "Next time I come, we have to be able to just walk downtown".
The US backs the Somali government in its fight against Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which still controls many rural parts of southern Somalia.
African news as it happens: 5 May 2015
The meeting with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and civil leaders was held at Mogadishu airport, as Mr Kerry isn't leaving its heavily fortified perimeters.
Mr Kerry said: "I visited Somalia today because your country is turning around".
The more recent changes he pointed out were Somali forces pushing al-Shabab out of big towns and a "determined international effort" to put virtually all of Somalia's pirates out of business.
BBC Somalia analyst Mary Harper says the US plays a crucial if controversial role in Somalia, supporting the weak central government in its fight against al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab leaders have been killed in US drone strikes.
Our correspondent points out that America is careful to take a less visible role than it did in the 1990s, when the bodies of US servicemen were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. | The US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on an unannounced visit. | 32589556 | Summarize the following news within 51 words:
He is the first American Secretary of State to visit the city.
In a meeting with Somalia's president under tight security at the airport, he said: "Next time I come, we have to be able to just walk downtown".
The US backs the Somali government in its fight against Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which still controls many rural parts of southern Somalia.
African news as it happens: 5 May 2015
The meeting with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and civil leaders was held at Mogadishu airport, as Mr Kerry isn't leaving its heavily fortified perimeters.
Mr Kerry said: "I visited Somalia today because your country is turning around".
The more recent changes he pointed out were Somali forces pushing al-Shabab out of big towns and a "determined international effort" to put virtually all of Somalia's pirates out of business.
BBC Somalia analyst Mary Harper says the US plays a crucial if controversial role in Somalia, supporting the weak central government in its fight against al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab leaders have been killed in US drone strikes.
Our correspondent points out that America is careful to take a less visible role than it did in the 1990s, when the bodies of US servicemen were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.
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The QPR defender, 36, released a statement saying his "wonderful wife and soul mate" Rebecca Ellison had "passed away peacefully" at a London hospital.
Ms Ellison, 34, who married Ferdinand in 2009, had breast cancer.
She leaves behind three children, Lorenz, nine, Tate, six, and four-year-old Tia.
In a statement, Ferdinand said she died on Friday night.
"Rebecca, my wonderful wife, passed away peacefully after a short battle with cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London," the footballer said on QPR's website.
"She was a fantastic loving mother to our three beautiful children. She will be missed as a wife, sister, aunt, daughter and granddaughter. She will live on in our memory, as a guide and inspiration.
"Myself, my parents Janice and Julian, along with Rebecca's parents Lesley and Stephen, would like to thank our families, friends and my club colleagues who have rallied around in these desperate days, weeks and months."
Ferdinand thanked the staff who treated his wife at the south London hospital, adding: "I would also like to express my gratitude for the dedication and expertise of the staff led by Professors Johnstone and Clark at the Royal Marsden.
"Their valiant efforts to prolong Rebecca's all-too-short life will not be forgotten."
Messages of support have been posted on Twitter from the world of football.
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel wrote: "Really sad news that Rebecca Ellison, the wife of Rio Ferdinand has passed away. My condolences to Rio, their children and the family. RIP"
BBC presenter and former England captain Gary Lineker tweeted: "Thoughts are with Rio Ferdinand and his family. How dreadfully sad."
In a statement, the west London club said: "The thoughts of everyone at Queens Park Rangers Football Club are with Rio and his family at this immensely difficult time."
Manchester United said: "Everybody's thoughts at #mufc are with Rio Ferdinand today, whose wife sadly passed away last night."
Ferdinand, who grew up in Peckham, south-east London, was capped by England 81 times and has also played for West Ham United and Leeds United.
Both sets of players wore black armbands in QPR's match against Liverpool at Anfield, which the home team won 2-1.
When Leroy Fer scored in the 73rd minute, he lifted his shirt to reveal a "stay strong family Ferdinand" message.
Other team-mates also tweeted their condolences.
QPR captain Joey Barton posted: "Just heard the terrible news. RIP Rebecca."
Goalkeeper Alex McCarthy wrote: "Devastating news about Rebecca Ferdinand... My thoughts go out to him and his family." | The wife of former Manchester United and England captain Rio Ferdinand has died from cancer. | 32563022 | Summarize the following news within 104 words:
The QPR defender, 36, released a statement saying his "wonderful wife and soul mate" Rebecca Ellison had "passed away peacefully" at a London hospital.
Ms Ellison, 34, who married Ferdinand in 2009, had breast cancer.
She leaves behind three children, Lorenz, nine, Tate, six, and four-year-old Tia.
In a statement, Ferdinand said she died on Friday night.
"Rebecca, my wonderful wife, passed away peacefully after a short battle with cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London," the footballer said on QPR's website.
"She was a fantastic loving mother to our three beautiful children. She will be missed as a wife, sister, aunt, daughter and granddaughter. She will live on in our memory, as a guide and inspiration.
"Myself, my parents Janice and Julian, along with Rebecca's parents Lesley and Stephen, would like to thank our families, friends and my club colleagues who have rallied around in these desperate days, weeks and months."
Ferdinand thanked the staff who treated his wife at the south London hospital, adding: "I would also like to express my gratitude for the dedication and expertise of the staff led by Professors Johnstone and Clark at the Royal Marsden.
"Their valiant efforts to prolong Rebecca's all-too-short life will not be forgotten."
Messages of support have been posted on Twitter from the world of football.
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel wrote: "Really sad news that Rebecca Ellison, the wife of Rio Ferdinand has passed away. My condolences to Rio, their children and the family. RIP"
BBC presenter and former England captain Gary Lineker tweeted: "Thoughts are with Rio Ferdinand and his family. How dreadfully sad."
In a statement, the west London club said: "The thoughts of everyone at Queens Park Rangers Football Club are with Rio and his family at this immensely difficult time."
Manchester United said: "Everybody's thoughts at #mufc are with Rio Ferdinand today, whose wife sadly passed away last night."
Ferdinand, who grew up in Peckham, south-east London, was capped by England 81 times and has also played for West Ham United and Leeds United.
Both sets of players wore black armbands in QPR's match against Liverpool at Anfield, which the home team won 2-1.
When Leroy Fer scored in the 73rd minute, he lifted his shirt to reveal a "stay strong family Ferdinand" message.
Other team-mates also tweeted their condolences.
QPR captain Joey Barton posted: "Just heard the terrible news. RIP Rebecca."
Goalkeeper Alex McCarthy wrote: "Devastating news about Rebecca Ferdinand... My thoughts go out to him and his family."
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Elizabeth Timar, 18, was last seen near Blackpool Sands at 19:45 BST on Monday.
Romanian Ms Timar, from Exeter, had been "at the beach for the afternoon with a male", said Devon and Cornwall Police.
The force has carried out a major air and sea search with help from RNLI coastguards and Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group.
Ms Timar was last seen wearing a black coat with a red top underneath, blue jeans, and carrying a handbag.
A force spokesman said: "If anybody was in the area on Monday and saw a young female acting strangely then please get in touch." | Concerns are growing for a teenager who was last seen at a beach in South Devon six days ago. | 36570869 | Summarize the following news within 25 words:
Elizabeth Timar, 18, was last seen near Blackpool Sands at 19:45 BST on Monday.
Romanian Ms Timar, from Exeter, had been "at the beach for the afternoon with a male", said Devon and Cornwall Police.
The force has carried out a major air and sea search with help from RNLI coastguards and Dartmoor Search and Rescue Group.
Ms Timar was last seen wearing a black coat with a red top underneath, blue jeans, and carrying a handbag.
A force spokesman said: "If anybody was in the area on Monday and saw a young female acting strangely then please get in touch."
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Matthew Daley, 35, denies murder but admits attacking Donald Lock, 79, in Findon, near Worthing, last July, claiming diminished responsibility.
Lewes Crown Court heard that rather than having Asperger's syndrome he had an underlying paranoid schizophrenic illness that was undiagnosed for years.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Roderick Ley made the assessment after the stabbing.
Mr Lock, a retired solicitor, was stabbed after crashing at about 16mph into the back of Mr Daley's car on the A24 in West Sussex on 16 July.
He was forced to brake suddenly after Mr Daley made an emergency stop.
The great-grandfather, who had recently been given the all-clear from prostate cancer, died at the scene.
The trial has heard how Mr Daley, formerly of St Elmo Road, Worthing, had been suffering from mental health problems for 10 years, and his family had "pleaded" with experts to section him.
On Monday, Dr Ley told jurors: "It's clear that the diagnosis of Asperger's was wrong.
"He has an underlying paranoid schizophrenic illness that was undiagnosed for many, many years."
He said Mr Daley was not psychotic every moment of every day, and he would often "downplay" his symptoms.
However, Dr Ley agreed that he exhibited "narcissistic", "histrionic" and "self-centred" traits, adding that it was unlikely he would ever have complete resolution of his illness.
Another expert, consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph, said he was satisfied on all the evidence he had seen that Mr Daley was not psychotic at the time of the killing.
Jurors also head from Mr Daley's father, who said his son had never been a violent person.
John Daley described him as a "nice guy" who was affectionate to his family and animals.
He said Mr Daley was "scrupulously honest in all his dealings with others, honest to a fault in that he finds it difficult to lie about things".
He told the court that he first became worried about his son's mental health when he reported hearing voices.
Mr Daley said he started a journal, partly to keep track of his son's treatment.
"The second reason for having the document was, as time went on, it was clear that Matthew's life expectations were draining away and I didn't want to be in my 80s and look back saying, 'What did I do'?"
The trial continues. | A man who stabbed a motorist 39 times after a crash was misdiagnosed with a form of autism, a court has been told. | 36249710 | Summarize the following news within 96 words:
Matthew Daley, 35, denies murder but admits attacking Donald Lock, 79, in Findon, near Worthing, last July, claiming diminished responsibility.
Lewes Crown Court heard that rather than having Asperger's syndrome he had an underlying paranoid schizophrenic illness that was undiagnosed for years.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr Roderick Ley made the assessment after the stabbing.
Mr Lock, a retired solicitor, was stabbed after crashing at about 16mph into the back of Mr Daley's car on the A24 in West Sussex on 16 July.
He was forced to brake suddenly after Mr Daley made an emergency stop.
The great-grandfather, who had recently been given the all-clear from prostate cancer, died at the scene.
The trial has heard how Mr Daley, formerly of St Elmo Road, Worthing, had been suffering from mental health problems for 10 years, and his family had "pleaded" with experts to section him.
On Monday, Dr Ley told jurors: "It's clear that the diagnosis of Asperger's was wrong.
"He has an underlying paranoid schizophrenic illness that was undiagnosed for many, many years."
He said Mr Daley was not psychotic every moment of every day, and he would often "downplay" his symptoms.
However, Dr Ley agreed that he exhibited "narcissistic", "histrionic" and "self-centred" traits, adding that it was unlikely he would ever have complete resolution of his illness.
Another expert, consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph, said he was satisfied on all the evidence he had seen that Mr Daley was not psychotic at the time of the killing.
Jurors also head from Mr Daley's father, who said his son had never been a violent person.
John Daley described him as a "nice guy" who was affectionate to his family and animals.
He said Mr Daley was "scrupulously honest in all his dealings with others, honest to a fault in that he finds it difficult to lie about things".
He told the court that he first became worried about his son's mental health when he reported hearing voices.
Mr Daley said he started a journal, partly to keep track of his son's treatment.
"The second reason for having the document was, as time went on, it was clear that Matthew's life expectations were draining away and I didn't want to be in my 80s and look back saying, 'What did I do'?"
The trial continues.
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The 48-year-old took had been in charge of Posh since replacing Dave Robertson in September and lifted the club as high as the play-off places in January.
But they have since fallen to 14th in the table and have lost four of their last five matches.
Assistant Grant McCann will take charge for the final two games of the season.
Westley was asked by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire if he felt increased pressure following Saturday's defeat and said: "I come to work every day and feel pressure, I put pressure on myself.
"I don't like losing football matches, but I know the job here. The job is to build long-term winning.
"Right now the job is to get our young players on the pitch, to give them a chance to succeed and to grow, and that's what we've done (against Scunthorpe).
"There'll be lessons learned by all of the players, and if we're going to be a successful club next year, then we need the young players to step up to the plate and the experience now will be useful for them."
The former Stevenage and Preston boss began his career at the ABAX Stadium with 10 wins from his first 14 matches in all competitions.
However, after losing to West Brom in a FA Cup fourth-round replay on penalties and the January sale of forward Conor Washington, still the club's top scorer this season with 15, Posh lost six of their next seven league matches.
After a brief run of three straight victories, the club's form dipped again, leading chairman Darragh MacAnthony to say "I employ over 300 people at Peterborough United, not one of those employees right now has a job in the summer".
Earlier this week, Westley also bemoaned his side's poor discipline - the worst record in the Football League with 104 yellow cards and seven reds - saying it was costing them games.
A brief statement on the Peterborough website read: "The club would like to thank Graham for his efforts on behalf of the football club.
"Chairman Darragh MacAnthony will take time to speak to prospective candidates for the vacant manager position." | League One side Peterborough United have parted company with manager Graham Westley following Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Scunthorpe United. | 36122210 | Summarize the following news within 89 words:
The 48-year-old took had been in charge of Posh since replacing Dave Robertson in September and lifted the club as high as the play-off places in January.
But they have since fallen to 14th in the table and have lost four of their last five matches.
Assistant Grant McCann will take charge for the final two games of the season.
Westley was asked by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire if he felt increased pressure following Saturday's defeat and said: "I come to work every day and feel pressure, I put pressure on myself.
"I don't like losing football matches, but I know the job here. The job is to build long-term winning.
"Right now the job is to get our young players on the pitch, to give them a chance to succeed and to grow, and that's what we've done (against Scunthorpe).
"There'll be lessons learned by all of the players, and if we're going to be a successful club next year, then we need the young players to step up to the plate and the experience now will be useful for them."
The former Stevenage and Preston boss began his career at the ABAX Stadium with 10 wins from his first 14 matches in all competitions.
However, after losing to West Brom in a FA Cup fourth-round replay on penalties and the January sale of forward Conor Washington, still the club's top scorer this season with 15, Posh lost six of their next seven league matches.
After a brief run of three straight victories, the club's form dipped again, leading chairman Darragh MacAnthony to say "I employ over 300 people at Peterborough United, not one of those employees right now has a job in the summer".
Earlier this week, Westley also bemoaned his side's poor discipline - the worst record in the Football League with 104 yellow cards and seven reds - saying it was costing them games.
A brief statement on the Peterborough website read: "The club would like to thank Graham for his efforts on behalf of the football club.
"Chairman Darragh MacAnthony will take time to speak to prospective candidates for the vacant manager position."
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The new network will see up to 21 US-style local TV stations in areas including Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff and London.
The service will be available to all terrestrial viewers and may also be offered on satellite, cable and online.
Ofcom said it will decide on successful applicants this autumn, with the new channels expected to launch next year.
Licences will be awarded based on a set of criteria including the provision of local news and current affairs, programme proposals, launch date and commercial viability.
The 21 areas Ofcom have selected for local TV are: Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool and London.
Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Sheffield, Southampton and Swansea will also benefit from the service.
The areas were selected for having sufficient levels of interest from potential operators and being technically capable of receiving a local TV service.
The BBC Trust also published the final details of its funding contribution for the network.
As part of the current licence fee settlement, the BBC agreed to contribute up to £25 million for the successful bidder to build the network.
"I hope to see some really exciting bids for new local TV channels," UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.
"Local TV will not only create jobs but it will also provide communities with news and content that is relevant to their daily lives." | Media regulator Ofcom has opened up bidding for operators to set up their own local TV services across the UK. | 18021144 | Summarize the following news within 57 words:
The new network will see up to 21 US-style local TV stations in areas including Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff and London.
The service will be available to all terrestrial viewers and may also be offered on satellite, cable and online.
Ofcom said it will decide on successful applicants this autumn, with the new channels expected to launch next year.
Licences will be awarded based on a set of criteria including the provision of local news and current affairs, programme proposals, launch date and commercial viability.
The 21 areas Ofcom have selected for local TV are: Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Grimsby, Leeds, Liverpool and London.
Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Preston, Sheffield, Southampton and Swansea will also benefit from the service.
The areas were selected for having sufficient levels of interest from potential operators and being technically capable of receiving a local TV service.
The BBC Trust also published the final details of its funding contribution for the network.
As part of the current licence fee settlement, the BBC agreed to contribute up to £25 million for the successful bidder to build the network.
"I hope to see some really exciting bids for new local TV channels," UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said.
"Local TV will not only create jobs but it will also provide communities with news and content that is relevant to their daily lives."
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The pilot was flying solo during a training flight on Thursday and radioed for assistance while returning to RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire.
The Hawk jet was promptly joined by another aircraft from the same squadron as a wingman to provide guidance.
They then flew in formation and landed safely.
The RAF has offered no further details on the condition of the pilot.
A spokesman said: "Flying in formation, and conducting an approach to land as a formation, is a daily skill practised by RAF fast jet pilots." | An RAF pilot was guided into landing his jet by a colleague in another aircraft after suffering "a partial loss of vision", it has emerged. | 35460422 | Summarize the following news within 22 words:
The pilot was flying solo during a training flight on Thursday and radioed for assistance while returning to RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire.
The Hawk jet was promptly joined by another aircraft from the same squadron as a wingman to provide guidance.
They then flew in formation and landed safely.
The RAF has offered no further details on the condition of the pilot.
A spokesman said: "Flying in formation, and conducting an approach to land as a formation, is a daily skill practised by RAF fast jet pilots."
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New Healthway, a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, is printed by one of India's leading publishers.
Academics have urged the government to exercise greater control.
But the authorities say schools should monitor content as they are responsible for the choice of textbooks.
"This is poisonous for children," Janaki Rajan of the Faculty of Education at Jamia Millia University in Delhi told the BBC.
"The government has the power to take action, but they are washing their hands of it," she said.
It is not known which Indian schools have bought the book for their students, but correspondents say what is worrying is that such a book is available to students.
"The strongest argument that meat is not essential food is the fact that the Creator of this Universe did not include meat in the original diet for Adam and Eve. He gave them fruits, nuts and vegetables," reads a chapter entitled Do We Need Flesh Food?
The chapter details the "benefits" of a vegetarian diet and goes on to list "some of the characteristics" found among non-vegetarians.
"They easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes," it says.
The chapter, full of factual inaccuracies, refers to Eskimos (Inuit) as "lazy, sluggish and short-lived", because they live on "a diet largely of meat".
It adds: "The Arabs who helped in constructing the Suez Canal lived on wheat and dates and were superior to the beef-fed Englishmen engaged in the same work."
The publishers, S Chand, did not respond to the BBC's requests for a comment. | Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes", according to a controversial school textbook available in India. | 20354669 | Summarize the following news within 68 words:
New Healthway, a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, is printed by one of India's leading publishers.
Academics have urged the government to exercise greater control.
But the authorities say schools should monitor content as they are responsible for the choice of textbooks.
"This is poisonous for children," Janaki Rajan of the Faculty of Education at Jamia Millia University in Delhi told the BBC.
"The government has the power to take action, but they are washing their hands of it," she said.
It is not known which Indian schools have bought the book for their students, but correspondents say what is worrying is that such a book is available to students.
"The strongest argument that meat is not essential food is the fact that the Creator of this Universe did not include meat in the original diet for Adam and Eve. He gave them fruits, nuts and vegetables," reads a chapter entitled Do We Need Flesh Food?
The chapter details the "benefits" of a vegetarian diet and goes on to list "some of the characteristics" found among non-vegetarians.
"They easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes," it says.
The chapter, full of factual inaccuracies, refers to Eskimos (Inuit) as "lazy, sluggish and short-lived", because they live on "a diet largely of meat".
It adds: "The Arabs who helped in constructing the Suez Canal lived on wheat and dates and were superior to the beef-fed Englishmen engaged in the same work."
The publishers, S Chand, did not respond to the BBC's requests for a comment.
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The pedestrian was hit at the Texaco garage on Roman Farm Road, Hengrove, on Tuesday evening and trapped by the car until it stopped on Creswicke Road.
Shakrun Islam, 30, of Chipping Sodbury, is due before Bristol Crown Court on Friday. He was remanded in custody.
The victim, Kyle Clarke, died at the scene from his injuries.
His mother, Helen Stockford, said in a family statement: "We would like to thank the public and the emergency services for all their support on Tuesday night.
"We would ask the media for privacy at this time to allow us to grieve in peace." | A man has appeared before magistrates in Bristol charged with murder after a man was knocked down and dragged under a moving car. | 38594589 | Summarize the following news within 25 words:
The pedestrian was hit at the Texaco garage on Roman Farm Road, Hengrove, on Tuesday evening and trapped by the car until it stopped on Creswicke Road.
Shakrun Islam, 30, of Chipping Sodbury, is due before Bristol Crown Court on Friday. He was remanded in custody.
The victim, Kyle Clarke, died at the scene from his injuries.
His mother, Helen Stockford, said in a family statement: "We would like to thank the public and the emergency services for all their support on Tuesday night.
"We would ask the media for privacy at this time to allow us to grieve in peace."
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Aged 19, Jack Evans is working in one of the country's oldest and most nostalgic industries - the steam railway.
"It's always different, the weather's always different, you're always on with different people," he said.
"I'm interested in engineering, I'm studying engineering at university at the moment and being here, it just ticks all the boxes for what I want to do later on."
He works alongside Jac Smith, who recently passed his steam engine driving test on his 21st birthday - making him one of the youngest in the job in the UK.
Although the Vale of Rheidol line no longer carries lead ore from the mines, as it did between 1902 and the 1930s, it does carry tourists from the seaside town of Aberystwyth to nearby Devil's Bridge.
Its workshop, near Aberystwyth railway station, restores locomotives for museums and railways across the UK - and has recently been commissioned to create new wheels for the town's cliff railway which takes visitors up Constitution Hill.
"These are the sort of things you can't learn in college, you have to learn on the job," Will Smith, operations and safety officer, said.
"So you'll find the railway itself is operated by quite a young staff, so it bucks the trend for the tourist railways and safeguards it for the next generation.
"It's an interesting place to work, no two days are the same. You get to meet thousands of interesting visitors and everybody's here to have a good day out."
Mr Smith said since 1902 the railway, which has always included a passenger service, had only stopped operating once - during World War Two.
"Pretty much everything in the country shut down," he said.
"As part of the war effort it stopped operation, but I'm told the day the war ended they steamed the engine up and blew the whistle all the way down the line.
"Someone said that was their first memory of the railway."
Simon Cowan, carriage and locomotive painter, is trained as a fireman and a driver.
"The main thing is to make things from scratch, to replace items which are no longer made," he said.
"So we copy them faithfully and make them all in the old fashioned way and then I pass these skills on to other people, it's a bit like a big museum.
"It's the older people, I'm one of them, who have grown up in that specialist knowledge, that area, passing those skills on - because I will get to the point where I can't do this any more.
"I show people how to paint, it's a lovely way of seeing people develop, so when I go on holiday I'm not thinking 'gosh what are they doing to my paint shop'.
"We also put them out on the trains as firemen and guards, and we teach them as much as we can.
"Carriages are painted with 24 carat gold leaf and they go 'wow that must be so expensive', well no it's so wafer thin.
"We show them how to make a tracing of a word and get the typeface correct and show them how to apply the lettering on to a piece of wood, and then we'll use this varnish and paint that on to there, and when the varnish is sticky put the gold leaf on and peel it off and 'wow, that's great'.
"Then I'll say 'give us your thumb' and put a bit of varnish on, just let that dry, and gold leaf their thumb and they think it's hilarious - but then they've learnt how to do it. It's really fun."
Mr Cowan added because the carriages dated back to the 1920s and 30s, work had been going into improving disability access - with a new platform planned.
And a great deal of work has to go into maintaining the locomotives and the 12 miles of track.
Mr Smith said: "With steam railways, the equipment we use is very bespoke.
"You can't get the parts off the shelf, so you make them yourself... it's very specialist and it's good to keep the skills in the local area.
"The last few years we've built a really renowned workshop and that allows us not only to do our own work but also take on work for other businesses, other railways."
He added: "In the far end of the workshop there's a cattle van which is coming together which was supplied new to us in the 1920s.
"There were stories of livestock going up to Devil's Bridge in wagons, so they decided to build two cattle vans but unfortunately it was a bit too late for the demand - most livestock was going by road by then.
"So they became redundant and the vehicle went to another railway and more recently it's come back to us and our job is to restore it back to how it would have been." | "When I tell people I'm a fireman, they think I put out fires and I've got to tell them I make them instead!" | 40497169 | Summarize the following news within 200 words:
Aged 19, Jack Evans is working in one of the country's oldest and most nostalgic industries - the steam railway.
"It's always different, the weather's always different, you're always on with different people," he said.
"I'm interested in engineering, I'm studying engineering at university at the moment and being here, it just ticks all the boxes for what I want to do later on."
He works alongside Jac Smith, who recently passed his steam engine driving test on his 21st birthday - making him one of the youngest in the job in the UK.
Although the Vale of Rheidol line no longer carries lead ore from the mines, as it did between 1902 and the 1930s, it does carry tourists from the seaside town of Aberystwyth to nearby Devil's Bridge.
Its workshop, near Aberystwyth railway station, restores locomotives for museums and railways across the UK - and has recently been commissioned to create new wheels for the town's cliff railway which takes visitors up Constitution Hill.
"These are the sort of things you can't learn in college, you have to learn on the job," Will Smith, operations and safety officer, said.
"So you'll find the railway itself is operated by quite a young staff, so it bucks the trend for the tourist railways and safeguards it for the next generation.
"It's an interesting place to work, no two days are the same. You get to meet thousands of interesting visitors and everybody's here to have a good day out."
Mr Smith said since 1902 the railway, which has always included a passenger service, had only stopped operating once - during World War Two.
"Pretty much everything in the country shut down," he said.
"As part of the war effort it stopped operation, but I'm told the day the war ended they steamed the engine up and blew the whistle all the way down the line.
"Someone said that was their first memory of the railway."
Simon Cowan, carriage and locomotive painter, is trained as a fireman and a driver.
"The main thing is to make things from scratch, to replace items which are no longer made," he said.
"So we copy them faithfully and make them all in the old fashioned way and then I pass these skills on to other people, it's a bit like a big museum.
"It's the older people, I'm one of them, who have grown up in that specialist knowledge, that area, passing those skills on - because I will get to the point where I can't do this any more.
"I show people how to paint, it's a lovely way of seeing people develop, so when I go on holiday I'm not thinking 'gosh what are they doing to my paint shop'.
"We also put them out on the trains as firemen and guards, and we teach them as much as we can.
"Carriages are painted with 24 carat gold leaf and they go 'wow that must be so expensive', well no it's so wafer thin.
"We show them how to make a tracing of a word and get the typeface correct and show them how to apply the lettering on to a piece of wood, and then we'll use this varnish and paint that on to there, and when the varnish is sticky put the gold leaf on and peel it off and 'wow, that's great'.
"Then I'll say 'give us your thumb' and put a bit of varnish on, just let that dry, and gold leaf their thumb and they think it's hilarious - but then they've learnt how to do it. It's really fun."
Mr Cowan added because the carriages dated back to the 1920s and 30s, work had been going into improving disability access - with a new platform planned.
And a great deal of work has to go into maintaining the locomotives and the 12 miles of track.
Mr Smith said: "With steam railways, the equipment we use is very bespoke.
"You can't get the parts off the shelf, so you make them yourself... it's very specialist and it's good to keep the skills in the local area.
"The last few years we've built a really renowned workshop and that allows us not only to do our own work but also take on work for other businesses, other railways."
He added: "In the far end of the workshop there's a cattle van which is coming together which was supplied new to us in the 1920s.
"There were stories of livestock going up to Devil's Bridge in wagons, so they decided to build two cattle vans but unfortunately it was a bit too late for the demand - most livestock was going by road by then.
"So they became redundant and the vehicle went to another railway and more recently it's come back to us and our job is to restore it back to how it would have been."
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) made its latest claims two days before Russia finds out whether it can send athletes to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
They were banned from international competition after Wada accused Russia of state-sponsored doping.
Athletics chiefs meet on Friday to decide whether to lift the ban.
It says that:
The report details the lengths athletes from different sports allegedly went to, both to avoid tests and fool doping control officers (DCOs).
It says one athlete was seen running away from the mixed zone after an event, while another left the stadium during a race and could not be located.
Wada also highlighted the case of an athlete who, it says, used a container - "presumably containing clean urine" - that had been inserted inside her.
When she tried to use the container, it leaked onto the floor.
The athlete is alleged to have tried to bribe the DCO before providing a sample that subsequently returned an adverse finding.
The report also says that:
As a result, tests were not carried out at the national weightlifting and national Greco-Roman wrestling championships.
In some cases, testers were not told where an event was taking place.
"What really comes through, when you read through it page by page by page, is the number of occasions when there was simply no co-operation given," former Wada president Dick Pound told the BBC World Service.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) voted to suspend Russia's athletics federation on 13 November after an independent Wada report alleged "state-sponsored doping".
The report was commissioned to investigate claims made in a documentary shown by German broadcaster ARD in 2014.
The programme alleged widespread doping in Russian athletics, claiming as many as 99% of athletes had cheated.
The claims were made by whistleblowers, among them Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official, and his wife Yulia, a former 800m runner who was banned for doping.
Russian athletes, including former London Marathon winner Liliya Shobukhova, also admitted to taking drugs and observing corruption.
The Wada report found evidence of state involvement, as well as evidence that samples had been destroyed, doping controls had been interfered and bribes had been paid to conceal positive tests.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The IAAF meets on Friday in Vienna to discuss what Russian authorities have done to tackle doping and whether its athletes should compete in Rio.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said the country could take legal action if its athletics federation was not reinstated, Interfax news agency has reported.
"It is a big and an important message whatever is decided," said Pound.
"If they are held to be excluded, that's a message. If they are allowed to come back in, there is going to be another message that all of the sporting authorities are going to have to deal with."
Pound said a ban on Russian athletes competing in the Olympics would be extremely difficult for the Russian government to explain to its citizens.
"You can explain all sorts of economic sanctions and political sanctions and what not if you are the state," he said.
"But it is very hard to explain to a country that really enjoys its sport and likes to watch it why it is that nobody will play with you."
Meanwhile, Russian Olympic medallists and world champions have appealed to the head of the International Olympic Committee to let athletes with no history of doping to compete at the Rio Games.
"The fraud of dishonest people should not jeopardise the career of innocent fellow athletes," said 13 sports stars in a letter to Thomas Bach.
The 13 include Alexander Popov, a four-time Olympic champion swimmer, and judo champion Tagir Khaibulaev.
The Olympic athletics programme begins in Brazil on 12 August. | Anti-doping officials in Russia are being stopped from testing athletes and are also being threatened by security services, says a new report. | 36542577 | Summarize the following news within 157 words:
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) made its latest claims two days before Russia finds out whether it can send athletes to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
They were banned from international competition after Wada accused Russia of state-sponsored doping.
Athletics chiefs meet on Friday to decide whether to lift the ban.
It says that:
The report details the lengths athletes from different sports allegedly went to, both to avoid tests and fool doping control officers (DCOs).
It says one athlete was seen running away from the mixed zone after an event, while another left the stadium during a race and could not be located.
Wada also highlighted the case of an athlete who, it says, used a container - "presumably containing clean urine" - that had been inserted inside her.
When she tried to use the container, it leaked onto the floor.
The athlete is alleged to have tried to bribe the DCO before providing a sample that subsequently returned an adverse finding.
The report also says that:
As a result, tests were not carried out at the national weightlifting and national Greco-Roman wrestling championships.
In some cases, testers were not told where an event was taking place.
"What really comes through, when you read through it page by page by page, is the number of occasions when there was simply no co-operation given," former Wada president Dick Pound told the BBC World Service.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) voted to suspend Russia's athletics federation on 13 November after an independent Wada report alleged "state-sponsored doping".
The report was commissioned to investigate claims made in a documentary shown by German broadcaster ARD in 2014.
The programme alleged widespread doping in Russian athletics, claiming as many as 99% of athletes had cheated.
The claims were made by whistleblowers, among them Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official, and his wife Yulia, a former 800m runner who was banned for doping.
Russian athletes, including former London Marathon winner Liliya Shobukhova, also admitted to taking drugs and observing corruption.
The Wada report found evidence of state involvement, as well as evidence that samples had been destroyed, doping controls had been interfered and bribes had been paid to conceal positive tests.
Media playback is not supported on this device
The IAAF meets on Friday in Vienna to discuss what Russian authorities have done to tackle doping and whether its athletes should compete in Rio.
Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said the country could take legal action if its athletics federation was not reinstated, Interfax news agency has reported.
"It is a big and an important message whatever is decided," said Pound.
"If they are held to be excluded, that's a message. If they are allowed to come back in, there is going to be another message that all of the sporting authorities are going to have to deal with."
Pound said a ban on Russian athletes competing in the Olympics would be extremely difficult for the Russian government to explain to its citizens.
"You can explain all sorts of economic sanctions and political sanctions and what not if you are the state," he said.
"But it is very hard to explain to a country that really enjoys its sport and likes to watch it why it is that nobody will play with you."
Meanwhile, Russian Olympic medallists and world champions have appealed to the head of the International Olympic Committee to let athletes with no history of doping to compete at the Rio Games.
"The fraud of dishonest people should not jeopardise the career of innocent fellow athletes," said 13 sports stars in a letter to Thomas Bach.
The 13 include Alexander Popov, a four-time Olympic champion swimmer, and judo champion Tagir Khaibulaev.
The Olympic athletics programme begins in Brazil on 12 August.
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23 March 2017 Last updated at 14:55 GMT | Former US President Bill Clinton is introduced to the McGuinness family by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams | 39370900 | Summarize the following news within 2 words:
23 March 2017 Last updated at 14:55 GMT
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Joao Santana was widely seen as the architect of Ms Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 election victories.
He has denied receiving bribes in a scheme to divert funds from the state-run oil company Petrobras.
About 50 Brazilian politicians, including the leader of the lower house of Congress, are under investigation in the Petrobras corruption scandal.
Mr Santana is accused of receiving bribes from several large engineering conglomerates.
Analysts say the charge against him is a further blow for President Rousseff who is facing impeachment proceedings.
He was arrested in February after he returned from the Dominican Republic, where he was working on the re-election campaign of President Danilo Medina.
Because of his proximity to her, the arrest is expected to damaged her standing further, even though impeachment proceedings against her are not related to the Petrobras corruption investigation.
A former journalist, Mr Santana is well known for producing dramatic, big-budget campaign videos appealing to poorer voters.
Mr Santana had called the accusations "unfounded". And he had harsh words for the investigation, saying that Brazil was currently living in a "climate of persecution".
If the investigating judge accepts the allegations against him, Mr Santana will be jailed.
In Brasilia, a special Senate commission has begun hearings ahead of a vote on whether the whole Senate should take on impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.
A plenary Senate vote is widely expected to take place around 11 May.
Across the country, pro-government supporters blocked major roads in cities in nine Brazilian states during Thursday's morning rush-hour to call for the halt of impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.
In Sao Paulo, the city saw hundreds of kilometres of traffic jams which formed behind roadblocks of burning tyres. | Brazilian prosecutors have filed corruption charges against President Dilma Rousseff's electoral strategist. | 36166632 | Summarize the following news within 70 words:
Joao Santana was widely seen as the architect of Ms Rousseff's 2010 and 2014 election victories.
He has denied receiving bribes in a scheme to divert funds from the state-run oil company Petrobras.
About 50 Brazilian politicians, including the leader of the lower house of Congress, are under investigation in the Petrobras corruption scandal.
Mr Santana is accused of receiving bribes from several large engineering conglomerates.
Analysts say the charge against him is a further blow for President Rousseff who is facing impeachment proceedings.
He was arrested in February after he returned from the Dominican Republic, where he was working on the re-election campaign of President Danilo Medina.
Because of his proximity to her, the arrest is expected to damaged her standing further, even though impeachment proceedings against her are not related to the Petrobras corruption investigation.
A former journalist, Mr Santana is well known for producing dramatic, big-budget campaign videos appealing to poorer voters.
Mr Santana had called the accusations "unfounded". And he had harsh words for the investigation, saying that Brazil was currently living in a "climate of persecution".
If the investigating judge accepts the allegations against him, Mr Santana will be jailed.
In Brasilia, a special Senate commission has begun hearings ahead of a vote on whether the whole Senate should take on impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.
A plenary Senate vote is widely expected to take place around 11 May.
Across the country, pro-government supporters blocked major roads in cities in nine Brazilian states during Thursday's morning rush-hour to call for the halt of impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.
In Sao Paulo, the city saw hundreds of kilometres of traffic jams which formed behind roadblocks of burning tyres.
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The appeal, from Interpol, is part of an effort to track down individuals involved in illegal fishing, logging and wildlife trafficking.
The trade in wildlife crime is said to be worth around $213bn per annum, according to the UN.
This is the first time that individuals have been targeted.
