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Text: One pupil was thought to be distributing cannabis, while the other two were disciplined for allegedly possessing it.
An email was sent by the school to parents telling them of the incident.
It said it had been "proactive in dealing with this situation in line with school policy".
It added that the opportunity had... | Three pupils at Bangor Grammar in County Down have been suspended after the school was made aware of concerns about drugs. |
Text: Conwy council had sought permission to knock down Colwyn Bay pier.
The council said it was "disappointed" by the decision but plans to submit a new application which satisfies all of the guidelines and criteria.
A legal fight between former owner Steve Hunt and the council over ownership of the pier was taken to ... | An application to demolish a north Wales pier has been refused by the Welsh government. |
Text: Suffolk Coastal District Council is consulting on bringing the rules under the public space protection order.
Constituency MP Therese Coffey said the proposals were "draconian" and felt like "over-regulation".
The council said it was trying to not be "too restrictive" while protecting the public's health and safe... | Dog owners could be fined for letting their pets loose on grass verges, allotments, churchyards, greens and pitches under council proposals. |
Text: Senol Buran, cafeteria head at Cumhuriyet, was remanded accused of insulting the president. He denies the refusal was an insult, his lawyer said.
Turkey has cracked down on dissent since a failed coup in July.
Cumhuriyet staff have been among tens of thousands of people detained, suspended or sacked.
The newspape... | The boss of a cafeteria at a Turkish opposition newspaper has been detained after saying he would refuse to serve tea to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. |
Text: The 15-year-old has been in hospital since suffering "horrendous" injuries in last week's terror attack.
Her parents Michael and Nan MacIntyre, from Barra, said their daughter "is amazing us every day with her strength and determination".
Laura's friend Eilidh MacLeod was killed in the suicide bombing following a... | Manchester bomb attack victim Laura MacIntyre has made "remarkable progress", her parents have said. |
Text: The New Abbey site stopped working in the middle of the 20th Century but, after repair and restoration, opened to visitors in 1983.
It is now maintained and cared for by Historic Scotland.
The Royal Mail said the new stamps were a tribute to "iconic and endearing structures" dotted around the United Kingdom.
The ... | A corn mill in southern Scotland is one of six UK windmills and watermills to feature in a new set of stamps. |
Text: Central Madhya Pradesh state has suffered the highest death toll with at least 17 people killed in flood-related incidents, officials said.
And in eastern Bihar state, at least 15,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after a "flood-like situation" in a dozen districts.
Floods are common in India during... | Floods across India have killed more than 30 people and displaced thousands. |
Text: The council has said this year's overspend is "unprecedented" and is almost double compared to last year's.
Part of the overspend is due to social care becoming more expensive and a £100m reduction in government funding.
Chief executive, Pat Flaherty, said: "Each year you have to balance your budget. There is no ... | Somerset County Council is facing a £24m overspend this financial year, unless it makes huge savings in the next few months. |
Text: It follows the death of a petrol-soaked man who burst into flames after he was shot by a Taser in Plymouth.
An inquest jury decided that the stun gun was the most likely cause of the fire which engulfed and killed him.
The IPCC recommended that the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and the College of Policin... | Police watchdogs have said Tasers should only be used as a "last resort" near flammable substances. |
Text: The Social Liberal Union (USL) won nearly 60% of the vote, with four-fifths of ballots counted.
The Right Romania Alliance (ARD) of centre-right President Traian Basescu came a distant second with about 17%.
The result could open the door to a constitutional crisis, as the president has previously hinted he may r... | The centre-left coalition of Prime Minister Victor Ponta has swept to victory in Romania's general election. |
Text: Guy Philippe, 49, had pleaded guilty.
He was arrested earlier this year in Haiti after taking part in a live radio show and extradited to Florida.
In his guilty plea, he admitted taking bribes to protect narcotics shipments to the US while he was working as a senior police officer.
The US justice department said ... | The leader of a 2004 coup in Haiti that toppled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been jailed for nine years in the United States for conspiracy to launder drug money. |
Text: The SNP leader has faced calls to reveal whether she will propose another referendum in her manifesto for the Holyrood election next year.
Unionist opponents have voiced concerns that another SNP landslide could be seen as a mandate for a second vote.
Speaking in Hong Kong, Ms Sturgeon said a referendum would hap... | Nicola Sturgeon has said "no politician has the right to stand in the way" of another independence referendum. |
Text: The 24-year-old posted on Instagram: "If Man United and Liverpool fans feel better by calling me a black monkey in my messages .. feel free to carry on if it makes your day better."
Ivory Coast international Zaha signed for Manchester United in 2013.