Investigators from 21 countries gathered at Interpol's headquarters in France in October to share information on suspects involved in a range of crimes involving the environment.
Called Operation Infra Terra, the agency is now asking for assistance from the public in tracking down nine key suspects.
"Even the smallest detail, which you might think is insignificant, has the potential to break a case wide open when combined with other evidence the police already have," said Ioannis Kokkinis, from Interpol.
"Sometimes all it takes is a fresh pair of eyes to bring new momentum to an investigation and provide the missing clue which will help locate these wanted individuals, some of whom have been evading justice for years," he added.
One of those named is Feisal Mohammed Ali, alleged to be the leader of an ivory smuggling ring in Kenya.
He is being sought in connection with the seizure of 314 ivory pieces, weighing well over two tonnes in Mombasa in June.
Others on the list include Ahmed Kamran who was charged with an attempt to smuggle over 100 live animals, including giraffes and impalas, to Qatar on a military plane.
Ariel Bustamante Sanchez is alleged to have been involved in illegal tuna fishing in protected waters off Costa Rica.
The move has been welcomed by Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites). They are concerned not just with the impact of environmental crime on species but also with the effect on political stability.
"Countries are increasingly treating wildlife crime as a serious offence, and we will leave no stone unturned to locate and arrest these criminals to ensure that they are brought to justice," said Ben Janse van Rensburg from Cites.
"The public can play a crucial role in this collective effort, they our eyes and ears on the ground. Their support can help ensure that the offenders face the full might of the law and are punished appropriately."
Member of the public who have any information on the possible location of the fugitives can use this form to contact Interpol. Information can also be given anonymously to any national crime stoppers programme.
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc. | The public is being asked to provide information on the locations of nine fugitives suspected of serious environmental crimes. | 30088961 | Summarize the following news within 102 words:
The appeal, from Interpol, is part of an effort to track down individuals involved in illegal fishing, logging and wildlife trafficking.
The trade in wildlife crime is said to be worth around $213bn per annum, according to the UN.
This is the first time that individuals have been targeted.
Investigators from 21 countries gathered at Interpol's headquarters in France in October to share information on suspects involved in a range of crimes involving the environment.
Called Operation Infra Terra, the agency is now asking for assistance from the public in tracking down nine key suspects.
"Even the smallest detail, which you might think is insignificant, has the potential to break a case wide open when combined with other evidence the police already have," said Ioannis Kokkinis, from Interpol.
"Sometimes all it takes is a fresh pair of eyes to bring new momentum to an investigation and provide the missing clue which will help locate these wanted individuals, some of whom have been evading justice for years," he added.
One of those named is Feisal Mohammed Ali, alleged to be the leader of an ivory smuggling ring in Kenya.
He is being sought in connection with the seizure of 314 ivory pieces, weighing well over two tonnes in Mombasa in June.
Others on the list include Ahmed Kamran who was charged with an attempt to smuggle over 100 live animals, including giraffes and impalas, to Qatar on a military plane.
Ariel Bustamante Sanchez is alleged to have been involved in illegal tuna fishing in protected waters off Costa Rica.
The move has been welcomed by Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites). They are concerned not just with the impact of environmental crime on species but also with the effect on political stability.
"Countries are increasingly treating wildlife crime as a serious offence, and we will leave no stone unturned to locate and arrest these criminals to ensure that they are brought to justice," said Ben Janse van Rensburg from Cites.
"The public can play a crucial role in this collective effort, they our eyes and ears on the ground. Their support can help ensure that the offenders face the full might of the law and are punished appropriately."
Member of the public who have any information on the possible location of the fugitives can use this form to contact Interpol. Information can also be given anonymously to any national crime stoppers programme.
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathbbc.
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The preliminary Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 47 in September, below forecasts of 47.5 and down from 47.3 in August.
A reading below 50 indicates contraction in the sector, while one above shows expansion.
The Shanghai Composite dropped 2.2% to 3,115.89 on the disappointing data.
The private survey also marked the seventh consecutive month of contraction in the sector.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index closed down 2.3% at 21,302.91.
Japanese markets are closed for a three-day public holiday and will reopen on Thursday.
In Australia, shares in mining companies were hit by falling commodity prices.
Oil prices continued to decline after US crude fell 2% overnight on global growth concerns, while copper prices slipped further on slowing Chinese demand.
Sydney's S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 2.1% at 4,998.10.
In South Korea, the Kospi index ended 1.9% lower at 1,944.64 following the release of the data from China. | Asian markets headed lower after a survey of China's manufacturing sector indicated it is shrinking at the fastest pace for six-and-a-half years. | 34332803 | Summarize the following news within 38 words:
The preliminary Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 47 in September, below forecasts of 47.5 and down from 47.3 in August.
A reading below 50 indicates contraction in the sector, while one above shows expansion.
The Shanghai Composite dropped 2.2% to 3,115.89 on the disappointing data.
The private survey also marked the seventh consecutive month of contraction in the sector.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index closed down 2.3% at 21,302.91.
Japanese markets are closed for a three-day public holiday and will reopen on Thursday.
In Australia, shares in mining companies were hit by falling commodity prices.
Oil prices continued to decline after US crude fell 2% overnight on global growth concerns, while copper prices slipped further on slowing Chinese demand.
Sydney's S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 2.1% at 4,998.10.
In South Korea, the Kospi index ended 1.9% lower at 1,944.64 following the release of the data from China.
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The 40-year-old former New Zealand player is currently forwards coach at Clermont Auvergne and he previously held a similar position at Leinster.
Gibbes will work under director of rugby Les Kiss, while current head coach Neil Doak's future is unclear.
"The respect I have for Les as a coach and person was one of my main reasons for making this decision," said Gibbs.
Ulster are sixth in the Pro12 table and out of the European Champions Cup in what has been a largely disappointing season.
"Les sold his vision of where he wants to take Ulster over the next few years," added Gibbes.
"Ulster is a team that I know well, having come up against them on a number of occasions. The Clermont-Ulster games this season gave me an insight into the strengths of the squad and it's exciting to think that I'll be part of that environment from next season."
Gibbes, who joined Leinster in 2008 and won three Heineken Cups during his spell in Dublin, said: "With six years at Leinster and three at Clermont in the Top 14, I've been afforded many different experiences, working with some very talented coaches and players.
"I hope to apply what I've learned to the role at Ulster and my family and I are looking forward to integrating into a strong community in Belfast."
He moved to France in 2014 and was part of a coaching set-up that guided Clermont to the Top 14 and Champions Cup finals in his debut season.
"Jono's CV speaks for itself and I know that he's looking forward to joining Ulster and working with the team," said Kiss, 52.
"Since his retirement from playing, Jono has had an integral role in the coaching teams of two of European rugby's most successful sides.
"Jono's expertise as a forwards coach is obvious, however his wealth of knowledge in other areas of the game will be really important for us."
"A review of the coaching structure is ongoing ahead of next season and the appointment of Jono as head coach is the first part of that process.
"A further announcement will be made in the coming weeks, which will focus on getting the right balance in our coaching team." | Jono Gibbes is to become the head coach of Pro12 side Ulster on a two-year deal in the summer. | 38955991 | Summarize the following news within 92 words:
The 40-year-old former New Zealand player is currently forwards coach at Clermont Auvergne and he previously held a similar position at Leinster.
Gibbes will work under director of rugby Les Kiss, while current head coach Neil Doak's future is unclear.
"The respect I have for Les as a coach and person was one of my main reasons for making this decision," said Gibbs.
Ulster are sixth in the Pro12 table and out of the European Champions Cup in what has been a largely disappointing season.
"Les sold his vision of where he wants to take Ulster over the next few years," added Gibbes.
"Ulster is a team that I know well, having come up against them on a number of occasions. The Clermont-Ulster games this season gave me an insight into the strengths of the squad and it's exciting to think that I'll be part of that environment from next season."
Gibbes, who joined Leinster in 2008 and won three Heineken Cups during his spell in Dublin, said: "With six years at Leinster and three at Clermont in the Top 14, I've been afforded many different experiences, working with some very talented coaches and players.
"I hope to apply what I've learned to the role at Ulster and my family and I are looking forward to integrating into a strong community in Belfast."
He moved to France in 2014 and was part of a coaching set-up that guided Clermont to the Top 14 and Champions Cup finals in his debut season.
"Jono's CV speaks for itself and I know that he's looking forward to joining Ulster and working with the team," said Kiss, 52.
"Since his retirement from playing, Jono has had an integral role in the coaching teams of two of European rugby's most successful sides.
"Jono's expertise as a forwards coach is obvious, however his wealth of knowledge in other areas of the game will be really important for us."
"A review of the coaching structure is ongoing ahead of next season and the appointment of Jono as head coach is the first part of that process.
"A further announcement will be made in the coming weeks, which will focus on getting the right balance in our coaching team."
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At the Unite Scotland union's conference in Clydebank, Ms Dugdale accused the Scottish government of making cuts to schools and social care.
Also speaking, UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged that a future Labour government would repeal the Trade Union Bill.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will be making a speech to delegates on Sunday.
Ms Dugdale told the conference Scotland could not be a "fairer, more prosperous country" while councils were being "starved of the resources they need".
She said: "We cannot build a better life for those children when their parents are amongst the thousands of local government workers who have lost their jobs or the 15,000 more who Cosla say could go as a result of John Swinney's £500m cut to our councils.
"We should be cutting the gap between the richest and the rest, not the budget for our schools and the workers from our services.
"I am calling on all trade unionists to join Scottish Labour and speak with one voice to say these SNP cuts to local councils responsible for our schools and social care just aren't acceptable."
Mr Corbyn, who was delayed arriving in Scotland because of bad weather, said Labour was setting up a commission on workplace rights to be led by the Shadow Minister for Trade Unions, and former president of the National Union of Mineworkers, Ian Lavery MP.
The Labour leader said: "Not only will we repeal the Trade Union Bill when we get back in 2020 we will extend people's rights in the workplace - and give employees a real voice in the organisations they work for.
"That means new trade union freedoms and collective bargaining rights of course because it is only through collective representation that workers have the voice and the strength to reverse the race to the bottom in pay and conditions."
Mr Corbyn said he was proud to be a member of a trade union and the unions would be "central to everything we do".
An SNP spokeswoman said: "Kezia Dugdale should ask Jeremy Corbyn to support the SNP's calls for trade union laws to be devolved as Labour voted to leave these powers in David Cameron's hands, instead of allowing the Scottish Parliament to take a new and better approach, giving him carte blanche to undermine unions in Scotland."
Among other issues being debated at the conference are debt, the oil industry, fracking and devolution.
Meanwhile, Unite's general Secretary Len McCluskey is set to urge Labour to apologise for "betraying" Scotland to stem the drift towards the SNP which already claims two thirds of Unite's Scottish membership.
Mr McCluskey will remind Scottish members that Unite is a Labour affiliated union and urge them to come back to Labour, in a speech on Sunday.
He said: "The ideology of New Labour effectively alienated large swathes of the Scottish working class, which manifested itself quite dramatically last May.
"Kezia has to effectively say: 'Labour is under new management, we apologise for betraying you, and we will start from scratch to try and build that trust up'." | Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has called on trade unionists to "unite against SNP cuts to local councils". | 35323736 | Summarize the following news within 127 words:
At the Unite Scotland union's conference in Clydebank, Ms Dugdale accused the Scottish government of making cuts to schools and social care.
Also speaking, UK Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn pledged that a future Labour government would repeal the Trade Union Bill.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will be making a speech to delegates on Sunday.
Ms Dugdale told the conference Scotland could not be a "fairer, more prosperous country" while councils were being "starved of the resources they need".
She said: "We cannot build a better life for those children when their parents are amongst the thousands of local government workers who have lost their jobs or the 15,000 more who Cosla say could go as a result of John Swinney's £500m cut to our councils.
"We should be cutting the gap between the richest and the rest, not the budget for our schools and the workers from our services.
"I am calling on all trade unionists to join Scottish Labour and speak with one voice to say these SNP cuts to local councils responsible for our schools and social care just aren't acceptable."
Mr Corbyn, who was delayed arriving in Scotland because of bad weather, said Labour was setting up a commission on workplace rights to be led by the Shadow Minister for Trade Unions, and former president of the National Union of Mineworkers, Ian Lavery MP.
The Labour leader said: "Not only will we repeal the Trade Union Bill when we get back in 2020 we will extend people's rights in the workplace - and give employees a real voice in the organisations they work for.
"That means new trade union freedoms and collective bargaining rights of course because it is only through collective representation that workers have the voice and the strength to reverse the race to the bottom in pay and conditions."
Mr Corbyn said he was proud to be a member of a trade union and the unions would be "central to everything we do".
An SNP spokeswoman said: "Kezia Dugdale should ask Jeremy Corbyn to support the SNP's calls for trade union laws to be devolved as Labour voted to leave these powers in David Cameron's hands, instead of allowing the Scottish Parliament to take a new and better approach, giving him carte blanche to undermine unions in Scotland."
Among other issues being debated at the conference are debt, the oil industry, fracking and devolution.
Meanwhile, Unite's general Secretary Len McCluskey is set to urge Labour to apologise for "betraying" Scotland to stem the drift towards the SNP which already claims two thirds of Unite's Scottish membership.
Mr McCluskey will remind Scottish members that Unite is a Labour affiliated union and urge them to come back to Labour, in a speech on Sunday.
He said: "The ideology of New Labour effectively alienated large swathes of the Scottish working class, which manifested itself quite dramatically last May.
"Kezia has to effectively say: 'Labour is under new management, we apologise for betraying you, and we will start from scratch to try and build that trust up'."
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Two were picked up by a coastguard helicopter high up on the 3,196ft (974 metre) Munro.
Lomond Mountain Rescue Team located two others on the lower slopes.
Mountain weather forecasters were predicting winds of up to 80mph with frequent snow showers at summit level in western Scotland for Wednesday. | Four hillwalkers who got into difficulties during severe weather on Ben Lomond have been rescued. | 38586981 | Summarize the following news within 12 words:
Two were picked up by a coastguard helicopter high up on the 3,196ft (974 metre) Munro.
Lomond Mountain Rescue Team located two others on the lower slopes.
Mountain weather forecasters were predicting winds of up to 80mph with frequent snow showers at summit level in western Scotland for Wednesday.
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The $43bn (£33bn) deal is set to be the biggest ever foreign takeover by a Chinese company.
The deal was cleared by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which checks deals for national security implications.
About a quarter of Syngenta's sales are in North America.
China National Chemical Corporation offered $465 per share for Syngenta in February. Syngenta's shares subsequently fell to about 20% below that because of concerns that CFIUS would not clear the deal.
However, now competition authorities elsewhere are expected to give the deal the go-ahead.
In a joint statement, Syngenta and ChemChina said: "In addition to CFIUS clearance, the closing of the transaction is subject to anti-trust review by numerous regulators around the world and other customary closing conditions.
"Both companies are working closely with the regulatory agencies involved and discussions remain constructive. The proposed transaction is expected to close by the end of the year."
When the deal was announced earlier this year, Syngenta chairman Michel Demaré said that it would help the company's pesticides and seeds business to expand further in China.
"ChemChina has a very ambitious vision of the industry in the future," he said. "Obviously it is very interested in securing food supply for 1.5 billion people and as a result knows that only technology can get them there."
The Chinese company owns a variety of businesses, included the Italian tyre maker Pirelli, German machinery-maker KarussMaffei and Israel's biggest pesticides producer.
The deal would be the second-biggest takeover in the chemicals industry in the past year after the $130bn Dow Chemical-DuPont merger announced last December. | Shares in Swiss agribusiness group Syngenta have risen 12% after its takeover by ChemChina was given the go-ahead by a US regulator. | 37152949 | Summarize the following news within 66 words:
The $43bn (£33bn) deal is set to be the biggest ever foreign takeover by a Chinese company.
The deal was cleared by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which checks deals for national security implications.
About a quarter of Syngenta's sales are in North America.
China National Chemical Corporation offered $465 per share for Syngenta in February. Syngenta's shares subsequently fell to about 20% below that because of concerns that CFIUS would not clear the deal.
However, now competition authorities elsewhere are expected to give the deal the go-ahead.
In a joint statement, Syngenta and ChemChina said: "In addition to CFIUS clearance, the closing of the transaction is subject to anti-trust review by numerous regulators around the world and other customary closing conditions.
"Both companies are working closely with the regulatory agencies involved and discussions remain constructive. The proposed transaction is expected to close by the end of the year."
When the deal was announced earlier this year, Syngenta chairman Michel Demaré said that it would help the company's pesticides and seeds business to expand further in China.
"ChemChina has a very ambitious vision of the industry in the future," he said. "Obviously it is very interested in securing food supply for 1.5 billion people and as a result knows that only technology can get them there."
The Chinese company owns a variety of businesses, included the Italian tyre maker Pirelli, German machinery-maker KarussMaffei and Israel's biggest pesticides producer.
The deal would be the second-biggest takeover in the chemicals industry in the past year after the $130bn Dow Chemical-DuPont merger announced last December.
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Rakhmat Akilov reportedly ran from the scene still covered in blood and glass, and was arrested hours later in a northern suburb of Stockholm.
He has yet to be identified by police, who have only said that the man in custody is a 39-year-old Uzbek national.
Even so, a picture of the man allegedly behind the attack has started to emerge: someone who had failed in his bid to get residency, lost his job and was hiding from police who wanted to deport him.
Bumping into a former colleague earlier this year, he revealed he was spending his days "sleeping and smoking".
According to reports, he had left a wife and four children behind in Uzbekistan in order to earn money to send home.
He had applied for residency in 2014, but had been informed in December 2016 that "he had four weeks to leave the country", police official Jonas Hysing said. He did not leave and, in February, was officially put on a wanted list.
A few months earlier, it is claimed he had lost his job after falling asleep at work.
He had been working in construction, and was employed by Pierre Svensson for several weeks late last year, helping on an asbestos removal project.
Mr Akilov was, he said, "a reserved person".
"He didn't stick out. He did his job. You can't say he was very sociable, we just told him what to do and he did it. He didn't speak much Swedish," he told news agency AFP.
Mr Akilov was also described as not being particularly religious. One has suggested he "partied and drank", which goes against strict Islamic doctrine.
"He never talked about politics or religion," one friend told Swedish daily Aftonbladet. "He didn't pray five times a day from what I know."
A co-worker agreed, telling news agency Reuters: "He was like any normal guy."
Online, it seems, it was a different story.
His Facebook page - which has since been taken down - is linked to a number of extremists through friends and featured at least two propaganda videos linked to IS, one reportedly showing the aftermath of the Boston bombing.
He also liked a page called "Friends of Libya and Syria", which says it aims to expose "terrorism of the imperialistic financial capitals" of the US, British and Arab "dictatorships".
However, he was also a fan of pages dedicated to Playboy magazine and Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova.
Despite all this, Mr Akilov was not considered a threat by Swedish security services, who dismissed him as a "marginal character", apparently on the fringes of larger extremist movements. | The main suspect of ploughing a truck into a department store in central Stockholm, killing four people, had been denied residency in Sweden and had expressed sympathy for so-called Islamic State (IS), police and reports said. | 39552691 | Summarize the following news within 108 words:
Rakhmat Akilov reportedly ran from the scene still covered in blood and glass, and was arrested hours later in a northern suburb of Stockholm.
He has yet to be identified by police, who have only said that the man in custody is a 39-year-old Uzbek national.
Even so, a picture of the man allegedly behind the attack has started to emerge: someone who had failed in his bid to get residency, lost his job and was hiding from police who wanted to deport him.
Bumping into a former colleague earlier this year, he revealed he was spending his days "sleeping and smoking".
According to reports, he had left a wife and four children behind in Uzbekistan in order to earn money to send home.
He had applied for residency in 2014, but had been informed in December 2016 that "he had four weeks to leave the country", police official Jonas Hysing said. He did not leave and, in February, was officially put on a wanted list.
A few months earlier, it is claimed he had lost his job after falling asleep at work.
He had been working in construction, and was employed by Pierre Svensson for several weeks late last year, helping on an asbestos removal project.
Mr Akilov was, he said, "a reserved person".
"He didn't stick out. He did his job. You can't say he was very sociable, we just told him what to do and he did it. He didn't speak much Swedish," he told news agency AFP.
Mr Akilov was also described as not being particularly religious. One has suggested he "partied and drank", which goes against strict Islamic doctrine.
"He never talked about politics or religion," one friend told Swedish daily Aftonbladet. "He didn't pray five times a day from what I know."
A co-worker agreed, telling news agency Reuters: "He was like any normal guy."
Online, it seems, it was a different story.
His Facebook page - which has since been taken down - is linked to a number of extremists through friends and featured at least two propaganda videos linked to IS, one reportedly showing the aftermath of the Boston bombing.
He also liked a page called "Friends of Libya and Syria", which says it aims to expose "terrorism of the imperialistic financial capitals" of the US, British and Arab "dictatorships".
However, he was also a fan of pages dedicated to Playboy magazine and Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova.
Despite all this, Mr Akilov was not considered a threat by Swedish security services, who dismissed him as a "marginal character", apparently on the fringes of larger extremist movements.
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The 32-year-old had been playing in the Isthmian Premier Division with Leatherhead following his release by Newport at the end of last season.
Pidgeley has made 260 appearances in spells with nine clubs, including Chelsea, Watford and Millwall.
Forest Green are currently second in the National League table, one point behind leaders Cheltenham Town.
Pidgeley could make his Rovers debut when they host Aldershot on Friday. | National League side Forest Green Rovers have signed goalkeeper Lenny Pidgeley until the end of the season. | 35893195 | Summarize the following news within 16 words:
The 32-year-old had been playing in the Isthmian Premier Division with Leatherhead following his release by Newport at the end of last season.
Pidgeley has made 260 appearances in spells with nine clubs, including Chelsea, Watford and Millwall.
Forest Green are currently second in the National League table, one point behind leaders Cheltenham Town.
Pidgeley could make his Rovers debut when they host Aldershot on Friday.
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Mr Banks said ex-leader Nigel Farage was UKIP's "biggest asset" and should be "engaged once again".
In a letter to current leader Paul Nuttall, he criticised UKIP's tactics in the Stoke Central by-election where Mr Nuttall failed to unseat Labour.
He said the party had wrongly adopted a "red UKIP" strategy, copying Labour policies on the NHS.
Mr Nuttall, who was elected in November, has vowed to attract disillusioned Labour voters to UKIP, and hoped to capitalise on Stoke voters' leanings towards Brexit in Thursday's by-election.
But he lost to Labour's Gareth Snell by 2,620 votes, securing only a slight increase in UKIP's vote share.
The current UKIP chairman, Paul Oakden, said after the Stoke result that it might be years before his party, which currently has one MP, can pick up another via a by-election.
In his letter to Mr Nuttall, Leave.EU campaign chairman Mr Banks, who also used a Sunday Express article to threaten to walk away from UKIP unless his demands are met, repeated his offer to become chairman in order to make it an "efficient, professional and ultimately electable party".
He said his first move would be to bring in a CEO from industry to oversee a new membership drive, install a new team of "trained professional agents" to focus on target seats and use input from the public to draw up new policies.
Mr Banks also called for a return to the fold for Mr Farage, who quit as UKIP leader after the EU referendum saying he wanted his "life back".
Mr Banks said his strategy would include "engaging Nigel once again in UKIP - he is our biggest asset and needs to become energised with the party once again and work with you to deliver UKIP MPs".
He added: "The party is at a crossroads. We have to be radical to become relevant once again."
In his Sunday Express article, Mr Banks called for senior figures he said were part of a "Tory cabal" to be expelled, saying: "These dullards aren't bringing in Tory votes, Stoke proved that, so what are they for?"
In response, Patrick O'Flynn, an MEP and Mr Nuttall's principal political adviser, told the BBC's Sunday Politics that his advice would be: "Donate and don't seek to dictate."
He said Mr Oakden was an "excellent" chairman and said the Leave.EU campaign had hardly been a "smooth-running brilliant machine".
"I'm always happy if people who want to give money and support to our party want to stay in the party but I think the best donors donate and don't seek to dictate," he said.
"Of course if they are expert in certain fields people should listen to their views, but to have a donor telling the party leader who should be party chairman, that's a non-starter." | UKIP donor Arron Banks has offered to become party chairman in order to bring about a "total rebrand". | 39106527 | Summarize the following news within 116 words:
Mr Banks said ex-leader Nigel Farage was UKIP's "biggest asset" and should be "engaged once again".
In a letter to current leader Paul Nuttall, he criticised UKIP's tactics in the Stoke Central by-election where Mr Nuttall failed to unseat Labour.
He said the party had wrongly adopted a "red UKIP" strategy, copying Labour policies on the NHS.
Mr Nuttall, who was elected in November, has vowed to attract disillusioned Labour voters to UKIP, and hoped to capitalise on Stoke voters' leanings towards Brexit in Thursday's by-election.
But he lost to Labour's Gareth Snell by 2,620 votes, securing only a slight increase in UKIP's vote share.
The current UKIP chairman, Paul Oakden, said after the Stoke result that it might be years before his party, which currently has one MP, can pick up another via a by-election.
In his letter to Mr Nuttall, Leave.EU campaign chairman Mr Banks, who also used a Sunday Express article to threaten to walk away from UKIP unless his demands are met, repeated his offer to become chairman in order to make it an "efficient, professional and ultimately electable party".
He said his first move would be to bring in a CEO from industry to oversee a new membership drive, install a new team of "trained professional agents" to focus on target seats and use input from the public to draw up new policies.
Mr Banks also called for a return to the fold for Mr Farage, who quit as UKIP leader after the EU referendum saying he wanted his "life back".
Mr Banks said his strategy would include "engaging Nigel once again in UKIP - he is our biggest asset and needs to become energised with the party once again and work with you to deliver UKIP MPs".
He added: "The party is at a crossroads. We have to be radical to become relevant once again."
In his Sunday Express article, Mr Banks called for senior figures he said were part of a "Tory cabal" to be expelled, saying: "These dullards aren't bringing in Tory votes, Stoke proved that, so what are they for?"
In response, Patrick O'Flynn, an MEP and Mr Nuttall's principal political adviser, told the BBC's Sunday Politics that his advice would be: "Donate and don't seek to dictate."
He said Mr Oakden was an "excellent" chairman and said the Leave.EU campaign had hardly been a "smooth-running brilliant machine".
"I'm always happy if people who want to give money and support to our party want to stay in the party but I think the best donors donate and don't seek to dictate," he said.
"Of course if they are expert in certain fields people should listen to their views, but to have a donor telling the party leader who should be party chairman, that's a non-starter."
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But when she walks down through the jagged stairs of the Petare slum in Caracas, she meticulously scans the different supermarkets and pharmacies where she may be able to buy one of the price-controlled products that are so scarce in Venezuela these days.
Finding basic products has become a reason for Marta to get out of bed in the morning. "It's become like an obsession," she says.
In 2003, then-President Hugo Chavez introduced price controls for some 40 food and hygiene products to guarantee the poor had access to staple goods.
But lately, in the midst of a cash crisis, price controls seem to have become a headache.
For the first time in years, shortages and inflation have replaced security as the biggest worry for Venezuelans, according to a recent poll by Caracas-based Datanalisis.
It is a surprising statistic for one of the most violent countries on earth.
But necessity is not the reason why Marta shops - it's opportunity.
"The other day I bought olive oil without knowing what it works for because people were buying it like crazy as it was supposed to be cheap," she says.
After the global drop in the price of oil, Venezuela's biggest source of revenue, shortages in the South American country went from bad to worse.
Datanalisis says every week, on average, Venezuelans go to four different supermarkets and spend around five hours looking for goods.
President Nicolas Maduro says shortages are caused by US-backed, far-right groups who smuggle and hoard products in an economic war to destabilise his socialist government.
"Venezuela currently has the necessary goods to feed the people, but there is a problem with distribution," says Eduardo Saman, a former commerce minister in the government of the late Hugo Chavez.
"And distribution is in the hands of companies who operate as a cartel and seek to affect the government," he tells the BBC.
Yet government critics don't believe that this sort of conspiracy is the source of scarcity.
"When you impose prices that are below the value set by supply and demand, you will have an oversubscription and a drop in supply, here or anywhere in the world," says Angel Alayon, an economist who has written several papers on scarcity for the ideas website Prodavinci.
"I don't doubt there is hoarding and smuggling, but these are consequences of scarcity, not causes," he tells the BBC.
Venezuela country profile
Partly thanks to price controls, the government has more than halved the malnutrition rates the country recorded 20 years ago, a policy that has been celebrated by international organisations such as the UN.
But with the highest inflation rate in the world - 68.5% in December - Mr Alayon says producers can barely cover their costs.
The Venezuelan economy shrank throughout last year, hit by falling oil prices. And as the country has fallen into recession, crime has boomed.
The government has not made national homicide rates public in more than a year, but independent organisations such as the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence say the rates are increasing.
The NGO's annual report for 2014 recorded 24,980 violent deaths - equating to 82 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 79 in 2013.
Those are figures for a country at war.
Even the police have become victims of crime, as 268 policemen were killed in the country in 2014.
A recent poll by the Observatory on Organised Crime reported that 51% of Venezuelans say murders had taken place near where they lived.
"As insecurity is not solved - and far from it, it only gets worse - people had got used to the problem as part of their life without any hope of a real solution nor genuine offers from politicians," says Luis Vicente Leon, chief executive of Datanalisis.
"Since people have got used to insecurity, new problems that get worse like shortages or inflation tend to be more mentioned as their main concern."
But there might also be a psychological reason why shortages have become such an "obsession" for Venezuelans.
"Overall, at the precise moment when you stop finding a product, it becomes more precious than it used to be," says American psychologist Eldar Shafir, co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much.
"Think of it as a work of art that was stolen and when it is found the price is three times higher.
"When you're not able to get something, it becomes a challenge that captures your attention, to the point of getting obsessed with it and sacrificing other things that are on the periphery, such as exercising or playing with your children." | Marta doesn't need to go shopping today, because her fridge is filled with all the products her family requires. | 32703081 | Summarize the following news within 191 words:
But when she walks down through the jagged stairs of the Petare slum in Caracas, she meticulously scans the different supermarkets and pharmacies where she may be able to buy one of the price-controlled products that are so scarce in Venezuela these days.
Finding basic products has become a reason for Marta to get out of bed in the morning. "It's become like an obsession," she says.
In 2003, then-President Hugo Chavez introduced price controls for some 40 food and hygiene products to guarantee the poor had access to staple goods.
But lately, in the midst of a cash crisis, price controls seem to have become a headache.
For the first time in years, shortages and inflation have replaced security as the biggest worry for Venezuelans, according to a recent poll by Caracas-based Datanalisis.
It is a surprising statistic for one of the most violent countries on earth.
But necessity is not the reason why Marta shops - it's opportunity.
"The other day I bought olive oil without knowing what it works for because people were buying it like crazy as it was supposed to be cheap," she says.
After the global drop in the price of oil, Venezuela's biggest source of revenue, shortages in the South American country went from bad to worse.
Datanalisis says every week, on average, Venezuelans go to four different supermarkets and spend around five hours looking for goods.
President Nicolas Maduro says shortages are caused by US-backed, far-right groups who smuggle and hoard products in an economic war to destabilise his socialist government.
"Venezuela currently has the necessary goods to feed the people, but there is a problem with distribution," says Eduardo Saman, a former commerce minister in the government of the late Hugo Chavez.
"And distribution is in the hands of companies who operate as a cartel and seek to affect the government," he tells the BBC.
Yet government critics don't believe that this sort of conspiracy is the source of scarcity.
"When you impose prices that are below the value set by supply and demand, you will have an oversubscription and a drop in supply, here or anywhere in the world," says Angel Alayon, an economist who has written several papers on scarcity for the ideas website Prodavinci.
"I don't doubt there is hoarding and smuggling, but these are consequences of scarcity, not causes," he tells the BBC.
Venezuela country profile
Partly thanks to price controls, the government has more than halved the malnutrition rates the country recorded 20 years ago, a policy that has been celebrated by international organisations such as the UN.
But with the highest inflation rate in the world - 68.5% in December - Mr Alayon says producers can barely cover their costs.
The Venezuelan economy shrank throughout last year, hit by falling oil prices. And as the country has fallen into recession, crime has boomed.
The government has not made national homicide rates public in more than a year, but independent organisations such as the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence say the rates are increasing.
The NGO's annual report for 2014 recorded 24,980 violent deaths - equating to 82 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 79 in 2013.
Those are figures for a country at war.
Even the police have become victims of crime, as 268 policemen were killed in the country in 2014.
A recent poll by the Observatory on Organised Crime reported that 51% of Venezuelans say murders had taken place near where they lived.
"As insecurity is not solved - and far from it, it only gets worse - people had got used to the problem as part of their life without any hope of a real solution nor genuine offers from politicians," says Luis Vicente Leon, chief executive of Datanalisis.
"Since people have got used to insecurity, new problems that get worse like shortages or inflation tend to be more mentioned as their main concern."
But there might also be a psychological reason why shortages have become such an "obsession" for Venezuelans.
"Overall, at the precise moment when you stop finding a product, it becomes more precious than it used to be," says American psychologist Eldar Shafir, co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much.
"Think of it as a work of art that was stolen and when it is found the price is three times higher.
"When you're not able to get something, it becomes a challenge that captures your attention, to the point of getting obsessed with it and sacrificing other things that are on the periphery, such as exercising or playing with your children."
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The crash, which happened at the Rising Sun in North Bradley near Trowbridge at about 06:00 GMT, left a huge hole in the front of the building.
Wiltshire Police said the driver was taken to Bath's Royal United Hospital for treatment to his injuries, which are not thought to be serious.
Nobody was inside at the time of the crash, officers said. The building has been deemed to be structurally safe.
The road next to the pub was closed for several hours but has since reopened. | A lorry driver has smashed through the front wall of a pub in Wiltshire. | 30144985 | Summarize the following news within 21 words:
The crash, which happened at the Rising Sun in North Bradley near Trowbridge at about 06:00 GMT, left a huge hole in the front of the building.
Wiltshire Police said the driver was taken to Bath's Royal United Hospital for treatment to his injuries, which are not thought to be serious.
Nobody was inside at the time of the crash, officers said. The building has been deemed to be structurally safe.
The road next to the pub was closed for several hours but has since reopened.
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Davis has made 14 appearances for the Cod Army since joining on loan in October, and recently agreed to extend his stay until the end of the season.
The 22-year-old signed for Leicester from Port Vale in 2014, but did not feature for the first team.
"I'm delighted that it's all been done now and I can concentrate on my football," he told the club website.
"I stated from the start that I'd be really interested in staying with the club, and I'm just over the moon to be here now."
The length of Davis' deal with Fleetwood has not been disclosed.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side Fleetwood Town have signed defender Joe Davis from Leicester City for an undisclosed fee. | 35286949 | Summarize the following news within 28 words:
Davis has made 14 appearances for the Cod Army since joining on loan in October, and recently agreed to extend his stay until the end of the season.
The 22-year-old signed for Leicester from Port Vale in 2014, but did not feature for the first team.
"I'm delighted that it's all been done now and I can concentrate on my football," he told the club website.
"I stated from the start that I'd be really interested in staying with the club, and I'm just over the moon to be here now."
The length of Davis' deal with Fleetwood has not been disclosed.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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The 28-year-old, who won Olympic bronze in 2012, cleared 2.33m to finish second behind Italian Gianmarco Tamberi.
Team captain Asha Philip was fifth in the women's 60m but Dina Asher-Smith suffered a minor hamstring injury in her semi-final and missed the final.
And Lynsey Sharp and Adelle Tracey both failed to reach the 800m final.
Sharp, the European and Commonwealth silver medallist, finished second in her heat, but her time of two minutes, 02.75 seconds was not quick enough to progress as a fastest loser.
"Even though it may not look like it was a success, to me it was because I've learned a lot," said the Scot.
In May 2014, Grabarz questioned his future in the sport after a knee operation left him jumping, in his words, "like a 16-year-old girl" and that failing to clear 1.80m on his return to training was "the most depressing day of his life".
However, a first-time clearance of 2.33m saw him beat Erik Kynard, the man who won silver at the London Olympics, on countback.
"I'm ecstatic, I just can't quite believe it," he said after winning Britain's third medal of the Championships.
"If someone said I'd get that result two years ago I wouldn't have believed it, I would have bitten their hand off."
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American Barbara Pierre won the women's 60m title in 7.02secs - 0.02 ahead of Dutch favourite Dafne Schippers.
Philip crossed the line in 7.14 seconds to miss out on a medal.
"I'm gutted," she said. "I came here for a medal, I wanted a medal. I came fifth and I didn't run a personal best or a season's best."
Asher-Smith's withdrawal from the final was a precautionary move, given the Rio Olympics are only five months away.
American Ashton Eaton won his third successive heptathlon title to add to the pentathlon title won by his Canadian wife Brianne Theisen-Eaton the day before.
It makes them the first married couple to win gold medals at the same world championships.
"I was thinking it doesn't matter what happens to me," said Eaton, who was born and lives in Portland.
"Brianne is the one that stole the show. I am really happy about that and proud of her," he added of his wife, who finally ended a frustrating run of second-place finishes at major championships.
Eaton's winning total of 6,470 points in the seven-event competition was 188 clear of nearest rival Oleksiy Kasyanov of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, in a meeting in Slovakia, Tom Bosworth broke the 20km walk British record, finishing in one hour 20 minutes and 41 seconds.
The 26-year-old Briton took one minute 22 seconds off the previous best, set by Ian McCombie in 1988. | Robbie Grabarz won high jump silver on another otherwise disappointing day for British athletes at the World Indoor Championships in Portland. | 35853951 | Summarize the following news within 115 words:
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The 28-year-old, who won Olympic bronze in 2012, cleared 2.33m to finish second behind Italian Gianmarco Tamberi.
Team captain Asha Philip was fifth in the women's 60m but Dina Asher-Smith suffered a minor hamstring injury in her semi-final and missed the final.
And Lynsey Sharp and Adelle Tracey both failed to reach the 800m final.
Sharp, the European and Commonwealth silver medallist, finished second in her heat, but her time of two minutes, 02.75 seconds was not quick enough to progress as a fastest loser.
"Even though it may not look like it was a success, to me it was because I've learned a lot," said the Scot.
In May 2014, Grabarz questioned his future in the sport after a knee operation left him jumping, in his words, "like a 16-year-old girl" and that failing to clear 1.80m on his return to training was "the most depressing day of his life".
However, a first-time clearance of 2.33m saw him beat Erik Kynard, the man who won silver at the London Olympics, on countback.
"I'm ecstatic, I just can't quite believe it," he said after winning Britain's third medal of the Championships.
"If someone said I'd get that result two years ago I wouldn't have believed it, I would have bitten their hand off."
Media playback is not supported on this device
American Barbara Pierre won the women's 60m title in 7.02secs - 0.02 ahead of Dutch favourite Dafne Schippers.
Philip crossed the line in 7.14 seconds to miss out on a medal.
"I'm gutted," she said. "I came here for a medal, I wanted a medal. I came fifth and I didn't run a personal best or a season's best."
Asher-Smith's withdrawal from the final was a precautionary move, given the Rio Olympics are only five months away.
American Ashton Eaton won his third successive heptathlon title to add to the pentathlon title won by his Canadian wife Brianne Theisen-Eaton the day before.
It makes them the first married couple to win gold medals at the same world championships.
"I was thinking it doesn't matter what happens to me," said Eaton, who was born and lives in Portland.
"Brianne is the one that stole the show. I am really happy about that and proud of her," he added of his wife, who finally ended a frustrating run of second-place finishes at major championships.
Eaton's winning total of 6,470 points in the seven-event competition was 188 clear of nearest rival Oleksiy Kasyanov of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, in a meeting in Slovakia, Tom Bosworth broke the 20km walk British record, finishing in one hour 20 minutes and 41 seconds.
The 26-year-old Briton took one minute 22 seconds off the previous best, set by Ian McCombie in 1988.
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The former Scotland Under-21 international was released by Crystal Palace after he failed to make an appearance during his two years.
Kettings, 23, spent three months on loan at National League side Bromley last season, playing 14 times.
He is the sixth new signing since Northern Ireland assistant Stephen Robinson was appointed as manager.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One side Oldham Athletic have signed goalkeeper Chris Kettings on a one-year deal. | 36772866 | Summarize the following news within 16 words:
The former Scotland Under-21 international was released by Crystal Palace after he failed to make an appearance during his two years.
Kettings, 23, spent three months on loan at National League side Bromley last season, playing 14 times.
He is the sixth new signing since Northern Ireland assistant Stephen Robinson was appointed as manager.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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The week-long pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay will largely focus on issues of secrecy.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of masterminding the attacks while the others are implicated for providing support for the co-ordinated hijacking.
In May, a chaotic hearing in the case lasted 13 hours.
During that hearing, which formally charged the five men, the defendants made defiant outbursts and refused to answer the judge's questions or use the translation system.
In addition to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, defendants Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Waleed bin Attash are being prosecuted in a special military tribunal for wartime offences known as a military commission.
They are charged with conspiring with al-Qaeda, terrorism, and one count of murder for each known victim of the 11 September attacks at the time the charges were filed - 2,976 in total.
The five face a possible death penalty sentence if convicted.
CIA waterboarding tapes revealed
On Monday, the defendants listened calmly and answered the judge's questions, although Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said: "I don't think there's any justice in this court."
Defence lawyers argued during the hearing that their clients should not be forced to attend the rest of the week's hearings, because the forcible transport from their high-security cells may remind them of their time at secret CIA prisons.
Before their transfer to the US base at Guantanamo Bay in 2006, the defendants were held for years in secret CIA prisons.
All five have said they were tortured during interrogations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was repeatedly water-boarded before being brought to Guantanamo.
"We have to talk about torture," Air Force Captain Michael Schwartz, a defence lawyer, said on Monday.
But Judge James Pohl said the issue was not relevant at this stage.
Prosecution lawyers have said the use of waterboarding and similar methods could be relevant when determining whether prisoners' statements were voluntarily given.
The court is also expected to hear a defence request to abolish what they term a "presumptive classification" that treats any discussion of the CIA prisons as top secret, as well as a media request to limit closing of the courtroom for secret sessions.
Judge Pohl ultimately ruled that the defendants would not be forced to attend hearings scheduled to run through the end of this week, but did not rule out further pre-trial hearings.
He said all would have to be present for their trial, which is not likely to start for more than a year. | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused over the 9/11 attacks have appeared at a US military tribunal for the first time in five months. | 19956639 | Summarize the following news within 102 words:
The week-long pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay will largely focus on issues of secrecy.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of masterminding the attacks while the others are implicated for providing support for the co-ordinated hijacking.
In May, a chaotic hearing in the case lasted 13 hours.
During that hearing, which formally charged the five men, the defendants made defiant outbursts and refused to answer the judge's questions or use the translation system.
In addition to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, defendants Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Waleed bin Attash are being prosecuted in a special military tribunal for wartime offences known as a military commission.
They are charged with conspiring with al-Qaeda, terrorism, and one count of murder for each known victim of the 11 September attacks at the time the charges were filed - 2,976 in total.
The five face a possible death penalty sentence if convicted.
CIA waterboarding tapes revealed
On Monday, the defendants listened calmly and answered the judge's questions, although Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said: "I don't think there's any justice in this court."
Defence lawyers argued during the hearing that their clients should not be forced to attend the rest of the week's hearings, because the forcible transport from their high-security cells may remind them of their time at secret CIA prisons.
Before their transfer to the US base at Guantanamo Bay in 2006, the defendants were held for years in secret CIA prisons.
All five have said they were tortured during interrogations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was repeatedly water-boarded before being brought to Guantanamo.
"We have to talk about torture," Air Force Captain Michael Schwartz, a defence lawyer, said on Monday.
But Judge James Pohl said the issue was not relevant at this stage.
Prosecution lawyers have said the use of waterboarding and similar methods could be relevant when determining whether prisoners' statements were voluntarily given.
The court is also expected to hear a defence request to abolish what they term a "presumptive classification" that treats any discussion of the CIA prisons as top secret, as well as a media request to limit closing of the courtroom for secret sessions.
Judge Pohl ultimately ruled that the defendants would not be forced to attend hearings scheduled to run through the end of this week, but did not rule out further pre-trial hearings.
He said all would have to be present for their trial, which is not likely to start for more than a year.
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The star is up for the main prize, album of the year, for her ambitious visual album, Lemonade, which tackles themes of race and female identity.
Her single Formation is also up for song and record of the year.
In all three categories, she is up against Adele - who previously won the ceremony's top three prizes in 2012.
Beyonce now has 62 Grammy nominations across her work as a solo artist and as part of Destiny's Child, making her the fourth most-nominated artist ever.
She has won 20 trophies altogether, although she has yet to clinch the album of the year prize, having been beaten to the title by Beck in 2015 - much to the disgust of Kanye West, who stormed the stage in protest.
West receives eight nominations this year for his album The Life Of Pablo - all in the rap categories.
Drake and Rihanna also have eight nominations, including three for their hit collaboration, Work.
Making Grammy history is Chicago-born musician Chance The Rapper, whose album Coloring Book is the first streaming-only record to be recognised by the Recording Academy.
He achieves seven nominations, including best new artist, without ever releasing a physical album or digital download.
Beyonce and Adele go head to head with Justin Bieber, Drake and country star Sturgill Simpson in the best album category.
If Adele wins, she will become only the second woman to receive the best album prize twice, after Taylor Swift.
Notably absent from the shortlist is David Bowie, who was tipped to win for his critically-acclaimed Blackstar album.
The record does make an appearance in the best alternative album category, as does Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool.
Coldplay have also fared badly, receiving just one nomination - best music video - despite selling millions of copies of their latest album, A Head Full Of Dreams.
Prince receives a posthumous nomination for his final album, Hit N Run Phase Two, in the best engineered, non-classical category, where Blackstar also makes the shortlist.
British star James Corden will host the 2017 Grammy Awards, which take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, 12 February.
Album Of The Year
Record Of The Year
Song Of The Year
Best New Artist
Best alternative album
Best pop album
Best rap album
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Beyonce has scooped nine nominations for the 2017 Grammy Awards, extending her lead as the most-nominated woman in Grammys history. | 38223694 | Summarize the following news within 100 words:
The star is up for the main prize, album of the year, for her ambitious visual album, Lemonade, which tackles themes of race and female identity.
Her single Formation is also up for song and record of the year.
In all three categories, she is up against Adele - who previously won the ceremony's top three prizes in 2012.
Beyonce now has 62 Grammy nominations across her work as a solo artist and as part of Destiny's Child, making her the fourth most-nominated artist ever.
She has won 20 trophies altogether, although she has yet to clinch the album of the year prize, having been beaten to the title by Beck in 2015 - much to the disgust of Kanye West, who stormed the stage in protest.
West receives eight nominations this year for his album The Life Of Pablo - all in the rap categories.
Drake and Rihanna also have eight nominations, including three for their hit collaboration, Work.
Making Grammy history is Chicago-born musician Chance The Rapper, whose album Coloring Book is the first streaming-only record to be recognised by the Recording Academy.
He achieves seven nominations, including best new artist, without ever releasing a physical album or digital download.
Beyonce and Adele go head to head with Justin Bieber, Drake and country star Sturgill Simpson in the best album category.
If Adele wins, she will become only the second woman to receive the best album prize twice, after Taylor Swift.
Notably absent from the shortlist is David Bowie, who was tipped to win for his critically-acclaimed Blackstar album.
The record does make an appearance in the best alternative album category, as does Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool.
Coldplay have also fared badly, receiving just one nomination - best music video - despite selling millions of copies of their latest album, A Head Full Of Dreams.
Prince receives a posthumous nomination for his final album, Hit N Run Phase Two, in the best engineered, non-classical category, where Blackstar also makes the shortlist.
British star James Corden will host the 2017 Grammy Awards, which take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, 12 February.
Album Of The Year
Record Of The Year
Song Of The Year
Best New Artist
Best alternative album
Best pop album
Best rap album
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.
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David Cameron said a stadium would "inspire young people, brings jobs and wealth" to the county.
Labour said it was a "cynical" attempt to distract voters, the Liberal Democrats questioned where the funds would come from, and Mebyon Kernow said it did not believe the Tory's promise.
Recent planning rows have left the future of the stadium in question.
In March, Cornwall councillors deferred a decision to grant permission to build a supermarket that would have paid for the facility, which supporters claimed had put the plans in jeopardy.
Revised proposals for the stadium at West Langarth are expected to be submitted to the council in May.
Mr Cameron said he planned to get the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to work with Sport England, Cornwall Council and local sports teams to find a way to get it built.
"The stadium proposal is an exciting one. If it takes some extra money I'd make that money available," he added.
However, Stuart Roden, Labour candidate for Truro and Falmouth, said: "This announcement today is a cynical empty promise and will come to nothing.
"It is simply more smoke and mirrors and people won't be taken for fools by this unfunded distraction."
Simon Rix, who is standing for the Lib Dems in the constituency, told BBC News: "I'm massively in favour of a stadium in the right place if we can get the money.
"But it's like the Conservative promises on the NHS, they're not saying where the money's going to come from."
Stephen Richardson, who is standing for Mebyon Kernow in Truro and Falmouth, said: "You have to excuse me if I don't believe a single syllable of any David Cameron promise during the election campaign."
Click here for more information on the constituency and a full list of candidates. | The Prime Minister has given his public backing to a stadium in Cornwall if the Conservatives are re-elected in May. | 32436454 | Summarize the following news within 75 words:
David Cameron said a stadium would "inspire young people, brings jobs and wealth" to the county.
Labour said it was a "cynical" attempt to distract voters, the Liberal Democrats questioned where the funds would come from, and Mebyon Kernow said it did not believe the Tory's promise.
Recent planning rows have left the future of the stadium in question.
In March, Cornwall councillors deferred a decision to grant permission to build a supermarket that would have paid for the facility, which supporters claimed had put the plans in jeopardy.
Revised proposals for the stadium at West Langarth are expected to be submitted to the council in May.
Mr Cameron said he planned to get the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to work with Sport England, Cornwall Council and local sports teams to find a way to get it built.
"The stadium proposal is an exciting one. If it takes some extra money I'd make that money available," he added.
However, Stuart Roden, Labour candidate for Truro and Falmouth, said: "This announcement today is a cynical empty promise and will come to nothing.
"It is simply more smoke and mirrors and people won't be taken for fools by this unfunded distraction."
Simon Rix, who is standing for the Lib Dems in the constituency, told BBC News: "I'm massively in favour of a stadium in the right place if we can get the money.
"But it's like the Conservative promises on the NHS, they're not saying where the money's going to come from."
Stephen Richardson, who is standing for Mebyon Kernow in Truro and Falmouth, said: "You have to excuse me if I don't believe a single syllable of any David Cameron promise during the election campaign."
Click here for more information on the constituency and a full list of candidates.
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Rooney, 28, is considering an offer that would make him the highest paid player in United's history.
The England striker is in the final 18 months of his £250,000-a-week contract and Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho remains interested in signing him.
United and Rooney hope to conclude contract talks in the coming week.
Rooney, who joined United from Everton in August 2004, is the fourth-highest goalscorer in United history.
However, according to former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Rooney asked for a transfer towards the end of last season.
He was linked with a move to Chelsea last summer and the Blues had a bid rejected by United.
Rooney scored 11 goals in 24 games for United this season before being sidelined by an injury which has kept him out since 1 January. | Manchester United have opened talks with Wayne Rooney over a new deal that could keep the striker at Old Trafford for the rest of his career. | 25893629 | Summarize the following news within 33 words:
Rooney, 28, is considering an offer that would make him the highest paid player in United's history.
The England striker is in the final 18 months of his £250,000-a-week contract and Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho remains interested in signing him.
United and Rooney hope to conclude contract talks in the coming week.
Rooney, who joined United from Everton in August 2004, is the fourth-highest goalscorer in United history.
However, according to former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Rooney asked for a transfer towards the end of last season.
He was linked with a move to Chelsea last summer and the Blues had a bid rejected by United.
Rooney scored 11 goals in 24 games for United this season before being sidelined by an injury which has kept him out since 1 January.
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The 25-year-old scored 15 goals in 54 appearances for the U's last season, but has not played a game this term.
The Stags say the deal contains an option to agree a permanent move.
"This is a young man who I first tried to sign when he was scoring goals in the Scottish Premier League for Dundee," manager Steve Evans told the club website.
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The 25-year-old scored 15 goals in 54 appearances for the U's last season, but has not played a game this term.
The Stags say the deal contains an option to agree a permanent move.
"This is a young man who I first tried to sign when he was scoring goals in the Scottish Premier League for Dundee," manager Steve Evans told the club website.
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Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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The aircraft, nicknamed "Bette" after one of its pilot's girlfriends, was built in 1941 from donations from the Borough of Lambeth Spitfire Fund.
It was stationed in Cornwall, Hampshire, Norfolk and Shropshire during the war but crashed in 1944.
Bidding stalled below its £120,000 to £150,000 valuation.
The aircraft saw service with four RAF squadrons between 1941 and 1944 and was flown by author Alec Lumsden, who gave it the name Bette and added a character from the Daily Mirror cartoon strip 'Just Jake' to the paint work.
After it crashed in Shropshire in September 1944, killing its Australian pilot, its wreckage was taken to Ibsley museum, Ringwood, Hampshire and displayed.
The aircraft was later passed to a collector who showed it at events. It has also been immortalised by modelmakers Airfix and Revell.
John Tomlin, from Historics at Brooklands, said: "The historical side of war birds is an up-and-coming market. There are now about 42 flying Spitfires and this seems to be increasing ever year.
"The rarity, the history and the provenance of all these aircraft make them very investable items and they're investments that can be used and enjoyed by a lot of people."
Experts believe it would cost about £1.8m to fully restore the plane. | The fuselage of a World War II Spitfire that has spent the last few years in a garden in Oxford has failed to reach its asking price at auction in Surrey. | 17086036 | Summarize the following news within 52 words:
The aircraft, nicknamed "Bette" after one of its pilot's girlfriends, was built in 1941 from donations from the Borough of Lambeth Spitfire Fund.
It was stationed in Cornwall, Hampshire, Norfolk and Shropshire during the war but crashed in 1944.
Bidding stalled below its £120,000 to £150,000 valuation.
The aircraft saw service with four RAF squadrons between 1941 and 1944 and was flown by author Alec Lumsden, who gave it the name Bette and added a character from the Daily Mirror cartoon strip 'Just Jake' to the paint work.
After it crashed in Shropshire in September 1944, killing its Australian pilot, its wreckage was taken to Ibsley museum, Ringwood, Hampshire and displayed.
The aircraft was later passed to a collector who showed it at events. It has also been immortalised by modelmakers Airfix and Revell.
John Tomlin, from Historics at Brooklands, said: "The historical side of war birds is an up-and-coming market. There are now about 42 flying Spitfires and this seems to be increasing ever year.
"The rarity, the history and the provenance of all these aircraft make them very investable items and they're investments that can be used and enjoyed by a lot of people."
Experts believe it would cost about £1.8m to fully restore the plane.
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Korean firm Doosan Power Systems is to locate a research centre in Renfrew employing up to 200 people.
It also wants to build a manufacturing plant in Scotland, creating up to 500 direct jobs and 1,000 supply-side jobs.
Renfrew-based Steel Engineering aims to double its 120 staff by opening a new plant and building a mini-port for ships on the River Clyde.
By Douglas FraserBBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor
It's taken a lot of huffing and puffing, but at last the economic wind turbine is turning.
And it looks good for Clydeside that it has attracted four large multi-national firms to locate key bases there.
Mitsubishi and Scottish & Southern Energy have a joint centre for engineering excellence in Glasgow, Iberdrola has opted to put its international renewables planning centre near its ScottishPower subsidiary. Also from Spain, Gamesa has opted for Glasgow as a research base, while looking at Dundee for manufacturing and logistic support.
The biggest commitment so far is from Doosan Power Systems, a subsidiary of the vast Doosan conglomerate based in South Korea. It is new into the wind turbine business, though it's not new to green energy research, as a partner with Scottish & Southern Energy on early stages of commercialising carbon capture and storage.
The research and development centre comes first, with 500 jobs to follow in a turbine manufacturing plant. So far Scotland's only had one such plant, near Campbeltown, and it's had a troubled couple of years, with three owners. So Doosan's statement of intent is a sign that the green jobs potential and hopes may be moving towards reality.
The jobs announcements were made by both companies, who were visited by First Minister Alex Salmond.
Doosan intends to locate its research and development centre for renewables at its current site at Westway in Renfrew, creating up to 200 jobs.
The Korean firm is also in talks with the business development agency, Scottish Enterprise, to set up manufacturing and assembly facilities in Scotland - its favoured location for wind turbine development and production.
Doosan expects its offshore wind plans in Scotland to create up to 1,700 new jobs.
The firm aims to directly recruit about 700 new staff, with a further 1,000 employed in associated supply companies.
In a separate announcement, Steel Engineering, which is also based at Westway in Renfrew, said it aimed to create 120 jobs by expanding its business servicing a range of clean energy sectors, including offshore wind, wave and tidal power.
The firm is getting a £1.8m government grant towards the £3m investment.
Steel Engineering is also in talks with Skills Development Scotland about developing a training school with Anniesland College in Glasgow.
This would aim to provide training tailored to the latest fabrication techniques, and welding procedures required by the renewables industry.
Mr Salmond said both announcements were "great news for Renfrew and for the wider Scottish economy".
He described the Doosan initiatives as "another great stride forward for the renewables industry in Scotland - which is now the chosen destination for three energy engineering giants to design their next generation of turbines to service the global offshore wind industry".
The first minister added: "Scotland also plays a key role in the energy industry supply chain and Steel Engineering are an excellent example of how Scottish companies with great experience servicing the offshore oil and gas industry have been building the renewables side of their business." | Expansion plans by two engineering firms could create 820 new jobs in Scotland's renewable energy sector. | 12817789 | Summarize the following news within 142 words:
Korean firm Doosan Power Systems is to locate a research centre in Renfrew employing up to 200 people.
It also wants to build a manufacturing plant in Scotland, creating up to 500 direct jobs and 1,000 supply-side jobs.
Renfrew-based Steel Engineering aims to double its 120 staff by opening a new plant and building a mini-port for ships on the River Clyde.
By Douglas FraserBBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor
It's taken a lot of huffing and puffing, but at last the economic wind turbine is turning.
And it looks good for Clydeside that it has attracted four large multi-national firms to locate key bases there.
Mitsubishi and Scottish & Southern Energy have a joint centre for engineering excellence in Glasgow, Iberdrola has opted to put its international renewables planning centre near its ScottishPower subsidiary. Also from Spain, Gamesa has opted for Glasgow as a research base, while looking at Dundee for manufacturing and logistic support.
The biggest commitment so far is from Doosan Power Systems, a subsidiary of the vast Doosan conglomerate based in South Korea. It is new into the wind turbine business, though it's not new to green energy research, as a partner with Scottish & Southern Energy on early stages of commercialising carbon capture and storage.
The research and development centre comes first, with 500 jobs to follow in a turbine manufacturing plant. So far Scotland's only had one such plant, near Campbeltown, and it's had a troubled couple of years, with three owners. So Doosan's statement of intent is a sign that the green jobs potential and hopes may be moving towards reality.
The jobs announcements were made by both companies, who were visited by First Minister Alex Salmond.
Doosan intends to locate its research and development centre for renewables at its current site at Westway in Renfrew, creating up to 200 jobs.
The Korean firm is also in talks with the business development agency, Scottish Enterprise, to set up manufacturing and assembly facilities in Scotland - its favoured location for wind turbine development and production.
Doosan expects its offshore wind plans in Scotland to create up to 1,700 new jobs.
The firm aims to directly recruit about 700 new staff, with a further 1,000 employed in associated supply companies.
In a separate announcement, Steel Engineering, which is also based at Westway in Renfrew, said it aimed to create 120 jobs by expanding its business servicing a range of clean energy sectors, including offshore wind, wave and tidal power.
The firm is getting a £1.8m government grant towards the £3m investment.
Steel Engineering is also in talks with Skills Development Scotland about developing a training school with Anniesland College in Glasgow.
This would aim to provide training tailored to the latest fabrication techniques, and welding procedures required by the renewables industry.
Mr Salmond said both announcements were "great news for Renfrew and for the wider Scottish economy".
He described the Doosan initiatives as "another great stride forward for the renewables industry in Scotland - which is now the chosen destination for three energy engineering giants to design their next generation of turbines to service the global offshore wind industry".
The first minister added: "Scotland also plays a key role in the energy industry supply chain and Steel Engineering are an excellent example of how Scottish companies with great experience servicing the offshore oil and gas industry have been building the renewables side of their business."
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The boar - which has a moving head - is one of a number of animated replica creatures at Mountfitchet Castle.
Staff at the site, an open air museum, were surprised to find two nests had been created next to the arc of its belly.
Owner Jeremy Goldsmith said seeing the hatched chicks on Thursday morning had been a "lovely surprise" for staff.
He said it remained unclear why the hens had made the nests next to the boar, though it was likely they chose it because it was a secluded spot with straw, and perhaps for a sense of protection from the replica animal
The chicks have been seen playing on top of the boar's back and head. | A castle has welcomed 20 chicks to its grounds after hens nested next to a lifelike replica boar. | 32531686 | Summarize the following news within 29 words:
The boar - which has a moving head - is one of a number of animated replica creatures at Mountfitchet Castle.
Staff at the site, an open air museum, were surprised to find two nests had been created next to the arc of its belly.
Owner Jeremy Goldsmith said seeing the hatched chicks on Thursday morning had been a "lovely surprise" for staff.
He said it remained unclear why the hens had made the nests next to the boar, though it was likely they chose it because it was a secluded spot with straw, and perhaps for a sense of protection from the replica animal
The chicks have been seen playing on top of the boar's back and head.
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While it limits recruitment from outside the EU, it has "stimulated recruitment" from EU countries, the home affairs select committee said.
Net migration rose by 30% in the year to June, to 336,000 - more than three times David Cameron's intended target.
The PM has said he will not abandon his aim to reduce the figure to 100,000.
Under the immigration cap, introduced in 2011, the number of "tier 2" visas issued to skilled workers from non-EU countries is limited to 20,700 a year.
But a report by the select committee concluded the limit had been "counter-productive".
It added that "a large number" of applications from nurses with job offers in the UK were being rejected because of limits on the number of visas issued each month.
Committee chairman Keith Vaz said the government's immigration cap was having "no effect" on bringing down net migration - the difference between those coming into the country and those going out each year - but "could have caused a crisis in the NHS this winter".
He said: "When the cap was reached earlier this year, we saw the perverse effects of the system, as the cap prioritises higher-paid jobs.
"In June, nurses were being prevented from working in the UK, which necessitated the government taking emergency measures to allow recruitment to continue.
"Whilst this was a very welcome move, it is clear to see that the system could have caused a crisis in the NHS this winter.
"A system which encourages panicked adjustments to be functional is not fit for purpose. Nurses should remain on the shortage occupation list."
A total of 641,000 people moved to the UK in 2014, the Office for National Statistics said. | The government's immigration cap on skilled workers has had no effect on bringing down net migration and is not "fit for purpose", MPs say. | 35128149 | Summarize the following news within 70 words:
While it limits recruitment from outside the EU, it has "stimulated recruitment" from EU countries, the home affairs select committee said.
Net migration rose by 30% in the year to June, to 336,000 - more than three times David Cameron's intended target.
The PM has said he will not abandon his aim to reduce the figure to 100,000.
Under the immigration cap, introduced in 2011, the number of "tier 2" visas issued to skilled workers from non-EU countries is limited to 20,700 a year.
But a report by the select committee concluded the limit had been "counter-productive".
It added that "a large number" of applications from nurses with job offers in the UK were being rejected because of limits on the number of visas issued each month.
Committee chairman Keith Vaz said the government's immigration cap was having "no effect" on bringing down net migration - the difference between those coming into the country and those going out each year - but "could have caused a crisis in the NHS this winter".
He said: "When the cap was reached earlier this year, we saw the perverse effects of the system, as the cap prioritises higher-paid jobs.
"In June, nurses were being prevented from working in the UK, which necessitated the government taking emergency measures to allow recruitment to continue.
"Whilst this was a very welcome move, it is clear to see that the system could have caused a crisis in the NHS this winter.
"A system which encourages panicked adjustments to be functional is not fit for purpose. Nurses should remain on the shortage occupation list."
A total of 641,000 people moved to the UK in 2014, the Office for National Statistics said.
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The breakdown service, which also reported a rise in personal memberships of 0.4% to 3,335,000 in the six months to the end of January, said it had so far absorbed the price rise.
Insurance premium tax (IPT) was 6% in 2015, but is going up to 12% from June.
The AA said it would look at its fees if the tax increased again.
"We have managed to protect our members," the AA explained. "But this is an industry-wide challenge and we will need to review our pricing policy in the context of any future increase in IPT."
The increase in memberships - an "important milestone", according to the company - halted a long-standing drop in figures.
It came after the AA signed up more members, with a 19% rise in new business year-on-year, and kept more existing customers, with its retention rate improving to 82%.
It added that there was a 5% rise in the number of breakdown call-outs in the 12 months to the end of January, again reversing a trend of gradual decline, which it described as "unhelpful for costs in the short term".
However, the company explained that this did increase the chances of people renewing their membership.
The AA has been investing in technology, with more than a fifth of its members (22%) using its app in breakdowns, while its newly-launched in-house underwriter recorded 115,000 car insurance policies in its first year, more than expected. | The AA has warned that it may have to raise its prices because the government has doubled the tax rate on insurance policies in less than two years. | 38904084 | Summarize the following news within 59 words:
The breakdown service, which also reported a rise in personal memberships of 0.4% to 3,335,000 in the six months to the end of January, said it had so far absorbed the price rise.
Insurance premium tax (IPT) was 6% in 2015, but is going up to 12% from June.
The AA said it would look at its fees if the tax increased again.
"We have managed to protect our members," the AA explained. "But this is an industry-wide challenge and we will need to review our pricing policy in the context of any future increase in IPT."
The increase in memberships - an "important milestone", according to the company - halted a long-standing drop in figures.
It came after the AA signed up more members, with a 19% rise in new business year-on-year, and kept more existing customers, with its retention rate improving to 82%.
It added that there was a 5% rise in the number of breakdown call-outs in the 12 months to the end of January, again reversing a trend of gradual decline, which it described as "unhelpful for costs in the short term".
However, the company explained that this did increase the chances of people renewing their membership.
The AA has been investing in technology, with more than a fifth of its members (22%) using its app in breakdowns, while its newly-launched in-house underwriter recorded 115,000 car insurance policies in its first year, more than expected.
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For most footballers, the recovery time they get after training and between matches usually means plenty of golf, or computer games.
But saving birds by re-homing them after they have finished their commercial lives is what keeps Wales international Allen busy.
"The football can threaten to take over at times but spending time with my family and pets is very important to me so I always find a way to get the right balance," he told the British Hen Welfare Trust publication.
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Allen, though, isn't the only professional player using his downtime in a different way.
Arsenal goalkeeper Cech fills his time by performing fills - on his drum kit. The Czech Republic international posts videos online showing him drumming along to rock bands like the Foo Fighters.
He credits drumming with improving his keeping skills too, recently telling the Arsenal Weekly podcast: "It is especially useful for a goalkeeper. There are so many things I learn on the drums that I can use in goalkeeping as well, because the hand-eye coordination and the independence on each of the limbs is helpful."
Cech showed off his musical skills in a Christmas video for the Arsenal foundation, alongside team-mates Alexis Sanchez and Nacho Monreal.
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The former Liverpool defender is now playing back home in Denmark, at Brondby. The prototype inked footballer was one of the first to sport tattoo sleeves but is also capable of etching his designs onto others - he's a qualified tattoo artist.
The Russian ex-Arsenal forward is still playing for Kairat at the age of 34, but when his career ends he can still fall back on the fashion design skills he learned at university, where his thesis was on tracksuit design. Turns out he's pretty handy with a needle and thread, too.
Tottenham and Manchester United fans used to say he was an artist when he played in the Premier League. Now playing for PAOK in Greece, the Bulgarian striker is as deft with a pencil in his hand as he is with the ball at his feet. He has posted sketches of rapper Snoop Dogg, actor Marlon Brando and the Breaking Bad cast to his social media accounts.
The Everton full-back, 35, has not made a first-team appearance this season, which will have given him more time to focus on his carp fishing empire.
Like Allen, Hibbert was a cover star of a non-football magazine - the Angling Times - in 2013 after catching a 42lb beast at his private fishery in France - the aptly named Lac de Premiere.
An ex-Millwall centre-half with a love of felines.
The 37-year-old former Premier League defender is now captain at League Two Yeovil Town, but has a family business on the side - a cattery in Hertfordshire.
BBC Sport visited the cats home in 2011 and Ward said: "Playing for Millwall you've got to be thick-skinned. You do get some eyebrows raised and a few giggles."
Put a plate full of wild mushrooms in front of ex-Barcelona and Spain great Xavi Hernandez, and he'll be able to name every one.
The 36-year-old, now with Al Sadd in Qatar, loves nothing more than foraging for fungi - or to give it its official term: mycology.
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts for the Six Nations, your football team and more. | Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen has ruffled a few feathers by appearing on the front cover of Chicken & Egg magazine. | 35871753 | Summarize the following news within 148 words:
For most footballers, the recovery time they get after training and between matches usually means plenty of golf, or computer games.
But saving birds by re-homing them after they have finished their commercial lives is what keeps Wales international Allen busy.
"The football can threaten to take over at times but spending time with my family and pets is very important to me so I always find a way to get the right balance," he told the British Hen Welfare Trust publication.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Allen, though, isn't the only professional player using his downtime in a different way.
Arsenal goalkeeper Cech fills his time by performing fills - on his drum kit. The Czech Republic international posts videos online showing him drumming along to rock bands like the Foo Fighters.
He credits drumming with improving his keeping skills too, recently telling the Arsenal Weekly podcast: "It is especially useful for a goalkeeper. There are so many things I learn on the drums that I can use in goalkeeping as well, because the hand-eye coordination and the independence on each of the limbs is helpful."
Cech showed off his musical skills in a Christmas video for the Arsenal foundation, alongside team-mates Alexis Sanchez and Nacho Monreal.
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The former Liverpool defender is now playing back home in Denmark, at Brondby. The prototype inked footballer was one of the first to sport tattoo sleeves but is also capable of etching his designs onto others - he's a qualified tattoo artist.
The Russian ex-Arsenal forward is still playing for Kairat at the age of 34, but when his career ends he can still fall back on the fashion design skills he learned at university, where his thesis was on tracksuit design. Turns out he's pretty handy with a needle and thread, too.
Tottenham and Manchester United fans used to say he was an artist when he played in the Premier League. Now playing for PAOK in Greece, the Bulgarian striker is as deft with a pencil in his hand as he is with the ball at his feet. He has posted sketches of rapper Snoop Dogg, actor Marlon Brando and the Breaking Bad cast to his social media accounts.
The Everton full-back, 35, has not made a first-team appearance this season, which will have given him more time to focus on his carp fishing empire.
Like Allen, Hibbert was a cover star of a non-football magazine - the Angling Times - in 2013 after catching a 42lb beast at his private fishery in France - the aptly named Lac de Premiere.
An ex-Millwall centre-half with a love of felines.
The 37-year-old former Premier League defender is now captain at League Two Yeovil Town, but has a family business on the side - a cattery in Hertfordshire.
BBC Sport visited the cats home in 2011 and Ward said: "Playing for Millwall you've got to be thick-skinned. You do get some eyebrows raised and a few giggles."
Put a plate full of wild mushrooms in front of ex-Barcelona and Spain great Xavi Hernandez, and he'll be able to name every one.
The 36-year-old, now with Al Sadd in Qatar, loves nothing more than foraging for fungi - or to give it its official term: mycology.
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Justin Welby made the announcement after a meeting of primates from the Anglican Communion in Canterbury.
In the UK, an act of Parliament passed in 1928 allowed for Easter Sunday to be fixed on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April.
However, this has never been activated and Easter has remained variable, determined by the moon's cycle.
Easter is the most important Christian festival, as it celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ following his death by crucifixion on Good Friday.
The archbishop said he was in talks with Pope Francis, Coptic leader Pope Tawadros, and the leader of the Orthodox church Patriarch Bartholomew.
Mr Welby said he hoped the change would happen "in between five and 10 years time".
"I would love to see it before I retired", he said, although he warned the first attempt to make such a change was in the 10th Century.
An Anglican source told the BBC there had been 15 attempts to agree a common date since then.
Easter is on the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon following the spring equinox, meaning it can be celebrated on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April.
But the Orthodox church follows the Julian calendar, hence has later Easter celebrations compared with those of Western Christianity.
In 1990, the Vatican approved a proposal for a fixed date, which was subject to agreement with other Christian churches and governments. It has not yet been reached. | The Archbishop of Canterbury is working with other Christian churches to agree on a fixed date for Easter. | 35326237 | Summarize the following news within 60 words:
Justin Welby made the announcement after a meeting of primates from the Anglican Communion in Canterbury.
In the UK, an act of Parliament passed in 1928 allowed for Easter Sunday to be fixed on the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April.
However, this has never been activated and Easter has remained variable, determined by the moon's cycle.
Easter is the most important Christian festival, as it celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ following his death by crucifixion on Good Friday.
The archbishop said he was in talks with Pope Francis, Coptic leader Pope Tawadros, and the leader of the Orthodox church Patriarch Bartholomew.
Mr Welby said he hoped the change would happen "in between five and 10 years time".
"I would love to see it before I retired", he said, although he warned the first attempt to make such a change was in the 10th Century.
An Anglican source told the BBC there had been 15 attempts to agree a common date since then.
Easter is on the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon following the spring equinox, meaning it can be celebrated on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April.