Zaha is in Hong Kong with the club for the Premier League Asia ... | Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha has accused Manchester United and Liverpool fans of calling him a "black monkey" in messages on social media. |
Text: The Scottish veterans were presented with the Legion d'Honneur, on board a French naval destroyer berthed in Leith.
The award honoured them for the role they played in liberating France during the war.
Many of those being honoured took part in the D-Day landings in June 1944.
The ceremony was the latest in a seri... | Nine World War Two veterans have received France's highest honour for bravery, in a special ceremony in Edinburgh. |
Text: IGas Energy is drilling in search of fossil fuels around Chester after being granted a petroleum exploration and development licence (PEDL) in 2008.
The licence has since been extended by the government until 2018.
Benjamin Dean from Cheshire was granted permission to seek a judicial review of this extension.
Gov... | An environmental campaigner has won the right to mount a High Court challenge against a fracking licence which he claims is "unlawful". |
Text: Whitchurch is one of 26 locations across the UK which will try out Openreach's G.fast technology by 2020.
Ultrafast broadband has download speeds of up to 330Mbps, 10 times the national average, allowing users to download a two-hour HD film in 90 seconds.
Swansea was earmarked as the first area in Wales to receiv... | An area of Cardiff has been chosen to pilot a new ultrafast broadband network, BT has announced. |
Text: Five people were arrested in the wake of the fight after the Middlesbrough v Sheffield United game on Saturday.
Cleveland Police said youngsters were "terrified" by the violence, which left one police officer in hospital.
Sheffield United said the culprits were facing banning orders. Those held remain in custody ... | Children as young as 10 were injured after a brawl broke out between more than 200 football fans in a coach park. |
Text: Proposals to cut up to 24 posts in the region and lose one fire engine from the Wrexham station are up for consideration at a meeting on 20 June.
North Wales brigade secretary Shane Price said: "The service has already suffered heavy cutbacks in staffing."
Deputy Chief Fire Officer Dawn Docx said there are a vari... | The Fire Brigades Union has warned against "brutal cuts" being considered by the North Wales Fire Authority. |
Text: Five hundred officers, 1,000 support staff and 150 Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) positions may go.
The force said its required savings of £59m by 2020 "will only be achieved by reducing officer and staff numbers".
South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings described the potential 1,500... | More than 1,500 South Yorkshire Police roles could be cut over the next five years, the BBC has learned. |
Text: Speaking at this year's Oxford Literary Festival, the 66-year-old said the publication of the next book had been pushed back as a result of a stroke she suffered last Christmas.
"It was on the way until the stroke interrupted me," said the author of the ninth volume of Mole's comic diaries.
The first, The Secret ... | Author Sue Townsend has revealed she is unlikely to write more than two further instalments in the Adrian Mole series. |
Text: Two girls, believed to be aged 12 and seven, and two boys, believed to be aged 14 and four, were struck in Handsworth at about 12:00 BST.
The four children, along with a woman in her 30s, were hit near the junction of Grove Lane and Antrobus Road.
A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driv... | Four children and a woman suffered life-threatening injuries when they were struck by a car in Birmingham. |
Text: The 23-year-old, who scored five goals in 30 appearances for the Stags last season, will remain with the Reds until 22 January.
Yussuf has previously had spells at Burton Albion and non-league sides Tamworth, Harrogate Town, Gainsborough Trinity and Oxford City.
He becomes Crawley's 17th signing of the summer tra... | League Two side Crawley Town have signed Mansfield Town striker Adi Yussuf on a six-month loan deal. |
Text: Shares in the firm - whose brands include Sheilas' Wheels - fell more than 9% after half-year underlying pre-tax profits slid 21.3% to £46.5m.
The drop was in part due to profits in the firm's motor insurance business falling 80.7% to £3.3m.
Chief executive Stuart Vann said: "The claims environment in the motor... | Online insurance firm Esure has said it will push up premiums after a surge in small injury claims. |
Text: Ashurst, 24, has made 17 league appearances, scoring four tries for Iestyn Harris's side this season.
He joined the Red Devils from St Helens in October 2011 and joins Craig Hall and Mickael Simon in James Webster's squad at Belle Vue for next term.
"I'm excited for a new challenge," said former Chorley Panther A... | Wakefield Trinity Wildcats have signed back rower Matty Ashurst from Salford Red Devils on a two-year-deal from the 2015 season. |
Text: Police say the man - said to be a former employee - entered the Ludlow restaurant in the Southbank area late on Sunday evening brandishing a knife.
Other customers and staff fled but the man cornered the woman in a back room and barricaded himself in.
The area was cordoned off while police negotiated with the man... | A 35-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was held hostage in a restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, for seven hours. |
Text: Police stopped a vehicle on the Dundrod Road at Nutts Corner at about 21:30 GMT on Friday and seized suspected cocaine.