But the Orthodox church follows the Julian calendar, hence has later Easter celebrations compared with those of Western Christianity.
In 1990, the Vatican approved a proposal for a fixed date, which was subject to agreement with other Christian churches and governments. It has not yet been reached.
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The anti-IS group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said a water pumping station had been hit, along with the Taj Hall and Furousiya area.
IS-linked news agency Amaq also said Raqqa's water supply had been cut.
Russia said its bombers had targeted an arms depot, a chemical weapons factory and a training camp.
A defence ministry statement said the strikes had inflicted "significant damage" and that a large number of militants had been killed.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), whose activists have reported on developments on the ground in Raqqa since IS militants seized control of the city in early 2014, said the water pumping station hit in Thursday's strikes was located in the nearby village of Kasrat.
Residents found their water had been cut off "totally" afterwards, it added.
Amaq also reported the "interruption of the water supply in all neighbourhoods".
RBSS said 20 civilians had been killed and 50 others wounded in the air strikes, but the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll higher.
It said 24 civilians had died, along with six others whose identities could not yet be confirmed.
Raqqa, estimated to have a population of between 250,000 and 500,000, has become the de facto capital of the "caliphate" whose creation was proclaimed by IS two years ago after it took control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
IS militants are currently under pressure from two separate offensives west and north-west of Raqqa by Russian-backed Syrian government forces and an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by the US. | Air strikes on so-called Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa have cut the city's water supply, with 20 civilians reported dead. | 37044615 | Summarize the following news within 65 words:
The anti-IS group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said a water pumping station had been hit, along with the Taj Hall and Furousiya area.
IS-linked news agency Amaq also said Raqqa's water supply had been cut.
Russia said its bombers had targeted an arms depot, a chemical weapons factory and a training camp.
A defence ministry statement said the strikes had inflicted "significant damage" and that a large number of militants had been killed.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), whose activists have reported on developments on the ground in Raqqa since IS militants seized control of the city in early 2014, said the water pumping station hit in Thursday's strikes was located in the nearby village of Kasrat.
Residents found their water had been cut off "totally" afterwards, it added.
Amaq also reported the "interruption of the water supply in all neighbourhoods".
RBSS said 20 civilians had been killed and 50 others wounded in the air strikes, but the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll higher.
It said 24 civilians had died, along with six others whose identities could not yet be confirmed.
Raqqa, estimated to have a population of between 250,000 and 500,000, has become the de facto capital of the "caliphate" whose creation was proclaimed by IS two years ago after it took control of large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
IS militants are currently under pressure from two separate offensives west and north-west of Raqqa by Russian-backed Syrian government forces and an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by the US.
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Now, as Jaguar Land Rover announces plans to create an extra 1,700 jobs at its base in Solihull - on top of 800 created in January - is the West Midlands town becoming "Land Rover Land"?
Discovery, Defender, and Freelander models line the leafy cul-de-sacs that surround the plant on the outskirts of the town centre.
Families talk about the difficulty of finding their cars in supermarket car parks because there are now so many of the same cars from the same company.
Even Solihull Council is in on the act, with the mayoral car being - of course - a black 2013 Range Rover Vogue.
"Suddenly they are everywhere, throughout the streets of Solihull," said mayor Joe Tildesley.
"I look out the window and it's the first car I see. It's a status vehicle people aspire to have.
"They are here and are - quite properly - endorsed by many people, including the council. I don't see it as a bad thing."
Mother-of-three Julie Henn, lives in Nerstal Drive in Solihull, just a stone's throw away from the Jaguar Land Rover site.
The 55-year-old said she regretted leaving her Land Rover behind so much when she moved to the UK from South Africa about eight years ago that she ended up buying a replacement soon afterwards. Her husband is now hoping to buy a new one as well.
"There was not a day that went by when I did not regret it," she said.
"Now I can't believe how many there are. On Saturday I saw four in a row.
"A Range Rover, two Discoveries and a Freelander - one after the other."
Mrs Henn said she knew people who struggled to find their Land Rovers in supermarket car parks because they were so common.
Mother-of two Joanne Rumney, who lives around the corner in Oakslade Drive, owns a Land Rover Discovery from the 1990s.
"People are proud to have JLR here," said the 38-year-old.
"It has a status that people like. They are good family cars."
Jaguar Land Rover, which also has manufacturing bases in Castle Bromwich and Halewood on Merseyside, has said the latest announcement will bring the total number of jobs it has created in the UK over the past three years to almost 11,000.
Mr Tildesley said the firm's investment had "undoubtedly" boosted Solihull with other firms benefiting from knock-on trade.
Rachael Eade, from the Manufacturing Advisory Service, said every job created by vehicle manufacturers leads to two or three in the supply chain.
"It's a huge confidence booster locally and UK-wide," she said.
"It's 1,700 jobs and three times that in the supply chain.
"I think the new technology involved will attract a new, younger market and will make a difference to the supply chain.
"Younger people have more of a desire to be involved in that as they probably view car manufacturing to be a bit dusty, dirty and not for them."
But not everyone is happy.
Some shops said the expansion had brought with it increased parking problems.
Terry Cosma, manager of Solihull Fish Bar in Hob's Moat Road, said: "I have not noticed any change in business. We have always had a steady flow of JLR workers.
"The big problem is the lack of parking round here. They are along the pavements, the grass verges, sometimes it's difficult to get into the side roads."
Julie Jones, who works at Trev's Hairdressers, also in Hob's Moat Road, said: "The parking is ridiculous - diabolical.
"There is nowhere for us to go because all the Land Rover workers are there."
In 2005, MG Rover based at Longbridge, less than 10 miles from Solihull, went into administration. About 14,000 people employed by the Rover group were based at the site.
But Ms Eade said she did not believe Solihull would suffer a similar fate and collapse if JLR's fortunes changed in the future.
"The automotive industry has learnt lessons from MG Rover," she said.
"They are not as heavily reliant on one customer now and if you are a designer you probably work for JLR, Mini, JCB, Ford.
"I don't think the bubble will burst for the foreseeable future." | Swindon is known by some as "Honda Town" and Detroit as "Motor City". | 24030689 | Summarize the following news within 173 words:
Now, as Jaguar Land Rover announces plans to create an extra 1,700 jobs at its base in Solihull - on top of 800 created in January - is the West Midlands town becoming "Land Rover Land"?
Discovery, Defender, and Freelander models line the leafy cul-de-sacs that surround the plant on the outskirts of the town centre.
Families talk about the difficulty of finding their cars in supermarket car parks because there are now so many of the same cars from the same company.
Even Solihull Council is in on the act, with the mayoral car being - of course - a black 2013 Range Rover Vogue.
"Suddenly they are everywhere, throughout the streets of Solihull," said mayor Joe Tildesley.
"I look out the window and it's the first car I see. It's a status vehicle people aspire to have.
"They are here and are - quite properly - endorsed by many people, including the council. I don't see it as a bad thing."
Mother-of-three Julie Henn, lives in Nerstal Drive in Solihull, just a stone's throw away from the Jaguar Land Rover site.
The 55-year-old said she regretted leaving her Land Rover behind so much when she moved to the UK from South Africa about eight years ago that she ended up buying a replacement soon afterwards. Her husband is now hoping to buy a new one as well.
"There was not a day that went by when I did not regret it," she said.
"Now I can't believe how many there are. On Saturday I saw four in a row.
"A Range Rover, two Discoveries and a Freelander - one after the other."
Mrs Henn said she knew people who struggled to find their Land Rovers in supermarket car parks because they were so common.
Mother-of two Joanne Rumney, who lives around the corner in Oakslade Drive, owns a Land Rover Discovery from the 1990s.
"People are proud to have JLR here," said the 38-year-old.
"It has a status that people like. They are good family cars."
Jaguar Land Rover, which also has manufacturing bases in Castle Bromwich and Halewood on Merseyside, has said the latest announcement will bring the total number of jobs it has created in the UK over the past three years to almost 11,000.
Mr Tildesley said the firm's investment had "undoubtedly" boosted Solihull with other firms benefiting from knock-on trade.
Rachael Eade, from the Manufacturing Advisory Service, said every job created by vehicle manufacturers leads to two or three in the supply chain.
"It's a huge confidence booster locally and UK-wide," she said.
"It's 1,700 jobs and three times that in the supply chain.
"I think the new technology involved will attract a new, younger market and will make a difference to the supply chain.
"Younger people have more of a desire to be involved in that as they probably view car manufacturing to be a bit dusty, dirty and not for them."
But not everyone is happy.
Some shops said the expansion had brought with it increased parking problems.
Terry Cosma, manager of Solihull Fish Bar in Hob's Moat Road, said: "I have not noticed any change in business. We have always had a steady flow of JLR workers.
"The big problem is the lack of parking round here. They are along the pavements, the grass verges, sometimes it's difficult to get into the side roads."
Julie Jones, who works at Trev's Hairdressers, also in Hob's Moat Road, said: "The parking is ridiculous - diabolical.
"There is nowhere for us to go because all the Land Rover workers are there."
In 2005, MG Rover based at Longbridge, less than 10 miles from Solihull, went into administration. About 14,000 people employed by the Rover group were based at the site.
But Ms Eade said she did not believe Solihull would suffer a similar fate and collapse if JLR's fortunes changed in the future.
"The automotive industry has learnt lessons from MG Rover," she said.
"They are not as heavily reliant on one customer now and if you are a designer you probably work for JLR, Mini, JCB, Ford.
"I don't think the bubble will burst for the foreseeable future."
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The 22-year-old has not appeared for Shrewsbury this season, but has played once for Mansfield Town and four times for Wrexham while on loan.
Bolton youth product Caton has also played for Blackpool and has loan spells with Accrington and Chester before joining Shrewsbury in 2014.
Caton follows Jamie McCombe, 33, in signing for the National League side.
The centre-back, who played 101 games for the club during his first spell, has left Stevenage and signed a contract until the end of the 2016-17 season. | Lincoln City have signed Shrewsbury winger James Caton on loan until the end of the season. | 35444523 | Summarize the following news within 21 words:
The 22-year-old has not appeared for Shrewsbury this season, but has played once for Mansfield Town and four times for Wrexham while on loan.
Bolton youth product Caton has also played for Blackpool and has loan spells with Accrington and Chester before joining Shrewsbury in 2014.
Caton follows Jamie McCombe, 33, in signing for the National League side.
The centre-back, who played 101 games for the club during his first spell, has left Stevenage and signed a contract until the end of the 2016-17 season.
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The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block a lower-court ruling that halted the order.
Mr Trump responded with an angry tweet saying national security was at risk and there would be a legal challenge.
But the 3-0 unanimous ruling said the government had not proved the terror threat justified reviving the ban.
The ruling means that people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen with visas can continue to enter the US.
And refugees from around the world, who were also subject to a temporary ban, are no longer blocked either.
The case is now likely to end up at the highest court, the US Supreme Court.
They rejected the argument, made by the Justice Department on behalf of the US government, that the president had sole discretion to set immigration policy.
The court also said there was "no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order" had committed a terror attack in the US.
They said both sides had made compelling cases.
"On the one hand, the public has a powerful interest in national security and in the ability of an elected president to enact policies.
"And on the other, the public also has an interest in free flow of travel, in avoiding separation of families, and in freedom from discrimination."
But they said the law stripped foreign arrivals of their rights under the Constitution.
Mr Trump responded to the ruling by tweeting his dissent, and then gave an audio statement saying it was a political decision.
The Justice Department, which made representations to the appeals court on behalf of the White House, said in a statement it was "reviewing the decision and considering its options".
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who had sued over the ban, said it was a complete victory for the state.
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said: "Here in New York - the safest big city in America - we will always protect our neighbours, no matter where they came from or when they got here. Those are our values."
Donald Trump's lawyers did not make their case. In fact, according to three Ninth Circuit judges, they didn't even really try to make their case. Rather than explaining why the temporary travel ban was needed, the administration argued that the president's authority on immigration was so sweeping that they didn't have to explain why the order was necessary.
According to the court, the government was unable to say why Mr Trump's ban addressed a pressing national security threat that a temporary stay of the order would worsen. The lawyers for the challenging states, on the other hand, convinced the judges that re-imposing the order at this point would create further chaos by infringing on the due process rights of those on US soil, regardless of their immigration status.
By issuing a unanimous, unsigned opinion, the judges avoid accusations of partisan bias, as one of the three was a Republican appointee.
Mr Trump tweeted a sharp "SEE YOU IN COURT" following the decision - but which court?
An appeal to the Supreme Court seems likely, although a better move for the president may be to fight in the lower court until Judge Neil Gorsuch joins a conservative majority on the bench.
The executive order, at the end of Mr Trump's first week in office, had sparked protests and confusion as people were stopped at US borders.
Then a week later, a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order that stopped the ban in its tracks, after Washington state and Minnesota sued.
The Justice Department appealed to the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, which heard oral arguments this week.
Lawyers representing the US government argued that the ban was a "lawful exercise" of presidential authority.
But the two US states said the ban had harmed universities in their states and discriminated against Muslims.
The appeal judges did not rule on the constitutionality or the merits of the law, just on the question of its reinstatement.
The lower court in Seattle must still debate its merits and there are other legal challenges across the country. | A US appeals court has rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to reinstate his ban on visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries. | 38927175 | Summarize the following news within 173 words:
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block a lower-court ruling that halted the order.
Mr Trump responded with an angry tweet saying national security was at risk and there would be a legal challenge.
But the 3-0 unanimous ruling said the government had not proved the terror threat justified reviving the ban.
The ruling means that people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen with visas can continue to enter the US.
And refugees from around the world, who were also subject to a temporary ban, are no longer blocked either.
The case is now likely to end up at the highest court, the US Supreme Court.
They rejected the argument, made by the Justice Department on behalf of the US government, that the president had sole discretion to set immigration policy.
The court also said there was "no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order" had committed a terror attack in the US.
They said both sides had made compelling cases.
"On the one hand, the public has a powerful interest in national security and in the ability of an elected president to enact policies.
"And on the other, the public also has an interest in free flow of travel, in avoiding separation of families, and in freedom from discrimination."
But they said the law stripped foreign arrivals of their rights under the Constitution.
Mr Trump responded to the ruling by tweeting his dissent, and then gave an audio statement saying it was a political decision.
The Justice Department, which made representations to the appeals court on behalf of the White House, said in a statement it was "reviewing the decision and considering its options".
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who had sued over the ban, said it was a complete victory for the state.
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said: "Here in New York - the safest big city in America - we will always protect our neighbours, no matter where they came from or when they got here. Those are our values."
Donald Trump's lawyers did not make their case. In fact, according to three Ninth Circuit judges, they didn't even really try to make their case. Rather than explaining why the temporary travel ban was needed, the administration argued that the president's authority on immigration was so sweeping that they didn't have to explain why the order was necessary.
According to the court, the government was unable to say why Mr Trump's ban addressed a pressing national security threat that a temporary stay of the order would worsen. The lawyers for the challenging states, on the other hand, convinced the judges that re-imposing the order at this point would create further chaos by infringing on the due process rights of those on US soil, regardless of their immigration status.
By issuing a unanimous, unsigned opinion, the judges avoid accusations of partisan bias, as one of the three was a Republican appointee.
Mr Trump tweeted a sharp "SEE YOU IN COURT" following the decision - but which court?
An appeal to the Supreme Court seems likely, although a better move for the president may be to fight in the lower court until Judge Neil Gorsuch joins a conservative majority on the bench.
The executive order, at the end of Mr Trump's first week in office, had sparked protests and confusion as people were stopped at US borders.
Then a week later, a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order that stopped the ban in its tracks, after Washington state and Minnesota sued.
The Justice Department appealed to the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, which heard oral arguments this week.
Lawyers representing the US government argued that the ban was a "lawful exercise" of presidential authority.
But the two US states said the ban had harmed universities in their states and discriminated against Muslims.
The appeal judges did not rule on the constitutionality or the merits of the law, just on the question of its reinstatement.
The lower court in Seattle must still debate its merits and there are other legal challenges across the country.
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Kirklees Council had been consulting on plans to replace paid staff at seven sites in Huddersfield with volunteers.
Protesters who gathered outside a council meeting on Wednesday said a survey had showed 66% of people were opposed to the plan.
The council later said there would be no changes for three years. Campaigners said the decision was "wonderful".
The changes would have affected libraries at Honley, Golcar, Slaithwaite, Lepton, Kirkheaton, Denby Dale and Shepley.
Campaigner June Jones said replacing professional library staff with volunteers was not sustainable and was likely to have led to library closures.
Ms Jones, of Save Slaithwaite Library, said: "It's wonderful for our communities and we are going to be drinking champagne for the next week." | Planned cuts to library services in a West Yorkshire town have been scrapped following campaigns by residents. | 18177049 | Summarize the following news within 30 words:
Kirklees Council had been consulting on plans to replace paid staff at seven sites in Huddersfield with volunteers.
Protesters who gathered outside a council meeting on Wednesday said a survey had showed 66% of people were opposed to the plan.
The council later said there would be no changes for three years. Campaigners said the decision was "wonderful".
The changes would have affected libraries at Honley, Golcar, Slaithwaite, Lepton, Kirkheaton, Denby Dale and Shepley.
Campaigner June Jones said replacing professional library staff with volunteers was not sustainable and was likely to have led to library closures.
Ms Jones, of Save Slaithwaite Library, said: "It's wonderful for our communities and we are going to be drinking champagne for the next week."
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Sam Vokes turned Owls captain Glenn Loovens, squaring for strike partner Andre Gray to tap in for the visitors.
Wednesday equalised when Atdhe Nuhiu headed down Barry Bannan's centre for the onrushing Lee to tuck home.
The Clarets could have won it but Vokes could not get a clean contact on substitute Matt Taylor's ball in.
The result leaves the hosts a point outside the Championship play-offs, while Burnley are three points behind second-placed Middlesbrough, having played two games more.
Burnley had the better of the first half, Kieren Westwood saving superbly on his line from Vokes' header, although their Yorkshire opponents had a penalty appeal waved away by referee Andy Woolmer after Daniel Pudil went down in the box.
The Owls threatened more after the interval and new loan signing Aiden McGeady came on for his debut in the final few minutes after joining the club on transfer deadline day.
Wednesday have not lost in the Championship at home since the end of August, going 12 games unbeaten, and are level on points with Birmingham, who they visit on Saturday.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal:
"We tried to find the second goal but we just couldn't. I think if anyone was going to win it, it was us. We'll take the point against one of the strongest teams in the competition.
"The second half was nearer to what we can do. A draw is the correct score in my opinion, but if anyone was going to win it was us.
"The negative was that we conceded so early. The positive is that we got back into it using our heads and our hearts."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche:
"I think we arguably had the best chance of the game which we didn't take, but really both teams attempted to play on a really tough pitch. Overall, it was just about right.
"I have been pleased with the players and I'm pleased again. It's hard to dominate every game and we have dominated a lot lately.
"We were really secure in our third and the middle third, I just felt we didn't keep the ball well enough in the final third."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Burnley 1.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Burnley 1.
Attempt saved. Scott Arfield (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Vokes with a headed pass.
Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Daniel Pudil.
Foul by Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ben Mee (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Jones (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Scott Arfield (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Sam Vokes (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Burnley. Rouwen Hennings replaces Andre Gray.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Aiden McGeady replaces Ross Wallace.
Foul by Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ben Mee (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Michael Keane (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Keane (Burnley).
Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday).
Joey Barton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Lucas João replaces Atdhe Nuhiu.
Offside, Burnley. Stephen Ward tries a through ball, but Scott Arfield is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Jones (Burnley).
Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joey Barton (Burnley).
Attempt missed. Sam Vokes (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Matthew Taylor with a cross.
Attempt missed. David Jones (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Matthew Taylor (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Sheffield Wednesday. Sam Hutchinson tries a through ball, but Atdhe Nuhiu is caught offside.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday). | Kieran Lee's second-half leveller earned Sheffield Wednesday a draw and halted Burnley's charge towards the automatic Championship promotion spots. | 35406636 | Summarize the following news within 200 words:
Sam Vokes turned Owls captain Glenn Loovens, squaring for strike partner Andre Gray to tap in for the visitors.
Wednesday equalised when Atdhe Nuhiu headed down Barry Bannan's centre for the onrushing Lee to tuck home.
The Clarets could have won it but Vokes could not get a clean contact on substitute Matt Taylor's ball in.
The result leaves the hosts a point outside the Championship play-offs, while Burnley are three points behind second-placed Middlesbrough, having played two games more.
Burnley had the better of the first half, Kieren Westwood saving superbly on his line from Vokes' header, although their Yorkshire opponents had a penalty appeal waved away by referee Andy Woolmer after Daniel Pudil went down in the box.
The Owls threatened more after the interval and new loan signing Aiden McGeady came on for his debut in the final few minutes after joining the club on transfer deadline day.
Wednesday have not lost in the Championship at home since the end of August, going 12 games unbeaten, and are level on points with Birmingham, who they visit on Saturday.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal:
"We tried to find the second goal but we just couldn't. I think if anyone was going to win it, it was us. We'll take the point against one of the strongest teams in the competition.
"The second half was nearer to what we can do. A draw is the correct score in my opinion, but if anyone was going to win it was us.
"The negative was that we conceded so early. The positive is that we got back into it using our heads and our hearts."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche:
"I think we arguably had the best chance of the game which we didn't take, but really both teams attempted to play on a really tough pitch. Overall, it was just about right.
"I have been pleased with the players and I'm pleased again. It's hard to dominate every game and we have dominated a lot lately.
"We were really secure in our third and the middle third, I just felt we didn't keep the ball well enough in the final third."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Burnley 1.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 1, Burnley 1.
Attempt saved. Scott Arfield (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sam Vokes with a headed pass.
Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Daniel Pudil.
Foul by Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ben Mee (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Jones (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Attempt saved. Scott Arfield (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Sam Vokes (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Burnley. Rouwen Hennings replaces Andre Gray.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Aiden McGeady replaces Ross Wallace.
Foul by Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ben Mee (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Michael Keane (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Keane (Burnley).
Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday).
Joey Barton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. Lucas João replaces Atdhe Nuhiu.
Offside, Burnley. Stephen Ward tries a through ball, but Scott Arfield is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Glenn Loovens (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Jones (Burnley).
Kieran Lee (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joey Barton (Burnley).
Attempt missed. Sam Vokes (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Matthew Taylor with a cross.
Attempt missed. David Jones (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
Matthew Taylor (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Sheffield Wednesday. Sam Hutchinson tries a through ball, but Atdhe Nuhiu is caught offside.
Foul by Atdhe Nuhiu (Sheffield Wednesday).
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Like-for-like sales were up by 4.9% during the quarter compared with a year earlier, in part due to the continued success of meal deals.
The company said it would continue to benefit from "low cost pressures and a stronger consumer environment".
But it warned that wage pressures could drive costs up next year.
Chief executive Roger Whiteside told the BBC that the chain already paid staff more than the national minimum wage, but that rising labour costs would lead to "longer term inflationary pressure".
He said the business would "look for cost efficiencies to offset" any rising costs, but added that labour costs "held no fear for us".
Shares in Greggs opened sharply higher and continued to climb in afternoon trading.
"The good times continue to roll for Greggs, with the bakery chain posting an impressive third quarter performance, following on from a dynamic 51.3% increase in first half pre-tax profits," said George Scott at retail analyst Conlumino.
The chain said meal deals, where customers can buy a drink together with food at a discount, were proving popular, particularly at breakfast time.
Greggs has refitted 158 stores this year, while opening 65 and closing 47. The company now has 1,668 outlets.
"We have the High Street pretty well covered," Mr Whiteside said, so most new openings would be in other areas, such as motorway services and garage forecourts. | Shares in Greggs have jumped more than 10% after the bakery chain reported stronger than expected sales for the July-to-September period. | 34451796 | Summarize the following news within 57 words:
Like-for-like sales were up by 4.9% during the quarter compared with a year earlier, in part due to the continued success of meal deals.
The company said it would continue to benefit from "low cost pressures and a stronger consumer environment".
But it warned that wage pressures could drive costs up next year.
Chief executive Roger Whiteside told the BBC that the chain already paid staff more than the national minimum wage, but that rising labour costs would lead to "longer term inflationary pressure".
He said the business would "look for cost efficiencies to offset" any rising costs, but added that labour costs "held no fear for us".
Shares in Greggs opened sharply higher and continued to climb in afternoon trading.
"The good times continue to roll for Greggs, with the bakery chain posting an impressive third quarter performance, following on from a dynamic 51.3% increase in first half pre-tax profits," said George Scott at retail analyst Conlumino.
The chain said meal deals, where customers can buy a drink together with food at a discount, were proving popular, particularly at breakfast time.
Greggs has refitted 158 stores this year, while opening 65 and closing 47. The company now has 1,668 outlets.
"We have the High Street pretty well covered," Mr Whiteside said, so most new openings would be in other areas, such as motorway services and garage forecourts.
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Jung won aboard Sam, who was a late replacement when Fischertakinou contracted an infection in July.
France's Astier Nicolas took silver and American Phillip Dutton won bronze as GB's William Fox-Pitt finished 12th.
Fox-Pitt, 47, was competing just 10 months after being placed in an induced coma following a fall.
The three-time Olympic medallist, aboard Chilli Morning, produced a faultless performance in Tuesday's final show-jumping phase.
But the former world number one's medal bid had already been ruined by a disappointing performance in the cross-country phase on Monday.
He led after the dressage phase, but dropped to 21st after incurring several time penalties in the cross country.
Ireland's Jonty Evans finished ninth on Cooley Rorkes Drift.
Why not come along, meet and ride Henry the mechanical horse at some of the Official Team GB fan parks during the Rio Olympics?
Find out how to get into equestrian with our special guide.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Germany's Michael Jung retained his Olympic individual eventing title by winning gold at Rio 2016 on his second-choice horse. | 36686216 | Summarize the following news within 42 words:
Jung won aboard Sam, who was a late replacement when Fischertakinou contracted an infection in July.
France's Astier Nicolas took silver and American Phillip Dutton won bronze as GB's William Fox-Pitt finished 12th.
Fox-Pitt, 47, was competing just 10 months after being placed in an induced coma following a fall.
The three-time Olympic medallist, aboard Chilli Morning, produced a faultless performance in Tuesday's final show-jumping phase.
But the former world number one's medal bid had already been ruined by a disappointing performance in the cross-country phase on Monday.
He led after the dressage phase, but dropped to 21st after incurring several time penalties in the cross country.
Ireland's Jonty Evans finished ninth on Cooley Rorkes Drift.
Why not come along, meet and ride Henry the mechanical horse at some of the Official Team GB fan parks during the Rio Olympics?
Find out how to get into equestrian with our special guide.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox.
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A stake in a local energy business could cost from just £5, and the industry says it could generate an annual return of between 6% and 9%.
The scheme aims to reduce local opposition to renewable energy development.
It has been developed by the renewable industry alongside community groups.
The Shared Ownership Taskforce plan follows similar programmes in Denmark which have been running for more than two decades.
It applies to anything entering the planning system from Monday.
More than 70% of people in the UK nationally say they like wind farms, according to a government survey.
However, proximity often provokes a different response and the wind farms are frequently considered a blot on the landscape.
The government previously insisted that wind farm developers should give local communities £5,000 a year for every megawatt of energy installed - to support local initiatives.
The taskforce goes further by insisting that any new applications entering the planning system must offer to sell part of their business to locals - somewhere between 5 and 25%. This can be in the form of directly-owned shares, crowd-funding or debentures.
Nina Skorupska, Chief Executive, Renewable Energy Association welcomes the plan. She told BBC News: "Elsewhere in Europe this is commonplace, so we're very pleased the UK is also working towards this vision of a more open energy market."
The scheme has been promoted by the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Edward Davey. He said: "Community energy is revolutionising renewable energy development in the UK, and shared ownership will offer people the opportunity to buy in to the green energy that their own communities are producing."
The Vice-Chair of the Taskforce and an associate of Co-operatives UK, Rebecca Willis, said: "We know from our experience at grass roots level that there's a substantial appetite among local communities to invest in renewable energy."
There are, though, still likely to be areas where local people will prefer to keep their uninterrupted view than to cash in a regular dividend cheque.
Local groups facing shale gas developments in their area may regard the renewables scheme with interest.
Follow Roger Harrabin on Twitter @rharrabin | Locals could be offered the chance to buy shares in new wind farms, solar farms and hydro power stations, under new government approved guidelines. | 29879140 | Summarize the following news within 88 words:
A stake in a local energy business could cost from just £5, and the industry says it could generate an annual return of between 6% and 9%.
The scheme aims to reduce local opposition to renewable energy development.
It has been developed by the renewable industry alongside community groups.
The Shared Ownership Taskforce plan follows similar programmes in Denmark which have been running for more than two decades.
It applies to anything entering the planning system from Monday.
More than 70% of people in the UK nationally say they like wind farms, according to a government survey.
However, proximity often provokes a different response and the wind farms are frequently considered a blot on the landscape.
The government previously insisted that wind farm developers should give local communities £5,000 a year for every megawatt of energy installed - to support local initiatives.
The taskforce goes further by insisting that any new applications entering the planning system must offer to sell part of their business to locals - somewhere between 5 and 25%. This can be in the form of directly-owned shares, crowd-funding or debentures.
Nina Skorupska, Chief Executive, Renewable Energy Association welcomes the plan. She told BBC News: "Elsewhere in Europe this is commonplace, so we're very pleased the UK is also working towards this vision of a more open energy market."
The scheme has been promoted by the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Edward Davey. He said: "Community energy is revolutionising renewable energy development in the UK, and shared ownership will offer people the opportunity to buy in to the green energy that their own communities are producing."
The Vice-Chair of the Taskforce and an associate of Co-operatives UK, Rebecca Willis, said: "We know from our experience at grass roots level that there's a substantial appetite among local communities to invest in renewable energy."
There are, though, still likely to be areas where local people will prefer to keep their uninterrupted view than to cash in a regular dividend cheque.
Local groups facing shale gas developments in their area may regard the renewables scheme with interest.
Follow Roger Harrabin on Twitter @rharrabin
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The injured pets needed amputations following air rifle attacks in Cranleigh, Guildford and Woking in March and April.
Police said Franky Mills, of Long Gore in Farncombe, faces eight charges of criminal damage and eight of a firearms offence.
A five-year-old cat called Ruby was shot in the spine and put down by vets.
Another cat in Cranleigh survived but lost her eye.
Police said Mr Mills had been released on bail and is due to appear before Guildford magistrates on 9 August. | A 19-year-old man has been charged after a cat was killed and others were badly injured in shootings in Surrey. | 36786604 | Summarize the following news within 20 words:
The injured pets needed amputations following air rifle attacks in Cranleigh, Guildford and Woking in March and April.
Police said Franky Mills, of Long Gore in Farncombe, faces eight charges of criminal damage and eight of a firearms offence.
A five-year-old cat called Ruby was shot in the spine and put down by vets.
Another cat in Cranleigh survived but lost her eye.
Police said Mr Mills had been released on bail and is due to appear before Guildford magistrates on 9 August.
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Oneil Din, 27, from Coventry, got caught in a rip current and died at Crantock beach, Cornwall on 15 August.
Crantock Parish Council told the duchy in April it was "extremely concerned about the safety risks to the public".
The duchy said new warning signs were put up in 2016 and it planned to "see what more can possibly be done".
More on this story, and other Devon and Cornwall news
The duchy was involved in a series of meetings and concluded there was no "simple solution" as the area had protected status, and that re-engineering the course of a river was a complicated and long process with no guarantees of success.
The council said the beach had become more dangerous since a breakwater was damaged by storms in 2015, causing the River Gannel to change course.
Earlier this month 11 bodyboarders had to be rescued at the same beach.
The council said: "Since the river diverted, very significant movements of sand have occurred that have made bathing conditions extremely dangerous at certain states of tide and sea condition".
The council met the duchy, the National Trust and the Marine Management Organisation on 27 January to discuss the issue but no repairs were authorised.
It also wrote a letter to the duchy in April saying it remained "extremely concerned about the safety risks to the public at large on a very busy beach, especially in the summer, and the possibility of an unfortunate, and potentially fatal, situation occurring".
RNLI lifeguard supervisor John Steadman said after the recent death: "Crantock beach has some unpredictable currents at the moment due to the topography of the beach constantly changing."
The duchy, which has land in 23 counties and funds the activities of the Prince of Wales, expressed its condolences and said in a statement: "In 2016 new signs were installed to alert people to the danger of strong currents and other risks.
"We plan to meet again with the parish council, National Trust and other stakeholders to see what more can possibly be done."
The National Trust, which has responsibility for the beach above the high water mark, said it had categorised Crantock as a "higher risk" beach, "on account of the river running across the beach and the resulting rip current".
At high tide the sea covers Crantock beach, leaving sand dunes and a car park at the top of the beach. | The Duchy of Cornwall was warned of the risk of a "potentially fatal situation" at a beach it owns, ahead of a man's death there last week. | 40976577 | Summarize the following news within 100 words:
Oneil Din, 27, from Coventry, got caught in a rip current and died at Crantock beach, Cornwall on 15 August.
Crantock Parish Council told the duchy in April it was "extremely concerned about the safety risks to the public".
The duchy said new warning signs were put up in 2016 and it planned to "see what more can possibly be done".
More on this story, and other Devon and Cornwall news
The duchy was involved in a series of meetings and concluded there was no "simple solution" as the area had protected status, and that re-engineering the course of a river was a complicated and long process with no guarantees of success.
The council said the beach had become more dangerous since a breakwater was damaged by storms in 2015, causing the River Gannel to change course.
Earlier this month 11 bodyboarders had to be rescued at the same beach.
The council said: "Since the river diverted, very significant movements of sand have occurred that have made bathing conditions extremely dangerous at certain states of tide and sea condition".
The council met the duchy, the National Trust and the Marine Management Organisation on 27 January to discuss the issue but no repairs were authorised.
It also wrote a letter to the duchy in April saying it remained "extremely concerned about the safety risks to the public at large on a very busy beach, especially in the summer, and the possibility of an unfortunate, and potentially fatal, situation occurring".
RNLI lifeguard supervisor John Steadman said after the recent death: "Crantock beach has some unpredictable currents at the moment due to the topography of the beach constantly changing."
The duchy, which has land in 23 counties and funds the activities of the Prince of Wales, expressed its condolences and said in a statement: "In 2016 new signs were installed to alert people to the danger of strong currents and other risks.
"We plan to meet again with the parish council, National Trust and other stakeholders to see what more can possibly be done."
The National Trust, which has responsibility for the beach above the high water mark, said it had categorised Crantock as a "higher risk" beach, "on account of the river running across the beach and the resulting rip current".
At high tide the sea covers Crantock beach, leaving sand dunes and a car park at the top of the beach.
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But what really strikes you, especially in those initial developmental stages, is how familiar the forms look. How like an early human foetus, they appear.
"This is something you see time and time again in vertebrates, not just with mammals," says Richard Sabin, the Natural History Museum's top whale expert.
"You see these similarities in the early developmental stages and it's really not until you're halfway through the gestation - which for a humpback whale is around 11 months - that you start to see the things that make that foetus characteristically the species that it is."
Richard has a remarkable sequence of seven humpback foetuses that he's going to put on display for the NHM's major summer exhibition on cetaceans.
They go from what is essentially just a ball of cells that's perhaps only a few weeks old, all the way through to a specimen that appears to be a perfect humpback in miniature.
This larger foetus, about half a metre in length, is probably seven to eight months into the gestation period. It has everything you would expect to see in a humpback, including those long, tell-tale pectoral flippers with their nobbly tubercles.
The specimens were collected at the beginning of the 20th Century by scientists who had been sent to the Antarctic to gather data on the activities of the whaling fleets.
Their role was to understand the biology, the movements, and the ecology of whales - to appreciate the status of stocks so that the commercial returns could be maximised. It's an awkward feeling knowing that these foetuses were taken from harpooned pregnant humpbacks.
Somehow you have to console yourself with the recognition that the acquired data was ultimately what shut down that bloody industry.
"There is a story with every specimen and it may not be a very comfortable story, but it is something we have to acknowledge," says Richard.
"The thing to remember is that the data we get from these specimens we actively use for marine conservation purposes now."
Just this past week, a Swiss-led team used old whaling data to show how species had shrunk in size in the 40 years prior to the stocks collapsing. This trend signal, the team said, could be used to warn of imminent disaster in other hunted wildlife groups.
What have we learned from foetuses, specifically? A lot it seems about evolutionary biology.
"One thing we see in these humpbacks is the development of tooth buds at around four-to-five months into gestation. They're then reabsorbed to allow the baleen to start to develop," explains Richard. The baleen are the keratin plates that hang from the upper-jaw and filter the humpbacks' prey.
"So, we know from the study of these foetuses, from an evolutionary developmental perspective, that there was a time when all cetaceans were toothed and that baleen are a relatively recent development. And we've only just found the fossils that back that up."
The whales exhibition is due to open on 14 July, the day after the NHM re-opens its front entrance. The Hintze Hall has been remodelled. Its emblematic diplodocus ("Dippy") dinosaur is being replaced by a blue whale skeleton that will hang from the ceiling (Plot spoiler: I've had a sneak peek already and it looks spectacular).
So, it's certainly a timely moment to highlight the contribution of cetaceans to life on Earth.
More than 100 specimens from the London museum's collections are being set up in the institution's Waterhouse Gallery.
The exhibition will impress upon visitors the huge diversity of whales, dolphins and porpoises. It will explain their relatively short evolutionary journey, from being land animals 50 million years ago to becoming the well-adapted ocean-dwellers we know today.
And it will describe how they move, how they breathe, and how some echolocate to find their prey. It still astounds me that whales can communicate over many hundreds of kilometres.
"We want people to realise that as well as being mammals like us, they also have complex culture like us," says Richard. "This is a very new area of study that has accelerated in just the past 10 years through observations, through genetic information and the data coming from museum specimens."
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | It's a curious thing to see a group of early whale foetuses up close - to see beings so small that have the potential to become so big. | 40385783 | Summarize the following news within 176 words:
But what really strikes you, especially in those initial developmental stages, is how familiar the forms look. How like an early human foetus, they appear.
"This is something you see time and time again in vertebrates, not just with mammals," says Richard Sabin, the Natural History Museum's top whale expert.
"You see these similarities in the early developmental stages and it's really not until you're halfway through the gestation - which for a humpback whale is around 11 months - that you start to see the things that make that foetus characteristically the species that it is."
Richard has a remarkable sequence of seven humpback foetuses that he's going to put on display for the NHM's major summer exhibition on cetaceans.
They go from what is essentially just a ball of cells that's perhaps only a few weeks old, all the way through to a specimen that appears to be a perfect humpback in miniature.
This larger foetus, about half a metre in length, is probably seven to eight months into the gestation period. It has everything you would expect to see in a humpback, including those long, tell-tale pectoral flippers with their nobbly tubercles.
The specimens were collected at the beginning of the 20th Century by scientists who had been sent to the Antarctic to gather data on the activities of the whaling fleets.
Their role was to understand the biology, the movements, and the ecology of whales - to appreciate the status of stocks so that the commercial returns could be maximised. It's an awkward feeling knowing that these foetuses were taken from harpooned pregnant humpbacks.
Somehow you have to console yourself with the recognition that the acquired data was ultimately what shut down that bloody industry.
"There is a story with every specimen and it may not be a very comfortable story, but it is something we have to acknowledge," says Richard.
"The thing to remember is that the data we get from these specimens we actively use for marine conservation purposes now."
Just this past week, a Swiss-led team used old whaling data to show how species had shrunk in size in the 40 years prior to the stocks collapsing. This trend signal, the team said, could be used to warn of imminent disaster in other hunted wildlife groups.
What have we learned from foetuses, specifically? A lot it seems about evolutionary biology.
"One thing we see in these humpbacks is the development of tooth buds at around four-to-five months into gestation. They're then reabsorbed to allow the baleen to start to develop," explains Richard. The baleen are the keratin plates that hang from the upper-jaw and filter the humpbacks' prey.
"So, we know from the study of these foetuses, from an evolutionary developmental perspective, that there was a time when all cetaceans were toothed and that baleen are a relatively recent development. And we've only just found the fossils that back that up."
The whales exhibition is due to open on 14 July, the day after the NHM re-opens its front entrance. The Hintze Hall has been remodelled. Its emblematic diplodocus ("Dippy") dinosaur is being replaced by a blue whale skeleton that will hang from the ceiling (Plot spoiler: I've had a sneak peek already and it looks spectacular).
So, it's certainly a timely moment to highlight the contribution of cetaceans to life on Earth.
More than 100 specimens from the London museum's collections are being set up in the institution's Waterhouse Gallery.
The exhibition will impress upon visitors the huge diversity of whales, dolphins and porpoises. It will explain their relatively short evolutionary journey, from being land animals 50 million years ago to becoming the well-adapted ocean-dwellers we know today.
And it will describe how they move, how they breathe, and how some echolocate to find their prey. It still astounds me that whales can communicate over many hundreds of kilometres.
"We want people to realise that as well as being mammals like us, they also have complex culture like us," says Richard. "This is a very new area of study that has accelerated in just the past 10 years through observations, through genetic information and the data coming from museum specimens."
Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos
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The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to leave rates at their new, historically low, level was no surprise.
Last month the Bank halved its bank rate from 0.5% as it tried to ensure the stability of the UK's banking system in the aftermath of the June Brexit referendum vote.
That was the first rate cut since 2009.
But the Bank said again that it might cut rates further in the coming months, even though the immediate economic after-shock of the Brexit vote now appears to be weaker than first thought.
"A number of indicators of near-term economic activity have been somewhat stronger than expected," the Bank said in the minutes of its latest MPC meeting.
It added that if its economic forecasts in November were similar to those it had formulated in August, then "a majority of members expected to support a further cut in bank rate to its effective lower bound at one of the MPC's forthcoming meetings during the course of the year."
The Bank noted that a variety of economic indicators have suggested that the UK economy has shrugged off the post-referendum surprise in the short-term.
As a result, the Bank is not as gloomy about the short-term state of the economy as it was a month ago.
But it said that it still expects the pace of economic activity in the July-September period to have halved from the growth rate recorded earlier in the year.
The Bank's internal judgement is that growth in Q3 (that's July to September) will now be between 0.2% and 0.3%, a pretty chunky upgrade on its August forecast of 0.1%.
It's not an official forecast, but given the Q3 growth figure will be announced before the next meeting of the MPC in November, it is as close as we are going to get.
Looking at 2017, the MPC says it is harder to make a judgement, but if the present economic momentum continues, then expect an upgrade in growth forecasts for next year and 2018 after brutal downgrades last month.
It still says that is considering cutting interest rates again - to 0.1% - but the chances of that must be lower given the better economic news.
Read Kamal's full analysis here
Under a new timetable which replaces the long-standing practice of monthly meetings, the next MPC meeting will take place in November.
It is at that point that some City economists expect a further cut in bank rate to just 0.1%.
The latest vote of MPC members, who include the governor Mark Carney, was unanimous - at 9-0.
Suren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: "The Bank of England's decision to keep interest rates on hold was unsurprising.
"Although the post-referendum economic data has been decidedly mixed, we expect growth to slow sharply in 2017.
"We anticipate the MPC will move again to cut interest rates before the end of the year," he added.
The MPC also voted to stick with the expansion of its quantitative easing (QE) policy, which it announced in August.
That means the bank will now buy an extra £60bn of government bonds - taking the total to £435bn - along with a further £10bn of corporate bonds, as part of its continuing attempts to keep the economy from sliding into recession. | The Bank of England has left its main interest rate at 0.25% but says another cut is still a possibility. | 37373094 | Summarize the following news within 138 words:
The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to leave rates at their new, historically low, level was no surprise.
Last month the Bank halved its bank rate from 0.5% as it tried to ensure the stability of the UK's banking system in the aftermath of the June Brexit referendum vote.
That was the first rate cut since 2009.
But the Bank said again that it might cut rates further in the coming months, even though the immediate economic after-shock of the Brexit vote now appears to be weaker than first thought.
"A number of indicators of near-term economic activity have been somewhat stronger than expected," the Bank said in the minutes of its latest MPC meeting.
It added that if its economic forecasts in November were similar to those it had formulated in August, then "a majority of members expected to support a further cut in bank rate to its effective lower bound at one of the MPC's forthcoming meetings during the course of the year."
The Bank noted that a variety of economic indicators have suggested that the UK economy has shrugged off the post-referendum surprise in the short-term.
As a result, the Bank is not as gloomy about the short-term state of the economy as it was a month ago.
But it said that it still expects the pace of economic activity in the July-September period to have halved from the growth rate recorded earlier in the year.
The Bank's internal judgement is that growth in Q3 (that's July to September) will now be between 0.2% and 0.3%, a pretty chunky upgrade on its August forecast of 0.1%.
It's not an official forecast, but given the Q3 growth figure will be announced before the next meeting of the MPC in November, it is as close as we are going to get.
Looking at 2017, the MPC says it is harder to make a judgement, but if the present economic momentum continues, then expect an upgrade in growth forecasts for next year and 2018 after brutal downgrades last month.
It still says that is considering cutting interest rates again - to 0.1% - but the chances of that must be lower given the better economic news.
Read Kamal's full analysis here
Under a new timetable which replaces the long-standing practice of monthly meetings, the next MPC meeting will take place in November.
It is at that point that some City economists expect a further cut in bank rate to just 0.1%.
The latest vote of MPC members, who include the governor Mark Carney, was unanimous - at 9-0.
Suren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: "The Bank of England's decision to keep interest rates on hold was unsurprising.
"Although the post-referendum economic data has been decidedly mixed, we expect growth to slow sharply in 2017.
"We anticipate the MPC will move again to cut interest rates before the end of the year," he added.
The MPC also voted to stick with the expansion of its quantitative easing (QE) policy, which it announced in August.
That means the bank will now buy an extra £60bn of government bonds - taking the total to £435bn - along with a further £10bn of corporate bonds, as part of its continuing attempts to keep the economy from sliding into recession.
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In recent months, state media have been stressing the waters have been China's "since ancient times".
Now, state media are rolling out masses of fresh material aimed at discrediting The Hague tribunal's ruling.
State media anticipated the Permanent Court of Arbitration's findings. Almost immediately, outlets including Xinhua news agency released a prepared statement describing the decision as "illegal and invalid".
"China has repeatedly declared that the arbitration tribunal does not have jurisdiction; China neither accepts nor recognises it," Xinhua said.
It then released a government statement saying China "has territorial sovereignty and maritime rights over the South China Sea islands" and "resolutely opposes a few countries' illegal violations" - a reference to the US and its allies in the region.
But it hinted at a way forward, saying there is potential for China to enter into "joint developments" in order to "achieve win-win results" and peace and stability in the South China Sea.
State-run CCTV cited the foreign ministry's view that the tribunal proceedings were "null and void".
It featured British, Iranian, Pakistani and Lebanese experts who questioned the verdict. Oxford academic Antonios Tzanakopoulos told the TV that he did not find the tribunal's points "fully convincing".
CCTV also hinted at possible negotiations with the Philippines. It showed former Filipino ambassador Alberto Encomienda saying American interference had triggered the case. He added: "There's a lot we can do, not in terms of what China can do for us, but what we can do together for the region."
There was an immediate attempt to control online discussion in China.
In the minutes before the announcement, Sina Weibo's hashtag #SouthChinaSeaArbitration was number one in its top 10. Its landing page carried more than 170,000 posts.
Once the result was out, the hashtag disappeared from Sina's ranking.
State media and its millions of followers - including Xinhua, People's Daily and CCTV - adopted a similarly-named hashtag, #SouthChinaSeaArbitrationCase. It quickly rose to number one in the ranking, with posts overwhelmingly dismissing the Hague ruling.
Meanwhile, over at censorship-monitoring website Free Weibo, "South China Sea" became the most-censored term.
The press room was packed but the statement from Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay lasted just two minutes.
In four short paragraphs, he explained that experts were now analysing the ruling and called on all concerned to exercise "constraint and sobriety" at what he described as a "milestone decision".
There were no celebrations, hardly even a smile. And there's a reason for that.
This is not the same government that first brought this case to the Permanent Court of Arbitration three and a half years ago, in the aftermath of a standoff at Scarborough Shoal.
Two weeks ago, Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as Philippine president. All the indications are that he is more willing to seek accommodation with the Chinese than his predecessor, Benigno Aquino.
Here in Manila, many believe that the new president may have sought promises of Chinese investment, in return for a quiet, dignified response.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Chinese media have not lost time in reinforcing Beijing's insistence that it does not recognise an international tribunal's ruling against its claims to rights in the South China Sea. | 36774489 | Summarize the following news within 129 words:
In recent months, state media have been stressing the waters have been China's "since ancient times".
Now, state media are rolling out masses of fresh material aimed at discrediting The Hague tribunal's ruling.
State media anticipated the Permanent Court of Arbitration's findings. Almost immediately, outlets including Xinhua news agency released a prepared statement describing the decision as "illegal and invalid".
"China has repeatedly declared that the arbitration tribunal does not have jurisdiction; China neither accepts nor recognises it," Xinhua said.
It then released a government statement saying China "has territorial sovereignty and maritime rights over the South China Sea islands" and "resolutely opposes a few countries' illegal violations" - a reference to the US and its allies in the region.
But it hinted at a way forward, saying there is potential for China to enter into "joint developments" in order to "achieve win-win results" and peace and stability in the South China Sea.
State-run CCTV cited the foreign ministry's view that the tribunal proceedings were "null and void".
It featured British, Iranian, Pakistani and Lebanese experts who questioned the verdict. Oxford academic Antonios Tzanakopoulos told the TV that he did not find the tribunal's points "fully convincing".
CCTV also hinted at possible negotiations with the Philippines. It showed former Filipino ambassador Alberto Encomienda saying American interference had triggered the case. He added: "There's a lot we can do, not in terms of what China can do for us, but what we can do together for the region."
There was an immediate attempt to control online discussion in China.
In the minutes before the announcement, Sina Weibo's hashtag #SouthChinaSeaArbitration was number one in its top 10. Its landing page carried more than 170,000 posts.
Once the result was out, the hashtag disappeared from Sina's ranking.
State media and its millions of followers - including Xinhua, People's Daily and CCTV - adopted a similarly-named hashtag, #SouthChinaSeaArbitrationCase. It quickly rose to number one in the ranking, with posts overwhelmingly dismissing the Hague ruling.
Meanwhile, over at censorship-monitoring website Free Weibo, "South China Sea" became the most-censored term.
The press room was packed but the statement from Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay lasted just two minutes.
In four short paragraphs, he explained that experts were now analysing the ruling and called on all concerned to exercise "constraint and sobriety" at what he described as a "milestone decision".
There were no celebrations, hardly even a smile. And there's a reason for that.
This is not the same government that first brought this case to the Permanent Court of Arbitration three and a half years ago, in the aftermath of a standoff at Scarborough Shoal.
Two weeks ago, Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as Philippine president. All the indications are that he is more willing to seek accommodation with the Chinese than his predecessor, Benigno Aquino.
Here in Manila, many believe that the new president may have sought promises of Chinese investment, in return for a quiet, dignified response.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.
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The US economy grew at an annual rate of 0.2% in the first three months of the year, far lower than forecasts.
The Federal Reserve also kept interest rates at a record low, blaming the slower growth on "transitory factors".
Japan's Nikkei 225 was down 2.7% to 19,520.21, its biggest loss in nearly four months.
The market extended losses after Bank of Japan left its monetary policy unchanged, while lacklustre company earnings also had their impact on the benchmark index.
Shares in Honda fell 6.7% after it announced a fall in profit for the fiscal year to March, as it deals with recalls following exploding air-bags.
Drug maker Takeda shares fell 3% after it warned it would make a loss because of a $2.4bn US legal settlement linked to its Actos diabetes drug.
Chinese shares headed lower with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index falling 0.9% to 28,157.71, while the Shanghai Composite was 0.6% lower at 4,449.17.
Shares of AAC Technologies in Hong Kong fell 5.2% after a report in the Wall Street Journal that the Apple Watch had defective component, which was supplied by the Chinese company.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ended down 0.8% at 5,790.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.7% at 2,127.17 - marking its fifth consecutive day of losses.
Government data showed that the country's industrial output fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in March from February - missing market expectations. | Asian markets traded lower on Thursday with investor sentiment dented by a weaker than expected first quarter growth figure in the US. | 32527550 | Summarize the following news within 59 words:
The US economy grew at an annual rate of 0.2% in the first three months of the year, far lower than forecasts.
The Federal Reserve also kept interest rates at a record low, blaming the slower growth on "transitory factors".
Japan's Nikkei 225 was down 2.7% to 19,520.21, its biggest loss in nearly four months.
The market extended losses after Bank of Japan left its monetary policy unchanged, while lacklustre company earnings also had their impact on the benchmark index.
Shares in Honda fell 6.7% after it announced a fall in profit for the fiscal year to March, as it deals with recalls following exploding air-bags.
Drug maker Takeda shares fell 3% after it warned it would make a loss because of a $2.4bn US legal settlement linked to its Actos diabetes drug.
Chinese shares headed lower with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index falling 0.9% to 28,157.71, while the Shanghai Composite was 0.6% lower at 4,449.17.
Shares of AAC Technologies in Hong Kong fell 5.2% after a report in the Wall Street Journal that the Apple Watch had defective component, which was supplied by the Chinese company.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ended down 0.8% at 5,790.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.7% at 2,127.17 - marking its fifth consecutive day of losses.
Government data showed that the country's industrial output fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in March from February - missing market expectations.
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A draw was inevitable after only 86.2 overs were possible on the first four days after heavy rain in Sydney.
The West Indies, who resumed on 248-7, were 330 all out before Warner hit an 82-ball century, the quickest ever at Sydney, as Australia reached 176-2.
Australia were already 2-0 up in the series, but the draw stops them from moving top of the Test rankings.
The opening two hours of the final day were also lost to rain but Denesh Ramdin was able to complete his second half century of the match before he was caught by Steve Smith off Steve O'Keefe.
Fellow off-spinner Nathan Lyon had Kemar Roach (15) caught at short leg by Joe Burns to leave the tourists 300-9.
Lyon than snaffled a catch at point as O'Keefe removed Jerome Taylor for 13 to finish with a Test best 3-63.
In reply, Warner brought up his half century in just 42 balls with a six off Jomel Warrican but the West Indies spinner did remove Burns, who lofted a catch to Roach at mid-on to depart for 26.
Mitchell Marsh (21) top-edged a sweep to Jermaine Blackwood at slip to gift Warrican (2-62) a second wicket.
By then Warner had completed his 16th Test century but both sides elected to end the game as a draw midway through the final session. | Opener David Warner hit an unbeaten 122 as Australia drew a rain-affected third and final Test against West Indies. | 35249536 | Summarize the following news within 56 words:
A draw was inevitable after only 86.2 overs were possible on the first four days after heavy rain in Sydney.
The West Indies, who resumed on 248-7, were 330 all out before Warner hit an 82-ball century, the quickest ever at Sydney, as Australia reached 176-2.
Australia were already 2-0 up in the series, but the draw stops them from moving top of the Test rankings.
The opening two hours of the final day were also lost to rain but Denesh Ramdin was able to complete his second half century of the match before he was caught by Steve Smith off Steve O'Keefe.
Fellow off-spinner Nathan Lyon had Kemar Roach (15) caught at short leg by Joe Burns to leave the tourists 300-9.
Lyon than snaffled a catch at point as O'Keefe removed Jerome Taylor for 13 to finish with a Test best 3-63.
In reply, Warner brought up his half century in just 42 balls with a six off Jomel Warrican but the West Indies spinner did remove Burns, who lofted a catch to Roach at mid-on to depart for 26.
Mitchell Marsh (21) top-edged a sweep to Jermaine Blackwood at slip to gift Warrican (2-62) a second wicket.
By then Warner had completed his 16th Test century but both sides elected to end the game as a draw midway through the final session.
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Meanwhile more than 30,000 people in the eastern city of Halle have been told to leave their homes after rivers reached their highest level in 400 years.
Floodwater is also threatening parts of Austria and the Czech Republic.
At least 13 people have died and two are missing as a result of the floods.
Rising waters have been triggered by heavy rain following a wet spring.
Eight deaths were recorded in the Czech Republic and three in Germany, while two people were reported dead and two missing in Austria, according to a European Commission update on Tuesday evening.
Parts of Germany have not seen such severe flooding in centuries. However, in the Czech Republic, the water level has stabilised in the capital Prague, where there had been fears of a repeat of disasters in 2002 and 1997.
Helicopters started removing residents from their homes in Deggendorf on Wednesday after two levees along the Danube and Isar rivers broke.
Firefighter Alois Schraufstetter said the floodwater in the Bavarian town was 3m (9.8ft) high. "This is a life-threatening situation," he was quoted as saying by Germany's DPA news agency.
Four farmers were rescued at the very last minute by a helicopter before their tractor was submerged, he added.
German newspapers said water levels in the eastern city of Halle were at their highest for four centuries.
Officials said the city was in acute danger after floodwaters from the Saale river damaged a section of dykes.
The level of the River Elbe in the historic German city of Dresden, where at least 600 people were evacuated, is not expected to peak until Thursday morning.
Coaches reportedly ferried people out the town of Muhlberg, about 40km (25 miles) northwest of Dresden, as thousands were told to leave on Wednesday afternoon.
Chemical plants next to the swollen rivers have been shut down and their chemicals removed over safety concerns, the Associated Press reports.
Meanwhile, the floods were receding in the south German city of Passau. People could be seen sweeping up muck from their streets.
In the Austrian city of Krems, emergency workers have been shoring up a dyke under threat from the swollen Danube.
Thousands of people left their homes in the Czech Republic in recent days as floodwater threatened to overwhelm flood barriers.
In the low-lying industrial city of Usti nad Labem, the River Elbe spilled over the 10m-high (33ft-high) metal flood barriers.
The main rail link connecting Prague and Berlin in Germany have been underwater, with trains being diverted.
Anti-flood barriers have reportedly gone up to protect the Czech capital's zoo after it was badly hit, causing animals to be evacuated. | Rescuers used helicopters to pluck families from rooftops in the southern German town of Deggendorf on Wednesday as the Danube flood crisis continues. | 22779749 | Summarize the following news within 109 words:
Meanwhile more than 30,000 people in the eastern city of Halle have been told to leave their homes after rivers reached their highest level in 400 years.
Floodwater is also threatening parts of Austria and the Czech Republic.
At least 13 people have died and two are missing as a result of the floods.
Rising waters have been triggered by heavy rain following a wet spring.
Eight deaths were recorded in the Czech Republic and three in Germany, while two people were reported dead and two missing in Austria, according to a European Commission update on Tuesday evening.
Parts of Germany have not seen such severe flooding in centuries. However, in the Czech Republic, the water level has stabilised in the capital Prague, where there had been fears of a repeat of disasters in 2002 and 1997.
Helicopters started removing residents from their homes in Deggendorf on Wednesday after two levees along the Danube and Isar rivers broke.
Firefighter Alois Schraufstetter said the floodwater in the Bavarian town was 3m (9.8ft) high. "This is a life-threatening situation," he was quoted as saying by Germany's DPA news agency.
Four farmers were rescued at the very last minute by a helicopter before their tractor was submerged, he added.
German newspapers said water levels in the eastern city of Halle were at their highest for four centuries.
Officials said the city was in acute danger after floodwaters from the Saale river damaged a section of dykes.
The level of the River Elbe in the historic German city of Dresden, where at least 600 people were evacuated, is not expected to peak until Thursday morning.
Coaches reportedly ferried people out the town of Muhlberg, about 40km (25 miles) northwest of Dresden, as thousands were told to leave on Wednesday afternoon.
Chemical plants next to the swollen rivers have been shut down and their chemicals removed over safety concerns, the Associated Press reports.
Meanwhile, the floods were receding in the south German city of Passau. People could be seen sweeping up muck from their streets.
In the Austrian city of Krems, emergency workers have been shoring up a dyke under threat from the swollen Danube.
Thousands of people left their homes in the Czech Republic in recent days as floodwater threatened to overwhelm flood barriers.
In the low-lying industrial city of Usti nad Labem, the River Elbe spilled over the 10m-high (33ft-high) metal flood barriers.
The main rail link connecting Prague and Berlin in Germany have been underwater, with trains being diverted.
Anti-flood barriers have reportedly gone up to protect the Czech capital's zoo after it was badly hit, causing animals to be evacuated.
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The incident took place close to Caernarfon's Crown Court and fire station just before 09:00 BST on Thursday.
The mother-of-five was airlifted to hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.
North Wales Police has said her 46-year-old partner has been arrested.
"This is being treated as a domestic-related crime but I would like to reassure the community that a swift arrest was made," said Det Chf Insp Iestyn Davies.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said they were called at 09:00 BST to reports that a woman had been assaulted.
Police said the victim remains in a serious but stable condition.
Forensic investigations are being carried out at the location, which links nearby estates to a local primary and secondary school. | A mother walking her children to school in north Wales is in hospital with serious injuries after being attacked on a busy footpath. | 34143899 | Summarize the following news within 28 words:
The incident took place close to Caernarfon's Crown Court and fire station just before 09:00 BST on Thursday.
The mother-of-five was airlifted to hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.
North Wales Police has said her 46-year-old partner has been arrested.
"This is being treated as a domestic-related crime but I would like to reassure the community that a swift arrest was made," said Det Chf Insp Iestyn Davies.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said they were called at 09:00 BST to reports that a woman had been assaulted.
Police said the victim remains in a serious but stable condition.
Forensic investigations are being carried out at the location, which links nearby estates to a local primary and secondary school.
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Police were called to Oxlow Lane, Dagenham, at 23:00 BST on Saturday after reports of a street fight.
Officers recovered three large knives, scissors and cannabis from the "large and unpredictable" crowd, they said.
Two boys aged 17 and 15 were arrested - one on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and the other on suspicion of an assault on police.
Scotland Yard said no one had been injured at the event.
Insp Jason O'Donohue said: "By getting these knives off the street when they did, my officers have helped save lives and prevented another needless tragedy." | Two teenagers have been arrested and three knives recovered after 300 people attended a house party in east London. | 33214863 | Summarize the following news within 24 words:
Police were called to Oxlow Lane, Dagenham, at 23:00 BST on Saturday after reports of a street fight.
Officers recovered three large knives, scissors and cannabis from the "large and unpredictable" crowd, they said.
Two boys aged 17 and 15 were arrested - one on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and the other on suspicion of an assault on police.
Scotland Yard said no one had been injured at the event.
Insp Jason O'Donohue said: "By getting these knives off the street when they did, my officers have helped save lives and prevented another needless tragedy."
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Andrew Haldane said in a speech he was downbeat over the UK economy because of weaker global growth, low wage growth and financial and political risks.
"Put in rather plainer English, I am gloomier," Mr Haldane said.
"This implies interest rates could remain lower for longer, certainly than I had expected three months ago."
Global markets have tumbled this week, with investors disconcerted at the lack of growth in Europe and especially Greece, the impact of Ebola, and worrying economic data from China and the US.
Previously, UK interest rates had been expected to rise early next year.
Mr Haldane made his remarks at a speech to local business leaders in Kenilworth, where he described the UK's economy as "writhing in both agony and ecstasy".
He said there were still plenty of reasons to be cheerful. Growth is set to be the fastest of any major economy this year and inflation and borrowing costs are low, he said.
However, he said the "reasons to be fearful" included productivity and wages, which had not risen.
"If there is genuine uncertainty about the path of the economy, the optimal policy response may be to avoid the worst outcomes," said Mr Haldane.
Sterling dropped 0.5% against the dollar following his remarks. Share trading on the London market has been volatile.
Mr Haldane's caution about global economic prospects were echoed by the Chancellor, George Osborne, who told the BBC that the worldwide economy was "more unstable than it has been for some time".
Mr Osborne would not comment on Mr Haldane's remarks. But he said there were "a lot of global risks out there at the moment" affecting the international economy.
"Interest rates are entirely a matter for the independent Bank of England, the monetary policy committee there," Mr Osborne said.
He added: "I'll say this about the economy more generally - there are clearly a lot of global risks out there at the moment - we see these problems in the European economy, we've got this horrific disease Ebola in West Africa, all the problems in the Middle East and in the Ukrainian border.
"The global economy is more unstable than it has been for some time. That is all the more reason why in the UK we have to stick to the stability we have won."
He said it was important to "make sure Britain is well protected as we're in these stormy international economic waters".
Earlier this month, Mr Osborne warned that the eurozone slowdown will impact UK economy. | Interest rates should remain low to avoid long-term economic stagnation, the chief economist at the Bank of England has said. | 29656342 | Summarize the following news within 104 words:
Andrew Haldane said in a speech he was downbeat over the UK economy because of weaker global growth, low wage growth and financial and political risks.
"Put in rather plainer English, I am gloomier," Mr Haldane said.
"This implies interest rates could remain lower for longer, certainly than I had expected three months ago."
Global markets have tumbled this week, with investors disconcerted at the lack of growth in Europe and especially Greece, the impact of Ebola, and worrying economic data from China and the US.
Previously, UK interest rates had been expected to rise early next year.
Mr Haldane made his remarks at a speech to local business leaders in Kenilworth, where he described the UK's economy as "writhing in both agony and ecstasy".
He said there were still plenty of reasons to be cheerful. Growth is set to be the fastest of any major economy this year and inflation and borrowing costs are low, he said.
However, he said the "reasons to be fearful" included productivity and wages, which had not risen.
"If there is genuine uncertainty about the path of the economy, the optimal policy response may be to avoid the worst outcomes," said Mr Haldane.
Sterling dropped 0.5% against the dollar following his remarks. Share trading on the London market has been volatile.
Mr Haldane's caution about global economic prospects were echoed by the Chancellor, George Osborne, who told the BBC that the worldwide economy was "more unstable than it has been for some time".
Mr Osborne would not comment on Mr Haldane's remarks. But he said there were "a lot of global risks out there at the moment" affecting the international economy.
"Interest rates are entirely a matter for the independent Bank of England, the monetary policy committee there," Mr Osborne said.
He added: "I'll say this about the economy more generally - there are clearly a lot of global risks out there at the moment - we see these problems in the European economy, we've got this horrific disease Ebola in West Africa, all the problems in the Middle East and in the Ukrainian border.
"The global economy is more unstable than it has been for some time. That is all the more reason why in the UK we have to stick to the stability we have won."
He said it was important to "make sure Britain is well protected as we're in these stormy international economic waters".
Earlier this month, Mr Osborne warned that the eurozone slowdown will impact UK economy.
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The Taiwanese firm, also known as Foxconn Technology, posted a net profit of NT$37bn ($1.2bn; £814m) in the October to December quarter.
It also reported a 16% jump in full year profit for 2012 to NT$94.8bn.
Foxconn is the world's biggest contract electronics maker and Apple is one of its biggest clients.
According to some estimates, orders from Apple account for almost half of Foxconn's total revenue.
In the October to December quarter, Apple had sold 47.8 million iPhones, up from 37 million a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the launch of iPad mini, also boosted sales of its tablet PCs - it sold 22.9 million iPads, compared with 15.4 million in the same period in 2011.
However, the heavy reliance on Apple has also raised concerns that Foxconn's growth may slow in the coming months.
Some analysts said the rapid rate of growth that smartphones and tablet PCs had seen in recent years could not be sustained.
"In most of the developed economies, smartphones are at a mature penetration stage and tablets are pretty close to being at that stage," said Andrew Milroy of consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan.
Mr Milroy added that Apple had so far not been able to replicate the success it enjoyed in the developed economies in emerging markets.
He explained that in the emerging economies, Apple products were still very expensive and out of reach for many consumers.
At the same time, Apple is facing increased competition from other smartphone makers in those markets.
"They are being hammered by low-cost smartphones in countries such as China," he said.
The fear is that if Apple's growth rate slows, it will have a knock on effect on suppliers such as Foxconn. | Hon Hai Precision Industry, a major assembler of Apple products, has posted record quarterly profits helped by growing demand for iPhones and iPads. | 21934764 | Summarize the following news within 70 words:
The Taiwanese firm, also known as Foxconn Technology, posted a net profit of NT$37bn ($1.2bn; £814m) in the October to December quarter.
It also reported a 16% jump in full year profit for 2012 to NT$94.8bn.
Foxconn is the world's biggest contract electronics maker and Apple is one of its biggest clients.
According to some estimates, orders from Apple account for almost half of Foxconn's total revenue.
In the October to December quarter, Apple had sold 47.8 million iPhones, up from 37 million a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the launch of iPad mini, also boosted sales of its tablet PCs - it sold 22.9 million iPads, compared with 15.4 million in the same period in 2011.
However, the heavy reliance on Apple has also raised concerns that Foxconn's growth may slow in the coming months.
Some analysts said the rapid rate of growth that smartphones and tablet PCs had seen in recent years could not be sustained.
"In most of the developed economies, smartphones are at a mature penetration stage and tablets are pretty close to being at that stage," said Andrew Milroy of consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan.
Mr Milroy added that Apple had so far not been able to replicate the success it enjoyed in the developed economies in emerging markets.
He explained that in the emerging economies, Apple products were still very expensive and out of reach for many consumers.
At the same time, Apple is facing increased competition from other smartphone makers in those markets.
"They are being hammered by low-cost smartphones in countries such as China," he said.
The fear is that if Apple's growth rate slows, it will have a knock on effect on suppliers such as Foxconn.
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First, though, the German has to negotiate one of the most intense weekends of the year.
The Brazilian Grand Prix throbs with a passion and fervour matched by few others.
Interlagos and Sao Paulo are inextricably linked with Formula 1 even if the days of a winning Brazilian driver may be some time in the past.
Brazil's first legendary grand prix driver, Emerson Fittipaldi, was born there, and his successes on the world stage laid the path for all others to follow.
Ayrton Senna was, likewise, a Paulista, and is buried in Morumbi cemetery a few miles away. He was a hero to Rubens Barrichello, who grew up metres from the race track and forged his passion watching Senna there, before graduating to F1 a couple of years before his death, befriending him, and then taking up his mantle. Felipe Massa, another local boy, followed suit.
The fans know the glory days have long gone, that a Brazilian victory is as unlikely as a day without a traffic jam in one of the world's most crowded cities.
But still they come, packing the grandstands and singing and chanting from early in the day.
What draws them there? A deep-seated passion for the sport, for one. The almost-certainty of a great sporting spectacle, for another.
Interlagos has a knack for producing exciting races. Drama is synonymous with the track, not least because of its position at the business end of the season.
It is a claustrophobic place. The circuit winds around a natural amphitheatre, high on a hill, the sprawl of Sao Paulo both a backdrop and crushing in from all sides. The heavy humidity, and almost-permanent threat of rain, add to the atmosphere.
It feels locked in, and not just because of the cramped old paddock, a fraction of the size of anything Bernie Ecclestone finds acceptable these days.
The track is a splash of vibrant green in an ocean of concrete grey and smog brown; the city butting up against the perimeter fence, endless tower blocks filling the skyline.
Twenty years ago, a favela sprawled up the hill all the way to the perimeter wall. There has been an attempt to spruce things up a bit, the old corrugated-roof shacks replaced by flats closest to the circuit, houses of naked breeze blocks a bit further down the road. But down at heel, to say the least, it remains.
There is an unmistakable edge. The road up to Interlagos is not a place for a stranger to linger.
Inside, the track feels like a haven. One of the shortest laps on the calendar somehow packs in a long straight - superb for overtaking - and a challenging sequence of long corners, the best the uphill double right-hander of Ferra Dura/Laranha and the fast downhill left of Mergulho. It's a great race track, with emphasis on the "race".
They are corners with a history - the new track is about half of the old one. Part of a previous era, it was a magnificent five miles of twists and turns, uphill and down, which started with two incredible, banked, high-speed left-handers, taken absolutely flat out by some, still visible outside the modern Turns One, Two and Three.
It all adds to the character of the place. Loud, intimidating, crazy, invigorating, rough-around-the-edges. But, in its own way, brilliant.
Andrew Benson - chief F1 writer
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | The five world champions on the current grid have all secured at least one title in Brazil and on Sunday they could be joined by a sixth - if Nico Rosberg wins the race, team-mate Lewis Hamilton's hopes of an unlikely late-season comeback will be over. | 37883675 | Summarize the following news within 145 words:
First, though, the German has to negotiate one of the most intense weekends of the year.
The Brazilian Grand Prix throbs with a passion and fervour matched by few others.
Interlagos and Sao Paulo are inextricably linked with Formula 1 even if the days of a winning Brazilian driver may be some time in the past.
Brazil's first legendary grand prix driver, Emerson Fittipaldi, was born there, and his successes on the world stage laid the path for all others to follow.
Ayrton Senna was, likewise, a Paulista, and is buried in Morumbi cemetery a few miles away. He was a hero to Rubens Barrichello, who grew up metres from the race track and forged his passion watching Senna there, before graduating to F1 a couple of years before his death, befriending him, and then taking up his mantle. Felipe Massa, another local boy, followed suit.
The fans know the glory days have long gone, that a Brazilian victory is as unlikely as a day without a traffic jam in one of the world's most crowded cities.
But still they come, packing the grandstands and singing and chanting from early in the day.
What draws them there? A deep-seated passion for the sport, for one. The almost-certainty of a great sporting spectacle, for another.
Interlagos has a knack for producing exciting races. Drama is synonymous with the track, not least because of its position at the business end of the season.
It is a claustrophobic place. The circuit winds around a natural amphitheatre, high on a hill, the sprawl of Sao Paulo both a backdrop and crushing in from all sides. The heavy humidity, and almost-permanent threat of rain, add to the atmosphere.
It feels locked in, and not just because of the cramped old paddock, a fraction of the size of anything Bernie Ecclestone finds acceptable these days.
The track is a splash of vibrant green in an ocean of concrete grey and smog brown; the city butting up against the perimeter fence, endless tower blocks filling the skyline.