The man has been been charged with possession of class A drugs and possession of class A drugs with intent to supply.
He is due to appear before Lisburn Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The charges... | A 53-year-old man has been charged after police discovered suspected drugs worth an estimated £60,000 in County Antrim. |
Text: L/Cpl Scott Hetherington, 22, died at Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, on 2 January, while training local forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS).
The funeral, with full military honours, was held in his hometown of Middleton, Greater Manchester, earlier.
The father of one, who was nicknamed "Snowball", had been... | Hundreds of mourners have paid tribute to a British soldier who died in an accidental shooting in Iraq. |
Text: The 5.7-magnitude quake affected the Christchurch area about 10 minutes before the 18-year-old began play.
But she started her round on time and finished with a two-under 70.
Ko won on 10 under, two shots clear of England's Felicity Johnson, South Korean amateur Hye-Jin Choi and Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen.
"I... | Home favourite and world number one Lydia Ko shrugged off the effects of an earthquake to win her third New Zealand Women's Open title in four years. |
Text: Winter saw off stable companion and hot favourite Rhododendron at The Curragh.
Roly Poly and Hydrangea made it a 1-2-3 finish for O'Brien, who won the race for a seventh time.
O'Brien's Churchill completed the 2000 Guineas double on Saturday with both horses ridden by jockey Ryan Moore.
"It was very easy," said M... | Trainer Aidan O'Brien completed the Guineas double-double as the filly Winter took flat racing's Irish 1000 Guineas three weeks after winning the English equivalent at Newmarket. |
Text: The group from Holy Family Catholic Primary School in Small Heath, Birmingham were on a school trip when the attack took place.
Some on Twitter described the children singing during the wait.
Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips said she was "very very proud" to represent them and described the group as "a credit"... | Pupils left locked in Parliament during the Westminster attack have been praised for their bravery by an MP. |
Text: The 34-year-old reached the Wimbledon and US Open finals this year but lost both to Novak Djokovic.
In a statement, the Swiss 17-time Grand Slam winner said it was a "dream come true" to work with the Swede, who he described as "my childhood idol".
Severin Luthi will continue to be Federer's main coach but will b... | World number three Roger Federer has split with coach Stefan Edberg after working together for two years. |
Text: Le Roux replaces Loann Goujon who has been ruled out of the rest of the tournament after fracturing his sinuses in the win over Scotland.
Wing Virimi Vakatawa makes way after picking up a thigh injury with Uini Atonio dropped to the bench.
Scrum-half Baptiste Serin keeps his place ahead of Maxime Machenaud.
Franc... | France have brought prop Rabah Slimani, flanker Bernard le Roux and wing Yoann Huget to face Ireland in the Six Nations on Saturday. |
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Allardyce, who kept Sunderland in the Premier League last season, is in talks with Palace about replacing Alan Pardew, who was sacked on Thursday.
Millen said he did not know for certain who would succeed Pardew, but suggested Allardyce, 62, would be good option.
"If... | Sam Allardyce would "sort the players out" if he is named Crystal Palace manager, says Eagles caretaker boss Keith Millen. |
Text: The car manufacturer announced last year it will make a new luxury car at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Ministers refused to say how much public money the company would get, prompting an objection by a businessman under the Freedom of Information Act.
Ms Denham has given ministers 35 days to send the informa... | Details of financial support for Aston Martin by the Welsh Government must be published, the information commissioner Elizabeth Denham has ruled. |
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7 March 2015 Last updated at 20:17 GMT
Edward Stevenson addressed at a rally in Twaddell Avenue in the city, where loyalists have staged a nightly demonstrations in a row over the Ardoyne parade.
The protests began in July 2013, when restrictions were placed on the ret... | The Orange Order's grand master has called for "peaceful and legal protests" across Northern Ireland, more than 600 days into the north Belfast parade dispute. |
Text: Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said the lamb became "distressed" when it fell through a 4in (10cm) gap between boulders on Rough Tor near Bodmin.
Firefighters managed to help rescue the lamb by digging a hole in the soil below to gain access to the animal.
A spokesman said the farmer "managed to manipulate the ... | A lamb became trapped in a tiny gap between boulders at a moorland beauty spot. |
Text: He was found outside Park View Apartments in Harold's Cross at about 04:00 local time on Saturday.
He was taken to hospital where he died on Sunday morning.
Police said a man in his early 40s had been arrested in connection with the assault. They have appealed to anyone who might have witnessed it to come forward... | A man in his late 50s has died after he was assaulted in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. |
Text: Nathan Gardier, 24, admitting having a firearm and ammunition in a public place and being in charge of a vehicle while above the legal alcohol limit.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard he fell asleep at traffic lights in east London while carrying the 9mm pistol earlier this month.