Twenty years ago, a favela sprawled up the hill all the way to the perimeter wall. There has been an attempt to spruce things up a bit, the old corrugated-roof shacks replaced by flats closest to the circuit, houses of naked breeze blocks a bit further down the road. But down at heel, to say the least, it remains.
There is an unmistakable edge. The road up to Interlagos is not a place for a stranger to linger.
Inside, the track feels like a haven. One of the shortest laps on the calendar somehow packs in a long straight - superb for overtaking - and a challenging sequence of long corners, the best the uphill double right-hander of Ferra Dura/Laranha and the fast downhill left of Mergulho. It's a great race track, with emphasis on the "race".
They are corners with a history - the new track is about half of the old one. Part of a previous era, it was a magnificent five miles of twists and turns, uphill and down, which started with two incredible, banked, high-speed left-handers, taken absolutely flat out by some, still visible outside the modern Turns One, Two and Three.
It all adds to the character of the place. Loud, intimidating, crazy, invigorating, rough-around-the-edges. But, in its own way, brilliant.
Andrew Benson - chief F1 writer
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Elgan Varney, 33, was accused of raping Hannah Stubbs, who was a student at Keele University, in Staffordshire.
The 22-year-old killed herself at her Stafford home in August 2015.
Judge John Fletcher cleared Mr Varney, formerly of Newcastle-under-Lyme, of two counts of rape and one of sexual assault after the CPS offered no evidence against him.
See more stories from across Stoke and Staffordshire here
During the hearing at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, prosecutor Karim Khalil QC said the decision not to continue the prosecution had been taken at the "highest level" of the CPS.
The CPS said the case had been kept under regular review and prosecutors were no longer satisfied there was a realistic prospect of conviction.
Defence counsel Ann Cotcher QC told the court Mr Varney had been "removed from his attempts at education" at Keele because of the proceedings against him.
"This is an allegation that goes back to 2014," Ms Cotcher told the brief hearing.
"The defendant was interviewed, as was the complainant, in March 2015, almost exactly two years ago."
Following the hearing, Mr Varney offered his condolences to the family of Ms Stubbs.
In a statement read out by his solicitor, Hollie Alcock, Mr Varney said: "This is not a time of celebration for me - quite simply, I should never have been charged and put through this horrendous ordeal."
He also called for a change in the law to provide anonymity to those charged with but not convicted of sexual offences.
In a statement, Ms Stubbs' parents, Paul and Mandy Stubbs, said: "We don't want what happened to Hannah to define her life or our memory of the kind and loving person that she was."
An inquest recorded a narrative verdict that she had taken her own life following post-traumatic stress.
A spokesman for the university said: "Based on today's outcome, we will be in conversation with Mr Varney over the coming weeks.
"As is standard practice, any such discussion will be confidential between the university and the student." | A man has been acquitted of raping a student who killed herself while detectives investigated the case. | 39328446 | Summarize the following news within 84 words:
Elgan Varney, 33, was accused of raping Hannah Stubbs, who was a student at Keele University, in Staffordshire.
The 22-year-old killed herself at her Stafford home in August 2015.
Judge John Fletcher cleared Mr Varney, formerly of Newcastle-under-Lyme, of two counts of rape and one of sexual assault after the CPS offered no evidence against him.
See more stories from across Stoke and Staffordshire here
During the hearing at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, prosecutor Karim Khalil QC said the decision not to continue the prosecution had been taken at the "highest level" of the CPS.
The CPS said the case had been kept under regular review and prosecutors were no longer satisfied there was a realistic prospect of conviction.
Defence counsel Ann Cotcher QC told the court Mr Varney had been "removed from his attempts at education" at Keele because of the proceedings against him.
"This is an allegation that goes back to 2014," Ms Cotcher told the brief hearing.
"The defendant was interviewed, as was the complainant, in March 2015, almost exactly two years ago."
Following the hearing, Mr Varney offered his condolences to the family of Ms Stubbs.
In a statement read out by his solicitor, Hollie Alcock, Mr Varney said: "This is not a time of celebration for me - quite simply, I should never have been charged and put through this horrendous ordeal."
He also called for a change in the law to provide anonymity to those charged with but not convicted of sexual offences.
In a statement, Ms Stubbs' parents, Paul and Mandy Stubbs, said: "We don't want what happened to Hannah to define her life or our memory of the kind and loving person that she was."
An inquest recorded a narrative verdict that she had taken her own life following post-traumatic stress.
A spokesman for the university said: "Based on today's outcome, we will be in conversation with Mr Varney over the coming weeks.
"As is standard practice, any such discussion will be confidential between the university and the student."
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Japanese-owned chemical firm Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park plant will end by March 2018.
The plant will be decommissioned in four stages over the next three years, the company said.
It is part of a move to relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, it added.
Alan Gunter, manufacturing director at the Merthyr Tydfil site, said the decision to decommission the plant had "not been taken lightly".
"I am immensely proud of our highly professional workforce and I would like to thank them all for their commitment and dedication," he said.
"We are aware that this is a difficult time for employees at the Merthyr Tydfil production plant and we will do everything to support them and their families during and after the plant's staged decommissioning.
"We will also continue to collaborate with the local authorities in the coming months." | A foam factory in Merthyr Tydfil has announced it will close with the loss of 80 jobs. | 34490947 | Summarize the following news within 36 words:
Japanese-owned chemical firm Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park plant will end by March 2018.
The plant will be decommissioned in four stages over the next three years, the company said.
It is part of a move to relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, it added.
Alan Gunter, manufacturing director at the Merthyr Tydfil site, said the decision to decommission the plant had "not been taken lightly".
"I am immensely proud of our highly professional workforce and I would like to thank them all for their commitment and dedication," he said.
"We are aware that this is a difficult time for employees at the Merthyr Tydfil production plant and we will do everything to support them and their families during and after the plant's staged decommissioning.
"We will also continue to collaborate with the local authorities in the coming months."
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The mythical ruler's legendary court has been associated with locations throughout Wales, including Carmarthen, St David's, and Cardigan.
Now a retired Bangor University professor has revealed what he believes to be the true location of Camelot.
And it turns out to be a small Roman fort at Slack, on the outskirts of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
Prof Peter Field, a renowned expert in Arthurian literature, said: "It was quite by chance. I was looking at some maps, and suddenly all the ducks lined up.
"I believe I may have solved a 1,400-year-old mystery."
Previous best guesses for the location of the round table include Caerleon in Newport, Somerset's Cadbury Castle, and Tintagel in Cornwall.
In Roman times, Slack was home to a fort called Camulodunum, which means "the fort of the god Camul".
Over the years, well-recognised linguistic processes would have reduced Camulodunum to Camelot.
Though almost forgotten and insignificant today, and even though it was abandoned and dilapidated by the relevant time of King Arthur around A.D. 500, Prof Field argues that this site at Slack would still have been considered a strategic stronghold.
At that time, Celtic-speaking Britons, who could have been led by King Arthur, held the north and the west coast against the invading Anglo-Saxons.
Slack, on the Roman road from Chester to York, would have been the ideal location from which to defend the east coast.
Prof Field added: "If there was a real King Arthur, he will have lived around AD500, although the first mention of him in Camelot is in a French poem from the Champagne region of France from 1180.
"There is no mention of Camelot in the period between those dates, known as the Dark Ages, when the country was at war, and very little was recorded.
"In this gap, people passed on information, much got lost in transmission, and people may have made up facts or just messed up known information."
Prof Field, who taught at Bangor from 1964 to 2004, has been researching the location of Camelot for the past 18 months.
He spoke about his findings during the official launch of Bangor University's Stephen Colclough centre for the history and culture of the book. | The quest to find King Arthur's Camelot has puzzled and intrigued scholars and fans for over a thousand years. | 38330272 | Summarize the following news within 91 words:
The mythical ruler's legendary court has been associated with locations throughout Wales, including Carmarthen, St David's, and Cardigan.
Now a retired Bangor University professor has revealed what he believes to be the true location of Camelot.
And it turns out to be a small Roman fort at Slack, on the outskirts of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.
Prof Peter Field, a renowned expert in Arthurian literature, said: "It was quite by chance. I was looking at some maps, and suddenly all the ducks lined up.
"I believe I may have solved a 1,400-year-old mystery."
Previous best guesses for the location of the round table include Caerleon in Newport, Somerset's Cadbury Castle, and Tintagel in Cornwall.
In Roman times, Slack was home to a fort called Camulodunum, which means "the fort of the god Camul".
Over the years, well-recognised linguistic processes would have reduced Camulodunum to Camelot.
Though almost forgotten and insignificant today, and even though it was abandoned and dilapidated by the relevant time of King Arthur around A.D. 500, Prof Field argues that this site at Slack would still have been considered a strategic stronghold.
At that time, Celtic-speaking Britons, who could have been led by King Arthur, held the north and the west coast against the invading Anglo-Saxons.
Slack, on the Roman road from Chester to York, would have been the ideal location from which to defend the east coast.
Prof Field added: "If there was a real King Arthur, he will have lived around AD500, although the first mention of him in Camelot is in a French poem from the Champagne region of France from 1180.
"There is no mention of Camelot in the period between those dates, known as the Dark Ages, when the country was at war, and very little was recorded.
"In this gap, people passed on information, much got lost in transmission, and people may have made up facts or just messed up known information."
Prof Field, who taught at Bangor from 1964 to 2004, has been researching the location of Camelot for the past 18 months.
He spoke about his findings during the official launch of Bangor University's Stephen Colclough centre for the history and culture of the book.
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Vardy, 29, has not scored for the champions since 10 September - a run of 14 games - but netted in England's 2-2 friendly draw with Spain last week.
His form is in stark contrast to a year ago, when he scored for a record 11th Premier League game in a row.
"He has restarted and is very close to scoring," said Ranieri.
"He has started to also score in training, and that is good news because also, in the training, he didn't score so well."
Vardy has scored twice in the league this season compared with 13 at the same stage in 2015-16. He finished last season with 28 goals in 48 appearances for club and country.
Since his last club goal, the Foxes have slipped to 14th in the table with just two wins in nine matches.
Ranieri believes Vardy and team-mate Riyad Mahrez no longer boast the "surprise" factor that worked in their favour last season.
The Italian said: "That is the big problem. Jamie is always normal, the same last season. You don't see him nervous or frustrated.
"But sooner or later Vardy will come back. I speak every day with him. He is very calm, very concentrated in his job, to work for the team."
Leicester, who have qualified from their Champions League group with a game to spare, host Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Saturday (15:00 GMT). | Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri has backed Jamie Vardy to end his goal drought, but revealed the striker has even struggled to score in training. | 38100382 | Summarize the following news within 58 words:
Vardy, 29, has not scored for the champions since 10 September - a run of 14 games - but netted in England's 2-2 friendly draw with Spain last week.
His form is in stark contrast to a year ago, when he scored for a record 11th Premier League game in a row.
"He has restarted and is very close to scoring," said Ranieri.
"He has started to also score in training, and that is good news because also, in the training, he didn't score so well."
Vardy has scored twice in the league this season compared with 13 at the same stage in 2015-16. He finished last season with 28 goals in 48 appearances for club and country.
Since his last club goal, the Foxes have slipped to 14th in the table with just two wins in nine matches.
Ranieri believes Vardy and team-mate Riyad Mahrez no longer boast the "surprise" factor that worked in their favour last season.
The Italian said: "That is the big problem. Jamie is always normal, the same last season. You don't see him nervous or frustrated.
"But sooner or later Vardy will come back. I speak every day with him. He is very calm, very concentrated in his job, to work for the team."
Leicester, who have qualified from their Champions League group with a game to spare, host Middlesbrough in the Premier League on Saturday (15:00 GMT).
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The Lib Dem leader said the Tories would have to cut 10,000 police officers, 28,000 carers and 25,000 military personnel to pay for the tax cuts promised by George Osborne.
He said the poorest would "bear the heaviest burden".
David Cameron has accused Mr Clegg of "running away from his record".
The Lib Dems have announced that they want to raise the income tax threshold to £12,500 by 2020, which would be funded partly by using the proceeds of measures to clamp down on tax avoidance and evasion.
Mr Clegg said the Tory plans to raise the income tax personal allowance to £12,500, and also increase the 40p rate threshold to £50,000 by 2020 would cost more than £7bn.
At a press conference at the National Liberal Club in London, Mr Clegg said: "To find that money they will have to do what Tories do best - cut.
"Gone are the days of compassionate conservatism. Now they promise to cut and cut and cut. Not because they have to, but because they want to.
"As George Osborne has said, the Conservatives will cut much deeper than is necessary to balance the books and make the poorest bear the heaviest burden.
"But at the same time they are promising tax giveaways for the wealthy, all of which must be paid for by yet more cuts to public spending.
"In the firing line are parents and police officers, soldiers and social workers."
This issue includes the wider economy and deficit reduction but also employment and the role of business.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
But in an article in The Daily Telegraph Mr Cameron told the newspaper that Mr Clegg's attacks on him will fail, he said: "I don't think it works because you can't run on your record and run away from your record at the same time."
Mr Clegg also went on to criticise Labour and said Ed Miliband's plans for the deficit would mean an extra £134 from every taxpayer being spent on debt interest payments.
"If the Conservatives will cut too much, Labour will borrow too much.
"Labour will borrow £70bn more than we will - meaning an extra £4bn just to pay the interest on our debt," he said.
His sentiments were echoed by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander who said the "common thread" running through the Lib Dem approach to tax was fairness.
He said: "Fairness means that everyone should pay their taxes, zero tolerance of evasion and aggressive avoidance. Fairness means that as we finish the job of balancing the books, we should ask those who have the most to contribute to most."
But in response to Mr Clegg's claims Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said nobody could trust the Lib Dems.
He said: "They broke their promise not to raise VAT on families and pensioners and backed the Tory tax cut for millionaires.
"For all their claims, the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies says families have lost £1,100 a year on average when all this government's changes are taken into account - including the changes to the personal allowance. Like the Tories, the Lib Dems give with one hand but take much more with the other hand.
"Labour's plan will back working people with fully funded tax cuts and reverse the Tory and Lib Dem tax giveaway for millionaires to balance the books in a fair way."
Meanwhile, in an interview with The Economist, Nick Clegg has said that many of the voters who have stopped supporting his party "want to be entirely bereft of any responsibility".
He told the publication: "There is clearly a section of the support we had in 2010 that was virulently anti-Conservative.
"They're the ones who still scream and shout blue murder and have done so without pause for breath for half a decade.
"And they're loud and they're noisy and they're angry. And that was a significant chunk of support that basically wanted to be associated with any party that didn't have the remotest sniff of power.
"There just is a constituency out there that wants to be entirely bereft of any responsibility."
Subscribe to the BBC Election 2015 newsletter to get a round-up of the day's campaign news sent to your inbox every weekday afternoon. | Nick Clegg has attacked the Conservatives' plans for the economy as he stepped up his attack on his coalition partners since 2010. | 32201669 | Summarize the following news within 179 words:
The Lib Dem leader said the Tories would have to cut 10,000 police officers, 28,000 carers and 25,000 military personnel to pay for the tax cuts promised by George Osborne.
He said the poorest would "bear the heaviest burden".
David Cameron has accused Mr Clegg of "running away from his record".
The Lib Dems have announced that they want to raise the income tax threshold to £12,500 by 2020, which would be funded partly by using the proceeds of measures to clamp down on tax avoidance and evasion.
Mr Clegg said the Tory plans to raise the income tax personal allowance to £12,500, and also increase the 40p rate threshold to £50,000 by 2020 would cost more than £7bn.
At a press conference at the National Liberal Club in London, Mr Clegg said: "To find that money they will have to do what Tories do best - cut.
"Gone are the days of compassionate conservatism. Now they promise to cut and cut and cut. Not because they have to, but because they want to.
"As George Osborne has said, the Conservatives will cut much deeper than is necessary to balance the books and make the poorest bear the heaviest burden.
"But at the same time they are promising tax giveaways for the wealthy, all of which must be paid for by yet more cuts to public spending.
"In the firing line are parents and police officers, soldiers and social workers."
This issue includes the wider economy and deficit reduction but also employment and the role of business.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
But in an article in The Daily Telegraph Mr Cameron told the newspaper that Mr Clegg's attacks on him will fail, he said: "I don't think it works because you can't run on your record and run away from your record at the same time."
Mr Clegg also went on to criticise Labour and said Ed Miliband's plans for the deficit would mean an extra £134 from every taxpayer being spent on debt interest payments.
"If the Conservatives will cut too much, Labour will borrow too much.
"Labour will borrow £70bn more than we will - meaning an extra £4bn just to pay the interest on our debt," he said.
His sentiments were echoed by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander who said the "common thread" running through the Lib Dem approach to tax was fairness.
He said: "Fairness means that everyone should pay their taxes, zero tolerance of evasion and aggressive avoidance. Fairness means that as we finish the job of balancing the books, we should ask those who have the most to contribute to most."
But in response to Mr Clegg's claims Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said nobody could trust the Lib Dems.
He said: "They broke their promise not to raise VAT on families and pensioners and backed the Tory tax cut for millionaires.
"For all their claims, the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies says families have lost £1,100 a year on average when all this government's changes are taken into account - including the changes to the personal allowance. Like the Tories, the Lib Dems give with one hand but take much more with the other hand.
"Labour's plan will back working people with fully funded tax cuts and reverse the Tory and Lib Dem tax giveaway for millionaires to balance the books in a fair way."
Meanwhile, in an interview with The Economist, Nick Clegg has said that many of the voters who have stopped supporting his party "want to be entirely bereft of any responsibility".
He told the publication: "There is clearly a section of the support we had in 2010 that was virulently anti-Conservative.
"They're the ones who still scream and shout blue murder and have done so without pause for breath for half a decade.
"And they're loud and they're noisy and they're angry. And that was a significant chunk of support that basically wanted to be associated with any party that didn't have the remotest sniff of power.
"There just is a constituency out there that wants to be entirely bereft of any responsibility."
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Police were called to Jackson Road in Clacton at about 21:10 BST on Tuesday.
The female officer was seriously hurt and remains in hospital and a colleague who also tried to intervene received a minor leg injury, Essex Police said.
A 23-year-old woman from Clacton and a man aged 21 were arrested and have been released under investigation. Police are appealing for witnesses.
More news from Essex
The "disturbance between a group of adults and youngsters" began in Jackson Road and moved to the corner of West Avenue and Agate Road, the force said. | A police officer has been slashed in the face with gardening shears during a large-scale disturbance in Essex. | 40874385 | Summarize the following news within 23 words:
Police were called to Jackson Road in Clacton at about 21:10 BST on Tuesday.
The female officer was seriously hurt and remains in hospital and a colleague who also tried to intervene received a minor leg injury, Essex Police said.
A 23-year-old woman from Clacton and a man aged 21 were arrested and have been released under investigation. Police are appealing for witnesses.
More news from Essex
The "disturbance between a group of adults and youngsters" began in Jackson Road and moved to the corner of West Avenue and Agate Road, the force said.
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Australia, seeking a fourth successive World T20 title, chose to bat and posted 148-5, with Elyse Villani making the first half century in a final.
But 18-year-old Windies opener Hayley Matthews hit a stunning 66 off 45 balls with three sixes, in a stand of 120.
The Windies won with three balls to spare and their men's team later completed a T20 double.
West Indies had lost all of their eight previous T20 internationals against Australia and in their first final they made a nervous start bowling at the iconic Eden Gardens.
Villani (52) seized on some wayward full tosses to reach her fifty from 34 balls.
Australia skipper Meg Lanning hit three successive fours in her 52 and the elegant Ellyse Perry dispatched two glorious straight drives for six in a cameo 28.
Having fought back by conceding only a single from the final over they bowled, the Windies made a slow start to their reply, scoring three from the first two overs.
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But Matthews and skipper Stafanie Taylor hit 16 from the fifth over, bowled by Perry, and recorded their century partnership in the 14th over.
Matthews was caught with 29 more runs required from 26 balls and Taylor's 59 ended with only five left to score from eight deliveries.
Three were needed from the final over and victory was secured after a routine run-out opportunity turned into an overthrow, to spark exuberant West Indian celebrations, joined by the men's team who were arriving for their final with England.
It continued a welcome resurgence for West Indian cricket, after the Under-19 team beat India to win the 50-over World Cup in February.
West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor:
"I've been waiting for this a long time and it has come at the right time.
"We didn't get the start we wanted but the batting has done it for us.
"It was fantastic to know that the men were with us. [Men's captain Darren] Sammy sent me a text this morning 'Staf you are going to do it, you girls you are going to do it'."
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Australia skipper Meg Lanning:
"Full credit to the West Indies, they came out with the bat, and we did not quite get the result we wanted.
"We felt we were a little short, 160 would have been nice, but if we bowled well we would have defended.
"It was a really exciting, tough road into the World Cup and I am proud of the effort that everyone has put in."
Former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent on BBC Test Match Special:
"The Windies have brought power into this tournament.
"Hayley Matthews running down the wicket and hitting Ellyse Perry for six was probably the moment of the tournament.
"They have discipline in their game now. If this team can tighten up with the bowling and handle pressure they will be a dangerous force going forward." | West Indies claimed their first Women's World Twenty20 with a pulsating eight-wicket win over Australia in Kolkata. | 35954233 | Summarize the following news within 126 words:
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Australia, seeking a fourth successive World T20 title, chose to bat and posted 148-5, with Elyse Villani making the first half century in a final.
But 18-year-old Windies opener Hayley Matthews hit a stunning 66 off 45 balls with three sixes, in a stand of 120.
The Windies won with three balls to spare and their men's team later completed a T20 double.
West Indies had lost all of their eight previous T20 internationals against Australia and in their first final they made a nervous start bowling at the iconic Eden Gardens.
Villani (52) seized on some wayward full tosses to reach her fifty from 34 balls.
Australia skipper Meg Lanning hit three successive fours in her 52 and the elegant Ellyse Perry dispatched two glorious straight drives for six in a cameo 28.
Having fought back by conceding only a single from the final over they bowled, the Windies made a slow start to their reply, scoring three from the first two overs.
Media playback is not supported on this device
But Matthews and skipper Stafanie Taylor hit 16 from the fifth over, bowled by Perry, and recorded their century partnership in the 14th over.
Matthews was caught with 29 more runs required from 26 balls and Taylor's 59 ended with only five left to score from eight deliveries.
Three were needed from the final over and victory was secured after a routine run-out opportunity turned into an overthrow, to spark exuberant West Indian celebrations, joined by the men's team who were arriving for their final with England.
It continued a welcome resurgence for West Indian cricket, after the Under-19 team beat India to win the 50-over World Cup in February.
West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor:
"I've been waiting for this a long time and it has come at the right time.
"We didn't get the start we wanted but the batting has done it for us.
"It was fantastic to know that the men were with us. [Men's captain Darren] Sammy sent me a text this morning 'Staf you are going to do it, you girls you are going to do it'."
Media playback is not supported on this device
Australia skipper Meg Lanning:
"Full credit to the West Indies, they came out with the bat, and we did not quite get the result we wanted.
"We felt we were a little short, 160 would have been nice, but if we bowled well we would have defended.
"It was a really exciting, tough road into the World Cup and I am proud of the effort that everyone has put in."
Former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent on BBC Test Match Special:
"The Windies have brought power into this tournament.
"Hayley Matthews running down the wicket and hitting Ellyse Perry for six was probably the moment of the tournament.
"They have discipline in their game now. If this team can tighten up with the bowling and handle pressure they will be a dangerous force going forward."
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Mr Gill has been criticised by some in the party for "double-jobbing".
Asked on BBC Radio's Good Evening Wales programme if he would give up one of the jobs if asked, he replied: "Absolutely, but it has to be for a purpose."
Mr Gill said "it would have to be the leader" asking him to quit a role.
Mr Nuttall won the party's leadership contest on Monday, promising to target Labour voters in the north of England.
He took 9,622 votes with 62.6% of support among party members.
The AM for North Wales sits as an independent in the Senedd after falling out with the UKIP assembly group leader Neil Hamilton.
UKIP's ruling national executive committee had earlier agreed to hold a ballot of Welsh members on whether Mr Gill should continue to be both an AM and an MEP.
But Mr Gill claimed the new leader did not want the ballot to happen.
He told BBC Wales: "I've spoken to Paul about this and Paul tells me he doesn't want a ballot to go ahead. I don't see what it's going to achieve."
Mr Gill said "disgruntled left-behind Labour voters" were a target for UKIP.
He added: "Nigel Farage was able to speak to those people and he is a Dulwich [public school] boy.
"Now if Nigel can speak to those people then without a doubt Paul Nuttall from Bootle on Merseyside absolutely can and will."
Mr Hamilton said: "I think Paul Nuttall has a very good chance of appealing very widely to ex-Labour voters... because he comes from an authentic working-class background in Liverpool.
"I think Paul can win over Welsh Labour voters, perhaps with a bit of help from me and my colleagues in the assembly."
Mr Nuttall previously called for compromise between Mr Hamilton and Mr Gill.
But Mr Hamilton said Mr Gill "doesn't seem to accept that having been elected by the people of north Wales as one of the AMs that he should give his entire focus to this job".
"There is no compromise on that. It's impossible," said the AM for Mid and West Wales.
"It's like pregnancy. You are either pregnant or you're not. You're either full time or you're not."
Mr Hamilton supported Mr Nuttall in the leadership contest. He tweeted he was delighted Mr Nuttall, an MEP for North West England, had won the contest.
Another AM, Mark Reckless, the UKIP member for South Wales East, said Mr Nuttall's comments about targeting Labour voters in the north of England "touched on something with regard to south Wales."
But Labour's Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock said the British people were "not going to be fooled" by the new UKIP leader.
"Paul Nuttall will use his leadership to fight for a hard Brexit that would put jobs, growth and living standards at risk," he said.
"The best outcome for working people would be to reject UKIP's politics of division, and unite behind a progressive vision for our country that retains our unfettered access to the single market." | Nathan Gill would stand down from one of his two elected positions if newly-elected UKIP leader Paul Nuttall asked him to, the AM and MEP has said. | 38132065 | Summarize the following news within 126 words:
Mr Gill has been criticised by some in the party for "double-jobbing".
Asked on BBC Radio's Good Evening Wales programme if he would give up one of the jobs if asked, he replied: "Absolutely, but it has to be for a purpose."
Mr Gill said "it would have to be the leader" asking him to quit a role.
Mr Nuttall won the party's leadership contest on Monday, promising to target Labour voters in the north of England.
He took 9,622 votes with 62.6% of support among party members.
The AM for North Wales sits as an independent in the Senedd after falling out with the UKIP assembly group leader Neil Hamilton.
UKIP's ruling national executive committee had earlier agreed to hold a ballot of Welsh members on whether Mr Gill should continue to be both an AM and an MEP.
But Mr Gill claimed the new leader did not want the ballot to happen.
He told BBC Wales: "I've spoken to Paul about this and Paul tells me he doesn't want a ballot to go ahead. I don't see what it's going to achieve."
Mr Gill said "disgruntled left-behind Labour voters" were a target for UKIP.
He added: "Nigel Farage was able to speak to those people and he is a Dulwich [public school] boy.
"Now if Nigel can speak to those people then without a doubt Paul Nuttall from Bootle on Merseyside absolutely can and will."
Mr Hamilton said: "I think Paul Nuttall has a very good chance of appealing very widely to ex-Labour voters... because he comes from an authentic working-class background in Liverpool.
"I think Paul can win over Welsh Labour voters, perhaps with a bit of help from me and my colleagues in the assembly."
Mr Nuttall previously called for compromise between Mr Hamilton and Mr Gill.
But Mr Hamilton said Mr Gill "doesn't seem to accept that having been elected by the people of north Wales as one of the AMs that he should give his entire focus to this job".
"There is no compromise on that. It's impossible," said the AM for Mid and West Wales.
"It's like pregnancy. You are either pregnant or you're not. You're either full time or you're not."
Mr Hamilton supported Mr Nuttall in the leadership contest. He tweeted he was delighted Mr Nuttall, an MEP for North West England, had won the contest.
Another AM, Mark Reckless, the UKIP member for South Wales East, said Mr Nuttall's comments about targeting Labour voters in the north of England "touched on something with regard to south Wales."
But Labour's Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock said the British people were "not going to be fooled" by the new UKIP leader.
"Paul Nuttall will use his leadership to fight for a hard Brexit that would put jobs, growth and living standards at risk," he said.
"The best outcome for working people would be to reject UKIP's politics of division, and unite behind a progressive vision for our country that retains our unfettered access to the single market."
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Some residents of James Turner Street in Birmingham complained that they had been misled before appearing on the programme.
Producers of the reality television show have denied that.
Now, one charity which accused the makers of misrepresenting residents has offered a solution: a self-defence kit against unwanted advances.
Oasis, a community and education charity, runs the primary school in Birmingham where Benefits Street was filmed.
Reverend Steve Chalke, who founded Oasis, said that other communities have approached them asking for advice on what to do if they get attention from reality TV producers.
He said: "We can't proactively defend every community in the country.
"However, we believe that the new self-defence kit will give people the chance to benefit from what we've learnt."
The kit, which is on its website, contains advice on how to discourage television producers.
It also has what it calls a "decoder" to translate what a producer might really mean if they describe the programme they want to make.
Despite more than 900 complaints, watchdog Ofcom ruled that Channel 4 did not breach the broadcasting code.
A second series is thought to be under way in Teesside.
A Channel 4 spokesperson said: "We are always transparent and clear with residents in the extensive briefings that are given pre-filming and operate highly robust duty of care protocols for contributors which were praised by the regulator Ofcom as 'demonstrating best practice'.
"Filming of the second series recently began in Stockton-On-Tees, many months after transmission of the first and the subsequent media reaction, so residents were already familiar with the nature and profile of the programme.
"The majority of them have been happy to co-operate and support filming, even in the face of external pressure put on them by vested interests outside of the street."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Despite being a ratings winner for Channel 4, Benefits Street came with its fair share of complaints. | 29372173 | Summarize the following news within 76 words:
Some residents of James Turner Street in Birmingham complained that they had been misled before appearing on the programme.
Producers of the reality television show have denied that.
Now, one charity which accused the makers of misrepresenting residents has offered a solution: a self-defence kit against unwanted advances.
Oasis, a community and education charity, runs the primary school in Birmingham where Benefits Street was filmed.
Reverend Steve Chalke, who founded Oasis, said that other communities have approached them asking for advice on what to do if they get attention from reality TV producers.
He said: "We can't proactively defend every community in the country.
"However, we believe that the new self-defence kit will give people the chance to benefit from what we've learnt."
The kit, which is on its website, contains advice on how to discourage television producers.
It also has what it calls a "decoder" to translate what a producer might really mean if they describe the programme they want to make.
Despite more than 900 complaints, watchdog Ofcom ruled that Channel 4 did not breach the broadcasting code.
A second series is thought to be under way in Teesside.
A Channel 4 spokesperson said: "We are always transparent and clear with residents in the extensive briefings that are given pre-filming and operate highly robust duty of care protocols for contributors which were praised by the regulator Ofcom as 'demonstrating best practice'.
"Filming of the second series recently began in Stockton-On-Tees, many months after transmission of the first and the subsequent media reaction, so residents were already familiar with the nature and profile of the programme.
"The majority of them have been happy to co-operate and support filming, even in the face of external pressure put on them by vested interests outside of the street."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube
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The package on offer from the government includes a pay rise and a reduction in the retirement age.
The deal will now be put to a ballot of the union's membership.
Up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales protested last month over claims of a "surge" in jail violence.
They stopped work over claims of a "surge in violence" in jails but returned to work after a High Court injunction ordered them to end their 24-hour protest.
Under the agreement, prison officers will be allowed to retire at 65 - up to three years ahead of the current state pension age - at no cost to them and with full pension benefits.
Uniformed staff will also be given consolidated pay rises of between 0.5% and 1% for each of the next three years, on top of usual performance-related pay increases.
They also stand to receive a "recognition and retention" package totalling £1,000.
Prisons minister Sam Gyimah, said the government and POA had also "agreed a significant number of health and safety reforms as well as new powers for governors in terms of how they deploy their staff in prisons".
The POA directed members to take action last month after talks with the government over health and safety concerns broke down.
It came after multiple high-profile incidents at prisons across England.
In October, Jamal Mahmoud, an inmate at HMP Pentonville, died after being stabbed to death in an attack at the prison, which left two others injured.
And last month prisoners caused almost £1m of damage during a riot at Bedford prison.
Days later at HMP Isle of Wight, an inmate cut a prison officer's throat with a razor blade on the way back to his cell.
In an effort to tackle safety issues Justice Secretary Liz Truss unveiled proposals detailing £1.3bn investment in new prisons over the next five years, including plans for 2,100 extra prison officers, drug tests for inmates on entry and exit from prisons, and more autonomy for governors.
In response to the new pay deal she said: "This agreement is a good offer which rightly recognises the hard work and dedication of officers across the country doing a tough job." | Leaders of the prison officers union have reached a deal over pay and conditions following concerns about jail safety, the Ministry of Justice has said. | 38170756 | Summarize the following news within 91 words:
The package on offer from the government includes a pay rise and a reduction in the retirement age.
The deal will now be put to a ballot of the union's membership.
Up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales protested last month over claims of a "surge" in jail violence.
They stopped work over claims of a "surge in violence" in jails but returned to work after a High Court injunction ordered them to end their 24-hour protest.
Under the agreement, prison officers will be allowed to retire at 65 - up to three years ahead of the current state pension age - at no cost to them and with full pension benefits.
Uniformed staff will also be given consolidated pay rises of between 0.5% and 1% for each of the next three years, on top of usual performance-related pay increases.
They also stand to receive a "recognition and retention" package totalling £1,000.
Prisons minister Sam Gyimah, said the government and POA had also "agreed a significant number of health and safety reforms as well as new powers for governors in terms of how they deploy their staff in prisons".
The POA directed members to take action last month after talks with the government over health and safety concerns broke down.
It came after multiple high-profile incidents at prisons across England.
In October, Jamal Mahmoud, an inmate at HMP Pentonville, died after being stabbed to death in an attack at the prison, which left two others injured.
And last month prisoners caused almost £1m of damage during a riot at Bedford prison.
Days later at HMP Isle of Wight, an inmate cut a prison officer's throat with a razor blade on the way back to his cell.
In an effort to tackle safety issues Justice Secretary Liz Truss unveiled proposals detailing £1.3bn investment in new prisons over the next five years, including plans for 2,100 extra prison officers, drug tests for inmates on entry and exit from prisons, and more autonomy for governors.
In response to the new pay deal she said: "This agreement is a good offer which rightly recognises the hard work and dedication of officers across the country doing a tough job."
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Alan Wright and his wife visited Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Cranbrook in September 2015.
He said a man they spoke to took their photo in the gardens. Mrs Wright, from Kent, died three months later.
A tweet by the National Trust, which runs the site, has been shared more than 600 times. A trust spokesman said it was a "heartbreaking story".
He added: "With luck the [person] who took the photograph at Sissinghurst Castle Garden will see Alan's letter and come forward."
Mr Wright wrote to the trust's magazine for help in tracking down the mystery photographer.
He wrote: "I have realised this would have been the last photo ever taken of her. I would dearly love to obtain a copy." | A widower is appealing to help find the stranger who took the last photo of him and his wife together before she died. | 39938168 | Summarize the following news within 30 words:
Alan Wright and his wife visited Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Cranbrook in September 2015.
He said a man they spoke to took their photo in the gardens. Mrs Wright, from Kent, died three months later.
A tweet by the National Trust, which runs the site, has been shared more than 600 times. A trust spokesman said it was a "heartbreaking story".
He added: "With luck the [person] who took the photograph at Sissinghurst Castle Garden will see Alan's letter and come forward."
Mr Wright wrote to the trust's magazine for help in tracking down the mystery photographer.
He wrote: "I have realised this would have been the last photo ever taken of her. I would dearly love to obtain a copy."
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It says "cosmetic lightening and hygiene creams... that de-pigment the skin... are now forbidden".
Whitening creams have been popular for years among young women - and some men - across Africa, who believe they make them more beautiful.
But medical experts say they may cause cancer, diabetes, severe skin conditions and other diseases.
"The number of people with side-effects caused by these medicines is really high," Christian Doudouko, a member of Ivory Coast's pharmaceutical authority, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
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British consultant dermatologist Justine Kluk told the BBC the major concern was over unregulated products, which may contain ingredients such as mercury or excessive amounts of steroids.
"If one thinks about steroids being present in these products, they're often present in much higher quantities than we would prescribe," she said.
She said the creams can cause a variety of health issues, such as "acne, thinning of the skin, glaucoma or cataracts if applied near the eyes".
"Or if applied liberally to the whole body, [they can] cause high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, weight gain, mood disturbance due to absorption of large amounts of steroids," she said.
However, analysts say the ban may not stop people buying the products.
They are still used in The Gambia despite a ban.
South Africa has the world's toughest laws against skin lighteners, having prohibited the most active ingredient - hydroquinone, but a University of Cape Town study found that more than a third of South African women still buy them.
The use of whitening creams in Africa is most widespread in Nigeria - where more than 75% of women buy them, according to a 2008 UN Environment Programme study. | Ivory Coast has banned skin-whitening creams because of health concerns, the health ministry says. | 32628240 | Summarize the following news within 72 words:
It says "cosmetic lightening and hygiene creams... that de-pigment the skin... are now forbidden".
Whitening creams have been popular for years among young women - and some men - across Africa, who believe they make them more beautiful.
But medical experts say they may cause cancer, diabetes, severe skin conditions and other diseases.
"The number of people with side-effects caused by these medicines is really high," Christian Doudouko, a member of Ivory Coast's pharmaceutical authority, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
Latest African news updates
Africa: Where black is not really beautiful
British consultant dermatologist Justine Kluk told the BBC the major concern was over unregulated products, which may contain ingredients such as mercury or excessive amounts of steroids.
"If one thinks about steroids being present in these products, they're often present in much higher quantities than we would prescribe," she said.
She said the creams can cause a variety of health issues, such as "acne, thinning of the skin, glaucoma or cataracts if applied near the eyes".
"Or if applied liberally to the whole body, [they can] cause high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, weight gain, mood disturbance due to absorption of large amounts of steroids," she said.
However, analysts say the ban may not stop people buying the products.
They are still used in The Gambia despite a ban.
South Africa has the world's toughest laws against skin lighteners, having prohibited the most active ingredient - hydroquinone, but a University of Cape Town study found that more than a third of South African women still buy them.
The use of whitening creams in Africa is most widespread in Nigeria - where more than 75% of women buy them, according to a 2008 UN Environment Programme study.
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Lib Dem Lord Oates accused Labour of being prepared to "concede everything", and the opposition's leader in the Lords, Baroness Smith, responded that his party was giving people "false hope".
The two parties had teamed up to help inflict defeats on the government concerning the rights of EU citizens and parliamentary approval for a Brexit deal.
But that co-operation went out the window when MPs rejected those amendments - with Lib Dems determined to insist on them and Labour prepared to defer to the Commons.
A Labour source in the Lords told the BBC it was "fairly obvious grandstanding" by the Lib Dems, and geared towards content for their campaign leaflets.
"It's pretty unforgiveable to build up false hope with people genuinely worried about their future in Britain, when you already know that MPs were ready to dig in behind the government," the source said.
For their part, the Lib Dems' Europe spokesperson Baroness Ludford accused Labour of "waving through the government's plans" and "lining up with the Conservatives as they drive forward with a hard Brexit".
It's not just on Brexit that the two biggest opposition parties have a track record of forming alliances - they have trooped through the lobbies together to impose government defeats on bills dealing with issues from higher education to housing.
Baroness Ludford seemed sanguine about their chances of coming together again, saying: "The Liberal Democrats will continue to work with peers from across the House to fight for the issues we agree on."
But the Labour source predicted "residual tensions", adding: "I can't imagine there'll be much demand here to organise a 'progressive consensus summer drinks' gathering.
"Our respective leaderships will of course continue to keep things business-like." | There were angry scenes on Monday night as the bill enabling the government to trigger Article 50 cleared the Lords. | 39270960 | Summarize the following news within 71 words:
Lib Dem Lord Oates accused Labour of being prepared to "concede everything", and the opposition's leader in the Lords, Baroness Smith, responded that his party was giving people "false hope".
The two parties had teamed up to help inflict defeats on the government concerning the rights of EU citizens and parliamentary approval for a Brexit deal.
But that co-operation went out the window when MPs rejected those amendments - with Lib Dems determined to insist on them and Labour prepared to defer to the Commons.
A Labour source in the Lords told the BBC it was "fairly obvious grandstanding" by the Lib Dems, and geared towards content for their campaign leaflets.
"It's pretty unforgiveable to build up false hope with people genuinely worried about their future in Britain, when you already know that MPs were ready to dig in behind the government," the source said.
For their part, the Lib Dems' Europe spokesperson Baroness Ludford accused Labour of "waving through the government's plans" and "lining up with the Conservatives as they drive forward with a hard Brexit".
It's not just on Brexit that the two biggest opposition parties have a track record of forming alliances - they have trooped through the lobbies together to impose government defeats on bills dealing with issues from higher education to housing.
Baroness Ludford seemed sanguine about their chances of coming together again, saying: "The Liberal Democrats will continue to work with peers from across the House to fight for the issues we agree on."
But the Labour source predicted "residual tensions", adding: "I can't imagine there'll be much demand here to organise a 'progressive consensus summer drinks' gathering.
"Our respective leaderships will of course continue to keep things business-like."
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A further 111 are thought to have been wounded in the strikes.
Armed Forces Minister Mike Penning revealed the figures after a written parliamentary question by Lib Dem leader Tim Farron.
He said they were an estimate because strike sites cannot be visited and assessed by the UK.
Mr Farron had asked the Ministry of Defence how many militants from the terrorist group had been killed by British forces in Iraq from 2 December 2015 to 2 December 2016.
Mr Penning replied: "During the period in question it is assessed that there were a total of 111 enemy wounded in action and a total of 1,306 enemy killed in action as a result of UK air strikes.
"The UK cannot visit strike sites and conduct detailed investigations on the ground in Iraq. Therefore the number of combatants killed and/or wounded is an estimated figure only."
The UK parliament backed British participation in air strikes against IS in Iraq back in September 2014. Just over a year later in 2015, MPs authorised air strikes against IS in Syria.
The UK has conducted more than 1,200 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since it became involved - more than any other coalition country bar the United States.
BBC analysis has shown that in 2017, UK forces dropped bombs in Iraq and Syria on 69 of the first 99 days of the year.
RAF Typhoons and Reaper drones have been supporting Iraqi and Kurdish forces trying to liberate Mosul, northern Iraq, in recent months. | More than 1,300 militants from so-called Islamic State were killed by British air strikes in Iraq over a 12-month period, according to new figures. | 39657080 | Summarize the following news within 62 words:
A further 111 are thought to have been wounded in the strikes.
Armed Forces Minister Mike Penning revealed the figures after a written parliamentary question by Lib Dem leader Tim Farron.
He said they were an estimate because strike sites cannot be visited and assessed by the UK.
Mr Farron had asked the Ministry of Defence how many militants from the terrorist group had been killed by British forces in Iraq from 2 December 2015 to 2 December 2016.
Mr Penning replied: "During the period in question it is assessed that there were a total of 111 enemy wounded in action and a total of 1,306 enemy killed in action as a result of UK air strikes.
"The UK cannot visit strike sites and conduct detailed investigations on the ground in Iraq. Therefore the number of combatants killed and/or wounded is an estimated figure only."
The UK parliament backed British participation in air strikes against IS in Iraq back in September 2014. Just over a year later in 2015, MPs authorised air strikes against IS in Syria.
The UK has conducted more than 1,200 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since it became involved - more than any other coalition country bar the United States.
BBC analysis has shown that in 2017, UK forces dropped bombs in Iraq and Syria on 69 of the first 99 days of the year.
RAF Typhoons and Reaper drones have been supporting Iraqi and Kurdish forces trying to liberate Mosul, northern Iraq, in recent months.
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Using a pseudonym of His Royal Gingerness (HRG), the hacker told the BBC he wanted to highlight the website's "vulnerability".
It only took him a few minutes to hack into the site, he said.
Norwich International Airport director Richard Pace condemned the hacking as a crime that police were investigating.
HRG pointed out that while he made his attack to see if he could gain access, a more maliciously-minded intruder could have done damage.
He claimed he knew of someone who had planned to plant a bomb hoax in the system over Christmas, but said he was able to prevent that from happening.
While Mr Pace said the information website was not linked to the airport's operations system, he acknowledged that removing it was a serious inconvenience to passengers.
He admitted malicious hackers could have planted a bomb hoax on the site.
The airport's operations director promised a robust replacement site - with more secure protocols and systems - would be operational within weeks.
In the meantime, passengers can get information by calling 01603 411923.
HRG, who asked not to be identified because he fears prosecution, said he hacked the site "to see if I could".
"I found I could do it and then contacted the airport to let them know," he said.
"It took me between two to three minutes to do this. I do this mostly to see what vulnerability there are in modern systems." | An airport has taken down its passenger information website after a hacker breached security systems, claiming they were too lax. | 34775717 | Summarize the following news within 59 words:
Using a pseudonym of His Royal Gingerness (HRG), the hacker told the BBC he wanted to highlight the website's "vulnerability".
It only took him a few minutes to hack into the site, he said.
Norwich International Airport director Richard Pace condemned the hacking as a crime that police were investigating.
HRG pointed out that while he made his attack to see if he could gain access, a more maliciously-minded intruder could have done damage.
He claimed he knew of someone who had planned to plant a bomb hoax in the system over Christmas, but said he was able to prevent that from happening.
While Mr Pace said the information website was not linked to the airport's operations system, he acknowledged that removing it was a serious inconvenience to passengers.
He admitted malicious hackers could have planted a bomb hoax on the site.
The airport's operations director promised a robust replacement site - with more secure protocols and systems - would be operational within weeks.
In the meantime, passengers can get information by calling 01603 411923.
HRG, who asked not to be identified because he fears prosecution, said he hacked the site "to see if I could".
"I found I could do it and then contacted the airport to let them know," he said.
"It took me between two to three minutes to do this. I do this mostly to see what vulnerability there are in modern systems."
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Lancashire County Council has earmarked land on the former Glenburn Sports College and Skelmersdale College.
The sports college closed in August, while Skelmersdale College's Westbank campus, owned by Newcastle College, is also unused.
The decision follows a comparative study by Network Rail of both sites and one near the Concourse shopping centre.
Skelmersdale's original railway station closed to passengers in 1956.
The council - which owns Glenburn Sports College - said Skelmersdale could get two direct trains to Liverpool per hour under the plans it has made in partnership with Merseytravel and West Lancashire Borough Council.
County councillor John Fillis, cabinet member for highways and transport, said it was an "exciting step forward".
He said the preferred location was big enough to allow for the possibility of future expansion.
He added: "It has good highway access and good connectivity to the town and the surrounding area."
The authority confirmed it will now start the process of acquiring the relevant land.
Skelmersdale was designated a new town on 9 October 1961..
It is one of the largest towns in the north west of England not to have its own railway station. | The preferred location for a town's first railway station in 50 years has been revealed. | 38847045 | Summarize the following news within 47 words:
Lancashire County Council has earmarked land on the former Glenburn Sports College and Skelmersdale College.
The sports college closed in August, while Skelmersdale College's Westbank campus, owned by Newcastle College, is also unused.
The decision follows a comparative study by Network Rail of both sites and one near the Concourse shopping centre.
Skelmersdale's original railway station closed to passengers in 1956.
The council - which owns Glenburn Sports College - said Skelmersdale could get two direct trains to Liverpool per hour under the plans it has made in partnership with Merseytravel and West Lancashire Borough Council.
County councillor John Fillis, cabinet member for highways and transport, said it was an "exciting step forward".
He said the preferred location was big enough to allow for the possibility of future expansion.
He added: "It has good highway access and good connectivity to the town and the surrounding area."
The authority confirmed it will now start the process of acquiring the relevant land.
Skelmersdale was designated a new town on 9 October 1961..
It is one of the largest towns in the north west of England not to have its own railway station.
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Frenchman Christophe Borgye's remains were found at a property in Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, in 2013 - four years after he was reported missing.
Manuel Wagner, 29, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a minimum jail term of 16 years following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
Two other men were convicted in 2014.
Mr Borgye, 36, was killed in May 2009 and buried in the outbuilding of the house he shared with German national Wagner and fellow Frenchmen Sebastian Bendou and Dominik Kocher.
Bendou contacted Cheshire Police in May 2013 and led officers to Mr Borgye's body, which was wrapped in tarpaulin and encased in thick concrete.
Officers said a low brick wall had been built inside the outhouse with three layers of concrete placed over the body.
A post-mortem examination found My Borgye died from hammer blows to the head.
He had been reported missing by a work colleague, but after launching an investigation police said they believed he had left the country.
Det Sgt Steve Currie said the case had been "complicated" and "devastating" for Mr Borgye's family, but added "the final jigsaw piece in this shocking crime is now in place".
Wagner was previously found not guilty of assisting an offender and preventing a lawful burial.
However, was re-arrested in 2015 when new evidence came to light.
Bendou, now 39, and Kocher, now 38, were given life sentences for murder with minimum terms of 14 and 23 years respectively in 2014. | A third man has been jailed for murdering a flight attendant who was bludgeoned with a hammer and buried in a concrete tomb. | 40434131 | Summarize the following news within 61 words:
Frenchman Christophe Borgye's remains were found at a property in Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, in 2013 - four years after he was reported missing.
Manuel Wagner, 29, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to a minimum jail term of 16 years following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
Two other men were convicted in 2014.
Mr Borgye, 36, was killed in May 2009 and buried in the outbuilding of the house he shared with German national Wagner and fellow Frenchmen Sebastian Bendou and Dominik Kocher.
Bendou contacted Cheshire Police in May 2013 and led officers to Mr Borgye's body, which was wrapped in tarpaulin and encased in thick concrete.
Officers said a low brick wall had been built inside the outhouse with three layers of concrete placed over the body.
A post-mortem examination found My Borgye died from hammer blows to the head.
He had been reported missing by a work colleague, but after launching an investigation police said they believed he had left the country.
Det Sgt Steve Currie said the case had been "complicated" and "devastating" for Mr Borgye's family, but added "the final jigsaw piece in this shocking crime is now in place".
Wagner was previously found not guilty of assisting an offender and preventing a lawful burial.
However, was re-arrested in 2015 when new evidence came to light.
Bendou, now 39, and Kocher, now 38, were given life sentences for murder with minimum terms of 14 and 23 years respectively in 2014.
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The hosts dominated the first half as tries for Charles Piutau, Rob Miller and Ashley Johnson secured a 25-0 lead.
Sharks rallied through scores from David Seymour and Neil Briggs, but Jimmy Gopperth then crossed to add the try bonus point for the hosts.
Christian Wade danced through for their fifth before Sale centre Johnny Leota was sent off in a scuffle late on.
Wasps also finished with 14 men as Tom Bristow was sinbinned for his part in the same incident, Jake Cooper-Woolley having also been yellow carded earlier.
Dai Young's side, who have only lost twice in 2016, continued their impressive form since the turn of the year, having now won a sixth home game in a row.
Sharks fly-half Danny Cipriani faced his old club for the first time since agreeing to re-join them next season, but struggled to impose himself on the game.
He did reach the milestone of 1,000 Premiership points when he converted Seymour's try, while the man he will be competing for the number 10 shirt next year, Gopperth, impressed with 17 points.
Wasps remain in third behind Exeter and Saracens, four points clear of fourth-placed Leicester.
Despite being the only Premiership team unbeaten at home this season, Sale's away form is hampering their top-six hopes, having won just once on the road.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"I certainly would have settled for that before the game. You can't get any more than five points, and we've achieved that which keeps the momentum going.
"We talked about starting really big in the first 20 or 25 minutes, as if you look at the stats that is usually Sale's best period.
"We became a bit individual and came out of structure a little and allowed them to get back into it in the second half. I was getting a bit concerned when they scored their second try, and we found another gear."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"We were convincingly beaten by a better side on the day. They have lots of big, powerful runners we couldn't contain and combined with our first-half error rate they went in 25-0 up.
"We just got our noses into some competitiveness in the second half, then they stepped it up again and we couldn't compete.
"Wasps are a good side who have knocked a few people around and will carry on doing that. They were more physical than us and our error rate let us down."
Wasps: Miller; Wade, C Piutau, S Piutau, Halai; Gopperth, Robson; McIntyre, Johnson, Cooper-Woolley, Cannon, Myall, Young, Hughes, Jones (capt).
Replacements: Festuccia, Bristow, Swainston, Rowlands, Rieder, Stevenson, Jackson, Macken.
Sin-bin: Cooper-Woolley (44), Bristow (73).
Sale: Haley; Brady, Leota, Jennings, Edwards; Cipriani, Stringer; Harrison, Briggs, Mujati, Mills, Ostrikov, Lund, Seymour (capt), Easter.
Replacements: Neild, Flynn, Parker, Ioane, Fihaki, Mitchell, Ford, James.
Red card: Leota (73). | Wasps ran in five tries at the Ricoh Arena as they thrashed Sale to boost their Premiership play-off hopes. | 35814356 | Summarize the following news within 118 words:
The hosts dominated the first half as tries for Charles Piutau, Rob Miller and Ashley Johnson secured a 25-0 lead.
Sharks rallied through scores from David Seymour and Neil Briggs, but Jimmy Gopperth then crossed to add the try bonus point for the hosts.
Christian Wade danced through for their fifth before Sale centre Johnny Leota was sent off in a scuffle late on.
Wasps also finished with 14 men as Tom Bristow was sinbinned for his part in the same incident, Jake Cooper-Woolley having also been yellow carded earlier.
Dai Young's side, who have only lost twice in 2016, continued their impressive form since the turn of the year, having now won a sixth home game in a row.
Sharks fly-half Danny Cipriani faced his old club for the first time since agreeing to re-join them next season, but struggled to impose himself on the game.
He did reach the milestone of 1,000 Premiership points when he converted Seymour's try, while the man he will be competing for the number 10 shirt next year, Gopperth, impressed with 17 points.
Wasps remain in third behind Exeter and Saracens, four points clear of fourth-placed Leicester.
Despite being the only Premiership team unbeaten at home this season, Sale's away form is hampering their top-six hopes, having won just once on the road.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"I certainly would have settled for that before the game. You can't get any more than five points, and we've achieved that which keeps the momentum going.
"We talked about starting really big in the first 20 or 25 minutes, as if you look at the stats that is usually Sale's best period.
"We became a bit individual and came out of structure a little and allowed them to get back into it in the second half. I was getting a bit concerned when they scored their second try, and we found another gear."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond:
"We were convincingly beaten by a better side on the day. They have lots of big, powerful runners we couldn't contain and combined with our first-half error rate they went in 25-0 up.
"We just got our noses into some competitiveness in the second half, then they stepped it up again and we couldn't compete.
"Wasps are a good side who have knocked a few people around and will carry on doing that. They were more physical than us and our error rate let us down."
Wasps: Miller; Wade, C Piutau, S Piutau, Halai; Gopperth, Robson; McIntyre, Johnson, Cooper-Woolley, Cannon, Myall, Young, Hughes, Jones (capt).
Replacements: Festuccia, Bristow, Swainston, Rowlands, Rieder, Stevenson, Jackson, Macken.
Sin-bin: Cooper-Woolley (44), Bristow (73).
Sale: Haley; Brady, Leota, Jennings, Edwards; Cipriani, Stringer; Harrison, Briggs, Mujati, Mills, Ostrikov, Lund, Seymour (capt), Easter.
Replacements: Neild, Flynn, Parker, Ioane, Fihaki, Mitchell, Ford, James.
Red card: Leota (73).
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The accident happened on the Edinburgh bypass between Baberton and Dreghorn at about 17:00 on Monday.
Police said a woman on the bus was taken to hospital with a "serious leg injury". Her injury is not thought to be life-threatening.
Four other people who suffered minor injuries were also taken to hospital but were later released.
The eastbound lane of the road was closed following the accident causing lengthy tailbacks. It was re-opened at 18:45. | Five people have been injured following a crash between a bin lorry, a bus and two cars. | 36466630 | Summarize the following news within 18 words:
The accident happened on the Edinburgh bypass between Baberton and Dreghorn at about 17:00 on Monday.
Police said a woman on the bus was taken to hospital with a "serious leg injury". Her injury is not thought to be life-threatening.
Four other people who suffered minor injuries were also taken to hospital but were later released.
The eastbound lane of the road was closed following the accident causing lengthy tailbacks. It was re-opened at 18:45.
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Mr Dewani, 34, left Gatwick Airport through a side entrance that was guarded by police before being driven away shortly before 07:00 GMT.
He is believed to have flown in from Dubai rather than taking a direct flight from Cape Town to the UK.
He was extradited in April for the trial, which was thrown out on Monday.
Judge Jeanette Traverso cleared Mr Dewani after ruling the prosecution case that the care home boss from Bristol had arranged the death of his wife Anni was flawed.
Armed police officers were on guard at the airport preventing reporters from approaching the exit used by Mr Dewani.
He is believed to have flown into the UK on an Emirates flight that landed shortly before 06:30.
Judge Traverso dismissed the case against Mr Dewani at the Western Cape High Court, describing evidence from a key prosecution witness as "riddled with contradictions".
Mr Dewani had always denied plotting to arrange the shooting of his bride in the back of their taxi while on honeymoon in November four years ago.
His wife's family, from Sweden, are now considering whether to launch a civil action against her husband in the UK.
They said the decision left many questions unanswered as it meant bisexual Mr Dewani, who led a double life visiting male prostitutes in the months before he married, would not have to give evidence or face cross-examination.
Her uncle, Ashok Hindocha, said they would make a decision on legal action after the Christmas holiday.
Judge Traverso ruled it was not necessary for Mr Dewani to give evidence, saying a defendant was entitled to be discharged if there was no possibility of conviction unless he entered the witness box and incriminated himself.
She said claims by the chief prosecution witness, cab driver Zola Tongo, about the murder were also "highly debatable" and the evidence from the prosecution was "far below" the required threshold.
Three men - Tongo, Mziwamadoda Qwabe and gunman Xolile Mngeni - have already been convicted for their part in the murder, which happened during a late-night tour of a township when their chauffeur-driven car was hijacked.
Monde Mbolombo, a self-confessed "middle man" who set up the murder, may also face justice having previously been granted immunity by the state.
The prosecution claimed Mr Dewani wanted to get out of his relationship with Anni, 28, and arranged a car-jacking in which she would be killed.
But the defence team criticised prosecution witnesses and said the case against him was weak. | Shrien Dewani has arrived back in England after being cleared by a court in South Africa of arranging the murder of his wife in 2010. | 30408616 | Summarize the following news within 104 words:
Mr Dewani, 34, left Gatwick Airport through a side entrance that was guarded by police before being driven away shortly before 07:00 GMT.
He is believed to have flown in from Dubai rather than taking a direct flight from Cape Town to the UK.
He was extradited in April for the trial, which was thrown out on Monday.
Judge Jeanette Traverso cleared Mr Dewani after ruling the prosecution case that the care home boss from Bristol had arranged the death of his wife Anni was flawed.
Armed police officers were on guard at the airport preventing reporters from approaching the exit used by Mr Dewani.
He is believed to have flown into the UK on an Emirates flight that landed shortly before 06:30.
Judge Traverso dismissed the case against Mr Dewani at the Western Cape High Court, describing evidence from a key prosecution witness as "riddled with contradictions".
Mr Dewani had always denied plotting to arrange the shooting of his bride in the back of their taxi while on honeymoon in November four years ago.
His wife's family, from Sweden, are now considering whether to launch a civil action against her husband in the UK.
They said the decision left many questions unanswered as it meant bisexual Mr Dewani, who led a double life visiting male prostitutes in the months before he married, would not have to give evidence or face cross-examination.
Her uncle, Ashok Hindocha, said they would make a decision on legal action after the Christmas holiday.
Judge Traverso ruled it was not necessary for Mr Dewani to give evidence, saying a defendant was entitled to be discharged if there was no possibility of conviction unless he entered the witness box and incriminated himself.
She said claims by the chief prosecution witness, cab driver Zola Tongo, about the murder were also "highly debatable" and the evidence from the prosecution was "far below" the required threshold.
Three men - Tongo, Mziwamadoda Qwabe and gunman Xolile Mngeni - have already been convicted for their part in the murder, which happened during a late-night tour of a township when their chauffeur-driven car was hijacked.
Monde Mbolombo, a self-confessed "middle man" who set up the murder, may also face justice having previously been granted immunity by the state.
The prosecution claimed Mr Dewani wanted to get out of his relationship with Anni, 28, and arranged a car-jacking in which she would be killed.
But the defence team criticised prosecution witnesses and said the case against him was weak.
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Cuadrilla's plans for fracking at its Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton were approved in October.
The firm says it will put Lancashire first for creating jobs, new skills, investment, and community initiatives.
Opponents said they were surprised by the news since a legal challenge to the government's decision is outstanding.
Preston New Road Action Group issued formal legal proceedings at the High Court in November.
Cuadrilla said an "independently audited tracker" will monitor its pledges to Lancashire.
Chief executive Francis Egan said the shale gas industry would be good for the county's economy.
"We expect that in the exploration phase alone we will spend in the order of £50m - clearly all of that will not go to Lancashire... but we would hope that up to half of that money could get spent in Lancashire," he said.
The firm also said Bolton-based civil engineering firm AE Yates Ltd has been awarded the site's £1.5m building contract.
Work is expected to start early next year, Cuadrilla said. | The company behind the UK's first horizontal fracking operation has announced six "commitments" which it claims will ensure Lancashire benefits. | 38182508 | Summarize the following news within 42 words:
Cuadrilla's plans for fracking at its Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton were approved in October.
The firm says it will put Lancashire first for creating jobs, new skills, investment, and community initiatives.
Opponents said they were surprised by the news since a legal challenge to the government's decision is outstanding.
Preston New Road Action Group issued formal legal proceedings at the High Court in November.
Cuadrilla said an "independently audited tracker" will monitor its pledges to Lancashire.
Chief executive Francis Egan said the shale gas industry would be good for the county's economy.
"We expect that in the exploration phase alone we will spend in the order of £50m - clearly all of that will not go to Lancashire... but we would hope that up to half of that money could get spent in Lancashire," he said.
The firm also said Bolton-based civil engineering firm AE Yates Ltd has been awarded the site's £1.5m building contract.
Work is expected to start early next year, Cuadrilla said.
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Humberto Benitez Trevino's daughter caused outrage by using his influence to try to close down the bistro after it did not give her a table she wanted.
The episode sparked a discussion about abuse of power in the country.
The sacking suggests that Mexico has grown more sensitive to the issue, correspondents say.
The episode became a trending topic on Twitter under the hashtag #ladyprofeco, after her father's agency.
Mt Benitez, the attorney-general for consumer protection, and his daughter both apologised, but this did little to appease public anger.
On Wednesday, President Pena Nieto ordered his dismissal.
The restaurant, Maximo Bistro in Mexico City, was raided by officials after Andrea Benitez was not offered the table she had asked for.
The government said that although Mr Benitez was not personally involved in the raid, the episode had become embarrassing for the institution. | Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has fired a senior official over an incident caused by his daughter at an exclusive restaurant last month. | 22549413 | Summarize the following news within 35 words:
Humberto Benitez Trevino's daughter caused outrage by using his influence to try to close down the bistro after it did not give her a table she wanted.
The episode sparked a discussion about abuse of power in the country.
The sacking suggests that Mexico has grown more sensitive to the issue, correspondents say.
The episode became a trending topic on Twitter under the hashtag #ladyprofeco, after her father's agency.
Mt Benitez, the attorney-general for consumer protection, and his daughter both apologised, but this did little to appease public anger.
On Wednesday, President Pena Nieto ordered his dismissal.
The restaurant, Maximo Bistro in Mexico City, was raided by officials after Andrea Benitez was not offered the table she had asked for.
The government said that although Mr Benitez was not personally involved in the raid, the episode had become embarrassing for the institution.
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The case of the missing planes was raised when PM David Cameron met Burmese President Thein Sein.
A Downing Street source said it was "hoped this will be an opportunity to work with the reforming Burmese government".
The exact location of the planes is unknown.
The planes were buried in 1945 by the RAF amid fears that they could either be used or destroyed by foreign forces, but in the intervening years they have not been located.
At the time they were unused, still in crates, and yet to be assembled.
Until a general election in 2010, Burma was ruled for almost half a century by a military junta.
It has been reported that experts from Leeds University and an academic based in Rangoon believe they may have identified the sites where the craft are concealed using sophisticated radar techniques.
On Friday, officials said President Thein Sein was "very enthusiastic" about the prospect of finding and restoring the planes.
A Downing Street source said: "The Spitfire is arguably the most important plane in the history of aviation, playing a crucial role in the Second World War.
"It is hoped this will be an opportunity to work with the reforming Burmese government, uncover, restore and display these fighter planes and get them gracing the skies of Britain once again." | British and Burmese authorities could work together to find 20 Spitfires buried in Burma at the end of the World War II, officials say. | 17710598 | Summarize the following news within 54 words:
The case of the missing planes was raised when PM David Cameron met Burmese President Thein Sein.
A Downing Street source said it was "hoped this will be an opportunity to work with the reforming Burmese government".
The exact location of the planes is unknown.
The planes were buried in 1945 by the RAF amid fears that they could either be used or destroyed by foreign forces, but in the intervening years they have not been located.
At the time they were unused, still in crates, and yet to be assembled.
Until a general election in 2010, Burma was ruled for almost half a century by a military junta.
It has been reported that experts from Leeds University and an academic based in Rangoon believe they may have identified the sites where the craft are concealed using sophisticated radar techniques.
On Friday, officials said President Thein Sein was "very enthusiastic" about the prospect of finding and restoring the planes.
A Downing Street source said: "The Spitfire is arguably the most important plane in the history of aviation, playing a crucial role in the Second World War.
"It is hoped this will be an opportunity to work with the reforming Burmese government, uncover, restore and display these fighter planes and get them gracing the skies of Britain once again."
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A coastguard helicopter from St Athan, in Vale of Glamorgan, flew to the scene on Saturday evening as the one based in north Wales was on another mission.
The pair were helped to the top of the ridge by Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) volunteers using ropes, and then winched aboard the helicopter.
They were dropped off at Nant Peris while the MRT walked down the peak. | Two men were rescued after becoming stranded on a crag on Snowdon's narrow Crib Goch ridge. | 40697552 | Summarize the following news within 16 words:
A coastguard helicopter from St Athan, in Vale of Glamorgan, flew to the scene on Saturday evening as the one based in north Wales was on another mission.
The pair were helped to the top of the ridge by Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) volunteers using ropes, and then winched aboard the helicopter.
They were dropped off at Nant Peris while the MRT walked down the peak.
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The Home Office decided to halt the Detained Fast Track (DFT) system amid concerns over safeguards, particularly for "vulnerable applicants".
Immigration minister James Brokenshire said he hoped the DFT system would resume within weeks.
It is thought about 800 applicants are affected - and can now seek bail.
Of those, it is estimated that about 100 may have to be released.
The system, introduced in 2000, accelerates legal hearings and appeals while keeping the individual detained. It is used in cases which officials believe can be decided quickly.
Last month the Court of Appeal ordered the Home Office to halt the system immediately after an earlier High Court hearing concluded it contained "structural unfairness".
High Court judge Mr Justice Nicol put a "legal stay" - a temporary delay - on his ruling on 12 June, following a case brought by campaign group Detention Action.
This meant the fast-track system remained in operation until the government had exhausted all opportunities to appeal.
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said officials were worried their procedures were not as robust as they should be.
In a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Brokenshire said the system had "come under significant legal challenge".
"Risks surrounding the safeguards within the system for particularly vulnerable applicants have also been identified to the extent that we cannot be certain of the level of risk of unfairness to certain vulnerable applicants who may enter DFT.
"In light of these issues, I have decided to temporarily suspend the operation of the detained fast-track policy.
"I hope this pause to be short in duration, perhaps only a matter of weeks, but I will only resume operation of this policy when I am sure the right structures are in place to minimise any risk of unfairness."
The decision to suspend the process means those asylum seekers detained and awaiting hearings will be reassessed at a "senior level" to see if they can be released from detention to continue their asylum application in the normal way.
Mr Brokenshire added: "Those who meet the general criteria for detention will not be directly affected by the decision to suspend DFT.
"Many are already detained under these powers, for example because they are at risk of absconding and face imminent removal.
"Only if detention can no longer be justified outside a DFT process will applicants be released to continue their asylum claim in the regular asylum system."
He said applicants who face removal to a safe third country, pose a risk to the public or are foreign offenders are "still liable to be detained or remain detained".
The DFT system accelerated some 4,300 asylum applications or decisions in 2013. It currently processes 30 to 40 cases a week. | A system for detaining asylum seekers while their claims are speedily assessed has been temporarily suspended after it was ruled unlawful last month. | 33371814 | Summarize the following news within 113 words:
The Home Office decided to halt the Detained Fast Track (DFT) system amid concerns over safeguards, particularly for "vulnerable applicants".
Immigration minister James Brokenshire said he hoped the DFT system would resume within weeks.
It is thought about 800 applicants are affected - and can now seek bail.
Of those, it is estimated that about 100 may have to be released.
The system, introduced in 2000, accelerates legal hearings and appeals while keeping the individual detained. It is used in cases which officials believe can be decided quickly.
Last month the Court of Appeal ordered the Home Office to halt the system immediately after an earlier High Court hearing concluded it contained "structural unfairness".
High Court judge Mr Justice Nicol put a "legal stay" - a temporary delay - on his ruling on 12 June, following a case brought by campaign group Detention Action.
This meant the fast-track system remained in operation until the government had exhausted all opportunities to appeal.
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said officials were worried their procedures were not as robust as they should be.
In a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Brokenshire said the system had "come under significant legal challenge".
"Risks surrounding the safeguards within the system for particularly vulnerable applicants have also been identified to the extent that we cannot be certain of the level of risk of unfairness to certain vulnerable applicants who may enter DFT.
"In light of these issues, I have decided to temporarily suspend the operation of the detained fast-track policy.
"I hope this pause to be short in duration, perhaps only a matter of weeks, but I will only resume operation of this policy when I am sure the right structures are in place to minimise any risk of unfairness."
The decision to suspend the process means those asylum seekers detained and awaiting hearings will be reassessed at a "senior level" to see if they can be released from detention to continue their asylum application in the normal way.
Mr Brokenshire added: "Those who meet the general criteria for detention will not be directly affected by the decision to suspend DFT.
"Many are already detained under these powers, for example because they are at risk of absconding and face imminent removal.
"Only if detention can no longer be justified outside a DFT process will applicants be released to continue their asylum claim in the regular asylum system."
He said applicants who face removal to a safe third country, pose a risk to the public or are foreign offenders are "still liable to be detained or remain detained".
The DFT system accelerated some 4,300 asylum applications or decisions in 2013. It currently processes 30 to 40 cases a week.
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For all that it may sound attractive to the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish to have greater influence over their respective economic destinies, presumably that would be less desirable if at a stroke they became poorer.
The point is that as and when there is an English parliament for English people - of the sort that the former Tory minister John Redwood has been demanding, and David Cameron seemed to concede today - the financial transfer from England to the rest of the UK may be harder to sustain.
So these constitutional reforms will be tricky, if not dangerous - if at least a part of the current glue that holds the UK together is a redistribution of resources from England to the rest, and that glue is progressively removed.
Being British right now means in part that public services and living standards are not too far apart in quantum and quality wherever you happen to live. But what if the overhaul of the UK's budget-making or fiscal constitution waters down that glue.
How much is at stake?
Well, spending on public-sector services per head is highest in Northern Ireland, £10,900 and it is lowest in England, at £8,500.
The figure for Scotland - beneficiary of the famous or notorious Barnett Formula, which formalises an income transfer from England to Scotland - is £10,200.
So expenditure on public services in Scotland is a fifth higher per person than south of the border, and it is 28% higher in Northern Ireland.
In Wales, the increment on public-service spending is 14% - which the Welsh have often complained is too little, compared with the transfer of income to Scotland.
Now one way of looking at the scale of the transfer is to look at the amount of income - or what is known as gross value added - generated in each country.
So English gross value added per head is highest, at just under £22,000, and it is lowest in Wales at £15,400.
The English enjoy public-service spending per annum equivalent to under 40% of the income they generate, whereas annual outlays on public services in Wales are equivalent to more than 60% of nationally generated income per head.
The ratios for Scotland and Northern Ireland are just over 50% and not far off 70% respectively.
In a UK of considerable social and cultural solidarity that prevailed for most of the twentieth century, these sorts of disparities between income and outlay between the nations were relatively uncontroversial: they captured the idea that all UK citizens are in it together, as it were.
But today it seems almost inevitable that in David Cameron's brave new world of greater national fiscal self-determination, some English nationalist MPs on the right of the spectrum may increasingly view Wales - and Scotland and Northern Ireland - as de facto socialist paradises excessively featherbedded by the English.
That said, if the nations are given much greater control over income taxes - which appears to be what is on offer - could they not pay for whatever public services they feel they need out of these locally levied taxes?
Not remotely.
Income and other direct taxes per head in Wales raise £5,564, considerably less than the UK average of £7,360, and nowhere near enough to cover public service expenditure.
There is a similar mismatch between direct income taxes and public spending throughout the UK.
Borrowing and indirect taxes, mostly VAT, make up the difference. And there is not the faintest chance that national parliaments will be given the power to increase VAT, because this would be an admin nightmare for businesses and undermine the UK as a frictionless single market.
All of which means that it may sound exciting and empowering in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to make their own choices about taxing and spending.