He was jailed for five-and-a-half ye... | A drunk driver who fell asleep in traffic with a loaded gun resting on his lap has been jailed. |
Text: The ruling was made by a case management group after "an allegation of misconduct (verbal abuse)" against Minichiello.
A British Athletics statement said the "decision is not subject to any further appeal procedures by either side."
Reports say the allegation was not made by Ennis-Hill.
Minichiello coached Ennis-... | Toni Minichiello, the former coach of Great Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill, has been given a "written warning about his conduct" by British Athletics. |
Text: His corpse lay on a road with what appeared to be wounds to the head and body, Reuters news agency reports. It is not yet known who killed the cleric.
Mr Shariff, known as Makaburi, had been listed by the UN as a recruiter for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
He is the third Muslim cleric to be killed in Momb... | A radical Muslim cleric in Kenya, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, has been shot dead outside the coastal city of Mombasa, police and witnesses say. |
Text: Pat Perez shot a four-under par 67 in Sunday's final round to finish 21 under to win, with overnight leader American Gary Woodland two strokes back.
Knox, 31, carded a final-day five-under-par 66 on the Greg Norman-designed El Camaleon course.
"I wasn't all that comfortable out there. This course kind of makes yo... | Scotland's Russell Knox finished three shots off the lead to come third at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba, Mexico. |
Text: An author from Gwynedd is among those on the shortlist for the prize for young writers from across the world.
Alys Conran, from Bangor, is joined by Anuk Arudpragasam, Luke Kennard, Fiona McFarlane, Sarah Perry and Callan Wink.
The winner is announced at Swansea University's Great Hall on 10 May ahead of Internat... | The six authors in the running for the £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize have been announced. |
Text: Passengers had recently been given the option of a booking a self-driving vehicle.
But authorities had threatened legal action if Uber did not obtain a special permit to test the cars.
Uber argues that because they came with a safety driver and are not fully autonomous, the permit was not needed.
"We're now looki... | Ride-sharing firm Uber has suspended its test of self-driving cars in San Francisco after regulators revoked the registration of the vehicles. |
Text: The education board retested 13 pupils on Friday after a viral video showed arts student Ruby Rai saying political science was about cooking.
The board cancelled the results of two science students but cleared 11 others. Ms Rai did not appear for the retest.
More than a million students sat Bihar's school leaving... | A police complaint has been filed against four Indian students who topped school leaving exams in Bihar state after an inquiry found they cheated. |
Text: The 20-year-old, who is yet to make a first-team appearance for the Premier League side, has had previous loan spells with Stockport and Grimsby.
Henderson, 20, spent the first half of last season on loan with League Two side Grimsby Town, where he was signed by Paul Hurst, now the Shrewsbury boss.
He was part of... | Shrewsbury Town have signed Manchester United goalkeeper Dean Henderson on a season-long loan deal. |
Text: The 21-year-old batsman had 12 months remaining on his existing deal.
Kohler-Cadmore, who celebrated his late-season recall with his maiden first-class century against Middlesex, has signed a two-year contract that will keep him at New Road until 2017.
"I haven't scored the weight of runs I would have liked but I... | Tom Kohler-Cadmore has become the latest promising Worcestershire youngster to sign a new contract. |
Text: "Kenya Wildlife Service would like to confirm that there was no sighting or any signs of lions at the Ngong road forest," the organisation said.
It said it made the statement after "a thorough search of the area".
It added that traffic police - who reported the sightings - had received information from "a truck d... | Kenyan officials have said reports that two lions had been seen in the capital Nairobi were false. |
Text: Rail and Maritime Transport (RMT) union members plan to walk out from 21:00 GMT on 21 February in a row about staffing.
Central, Waterloo and City lines will be affected.
Both sides claim they have tried hard to resolve the dispute through negotiations. A spokesman for London Underground's Central line operations... | Passengers are being warned of a 24-hour Tube strike from Tuesday evening. |
Text: Morales, who was popularly known as El Gitano Maracucho (The Gipsy from Maracaibo), became famous for singing songs with a Spanish flair, such as boleros and pasodobles.
He often sang with popular orchestras such as Billo's Caracas Boys.
His most popular song was Ni se compra ni se vende (Neither bought nor sold)... | Venezuelan singer Memo Morales, 79, has died after suffering a heart attack during a New Year's Eve concert in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. |
Text: Officers were called to Downham Road in Ramsden Heath at about 11:00 GMT on Saturday, after paramedics reported a man in his 40s had been stabbed.
The man was airlifted to hospital but has since been released.
Essex Police said a 41-year-old woman from Downham Road, Ramsden Heath, has been charged and will appear... | A woman has been charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed in an Essex village. |
Text: Oxford Crown Court heard how PC Richard Hale, 35, of Peel Place, Carterton, Oxfordshire, attacked the woman in her 20s after they visited pubs together in Witney on 3 December 2001.
She came forward in June 2012 to report the rape, which happened at a property in Peel Place in Carterton.
The Thames Valley officer... | A police officer has been convicted of raping a woman. |
Text: The Italian's season-long loan deal at West Ham ended prematurely in January, after he failed to score in 11 games, and he joined Valencia on loan.
Zaza, 25, has since scored four goals in 14 games for Valencia - including two against Granada on Sunday - and the club have now exercised an option to make the deal ... | Former West Ham striker Simone Zaza has joined Valencia from Juventus in a deal worth £13.7m (16m euros). |
Text: Four men from the West Midlands are accused of plotting an attack on British soil before their arrests last summer.
They deny preparing terrorist acts.
The judge said he was informed the female juror asked a court usher more than once to find out if the officer was single.
Mr Justice Globe said he was given infor... | A juror has been discharged in a trial of an alleged terror cell for "jokingly" asking whether a police officer in the case was single. |
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The France midfielder, 27, joined United from Southampton for £25m in July 2015, but has played only 11 Premier League minutes this season.
Baggies manager Tony Pulis confirmed the bid, while Red Devils boss Jose Mourinho said he "would not stop him" if the board was... | West Brom have made an offer of about £15m for Manchester United's Morgan Schneiderlin, who can leave Old Trafford for "the right offer". |
Text: Schmidt hailed Leinster's utility back Fitzgerald for slotting seamlessly into Ireland's number 12 shirt for the 50-7 rout of Canada in Cardiff on Saturday.
Henshaw missed the World Cup opener with a hamstring injury but should be fit to face Romania on 27 September.
However, Schmidt is tipping Fitzgerald to comp... | Ireland coach Joe Schmidt says Luke Fitzgerald can challenge Robbie Henshaw for the inside centre starting position as the World Cup progresses. |
Text: Protesters have maintained that Jamar Clark, 24, was restrained by police when they shot him on Sunday.
Clark was placed on life support and died a day later.
The shooting has led to protests in the mid-western city, with police and demonstrators using irritant spray against each other on Wednesday night.
Police ... | The Minneapolis police union has said that an unarmed black man was not handcuffed and was trying to disarm police when he was fatally shot. |
Text: Mr Modi invited them to "make in India", the name of a national programme which aims to make India a global manufacturing hub.
He said "reform in governance" was his top priority to ensure accountability.
Mr Modi's five-day visit to the US will also see him meet top Silicon Valley leaders and attend a Facebook to... | India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met 47 chief executives of Fortune 500 companies at a dinner moderated by Fortune editor Alan Murray in New York. |
Text: 1 December 2016 Last updated at 19:39 GMT
But the benefits of knitting for some people stretch far beyond the warmth of a woolly jumper.
Summary: | All it takes is a ball of wool, some patience and two good needles. |
Text: Celtic Energy is closing the Selar site, near Glynneath, next March blaming a 40% fall in the world price of coal.
It said it could not keep the site running along with Nant Helen and the soon-to-be expanded East Pit.
Some of the jobs could go to these sites but most staff expected to take voluntary redundancy.
W... | An opencast coal site in the Neath Valley is being mothballed for three years with the loss of 70 jobs. |
Text: It was said to have happened to a female, just off the Cavehill Road, at about 20.30 BST on Wednesday.
Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances surrounding the sexual assault.
Police officers are at the scene. There are no further details.
Summary: | Police are investigating a report of rape in the Waterworks area of north Belfast. |
Text: The department store giant was prosecuted following an investigation by south Wales trading standards officers.
Torfaen council teams visited House of Fraser shops in Cwmbran, Cardiff and in Bournemouth in south-west England.
The company said it regretted not meeting its "own high standards".
Newport Magistrates ... | The High Street retailer House of Fraser has been fined £40,000 for misleading customers over sale deals for Christmas decorations. |
Text: Carrick, 35, is the club's longest-serving player, having joined in 2006, and replaces Wayne Rooney in the role after his move to Everton.
"It feels great and it is such a huge honour to captain such a great club," Carrick told MUTV.
"I never thought I could be here for so long and achieve so much. I have grown t... | Manchester United have named midfielder Michael Carrick as club captain. |
Text: The 21 year-old-woman was treated by paramedics after the kitchen fire in Botfield Road in Shifnal, Shropshire.
West Mercia Police said it is treating Wednesday morning's incident as arson and are appealing for any witnesses to contact them.
The 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent ... | A man has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a house while a woman was inside. |
Text: The club sued Suffolk Police for £200,000, claiming it was "unlawfully" charged for policing in 2008-2013.