But it may also be a bit nerve-wracking (or worse) if it provides cover for Westminster to reduce the income transferred to them from English taxpayers. | The big question about the Prime Minister's plan to hand more control over taxes, spending and welfare to the four nations is how far this would end the subsidy of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by England, and especially by London and the South East. | 29278544 | Summarize the following news within 165 words:
For all that it may sound attractive to the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish to have greater influence over their respective economic destinies, presumably that would be less desirable if at a stroke they became poorer.
The point is that as and when there is an English parliament for English people - of the sort that the former Tory minister John Redwood has been demanding, and David Cameron seemed to concede today - the financial transfer from England to the rest of the UK may be harder to sustain.
So these constitutional reforms will be tricky, if not dangerous - if at least a part of the current glue that holds the UK together is a redistribution of resources from England to the rest, and that glue is progressively removed.
Being British right now means in part that public services and living standards are not too far apart in quantum and quality wherever you happen to live. But what if the overhaul of the UK's budget-making or fiscal constitution waters down that glue.
How much is at stake?
Well, spending on public-sector services per head is highest in Northern Ireland, £10,900 and it is lowest in England, at £8,500.
The figure for Scotland - beneficiary of the famous or notorious Barnett Formula, which formalises an income transfer from England to Scotland - is £10,200.
So expenditure on public services in Scotland is a fifth higher per person than south of the border, and it is 28% higher in Northern Ireland.
In Wales, the increment on public-service spending is 14% - which the Welsh have often complained is too little, compared with the transfer of income to Scotland.
Now one way of looking at the scale of the transfer is to look at the amount of income - or what is known as gross value added - generated in each country.
So English gross value added per head is highest, at just under £22,000, and it is lowest in Wales at £15,400.
The English enjoy public-service spending per annum equivalent to under 40% of the income they generate, whereas annual outlays on public services in Wales are equivalent to more than 60% of nationally generated income per head.
The ratios for Scotland and Northern Ireland are just over 50% and not far off 70% respectively.
In a UK of considerable social and cultural solidarity that prevailed for most of the twentieth century, these sorts of disparities between income and outlay between the nations were relatively uncontroversial: they captured the idea that all UK citizens are in it together, as it were.
But today it seems almost inevitable that in David Cameron's brave new world of greater national fiscal self-determination, some English nationalist MPs on the right of the spectrum may increasingly view Wales - and Scotland and Northern Ireland - as de facto socialist paradises excessively featherbedded by the English.
That said, if the nations are given much greater control over income taxes - which appears to be what is on offer - could they not pay for whatever public services they feel they need out of these locally levied taxes?
Not remotely.
Income and other direct taxes per head in Wales raise £5,564, considerably less than the UK average of £7,360, and nowhere near enough to cover public service expenditure.
There is a similar mismatch between direct income taxes and public spending throughout the UK.
Borrowing and indirect taxes, mostly VAT, make up the difference. And there is not the faintest chance that national parliaments will be given the power to increase VAT, because this would be an admin nightmare for businesses and undermine the UK as a frictionless single market.
All of which means that it may sound exciting and empowering in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to make their own choices about taxing and spending.
But it may also be a bit nerve-wracking (or worse) if it provides cover for Westminster to reduce the income transferred to them from English taxpayers.
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Aamir Siddiqi, 17, was stabbed at his home in Roath in 2010 and two men, Jason Richards and Ben Hope, were jailed for life in 2013.
Mohammed Ali Ege, originally from Cardiff, was arrested in India in 2011 accused of conspiracy to commit murder.
But he escaped police custody in India last week.
Mr Ege, who is also accused of passport and identity forgery, was awaiting extradition but escaped after being taken to a court hearing.
Authorities confirmed he escaped from a railway station washroom in New Delhi.
Det Ch Insp Ceri Hughes said Mr Siddiqi's family "remain resilient and continue to receive our full support".
Mr Ege is from the Riverside area of Cardiff, but he also has connections with people in surrounding areas.
DCI Hughes added: "We believe someone in this country knows something about Mohammed Ali Ege's whereabouts, and urge such people to contact us". | South Wales Police are appealing for information over the whereabouts of a man wanted in connection with the murder of a Cardiff teenager. | 39670019 | Summarize the following news within 37 words:
Aamir Siddiqi, 17, was stabbed at his home in Roath in 2010 and two men, Jason Richards and Ben Hope, were jailed for life in 2013.
Mohammed Ali Ege, originally from Cardiff, was arrested in India in 2011 accused of conspiracy to commit murder.
But he escaped police custody in India last week.
Mr Ege, who is also accused of passport and identity forgery, was awaiting extradition but escaped after being taken to a court hearing.
Authorities confirmed he escaped from a railway station washroom in New Delhi.
Det Ch Insp Ceri Hughes said Mr Siddiqi's family "remain resilient and continue to receive our full support".
Mr Ege is from the Riverside area of Cardiff, but he also has connections with people in surrounding areas.
DCI Hughes added: "We believe someone in this country knows something about Mohammed Ali Ege's whereabouts, and urge such people to contact us".
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Chris May, 28, was last seen by family at his home in Kelvedon on 25 May 2015. His abandoned Volkswagen Golf was found 10 miles (16km) away in Fairstead.
His case was formally declared a murder by Essex Police investigation exactly a year later.
A 35-year-old Braintree man and a 25-year-man from Kelvedon have been released pending further inquiries.
The two men will have to report back to police in late July. | Two men arrested in connection with the suspected murder of a missing man have been released on bail. | 36536773 | Summarize the following news within 18 words:
Chris May, 28, was last seen by family at his home in Kelvedon on 25 May 2015. His abandoned Volkswagen Golf was found 10 miles (16km) away in Fairstead.
His case was formally declared a murder by Essex Police investigation exactly a year later.
A 35-year-old Braintree man and a 25-year-man from Kelvedon have been released pending further inquiries.
The two men will have to report back to police in late July.
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The six-month project at Havelock Europa is expected to "follow the wealth", where market opportunities arise in the UK and globally.
The Kirkcaldy-based firm also wants to extend its sourcing operation in China and grow further in Australia.
The company has already focused its marketing efforts in London.
Office refurbishments in the capital are among Britain's more lucrative opportunities.
The firm has been through a difficult corporate turnaround in recent years.
In announcing its full-year results, the Fife firm said 2016 was "challenging".
Havelock Europa was back into the black, with pre-tax profits of £183,000, following a 2015 loss of £2.7m.
Revenue was down in 2016, largely due to the loss of a major financial client, believed to be Lloyds Banking Group.
Sales fell from £73m in 2015 to £61m.
In trying to diversify its clients away from a few large banks and education refurbishments during academic holidays, the company is seeking to secure more clients from the health sector and student accommodation.
It is also looking for a wider range of retail clients, which have so far included big high street names such as Marks & Spencer, Primark, Accessorize and House of Fraser.
Havelock Europa employs 300 people at its Fife factory and marketing base, with offices also in China and Mansfield in the English Midlands.
The company's shares fell 12% in the hours after the annual results were published. | A major Scottish interior fitter has announced "a major review of its longer-term vision, mission and strategy". | 39712041 | Summarize the following news within 57 words:
The six-month project at Havelock Europa is expected to "follow the wealth", where market opportunities arise in the UK and globally.
The Kirkcaldy-based firm also wants to extend its sourcing operation in China and grow further in Australia.
The company has already focused its marketing efforts in London.
Office refurbishments in the capital are among Britain's more lucrative opportunities.
The firm has been through a difficult corporate turnaround in recent years.
In announcing its full-year results, the Fife firm said 2016 was "challenging".
Havelock Europa was back into the black, with pre-tax profits of £183,000, following a 2015 loss of £2.7m.
Revenue was down in 2016, largely due to the loss of a major financial client, believed to be Lloyds Banking Group.
Sales fell from £73m in 2015 to £61m.
In trying to diversify its clients away from a few large banks and education refurbishments during academic holidays, the company is seeking to secure more clients from the health sector and student accommodation.
It is also looking for a wider range of retail clients, which have so far included big high street names such as Marks & Spencer, Primark, Accessorize and House of Fraser.
Havelock Europa employs 300 people at its Fife factory and marketing base, with offices also in China and Mansfield in the English Midlands.
The company's shares fell 12% in the hours after the annual results were published.
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The currency initially slipped against the dollar and euro, only to start recovering in mid-afternoon trading before falling again.
Meanwhile, the "volatility index" - a measure of investors' uncertainty - has hit levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis.
The Leave campaign argued that the pound simply retreated to March levels.
The pound was down 0.2% against the dollar at $1.4226. Against the euro, sterling was down 0.6% at €1.2605 and weakened by 1% against the Japanese yen to just over 151.
Investors have been spooked by data showing the chances of a Remain vote have fallen, although markets have also been rattled by global economic worries.
With 10 days to go before the referendum vote, two polls at the weekend put the Leave camp ahead, while betting firm Betfair said the implied probability of a vote to Remain had now fallen to 68.5% from almost 80% a week earlier.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
"We expect incoming polls to move the pound more aggressively than before," said Charalambos Pissouros, senior analyst at IronFX Global.
"If new polls continue to show a tight race between the two campaigns as we approach the voting day, the outcome is likely to become even more uncertain and hence, volatility in sterling is likely to heighten further."
BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed said hedge funds had been placing bets - short-selling - on expectations that the value of sterling will sink further. "The bears are in town," he said.
Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital, said the markets were now on full Brexit alert. "Polls show it's now too close to call and markets are responding with some very twitchy activity. Sterling has shed more than 2% in two sessions to retrace its April lows."
Worries about the economic impact of leaving the EU were also blamed for a big fall in Asian stock markets. Japan's Nikkei index closed 3.5% down, while Hong Kong's main index slid 2.5%.
The reaction on London's FTSE 100 was muted initially, with the index down 0.3% in morning trading. However, the FTSE 100 ended the day down 1.1% at 6,044.9 points, with Lloyds Banking Group the biggest faller, down 4.2%.
On Sunday, Leave campaigner Nigel Farage told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show that sterling had recently been strengthening. "Sterling is up since March. Since Brexit became a possibility, sterling is up and FTSE is exactly the same level it was in March," he said.
He also pointed out that a weaker pound was good for UK exporters. Last week, official figures showed that the UK trade deficit narrowed in April on the back of a jump in exports. | Sterling see-sawed as investors reacted to growing uncertainty over the outcome of the UK's EU referendum. | 36515816 | Summarize the following news within 112 words:
The currency initially slipped against the dollar and euro, only to start recovering in mid-afternoon trading before falling again.
Meanwhile, the "volatility index" - a measure of investors' uncertainty - has hit levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis.
The Leave campaign argued that the pound simply retreated to March levels.
The pound was down 0.2% against the dollar at $1.4226. Against the euro, sterling was down 0.6% at €1.2605 and weakened by 1% against the Japanese yen to just over 151.
Investors have been spooked by data showing the chances of a Remain vote have fallen, although markets have also been rattled by global economic worries.
With 10 days to go before the referendum vote, two polls at the weekend put the Leave camp ahead, while betting firm Betfair said the implied probability of a vote to Remain had now fallen to 68.5% from almost 80% a week earlier.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
"We expect incoming polls to move the pound more aggressively than before," said Charalambos Pissouros, senior analyst at IronFX Global.
"If new polls continue to show a tight race between the two campaigns as we approach the voting day, the outcome is likely to become even more uncertain and hence, volatility in sterling is likely to heighten further."
BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed said hedge funds had been placing bets - short-selling - on expectations that the value of sterling will sink further. "The bears are in town," he said.
Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital, said the markets were now on full Brexit alert. "Polls show it's now too close to call and markets are responding with some very twitchy activity. Sterling has shed more than 2% in two sessions to retrace its April lows."
Worries about the economic impact of leaving the EU were also blamed for a big fall in Asian stock markets. Japan's Nikkei index closed 3.5% down, while Hong Kong's main index slid 2.5%.
The reaction on London's FTSE 100 was muted initially, with the index down 0.3% in morning trading. However, the FTSE 100 ended the day down 1.1% at 6,044.9 points, with Lloyds Banking Group the biggest faller, down 4.2%.
On Sunday, Leave campaigner Nigel Farage told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show that sterling had recently been strengthening. "Sterling is up since March. Since Brexit became a possibility, sterling is up and FTSE is exactly the same level it was in March," he said.
He also pointed out that a weaker pound was good for UK exporters. Last week, official figures showed that the UK trade deficit narrowed in April on the back of a jump in exports.
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David Harris, 68, who had become "besotted" with another woman, was found guilty of offering to pay an undercover policeman £150,000 to murder Hazel Allinson.
His Old Bailey trial heard he wanted to inherit her West Sussex home and elope with sex worker Ugne Cekaviciute, 28.
The Court of Appeal confirmed papers had been lodged for an appeal.
Harris, the former producer of the police drama series The Bill, had claimed he was researching a spy novel and denied solicitation to murder at his trial.
But the retired producer was caught when the police officer posing as a would-be hitman taped a conversation in which Harris said he was "100% sure" he wanted his partner dead.
The jury was told Harris had mounting debts and was desperate to inherit his partner's £800,000 home in Amberley and set up home with Ms Cekaviciute.
The Old Bailey was told Harris had approached London mechanic Christopher May in March 2016 and said: "I'm offering you £250,000 to kill my wife."
In November 2016 he met an undercover policeman posing as a hitman called Chris in the car park of Sainsbury's in Balham, south London.
They were introduced by a 6ft 3in "man mountain" called Zed, to whom Harris had previously given Ms Allinson's details and a photograph.
Unknown to Harris, Zed, whose real name is Duke Dean, had already reported him to City of London Police, the court was told.
Jailing Harris for 17 years in July, Judge Anne Molyneux QC said: "For your pipe dream, for your obsessive infatuation with a young woman, Ms Allinson, who had protected and nurtured you, was to die a painful and terrifying death in an isolated spot.
"Her death was to fund your life. You had used her until she had outlasted her usefulness to you." | A retired TV producer is to appeal against his conviction for trying to hire a hitman to kill his partner. | 40844026 | Summarize the following news within 75 words:
David Harris, 68, who had become "besotted" with another woman, was found guilty of offering to pay an undercover policeman £150,000 to murder Hazel Allinson.
His Old Bailey trial heard he wanted to inherit her West Sussex home and elope with sex worker Ugne Cekaviciute, 28.
The Court of Appeal confirmed papers had been lodged for an appeal.
Harris, the former producer of the police drama series The Bill, had claimed he was researching a spy novel and denied solicitation to murder at his trial.
But the retired producer was caught when the police officer posing as a would-be hitman taped a conversation in which Harris said he was "100% sure" he wanted his partner dead.
The jury was told Harris had mounting debts and was desperate to inherit his partner's £800,000 home in Amberley and set up home with Ms Cekaviciute.
The Old Bailey was told Harris had approached London mechanic Christopher May in March 2016 and said: "I'm offering you £250,000 to kill my wife."
In November 2016 he met an undercover policeman posing as a hitman called Chris in the car park of Sainsbury's in Balham, south London.
They were introduced by a 6ft 3in "man mountain" called Zed, to whom Harris had previously given Ms Allinson's details and a photograph.
Unknown to Harris, Zed, whose real name is Duke Dean, had already reported him to City of London Police, the court was told.
Jailing Harris for 17 years in July, Judge Anne Molyneux QC said: "For your pipe dream, for your obsessive infatuation with a young woman, Ms Allinson, who had protected and nurtured you, was to die a painful and terrifying death in an isolated spot.
"Her death was to fund your life. You had used her until she had outlasted her usefulness to you."
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Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, 25, an ex-Royal Marine from Barnsley, died near the Syrian city of Qamishli on 2 March, Kurdish officials have said.
His coffin was handed over to his father and uncle in a ceremony involving hundreds of Syrian Kurds.
Mr Scurfield's father, Chris, said the ceremony had been "overwhelming".
He told BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir the emotional ceremony was "very special and very comforting" to his family.
Our correspondent said the ceremony was also a "big moment" for the Kurds, who had turned out to pay their last respects to the Briton who came "halfway round the world to fight - and die - in their struggle against IS militants".
Hundreds of people - including Kurdish fighters, women and foreign fighters in the region - watched as Mr Scurfield's coffin was loaded into an ambulance, where it will be transported to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The coffin was decorated with flowers and was draped with a Kurdish flag and a Union Jack.
Some time would be needed in Erbil to complete the necessary paperwork before Mr Scurfield's body can be flown back to the UK, our correspondent added.
Mr Scurfield, an expert in battlefield medicine, is believed to have travelled to Syria three or four months ago.
He is said to have gone to Syria because he was "horrified by the atrocities being carried out" there.
Kurdish commander Redor Khalil said the Briton had been killed while fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the frontline village of Tel Khuzela.
His family has paid tribute to his "courage, conviction and honour".
In a statement, they said: "We are devastated to confirm the death of our son Konstandinos Erik Scurfield in Syria where he went to support the forces opposing Islamic State.
"His flame might have burned briefly but it burned brightly with love, courage, conviction and honour and we are very proud of him."
The family's friends and neighbours described news of Mr Scurfield's death as "heartbreaking".
The Home Office says there are about 600 people in the region "of interest" but have not given a breakdown of what groups they may be associated with.
The BBC understands about 100 Western volunteers - including some Britons - are fighting as part of the 30,000-strong Kurdish forces.
More than 500 Britons are believed to have travelled to join IS. | The body of the first Briton to be killed while fighting against Islamic State (IS) has been handed over to his family at the Syrian-Iraqi border. | 31888224 | Summarize the following news within 98 words:
Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, 25, an ex-Royal Marine from Barnsley, died near the Syrian city of Qamishli on 2 March, Kurdish officials have said.
His coffin was handed over to his father and uncle in a ceremony involving hundreds of Syrian Kurds.
Mr Scurfield's father, Chris, said the ceremony had been "overwhelming".
He told BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir the emotional ceremony was "very special and very comforting" to his family.
Our correspondent said the ceremony was also a "big moment" for the Kurds, who had turned out to pay their last respects to the Briton who came "halfway round the world to fight - and die - in their struggle against IS militants".
Hundreds of people - including Kurdish fighters, women and foreign fighters in the region - watched as Mr Scurfield's coffin was loaded into an ambulance, where it will be transported to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The coffin was decorated with flowers and was draped with a Kurdish flag and a Union Jack.
Some time would be needed in Erbil to complete the necessary paperwork before Mr Scurfield's body can be flown back to the UK, our correspondent added.
Mr Scurfield, an expert in battlefield medicine, is believed to have travelled to Syria three or four months ago.
He is said to have gone to Syria because he was "horrified by the atrocities being carried out" there.
Kurdish commander Redor Khalil said the Briton had been killed while fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the frontline village of Tel Khuzela.
His family has paid tribute to his "courage, conviction and honour".
In a statement, they said: "We are devastated to confirm the death of our son Konstandinos Erik Scurfield in Syria where he went to support the forces opposing Islamic State.
"His flame might have burned briefly but it burned brightly with love, courage, conviction and honour and we are very proud of him."
The family's friends and neighbours described news of Mr Scurfield's death as "heartbreaking".
The Home Office says there are about 600 people in the region "of interest" but have not given a breakdown of what groups they may be associated with.
The BBC understands about 100 Western volunteers - including some Britons - are fighting as part of the 30,000-strong Kurdish forces.
More than 500 Britons are believed to have travelled to join IS.
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Overturning a 2013 ruling, the judges did not, however, halt the programme but urged Congress to take action.
The NSA's spying was leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor who has since fled to Russia.
The NSA has collected data about numbers called and times, but not the content of conversations. It also allegedly spied on European firms.
Among individuals targeted was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germany has "drastically reduced" internet surveillance for the NSA, reports say, after the US agency failed to provide "clear justification" for each search.
Members of Congress could "help reinforce the court's decision" next week, American University's Gordon Adams tells me. That's when House members are expected to vote on a bill, the USA Freedom Act, that would end the NSA's collection of bulk data.
Some senators, however, want things to remain the same. They've pushed for an extension of a provision, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act that allows the NSA to collect the data.
Section 215 expires in June, and an extension would allow the NSA to carry on with its work.
US spy leaks: How intelligence is gathered
How vulnerable is the internet?
US states take aim at NSA facilities
The latest verdict, by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, came after New York District Judge William Pauley had dismissed a legal challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which argued that the way the NSA tracked million of calls contravened the US constitution.
The 97-page ruling says that "a provision of the USA Patriot Act permitting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to collect business records deemed relevant to a counterterrorism investigation cannot be legitimately interpreted to permit the systematic bulk collection of domestic calling records".
However, the appeals court stopped short of ruling on the constitutionality of the programme, launched after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
The Snowden revelations in June 2013 caused an international outcry, despite US administrations insisting the programme has been fully authorised.
The measures - repeatedly approved in secret by a national security court since 2006 - are set to expire on 1 June.
Leaders of the lower US House of Representatives would prefer to pass a bill to end the government's bulk collection of phone records and replace it with legislation that supporters say protects civil liberties. But Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated he wants to extend the Patriot Act and retain the bulk collection programme.
The White House supports "an alternative mechanism to preserve the program's essential capabilities without the government holding the bulk data", said Ned Price, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
But the ACLU's deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said: "The appeals court's careful ruling should end any debate about whether the NSA's phone-records program is lawful." | A US appeals court has ruled that bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency is illegal. | 32620742 | Summarize the following news within 117 words:
Overturning a 2013 ruling, the judges did not, however, halt the programme but urged Congress to take action.
The NSA's spying was leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor who has since fled to Russia.
The NSA has collected data about numbers called and times, but not the content of conversations. It also allegedly spied on European firms.
Among individuals targeted was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germany has "drastically reduced" internet surveillance for the NSA, reports say, after the US agency failed to provide "clear justification" for each search.
Members of Congress could "help reinforce the court's decision" next week, American University's Gordon Adams tells me. That's when House members are expected to vote on a bill, the USA Freedom Act, that would end the NSA's collection of bulk data.
Some senators, however, want things to remain the same. They've pushed for an extension of a provision, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act that allows the NSA to collect the data.
Section 215 expires in June, and an extension would allow the NSA to carry on with its work.
US spy leaks: How intelligence is gathered
How vulnerable is the internet?
US states take aim at NSA facilities
The latest verdict, by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, came after New York District Judge William Pauley had dismissed a legal challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which argued that the way the NSA tracked million of calls contravened the US constitution.
The 97-page ruling says that "a provision of the USA Patriot Act permitting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to collect business records deemed relevant to a counterterrorism investigation cannot be legitimately interpreted to permit the systematic bulk collection of domestic calling records".
However, the appeals court stopped short of ruling on the constitutionality of the programme, launched after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
The Snowden revelations in June 2013 caused an international outcry, despite US administrations insisting the programme has been fully authorised.
The measures - repeatedly approved in secret by a national security court since 2006 - are set to expire on 1 June.
Leaders of the lower US House of Representatives would prefer to pass a bill to end the government's bulk collection of phone records and replace it with legislation that supporters say protects civil liberties. But Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated he wants to extend the Patriot Act and retain the bulk collection programme.
The White House supports "an alternative mechanism to preserve the program's essential capabilities without the government holding the bulk data", said Ned Price, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
But the ACLU's deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said: "The appeals court's careful ruling should end any debate about whether the NSA's phone-records program is lawful."
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The 32-year-old Dane spent the second half of last season on loan at the Lilywhites where he made 14 outings.
Lindegaard made 29 appearances for Manchester United over five years before his move to the Baggies.
"I'm really happy that things have fallen into place before we get closer to the season," he said.
"It was a very easy decision. I could have gone to several other clubs in England but it was a no brainer, I wanted to stay here."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Preston North End have re-signed goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard on a one-year deal after he had his contract cancelled at West Bromwich Albion. | 36693599 | Summarize the following news within 22 words:
The 32-year-old Dane spent the second half of last season on loan at the Lilywhites where he made 14 outings.
Lindegaard made 29 appearances for Manchester United over five years before his move to the Baggies.
"I'm really happy that things have fallen into place before we get closer to the season," he said.
"It was a very easy decision. I could have gone to several other clubs in England but it was a no brainer, I wanted to stay here."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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On Monday it emerged a pit bull named Stella had been kept in a 3ft by 9ft cage for two years without exercise.
Now former kennel workers have released a video showing both Stella and a seized Rottweiler named Vinnie.
Devon and Cornwall Police said "immensely frustrating" delays in the judicial process left Vinnie in kennels for two years before he was destroyed.
The video, taken on the day Vinnie was put down, shows kennel staff playing with Vinnie while Stella, in the kennel next door, rubs noses with the Rottweiler through the metal mesh.
The BBC understands Vinnie had been trained as a guard dog and police said he was used to attack three people in 2013.
He was seized and placed in kennels but the court process took two years before a destruction order was carried out around 26 July 2015.
Former staff at the kennels say Vinnie had a "Do Not Enter" sign on his kennel and, as far as they were aware, was not let out for a period of two years.
Laura Khanlarian, who until December 2015 worked as an assistant at the private kennel used by Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "To move him from one cage to another he just went through the internal doors.
"He wasn't assessed like Stella so he really didn't leave the kennel at all.
"Vinnie had no contact until the day he was put down. I made that video an hour before when we were allowed in his kennel with him."
Another former worker at the kennel, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "Vinnie the Rottie had no human contact except being fed. He was deemed too dangerous to get out.
"But this was the dog that, once he knew you, wagged his tail, pushing himself against the bars, desperate for any attention.
"As far as I know he belonged to a man who trained him as a guard dog. Because he was possibly trained to bite we were told not to walk, go in with him, same as Stella as he was too dangerous."
Former staff at the kennels have told the BBC they offered to work with Vinnie and exercise him but were not given permission to do so.
After the BBC revealed Stella's plight, Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Superintendent Jim Nye said: "The welfare of dogs is extremely important to us.
"In the past year we have seized in the region of 100 dogs, and only Stella has been assessed as too dangerous and unpredictable for kennel staff to walk."
Following the release of the latest video, the force did not say if they or another body had ordered Vinnie - who is understood to not be among the last 100 dogs seized - to be kept without human contact.
However, in a statement they said: "Vinnie the Rottweiler was a dog seized and placed into kennels in 2013.
"Vinnie was a legal breed and was seized after it had bitten three people. Later the courts granted a destruction order on the dog who was put to sleep in the early to mid part of 2015.
"Within the last 100 dogs we have seized only Stella was deemed too dangerous to be exercised and instructions given to the kennel specifically in relation to this.
"It is important to stress that despite the very best effort of the police, the judicial process is not accelerated when a dog is placed in kennels. This is immensely frustrating for the police who hold animal welfare in the highest regard."
No-one from the kennels has commented. | A second dog seized by police was kept locked in kennels for two years without exercise, the BBC has been told. | 35718290 | Summarize the following news within 149 words:
On Monday it emerged a pit bull named Stella had been kept in a 3ft by 9ft cage for two years without exercise.
Now former kennel workers have released a video showing both Stella and a seized Rottweiler named Vinnie.
Devon and Cornwall Police said "immensely frustrating" delays in the judicial process left Vinnie in kennels for two years before he was destroyed.
The video, taken on the day Vinnie was put down, shows kennel staff playing with Vinnie while Stella, in the kennel next door, rubs noses with the Rottweiler through the metal mesh.
The BBC understands Vinnie had been trained as a guard dog and police said he was used to attack three people in 2013.
He was seized and placed in kennels but the court process took two years before a destruction order was carried out around 26 July 2015.
Former staff at the kennels say Vinnie had a "Do Not Enter" sign on his kennel and, as far as they were aware, was not let out for a period of two years.
Laura Khanlarian, who until December 2015 worked as an assistant at the private kennel used by Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "To move him from one cage to another he just went through the internal doors.
"He wasn't assessed like Stella so he really didn't leave the kennel at all.
"Vinnie had no contact until the day he was put down. I made that video an hour before when we were allowed in his kennel with him."
Another former worker at the kennel, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "Vinnie the Rottie had no human contact except being fed. He was deemed too dangerous to get out.
"But this was the dog that, once he knew you, wagged his tail, pushing himself against the bars, desperate for any attention.
"As far as I know he belonged to a man who trained him as a guard dog. Because he was possibly trained to bite we were told not to walk, go in with him, same as Stella as he was too dangerous."
Former staff at the kennels have told the BBC they offered to work with Vinnie and exercise him but were not given permission to do so.
After the BBC revealed Stella's plight, Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Superintendent Jim Nye said: "The welfare of dogs is extremely important to us.
"In the past year we have seized in the region of 100 dogs, and only Stella has been assessed as too dangerous and unpredictable for kennel staff to walk."
Following the release of the latest video, the force did not say if they or another body had ordered Vinnie - who is understood to not be among the last 100 dogs seized - to be kept without human contact.
However, in a statement they said: "Vinnie the Rottweiler was a dog seized and placed into kennels in 2013.
"Vinnie was a legal breed and was seized after it had bitten three people. Later the courts granted a destruction order on the dog who was put to sleep in the early to mid part of 2015.
"Within the last 100 dogs we have seized only Stella was deemed too dangerous to be exercised and instructions given to the kennel specifically in relation to this.
"It is important to stress that despite the very best effort of the police, the judicial process is not accelerated when a dog is placed in kennels. This is immensely frustrating for the police who hold animal welfare in the highest regard."
No-one from the kennels has commented.
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The Streatham MP said Labour should not be "screaming at the electorate" after its poor general election performance.
He spoke out after Labour was hit by a row over its stance on welfare cuts.
He also criticised Jeremy Corbyn, amid reports that he is doing well in the race to be Labour leader.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight political editor Allegra Stratton, Mr Umunna said Labour were "sent a very strong message" by the electorate at the general election, where it was almost wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and failed to make ground on the Conservatives in England.
"We're running around stamping our feet, screaming at the electorate when ultimately what we need to do is meet people where they are at, not necessarily where we would want them to be," he said.
Labour has been divided by how to respond to the welfare cuts set out in George Osborne's Budget, with some MPs reacting angrily when acting leader Harriet Harman said it should not oppose all of the measures.
The party's new leader will be announced at a special conference in September.
Mr Umunna, who was briefly in the leadership contest before withdrawing, said the Conservatives would want Mr Corbyn to win.
The odds on Mr Corbyn winning the leadership have recently been reduced, though he only made it on to the ballot paper after some MPs not thought to be his supporters agreed to make up the necessary number of nominations for him.
Mr Umunna said he had nothing against the Islington North MP but added that his political views were not "a politics that can win".
He said Mr Corbyn was "weak on defence at a time when global insecurity is rising" and backed "more generous social security payments for people who can work but refuse to work".
"I'll tell you what, there is no glory in opposition," Mr Umunna added. "Ultimately we will betray our people if we don't get elected." | Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has accused his Labour Party colleagues of "behaving like a petulant child who has been told you can't have the sweeties in the sweet shop". | 33561504 | Summarize the following news within 82 words:
The Streatham MP said Labour should not be "screaming at the electorate" after its poor general election performance.
He spoke out after Labour was hit by a row over its stance on welfare cuts.
He also criticised Jeremy Corbyn, amid reports that he is doing well in the race to be Labour leader.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight political editor Allegra Stratton, Mr Umunna said Labour were "sent a very strong message" by the electorate at the general election, where it was almost wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and failed to make ground on the Conservatives in England.
"We're running around stamping our feet, screaming at the electorate when ultimately what we need to do is meet people where they are at, not necessarily where we would want them to be," he said.
Labour has been divided by how to respond to the welfare cuts set out in George Osborne's Budget, with some MPs reacting angrily when acting leader Harriet Harman said it should not oppose all of the measures.
The party's new leader will be announced at a special conference in September.
Mr Umunna, who was briefly in the leadership contest before withdrawing, said the Conservatives would want Mr Corbyn to win.
The odds on Mr Corbyn winning the leadership have recently been reduced, though he only made it on to the ballot paper after some MPs not thought to be his supporters agreed to make up the necessary number of nominations for him.
Mr Umunna said he had nothing against the Islington North MP but added that his political views were not "a politics that can win".
He said Mr Corbyn was "weak on defence at a time when global insecurity is rising" and backed "more generous social security payments for people who can work but refuse to work".
"I'll tell you what, there is no glory in opposition," Mr Umunna added. "Ultimately we will betray our people if we don't get elected."
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Allan Stanley, 76, of Nefyn, was snorkelling around the island of Gozo when he was hit on 19 June.
His widow Diane told the inquest in Caernarfon it happened in seconds. She said: "There wasn't enough time for me to shout or do anything."
A conclusion of accidental death was recorded by coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones.
The inquest heard Mr Stanley was snorkelling in a bay when a rigid inflatable boat started up.
"A person snorkelling is very difficult to see," Mr Pritchard-Jones said.
"At best it's only part of the top of the head that can be seen.
"Whether the person operating the boat looked or made any efforts to see if anyone was in the water, I can't say."
Pathologist Dr Mark Lord told the inquest Mr Stanley suffered head injuries and his death was "likely to have been virtually instantaneous". | A grandfather from Gwynedd died after being hit by a boat's propeller off the Maltese coast, an inquest has heard. | 37365874 | Summarize the following news within 35 words:
Allan Stanley, 76, of Nefyn, was snorkelling around the island of Gozo when he was hit on 19 June.
His widow Diane told the inquest in Caernarfon it happened in seconds. She said: "There wasn't enough time for me to shout or do anything."
A conclusion of accidental death was recorded by coroner Dewi Pritchard-Jones.
The inquest heard Mr Stanley was snorkelling in a bay when a rigid inflatable boat started up.
"A person snorkelling is very difficult to see," Mr Pritchard-Jones said.
"At best it's only part of the top of the head that can be seen.
"Whether the person operating the boat looked or made any efforts to see if anyone was in the water, I can't say."
Pathologist Dr Mark Lord told the inquest Mr Stanley suffered head injuries and his death was "likely to have been virtually instantaneous".
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Twenty-five suspects were released because of a lack of evidence.
It is the latest batch of death sentences passed in connection with the killings - 36 men were hanged a year ago for their part in the massacre.
IS filmed the killings, at the former US base of Camp Speicher, near Tikrit, in an early piece of shock propaganda.
Most of the victims are believed to have been young Shia recruits who were based at the camp when Tikrit was overrun by IS.
Photos and videos published by IS at the time showed soldiers being lined up and shot at various locations.
Some bodies were pushed into the River Tigris, while others were buried in mass graves that were found after government forces recaptured the city a year later.
The condemned men have the right to appeal against the sentences. | An Iraqi court has sentenced to death 27 men for their involvement in the massacre of up to 1,700 soldiers by so-called Islamic State (IS) in June 2014. | 40866081 | Summarize the following news within 35 words:
Twenty-five suspects were released because of a lack of evidence.
It is the latest batch of death sentences passed in connection with the killings - 36 men were hanged a year ago for their part in the massacre.
IS filmed the killings, at the former US base of Camp Speicher, near Tikrit, in an early piece of shock propaganda.
Most of the victims are believed to have been young Shia recruits who were based at the camp when Tikrit was overrun by IS.
Photos and videos published by IS at the time showed soldiers being lined up and shot at various locations.
Some bodies were pushed into the River Tigris, while others were buried in mass graves that were found after government forces recaptured the city a year later.
The condemned men have the right to appeal against the sentences.
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Magicseaweed, founded in 2002 in Kingsbridge, provides forecasting and live reporting of more than 4,000 beaches around the world.
Surfstitch purchased the firm as part of a combined deal that also includes surf magazine Stab.
Magicseaweed said it was "thrilled" as the deal would enable it to expand.
The firm employs 22 people in Kingsbridge, taking data from offshore weather buoys to forecast surfing conditions, along with allowing surfers to check conditions via web cameras on beaches.
"It's a unique opportunity to find the right balance of surf forecasting, inspirational content and product offerings to our global surf community and millions of users," said co-founder Ryan Anderson.
Justin Cameron, chief executive of Surfstitch, said: "We are excited to welcome Magicseaweed and Stab to the Surfstitch Group.
"These businesses share our enthusiasm and passion in the action sports and youth culture space, and are ideal partners to support Surfstitch's mission to become the global destination for action sports and youth lifestyle content and online retail." | Devon-based surfing goods and forecasting firm Magicseaweed has been bought by an Australian company as part of a £7m deal. | 32749610 | Summarize the following news within 41 words:
Magicseaweed, founded in 2002 in Kingsbridge, provides forecasting and live reporting of more than 4,000 beaches around the world.
Surfstitch purchased the firm as part of a combined deal that also includes surf magazine Stab.
Magicseaweed said it was "thrilled" as the deal would enable it to expand.
The firm employs 22 people in Kingsbridge, taking data from offshore weather buoys to forecast surfing conditions, along with allowing surfers to check conditions via web cameras on beaches.
"It's a unique opportunity to find the right balance of surf forecasting, inspirational content and product offerings to our global surf community and millions of users," said co-founder Ryan Anderson.
Justin Cameron, chief executive of Surfstitch, said: "We are excited to welcome Magicseaweed and Stab to the Surfstitch Group.
"These businesses share our enthusiasm and passion in the action sports and youth culture space, and are ideal partners to support Surfstitch's mission to become the global destination for action sports and youth lifestyle content and online retail."
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