It said the force should not have charged it for keeping order on the streets around the ground.
The High Court said Suffolk Police was entitled in law to recover the costs of policing the ground outside th... | Ipswich Town has failed in its court action over who should pay for policing outside its Portman Road stadium on match days. |
Text: Hassan Zubier, a paramedic born in Kent who now lives in Sweden, said he did "what he was trained for" when a knifeman stabbed two women to death in the city of Turku on Friday.
He was injured four times as he tried to help others, according to reports in the Swedish media.
Police in Finland are treating the atta... | A British man who went to the aid of victims of a knife attack in Finland has told the BBC he is "not a hero". |
Text: Keith Conradi's appointment as head of the new Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch is due to be confirmed at a parliamentary hearing next week.
Leading doctors have said for many years that healthcare has a lot to learn from systems which promote safety in the airline industry.
Mr Conradi was a professional pi... | The UK's chief inspector of air accidents is the leading contender to run a new organisation which aims to make the NHS in England safer. |
Text: The company supplies more than 140,000 customers in the greater Belfast area.
The price increase means a typical household customer will see gas costs rise by £36 a year.
The company said the price rise reflected "sustained increases in global wholesale gas costs which have risen by over 50% in the last 12 months... | SSE Airtricity is putting up gas prices by more than 7% from the end of this month. |
Text: Two Eunan Walsh goals helped St Ronan's lead 2-4 to 0-8 at half-time but an Aaron Boyle fisted goal contributed to St Paul's taking control.
Maghera have the chance to win a third title in four years after they beat St Pat's Dungannon 2-10 to 1-11 on Friday.
Conor Glass and Shane McGuigan scored Maghera's first-h... | St Paul's Bessbrook set up a MacRory Cup Final against St Pat's Maghera on St Patrick's Day by beating St Ronan's Lurgan 1-17 to 2-6 on Saturday. |
Text: So far six Malaysian families and one Chinese family have received the money, and insurers are assessing the claims of 40 more Chinese families.
Relatives of all 239 missing passengers can claim up to $175,000 each.
Flight MH370 went missing on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No trace of the plan... | The families of passengers on the missing Malaysian passenger plane have begun to receive initial compensation payments of $50,000 (£30,000). |
Text: The chief executive and two others are on leave on full pay after the Wales Audit Office (WAO) declared their salary rises unlawful in 2013.
So far more than £1.8m has gone towards their pay, and another £900,000 has been spent on legal costs.
Councillors have now set aside another £469,000 for further costs if t... | The cost of a long dispute over pay rises to senior officers at Caerphilly council has reached nearly £3.2m. |
Text: The work to build 16 new wards at the high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire will end in 2017.
Visitors to two open days will be able to view images showing the progress of the build and find out about works scheduled for this summer.
The first event is at Meadows Shopping Centre in Sandhurst... | Photos of the latest stages of the £242m Broadmoor Hospital redevelopment have gone on show for the first time. |
Text: With Shamrock Rovers losing 3-0 at Cork City, Derry are now three points ahead of the Hoops although the Dublin club have a game in hand.
Wexford's Eric Molloy hit the Derry woodwork early on and Gerard Doherty had to make a couple of fine saves.
Derry also had good chances but a draw was probably a fair result.
... | Derry City were held to a goalless draw by Wexford Youths in the League of Ireland but the result still strengthened their hold on third place. |
Text: The 35-year-old Wales prop will remain with the Blues until 2018 and has not ruled out the prospect of another tour with the British and Irish Lions.
He said the physical demands were increasing before his 17th season as a professional, but said his appetite for the game remained.
"I've still got ambition and I d... | Gethin Jenkins has signed a new deal with Cardiff Blues and insists he still has the hunger for top-level rugby. |
Text: The Rowan Centre at Antrim Area Hospital has dealt with about 1,700 people since it opened in 2013.
It is the first centre of its kind in Northern Ireland and is funded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Department of Health.
Representatives of the centre have said referrals ranged from infants to ... | Babies as young as a few weeks are being seen at Northern Ireland's only sexual assault referral centre. |
Text: The body, minus the wheels, engine and rear axle fetched more money than its roadworthy equivalents at the auction.
Auctioneer Richard Edmonds said: "I think we had some very keen bidders at the sale looking for a restoration project."
A total of 16 Austin 7s were sold in the auction.
The Austin 7 was one of the ... | The dusty, dented and neglected body of a 1930s Austin 7 car has been sold for £18,480 at auction after sitting in a Gloucestershire barn since the 1960s. |
Text: The show brings together more than 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, digital prints and performance pieces from the US artist's six-decade career.
The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian awarded the show five stars.
The Telegraph's Mark Hudson wrote: "This, to my mind, is the exhibition of the year."
He a... | The Tate Modern's new Robert Rauschenberg retrospective been has hailed as "the exhibition of the year" and "a must-see" by art critics. |
Text: Jesse Hawthorne, 23, from Caerphilly, posted it on Facebook six weeks after the early morning row.
The details emerged during his trial at Caerphilly Magistrates' Court for four counts of criminal damage which he was cleared of.
Hawthorne is due to be sentenced for the picture post on 7 October.
On Friday, the co... | A transgender man posted a "revenge porn" picture of his ex-girlfriend online following a drunken row about getting his dog back. |
Text: David Begley, 47, from Gorseinon, Swansea, made references to rape in messages to Ms Wood as she appeared on a TV debate about the referendum.
Begley, a music promoter and DJ, admitted sending a communication conveying an offensive message.
He was sentenced at Swansea Magistrates' Court.
Ms Wood represented the R... | An internet troll has been jailed for 12 weeks for offensive comments posted on Twitter to Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood. |
Text: Channel 4 have confirmed Andrew, Carolyne, Louis and Alex, from Brighton, will no longer appear on the show.
The family have been on the programme since it began in March 2013.
"Mr Michael has confirmed his proposed candidacy as a UKIP MP," Channel 4 told Newsbeat.
"Sadly any Gogglebox cast member who becomes a c... | The Michael family have left Gogglebox because the dad is standing as a UKIP candidate in next year's general election. |
Text: The Flintshire-based firm said sales were "very encouraging" after figures released on Tuesday showed revenue rose 20%.
A spokesman said they were confident it would be "another year of significant progress for Redrow".
Chairman Steve Morgan told the Good Morning Wales programme the business had seen "no effect" ... | Wales' biggest house builder Redrow has reported a rise of 23% to £250m in its pre-tax profits. |
Text: The call comes as Brazil's trade surplus with China has been rising, hitting $11.5bn (£7bn) last year.
Brazil has also asked China to reduce its exports amid concerns that the influx of low-cost Chinese goods was hurting its manufacturing sector.
China is Brazil's biggest trading partner.
These issues were discu... | Brazil has asked China to allow more of its manufactured goods in to the Chinese market as it seeks to tap into the country's growing economy. |
Text: The Croatia international joined Real from Tottenham in 2012 and has played 180 times for the La Liga side.
"I'll give everything and work hard to match the club's demands," he said. "I hope to have many more successes here."
Modric has won the Champions League twice as a Real player, plus the Fifa Club World Cup... | Midfielder Luka Modric said he wanted to end his career at Real Madrid after signing a new contact that will keep him at the club until 2020. |
Text: Powell, 21, featured 16 times last year and played in the season opener loss to Huddersfield, and a warm-up match against New Zealand Warriors.
"It is a big blow for Sam, who has worked really hard in pre-season," said head coach Shaun Wane.
"But with his character I'm sure he will bounce back stronger."
The full... | Wigan half-back Sam Powell will miss Saturday's World Club Challenge match against Sydney Roosters after sustaining an ankle injury. |
Text: The bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from Breydon Water, Great Yarmouth, on Thursday.
The couple were in their early 60s and from the local area, officers said.
The deaths were initially treated as unexplained but police said they were now satisfied there are no suspicious circumstances.
More news from ... | The deaths of two people whose bodies were spotted on a tidal mudbank in Norfolk are not being treated as suspicious, police have said. |
Text: It turns out the source was their own kitchen microwaves.
PhD student Emily Petroff made the discovery at the Parkes telescope, after noticing that the signals were only received during business hours.
The rays, known as "perytons", were emitted when impatient staff opened the microwave door prematurely.
Although... | After 17 years of fruitlessly searching the galaxy, Australian scientists have discovered the source of mysterious radio signals hitting a telescope. |
Text: Swansea City midfielder Sheehan and Cardiff City striker Rhys Healey - both aged 21 - have impressed at County.
And Westley, whose side entertain Wycombe Wanderers, at Rodney Parade, on Tuesday night, believes both are benefitting from League Two football.
''I'd be surprised if either of them were recalled,'' sai... | Newport County manager Graham Westley is optimistic loan players Josh Sheehan and Rhys Healey will not be recalled by their parent clubs in January. |
Text: The 56-year-old took over in August with Genk 13th in the 16-team table after four games.
He steered them to within a point of the top six, failing to reach the play-offs for the league title.
"Communicating this decision creates clarity and will allow us now to put our focus on winning a Europa League place," sa... | Former Scotland and Rangers manager Alex McLeish is to leave Belgian club Racing Genk after one campaign. |
Text: Dyfed-Powys Police said a 22-year-old was taken to hospital after "a serious assault" in Dillwyn Street, Llanelli, on Friday.
The attack happened between 19:45 - 20:15 GMT.
Two men, aged 30 and 52, have been arrested and were in custody on Saturday afternoon.
Summary: | A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following an assault in Carmarthenshire. |
Text: The accident happened in Standalane, near the fire station, just before 06:00 and involved a red Volkswagen Golf and silver Nissan Almera.
Two women in their 30s and a man in his 20s who were travelling in the Almera were taken to Dumfries Infirmary.
The driver of the other car ran off and is being sought by poli... | Police are trying to trace a driver who fled the scene of a two-car crash in Annan which left three people in hospital with serious injuries. |
Text: AMC chief executive Adam Aron had suggested the idea might encourage so-called millennials to visit the cinema.
But the plan was badly received on social media, where cinema-goers bombarded AMC with messages.
"We have heard loud and clear that this is a concept our audience does not want," the company said in a s... | US cinema chain AMC has reversed a controversial plan to let customers use their mobile phones during films in some venues. |
Text: Its index of global food prices, which measures monthly changes for foods including cereals, meat and sugar, averaged 229.8 points in March, down from February's record of 236.8 points.
Unrest in the Middle East and the natural disaster in Japan dented demand for grain, depressing the price.
The UN warned the fal... | Global food prices fell in March after eight months of rising to record highs, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). |
Text: PC Nadeem Saddique, from Stockton, Teesside, alleged he was forced out of Cleveland Police's firearms unit and resented by colleagues.
The tribunal concluded "the majority of his claims were well founded".
The force's chief constable said the judgment would be "quickly and carefully considered".
The 44-year-old M... | A firearms officer who guarded Tony Blair and members of the Royal family was victimised because he is Asian, an employment tribunal has ruled. |
Text: Six of the girls were "seriously" injured, mainly with broken bones, police said. The crash, involving a yellow Peugeot car, happened at about 15:20 GMT on Friday near Belvedere Academy.
The driver, a woman in her 80s, was not injured and is helping police with their inquiries.
Officers are appealing for witnesse... | Specialist road investigators remain at the scene of a crash near a Liverpool school in which eight girls, aged between 11 and 16, were hurt. |
Text: Salem was convicted earlier in the month for the March 1995 killing of builder Pradeep Jain, who was shot outside his Mumbai home in a property dispute.
Salem, who is also a prime suspect in the 1993 Mumbai bombings, was arrested in Portugal in 2002.
He was extradited to India in 2005 and has been in prison since... | A court in India's Mumbai city has sentenced gangster Abu Salem to life in prison for a 20-year-old murder. |
Text: Three armed and masked men forced their way into a house on Chestnut Road in Artane, in the north of the city, at about 05:00 local time on Thursday.
The women were held hostage while the man, a cash in transit employee, was forced to go to work and hand over money.
Up to 200,000 euros (£143,000) was reportedly ... | A mother and daughter have been held hostage during an abduction and robbery in Dublin. |
Text: The Care Inspectorate said an inspection of Brae Cottage Residential Home in Broughty Ferry raised "serious concerns."
The regulator has served the home with a formal improvement notice listing five areas requiring immediate attention.
These include staffing levels and restraint of residents.
A Care Inspectorate ... | A Dundee care home has been told to make "urgent improvements" in the care provided to its vulnerable residents. |
Text: The 45-year-old man was found behind premises between Countess Street and Nineyard Street in Saltcoats at about 21:45 on Saturday.
The man was taken by ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock where he was treated for a head injury.
Det Insp William McDicken said one line of inquiry is that he may have been... | A man found seriously injured in North Ayrshire may have been the victim of a hit and run, police have said. |
Text: The country's ministry of religious affairs is taking legal action against Mahmoud al-Moghazi, the cleric of the Nile Delta town of Kafr al-Dawar.
Instead of chanting "praying is better than sleeping", the traditional call, he has been saying "praying is better than spending time on Facebook".
Worshippers at the ... | An Egyptian muezzin is facing disciplinary action for altering the words of the call to dawn prayer. |
Text: He said keeping web browsing data was not for spying on the public but to see "for example, whether a suspect has downloaded a terrorist manual".
The government is due to publish new laws on UK security agencies' powers to obtain information on suspects.
Meanwhile, ministers have ruled out plans to restrict or ba... | New security laws should force internet firms to keep users' data, former head of GCHQ Sir David Omand has said. |
Text: The Perthshire Hotel, which hosted the Ryder Cup last year, includes three golf courses.
Property firm Jones Lang LaSalle is reported to have been hired to test the water before Diageo decides whether to sell.
A Diageo spokesman said it had received "numerous expressions of interest, particularly since the Ryder ... | The Gleneagles Hotel has been put on the market with a potential price tag of more than £200m. |
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